The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-06-15
The Nine Workers Call
AVG must buiId a new union.

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and break the control
Of the Lewis gang We must organize NEW % u this way
unOganied resist cuts bring about
national agreement for all miners Only
powerful union can we put halt to the Open-shOp
nr e sna rss the ep@ great struggles ahead the industry
These words the CALL issued by the conference OF
executives of miners districts for convention of mine
workers September should fire the entire labor movement TO
action
The call for the building mine union shows clearly
the path which biggest and tradtonay the most militant
section of the American trade union movement must blaze Tor
the immediate organized labor The call published in
full todays DAILY WORKER begins with whitening In
dcment of the fouest machine Of betrayal that the capitalist
possessed within large organization of our class
Lewis the weltodo business has made well paying
of his control of the United Mine Workers When
thousands of mine workers the verge OF
starvation Lewis made the chief task OF the national convention
of the union that OF voting himself big salary OF oUo per
month Gas well extra money for eense and the second
expeng from the union coal miner who
showed himself enemy of Lewis friends the coal operators
that Lewis had minor quarrel with some OF the coal
operatorsbut quarrel revoed merely about Lewis
ntion that the operators should employ Lewis agency
suppression of the mine workers This quarrel sub
prdinate-Lews main quarrel is with the mine workers
was inevitable that Lewis the friend operators
and bankers the coal operators should betray the
DIAL miners in 1919 Then 1922 when the Miners Union was
acetoace with the strike breaking armed forces of capitalist
Harding the member of the fuel
administration which compelled high production of coal during
the war; should the strike for the government and the
operators Again 1925 Lewis quite consistently served
associates when became either to marshall
the Strlke
benefit of business In the spring of last again,
Lewis and his horde of parasites in the profession of labor
leadership for profit went along with the mine workers only
order hold control of their union and to against them
Lewis has made himself known to hundreds of thousands of
workers The machine Of which he is the head will be
thrown of the labor movemenhe slogan which has been
ringing through the mine fields with louder echo will be
realized: LEWIS MUST cor
formation the union of the mine workers does
that the militant movement away from
their fellow workers left under the control of the agents of
the contrary the call indicates that the mans
will that old mistake but will continue to root Lewis
control of whatever may remain for the time being of the
organization ubdsrcts and districts of the u M.
W. called upon send representatives to the great
convention of the mine workers September The drive
already and file miners to take control of
locals everywhere and to swing them into the real
being organized In sharp contrast to Lewis srkebrea
ing the militant movement supports to the utmost the present
strike which in desperate straits because of Lewis treason
great the organization of the unorganzed indicated
as supremey important None of the type
treason in separate union" vigorous
single nationwide union of the mine workers. is the
set forth in the call.
Rightly the whole labor movement is called upon support
this Assistance to the striking miners should be
the National Miners Relief Committee Gil Penn Ave. Pitts
burgh Pa
mine workers of this country about hold
convention of their glorious history of struggle
union they will form will surely be the backbone
revived trade union movement.