The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-26


in which the few own everything and
the masses do not own anything.
The miners must win the present
strike. To win the strike means
higher wages and better conditions.
But they cannot win the strike I'M
less they get rid of their present
leaders. The Lewis machine is
nothing but the agent Of the bosses
in the union. 1t sold out the struggle
of the miners to the operators and
to the government. The Lewis ma
chine does not want to win the strike,
it's whole history is but an uninter-
rupted betrayal of all the fights of
the miners. 1t betrayed the miners
in 1919, in 1922, in 1925, and it has
betrayed them in the most shameless
way in the present struggle.
District after district was lost for
the United Mine Workers under the
leadership of the Lewis machine. In
1919 the miners strike tied up 70
per cent of production; the present
strike only 20 per cent. The Lewis
machine criminally neglected the ne
cessary preparation for the strike.
1t sabotaged the organization of the
unorganized. 1t has signed up in
dividual agreements. 1t has betrayed
the cause of national agreement.
1t has split the movement by GUST
ing everybody from the union who
wants a militant struggle. 1t is cut
ting off relief from every striking
miner who dares to criticize it. 1t
is trying to enforce yellow dog
pledge of starvation. The last YES
tiges of democracy have been eradi-
Gated from the union. Lewis stole
the elections. The Lewis machine
is not leadership set up by the rank
and file, but a leadership set up with
the aid Of the bosses over the rank
and file. From June to December
1927, while the striking miners wero
starving on dollar or two relief
Lewis drew s11, 093.66 in salary and
personal expenses.
The mining industry is in a crisis
The issue is: Who shall pay the ex-
penses of the crisis? Shall it be
solved at the cost of the operators
or of the miners? The miners, and
with them the whole labor movement
must multiply their efforts to com
bat the onslaught of the operators.
The defeat of the miners would be
defeat for the whole labor move
ment.
Demands.
1. Lewis must go. The rank and
file must take over the union.
2. The unorganized miners must
be organized. The big organization
drive must be intensified and sped
up.
8. Win the Pennsylvania and Ohio
strike. Insist on a national agree
ment. Fight against wage cuts and
for the Jacksonville scale. Mass
picketing and mass violation Of in
functions against the workers. Mass
resistance to evictions.
a. It is the duty of the whole
labor movement to organize relief for
the starving and struggling miners.
8. Railroad workers, don't haul
scab coal!
Colonies and Imperialist War.
Increasing rivalry with the other
imperialist powers and brutal exploit
alton of the economically weaker,
more backward peoples-these two
features characterize the foreign
policy of United States imperialism
at present.
Wall Streets dollars and marines
are extending their domination over
ever greater sections of the world
Wherever there is a revolutionary up
heuval United States imperialism is
on hand and ready to crush it.
United States imperialism is in
conspiracy with Great Britain against
the Russian revolution. 1t cooper
ates with Japan and England in
the interventions against China
United States Imperialism supported
Great Britain in her ruthless inter-
ventiOn in Shantung. United States
warships and thousands of marines
| are ing Cillllel, anu w ooili4lS
ton admits that Admiral Bristol is
empowered to call out the whole
Pacific fleet against China if United
States imperialist policy requires it.
United States imperialism goes hand
in hand with japanese imperialism
in Shantung against the armies Of
Chang Kai-Shek, but at the same
time its representative, Admiral
Bristol, cooperates with Chang Kai-
SheN~ip crushing Soviet Russia.
The military dictatorship of United
States imperialism is exercised more
ruthlessly than ever before over the
Philippines, Hawaii, Porto Rico, the
Panama Canal Zone and the Virgin
Islands, Cuba, Haiti, Panama and Lii
IBERIA are today reduced to vassal
states of United States imperialism.
The independence of all the Garth
bean and Central American republics
has become more than tragic farce