The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-02

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membership United Mine Workers represented
at the great Pittsburgh conference.
All important districts Of the Union represented
The conference not sectional conference not western
central states conerencet conference
representative of the great mass OF coal miners.
At Pittsburgh are delegates may speak for the United
Mine Workers of America
But the conference is even more than that It extends
confines the Union which has been much
reduced in the past few years.
The Pittsburgh Conference represents only the
body the United Mine Workers. but it represents the broader
and bigger United Mine Workers which existed before the big de-
feas of recent and the greater Union still to be-
Conference represents the dimensions of the Union
nearly as its dimensions were in 1920 than as they
for at the pittsburgh Conference are the representatives Of those
which vital to the industry which had been lost
to the Union when Lewis teacherosy left Fayette and Wash
ngon the 1922 favor to the Steel
Trust gave West Virginia the murderers of Sid Hatfield and
organize the miners Kentucky and Tennessee
The Pittsburgh represents the workers of
West Virginia Kentucky Tennessee and the other sections of the
Union which have long been represented by clerks from
the office of Lewis Now for the first time years these sections
of the industry really represented by delegates elected by the
rank and file whom Lewis had deserted the terrorism of
pany
The Canadian i workers thrown out of the Union by John
Lewis represented An important section of the
who always play exceptional role in all struggles in the mine
fields, is represented
than formally enrolled in the Union whole. 1t
ren those vital sections of the miners which have been the
past broken off of the body organized mine workers. those
expelled by the sar Lewis and those which Lewis
the friend Of the operators refused to organize in the Union
short present Conference Pittsburgh represents
reunng of the broken fragments of the United Mine Workers
In the fullest the conference already shows the usf
cation of its the Savethe-Unon Conference.
supremey important matter of the program
program cathng indictment of all enemies of the
United Mine Workers Union and of John Lewis its most dan
gerous enemy, in particular.
The is of aconand the Union has never
officially adopted program of action since John L. Lewis and
his horde Of agents took control Of the Union Lewis
had scud the Unions former and has stood for
place
has long been understood among the advanced sections of
that any action its first point
oustng Lewis bureaucracy The of
the Union the of coal mine workers of the country
is the of all action These points well provided for by
the program as outlined in press dispatches.
the significance Lewis position lies that
is the coal operators Behind Lewis stand the ope
ator and the operators must be beaten the present strike
will themselves Lewis smash
the openshop drive of the coal operators victory for the Union
which will honored place the
guard of the trade union movement.
program this need The real smashing counter
offensive of the mine workers of the whole country only be-
possible simultaneously with and part of the nation
wide drive against the operators agent, Lewis
special emergency district conventions which
called the Pittsburgh Conference be made splendid
expressions Of the will of the rank and file miners have not
been had since Lewis notwithstanding methods began
Fraud which the Lewis method of putting himself in
in the past two elections must be allowed repeat
itself
The United Mine Workers Union must have officials who
will represent the free and complete will of the mine workers
John L. Lewis and his gang mercenaries go!
The miners fight the fight of every honest worker
coal fields but it is than that
miners fight is the fight of the whole working
The miners themselves bear the most direct burden the
fight
But the fight must not be left to the mine workers alone
The whole working class must take the miners fight
everywhere make their that
the miners supported in every
The fighting mine workers must eat while they fight
everywhere must multiply times relief
that being sent.
The
of the biggest struggle
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