The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-06-15

aOeTe the po10ns of different set
several hundred of them attempted
This was a strike breaking policy.
The result of all this reaction and
terrorism has been to disarm the
.UMWA in the face of the employers
attacks and to lead it to its present
break up.
Mistake to Cling TO UMWA.
It would be a disastrous mistake
for us to cling any longer to the
UMWA. as the union of the miners.
Locked in the death clutch of the
corrupt Lewis gang and shattered by
the employers attacks, it cannot pro-
tect the interests of the miners. To
depend further on the broken UMWA
as our organization would be for US
to sink deeper and deeper into open
shop slavery. We must build a new
union. We must take the situation
in hand ourselves and break the con-
troll of the Lewis gang. We must
organize new miners union, one
with an honest progressive leadership
and a fighting policy. In this way
alone can we organize the morgan
lied, resist wage cuts, bring about
the 6-hour day and 5-day week, re-
lieve unemployment, and establish a
national agreement for all miners.
Only new union can shatter the con-
troll of the Lewis machine. Only with
a new, vigorous, powerful union can
we put halt to the open shop drive
lof the operators and re-establish I'M
ion conditions in the mining industry,
and prepare ourselves for the great
struggles ahead in the industry.
To establish the new Miners Union
is the purpose Of the great national
miners convention, to be held in Pitts
burgh, September GIG. The under
signed, representing the newly reor-
ganized districts of the UMWA, and
| the progressive opposition in the 9TH
err districts, and speaking in the name
of the majority of miners, call upon
all locals of the UMWA to send dele
gates to this convention, on the basis
\ of one delegate for each 100 members.
i We also call upon the unorganized
miners to hold conferences and send
delegates on the same basis, thus
helping the work of organizing the
unorganized.
Time for Action!
We must not surrender the rank
and file organization in the UMWA
to the Lewis machine. We must win
! the locals, sub-districts and districts
flor the new organization and send
delegates from them to the Pittsburgh
! Convention. Only in this way can we
save what remains of value in the
tUMWA. Only in this way can we
save unionism in the coal industry.
4 Minersl Now is the time for de-
dcisive action. Lewis and his whole
trotten machine must 60 Build a new
Miners Union.- Take control of your
4loeal unions and swing them into the
1new organization. Come to the Ma
Etional Miners Convention.
4 Greet Strikers.
] Strikers! We fraternally greet you
bins your wonderful struggle for the
Jacksonville scale and the right to
! organize in the face of the opposition
Of the combined operators and union
misleaders. You have been systemat
ically betrayed by the Lewis machine
We must now all unite to unload
these false leaders and to build rea
Miners Union. We call upon workers
everywhere to support the Pennsylva-
nia-Ohio strike. Send all relief con-
tributions to the National Miners Re-
lief Committee, Gil Penn Ave-, Pitts
burgh, Pa.
Anthracite miners! Stand solidly
with the bituminous miners for the
new union. Only such a union can
abolish the contractor evil and dc
4 away with the bitration-conciliatio
swindle. Beware of these false lead
| CLIO WIZ duNOCdJe lllG IOfIudLlOn Oh Il
separate union of the hard coal min
ers. Send delegates to the National
Miners Convention.
Miners of the unorganized districts
Now is the time to organize. Lewis
and his corrupt agents have betrayed
you time and again. But the new
Miners Union will recognize as its
first task the organization Of the I'M
organized and will undertake this job
with all possible vigor. Hold confer
ences and send delegates to the Pitts
! burgh Convention.
Workers of the whole labor move
ment! Support the National Miners
/ Convention. Our fight is your fight
Our struggle against the reactionary
Lewis machine, which has wrecked
our union, is part of your general
fight against the whole corrupt A. F.
of L. leadership, which has brought
the entire labor movement into deer
crisis.