The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-09

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were used against the strikers. 'The
Road to Disaster" is its ominous title.
But the strike is doing much more.
1t is tearing out of the minds of
hundreds of thousands of steel work.
ers and coal miners their illusions
about Roosevelt, Pinchot, Green and
the A. F. of L. leadership.
The miners are expressing them
selves openly against the coal code,
Governor Pinchot and Roosevelt.
Here are reports Of personal CONVEX
sations with miners in widely separ-
ated coal districts.
mo Wage Increase"
A group of steel workers from the
GreensbWg, Pa. strike accosted min
moreland county carrying pals re-
turning from the Mines One miner
said the pit boss called him up, told
him the local voted to go to work
He went to the mine and found it
closed. He was on his way home.
What do you think of the coal code
and wage agreement" he was asked.
There is no wage increase, no strike
allowed. That's no agreement. will
be damned if I go back before the
Prick Co. recognizes the union. l was
one of those guys three weeks ago
who thought that Roosevelt was try
ing to do something for us. He does
what the coal companies want"
In New Kensington, Pa. after talk
ing to hundreds of miners, the dom
inant opinion of the men can be
summed up as follows:
They call US Bolsheviks and Com
munists And we don't give damn
what they call U.S. Maybe we should
have the Communists in here. Let
us know right now if we have a gov
eminent Of the rich or a govern
ment CT the people, SO we can
change it."
These sane miners had sent a tele-
gram to Roosevelt asking if they
should return to work. But every
one who voted for the telegram said
it was a move to gain time. Never
was the aentinenS in the field around
Allegheny so sc.id for strike to vic
tory. Trucks are being sent all over
to mobilize picket lines
1t S this spirit of struggle, and
the consciousness that the workers
are having the scales on their eyes
Shot away SO that they can see Roo
sevelt, Finchot, johnson and the
Greens in their real colors, that is
bringing CONSERVATION to the bosses
The struggle of the steel and coal
workers is reaching remarkable
high level. Leaders by the hundreds
are Springillg up from the ranks
young American workers who have
not felt the corroding influence of
Green or Lewis before. A spirit of
united struggle is developing, coal
miners march on steel mills, with
the idea of spreading the strike: steel
workers are participating in the coal
strike.
Bosses Grip Weakening
The bosses feel their grip weaken
ing. They are finding out that ter
ror has the effect of stiffening the
resistance of the workers as in AM
bridge, when after the armed attack
by mill guard, a new spirit of sterner
struggle could be seen on the picket
unes and in the strike halls.
The Pittsburgh coal and steel
strike is of the greatest political and
strategic Importance.
No wonder the Pittsburgh Press
m its editorial writes:
IF in the face of written agree
ments, in spite of the adoption of
the coal code, in defiance Of their
own leaders and friends and in dis
regard of the pleas of President
Roosevelt and Governor Pinchot
the miners still insist on continu-
ing the strike against operators who
have met all their demands, chaos
will surely result"
yes, chaos for the bosses, chaos
for the slave codes and the NRA
put order, unity, organization for the
Workers-that is what is taking place
But this strike which is breaking
down MIRA. illusions and arousine
the highest fighting spirit of the
workers spreading to the most pow
erful fortresses Of capitalism in the
chief war industries is throwing the
employers into an even greater panic
OF rear because it threatens to tie up
industries far flung from the strike
center. AS the same editorial puts It.:
Coal shipments to the Great Lakes
will soon cease and meanwhile the
Lakes trade will be diverted to other
districts"
The miners as well as the steel
workers themselves have worked out
! the important strategy of tying IN
decisive mines, decisive plants with
the conscious objective of enlarginp
] the strike and involving new hun
dreds Of thousands.
The march on Clarion is an ex-
cellent example. The Prick miners
knew that the Carnegie Steel Corpo-
ration plant at Clarion was kew
mill. 1t contains the largest coke
plant in the United States supplying
steel mills in Braddock and Home
stead. With this plant closed, Uni
ted States Steel deprived of coal and
coke, with one Of its chief steel
plants closed, is gripped at the
threat. It's wind pipe is shut off
and 1t can be forced to come to terms
with the miners and steel workers.
The steel workers act In a similar
fashion. They are not content to
strike their own mill. No sooner out,
they move rapidly to tie up other
mills, with the objective Of shutting
down the leading steel plants in the
Beaver Valley territory such as Jones
and Laughlin, American Bridge, Car
negie Steel.
Already the capitalist nress is