The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-14
NRA Mine Stumble

TIE $4,000 striking Pennsylvania coal miners, filed
to the crop with lying promises, maneuvers and
threats have been presented with the bodest and
most unashamed swinde. In series OF letters, pub
lished Friday between President Roosevelt and the
captive mine owners-the most powerful steel corpora
tons in the United States-the miners granted
the privilege of having money flched from their
uleagre pay for union to go to John L. Lewis,
sitilout the slightest semblance Of union recognition
All this is done in the name of the "check-oh"
And Roosevelt calls it progress The capitalist press
is deliberately putting the checkof in the forefront in
order to distort the significance the of the
miners strike. The check-of is the system whereby
dues taken from the of the miners by the coal
operators and turned directly to the treasury of
the very forces who have been trying with might and
main to break the present mine strike.
The miners nowhere in their meetings speak
CT the check-of Their demand is crystallzed in the
slogan; Recognize the UM.W.A 100 per cent
But the miners are fighting for union recognition
as weapon to win their demands In many locals
of the UNI.WA. these demands have been given
crete expression, for example in the resolution
passed by UM.WA. Local No. 507l in Ontario, Pa.
In union recognition the miners have in mind the
gaining and fortifyng Of the demands for IS day,
6-hour day, 5-day week; no check-of for anything,
and other improved conditions. Roosevelt and Lewis
read into the check-of which they interpret union
recognition methods of crushing the militant union
being forged in bitter struggle by the miners
ROOSEVELT, working very closely with the Lewis
~ machine, hopes that by some form of check-of he
will WELD double edged sword. He hopes first to
drive the miners back to work. without union recog-
milton. At the time, he is working fasten the
deathy grip of the Lewis machine the 100000 Penn
sylvana miners who have developed under the name
OF the UM.WA, their rank and file fighting union
that has outed every effort Of the Roosevelt Pinchot
regime and the Lewis Murray forces TO drive them back
to work under the N.R.A. slave coal code.
otepJ of Scvalta o5t Tho auie
is to split the ranks of the miners by isoating the
Fayete County men employed by the captive mines)
from the other miners who out in united strike for
full union recognition to all miners
All such previous attempts have failed mseraby
The miners have been extremely sharp and quick to
recognize the strkebreaker maneuvers of the Roose-
yelt-Pinchot regimes.
They tore to shreds Roosevelts General Johnson's
and Governor Pinchots appeal to return to work last
week the ground that fluky letter of Moses Office
boy of the u S. Steel in the Prick Coke Co. was inter
preted' to mean virtual union recognition.
NOW they presented with the craziest swindle
in their long history of struggle for union recog
nitiGn and for improved conditions. They are told
the MIRA requires the open shop The actual word
ing OF the letter signed by all of the steel giants
sl Under the NR.A. are required to employ
our workers without regard to their membership or
mon membership in any labor organization and we
feel that we owe duty to protect employees who
do not desire to be coerced into joining a union"
In short, the steel trust insist on the scab Mines
with full protection to scabs; though under the name
Of the check-of they will give the miners the right
to pay Lewis for the privilege of working under scab
conditions.
X The miners who smashed the more subtle maneu-
vers of Lewis and the steel trusts will answer this
latest deliberate insult with determined militant
picketing.
The day to day activities of President Roosevelt
and Governor Pinchot in the miners strike makes
imperative some vital political conclusions for the min
ers Especially must these lessons be drawn
because Pinchot and his wife ranting up and
pennsylvania about the dad steel trusts"
ROOSEVELT in the interest of the most powerful
- capitalists, sent the miners back to work with
promises before the coal code passed He deliber