The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-02
Herbst Stimulates Sub
Campaign

in the Connecticut section to intensi-
flying activity for the special May
Day edition of The DAILY WORKER.
Turnout the big towns of New Haven,
Hartford, New London and Bridge
port the Importance of the May DAY
edition of the paper is being brought
home to the workers of the Connect
cut industrial centers.
! To further stimulate the drive, the
free distributions of thousands of
DAILY WORKERS is being planned
and in many places has already been
carried out. The Connecticut wo-5ers
are eager to obtain copies of their
class paper and the message of the
only militant working class daily in
the English language is spreading
rapidly thruout the Connecticut dis
| trict.
Joe Angelo, secretary Of the District
u, Illinois, is on hand. Dziengielew-
ski, Papcun, Hapgood, Licata; scores
of other leading militants are playing
their parts.
Women Represented.
The women delegates who have been
elected to all leading committees are
rlaying prominent part in the pro-
ceedings. A delegation from the
young miners recently formed to sup
port the struggle is also on hand.
One of the chief activities of this
mornings session was the appoint
ruent of committees. Committees on
credentials, program, resolutions, the
strike situation, organization of the
unorganized, press, finance, etc., were
chosen.
Discussion this afternoon conferred
chiefly around the program submit
ted by the executive committee. The
principal recommendations were con-
cerned with the saving of the union
and the elimination of the Lewis ma
chine.
Program Reported On.
The draft of the program as re-
ported unanimously by the committee,
reads in part:
"The National Save-the- Union Con-
ference, representing the great
masses of organized miners, declares
that the present corrupt and reaction
airy leadership is bankrupt and I'M
representative of the interests and
will of the membership. These cor
rupt leaders have stolen their Off
cial positions and they have no MAN.
dates from the rank and file. Their
policies are wrecking the union. the
wages and working standards of the
miners"
Many RetrayaIs.
The program places blame for the
unions loss of half of its membership
since 1922 on the Lewis administra-
tion, also charging it with betrayine
the miners interests in numerous
strikes.
The administration is charged with
collaborating with the coal operators
tc split and break the union; it
charges that Lewis has worked
against the miners interests regard
ing wages, working conditions, griey-
ances as well as the important prob
lem of unemployment.
The program proposes that the
Save-the-Union Committee shall Dust
the corrupt Lewis machine as pre-
requisite to reestablishing the unions
power in the industry.
Emergency District Conventions.
"The Save-the- Union Committee"
the program reads, 'in the various
districts shall at once through the
local unions insist upon the calling
of special emergency district conven-
tons, carefully guarding against any
packing methods by the Lewis ma
chine.
Act independently.
"1n the event of refusal or delay
by the present district officials in
calling such conventions, the respec-
tive Save-the- Union movements shall
themselves call the conventions. At
these emergency district conventions
the offices of the Lewis machine
supporters shall be declared vacant
and new officers, representative of
the membership, shall be elected IN
the local unions new officers shall be
elected in place Of the proved Lewis
supporters. After the district con-
ventions, the National Convention Of
the United Mine Workers of Amer
lea shall be organized on the same
principle"
Plans are proposed for strengthen
ing the present strike by calling out
miners in non-union soft coal regions
and urging strike on Apri! 1 in the
Illinois, Indiana and Kansas districts
where the officials have signed
separate district agreements thus be-
traying the Pennsylvania Ohio strike.
The program predicts "a new pc
Rod of progress and development" of
thu A m n1inara t1adn l1niorae if tho raraa~