The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-17

been made "Reds"-through the medium OF the
operators starvation-compulsion
What is the miners trouble? F1ux rampant
in this section, takes toll of thousands OF babies
yearly. Adults are not exempt. At Glendon
the operators have cut the miners to rs cents
ton. At Kettle Island, small army of gun
thugs have lately been supplied with thousands
of dollars worth Of ammunition to be used
against the Reds"
The miners and their families lead lives of
hunger gun at their back to stave off their re-
sistance. Stories rife among the miners how
Mrs. Hutchinson calls the operators for approval
when miner asks for relief When miners
wives come to her office. she brushes them away
out of her reach of her expensive clothes with
a peremptory command Move aside don't soil
my clothes" Qn Pineville, ITSELF this same AS
ISOLATED Charities helps few loyal" citizens
two days of laboring work a week, at 81 day,
paid in groceries,.
These are the miners real troubles, that al
though Mrs Hutchinson would like the miners
to believe have been brought to the mine fields
by the Reds" are laid directly at the door of
the coal operators and their friends. These con-
ditions existed before there were Reds" These
conditions forced on the miners by the opera
tors made the miners Reds and keep them so.
The Reds have learned in these coal fields
through the accumulated experience Of their
union, the National Miners Union, how to resist,
how to fight against the coal operators hunger
and terror, how to build the National Miners
Union.
This building Of strong National Miners
Union stares the coal operators in the face and
drives them to distraction. The building of the
union, the making of thousands of more Reds"
really means trouble" but trouble" for the
operators and the Mrs Hutchinsons, and for
them only. 1t means resistance when the coal
operators attempt to put over wage-cuts. The
building of the union means deeming the state
crumbs Of charity given by such bosses agencies
as the Associated Charities to the miners not
enough. This is the trouble the Reds bring
to the miners.
LET the Reds help you'll" The "Reds" will
help their fellow miners by continuing to or
ganize them into locals of the National Miners
Union. by building the union, both on the strike
front and inside the mines-to keep the wolf
from baying at the door Of the miners shacks.
The Reds will continue to build the union be-
cause it is da yto day necessity for the miners
like food or air-to protect their interests,
their very lives, their only weapon against the
operators attacks on their living standard.
And the Reds the awakened miners, will give
the coal operators and their friends more of this
kind Of trouble" in spite of the heavy barrage
Of lies and distortions futilely aimed to weaken
the ranks-because the miners know it is the
only way out. Not Mrs Hutchinson's charity,
but struggle under the leadership of the Ma
tional Miners Union-struggle against wage
cuts-against starvation wages and the terror
struggle for real relief from the Associated
Charities for the unemployed as well as from
the local, county and state governments.
Go to the Reds. Let them help you'll" And
the miners will answer Mrs. Hutchinson's ad-
vice. They will tell her the miners through
their own experiences have learned that going