The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 4, 1931, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, AUGUST 4, 193: a— vege Thres NAT. TUBE CO. FORCES TRIPLE SPEED-UP; TO CUT PAY NEXT MONTH Fewer Workers Produce More Pipe, Receive Less Pay; Wage Cut in Sept. Rumored Call Workers to Organize Into Metal Workers Industrial League to Fight Cut Dear Editor: McKeesport, Pa. The National Tube Company of this city told its workers that in six months things would be rosy. Let’s see how rosy conditions are now that the six months are over. There are many departments in¢- the factory, but we will just pick out one department. In the finish- ing department one furnace works and the other one is down and the company calls this working full time. The workers produced a year ago 150 pipes 22 feet long, now we produce 300 pipes 45 feet long for less money. On these 300 pipes the company makes $500 profit and when the workers ask for more money to exist on the bosses say they can’t afford tt. Production Tripled. The new furnaces produce three times as much pipe as the old ones did with less men. In three days it produces as much as we previously did in one week. Figure the speed-up and the wage- cuts that these workers have to work under. Rumors are that on Septem- ber 1 we will get another 10 per cent wage cut. Fired When Hurt. If a worker cuts his finger due to the speed-up he is rewarded by being laid off for one week without pay. The bosses always say it is the work- er’s fault when he gets hurt. When workers go to the toilet for two min- utes they are questioned and asked not to go too often. The speed-up is so great that one can’t leave his machine. To drink water is consid- ered a crime by the company. ‘The young workers are the ones that suffer the most. They are strong and are used for the worst jobs. Workers are continually saying, “Something must be done or we will die working here.” Organize. There is one thing for us to do here to better our conditions, and that is to organize into the Metal Workers’ Industrial League. Only through organization can workers win, Wake up, steel workers, and prepare yourselves to stop the bosses from lowering our standard of living. Better it by organizing. Must Fight Deportation of 18 Militants No 8 MUST fight deportation PORTLAND, Ore. — The boss courts have again done their high- ly patriotic duty, when they refused voluntary departure for the 18 mil- itant foreign born workers who were arrested last fall, in compliance with the Fish committee and Doak and company. Most of these wokers face death and imprisonment in the fas- cist countries upon their arrival, so it is the duty of workers, native and foreign born to protest against this ect of the bosses, and to stop all other such prejudices by the capital- ists and their tools. Although this is only a part of the struggle in behalf of the mil- itant workers, it is a vital one, and must be recognized as such. Here in Portland, at the August first dem- onstration there was mass pro- test against this outrage, and we wish to comment that this protest must be a nation-wide, and a world- wide protest if possible. And in case of a further legal bat- tle, we will need finanial support besides moral support. So comrades, give as what ever assistance you pos- sibly can and help us win this battle. Send all defense funds to the Inter- national Labor Defense, 191%4 Third Street. Harlan Miners Ready to Spread Strike, Must Get Relief Immediately {CONTINUED FRUM PAGE ONE! burgh and West Virginia Coal Co. mines have sent out word they are ready to strike. Sheriff Charnoff of Brooke County and his deputies are raging around, trying to prevent miners from get- ting the strike news or anything that would help to organize them for struggle. The sheriff and his men break into private houses and con- fiscate copies of the Daily Worker and strike leaflets or N. M. U. or United Front leaflets wherever they find them. If the owner tries to argue that these are his, or if he seems to have some for distribution, they arrest him. ‘They broke into strike relief kitchens and arrested all \n charge because copies of leaflets and Daily Workers were found. They nave even seized copies of the Daily Workers coming through the mails, ind discovered with the wrappers itil on them. In the company towns miners cannot gather in groups of two, even. {f one man visits another in his nouse, the deputies charge in and hreaten and drive the visitor out. Refuse Bail for Negro Miner. The county authorities are show- \ng complete determination to keep \n jail certain of the leaders arrested in the contingent marching to Steu- enville to the hunger march. Alex. Dorsey’s bond was set originally at $1,090. When this was provided, they raised the bond to $5,000, When that, too, was provided by the In- ternational Labor Defense, they raised the bail to $7,500, and, losing patience, frankly and plainly told the defense that if they dared to come back again with money for bail they would raise the amount required out of sight and end the game, but that they were not going to let Dorsey out of jail while the strike lasts. Dorsey is a Negro miner, a member of the Central Rank and File Strike Committee and of its executive committee, In this part of West Virginia, as in some parts of Western Pennsyl- vania, attempts are made to terrorize farmers into denying the use of their jand for strike meetings, Only here it takes a cruder form. It is not a matter of either bribes or financial pressure, the deputies and state po- lice just come and tell the farmer not to dare to let a striker come on his place, if he knows what is good for him. In one case, a farmer was given notice by the coal company to move off his own land. The miners are not terrified, they are sending a delegation soon to Charleston to protest to the gov- ernor against the terror, and, more important still, they are going on with the strike where the strike has already started and are organizing PITTSBURGH, Pa., Aug. 1—Word was brought to the International La- bor Defense here Friday of a new and extreme brutality practiced on a miner’s family by Governor Pin- chot’s state police. The I. L. D. is taking up the case, Mike Wrestiak, the miner, was hurt two years ago in the mine. He got some compensation, but it stopped a while ago. The company then served him with an eviction no- tice, although he was entirely unable to work yet, When he did not move out fast enough to suit the company, state police came, on July 7, and broke into Wrestiak’s house and beat him up horribly. Then they threw all the furniture out into the road and smashed it. Wrestiak’s wife, Anna, fled from the police clubs and hid all night in the woods, but was captured in the morning. The po- lice took both Wrestiak and his wife to Woodville and had them commit- ted to an insane asylum, as an ex- cuse for the barbarism practiced upon them, though dozens of neigh- bors are ready to testify they are not in the least insane. Wrestiak’s two small children were seized and car- ried off to an orphanage. Soe te Moore to Address Strikers. PITTSBURGH, Pa., Aug. 1.—The International Labor Defense and the Negro Department of the National Miners’ Union and Central Rank and File Strike Committee are co- operating to build a series of big mass meetings in the steel mill towns and coal strike area, The meetings will be addressed by Richard B. Moore, speaking for the strike, and for the defense of the Scottsboro Negro boys, framed to the electric chair, but temporarily saved by the mass protest, The meetings will be to spread tho strike to where it has not yet begun, ty against the race prejudice that in- jures strikes and united working~ Class action. It will be for the de- fense of the Negro workers arrested at Camp Hill, Alabama, and in pro- test against the murder of Negro share choppers there by deputies. The meetings will rally workers to the movement to smash race segre- gation and discrimination in this area, Meetings at which Moore will speak are as follows: Pittsburgh, Aug. 1; Cheswick, Aug. 2; Carnegie, Aug. 3; Pricedale, Aug. 4; Ambridge, Aug. 5; Bentley- ville, Aug. 6; Canonsburg, Aug. 7; Washington, Pa., Aug. 8 and 9; East Pittsburgh, Aug. 10; McKeesport, Aug. 12; Brownsville, Aug. 13; Greensburg, Aug. 14; Steubenville, Ohio, Aug. 15-16; Dillonvale, Ohio; Aug. 17; Yorkville, Ohio, Aug. 18-19; Johnstown, Aug. 20-21; Avella, Aug. 22 at 2 pm.; Pittsburgh, Aug. 22 at 8 pm; McKees Rocks, Aug. 23. Where not otherwise stated the towns named are in Pennsylvania. Textile and Miné Strikers, and Steel (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) ilized to prevent the workers from gathering. Hundreds of workers cros- sed the border to attend the Cana- dian demonstration of twelve hun- dred at Fort Frances where American Communist Party. repre- sentative spoke. . In the Mine Fields. WILKES-BARRE, Pa. Aug. 1.— Today's meeting was arranged in Buttonwood, Pa, a small mining town several miles away from Wilkes-Barre. The meeting opened at 7 p.m., with about 50 to 75 work- ers and their wives present, but gradually more and more workers came, increasing the number to about 400, and listened very attentively to what the speaker was saying. When the next speaker got on the box and after speaking for about 15 minutes a fat cop got out of a big car and grabbed hold of Comrade Zaldokis, who was speaking. He pulled him toward the car, telling him that he ‘was under arrest. ‘The protest was so great that the cop got scared, began looking for his back pocket, where either his gun or blackjack was, and then he let the speaker go. 2,000 Out In Battle Creek. BATTLE CREEK, Mich., Aug. 2.— Two thousand workers demonstrated in the rain here yesterday against war and for unemployment relief, against the fascist attack of the American Legion and Captain O’Brien of the Constitutional League. Hundreds of unemployed and em- ployed workers demonstrated against starvation. Relief of 70 cents a week per persoh was booed, as was the federal stool-pigeon, O’Brien, who tried to. break the demonstration with the help of the Chamber of Commerce and F. L. Dorman. Camp Custer boys, brought in to defend O'Brien, were enthusiastic about the demonstration. PSoaet Saar ) AKRON, Ohio, Aug. 2.—Three hundred workers demonstrated in Barberton despite the Alexander Ne+ gro terror, three hundred in Akron and two hundred in Cuyahuga Falls, ek oe Denver Workers Demonstrate. DENVER, Colo., Aug. 2.—Fifteen hundred workers demonstrated on August Ist against imperialist war. Larimer Allendar spoke on the role of the Trade Union Unity League and war, Dietrich on the role of. the Communist Party, Dorothy Eil on the Scottsboro case, Sanchick on the I. L. D,, D. B, Allendar on the Young Communist League and Saltes on the war danger. The meeting ended with the singing of the International. The meeting was very enthusiastic. Steel Workers Beaten Up. Pains Se GARY, Ind. Aug. 2—Nine work- ers were arrested and badly beaten up here in the August First dem- onstration. There were 5,000 at the start of the demonstration when the police drove their cars on the side- | walks, Besides those arrested ten others were clubbed. The workers then marched to the hall, which the owner was compelled to close. There were 10,000 workers on the streets all evening who were driven from place to place. Five hundred workers demon- Strated in Hammond and three thousand in Indiana Harbor, The Gary prisoners were charged with inciting to riot and include Burke, Luesick, Murphy, Stocker, Petchka and McDuffy. . NEW HAVEN, Conn., Aug. 1.—A demonstration of over 1,000 workers was held in New Britain today. Rob- ert S. Kling, Communist candidate Workers Rally| the | - PITTSBURGH, Pa., July 31—The ‘Second Offensive” is on. The push~ ing forward of the strike organiza- tionally, the striking over again of the mines in the strike area which never did come out—that is the sec- ond offensive zone. Spreading the strike hrough Cen- for Mayor in the city of New Haven, the speaker, was arrested as he at- tempted to address the workers. The bosses of New Britain have carried .on a campaign of terror against the workers’ organization who have attempted to hold open- air meetings in this city. A conference to which all workers’ organizations in Connecticut are in- vited to send delegates will be held in Hartford Sunday, Aug. 23, where a committee will be sent to Gov- ernor Cross to demand the freedom of all political prisoners in Connec- ticut. WORCESTER, Mass., Aug. 1.—Six hundred workers demonstrated here on the Worcester Common. Several hundred Daily Workers were sold de- spite the police ordinance. ay eae GARDNER, Mass.—Three hundred and fifty workers attended the anti- war demonstration here’ today, show- ing a determination to struggle never before witnessed in this city. Oe ie | Fitchburg Mayor Stops Literature. FITCHBURG, Mass—The demon- stration in this city was the biggest ever held. Three hundred and fifty MINERS PLAN TO SPREAD STRIKE THRU CENTRAL PA., KENTUCKY, SOUTH. ILL: tral Pennsylvania, the Anthracite, the rest of Kentucky, Ohio and West Vir- ginia, and into Southern Ililnois, that is also part of the second offensive. An ideological offensive is part of it—smashing down the remnants of white chauvinism, the remnants of the old mad practices of the UMW days, the winning of ever broader masses of non-miners to the support of the miners’ strike. “The” second offensive comes from the fact that the strike needs require it, that the counter-offensive of the coal operators have been checked, that the men forced back to work during the counter offensive are ready almost without exception to come out again, and that actual solid organization has spread so far now that planned activity is possible. It comes directly from the national conference held July 15-16 at which @ program of unity and action was adopted that is rallying thousands and forming a central point around which the deep dissatisfaction with conditions and which the UMW can crystallize in all the coal fields. The bosses’ counter offensive: in- junctions, widespread arrests of the Strike leaders and relief collectors, newspaper campaigns against the National Miners Union, conferences to rebuild the strike-breaking United Mine Workers, wage cutting “settle- ments” with the UMW, attempts at murder, frame-up—are failing be- cause wherever the UMW appears the fakers find such realization of their treacherous role that they can not be fooled any longer. They fail workers stood solid throughout the meeting, demonstrating against the Hoover war plans. The mayor of Fitchburg attended the demonstra- tion and saw to it that no literature or Daily Workers were distributed or sold, But scorés of pamphlets were sold despite the mayor. r PLR Saleh Despite Heavy Rains, MILWAUKEE, Wisc., Aug. 2.—De- spite the heavy rain many demon- strations were held in Wisconsin with 2,500 in Milwaukee, 400 in Cud- ahy, 300 in West Allis, 1,000 in Ra- cine and 2,000 in Kenosha. The spirit was great and the speakers ex- posed the role of the socialists and the LaFollette fakers. The Amer- ican Legion attempted to break up the Kenosha meeting, but failed due to the workers’ resistance. eee eer ANDERSON, Ind.—Six hundred and fifty workers demonstrated at the Court House against capitalist war and in defense of the Soviet Union. A parade was held around the court house with banners de- manding the release of Theo, Luesse, secretary of the Indiana Unemployed Council, and forced the release of two comrades arrested before the demonstration. Piet tae) MASSILLON, Ohio, Aug. 2.—Four hundred Negro and white workers demonstrated here on Aug. 1 and exposed Coxey’s counter meeting who is the republican candidate for mayor. This was the largest meet- ing ever held here. . oe 1,000 In Buffalo. BUFFALO, N. Y.—One thousand demonstrated here on Aug. 1, There were 300 in the parade, of whom half were Negroes and many women. Solidarity greetings were exchanged with Canada, . . NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y,—Five hundred aluminum workers were present at the Aug. 1 demonstration. When the meeting broke up there were one thousand strong. 48 See te ROCHESTER, N. Y.—One thou- sand workers demonstrated here on Aug. 1 and 150 in Lacawanna, among them were many Negroes. Demon- strations were held in Syracuse, Binghamton, Utica and Jamestown. Spring Valley, Il. Daily Worker: I was talking in one of the big stores here in town and had an argumnt with one of the ‘ladies” from the store. I said that here in Spring Valley there were dozens of workers who are practically starving. “I should say not,” said this ‘lady” from the big store. “All the needy cases here in town are well taken care of. We have a committee and they canvassed the town and every- one who is deserving help is get- ting it. The trouble with you Com- munists is that you're always trying to stir up trouble. The people of this country have nothing to worry about, The United States govern- ment won't let their people starve.” Now I'm wondering whether a family of 7 where the mother is Pregnant are supposed to be people or don't they come in under that definition under capitalism. Because up in a part of town called number three, where the poorest workers live and where the Negro workers are Dear Comrades: I like to write something about the conditions of the farmworker. In New Paltz, N. Y., a certain Mr. D. F. Jewett owns 3 dairy farms, I happened to have the luck to work on one of them. The Meadow Val- ley Stock Farm has sometimes 15 men on the payroll, but many a time less, because the boys are quit- ting all the time. It's certainly a hell of a place to work. D. FP. Jewett’s men work 14 to 16 hours a day for a monthly wage of $45. The bunkhouse is the most ter- rible Place) a eon, can hit, The Cl ll at pie et Family Starves on Bosses ‘Relief’ segregated, I found this worker with five children and a pregnant wife. He hadn't been working for a long time and they had been living off this stuff they could get of their truck garden. Just lately he got a job on a farm away from home where he gets a $1.50 a day for working from 4 o’clock or 5 in the morning until 8 or 9 at night. I found Mrs. Jones, heavy with a child now almost the ninth month picking for what- ever greens she could get in her truck garden. “Are you getting any help from the city,” I asked her. “Well, I don’t know whether you can exactly call it help, I got a basket of groceries in March and one in May,” This is the kind of help that the United States government is giving “4ts people.” We must organize into the Spring Valley Unemployed Coun- cil and fight not for the measly charity of these hypocritical ladies but for what we are entitled to: unemployment imsurance—A Worker. Work 16 Hr. Day on Meadow Valley Stockfarm beds are covered with millions of bedbugs. D, F. has known this for years, and what does he do about even where for a time some thou- sands of workers were forced back to work because the miners find con- ditions not better but eevn forse in the mines than when they came out the first time. They fail because ter- ror is not more terrible than starva- tion. The Second Offensive in the West- ern Pennsylvania field, with which the meeting of the Central Rank and File Strike Committee yesterday mainly concerned itself, means Planned concentration in each sec- tion on one or two selected mines, to strike them solidly, then to use these additional forces to move on and strike solidly other mines in the section which are trying to work. The discussion on the actual carry- ing out of this program was vital and realistic. The discussion, and the grasp of the situation shown by the Central Rank and File Strike Com- mittee improves from meeting to meeting, as the more able members find their way into the committee, through the rapid reorganization of the strike committees in the sections and at the various mines. Also, the leadership of the strike, as repre- sented at the Central Rank and File Strike Committee meetings, is learn- ing rapidly from the two months’ old strike. The first results of the planned concentration appeared at Harmer- ville, Vesta 6. and Westland. Yes- terday there were 450 men, women and children on the Harmerville picket line, practically double what had been mobilized that first two days of the concentration. There | are eleven state troopers and four- teen deputies, commanded by he chief deputy of Allegheny County, and with a patrol wagon ready to carry miners away to jail. In spite of this, the pickets were very mili- tant, and more scabs were stopped. There are not many left in the mine now, and it will probably be closed down this week, & delegate from Brownsville section told how the Vesta 6 picket line was built up. Monday morning there were only a hundred and fifty. Undaunt- ed, these pickets and local miners who could be mobilized held a meet- ing. The local there of the National Miners Union held a meeting. A "| committee was organized to go out and win over to the picket line those who had failed to participate Mon- day, and on Tuesday morning there were just twice as many pickets, and over a hundred scabs were stopped from going into the mine, This was not done without some \fosses, of course. This is war, and the oper- ators have the state machinery in their hands. The state troopers at- tacked and broke up a meeting of the picketch, although held on pri- vate property, and three were ar- rested. But this only encourages the picketing, for everybody can see that such attacks are made when the picketing begins to seriously hurt the operators who give orders to he po- lice, In Westland, where the first de~ tachment of pickets, Monday, about 150 of them, settled down on a farm and erected their own soup kitchen, meanwhile sending out trucks to bring in relief, the coal company has resorted to the most desperate en- ergy to stop he concentration process. The company, by buying or leasing the ground on which the pickets camped, has driven them from one point to another. Meetings in fields have been broken up by police. But the pickets have shown equal energy in finding new camping grounds, and are determined to stay, to increase their numbers and to shut down the Westland mine. it? Nothing, he believes it is good enough for a workingman. Of course Jewett has his trusties and stool-pigeons, and those he pays more, but, in order to keep it secret, their check equals those of the oth- ers, but they get from $10 to $20 a month cash. The stool-pigeons are Clarence Porter, Jack Osterhoudt and Fred, the teamster. Fellow- workers of the Jewetts Farm, wake up and fight your boss's bloody ex- ai There ‘are the usual les in the papers. For instance the pickets at Charleroi mine counted 91 scabs—the papers declare there were 400. But newspapers don’t mine coal. At Atlasburg, where the picket lines are choking down production, the state police have begun to set time limits on the picketing. They began by driving the women and children from the picket lines, now they came to the leaders with a watch rt minutes, then you have to go home.” | The strike committee decided that such a, limitation can not be accepted, and that with more forces on the| ground, the picketing shall go on) without regard to limitation. | The Central Rank and File Strike | Committee seriously discussed the planned organization of Negro min-| ers, The Negro department estab- lished at the meeting last week re-| ported with a plan. “The white miners much show the Negro miners in practice that they mean that de- mand among our strike demands which says: ‘No discrimination against Negroes or foreign-born work- ers,” said Harry Haywood, reporting for the Negro Department. “The dis- crimination is subtle. The companies usually pay the same wage for the same work. But they give the Ne- groes the worst working places. They | give them the worst houses in the patch, or even jim crow them al- together in special and inferior rows of houses. Some mines, where con- ditions are a little better than others, will not hire Negroes at all. More Negroes than whites, in proportion, live in company houses, and are kept in closer control by the companies, are subjected to greater swindling and terror.” ‘The program is for each local and section strike committee to build a sub-committee for work among Ne- groes. The sub-committees must have both Negro and white miners on it, for the organization of Negro miners is equally the concern of all strikers. The strike committee, both section and local, must put the discussion and formulation of the local de- mands against special grievances of Negro miners on the order of busi- ness at their next meetings. Then the sub-committees, and the central Negro department, which is} a sub-commigtee of the Central Rank and File Strike Committee, must or- ganize a regular propaganda cam- paign among Negro miners, using the Scottsboro case, the Camp Hill mas- sacre and arrests, the lessons of the strike here, as main issues. The ques- tion of self-determination of Negroes in the South must be brought to the front. Particularly, the Liberator, the official organ of the League of Strug- gle for Negro Rights, must be util- ized to rouse the Negro masses in| the strike area. And all remnants of race prejudice | on both sides must be diligently sought out, and stamped out. Thej Negro miners must be taught by ex- ample that the white miners are) no longer under the influence of the | Jim Crow policy of the old UMW. The use of one race against the other by the coal operators must be ex- plained. If a Negro family is evict- ed, and a white miner has room in his home, the Negro family must be taken in and given shelter. The Negro department found that whereas race prejudice used to exist in considerable force in this strike area, it is melting away rapidly in the heat of the common fight against hunger. All that is needed is a little organized effort to eliminate it al- together. Ike Hawkins, Negro miner and dis- trict Relief Secretary, reported that the work of establishing kitchens in the struck camps is going on very well, and that the good effects of the kitchens are immediately seen in the better picket lines and higher morale. A delegate from Central Pennsyl- vania reported on the successful con- ference held Sunday in Johnstown, as a result of which seven new locals of the National Miners Union have already been set up in the first three days of this week in that district. The locals are in the biggest mines. ‘The bosses are already so scared that in one mining town in the Allegheny Valley they went around to all the company houses reducing the rent from $10 a month, to $4 a month, and explaining that the higher rate had been charged before by “mis- take.” But it took the first signs of organization to convince them of the mistake. The strike committee is on record for the building of eviction commit- tees in each strike committee. These are committees to watch out and make a canvass of the neighborhood for houses either empty or which can take more in them, to house the families that are evicted. Evictions are now coming thick and fast. The Central Rank and File Strike Committee approved the recommen- dation of the Executive Committee to give the executive permission to appoint at a moment's notice a strong delegation of miners to go to Washington on the day Hoover's strike breaking conference is held with the U.M.W. and the operators. The striking miners’ delegation will not participate in the conference with the government, but will pre- sent its demands to the operators, and will offer settlement on the basis of the demands, The strike committes authoriaxd the executive committee to send a delegation of miners with greetings to the August First Anti-War dem- onstration in Pittsburgh, where the demand: “All war funds for the re- lief of striking and unemployed workers” will be raised. The Aug- ust First demonstrations throughout the strike area are held in the min- ing and steel mill towns. They were endorsed by the National Miners Union and by the Metal Workers, to mobilize all forces for the strike, to unite the struggles of unemployed and striking workers, of miners and steel workers especially. These meetings are to be held at: Pitts: burgh, Ambridge, Brownsville, Wash- ington, Monnessen, Steubenvilla (Ohio), Wheeling (West Va.), Mc Keesport, Avella, Hermanie, Cover- dale, and Bentleyville. en,s . INDEPENDENCE, Pa., July 31.—A Industrial League, They will be used |$ p Geliherate Fepiatines to er an ace cently. As T. R. O'Brien was going home from a section strike commit- tee meeting in Slovan riding along the road in a car, Bill Robinson, constable at Independence, opened fire on O’Brien. Luckily, he missed him. With Robinson was another constable who acts as deputy sheriff at Cedar Grove mine, - MEADOWLAND, children’s group has been organized | in Meadowland, and another in Al-| exandria. A fine spirit prevails} among the miners’ children who have joined. Each feels himself a children’s organizer. The Meadow-} land children sent their squad cap- tain, secretary and president out to show the Alexandria group how to carry on the work. Plans for a playground are in full swing. A committee has chosen a fleld, where both swimming and ball grounds are located. The work is enthusiastically taken up by all the children. “The New Pioneer” is received by these children as their magazine. Stories from it are read at every meeting. Articles and stories about the mines are being written by the children especially for the New Pioneer, ‘The members of The Pioneers in the National Miners Union come out on the picket lines with their par- ents. They feel that this is their Strike, and that they must fight to] win it. CARNEGIE, Pa., July 31—A frame up that reached clear over the state lines of three states to drag off to jail the president of the local union of the National Miners Union at Carnegie is in operation against Arthur Humphries. He was taken to Steubenville, Ohio, jail from his resi- dence at 28 Lock Street, Carnegie on a fake charge that he bought a suit of clothes in Steubenville three years ago which has not been paid for yet. He has $200 property bail set on him. . PITTSBURGH, Pa. July 31—On Thursday, just as the jobless were begining to come into the regular meeting of the South Side Unem- ployment Council, at 2 p, m. Thurs- day, in Ukrainian Toilers Hall at 30 South 11th Street, the police broke up the meeting and barred the un- employed from the hall, “No meeting today,” sald the pre- | cinct captain of police, who came in @ squad car with three other cops. “And no parades for you tomorrow!” he threatened. The south side job- Jess will nevertheless parade Satur- day to the great August First dem- onstration in West Park. * * OLYPHANT, Pa., July 31—Pour hundred anthracite miners came te a meeting in the high school auqi- torium here at which Tom Myers- cough, secretary of the Miners Na- tional Unity Committee of Action was the main speaker. Among those present was a district executive board member of the U.M.W. Boylan faction, and 2 man named Shuster, of the Maloney faction. Myerscough gave the program of the National United Front Conference held in Pittsburgh July 15-16, and it met with great approval, except for the fakers present. Myerscough exposed the Boylan-Lewis machine and Mal- oney also for his betrayal in the Glen Alden strike. It was pointed out that the Maloney clique has no program of struggle to remedy the horrible conditions in the anthracite, and that its conduct in the present cénvention of the U.M.W. has been of little value to the miners, ‘The Maloney spokesman got the floor and tried to defend him. Shus- ter is passing the word around that Saturday the Maloney delegates to the District One convention will hold @ Tump convention and secede from the U.M.W. However, Maloney him- self denies this. The District Unity Comniittee of Action met Wednesday night and worked out a program especially for the Anthracite miners, in line with the “Program of Unity and Action” adopted at the national conference. Leaflets are being distributed. REPORT OF DAILY WORKER CLUBS WANTED! DISTRICT 2 PICNIC AUG. * 16 WILL INCLUDE LSU SPORTS! Reports of ali meetings are want- ed from the following Daily Worker Clubs: Oxford, Miss.; Kensington, Pa.; Butte, Mont.; Seattle, Wash.; Pueblo, Col.; Perth Amboy, N. J.; Tampa, Fla.; St. Petersburg, Fal.; St. Louis, Mo.; Akron O,; Cleyeland, 0.; Toledo, O.; Detroit, Mich.; Read- ing, Pa.; Stockton, Cal.; Chicago, Il.; as well as clubs in New York City. Most of the twenty-five clubs scat- tered throughout the country, strange to say, were formed inde- pendently of district direction, As whole the districts have -éntirely overlooked the almost Jimitless pos- sibilities of Daily Worker. Clubs. There is hardly any realization of their potential value during” emer- Sencies, etc. It also seems that most of the interest in Daily Worker Clubs comes from the least expect- ed quarters. If a group in Oxford, Mass., or Tampa, Fla. can see its way clear to form a club, why should a large city like Philadelphia or Cincinnati or Los Angeles or San Francisco not make some effort to develop them. The Daily Worker covers about two thousand cities and towns in the United States. With a little concentrated effort it would be simple to organize clubs in every one of these points. But without the aid of the districts the Daily Worker Club is doomed, in which case one of the most advantageous methods of insuring the financial stability of the Daily Worker as well as the po- litical growth of the movement will be lost. DAILY WORKER CLUBS MUST SUCCEED ‘The fact that twenty-five clubs have already been lished and a functioning tisfactorily proves that they can be organised and run to the advantage of every- one concerned. All that ix ngegs- sary is the initial meeting. Dis- triets! Seetions! Units! Put the Dally, Worker Club on your Agen- uss it in all jettérs and question up dis wanes bring thi whenever the workers know w! pose of the club is; and instruct the comrade in charge of organiz- ing the club to let the workers do the talking; all that they need in the beginning is a little guidance; the rest will come as result of their initiative. Don’t let the Daily Werker Club disappear. Get together groups of workers in shops, factories, neigh- borhoods, mines, everywhere; have them elect a secretary and a smell committee to take care of the ness; with all suggestions, cisms, etc., sent in to the Dept. of the Daily Worker. club “now! PLEDGE WEEKLY OR MO. ¥ SUMS TO DAILY W “Yesterday 1 was te enough for the first time to par chase one of your papers and te fay I finished reading same.” you are fighting against. 1 the small amount of one do! will help some towards your Sus- taining Fund. Hereafter I am go- ing to make sure I get one of your papers every Saturday from er boy I pudchased this one can rest assured in time of need and distress U will help your cause all I cen.” District 3 Pienle A August 16 is the date of the Dis- trict 2, New York, annugl Daily Worker Picnia to be held at Pleasant Bay Park. Westchester, N. Y. Blocks of tickets can be bought at the: Dis- trict Office, 5th floor, Daily Work- er, for 25 cents each to be sold at 35 cents thus giving organizations an opportunity to make @ litt money to carry on their work. e Labor Sports Union is providing some great field events for the occasion: also novelty races. The field events will include the high jump, broad jump, shot put, javelin throw, cus throw; the novelty races will include the potato race, ehicken hop, three legged race, wheelbarrow race, obstacle race, All workers who want to enter any of the above tion to. 2 Ww. tsth Me Room’ 309, bor Sports Union. No eatries will be accepted later th August 13; workers will be ali ed to compete for three field events = three nov- elty races and the highest seorer Will met the Daily ‘wor er Cup. Se get busy comrades and make your entries at once! All Districts Must Reach Quotas! $5,000 More Needed in the “Daily!” Hold Affairs to Boost Percentages! The drive for the additional $5,000 to carry the Daily through the sum~ mer months is progressing very slowly. To date $27,819.83 has been turned in, leaving about $2,500 more needed to end the campaign. Dis- tricts 4 and 5 showld hold more af- fairs for benefit of the Daily to cui in Districts 9, 10, 11 and 137 What has happened to the Coupor Books in these districts? Onty about one-fourth of these books have been returned from all: distric a> dreds of them are still ou ng! All funds owing to the Daily tr the Drive must be turned in at once! Every dollar collacted is needed boost their percentages. District 7! ly to pay effice and paper bil! Detroit. should intensify activity| Daily is not out of danger yt among the Units to enable it to] $40,000 mark must be reaci raise its quota during the coming| week. Districts’ Do your week, What is the reason for in-| make this possible! DIST. 1 DIST. 3 DIst 6 Boston, Mass. A. Svee, Baltimore, ‘Terre Haute, Com. Pezzello 50 | Ma. 50 | Ind, sec 11.00 Quincy Unit 3.50 | 2 Grossenbacher, S. Boston U Philadelphia, Pa. 1.00 etal oo e DIST. 9 pine 8°) Nisete, Mich: © Rant 1.00 T Zervondis, ie Weirton, W Va 30 0 ad eid ‘Total 50 z= DIST, 6 = S H Falkoff, A Comrade Wooster, 0. 28 writ, ry ‘ofsky, Rone- a ‘ sant, NS (col from. ‘Teter aad Aberdeen, Waph comrades: DIST. 7 ~ Detrolt, Mich: » tee RPE Unit B2 5.00 ‘Tetal 300 Unit 81 11.25 bard Rit lh . Bec A Picnic B12 mqeles; Cpls Alliance of Am. — 5, Unit 31 tas P Gateliuk, col on ® Novakowski 2.00) Unit 21 135 hooks 5A Untt 8% 3.00! A Friend 300 Lith Wrk Women’ Untt Az 25 | de week Brooklyn eobhiior i. Bet 1.00 See Unit Ot 2.50) 1 Shapiro 1.00 Medical League, Com Nausbaum 1.09) Kivi eno Col on books 3 Franks FB, Side Wha. O1.