The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-30
The Coal Miners Program

The supreme the struggle of the United Mine
Workers to save their Union destruction hand with
great national conference of miners at Pittsburgh Sunday
April /.
it is necessary for the mine workers to
ground correctly estimate all the forces with
which they dealing Above all it to maintain the
program possess the and determination to
put through that program in spite Of every obstacle
Every resource that can be modified must be lined up
put program into action Every who willing
fight free the United Mine Workers Union from the strange
hold of the agents the coal operators who willing
fight to swing the whole unorganzed fields into the struggle to
the strike who is willing to draw the Anthracite
districts into the of the whole Union to win their
particular struggle against the contract system and at the
time greater the Mine Workers throughout
the whole country every who will do his mghtest to bring
the Illinois, Indiana and all coal miners into the great
ghevry such man is needed in the fighting line at pittsburgh
But any man who is uncertain or evasive posi-
ton in this fight should be subject to careful inquiry on the
part of the mine workers.
Middle" clements standing between the mine workers.
side and the mine workers enemies the other side will
commit themselves the other Such forces
may still desire and between the two
sides of the fight Will have to come out faoote Tor the m
else the great to the Union will
sweep over them and leave them behind
In every district of the United Mine Workers
who been their position for against the
Mine Workers Save Union program.
The Anthracite especially have among them
play leading part the struggle but who have
given the workers guarantee OF what part they Will play
There are certain forces who say they are against Cappen
the of Lewis the Anthracite but these do not take
real director of the vanous Cappeni plots against the mine
workers Against Cappeni say? How against Cappen
Against Cappelini for what?
Those who wish lead the mine workers in the Anthracite
you against L. and Cappeni and
Boya Murray and Pagan and Fhwic and the whole
of Lewis and the operators machine in the Union?
Or are you only against Cappeinr and for Lewis?
No man can be against Cappelni and for Lewis
No man can be the operators
and against the Mine Workers cause.
Some men are shouting against Cappen in the Anthracite
and keeping mum on Lewis
Everybody knows that Cappeni is through in the Miners
Union Are against Cappen only take Cappens place
John L. Lewis henchman?
The Mine Workers have the duty to ask everyone
to be leader How do stand the national Savethe
Union program?
The Mine Workers must warned against without
program
district program be effective unless it is tied with
the big national program.
Just as separate agreements spelled ruin
United Mine Workers. separate district programs ignoring
the national do tremendous damage
to the miners cause
The mine workers want no onspraces put
agent in the place of Cappelni
There be separation of the the progressves
the Anthracite from the national
The workers will fight any of the operators who
maintain the reacherous custom of separate agreements
Anthracite Union No separation of the Anthracite from the
Bituminous
struggle the Anthracite is and must continue
struggle for the nationwide of the workers in the entire
industry The national calls for
pee unity of the Anthracite miners with the soft coal miners
If leaders" in the Anthracite who dreaming
straddng between the Mine Workers and their enemies
the operaorby separating the Anthracite struggle
the nationwide struggle then such traitors less
dangerous than Lewis himself
H. of the mine workers, in saving their Union in
winning the strike drawing the 100000 unorganzed
the Union in kicking out the agents of the operators
taking control of the Union into the hands of the Mine
Workersths is national cause The Savethe Union
movement fights boldly for the special grievances of the miners
In every dsrt-and the remains nationwide