The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-03
DENOUNCE WAGE
CUTS, SPEEDUp,
CONSOLIDATION
Lewis Brutal Scheme
To Gust Men Hit

on must repudlate the ruinouS Lewis
policy of separate agreements by
e+ri7rino April tst in a body and bv
remaining on strike until a national
settlement is secured. Any other
course would be fatal. Attempts of
Fishwick and others to sell you out
by the policy Of individual agreements
must be met by picknting.
To the Unorganized Miners:
The National ave-the-Union Con-
ference calls upon you to rally and
organize. Now is the time to estab-
fish union and to abolish the slave
like conditions that have been forced
upon you by the coal operators and
the repeated betrayals of the Lewis
machine. The Save-the-Union move
rent is carrying on extensive organ
ization work in the unorganized dis
tricts. This is already far advanced
in. Somerset, Fayette, Greene, and
Westmoreland counties in Pennsyl-
vania. The national conference en-
oorses the call issued by the National
Save-the-tTnion Committee for a
strike of these miners on April 10th.
This strike must be a mass turnout.
1t will 90 far to win the whole battle
Of the miners. The unorganized min
crs of West VIRGINIA, Kentucky. and
other unorganizod districts are urged
to unite under the leadership of the
Save-the- Union Committee and to pre-
pare to defend your interests and to
help win the present decisive strike.
The Save-the- Union movement pledg-
es Won its most loval sunport.
To the Anthracite Miners:
The fate of the union in the anthra-
cite districts is bound up with the
struggle of the bitun1inous miners.
II the operators succeed in smashing
the union in the soft-coal regions.
the anthracite operators will make
desperate ONSLAUGHT to break up the
Unions in districts one, seven and
vine. The same cor7ranies for which
you work have already repudiated
their contracts IL the soft coal dis
tricts. Your interests are one with
tho hituminous miners, now. IN the
midst of struggle. Those are false
leaders who attempt to draw line
between YOU and the soft coal min
ers, especially when this effort takes
the form of an agitation for a SEN
arate union of anthracite miners.
Such .disruntive tactics are fatal to
the life and growth of the union.
Anthracite miners, rally to the sup
port of the bituminous miners. Pre-
pare for far mere active participa-
ton III the struggle of the soft coal
miners. The life Of the whole union
is at stake. Get rid Of Cappelini and
his terrorism, but also get rid of
Lewis and all his other henchmen.
Beware of so called opposition lead
ers who while crying "Cappelini Must
Co." at the same time protect the
arch enenv of the miners, John L.
Lewis. Rally tc the Save-the-U Union
movement. Help win the Pennsyl-
vania Ohio-West Virginia strike,
Abolish the special contract system.
Free Boriita, Moleski and MENDOZA.
An Appeal to the Working Class.
Workers, the Sava-the-U Union Con-
ference asks your solidarity and sup
port. This is your fight as well as
ours. The outcome of this struggle
will be of the most profound signif-
icance to the whole American work
ing class, unorganized as we'll as or
ganized. 1t is STRUGGLE of basic
Importance internationally md we
appeal to the miners and other work
ers throughout the world to rally to
our support.
The crisis of the U. NJ. w. A. is
the crisis of the entire American la
Dor movement. IF the miners union,
the foundation of organized labor, is
destroyed every trade union IN the
countrv will be in DANGER The down.
fall of the United Mine Workers OF
America would be the signal for an
elimination struggle AGAINST trade
unions in everv industry by the open
shop forces. IF the miners are forced
into semi-slave conditions. every work
or in America win feel the effects of
it in ware cuts and generally wors-
ened conditions.
The fight against the Lewis ma
chine is the FIGHT against the whole
and corrupt leadership in
the trade unions. If this struggle is
lost, it means that our unions, sunk
still deeper in the morass of reaction,
will be helpless and will 60 down be-
fore the open shop attacks of the en-
plovers. If the fight is won, our
trade Unions will 90 into a new period
Of progress and development.
Every progressive and militant
worker must rally aggressivelv to the
support Of this movement to save the
union from the coal operators
and the Lewis reactionaries. This
support must be concrete and itnmed-
late.
Railroad Workers, Haul No Scab
Coa1f
Steel Workers, Prepare to Organize
ard RI Defend v-p~ Trtarests