The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-19
A New Phase in the Onslaught on the Coal Miners


arrogant and demonstrave which the big coal
operators refused to take part the conference
ranged by Secretary of Labor Davis shows two things
First that the coal understood from the beginning
fake and called only attempt to
the believing that the Coolidge administration
doing something for them Second the attitude of the coal
baons and the insulting references to the United Mine Workers
their wired refusas attend the conference,
clearly proves that quarter to be given the striking and
locked out miners
Injuncons outlaw strike and make the collection
distribution of relief Illegal thousands of miners families
being evced the water supply of whole mining communities
shut off by the companies coal and iron police errorze the
mining camps
both Pennsylvania Ohio the chambers of
patriotic organizations of the middle Glass; controlled
directly by the coal companies and the banks denoncng the
strike u-Amercan and urging the deportation of foreign
born miners
The miners and their families treated popula
ton by invading mperialist army.
Colorado troops rading miners homes break
ing up meetings and making wholesale arrests.
Actual war being waged the miners their wives and
children
intention smash all embance union organization
put in its place the slave system which prevails in the
open shop mines of West Virginia and other southern states
The official leadership United Workers of
the American Federation of Labor has surrendered to the coal
baros These leaders tied hand and foot to the political
capitalists They allowing the miners union to be
smashed and the mines to be turned into savepits
There American labor history greater betrayal than
which has brought the United Mine Workers to the
destruction which has permitted because the failure of the
Lewis machine organization campaigns the union
coal fields be sranged by evertghenng circle of
shop mines.
No real effort has been made to rally the labor movement to
the aid of the miners by these leaders No effort will be
made by them The appeal Coolidge and to Governor Fisher
Of Pennsylvania by President Lewis of the NJ W. A. in itself
constitutes betrayal.
If the union be saved the brutal drive the
and their families to be stopped the labor
is be placed footing meet the growing offensive the
left wing and the rank file mtans will the job
job that be done and it job which willing
hands will be found The continuous beaya of official
dom which leave the labor to the of the CAPT
tas have brought thousands of workers to the realization of
the fact that only two choices reman-fgh surrender
The miners have shown that they will fight them
must be placed the utmost strength the working class
this decisive sector of the struggle there relief
and organizers From the workers other industries
relief from the ranks of the mants the labor
will the organizers who will build fighting labor movement
The labor be broken from the political
parties of its enemies and labor party formed.
Relief miners must be collected and distributed in
These the methods by which the
be repealed and powerful labor movement built
But thing be forgotten that the struggle
the miners establish labor party the
labor movement be carried successfully only by ceasss
exposure of the bossontroed ocadom campaign
ending in its defeat.