The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-20

pany for discriminating, blacklisting
and firing members of the United
Mine Workers of America and hiring
brotherhood" men; and then he
himself has members of his own local,
men who went on picket line day and
night, men who helped to organize
the Ailley miners, fired.
Checkweighmen Get 81
While the acknowledgment elected
by the miners in practically every
mine around here get SIS q day, our
acknowledgment want 81 day. This
is $40 day more than the average
skilled miner gets 1t is in line with
the policies of the Lewis-Fagan ma
chine to get as much as they can
and to hell with the rank and file
miners. suppose if any of us speak
against the 81 day for the check
weighmen, we will be branded as
Nationals" and expelled from the
local and blackliSted out of the mine.
Recently our president called the
men out Of the man trip to strike
because the coal company would not
recognize as valid the examinations
of the local doctor. That sounds
good. But it is common knowledge
that the sister-in-law of our presi-
dent works for this particular doctor
Why do we have such suspicion?
Because the condition in the mine
are not what they should be. AS
high as so and 10 men have to go
home every day, because they either
have no working places, or no turn
partings, or have falls. Our presi-
dent never thought of calling a strike
to force the company to give these
men work on the days that the mine
is working.
Pay Cut by Resulting
Recently the company re-shifted
the outside men, and in the shifting
re-classified them. This 're-classifi-
cation" meant wage cut for these
men. Our local president not only
refused to have anything to do with
their case, but when these men tried
to hold meeting of the outside men
to map out methods of fight, he re-
fused to give them the keys to the
union hall, and some say he notified
the burgess Of West Brownsville to
arrest them and break their meeting
II they tried to meet in front of the
hall.
This certainly proves that he Is
not defender of the rights of the
miners, but a selfish official who uses
the same methods that Fagan-Lewic
and the Erich Company use.
We miners In the Lilley mine will
have to either clean out the gang
that uses such methods in fighting
the rank and file miners, or else
Sophish and his friends will slowly
but surely have us blacklisted one
by one, and see to it that their
friends get our Jobs. It is also pos
sible that this type of leader" will
establish job selling agency, as
some of the U.M.W.A. local officials
are already doing in some Of the
mines in the district. Every men,
Der of the Lilley local must become
an active member; attend his local
meetings; fight for the improvement
in the mine; demand that neither
the company nor the local officials
shall blacklist any miner for his
opinions; fight against the high wages
for the acknowledgment and Off
Gals. Demand that when these Of
ficials and leaders" win 81 or $40 a
day for all the miners, then and only
then they will have the rights to the
same wages.
Lilley minerS-make the Lilley To-
cal union the instrument of your
struggles and not the political foot
ball of local officials, doctors and
such alike.