The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-30
The Struggle of the Illinois
Miners Against Increased
Naturalization
By BILL GEBERT.

By BILL GEBERT.
THOROUGH Illinois of thousands of miners
America instrumental putting ratonalza
the mines The today longer mines; the miners
Mines replacing A pick and
New machinery replacing the such
the Hogg Loading Machine Men driven practically to death
working these machines produce more and more coal Tor less
breaking mines against dis
elimination worsnng working conditions cutting of wages etc Miners
thousands beginning to realize that only under revolutionary
National Miners Union they put front against
driving them into industrial slavery and neutrality-suspicious. for the
tens of thousands who are driven away from the mines by machinery
as we'll as for those who are still working
HALF UNEMPLOYED.
Department Mines reports that in the month
October operated producing 52SO2 tons of coal
5O37 employed who worked II days But
there were in Illinois according sources
which employed 9599 Together with local mines there
aoo nb edS rsod in those mines To show how the ma
naturalization of labor affect production will take tho
statistics concerning production of the largest coal producing
counesFrankn In 1924 in Franklin County there 25
operating employed produced 2288745
COAL In 1928 there 10 mines operating employing H.
29 and producing 1O82 tons of coal In other words there
1918 less employed and 9078 more tons coal produced
although the as IS show" increased wn tnH
reduced considerably and working and safety conditions were taken
October 10 killed and 1918
deserted little miners houses In other places where there
company houses the company forces the miners TO e m company
generally noticeable throughout the fields Day by day
tens hundreds of miners mining
bitterness and suffering But there
spark that the National Miners Union which they
are building taking the struggle and fight against the corrupt
and bitter enemies of the miners the ociadom the u W. of A
and the coal operators
NO USE FOR TRAITORS.
The miners have pigeons
them alike Lewis Alec HOwa who commanded
the and to whom the miners looked for leadership are now
anyone the tools of the coal
ators u NJ W. of A. Miners picking the
nois Miner with hate in THEN hearts read that this fghng
today with Fshwicb Fishwk and Famingtonthey know
They is Fishwk who threw out their votes
against agreement They that Fishwic
the famous Harrington who sold himself out to the Pea
today when Lewis and Fhwck fighting for control of the M
w. OF A. racket tny expose o eaG o e Ia9s m 1sb d Of %
1929 from the Illinois District u NJ W. of treasury the
$2s Incorporated that harrington
ing Lewis nobody John Lewis the great
labor leader the world knew who got from the Kentucky coal
$15OOO for the privilege of working during the strike and
$4,000 per month each successful month of strike
lasting the first month. But this is not everything.
TRAITORS NEW ALLIANCE
struggle" between Fhwc and Lewis is struggle of two
groups operators u WI of A. Both
of these eques equally servants to the coal operators and they
with pride of it. Alec HOwa Powers Hapgod who once
Inside of the National Miners effectively
help the scheme of the operators by joining and Co.
munist leadership of the n M u But the
They highest official that he mOrehat they won't
openly that he must get out from the N M
place who fighting against revolutionary
, class union program Of the N NJ U
mobHng all their forces for struggle against the
wick They beginning fight local demands They begin
ming here and there This sign of growing
struggle of the miners in Illinois, Mass meetings. conferences are at
tended by thousands of who in shonow
opportunity to smash the u NJ W. OF A. to
establish National
leadership will march forward to estab
social insurance for the unemployed
miners double Scotch pno the miners
hem) for full social industrial and
file of the for pit committee
fight against the BOSSES They taking
local smash the local machines of the
u M W. taking the charters of the
u M A. wall the charter of the fighting mill
tant union National Miners Union
FIGHT SPREAD.
The struggle Illinois not isolated struggle
and throughout world be clearly that the struggle of
only struggle 1t OF great
political Importance be looked SUCH The Communist
Party supporting Unity and the National
Miners giving leadership guidance in the struggle
and will working class of the whole country support OF
the struggle.