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PAGE 6 THE TOILEB SATURDAY, DEC. 18, 1920. And supposing the coal miners went on strike in this country. What would happen? England and other countries would supply coal to tho&" countries as well as for the r-hips that the United States had been supplying heretofore. You know what that means! It means that the miners of England and of other coal exporting countries would hav? to scab on you. You do not want to have the English miners or the miners of any other country scab on you. Nor do you wish to scab on them. Pass a resolution refusing to supply coal for any purpose that would in any way endanger the success of any coal miners' strike in any country. Also call upon the miners of all other countries to do the same thing for you, should you strike. It is quite possible that in case the coal miners form an alliance with workers in other industries as well as with coal miners in other countries, that you would nevertheless have to go on strike to enforce your demands. It may happen for example that, what at first is a small tsrike of one industry in one country, or of the coal miners in this country, may later have to be extended to become a general stirke of all coal miners in several countries, or even to include all other strategically situated workers in many cuntries. A multiple alliance of workers. You have heard about the Triple Alliance of the Coal Miners, the Railroad Workers and the Trans portation Workers in England. Well, if you suc ceed in forming with them and with workers in other really essential industries, a greater alliance , you will have the most powerful, the most effi cient and the most useful organization on earth. Genuine Preparedness. Its meaning. Preparedness is the demand of the day. Be ready to meet the emergency when the employers will refuse to meet you during a general strike, as they refused to meet the steel workers before and during the steel strike. In case a general strike will fail to enforce your demands, don't say that the rules of your union forbid you to take more effective action. Don't say that the rules of your union have bound you to inactivity, to helplessness, to defeat. Prepare for the emergency now! You will soon have need of it. You an make your union as powerful as you wish to. Pass a resolution now. stating that should a general strike be impotent to enforce your de mands, and should the employers refuse to abdi cate from the ownership of the mines, that you consider yourselves entitled to take over the com plete management of the mines, and to take and hold the mines in trust for the benefit of society as a whole. To pass a resolution of this nature is the most fonvard, the most beneficial step, any labor union can take. Coal Miners Delegate: Now is your opport unity to take the correct stand. The Worker And The "Public v . 1 , .. By Jos. Poor. The venomous kept Press never misses an opportunity to inform us that there are three sections to present day Society, viz: the Rich, the Poor and the "Pubilc." Stress is always laid on the Holy Public. , When a railway strike occurs it is the Public who suffers; when the packing house workers refuse to pack rotten meat, the Publi suffers some more; when the bakery work ers refuse to make adulterated and dirty bread in pe small hours of the morning, the Public supposedly, demands they return to the ovens. No sensible workers will say thai, rotten meat is good for the body, that adulterated bread spells health for his family or that any worker should work like a slave. Therefore, every work ingman and every workingwoman that downs his tools in order to secure more bread for his family and a little rest for his or her own weary boned not only desewes the sympathy of all the workers but should be given ACTIVE support by all his fellow workers. Every victory of Labor against the capitalist means better and more food for the working class, better and cleaner homes, and more education for the children. This is so self-