IGNORANCE IS THE ONLY FOE
P, George Lansbury, M.
IGNORANCE IS THE ONLY FOE By GEORGE LANSBURY, M. P (Former Editor of the Dally Herald, London) Here's beat of luck ami good wishes to all American comrades and friends. I hope The...
...Frederick L. Hoffman, statistician of the Prudential Life Insurance Company, pointed out a few years ago that th* mining industries are more hazardous than enlistment in the United States Army and from two to three times as dangerous as the average ol ..all occupations in which male workers are employed...
...Therefore The I New Leader should become the greatest educational force on behalf of labor in the United States...
...I hope The New Leader will be a great success and also be t h e moans of uniting all sections of our movement into one great party for the capture of political and industrial power...
...This csn be realised only by nationalisation of mines under safeguards that 'will give tha miners a voice in management and also insure union organization of the miners...
...J*i»n of' tha mines...
...The annus) death toll of the mines constitutes- a terrible Indictment of the profit-making motive in th* industry, these workers contend, and civilised organization and management are required to wipe out this hideous blot...
...say the Daily Herald,' together-WifhBritieh Labor, is marching on t o victory...
...f. A political labor party...
...Supporters of the nationalization program point out that the mining industry is the most hazardous in this country, More men are injured and killed in the mines than In any other industry...
...3. A 100 per cent organized unioa.' 4. Collective bargaining pub lujj( accepted as the basis of . wage agreements...
...2. A competent technical staff...
...If «ach a demand Is won th* radical and Socialist-miners do not se* how i t can bouome effective without tarrying out a large measure of national...
...Other matters that will come before the convention are the reinstatement of Alexander llowati as a member of the Kansas district organization...
...It will be observed that the research committee considers that nationalization of the mines carries with It the necessity of the working class organising and using its political power Independent of the capitalist parties...
...The recommendations are on the whole |n accord with what some of the leading Industrial engineers^af the country have urged as a solution of th* »r*hl*mi of coal production...
...Let us give up fighting amongst ourselves sbout methods and concentrate all our efforta on converting the masses to our views...
...This does not mean an .actual reduction of the hours of labor from th* theoretical eight hours that prevail...
...The rsport of this committ* t;r*aomm*od«* plan of nationalitatipn of the mines of the nation...
...Another matter that will receive carefuf aonaldaratkni is the anarchy in tha' management of ijie mining industry and which condemns hundreds yf thousands of miners to casual anfJ jmcertain employment...
...I ; Our only foe is the ignorance of our own people...
...The Nationalisation Research Committee, headed by John Brophy of I'emioyl vanis, was appointed by the cohVeiition In'lAJU...
...b. A large labor representation in all departments of gov. eminent...
...I" tb««rojnl»rv<i «sit year and whish a*eught a -controversy with some *f...
...We want our comrades, women and men, across the water to come into line with ua so that from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from the Indian Ocean to the North Sea there shall be established teal labor governments who in turn will establish a true League of Nations, not goviernments...
...Once they see and understand economic truth, all other thinga will be added | unto them and ua...
...It means that tl)e miners insist upon the Ave* hour day aa a guarantee of an average o* live hours per day for each working day of th* year...
...The miners in national conventions have recoiled themselves in favor of independent political action a number of times in recent years yet it is expected that the conservative elements will offer their usual opposition to the pro posal which is now a part of the nationalization program of the research committee...
...These are: ' 1. Administrative organising minds in the public service...
...This has happened because in spite of every obstacle some people persevered and thus never could be defeated...
...This is the work the labor organi s a t i o n s ' in the States and your NATIONALIZATION AND LABOR PARTY MINERS' PROBLEMS Convent!** April 1 Will Take Up Hewn, Wage* and Nation alisvtfcm Prefrajn Howatt May B« Reinstated Indi^i»*oIl».-~Tn* national 'convention of the United Mine Workers will meet her*, next week and one of thermal metteoa t o b* considered is tha (wate acale, the old seaJe «x piring*on .April 1, There is little doubt that the miners in the bituminous Wda.will demand an increase in wagaa-ef 10 per *w»t...
...In order to .introduce something like stabilisation of wprlcffii the industry a JssjsMgy weak of SO n o u n wtfl lie seriously considered...
...IGNORANCE IS THE ONLY FOE By GEORGE LANSBURY, M. P (Former Editor of the Dally Herald, London) Here's beat of luck ami good wishes to all American comrades and friends...
...I am glad_la...
...the recognition of Russia, and a full consideration of the action of the national administration in removing officials of the Nova Scotia miners during the strike in that region last year...
...the national officials of the union,;the committee outlined under six heads what U reqsurod of tha industry...
...Our opponents have often written us down as dying and dead, but always we have refused to die...
...It is point* i out t h a t tha wast* of material* the uncertain employment nd general anarchy that prevail in the mfcnjng industry are due to private ownership -of the mines...
Vol. 1 • January 1924 • No. 1
