The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-23
Build the National Miners
Union!

To be coal miner S to know what it means to fight.
In all the history this country there section of class
that had occasion struggle very right ve
struggle heroay than the men who dig coal out Of the
The miners wives daughters mothers and small children have
for generations been called fight shoulder shoulder with
mining field of the United States who has not felt the
pain Of slow starvation and the sting of the class struggle
Today Illinois, the heart of the soft coal in
.ust the midst of the most decisive struggle that they have
organization which the the miners has first been
wrecked by unscruuous of traitors and and then
that used be done by days
by the Mngo the Sherman Agency at H
Illinois,
History period-a period
sharper strugg-and this condition brings the traitors
up officials" If the Peabody
defeating the coal miners by secretly
beray the coal they
obliged John L. Lewis, Harry Fishwk and Frank
Harrington their strike breakers together with the herff
the police the private gunner and the militia.
Today mine workers their enemies the united front
operators the she the police the private and
the Lewses the Fshwck Fangtons Tayorvie
troops used force the coal mine workers into the
soaed United Mine Workers which the unon and
Lewis Harrington Fshwick publicly
strike and defeat the mine workers leanddeah demands for
and conditions.
Meantime the John fighting
with Harrington and Fishwiceaeh
gang trying capitalist them the control of
the UMWA racke" Controlled oper
ators) will turn the company union to gang con-
ds to be the best at strike breaking for the coal operators
At Colnsve, meantime, officials of the IWW
helping superntendents abs through the picket line
beginning understand the whole
of grafters and stool pigeons.
The ranks of the striking miners swelling
ine-workers building their unionthe National
of members of the old dscded UMWA
the of the militia These thou
will be drawn into the National Miners Union
Kentucky Indiana waking to the hdeous
eacery and starting the
fight promises to become general coal strike.
The Pennsylvania beginning show their
coorn Valley Port Carbon and Tamaqua
they declare their support of the Illinois strike.
promise general struggle to throw off the flng
organize of thousands of unorganzed coal
against the unbearabe conditions
already be general coal strike the
outlook.
everywhere must realize their response
bty The unity the
the fighting unionhe National Miners
This the necessity to organize
thousands who not organized at ALL and the
smashing the bosses unon the UWA whose
remaining local unions must tear the charters from Lewis and
Fishwick join National Miners Union.
the united front of the
union bueaucra police and BOSSES that against them
lineup of the great workers
to beat operators their The Trade Union Unity
League fighting labor which the National
Miners affiliated be supported and built in this
crisis it successfully coordinate the struggle
bear mind that the iron leadership of all the
to be found the Communist Party Build
leadership by enstng the strongest and best
fighters picket lines into the Communist
PARTY