The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-05
A Solid Front Against LeaUls

1t is no accident that United committee has
recently roaming the regions of Pennsylvania under the
pete investigating conditions that produced the heroic and
bitter struggle of the miners of the PennsyvanaOho region
against the interests Nor visit the
strike region democratic yearnng to eliminate the
annca rule of the coal barons They are there because the
strikers and the advanced section of the working class that mas
supported strike proved that they cannot be crushed
by the combined of the police the courts the private armies
of gunner and the vicious Lewis machine combined
April LIST approaching-the which expires the
arate imposed by the John L. Lewis machine upon
the miners in Illinois, Indiana and other places On that date
the first anniversary of the beginning of the strike in Pennya
MIA Ohohe Save the Union committees strike OF
the miners of Illinois, Indiana Kansas and the Southwest
Although delayed year by the nfamy of Lewis separate
district agreements determined action by the miners of these
districts even the Lewis policy and enable
the union to achieve victory the coal barons IN every organ
lied field.
"Save the Union conferences have been held in dis
rcs the mine regions of the country These conferences are
that will sweep mighty flood at the national Save
the Union conference called to meet at Pittsburgh Pa on April
1s creating national directing center for solid front against
the Lewis machine
In the call Pittsburgh conference issued for the Save
the Union Committee the clear appreciation OF the fact that
the most effective weapons against that blight the
miners unionthe Lewis machine is to wage determined fight
against the mine In the soaed organized territory and
organize the unoganzed miners in the nonunion territory
henchmen perceive the danger that faces them
They know by the returns of the last elections that the overwhe
they intimidation and deception to prevent the
consolidation of the rank and file resentment in the past they
will utilize their bureaucratic machinery against the April LIST
conference.
But they will not succeed this tmel the Union
specifically warned against yielding to the auto
Lewis and his machine local union meetings
prevented descriptive tactics used the militant miners
should committees and send delegates the Pittsburgh
conference that will be really representative of the
against the barons and their agents at the head of the
union.
committee visited the Pittsburgh district in order
this revolt order fake settlement
April that Lewis and his masters the MeonFsher
combination could continue ensave and yrannze the coal dig
of that region and at the time leave the miners OF
other districts to fight their battles alone.
Pittsburgh conference will create the of the
struggle of the miners central force that will shatter the
Lewis machine and lay the basis for revival Of that spirit of
struggle the miners organization the backbone
of the American labor movement.
The efforts of the miners at Pittsburgh will have the
hundreds thousands of other trade unonss
United States who realize that the threaten
union in he