The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 4, 1928, Page 4

Page Forr Penna. HELP CAME IN NICK OF TIME: HUNGER, hi Food, Clothing, Soap,| Save Lives in Penna. miners striking ink of the reli York by the o-Colorado Miners’ | brought the Pennsylv Relief graphic at the New way, from in distribu sent to th good will of New ¥ letter is filled v it tells of worl death by the ttee 18 out! y by a letter just received | ce, 799 Broa tually engaged | York Of y saved irom | ot of a little food. } al Workers’ Relief 1 the Miners’ Re- lief Commi as follows: } Fannie Rudd, Secretary, Pennsylvz Colorado Miners | Relief C 799 Br New York City | Dear Fellow Workers: | We wish to express the sincere ap-| preciation of one hundred mining camps and Local Unions of | the United Mine Work of Ameri-| ca for your recent remittances total-| ling $9000.00. This generous amount} of money will provide food for thou- sands of children and miners’ wives, | who, considering the present critical | situation, are given food first. Ly this we mean that in many camps there is not enough food to go around and in many instances miners on re-| lief committees have come to our of-} fices who had not eaten for two days. Glad to See Food. The elation of the miners and the families in the camps can not be} imagined when truck loads of food arrive purchased by the money your committee sends us. Women and chil- dren crowd around the union hails, with their baskets in their ‘wait patiently until the lief com- mittees and their ass ts weigh | out, into two pound bags, the rice,| beans, sugar, flour, cornmeal, peas, | oatmeal and other nutritious foods | we ship them. We make it a point | to inform the local union relief com- mittees where the money comes from, | and your committee has | and ten} | arms, and | received |,h THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 4, 1928 | This shows the U. S. army dirigible Los Angeles proving its efficacy by making a successful landing on the runway of the new airplane earrier Saratoga, 100 miles off the Atlantic coast. This giant is ready, at a moment’s notice, to spread destruction in the ranks of the workers. Ready to Rain Death on Workers in Next War THE YO CAN YOU REFUSE THIS APPEAL? The answer to the puzzle is San- dino. I had it worked out and I just put the answer here. I am a miner’s child. My father hasn’t worked for the last ten months. There are six of us in the family. We have no clothes and no food to eat. We get as strike benefit only one dollar every two weeks. Please help us! We are starving! Please do! I knew the answer to last week’s puzzle but I didn’t have two cents to mail it. Now I have two cents and I am sending this letter. I was erying as I wrote it. MARY LUKA-BARTON, Ohio. oe Comrade workers’ children, can you refuse this appeal? Are you go- ing to let your unfortunate brothers and sisters starve? Will you help the bosses of America to kill them? There can be but one answer and that answer must be a loud and de- fiant “NO!” Our brothers and sisters must not starve! Their fight against the capitalists is cur fight! Their suf- fering must be our suffering! Their sacrifice for us must at least partly be born by us. Help is needed! Every- one must give something! So far, of ¢ all our thousands of readers, only two have generously contributed, one | fifty cents and one a dollar. This is a disgrace! Everyone can contribute ten cents, a quarter, or a half dollar. Sacrifice something! They are sac- rificing plenty. Show your solidarity. Send all donations, either by money | order or well packed in a piece of |paper in your envelope, to Young Comrade Corner, 38 First Street, | New York City. TO A STAR By Fannie Lieb, Doriot Pioneer. |Star of evening, bright and fair, | Hanging so serenely there, How can you shine so merrily, When you look down here and see All the workers’ misery? Children crying for some bread, Workers confined to their beds, Strikers getting broken heads. How, star, when these things you see Can you shine so merrily? THE STAR’S ANSWER Foolish people, do you know What seems to you my cheerful glow \Is only anger, fierce and hot And pity at the workers’ lot? So to the workers I send light To guide them to the path that’s right, OUR LETTER BOX Feudalism to Protect the People. One day in the history class at the | school I attend, our teacher was talk- |ing to the children about feudalism. we were to have a review the-same jday. Here is one of the state- ments she made: “One reason for tieudalism is to protect the people.” When I heard this, I was much surprised and ready to say that feud- ulism oppresses the people, but be- fore I had time the teacher stared at me and turned red. She knew \that she was not telling the truth. Then she says to the class, “If you do not answer the question like this I will flunk you in the review.” Of course I didn’t do what she told us and I got a red mark on my report. The real truth about feudalism is not to protect the people but to op press the people and keep them tied to the land. —Aldona Casper. OUR ILLINOIS REPORTER By Julia Yuhas. Things are not the best here in Harco, Ill. I wish that I could help everybody. Whether I feel sick or not, some of the neighbors call me to help them. I go to get a dollar or |The question was important because | Miners Thank N. Y. Workers for Funds; Relief Need Is Acute UNG COMRADE CORNER more, and when I get it, I have so many places for it, I hardly know where to put it. The miners are working five days a week, but it takes more than they get to pay their debts in the store. It runs up to 200 or 250 dollars for 7-8 months iDo you think that that’s too much A miner’s daughter and a Pioneer. 4 THIS WEEK’S PUZZLE No. 11-d This week’s puzzle is a simp word puzzle. Each letter in tt | puzzle stands for the letter befor< it in the alphabet. For example: in the puzzle stands for A in: you answer; C for B, ete. Cjhiu uif dbqjubmjtut cz ifmajoh juif njofst. Send all answers to Daily Worker Young Comrade Corner, 23 First St., N. Y. C., stating name, age, address, and number of juzzle. ANSWERS TO PUZZLE No. 9-D. Jack Rubin and Jack Rosen of New York City. The Answer to Puzzle No, 10-d is LENIN. Jack Rosen and Sylvia Sheffer of New York City. ‘Broach Scolds Pals at Meet; Forgets Own Little Sins (Continued from Page 2) and starvation is prevalent in your trade as in others? Why at the ap- proach of the period of depression id you and your International offi- cers increase your salaries at your convention at Detroit last Septem- ber? “Organization.” 2.—Organization. What program ave you developed which you can much praise by the striking miners,| honestly offer as capable of organiz- especially when they learned of your|ing the 17,000 or 18,000 unorganized successful tag day. Clothing Life Saver. The three tons of clothing you shipped us were also equitably dis- tributed. A miner called this morn- workers in your trade, many thou- sand of whom are employed by the powerful open shop public utilities? Is it not true that your present “pro- gram” neither contemplates nor dares ing for a suit of underwear for his | to begin the organization of these boy. He told us that the boy only| workers? had one suit, which was washed every Saturday after the boy went to bed. It was from your shipment provided him with two additional suits of underwear. Besides, thousands of overcoats for men, coats for women, which you sent especially welcome during this weather. We still meet y x y min in all the camps who battle on in thi Struggle without even an overcoat to r keep them warm. With icic ing from their unshaven fac arrive at the picket coffee frozen to the bone. The unwashed and hundreds go without washing because there is soap. Your remittance enabled us to rush to the mining ¢ eakes of soap so that tl ’ and their wives could again enjoy a little of the cleanliness of former days. Gave Medical Care. Your remittances to give camps. are being Compensation law, to stick el the bosses in this struggle. In r instances these doctors have re to come to the aid of strikers families and sick miners and mem- ? bers of their families have lain abed for days before medical aid could be given them. We are now assisting, with the money remitted to us, in giving medical aid to these miners’ families, who because of exposure due to life in the barracks and because of undernourishment, are more sub- Ject to illness than before the strike and lock-out occurred. Miners Send Thanks. We hope that your committee will continue to function efficiently as to mow for the whole period of this struggle. Give all the members of the committee and all who have helped to contribute to the large amounts you have remitted, our heartfelt thanks. The miners will fight on, to win the strike, to save their union, to or- ganize the unorganized miners, for} nationalization of the mines, for aj labor party and against the open| shop, against all injunctions, against! company unions, against the yellow dog contracts—and in this fight your relief plays a most important part. Fraternally, V. Kemenovich, Secretary A. Minerich, Chairman. so enabled us vice in many s in the camps 2 ELIABETHPORT, N. J., Feb. Patrick Sullivan, 50, an employe of the i doors of your meetings? Why do; |¥ou have a “door committee” which | 2 | ter of 3 | °8.--You have denounced “police in- |terference with union meetings.” Why did you not state to the dele- jgates last Thursday that police of- ficers are regularly stationed before i keeps a systematic check on all those who oppose you? Why do you keep out of your meetings a hundred rank and file unionists who belong within the union? “Terrorism.” -Then there is the “little” mat- ‘on methods in the union. The Communists, you say, accuse you of terrorism, But this is not true, Mr. Broa Your own men come here to accuse you. Bound up in your own 4 s|astonishing conceit you have failed entirely to understand what your men are thinking—quite like other auto- erats. Autocracy? Yes! And a ma- ine, and terrorism, Did you not re- cently remove from their jobs two workers who had dared to oppose your will in the union? You boast of your “bus -like” methods, of meetings vut promptly at, 9.30; of meetings to be held but every two weeks and later but once a month. Why have meet- ings at all, Mr. Broach? | 5—Let us speak of your main achievement, the housecleaning in the union, of which you are so “justly” ; proud? But why is it, Mr. Broach, | that you have failed to remove from high office a certain Mr, Wm. Hogan, incidentally, international treasurer of your Brotherhood? Is not this the Hogan of Lockwood Committee fame? What power does this man hold over your International that he can main- tain himself on your purified band wagon? His Injunction “Challenge.” 6.-—-We might speak of injunctions. This is an auspicious occasion for such a ringing defiance as you hurled at injunctions, at the courts, at the lily-livered labor officials who cower and cringe before the slave lash of “injunction democracy.” To- morrow (Feb. 5.) a huge “drive” will be launched by the whole official la- bor movement at Cooper Union to “fight” the injunction. Now, no one knows better than you, Mr. Broach, how false, how hypocrit- ical is this gesture of Green, Woll, McGrady and company. Will you, then, really speak up as befits a bold and honest trade union- ist? Will you tell these betrayers of the labor movement what you really know and think about this fake conference? No, you will not do this, the Standard Oil Co. was knocked down and instantly killed by a train in the Central Railroad of New Jer- sey yards here. Mr. Broach! Avoids Issue, There is the “little” matter of the Bedford Cut Stone Case decision by ~~ the Supreme Court. This decision forbids union men from refusing to work on scab made material, a vir- tual country-wide legalization of the open shop. But you have instructed your men to abide by this decision even though no one knows better than you that in effect it will finally strangle the trade union movement. And in New York, you are instruct- ing union men to install scab material imported frorn other states. What shall; we say of your empty challenge to the courts, Mr. Broach? 7.—The New Agreement. Why do you postpone making public to the members of your union’ the new agreement which you have signed up with the big electrical contractors? Is it not true that in this agreement you have abandoned the shop steward system? “Sell Out.” Your agreement accepts “The In- dividual Umpire” provision which you once denounced as a “sell out”; it ac- cepts non-union fixtures, it avoids the issue of the shop steward system. is this any less a “sell out” because you | have agreed to it? To offset any pos- | Sible criticism, you announced about two weeks ago that the use of “pipe” instead of “BX” would take place in the future. Now, you know well enough, Mr. Broach that such a thing is impossible for you to put through against open shop manufacturers. Is |this not merely an attempt to deceive the workers? 8.—Finally there is your slogan of, |“The Industry First.” Should this not be labeled as the greatest “sell ‘out” of all. You know, if anybody does, that the final result of this policy of fighting first for the em- |ployers is to go the way of Matthew Woll, John Lewis and George Berry, \the way of betrayal and the way of |death to the labor movement. Is it |not true that the concessions you | have already made to the big bosses, will, if you continue to “play their game” inevitably be followed by other concessions, until you have completely handed over to these enemies of the workers who are now “playing” with you, the union which you claim to have saved? Is it for this that you have “rescued” the union? A fighting Program. Only an honest, fighting program, such as is advocated by the progres- sive group in your union, in coopera- tion with the progressive groups in other building trades union, will save your organization from the drive which even now is being carried on by the big open shoppers. 1—Only widescale and courageous amalgamation will save the unions from the attack. 2.—The electrical workers must fight for a five day week, at five and one half days’ pay. 3.—The shop steward system. 4.—-The union label on all fixtures, the organized violation of all anti- labor decisions intended to destroy their unions, 5.—No right of discharge unless with the permission of the union. 6.—No terrorism, but fair play, open discussions, free speech in the union, 7.—Unemployment relief, | mediate and practical. 8.—A real program for the organi- zation of the unorganized; no over- time while thousands are out of work. 9—A fighting policy as against the present pclicy of surrender. Not the industry, but the union first! im- THE ONLY FIGHTING LABOR PAPER The DAILY WORKER ‘ JOIN THE MILITANT WORKERS IN THE CAMPAIGN TO BUILD A GREAT NATIONAL LABOR DAILY