The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-31

Is the Answer
The United Mine Workers. statement submitted to the
Interstate Commerce Commission to which likewise referred
senate resolution Number 105 calling for investigation of the
btumnous coal industry connection particularly with the
strike make accusations substantated by evidence that
should focus the entire attention of the labor movement the
great struggle of the miners
The statement before the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion shows clearly that arrayed against the United Mine
force far greater than that of the individual coal companies
and their union-hatng associations. ~ 49,. e,~ e..
dominated by Wall Street. using every available method to
smash unionsm in the coal fields.
One paragraph of the statement reads:
1t is well known that the Pennsylvania Railroad has
been cooperating with the Pittsburgh Coal Company the
Hlman Coal and Coke Company, the Jones and Laughln
Steel Company the Inland Steel Company, the Wheeling
Steel Company, the Bethlehem Mines Corporation and 9TH
the policy of eliminating the and sustaining the
action of the Pittsburgh Coal Company in repudiang its
with the United Mine Workers of America. is
public knowledge that the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Cor
poration which refused to make agreement with its
ployes April l. 1927 enjoyed sustaining counsel
and assistance of the Pennsylvania Railroad in this de-
cson.
Here are three great groups of capitalists in heavy industry
STEEL coal and raiwaysn alliance to smash unonsm and
re-establish serfdom in the coal mines.
The General Motors corporation creature of the house of
Morgan appears the battle line Another section of the
NJ W. A statement relates how John Jones' head the
Bertha Consumers Company producing 100000 tons of coal
annually 100000 tons of which sold to General Motors
whipped into line for the shop after dealing with the union
81 years quoted telling officials last June
prepared to sign the Jacksonville agreement.
the provided in that agreement. would
Yesterday was told by the purchasing agent of Cen
eral Motors that sign the any basis at
ALL and that must conform myself to the policies of the
Pittsburgh Coal Company they propose to ruin
1t is further related in the u NJ W. A. statement that Phla
depha bankers holding securities of the Bertha Consumers Com
pany called Jones the telephone said they understood he
going with the union and that they forbade him to do
under penalty surenderng his company the banks that
hold his paper"
nnumerable instances this kind specified
but will give but here coal operator named Gil
quoted telling the United Mine Worker officials
have sufficient amount of business at my disposal
to sell coal in Youngstown Ohio at contract of
Sc ton delivered and can your wages, but mine
located the Montour Railroad which owned by the
Pittsburgh Coal Company The policies of the Pittsburgh
Coal Company dominated and controlled directly and
indirectly by the Mellon banking interests of Pittsburgh
and if recognize union and the wage ready
to pay they will ruin " "-~>''" go
The statement tells what followed:
1.-THE Bertha Consumers Company and Mr. Gilmore
union and they have been operating that basis
They have evcted union miners from their homes employed
armed guards and and adopted all OF the other tactics of
the Pittsburgh Coal Company"
The first and obvious conclusion that the entire strength
of the labor movement has to be thrown into the struggle
union defeat the gigantic combination capital
lists and their government.
conclusion analgamation unions
industrial unions organization the automobile
workers and the unorganzd miners alliances between the
organizations all these heavy industries labor
- centraze the struggle against Wall Street government
primary necessities for the working class.
the meantime the labor has the immediate task
pouring relief into the strike districts where Wall
combination capitalists spending millions the
families crush all sembance organization
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