The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-11-25
Ninth Int'l Conference of
Revolutionary Miners
Part III.
BY JOE TASH.

w enemies of the working class on concrete is
sues and their program. Underestimation of the
social fasciSts can mean disaster to the rising
militant struggles of the miners, for they to
whom the name social fasciSts' applies, cloak
themselves and their black deeds with progressive
phrases and sometimes are able to fool the work.
ers to the extent that their militant efforts are
dampened and their struggles steered into harm
less channels.
In order to fulfill our task, that of organizing
and leading the struggles of the miners, it is
necessary to carry into life all decisions of the
Fifth World Congress of the RILU. and the
specific decisions applying to the mining indus
try, of the Ninth International Conference of
the Miners International Committee for Prop
uganda and Action, whose name at the confer
ence was charged to International Committee
of Revolutionary Miners.
Hesitancy and fear to lead strikes has no place
in our ranks and must be eradicated 1t is our
task to learn the correct tactics and strategic
methods to organize and successfully lead the
miners to victorious battles. We must base
ourselves primarily on the immediate demands
OF the mine workers, local demands, while at
the same time popuarize the national demands,
linked up with the political ones with q view
of broadening and politicalizing the struggles In
the face of the terror we must organize defense
corps involving the miners themselves. Awe must
learn the role of strike committees and the cleo
ton and not appointment of such committees
representative of the broad masses of miners in
VOWED IN the struggle. We must refrain from
making promises of strike relief which can't
be fulfilled, be elected of the miners while at
the same time the district and national unions
should send out broad appeals in close connec-
IN ir1noe diofe ~
relief apparatus.
In order to draw the miners into struggle
we must explain to them the close connection
which exists between the DEVELOPMENT of the
capitalist naturalization and the forcing down
OF their standard of living. To explain that the
capitalist naturalization brings to them the
lengthening of hours, the increased intensified
ton of labor, rapid growth of the number of
accidents and sickness and growth of unempoy-
ment. The miners must struggle against all
new methods of exploitation.
We must carry on vigilant fight against op-
portunism within the top circles of the union
and against left sectarianiSm which would mar
row our unions down to sect isolated from the
miners. We must not depend on the spontaneity
OF the miners it is our task to organize and lead
them The development OF the youth sections
international Committee of Revolutionary Miners
must go hand in hand with the DEVELOPMENT
OF the union itself, this field of work can't be
underestimate and those who have reluctance
to it must be fought as elements who do NOT
understand the revolutionary role of our union
Of utmost Importance is the organization of the
negro workers within our ranks placing them
on the same level with the white miners the
Negro miners are militant fighters and our class
orotherS The Womens Auxiliary must be de-
veloped into weapon of the union
The ninth world conference of revolutionary
miners analyzed the crisis of capitalism as it eff
fects the mining industry and made decisions
accordingly. We must struggle against any me-
chanical Interpretation of the decisions I'm
less these decisions are put into effect we will
not be successful in the organization anf lead
ershlp OF the huge economic struggles which are
developing so quickly. Only with the applica-
tlon OF these decisions that we will build our
revolutionary Mine, Oil and Shelter Workers
industrial Union in America, capable of leading
the miners to victory over their bosses Striving
to coordinate and link the struggles of the miners
of capitalist countries under the leadership and
direction OF the International Committee of
Revolutionary Miners. thus achieving our aim
that of making the International Miners move
ment an integral part of the revolutionary trade
union movement under the leadership of the
Red International of Labor Unions.
work. Each branch and affiliated organization
elects delegate to the City Committee.
In this way the convention laid the basis for
the building of real mass organization and for
the prosecution of militant struggle against
Negro oppression and for the unconditional equal