The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 18, 1931, Page 5

= . DAIL Y WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JU LY 18, 1931 NEW DAILY WORKER CLUB IN KONA, KENTUCKY MUST BLAZE WAY FOR ACTION! Daily Worker Clubs ng into regions ouched. The VD: Wr “mut in Go: ofore are pefétrat: elopment ot rding to try to get m nal and Janguag 5 tions to join. We will try t social affair for the Dally Wo sponsible for’ the initiation Three dollars and twenty-five cents t start which some of the comrades | was collected in pledge: n the larger districts can well take All readers, sympathizers and xample from, He w friends of the Daily Worker are “I organized a Ddily Worker | urged to attend the next meeting Club there Jast week and it prom {ses to he genuine, They have: agreed fully after Lexpiained our methods of organtyation” The Club haw clected 9 secretary -chtir- man and hes already started off in activity with an order of 20 Daily Workers. The next meeting of the Club promises to be: ‘very intresting and of great organiz: tional valve to ‘all Daily Wor! Clubs everywhere, The National Office of the Daily Worker is.very anxious to get reports of every meeting of this splendid group. Minutex should be kept by ali Daily Worker Clubs and sent in Promptly to the Daily Worker, 35 East 12th St. N.Y.C, This will en- nble both tke business and edi torial staffs to communicate wit the membership of nll Daily Worker Clubs and establish a Strong connecting link, HICKSVILLE FOLLOWS the following report from a'brand Worker Club’ in About six were present. ding secretary, ee, We are going to work for the spreading “a Bupport of the Daily Worker; decided to make the club a of the Club, to of J. E,W Hicksville, eld at the home zen, 9 Harrison Ave. I. It should he the revolutionary duty of all workers in this viei to make thix club a success by attending and taking & most netive part in the social and organizational, life of the Daily Worker Club. ‘Build the Hicksville Dally Worker Club, Make it the best in the country. START CHALLENGES, It is h time that these were challenges from some of the comi- rades active in Daily Worker work to beat other comrades in their dis- tricts and cities at the important, job of starting a Daily Worker Club. Make your Daily Worker Club the best and most interesting in activity and program, both socially and or- ganizationally. . PLEDGES KILL DEFICIT. Sustaining Fund pledges are be- ginning to come In, but not fast This must develop into an ant source of funds Daily Worker, Weekly pledges of large and sn: will break down the defic ing the Daily Worker, Fill in the Coupon at the bottom of this page immediately and mail it in with your donation and pledge! FUNDS IN BIG DROP; MUST CONTINUE DRIVE AND TURN N COUPON BOOKS Workers who do not want their names published because of, pos- sible persecution should indicate this in sending im their contribu- . Collectors shonld ask.those contribute whether they want their nantes printed. | a $208.03 received on Wednes- y! No wonder when a district fie 6 (Cleveland) sends in only 50 cents! We must do a lot better;com- rades. We've almost reached the $35,000 and we mustn’t falter now. We must go over the top withthe drives and we must continue_uptil every district has reached its quota! Only $3.60 from District 1 Bos- ton), $4 from 3 (Philadelphia), noth- ing ‘trom 4 (Buffalo), $1.75 from. 7 (Detroit), $5.52 from 8 (Chicago), $5.25. from. 9 (Minneapolis), nothing from 10 (Kansas City) and 11 (Ag- ricuitural), $2.50 from 12 (Seattle), 2 from 13 (California), $2.50 from 5 (Connecticut), nothing from. 16 (the South), 17| (Birmingham), 18 (Butte) and 19 (Denver)—this is the way the districts outside of New York are conducting the arivat_—_tin ; fact, the biggest contribution next to that from the New York District was $9.70, from District 5 (Pitts- burgh), from the heart of the mine strike! Well, let’s put some real life into the drive! Unit 401 of Chicago, with a quota of $60, has passed the $110 miark, but where are the others? If all the money collected on coupon books, on cards, in collction boxes and in other ways were turned in, the figures would read much better, But, whther filled or not, all coupon books, cards and other collection material, must be turned in at once! ois oe Correction In the list of contributions pub- lished in the Daily Worker of about ten days ago $11.50 was erroneously eredited to Unit 303 of Chicago; this contribution was from Unit 304. In the issue of June 24, $5 was crefiited to the Ladies’ Auxiliary of the Workmen's Circle of Stamford, Conn, This organization is not in existence in Stamford and the money should have been credited to the ‘Working Women's Council. Cleveland Women to Organize for Milk, Relief for Miners CLEVELAND, Ohio., special duly 17.—-A women’s. conference to or- money for the striking miners and their families will be held in Cleve- land on August 7. The conference will also organize a milk fend cam- paign for the miners’ children, many of whem never taste milk and suffer in health accordingly. Al! women’s organizations are urged to take an active part in this campaign. Credentials and requests for further information may be addressed to Rose Burt, 3556 East 144th Street, CLEVELAND TAG DAY ON DESPITE Collect Reilef to Aid Mine Strikers CLEVELAND, Ohio, July 18.—Per- mission was denied the Cleveland Miners’ Relief Committee for a tag day by Louis Petrash, chairman of the Welfare Board. on the ground that five out of the seven members of his committee said “that it would be setting a bad precedent.” In spite of the refusal of official sanction, the Miners’ Relief Committee is going ahead with its plans to hold the tag days on July 18 and 19, as previously announced. Ten miners in from the striking coal fields, dressed in their pit clothes, will be out on the tag days with collection cans. The following food stations are to be used on the tag days as head- quarters: Central Station, 1426 W. Third St., Room 210; Finnish Work- ers’ Hall, 1303 W. 58th St.; Hun- garian” Workers’ Hall, 4309 Lorain Ave.; Ukrainian Labor Temple, 1050 Auburn Ave.; So. Slav Workers’ Hall, 5607 St. Clair; E. Side Hungarian Workers’ Home, 11123 Buckeye; Workers’ Culture Center, 14101 Kins- man; International Workers’ Order, No. 148, 926 E. 105th St.; Collin- wood Youth Center, 695 E. 152nd St.; Pulaski Hall, 6628 Chambers Ave. The stations will be, open at 10 o’clock in the morning on both days, and all workers who Wish to do their part in helping the miners on to a victoroius finish to their struggles are asked to report to the station nearest his home. At the last Monday night’s meet- ing of the Miners’ Relief Committee a motion was unanimously passed, that a truckload of food be sent each week to the coal fields. The second truckload went off on Sun- day. The largest part of the truck- load consisted of over 800 pounds of bread, specially baked and. contrib- uted by Bakers’ Local, No. 56, of the A. F. of L. LSNR BLOCKS MINN. LYNCH MOB Attack Instigated by Landlords MINNEAPOLIS, July 17.—A lynch mob of 2,000, instigated by local bus- iness and real estate interests who objected to a colored family moving into a white residential district was blocked by the quick*’action of the local group of the League of Strug- gle for Negro Rights which mobilized white and Negro workers to defend the Negro family. Following the stoning of the home of the colored family, the L.S.N.R. organized a workers’ defense corp of Negro and white workers .and in- stalled it in the home of the family. A committee was also elected to visit the farmer-labor faker, Mayor An- derson, demanding full protection for the colored family and scoring the indifference of the police who stood by while the hired hoodlums DISTRICT 1 Bkiyn-LW.0, - 2.00) cago, Ind. 52 A. Misiura, W. S. Sobisch, Man- V. Glodich, Zelg- Lynn, Mass. $1.00] “hettan mi. 1.00 Col, by N. Worzella, | See, 6: 0, Iles from Lambert a i rete 25 Drug Co., Provi- Unit 4 75./C. Preede 25 dence, R. I. 1.60] Unit 5 4.00 by F. Sand- A. Halper Unit 8 Be rom 1.50 land, Mass. 1.00 | A, Monaco prev. do- F. Sandstrom 50 —— | ‘nated 5 but name ©. Olson, EB, Chi- ‘Total $3.60) failed to be pub- ‘cago, Ind. 1.00 DISTRICT 2 lished) A. Mlaciuk, Au- R. Tosehe, Clif- Lith Wirs, Kit, ‘burn, Til, +50 ton, N. J. 1.00 | Soe., Br. 49 + 5.00 ‘Total 52 $. Yarniiek, N.Y.C, —.50 | Bronx Shule 16 2.25 DISTRICT 9 Brooklyn: ——— | A. Schlemmer, Chi- 8. Hook “50 ‘Total 8170.71 City, Minn. 1.00 M. Lerner 50 DISTRICT 3 | Col. by J. Lindma B. H. Haggan ‘30| Philadelphia: Embarrass, Minn. 4.25 Gregory +50 | Louisinian.___ —_ Johnson 50 | Paniam Gastigian _.50 Total 25 Kelley 50|L, Papagian 100 DISTRICT 12 Wilder 50M. Dasyokyn, Wis- E.D. Mortenson, F, Blitstein :50 | comiseo, Pa. ‘Tonasket, Wash. 2.50 8. Dubonsky, Bay- . a — — onne, N. Jy 1, Total ‘Total $2.50 ‘Tax Duy Collections DISTRICTS DISTRICT 13 Sees 2 $15.30 | LW.0, Brit60,-~ J. Esters, Mesa, Sec. 7, Unit 4 3.00 |" Pitts, Pa. Ariz. 50 Sec, 7, Unit 2 3.08 | M. Podvorntk, B. Bay Section, Sec. 6, Unit 2 46| “(striking miner's Calif, 1.00 See. 6, Unit 4 14.30] wife) 1.09 | J, H. Lewey, Low Sec. 6, Unit 9 | M. Jenkins 25| Angeles, Calif. 50 See, 8, Unit 5 J. P&sKovitz 25 See. 5, Unit 27 H, Labovitz 25 Total Camp’ Woeolona, Allison 25 DISTRICT 15 Monroe 8.50/1, Supeoft :25 | Stamford, Conn, See. 3, Unit 5 1.00 | H, ‘Panky .25| Nucleus 2.50 Unit S .75|)K, Blinn 25 J , Rendlich 1.00 |.” Shore 25 Total $2.50 See. 1, Unit 2 3.25 | w, Lert 2s H, Polis, 250 | J. Hinik 125 | Total all dist. $ 208.03 Col. by Baskir, Cash. -20| Prey, received 34,449.26 Brooklyn 9.00 | Col. hy W. Gogos, §. Saduras, Pater- Ch’ston, W.Va, 4.00 | Total to date $34,057.20 son, N, J. 50) J, Lang, MeKees- +" DISTRICTS + Camp Croton Ave. Rock, Pa. 1.00 | Money for fol. was Peekskiil, N. J. 8.40| Lundale, W. Va. See. 2 6.90} J, Cazin 50 Sec, 5, Unit 20 8.15] J, Semash 350 E. Kremen, Bronx 3.00 ae petits 2s Sec. 5, Unit 1418.53, Total 70 1.00 H. Kreisworth, “DISTRICT 6 Martina 1.00 Brigton Beach 1.00 | Davies, Colum. J. Martins 50 Saonoff, Brighton bus, Ohio 50) J. Martins 2.50 Beach ——— | F. I. Faegan 2.00 Esthonian Wkrs. ‘Totat 50] D, Peterson 50 CL, Harlem 5.00 + -DISTRICT 7 F, Vernberg 50 * See. 4, Unit 4 2.00 | Saigtnaw, Wash. J. Doering 50 ‘Tractor School, ©. Schofield .50 | H, De Block 50, Brooklyn 6.00 | Two others LH, Peterson 25 ” Trnetor School, Anonymous, Ad- J, Peterson 25 Brooklyn 11.00, rian, Mich, H. De Block 25 » Bee. 5, Unit 15 5.75 i H. De Block 25, See. 7, Unit 8 tad J, Julius 25 See. 7, Unit 2 2,00 ‘DISTRICT § John Reed Br. 134, A, Baron, East Chi- Totat $10.25 i ¥ Equal rights for Negroes! enclose a 50 cent piece to build the. im: Beginning NAME .cqpegesssssseereseeeee I pledge myself to WEG ae Che sme send a weekly sum} TO DAILY WORKER 50 EF, 13th St, N. ¥, C. Send me information on Daily Worker Clubs .. BD ) FROM PAGE ONE) D, W. Sustaining Fund ............- , (Put cross here) or monthly sum of 9 the Baily Worker ADDRESS i City State for Negroes, at least one half ét Whom shall be Negroes! ‘The immediate release of ‘all Negroes taken by the murderous sheriff and his deputies at Camp Hil Full freedom of speech, assembly and organization for the Negro masses in the Black Belt. Immediate arrest of the murderous sheriff and his deputies. Only the mass power of the workers and oppressed farmers, black and white, can free the victims of the Scottsboro frame-up! Down with peonage, up of the Negro people! people in the black belt! = * jim erowism, persecution, lynching and frame- Right of self-determination for the Negro Black and white workers—native and foreign born workers—fight side by side against wage cuts and unemployment, against lynching, deporta- tions and anti-foreign-born laws and mass arrests! Negro workers and oppressed farmers! Fight and defeat the sabotage and betrayal of the Scottsboro: boy White workers! Rally to the Defense of the Negro people! by the reactionary Negro leaders! v {i Central Committee Communist Party of U.S.A, of the real estate agents stoned the Negro family. The committee was headed by Comrade Poindexter, a Negro working class leader. The defense activities of the LS. NR. were splendidly supported by the Communist Party and the Trade Union Unity League which organ- ized groups of workers to patrol the blosk in which the family is situated. ‘The attack on the colored family was denounced by the Communist Party as part of a nation-wide tam- paign by the bosses to pit workers of different racial groups against each other and thus divert them from the necessary struggle against the star- vation program and war prepara- tions of the bosses. The Party called upon the workers to defeat this vi- cious manouver and to unite in com- mon struggle on August First against race prejudice, for the release of the Scottsboro boys, against the war preparations of the imperialist bos- ses and for the defense of the Soviet Union, Newsboys! Readers! ‘The capitalist press is conceal- ing the most vital news about ganize the collection of food and] CITY OBJECTION (CUNTINUED FROM PAGE ONED Spread teror organized by the rn bosses and their police and supported by such imperialist lack- eys as the leaders of the N.A.A.C.P. and the Chattanooga Ministers Alli- e. The bosses are engaged in a desperate effort to crush the growing mass movement of white and Negro workers in defense of the nine Scottsboro boys. For several weeks, the N.A.A.C.P. lead and several of the big preach- ers in the Chattanooga Ministers Alliance have been fostering this ter- ‘or, threatening Negro workers with arrest for supporting the Scottsboro Defense Conferences and other ac- tivities aimed at mobilizing mass support for the Scottsboro victims. Aided by these betrayers of the Struggles of the Negro people, the Police in several southern cities have ted scores of Negro workers who ve been active in the Scottsboro defense movement. Over a score of delegates to the All Southern Scotts- boro Defense Conference heid in Chattanooga during the month of May were arrested while on their way to the conference. Several lead- ers of the defense movement were arrested by Chattanooga police while Jeaving the conference hall at the close of the conference. The attack on last night’s meeting, folowed the action of the local police in breaking up several Other Scotts- boro protest meetings in this county. The night before another meeting had been broken up by the police. At Daldeville, the county seat, a meeting was also broken up. Chief of Police J. M. Wilson gave as his reason ‘for breaking up these meet- ings the fact that speakers had ad- vocated full, social and political equality for the Negro People. As an afterthought, and taking his cue ar sboro protest meeting is part of | TERRORIZE NEGRO MASSES “FOR DARING TO PROTEST SCOTTSBORO FRAME-UP from the N.A.A.C.P. leaders, he ded that speakers had threat Governor Miller of Alabama with death unless the nine innocent framed-up boys were released. This lies was spread by Walter White and William Pickens several weeks ago, these Uncle Tom lackeys of the bos- ses trying to interpret the thousands of protest telegrams tent the gov- ernor as a threat against his life. Williams Pickens, speaking in Chat- tanooga, openly called upon the southern white ruling class to crush the growing mass movement of white and Negro workers against the lynching..terro® of the bosses and their courts. The bloody terror now launched by the bosses is a direct result of the traitorous activities of these misleaders. Negro and white workers! Rally to the defense of the oppressed Ne- gro people of the South! Give your answer to this Itaest outburst of ter- ror by building ever greater the mass movement to save and free the nine boys and to smash the bosses lynch terror! Forward with the building of block and neighborhood commit- tees and with the holding of protest meetings and demonstrations. Demonstrate on August First against the bosses’ war preparations! The war is now being carried on against the Negro and white workers of this country and will be extended internationally against the workers and especially against the workers of the Soviet Union, the only country where racial and national oppres- sion has been abolished. Demon- strate against the Scottsboro boss court lynch verdict, against the traitorous activities of the Negro Uncle Tom reformists at the head of the N.A.A.C.P.! Negro and white workers! Rally to the defense of the Southern Negro masses! All out on the streets on August First! (CONTINUED FRUM PAGE ONE) the entire working class population. Last night the police stopped a car and arrested seven young strikers for not reason at all. They are being held on $1,000 bail each, This morning Abe Harfield of the T.U.U.L. was arrested on the‘street after being followed by five motor- cycle cops and escorted to the po- lice station by 80 cops. Manuel Francisco, a young striker, was re- leased on $1,000 bail. He is facing deportation. The Royal Mills strikers have opened up a relief store in Park St., Pawtucket, and are determined to fight to a finish. The International Labor Defense has opened an office at 150 Main Street. An Associated Press dispatch from Putnam, Conn., states that the en- tire day shift of the silk mills of M. Salzberg Sons & Co,, left their jobs today and joined the strikers of the Edward Bloom & Co. plant in a mass meeting. ge Reals PROVIDENCE, R. f, July 17.— The U. S. Department of Labor which has failed up to today to break the Rhode Island textile strikes through “abitration” and “citizen’s committees” is now resort- ing to the, “frame-up.” When Anna Burlak was arrested on Wednesday theimmigration inspectors refused to show her the warrant for her arrest and practically kidnapped her. Later they showed an alleged code tele- graphic warrant to Israel Praeger of the LL.D. The immigration author- ities, although knowing that Anna Burlak is ag American born citizen, plan to hold her in the East Boston immigration station until she proves her citizenship. This is a typical frame-up method of removing union organizers from the struggle, while the other branch of the Labor De- partment, the abritration branch, endeavors to sell out the strike. The same scheme was used in the Law- rence strike last February. Every R. I. textile. worker has learned in the last number of weeks that the government is a strike-breaking agency of the mill owners. Hold Mass Meet. On Wednesday night a mass meet- ing of the Royal Silk Mill strikers, called on one hour's notice, mobilized 500 strikers, in a lot at Fountain and Woodbine Sts. Pawtucket. A Roy- al striker acted as chairman and the speakers ificluded Abe Harfield of the Trade Union Unity League, Mar- tin Russak, District Organizer of the N,T.W.LU., a General Fabrics striker, Nat Kaplan of the Communist Party and James P. Reid, National Presi- dent of the N.T.W.U. The meetings on this lot will be every evening at 7 p. m. for all Royal and General Fabrics strikers and sympathizers. The mass meeting Thursday night is expected to fill the lot. About 100 scabs have gotten into the Royal Germany. Only the Daily Worker is giving the important facts and the vital news about the powerful Communist Party of Germany, which is preparing the whole toil- ing masses for revolution. Expose ‘}the censorship of the capitalist press! Tell everyone that only the Daily Worker has told the truth of the Hoover “Plan”, and is the only one that will tell the truth about the crisis. Mill here under the protection of po- lice with orders to shoot. Jail Strikers, The following strkiers were yesterday in Pawtucket: Mrs. Stella Olevitch, Estelle Greb, and Andrew Goolich. These workers Pleaded not guilty this morning and were released on bail. Israel Prager, representative of the International Labor Defense was in court helping in the defense, The I.L.D. is open- arrested THOUSAND TEXTILE STRIKERS MEET TO CARRY ON STRUGGLE ing a Pawtucket office so that it can act more speedily in all local strike cases. The defense commit- tee of the Central Falls, Pawtucket strikers met Wednesday afternoon to organize the local defense ma- chinery. The General Fabrics Corporation up to Wednesday 1 p. m. had issued no statement on the question of meeting the General Fabrics Strike Committee on Friday. A number of days ago they indicated through a representative of the U. S. Dept. of Labor that they were willing to en- ter into negotiations with the strike committee. The Strike Committee upon receiving this information from President Reid of the N.T.W.U. sta- ted that they were willing to meet the company officials on Friday at a mutually agreeable time and place. The silence of the company indicates their hope that they can still suc- ceed in breaking the strikers’ ranks. On Wednesday 400 strikers of the Edward Bloom Silk Mill in Putnam, Conn. massed on the picket line. There are 500 workers on strike in this mill. The New London, Conn. police forcefully prevented the Put- nam strikers’ delegation from getting near the Bloom mill there, and pre- vented a meeting of the 37 night weavers who came out in a sympathy strike with the Putnam strikers on ‘Tuesday. The Bloom Mill in Put- nam has solidly organized into the National Textile Workers Union. In the last two days over 300 strikers signed up and paid their initiation fees. The workers are determined to go back organized and keep what- ever conditions they win. The Weybosset (American Woolen Company) strike in Olneyville, R. I. is standing solid. Relief store No. 1 has been opened. Delegations are being sent to Lawrence and Maynard and the organization work is still going on to prepare to strike the Fletchers’ Mill, (AWC Olneyville)) despite the lack of solidarity shown by the loom fixers in this mill. FRUIT PACKERS GET 30 PC. CUT By a Cannery Worker Correspondent MODESTO, Cal. July 17.—Roam- ing around searching for a job, I fin- ally got one in Stanislaus County, where’ about 1,200 workers are now employed in various canneries. This cannery opened on the peach pack. Some canneries around here have just completed the apricot run, at which they had to work at a wage cut. They were hopeful that the peach pack would net better wages. But we all got fooled as usual. At the Cooperative Cannery in Modesto, where about 250 women and 50 men are employed, we re- ceived a 30 per cent wage cut as compared with last year. The first day we struck and shouted we would not take it, but unorganized and without leadership we had to sub- mit for we had to have food, miser- able though it was. My first week netted me $8.24 for 46 hours. We need an organization badly. We also need the Daily Worker and leaflets explaining why our wage are cut and what we should do to fight effectively. nited Froi it Miners (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) vation program of to formulate and fig ht for local pro-! grams of demands.” The gen de-! mands are: General increase in wages. Unemployment insurance, paid for by the government and bosses, and immediate relief for all unemployed mizers. The six-hour day without reduction in pay. Establishment ot check-weighmen and union conditions. Recognition of mine committees elected by ajl the workers, Abolition of company towns, com- pany stores, evictions and paymert picket. No discrimination against Negro, foreign-forn and young workers. (The conference voted an amendment to the program to expand the descrip- tion of discrimination against Ne- grves and to make @ special section on the fight against such attempts to use racial lines to devide the workers). Unconditional release of ali workers arrested in connection wtih strike and union activities. Withdrawal of armed forces from the striking areas. Abolition of the labor injunction. A national collective agreement for the whole coal industry. (The con- ference particularly pointed out that while we fight for a national agree- ment, the fight begins on the basis of local or district struggles, and spreads. Settlements on a less than national scale can not be avoided in the beginning). The program p-povides for setting up of a Miners Snity Committee of Action, to lead and unite all the pres- ent and future struggles on a nation- al scale, and to spread the organiza- tion according to the following out- line: . The spreading and strengthening of the present strikes in Pennsyl- vania, Ohio, West Virginia, Illinois and Kentuc 2. The initiation of new strikes upon the basis of partial demands to be formulated locally, these strikes to be conducted by broad rank and file strike committees. 3. The development of ‘local: and district relief committees to support the existing strikes. 4, The systematic organization of locals of the National Miners Union. 5» The building of minority groups in the UMWA and in the West Vir- ginia Mine Workers Union (Frank Keeny’s union). 6.. The establishment of unemploy- ed councils in the various mining centers. 7. The linking together of all these organizations into local Miners’ Unity Committees of Action. ®. The organization of broad mine committees on the basis of local de- mands. 9. The organization of hunger marches of unemployed and employed miners in all sections of the mining industry. 10. The holding at once of a whole series of local and district confer- ences and mass meetings to popular- ize the program of this national con- ference and to organize the miners for struggle in support of it. The Miners Unity Committee of Action will set up branches on a dis- trict and sub-district and local scale, to which affiliate the locals of the NMU, sympathizing locals of the .U. M. W. and other rank and file groups, including unemployed cougeils and groups of unemployed workers. “Miners, unite and fight!” the pro- gram ends, “It is high time to put a stop to the starvation of ourselves and our families. Fight for the right to live! Fight for milk for our, babies! Fight against starvation and slavery!” The conference had a total of 685 delegates, representing seven- states: Arkansas, Alabama, Illinois, Ken- tucky, West. Virginia. (two districts) and Pennsylvania (western, .central and Anthracite districts)- and Ohio (eastern and Hocking Valley- fields). The delegations represented 270 mines, a total of 35,279 miners work~- ing and 45,491 striking. There were 583 delegates who belong to the Na- tional Miners Union, 65 delegates who belong to the UMWA, and 34 dele- gates from other groups, There were 47 registered women delegates, with others unregistered in attendance; 161 Negro delegates, and 167 miners under 25 years of age. The conference was organized, by unanimous vote in each case, with Frank Borich as chairman, with a vice-chairman from each district, Tom Myerscough as secretary, Bojus chairman and Leo Thompson secre- tary of the program and resolutions committee, and Wright, chairman of the credentials committee. ¢ PITTSBURGH, Pa., July 17.—With the election of the National Miners Unity Committee of Action, repre- senting all districts and prepared to co-ordinate the struggle of approx- imately 45,000 miners striking against starvation in five states, instructed also to conduct organization work among tens of thousands of other miners who may be on strike at any time, assured of the cooperation of every one of the 685 delegates to this breaking plan! Meet Drafts | most important of all miners’ r | {ings, the United Front National Con- nee of Mi: ed yester- t5.p.m. The conference closed | with singing of “Solidarity ® Wie wines naxns The Committee of Action a tion this conference,” ro: meeting immedi after and | ram, “calls upon the miners to fight elected. as its socreta for the following nds.icourgh, out on $1: and in addition we urge the charged with riotir ; Slaughter because deputies trying to | kill Tom killed another man on the | picket: line. instead. Members of the Committee of Ac- tion were proposed by the delegations | they represent, and accepted unan-| | imously by the-conference as a whole. They are: Western Pennsylvania District: Tom Myerscough, Fred Siders, Harry | | wilson, Vincent Kemenovich, Dan | Lane (Negro-miner), Mary Smith and | George. Patrick. Kentucky: Jason Alford, W. N. Mahan and Duncan Ohio and West Virginia: Alex Dorsey (Negro miner), Wright, Firby and | | iniseript. Robert Sivert. - Anthracite: Carl Her- | : Ri v F. ¢ r= | Abolition of the speed-up. oti. Sobel sdienatal ant | ee of the health and safety | soe Weber. Alabama and Tennessee: ba capa oe f e Pierce anti Braxton; [linois: Earl Apion or tig sheckeort, Wilkerson, Joe Tash, and Mike Ru- The xight to rganize, strike and| kivina. Youth: A. Wally, Stuewicki and Brown, Centtal Pennsylvania: T o benominated later. Adopt Reports The full meeting of the conference, that is, of the delegations from out- | Side the tri-state struck area and the executive committees of the stduck area,-heard reports from the series of --district and departmental con- ferences held today before it as- sembled and in each case adopted them inanimously. The ‘Kentucky delegation reported through Dan Brooks that it was re- turning tonight to Kentucky with National Miners Union which it ex- pected to use within the next few weeks. It decided to call a meeting of the general district. strike com- mittee of Harlan County and intro- duce to it the tactic of mass picket- | ing. s It will prepare a state conference on August 1 at Wallins Creek and will also report on the Pittsburgh conference at mass meetings through- out Kentucky, at the same time broadening leaflets explaining the program of the Unity Committee of Action and of the National Miners Union. The Kentucky delegation re- quests that its relief organization be added to that of the Pennsylvania- Ohbio-West Virginia Relief Committee, and announced that it is planning soup kitchens and sectional and state wide relief organization. It proposed a series of mass demonstrations throughout Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia for’ the ‘Feledse “of “the 131 Harlan strikers held in jail, many of them being charged with murder. In making the report, the Kentucky delegation expressed thanks to the International Labor Defense and con- fidence that with the support of all the workers, these men can be freed. ‘The Western Pennsylvania delega- tion, reporting on its conference thru Kemenovich, stated that they were convinced the immediate next step was still the fight to smash the strike breaking agreement the UMW had made in the Pittsburgh Terminal Mines. Shortly after the delegation reported, news was brought that half the remaining workers in “P and W” Mine of the Pittsburgh Terminal had walked out because, despite tne UMW contract supposed to assure them 45 cents a top, pay to 30 Cents. To Extend Strike ‘The Central Pennsylvania confer- ence reported preparations to ex- tend the strike there. A special United Front Conference has been called for Sunday, in Johnstown, which will be addressed by Foster and by Cari Price. These two will also speak, the same afternoon to a Mass meeting at. Woodvale, near Johnstown. This will: be the first National. Miners. Union Conference ever held in. Central Pennsylvania. The joint Ohio and West Virginia conference reported a program of sec- tional conf2rences and organization. A sectional conierence for the Pan- handle will be held July 20. On the same date, there will be one in Dil- Jonvale, Ohio. On the 26th there will be & conference in northern West |Virginia, and.on the-same date one fot. the Blair section; Ohio, Cambrid- ge will have-a sectional conference on August: 2, Bogus, reporting,’ described plans te build the Ohio and West Virginia picket, lines in grotips, and announced there would be, next Tuesday a hun- ger march in Jefferson county, Ohio. There will be a hunger march in Ohio county, West Virginia, soon. State hunger marches will follow. Organi- zation of a Joint Unity Committee is to be started at. once, and a relief committee for Northern West Vir- ginia. ; A report on the role of the young miners in the industry and in the present strike was given by A. Wally, National Youth Organizer of the union. William Z., Foster, bringing greetings of the Trade Union Unity ‘League and a warning that unless the young miners were organized their valuable leadership qualities and en- thusiasm were lost to the strike and might even be used by the bosses, was loudly cheered. So was M. Sho- han, speaking for the T. U. U. L. national Youth Committee, A lively, discussion took place, showing that the young miners un- derstand the present struggle and its problems, and were doing all they could to solve them and win the strike. Participating in the discus- sion were delegates from all sections. Proposals were made to organize first aid squads for picket duty, children’s clubs and playgrounds, | still in {ous charges so that high ba | m 4,000 blank membership cards in the | the company cut | ~ /DEFENSE DRIVE. Program of National Strugsle! FOR MINERS IS PUSHED BY TED) |876 Arrested, Keep 20 in Boss Jails EW YO! ith & a of Penr where 40,000" ¢o: | miners are f against starve tion and evictions, and r 200 ar jail, many held: under stay their release; -and niners killed and many seriously in- jured, the strike is like a battlefield,” said George W. Maurer, assistant séc- retary of the International Labor De- |fense, in the second complete resume issued by the defense -organization since the strike. Over 75 per cent of mining: town in the strike area have set up mili jers' defense committees under ¢ | rection of the International Labs | Defense. As is pointed out in- t+ report, it is the work of I, Inj organizers travelling through ~t? strike area to instruct these cos j mittees how to function effectivel | leading the knowledge gained by -th jI. L. D. in its w The: organizer instruct the miners what to.do wher arrested, how to make accurate. re | ports, data and tabulations of--«) arrests and police terror and .dires the bail-raising campaign so the mi itant: leaders and workers.can be im. mediately released for the picket lit: and.various other work so. necessar in a strike. Out of the 876 arrested mine over 400 have served sentences from ten to ninety days, the avere- sentence being about thirty days. - In most of the small .communit! fining miners has become a pe. graft business for squires’ cau where the minor is arrested and the fine is only one. dollar, but an” ad- ditional $26 is added for, costs. This in itself, as pointed out by the I. L. D. report, is a burden to the de- fense organizations, as the fines have run into tens of thousands of dti- lars. Million Dollar Bail Raised by 1.L.D. Bail for arrested miner: militant leaders is at pr most important work of the jSince the strategy of the operat to arrest as many as possi! hold them under high bail, thereby crippling the strike. The official re- port points out that up to the pre- sent time over one million aollars }has been raised under direction of the International, Labor Defense. Two lawyers experienced in defen: work have been dispatched by the national office of the I. L. D. from New York and a third attorney re- tained in Pittsburgh, The" “latest move of the coal operators, accord- ing to the official reort made by the I. L. D., is arrests on a large ‘scale. George Maurer, assistant. secretary of the I. L. D. and in charge of tk¢ Ohio-Pennsylvania dal miners’ “dee fense work, points out that “we must prevent through mass activiti¢ the slugging and jailing of these mik itants. We must not permit our de+ fense work to lag behind. The strike must. not and will not be lost_be- cause of the brutality of- the~-coal | Operators and their agefits; thé po- lice. A powerful defense movement must be developed in these mining communities and funds supplied them for the necessary legal steps taken by the miners. The International Labor Defense calls upon all work- ers atid their sympathizers to rush funds to the Miners’ Defense, Rdom 430, 80 East 1ith Street, New York City. I and youth sections. wherever there exists a local unoin: The delegates jarticularly Provo) the rotten conditions inside the mines and discrimination as to the sort of jobs the young miners are given, General Demands, : Among the general demands of the “Program of Action” of . the -whole conference there is. one. applying particularly to young miners: “Equal Pay for Equal Work,” and the Youth Conference in its program brought forward special demands as follows: 1. $4 a day for unskilled work, 2. No discrimination. against yong miners, < 3. Equal. pay for. ~equal work, 4. No child labor. under 16 in. mine, and all those now employed to be supported by the government. 5. Six hour day, five day with full week’s pay... > 6. No discrimination - orsign young Negro miners. os Special Youth. committees of “ac- tion and a Youth Section -in ~Labor Unity were proposed. The Youtli conference elected a National Yopih Committee of three.’ The. conference unanimously voted to send telegrams demanding the release-of the Seotis- boro Negro boys. * The Youth conference closed wn the singing of solidarity,“and prot ises much towards building “Youth Sections in al ftowns represented today as well as in-those which sen! the 176 youth delegates yesterday: A special report was made-by<Bill Dunne on Labor Unity; in which~he pointed out that it is hot “only the duty but a major taskp for. all mem- bersof the wnion to circulate; support and get articles and worker’ corres: pondence for the offical organ of th. TUUL, Borich in his’ concluding: ‘vema™ A stressed the importanceof doing ~ same for the Daily Worker, at m tion of which the delegates tou’, applauded, and to lay the basis iy mediately for again. issuing the Mi > Worker, official organ of the Natio: yi Miners Union.