The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-13

vania ank and File District Committee were
holding their weekly meeting in Pittsburgh on
June TO- a delegation of 20 miners from Eastern
Ohio marched in and announced that the strike
had spread into their district and into northern
West Virginia. The Ohio and west Virginia
miners suffering under the same starvation con-
ditions as the Pennsylvania miners, are also on
the nnarcl1-in the ranks of the NMU ss-'T
The striking miners in the Harlan district OF
eastern Kentucky have been deserted and re-
pudiated by the U.M.W.A. because of their mill
tant struggle (sec editorial in the June issue
of the Journal Of the U.M.W.A entitled Fine
Bedfellows'--B d. and they too are joining in
the fight led by the N.MU. In the coal fields Of
Illinois, Indiana the Hooking Valley, in all the
mine fields of the U.S.A. and Canada there is
a great stirring among the miners.
These are the immediate reserves coming into
the struggle on the side of the Pennsylvania
miners who have shown the way. The struggle is
taking on national character.
The other sections of the working class must
be drawn into the fight Relief is needed as it
has been needed in other strike in this coun-
try. 1t must be sent and it can come only from
the working class. In the struggles which de-
velop in other mine fields and in other indus
tries around the collection of relief and the cam
paign against the terror in Pennsylvania, the
local grievances and demands must be kept-in
the foreground
The struggle to Smash the united front OF
the U.MWA, the coal operators federal and
state governments" against the $4,000 men,
women and children of the Pennsylvania coal
camps can best be fought by organization OF
rank and file. strike committees and determined
strike struggle of workers in all industries
against the $4,000 men, women and children of
the Pennsylvania coal camps can best be fought
by organization of rank and file strike commit
tees and determined strike struggle of workers
in all industries against wage cuts, speeding
mass unemployment and mass starvation
Especially has the great struggle in the West
ern Pennsylvania mine field shown two things.
One, that the right to organize and strike the
right to picket the demand for the repeal of
criminal syndcalism and deportation laws and
all other suppressive measures, the fight against
injunctions and company towns, the tight for
the removal of armed forces from working class
districts and strike areas, the fight against evic-
tons, the tight for unemployed relief and In
surance, The fight against discrimination and
special measures against Negroes are all living
issues for which workers will fight heroically
when the connection between these issues and
the struggle for better wages and living condi-
tons is clearly made-as it has been made in
the rapid development of this strike
Second the Pennsylvania coal strickland the
spread of the strike into West Virginia and Ohio
has shown that the boundless initiative of the
working class finds ready expression when tbs
tactical lire of the Red International OF Labor
Unions is applied lie. when elected rank and
file strike committees, committees OF action, etc
are made the leading organs of the mass struggle
All support to the resolute struggle OF the
$4,000 men, women and children Of the work
ing class in the Pennsylvania coal cauips-au
support for their heroic struggle against staiya-
ton and slavery!
At the same time learn and apply the lessons
OF this mass strike In the. developing struggles
in other industries and thus be able to extend
more rapidly and effectively the counter Of
fensive Of the working class against the capitalist
offensive. g.@