The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-27
Mass Picketing and Victory!

ms Is not isolated pcketlng, but mass plcKetng
AS long pcketng continues the mine workers are
not beaten
pckeng both in Ohio and in Pennsyl
yana means that the spirit the work
increasing The strike being beaten when the picket
line is growing larger picket line means mass spirit
for victory.
Everybody knows that pcketng the key the strike
The scab operators know this and that why they instruct
their the judges such Schoonmaker to issue nunc
tions against pcketing.
John Lewis knows this and Lewis against picket
Lewis has other interests which important
to him than winning the strike
The scab senatorial investigation" also knows that
pcketng the strike for the mine workers. and therefore
the senate committees report denounced the miners for
picketing
But picketing alone is not enough.
The mine workers who have been fighting with the finest
exhibited in American labor struggle for
whole make their struggle still stronger and must
go the top to victory.
The workers Pennsylvania Ohio have fight
ing with short While they strike the mine workers
of Illinois, Indiana Kansas and other districts have been digging
coal This coal from Illinois, etc. has been of the Of
fighting the coal miners Of Pennsylvania and Ohio And the
Illinois mine workers facing the threat wage below
the Jacksonville scale April The interest of the Illinois
miners demands that they should fight this April And
by the Illinois miners coming out on April first the fighting line
of all the mine workers would be strengthened enormously
Anthracite districts feeling sharp
the coal operators and at the the murderous attacks the
Cappen machine the Union which acts the agent of
the operators for maintaining the contract system which forces
them into unbearable conditions.
In the particular interests districts
interests of the mine workers of the country whole the
Anthracite miners have out strike. The
addition of the Anthracite miners well the Illinois miners
the fighting line would make fighting line I'M
breakable.
The Kansas miners situation such that they every
take the national struggle and to help
ing, nationwide victory for the Union
The picketng be picketng only Ohio
and Pennsylvania but pcketng involving whole nation
wide fighting line This will bring sweeping victory the
United Mine Workers. the tide the
movement.
But The coal industry is shot through con-
dons with the open shop Fiveeghhs of the coal miners in
the United States unOrganized Seventy of the coal
dug is dug under open-shop conditions.
Five hundred thousand unoganzed workers must
be swept into the fighting line of the United Mine Workers!
Still The clique of srkebreakng officials of the
Union with John L. Lewis at its head the friends of the
and enemies of the workers within Union
down to defeat along with their allies the operators
Mass picketng must be carried strike and
" Lewis is against mass picketing
Indiana must come out on strikes on April and
Lewis is against their coming out
The Anthracite districts the con-
tract system and Lewis and his hencman Cppe against
the Anthracite coming out.
Kansas of organized fields must come
out in order to win the strike and Lewis against
ing out
100000 unorganized workers must be pulled out on
strike in order to win the big national struggle and Lewis is
against drawing in the unorganized mine workers
The striking mine workers must have relief the Pennsy
vanaOho Relief Committee must be strengthened and
eive and thousands dollars of thousands
continue and increase the relief which will make possible
the miners eat while they fight and Lewis against relief
Therefore step toward winning the strike blocked by
John L. Lewis and his corrupt bureaucracy.
To win the strike, John L. Lewis must 60
The life of the United Mine Workers of America stake
The United Mine Workers Union be saved and it can
BE saved only by the action of the workers themselves
the Union out Of the hands Lewis his underng
shwck Pagan Cappen Boyan Co., and the coal operators
whose agents they
The crisis of the struggle April L.
For this the national SavetheU Union Conference
called for April / at Pittsburgh.
The Pittsburgh Conference must be attended by delegates
every local of the United Mine Workers America