The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-27
Miners from Picket Lines to Go to
Washington; to Expose HOOver-LewiS

derlying dread that the miners
through their own National Miners
Union and their own broad strike
committees will carry on the strike
and win their demands will spread
the strike and win the demands of
still greater masses than are involved
in struggle now-and this the oper-
ators hope to offset by use on a ma
tional scale Of the best strike-br
ing weapon of the operators, the
UM.W.A.
A statement on the Washington
conference has been formulated and
adopted by the National Miners
Union and the Miners Unity Com
mittee of Action, which protests
against the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
scheme and calls upon the miners
everywhere to fight it, to unite and
struggle against it on the basis of
the general demands adopted at the
National Conference held last week,
and such local demands as they may
adopt. The national demands are:
General increases in wages; unem-
ployment insurance paid for by the
government and the bosses and i'm
mediate relief for all unemployed
workers; the 6-hour day without re-
duction in pay; establishment of
acknowledgment and union condi-
tons: recognition of Mine Commit
tees elected by all the workers; abo-
lition of company towns, company
stores, evictions and payment in
scrip; protection of the health and
safety of the workers; abolition of
speed-up; abolition of check-off; the
right to organize, strike and picket
and abolition of the injunction;
equal rights for all Negro miners, in
Guiding wages, assignment of work,
ETC.; Sno discrimination against or
persecution of foreign-born workers;
equal pay and special protection for
young workers; unconditional release
of all workers arrested in connection
with strike and union activities;
withdrawal of all armed forces from
the striking area; a national Collec-
tive agreement for the whole coal in
dustry.
The statement recites the acts of
treachery to the miners of the UNI.
WA, and protests emphatically
against its recognition. The UNI.
WA. does not represent the interests
of the miners" it declares and 1.-THE
Miners Unity Committee of Action
represents the great mass of miners"
1t describes the broad base, the dele
cations from striking and employed
and unemployed miners which Gre
ated this committee. 1t outlines the
plan to elect delegations on dis
trict basis from the Unity Commit
tees of action to which are linked up
the N. M. U. locals, locals and mi
norities in the U.M.WA., locals of
the West Virginia Mine Workers
Union, the councils of the unem-
ployed, etc.
Delegates should be elected on
district basis by these various organ
izations to proceed to Washington to
demand the right to negotiate con-
ditions in the mining industry in
the name of the miners" says the
statement. I'VE must not permit the
U,M.WA. to speak in our name at
the Washington conference. Lewis,
Pagan, Van Bittner, Turnblazer &
Co. are going there only to sell us
out again. The rank and file miners
must be present themselves at the
conference"
The statement is signed by Tom
Myerscough as secretary of the Min
ers Unity Committee Of Action, and
by Frank Borich as secretary of the
National Miners Union.