The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-02
dan SINGER IN
appeal AGAINST
Lewis MACHINE
Urges Mobilization for
New Union

NINE fields which have resulted from
the treacherous policies of the Lewis
Fishwick machine and call to all coal
dirrors to continue the struggle
against TIE operators was yesterday
issued by Dan H Singer. newly
elected secretary treasurer of District
y Nine Workers. Singer, who was
chosen to office when the rank and
file ousted the corrupt Fishwick ma
chine last month, calls for the forma-
ton of a labor party as one means Of
combating the attack of the bosses.
George Voyzey was elected president
Of the district The call follows:
Call to Struggle
Brothers, the time hos arrived when
every miner should take his place in
the struggle now going on in the coal
mining industry of this country.
The miners of the State Of Illinois
have never been III a more serious
position than at the present time.
Wherever mines are opening up ma
chimes are being installed, and as a
consequence only one-fourth of the
miners are able to obtain a Job. And
too often we >od that these few work
only one or two days week. We see
as a consequence thousands of miners
driven from their homes to seek en-
ployment in some other industry.
No Jobs
R11f ofto,~ Of L
for months they are forced to return
to their homes without finding en-
ployment, When asked the reason for
their return the answer is that the
other industries have unemployment,
too.
What then is the answer to this
problem For many months the Save
The-Union Committee has been point
ing out to the miners that to throw
100000 coal miners out of the indus
try only helped to solve the problem
for the coal operators, and meant only
starvation for these 100000 miners,
or else taking the job for less wages.
This condition is jgst what the coal
operators and other employers of
labor want, in order to keep the men
who have the job from revolving
against the terrible conditions. We
propose the following as a remedy:
Less Hours
First, u six-hour day; second, a five
day week; third, a tonnage rate on
the loading machine; fourth, restric-
ton on the amount or number of tons
each man shall load; fifth, against
temporary agreements; for national
strike and national agreement; sew.
enth, for the organization Of the un-
organized, and to fight against all
wage cuts.
The miners must resist all attempts
to lower their standard of living, and
should receive the support of all the
organized workers, because this is
their fight, too. If the miners lose,
then just as surely will the rest of the
orranizet labor movement lose.
We are not opposed to the use of
machinery by the operators, but we
do say that the coal miners who are
going to operate them must be
the cres to receive the benefit. The
rachi1a must not be allowed to en-
slave thousands of miners in order
that few coal operators may reap a
larger profit
Lewis-Fishwick Treachery
Mr. Fishwick says that something
must be done; he asks thet the policy
committee of the national orrga-szation
be- called together for the purpose of
releasing the officials from the ma
tional policy. He makes the state,
ment in his official organ, the illinois
Miner" that this policy all at once
has grown inadequate. In plain Eng
fish, he means their policy has failed.
Yet we find him in the special con-
ventf<n held in Peoria in 1927 telling
the delegates what a wonderful docu-
r1ent this policy was. A winning pol
icy, he termed it, because, he said, Jack
Walker won with it in 1910. Time
means nothing to Fishwick.
Many rank and file miners arose
and protested on the convention floor
against this losing policy, but to nc
avail. Fishwick and his lieutenants
@.=riied out their policies and they
have brought ruin and disaster to the
sonce powerful ard militant United
Mine Workers Of America.
They have revoked charters and
thrown thousands Of miners out Of the
organization because they dared tc
voice their protest against the losing
policy. The press reports carry a story
that local unions around Herrin arc
rassing resolutions asking Mr.. Lewis
to grant the Illinois miners officials
the right to revise the policy, re-
vision downwards, which means that
the Peabody Coal Company's full-pagt
advertisement advising a reduction II
res will be put into effect.
~ and file miners say that this
being passed b. the loca
g counterpart OF the on'
which was passed by the meeting hel(