The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 3, 1928, Page 2

THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, Ai!” REJECT BOSSES "SCHEMES; RALLY MENTO STRUGGLE _ ‘Open Shop Fields Ready, Delegates Declare ge One) sing direct and indirect support from John L. Lewis and his corrupt ma- (Continued from chine, who by one crooked d or another have wormed their y to the head of our union. These false lead- ers of labor unb! ingly endorse the employers’ proposals for the tru i t the work- cation of the industry, ers’ expense. The up the employers’ s 000 miners to “get out try.” They have, notori ois and the three anthr through their speed-up and efficiency | agreements, become the production agents of the operators. With hun- dreds of thousands of miners unem- ployed, these officials tell us that the remedy is to produce more coal per man per day. The Lewis for have also criminally failed to mobil the organized and unorganized miners for a united struggle against the open shop, wage-cutting, co lestroy- ing attacks of the enwloye In real- ity, instead of being leaders of the miners, they are agents of the em- ployers. The Miners’ Demands, The Save the Union National Con- ference which expresses the sentiment of the vast mass of the coal miners. categorically rejects this whole pro- gram of the employers and their tools, the Lewis machine. . Against the coal operators’ demand for the open shop (which Lewis mal ho real fight ~ against) we raise the slogan of 100 per cent organization throughout the coal indusrty. The National Confer- ‘ence inaugurates an intensive cam- paign of organization which shall not ’ top until all the miners are union- qwéd. The non-union miners ate ripe for organization. We call upon every eoal minér to promote this organiza- tion work. fronting us, the master key to all our immediate problems. We repudiaté the policy of dividing miners by sepa- tate district and individual agree- ments, This is an employer policy supported by Lewis. We demand in- stead one national agreement for all . | ¢oal miners. #etence aggressively rejects all pro- posals for wage cuts. Siories that the industry cannot pay better wages aré niere propaganda of the rich em- Ployers. It is especially the powerful éombinations like the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, General Motors Company, New York Central Rail- road Company, etc., that are com- plaining about the “high” wages of the union miners. Not wage euts in the union coal fields, but wage raises in the non-union districts must be our program. We demand the extension of the Jacksonville scale to all coal fields and we propose an aggressive @athpaigh among the unorganized miners to support this demand. The Save the Union N 1 Con- ference condemns the brutal proposal ! of the employers.and Lewis to drive 250,000 coal miners out of the indus- try and to thrust them ing into the great army of 4,000,000 unem- ployed workers in the industrial cen- ters: We demand instead the re sorption of the unemployed miners 's irito the coal industry by the intro- diction of the 6-hour day and the day week, The vast m. of min- ers must everywhere e to put through this central demand. The al- ternative to it is untold suffering, destitution, and degradatic nong the mifiers. Pending the iment of the shorter work-week, we for the equal di State and federal re} iment. The National Conferen a fight against the ruth epee system being introduced by the oper- ators. It condemns unequivocatingly the practice of labor officials enter- ing into agreements with the employ- ers, as in the Illinois and anthracite districts, to more intensively exploit '. gthe workers. The National Conference repu-| diates the coal operators’ plan of \ consolidating the various coal com- paniés and organizing the industry on a monopoly basis at the expense of the workers (wage cuts, longer hours, worsehed working conditions, etc.). We also tepudiate Lewis’ project of government regulation of wages which in substance means the en- Slavement of the miners through compulsory arbitration. We demand instead the nationalization of the coal mines. In order to make effective our demand for nationalization to further the workers’ political in- terests generally, we call upon the broad labor moverhent to join with the miners in the establishment of a labor party. This program of na- tionialization and a labor party was long the policy of our union until it fell under the domination of the reac- tionary Lewis clique. The Operators’ Oven Shop Drive. For the past eight years, ever since is came into firm conttol of our union, the coal operators have moved consciously, systematically and sue- cessfully ioe Stealing up the U. M. \ It is the major task con- | for uhemploy- |s t}what different cou and | ave-the-Union Meet Demands Mine Strikers Released Because Jail Was Too Full! roe | by the sheriff of Allegheny County | cause the jail was too full. who refused bail and chose jail smash the anti-picketing decree of | sheriff had to be liberated when s| jail was crammed on the second day. Arrested for mass picketing, sixty- seven coal strikers have been “freed” The men be- to the the the destruction of working conditions. |The policy of Lewis has assisted not hindered them in their program of establishing the open shop. Corrupt- {ing the union leadership and thus | paralysing the. union, the operators \have- smashed -the U. M. W. A. in district after district. “Our member- ship has fallen off a full half. The extent of their inroads upon our or- ganization is graphically illustrated by the fact that whereas on the eve of the 1 strike 70 per cent of all \bituminous coal being produced was |dug. by union miners, by April 1st, }1927, at the outbreak of the present Istr the proportions have been al- mo: reversed, 70 per cent of the bituminous coal being produced by non-union miners. This alarming loss of union production is 4 measur of the utter failure which the Le administration has made at leading union. The great coal producing compan- ies of Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia, backed by the big financial interests of Wall Street and the state and national government, are out to destroy our union. They have built their whole open shop policy around the hope of dealing the U. M. W. A. its deathblow during the present strike, The Pittsburgh Coal Company; Pennsylvania Railroad Company, Bethlehem Mihes Company, General Motors Company, Jones and Laughlin Steel Company, New York Central Railroad Company, and other great {combinations of capital, massing union, began by shifting their pro- iduction to the southern non-union eoal fields and by building up rail- ‘toad rates discriminating against union territory, all of which was de- ‘signed to create unemployment and to weaken the position of the union. | Then, when they deemed the time op- !portune, they brazenly violated the | “Lewis Cuts Off Relief Our Reply Must Be \ | Plime |Jacksonville scale and began to oper- jate their mines open shop, a With every form of terrorism and {fully supported by the state and na- t government, the coal operators hi fought violeritly to destroy thé jlition. The full forces of the gov- eriment—the federal and state courts, the national guard, spies, police, jails, injunctions—all were thrown into the fight on the side lof the operators, and against the min- The courts, at the behest of the operators, have evicted thousands of strikers’ families. Only the unparal- leled heroism of the strikers has pre- ted the accomplishment of the ter- tie plans. Never has the cour- of workers on strike been sut- llinois, Indiana, and other union ricts, the c tors has taken a some With the | sis.2 t Lev wiek, Mitche jand others, the operators, making a pretense of aceepting the Jackson- lville seale, got the miners back to "work. They had two objectives in |mind: first; to weaken the union and the Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Vir- ginia strike, and, second, take advan- tage of the winter market for coal. \Now these operators, blood brothers |to their union-wrecking friends in the strike-bound districts, are repudiat- ing the Jacksonville scale, insisting upon wage reductions, and are boldly preparing to establish the open shop. In the anthracite districts the coal operators are moving no less directly to destroy the union. They have cor- rupted the official union keaders, the |Cappelinis, Goldens, Matteys, etc., \into their agents. With the assis- tance of these men they are carrying through their plan of speeding up the workers and generally undermining their wage and working conditions | They ate only awaiting a favorable opportunity, in the everit of the break- ing of the bituminous strike, to open up a direct war.to eliminate the union ‘altogether from the anthracite regions, The determination of the big capi- talists of America to smash the min- ers’ union, as part of their open shop plan of wrecking the whole trade union movement, was demonstrated clear 48 ddy by the testimony of Rockefeller, Schwab, Mellon, Warden, icy of the ope W. A, the slashing of wage rates and | File Relief Organizations.” on shop pol- | and oth epresentatives of big capi- tal before the senate committee in- vestigating the coal strike. They de- |clared brazenly for the open shop in |the coal industry, and when they |Speak it is the voice of Wall Street. The issue is clear, The fight is to save our union, to defend our living | standards, In this sense we plan our | fight. The Reactionary Lewis Machine. The basic causes of the deep crisis jin which our union finds itself are |the wrong policies of the Lewis ad- |ministration. Lewis attempts to |blame all our difficulties upon over- production in the coal industry, But |he cannot so lightly escape responsi- |bility. With the correct policies our union could not only have maintained so improved its position. policies have betn so to constitute; in sum, a on. They have |played into the hands of the opera- ltors at every | When Lewis wormed his way into jcontrol of our union during the war {period the organization was firmly |established in practically ali coal dis- |tricts. Then began an interminable | series of betrayals of strikes, sup- itseli but pressions of democracy, and general |. {corruption, which have undermined | the union and rendered it practically helpless in the face of the employers’ attacks. Consequently, the organiza- |tion has been shattered in many dis- | triets. Lewis is fast driving the union towards the rocks. Only the elimina- tion of the corrupt and reactionary ; The Save the Union National Con- themselves. for attack against. the|Lewis machine and the securing of control’ by the Save the Union rank and file forces ¢an preserve the or- ganization. Lewis dealt a deadly blow to the union when in 1922 he coldly betrayed the 60,000 unorganized miners of Somerset and Fayette counties in Pennsylvania. These miners, by their jwonderful strike, had saved the sit- of Progressive Miners; to Build Rank and But when it came to the settlement they were left uation for the union, outside to strike and starve for months until finally they were crush- ed. This treachery tremendously | weakened the position of the union and ruined its prestige among the vast masses of unorganized miners. | The Lewis administration still per- sists in continuing the mistaken pol- icies of 1922 in signing up part of the mihes of a company while Ieay- ing other mines of the same concern out on strike, thus helping the oper- ator make profits at one set of mines in order to ship scabs and gunmen to break the strike at the other mines. Disastrous betr ve also been | perp ted by Le d his agent jin Nova Scotia, Kar nd other |districts, where the n ventured to make a real fight. Conditions in Kansas, once the best anywhere, have been completely lost and the organ- ization almost wrecked under Lewis’ hand-picked _distrie’ officialdom, which 90 per cent of the membership oppose, The Lewis clique havé madé no éf- forts to organize the unorganized miners, although this is the central problem before the union. On the contrary, their whole tendency has been to break up such organization as does exist. The recent Colotado strike and the strong sentiment for organization now running among un- organized masses of Pennsylvania and other states show that the unorgan- ized miners want to unite. But they will never do so under Lewis’ leader- ship. They remember too well the many betrayals perpetrated on them by this false leader. Nor does Lewis try to organize them, He has prac- lically abandoned Somerset, West- moreland, Greene, and Fayette couh- ties with their 100,000 unorganized miners, What a tragie farce, for example, to put the task of organiz: ng West Virginia ih the hands of hat notorious tool of the coal oper- rtors, Van Bittner. His mere pres- ence in West Virginia is a guarantee to the operators that no serious at- témpt will be made to organize the OFFICIAL “GANG AT ONCE, PLEA Program to “Be Urged Among Unorganized miners of the state.” When fighters in the union have dared .to protest against these out- rages, Lewis and his agents, assisted by the coal operators, have brutally expelled and blacklisted them. Many of the best fighters the union .pro- duced, such as Alex Howat, Duncan MacDonald, Jim McLachlan, and hun- dreds of others have suffered this fate. In all the big industrial cen- ters are to be found groups of fight- ing miners expelled from the union and driven out of the industry by Lewis’ terrorism. Henry Corbishly was framed and sent to jail in Illin- ois for fighting the infamous Far- rington, then an ally of Lewis, Camp- bell, Reilly, and Lillis were murdered and Sam Greceo almost fatally wounded in District 1 for opposing the equally infamous tool of the oper- ators, Cappelini, and the special con- tractors supported by him. This war against the real fighters in the union, inaugurated by the Lewis regime, has done much to kill the spirit of the union and to weaken its whole posi- \tion. Lewis’ handling of the present |strike and the events immediately \preceding it constitute a - crime lagainst the miners. At the time of in 1925 the the anthracite strike | Pittsburgh Coal Compa jother operators in Di [were already o; ly | Jacksonville agreement, Ma |the indispensable thing to do was to} ‘pull out the soft coal ‘miners on strike |with the hard coal miners to stop | these menacing violations. This would have nipped the employers’ at: |taek in the bud. and re-established |the union. But Lewis did nothing ex- cept to fill the air full of empty com- |plaints against the operators. | Then, to make the situation of the union wors@ Lewis made no prepara- tion for the present decisive strike. | With thé unioh ¢ontrolling only 30 !per cent of bituminous production a | great campaign should have been put on to organize the unorganized. But again nothing was done; Lewis’ or- 100 Per Cent Orga SMASH CORRUPT: ganizers even openly opposed the or- | 2 ‘ P ganization or eerie ae unorganized 3 ticket in the field, in the 1926 union fe At explosion was presumably the result playing Sherlock Holmes with the concealer of the bomb. No one has ee Police, above, searching the ruins of the Eagle Cloak and Suit Co. establishment on the seventeenth floor of a W. 38th St. skyscraper. The of a still blast. Police officers after debris for a while could find “no evidence” so they decided a bomb had been concealed in the ceiling of the plant. They of course suggest that a working man was the probable been framed to date. sets the worst example, having drawn from June to December, 1927, the sum of $11,093. for sainry and personal ex- yenses. Murray, Kennedy, and other leaders drew similar enormous’ sal- aries. For the miners’ union to re- main in the hands of such reactionary, venal leaders is for it to surely per- ish. The Save-the-Union Movement. Two years ago, seeing the fatal {course of the organization under Lew- is’ administration, and realizing that the further life of the union depended upon a complete change of its policies |and leadership, the present opposition ‘issued the slogan “Save-the-Miners’ | Union,” and prepared its program de- manding an honest and militant lead- jershin, organization of the unorgan- ized, the 6-hour day and 5-day week, ja determined fight against wage cuts, a national agreement for all coal min- ers, a labor party, nationalization of | the mines, state relief for unemploy- |ment, etc. It called upon the rank and file of the union to put this pro- gram into effect. i The Save-the-Union Committee put miners, ‘They sent many ‘non-union /¢lections, headed by John Brophy. criminally unprepared. of the union in the strike by his miners back to work who did strike. | This ticket undoubtedly secured a ma- The union went into the struggle |jority of the votes cast. But Lewis and his agents in the various districts, Lewis further weakened the power | true to their policy of suppressing | democracy in the union, unblushingly throwing overboard the principle of | Stole the elections, maintaining them- the Central Competitive Field agree- | selves in office in plain violation. of der such circumstances? The brave jminers of central and western Penn- sylvania, Ohio and West Virginia were isolated by Lewis and sentenced to a desperate struggle in the face of | overwhelming odds. The operators were allowed to concentrate their at- tack upon the most vulnerable point of the union. That is Why the organ- ization is now in a life and death crisis, The Lewis machine has systematic- ally fought against all real efforts to mobilize the power of the miners for the strike. Instead of bringing the unorganized masses into the fight, in- stead of throwing the whole union in- to the struggle, instead of carrying through a campaign of mass picket- ng and mass violation of the many injunctions leveled at the strikers, Lewis’ men have systematically play- ed down snd denotinced mass picket: ing and all real mobilization of our forces. Only fecently, under pres- sure of the Save-the-Union movement, have the officials grudgingly made a few enipty gestures toward mass pick- eting. They have as a matter of pol- icy isolated the strikers and placed their reliance in futile appeals to Coolidge and the senate investigation committee, who ate manifestly allied with the coal operators and who can only serve as a screen te Gover the open shop policy being launched with new vigor. Meanwhile the union slips deeper and deeper into the crisis. The reactionary Lewis machine, cor- rupt to the core and bound with a thousand ties to the coal operators and the politicians of the republican and democrati¢e parties of the bosses, is strangling the miners’ union. Bit- |ter enemies, of everything progres- sive, they look upon the labor move- | ment. primarily only as a means for their personal enrichment. They have no trace of working-class spirit. Their meastire can be taken from. the fact: that while hundreds of thousands of striking miners and their families are literally starving on a dollar- or. two 9 weels relief money, these fake labor Adaders have been drawing their fat salaries and living like members of the middle class. Lewis, 9s usual, “New Tens of Thousands of Miners Must Strike , For a National Agreement.” ment. and inaugurating the system of ithe expressed will of the member- individual and district- agreements. | Ship. Thus his policy amounted to allow- | ing the operators to use not only the its policies into effect at the 1926 con- great masses of unorganized miners | vention of the international, only to against the strike but also large sec-| encounter the same tions of tke union itself. How could! suppression of democraey by Lewis. Next the opposition sought to put Mussolini-like the union make an effective fight un-| Machine fake delegates were packed into the convention by hundreds from all sorts of blue-sky locals. Opposi- tion delegates were either unseated, beaten up, or terrorized. into. silence. hy Lewis’ sluggers. The convention, completely dominated by the Lewis clique, was the most reactionary in the history of the U. M W. A. With the union confronring a life and death struggle, Lewis made the ceritral is- sues of the convention the question of raising the already over-swollen salaries of himself, Murray, Kennedy, and his friends and a ruthless fight eenifist progressive meastires in gon- eral. The Save-the-Union movement next sought to hold the union together by otganizing the whorganized and by | developing the present strugele into a real strike. Butt here again with iron resistance from the Lewis machine, Lewis and his crowd des- perately fought against the applica tion of anything resembling 4 progres- sive and militant policy. The results we have already seen. Miners, Take Control of Your Union! This brings us squarely to the major task confronting the minets of ‘this country. The power of the Lewis file must take the union into their own hands. The corrupt Lewis ma- chine, which is a sort of decayed crust at the top of the union, must be re- moved from control. Failure to do this promptly and decisively will sure- ly involve the destruction of unionism ‘among the coal miners. The situation is this: The union is in the most serious danger. The Lewis administration, tools of the operators. stubbornly refuse to take the element- ary steps proposed in the program of the Save-the-Union Committee, which are absolutely indispensable for sav- ing and rebuilding the union. More- over, by the complete suppression of union democracy through expulsion blacklist, stealing of elections, pack- inf of conventions, armed terrorism cte., they balk the will of the ran! leadership and putting the progressive program into effect. The union is in an route stage of emersetivv, Drovti methods are necessary to rid it of the baveful influence of the Lewis re- actionaries. Therefore, the National Save-the- Union conference, representing the gteat masses of organized miners, it met) clique must be broken. The rank and | ard file in selecting a new and honest | declares that the present corrupt and reactionary leadership is bankrupt jand unrepresentative of the interests jand will of the membership. They jhave stolen their official positions, jand they have no mandate from the rank and file: Their policies are wrecking. the union and ruining the wages and working standards of the |miners. We call upon the rank and \file miners to take the organization |into their own hands. We appeal to them to stand solidly together and to jvemove the decayed Lewis official- dom, which is eating like a cancer at the heart of the union. We call |upon, the unorganized miners to sup- iport this movement for a clean and “The National Conference Calls for District Conventiors ts Drive Out the Traitors From the Union.” aggressive miners union by rallying en masse around the standard of the Save-the-Union movement. To put the U. M. W. A. into honest hands we propose the following pro- cedure: The Savé-the-Union move- ment in the various districts shall at once throuzh the local unions insist upon the calling of special emergency district conventions, carefully guard- ing against any packing methods by the Lewis machine. In the event of refusal or delay by the present dis- | trict: officials in calling sueh conven- ood the respective Save-ithe-Union movements shall themselves call the conventions. At these emergency dis- trict conventions the offices of Lewis machine supporters shall be declared tive of the membership, elected. In the local unions new of- ficers shall be elected in place of the proved Lewis supporters. After the district conventions the national con- vention of the U. M. W. A. shall be organized on the same principles. To Win the Pennsylvania-Chio-West z Virginia Strike. To win the present bituminous strike is of the most fundamental im- portance. Its loss would be a tre- mendous blow to all unionism in the coal industry. It can only be won by mobilizing systematically the great masses of miners and drawing them into the strike. It would be an il- lusion to. hope for any remedy from the senate investigation committee. We can expect nothing but hostility from all sections of the Coolidge gov- ernment. The National Save-the- Union Conference pronoses the f-Mew- ing measures to spread and win the strike: i) af To the Striking miners lil The National Save-the-Union Con- ference greets you and extends its heartiest support in your magnificent and unprecedented struggle. The rise of the Save-the-Union movement, with | its insistence upon militant strike ac- tion ahd with its perspective of an honest leadership in the union, has vastly stven¢thened the strike and given it its first real prospect of suc- has: long ‘advocated mass picketing and mass violation of injunctions. The ‘wis machine has been bitterly op- rosing and’sabotaging these policies. But now, with the miners aroused to the necessity of militant strike action, the Fagans and other Lewis hench- men are trying to throw dust into the eyes of the miners by staging fake arrests of themselves, The Save-the-Union movement has greatly strengthened the strike. It will eventually win it. We call upon the brave miners in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia to stand firm. This great strike, decisive in the life of the labor movement, can and mu he won, The program of the Save- the-Union Committee points the way for the winning of the strit> ‘To the Miners of Mlinois, Indiana and “ Kansas: You have been betrayed by Lewis ond his district representatives, 3 Tho senarate istrict agreements were fatally against the interests of the workers. The onerators in your viietriots wanted to kill the strike by isolating the strikers and then wreck your district organizations at their leisure. This is the meaning of their present arrogant demands for. the. cpen shop, for wage cuts,,and the liquidation of the Jacksonvflle scale. vacant and new officers, representa- | shall be; cess. The Save-the-Union Committee | § nization of Coal Miners nee Blast Endangered Workers’ Lives i ‘DENOUNCE WAGE CUTS, SPEEDUP, CONSOLIDATION Lewis’ Brutal Scheme To Oust Men Hit You must repudiaté the ruinous Lewis policy of separate agreements by Wane Anril ist in a hody and by remaining on strike until a national settlement is sectuted. Any other course wottld be fatal. Attempts of Fishwiek and others to sell you out by the policy of individual agreements must be met by picketing. To the Unorganized Miners: The National Save-the-Union Con- ference calls upon you to rally and organize. Now is the time to estab- lish a union and to abolish the slave- like conditions that have been foreed upon you by the coal operators and the repeated betrayals of the Lewis machine. The Save-the-Union move- ment is carrying on extensive organ ization work in the unoreanized dis- triets. This is already far advanced in Somerset, Fayette, Greene, and Westmoreland counties in Pennsyl- vania. The national: conference en- dorses the call issued by the National Save-the-Union Committee for a strike of these miners on April 16th. This strike must be a mass turnout. It will ¢o far to win the whole battle cf the miners. The unorganized min- ers of West Vireinia, Kentucky, and other unorganized districts are urged to unite under the leadership of the Save-the-Union Committee and to pre- pare to defend your interests ‘and to |help win the nresent decisive strike. The Save-the-Union movement pledg- es you its most loval sunnort. To the Anthracite Miners: The fate of the union in the anthia- cite districts is hound up with the strueele of the bituminous. miners. Tf the onerators succeed in.smashing |fhe union in the soft-coal regions, the anthracite operators will make a desperate onslaucht to break up the nions in districts one, seven and The same companies for which _Yyou work have already repudiated their contracts in the soft.coal dis- jtricts. Your interests are one with the bituminous miners, now. in the midst of struggle. Those are false leaders who attempt to draw a line Letween vou and the soft coal min- ers, especially when this effort takes the form of an agitation for a sep- arate union of anthracite miners. Such .disryntive tactics are fatal to the life and growth of the union. Anthracite miners, rally to the sup- port of the bituminous miners. Pre- pare for far mcre active participa- tion in the strnegle of the soft coal miners. ‘The life of the whole union is at stake. Get rid of Cappelini and his terrorism, but also get rid of Lewis and all his other henchmen. Beware of so-cy'led opposition lead- ers who while erying “Cappelini Must Go,” at the same time protect the areh-enemv of the miners, John LL. Lewis. Rally te the Save-the-Union movement. Help win the Pennsyl- vania-Ohio-West Virginia strike Abolish the special contract system. Free Boriita, Moleski and Mendola. An Apneal to the Working Class. Workers, the Save-the-Unioh Con- ference asks your solidarity and sup- port. This is your firht as well as ours. The outcome of this struggle will be of the most profound signif- ieance to the whole American work- Ling elass, unotganized as well as or- ganized. It is a strueele of basic | importance internationally. and we appeal to the miners and other work- ers throughout the world to rally to our support. The crisis of the U. M. W. A. is the crisis of the entire American la- jbor movement. If the miners’ union, \ the foundation of orga: d labor, is | destroyed every trade union ‘n the conntry will he in danger. The down- \fall of the United Mine Workers of America would be the sienal for an climination. struggle against trade unions in every industry -by the open on forces. If the miners are forecd into semi-slave Conditions, every work- er in America will feel the offocts of it in ware cuts and generaily wors- éhed conditions. . The fight against ‘the Lewis ma- chine is the fieht araintt the whole reactionary and corrupt leadership in the trade tions, If this struggle is lost. it means that ovr unions, sunk still deener in the morass of reaction, will be helpless and will go down be- fore the open shop attacks of the em- plovers. If the fight is won, our trade unions will go into a new period of progress and development. Every progressive and militant worker must rally aggressively to the support of this movement to save the miners’ nnion from the coal operators and the Lewis reactionaries. This peas must be ¢oncrete and immed- iate. : meilrona Workers, Haul No Scab Coal! Steel Workers, Prepare to Organize ard +n Defend Ven» Tatarasta! Workers of oi trades, orranize a Loront strite relief movement in all leitias to furnich the sinews of war | to the miners who are fichting. valor- ously against the most corrupt and re- actionsry section of the trade union bureaucracy and against the massed open shop forces of America! ne,