The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-27
By CARL PRICE

THE election campaign in the coal fields comes
L at a time when the coal miners, who bear
starvation conditions, are fighting against fur
ther wage-cuts (Terminal Mines, Newfield, Rem
toni and mass lay-offs of thousands of miners.
The bosses and their government, determined to
push through the wage-cut, unemployment drive,
in order to save their profits and make the
workers bear the burden of the crisis, are con
solidating' their coal mines. They are closing
down many mines, laying off thousands of wo-,l-
ers, and keeping the big mines running at red
uced wages under speed-up conditions. The
wage-cut to 22c ton which just took place in
the Terminal Company mines reducing the
wages of the miners to new depths of starvation,
is only the first cut Of many which are to take
place at once The miners children, in some
cases, are eating out of garbage pals. Many
miners and their families are diseased, due to
starvation. The miners children are going to
school without breakfast or lunch Their wives
have no clothes to wear. They are being evicted
and sold out at Sheriffs Sales The coming
winter will be much worse. The bosses are de-
termined to reduce the standard of living Of the
miners below the wage-level of the German and
English miners, and establish coolie labor in the
minefields, literally starving to death thousands
Pinchot recently issued statement, in which
he claimed to be against wage-cuts The work
srs must beware of such demagogy and hypo-
crisy. They only need to look into his record
in the mining industry, where he and his gov
trnment sent the state police to break the strike
of the miners against wage-cutS and where his
government together with the bosses and the
UMW.A forced the miners to accept the wage
cuts in the mining field AT the present time
Pinchot Is doing the same thing in the steel in
dustry-is using all of his forces to put over
IOny@v ,r1,roV,
Pinchot, the head of the state government is the
leader of the struggle Of the bosses to enforce
Wage-cutS on the workers.
In this situation, the Socialist party and the
UMWA is the best tool of the coal bosses and
their government. The UMWA, led by Pagan,
is trying its best to make the miners in the Ter
minal Mines accept the wage-cut. Pagan and
the UMWA have agreed to the 221a wage-rate
and are urging the workers not to strike. The
Socialist party is now put forward by the coal
bosses with a lot of left phrases, at the same
time that the Socialist party supports the scab
agreements Of the UMWA and attacks the Ma
tional Miners Union and the other organizations
The Socialist party Of Pennsylvania, not long
ago. got out leaflet to the coal miners, In
which they openly endorsed the UMWA and its
policies This leaflet talks lot about nation
allied" mines, and endorses the UMWA plan OF
1922 This plan would do Tor all mines Wrat
the UAfWA, the coal bosses, and the govern
ment has done for the Terminal Mines-Teduced
wages to new unheara of levels This Socialist
party. and UMWA naturalization" plan calls
for collective bargaining" with the scab UNI
WA. of course). 1t calls for the Hoover federal
government to set the wages of the miners. 1t
calls for centralized control over all coal min
ing" by the bosses government. In other words
this so-caIled naturalization program OF the
UMWA, which the leaflet of the Socialist party
urges the miners to adopt is scheme Tor the
federal and state government to more easily
force wage-cuts on the workers making 1t easier
for the government to club the miners into SUD-
mission. The policy of centralized control means
the shutting down of all the smaller mines ana
the throwing of hundreds Of thousands OF min