The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-17
They Won't Take It LYING Down


marching out in Western PENNSYLVANIA and the 10000 textile
eratves who by unanimous will their tools against the
ten percent in New Bedford lesson those who
think there is no fighting spirit among the workers in the United
States.
movement among the coal miners is rapidly assuming
the proportions of great national strike In spite of
handicap that could be devised prevent the expression of the
will of the mners-even the of the Union machinery
the top W the coal operaoshe most obvious truth that the
ranks OF than half million coal miners already seeth
ing with determination fight their way of the impossible
slavery and starvation being imposed them No longer
does the fact that the right of the coal mine
workers to live and to feed their children at stake When Oral
Daughery president the Hooking subdst of the Mine
Workers in Ohio told meeting of eaged miners last Thursday
I'VE will have to get rid of part of for the
rest and when in the same breath he admitted re moth
you while declaring eff obey the policies laid
down by John L. Lewis can't out and lead Marches
showed pn that the official bureaucracy that follows Lewis
is fighting against the mine workers and for the coal operators
Daugherty, the pessimist sad You can't win strike
less everybody strikes coal Miners optmists
who still have faith in their class raised the ringing 1--WE can
win the strike because everybody strikes!'
The fight of the Pennsylvania Ohio mine go
ing stronger spite of starvation and misery spite of the
violence used against the miners by bosses and agents of the
bosses in the Union than in determination and
fighting strength
Illinois workers. fighting against the open treachery
of the policy signing separate agreements
equally determined.
The Anthracite miners rapidly developing the struggle
against the operators beginning with the point
system and which lead only to the nationwide strike with
the hard coal miners fighting sdebysde with their brothers of
the bituminous fields.
In short national coal strike for national agreement
Element is now in progress.
industry course very different the
industry is nevertheless national crisis be compared with
that of the coal industry The attack of the mill against
the standard of living of the textile workers has been going
since the end of the 1920 boom Wagecut after wagecut
growing speeding of work with frightening of hours have
goaded the mill workers to the point where in the typical New
England section of New Bedford the will fight the bosses
expressed in strike The mill the strike
call practically
The Textile workers will fight.
The Mine workers will fight.
Only the union bureaucracy will not fight
But the mine workers and the textile workers
that they will the bosses whether the officials of the Unions
willing not The Lewis bureaucracy has itself part
of the front line of the and has thus made
that the mine workers fight the officials at the
BOSSES Yet under these most difficult conditions the
will of the miners their Union and fight for their right
to existence sweeping the entire country into the national
struggle
All hesitation and willingness to surrender the part of
officials of textile unions has had to give way the fighting
spirit of the textile slaves.
The will to struggle, the determination of the
these hard sections the American
the capitalist offensive much for the Labor
In this moment of the offensive of the capitalist class against
the working class, the working Glass; most important Sec
tions shows that it will not take it lying down.