The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-12


ito rouse mass protest and defense
against the terror
In rejecting the offer of the orgs-
nization whose world wide campaign
has forced a new trial for the Scots
boro boys and is building up an in
ternational mass movement for the
release of Tom Mooney, the leader
ship OF the Progressive Miners, domi-
mated by Musteites, Trotskyites and
other shady elements, hold true to
their determination to keep the Hi
nois strikers isolated from the rest
of the American working class and
to compete with the corrupt Lewis
United Mine Workers gang for the
job Of misleading the Illinois miners
The same leadership, whose policy of
signing wage cut agreements with in
dividual mine owners allowed the
Lewis crowd to gain foothold in
Illinois, also rejected the offer to Or
ganize q united front struggle, made
by the militant National Miners
Union.
"Ultimatum" TO Governor.
In edition to the telegram from
Pearcy. the I. l.. D, received one
from Gerry Allard, renegade Conlmu-
mist, now one of the Trotskyite
leaders of the P. M A. Allard's wire
contains a copy of what he describes
as an "ultimatum" sent by the Of
fcials of the union to Governor Hor-
ner of Illinois. The 'ultimatum"
states in part:
Atrocities in Christian County
| coal fields have today reached the
place where Our people are suffering
the most inhuman conditions ever
known in labor history. Illinois Ma
tional Guards and Sheriff Weinecke
have this day denied them right TO
vote in miners election and have
closed down relief stations in Kin
| oaid and ToVey. Even soup kitchen
for hungry school children closed.
Homes and stores destroyed by bomb
| ings Men, women and children
dragged from homes and beaten.
You cannot help but know the facts
and unless the constitutional rights
of our people are Immediately re-
stored, there is nothing left for US
but our economic strength and ask
all miners to join us in nationwide
strike and call upon all workers
throughout the United States to cease
work and take whatever action neces-
sary to restore constitutional rights
of American workers"
Exposes p. NJ. A. Leaders.
This wire which admits the fright
| full conditions in Christian County,
reveals the true role of the Progress
siye Miners offlcialdom. While iso-
lating the miners by rejecting the
| offers of the I. L. D. and National
Miners Union, these misleaders, puff
fing themselves up with wind, issue
general strike" slogans which can
only be realized with the broadcast
| united front of toilers throughout the
country.
At the same time their ultima
tuIn" to the governor confines itself
entirely to the question of "consti-
tutional rights: it makes no mem
ton of the arrest on murder charges
of "a strikers and no demand for
their release; there is also no de-
mand for the withdrawal Of the
troops and the disarming OF the
Lewis gunner deputized by the sher-
iff.
The heroic Illinois miners, who are
members of the P. M. A, are warned
against these tactics of their leaders.
Demand a broadening of the de-
Tense struggle and the acceptance of
the I. L. D. offerl Demand the
spreading of the strike on a united
front basis together with the National
Miners Union! The only way to get
a general strike is to spread the ex-
listing strike and not accept any
wage cut agreements.
Workers throughout the country
should give all possible aid to tbs
great fight of the Illinois miners,
should wire Governor Horner at
Springfield, Ill, demanding the qm-
mediate release of the arrested min
ers and the stopping of the terror,
and should send funds, food and
clothing for the miners to the Work
ers International Relief, 2A57 W. Chi
cago Ave, Chicago, III.