The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-18
BY OLGA GOLD.

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~ agreement which was signed by the fascist
Lewis machine of the United Mine Workers of
America with the anthracite operators went into
effect on Sept. LIST. 1t paves the way for in
creased speed-up in the mines. wage cuts great
er unemployment, and the check-off system as
means of tying the miners to the company union
OF John Lewis and officaldom
The agreement was loudly hailed by the Lewis
machine and the operators, and had the whole
hearted suporpt of and active assistance of the
capitalist press, as "insuring prosperity for the
anthracite miners Today the miners are al
ready feeling the effects of this black betrayal
The miners are being forced to load bigger
cars and cleaner coal More accidents are TAX
ing place every day One general complaint in
every colliery is the lack of proper ventilation
the TACT that the miners are compelled to work
In smoke all day long from constant shooting
from which the dread disease Miners Asthma
develops. Almost every day you read of new
explosions and accidents in this or that colliery
Even government statistics state that 40 miners
1ost their lives during the month of August in
the anthracite These are the results of an in
creased speed-up and lack OF safety devices. The
operators and the Lewis gang are responsible
for this wholesale murder.
This sell-out agreement has virtually done
away with pay for all work, such as the NOV
ing OF rock, the setting of timber laying of own
road, and pipe for the air. We see an example
at the Grassy Lake Colliery, where the miners
and laborers are now forced to lay their own
track, and furnish their own wrenches, and lay
the la &c pipe for the air. which runs the lack
hammer, for which the miner must pay $685.
besides paying five cents on the dollar for using
the air. Another instance of how the miners
are being robbed by the coal operators is the
docking system, where the miners are biting
IN 1roI JI,e &c..
lbs. has been taken for impurities But since
and the Ruhr strike were the outstanding
achievements of the W.IR. These struggles,
which are parts of the working class fight against
unemployment, wage cuts, naturalization and
fascism can only be supported by the creation of
specific organs of the working class for this
! struggle.
The active help of the reformist unions to
fascism necessitates the creation and strength
ening of the revolutionary unions all over the
country. 4~
The specific role of the WIR. is to be the
commissary department of the fighting prole-
tariat
While the bosses onslaught isIgoing on against
the workers in the capitalist countries the i'm
perialst powers are preparing to crush the power
station of the world revolution, the Soviet Union
The Industrial Party is concrete indication
OF the extent ana development OF the Anti-Rus-
| sian war preparations. We must demand the
extreme penalties to these sabotagers, who plot
ted against the first Workers State, the Soviet
| Union.
| Beatrice Carlin, secretary of the New York
Local proposed the creation of permanent city
committee, which will take charge of all working
class struggles in the metropolitan area and in
GLIDING the Hunger Marches to Albany. The city
committee Of Is will have to organize sub-con-
mittees which should affiliate themselves to help
all working class organizations to carry through
their tasks In the different fields, such as the
preparation of the needle trades strike with the
Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union prep
arations for the unemployed Hunger Marches
with the Unemployed Council, the preparation
OF the DAY of the Working Glass Child" with
the youth organizations, the preparation of the
solidarity with the growing German struggles
with the leading German workers organizations
| in this country.
Resolutions, for the defense Of the Soviet
Union, calling for solidarity in the needle trades
strike, unemployed movements, as we'll as for
the immediate liberation Of Mabel Husa Ailene
| Holbes, imprisoned W.I.R. scout leaders, we're
passed.