The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-02-18

NEW YORK, n. Y.-The Com
munist Party added seven strong
working class soldiers to its ranks
today. Seven miners, two Negro and
five write, most of them born and
bred in Kentucky, joined the revo-
lutionary fighting organization of
the working class to become leaders
in the struggle against the bosses
and their system. All but one have
families. Each has a story of con-
slant struggling and suffering.
We've been struggling as far
back as l can remember" one said.
In Kentucky the bosses try to keep
the miners away from the Com
munist Party with the cry of Roo
sian Reds and the hypocrisy about
Communism destroying home, re-
ligion and order" What will the
coal operators say now to the Ken
lucky miners in face of these seven
who not only were themselves born
on American soil, but can name
generations of their ancestors born
here.
Why did you join the Communist
Party, the miners we're asked? And
each gave a ready answer. They know
the party through struggle and were
won to it through its fight for them
and their fellow workers.
Il feel like this" said one miner
there was feeling in his voice, he
spoke as if he would like to say more
but found it hard getting the right
words, Il joined the Communist
Party because I seen that they are the
only ones leading the workers to bet
ter conditions. tried out everything
else, 1 belonged to the United Mine
Workers of America, the A. F. L., the
Junior Mechanics and I found out
that none of them was for the work
ers, they were all failures except thu
National Miners Union and the Com.
munist Party
The working class solidarity hi
found everywhere he went in support
of the Kentucky strike impressed ont
miner perhaps more than anything
else and he wants to send this mes
sage back home to his fellow miners:
1--WE seed in New York, we seed ir
Philadelphia, woe seed in Baltimore
everywhere we seed the workers are
backing the miners fight in Ken
lucky"
He also asked his fellow workers
inc Kentucky mot to believe the lies
going in the capitalist papers, the
capitalists are against the working
men,, he said.
Il joined the Communist Party
another miner solemnly said, be
cause it stands for all races, color ano
nationality. I want to tell everybody
that the Communist Party platform
has been misrepresented to me or ]
would have been a member II year:
ago."
The lies used by the bosses in Ken
lucky are the same yellow lies being
used all over. 1--WE was told" the min
er said, that the Communist Party
is the head of the Catholic Church
and we was agin the Catholics, or else
we was told that the Communist Par
ty takes a mans wife away and break,
your home up. They said the Com
muniSts was awful people but I found
the Communists to be the best people
/ met in my life, they'd take theii
shirt off their back for you. Through
the learnin' in the National Miner.
Union I learnt the benefit of thu
Communist Party to the laborin' maj
and I want to say to all workers tina
want to change this system of CAPT
talism for the laboring mans benefi
to join the Communist Party"
A Negro miner told of his hard life
suffering, besides hunger, Jim Crow
ism and discrimination and found il
the Party the unity of all color
Every shop, mine and factory
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