The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-04
Strike Committee Lays Plans to
Build National Miners Union
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Gals will be established soon. Mean
while, the locals will receive a series
of instructions on ext tasks and or
ganization work by mail from the
district office. This will be followed
by a careful inspection and canvass
of the new locals by the district Off
GERS, with mass meetings also to ex-
plain the union to other miners. The
strike committee recommends that
the eight sections of the strike front:
Avella, Brownsville, Library, Upper
Monongahela, Bentleyville, CanonS-
burg, Allegheny, Westmoreland, be
retained only as subsidiary units
with part-time organizrs, and that
sub districts be created with full
time organizers temporarily in
charge, to be led as soon as sub
district conventions can be called by
executive boards and full list of
officers. These sub-districts, as now
proposed, would be Washington, AL
legheney, Monongahela and Brown
vile.
2. Formation Of mine committees,
These are the united front bodies in
each mine, and in each of the Sec
tons and other subordinate parts OF
the mine. They are elected without
regard to union membership either
by those voting Of those elected, but
the union stimulates the creation Of
the mine committees.
8. Winning the local demands
The plans originally adopted for the
struggles around the local demands
are still the guide, and prospects OF
victory are good in mines where there
is still considerable percentage on
strike. In mines where there are
still very few striking, the struggle
is to put the men threatened with
blacklist back into the industry. AL
tactics are to be used, even in some
cases moving these miners and theii
families into new fields. Leadership
in these local struggles lies largely
with the section and local strike
committees, which are to be con-
tinued in situations which are real
strike struggles. The chief necessity
is the reaching of the men in the
mines with convincing arguments fol
a combined struggle with that of the
men outside, and this is going on
under different circumstances and al
a different rate of speed in each
locality.
4. Mobilization for future strik,
struggle. All the activities of thu
union and of the strike committee;
build toward this end. The mex
great strike will start with an i'm
mensely more powerful organization
back Of it and leading it than the
present strike. Speakers emphasized
at the Central Strike Commute,
meeting Wednesday that condition
in the mines are such as to be al
most unbearable, but that these con
ditions alone can not be relied upol
to bring the men out in genera
strike. Organization and Leadership
is necessary.
5. Mass demonstrations through
out the country, led by the Miners
National Unity Committee of Action
for the release of the Kentucky pris
oners, particularly those facing tn
electric chair in Harlan; and couples
with these, mass demonstration;
conferences, petition lists and collec
ton of bail and defense funds TO
the prisoners in the Western Penn
sylvania, Eastern Ohio and Pan
handle of West Virginia strike.
s. The fight to win free fare.
shoes, clothes and food and vaccine
ton fees from the school boards TO
miners school children. This strug
gle is largely led now by the Women
Auxiliaries, but the union throws 1t
full strength behind it. The strateg,
and organizational forms of thi
struggle have been explained in pre-
vious news. The Central Rank ant
File Strike Committee cheered tn