The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 25, 1931, Page 5

oo DAILY WORKER, STREETS AUGUST NEW YORK, SATURDAY, | JULY 2 25, 193% _Pa re FIGURES IN BIG DROP WEDNESDAY ; EVERY DISTRICT MUST REACH GOAL! Workers who do not want their names published becxuse of! /wes- sible perseeution should Indiente this in sending in their contribu- tions, Collectors should ask thoxe who contribute whether they want ‘their names printed. a Wednesday was one of the worst days since the beginning of the drive. Only $143.38 came in, It doesn't look as if the districts are exerting them- selyces very much to raise their qui tas. District 2 (New York) did even for the duy was from ton) which sent in of the other districts can be judged from the fact that the biggest con- tribution was from 13 (California) $13.55. Get into action, comrades! every district go over the top! Make Correction In the figures published Wednes- day on the results of the previous week the percentage for District 1 worse than the\day before, contri-| (Boston) was incorrectly given as puting only $44.68, The highest sum | 80; it should have read’ 89. Ens DIST. 1 DIST. 4 L Kikke Colt by V Nekrosh Jamestown Sec, Mrs Minnie Aho Chelsea, Mass 15.00|_N.¥- 0) A Helxkanen Ds Brockton, Colt by P Kraus, A Kartunen M 10.00} Utien, N ¥ S Carlson A Comrade, Man- ——— | A Backman, Onto- Ville Ri 5,00 Total 3.50| nogon, Mich 50 Lanesville Unit, DIST. 5 Hancock, Micht Mass 8.50 | Farrel, Pa. J Surlock 0 Brockton Unit 5.00| Comminotto + J Kusskila 150 ‘Wm Daisey, A Dicola ” M Weiss, Minne- Brockton 5.00| Pixegin apolis, Minn, 50 Dorchester Unit 2.00 P Mosen 10 — New Bedford Unit 5.00| L Mann 10 Total 6.50 = TUT DIST. 10 prs Total 55.50 mee STS eseaae Moe io iN DIST. 6 Springs, Ari 4 M Farris, WNYs 99 | Colby F sukine- Dale 7,:8eo 7 500 | vich, Youngs- Total 50 J Bloom, NYC 1.00 | . tors) 0+ ae DIST. 12 g Logisky, Bkin 2.00 5 ‘Total 1.50 | Seattle, Wash, Sec 2.50 iar aa 3.90 ~ DIST. 7 Senttie, Wash: ec ef e L M Cooper 1.00 oo * dea A Emehty, Detrott See) ws Braugh 1.00 ec RS Brough 1.00 Holojchuck, Perel S20 ae ane Manhattan 1.00 DIST. 8 Total 5.50 Pregoiick 50) s w Z, Chicago 1.00 ee Tr ia Chicago, Ili.si ames De Coll by J Berger 25 | Working W - rere * Circle, L. Ang. 13.55 Total 44.68 eet DIST. 3 Total 23.55 a moyen Reading, 1.00 DIST. 18 Atlantic City, NJ 5 Mra. 300 George : sbpsmeere atts B Orphanos 1.00 DIST. 9 Collection 1.00 | Green, Mich: Total 1.00 I. Ganelis Oo) A W Laird 100 | Tot. all dists, 143.48 K Beer, Phil, Pa 100| 1 Kermen 1.00 | Peet. ree. 86,852,447 ———| J Terot 350 otal 5.00' E Savola :50' Total, to date $36,495.05 NAME pe eeaesenmes Lenclose.a 50 cent piece to build the D. W. Sustaining Fund ...........-- send a weekly sum} TO DAILY WORKER 50 E. 18th St, N. ¥. C. Send me information on Daily Worker Clubs ..........sssseereseer reese (Put cross here) or monthly sum of > the Daily Worker Sustaining Fund. State Preliminary Hearing for Negro Croppers Tuesday; Big Demonstrations Aug. First (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) were framed up by the county au- thorities, who are controlled by the landowners and in many cases. are the landowners themselves. . The croppers are charged with conspiracy to murder, with carrying concealed weapons, ets. They had valiantly de- fended themselves and several of. the police were wounded, including-Sher- iff J. Kyle Young. As the murderous Alabama land- Jords and capitalists speed their plans for railroading these addition- -al-60 Negro workers to long jail sen- tences or possible death sentenots, the workers of the world are pushing their plans for huge militant protest demonstrations throughout the. world on August First. Millions of workers will rally in these demonstrations to/ the fight against Capitalism, aganist {ts lynch courts, against its race hat- FOUR LETTERS TELL OF NEED FOR B DAILY WORKER Many of the letters the: Dally Worker receives with contributions to the financial drive tell vivid stories of the class struggle. Here are four of them: 1. Blanche L., of New York City, is working in a restaurant making $8 a week. On this she is trying to support not only herself, but her two small children, She slaves long hours under an exhausting speedup, con- stantly hounded by the boss. Out of here meagre earnings she donates $1 “‘to the fighting organ of the work- ingclass and I call upon all workers to help save the Daily.” 2 L. C. T. of San Francisco, na+ tive-born American with a real Anglo-Saxon name, has been cash- ing in on Hoover's 20-year plan_to the tune of $10 to $12 a week for something more than an eight- hour day. When we issued our ap- peal for 15,000 half dollars, he re- sponded, not with a half dollar but - with a dollar. And he didn’'t-con~ . alder his duty done, but went to a. friend and got a dollar from him. . He writes: “Such an appeal should not pass by any worker who-has _ the least interest in the movement. And just think it is only one-half dollar, I would nike to do better, but. I am making only $10 to $12 ws week.” se .8.. J. .H. Crown of Davenport, I tells his story in three short sentenc- ‘I enclose $1. I have been donat- regularly. I am unemployed, but am doing all I can to help the Daily Worker in’ its struggle.” 4 W. G. lives in Charleston, W. Va. ‘{n-the southwestern part of the state, where several ‘thousand coal miners, ‘who are among the lowest paid work- Spite the misleadership of the Muste- ites and other treacherous eleménts. W. G. bas iad only six weeks work red, against mass unemployment, starvation and misery, and for the defense of the Soviet Union, the only country in the world where racial and national oppression has been abol- ished. Negro and white workers! Rally to the fight against capitalist lynch Jaw, against imperialist war! De- mand the release of the Scottsboro boys! Demand the release of the Camp Hill croppers! Fight for Une conditional equality for the Negro people, including the right of self- determination for the Negro major- ities in the Bleck Belt, the right to organize and control their own gov- ernment. For the withdrawal of the armed forces of imperialism from the Black Belt! For the confisca- tion of the land of the rich land- owners fdr the colored and white workers who till the land! Demon- strate August First! BALTIMORE IN RELIEF DRIVE Tag Days On August 7th and 8th BALTIMORE, Ma., July 24—A miners’ conference was held here on July 28rd, with over third delegates, {neluding A. F. of L. locals. A broad committee of fifteen was elected. A Negro miner, Daniels, spoke, and Michael Burd réported on the min- ers’ situation and appealer for the building of a permanent relief com- mittee in Baltimore and the sur- rounding mining towns. An extensive campaign was mapped out to intensify the collection of funds, food and clothing and to pene~ | trate A. F. of L. locals to make the Picnic on Saturday, July 25, for the miners’ benefit, a success, It was decided to hold tag days on August 7 and 8. A resolution was made protesting against the lynch- ing of Negroes in Alabama and shooting of miners by hired gunmen. Greetings to the Central Rank and File Strike Committee was adopted. during the past 16 months and most of the workers in Charleston are in the same boot. But he went around -} among the workers and among some of the small shopkeepers whom the | crisis has made sympathetic and col- lected $4 for the Daily. He writes: “I wish every worker in America would do the best he can, would or- ganize under the leadership of the Communist Party and fight the cap- italists and their system and by help- ing the Daily Worker help ourselves.” What about you? The Dally Needs more haif dollars, more con- eivth the: dountry, are on strike dee|>t enens OF all. sorte If Ih ts Co get through the summer, Speed funds to the Daily Worker, 50 E. 13th St. New York City, ADOPTED BY THE NATIONAL UNITED FRONT CONFERENCE OF MINERS Consisting of* 685 Delegates\from N. M. U,, U. M. W. A. Locals and Unorganized Mines Held in Pittsburgh, Pa., July 15-16, 1931. THE FIGHT AGAINST STARVATION IN recent months the coal industry is marked by a rising wave of mass strikes—the Glen Alden and Shenandoah strikes in the Anthra- cite, the bitter struggle in Kentucky, and the strikes in Illinois, Indiana and Southern West Virginia. The most important of all these strikes is the present strike of 40,000 miners in Penn- sylvania, Ohio and the West Virginia Panhandle, being waged under the leadership of the mili- tant National Miners Union. More than 160,000 men, women and children of the coal fields are ~ | involved in the struggle. | These strikes are all fights against the grow- ing starvation conditions in the coal industry. Unemployment exists on a mass scale, wages have been cut to the bone, union conditions have been destroyed, terrorism by the operators and the government is widespread, poverty and des- titution are the lot of the miners and their families. It is the task of this national conference, con- sisting of delegates from the National Miners Union, UMWA locals and minorities, rank and file strike committees, ete. to strengthen these local strike struggles, to unite them, and, upon the basis of a common program of demands, to develop them into a general struggle against the operators and their labor leaders. Betrayal by the U.M.W.A. ‘The operators are deliberately reducing the | miners to slavery conditions, so that we may be still more ruthlessly exploited. Their most dan- gerous instrument for this purpose is the U.M. W.A., which is completely dominated by the Lewis clique of fascist fakers, gangsters and racketeers. The U.M.W.A. is used by the bosses to cut wages and to break the resistance of the miners. Lewis and Co., with their policy of collaboration with the bosses, have betrayed the miners a thousand times, including the present bitter Kentucky strike. In the Pennsylvania- Ohio-West Virginia N.M.U. strike, the U.M W.A., with the help of gunmen, deputy sheriffs, state police, mine bosses, capitalist newspapers, etc., is herding scabs and trying openly to break the strike under scab agreements providing for con- ditions worse than before the strike. Auxiliaries of the Lewis machine are unreliable elements such as Howat in Illinois, Keeney in ‘West Virginia, and Maloney in the Anthracite. These people, with a show of progressive phrases to cover up their reactionary policies, place them- selves at the head of the workers in revolt against Lewis and then betray them to the operators and Lewis at the first opportunity, as Howat did in Illinois by his alliance with the fakers, Fishwick, Farrington and Walker. The U.M.W.A., held in the death clutch of the Lewis machine, no longer represents the inter- ests of the workers. It is a tool of the besses. That's why the operators in the bituminous fields are now so eager to rebuild it. That’s why the anthracite operators have established the U.M.W.A. check-off. That's why every recent strike in the coal industry is directed against the Lewis U.M.W.A. as well as against the coal operators. Government Terrorism and Strike Breaking The local, state and national government is the enemy of the miners and the tool of the coal. operators. Every strike of the miners against starvation at once has to confront armies of police, deputy sheriffs, state police, and troops, as well as injunctions, mass arrests, etc. In Pennsylvania Governor Pinchot hypo- critically speaks of a “fair deal” for the miners, while at the same time he floods the strike area with armed police thugs of every description and attempts to smash the NMU and the strike. President Hoover demonstrates the federal gov- ernment’s hostility to the miners by trying, through the recent Washington conference, to break the strike by forcing the workers back to work under scab U.M.W.. agreements. Fake Remedies vs. Struggle In this crucial situation the miners have the most urgent need for a fighting policy, a policy of unity and class struggle. The bosses attempt to argue away the slavery conditions by claiming that the coal industry is “sick,” that they are making no profits, that they cannot pay better wages. They propose as. a cure the trustification of the coal industry. This is also the policy of the government and Lewis. Howat, Keeney, and the socialist party, true to their policy of cover- ing up their program of betrayal of the miners with radical words, are proposing this same pol- iey under the name of nationalization. ‘We denounce this whole argumentation as a lie and the trustification-nationalization pro- gram as an attack against the miners. It means only more misery and exploitation for the min- ers; the driving of hundreds of thousands of miners out of the coal industry. The decisive coal companies are subsidiaries of the great rail- road, steel, auto, public utilities, etc. corpora- tions; they are reaping hundreds of millions in profits yearly out of the toil and misery of the miners and other workers. The operators can and must be made to pay the demands of the miners. The miners’ reliance must be their unbreak- able solidarity in struggle. The way to develop and lead such solidarity and struggles has been shown by the National Miners Union which is leading the strike of the miners in Western Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia. We can and must compel the operators to grant the immediate demands of the miners. Our answer to the bosses’ plea of the crisis in the coal in- dustry is the organization of the struggle of the miners, together with all workers towards the breaking of the rule of the capitalist class, the confiscation of the coal mines, and all fac- tories, the abolition of exploitation, which can only be achieved through the establishment of the rule of the workers, along the path of the wotkers in the Soviet Union. The Miners‘ Demands Against the starvation program of capitalist | trustification and nationalization, this conference calls upon the miners to fight for the following general demands, and in addition we urge the workers to formulate and fight for local pro- grams of demands: General increase in wages. Unemployment insurance, paid for by the gov- ernment and bosses, and immediate relief for all unemployed miners. The six-hour day without reduction in pay. Establishment of check-weighman and union conditions, Recognition of mine committees elected by all the workers. Abolition of company towns, company stores, evictions, and payment in scrip. Protection of the health and safety of the workers. Abolition of the speed-up. Abolition of the check-off. ‘The right to organize, strike and picket and abolition of the injunction. Equal rights for all Negro miners, including wages, asignment of work, etc. No discrimination against or persecution of foreign-born workers. Equal pay for young workers and special pro- tection. Unconditional release of all workers arrested in connection with strike and anion activities. Withdrawal of armed forces from the striking areas, A national collective agreement for the whole coal industry. The Need for Unity To fight successfully for these demands, unity of the rank and file is the supreme necessity. ‘The present scattered fights throughout the in- dustry must be connected up into a broad na- tional movement of struggle. Unity must come from below, from the working miners. It must be based upon a common program of demands, organization and struggle; it must be directed against the Lewis’ and Howats, as well as the coal operators. It must include anthracite and bituminous miners, metal miners, Negroes and white, American and foreign-born, youths and adults, men and women. Especially does this conference emphasize the basic need for unity between the employed and unemployed workers. They must fight shoulder to shoulder for their joint demands, We must defeat the plan of the operators, Lewis and Hoover to starve several hundred thousand work- ers out of the coal industry. The struggle of the miners must be linked up with that of the whole working class, The miners must join forces especially with the steel workers and railroad workers. We must support the struggle of the miners in England, Germany, France, etc. THE UNITED FRONT. ‘To achieve unity among the miners this con- ference proposes a broad united front of all coal miners willing to fight for the foregoing program of demands. For this purpose a Miners Unity Committee of Action shall be set up nationally with branches in the various districts, sub-dis- tricts and localities. These committees shall be composed of affiliations of locals of the National Miners Union, of sympathiaing- U. M. W. A. lo- cals and minorities, of locals and minority groups of the West Virginia Mine Workers Union, of Unemployed Councils, of unorganized workers, Program aK Unity and Attion tor All Mine Workers ete. The aim of this united front shall be to organize the mir uggle on all fronts against the ope the government terror and the Lewis clique. To bring about unity directly in the mines, broad mine committees shall be set up, elected by all the workers in the given mine, ri of their union affiliations. During strikes rank and file strike committees, basec upon the same principles, shall be organized. Such united front | mine and strike committees are to affiliate to the corresponding local Miners Unity Commit- tees of Action. LOCAL PROGRAM OF STRUGGLE. ‘This conference, on the basis of its joint de- mands and united front organization, adopts following program of local and trict and activity: 1. The spreading and strengthening of the present strikes in Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Vir- ginia, Ulinois and Kentucky. 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 re- lief committees to support the strikes of the min- ers. 4, Support of the National Miners Union in the building‘ of the organization and the active building of minority groups in the U. M. W. A. and the West Virginia M. W. U. 2 the | & | mechanized mine in the world, | Wildwood, along with them are not known, The exact charges but some twenty ar- at | Pa. It got the only in- junction granted so far in the coal strike, and i deputy sheriffs on ‘June 22, ambushed and shot to pleces with shot guns, rifles and pis- | tols the picket line formed in de-| fiance of the starvation order issued by the courts: of Allegheny County. One miner, Spiro (Pete) Zigaric, was | killed by the deputies, twelve were wounded, and Tom Myerscough, the National Miners’ Union section or- ganizer, who was on the picket » | is arrested and is out on $12,500 elected into the hall, and pi ked out the are the following Frick two men he wanted jailed. The po-| mines: Eatinborn, 4 delegates: Ron- lice questioned and insulted others| 64 5 delegates: Lakerome, 3. dele- in the hall, but took only these two| cates. Filburt, 3 delegates: “Grind- stone, 4 delegates; Footdale, six dele- 1 gates. Delegates as followe ere rested previously were either charged | etected already from thé- following or threatened with charges ranging| Rainey Goal Oo, mines: ’ “Royal, @ from “disorderly” to “felonious as-| men; allison, 5 men. Delegates are |sault” and “incitement to riot. jelected from the following Hillman The International Labor Defense | mines: Tarhill, 2 men; Orient, 3; is working for the release of all | Cardale, 2. Three delegateé are al- those arrested jready elected from the Republic ra S | mine of the Republic Steel Co. PITTSBURGH, Pa, July 23—The| ,),, yay fneay Cobenitaatéd, Coal Go. haa| |, TPere REP: menY Clber amines: mn 6 into bankruptcy. This is the this vicinity which will send delega- ntained the most | 4S : oe PITTSBURGH, Pa., July 23.—Still more proof of the wage cutting ef- cts of the U Mine. Workers’ reement in the Pittsburgh. Ter- al mines is being brought to lig The miners are - just. begin- | ning to find out what that contract means, and what the company can do, with the consent of the U..M W. to worsen conditions of the miners even in violation of the agreement bad as it is. Saturday, shift at Mine No. 3 of elght men on the night the © Pitts- 5. The establishment of unemployed councils |bonds charged with manslaughter | purgh Terminal, at Mollenauér, came in the various mining centers. 6. The organization of broad mine committees on the basis of local demands, 1. The linking together of all these organiza- tions into local Miners’ Unity Committees of Action, 8. The organization of hunger marches of un- employed and employed miners in all sections of the mining industry and in general the de- velopment of the struggle for unemployment in- surance and relief, 9. The holding at once of a whole series of local and district conferences and mass meetings to popularize the program of this national con- ference and to organize the miners for struggle in support of it. 10. Development of a system of volunteer or- ganizers. 11. Mobilization and organization of the women for the struggle, DEVELOP THE NATIONAL STRUGGLE. This conference proposes the development of @ general strike in the coal industry against the | coal operators and their Lewis U. M. W. A. lJackeys. The broad way, to such a strike move- ment is the intensification of the local strikes and organization activities and their linking up nationally. The miners are ready to fight in every district. It is necessary to develop a na- tional program and organization. We fight for the establishment of uniform conditions and a national agreement to cover the whole coal industry. But meanwhile, pend- ing the time when our organization has grown Strong enough to enforce such national condi- tions, it will be necessary to make settlements with separate mines and groups of mines with uniform dates of expiration. ‘The conference endorses and supports the strikes of the miners in Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Northern and Southern West Virginia, and Illinois. We call upon the miners everywhere to apply the program outlined above. In this way we will-lay the foundations for the fundamentally necessary national strike movement. In October (the exact date to be set later) a national con- ference of the Miners Unity Committee of Ac- tion will meet to decide the next steps to be taken in the development of the national strug- gle to end the intolerable slavery conditions in the mining ‘industry. Miners, unite and fight! 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 starva- tion and slavery! National Miners Union. Central Rank and File Strike Committee of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Wst Vit i National Miners Union Delegation from Ken- tucky. Rank and File Miners Opposition of the U. M. W. A., Anthracite District. Rank and File Miners Opposition of the U. M. W. A., Hlinois District. Rank and File Committee, Alabama. Miners National Unity Committee of Actien. TOM MYERSCOUGH, Secretary, 611 Penn Avenue—Room 204—Pittsburgh, Pa. Send all relief to the Penn.-Ohio-W. Va.-Ken- tucky Miners Relief Committee, 611 Penn Ave, Pittsburgh, Pa. ‘UTW, “Socialists” Plan Sell-Out of Textile Strike ALLENTOWN, Pa., July 24—Rev. Webber of the “socialist” party, Mo- ser of the A. F. of L, and Kurtz, rep- resenting Gov. Pinchot are attempt- ing to countéract the good effect of the Paterson strike by individual set- tlement, on boss terms, behind the backs of the workers. An unauthor- ized conference was held with the Canova Mills and commanded the strikers to accept their terms, which they refused to do. These betrayers brought their proposition to the ‘Chairmen’s Committee, but tehy are afraid of the mass sentiment and do not dare violate the decision against arbitration and individual settle- ments. However, the danger 1s great that the chairmen will reverse the decision and have become the mouthpiece of the U.T.W. official- dom. In the past week they reversed ithe decision of unity with the Pater- son workers participating in a united front committee and called the polic to the strike hail, attempting to keep ing and have turned teh mass picket- ing into a farce, sending strikers to the mills unorganized without leader- ship. However, the rank and file workers are militant. They sent @ delegation to Paterson last Thurs- day which returned determined for unity and against a sellout. They were enthusiastically welcomed by rank and file workers and are deter- mined to prevent a planned sell-out conference with Pinchot. They are determined to turn the Shop Chair- men Committee into a mass strike committee which will elect three rep- resentatives from every shop and will vote against another Gov. Pinchot conference, against individual settle- ments and for unity with Paterson. Mass picketing continues and the strike is spreading to al] unstruck de- partenents. One way of defending the Soviet Union is to spread among the workers “Soviet ‘Forced Labor,’” by Max Bedacht, 10 cents per copy. Advertise Your Union Meetings Here. For Information Write to Advertising Uepartment The DAILY WORKER out the non-UTW strikers, ‘They prevented the Paterson rep- Tesentatives from entering the mect~ 50 East 13th St New York City 3,000 OUT ON STRIKE NOW IN 165 ICONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE} they can push through to victory. ‘The co-operation of the police with the U. T. W. and the A. S. W. was shown at the Gatty Throwing Mills. A cop told the pickets to go back to work and come out on August 3 when the U. T. W. and A. 8. W. called them, or not at all. In the Ajax mill the A. S W. work- ers came out on strike. They re- fused to scab, but the A. S. W. told them to go back to work. The August 3rd so-called strike call of the U. T. W, and the A. S. W. is an attempt to discourage the strik- ers, but it is failing and the workers are being drawn into the strike rap- idly as the National Textile Workers Union pickets the shops and draws new members into the union from the strikers ranks. The strike committee of 165 mem- bers elected by the rank and file of the strikers meets tonight to discuss prices (rates of pay) to be offered to the bosses on Monday by the United Front Committee. A committee of 35 has already drawn up the price list. | tomorrow it will be placed before the | | split the ranks of the strikers and to! workers for discussion and on Mon- PATERSON SHOPS day offered to the bosses. The National Textile Workers Union has issued a warning to the workers against the practice of the eccroach shops which are offering in- creases of one or two cents in order to get business away from the big shops. A committee of 25 will be elected by the strike committee tonight to handle‘relief activity. Relief will Be, collected and distributed among the | strikers, and plans will be drawn up.} Some of the shops sent word to the | N. T. W. U. asking for pickets to come to them and pull them out on strike. They need the support of the. picket ! and incitement to riot. Both charges are attempts of the courts to n= | inate this organizer from the strike after the deputies had failed by the cruder method of assassination. Judge James O. Campbell of But-| ler County has appointed Attorney | Marten A. Reiber, of the Union | Trust Co., owner of the Butler com- | pany’s bonds as receiver, with au-| thority to continue operations of the} mine, with what scabs he can get. | Pittsburgh papers today are full of | a sensational story of alleged “bomb- ing” of a bunkhouse with six scabs in it, last night at the Wildwood; mine. They admit no one was ser-| jously injured by the explosion, which they offer no proof was the result of a bomb. PITTSBURGH, Pa., July 23.—One/} of the reasons the strike is sure to {spread is seen in the following inci- dent. A miner for the Westmore- land Coal Co., Adams mine, in the Irwin field, brought into the Na-| tional Miners’ Union office here a pay envelope which shows he is jeredited with $19.82 for two week’s work. The company deducts $4.50 for rent, 15 cents for smithing, 76 cents for powder, and 40 cents for lamps, leaving the miner $14.01 on which to feed his family during two weeks. eee’ WHEELING, West Va. July 23.— “Business Week,” an employers’ and investors’ magazine, gloats over the usefulness of the United Mine Work- ers of America as a wage cutting) tool of the coal- operators. It says: “In settling the Scotts Run paid in non-union mines in this region; well below those paid in unionized linols and Indiana. Basic day rate set is $3.60, com- pared with $6.10, Hlinois union scale, and from $3-70 to $4.50 paid by Consolidated Coal Co., non- union operator in the field.” MASONTOWN, Pa., July 23.—The coke coal region will have its united | front conference, following the line | of the United Front National Min- ers’ Oonference held last week in Pittsburgh. The exact date and place will be announced later, but} the miners, especially of the Frick | mines re rapidly electing their dele- | gates and working out the plans. | The conference will formulate de- mands for the coke coal region and issue a strike call. It will outline aj strong organization drive for the coke coal region, and for all of Fay- ette County. This was the region trously betrayed by the chine in the 1922 strike. Thousands of miners of the coke region not previously organized joined the union in that strike, and struck with the rest. Then when the settlement was made, Lewis simply left them out of the settlement, cut off their relief, and starved them back to a wage eut. Frank Farrington, then presi- dent of District 12 of the U. M. W., himself. later a proved grafter but just then in conflict with Lewis, charged and proved in public that Lewis got @ bribe of over $600,000 for this treachery to the coke coal most disas- Lewis ma- |up because their battery lights had been poorly charged. When-they got | to the lamp house, the superintend- ent was waiting there for them, and told them to get new lights, go'down, and get their tools—they wefé fired. |The company wanted coal, and no excuses were allowed. Conditions underground are so harsh now in these mines. that with 327 men working at No. 3, the Sat- urday production was only. 298 mine |cars of coal, less than a car per man, and with the miners credited (before deductions) with about $1.12 a car. ‘The six men fired and the 23 who quit on the night shift Monday (be- fore the main walk-out) because the snappers were taken off in No. 2, reported they were credited for |coal mined at the rate of 42 and a half cents a ton, though fhe con- tract is supposed to be for 45 cents. ‘They were charged 80 cents for dues for two weeks, 45 cents for. check- | weighman, 40 cents for doctor, $1.25 for insurance, $5 for two weeks’ rent, and $1 for lamps, though the ‘contract says that lights shail be at the rate of five cents a day. At mine No. 8, end it is b “ed | this ruling applies in atl mines of the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal _Co., the deductions for “impurities””Ih the coal have been 500 pounds per car since July 16. Befor? that, thé com- pany was deducting 200 pounds, This deduction is made on elean coal. If |there really are impurities, the men jare fined in addition, or laid off as a punishment. Another big company is doing the same sort of thing. Pittsburgh Coal strikes, instigated by--wage cuts, ok the U. M. W. has accepted wage pes tat are bens Be. ns scales considerably below those |Ubrary has ¢ e tonnage. indi- | rectly to 20 cents a ton on Some con- veyors. HERMINIE, Pa., hundred and fif July 23.—Three miners” of West- moreland county, mostly from Her- minie, Hut Keystone, Rilton, Hahnton, Edna No. 1 and Edna.No. 2 came to the first big mass meéting in this unstruck field, to hear Vin- cent Kemenovich, secretary of the Central Rank and File Strike-Com- | mittee, speak on spreading the strike into this territory. The meeting was ;held Wednesday night. The mine bosses came along to watch, but the miners crowded around the speaker after the’ meet- ing, almost refusing to end it-at all, and asked questions and made. sug- |gestions for the beginning of. strike action. Wage outs and scréén coal regulations are big grievances. here. The big companies in this field are Westmoreland Coal Co., and the Ber- wind-White Company which oper- ates here under the name ot. Pecan Coal Co.” (Cable By Inprecorr) WARSAW, July 24.—Former -Com- munist Sejm Deputy ~ Wieczorek escaped from his escort at the Ka tovitz Railway station yester@c) Wieczorek was sentenced‘ to”: ty years for being a Communist. ROTTERDAM, July 24—The~ po lice attacked a Communist demon stration today, killing one anr seri- ously wounding two. sg WORKMEN’S SICK AND OF THE Reserves on December lines to get the shops out 100 per cent. In Allentown and Paterson the cap- italist papers are spreading all sorts of rumors to cause dissention in the ranks of the strikers. 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