The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-31

checks also. The NMU demand that
the miners are not to be forced to
I've in company houses or trade at
company stores was granted.
No Guarantees
But with the alliance made be-
tween the coal operators and the UNI
WA officials there is no guarantee
hat even these will be carried out.
The government is permitting the
code to come out only piecemeal, try
ing to unload it on the miners 8
little at a time, so they will not feel
The full blow of it.
The NMU urges all miners imme-
iiately to discuss the code and con-
;rast it with the code presented in
Washington by the NMU.
The NMU urges the miners to elect
mine committees to put up their own
demands, fight for the concessions
which are supposed to be granted, to
fight against the check-of and the
wage cutting scheme tied up with 1t.
Lewis and the coal operators hope
that when Roosevelt signs the code
The fight will be over. But the code
which perpetuates the starvation con-
ditions of the miners will not stop
the fight. The fight of the miners
will continue, especially when they
find out that their wages and con-
ditions will be made worse, and their
organization and right to strike are
sought to be smashed.
The fight against the check-of es-
pecially should be fought tooth and
nail This is the main point tied
up with the so-ealled recognition Of
the UMWA and for the right to
check-of dues, Lewis has given the
operators thousand ways to slash
wages.
Tears of JOY were shed, the spaci-
GUS backs Of UMWA officials were
patted, coal operators clasped one an
others hands in delight when the
coal code was agreed upon, as all
admitted at least for the time be-
ing, the biggest strikes ever witnessed
in the United States was avoided by
a hairs breath.
The miners have yet to speak when
they learn how the coal code per-
petuates their starvation, along with
a few slick phrases, and an alliance
between the coal operators and the
UMWA officials.
For weeks, capitalist news reporters
here have been clamping the lid
down on the strike sentiment Of the
miners, the steel and auto workers.
Now few of them come out with a
bare statement of the facts, as for
example, the New York Times cor
respondent, who wired his paper as
follows:
"A general strike of soft coal
miners, spreading to the steel and
automobile industries appeared to
be imminent and hung by thread
during the past few weeks"
william B. Wilson, former secre-
tary Of the UMWA, and now in
Washington, shed copious tears of
JOY, when Lewis agreed to the oper-
ator's code.
Only a skeleton outline of the coal
code has been published, but even
this is enough to show that Lewis
has agreed to the starvation wage
scale of the operators in return for
the check-off whereby the coal opera
tors will take hard-earned dollars
away from the miners and turn them
over to Lewis and his grating strike
breakers.
The code adopted is to last for
only months. from September 1 to
March l. 1884.
A special board is set UP, called
the Bituminous Coal Industry Board,
to supervise the code, and on this
board viii be representatives of An
drew Mellon, Rockefeller, Morgans
u. s. Steel. and John L. Lewis, to take
away all independence of action of
the UMWA.
Never have the coal operators been
so joyful as at the present, thanks
TO the strikebreaking activities and
sell out Of the UMWA officials.