The Daily Worker

New Attack on British Miners

The British government, the coal capitalists and the British capitalist class, organized in the Federation of British Industries, have a plan, and one plan only, for solving the coal crisis.

It is, "Starve the Miners Into Submission."

The attack by Lord Birkenhead upon the Miners' Federation of Great Britain because of its acceptance of $2,000,000 strike relief from the unions of Soviet Russia, the announcement of an extraordinary session of the cabinet to frame the government's policy on this issue, the fact that the emergency powers act is still in force, all indicate that a new offensive is to be launched against the miners.

Birkenhead, who, as secretary of the state for India, rules over millions of workers and peasants who look with longing eyes toward Russia where workers and peasants rule, makes the usual charge that the $2,000,000 came from the Soviet government and not from the unions.

But every dollar of the donation is accompanied by a letter from the union or the workers in the factory which took up the collections that made up the total. The British government knows this, but it is trying, in its desperation, to brand the strike as an enterprise of a foreign government so that it can proceed to treat it as treason.

British capitalism is in a very bad way.

No coal is being produced and the unemployed total 2,720,000.

British capitalist government will try to starve the miners.

Will American labor permit starvation to force the British miners back to work at a wage which means semi-starvation?

Why not match the donation of the Russian unions dollar for dollar and make the British nobility, the British capitalists and their government realize that the whole world of labor, right and left wings, Russia and America, are united on at least one issue--that the British miners shall win.