The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-27

seeking to revive the UNIWA, its leadership-and
the checkoff; the dear old checkoff by which
sweating miners for years paid millions of dol
lars in fat salaries to equally fat officials who
sold them out for fat prices; the UNTWA is try
ing to become the instrument for the fascination
of the coal mining industry; many UMWA
hangers-on are now special deputy sheriffs in
training for the delightful day when they can be
UNfWA organizers without any change in func-
ton or allegiance.
Almost everyone seems to be in favor of the
Reorganization of the industry as whole at
the expense of the miners except the Communist
Party, the Trade Union Unity League and its
affiliated unions-and the miners and other
workers While the capitalist press plays down
the murderouS attacks on miners and Sympa-
tllizers and their families, and plays up the
scab wage-c cutting agreement of the UGWA and
the PFC. Co., the miners, led by the Rank and
File Strike Committee of the National Miners
Union, are picketng the Terminal Coal Com
pany mines en- masse.
Against the united front of the coal operators,
their government, the UNIWA and the socialist
party and Musteite elements, the Rank and File
Strike Committee has brought forward the pro-
gram of the united front of all miners for mass
support of the strike, for extension of relief &C
tivity, for struggle for unemployed insurance,
for spreading the strike.
The Rank and File Strike Committee in the
name of the 10000 miners on strike and the
10000 women and children involved in the fight
against starvation has invited delegations OF
rank and file members from UMWA locals. West
Virginia Mine Workers locals, mine committees
and local strike committees in other fields and
unemployed miners committees and councils, to
attend its meeting in Pittsburgh, July Is.
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for all miners will be worked out. 1t will put be-
fore all miners the burning issue of the further
strengthening of the fight against starvation and
slavery the fight for the 6-hour day and strug-
gle for the building of a powerful industrial
union and a national collective agreement the
organization of defense Of arrested workers and
struggle against the wholesale terror in the coal
fields.
There Is great ferment among steel workers
and workers in other industries closely connect
ed with mining; they see the strike as the first
powerful blow against the ever-sharpening capt.
talist offensive against the living standards OF
the American working class and the meeting on
July Is, in the heart of the coal, steel and iron
industry will focus upon the strike and the de-
cisons of the strike committee session the close
attention of thousands of workers in other in
dustries
The call for the meeting and the election of
the delegates which will take place in scores Of
mining camps in connection with the local needs
and demands of the miners, will strengthen the
strike movement The mass character of the
strike itself furnishes in turn splendid base
for such a gathering of militant miners.
The July is meeting is therefore of basic i'm
portance as mass instrument for further
working out of many problems of the working
class counter offensive, and of the greatest sig
nificance for miners-and all other workers Our
Party membership in all coal, steel and metal
districts, in the railway industry, must give all
possible assistance to the support of the strike
the preparing and popularizing of the coming
meeting
The TU.U.L. unions and leagues in other in
dustries can find in this work splendid method
Of winning new members and bringing forward
the T.U.UL and its unions the organizers and
leaders of the fight against wage cuts and
speed-up.
TIL miners in Western Pennsylvania, Eastern
Ohio and West Virginia are marching and bat
talions of workers in other coal fields and in
other industries must be prepared to march with
them