The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-28

YOUTH CONFERENCE To-
PLAN MINERS RELIEF

TO 10 per cent young coal miners
present at the conference as dele
gates. (This is quite high and the
charge of the Lewis outfit was that
the Save-the- Union Committee was
composed of irresponsible young
sters") because Pat Toohey and Tony
Minerich, tho leaders of the general
struggle, can still be considered land
as far as age goes are) young min
ers. The same holds true of Joe An
gelo and George Papcun. Young coal
miners participated in the discussions.
A young fellow, representing the I'M
organized delegation, spoke in its
name. His first words were: "Well
men, you are now looking on a young
typical scab from the coke regions"
He went on to explain the reasons
for his scabbing. The fact that the
Lewis machine sold them out in 1922.
$4,000 Of them were simply left to
their own fate after coming out on
strike in support of their fellow work
ers. In the anthracite debate, young
miners from east Ohio, from the an
thracite, and other places saw the
correctness of the committees pro-
posal and spoke for it.
Lewis Machine Cuts Off Relief.
The policy of Lewis is to cut off
entire locals and active individual
militants in the union from all strike
relief. This has been done already in
the past, and will be done more ex-
tensively in the present period. The
unorganiZed coal miners who are re-
spending to the call of the sue to
spread the strike will not be fed by
Lewis. The task of supplying the un-
organized and Disseminated against
militants with relief falls on the
shoulders of the entire working class.
Young Workers. Relief Committee.
The young workers as part of the
working class, have done their bit in
the past to raise relief for the strik-
ing miners. The Youth Conference
for Miners Relief, altho containing
some liberal and student groups, is
nevertheless predominantly a young
workers relief committee. The youth
conference has sent in $4,000 to date.
True, that is only a drop in the bucket
but is quite an achievement when we
consider the fact that in the past each
youth organization did its own work
in disoGganized and decentralized
manner. There was no coordinated
activity, and no cooperation between
the youth organizations. Now that
has been done away with. More than
that, the youth will now definitely
establish permanent youth section
of Workers International Relief.
Second Youth Conference.
The Second Youth Conference for
Miners Relief is being held on Sun
day afternoon, at the Irving Plaza.
This second conference is being called
in order to attract more youth organi-
cations into this work, for the pur-
pose of intensifying, increasing and
extending it's relief activities, and to
inspire the young workers and stu
dents to greater efforts for the strik-
ing miners, in line with the new stu
alton in the Miners Union, and the
greater necessity for relief.
The young workers and students
can and will continue to do excellent
work. Hundreds of young people can
be used for Tag Day activity. Thou
sands of young workers can be ap-
preached to contribute for miners re-
lief one way or another. That will
help to bring home in some measure
the idea of class solidarity to the
young workers. In the high schools
and colleges, special tag days can be
arranged and much relief can be
raised in that way. In New York
University, for instance, in two hours
time, the Liberal Club succeeded in
raising over $107.
The young workers will now go out
and raise thousands of dollars for
militant miners. The young workers
Will show their class solidarity with
the coal miners and support them to
the utmost in their fight to preserve
their union from the attacks of the
coal operators, and the disruption of
the Lewis machine.