The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-06-14
Build the New Miners Union /!

The conference of the executives of union districts at Puts
burgh yesterday which makes history for American
Labor.
These representatives Mine Workers to be con-
graduated upon their courage and understanding of the situation
before tem they issued the call for national convention
to establish miners union.
For fourteen months the United Mine Workers Union has
Systematically disrupted by the concerted acon OF e
fuy corrupt bureaucracy headed by John L. Lewis together
with the openshop operators For than year OF
struggles weakened and broken shell of the former union mas
been Standing in the place of the once powerful organization The
Lewis bureaucracy held device to the Official hu
to left of the union Having stolen the union elections
murder and veow dog Nomnay fighting the coal
operators fact fighting the coal mine workers OF
the country with both hands, and had not even little
finger left free to scratch at the coal operators
Lewis by the very nature of his profession as an agent
imperiast capitalism could make with coal operator
could wage only with the masses OF coal miners Lewis
and all the legion of petty officehoders who form ms army OF
occupation Union consistent supporters OF the
system of capitalist exploitation Labor prominent member
of the mperais political party to when Andrew eo
Coolidge Rockefeller and Morgan belong Lewis hlmsef
could and think only the terms OF Mellon the scao coa
operator Coolidge the strkebreakr Rockefeller the creative
genius company and Morgan the chief of the finance
capitalist control of the Steel Trust
struggle passed beyond the point where Lewis could
even preserve the illusion that he acting president OF
the United Mine Workers of America The union severely
wounded by the earlier betrayas this time IN the struggle
in which its life was at stake
Lewis could not support any toward victory for the
workers He Sed" the union to it's death as far he able
Open ebreakng which could longer be concealed deber
expulsion of whole locals and districts support OF police
and against the miners public organization OF strike
the militant unions by cutting them off from strike relief
imposing the yellow dog agreement othersths
course has led to the present situation where the immediate build
ing of a union is inevitable.
The mine fought through these long and
especially the past fourteen months to their union Always
fight the union first of all fight against the
chief skebreaker who held the hreemesstoen office OF
president of the union The fight Union has been
the heroic the history of American Labor 1t recently
reached the of emergency district conventions for the GUST
ing the Lewis gang agents from office In several
districts this object accomplished The Lewis machine
the actions of the district
tons.
The executives of the mine workers of these districts
meeting Pittsburgh had the logic to face the
phase of the Savehe Union struggle Clearly they that the
present phase of the struggle to the union in fact rug
gle where the old has been destroyed
workers of the United States must be organized
have powerful union embracing
mine dug The open shop must be fought to eer
Where Lewis has given 70 cent of the territory
operators the workers must fight and win back 100
per cent
convention of the mine workers called for next
September perform its task of building union where
old union destroyed But the task should be well under
way long then-t should begin Immediately The strike
supported ten times than before
Relief be poured in to the National Miners Relief Commit
tee.
that the mine workers organize themselves
only against all agents of the operators.
The miners union must sweep the country and make
itself powerful in the American labor movement
the miners union!