The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-23
U. NJ. WA. LOCALS
ARE ASKING TO.
ENTER new union +.
National Miners Union
Outlines Convention

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trayal, wage reductions, sell-outs,
separate agreements and outright
collaboration with the operators in
the destruction of the once powerful
U. M. w. A., it becomes necessary
for t he National Miners Union to
hold special convention, on broad
scale in order to complete policies
and demands that will lead the min
ers out fthis crisis. This latest
fight between Lewis, Fishwick and
harrington is struggle for the con-
troll of funds and properties that be-
long to the miners of Illinois,"
The preparations for the conven-
ton include mass invasion of Lewis
and Fishwick territory, holding of
mass meetings under protection of
defense groups, and energetic action
by militants within the U. M. w. A.
locals to organize a spit of the rank
and file away from the corrupt Off
cialdom, and it's so-called union, the
U. M. w. A.
The convention will discuss and
adopt wage demands as we'll as put
into effect the program for an ex-
tensive campaign to win these de-
mands:
Six-hour day-five-day week; no
check off; no arbitration; no pen
atty clause; against the speed-up-
enforcement of safety rules; improv-
ed machinery and increased produc-
tion-that now benefits the opera
tors-to go to the miners in the form
of higher wages, shortening of hours
and better working conditions:
struggle against unemployment; So
dial insurance for the unemployed;
no discrimination or lay-offs regard
less of age, color or nationality;
against Jim Crowism-for the unity
of all workers; rank and file con-
troll; the right to settle grievances
of strike is vested in the pit commit
ee and the local union.
Salaries of the officers of the N.
M. U. will be the same as those of
the working men in the mine.
Former U. NJ. W. A. Locals, Too.
The N. M. u. gives the basis of
representation as one delegate from
each 100 members, or less if local
has less, in the N. M. u, delegates
from groups in each Of the United
Mine Workers Union locals which
have not rallied ma jority for the
split from the U. M. w. A. and dele
gates from all U. M. w. A. locals
which have split from the Lewis or
Fishwick affiliation.
The Illinois District of the Ma
tional Miners Union calls on all its
locals to hold special meetings and
elect delegates, call special meet
ings of conference committees and
prepare for the convention, to organ
,ize automobile caravans and tour the
mining districts going into towns
with a large force, and holding meet
ings despite resistance of the Lewis
or Fishwick sluggers.
Mass meetings, and continued or
ganization of N. M. U. locals in all
mines are to be specially stressed.
There will be organized defense
groups in each local to defend speak
ers and protect the right of the min
ers to hold mass meetings.
Lewis-F ishwick Fight.
Meanwhile, there are some indi-
cations that the two groups of la
Dor misleaders, the Fishwick admin
istration of District IL of the U. M.
w "A. (Illinois) and the Lewis Gin
ternational" administration of the
u. M. w. A., are frightened enough
by the rising miliancy Of the over
$4,000 rank and file miners in this
district to begin temporise with
each other. The Illinois Miner fish
wick's weekly paper) now demands
autonomy" rather than secession. It
still. however, continues it's assault
on the Lewis administration, charg-
ing graft. The latest issue uses this
sort of language against Lewis, the
man Fishwick was loyalty aiding in
his fight against the left wing for
the last three years:
"Deadest duck this side of the
milky way; defender Of the fat;
marshal of the Meal Ticket Legion;
sublime keeper Of the swag; inita-
ton Mussolini; the dud; the carcass
fLewisism union wrecker; traitor
The same issue carries two-line
red-ink streamer over the top of
page one reading:
illinois Miners Have Paid $6,000,-
900 Into Indianapolis Since Lewis
Got the Job.
WHAT HAVE WE GOT TO SHOW
FOR IT."
Of course it was the Fishwick and
Harrington regime in Illinois which
turned the mo.cy over to Lewis, but
that is not being talked about now
in the Illinois Miner. Times have