The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-07
NATIONAL MINERS UNION
ESTABLISHES BASE IN
ANTHRACITE

The amendment" which they offered on the
unemployment conference resolution was SIM
ilary voted down.
Exposed As Enemies.
During the debates, a result of the OBJ
structionist policy of Borich, Vretarich, ETC..
one young miner delegate from Hazelton got
up and stated: "You people referring to
Vretarich, Borich, are acting here like agents
# Lewis" This brought storm of applause
from the bulk of the delegates
The great majority of the delegates favored
he N.M.U. program as against the minority"
program of the splitters. The confusionists
we're permitted to present their program
and its line of confusion, opportunism, and tacit
support of the Fishwick outfit was exposed
to the miners. All in all, the discussions and
debates clarified the matters, and the delegates
registered decisive theological and political
defeat of these disrupters. In the discussions
that took place, many of the newer and younger
elements took an active part in the fight
against the Gitlow- Hapgood- Fishwick agents
Nominations for the R.ILU. Congress took
place. Six rank and file miners were chosen
as candidates The role and purpose of the
RILU.-as the international revolutionary
trade union center as against Amsterdam was
made clear to the delegates
Executive Elected
An executive committee of Is was elected.
Bodich, Vretarich, and some of their lesser sup
porters were decisively licked by the conference,
and not elected to the District Board. This
conference marked on organizational defeat
for the renegades as well.
The NM.U. must now proceed to estab-
fish its loose committees of action into locals
of the N.M.U.; and It's locals into broader and
better functioning organizations in the mines.
The N.M.U. must pick up the daily issues of
- IL IL
struggles.
Right now-one of the biggest campaigns
of the N.M.U. is the struggle to organize the
unemployed miners for fight for Work or
Wages"
The N.M.U. must organize scores of secret
and open mass meetings wherever favorable
conditions exist for such meetings. To simply
rest content with ''secret" meetings would mean
actual capitulation to the terror of the opera
tors, and would mean in effect the acceptance
Of the position of semi and actual illegality
fer the N.M.U. United Front Committees of
Action must be organized in the collieries that
will embrace all workers-members of the U
NJ w. A-unorganized, and N.M.U. members
The main task is the actual organizational
preparation for the Sept. strike. Otherwise
Lewis will put across his selout agreement;
and the miners will be shackled for another
five years to come.
Win U. NJ. W. Locals
The district board of the N.MU. will have
to meet and function, and be established as tn:
real leader of the anthracite miners. The sharp
est fight must be conducted against McCrone
Koran HowellS, etc. as we'll as against the Git
low-Hapgood-V retarich outfit. The elements
cathered around DAILY from the Lattimer Mines
Local are insignificant, and do not represent
much of danger at this time
The N.M.U. will have to take up seriously
the work of breaking through and capturing
TIC local unions of the U.MW.A. This work
mas been seriously underestimate and neglect
ell until now. The work within the fascist
3fficial U.M.W.A. must proceed, and we must
win the honest rank and file away from the
corrupt Lewis company agents. This can be
done, is already shown by experience.
The holding of the N.M.U. conference in the
very heart of the anthracite, with powerful
machine of fakirs, with their thugs and gun
men, etc. was certainly an achievement-but
only step that needs to be followed up.