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(x ° C) i Coal I Ammunition|: 4 | BYE2% patriotic miner will agree and support the President's assertion that “we can ho more tdlerate the letting down ' of coa) production than we can tolerate let- ting down the shipping of, supplies to our fighting men.” . This means that the policies of John La Lewis sabotaging the prosecution of the é ? war must not be tolerated. Coal production f 4 must continue. A fourth general cosa] strike : _ 1 Inust not be permitted. ; i This is the course to take irrespective of / merits or demerits of the War Labor Board’s i decision. The four labor members on the f WLB, and the editorial columns of this . } paper, have already expressed criticism of some of the provisions of the WLB decision } \ on the proposed contract for the soft coal | A miners, as well as on its 32-cent anthracite | \ taise. 4 The President has correctly stressed s some ¢ } of the good features of the decision, espe- i cially the recognition for the first time of mY the principle of portal-to-portal pay for ' which some compensation is granted. This I Ff is undoubtedly a partial victory. And it is i principally due-to the vigorous voice Presi- } dent Philip Murray of the CIO raised iy a7 ‘ But for the miners now to take again to b, | yf -: . ‘y S-f the Lewis strike path is to undermine the | ee neil fours t half of the miners. chances for # further adjustment in ther / NCT RGCORDED wage standards and at the same time to 35 NOV & 1943 harm the entire labor movement. Further This ig a clipping from jmprovement for them will be possible only page of the the fight is successful against the con- gressional bloc that is acuttling sound stabi- DAILY WORKER 1 lization; against the profits-first crowd and Date against the tax-the-poor crowd, as against / "those who eling to the outward “Little Steel” Clipped at the Seat of . But this fight c can. guceeed only by Tabor 1G a0 i fally honoring its no-strike pledge and car- g a ii rying ite fight to the people throug united F political strug fe. 7 oat de iw : “