The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-24

section that will assure leadership to the strul-
giles of the working class here? To devote your
time, yort lives to this cause-to stop being min
ers, ranE end filters, to begin to be leaders of
the work lg CLASP" There is silence then the
miners { 5cuss.
The Russian speaks II have felt the lash of
the czac's cossacks', he says,-and speaks in
tensely saying that what was done to the car
must be done here.
well I am young, one young American says,
Il have no experience. But I am glad am
young-so I can give the rest of my life to the
abolishing of this damned capitalist system"
he stops shyly, alarmed at the determination of
his voice.
The girl with shining eyes speaks, well
think the same as my brother here. My father
worked in the mines all his life Worked and
we starved. Days went by, and we were hungry
Then this strike came, and thought was do
ing all could. But I'll stay Communist until
I die!"
The other young American speaks. He is blond
and powerful looking Il can't talk exactly
what want to say" he blurts out, "but if my
father could speak to you now, he could tell you
some stories- He had his back broke in
the mines. He was fighter, and I guess that's
why I'm fighter. I think we got to start the
Communists here and stick to it. Because I'm
worker-Im part of the working class. And
what else could do but to fight for them for
ever-?" He stops, and the rest speak. Tell
of their own hard lives-tell of the Daily Worker,
what it taught them.
The organizer, the Communist, gives them
application cards. They all sign. date is
set for the next meeting They all leave the
relief headquarters together. And the girls do
not go to the Corners where there is dance
hau fn oyOfh w oil IL
together. They part from the organizer re-
luctantly, and all shake hands warmly. There
is a different feeling between them now. They
are all Communists entrusted with the task of
ending working class slavery.
A Party unit has just been born there in
These miners are determined to take up the
strike problems as Communists They feel their
connection with the working class all over the
world They know their immediate task is to
win this strike-to win against terror, against
the bosses and their deputies-to win againrt
hunger, and the deadly UMWA and Socialist
relief-to win against all the capitalist forces
united against them. Relief, milk, green's meat
bread, no longer mem merely food relief to
thenl-these Communists, but agencies that
will aid them win working class victory. Milk
greens, bread, now mean weapons with which
they are fighting the bosses. These new Com
munists look to the class conscious fellow
workers of the miners. They believe that those
awake to this fight must devote their energies
their lives to helping them win this victory
because they now know it is step forward to
the final victory of the working class
Fellow workers of the miners! There is only
one answer you can give them! 1t is clear to
the miners that you must send food, money
relief at once, to win this working class fight
the significance of which the miners In the
scrubbed relief headquarters now understand
Send relief In large quantities, to Pennsylvania
Ohio Striking Miners Relief Committee, Gil
Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pa. Victory for the
minenN i =,