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three districts, declared the Com
munist statement.
The central point Of the statement
was the call for the formation of
Unity Committees of the rank and
| file of both unions in the mines for
| a 100 per cent strike; the election
| of broad strike committees to take
/ charge Of the strike and to conduct it
in a militant fashion to victory for
the miners.
Unity is especially important be
cause in some mines locals Of both
unions exist.
The main slogan of the MaIoney-
Capellini takers is peace, happiness,
prosperity and justice" instead of
serious strike preparations among the
miners.
Miners for General Strike
All proposals for concrete strike
mobilization came from the deter
mined rank and file delegates.
At the United Anthracite Miners
Union District Convention yesterday
not a single vote was cast in favor Of
NIaloney's resolution for individual
settlements.
Delegate after delegate declared:
I'VE are licked before we start, if
this resolution passes. We just voted
for general strike"
without exception, the speeches of
the delegates on the strike, called
for the strongest miitancy, and for
the most detailed and serious strike
preparations, including mass picket
ing, marches, sprdeang the strike to
districts seven and nine, and COM
plete solidarity in bitter finish fight.
It is obvious that Maloney and
Capellini an dthe Executive Board
were pressed to the wall, and called
the strike under the unprecedented
pressure Of the miners.
Maloney said: Il have been very
conservative. I don't want a
strike, and nobody on the Executive
Board wants strike"
One delegate received resounding
Applause, after he clearly placed the
issue as not only Green and Lewis,
but the government, attacking the
miners in its strikebreaking Mr. He
said: 81 don't want to be a Com
munist or revolutionist. But if it's
Communistic and revolutionary to say
that the government and the National
Labor Board attacked the miners,
then don't care what you call me-
Rank and File for Unity
The rank and file opposition, thru
Joseph Dougher, District Secretary,
stated that the rank and file of both
unions don't want division caused by
the fight Of the two groups of union
leaders, but want unity in every COL
lliery, for an effective militant strike,
basing the fight on the demands of
each colliery for wages and working
conditions.
The Boylan machine is an open
strikebreaking outfit. Maloney and
Capellini, who were forced by their
rank and file to allow the strike,
must now be forced to base the strike
on economic demands, mass picketing,
defiance of injunctions. Unity in
every colliery through unity commit
tees of the rank and file of both
unions, where both exist, broad strike
COMMITTEES, miners control of the
strike, is the main question facing
the workers.
Dougher stresses that the miners
can win the strike on these lines,
not only for recognition, but for de-
cisive gains in wages and working
conditions.
Maloney and Capellini have, from
the beginning, supported the NR.A.
and RooseYelt's strikebreaking appa-
ratuB, he said. The miners must
guard against individual settlements
as proposed by Cappellni's resolution,
which received unanimous defeat in
Saturdays convention.
The miners must watch Maloney
and Capellini against any killing, or
betrayal of the strike, and take effec-
tive means in each colliery to win the
! strike and economic gains.