The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-17

ployed and the unemployed miners. 1t is necessary
to draw into the leadership the Negro miners and as
sure them that all miners will fight for their special
demands and against any attempted discrimination.
1t is necessary to draw the militant young miners into
responsible positions the basis of fight for their
special demands 1t is necessary to bring into the
fight the women folk the wives and daughters of the
miners, and also the miners children And even the
workers in the other industries the neghboring farm
ers, the small business men, can be enrolled for sup
port to the miners fight. They must all be made to
understand that the outcome of the miners struggle
will have great bearing on their immediate welfare.
THE strike must express it's aims more clearly The
miners are not fighting merely for the check-of
that the berayers have plenty of cash to get
fat upon and for fighting the rank and file The min
ers must demand recognition of their chosen union and
OF their mine committees elected by themselves and
not appointed by the officials Now Lewis is to be rec
ogized but not the miners rank and file and dem
ocracally elected representatives The miners are the
union and not Lewis or Pagan.
The miners must not only fight for the right to or
ganze but for the right to strike against compulsory
arbitration The Miners must fight against the at
tempt to rob them of their earnings through the vari-
Gus schemes contained in the code as to dead work
regulation of acknowledgment and similar devices
The miners must also make their demands in the
strike the original demands of SIS for a 6-hour day
The miners must fight against the provisions for starv
alton wages for the outside workers generally anG the
young miners in particular.
The strike is now facing critical stage. But the
power of the miners in strong. The of the
miners are tremendous. Organization solidarity mil
itancy and determination will defeat all enemies.
The miners see the correctness of the
warnings of the National Miners Union The National
Miners Union has made its the cause of the min
ers 1t is supporting the fight of the miners for recog
milton OF the U-M.W.A 1t is supporting the miners
in their fight for organization. But the National
Miners Union is alive 1t lives in the experiences of
the tens Of thousands of miners who fought under it's
banner in the strike Of 10000 miners in 1881 and the
April strike of this year. 1t lives in the growing rank
and file opposition that is being built to provide
leadership in the critical phase Of the strike Already
the rank and file opposition has made record of
holding the strike intact and warding off all attempts
to break the strike.
The workers throughout the country have much at
stake in this strike The miners must receive the fun
support of the workers throughout the country The
Trade Union Unity League and its affiliated unions
are giving and will make greater efforts to give sup
port to the miners 1t addressed letter to the recent
A F. OF L. convention demanding support for the
strike. 1t was turned down by Green, Lewis and Co.
The ALL. rank and file, numbering millions must
repudiate this betrayal by giving full support to the
striking miners.