The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-09
ONE MAN MUST
DO WORK Of ; IN
OHIO MINES
Coal Diggers Lose All
Confidence in UNIV.
(Bg a Worker Correspondent

(by w of6ef COfFeSpoHdeht)
CALDWELL, Ohio (By Mail).-
Just a few lines from coal digger
to let the workers know how the
miners are faring under the Amer
lean plan, in other words, the open
shop.
The operators promised to give
the men steady work if they re-
turned to work under the open-shop
plan, but The truth is that the mines
n Ohio are running two and three
days a week; only few are running
IS high as five or six days week
The miners are forced to work at a
frightful rate of speed. Where they
used to have two or three men on
4 certain job, one does the work
now.
This is particularly noticeable
among the day men, that is, the men
6aing paid by the hour.
Cheated on Weight.
The men working at the face, or
the leaders, are also speeded up and
heated on weight for the coal they
ioad. l have worked in this mine
since 1911, the Caldwell mine, but
have never seen such a weight as
the leaders are getting now. Dead
work is practically abolished. Such
petty annoyances as water in your
working place, no posts, bad air or
~oof, no rails or ties, are given no
consideration.
A miner might start out to work
each morning for month and not
be able to make a nickel. When we
worked under the union, we forced
the bosses, in some instances, to pay
rs for dead work, but now, # you
ere given a place in sulphur water,
Tree deep, you are forced to work
n it under the threat of being fired.
Stool-Pigeons.
Yes, the conditions in Ohio mines
are terrible. The spy system is
prevalent in the Ohio mines. They
have stool-pigeons in every mine,
and if you happen to complain about
lad air. no rails or ties, water or
especially bad weight, you are liable
to be discharged if one of their
stool-pigeons hears you and reports
you to the mine management.
Accidents Increase.
Everywhere, you hear, "Reduce
the cost of production, make the
men work" It's nc wonder that &C.
cidents are on the increase in Ohio
since the mines went on the open-
shop basis.
The miners are in a terrible
blight: their bodies are badly bent
but their spirit of unionism viii
rever be broken. The union spirit
is stronger in them now than il
over was. The miners still remem-
her the cid motto: United, we stand;
divided, we fall.
The miners are putting up q
rtropg resistance on all fronts tc
the speed-up and naturalization If
their industry, under the leadership
# the National Miners Union
Every miner who was forced to re-
turn to work under the open shor
has denounced John Lewis and his
l'eutenants as arch-traitors who got
them into this misery.
Wise to U. NJ. w. Takers.
Lewis will be long remembers
as the biggest traitor in the histor.
IF the union. A few weeks ago Lee
Hall. president of the defunct Obi
district of the United Mine Workers
issued q statement to the effect tina
the men now working in the mines
will be admitted into the U. NJ w
upon the payment of 81 initiation
fee and as soon as they get enough
men to sign up they will call then
out on strike again.
but the men will not be fooled 81
easily again for can truthfully sa!
hat haven't met a single man WHIT
YVES lOICeu W 20 W WITH III lll'
oper shop mines who would be will
ling to come out on strike undel
The present leaders of the old union
These leaders are looked on as thu
most corrupt and contemplate Great
ures on the face Of tire earth.
Everywhere one can hear abou
the new miners union. The miners
know that the old union can't win
them any union conditions or wages
The miners want to build the mos
powerful union in the world. To tn,
workers Of all industries say, joii
your respective unions, don't meal
the A. F. of L., but mean the new
r7'';tant unions that are under homes
<adership.-A MINER.