The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 31, 1932, Page 3

} INDIANA WORKERS TAKE UP FIGHT AGAINST HUNGER Show Readiness to Struggle Against Forced Labor By LYDIA OKEN GARY, Ind—The enthusistic sup- port given to the Indiana state hun- ger march, July 16-19th, in every town and city by the masses of work- ers and farmers, proved that the de- mands of our Hunger March an- wer the need of the poor farmers and jobless workers. Over 400 delgates form 30 cities of Indiana, marched on Indianapolis to the Special Session of the state legislature, to demand: An appro- priation of $25,000 for immediate re- lief; abolition of forced labor and cash payment at unio nrates on all public workers; a state bonus to all ex-servicemen; no foreclosures, and exemption of tax payments for all impoverished farmers; no discrimi- nation in the distribution of relief against young and Negro workers; unemployment insurance at the ex- pense of the bosses and the state, Tremedous Response In every city where our scouts had arranged for meetings, the response of the workers was tremendous. In those towns where our voices were heard for the first time, the workers proved that they were ready for struggle. In Warsaw, Indiana, over 600 workers attended our meeting. Because of the workers response, the mayor went to meet the Hunger Marchers and escort them into town, Workers passed their names in, and literally begged the marchers to re- turn and organize in Unemployed Councils. The same favorable situation, with @ parade through the streets and a turnout ef 750, was duplicated in Huntington, Peru, Columbus City, etc. The conditions of the 600,000 job- less‘ of Indiana parallel the condi- tions of the unemployed through the country. Relief, where given is total- ty inadequate. A large percentage of workers are refused organizations of strveale, byt are herded into organ- izations of begging on & mass scale. “Liberty” Party ° A dangerous and demagogic outfit is the so-called Liberty party.. The “jobless” Liberty party-isn’t interested in Unemployment Insurance! It ad- voeates a sort of fused old-age in- surance and unemployment insurance no one under 65 years of age being in line for the benefits of this in-/ surance. Relief averages only $5 a month in the majority cases in Terre Haute, and any refusal to work in return for long hours in the Community Garden automatically cuts off this miserable charity. The 60,000 job- less of Indianapolis are receiving the most limited aid, in many cases as low as food equal to $1.19 a week for a family of 6, And this meager relief, which is being steadily lowered, forc- es workers onto the famous Chain Gang of Indianapolis to work an 8 hour day, often several days a week, with wages of cabbage and bacon. Forced Labor Forced labor is being used on all types of employment, replacing em- ployed workers. Workers are build~ ing roads, bridges, driving trucks, street car lines repair work, com- missary and red cross gardens, clean- ing streets, etc. all in return for baskets, not cash! All kinds of fake organizations are trying to make headway among the masses of Indiana, In various cities, Unemployed Councils have been or- ganized under the fakers leadership. The American. Federation of Labor heads a council in South Bend and Elkhart, which deny relief for any ene of a number of reasons: owner- ship of @ car, or a home eaten by martgages, or a bit of land, or not not long enough residence in the city or county, or activity in workers’ struggles, etc. In the steel region of Northern Indiana workers are, in many cases, receiving relief averag- ing but $1 a week in grocehies. The Gleason welfare of Garv staggers the workers to but one day’s work a pay ($3.51 for 2 weeks) a“ <9 re- fusing relief on the grounds t °‘ the worker is employed! Those r2ceiv- ing relief have recently been cut to $2.87 for 2 weeks. Cuts In Relief Various other relief agencies in Gary (American Sheet and Tin Mill Welfare, City Commissary) have shut down completely. The jobless of In- diana Harbor never receive more than $14 a month, regardless of the num- ber of children and dependants, and only a limited number get this aid from the township trustees. Workers of Elkhart recive relief averaging 15 centd a day per person, and this meager relief is being cut to 13 cents. In South Bend, relief has been slashed in half, just recently, workers petting as low as $3 a week for a family of 6 or more. Throughout the state, workers are forced to work without pay save that meager basket of groceries given them by the charities, East of Gary, on the famous Dunes highway, work- ers are working for 15 cents an hour, to be applied on their relief. In Elkhart, many workers are forced to work on the Street Car Section zangs (private corporation) in re- turn for food. Everywhere are the gardens, where workers are given some sandy ground, a few seeds, and arg shifted off the responsibility of ne city completely, forced to live on ittle truck, Chicago I. W. 0. to Hold Pienic Sept. 4 CHICAGO, Ill. — The third annual \.W.O. Picnic of the Chicago District scheduled to be held Sunday was eostponed because of rain and will be held Sunday, Sept. 4th at Pershing Road Gardens. The picnic was originally to be held August 14th in Niles but the police yarred it on the grounds that it was Picnic”. direction for reaching the pic- ic grounds appear in a Daily Wor! idvertisement che uneral of Worker Murdered by Nazis 3 Wth red flags flying, a victim of Hitler’s fascists is taken to his grave in Germany, Cold bloeded assassination and mass terror against workers is part of the fascist program. Hundreds have been killed since the fighting started, with the courts always giving the heaviest sentences to workers who defend themselves. Nevertheless, the losses have not all been on one side. New York Carpenters Betrayed by A.F. of L. Rally to New Union Campaign Now Within Old Union to Form United Front for Strike Action Small Struggles Already Won, Stopping Wage Cuts, Securing Recognition By A. PETERSON, NEW YORK.—Under the leader- ship of the carpenters section of the Building Construction Workers In- dustrial League, of the Trade Union Unity League, 5 E. 19th St. N. Y¥., the present drive to organize the un- organized carpenters started with the building of a carpenters’ group in the Brenx. In the period of the two months of May and June groups of unorganized carpenters are built up and shop committees are established in a few shops. In the month of June the workers in five shops, which were considered the fortress of slavery, were led to victorious strikes against wage cuts for the recognition of the shop com- mittee, equal division of work and the taking away from the bosses the absolute right to hire and fire at their will. These successes and the fact that the alteration painters developed their organizational drive among the unorganized to a point where they have now an independent militant union, were very encouraging to un- organized carpenters. Brotherhood No Help Regarding the present move of or- ganizing the unorganized carpenters in New York something must be said on the relations of these unorganized and the United Brotherhood of Car- penters and Joniers of America, the AFL, union. ‘The Brotherhood has not done any- thing to organize the unorganized. More than that, when in the past the unorganized got together and se- cured a substantial number of sig- natures ranging close to 300 and ap- Plied for a charter, the general office declined to issue same or to admit them at a lower initiation fee. In the deepening of this crisis, the bankruptcy of the reactionary policies and the corrupt apparatus in_ the Brotherhood of Carpenters Union is now revealed in its full nakedness. This apparatus is built on a basis of high salaried officials, paid commit- tees, consequently high dues and as- sessments and high initiation fee. Now, when 75 per cent of the mem- bers are totally unemployed, others working part time, members are un- able to pay their dues and are drop- ping from the union in alarming numbers, local unions are behind with their per-capita tax and are on the eve of bankruptcy. There is no long- er any semblance of union control on the job or tinion conditions. When the militant Locals 2090 and 1164 showed a willingness to resist that attack of the bosses in the shops, they were openly warned by the dis-’ trict council that the -distriet“coun- cil will prevent them. Unorganized Army Grows And meanwhile the army of un- organized in New York City swelled to close to 70 per cent giving the bosses more opportunities to further undermine our working conditions. The best that remains under such circumstances is to organize these un- organized carpenters into an inde- pendent organizaticn based on strug- gles. An ideological campaign will also have to be developed among the membership in the New York district of the Brotherhood of carpenters union, that any strike, any struggle that the carpenters who are outside of the Brotherhood conduct against the bosses is also in the interest of the membership in the Brotherhood that taking the/place of a strike is plain scabbery, that only by working class solidarity can there be a united front against the bosses. Baltimore Rallies Workers to Speed Up Sub Campaign Plan Meeting Sept. 1; Prizes Offered to Work- ers Who Get Most Subs BALTIMORE, Md.—The beginning of a systematic mobilization of the Baltimore area for the Daily Worker drive for 7,000 new yearly subscrip- tions-are seen in the most recent activities of Daily Worker activists here. A meeting of sub drive volunteers, of Daily Worker readers and all oth- ers who want to participate will take place Thursday, Sept. 1, 8 p. m. at the Tom Mooney Hall. Further in- formation about this meeting, which ‘will plan continued work in the sub- scription campaign, can be had at 9 South Greene St. any day before 6 p. m. or at 20 South Lloyd St. after 6 p.m. Workers can write in for information if a personal visit is im. possible The scope of the work being done here in the Daily Worker sub drive is indicated in the following letter, received yestetday from the Balti- more Daily Worker agent: ‘Will Increase Subs “While we have already succeeded in placing the Daily Worker Emer- gency Drive on the order of business of our mass organizations and other places where activity is being car- ried on, we must admit that not a thing was done until now on the sub drive, except for a scattered renewal or a lone subscription now and then. But we are fully convinced that Bal- timore, with its hundreds of thou- sands of workers, will surely increase its mark of subs, which today stands at 60, providing we have the proper mobilization. In_connection with the sub drive, the Baltimore section is offering val- sells at $9.25, to be awarded two yearly subs or its equivalent. five yearly subs we offer a one- sub to the Daily Worker. Wil- jam Z. 's book; “Toward So- viet America,” will be given to those who get two yearly subs, “Memorier of Lenin” or the “Labor Fact Book” goes with each yearly sub. “There are also special prizes which will go to those individuals and or- ganizations which secure the most subs, aes offers will stands until Nov. 1.” t “DAILY” DRIVE CONCERT BALTIMORE.—A Daily Worker Emergency Drive concert will be held Friday, Sept. 16, 8 p. m., at the Tom Mooney Hall, 20 Lloyd St. Admission is 15 cents. All proceeds will go to the Daily Worker, The Struggle for the Complete Liquidation |i >. of Illiteracy in USSR In a letter appealing for the carry- ing out of the decision to liquidate | Bilis illiteracy in the Soviet Union by the Ist of October 1932, Comrade Kalinin points out that before the revolution 78 out of every hundred inhabitants in the territory of the Soviet Union were unable to read and write. Eighty nine out of every hundred women were illiterate and 97 out of every hundred inhabitants in the na- tional republics, Since the revolution 26 million per- sons were made literate. During the past two years 19 million persons in the R.S.F.S.R. learned to read and write In 1932 3.8 million illiterates and :]10.3 semi-illiterates would have to be made literate, Seventy-five per cent of the illi- terates and 25 per cent of the semi- illiterates would be taught by the pro- letarian society for the fight against illiteracy. " DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31, 1932 URGE SUPPORT OF BELGIAN STRIKE Miners Internationa] Committee Appeals BERLIN.—The Miners Interna- tional Committee has issued an ap- peal urging the miners of all coun- tries to support the Belgian strikers. The appeal follows: “Comrades: The Belgian miners “|must be victorious. The defeat of the Belgian pitmen would not only bring frightful want and misery, and a fresh wave of brutal wage cuts, for the whole of the Belgian workers, but at the same time for the miners and workers of other countries. The Belgian miners, betrayed by the reformist and Christian trade union leaders, and by the Amsterdam International, are in urgent need in their heroic struggle of the help of the miners of other countries. It de- pends on the solidarity of the miners of all countries whether the Belgian miners will win the victory in spite of the treachery of the reformist and Christian trade union leaders. Cul- tivate and organize this solidarity in actual deed, as a weapon against the international wage slashers and their reformist, Christian and fascist ac- complices. Prevent the sending of a single ton of coal to Belgiup. more funds for the strikers. Take up the matter of the Belgian miners’ strike among the workers , mand the immediate release of arrested striking secretary of the Miners’ Intercom, Comrade Sobottka. Elect delegations from among the workers, who will demand on behalf of the workers employed in their mine, factory, etc., of the Belgian Consulate, the release of Comrade Sobottka, Long live the Belgian miners’ Strike! Long live the international soli- darity of the miners! CONTRIBUTIONS T0 “DAILY” FUND Previous Total DISTRICT ®, NEW YORK Walter Geller, Brooklyn Downtown F. 8. U., New York Abraham Kolodineks, Brooklyn Freiden, New York Section 6, Unit 3, Brooklyn 9.32 Mohegan Colony affair, Peekskill, N.Y. 20.00 Workers Ind. Union, Bklyn: de- the $6,632.29 J. Hatris 8. Lipsky A. Nelson Horowitz Fishman. { 50 50 50 25 25 20 28 25 25 50 E" ; F i ett Lew Latorge Julius Kavary Ida Harvit Len Harvit Jim Klein John Luricero Victor Kardus Irving Markus Dale Mary Ben Jacob Markarefs Schmalenfera ‘Oscar keRBSsees338 Bee m, Sarena Edidin Frank Povelka A. Baptista: H. Fernando A Priend Morte Paolino Joseph Gorman A Priend M. Feldman H, Matdenbaum ©. Shuliman ©. Shullman Eva Pine H. Left . W. O., New York City: Branch 7 Branch 12 Branch 12 Branch 2 Branch 147 HBSEaRER Bhi Eka Red Unit 710 Section 7 ‘Unit 504, Section 5, Coltection List Goldstein P. Louis H. Reisman A. Purkin Friend Friend - Ida Berit ‘Tony Halden M, Bilver Page Three Progress of Railway System In the U.S.S.R. Dring Last 6 Months Figures for the first six months of 1932 show considerable progress on the Soviet railway system. The to- tal commodity and passenger traffic had increased by 27 per cent, as com- pared with the first six months of 1931. The system carried 452 million passengers, or 45 per cent more than in the first six months of last year, and 16 per cent more than was pro- vided for in the plan, Goods traffic totalled 137.5 million tons, representing 1 6per cent more than in the first six months of 1931. It must be pointed out that the original Five-Year Railway Plan was completed in 1931. The progress now being made is considered satisfac- tory. International Notes ARGENTINA AND URUGUAYAN WORKERS FIGHT WAR NEW YORK.—At the rupture of diplomatic relations between the gov- ernments of Argentina and Uruguay, a joint anti-war manifesto was issued by the Red Trade Union centers of these countries. This manifesto con- cludes with the following call: “Rally the widest masses of. work- ers to impede the shipping of wheat, meat, wool, for the imperialist armies! 4 “Uruguayan and Argentinian fellow workers! Make this August 23, Inter- national Day of Struggle Against Im- perialist War, the beginning of an ‘active campaign for the organization of the workers’ struggles against the criminal intentions of the bourgeois, feudal governments of both countries. “Hail the fraternization of the Ar- gentinian ang Uruguayan people! Down with the Bolivia-Paraguay war! Down with the criminal war in Latin America! Long live the United Front of the Uruguayan and Argen- tinian workers in the fight against Imperialist War! Long live the Soviet Union!” . Three Executions in Greece ATHENS—Three National-revolu- tionary Macedonians, Theodor Manos, George Paraskevopulos and Stoyan Balakos, were executed in the prison dine of Saloniki. They were charged with having killed a Greek spy named Tsantevsky. During the trial Theodor Manos admitted that he alone had kille Tsantevsky. However, the court re- fused to be balked of its prey and sentenced all three to death. The Central Committee of the Greek section of the International Red Aid issued a strongly-worded appeal against the murder of the three Macedonian: national-revolu- tionaries by Greek chauvinist judges. Brazil Federal Gov’t Postpones Offensive Against Rebel Army RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug. 30.—The federal government of Getulio Var- gas made it clear today that the rebel forées of the San Paul State must lay down their arms before any peace overture can be taken into | consideration. This caused a peace mission sched- uled to leave for Santos to arrange for a truce to postpone its depar- ture. ‘The federal government decided to postpone the general offensive against the rebel forces of San Paul, it was learned here. The reason for this is that the plans for the offen- sive were revealed to the rebel forces when Major Franco, former mem- ber of the general staff, joined the Trebel troops. Special Drive Offer—Wm. Z. Foster’s “Toward Soviet America” with yearly subscription. 4 yours too—that is, the workers’ pro- Giambattista Describes By PHILIP G PARIS COMMUNE MINE No. 4, |the conditions of the American coal the coal miners have to work from eight to twelve hours a day. In the Soviet Union, we work six hours a day from bank to bank and not from face to face. EDITOR'S NOTE—“From bank to bank” means from the time the min- er starts from the entrance of the mine to the time he returns to the entrance. “From face to face” means | from time he actually starts digging to the time he stops digging. I go to work in the mornig in mine No. 4, Paris Commune. We start to go into the mine at six in the morning and are outside at 12 o'clock, and go to the wash-house to wash ourselves. In the Soviet Union there is a wash-house in every mine, free. To Get 20 Per Cent Raise I work on a cutting machine, cut- ting coal. My wage is 10 rubles for six hours, and easy work. The coal loaders get 7 roubles for six hours. We will soon get a 20 per cent in- crease in wages. American coal miners, what are you going to get before the year 1932 jis over? A 20 per cent wage cut. We work every day. That means we work four days, and the fifth day is a |rest day. In America, where the miner has jluck enough to have a job, he has to clean slate for nothing. Here it is different. When a miner goes into the mine, he gets his wages, regardless of what happens. America. The Russian coal miners tell me to go easy; this is not Amer- ica; this is Soviet Russia, We have no capitalist here to keep us going, no boss to speed us up. Everything you see in Russia is our property, and perty. So we do not have to work hard. We are enjoing the fruits of the October Bolshevik Revolution, which gave us all. Good Houses On the question of. the housing— we have good houses, all brick houses built from new models. Most of them ‘are’ burigdlows ‘with four “big rooms, with electricity and water. There is no gas, so we use coal. We have big gardens around the houses. And for all this we pay 6 roubles @ month, including. everything. Six rubles.” In capitalist America you have to’ pay $30 for a house like this. Also, we get our working cloth- es free. For myself and my family, T get four rooms in a bungalow house. It is a new house, not yet finished, but it will be ready by September 1st. When my family comes here |the house will be ready. They are | building many new houses. Free Medical Care Now what about you in the rich capitalist America? What do you get? No “house, band conditions, no food. In the Soviet Union we have houses, good’ conditions, and food. Also, in the Soviet Uion the miners have one month a year vacation, with full pay. It a miner is hurt in a mine, he gets his full pay. It you get sick, you get paid and get free doctors. What do you get in the capitalist |America? If you are hurt, you get la socalled compensation—a few dol- Shanghai Paper (Cable by Inprecorr.) SHANGHAI, August 20. — Under Friend is Rueggs Become bts) the heading “Will the g ie ‘Unit 517, Section §, Collection List China's Tom Mooney Case?” the Chi Silverstein na Weekly Review publishes an = Gerser™ ticle on the Ruegg trial and life sent- Friend chose. ; Harris Cohen ‘The article calls the case “histor- ce aiouer teal, joining other significant issues Rusinot 0| of a world struggle for progressive justice agains reaction.” It enum- Unit 51, Section 8 Unit $08, Section 5 t 8) Unit 505, Section & Unit 508, Section 6 Section 8 Unit 905, Section 9 Jack McDonald Unit 206 V. Rudaitis 1.00 fad 1.00 50 8, Delkus 1.00 J. Bimkus 1.00 ‘Max Ren Bre "35 Lilian B, Wake 05 10 D. K. 0 Late Livers ‘0s W. Boorehuk 10 ©. Nipon Karl Ertt 01 Anna Koval 0 05 Aurelia Hell 08 Theo. Berwyn 105 Marie Ertl 05 Ondy Da: 10 rvol ‘Unit 303, List collected by Chepweka Peter A. Gardini J. Herlands ‘Unit 602, List collected by Ida Mocking ‘HH. Greenband Zeigler 0 ‘Warren Benevitz AS Silverman 05 ‘Walinets Ella Kivistuk 08 M. Raft 10 Stanley Lisak ‘ Drabuer i) rates all the groups supporting the Ruegs defense movement and warns 25] the Nanking butcher government of jenating the sympathies of promi- wie indiviguale mentioning in par- ticular Senators Borah, Shipstad and LaFollette. It admits that the persecution of the Rueggs was carried through by the Nanking government and courts 60 Days Truce In the | Grand Chaco Proposed WASHINGTON, Aug. 30.—A new note has been sent by the “neutral” 95 | commission sitting here to the gov- ernments of Bolivia and Paraguay, Hl requesting both to enter a temporary agreement for the maintenance of the statu quo in the disputed Grand Chaco region. Although the note states that the agreement does not involve any rec- 10/ognition of the territorial acquisi- tions made by force of arms after June 1, it is generally considered as adhering to the thesis of the Boli- vian government, which maintained that the cessation of hostilities iH should be based on the present statu uo. Hp The reply of both governments to the note of the “neutral” commission «| seeking to “arbitrate” the dispute is expected in a few days. The tem- porary agreement proposed in the note calls for a 60-day truce, to be 10 | effective Sept: 1. 10 10 10 5.00 = ‘Russian Mutual Aid Soc., Br. 105 SCORE RUEGG FRAME-UP Mooney Case Compares It to at the orders of the British imperial- | ists. “Perhaps the most unfortunate circumstance in connection with the case,” says the article, “is that the Chinese used by the British reacti- onary achieve ends more important to them than to China.” The article relates the story of the participation of the Shanghai British police in the creation of the case and in the trial, and points out that the die-hard British journalists inShang- hai Woodhead and Howard, have al- ways demanded drastic action against the accused and now rejoices in the sentence of the court of life impris- onment for Paul and Gertrude Ruegs. | “Thus the avowedly anti-imperialist Kuomintang exposed itself to charges of close liaison and co-operation with the very ideas and institutions which it aims to combat. It finds it- self now in the embarrassing posi- tion of being congratulated by its arch enemies and condemned and riddiculed by former sympathizers.” The article further gives a list of the violations of Chinese law and the general unjust jtreatment ac- corded to the accused during the whole process and in the finel trial. Miners at Communist | Picnic Demand Freeing | of 2 Jobless Leaders | PORTAGE, Pa., Aug. 30. — Miners and other workers of this vicinity, as- sembled at a’ Communist election campaign picnic Sunday, stopped a resolution protesting vigorously against the jailing of Steve Simon and Elmer Kish. These two were ar- rested June 21 for taking part in a protest against eviction of a jobless worker. They were denied a trial in | Many of you know me well in Pennsylvaniz, West Virginia, and Ohio, | have been working in the American coal mines for many years and I know They are rotten conditions. | + Now I am working in the Soviet coal mines sigi First of all, in capitalist America¢— I like to work fast, as we do in|. |One Month A Year Vacation With Pay, Free Medical Care for Workers in Pits of U.S.S.R. Conditions in Workers’ | Land to Workers of America AMBATTISTI U . S. R—Coal Miners of America: 1 miners, lars per week, To get half of the few dollars, the miner has to have |five lawyers. In the Soviet Union, it is different, Every pay day, your wife goes to the pay office and gets |the full pay. If you are single and {cannot go to the office because you are sick, the clerk brings the home for you. Recreation Also, we have here in the mine {camp a big club house. We go there jany time we like, There is a pict- ure show, library, buffet, cigarette ice-cream, beer i other jthings that we can get. There is a |playground where the football team plays, and many other games The Second Five-Year Plar for a fiye hour day in the mine: an increase in wages. ‘To get the same conditions in Am- jerica, the working class and farmers j have to get together under the lead- jership of the Communist Party and the revolutionary unions of the Trade Union Unity League, overthrow. the capitalist government, and establish the Soviet Union of America. A. F.L. Bank Funds From Owen Young 7 Open Shop Bosses on Board Directors NEW YORK. — Owen D. You! head of the wage cutting, strike- breaking General Electric Co. and author of the infamous Young plan which bleeds white the German workers, will contribute $1,000,000 of the $1,500,000 needed to reopen the Federation Bank, the A. F. L, venture into the Labor Bank game. This bank, of which President Wil- liam Green of the A. F. L. was presi- dent, crashed in October, 1931, Now the A.F.L. plans to re-open it, with the million from Young and the rest from various other big corpora- tions and the workers will be urged to put their little savings, and the unions will tie up their strike funds, in the hands of Young. Sitting on the board of this “Labor’(!)} bank will be: J. Homer Platten, Westinghouse Electric & Mfg. Co.; Phillip D. Reed, General Electric Co.; Allston Sarg- eant, Campbell Metal Window Co.; Charles J. Hardy, American Car & Foundry Co.; Louis A. Zahm, General Foods Corp.; Jeremiah D. Maguire, Industries Development Corp.; Rich. E. Dwight, Hughes, Sherman & Dwight, lawyers; President William Green of the Amerjcan Federation of Labor; President Edward W. Ed- wards of the New York State Allied Printing Trades Council; President Edward W. Canavan of the Interna- tional Association of Musicians of North America; President John Sul- livan of the New York State Federa- tion of Labor; President Louis Geb- hardt of the New York Building Trades Council; Vice-President John H. Mulholland of the Central Trades & Labor Council, and Frank X. Sul- livan. pay calls A Soviet Coal Miners to Get — |RELIEF VICTORIES 20 P.C. Wage Raise While U.S. Miners Fight20P.C.Cut SPUR MINERS OF WESTERN PENN Task of N.M.U. Is ta Develop i Struggle | The starving unemployed and par By F. BORICH. |time employed miners of Wester Pennsylvania have learned that re jlief fro mthe government and tht jemployers can be won only througk |struggle. Recently they have begua to develop organized struggle for re- and have already achieved many nt victories, The struggl |for relief was initiated by the Na. tional Miners Union and now is be- jng led by the unemployed commit- | tees organized in the course of strug: gle, with the N.M.U. playing an im- portant role. In Fayette County, controlled by U. S. Steel Corp. through its H Frick subsidiary, the miners suc ceeded in stopping the sale.of houses for non-payment of taxes. A few ‘s later, through a County Hun. March and many local struggles ding the Hunger March, they jed in putting hundreds of on the relief list and greatly reducing discrimination against mil« itant miners. In Brownsville the Borough Councl was forced to join the fight for a milk station for the school children. In Finleyville township, a ninee hour day on the so-called Public Works was defeated by a strike and the mass picketing of the unemploy- ed. At the same time, through mass pressure, practically every wotker was put on the relief list including oute standing local leaders of tht NMU, © previously never received any relief. . In Bethel Township, controlled by the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Cem- pany, all unmarried men were on the relief list. The blacklisted miners, who individually collected re- lief for themselves, are now fieceiy- ing county relief. The county was forced to pay electricity, gas and water bills of the miners ying in tents and barracks. The rent of many workers who were ordered to be evict- ed is now being paid by the county. In Snowden township no relief was given. Through a determined and fierce struggle the county was fin- ally forced to give relief. Just a few days ago a decision was made to open relief headquarters. The unemployed demanded that their committee ba the one to distribute the relief. After many days of struggle the county was forced to agree to this. The distrib- ution committee consists of three workers, representatives of the meme ployed, and a justice of peace, rep- resentative of the county, These are but a few of the vic- tories won by the unemployed miners in the last few weeks. These victories, although small, are of great signi- ficance. ‘They gave new inspiration and confidence to the miners. It showed that relief could be won through struggle. The Fayette Coun- ty miners are now organizing a mass conference on September 25th.to lay the basis for a big hunger march in the near future. The Washington County miners are demanding a hun- ger march and are actually begin- ning to prepare it on their own in- itiative. The Green County miners have established an unemployed com- mittee and are beginning to develop a fight for relief. The Allegheny County miners, together with the steel workers, are organizing a hun- ger march for August 3ist to in- tensify the struggle for relief. It is the task of the National Min- ers Union to stimulate the develop- ment of a mass struggle for immed- iate relief by helping the miners to build a mass unemployed movement in every mining town. th ey yo ‘Read the Daily Worker! > “Pm OH We Ssle Price or Bring the DAILY to the Shops, Factories, Mills and Farms, to Jobless Workers and Bonus Marchers! FIND OUT WHAT IS HAPPENING TO THE WORKING CLASS OF THE UNITED STATES AND ALL OVER THE WORLD News of the Class Struggle Every Day! UNTIL NOVEMBER FIRST! FREE With One-Year Subs “TOWARD SOVIET AMERICA,” by Willi eXanZunw . Z, Foster. Cloth Bound, Usual Usual Sale Price. “LABOR FACT BOOK"—MEMORIES OF Portage, rushed to Ebensburg, tried in secret, and sent to jail. Their case comes up again before the grand lease and condemns Sheriff George of Cambria county for his at- tacks on the jobless. 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