The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-31
Union Fights for Life

Eight hundred thousand btumlnouS miners over
100000 anthracite miners with their wives and children an add
tional 100000 are involved in the struggle.
the point of class there be no more
important section than the mine workers They occupy most
strategic point manufacture transport by rail and by water
industry general The great union which they have built
up and which they haveough for during the past
years the keystone of the trade union movement
Also from the point of view of the enemies of the working
class the coal industry most important strategic section OF
American industry whole. The metal industries iron and
Steel and coal and OIL the from which has arisen the
great industrial power which has merged with the great banking
capital Street. Ogarchy OF Finance
Capital which rules the United States and carries American I'M
perialsm into world domination.
The coal industry vital the American working class
Coal is important the American capitalist class.
Coal is at the present time the strategic point IN the emen
dous struggle between the working class and the capitalist class
Capitalist leaders, such Schwab Mellon and Rockefeller
know this.
capitalist rulers of the United States have decided
to eliminate organization from the coal fields They
working maneuverng and fighting reduce the coal
miners that form of complete slavery known the openhop
the scab mine The workers without their union would be
helpless hopeless slaves of the company officials Even with
the slavery exists Without the union any field that
slavery would be beyond human endurance
opeshop slavery the aim of the coal operators.
This is what Charles M schwab meant when he testified
few days that he would unresrved that there should
be collective bargaining the coal fields This is what Rockefeller
meant and what Mellon meant when they used similar words
But the scab-herders do work only by
The greatest victory that the operators in their effort
destroy United Mine Workers the election of John
L. Lewis to the presidency of the union in 1920
believe in fighting the coal operators Lewis
eves DISQUALIFICATION that is collaboration between the
leaders of the union and the cab operators Lewis belongs to the
political party with all of the biggest scab operators and
with the chief of all the operators, A. w. Mellon
John Lewis supporter of what he calls American in
stuons that is supporter of the private ownership Of the
mining all other industries great capitalists
perpetual exploitation of the working class for private profit he
believes in capitalist that is the dictatorship the
capitalist the working class he believes the Coal
and Iron Police and in the capitalist courts which issue decree
nncons against the workers. he is against violating these
nuncons he against pckeng he against the
workers going strike to win anything from the operators
because Lewis friend of the mine operators and the capitalists
Lewis is an enemy of the working class.
He is enemy of the United Mine Workers Union.
Therefore there is nothing surprising in the fact that since
Lewis became president of the union the operators
fight after fight against the union
In 1920 the United Mine Workers had 100000 members
Lewis the friend of the operators took the presidency
OF the union in 1920 Since that time the union has down
100000 members than 100000 The
dug under union conditions 70 cent and under Lewis
control, the uniondug coal has down 80
Lewis who shook hands with Rockefeller extended the hand
of friendship to the who broke his union in West Virginia
He also the friend OF the steel trust In 1922 when the great
strike occurred Lewis tried to the Steel Trust from
embarrassment by preventing the mine joining
strike in those mines which produce cong by the
Steel Trust When the miners Washington Fayette
ties out strike in spite of him. Lewis deliberately left
them agreement signed in order virtually to
throw them back of the union thus give
Of the Steel Trust free hand in cab coal production
steel mills.
United Mine Workers Union. In every district of the
Lewis sub-agens Fshwc in Illinois, Pagan in western Penn
syvana Cappelni and Boyan in the anthracite Ohio
Kennedy, Golden etc, ecal working Lewis working
against the mine workers and for the policies which help
operators against the miners.
This leading straight destruction of the United
Mine Workers.
With Lewis help inside the Union the operators now
proceeding with nationwide lockout to wipe uionm in
The whole coal fields of the United States.
The United Mine Workers Union greatest American trade
tnions is facing the crisis of its life.
The conference of the Save-the Union which
in Pittsburgh Sunday must give the
Workers to the enemies of the union outside and inside
From this conference must the motive force that will
take the union out of the hands Of its enemies which will draw
the entire 100000 coal miners organized and
coal well soft coal into the strike and win the strike
John l.. Lewis must CO.
The strike must be
q The United Mine Workers Union must be saved
The mine workers take the union