The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-21

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against Negro mners and "reoogni-
ton of the mine committees" are de-
mands everywhere.
Other demands vary from mine tc
mine and from company to COM
pany, but include such as: no push
ing Of cars, no check-off for the
bath house, payment for dead work,
delivery of supplies to the face, etc.
1t was reported at the meeting
that the Ohio District Convention
of the National Miners Union, with
11S delegates, representing rs mines,
had adopted the new tactics, had
elected a district board of the union
of Is members, and that Ohio-West
Virginia district was energetically
holding mass meetings and voting
on the new local demands already
worked out by the strike committees,
The Central Strike Committee ap-
proved the holding of joint meetings
during the later part of this week
of the strike committees in each of
number of large companies, to CO.
ordinate the action of the strikers
and workers in those companies for
local demands.
The strike committees of Carnegie
Coal Co. will meet Friday. The
strike committee Of Pittsburgh Ter
minal Coal Co. and the companies
in Ohio and West Virginia owned
by the same interests Chaplain inter-
ests) will meet together Sunday, on
which date also will meet the strike
committees of the Hillman Coal Co.
which owns nine mines in the struck
area. Dates are being arranged for
the meeting of the strike committees
of the Valley Camp and other Pals
ley interests mines, and also of the
Pittsburgh Coal Co. mines, owned
by Mellon interests.
The strike committee heard the re-
port of Caroline Drew, just returned
from organizing N. M. u. wonen's
auxiliaries in Kentucky. She told
of the growing N. M. U. movemnt
there, which has now spread well
out of Harlan County into Bel
County and is still spreading. She
told of IA new chartered locals Of
the N. M. U. functioning and seven
more newly formed which will re-
ceive charters this week. Women'S
auxiliaries and youth sectio1s have
been formed and five soup kitchens
established by the Pennsylvania
Ohio-West Virginia Kentucky Strik-
ing Miners Relief. She ended with
a stirring appeal for mass demon
STATIONS for the release of the 81
miners slated for the electric chail
in Harlan, and rs others held there
for prison terms.
A new strike is certain in the neal
future in the Kentucky TENNESSEE
district.
Frank Borich, secretary Of the N
M. u, in his main report pointed
to the new wheeling conference
of mayors and state governors with
operators, as evidence of the con-
tinued conspiracies of the operators
the government and the U. M. w. A
to trustify the coal industry at the
expense Of the miners, and as fur
Their proof that great strike move
ment against the attack on the min
ers' standard Of living must come
soon.
1.-THE Wheeling plan, to establish
a new competitive district in place
of the old one said Borich, els an
attempt to strengthen one group OF
operators against the others. We
could have little concern with this
If it were not also true that the only
way these operators propose to get
the advantage over their competitors
is by cutting wages, speeding up, in
creasing the amount of unpaid work
worsening living and working condi-
tions-and generally making money
at the expense of the miners.
Against this naturalization we
must fight. The operators make
these fine schemes for their profit
but they do not have the last word
The miners, facing a constantly
lowering standard of living, have
something to say also. In these cir
cumstances, the outbreak of a great
strike movement covering even much
more territory than the strike of the
10000 is only a question of our
strength.
1.-THE new tactics we have adopted
will not only bring new masses into
the present strike, for local de-
mands," said Borich, "but they are
designed to strengthen our union to
the point where it will provide the
leadership for this mass strike move
ment that is coming"
Borich then went into careful de-
tail on the formation Of the mine
committees, united frorG bodies in
all mines which must be built up
without regard to union member
ship, and on a basis of butt COM
mittees, entry committees, mine COM
mittees themselves, representing the
butt and entry committees. These Or
CARNATIONS are the everyday weapon
Of all the miners in the mines to
fight the daily grievances. They are
in no way to he like the old pit COM
mittees of the United Mine Work
ers. The U. M. w. A. pit commit
tees WE'RE part of the union bureau