In a March 31 vote the 160,000 miners covered by the contract decisively rejected the first proposal by more than two to one after reading and discussing its provisions.

In a statement released by the UMWA headquarters in Washington, union President Sam Church said: “In the union’s democratic process, the rank and file have spoken.”

In an April 13 article, the big business mouthpiece, the Wall Street Journal, refers to the coal miners as “UMW’s rambunctious rank and file.”

The newspaper quotes a coal executive: “We gave them a settlement too quickly.”  
 
April 23, 1956
Stalinist sources in Poland and New York have now confirmed Leon Trotsky’s charge that Stalin’s murder-machine in the Soviet Union systematically committed the most monstrous anti-Semitic outrages. The Jewish paper, Folksstimme, published in Warsaw, Poland, on April 4 revealed the tragic facts of the mass slaughter of the leaders of Jewish cultural and political activity in the Soviet Union.

In another development, the Moscow Trials of 1934-38, in which all the old leaders of the Bolshevik Party under Lenin were liquidated with Leon Trotsky as the principal accused, were admitted to have been frame-ups with Stalin as the master architect. This admission comes from Khrushchev in his speech at the closed session of the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union last February.  
 
May 1, 1931
The Negro worker has always been subjected to the most ruthless forms of exploitation by the American boss class. Driven by the double whip of capitalist robbery and violent race hatred, flouted two-fold for being a worker and for being a negro, the American negro worker represents the most oppressed section of the working class.

The case of the nine young workers framed up by the bosses in Scottsboro without any evidence is a flagrant example of this vicious method of the American ruling class. The frame-up of the nine young negro workers in Scottsboro is part and parcel of the bosses campaign to divide the ranks of the American working class. It must be unmasked and defeated. Against the bosses’ campaign of legalized lynching, the entire working class must stand up as one man, in the defense of the nine negro youths, for the defeat of the Scottsboro frame-up.  
 
 
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