The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-09
Lewis BetyayS Himself

LeaUls BetyuyS Himself
John L. Lewis betrayed his real purpose not the
workers but the bosses Wednesday when his chief complaint to
the committee against the nhuman suffering
which the miners bearing but against the radcasm OF
the That Lewis greatest fear that the mine work
will go too far-become radicarn their struggle
against the BOSSES Can avsh farther than that
in the midst of the fight Of the miners for their ves
The workers be warned against putting faith
in the senate investigation The senate committee belongs to the
mine owners John L. Lewis belongs to the If
there any sincerity the investigation why didn't it be-
gin eleven and half months when the strike began Why
does begin now? Why the parade Of senate million
aires and senateunkeys of mionaes at this particular time
when the strike is nearly year old?
The is:
Because after one year of strike there is now big
crease IN mass pketng-shoWng that the strike growing
stronger the capitalists and the senators hope to horn in and
demoae the workers with fake Investigation making them
depend the capitalist senators instead of themselves
2 Because the mine workers by tens of thousands be-
John L. Lewis and his euenant and the movement to throw
off Lewis and to take the union into the workers hands grow
ing stronger.
first of April approaching and with the
expiration of the the key district of the bitumnous
field Illinois the miners be confused with false hopes and
prevented from charging and reinforcing their fighting line
April then the operators hope to break the United Mine Work
finally and concusivey
Because the presidential election is approaching and
democratic politicians and the GreenLewis want to
the sale of the political of the workers to Wall
Street.
And now the senators are speeding up because on the
date April only three weeks away-w take place the most
important conference the American labor movement for
yearbe national Save the Union Conference at Pittsburgh
The capitalists and the takers want to turn the of the work
from this conference and the senate Investigation
$50 Lewis and his euenants in the interest of the BOSSES tried
prevent the strike by making the miners submit
With intention of conducting real struggle for the
workers and always the first quit fight Lewis forced
to give nominal for short while Five months Lewis
decided that the backs of the workers broken that the end
of the strike only matter of few weeks of slow drift into
openshop Mines and he then reality abandoned the strike
But Lewis mistaken The strike instead of dying
stronger 1t is safe that this strike in the Pennsylvania
Ohio fields the most vital manifestation Of working class
and fighting CUTS that has been America in decades
Today after of incredible suffering despite the
officials failure strike
zaton into the unorganzed fields despite the
and iron police and despite murders only by the
police directly by Lewis-Cappeni machine in the
anthracite which part of the fghtdepte all this the strike
is growing stronger.
And now the highest point of this magnificent struggle of
the workers will April The national Save Union
conference at Pittsburgh raugh with big potentiae both
for restoring the Union to the hands of the
who want to fight and for Kidding the Union of the Lewis
chine of the employers Also April the district
in District IL Illinois district expires The slogan of strike
April p is sweeping the key district strike District
would add tremendous strength to the strike of Pennsylvania and
Ohio and to the extent that it would strengthen the workers. it
would weaken Lewis Lewis and Fshwick trembling in
that the Illinois miners whom they pulled out of the strike months
with treacherous district agreement will be
ions which will win the big strike they trying break
der to their control of the Union To add Illinois,
diana Kansas and the smaller fields of Iowa. Missouri
fighting line of the workers would the prospect great
est victory of the Ameri movement in many years.
Every worker now has high duty of making the national
conference of April the biggest presentday
Organize committees wherever coal is dug
Sfen the relief work the Pennsylvania and Ohio miners
if they fight they them more
Send your contributions to the Relief
Committee Gil Penn Ave. Pittsburgh Pa Bring Representatives
of every local of United Mine Workers Pittsburgh
April Also representatives of the ,norcanzed na voer
The Anthracite mine workers throw off bood-staned
Cappen and join the for saving
rc H. Illinois, must strike April against the abolition of the
The great struggle of the workers is fight for the
orng class of America They must win help enough
hey win.
All eyes Pittsburgh April /.