The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 3, 1930, Page 3

—$———§—_el*> \atle j DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1930 Page Three INDIA YOUTH MEETING AT LAHORE DENOUNCES BOURGEOIS BETRAYALS In Spectacular Conference, Demands Freedom for India Under Worker and Peasant Rule Sends Greetings of Solidarity'to the Young Workers Leagues of the Whole World Lahore, India, December 29. Dear Comrade Editor: At present I wish to give you a report of the Indian Youth Confer- ence held here December 26 and 27. The most significant thing is that the conference was held at the same time and place as the All-India Na- tional Congress, and they had to apply to the Congress Committee to lend them a tent for their confer- ence, which was promised. They calculated on a big crowd and origi- nally acquired a large tent to hold about 3,000 people. But on the last day before the conference the Con- gress Committee, as it seems, tried to hinder their program and alloted only a small tent. It was a spectacular occasion to witness the big crowd of people, old and young, siting on the ground so close together that it was impos- sible for one to move. And not only was the ground under the tent filled, but the crowd extended about 25 feet outside the tent, and a large circle of people standing up still further out behind the inass sitting. Comrade Mrs. A. C. N. Nambiar, p-csident of the Conference, deliv- ered an oration upon the importance of the Indian Youth to be on guard, particularly at the present moment when the leaders of the National Congress are atiompting to veil the eyes of the masses with “Dominion Status” and make them believe that that is the road to liberty. Even complete independence, she said, will not free the laboring class and peas- antry from the exploitation of the Indian landlords, princes and capi- talists. The establishment of- a Workers’ and Peasants’ Government only, is the means of bringing about the emancipation of the masses. The next day’s session was over- whelmed by the crowd, which not being able to enter inside the ropes broke through the barriers and it | took a long time until order was ' able to be established. This session was to draft resolu- And What They Did to Abdul Was A Sham tions, before any resolution was read, the secretary made an appeal to help the prisoners held under the Meerut and the recent Delhi (the case of the alleged bombing of the British Viveroy’s train) conspiracies. An enthusiasm arose and from these poor workers and peasant (you Americans cannot even imagine what Indian poverty means) 1,100 rupees were collected in cash, and the women removed their jewelry: |five gold and one silver bracelet, |eleven gold rings, one nose ring, one wrist watch and one man’s watch, The following resolutions were the three important ones adopted: 1, This conference strongly con- demns the action of such political leaders who are ready to compromise with the British imperialist govern- ment in their attempts to bring about a compromise with British im- perialism in the form of Dominion Status with a view to perpetuate the exploitation of the masses of India, 2. This conference emphatically declares that a full-fledged Repub- llic of Workers and Peasants is the complete Independence of India. It further declares that Dominion Status is a trap for perpetual ex- ploitation of the masses of India {with the joint consent of British imperialists and Indian capitalists, land lords and feudalists. 8. This conference offers its fra- ternal greetings to all the Young Workers’ Leagues of the world, and sympathizes with their struggle in behalf of the subject races, the ov- erthrow of imperialism, and extends its cordial approval of their right of assertion of self-determination. The conference consisted of 350 delegates. The Junjab was repre- sented by 70 peasants and 50 indus- trial delegates. The rest were peas- ants and industrial delegates from the whole of the rest of India. Comradely rear CALCUTTA, India, Dec. 17 (By Mail).—A trial is going on here against Abdul Halim, acting Gen- eral Secretary of the Workers and Peasants Party of Bengal, and Bib- huti Chatterji and Sudhir Moitra, two workers of the organization, who were arrested by police as a result of a little “accident” on De- cember 4. It appears that some of the swarm of spies of the C.I.D, (Criminal In- vestigation Division) were lurking about the street crossing at Amherst and Mirjapur streets, in plain clothes as usual, when somebody suddenly fell upon “Assistant Sub- Inspector Abdul Rahaman and an- other of the dicks, and, as the scrip- tures say, “smote them hip and thigh.” rey ‘The uniform police, coming in an- swer to cries for help from the beleaguered “Assistant Sub-Inspec- tor,” gathered up the defendants on the general and specific charge of | “assault.” On his part, the honor- able “Assistant Sub-Inspector,” Mr. Abdul Rahaman ‘as aforesaid, testi- fied that the defendants did round- ly abuse !.im on the morning in question, assaulting him, tearing off his clothes, choking him into nigh suffocation, and even his shoes van- ished somewhere between the Round Table Conference and Dominion Status, Furthermore, said the “As- sistant Sub-Inspector of the Special Branch of the Criininal Investiga- tion Department of the Department of Police Vigilance for His Majesty’s British Government in India,” he had known the accused for a long time as Communists. So far, the end is not in sight, the court adjoining after Constable Amirul Islam gave corroborative evidence. Kerensky, Koutiepoff and War Plans on the Soviet PARIS, Feb. 2.—Alexander Ker- ensky, the misplaced Napoleon and one of the famous failures of his- tory, is busy here uniting all forces both “socialist” and monarchist, which seem to get along so amia on a common program against Bol- shevism. i Kerensky who spent some time turning flap-jacks and washing dishes. before the “socialists” be- came such a prized anti-Soviet force for imperialism, has now blossomed ‘ut as a lobbyist in the French \ chamber of deputies, His chief func- tion seems to be bringing more com- plete unity between the monarchists and the “socialists.” In the labby of the chamber recently he spoke before a group of socialists, urging that instead of protesting against dictatorships in Spain or Italy, “you should interven against the worst dictatorship of all—Sovietism.” Kerensky’s worthy assistant in the anti-Soviet campaign, General Paul Koutiepoff, chief of the czar- ist White Guard military organiza- tions, is exercising the whole anti- Bolshevist colony by his disappear- ance. i} Press statements about this inci- dent reveal how well organized these counter-revolutionists are un- der the sheltering wing of French imperialism, It is stated, for ex- ample, that the General “was earn- estly working on the organization of a new White Army” and that he disappeared while on a walk “to the headquarters of the military union for a conference with his staff.” It is thus seen that liberals and other fools who chatter about the “unnecessary” vigilance of the So- viet government in protecting the state power of workers and peas- ants is, like most of their utter- ances, only windy nonsense which ids the enemies of the Soviet Union yy deluding the world’s workers with the idea that there is no dan- ger of war against the Workers’ Republic, ee a cesiarcaesaigsle teeta patient nasi itinabinntettdettine Four East Indian NTW MembersShot by Thugs (Continued from Page One) Sts., permitting the gunmen to es- cape, Arrest Only Workers. -he police charged into the board- 2: house in force, carried off the ounded men, and arrested about 20 other East Indian living there or nearby. Deportation threats are made against many of them. De- portation means bei sold into actual slavery by the British gov- ernment, in unhealthy plantations in the islands near India, from which nobody ever comes out alive. For months an organized gang of stool pigeons had been visiting East Indian Paterson dye house workers, and blackmailing them out of $50 each, on threats of deportation if they do not pay. Paterson Hindus charge that this gang operates from New York, and is connected with the British government and the U. S&. bureau of immigration, which wishes by terrot to smash the revo- lutionary movement among Indians. Unionists in aPterson refused to pay blackmail, and several have been turned over to the United States government by the gang. Many threats to do murder if the black- mail were not paid, or if the gang’s methods were exposed, have been made. The shooting Friday fol- lowed, Slander Victims. Conditions in- the Paterson dye houses are indescribably bad. The N.T.W. is rapidly organizing for a general strike here. The employers and their press welcome, if they did not actually co-operate befor¢hand, with the murder gang’s operations, This is proved by the fact that Pat- erson papers immediately launched the infamous lie, evidently supplied them ¢ither by the gang’s own pub- lieity bureau, or by that @@ the em- Pployers, that the shots weve fired in revenge for betrayal of an Bast Indian to the immigration author!- ties by Wahid, | stole food for their hungry children. | | Four workers were caught, tried and DEMONSTRATION IN JERSEY, CHL TUUL Is Organizing, Struggle | (Continued from Page One) States, the army of unemployed, which already numbers more than | 6,000,000, is growing rapidly. Al-| ready in dozens of cities, mass Un- | employed Councils have been organ- ized to fight for unemployment re- lief. Great demonstrations will mark International Unemployment Day, on Feb. 26. One of the bitterest features of the present struggle is the fact that hundreds of workérs are being thrown out of their home by the boss courts for failure to pay rent. In Chicago, New York, Detroit, Buf- falo—in fact in every industrial cen- ter, the Rent Courts are filled to overflowing, and hundreds of evic- tions are issued against the unem- ployed workers. In Chicago, more than a dozen employed workers, street cleaners and janitors, working for the city, have been ordered out of their homes because they failed to pay rent, due to receiving no wages from the city for over 2 month. More Proof That Hoover Lies. An indication of the falsification of the unemployment figures by Hoover, Davis and the boss-control - led Department of Labor is given by census figures for Rochester. The Department of Labor reported about 6 per cent unemployment in Roches- ter. A census taken in Rochester of 12,000 workers showed 17 per cent were out of work, and had been unemployed for more than 10 weeks! In this fashion do the capitalists lie in order to attempt to prevent mass organization and fight of the starving unemployed workers. Hoo- ver’s bureau reports 6 per cent unemployment; another capitalist agency, equally against the workers, reports 17 per cent in the same city! Living Costs Increasing! At the same time, while wages are being cut, while millions are cut off from all means of livlihood, the De-/| partment of Labor reports that liv- | }age cost of living in the United | States, according to a bulletin issued by this statistical body, on Jan. 23, increased 0.7 per cent in the six month period from June, 1929, to Dec,, 1929. During this six month | period there was an increase in the food prices for 32 cities of 2.1 per cent; fuel and light prices increased |2.0 per cent. Even rents increased in some cities. What does this mean for the mass army of unemployed? More money is needed to buy food, and yet there are no jobs for them to earn any money at all! In this situation, the mass of unemployed must be organ- | ized to demand immediate relief under the leadership of the Unem- ployed Councils as part of the Trade Union Unity League and its general | movement for organizing the unor- ganized. Unemployment has especially hit the Southern worker in the textile industry. The Manville-Jencks mill in Gastonia is running three days | a week with 200 workers. The night shifts closed. Gastonia Starving Search Garbage. Recently workers -in Gastonia broke into a number of box ears and of convicted. They got sentences of from 2 to 2% years in the chain/ gang and in the penitentiary. Also in Gastonia, starving workers are searching the garbage cans for food. Official records say there are 9000 | gling daily by strike action and fac- unemployed in Winston-Salem, N. | tory gate demonstrations, culminat- C. alone. Actually there are more | ing in great demonstrations in every than 11,000. Together with mass| city on International Unemploy- unemployment, there are wide-| ment Day, Feb. 2 under the leader- | spread wage cuts. A ten per cent|ship of the Communist Interna- cut was slapped against the work-| tional. GREETINGS! CALIFORNIA M. Bosanic I, Flanzer Los Angeles Anna Lokatos M. Nebesk M. Waldman Marko Turkovich Mrs. Rabinowitch Bekkie Gowan Fy enc - ae 6 . Col Monterey M. Knezevich M. Peamien A. Rodman bai re plahieg E. Rosenfeld foe Ligic H. NEW JERSEY Mila Zinkbanich M. Cohen 1 Perth Amboy John Cantice J. Perlman =e Joseph Boross Frank Kmela . K. Zaross John Bendik M. Green P. Hasarogky J. Sekulich Irving Yarock S. Baseoka *M. Pentorich Abe Goldberg G. Sanders F. Banorish Dave Ackerman A. Zofset M. Vujnovie Sam. Goldchock I. Szinka M. M. Mikolich A, Kroop . Piditisiad Eira cthlad M. Schneiderman . 0 i i F. Hotola J. Stepanich Beha PENNSYLVANIA _ T. Tohanovich Samuel Sivak Philadelphia Vietor Ofrich Max Teitelbaum |G. Carsillo Carl Midelo Abe Bonkov L. Gostonia G. Reiner Massamen Q. Pecarelli ye ee Wf. Hedtz Pittsburgh BAN Marvin Ky te J. Plevatich M, Rejsic Joe Sinberg . Primara i Bozo Kojich e sone fis atin ee la M. Kovieich W. Klodnyesk John Kozul John Beck WW. Haeerlenke M. Skrtic . Hawrylenko A. Juratovich NEW YORK CITY 7 Osypchuk G. Skiatovie David Simon TN sere 8. Carish 8. Tator eles M. Jjucavic Dickholtz D. Dauke Nick Radoich Magikoft Ne Basechko F, Godich Shwartz J. Bundzak M. Vicelich Hoff T. Jwinyivich |. Kuzerich Wm, Coles A. Zadoroshnyj A. J. Tomas Frank Roberson J, Tamniak | ing costs are increasing. The aver- |. WORKERS EXPOSE WAR THREAT S Show War Preparation | Against Soviet Union (Continued from Page One) moved from the Charlevoix Build- | ing, several blocks away to the Fox | Building. This was a maneuver of the Mexican lickspittles to avoid the | stinging publicity aroused by the | workers demonstration and exposure | of the real nature of the Mexican government. | * * WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.—Yester- day over 60 members of the Commu- nist Party, Young Communist | League and Young Pioneers, held a | demonstration before the Mexican | Embassy here exposing the aid of | the Wall Street war preparations | against the Soviet Union given by | the Mexican, Morgan-controlled gov- | ernment by breaking off relations | with the U.S.S.R, | The workers paraded in front of | the embassy for over 30 minutes | bearing placards exposing the im- | perialist role of the Rubin-Gil-Mor- | row government. Some of the ban- | ners bore the slogans: | “Wall Street uses Mexico to | strike at the Soviet Union; Rubio | suppressed the trade unions at ord- ets of Hoover; Workers of Mexico and U. 8.—Defend the Soviet Union | and fight imperialism; Hoover gave | the bosses $160,000,000—6,000,000 | unemployed workers are starving; | Demonstrate on February 26 against unemployment; Join the Communist Party; workers! Negro, White, Mexican and American, unite against the common enemy— imperialism!” A meeting was then held in front of the Mexican embassy. The speak- ers were L. P. Lemley, E. Bender, Milton and a Young Pioneer. A statement issued by District 3 of the Communist Party, under whose auspices the demonstration | was held, said: “The break in relations of the Mexican government with the Soviet Union is a further indication of the preparations of the iniperialist pow- | ers for a war against the U.S.S.R. | « . The Soviet Union, which is! building up a socialist economy and | which has successfully completed | the first year of its ‘Five-Year Plan’ | of Socialist construction, is a chal- | lenge to the existence of the decay- ing imperialist system ... The Com- munist Party of the U. S. calls upon the workers to unite with the peo- ples of the oppressed colonial coun- tries in a struggle against American imperialism . . . to fight the attacks | of‘ the bosses, and to demonstrate | against unemployment on February | 26.” | | JOIN PARTY AT LENIN MEET. | SAN FRANCISCO (By Mail).—| Over 800 workers filled California | Hall for the Lenin Memorial meet- | ing here. Many workers joined the | Communist Party and subscribed to The Daily Worker. ers in the Lexington mill. Twenty per cent was slashed off the starva- tion wages of the workers in the American Mills in Bessemer City— this in fact of the fact that the De- partment of Labor reports the cost JOBLESS T0 HOLD ‘DETROIT, WASH, | tills WORKERS « CORRESPONDENCE - FROM / TF Si 1B “ARREST TWO WHO AMERICAN SHEET AND | 21 Asin, res. TIN MILLS WORKING BUT 3 DAYS A WEEK URGED FILIPINO: 18, WORKERS TIE American Legion Leads 4 |8 o’clock in the morning, 4 o’clock | terrifie speed-up New Invention Throws Scrap Boys Out of Jobs in Monessen, Pa., Piants Mill A Living Hell; Workers Slave‘l2 to 18 Hours A Day (By « Worker Correep:xdent) don’t blow it means that some MONESSEN, Pa.—The “Daily In- | worker has been either hurt or dependent” came out a few weeks |killed in this hell hole. Thus the | ago stating how the mills would|bosses preach safety first to us| start working full time. That is | workers, but it ig impossible for a not the first time the “Daily In- | worker to watch for his own safety dependent” ha’s lied to the workers. | under this rotten speed-up that we The American Sheet and Tin |have to work under. Plate Co, is working three days a| The scrap boys here lost their week, jobs, as some of the company engi. There in the tin mills they have | neers invented a patent that will re posters tacked up all over which quire no scrap boy to bundle and reads “safety first” and the “care- lift the scrap into the boxes, These ful worker is a safety man.” young boys received lower wages In the hot-mill department each | than the adult workers. roller calls his crew together be-| The shearsmen and openers work fore they start to work and he gives |from 12 to 15 hours per day for them a talk on “safety first.” Every | wages of $5 to $6 a day. worker in the plant has to raise| In the summertime this place is his hand when the whistle blows |a living hell and still workers have after eight hours’ shift is completed, |to go in and under the most stem imaginable. Our only hope is organization into Union Unity e morning, 4 o’clock in the aft-| n and 12 midnight, jthe fighting Trade is to signify that no one has | League. been hurt, but when the whistle | “One Case Out of Millions of Jobless Workers (By a Worker Correspondent) | work already spent the little savings PHILADELPHIA. — Louis Wag- jhe had and more than he borrowed. ner, of Cresson St., near Haines pHe decided upon “committing a Ave., Mannayunk, father of a fam- crime” in order to secure something ily of four, entered the Germantown | for his starving family, but cour- police station, handed over a screw- | age failed him the last moment. driver and flashlight asking that he | Wagner is but one of the many mil- be placed under arrest, because he | lions. was desperate and “might do some-} The jobless workers of Philadel- |phia will answer the call of the thing against the law.” A few hours later, at a hearing |Communist Party and the Trade before Magistrate Belcher, Wagner | Union Unity League to organize in told the story of unemployment, an |councils of unemployed, and to- unlighted and unheated home and/ gether with the workers left in wife and three children that had|shops enslaved by speed-up and nothing to wear and were hungry. |wage cuts will struggle for relief Wagner lost his job six weeks |for “work or wages” for the job- ago, when his employer decided to|less and against wage cuts and speed up to culminate in a great cut down on the cost of production, | and replaced all of his old help with | mass demonstration on February 26! new machines and young boys and | 26! girls, He, only six weeks out of | —PHILA. JOBLESS WORKER. in th ern STEEL WORKER. | A Mexican?—He’s Only A Dog—So Bosses Say (By a Worker Correspondent) LOS ANGELES, Cal.—At the Murry and Ready slave-hiring sta- tion, Towne Ave and Fifth St., the following job-ad was listed on the black board: Join the agricultural group, fel- “Mexican — Combination ranch |low workers, and help to fight for hand, blacksmith and carpenter, | better conditions under the leader- $2.50 Fd.” | ship of the Trade Union Unity “Fd.” stands for food, generally | not fit to eat, plus the right to spread your blankets on the wet, muddy ground in some corner of the ranch for a few short hours dur- Valley, Cal. ing the darkest part of the. nights. |A ranch hand in California, as well jas elsewhere in this land of “pros- perity,” is not supposed to sleep | much, anyhow. League, which is now leading the struggle against the exploiting and oppressive bosses of the packing plants and ranches in the Imperial —R. A steel worker, among 0} employed workers, t page of the big lay-of; industry. The demonstrated the this in tha have ney in in the steel wo their illustrated t, as hoto showing ) s defying troops lions of un- workers thruout the ler the leadership of the st Parties. then, together with 1 emp oyed world, Commun Agency Shark Beats Jobless N. J. Worker Ub (By a Worker Co NEWARK, N. J employed worker r | to the eyes of a private employment } agent, he was beaten about the face | and- body and forced out of the office. The worker applied for a job at the Mutual Employment Agency at 230 Market St., Newark, N. employment agent de the worker look into he talks. Before the answer he was hit in the face and| | body by the employment agent and forced out of the offi The other unemployed workers re- sented this action and expressed the | opinion that they will not go to this | agency any more. | The unemployed workers should get together, organize into unem- ployment councils of the Trade| Union U League and demand the abolishment of pr e employ- ment agen blish free employmen: der workers control and adm tration. —H.S. * * * | Editor's Note—An unemployment the attacks of the Legion. pino Attack on Cal. Toilers (Continued from Page One) in San Jose when Filipinos resisted A Fili- Stockton was in bombed la day. : Two Filipinos in San Francisco were beaten up by a gang, because they were accompanied on the streets by two American women who were their wives. “Police pro- tection” was given by arresting the inos who were beaten up, and letting the thugs get away. Arrest Communists. Authorities in Pajaro and Santa Clara Val are looking for the Communists who openly distributed 5,000 leaflets urging the American ilipino agricultural workers to club-house and fight the farm bosses, chich were widely quoted in the San Francisco capitalist press. John Little of the Young Commu- ie, and Vane Dart of the ty, were: arrested in the Watsonville area last Monday, and held for questioning. Every attempt is being made to prevent Communists from reaching the val- ley. International Labor Defense and Workers International Relief representatives have gone to San Jose to defend Filipino workers ar- rested there for resisting attacks, and give assistance to those work- ers in the hospitals who were beaten up by the American Legion, nist Li * Militia For Imperial Valley. LOS ANGELES, Calif., Feb. 2— The authorities in Imperial Valley, scene of the recent strike of 8,000 Mexican and Filipino agricultural workers, have requested the state government to send the National Guard into Imperial Valley to in- timidate the workers there and pre- + |vent them from joining the Agri- cultural Workers’ Industrial League, which was organized during the strike. John R. Quinn, Commission- ler of Military Affairs in the gov- ernor’s state council, and former head of the American Legion, which is murdering and attacking Filipino workers in the northern part of the | state, received the request “because of Communist activities there” and will act on it shortly. National Secretary Miller of the Agricultural Workers’ Industrial League, affiliated with the Trade Union Unity League, is in the Im- perial Valley directing the organ- ation campaign for the agricul- tura laborers. BAR NEGRO WORKERS. TOUSTON, Tex. (By Mail).—The unemployment of Negroes in the sea food stall of the city market has Can’t Down This Gastonia Fighter! (By « Farmer Correspondent.) , NEW BEDFORD—Was arrested | jat the Dartmouth mills gate meet- | jing recently with four other com- rades: Martin Russak, Puny, Hel-| jlias and one other comrade. We! viet Russia. The while I was in jail if you don’t like this country go back to Russia.” I told the police the hell with the U.S.A. flag. I said that the flag living rising. |11 were released on $5,000 bail. We | I claimed was the one with the ham- | mass meeting will be held in New- been barred by the city officials. ark, N. J., Tuesday, February 4, at | City hall functionaries have threat- 93 Mercer St., by the Trade Union | ened bodily injury to Negroes work- U League. ‘ing in the market. Absolute Disregard of Miners Lives in Eldorado (By a Worker Corres} if the trip rider had not been on ELDORADO, Iil.—The S| the job. No. 10 sure believes in the Workers everywhere don’t starve! Fight! Discharge from the job, | ‘wage cuts and speed-up on the jod are each only part of the attack of the bosses on our class! And against this attack all workers, employed | and unemployed must unite in a| mighty army, organized by the | Trade Union Unity League, strug-| are going to hold another mecting | mer and sickle, the Red Flag, which at the same place. After I was/we will have some day. Government here in the —K. 0. BYERS. me where I came from I told him | Farmers’ that I had just come back from Sv- | U.S.A. Chevrolet ‘in Buffalo Rushes Through Wage Cuts and Speed-Up | Workers now work an average of 10 hours a day and the speed-up is increased to such an extent that many workers quit their jobs, due to their inability to keep up with the speed of the machine. Whenever a _ worker protests against these rotten conditions the boss immediately threatens him with the fact that thousands of workers are waiting outside to take his job. The conditions are such that there is quite a big movement among the Chevrolet workers to organize and to fight back the attitude of the bosses. All Buffalo auto workers should get together and organize shop committees which will become (By a Worker Correspondent) BUFFALO, N. Y.—The Chevrolet Co. and the Fisher Body, which have two plants in Buffalo, are car- | rying through the wage cuts and speed-up with full speed. Just lately the Chevrolet company has fired nearly all the workers, and | after a few days rehired them again under new working conditions. A worker in the Chevrolet company prior to this event received 50 cents an hour. This in itself was a cut in wages in comparison with the sit- | uation a year ago, where a worker got 60 to 70 cents per hour or even} more. The company rehired a number of workers on piece-work, and the | average earnings of a worket now |a strong auto workers union local. is less than $2 a day. —BUFFALO WORKER. Some Things the Miners Look to the NMU to End (By a Worker Correspondent) ELDORADO, Ill.—The bosses are very hard on the miners about lay- ing off two days. They are getting so that they won’t recognize a doc- were used. Old Ben at West Frank- ford lost seven men; Peabody 18 lost about 20 men lately in explo- sions. On some of the machines the coal Not only | taken to jail one of the police asked | the Red Flag but a Workers’ and | in Saline county mines are in very | speed-up system, as No. 10 has is | broken the record of tonnage since the trip riders have been taken off. The Coal Co. has a right to fine on each car. Sometimes a driver will leave a sprag or capboard on the car and the loaders get fined, f also on a small rock that don’t weight over one pound in two tons of coal. If the miners’ strike over some wrong done them by the com. pany they are fined. But the com- pany can lay off as many days as the company wishes and the miners have nothing to say. —ELDORADO MINER. poor condition. The motor d is covered with coal. Motors all times of the day, with wires overhead and a little dog hole every 60 feet to get into. At No. 10, O’Gara, there are no trip riders on main-line motors. And also no danger signal on the back of the trip. The motor track is in | very poor condition and the top is very low which is about four feet | in height and hilly. There have severel bad accedidents happened in the mines in this vicini some would have been more 5 | TN ened | tor’s certificate for being sick. This | should be done away with, for when |you get a doctor to sign it, it costs |money. Doctor bills are very high | around a mining camp, $8 for a day | trip and $5 for a night visit. In some mines, such as in Frank- lin county and mines in other parts, | the miners use a battery light. The | light weighs from 7 to 11 pounds, and is worn around the waist. This puts pressure on the kidneys and makes a man weak in the back. The jacid that comes from the battery |make awful bad sores, which a big | majority of the miners have. | Where the bug light is used the | miners are not aired enough. This cuts down expenses for the coal company. There have been some bad accidents where the bug lights loaders get 4 cents on the ton.more than some men get on other ma- chines. These men all pay the same dues, but the one per cent. Just as |much supply bill and the same amount of cars and just as hard to load. This difference should not be, as it keeps the men divided. Only through the N.M.U. can we win our demands, , ILLINOIS MINER. 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