The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-10
Mine Strike Starts in
Illinois; Aid Rushed


into the district office of the Ma
tional Union here today, and will be
given out as soon as they can be
checked over and verified.
This strike was authorized by a
Tri-District conference December J.,
of delegates from Illinois, Kentucky
and Indiana, summoned to meet by
+ the N. NJ. U. The miners are form
ing their local strike committees,
their relief and defense corps. They
will march from the struck mines
on all those which did not come out
on the first day, and spread the
struggle from section to section,
The United Mine Workers of Amer
lea. both factions, is trying to secure
scabs. and the sheriffs and company
officials in the coal towns are
threatening armed attack.
T. U. L. L. Sends tombstone.
Assistant Secretary Schmies of
the Trade Union Unity League an
nounced yesterday the Executive
Bureau of the League has assigned
National Organizer Jack tombstone
to the Illinois district to cooperate
with the National Miners Union in
leading the strike.
All T.U.U.L. district secretaries
in the coal regions have been in
structed to mobilize all their men,
bership and all sympathizers for
= assistance to the striking miners. A
| letter is being sent out to all the
unions affiliated with the T.U.U,L.
' calling upon them to inform their
membership, and ask complete soil
darity with the miners strike, which
is not an isolated event, but is an
integral part of the struggle of the
whole working class in this period
against employers oppression, the
interests of the miners being the in
terests of every worker.
Meet With w. /. r. and I. L. d.
At the initiative of the T.U.U.L
a conference was held yesterday in
the national office of the League,
between the T.U.U.L. and the rep
resentatives of the national offices
of the International Labor Defense
and the Workers International Re-
lief, at which arrangements were
worked out for complete co-opera-
ton and intensive activity of all
three organizations in the miners
strike. Special detailed programs
for activity are being worked out
by each national office.
Defense Prepared.
The International Labor Defense,
80 E. 18th St., will at once mobilize
all branches and districts for miners
defense. 1t pledges the support of
all its members and its whole or
ganization. The miners struggle
will be taken up as a main order
of business in all LID. regional
conferences preceding the national
convention of the LID, to be held
in Pittsburgh, big mining center,
Dec. 1881, at which it will also be
a main topic. A Pittsburgh region
al conference of the LID. will also
be held in Pittsburgh, Dec. Is.
The Workers International Relief
is assigning special organizers to
the Illinois strike to start actively
collecting relief for the strikers, and
is mobilizing all Of its secretaries
for support of the miners.
w. l. r. Statement.
The Workers International Relief
yesterday issued a statement point
ing out that the miners are striking
at the right time Of the year to win
and calling attention to their de-
mands, and the united front against
them of the Lewis and Fishwick
machines in the U.M.W.A., and of
the coal operators, the state and fed
eral governments. 1t shows how
|, through the treachery of the UNI
\ WA, wages have been cut, half OF
the miners thrown out of work, and
widows and orphans left destitute
when miners are killed. The W.I.R
says:
"The workers Of America must
act as one to help the miners in
their valiant fight. A victory for
the miners means victory for the
entire working class. 1t means or
xanization Of the unorganized. 1t