The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-27
CUT Off
RELIEF DURING
BITTER WINTER
National Miners Aid
Sent Help

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By a Woman Worker Correspondent
RENTON, Pa. (By MaiD AFTER
reading several other papers I find
that the Daily Worker and the Coal
Digger are the only friends a work
ing man has got. They are the only
papers that tell the truth about the
workers and what they are doing
and what they'have to say.
I read in one paper several things
about the Save-the- Union Commit
tee and so on. This paper also said
that the money that has been raised
for relief is being used to pay FAX
ers" such as the leaders of the
Save-the- Union Committee who are
trying to wreck the union. But
should like to ask who it was that
wrecked the union if not the Lewis
machine.
Cut Off Relief
The Lewis machine cut all the
strikers of Renton off it's relief list
last March and ever since then we
have been getting our beans from
the National Miners Relief. All the
locals that were cut off by the Lew
is machine have been getting their
relief from the same source.
This paper l am speaking of says
that the Save-the Union Committee
is planning a conference in Pitts
burgh on September 8 to organize
new union and to work it and
put it in worse shape then it now
is. The paper states that if the
miners wanted to GUST Lewis L4.ey
would GUST him at election time, but
that the miners know that --.w Wis
can't be put out till his time is up.
l would like to know how Lewis
can be put out by elections when
he counts his own votes? | have
heard the miners who went back to
work on the non union mine at Del
mont, Pa, complain that the speak
ers were not there often enough,
that is why they went back to work.
Some say it is Anthony Minerich's
fault, but some day these men will
realize what Anthony Minerich did
for them and is still trying to do
for them to get better working con-
ditions and better wages.
Scabs.
Some of you, maybe, can remem-
Der when Minerich led the picket
line at White Valley and some of
the men and women who never had
been near a meeting except when
they tried to call one for the pur-
pose of going back to work, these
people stood on top of hills and
laughed and clapped when the state
police beat up Anthony Minerich.
These people remarked that they
cannot strike for US union people,
they thought that if they went on
strike April 16, the strike would be
won on April II. But if they had
been out for sixteen months as we
have been they would know more
about it. If they had put up a
winter in the barracks without shoes
and clothes and lacking food they
would not say, "We can't strike"
And furthermore, some of the
non-union miners l have heard have
said, that if John L. Lewis were
left alone he would have done better.
But my opinion is that John L. Lew
is was let alone too long, that is
why he has got so proud that he
thinks he is Better sport for help
ing the Mellon along. l think that
if we women had organized in 1922
and got in line with the men, John
L. Lewis would have gotten the seat
worms and would have moved around
a little faster and we would not be
lost sheep as we are today We
would have a leader who would take
care of US and not lose US. But the
men at that time thought different.
Weed Out the Takers.
l think that by this time Lewis
has proved himself so wrong that
all the miners who were on his side
can see it. He does not care what
a miner earns just as long as Lewis
has his big salary. Mr.. Clark and
Mr.. Feely used to come to our meet
ings, both men and women's, and
they used to express themselves.
We must weed the garden till it is
clean; we must not have any weeds
and then the garden will grow fast
er! But think they knew that they
were among the biggest weeds in
the garden and needed to be cleaned
out first.
Brothers and Sisters, these weeds
have become very large and tall in
the garden but they do not have
much root to them, so I think it is
getting easier to weed right along.
Only we must organize strongly,
both men and women, from coast
to coast.
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