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John L Lewis — Part 30
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; ke ORDERING government seizure of the ae
mines, President Roosevelt took the only iF
course open to him to protect the interests . H
of a nation at war.
ordering the fourth mine strike, pobn \
1 as once more extended a h
and to the Axis, and he did it at the very
moment when the cables on the Moscow
conference agreements were ‘spelling out an
early doom for Hitler, While Senators Rey-
nolds and Wheéler, Lewis’ political friends,
were mouthing their dissatisfaction because
the last weapons wete knocked out of Hit-
ler’s hands, Lewis sought to knife the home
front.
’. Once more the country ‘can see who really
leads labor. At Philadelphia, the CIO econ- : é
‘vention under President Philip Murray's |
Jeadership, reaffirmed its unqualified no-
‘strike pledge at a special order of business.
' The ClO fully recognizes that Hitler’s doom
is near, but it also recognizes that it will still
take hard fighting and sactifices to make
thet possible. It warned against coin-
placency, Lewis is acabbing upon that policy
of labor, and {fs exploiting the grievances of
- the miners to accomplish his purpose.
As we have stated many times, the miners |
are justified in their dissatisfaction with the
-WLE agreement. But this cannot serve |
" excuse for the strike. ‘
all
The reactionary bloc in Congress which _
even at this hour is preparing to fight sal an LYS a, A
President's program for a roli-back in prices OT Rico.
that he outlined in his food subsidy message NOV 5 tf"
Monday, is, like Lewis, responsible for the - *
situation: so_are the profit-hungry empioy-
ers and so is the inflexible attitude of some
government officials and the War Labor This is a clipping from
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becks, democratic taxes and wage adj
ments. Through a united effort, labor coul
5° 3) win much without harming the war effort.
ry of labor's enemies, the miners are jeopardiz- DAILY WORKER
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citizens. They should instead jom the gen- Clipped at the ‘Se of
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