The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-14
Our Class Enemies Know
What the Illinois Miners
Strike Means

The of struggle rapidly in the coalfe
strike Illinois led the National opened
breach the wall of through which thousands workers
in other sections preparing to rush.
Kentucky $4,000
strike These workers nomnay members of the Lewis
union but their strike direct Reputation of the
that strikes shall be called increases demanded made
by John Lewis and the of the American Federation of Labor
with Hoover part of the drive against the working
In Boonvile, Missouri, progress 81
strikers have been arrested Deputy herffs stationed the
properties.
given working
to Hoover the official head of the executive committee the cap
tal classhe United States governmenand his fascist council
of A. F. of L. bureaucrats, business men and bankers
offensive today the shock
of their Other sections of the working class will mobilize
for struggle the burden of unemployment wageu and speedup
increases and the sinister meaning of the Hoover of no
increases strikes is shown in Illinois, to mean troops
machine bayoe capitalist class courts and as for the work
and their militant leaders if they dare to challenge the cum of
The decisive blow
ia reaction and it have the utmost Conceived and
the bitter struggles of the coal miners Illinois, Indiana,
Pennsylvania and Ohio fought from its birth by the coal operators
agentsFhwck Harrington and Lewbu able to
they the National Miners Union
the militant leader struggle whose i'm
poance the whole working class cannot be overestmated
attention what the of class
mics say The Chicago Tribune thus the n an @
entirely clear to many of our own comrades:
that this strike is the beginning Of the
end of the United Mine Workers of America Illinois the last
stronghold organization recently split wide
its $4,000 members Illinois about evenly divided as fol-
Harry Fishwick president of the
% LIN % id g. tho - a. - that @ the new orcanization @ has stenned
Miners Union the oppoune yesterday
demands the these
including the sxhour the fveday week. and $35 week
the call out professional organizers
the locals of the United Mine Workers.
officials faithful, temporary Of
cers join the National Miners Union
join at the gates of the
this by large of strikers
and their They cursed and stoned the women
their neks and either tauned them
their dinner buckets snatched and
And then most of them willingly
unwilingly, joined the National Miners Union.
strangely disturbing the of militia
No. of the would have to work this
for the soldiers When they the
they disdany refused work They appeared
to a working under the guard OF
soldiers"
editorials sharp and brutal the
the industry district for whose ruling
the better call
the picture of the discardng by
the old unionsm and the OF
struggle unionsm in the coal fields.
role Party clearly understood by the Chicago
Tribune:
."the trouble here constitutes the most serious attempt
by the Communists fOOhod in American labor
either the coal industry the old miners union and others
familiar for with the mining situation in Illinois
that leaders of the National Miners Union
out and out Communists"
playing leading in this struggle
major task Of widen the base
of our influence Party
the United States the only estimate of the
situation declaration
working class and has put forward the fighting