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


sors.
Illinois has long been the scene
Of bloody class battles of the coal
miners. 1t is upon the clear cut is
sue of class struggle and class solid
arity that the Negro miners must
face the present situation in Illinois.
American capitalists face the sever
est crisis in the history of the coun-
try. The stock market crash has
set all industry trembling, class
battles are raging in all sections of
the country. Naturalization is dis
organizing the Illinois coal industry,
speeding up the workers and throw
ing thousands out of work. The
bosses are meeting the workers with
wage cuts and more naturalization.
Black and white workers must meet
them with united front
Shoulder to Shoulder.
The full interest of the working
class struggle demands that the
white workers stand shoulder to
shoulder with the Negro workers,
that those who hold any vestige of
race hatred throw it overheard, that
they break down all barriers that
keep black and white workers apart,
that they put one solid front to the
bosses, struggling not only for equal
conditions and equal wages but for
still better conditions and still high
er wages.
The labor fakers-the Lewises,
the Fishwicks and the Farringtons,
etc.-in line with President Green of
the ALL. agree with the program
announced by Hoover Of class peace
between the workers and the bosses,
for peace in industry. They ask the
workers not to strike for higher
wages, nor to struggle against wage
reductions. They go further with
regards to Negro workers, they fail
to promise them, they discriminate
against them, they deny them equal
conditions and opportunities.
In this struggle in Illinois all is
sues of the class struggle stand out
in bold relief. The, whole apparatus
of the capitalist system is modified
against the workers, the police, the
stat emilitia and the courts. The
class issues are particularly sharp
at the present stage of capitalist
crisis, decentralization and market
crashes. They pass in review from
the smallest working class demand
to the capitalist state militia mobil-
lied against the workers.
All Class Issues.
In the state legislature of Illinois
are several Negro Legislators who
have been placed there by the votes
of poor Negro workers. Now these
workers find themselves deceived.
These Negro legislators are agents
of the capitalists. They have not
raised one finger to prevent the use
Of state troops against the black and
white miners. 1t is clear that the
Negro legislators as well as white,
under the democratic and republican
parties, are nothing but agents and
tools of these capitalist machines,
The National Miners Union, the
leader in the Illinois strike, is COM
mitted to the principle of equality
and equal conditions for Negro
workers, of struggle against racial
discrimination. 1t stands for joint
struggle and working class unity,
it fights wage cuts and the speed
up, it fights to better the conditions
of all workers in the mining in
dustry.
The Trade Union Unity League of
which the National Miners Union
is a section, fights assidiously and
relentlessly against lynching jim
crowism, discrimination and race
prejudice. 1t stands for the COM
plete and full racial, social, econ
omic and political equality Of the
Negro race, for class solidarity of
all workers against the capitalist
bosses, their agents, and against the
whole capitalist system.
Negroes In the Fight.
The T.U.U.I. recognizes in the
Communist Party the only political
Party of the working class. The
Communist Party is always in the
forefront, giving political leadership
and guidance to the working class.
1t is political weapon of the OPP
pressed working class. And here in
Illinois the Communist Party is the
main organizer and leader of the
workers.