The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-14
By BILL DUNNE

Liz l1llllOlD 1illIISlS Have SLIuGh
the first blow against the Hoover
conspiracy intended to place the en-
tire burden of the industrial crisis
upon the backs of the working class.
The miners, led by the National
Miners Union are giving the first
reply of the American proletariat
to Hoover's fascist council and its
program of increased robbery of the
workers and open suppression of
working class resistance.
The Illinois coal miners, with the
Communist Party playing a leading
part, have taken the offensive.
The struggle in Illinois furnishes
perfect example of fact, stressed
by the Communist International
that in this period when the noun
tain of commodities, produced by a
working class forced to labor at the
highest speed on the most modern
of machines Capitalist rationaliza-
tion), while increasing unemploy-
ment sharpening the competition for
jobs gives added force to the shouts
of the slave-drivers, gluts the world
markets and whets the edge of all
imperialist enmities, struggles over
wages and working conditions be-
come political struggles practically
from their inception.
In Illinois the extensive military
mobilization by the capitalists and
their government against the strik-
ing miners and the N.M.U. reveals
the collapse of their former policy
of corruption and betrayal carried
out by their agents-Lewis, Fish
wick and harrington, assisted by the
officialdom of the state Federation
of Labor and the socialist party
leadership.
These gentry have lost their grip
They maintained themselves for sew
eral years because they were still
able to influence considerable sec.
lions of the miners. The old United
Mine Workers is now split from
stem to stern as a result of the rapiC
decay under their leadership and the
resulting struggle to determine
which set of crooks could best re-
present the interests of the Goa
barons in what remains of it.
The U.M.W.A. officialdom of botl
factions has lined up with governor
Emmerson and his militia, with the
coal barons, the professional strike
breakers and gunner. There is il
the Illinois coal fields a typical dew
elopment of social-fascism. The AS
ISOLATED Press attempts to disguise
the real character of this develop
ment as in the following dispatch:
SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, Dec. IL
More than 900 miners, members
of the United Mine Workers of
America, late today resolved to
march in body to work to-
morrow at the Auburn mines of
the Panther Creek Coal Com
pany, taking "any steps neces-
sary to get through the picket
line" which was formed there by
the members of the National
Miners Union. Their action was
taken at meeting held here.
These members" of the UNIV
A. who voted to defend so Valiant,
the sacred American right to work
are simply foremen, U.M.W.A. Oil
Gals, deputy sheriffs, businessmen
with a sprinkling of professional
gunner. AS in the needle trade
in New York City, Chicago and else
where, the old union officialdom ha
i joined in true fascist style with tn
bosses and their state government
to smash by armed force the militan
struggles and organization of tn
mass of the workers.
. The miners have broken the gri
; of the social-traitors and to our par
. ty must go much of the credit 70
: this in view of the years Of struggl
, we have carried on in the mining ir
| dustry. The extensive suppressiv
measures and the solid front of re
| action which the N.M.U. faces in I
: linois shows that the coal barons a
; least do not underestimate the dept
! of the discomfort and the fightin
, temper Of the miners.
There will be loud cries from tn
| liberals, the socialists, the Musteite
the Lores and the Lovestones an
! Cannons that the widespread an
! open supressive measures use
against the miners are caused b,
the open entry Of our Party in thi
, mass conflict and to the leadin
role we are taking in the N.M.I
These gentry will say that our Part
/, is sacrificing the interests of tn
miners for its own. These same &C
cusations We're hurled at our Part
when it entered the South for tn
first time. Such statements wer
made by this gentry right at tn
07 the Southern textile