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1 ■■■' ■■—' I BE I I I II l'T~f El 'IT I’ll T
Invoking Gag Rale in the Senate
Administration supporters and the vast majority of democratic
senators have invoked gag rule in order to shut off debate on the
question of the United States entering the world court. The vote
was 08 to 26, which clearly indicates the triumph of the ad
vocates of the world court. There can be no question that those who
voted with the majority consciously voted to defend the interests
of the House of Morgan iii Europe. The leaders of the opposition
have exposed the sinister hand of bank capital in creating the fiction
of public sentiment for the court and both the supporters of the
Coolidge administration and the leaders of the democrats feared
further debate would reveal the real sources from which flow the
stream of gold used to betray the nation into the court.
The opposition, led by Borah and Hiram Johnson, for the repub
lican insurgents, and Keed of Missouri, and Blease for the democrat
insurgents, expresses the interests «f the petty bourgeoisie, that
strata that perceives the threat of ever increasing tax burdens to
finance this country’s participation in the court, and the small in
dustrialists that see their interests sacrificed to the interests of bank
capital. They realize that their own industries will be sacrificed in
order that European industries may be revived so that Morgan may
obtain interest on his investments in the war shattered nations. It
is a matter of dollars and cents with them.
No one should be deceived into believing that such people as
Borah and Johnson are opposing the world court because of their con
sideration for the working class. Both are notoriously enemies of
labor and Iliram Johnson is, more than any other man, responsible
for Tom Mooney and Warren K. Billings rotting in the dungeons of
the state of California.
The monumental treachery that is driving this nation towards
the world court and the league of nations is of primary concern to
the working class. While the small industrialists resist the court
because it threatens their profits the workers have cause to resist
it because it means that soon they will be called upon to shoulder
arms and go to the remotest parts of the earth to risk their lives in
order that Morgan’s ambitions dream of world imperialism may be
realized.
Every Morgan senator that voted to shut off debate should be
remembered and no stone should be left unturned to drive from
public office in disgrace those who so openly and brazenly sold the
masses of the nation to the House of Morgan.
Every world court advocate of the 32 senators up for re-election
this fall ought to be challenged by candidates representing the in
terests of the exploited wage workers of the industrial centers and
the impoverished farmers of the agrarian regions and their venality
exposed so that they may be retired to private life amidst the execra
tion of those whom they tried to deliver bound and gagged to the im
perialism of Wall Street.
The Little Gompers of the Needle Trades
Among the trade union officials of the United States who have
been obliged at one stage of their “careers” to pose as revolutionists
is Mr. Sidney Hillman, president of the Amalgamated Clothing
Workers of America. “Revolutionary” poses of trade union officials
has been more usual in Europe than in America, but was not entirely,
unknown here. Gompers himself found the pose necessary in his
youthful days, in order to get his first stranglehold in the American
labor movement.
Hillman, thirty years after Gompers, was obliged to begin
his career as a “radical” and as a vigorous preacher of class struggle
against the reactionary Gompers bureaucracy. Os course, during the
war Hillman became one of the White House kittens, but after the
war he found it necessary to become a great “friend” of Soviet
Russia, due to the advanced psychology of the big city needle trades
workers upon whom his career was built. In the last two years
Hillman has found that the changing times obliged him to drop the
cloak of “left winger” and “radical.”
A disgraceful scene in Local 39 of the Amalgamated Clothing
Workers in the city of Chicago last week is a useful lesson for the
needle trades workers who have been duped by this king of clever
charlatans.
Defending the corruption of his administration, which, thru
class collaboration schemes, is selling out the clothing workers in
a land office business way, Hillman was, of course, forced to pour
the meanest calumnies upon the Communist newspapers, The Daily
Worker and the Fnihrit. These papers reveal Hillman’s actions
in their naked, treacherous, real character. Therefore, Hillman, to
defend himself, must attack the Communist press. Every kick and
squirm of Hillman, however, only further opens the eyes of the
workers whom he is betraying. Hillman told a dozen lies which
he, above all others, knows to be lies. But hundreds of workers who
were present also knew that Hillman was lying. So Hillman’s words
simply added to their knowledge of Hillman.
Hillman’s disgraceful session with Local 39 threw a light upon
himself which perhaps he failed to observe. Tn order to attack the
Communists, Hillman was obliged to begin a general defense of the
corrupt labor bureaucracy of the American Federation of Labor.
Hillman undertook to defend John L. Lewis from the Communist
attacks upon that . thousand-timea-proven traitor. This incident
shows what? It shows among other things that the last barrier lie
tween him ami the sink hole of Hie corruption of Gompersism lias
admittedly disappeared.
It helps to destroy the myth that separate existence outside of
the main body of organized labor, the A. F. of L., somehow protects
* union from the corruption of class collaboration, the corruption
in which union officials And comfortable careers as agents of the
employers within the unions.
The welfare of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers demands
that the entire membership la* brought as quickly as possible to
realize that the fate of the union depends upon smashing this
little Gompers of the needle trades. Not even the .loathsome Higman
of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers' Union can Is; con
sidered more of a reactionary than Sidney Hillman.
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Many Speakers Discuss Russian Party Problems
EDITOR’S NOTE.—In this instal
ment of the discussion at the Four
teenth Congress of the Russian
Communist Party, extracts are giv
en from the speeches of several
comrades. The first speaker after
Bucharin, whose address was pub
lished yesterday, was Comrade Ru
tin, secretary of the Communist
Party for the Moscow district of
Krasno-Presnienskoy, the largest
municipal sub-section. He was fol
lowed by Nadejda Konstantinovna
the widow of Lenin.
The discussion follows:
* * *
(International Press Correspondence)
MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Dec. 22—(By
Mail) —After Bucharin spoke Ru
tin. The speaker pointed out that
Zinoviev had made no concrete pro
posal. No single party member over
looked the danger of the Kulaks. Nev
ertheless the party members saw- the
danger as it really w r as and did not ex
aggerate it.
The speaker Postishov pointed to
the impermissibility in the present
situation of a co-speech.
Krupskava then spoke and declared
that Kamenev was right, the course
of the party was directed on the right
village. The poverty of the village is
the result of our backwardness and
for this reason all the forces of the
party must take part in the struggle
against this backwardness. This pol
icy was correctly decided.
The speaker declared that the slo
gan of Bucharin “Enrich Yourselves”
was incorrect, as this could apply not
merely to the village poor, but also
to the middle peasants and to the rich
peasants. The speaker declared that
she’ was not in agreement with the
policy of the exploitation of the N. E.
P. in the village.
The succession of industry caused
an overestimation of the economic
situation. The same overestimation
can be seen in connection with the
state apparatus. The present growing
activity of the proletariat must be di
rected towards making the state in
dustry completely socialistic.
The speaker closed with the dec
laration that there was no question of
a split or a lack of confidence in the
central committee. It was a question
of determining the limits of the col
lective discussion of the new ques
tions which continually cropped up.
1
An Electrical Station—A Living Monument to Lenin 1
(Special to The Daily Worker)
MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Jan. 26—The
workers of the Soviet Union celebrat
ed a great victory on the economic
front with the opening of the Shatura
state electrical station.
This victory is particularly valuable
as it represents fulfillment of part of
the electrification plan for the Soviet
Union that Lenin had planned.
This station is one of the best in
Europe in its installation and equip
ment. The Shatura electric station
is fed exclusively on local turf fuel
which according to calculations will
suffice for 100 years. The aim of the
Shatura station is to supply electric
power to Moscow and the districts ad
joining the station.
Shatura has tremendous signifi
cance for Moscow where industry is
developing. The Moscow electric
stations are now overloaded. Shatura
will lighten this load, supplying about
35 per cent of the energy needed.
At present there are two turbines
at work in the new station with a
power of 16,000 k. w. each. By Au
gust, 1926, another turbine will be in
stalled.
In the Shatura electric station a
6,000 volt current is produced which is
transformed into a current of 115,000
volts on the spot. This current is
then transferred to the Shatura sub
station by an overhead high-tension
cable. The current is carried from
the sub-station, with reduced power,
to supply the needs of industry. The
transmission lines and the reducing
sub-station and workers’ dwellings
cost 28,4000,000 rubles.
The opening of Shatura was cele
brated as a national event. Those
present at the celebrations included
representatives of the trade union or
ganizations, foreign correspondents,
representatives of the local authori
ties, thousands of workers and peas
ants from the surrounding villages.
At 3 in the afternoon, after the sta
tion had been inspected, a solemn
meeting consecrated to, the opening
of the station was held in the open
air.
Comrade P. O. Smidovitch, member
of the presidium of the central execu
tive committee, Union of Soviet So
cialist Russia, spoke on behalf of the
Soviet government.
“Thirty or even 20 years ago,” said
Comrade Smidovitch, "scientists and
technicians did not consider it pos
sible to realize such an undertaking
as Shatura, which organizes the work
of millions of tollers of both town and
countryside. To construct such an en
terprise it was necessary to get the
ownership of land into one pair of
hands, it was necessary to gather to
gether the factories and works into
the hands of the Soviet regime. Only
after the October revolution could
plans for electrification be drawn up,
for the construction tit the entire
economy of the country according to
a single plan.
THE DAILY WORKER
illliE nexi speaker, Bptrovsky (Uk
ramej, declared that me speakers
iroiii iveumgrau nad proposed no po
litical program. Petrovsky accused
Zinoviev that with his co-speech his
intention had been to show that a cer
tain vasciliation existed in the party.
The speaker then made a polemic
against Krupskaya who had pointed
to the incorrect policy of the central
committee in an article and had de
manded the alteration of our policy
in order to destroy the Kulak.
The next speaker, Polonsky, de
clared that at the time of the Trotsky
discussion the party had put its foot
into the petty bourgeois morass. The
central committee lifted the party out.
At present Zinoviev footed the left
foot of the party into thq morass. The
speaker did not doubt but what today
also the central committee would be
strong enuf also not tij permit this.
The Leningrad delegation must not be
confused with the Leningrad organiza
tion or with the Leningrad working
class.
LASHEVITCH contended a collect
ive leadership of : fhe party did
not exist. The speaker then made a
polemic against fvho had de
clared in the Moscow ipArty confer
ence that the task consisted in the
continuation of the centralization ol
the organization and thi centralize
tion. of the leadership. The speaker
declared that this was incorrect.
Nikoyen declared that no one
wished for the removal of the central
committee. We wish for the subord
ination of everyyone to the iron will
of the majority. When Zinoviev has
the majority then he is all in favor of
the iron discipline and the subordina
tion, but when the majority is not on
his side, he is against the subordina
tion (Interruption: Correct!)
BUCHARIN had corrected his mis
take, for this reason he should
not be attacked further. (Interrup
tion: Correct! Applause) In several
districts the middle peasant has not
yet been conquered, hut'he is already
hesitating. Stalin says correctly that
the underestimation ofJ (the Kulaks
means the disarmament of the party.
One should, however, not overestimate
the danger. There are fto differences
of opinion in the peasant question
which are not soluble. The party is
continually searching for the correct
line which cannot always, suddenly be
found. The speech of Zipoviev Is un
“The Shatura station Is one of the
first steps in the realization of elec
trification of the Soviet This
is an achievement electrifica
tion worthy of the name of Lenin.”
Comrade Krzhizhanovsky, on behalf
of the state planning commission of
the Soviet Union expressed grati
tude to the builders oft the Shatura
station.
"I am sure,” said Comrade Krzhiz
hanovsky, “that today’s great celebra
tion is not only ours but .also one for
the toilers of the whole world. We
are passing thru a great stage: the
whole world will be aware that Len
in’s cause stands firmly since the
working class has proved that it is
able to build such powerful structures
as Shatura.”
A letter of greetings from Trotsky,
whose health did not permit him to
speak in the open air, was read point
ing out that “the Shatura station bore
witness to the gigantic accomplish
ments which we are now beginning
to attain, since we have coped with
the first and greatest difficulty.
“Shatura will vitalize industry. In
dustry vitalizes agriculture. Power
and light will become the source of
ever-increasing content and Increase
McLACHLAN, NOVA SCOTIA MINE
LEADER, CALLS UPON STRIKING
MINERS FOR 100 PCT . WALKOUT
(
rpHE increasing setftiment of the anthracite mine strikers for a one
per cent 'strike, the calling out of the maintenance men,
has brot Tho DAILY WORKER the following letter of comment. Com
ing from the leader $ a number of militantly conducted strikes of the
Nova Scotian members of the United Mine Workers, J. B. McLach
lan whose militant policies brot about his expulsion from the union by
John L. Lewis, the who D betraying the anthracite strlko today,
tae letter deserves jhe close attention of every striking miner—and
the rest of the workers of the country.
m * *
It is with the utmost satisfaction that the left wingers of District No.
28, U. M. W. of A., learn that there is a strong feeling among the striking hard
coal miners to go forward to a real honest-to-goodness 100 per cent strike.
After weary months of striking in the old fashioned way, the hard coal op
erators the other day in the New York conference, showed the miners just
in what contempt they hold men who are pretending to “fight" them and at
the same time detailing ton thousamH
of their number to protect them, and
their dirty property.
A strike is a battle, a war, and only
a fool would go into a battle tied up
with rules dictated by his foe. Who
arc the people that have laid tt down
Unit it is nil right for the miners to
strike providing they leave enuf of
their fellows on the job to look after
old pit pumps, pit boilers, pit timb
ers and pit horses? Not the miners
but their employers; their employers’
governments, and their employers’
pen fiunVics, and pulpit wind-Jum
mers. Theae hold up their
lands in horror at the Workers leav
ing a pit horse to starve In the mine,
but look on calmly nt**tliousands of
[miners’ children going short of food.
And If the natural protector of these
clear, no one knows exactly how a
peasant country comes to socialism.
It is not only necessary to define cor
rectly the but also
to find the correct relation of the
questions. In this connection Zinoviev
gives ns no answer. The speaker de
clared that a great difference existed
between the tone of the Leningrad art
icle and the tone of the resolutions of
the Leningrad workers. (Applause!)
The speaker demanded definitely the
breaking off of the discussion after
the party congress. The party was not
in a position to allow itself such a
luxury. (Applause).
The next speaker Uglanov pointed
out that Zinoviev’s speech contained
no program. The party would solve
the questions raised by Zinoviev with
out any difficulty. The speaker closed
with the demand that Zinoviev repair
his mistakes.
'YrAROSLAVSKY began his speech
with the question how was it pos
sible that a member of the polit
bureau who, three days before the
party congress had voted In the
plenum of the central committee for
all the basic theses and who had said
i.o word about any differences of opin
ion, could now come forward with a
co-speech. The Leningrad workin*
class had a heroic history, the pres
ent moment of this history, however,
must soon be forgotten. (Applause)
Zinoviev is mostly responsible for this.
With his colossal authority as chair
man of the Comintern he declared at
the Leningrad conference that in
Moscow the slogan “Against Lenin
grad” had been coined. The speaker
declared that such a slogan was not
given and that Zinoviev had no right
to make such irresponsible statement.
EYDOKIMOV (Leningrad) protested
against the contention that the
Leningrad delegation did not repres
ent the Leningrad organization. \Vc
demand the objective treatment of thi»
questions of principle which hav*
been placed before the party congress.
He then made a polemic against the
Bucharin accusation that Zinoviev had
said that the N.'E. P. was a retreat.
Zinoviev himself speaks definitely of
the aggressive character of the N. E.
P. The most important is to create
clarity in the questions of principle.
The central committee had incorrect
ly attacked the Young Communist
League in Leningrad that it feared the
middle peasantry. The tasks of the
Young Communist League in the vil
lage are tremendously complitated.
New forms must be discovered. The
of culture. Shatura will help us to
raise up the living standards of the
workers and peasants and to reinforce
their working union.”
Comrade Jacob brot greetings from
the Comintern and the French Com
munist Party. “No one will find the
description of the triumphant open
ing of the Shatura electro-station in
the bourgeois press. The bourgeois
press only talks of the defects and
failures of the working class of the
Soviet Union. But the Communist
press will tell the workers of western
Europe about today’s celebrations,”
declared Jacob.
Then came Comrade Savin, who
spoke for the central committee of
the Builders’ Union and Comrade Koz
yrev from the Metal Workers’ cen
tral committee, who on behalf of
700,000 Soviet metal workers said that
tho up to now machines, turbine-gene
rators and boilers bore the marks of
foreign firms, that in the next two or
three years the metal workers of the
Soviet Union will work so that all
parts and all equipment for other dis
trict electric stations which must be
constructed according to the electri
fication program will be made in
Soviet factories.
4
children has voted in his local union
that some of his fellow workers shall
look after the employers’ property
while the battle for bread is being
“fought” then these same hypocrites
will tell this deserter of his own
flesh and blood how law abiding, how
constitutional and god-fearing he Is.
A strike is war, and at least one
side to the fight sees to It that all
weapons at their command are brot
into play to win. Here in Nova Sco
tia, during the last few years the min
ors have felt the weight* of some of
(hose weapons that have been used to
dofeat them. Federal "soldiers, pro
vincial police, law courts, jails are
noino of the weapons used, but those
same miners also learned the use of
* 100 p«r oent strike ami/used it es-
Leningrad organization has rendered
great service in the creation of a firm
connection between town and country.
The speaker closed with the state
ment that the Leningrad organization
would subordinate itself to all party
decisions.
KOMAROV (Leningrad) discussed
first of all the question why the
Leningrad party bureau had fallen
into a majority and a minority. Ho
touched upon organizational questions
in connection with the removal of and
the nomination of responsible officials,
amongst them the removal of the sec
retary of the government bureau, Sa
lutzky. Despite the demand of tho
central committee for the removal of
Salutzky 6n account of serious mis
demeanors, the Leningrad committee
had vasctllated Very considerably. Zi
noviev himself had supported this op
position. The speaker at the time had
declared in a personal talk with Zino
viev that all efforts must be made
that the leadership of all organiza
tions should lie in the hands of the
central committees and not in tho
hands of individual persons.
Ordshonfkidse stressed the fact that
the co-speech of Zinoviev meant the
setting tip of- a special program in op
position-tb the program of the central
committee. It is incorrect to repres
ent this r ca-speech as simply an ex
change of vepinions, altho Zinoviev
himself, has -declared that the line of
the dentral committee to the question
of the village poor Is correct. The
party accepts the line of Bucharin
where it is in agreement with Lenin.
One may not tolerate the baseless at
tacks upon Bucharin, because Bucha
rin is one of the best party theoreti
cians and we all love and support him.
The Leningrad comrades had forced
the party into a severe crisis, but it
is certain that the Leningrad com
rades will tolerate no opposition
against the party majority, and will
subordinate themselves to the deci
sions of the party.
SALUTZKY (Leningrad) declared
that he had never attempted to
discredit the central committee and
that he now recognized his earlier
mistakes. All members of the Lenin
grad delegation would energetically
carry out the decisions of the party.
KAGANOVITCII (General secret
ary of the Communist Party in the
Ukraina) energetically attacked the
co-speech of Zinoviev. Zinoviev lias
neither a practical program nor con
crete proposals. The co-speech of
Zinoviev says no word about the great
At a banquet, which was held after
the meeting, Trotsky made a speech
in which .he pointed out that the
building of the Shatura electro-station
was starred on the second day after
the October revolution, and that it is
the embodiment of the plan of Vladi
mir Ilyttch Lenin and worthy of being
named after him.
The speech of the French ambassa
dor, M. Erbette, rang with full recog
nition of the great work.
“A great industrial thot” he said
“has been realized here among the
woods and lakes. A form of fuel
which until quite recently was still"
ignored and which did not even jus
tify the transport expenses for any
great distance, is now being employed
here on the spot. You will receive
electrical energy within the course of
one year to the value of 4,000,000
rubles, consuming less than 20,000,000
poods of this peat, which for centur
ies has lain unutilized in the boglands.
You will not only serve town and fac
tory enterprises; but we know that
one of your main ideas is to perme
ate the far off villages with this elec
trical energy. This work of electrify
ing the countryside will be realized
thruout the whole world, but the
fectively in 1922 and again in 1923. A
100 per cent strike is, from the first
hour of battle, fought by men filling
the first line of fight, less than a 100
per cent strike is fought with the
women and children In the front line
who have been deserted by their fath
ers and husbands who are protecting
the accursed property of the man
whom these fool husbands and fathers
say they are “fighting.” A 100 per
oent strike, Is as a rule, short and
owift with overy blow landing square
ly or. the top of the head of the hated
foe from tho first hour of battle, less
than a hundred per cent strike is, as
a rule, long and painfully drawn out
with the moat severe blows of the
operators falling daily on the heads
of the women and children who have
boen forced to match the few rags on
their backs and a few crusts of bread
against the millions of the coal op
erators. Less than a 100 per cent
clrike permits tho employer to make
millions of money out of old refuse
heaps about their mines, while a real
honest 100 per cent strike forces the
foe to spend money. What In hell ex
change value has a pitful of water?
At least down here by the broad At
lantic It has none, but it costs real
money to get out of the mine.
Loss than a 100 per cent Btrike in
sures that the pit horses are properly
fed and cared for and the children of
the miners poorly fed and cared for
because their fool father is prepared
to starve them so that he, bless Ms
soul, may remain a union man that
believes tn "constitutional methods."
A 100 per cent strike called sud
denly and effectively means starved
pit horses, flooded mines, smashed
roadways and red hell In general let
loos* on th« property of th* foe that
progress which the central committee
has made in the previous year. It
mentioned only the difficulties. It is
certain that there Is a differentiation
in the village, but the central com
mittee and the fourteenth party con
gress have already pointed this out.
In the Ukraine as early as July we
raised this question of the village
poor and treated the question of tho
committees of the poorer peasantry
which have to carry out the decisions
of the party upon the defense of the
interests of the village poor and the
inclusion of the middle peasantry, cor
rectly. We have freed 22 per cent,
that is to say, 1,200,000, of the vil
lage poor, from taxes. In the Ukraine
400,000 peasant economies co-operate
in the organization of the culture of
beet sugar. It is our concrete task
to sever the middle peasantry from
the village usurer. It is no light task
to draw ten million peasants into the
work of Soviet reconstruction. We say
to the village poor: Organize co-oper
atives, organize committees, organize
mutual between the party
and the Soviet power, help yourselves
organizationally and materially! With
empty slogans such as “A Horse for
Every Peasant!” we cannot help the
village poor at all. This is demagogy
and only makes our diffi
cult. Comrades Sokolnikov and Ka
menev come forward as eager defend
ers of the Interests of the village poor.
Why do these representatives of fin
ance and economy make concrete pro
posals for the assistance of the vil
lage poor? Sonie people represent
themselves as having a monopoly of
hundred per cent Leninism. The speak
er is' of the opinion that only the
whole party and the party congress
and not individuals can apply Lenin
ism correctly. Zinoviev’s book, “The
Philosophy of the Epoch” contains
great pessimistic degressions. The
Leningrad organization is attempt
ing to terrorize us with its au
thority. We must overcome all dif
ferences of opinion by an unequivocal
formulation. The decisions of the
party congress must provide for the
correct carrying out of the tasks be
fore us.
A NTIPOV (Urals) said that the task
of the Theoretician is not to
spread pessimism about the possibility
of socialist reconstruction in a coun
try, but to provide a theoretical basis
for the practical building up of social
ism. The Leningrad organization has
isolated itself from the party, but It
will correct its mistakes. (Applause).
Soviet government may consider itself
as one of the initiators.”
The Turkish minister of agriculture,
Sabri Bey, declared: “Today, yet one
more unforgetable experience has
been added to my deep impressions on
the cultural and economic progress of
the peoples of the Soviet Union,
which I have received during the
short time I have been in the Soviet
Union.
“In Turkey we look upon the
achievements of the great October re
volution with fascination and love, and
I am overjoyed to be a living witness
of one of these achievements —the
Shatura electric station.
“I would only like to emphasize one
of the peculiarities of this station,
which attaches a kind of symbolic sig
nificance to it. The station is named
after Lenin and Lenin is the undying
sun living in the hearts of all human
ity. The life of Lenin, his gigantic
energy was directed to improving the
life, the economic and cultural eman
cipation of the peasantry, and thanks
to this station, this great name of
Lenin will in the near future carry the
dawn in the peasant huts by means of
electric light and will turn the dark
night into bright daylight."
would deny you bread. One hundred
and sixty-eight thousand pairs of
rebel hands withdrawn from the prop
erty of the hard coal mines of tho
United States can win this fight.
Tbjjre are no more any Queensbury
rules governing industrial disputes,
then thrice accursed be /the working
man that lends himself to care for tho
property of the men that coin yt>ur
labor into profits.
A 100 per cent strike is always
swift and of short duration, and
nearly always successful, less than
a 100 per cent strike is long and pain
fully drawn out and seldom success
ful. A 100 per cent strike brings real
dollars to a worker that can buy real
b«iad, less than 100 per cent striko
:>r)n?;i the “good opinion” of the dear
public to tho worker with which he
can buy nothing. Fight for the cash
and let tho credit go to hell. Stick
np a hungry miners’ child and downed
pit pump to the dear public and watch
them bemoan the fate of the poor
pump. Oh, what fools the workers
are to protect old pit Junk ruther than
protect the children that they have
brot into the world.
Less than a 100 per cent ciriko
matches the few bits of bread that the
miner lias against tho millions of dol
lars that tho employer has, a real 100 *
per cent strike makes tho raco for vic
tory to be between the destruction of
your oppressors’ property and the lit
tle bits of bread that the worker
starts out in the battlo vith. Let
these ten tiiousuiid pairs of protecting
hands that are now keeping in safety
the mines of the coal operator* be
turned at onco into ton thousand pair#
of rebel hands. These robel hands can
turn defeat into victory.
J. B. McLACHLAN.