The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-23
Pittsburgh and Washington

If man more honest than Van Bittner testifyng
for the coal miners before the senate nVeug
ton committee and the senate committee had ne o
finding out the facts chronicle of the most terrible
known in modern industry would be pouring forth at WASH
ingon instead of the hahearted and haconceaeo Sory
the terrorism that is being told
But committee has purpose to expose the con
ditions purpose is something entirely different van A. bt
chosen to give the story on behalf OF the coal
cause the capitalist class not to present the
case in any really effective
The senate committee investigation IS trane-up -.
1t is disgusting spectacle that Bttne makes of himself
when teses avish terms of violations of contracts by
operators of northern West Virginia headed as ne puts IT, ny
"our friend John D. Rockefeller, r"
is even this lackey of the coal operators tes
titles as to how he crawed the srkebreaer Herbert
Hoover and told him of troubles and asked him what to
do" Bttnes miserable confession of political and moral bank
uptcy his admission of the Mine Workers
Union applies to the general the OpenshOp capitalists
to the srkebreakng cabinet Coolidge CID to get advice as to
how conduct themselves in rkeths is made on the Wit
ness stand as a defense" of the Mine Workers!
with the srkebreaker Hoovers advice as his strike pol
ICY Btner proceeded along these lines he tried to suppress
tried ep every mine worker who spoke against the coal com
panies from the Union Next he went to local court IN wch
the Judge l. G. Lazee 60000ayear stakeholder IN scab
coal propereto ask this capitalist scab court for an injunction
against capitalist scab mines!
With this sort stuff the coal operators and the Lewis bu-
to win the confidence of the mine workers Tor
the senate committee!
necessary make clear to coal miner just what
this shameful farce at Washington means
The big vaudeville Washington has the general pur
Of demorazng the mine workers turning tnen e4on
away from the picket ne regulations Tor faSe
friends of the miners and accomplishing as much as possible
toward breaking the most splendid fighting line the working
shown yeahe big heroic strike OF the coal miners
that has held like iron for
That is the general purpose of the senate committee
Investigation" show is being popped up
specific purpose which is urgent for the
operators and their agents The headline actors the pub
cy getters are no less than Rockefeller Schwab Mellon
who advertised will be publicly slapped on the wrist by the
senator's
present specific purpose of the Investigation show
divert the attention of the mine workers away from the mass
rebellion against the coal operators agents. Lewis
and company-the that will reach its climax in
the big Pittsburgh Conference on April 1.
afford themselves about
significance of their conerenceas compared to the cir
Gus the scab and Lewis putting at Wash
ngon with Rockefeller Schwab and Mellon and Van Bner
the play actors.
The Pittsburgh Conference
attack threatens destroy the biggest trade union the
United States and undermine all union organization
The Pittsburgh conference attempt of the
bring their to throw fresh troops in
to win struggle that is already year old.
The Pittsburgh Conference intended only the
battle for trade union not only the battle the mine
fedsbut to the tide of the entire labor struggle in the
United States where the trade unions have been steadily beaten
down for eight years.
Pittsburgh Conference only counteroffensve
the attack of the coal operators but also root out of the
workers the agents of the employers who have we'll
nigh destroyed the great United Mine Workers Union.
1t will not conference operators
$4,000 bureaucrats 1t will be meeting of the d.
recty chosen representatives of the miners themselves
Pittsburgh Conference the United Mine Workers
of America this
Just to facilitates taking Of Union
Lewis and his feoraitor restoring to the hands
the mine workers. and thus makes possible militant drive
the entire forces of the coal fields into the struggle to win
the strike.
investigation Washington of
the enemy.
The Pittsburgh
working class of America.
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