The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 15, 1931, Page 5

*..,, demonstration at the Charles Street. DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, AUGUST 3, 1931 = ~ Workers Rallyir ying All Over ~ Country for Demonstrations Victims! Demand’ Ai - Against Boss Terror Aug. 22 Smash Frame-up of:Scottsboro and Camp Hill inesty for All Class War Prisoners! Fight Boss Terror! NEW YORK.—After repeated _ bloody conflicts with the police, previous Sacco-Vanzetti Annive! aries, and in other demonstrations) .of the working class in Baston, mili- has forced permission from the mu- ~<cipal authorities this year for. the noiding. of the 1931 Sacco-Vanzettt mall, on Boston Common, August 22, The Boston district of the Inter - national Labor Defense announcés | that this is the first time such per- _ Mission has been granted. This year’s aemonstration in Boston, the scene of the execution of Sacco and Van- zetti, is expected to surpass all pre- vious outpouring of workers, especi- . ally in view of the incerasing unrest: among workers throughout New En- gland’s industries, primarily in tex tiles, a . Mobilization for August 22nd ~will| =be speeded up at the conference planed for this Sunday, August 16; 430:30-a..m., at Ambassador Paiaoe, 20 Berkeley Street, enlisting deie~ gates from Massachusetts, Rhode Island and New Hampshire. J. Louis} Engdahl, general secretary of the In- “ternational Labor Defense will’ bé the principal speaker at the August 22nd demonstration in Boston. Bridge Square In Minneapolis Bridge Square will be the scene “ of the Sacco-Vanzetti demonstration in Minneapolis on Saturday after— noon, August 22nd, at 44:30 o’clack. Several mobilization meetings are‘bt ing held. Numerous demonstrations are being organized throughout: ‘this district. Various activities in addition to the flooding of Cleveland with lite ature in various languages is ~ éx- pected to bring an unprecederited gathering to the Public Square on Saturday ,afternoon, August 22nd,. Demand Amnesty - onal Office of the Inretnational Labor Defense call not only for_d monstrations, however, but also for marches after demonstrations, be; fore, the court houses or the jails w! ere imprisoned workers are being held. .. Many hundreds of workers are now . in prison. fe ae Many Hundreds of Prisoners... Throughout the coal fields, . Western Pennsylvania, in Becta Ohio, Northern West Virginia, “and. “specially in Harlan and Bell Coun-| __ tant labor in New England metropglis | -}Pententiary at Atlanta, Gorgia; Instructions sent out by the Nati-|_ jail that does not hold working class prisoners, Numerous deportees are being held in the detention prisons of the federal government on both the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. Many Class. War Prisoners ‘Tom Mooney, who has just started serving his sixteenth year in San Quentin Prison, California, is the ‘best’ “known of America’s class war prisoners. The San Quentin and Fol- “som prisons of California, however, hold the Imperial Valley prison- McNamara. and Schmidt, and humerous other victims of boss class justice. The Centralia prisoners are butied-alive behind bars at Walla Walla, Washington; the Woodlawn prisoners are serving five year sen- teneesim the Blawnox Workhouse, at Blawnox, near Pittsburgh; Pat De wine is ‘being held In the Feder: Scottsboro Negro boys in the Kilk ‘Prison (death cells) at Montgomer; Alabama; Roy Wright, one of th: Seottsboro boys, Lowell Wakefield “Southern organizer of the Interna- tional Labor Defense, and others in prison on various charges at Bir- mingham, Alabama; five Camp Hill ‘Negro share croppers still in prison at” Dadeville, Alabama; Jesse Wake- j field, Kentucky organizer of the In- } ternational Labor Defense, in jail at Harlan, charged with criminal syn- dicalisin; William Murdoch, textile strike leader in New England, being held ‘in Boston for deportation, as well as many others under arrest. Demand Amnesty for All “Ohe of the outstanding demands ised on Sacco-Vanzetti Day is to be found in the intensified struggle for.the immediate and unconditional rélease of all the class war prison- ers. “This is being linked up with the international demand no Sacco-Van- etti Day for the liberation of class war prisoners in all lands. ‘The International Labor Defense is Jtoday faced with its greatest strug- Sles. and its greatest obligations. The mass mobilization for Sacco-Vanzetti Day is joined with the drive for a mass | membership. .in- the. -ILD and | the collection of. funds for carrying on the Struggle against capitalist class justice. The need for financial sup- |.port is tremendous. Workers are udged to take up collections every- where. Send ail donations imme- “diately to the National Office, Inter- national Labor Defense, Room 430, -s in Kentucky, there is hardly 80 E, 11th St. New York, N. ¥. ~ Detroit Jobless Demonstrate As (CONTINUED FRUM PAGE ONE) * the function of the Federal govern-, arguing that capitalism must .-act against a militant working-clss,} 476 sald: “A depression like this one is not. merely an economic calamity. It ts|~ a threat to our institutions. It sup- plies the soil for the growth of fdeas of government hostile _ to “our own. A depression is always | ~ a harvest time for revolutionists and cother trouble makers.” He called on all the charity or- “ganizations to unite to resist. the ~ demands of the unemployed. He tajd, ‘of the starving children lining. up ‘with Communisin, but forgot to men- "+ tion the fact that Pinchot’s police.in Pinchot Feeds Them Phrases ‘Pittsburgh threaten to arrést 1,000 starving miners’ children if they - “In his speech Pinchot particularly commit the crime of collecting strike pointed out that Communism was|,relief. Regarding the children Pin- ‘rapidly spreading, and that it .was|chot said: “The children of Western Penn- ment, not so much to worry about | ivania miners are being trained to the ‘unemployed, but to act deci- pene against the government the ‘sively to protect capitalism. Pinchot,| surrering through which they are passing... Their Communistic leaders ‘are téaching them to hate the Gov- wnment under which they go hungry. ‘Many of these little children have not, tasted milk for many months.” Pinchot’s demagogy is just the beginning of a new drive by the li- |-beral-fakers to help the Hoover gov- ernment against the unemployed and against the demand for unemploy- ‘ment-insurance. The fakers of the Pinchot stripe realize that the action of Hoover too openly exposes the hand:.of the capitalists, and offer} new schemes to keep back the ad- vancing struggle of the workers and to protect capitalism. ALL OUT TOMORROW FOR THE DAILY Kansas City is holding a Da’ --Worker, Jamboree on the first ‘Sune “day in September, we expect mobilize all of the ‘arid news boys for this, ‘and to, large our small group as a result, of the meeting,” writes A.W.B., District 10, Rep. This, he adds, will be done in naj. the units as well as in Kansas_| h¢ ty We agree with the District 10 Rep. ‘that the building of the Daily Wig er is important Party work and that the Daily must become a real factor in all ‘struggles and campai “With Daily Worker Clubs func- tioning roperly,” continues the Kansas city Rep, “It will be - easy ned to teach comrad the Daily Worker is not jus MD ba fe. roposition.” Wisely said cqm; ther Districts please note. Sagi Down own Daily aoe New York City has the. tght ‘ine on discussion at met Workers actually got uj what they thought was right or wrong with Daily Worker, All criticisms. and suggestions were turned — over to Editorial partment for comment, H. George’s absence on vaca’ however will delay answer for: while, Comrades in strike area in Kt tucky are deivers and Whe tore Keepers come around and ask for tl ‘he: “*ulder ft the real things Rentuste 2 ta truitgul field for, ‘the Dally at be tapped.’ Through wily Worker, workers in Ha | vicinity are able to keep in close.) ch with thelr brothe vania and West Virj nters. Keep us in ane con FY NT TET ME TN eT eT ee LT vie nr Cerne WORKER PICNIC AT ~ PARK; INVITE EVERYONE YOU KNOW! cons.) awd} 4 in nia seks amr ouch hy ‘PLEASANT BAY comrades! Also encourage nden‘ among Kentuckians, SESt every worker read the Daily and pass it on to his friend,” reads note from P, W., Negro ‘worker, Phil- pmb arb Pa, “Let every community anize a Dally Worker Club and ia regular meetings. want all in the United States to help is“great work, Let the nda DBITY. “Worker,” Domorrow-Pienic-All Out. Tomorrow 8 the gay of the An nual Daily Worker Picnic in N, ¥,! Al-events will absolutely take place as per schedule. These include the pete R. Chorus; Workers Laboratory 3; John Reed Club Artists; “Worker Staff; Or ts Union Field Meet, the highest scorer ef which will be awarded the highly 7 | govsted Dally Worker Cup: romi- “speakers including evin, *oustness mani who will relate ing. the country also talks by of striking miners; ments asnd food; and countless other events. To get to Pleasant Bay Park— temas subway to HB, 177th St.—then “to Unionport. At this point our usses will ineet you and take you irectly to the grounds. Tickets are “Ba.cénts, Bring everybody you know with you—rain or shine, USibkeriptions Will ‘Bulla “Daily,” ~ Subseriptions will make the Daily ‘Worker self-sustaining, If your copy of the Daily has expired, renew it now for a month, or two mont! you can’t afford a six months or a year subscription, We nt to kee) @ii-cour: subscribers if we can. If cription has not expired ‘won't you try and send at least ion in to the Daily Worker? Let? if we can it bi (Daily on a sound financial is of us exerting just a little bit i effort°to secure subscriptions, = gF er Ben Gold to Speak in St. Louis in Campaign in Needle Trades Shops ST. LOUIS, Mo.—Ben Gold, gen- eral secretary of the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union, will| speak Monday, Aug. 24, at 8 p.m., at| the West Side Workers’ Center, 1505 Semple Ave., near Easton. The needle trades workers of St. Louis are faced with new wage-cut | and speed-up drives by the bosses. The need for organization is there- fore becoming an immediate neces- sity. The bosses realize that they will not be able very much longer to continue to force the workers to ac- cept the rotten conditions that pre- vail in the needle shops now. They are therefore increasing the terror. For instance, in the Korrekt Cloth- ing, where the workers are working part time, although August is sup- posed to be the height of the sea- son, they are forced to sit at the machines while waiting for work. : The boss is afraid that when the workers will speak to each other or- ganization may be discussed. In the ' sive an increase in wages after the ‘eedle Trades Workers’ Industrial nion gave out a number of leaflets that shop calling upon the work- 3 to organize and fight against the ten conditions. Leaflets are being distributed and 2parations are being made to make Gold Mass Meeting the largest vathering of needle trades workers of St. Louis. ——'"™" Page Five ~ Model Pants the boss was forced to | Birmingham Terror Against Negroes Extended to County, Other Cities! (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONP) a fake charge of “raping” two pro- fessional prostitutes. | The Southern District of the 1, L. D. has sent the following tele-! pram of protest to Chief of Police | McDuff of Birmingham: “We protest jailing of Lowell Wakefield because of his visit to | j are among those in attorney on behalf of other mili- tant Birmingham workers thrown in jail. After holding him on the flimsy exeuce of making an ‘in- vestigation’, 48 hours after his ar- rest Wakefield is still held with- out charges. This ispart of the reign of terror launched against Southern workers to smash the Communist Party and other workers’ organizations. It is oc- curring in the same state where the Scottsboro frame-up victims and the Camphill croppers face ‘ail terms and electrocution. We demand the unconditional release of the scores of Negro and white workers arrested in Birmingham in your terror drive.” Following the hold-up and shoot- ing on August 4 of three society women, one of whom has died, an unidentifed Negro was accused of the crime. Birmingham police at once begun making wholesale ar- rests of Negro workers, using the murder as a pretext to search their homes for Communist literature. | Ala, and to Athens, At least two Negro work: a woman, have been murdere the Birmingham police to date, scores of others shot down in and streets by police and other t Several are now in hospitals in a| dying condition. Scores have been} thrown into jail. Eugene Braxton, | David James and John James, three | Negro leaders of the working-class, facing a frame-up. Warrants have been ts-| sued for all white and Negro Com- munist leaders in Birmingham. Harry | | , Jackson, r r acting southern of the Communist Party i up. The boss press admits failur in several previous efforts to fran ‘him up, but think they can do it this | > time. The police terror has been fended to Selma and Montgom whe yes- Tenn., scores of Negroes were arreste terday. Negro and white workers! Defend the Southern workers! Defend the unity of while and Negro) workers! Defend the revolutionary party of the working-class! Organize pro’ meetings and demonstrations at} once! Mobilize for the nation-wide demonstrations on August 22 agains: | bess terror and for the release of the Scottsboro boys and all class- war prisoners! Defend the right of the workers to organize! Demon- | strate August 22! UNITED FARMERS LEAGUE HOLDS A CONFERENCE N. Dakota Conference Draws Up Demands STANLEY, N. D.—The State Con- ference of the United Farmers’ hearing reports from the state or- ganizer, Comrade Ella Reeve Bloor, and also from county organizers the conference adopted a resolution con- taining the following demands: (1) Increased taxation for utility companies, railroads, telegraphs, banks and mortgage companies, chain stores and rich farmers, these funds to be used for relief of the poor farmers and unemployed work- ers.’ (2) All tenant and poor farm: ers be exempted from paying taxes. (3 Immediate discontinuation of spending public funds for construc- tion of war memorial buildings, these funds also to be given to the relief of unemployed and poor farmers. (4) Billion dollar war fund to be used for relief and not for war against the Soviet Union. (5) Im- mediate cash relief of $10 per week per family and $1 in addition for each child and $6 per week for single adult workers and farmers. Also free doctor, free hospital and medical at- tention for the unemployed and poor in case of sickness, also feeding of live stock in drought stricken areas, (6) No evictions of farmers and workers from their homes for non- payment of rent; no foreclosures on land, chattels or crops. Cancellation of all debts of poor farmers, The resglution also calls upon farmers to organize Committees of Action and to join into the United Farmers’ League and wage organized struggle for their demands in alli- ance with the industrial workers. The conference elected the State Relief Committee, which will in- struct each township secretary of the U. F. L. to make an immediate sur- vey df the township as to the actual needs of the farmers. Relief sta- |. tions are to be set up in every county to secure and distribute the relief. Relief will be demandéd from the county commissioners and from Red Cross funds. The conference de- manded that all railroads and trans- port companies transport relief free of charge. PLAN BIG AUG. 22 MEET, IRONWOOD Demand Release of the Class War Prisoners IRONWOOD, Mich., Aug. 14.—As a part of the world wide demonstra- tions to commemorate the martyrdom of Sacco and Vanzetti and protest the existent boss terror, the workers and farmers of the Gogebic Range will hold a huge outdoor mass meeting at Northwestern Park, corner of Suf- folk and Ayer streets on the 22nd of August beginning at 7 p. m. On the same evening of Aug, 22, there will be a very good program arranged at the Palace Hall which will begin at 8:30 p.m. This program will be varied and constructive, It will given in different languages, so that all workers regardless of their nationality should participate. All workers and farmers on the Gogebic Range! Come to the dem- onstration and the program and show your solidarity with the toiling mass thruout the world, to fight for the liberation of the Scottsboro boys, to fight against the bosses’ terror against the Negro people, to fight against the Michigan Alien Registratéen Bill which is an attack on ‘ws whole working-class, Let your voice be heard in demand for the release of Mooney, the Imperial Valley com- trades and thousands of others. League was held here July 20. After | elevators, power and “gas companies, } - - RENEWALS AND SUBS WILL BUILD “DAILY” “Enclosed find $6.00 covering my renewal of Daily Worker which expired July 11, 1931. I can hardly spare the money because I only worked about six weeks this year. But I can't be without the Daily Worker,” writes C. D., Chicago, Ti. It is sacrifices like this that is keeping the Daily Worker alive. You can help too by sending in your own renewal or subscribing for a friend if you are already on our mailing list. Every subscrip- tion or donation sent takes a load off the financial burden of the Daily Worker. Every weekly or monthly pledge to the Sustaining Fund adds a blow to the “Daily” deficit. Workers! Why not set aside a certain amount to be sent to the Daily Worker every week or so as a donation! Units! ‘Why not hold affairs or entertain- ments for “Daily” benefit two or three times a month to help build our fund! Please rush all renewals, sub- scriptions, donations or pledges, “air mail, to Daily Workez, 50 E. 13th Street, N. ¥. C. DEMAND POLICE FOR EVICTIONS Furniture Put Back By Council CINCINNATI, O., August 13.— A member of the Unemployed Council was recently evicted from his house at 732 Armory Avenue. The Coun- cil immediately put the furniture back. The following day the Cin- cinnati Enquirer carried the news that C. J. Carroll, executive secretary of the Property Owners Division of the Real Estate Board; had com- plained to the city officials on be- half of the owner of the property at 732 Armory Ave. ‘The landlord had got an order from the Municipal Court for the workers in the flat to move. When the eviction was to take place the police were called to prevent the mil- itant Negro workers in the neighbor- hood from upsetting the eviction. ‘When the flat was empty it was lock- ed by the landlord’s son, Half an hour later he called the police and told them that the furniture was be- ing moved in again. They, how- ever, decided, in view of the militancy of the workers, that it was in the jurisdiction of the Municipal Court and not in theirs, Carrol, representing the property owners demands that the police give them the fullest support in their evic- tion cases. The workers of the city are determined to build the Unem- ployed Branches and prevent the ev- iction ,of workers who cannot pay their rent. BAD CONDITIONS AT NAT'L CASTING (By a Worker Correspondent) CHICAGO, Ill. — The conditions in the National Malleable Steel and Casting Company are so rotten. The workers have averaged two days a week for two years, and their wages were cut many times. The bosses attempt to cut again, But they use a different method. Before they used to put in notice that they cut so much percent. Now they tell us one by one that they will cut wages from the first of August and more workers will be laid off. They know well that workers will not be able to make a living. They extend working hours from 8 to 12 hours a day. Old workers begin to be laid off. Many workers have been work- ing over thirty years in shop, but now they are cast off on the street and replaced by young ones. The foundry works on piece work. By terrific speed up and hard work we make only $5,00 in eight hours. Laborers get only 40¢ an hour. Ma- chinists get 55¢ an hour satan JOBLESS LEADER JAILED IN ERIE Arre:ted by Order of} ©: Poor Director (By a Worker Correspondent) ERIE, Pa., Aug. 14—A Committee of eight workers from the unem-| ployed council was mobilized and went down to the Poor Director's of- ‘ice at Seventh and French sts., at 10 o'clock. Comrade Hayward, spokes- man for the committee, entered the Poor Director's office and demanded to see the director, Mr. Wagner. He was told to wait a minute. So while waiting, we received our answer. The police were called to throw us out The police asked for the Council Committee and then Comrade Hay- ward spoke up and said: “I am the spokesman and the parties concerned are going into the office.” Then the honorable peace officer | says: “You come here and he took| Comrade Hayward into the office and called the patrol wagon to take him down to the station. When ‘Cémrade Hayward asked the officer what the Poor Director was for, the officer refused to answer. Comrade Hayward requested the use of the phone. He was asked what he wanted with it, for they wanted to know if he had any one outside who would work for his release. They were informed that an organization, “just a world wide organization” was interested. He meant the Interna- tional Labor Defense. He was held pending charges from the Poor Director. Forty-five minutes later he was released under bond and told to: appear in the police court last Sunday at 2 o'clock. NEGRO TRAITORS AID SO. LYNCHERS Knife the Scottsboro Defense S. LOUIS, Mo.—Open collabora- tion with the Southern boss lynch- ers and abject belly crawling before the oppressors of their people mark- ed the attitude of the leaders @the Ancient United Knights and 4 igh- ters of Africa in its convention here. Although the Scottsboro Case has aroused a storm of protest through- out the world, these bootlickers of the white masters refused to permit Miss Beatrice Maddox, sister of two of the Scottsboro boys, to address the convention, The Uncle Toms at the head of the organization were afraid of offending the Southern bossess. They would prefer to let nine innocent Negro children, vic- tims of a frightful frame-up, burn in the electric chair. Their slogan is the same as that of the reformists at the head of the N.A.A.C.P.—DO NOTHING THAT WILL OFFEND THE WHITE OPPRESSING CLASS. ‘The Grand Master of the organ- ization, Mr, Putillo, is a government employe. To him Mrs, Holly, head of the order in Missouri, passed the buck when the Scottsboro Defense Committee requested a hearing for the sister of two of the boys. Mr. Putillo absolutely refused to permit her to address the convention or to have the subject of Scottsboro brought up in any way. Nor did ‘these misleaders of the Negro masses offer the silghtest pro- test. to the Jim Crow practices in this city which forced their dele- gates, numbering many hundreds, to stay in a tent colony while here be- cause the Jim Crow hotels would not accommodate them. The Scottsboro Defense Committee issued an open letter to the rank and file delegates exposing the traitorous, lick-spittle role of the misleaders. The committee called on the delegates to pass resolutions of Protest against the Scottsboro legal Mother-Bioor Tells | Sioux City Workers | of Far mer ’ Misery | t Correspondent) Towa, Aug. 13 ' Bloor spoke t in Ande! s no time to a meeting as she was ng thru on her war to ni However we announced “her sestin g at the str peel meeting end the cr meeting she held the crowd while telling abovt the ‘mers in Montana. She flocking into the League. Not only joini Shins also the a and the yout As a re- of The getting s nd the city worl common struggle agains and the capitalists, who nq to make them bear the burden of the : Hie Ceal Chig keasy se ted PAGE ONED mines or and ona But they did ved for some com- Disesse is spreading and will die They continve to use every low trick to keep the mas-es dow! We have heard fascis's fear the erna- ti because a : famine, and mon Let the weak peonle. come to Harlan County and see the bosses us? every ©: against the miner: aid—food or subject to death or jail. are hunted like brings in or solicits asth Orvanizers of miners dogs. Defense orga class war Pp: threatened thrown behind’ b: the National n means the and twenty years goes with it. Tear ges is thrown into union meetings. While a large number of infor peonle weie eating in a restau- rant in Evarts, the twenty sheriffs threw tear gas bombs in the place, Men, women and children were trap- ped. No union person—a “red’— shall eat according to officials and operators. But, they can’t stop us. Cars and homes are dynamited. Houses of union .people have been burned and riddled with bullets. We know our enemies. The International Labor Defense and tee National Miners Union have pointed the way and are leading us in this right against the bosses. On the jail sector and the mine front we know the lives of workers hang in the balance. The mas of the world must rise up in protest demon- strations. We unite with the workers of the world in revolution against capitalism and the exploiting class. While we are ready to rot in jail or burn in the chair, we*are not ready to lie down in this fight against the bosses and their tools. We call on the readers of the Daily Worker to march with us, Starvation, exploita- tion, wholesale murders through dis- ease, thug-made company law, and boss ridden courts and jails must be broken. Workers must fight this battle on a solid front. Harlan County writes another chapter to the revolt of the working class. Jailbirds+Class War Prisoners Harlan County Jail PETITIONS FOR REPEAL LEGAL To Collect 110,000 Sig- natures Needed LOS ANGELES, Aug. 14.—After trying to hinder the collection of sig- natures for the repeal of the Crim- inal Syndicalism Law the police have been forced to admit that the collection of signatures !s legal, Sev- eral days ago plain clothes cops stopped Leo S, Poling from circulat- ing his list and took it away from him! Poling went to the city attor- ney’s office and to police headquar- ters where he demanded his list returned, At the police headquarters he was told that the circulation of the le- gal petition was not “legal.” Later the deputy city attorney admitted entirely legal and that the police action was illegal. Thereupon Lieut. J. A. Barclay, head of the police de- partment’s personnel bureau, when he learned that the city attorney would not back up this open piece of lying denied that he had said that the petition was illegal. The police department later re- turned the petition to the office of the State Committee for the Repeal lyinch, and the Camp Hill, Alabama, and Chicago massacre of . Negro workers, | of the Criminal Syndicalism Law. The workers of California ‘are di termined to ges the 110,000 signa- t|through the local hopes that the | that the circulation of the list was |_ bbl { ‘Struggle Goes On In New Forms; Br Spel To Other Coal Fields re, the strikers in heir wounded 23 doned es ed the coke m 3 of the enemy. BURG, Pa. Aug. 13.—The |nation (to stop a hee How Bec att d bare easton n up each day for the last s by deputies of the Carne- each set of local suitiawics Bes ie Coal Co. and by state troopers. Laplecamrials . Wednesday morning after the line iven from the Atlasburg mine n its way to the Slovan it also pickets, and was le down the highway from com- ch to Negro |stop h tear gas bombs, pis- | The strike committee executive es- saaiad th \t Several shots were | peciall tions that all action, the se FPS ormitlation of strike demands, the by Pinchot’s state police as the sending of nexotiation actihuitbade to ids scattered the ranks of the |the spat thalcdeoitone aoee and a savage charge with made by the: police. s is one of the-most“open cases ke breaking by ‘the’ state that place. ‘The- operators and k on the be is of these f when such be | negotiatior sions are and de, with the knowledge und | government are espe- general tion of the central strike xious to crush strike at |committee. The local strike comrrit- | Atlasburg, because it was here that | tees will decide w id under what |the whole thing started, Atlasburg | conditions work e med. The |mine went on strike May 26, and |strike is NOT called off; and rel: from this mine marching’ pickets urgent, than started eading of the struggle ainst ation which in a couple of weeks had involved 40,000 men in ping the str aaa | s western Per ania. around the local demands, much lo- . . . cal strike action will be developed. PITTSBURGH, Pa, Aug. 13. — The policy is to broaden and deepen | these strikes, to give them a mass | character. Masses now at work in the,mines will come out against the unbearable conditions, and fight for their imme- diate grievances: for checkweighmen, against paying s to the UMWA, through the check-off, or for other local demands. The strike continues, {and will continue but on a different basis, not so much for the whole list of district strike demands, but for immediate, partial demands formu- lated for each mine. This does not mean, either, that the strike stops spreading into other fields, or that the district demands, for 55 cents a ton, etc. are shelved. It means a reorganization of forces while the center of the great strike against starvation {is stiffened, that is, while the western Pennsylvania district is re-organized, and prepara~ tions made for a greater, united |Struggle in many districts. Actual starvation while working, lack of clothing,*and shoes, cheating at the scales and in company stores, terror of many sorts, prevail in central Pennsylvania, in IHinois, in the An- |tharcite, in Kentucky and the whole South, in Ohio and West Virginia fields not yet touched by the strike. The organization of the United Front Committees of Action provided for by There are many indications that the arvation conditions and the greed of the coal companies are raising a storm of revolt among- those men who have been forced back to work. Nineteen men quit the “Y & O” En- terprise mine which began to work a week ago. The miners who went back were kept for days cleaning up slate lls and otherwise doing work that |did not directly produce coal. Some of them went to the superintendent jand asked, not for wages, but just |for an order on the company store so they could live while they did this unpaid labor. “Can I sell slate” said the super, smugly. ‘When you mine coal, you'll get food.” At Edna No. 2 mine of the Hillman Coal Co. at Herminie, 220 have been laid off in the last two weeks. This mine had a strike in February and March, but was not involved in the present strike, At Coverdale, there are but 25 or 30 real United Mine Workers Union members, although the mine, which is No. 8 of the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Co, is under the UMW agree- ment, A miner who suspected why these fellows were for the UMW found an excuse to go with them to the UMWA district office, and saw District Pres- the National Conference which met |ident Pat Fagan handing out the in Pittsburgh, July 15-16, and the or- | bribes to them. Those who are just ganization of the National Miners|common scabs got $5 bills, but the Union spreads through all these | special extra variety of rats got $20 fields. Ten new locals and 12 groups | bills, which soon will become locals have} wen from all Pittsburgh Terminal been formed already in Central|mines have been visiting the strike Pennsylvania, within the last two!committees during the last ten days, weeks, Thousands of Kentucky min- i |proposing joint struggle and promis- |ing to come out. . ers have joined the NMU. One ran! and file miner alone signed up 56 new 5 members in Kentucky j ay, an yn cky in one day, and! piprsBURGH, Pa. Aug. 13—The this is typical of what the others are PR hs Gag cree ti District Executive Board elected by Perspective is for lie western Pennsylvania district deepening and sharpening strikes | re 3 4 throughout the local industry. |convention of the National Miners Conferences in West Virginia re- nA AP ROSY; | seis ROUEBIRY:| Ae \cently showed the Scotts Run miners, | ‘Ms week and perfected its organiza- |6.000. st-~ng, ready to revolt against a tion, besides taking up: very impor- |wage c * of 8 cents » ton when the tant business ef which the effects UMW agresment was made, and a = a bie ioe ge new cut under the agreement now of |, The organizational arrangements 9 cents a ton. included the election of a district ex- Events are shaping up for wide- | °Cutive of the board which will meet spread strike struggles in the coal in- | 1east twice a week, between meet- dustry and the new tactics proposed ings of the whole. board, which take by the strike executive for the pres- Place on the fourth Sundsy'of each ent strike are to solidify these dis-|™onth. This small executive com- tricts and place them in position to |M™ittee is composed .of. nine mem- participate fully in such a movement, | Pe?S » $0 chosen that most of the field The closer contacts with the mass- |S Tepresented, also youth, Negroes, jes who have been driven back to |@24 Women. The executive will pro- work will be utilized to build organ- | Pose names to form-departments for ization in Western Pennsylvania at | these latter, and will also bring in = an increased rate. A full program of |Plan to the next full meetingof the reorganization and activizing of mine board for a district literature depart~- committees (united front committees |™ent to handle Labor - Unity, the in each mine) and of NMU locals is|™Mine Worker when {t is re-issued, being pushed forward, There are al- and pamphlets and other literature. ready over 80 new NMU locals in |The meeting ‘Thursday of the board Western Pennsylvania, formed since | instructed its executive to-watch par- the strike started. ticularly over the intérests of jailed With the actual intensification of {members of the union. Section com- struggle, though on a somewhat aif- |™ittees are instructed to have visit- ferent basis, which the new tactics |!N& committees elected to carry aid will bing in Western Pennsylvania, and comfort and to make collections local and national strike relief organ- | f°" tobacco, ete., to the prisoners. ization and activity must be intensi- | Saturday there is a special meet- fied. The still greater,struggles in the |{m¢ of the Central Rank and Pile near future, and the present struggles |Strike Committee, followed in the likewise the care of blacklisted min- |¢Voning by meetings of the section ers, shout to the workers of this |‘ttike committees. country to rush relief,.donations of . food and clcthing and funds, to the Penn-Ohio-W. Va.-Ky, Striking Min- |Ftank Keeney has called off the ers Relief Committee, 611 Penn Ave., |Kanawaha strike through his “West Room 205, Pittsburgh. Push the | Virginia Mine Workers Union”, an building of relief collection organiza- | Organization by which he sought to tions to the utmost! cash in on the resentment al! miners The NMU is not like the UMw, |{cel for the Lewis machine. “Keeney which never attempts to conduct such |@2¢ company are fakers, thrown out an organized retreat as is contem- |! the UMW in factional fights over plated by the new tactics, but allows |SPoils of office with “other cliques. the best fighters in the workers’ |The Kanawha strike hévér amounted cause to endure months and even|to much, for the miners had little years of isolation, neglect, and dis- |confidence in Keeney, biit the Muste League for Progressive Labor Action tried its best to make a lot of pub- licity for it, Now Keeney, who has been in close and friendly touch with the operators during the strike, has arbitrarily ended it, with nothing gained for the miners and no move tutes necessary to put the repeal act jto protect their interests as they re- on the ballot for the next general | treat, elections. ‘i They-are determined to smash this law of the bosses by which many militant fighters of the working class have been sent to the jails of the state for long terms. . oe CHARLESTON, W. Va., Aug. 13.— crimination, The great strike against hunger is in retreat, temporarily, but it is an organized retreat, towards a limited point (that Is, for a part of the demands), and for the purpose of a renewed struggle for all the de- Workers Correspondence 1s the backbone of the revolutionary press. Build your press by writing for it about your day-to-day struggle,