The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-26
5000 German Miners the R Prepare Strike Soon for Unable Conditions
MASS REVOLT
OF COAL DIGCERS
SCARES TAKERS
Fishwick Machine Calls
Early Convention

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chine, so they simply faxed the
count and declared the agreement
Carried" by a margin of 1000 votes
in an announced total of about ST.
COO. A roar of protest went up
from all over the district, and de-
spite repeated demands by dozens
OF local unions the district officials
refuse to this day to publish a tab
ulated account of the vote, local by
local, as provided for in the consti-
tuition of the union. In several cen
tiers, among them Peoria, Nokomis
and Bellevue, committees were set
up simultaneously to try to check
up the count, and it was not long
before the Peoria committee was
able to show a minimum total vote
Of $4,000. against the agreement.
while the Fishwick- Nesbit gang
themselves claimed fully 10000 had
been favorable. AS result local
unions and sub-district conventions
renewed their demand for a tabu
lated report, for a convention and
in some cases launched upon a con-
scious policy of holding back dues
to enforce their demands.
Expulsions.
In the meantime the most mill
tant and best-tried fighters in the
old U. NJ. w. A. began more and
more to cast their lot with the new
National Miners Union. Under the
leadership of such outstanding lead
crs of the Illinois miners as Free
man Thompson, John Watt, Dan
Singer, Luke Coffey and others,
dozens of locals of the National
Miners Union have begun to spring
up within the she'll of the cid U.
NJ. w. A. And more and more the
great bulk of the rank and file min
ers realize that it is only from this
direction that leadership can be
looked for in the coming struggles.
Already in many Illinois mines
conditions have been much worsened
and wages have been cut even be-
low the agreed scale through I'M
demanded means, and the accent
ance of lower scales in other dis
tricts makes inevitable a demand
FOR further cuts on the part of the
Illinois operators. At the same
time the policy of splitting up the
miners by separate agreements is
intended by the Lewis officialdom
to make impossible any nation
wide struggle.
Make U. NJ. w. Company Union.
While the operators are intro
ducing machinery and speed-up
methods in the mines, eliminating
thousands of workers and abolishing
working conditions that represent
the fruits of years of struggle, the
Fishwick machine is turning the U.
M. w. A. into a company union.
Every local strike in the last six
months has been ordered called off
by the district officials and prac-
tically every miner who has tried
to lead the resistance of the work
ers against the attacks of the OPP
orators has been faced with the
wrath Of the bureaucrats in addi-
ton to that Of the bosses and the
police.
The militants have been taken off
their job and expelled or suspended
from the union until it has become
clear that the only answer is to
organize against both the boss and
the bureaucrat, through effective
locals of the National Miners Union.
/ Only where there are such effective
locals has it been proved impossible
to victimize miners for the crime of
fighting the boss.
The delegates to this District Con-
vention of the U. M. w. A. are
faced with the most serious crisis
in the history of their organization.
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