The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-04
Betrayal in Anthracite

ANTHRACITE miners who left the UMwA- because
n they were sick and tired Of Lewiss strtkebreakns
got sample Tuesday OF what 1ittle difference there
is between their present leaders Maloney and Cspe-
lni and the ones they thought they got nd Of when
they joined the United Anthracite Miners OF Penn
sylyania.
Tuesday convention Of this union was held in
Wilkes-Barre. The miners had only thought -
strike! They had been buldozed and stalled on on
promises Of negotiations around wages and conditions
by the National Labor Board Priest and press were
hauled into the convention time and again to get the
miners to see what glorious Roosevelt was and
what an inspiring thing the N.R.A
But the miners wanted none Of IT, They want
action on their demands.
Monday, when Thomas MaIoney, president OF the
union. that he could not stop strike vote he ap
pealed to the to wait until they heard from NA.
representatives. After listening to whole Of
takers including Monsignor Curran and Major Moore
OF the NR.A who helped break the Utah coal strike,
and a list Of others, the miners stin could not be
swayed.
In order to stall of the strike and give the coal
operators time to prepare to act against the miners,
AEaloney was able to push through resolution decar-
ing that the miners would wait until January IL for
the National Labor Board to act. II by that time
action was forthcoming they wold strike on Janu
airy Is.
THIS TRICKERY presents the anthracite miners with
the fact that their leaders and their union under
such leadership iS not whit different than Lewis
and his strkebreaking gang running the UM.wA
The miners are being turned over to the National
Labor Board Tor the same type Of betrayal Lewis
handed the Fayete County miners And the anthracite
miners can expect no different treatment from the
National Labor Board than the Weirton Steel workers.
or the Budd and Philadelphia take drivers got.
AS the situation now stands the officials Of the
United Anthracite Miners Of Pennsylvania turn the
fate OF the miners 70 the National Labor Board
hat is in this case directly to John l. Lewis. Mean
while the operators tipped OF and prepare TO
meet the miners to the disadvantage Of the men
such shameless betrayals are piling up more and
my each day in the U.MWAq as well in the
p anG in the ranks of the Progressive Miners
Of ne,los
EVERY ONE Of the actions Of the takers in the var-
Il Gus miners unions run by Lewis E1aoney or Pear
cey confirms the estimation made by the Communist
Party leaders active the mine fields published
in the Daily Worker recently the Communist Pro-
gram Of Action in the Mine Fields"
That program pointed out that though the an
thracite miners broke away from the UM.wA be-
they realized the strikebreaking role OF Lewis
their present leadership bascally different
The main goal the Program pointed out was tov
all Communists in the coal fields to penetrate all Of
these unions and to for their unincation into
national militant union OF all miners freed from
its strikebreakng officials
On January Is the U.MWA International Con-
vention opens in Indianapolis, and there is already
sufficient from all fields that Lewis will have to
face aroused rank and file calling him to account
for his past strikebreakng deeds and demanding
ton for the miners in the future.
TIE TIME is short for organizing the rank and fle
opposition delegates to this convention but II must
be done from now on at top speed.
1t is well here to emphasize again and stress the
basic point Of the Communist Program Of Action in
the coal fields" which declared:
1.-THE Communists must on ths basis Of the
development OF the oppositions within the refcrmist
miners unions, the basis Of strengthening and
building the base OF the N.MU. among the unor-
ganized, and its influence among the miners gener-
ally, lay the basis for the fight for one national mil
tant miners union, We must reject the theory that
only through the U. M. W. A. can the miners form
organization. The tens OF thousands Of miners
who organized in the various other unions do not
wish to return to the domination Of Lewis To do 90
would be big step backwards and = betrayal Of the
interests Of the miners, Nor any Of the other
refOrnst unions lay claim to being being able TO
the united union Of the miners Even this
would be possible II would not be progress for the
miners to be united under Peareey OF Csppefini any
more than under Levta"
In the anthracite as well In the bitumiuous
field have the task Of exposing the strkebreaking
role Of the Cspenis, Maoneys Lewises and Pearceys
On the central issue of supporting the operators slave
codes and the strikebreaking National Labor Board
there IS not the slightest difference between these
leadrs
Anthracite miners, don't Let Capellini and Malouey
prepare great betrayal for January IS Organize for
strike action by uniting the ranks of all anthracite
miners regardless of organization