The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-16
The Striking Miners
VIII Fight!
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hose low scale used club drive
liners living standards below the subsistence level following the
cries of beayas by the u NJ W. and the succession defeats
ewis selI-outs.
The article says
Serious labor troubles again facing operators in the
oal industry For the months the policy
reduced competition
bor to offer serious opposition the plan worked with
he PENNSYLVANIA Ohio producers
the last strike he Lewis sOutB d. the Southern
been forced their
Fystem have reached the breaking point
At present there strikes several properties West yi-
nia Operators anticipate
labor dissatisfaction There has been generally
d effort to bring labor the old fields into
The strikes purely they
been conducted under the leadership of dominant
he properties Ths interesting description by capitalist
Journalist of the rank and file strike of
forms and methods of of the Red of Labor
Unions and its various sections that the most militant and
qunty dominant workers. in the mines in this instance developing
leadership under the terrific of and peedup with
the aid Of the 7. u U. L. union in the industry)
THE COAL BARONS' DOMAIN.
The article then gives the following essentially picture
the difficulties under which the struggles being conducted
and thereby unconscously tesfes
workers have shown beginning and continuing the trkes
Organized labor has Roadway Virginia
and Kentucky The of the delegate has been particularly
preston the Southern fields is to study the conditions
at most of the mines.
general opened regions
which there was no previous industrial activity All the ground
within miles of the ppe owned by the the
domination of the
usually the police force and controls what local there
be- labor organizer the without
being respasser If he is trespasser he arrested
But in spite of the unrestricted of the Virginia
1922 when
march 1900 of them betrayed by John Lewis
spite Of the relentless speedup in spite Of continual wsgeen in
spite systematic robbery by the miners spite Of
robbery the eudastic
and the the crisis the industry
With full to out naturalization to the utmost with
the best opportunity driving
the Coas and Tennessee have here classic instance of the
contradictions of naturalization
DEEPENING THE CRISIS.
The mecless exploitation
laboratory. working to
submit to the scapes of the efficiency experts of the oyerod
served only increase the crisis lay the working
revolt
propose to drive the
weaker capitalist bgands destruction the
workers still farther below subsistence
BY working wages now
preyai-this is the solution proposed.
mo is making the coal business This
has been true of nearly all the Pittsburgh district properties for
era years. now true also of the Southern mines Sliding prices
have at last caught up with wage reductions
all the mine workers the United States and that the
Virginia miners have already ringing down the valleys
lie the richest biumnous fields in America;
force labor to CO.
More miners be driven industry.
powerful the coal will bankrupd
coal though millions of obes and hungry children
Of the working class will SILVER with cold this winter while their blue
Snyder says brutality of the class which sees the
whole world only through lenses of profit
MANY of the weaker reaching the end
bankruptcy will start wedding ell fields which
result in the abandonment of the
this will be influence ultimate
coal trade. be factor
ducing the surplus of producing capacity"
PARASITISM.
concrete form is the para.
sism of capitalism the mperast period capitalism,
the inherent contradiction between production market acting
throttle production six years
the drive thousands
roads starving handful
nj easily rob the workers still employed
The fight Of the miners and their families fight
mof the
has become political struggle of high order
Negro Rievesvle miners the
other the simplest a week.
SO day We might well strike
THE SITUATION IN ILLINOIS.
From Illinois similar "The operators
reached point beyond which they labor