The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 24, 1931, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORE. FRIDAY, JULY 24,1931 Militant Tampa Cigar Workers Start Daily. Worker Club Moving Tampa Sales of A challenge to all other dis- lets must be the meteorte action Daily Going Up Now comment on and correspond with the Daily Worker. 2,000 Rhode Island Strikers At Rally INUED FRUM PAGE ONE) (ci | that Paterson silk workers had voted to go out in general strike on Wed- have a profound effect in many other silk centers, The NTWU plans to nesday. The Paterson silk strike will | call a New England silk conference | NEGRO REFORMISTS RUSH TO DEFEND BOSS TERROR AGAINST STARVING ALABAMA CROPPERS Calhoun in Associated cal Negro Press Dispatch of 40,000 men, and we are now work- ( ing to make it 2 national strike.” “In Eastern Ohio, where every picket Une since the strike started | has been clubbed, gassed or shot into by deputies,” said Bill Dunne, reporting to the strike committee, “and yet the determination to win of these miners stays at the same high pitch, except when it rises still | higher as during the two hunger} marches. If you want to see demor- | A SCAB IS A RAT— (By a Worker Striker) LETTERS FROM STRIKING TEXTILE WORKERS SHOW DETERMINATION TO WIN ries strike and how the scabs treated there? were ef the Tampa Cigar Workers in How does the Daily Work - | in order to spread the struggle. spe ‘ ? : alization and measure your own! 7, * . * thelr support for thelr fighting | flect the conditions and struccies of ; fon was taken| JUStifies White ‘Supremacy’, Admits Class | strength, look at the UML. the ee. moe Mae | organiser, the Daily Worker. Me: | the militant claar workers? What te |» A pacing neta re f Ref : 2) h ‘tali volts in’ all locale end eh dintinte, | PROVIDENCE, FR. I—At 8 o'clock SOLID FOR UNION cently they whizzed into the revo- | it about the Daily which lik ‘Tom ” rs ; d lationary atmosphere at its 4 or dislike? Write us ‘and Tot oe for strike relief. The General Fabrics -n erests 9 e ormists wit Capita ists the strikes in deflance of the-offi- this Lode § (Friday), .when the iy Moers Weeker, Meena est moment, when the Daily know. Your letters will be given ones =) Weybosett picket line was heading) We walked out on July 13th, 500 suffering the throes of its wi crisis, with a flash of §500, w: Across the country, to save thetr paper. Today the heartening and the utmost consideration and an- Swers sent which can be read to the members of the Daily Worker Club. | Come down to the Daily Worker | and Royal mills are still shut down solid. Sroka kis As the international working class Admits Class Interests With Bosses The fear of these Uncle Tom re-| cials of the U.M.W.” #8 PITTSBURGH, Pa., July 23.—New * for the meeting at the hall, 1755} Westminster St. two scabbers were strong. We struck because we are fed up on slaving on a 55 hour week | | valli i | . One scabber, of course, was| schedule. Being solidly in the unior welcome news comes that they | Clab and meet all friends and| PUTNAM, Conn., July 23.—The M,|T#llies to the now world-wide fight | formists that the Negro masses will | mines on strike in Ohio were repor- | *°°” : { : : h i to organ: fellow-workers. “Make It the “vince Salzberg silk mill’ here feeling the | ‘" Nesro rights and against the hide- | fight back against the murderous at-| ted today by the Ohio members of Ft Alice segs) The other was|we can win @ 48 hour week with no riends a for a weekly reunion of all readers i ous persecution of the Negro people. | tacks and in so doing will jeopardi: lanky Emma Rine. cutting in our wages, We picket ia f the Daily Work ft th i i % f the strikers has al- pardize| the Central Rank and File Strike . i RRM Ncent tT tre fist ltee on canes eee pane aoe Solic Bando the tools of the bosses within the| both the comfortable living and the At 12 o'clock the scabbers in the| every day Flor- Dally Worker Club in Ta fda, Surely thin in a feather ,in the enp of the revolutionary move- ment Follows the letter of A. b is from the new Read- and play games, build a workers’ so- etal i round the Daily Worker. Then the element of serious dis- cussion and the problems of organ- ization, Find ways of developing correspondence to your paper. De- ready been talking of conferring with the workers. M. Salzberg, head of| the plant, made statements to the press offering a “substantial increase” | in wages” to the employees, a 48 Negro race are rushing forwar@ in ja frenzied attempt to betray the struggles of the Negro masses, defeat their militancy and force them to standing of these reformists with their imperialist masters is cleary ex- pressed by Calhoun in the follow- ing paragraph: Committee, on their arrival in Pitis« burgh to attend the session of the | committee held today (July 22). | Hinchman mine, never organized before, is out. Lafferty mine, where twisting room were ready to come for lunch and Carlo Ricce the second hand was spying. When he saw the Picket line he got into his car, but AGAINST DISCRIMINATION By Salzberg Worker, Putnam Our strike of 300 workers started FeLacime Am the clear faetortes. | velop “fulltime tales of the Dally | hour week with three S-hour day Accent the frightful conditions im-| “At the present tim the disat- | tre wreatest tener rave, cca nut not by the Hartford Avenue way,| when the company tried to discrim here, none making over $18 a week. | spreading, s0 that it will reach ali | shifts for the weavers and a 55-hour | Posed by Jim-Crow capitalism. a fection 1s spreading. The better- | party, today. At Moundsville, west |OU% by the office way where there| inate against a member of the N. T eae are all working on the stag, | over Florida and bring thousands of | week, the same as at present, in the| Unble Toms Justify Boss Terror! | class Negro, that ts, those who have | virginia, where three mines on strike | We? COPS to protect him and his|w. vy, when the mill committes Ber system. hegen3 Fossey ae iene and readers to the Daily twisting, winding and warping de- Following the traitorous example| education and seme money, is try- were betrayed back to work by the company. could get no satisfaction from the aaa Nor should this activity be lim- | partments. The proposals were con-| Of Pickens, White and other leaders) ing to keep clear of the racial en- | Garw, the miners have sent for | _, Tust before one o'clock “sissy” Eddy | company officials we walked out sol- In every fa ind workers’ neighborhood In there should be a Daily ited to Tampa. Where are the other districts in thix {tmportant workt Workers do not have to be sidered Wednesday by the mass of the strikers. The indications are that | of the NAACP, John Henry Calhoun jin a feature article released by the “Press and appear- tanglements to protest himself and because he does not trust Commu- organizers of the National Miners Union. Pair, the office guy was going into| work and he sees the picket line. id. We are going to win FIGHT TO THE END t cf y ‘ ves | Associated Negro nist leadership. But this Negro No sooner did he enter that office } Worker Club of friends of the | Washes Cloke duet cnt ene i, | the strikers will not allow themselves | E : Se eae bd 0 Dally Worker, Pemparsacot ‘aaa sone aes pe bet che, ecole ven to be divided along craft lines since | ing in this week’s New York Am-| only represents a minority. The THE FOLLOWING STATEMENT | When “bald headed” Eddy Shortman By General Fabrics Worker J Tiakers and other workers, meet- | have keeping the mobs from flock- | they are solidly organized in the Na- | sterdam News, brazenly justifies the | oppressed mass Negro js anxiously | wa: anoprEeD JULY 22 BY THE | COMES and looks at the picket line | ws , | {mg each week to read, diseuss, | ing in to meetings of their club! | police-landlords attack on the Negro| wondering if there may be a chance | through the mill gate. After Short-| They tried to starve us back to tional Textile Workers Union which He speaks of “the whites for him in what is happening.” CENTRAL RANK AND FILE elief. They work. We answered with i il the crafts and depart- | CToppers. | sv i man goes back to the office the % 4 TOTALS ON TUESD AY SLUMP B ADLY . laa a its ses 2 Preparing to resist the ogre of the| What Calhoun means when he says| sm, eipuigh eat ea ana | @teen car comes down with three|tried to terrorize us b I dat tare Beas os | Negro, the fear of which haunts them | he does not trust Communist lead- | cops. That was a definite sign that| With clubs and tear gas. We kep | constantly!” He supports the bosses | PROVIDENCE, R. I. July 23.—The | © - a | News Tribune | in their raising of the issue of Com- CLEVELAND TO HOLD PICNIC AUG. 2 srsc=:oirs we [sus me fstoe “he nod Workers who do not want their ished muse of pos- ersecution shoald tndiente this in sending in their contribu- cit Collectorn should axk thoxe ite whether they want rinted. yay to the Soviet Union, and $68.15 from the International Workers’ Or- der. Which reminds us that the I W. O, is still over $1,000 behind its quota of $3,500. All the fraternal organizations are far sfort of their total quota of $10,000. and the Evening Bulletin are vici- ously lying about the Weybosset (American Woolen Co.) strike. These papers are claiming that 500 of the 600 workers of the mill are back to work, The truth is that only a hand- ful went in to work from the less | policy of white “supremacy” which | keeps the Negro masses in subjec- | tion. He says “it may be expected | that: the whites, who control the police agencies, will adopt harsh, re- | pressive measures to protect them- | selves against what are real, live dan- ership is that he sees no graft for himself and his little group of mis- leaders in the militant leadership of the Negro and white workers who constitute the Communist Party and its leadership. His statement that his little monied group is keeping clear of the struggles of the Negro masses | is an open admission of its utter un- Sun-Telegraph, and other papers, are creating a disgusting -~smoke screen of lies and slander to excuse the increased terror against the 40,000 miners striking against star- vation, and to try to place the blame for the terror on the National Miners Union. An editorial in today’s Post-Ga- zette seeks to couple the shooting of sissy the scabber “spilled the beans.” Moral: A scab is also a stoo! pigeon. Above all things we've found out the names of the five women scab- bers. They tried to trick us and come to work at a quarter to five. But when they saw us picketing they | called out the big shot Jimmy McCall | “the ladies man,” who probably | up the fight. They tried to fool us back to work with Anna Weinstock of the U. S. Department of Labor. We ran her out of town. Let t company grant our der go back to work WE MUST PICKET BY Royal Mill Striker i i concern with the brutal oppression ; sneaked them out through the of-| My suggestion is that we form 4 * re ! By ‘i important departments of the mill, ie too th 4 é 2 e 0 3 : ae on Pinter slumped badly, meee Seeley iain nee leans the freiag room, and ines | gers to them....” Supporting the} to which these masses are subjected | ha uaa cacaee ts Ha pe | fice. The names of the scabbers are:| march and try to get as near to ° 11. trict York i ‘las } | ie i 1 7 picket Agee ses de rere York) | hadly needed by the Daily to carry | are being gotten out again. boss slander of the Negro masses as| by the white ruling class of this coun ‘Alice Harace, Emma Rice, Mamie| the mill as possible. We must picke! ing in only $51.71. None of the other it over the tough summer. Ar- | range affairs, collect half dollars, | The Olneyyille police (the capital- possessed of a slave psychology, Cal- try, whose tools and agents Calhoun oner’s jury, with the failure of Fagan and Murray of the United Mine Salmani, Gertrude 'Salmani, the new rid despite all the cops in the w districts showed any reai activity, i | houn lyingly claims “the Negroes did| and the rest of the Uncle Tom re- . e rs are lying when they s: while iets, 5. (Pittsburgh, 8 Pur Gad iat tee acne mune | ist’s government iron fist) are using td y Re fightin, Nene ‘hat | torhist leadare are. | Workers to terrorize the miners of | SUKer in the place, Mamie Whalen, | The per ou of 1300 strik- (Chica, GAinneapolis), 10 Géan-| Sue hefore | your ‘diateict has | the bosses’ fake vote and the lies| not do much fighting back. at | formis bs | Conmanabinke «aaa tras ;,| the nurse. We wonder if these scabs | 400 are scabbing. Out of 1300 s Sern seer. UNECE, Shak | : | the wish is the father to the thought’! Negro workers repudiate the mis- re 1 consequént } sae City), 11 (Agriculturai), 16 (the South) and 17 (Birmingham) dropped out altogether. None of these dis- tricts, except 17, which is way over the-top, can afford to miss a single lay. . The totals would have been even reached its quo’ * Cleveland is arranging a press picnic for Sunday, Aug. 2. at Minona Park for the benefit of the Daily | . | in the capitalist press as a pretext for breaking up the picket lines. This morning a number of the strikers were injured, including Walter | is shown by his going out of his way to characterize as “notorious” the | ‘slave rebellions in Mississippi, Ark- leaders! Negro and white workers join the revolutionary mass fight for | Negro rights. Demonstrate on August | | ansas and Texas.” | First! collapse of the U.M.W. fake meeting | there. It is characteristic that the Post- Gazette editorial says not one word read the reports of the General Fab- e1 rs only 100 have tried to scab Notes for Wor kers on Strike lower had it not been for $25. sent | Communist weekly A pogrom ur | Plante, chairman of the Strike Com- | about the shooting to death by an| (By a Worker Correspondent) “I am a membér of the National ‘n_ by a group of workers aboard | sports, entertainment and refresh- | mittee. | Ohio mine boss of William Simon,| PROVIDENCE, R. I—Be Care- | Guard and if I go on the picket the Leviathan who were on their| ments is being arranged. The strikers sent a delegation to) INITED FRONT MEETS TO a 16-year old member of the Na-| ful of the guy who starts off with: | line, I will be court martialed.” Re + . the mayor to demand the with-| tional Miners Union, This is the| “I hear that... etc. etc.” and then | Look out for guys who talk like Sitae eee anew oe pistRior 13 | drawal of the police interference. | more dastardly as the murder of Si-| tells a funny story of some kind. | this. Comm. Worces- if ira d |The mayor refused to see the com-) SPREAD MINE STRIKE mon took place at practically the| Tell him to go to the Strike Com- . : ‘ See a |. OR oo | Mittees. The delegation then went to | ‘same time as the shooting in West | mittee and tell them. If it is true | Second hand to striker: “The “aihaven, Me. 50| cet. by J. Galgorr, the Public Safety Commission of ase pa Viriginia, about which the editorial] they will tell it to the world. boss wants you tn come to work.” eta SAGAR |. Seem TR | State of Rhode Island ,to maka: hk) (CONTINUED FROM PAGE.ONED | special leaflets, etc. Negro members} Was’ written, and the news of the | pe anes Striker: “See the Strike Commit- DISTRICT 2 tac 30 same demand. ‘The ‘answer. whic 5%. pega haye absolute equality with white| murder of Simon was carried in the Get the facts. Always make the | tee. I don't go to work until they aS ae a 50| A. Ransalp “25| the strikers will get will: saeed a working for the same boss in West miners in the National Miners Union | Post-Gazette: Neither does the edi-| fellow who tells you something | tell me!” z L. Metsger 20/3; Sunpolee 32] Eugene Cron ‘0 them all the more that strike break- --virginia, “are Joining the National’ ang the strike organization and there | torial mention the murder of. Fil-| against the strike prove his state © ATTA BOY—THAT'S THE AN- J. Andeeadix 1.88 | er pintermecen, 3 Manuel S. ‘s0| ing is the regular function of thé| Miners Union, aroused the enthus-| is not even a hint of any form. of| ipovich,-on his own front porch nor| ment. SWER! Usamee ” Tigo| Rochenter, N. Tal eet Ractles sno] capitalist government. | iasmn ‘ofthe members of the Central | segregation. | does it ‘mention that Spiro Zigaric | a Ces gel Feldman “50 ‘etal bane dnconies | ; Rank gnd File Strike Committee, and/ The convention wired greetings to.| Was murdered for protesting against | Don’t listen to the squawking of The daily newspapers call at- eee 3 DISTRICTS fy Oe ca ‘Wil do‘the same for the Pittsburgh | the National Textile Workers Union | the Wildwood injunction. | the squirrels that are peddling all | ‘ention to the fact that the young 25 | Col. by P. Lolts, * New Britain, Conn,, STRIKER DIES Terminal miners. . The Strike.Com-) andthe tetxile strikers of Rhodé| ‘THe Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph| sorts of foolish rumors on the | workers are very active in this 100] pe Tolls ja Nucleus os mittee today made arrangements for | tsiand and Paterson, sent resolutions | editorial of July 21 states that the| street corners. strike. And we don't mean maybe! : eel ‘Total a joint abana Sane “S the | of protest to the Governor of Ohio | National Miners Union “has attained | te 6 1.00 1. eur DISTRICT 18 | OF ST ARV ATION strikers and men still at work in| ang the county authorities over the| and has been allowed to parade in A : . 193 | Kohatan games as! "| Pitsburgh Terminal mines, and del-| murder of Simon, resolutions of pro-| Pittsburgh” (as though that were an| Kansas City Unemployed Council Growing gB| Syepathioce pon ee eae : (eae of ‘the Pursglove, West Va.) test to the Governor of Alabama ae eared A alter meD~ | near Comrades: speaker arrived, many had gone C, Lolis 1 Mrs. J. Sinclair 1.00! NEW YORK.—Tragic proof that | miners. 3 over the slaughter of Negro workers at urgh police | he Central Branch Council of Un-| home; however, a good meeting was rst! 3: Poaeia Gaoo | thousands of the striking miners are| | ‘fhe whole circumstances, the dis- | at Camp Hilk and endorsed the Uni- | have later arrestéd scores of miners| saotoved Executive Committee had|held, 11, joined the new Branch H. Gear TOMTRICT 19 °° | starving was provided on Tuesday | cussion, the increased attendance, | ted ‘Front Conference on Unemploy-| for collecting food for their starving | caited a meeting at the home of a| (which is called the Union Station PR i Satin Mi AE Roma Deere: 4,| When a :miner walked» thio ‘they Sapna naar es ne, the | ment which will be held in Pitts- Tamil and that the potice in some | comrade out near the Union Depot| Branch because of its proximity to Petron srr | eeeeaTR OF Io 8 Et Pee eetleatadey bE is CoaeL. RADE Pee rc en ee oar money collected. The | reeently. When they got there, they| the Union tSation), 6 of the new Japanese Cl. Total 31.00) Striking Miners’ Relief Committee, | meeting YO : elected to represent the strike com-| Sun-Telegraph editorial then con-| round that through 2 misunderstand- | members paying their initiation fee, fe ater asked for a niece of bread, and then| and File Strike Committee reflected| mittee at the unemployment con-| demns the miners of Canonsburg L. Fisher, Lenclose @ 50 cent piece to build the D. W. Sustaining Fund ............. Send me information on Daily Worker Clubs ...........:00:00000000 05 = Col. among group of workers on way to U.S.S.R., aboard 8. S. Leviathan Not yet distributed by districts: Lw. 0 85.15 Total all dist. $ 321.11 gles 2% Sbees uREREZRRESESS juey~ (Put cross here) or monthly sum of London Meet a Failure, Crisis in Germany (CONTINUBD FROM PAGE UNE) No plan whatever was evolved. The German situation it growing worse |. ‘masses, is not egations from their sections and ac-| miners’ families from starvation. deputies and scabs, Over 30 have from day to veh with leading ene reaches ete gigs metre : Pon 4 ly by the whole! “The National Miners Union has | disorder Such miners as were brought | been severely wounded by bullets and Place and Guton Pl.,.1:00 P. M. plan offered by Stimson and Mel- | of events in Germany but ie trying Bladder Central Rank and File Strike Com-/| aécomplished one of the greatest |by Fagan to his meeting refused to| shot, fired by scabs and deputies. Beacan, N. Y.: Time and place to fon, on behalf of Wall Street, was|to fool the workers about what is |. "| mittee, Secretary of the Executive | feats in American labor history,”| assist his ghugs and immediately! ‘The United Mine Workers, the be arranged. to “freeze” the short-term loans in|happening. A more faithful picture} Ruin Your Entire is the secretary of the strike com-| said William Z, Foster, speaking in| Withdrew, and left the field as soon | operators, pr their press, come into || Middletown, N. Y.: Time and order to “revive confidence” in Ger- many. The international bankers say this wont help at all. They are all fearful about putting a bigger loan into Germany’ as they feel it is like “pouring water into a sieve.” In Germany matters go from bad to Sharper Than Ever Before mic crisis to such an extent, that col- lapse of ‘business threatens. More is gleaned from the press which read- es the bosses themselves such as, for instance, the Journal of Com- merce, which, in a special cable from Frankfurt am Main, Germany, re- 825.00 | dropped dead of starvation. This striking miner preferred to die rather. than scab on his fellow- workers. There are thousands of | miners just as heroic. but they can- not be allowed to die while their facing starvation. “Hundreds of miners face the fate of the miner who fell dead of starva- tion. We must redouble our efforts to send food, money, shoes, trousers and tents to the Penn.-Ohio Strik- ing Miners’ Relief Committee, 1799 Broadway, Room 330. We must turn out by the hundreds next Saturday and Sunday for the Miners Relief Tag Days. “Help the miners in their fight against starvation.” the backs of the workers, through a new wave of wage cuts: “Business circles are now de- manding further cuts in wages to equalize the position of German producers on the world markets, and permit German manufacturers to make a better fight for foreign markets. However, it is widely feared that such a step would haster the growth of political radi- calism within the country.” Kidneys and Bodily Health eae You'll be sorry if you don’t act at once to curb kidney and bladder troubles. A serious break-down in yourhealth may occur. Take action at once. Get Santal - Midy your dru; It has been for h century by the good results of the National | Conference last week. The members displayed the keenest interest in the | reports of district and sectional con- ferences being held in Central Penn- Sylvania, Illinois, Kentucky, West Speaker after speaker hammered away on the main theme—now that the strike movement and the organ- ized movement in support of the strike is spreading into new territory, now is the time to finish the job in Central Pennsylvania, now is the time to build tighter and more ef- fective organization, establish more rigid responsibility, and clean up the Pittsburgh Terminal, Pittsburgh Coal and Vesta mines—the spots where the strike it not fully effective. Something to improve the organi- zation was done immediately. The Executive Committee, the leading body between meetings of the full strike committee, was re-elected, on the basis of better acquaintance with the active and able strike lead- ers in the various localities. Only those old members who had shown real leadership were retained, and the Executive, as now constituted is: From Browsville section: Cunning- ham, Paul Brown; Batinovich. All. the new. executive committee. members were nominated by the del- mittee, Vincent Kemenovich. The other main organization step was the establishment of a Negro Depart- ment, with Dan Lane as chairman, and Haywood, Helen Lynch, Frank Borich, Pretoretti, Pridee and Alex Dorsey as members. The Negro de- partment will pay special attention to the organization of Negro miners; ference. Unemployment is a serious matter in the coal fields. At this meeting of the strike committee, a delegate from Fayette county told of miners who have been out of work for four the scabs were leaving the mines in greater numbers, and the pickets more militant: “They shall not pass,” is the slogan in that section. A Bentleyville delegate told of the massing of 150 delegates on the bor- ough line by the Ellworth mine man- ager, and of the burgess of Bentley- ville allowing them to come into that borough. The thing needed there to give a fresh impetus to the strike is the news from Central Pennsylvania, said this striker. Advice on the formation and ac- tivity of local defense committees was given by Stern, LL.D. district secretary. Every attempt, by mass pressure, is to be made to get ar- rested men out without bail, fines are not to be paid except in unusual cases. There are over 900 arrests since the strike started. Borich opened the session with a general review of the strike situation and outlining of the main tasks. Kemenovich spoke on the organiza- ing, can not, begin to provide the food needed at present to save the the name of the Trade Union Unity League. “The miners of western Pennsylavnia. were not only unor- i d, they were disorganized. They ‘had been betrayed, defeated and de- moralized. Then the National Min- ,¢r8 Union, with its small available force in the beginning, has succeeded in ‘spreading what started as a local because the demonstrated against the U.M.W. strike breaking meeting. The newspapers in Pittsburgh print the hypocritical statements of Phil Murray, Pat Fagan, and other Jeders of the U.M.W., tht their meet- cials of the U.M.W. held a fake mass meeting in Curry Field, Canonsburg, July 19. To this meeting they brought truckloads of gangsters, pro- fessional scabs, bootleggers, county employes, and business men enlisted on their side. The only miners they Terminal mines who have been forced back to work by terror, evicc tions and violence, under the U.M.W. strike-breaking and wage-cutting contract in those mines. These men were told they would be fined $1.00 each if they refused to come, For chairman of the meeting, Fagan and Murray securede Burgess Cook of Canonsburg, who arrests those col- lecting food for the striking miners. Pat Fagan’s last words, just before miners in the audience drowned out his voice by angry jeers and denun- ciations were: “You'll have to join the U.M.W. whether you like it or not!” Two thousand miners of Canons- burg and near- vicinity, meeting in ing, the comrade had notified the Rosedale Branch that there was to be a new Branch organized, so this militant branch had spread the word, and the house was full of workers from the immediate neighborhood, waiting for an organizational meet- Dear Comrades: Workers of Raritan Hollow Tile Co. are working as much as sixteen hours a day. Two days work is done in one. In many cases one man does the work of two and three. They are forced to go into hot kilns to take out or set in tiles. If a worker becomes ill while at work and wants to go home, the boss refuses to let him go, saying he has no other man to put in his place. If he insists and goes home, he is laid off for a week or two. Wage Cuts They are paid twice a month. The work is piece work and the workers often don’t know how much is coming to them. A short time ago there was a wage cut. In some places where piece work is in existence, they have to put out more tiles per hour for a were slugged and beaten up. Dele- gates elected to this convention were murdered by the Lewis-Fagan gun¢/ men. Lewis and Cappellini estab- tacked by the U. M. W. hired thugs. The miners retariated with vigor, and the U. M. W. gangsters fled in as their trucks could be moved. The record of the U. M. W. and of its allies, the coal operators, is one of unceasing violence against the striking miners. The convention which formed the National ' Miners Union in 1928, in Pittsburgh, was at- tacked by armed gunmen of the Lewis machine, aided by Pittsburgh strikers who are the victinis. Three strikers have been shot to death by court with unclean hands when they accuse the strikers of violence. The striking miners, fighting for their very lives, must insist on the right to picket against strike break- ers, whether U, M. W. officials or or- dinary scabs. The National Miners Union must claim the right to picket, to assemble, and to demonstrate { and four paying dues. , This Branch will develop into a live-wire organ- ization in the near future, because the workers in the neighborhood have already seen the relief committees of both the Central Branch and the Rosedale Branch at work ‘Gino Checciana Prev. received 36,120.36 | rajiow workers are able to send them /| Virginia and Ohio. They grinned in| and five years because of the mines | ing was peaceful and was attacked | ing The Rosedale Branch is organizing : Total to date $36,302.47 | food. : i bv samenets as the news spread . being closed down. by “a drunken mob,” and fail to! Since no member of the E. C. was|a new branch in Quindaro, another DISTRICT al. seen ees, A statement issued by the National) the decision to strike the mines of/ Delegates from Arnold City told of | mention that only a few days pre-| a speaker, they sent one of their num.| section of Kansas City, Kansas. A. Ghasarian, De- credited: Secretary of the Workers Interna-| Central Pennsylvania, as they heard) their emergency search for housing| Vious to this meeting, the U.M.W.| bers in to the TUUL office for a| The Rosedale Branch has a relief troit, 6 5.00 Sec. 13, Dist. 2— 0} tional Relief says: “The death of the | of the growth of the National Miners | of 25 evicted families in one day,| leadersin Canonsburg threatened to speaker. The distance is about «| truck for the use of the Relief Com- etter” x00} vaumat gtrer_ 7) miners who was stricken by starva-| Union in Kentucky and West Vir-|-They found shelter for the families, | Tesort to “bloodshed” against the | mile and a half, so by the time the! mittee. ectady 5.00/ tion in the office of the Penn.-Ohio | ginia, as they comprehended that the | put one man went back after being | members of the National Miners | Pelee neat New York City: ‘i i it im- | pros of unity and action of the Union. Striking Miners Committee mus' program ‘y evicted and was arrested and sen- i z ¥: siieaen 100 press upon every worker the impor-/ historic national conference was be-| tenced for trespassing, He refuses| The facts about the Canonsburg) Toil 16 Hours Daily in N. J. Tile Piant “4 tance of sending food to the thou-/ ing acclaimed by ever larger groups | to have his fine paid. meeting are as follows: Murray, Fa- 5 rs : és 30 | sands of striking miners who are| of miners. Allegheny Valley delegats declared | an, Demich, O'Leary and other off- Keasby Heights, N. J. {few cents than before. They are for- ever being told to speed up on their work. Many Starving ‘There are many unemployed work- ers whose families are at the point of starvation and about to be evicted from their homes for not being able to pay rent. These workers go to the factory each morning to ask for work, but they are only turned away. Workers! How much longer are you going to let these rotten conditions exist? Organize! Organize a shop committee. Fight the bosses against wage-cuts and long hours. The Communist Party fights for the workers’ rights. Workers Unite! Read the only workers’ paper, The Daily Worker. Join the Daily Worker Readers’ Club. 308 Elm St Perth Amboy, New Jersey. Raritan Tile Worker August First laa aR DEES complete failure plans for -moment- | The Associated Press reporting 0M | avelia: R. Jefferies, Ben Lux, Dan/ tion tasks, and described the organ-| Beck’s field, roused to indignation by | lisher # reign of assassination in the i Pet me ee ae ee con- aa pacar Nigh ag Service, |the vote for calling of the costae Lane. he ization of the sectional conferences | the treachery of the U.M.W. officials | anthracite. patch the present strike, the Demonstrations cerned. The capitalist press all along |in # cable to the “Daily News Record” |tas, presented by the bape an Canonsburg: Frank Clingotr, Joe| of the National Miners Union, to be| and the U.M.W. conspiracy to starve |. M. W. maintains its scab agree- August First Anti-Imperialist had heralded the conference as ad-|a trade paper in New York City | fraction, and supported ee the he Somers, John Mastik. held Saturday, and the district con-| miners and their families to death,}ment in Pittsburgh Terminal and| | war Mass meetings are being ar- vaneing to its goal. Its conclusion | shows how deep the crisis is going | cists and Nationalists (the need ihe ‘Bentleyville: John Gabella,. Pete | vention of the N.M.U., which comes| voted to picket and ‘demonitraty | other mines, while its allies, the depu- | | ranged in every city and town of | shows glaringly that the conflicts be- |in Germany. The cable on Thurs- joining in in order to a <i ‘eas Getto, eae: ahuaes August 8, at.10 a.m. in Pittsburgh, | against the Fagan-Murray meeting. {ties and state police use clubs, gas/ | District No. 2. The following | tween all the powers have sharpened. | day morning says: masses as to their intentions with | zlbraty: Henry Wilson, Mrs. Sarah | arid which is made necessary by the| The miners marched in disciplined | hombs, and guns to force the miners | | meeting places have been reported | ‘The short-lived n between | “The possibility of the closing of | voted down getting 243 votes, “ith | Campbell, Luther Wifllams. tremendous growth of the N.M.U.|fashion through the streets of Can-| to accept it, and all the wage cutting, | | thus far: ~f Britain and the United States is rup- | another leading bank tomorrow and {267 votes being necessary to put ts “4 Upper Monongahela: William Mul-| since the last district convention | onsburg, cheered by the townspeople | unpaid labor, starvation and slavery | | New York City: Union Square at tured, with the antagonisms sharper | also the apparent failure of the |demand over. The socialists fring ed) jing, Rigby, hte held in My, this year. on the way, and entered Ourry field, | conditions that are written into it.|| 1:30 P. M. than pver. The clash between France |: London negotiations for the relief |the Bruening fascist dictatorship. . | Aulegyeny: Graham, Pomfret,.and| aifred Wagenknecht spoke’ on the | Where some 400 persons were assemb- | Evictions, shooting, murder, riding | | Newark, New Jersey: Military and fagland is sharp, as well as the |. ef Germany's economie plight again one more to be added after noml-| necessities of further strengthening |led. The miners denounced Fagan | down and clubbing of men, women|| Park, at 1:00 P.M. ‘ between France and the| conjures up visions of an impend- Don’t Let Aili nation by the section strike commit- | of local relief committees, as the na-|@nd Murray as agents of the coall/and children are everyday occur- | | Elizabeth, New Jersey: Union Sq., United States, ‘| ing sgeravation of the financial | YON ing tee, tional campaign. although improv-| operators, and were thereupon at-|rances in the strike—and it is the|| at 1:00 P, M. Linden, New Jersey: Place to be arranged. New Rochelle, N, Y.; Remington place to be arranged. Poughkeepsie, N.- Y;: "time and place to be arranged. i Workers and workers’’ organi- zations in smal! villages should immediately report city, place of their meetings for pub- licity in the working class papers, ——$——— the world. Saltal Midy \ development of special organizers, strike into a broad mass movement | city police, and hundreds of miners the miners’ strike, ee OM ila