The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-03
RE- ECT BOSSES
SCHEMES;RALLY
Men TO STRUGGLE
Shop Fields Ready,
Delegates Declare
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another have wOrmed their way to the
head of our union. These false lead
ers of labor unblushingly endorse the
employers proposals for the trustifi-
cation of the industry, at the work
ers' expense. They shamelessly pick
up the employers slogan and tell $780,
900 miners to "get out of the indus
try" They have, VIGOROUSLY in Him
OILS and the three anthracite districts
through their speed-up and efficiency
agreements, become the production
agents Of the operators. With hun
dreds of thousands of miners unem-
pIoyed, these officials tell us that
the remedy is to produce more coal
per man per day. The Lewis forces
have also criminally failed to mobilize
the organized and unorganized miners
for united struggle against the open
shop, wage cutting, condition-destroy-
ing attacks of the employers. In real
ity, instead of being leaders of the
miners, they are agents of the en-
ployers.
The Miners Demands.
The Save the Union National Con-
ference which expresses the sentiment
of the vast mass of the coal miners
categorically rejects this whole pro-
gram of the employers and their tools,
the Lewis machine. Against the coal
operators demand for the open shop
(which Lewis makes no real fight
against) we raise the slogan of 100
per cent organization throughout the
coal industry. The National Confer
ence inaugurates an intensive cam
paign of organization which shall not
stop until all the miners are union
lied. The non-union miners are ripe
for organization. We call upon every
coal miner to promote this organiza-
ton work 1t is the major task con-
fronting US, the master key to all our
immediate problems. We repudiate
the policy of dividing miners by sepa-
rate district and individual agree
ments. This is an employer policy
supported by Lewis. We demand in
stead one national agreement for all
coal miners.
The Save the Union National Con-
terence aggressively rejects all pro-
posals for wage cuts. Stories that
the industry cannot pay better wages
are mere propaganda of the rich en-
ployers. 1t is especially the powerful
combinations like the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company, General Motors
Company, New York Central Rail
road Company, etc, that are COM
planning about the high" wages of
the union miners. Not wage cuts in
the union coal fields, but wage raises
in the non-union districts must be our
program. We demand the extension
of the Jacksonville scale to all coal
fields and we propose an aggressive
campaign among the unorganized
miners to support this demand.
The Save the Union National Con-
ference condemns the brutal proposal
of the employers. and Lewis to drive
100000 coal miners out of the indus
try and to thrust them starving into
the great army of 100000 unem-
ployed workers in the industrial cen
tiers. We demand instead the reab-
sorption of the unemployed miners
into the coal industry by the intro
duction of the 6-hour day and the s.
day week. The vast masses of min
ers must everywhere mobilize to put
through this central demand. The al
Tentative to it is untold suffering,
restitution, and degradation among
the miners. Pending the establish
ment of the shorter work-day and
work-week, we demand and will fight
for the equal division Of work and
state and federal relief for unemploy-
ment.
The National Conference calls for
fight against the ruthless speed-up
system being introduced by the oper-
ators. 1t condemns unequivocatingl
the practice of labor officials enter
ing into agreements with the employ
ers, as in the Illinois and anthracite
districts, to more intensively exploit
! the workers.
The National Conference repu-
dates the coal operators plan of
consolidating the various coal com
panies and organizing the industry on
a monopoly basis at the expense of
the workers (wage cuts, longer hours,
worsehed working conditions, etc.).
We also repudiate Lewis project of
government regulation of wages
which in substance means the en-
slavement of the miners through
compulsory arbitration. We demand
instead the naturalization Of the coal
mines. In order to make effective
our demand for naturalization and
to further the workers political in
terests generally, we call upon the
broad labor movement to join with
the miners in the establishment Of
labor party. This program of ma
tionalization and labor party was
long the policy Of our union until it
fell under the domination of the reac-
tionary Lewis clique.
The Operators Open Shop Drive.
For the past eight years, ever since