The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-31

controlled by the captains of finance
and indstry, and the Labor World"
which purports to speak for
organized labor devotes most of its
space to attacking the Communists
and boosting Herbert Hoover for
president. The officials of the
United Mine Workers in Pittsburgh,
have united political front with
the capitalist politicians the very
politicians who are the agents of
the coal operators who broke the
miners strike by starvation, and
with the aid of John L. Lewis and
his machine.
Another important factor in
making the striking miners and
their sympathizers see thru the
policy of the Capitalist politicians
was the work of the National
Miners Relief Committee under the
direction of Comrade Alfred Wagon
knecht, whose success in raising
relief funds for the textile strike
in Passaic, New Jersey, brought
reluctant praise from the late Sarah
Conboy of the United Textile Wor-
kers Union and even from Thomas
Mac Mahon, reactionary president
of the same organization.
Miners Fight is Political
Not only did the National Miners
elief Committee bring food and
clothing to the famished strikers,
but it carried on an educational
campaign thru news releases, bull
letins and posters, pointing out that
the state troopers, yellow dogs"
or coal and iron policemen, judges
and mayors, all agents of the
capitalist parties, were their enemies
and that. they should organize into
a class party thru which the could
fight on the political field.
The miners were puick to see that
the only political party, that appear
ed on their side dring the strike,
was the Workers (Communist)
Party, and thousands of them now
feel that this is the Party that is
entitled to and will get their sup
port in this election campaign, and
afterwards in the fight to rally the
masses for other struggles and
eventually for the overthrow of the
capitalist system.
Big Mine Union Convention.
The miners of Pennsylvania, in
addition to helping put the Com
munist ticket on the ballot, are
perfecting arrangements to build a
new Miners Union to replace the
wreck of what was once the mighty
United Mine Workers of America,
wrecked through the perfidy of
John L. Lewis and his corrupt
machine. A great convention will
be held in Pittsburgh, from Septem-
Der 9 to the 16, which will be
attended by hundreds of delegates
from every mining region in the
United States. The Workers Com
munist) Party is planning a spirited
election campaign in Pennsylvania,
which will have the effect of rails
ing the morale of the workers in
that state and labor in general as
well as encouraging the members of
the Party in other states to greater
activity.
The National Election Campaign
Committee, is making arrangements
to send speakers into every indu-
strial hamlet in the state to carry
the message of the class struggle
to the workers and to point out to
them how they must organize them
selves for militant struggle against
the exploiters, by joining the Wor-
kers (Communist) Party and build
ing up militant industrial unions.
Comrades Foster and Gitlow are
scheduled to speak in the principal
cities of Pennsylvania during the
election campaign.
The list of presidential electors
in Pennsylvania, which follows, is
all proletarian:
L. l.. Langdon, Carpenter
Parthenia Hills, Houseworker
w. ]. White, Steel Worker
Ben Careathers, Upholsterer
Bernard Herman, Textile Worker