The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 7, 1931, Page 3

| DAILY WGRKER, Naw VOius, THU AWAY, DiAY 7, igoa CHI. BOSSES ORGANIZE SPY SYSTEM IN SHOPS TO BETRAY WORKERS Worker Offered $10 A Week Extra Pay to Act As Stool Pigeon Spies Make Secret Reports to Boss On Work-| ers’ Activities Dear comrades: I sometimes wondered how it happened that there were some workers in the shops who always had a job no matter how bad the times, and were sent from one department to the next, and the bosses liked them. Many times workers who did much better work than these would lose their jobs. Then one day something happened which answered this. I have been out of work for a long time. I needed a job very much and finally the employment agency sent me out. But they did not send me to the factory—they sent me to the heuse ef the owner. This looked: fishy but—a job’s a job, so I went. He questioned me, Did I speak any other languages? 1 told him I spoke three other languages and under- stand many of the slavic languages. Coyld I work on any kind of ma- chine or was I a specialized man? I told him I could work in any de- partment, on any machine. He seemed very pleased with my an- swers and told me he had a special proposition fer me—a very good one that paid well. Asked to Spy. He would give me a job—guaran- teed steady. My work would be do- ing odd jobs in all and any depart- ment. I would get $10 a week besides my pay. All I had to do to get this was to get friendly with the work- ers, listen to them when they were talking amang themselves, and re- Rort to the owner everything that happened ar was said which might “harm the company.” ‘You know,” he said, “bolshevik talk, strike talk and so on.” I was to report these things to him and then take orders as to what I was to do. “This means, sometimes you would baye to go to meetings, and so on, and report which workers go to these meetings.” I was to go to the office just like any other worker looking ‘or work, fill out an application and $$ —___—________ the manager would be tipped off that I was to be fixed up with a job, and what kind of a job. My reports would be made in private to the owner at his house and I would use a number instead of my name. He thought he had got hold of an ignorant sap and that for the extra pay and promise of steady work I would be willing to betray my fellow workers, I told him “nothing doing.” If he wanted a stool pigeon he would haye to find somebody who was low enough, stupid enough to betray his own class to the enemy. Must Organize and Fight, I have been a fighter for the work- ing class all my life. ¥ know that the only way the worker’ ever got any- thing was by fighting for it. I fought for the eight hour day and I know that if we had not put up a stiff militant fight for it we would still be working ten and twelve hours in my trade. Now we must fight against wage cuts, speed up and unemploy- ment. And we must fight against these lice the bosses put in our midst, these stool pigeons. And while we are fighting for our day to day needs—we must also organize to overthrow the capitalist system be- cause while this system exists we will have wage cuts, unemployment and exploitation. San Leandro Worker Commits Suicide Amid. | Spring Crop Wealth San Leandro, Calif. Because he could not find a job anywhere, and was unable to bear slow starvation, ©. J. Edward, 69, of 368 Toler Aye., shot himself through the head. He is survived by a wife and daughter. Before his suicide he complained to neighbors that in his 69 years of life he saw no misery compared to this year, where labor is sa cheap, employment to scarce and rent, clothes and food prices so high, “A young man hagn’t. much chance and despendency gets him, but an ‘id man might as well give up the Struggle and make one mouth less to hunger.” This is happening amidst’ abundance of spring crop in San Leanto, Peas, asparagus, spinach, stray -crries and other spring crops are rotting because of enormous growth this spring. Field laborers are getting 80 cents to $1 per day in the fields picking peas. Workers blind to the need of or- ganization are committing suicide. Class understanding and the need of struggle must be brought to them. On with the organization with in- creased tempo! —A, A. South Bend Mills Cut Pay, Fire Shinglers; City Stops Dole South Bend, Indiana. aily Worker: In big mills, 4s Studebaker, wages are being cut systematically, so that the workers are not able to resist to- gether. The company cut the not at once, but at different times, in all departments. ‘This prevents automobile workers from prot But they are ready for united action to go on styike. However, workers are exchanged from ane place to an- other, with a Wage-cut following. ‘Singlers and old workers are laid off. The young workers and married workers replace them, receiving lower Wages. “Charity” Stopped. The charity doles are stopped. The Unemployed Committee only gives so-called jobs to married men, who are allowed to work only two days a week for the miserable wages of 35 cents an hour. In fact, they really don’t get wages, but a receipt ticket, which allows them to select the old clothes handed out and gives them rotten food. —A Worker. In Utica Where 8000 Are Jobless, Cutlery Forces 25 Per Cent Wage Cut Utica, N. ¥. ‘The Utica work is very bad. There are about 8,000 unemployed workers here. They sleep in a very rotten old Police station and also eat the poi- aonous slop whieh is handed out in the police station. T am trying to build up an Unem- Ployed Council in the Utica Cutlery, where they have cut the workers’ ‘wages 25 per cent. We are organ- izing the workers. All other workers do the same thing. Unemployed Council Organizer. Unemployed Worker Lives In Empty Field Sacramento, Calif. Daily Worker: 1 am camping in an empty field 'm the outskiris of Sacramento. ‘This I suppose that if I should die 1 might havé to pay for being buried, and if they cannot get the money ‘they perhaps might take my bed and | $25,000 of Woolworth 5 and 10 Profits Squandered Nightly in Gambling Dens By HARRY RAYMOND. Workers—you have seen the sales- girls slave long hours for low wages in the Woolworth 5 and 10-cent stores? Do you know what happens fo the millions of dollars of wealth that the bosses squeeze frem the misery of these girls? Seven million, iéxc hundred thousands of dollars of 5 an@ ™%-cent store profits have been thrown away yearly over gambling tables. While workers were starving on the breadlines and having their wages cut and an idle, rich parasite was squandering $25,000 of the Wool- worth loot on roulette at a nightly sitting. ‘This parasite was the late James P. Donahue, husband of the 5 and 10-cent Woolworth heiress, Mrs. Jessie Woolworth Donahue, who made no workers mad recently by killing himself by taking poison, Looses $25,000 a Night, According to New York's leading gutter sheet, the Daily News, which specializes in “tragic deaths,” volup- tous night elub orgies and “sorrows” of the idle “playboys and dazzling beauties” of Park Ave. and Miami Beach, Mrs. Donahue guaranteed her husband's losses at the gambling table to the extent of $25,000 an evening. Every time Donahue get foot in Bradley’s gambling club at Palm Beach, or any of the other gambling resorts, he could lose $25,000 before the pwners would feel uneasy. Think of it, workers! While the corrupt city governments at the be- hest of the bosses are throwing star- ving families of workers out of their homes into the streets because they have no jobs and cannot pay rent, one of these same bosses can lose $25,000 a night in gambling dens and not feel uneasy. These losses were always backed up and paid out of Mrs, Donahue's 5 and 10c. Cales Girls Slave in Stores for $10 a Week $70,000,000 slice of the Woolworth spoils, which were piled up by the old 5 and 10-cent brigand, F. W. Woolworth, by exploiting salesgirls at wages often below $10 a week. $500 a Turn, Mrs. Donahue herself was no mean hand at gambling debaucheries, The News says that she made no objec- tion to her husband’s gambling, as long as he kept within her “limits,” which seem, indeed, to have been unlimited. For the News, in a mo- ment of ecstatic inspiration, says: “In fact, she loved the potent, tensely dramatic whirr of the rou- lette wheel herself, and with im- passive face often killed a little time tossing $500 on each turn,” Five hundred dollars on each turn! And with impassive face! Every cent of this money was wrung from long hours of sweat and toil and VOK'4$25,000) A Nighy Toll drudgery and privation of the thou- sands of salesgirls who slaved in the stuffy Woolworth Stores, Every cent represents a drop of life-blood squeezed from th eworking class, Salesgirls Earn Under $10. “A glimpse into the pay envelope of 6,000 salesgirls in the 5 and 10- cent and other limited shops in 18 different states,” says a Department of Labor report, ‘shows that one- fourth of the girls earned less than $10 for the week studied; one-half received less than $12 and 170 per cent less than $15.” Even the Department of Labor of the U, S. government asks the question: “How can a girl live on such a sum?” and replies, “She can’t; she can only exist,” But still this same government stands by while thousands of sales- girls and other workers slave long hours at starvation wages, and then clubs them, jails them and even murders them for fighting against these conditions. While the bosses mock the workers with their ex- travagant spending and gambling sprees, like the Donahue orgies, the whole capitalist state cries out against higher wages, shorter hours and unemployment insurance. It's O, K,, from a capitalist stand- point, for a member of the leisure class to throw away on the gambling tables $7,500,000, which was robbed from the workers, but it’s wrong for the workers to organize and fight against this robbery. Such is the logic that the rotten capitalist system is built on and which the Fish Committee is trying to cram down the workers’ throats. And this is the “logic” that the Com- munist Party is exposing and fight- ing against. Workers! give the bloodsucking bounders something to feel uneasy about! Organize and smash the capitalist system with its starvation and gambling parasites! Build a Workers’ Government in America! REPORT GREEN QUITTING AFL Woll to Keep Up the Dirty Work A report that William Green would resign as president of the American an | Federation of Labor and the other | faithful tool of the bosses and lead- jing enemy of the Soviet Union, Mathew Woll, would take his place, is published by the Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance in a special dis- patch from Washington dated May 5. The story states that “Green is de- scribed as weary of his difficult post.” It is rather hard helping the bosses put over wage cuts these days. Then, too, Green was sadly disappointed be- cause of his failure to realize what he had been playing for—the job as Sec~ retary of Labor in the Hoover cabinet Meanwhile, Woll has been ‘busy making himself as palatable to the bosses as possible. Within the A. F. of L. he has been building up Mathew Woll” clubs to stir up a ballyhoo. He is heading the campaign for beer, as @ subzstitute for bread for the un- employed. Woll's greatest service to the bosses, besides his persistent propaganda for wage cutting of the American work- ers, is in leading the lies against the Soviet Union and yelling for war. When every other capitalist faker had dropped Whalen’s forged documents like hot pancakes, Woll was peddling them around as the truth, So vicious has his campaign against the American and Soviet workers been, as head of the Civic Federation, that the Scripps-Howard dispatch in the World-Telegram announcing the report that Mathew Woll is booked for the job as president of the A. F. of L., states that Woll’s energies have Jed him into many campaigns “some of them not essential in labor's cause.” Northwest Bosses In Frantic Effort to Convict Boloff PORTLAND, May 3—The third sell it to a second-hand store. How- ever I will organize and fight against them before that. Comradely, —J. K. Sylvia, Worker Tells of Trick Used By AFL Union Shop It was bad enough till now, but it is getting from bad to worse. =| Those who have worked for the firm line | as long as 25 years are getting the worst tr eatment, for the firm wants to get rid of them. Little by little the men are com- to their senses. They resent the company’s trick of paying a half- day's wages for a whole day's work, because the job was estimated to take only half a day. Those whodo not stand for this are not sent to another job for a week or more. —Y. L, a Worcorr. St. Louis Jobless Worker Not Allowed to Sleep St. Louis, Mo, Daily Worker: A few nights ago I was stoppéd by the dicks. “They asked me a num- ber of questions, which I answered by iclling them that I was going down Market Street to ae cheap oom, They ordered of Market Street. As I am unem- Bloyéd and am not able to pay the high rent they charge in other room- ing houses in St. Louis I refused to got out. Phey then slugged me sg drove me away from that part town. I was forced to spend the rest of the night walking the criminal syndicalist case to be tried in Portland as a result of the ar- rest of 13 workers during an unem- ployment demonstration opened on Monday, April 27, with John Moore, secretary of the I. L. D. in Portland, This trial gives signs of being an even more intense battle than the trials of Ben Boloff, who was sen- tenced to 10 years in the penitentiary and whose case is on appeal to the State Supreme Court, and Fred Wal- ker, who was acquitted. The state is trying desperately to get a convic- tion in the coming trial of John Moore, an ex-serviceman and ma- chine-gunner in the Canadian army during the last world war. While on the witness statid as a defense witness during the trial of Fred Wal- ker, in answer to the question of whether he had ever committed acts of violence, he replied: “Yes, while serving I was ordered to commit all kinds of acts of violence. On com- mand we mowed down plenty of Ger- mans as they came over the top.” ‘The force and violence that the capi- talist. class creatés and makes the workers undergo was thoroughly ox- posed by Boloff. ‘The International Labor Defense calls upon the workers to ‘support the campaign for the political pris- oners. Only the organized power of the working class can free them. a: NEW YORK—From many sources facts of the drastic cut in wages show how rapidly the standard of living of the American workers is being lowered. Women’s wages in New York state have decreased 40 to 50 per cent since 1929, at the be- ginning of the present economic crisis. These facts are published in reports of the New York state de- partment of labor. The report says that bookkeepers who drew $25 to $30 in 1929 are now working for as low as $15 a week. “Wages of typists dropped from $15 to $22 a week to $12 to $21, with the $12 offer far more usual.” Later information shows that even these wages have been lowered. The Women’s Wages in New York Cut 40 to 50 P.C. Since 1929 Federated Press reports that em- ployment agencies are offering stenographic jobs at $10 a week— and girls are taking them. In Everett, Washington, workers in the Robinson Manufacturing Co. went on strike against a 10 per cent wage-cut, wages in most cases being cut down to $1.80 a day. Last fall the same company cut wages 20 per cent. The U. S. Department of Agricul- ture, in its latest report, states that farm wages have touched the lowest level since 1916. The average farm wage (without board) is $1.80 a day. In the Southern part of the country wages amount to 95 cents a day— for a 12 or 15-hour day! We're criticized justifiably by Minneapolis District on treatment of their weekly section page of Friday, April 24. “We had planned increas- ing columns on basis of interest cre- ated by printing special district news,” writes B. Siskind, acting dis- trict organizer, “but, on the con- tvary, find our news wedged in be- tween Detroit and Cleveland, and the most important stuff cut out. Com- rades do not feel it is a special Minneapolis issue. The May Day edition, 5,000 of which were ordered besides our regular bundles, did not even contain the schedule of our meetings, let alone the May Day news.” We admit Minneapolis received inadequate handling in the last is- sue, and consultation with the edi- torial department netted a prom- ise of hetter treatment in the fu- ture. Hereafter, Minneapolis sec- tion page to be Saturday, because “Friday issue gets here Monday, too late to enable us to sell.” Evidence of willingness for wide- spread circulation in Minneapolis District is shown by O. J. Arness, Daily Worker representative, who drew up excellent leaflet enclosed in sample copies for preliminary dis- tribution before canvassing for routes, subs. Leaflet explains, in part, difference in news content be- tween capitalist paper and Daily Worker, stressing deliberate playing down of unemployment in boss press. “We ask you to read this sample copy,” the leaflet says. “Read the editorials on the front page; read ‘Red Sparks’ on the back page; read some of the news items, see how different they are. You quickly become class conscious of the class character of this capitalist societ; that there is a working class; that that class produces everything while a class, the capitalist or boss class, takes the products. +++ Tomorrow we shall return with the latest issue of the Daily Worker. «+» Be prepared to give your sub- scription for a week, month, or year. .-- The unemployed workers who know the Daily Worker as their best friend will do most of the work to acquaint you with it, We hope you will give them and the Daily Worker a good recep- tion.” CRITICISM BY MINN. SECTION ON WEEKLY PAGE SUSTAINED ‘ ‘We will reprint in fuller detail in next week's bulletin. Kansas City On the Go, “Increase the bundle order from 125 to 175,” writes Clara S. for the Daily Worker representative in Kansas City, Mo. “We have enough unemployed comrades will- ing to sell permanently. Besides, have established neighborhood routes, obtaining within the last month over 70 daily and steady readers.” Birmingham, Ala., Unit 12, calls for 15 daily; Chicago Lakeview Work- ers’ Club, 5.. Al McBride, veteran sea-dog, formerly of Galveston, ‘Texas, now in Tampa, Fla., orders 10 a day. “We are opening a Work- ers’ Center here. Sentiment good. Many Americans interested and sym- pathetic toward Communist Party.” Camp Nitgedaiget (meaning “don’t worry”), Beacon, N. Y., boosts from 15 to 30. BOSTON ILD T0 TOUR GUBERSKI In Fight Against 4 Deportation BOSTON, May 4.—The Boston dis- trict of the International Labor De- fense is sending Joseph Guberski, whom the bosses are trying to deport, on a tour to speak among the Polish, Russian and other language groups. Comrade Guberski will speak in the following cities: Peabody, Mass., May 6 and 7. Salem, Mass., May 8. Maynard, Mass., May 9. Worcester, Mass., May 10 and 11, Nashua, N. H., May 12. Manchester, N. H., May 13. Lowell, Mass. May 14, Lawrence, Mass., May 15 and 16. Haverhill, Mass., May 17. New Bedford, Mass., May 24. Woonsotket, Mass., May 25, Brockton, Mass., May 26. Newton Upper Falls, Mass., May 27. ; CORRECTION ‘The National ‘Textile Workers Although the 2-page leaflet should be boiled down to one, the explana- tory sub-heads do much, on the whole, to make reading. Union called a meeting of Allentown strikers. By accident the Daily Worker of May 6 said it was “The Needle Trades Workers Ind: Union,” —EDITOR. e m4 DANISH BOSSES AND REFORMISTS FOR WAGE-CUTS Communist Party Lead Fight on Them } COPENHAGEN, Denmark, ~ The! wage agreements in most trades and industries in Denmark expire this week and the employers are taking advantage of the fact te demand a sweeping wage reduction ef MS per cent, Under the pressure of the workers, the reformist trade union leaders have been compelled to demand wage inereases and paid holidays. As the negotiations between the employers and the unions broke down, the ar- bitration authorities tookva hand and made @ proposal for wage-cuts rang- ing from 6 to 8 per cent and for four paid days holiday annually. The union leaders were in favor of accept- ing this proposal, but it was rejected by the workers of a number of in- dustries. The leaders are now calling an extraordinary trade union congress to decide the matter. The employers | are also in favor of the proposals of the arbitration authorities and threat- en to lock out 150,000 workers unless the proposals are accepted. On Tuesday the Comunist Party organized. protest demonstration | in Copenhagen, ‘Three thousand workers took part. Collisions with police occurred and a number of workers were arested UMWA Aid Cutting | Ohio Mine Wages: NMU .Ohio Conference | On May 17, Bellaire | PITTSBURGH, Pa—A novel way of cutting wages has just been in- troduced in Eastern Ohio by the su- perintendent of the Shack mine, near Bellaire, where sixteen “gallant” U. M. W. A, men were used to draw | | enough scabs into the mine to operate. ‘These “gallants’ were known to constantly parade up and down the town’s main street patting them- selyes on the back as proud members of the United Mine Workers of America who would never be any- thing else, and seeing that their “no- ble” hero and leader, John L, Lewis, passes up no opportunities to do favors and break strikes for the bosses, they decided that they too} would do a good deed for the boss. | Wage Cut Put Over. "Twas like this. The coal com-| pany paid for a “tea party” which| the superintendent gave for the} blue-eyed boys. After a good time was had by all, the Super treated them to a speech. Well, knowing that Lewis can shed tears when nec- essary for the operators, these proud UMWA boys also decided to shed a few tears when the super told them that the company was in danger of going into a hole deeper than the mine itself unless the loyal United Mine Workers would come to: the company’s assistance. This assistance called for putting over a wage cut of 33 per cent and more. The tonnage rate was cut from 38 cents to 25 cents and outside labor to as low as 15 cents an hour while all other classes of labor were cut proportion- ately, The wage-cutting job was prepared by the super and the U, M. W. A. faithfuls each did his bit by being prepared to pull in a certain number on the day the cut was an- nounced and under their boasted U. M. W. A. leadership, the mine con- tinued at work under the reduced wage rate, More Wages Cut. That wage cuts under the UMWA guidance are not isolated cases or ac- cidental, we cite the wage agreement signed by the UMWA at the ©. A. Hughes Coal Company’s mine at Bennsbrook in central Penna., which gives to those miners a rate of 10 per cent less than any scab mine in cen- | tral Penna. These practices of the | UMWA fakers and the operators are being fought everywhere by the rank and file under NMU leadership. Mass meetings are being arranged in every district and organizational work is progressing everywhere. The NMU in the Ohio District is in full swing gétting ready for its conven- tion at Bellaire on May 17th, and on May 23 and 24 the Pennsylvania Dis- trict will convene. From both conventions the miners will go forward prepared to battle the greedy operators and their company union, the UMWA. Illustrated Lecture On Soviet Union in Detroit" Saturday. DETROIT, Mich.—Daily Worker veaders cannot miss seeing and hear- ing the illustrated lectwe on the building of Socialism in the Soviet Union which will be given by Marcel Scherer, national secretary of the Workers International Relief, who has just returned from an extensive tour throughout the Union of So- cialist Soviet Republics. The lecture will be given at the Women’s Feder- ation Hall, corner Second and Han- cock Streets, on Saturday, May 9, at 8 p.m., under the auspices of the Workers International Relief. Only the organized power of the working class oan save the political prisonerst +E erate Page Lhree IND. UNEMPLOYMENT CONFERENCE PLANS FOR STATE WIDE STRUGGLE 182 Delegates From All InduStrial Cities Meet; Present Demands to Governor 3,000 Demonstrate at Park; 1,000 Come to State House; Militancy Gets Hearing INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (By Mail) — One hundred and eighty-two dele- gates, a fine cross section of the American working class, including Negroes, whites, ex-servicemen, mem- bers of the Trade Union Unity League, of the A, F. of L. unions, of the railroad brotherhoods and from all industries met here in an im- portant and successful state confer- ence on unemployment, May 4. A delegation of 15 forced the gov- ernor tg listen to their demands for unempl@yment insurance and others next phase struggle. ‘The committee of 15 consists of: Luesse, Burton, J. Campbell, Puckett and Griffin from Indianapolis; Clark and Owens from Terre Hayte; Hancock from Clinton; Repett from Brazil; Stewart (a farmer) from Danville; Perrish from Marion; Teresh, Stoker, Bucha and Langferd from the Calumet section. Demands adopted and presented to the governor, and around which the local organizations will be built of the unempleyad and extracted vague promises from | up, were for him, | 1--$25 cash relief monthly for all Two Demonstrations. | unemployed ‘The demonstration to back up the 2. Payment of all gas, electric, delegation took place at two points,| fucl, water, clothing, medical ser- About 3,000 gathered in Military| vices and rent bills of the unem- Park, which the governor and local] ployed by the counties. capitalist press had announced was 3. A minimum wage of $5 a day the place, and about 1,000 gathered | on all government and charity work at the state house, as had been ori- ption from tax and mort- ginally intended by the hungerj gage payments for the jobless. marchers. 5. No foreclosures on farmer or ‘The militancy of the workers, de-| evictions of tenant farmers, and po spite the police terror, was great.| sheriff's sales because of ° unpaid Three delegates were arrested and| taxes. placed on bonds of $5,000 each. One| 6. A law for the seven-hour day, of the arrested men was Theodore} with $30 a week minimum wages. Luesse, the secretary of the. state 7. Right of the unemployed te or- committee for unemployment in-| ganize, assemble and voice their @¢- surance, | mands without police terror or prose- (Bditor's Note-—-The capitalist | cution press news services in New York| 38. Unemployment insurance lew speak of 3,000 hunger marchers be-| for $15 a weck and $3 more for each ing driven from in front of the state house by police and the state house being occupied by militia correspondent says nothing abou! this phase ef the demonstration ex- cept what is printed above.) | Set An Example. | The conference mobilised the dele- gates for further local struggles and set an example by putting back the | furniture of an evicted Indianapolis | worker on the very day it met The conference made plans for circulating signature lists demanding state insurance for ihe jobless. It| planned the building of strong or- ganizations in all Indiana cities around the demands adopted. It elected a state committee of 15 and a bureau of five to meet and take up the practical direction of the Our} 9, dependent to be paid each unem- ployed ‘worker. All funds to be raised by tax- ing property worth $25,000 or over and persons or corporations whese annual revenue is over $5,000. 10.—All funds to be administered by the rkers’ committees. 50 Negro Delegates. About 50 of the delegates were Ne- es and most of the delegates were native born. They came from the principal industrial towns of the state. On the way they were réceivéd with demonstrations of approval in. the places they passed through, an instance being at Marion, where they were met by a brass band and 3,000 workers assembled on the publie square. Starving Kentucky Miners Wage War With Company Gangs (CONTINUED FROM PAG lockout. Local Kentucky papers tell of miners’ conditions, as follows: Miners make only $2 to $4 a day when they work. They put in 10 to 12 hours. There is only two or three days’ work a week. If a miner is fired by one mine, he is blacklisted by all others. Seven hundred out of 2,000 in the Staright Greek mines are totally unemployed. To some of the families the Red Cross gives store and potatoes. Children are in rags orders of $3 a week for flour, beans and barefoot. DNED Seize Food. Miners began to raid and take out all feod from the company stores and chain stores in the community sev- eral weeks ago. Some stores were thus emptied several times in succes- sion. They also began to mass picket in force before the mines. Some one blew up an empty shaft at one mine. The company guards, all deputized by the sheriff, retaliated by burning down a dozen miners’ houses. About a month ago, a mine guard named Estes Cox fired on some FILIPINO PAPER FOR ORGANIZ Supports Agricultural Workers Union SALINAS, Calif. (By Mail).—The Salinas Valley Mail,” a Filipino news- paper here is publishing a series of articles calling on the Filipino agri- cultural workers in California to join and support the Agricultural Work- ers League, affiliated to the Trade Union Unity League. “Because of the wage controversy existing between the Filipino field workers and the private farmers of Santa Clara Valley,” writes Victor R. Rapanan, a staff representative of the “Salinas Valley Mail,” “the Fili- pinos, who wish to always vindicate themselves fvom undue accusations that they are the of lowering the American standard of living by accepting lower wages, held a meet- | ing to join the Agricultural Work- ers League in order to protect them- selves from possible racial entangle- ments such as had been demon- strated to the bitter experience of the Filipinos last year.” . The program adopted at this meet- ing of the Filipino agricultural work- ers was: |1) Strike against wage cuts; (2) Spread Labor Unity; (3) Double pay for overtime; (4) For higher wages; (5) Equal pay for equal work; (6) Against race discrimination. The meeting was well attended and the Filipino. agricultural workers gave the program enthusiastic sup- t, ‘i End Oe eS | pickets, and some one behind a reck shot back at Cox, The bullet hit a twig, glanced, and struck Cox in the knee. Bloochounds were sent by the sheriff, and placed on the trail. The first miners’ house the dogs want, te Was one of a man who did not hava a. rifle, so the sheriff arrested Mil- liard Lamb, a friend of that miner. Warrants Out, ‘Two weeks ago a scab named Ghar- ley Carpenter at the Black Mountgin. Co. mine was seized by 100 men ang given a flogging. Childrers, supgr- intendent of the company, swore gut warrants for six strikers for this. A large force of armed deputiés went to arrest the men, and picked up a Negro miner at the Black Moun- tain camp whom they charged with “banding and confederating.” White miners denounced the arrest, and am exchange of shots took place in which Deputy Sheriff Jess Pace was killed, and other deputies shot a miner, Will Burnett, wounding him and after- wards arresting him. and charging him with murdering Pace. ; The mine guards (deputy sheriffs) continued to tour around the vicinity for days, trying to intimidate the miners. Two Pitched Battles. . A gun battle with no"known killed and several wounded took place last week. . Then the most serious struggle of all followed, Tuesday, in which thre¢ jcarloads of deputies with machine guns, hand grenades, gas hambs, rifles and automatic pistols tried to shoot out a group of armed piokets on the roadside, and got the \warst of it. The known killed arg: Carl Rich- mond, striking Miner; and Jim Dap- jels, Otto Lee, and Howard Joes, company gunmen. Shepard Pupeiful, a mine guard, was shot seven and may die. Estes Cox was ph 4 again. 'W. M. Turnblazer, president of the Kentucky-Tennessee district of the U. M. W., is trying to make the fight a purely legal one, and h mass jectings at which resolutions asking.the governor to “investigate” are passed. The company hag a | drastic injunction against organiga- tion. : % Disturbances in Your should be checked at once. B's, erous to neglect these ains. Night rising, bask urn can paually y asing Midy e relieve all over world for nearly tury). Get some Sygeeee your druggist af