The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-27
For Unity in Action of the
Illinois Coal Miners
Necessdry Concentrate Main Attack Leadership of
U.M.W.A and Progressive Miners of America "

scale. The beginning of such a
movement in Illinois will have ire
mendous influence upon the min
ers throughout the coal fields of
the entire country. This move
ment, started in Illinois, must be
coordinated with national move
meIt of unity of all miners, unity
that shall embrace rank and file
members of the U.M.W.As and the
fighting national union of the
miners, the National Miners Union.
1t must embrace the masses of IN
organized miners and unemployed
miners. Because of this movement
and seeing that the officialdom of
both unions, the U.MWA. and
PIMA. is beginning to lose ground,
that the membership is beginning
to revolt, we see the officialdom of
the U.M.WA. and PIMA. begins,
under the orders of Governor Hor-
ner and the coal operators, to work
toward unity of all kinds of takers,
nisleaders and miners.
In spite of terror, the miners in
the southern part of Illinois coal
fields, in Franklin and Saline
Counties, are beginning TO defy
John L. Lewis, and recently O'Gara
Mine, No. 10 Saline County,, de-
cided to withdraw from the U. M.
w. A. and join the P. M. A. This
is just an indication that the min
ers are discontinued with the lead
ership of the UM.W.A. The unity
movement will meet with attacks
from both the UM.W.A. and PIMA.
officialdom, from the state and coal
operators. But it will meet re-
spouse from the masses. In this
struggle for unity the miners must
develop a struggle for the release
OF the % striking miners indicted
on framed-up charges of murder
and date for trial set for March 10.
THE unity movement of the min
ers will be stimulated by the
Illinois Anti Hunger Conference, to
which large number Of local
unions of the PIMA. and U.MW.A.
have elected delegates, together
with large number of unemployed
miners who are organized into the
Unemployed Councils, will
strengthen this movement of the
miners. The task of the support
ers of the National Miners Union
in Illinois is to give maximum sup
port to such movement, to ac-
lively participate in the unity
movement, bringing additionally
the National Miners Union, pop
ularizing its program, the heroic
struggles which it led in Ohio,
Pennsylvania, West Virginia and
Kentucky, showing that it is the
only union which leads the miners
i'll struggle, Us it is . union Of the
rank and file and not of the off
Gals, as is the case with the unions
of the PIMA. and U.M.W.A.
G. p. BACKS MOVEMENT
The Communist Party supports
such a movement as an important
step forward in the unification of
the ranks of the miners and the
task confronting the Party in the
Illinois coal fields is to develop
such a movement and to do so it is
necessary to strengthen the Party
organization in the coal fields,
building Party nuclei in the mines,
embracing fighting miners. Such a
movement as is beginning now in the
Illinois coal fields cannot success
fully develop without building and
strengthening the Party organiza-
ton. Unity in the action of the
miners of Illinois Is the most burn
ing problem and task confronting
the miners in the struggle against
wage-cuts and starvation, struggles
of Illinois miners must get support
of the entire working class, by
deeds, not words. This support
was given to the struggles of the
miners by the demonstration of the
Chicago workers before the Pea
body Coal Co. office, by sending
food to strikers, by defending %
miners indicted for murder in
Christian County. These activities
must be extended and broadened
and must involve masses OF work.
erss especially locals OF the Amert-
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