The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 29, 1933, Page 4

DEMONSTRATE MAY FIRST iy al DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, APRIL 29, 1938 New England Tannery | The Fighting Strike Is Spreading Vet By H. E. BRIGGS. A. Basil V aifiliated with As Terror Increases 2.2 site oe ing funds to help the important work worey Aut Reem Saws Fircnnuas | | | ‘CHL TEACHERS REFUSE TO EAT WITH BANKERS FOR UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE Strikers Pennsylvania Mine Compel 6,000 Fight Use of Seabs; Haverhill Workers Strike; Employers Get Injunctions PEABODY, Mass., April 29.—6,000 Lynn and Peabody tannery workers on strike for wage increases faced the most brutal police attack since the strike began, last Wednesday when they picketed several plants which are now operating with strike breakers, ¢ worst attack occurred at the plants of the Argoos and Barret tanneries when the massed at 4 o'clock to meet the strike rs o—— — = aken by au- of contacting and rallying vets for the national march to Washington. He gives a very encouraging report, and informs us that the committee has the full support of the veterans in the field. All workers’ and veterans’ organ- izations in the N. Y. district are asked to give financial and other assistance to this trusted comrade. Organizations not reached by Com- rade Wheeler are urged to send con- tributions to the treasurer, Veterans’ by special police to be National Liaison Committee, P. O. tomobile to their homes. A detail ox 1212, Washington, D. C.. or of 14 police charged the picketers Maryland Building, Room 210-11, with clubs but were soon outnum- BEATEN OFF A Washington, D. C. bered by the strikers who allowed no = Comrade Brady, chairman of the quarter to them or to the strike- V.N. L, C., was also reported in town defend i with him. Greetings, Comrade Brady NEW YORK.—The tiird in a series med agi of recent attempts by the bosses to tear gas fired by af up militant trade unions lice dispersed t gangster-attacks occurred ets among the y at 7 a. m., when 7 gang- ally militant. A str ters broke into the headquarters of jured and thre ; the Furniture Industrial ed on charges of inciti : Union, 250 Newport smashed the active striker, Mic man. Was | windows, then attacked Max Perloff injured by poiice and t Lynn Hospital. At Peabody at the Southwi and Jack Novack, organizers of the union. One of the gangsters was identified as the son of one of the bosses of the 2 port Parlor Frame Co,, 240 New- St., against which the union is g a strike for the last four a bar- ikers dis- rage of tear send us some news. Al McBride of the M. W. I. U, writes us that a battle royal took place when 36 members of the Tom Mooney branch of the I. L. D. went to Annapolis to get a report on the | jim-crow law. They were met at the State House steps by the cit cossacks. Cossack No. 435 was pr vented from knocking a Negro com- |rade cold by the militancy of the group. A member of the committee, John MéCauley, discharged sergeant of artillery, had his head split open. He is now held incommunicado in} jail. Baltimore vets must rally be- hind the I. L. D, and demand his SING NE mere 7 c \ conto ee: Wonces ren o OAT ame MASSACHUSETTS STATE HUNGER MARCH MAY Ist 1933 MASSACHUSETTS TO BE JOINED BY MAY DAY DEMONSTRATORS IN BOSTON: BOSTON, Mass., April 2 will ring through Boston Commons on May First. From all parts of the state delegations elected by trade unions, mass meetings and fraternal or- ganizations are coming to the capital in the state wide Hunger March, There they will be joined by thousands of workers who will turn out in the May Day demonstration on Boston } Commons. adopted. —The demand for Unemployment Insurance | played great militancy w back pay amounting to | Telease. sf i ‘ | the strug: t the $ inst speed-up. About| naa the strikebr 60 workers are involved in the strike. Greesings WE.S.L. transport Blocking police effor the scabs. Four si ed on charges of day sec which picketin: Lawrence Co. wei injunction But the striker by the new to break the’ meeting folle veterans, Beater fended themselves heroically against | Jailed as a result of their activities up by the workers who de-|, LINCOLN, Neb.—Seven the onb ofthe pean jin a Farmers’ Holiday demonstration | Novack arrested ee nena protest against a foreclosure, have| up charge of assault. Novack will be | feanized @ post ‘of the Workers’ Ex-| defended by the N. ¥. District Inter- | Set¥icemen’s League. As rank and ional Lal Det nie, “<"~ | file would say, these are Fighting} STRIKE, TOLEDO Farmers who are vets are invited Why? Because the loan sharks who rob the farmers of their homes are the same sharks who are robbing | the vets of their bonus and disability allowance. Only the broad United Front of farmers, vets, workers and tacks the sir Demand 8 Wi s Be unemployed will defeat their common to continue Day: i by Back enemy—‘he bankers, capitalists and Ogee : y; No Firing joan shovks, | Shoe Workers’ / but the j Rochester United Front. rank and file is a tself and | TOLEDO, - OBO, ADL I8-STW0| op paheeter shave ‘the: why. A.con:| under mass pr undred newsboys struck on Monday) ference was held at 443 Ormond St: ave been forced to con- demanding their back pay. For the/ Friday, the 14th, to make prepara-| tinue the strike. past ten years the Blade and the/ tions for the coming veterans’ march | News Bee have paid boys a weekly|to Washington. Delegates from four | sum of from one to two dollars in| veterans’ organizations and ten work- | rder that the boys handle the Papers/ers’ groups were represented. All| only. In addition | delegates. endorsed the march and| given three quarters | will aid in enlisting members of their The sirike is ading to th tannez! n Ha Hamel Co., rep F = boys were half of tk of a cent on a paper. For six weeks| organizations who are vets. Dele- | entire c! the boys have been refused this| gates and organizations also pledged | Co. is out on weekly pay and are allowed only|themselves to participate in collect- pected that more shops will be out ancy of the strikers is high and their ranks are intact two-thirds of a cent on a paper. The| ing food, clothing and finances to in- boys must take out more papers than|sure a successful march, they can sell and are not permitted) A program was laid out for a series | to return unsold copies but must/of street meetings, culminating in a stand this expense. The circulation] mass meeting in Washington Square. managers treat the boys brutally.|In addition, a dance will be hel i] s suspended sentence | 443 Ormond St., on Saturday, see al ing a newsboy and breaking| the proceeds of which will go to fi- |nanee the march. All veterans in| Tuesday at Court House Park| Rochester should get in touch with newsboys will hold a meeting|the Veterans’ Rank and File Com- and explain their demands. They ase | Gee at the above address for full} asking for eight weeks’ back pay,| details. Rochesters’ example can be a guarantee of the weekly bonus, | followed with success by other cities, | ho payment for unsold papers, 1 cent| ORL dee hae > | profit on each paper sold, a bonus of} mee Won Pear oot are ree antee of n oyal - Robertson, California | of the coches aaa ne firing: of beya| faker and showman, was exposed by | edi laiool lee oa **| the vets of Rochester when he blew| s being assisted by the| into town last week. As usual he got! Councils and the Young} Publicity in the capitalist papers. | League. The boys are According to the statement in the rganizing a union. Rochester papers, “he is touring the weid f oe country at his own expense (??) to , ARE HEADS " < | campaign against a bonus march this Ww (Eres Wite, GihaeeeeT| year.” “He believes that the present HERKIMER, N ¥— heres me post- | #dministration has the veterans’ wel- office job here. J. Smith, the post fare at heart.” He intends to remain master, and R. Shell, the Welfare in Rochester a few days to “confer 2 z F 2 | with prominent Legion members.” DHILA Bais de PHILADE ing- ton section |i one of its Most active and militant workers when Comrade Prank Wagner died recen Philadelphia General Hosni' most ef his I'f two years ago, and shortly afterward joined the Communist Party. He was ® candidate on the Commur on both the 1931 activity consist His daily pmsiaciay a are the big push. Co This is a slimy example of the ing to build up the ci . He's kers | misleadership that defeated the bonus the Daily Worker fia force. por, | march last year. But the wideawake | sabvitie poe i Te was forced labor, vets of Rochester soon put his bally- | wood on farms. But n0/ hoo on the spot. The result was an| n out when winter| increase in membership for the came, or to cook with in summer. |march. Rank says: “Drop a line to} Gardens were promised in lots 60|the Fighting Vet and keep your bud-| by 120. Nobody has any seeds or| dies posted on the latest news about} money to buy them, the march.” | NEW YORK SALES TAX IS BURDEN ON POOR; CAPITALISTS PASS IT ON By Labor Kesearch Assn. NEW YORK.—In line with Gov.| Lehman’s budget proposals of Jan. $0, the New York State Legislature has just slipped over a 1 per cent Sales tax which goes into effect May on account of ill | He was 55 years old, and before coming to Philadelphia had been an active member of the United Mine | Workers for over 28 years. ally by this tax, the share extracted on the theory that then nobody can from the consuming masses will ac-| feel it!” Just whose idea it is to| tually be mUch more than this “keep it dark” the World-Telegram | amount. Thus, for instance, the price| does not disclose. of a five-cent cake of soap would be| But the workers know that it is raised at least one cent. This makes the wealthy and those with the \injured gangster may die, in event 1, and will continue at least until duly, 1934. According to the admi- nistration, this tax would net the state at least $30,000,000 a year. The law provides that the tax is to be paid by the seller—the retailer. However, It does not forbid the seller to pass on to the consumer, “either the amount of the tax, or a larger sum, in the form of higher “prices. Despite all protestations to the con-| tary by Mark Graves, president of| the state tax commission, and other | Capitalists, it is a tax whose chief ourden will fall upon the consuming masses—the workers and farmers, For although food, “public utilities servi- tes” and gasoline are exempted from | his tax, it still remains on goods | an inerease to the consumer of 20 highest incomes who advocate sales per cent instead of the mere 1 per) taxes and similar schemes. For such cent the retailer pays. The same is| taxes help them to escape taxation true of a thousand and one other of their own property and incomes, commodities necessary for the exis- $8,500,000—No Tax! tence of the worker's family. As to the ability of this parasite For Every Penny of Worker class to pay, there can be no question. ‘The workers, who are poor and li-| Some light is thrown on it by the ving from hand to mouth, and are) recently issued Boyd's City Dispatch, buying in small lots, always pay more} Special Bulletin, No, 60, This study proportionately for what they buy reveals that even now there are at than the rich. The workers will thus] least 5,815 Individuals and 2,801 busi-~ pay a heavier tax per unit purchased | ness concerns in New York State than the wealthy. In fact, a worker’s| worth $1,000,000 or over. In other family whose cost of living uses up| words, individual capitalists and capi- nearly the full amount of its small! talistic enterprises in this state com- income, as is increasingly the case, mand between them a sum not less will actually be paying a tax on near-| than $8,500,000,000! A mere 1 per cent ly every cent of its income.The rich, | tax on this huge sum would net over The textile workers have sent their delegates. From the shoe plants del- egations are on their way to join the state hunger march, Before the Governor and legisla- ture they will present their demand | for unemployment insurance. The | employed and unemployed will tell | the legislature to grant unemploy- ment insurance at the expense of | | the government and the bosses, The | Day in Boston Commons. Unite to- state to pass this measure until fed- ! eral unemployment insurance is Other demands of the state hun- ger march include immediate cash relief of $10 a week, plus one dollar additional for each dependent. Six dollars minimum for single men and women. Abolition of all discriminat- ory practices against Negroes. No forced labor or discrimination for re- fusing to go to the forced labor camps. Out to the demonstration on May gether with the hunger marchers in one mighty demonstration. WORKERS BEAT GANGSTERS WHO RAID PAPER NEW YORK.—Duplicating the murderous attack on the Needle Trades workers Industrial Union Monday, 20 clubs and their pockets bulging significantly, invaded the strike headquarters of the Equitable Paper Bag Workers in the Italian Workers Club, 197 Hum- boldt Street, Wednesday night. Again the workers showed their mettle, fighting back so heroically that the gangsters were routed and some ® of their number had to be carried away. For many workers this is their first strike and first encounter with gangsters. Police who were conveniently ab- sent at the time of the attack ar- rived on the scene later and assisted the wounded gangsters, held a con- sultation with the rest and freed them all. The police then invaded the headquarters and arrested 28 workers, charging them with “hold- | ing an unlawful meeting and pro- voking a fight with passers-by”! Two lines of attack were used by the bosses’ paid thugs. First they entered the headquarters, command- ed the workers to line up against the wall and one of their members made | a speech claiming they were only friends of Frank Thompson, a worker who was sentenced to 10 days on a} frame up charge, and that they | would help free Thompson if the workers ended the strike. The speaker produced a written statement from the boss stating that those arrested in the last few days would be freed if the workers returned. Receiving no response the gang left. Two hours later they returned and without warning began wrecking the hall and using their knives, bottles and clubs on the defenseless workers. Four of those arrested cannot be located. Persistent demargis by the ILD. attorney Samuel Goldberg forced authorities to order the ap- pearance of the gangsters in court | Friday morning. Police are intimidating that the of which they will frame-up homi- cide charges against some of the workers, The 17 strikers charged with dis- orderly conduct will be tried in Bridge Plaza court Wednesday, and those framed up on felonious assault Thursday, May 4. Workers are urged to be present in court on both days, | and through the duration of the trials. “The Chicago Mooney Congress, April 30 to May 2, will be a big step STRIKE MEETING gangsters armed with knives, bottles, | LEWIS GANGSTERS SLUGGING MINERS, Raid House in Illinois and Smash Thru Doors! FRANKLIN CITY, April 28.—Six miners were slugged by the United Mine Workers gunmen in Orient, Illinois, last Saturday, two of whom are in WestFrankfort Hospital as a result of injuries received. The coal operators of the U.M.W.A. machine are determined to force the strikers to return to work by means of slug- ging, raids upon miners homes and the most brutal wave of terror ever | experienced in the history of this community. Last Wednesday gunmen came to the home of Vuko Draskovich, kid- napped him, and took him out to Malketown on the County line, there beat him up and told him if he ever returns there he will be killed on the spot. This miner is known as a mil- itant. worker who has supported the Communist Party and has been a close friend of Joe Colbert, secretary of the Orient local who was brutaliy murdered last fall by the U.M.W.A. thugs. Last Friday evening the same gun- men came to the homes of Frank Schorts, W. Comel, George Filkins, Louis Tutario, Mike Vukmir, smashed the doors of their houses and slugged them so badly that two of them are now in West Frankfort Hospital. ‘These miners are known as support- ers of the Progressive Miners Union and were on strike since April 1. Similar attacks are being carried on against the miners in Frankfort, Benton, Zeigler. DILLONVILLE, Ohio, April 21.— Agnes Jursik, militant member of the Women’s Auxiliary of the National Miners Union died April 9, as a result of heart trouble. Comrade Jursik was active in mobilizing the women in the National Miners Union strike in 1931| and has played a militant role in many other miners’ struggles. Greets the Daily Worker: the only revolutionary daily newspaper in the United States, on this tional Proletarian Holiday—May First. | English language in the occasion of the Interna- The International Workers Order succeeded in organizing Twenty- The Order has # medical de- parement for its members in all |@ series of militant demonstrations ‘Repeated Wage Cuts Teacher Kills Self; | Politicians Make Spa- cious Excuses But No Pay | CHICAGO, Il, April 29—Desper- ate from fear of impending starva- tion, Paul Schneider, a teacher in| Chicago for fifteen years committed suicide ysterday. | i Unpaid for nearly a year, Schneider | was unable to buy food for his family, | has already lost his insurance policy | through failure to make payments | and was threatened with loss of his property. | Teachers indicated today that they | would not back down in the militant | struggle to get the nine months’ wage |lue them. Invited to an exclusive | club for a special dinner by six of | Chicago's bankers, six leaders of the militant teachers kept the bankers waiting for some time and then sent two of their number to inform them that they would not be bribed by | such methods. The teachers stated they would meet the bankers in the board room of their banks to discuss the question of the immediate re- turn of their back pay. Dawes, Tray- Jor and Fenton were among the bank- ers with whom the teachers refused to dine. The teachers declared that they did not “want to be obligated to the bankers,” reply, the bankers stated they had “other business and set no definite time to meet the teachers, CHICAGO, Il, April 27.—After by Chicago’s unpaid school teach- ers which culminated yesterday in a brutal attack by special police patrols, the teachers have again been left to starve with specious promises. Concerned with the col- lection of taxes in order to finance their corrupt political machine; the politicians are telling the teachers that their back pay hinges on legis- lation to force tax payments. Mayor Kelly informed the teachers today that only when such legislation is passed will the bankers advance the money. At the same time the bank- ers. are demanding greater econo- mies in the school system which will involve the wholesale closing of schools and firing of school em- ployees. jstruck, the relief agencies cut their Rent Cuts, Relief Organize Hunger Marches AVELLA, Pa., April 28.—Important victories in forcing the relief agen- cles to grant relief to the striking miners have been won under the leader- ship of the United Front Strike Committee here. Four mines are out on strike in the Avella section, involving about 1,200 men. The company has | been forced to offer concessions to the miners in the Duquesené Coal Com- pany and Carnegie Coal Co., such as @— reduction in rent, coal and lower ; Coal mined on her property, as royal- prices in the store. The mine strikers | ties. are standing fim, having been out! It is these agents of the coal oper- since April 1. | ators who are collaborating td starve ‘ the miners into submission. Immediately |__A committee of miners visited Mr. Young, who evaded the question of increasing relief. The miners an- swered by organizing a. hunger march to the Washington Connty seat. The following week relief was increased from 35 cents to 75 cents for single men, and increases were given to families also. The relief was increas- ed a second time to $1.25 for a single man, a family of 11 receiving $9.50 for two weeks. It is’only the mfil- itant action of the workers whidh forced the relief agencies to grat these concessions. The workers have no guarantee that the relief will not be cut again and are organizing to maintain the relief they have already won and to after the miners starvation doles in order to force the miners back to work. A single man | who had been receiving $1.50 per | week was cut to 35 cents. Families of ten received $1.10 a week, families of 8, 85 cents, families of 6, 65 cents, etc. The Strike Committee decided to carry on a fight for increased re- lief. The head of the County Relief Board, Mr. Young, is a foundry owner and a representative of Gov- ernor Pinchot. He receives wages of $200 a month. Miller, an attorney of the coal operators, receives $2,000 a year for distributing the relief in this count.y. Mrs. Murdock, one of I the county investigators stationed in fight for increases and for unemployj> ment insurance. JOBLESS COUNCIL from his position as secretary was defeated. Charles Laird who was Thomas Maloney’s candidate,for president of District 1 of the United Mine Workers of America in a recent campaign made a motion to change the Un- employed council into a branch of the Security League last week. Shep- pard, the Town’s constable, who was chairman of the council, declared the motion carried and the name was changed without discussion. The Avella, receives 14c for every ton of MINERS PRESERVE WILKES BARRE. Pa., April 28— Attempts of disrupters to destroy the large Unemployed Council at Wyo- ming, Pa., were definitely defeated this week when the disrupters were forced to resign. The Wyoming Un- employed Council which meets every ‘Thursday in the town Highschool has @ regular attendance of 200-400 work- ers, The council in the few weeks of its existence has been successful in obtaining increased relief for the workers, and has forced the burgess and the Town Councilmen to appear before it and report on relief granted. Elements in the town who are lined up with the politicians have raised the “red. Scare” and have threatened to expel all communists in the hope of disbanding the Council. A motion to discharge Pacanka, a communist pressure of the majority of the mem- bers, however forced Sheppard out as chairman the following week and also two other members who supported the politicians. The Council is active in organizing the May 1st “Free Mooney” meeting to be held at Kirby Park at three o'clock and has elected a delegate to the Mooney Congress in Chicago, Awakening Miners to (By a Mine Worker Correspondent) PREMIER, W. Va—in this part of the country the workers don’t know much about the class struggle, but they are getting uneasy now, and I will tell you why. At the Premier they cut ten cents on a car of coal | and we used to get 50c for little cars and they pay 80c for big cars. Now we only get 40c and 70c. Motormen | get $2.80 per day, trap man $2.40 and track man $2.28. These cuts were put through on April 1. But this did not satisfy the company, and they turned on us with another attack, We were getting 80c a cut for bug-dust from the middle machine. Now we were cut to 3 cars for 28c, So I wonder-what kind of a cut the next time will bring. Tt is difficult to get organization ; started here. Everyone is afraid to jose his job and the married men say the single men are the one’s to start something. It will be slow work, but I'll keep at it and per- haps they will begin to understand. (mA ANAC. COPPER HAS TIGHT HOLD ON ALL RELIEF Breaks Up Homes | (By a Mine Worker Correspondent) | BUTTE, Mont. — My wife and I) went on the Montana State Hunger | March last Jan., doing our little bit) in demanding better living conditions| for the oppressed people of the state. We were on the relief then, but as/ soon as we returned to Butte, we) were cut off. The relief headquarters in the Chamber of Commerce is run by the Anaconda Copper Mining Company's blaeklist gang for the card office. > I asked just why we were cut off of relief and was told that I went) on the hunger march, so I must be in sympathy with the Communists, and anyone that associated with them ; of their present miserable conditions. Rank and File Miners in Action. Over Heads of U.M.W.A. Officials JOBLESS MINERS ON MICH. COPPER Necessity of Action RANGE ORGANIZING DESPITE TERROR Copper Trust Lays Off Men, Then Starves Them Through Control of Relief (By a Mine Worker Correspondent) HANCOCK, Mich.—Since I last wrote, about 600 miners, including my- self, have been laid off from the Champion Copper Mine. The workers that are still employed are subjected to a rate of speed-up that has never been known in the mines. There is almost fore the lay-off of more than half @ the miners. Terrific Speed-up If the miners cannot put out the amount of ore required by the Cop- per Trust, they are fired and told there are a thousand unemployed. Anyone known to have any kind of connections with the National Min- crs Union is immediately fired. The | relief ‘is controlled by the Copper Trust, which is reaping in a big slice of the money loaned out by the R. F. C. for relief purposes. t Miners Organizing The miners and laborers laid off by the Trust are looking forward to organization as the only means out A series of house meetings were held, where we elected Unemployed Miners Relief Committees, which went to the Relief Station demanding relief for those miners who were being dis- criminated against in relief. The miners at the Relief Station, when they saw a committee entering, said that they would organize also. The Foreigner From Minnesota Then a series of mass meetings as much ore being hoisted out as be- were called, with hundreds of miners attending. The Superintendent of the Copper Range, who is a clever dema~ gogue, attempted to disrupt the unity of the miners. The N.M.U. organizer; Koski, was threatened with arrest because she was a “foreigner” from Minnesota. The Trust has barred the use of all halls on the range, buf mow, with {) warmer weather coming, on, @ series of local mass meetings’ are being ar- | ranged. . The. Unemployed Section of the N.M.U. is being built up and we will » smash through the terror of the Cop- per Trust, which squeezed 62 per cent profits out of the miners during the war, —wW. | on the other hand, whose incomes sonsumed, That is, shoes, clothing, | are, of course, much larger than what medicine, household utensils, coal, | ce, furniture and the host of other | on this part of their income. And sommodities which the workers need, | the richer the person, the greater the vill still be taxed. | exemption. Rich Escape Taxes | The “Mystery” of the Sales Tax The sales tax is advocated by mem-| ‘The capitalist press and the poli- vers of the capitalist class to escape | ticians, notably Mr, Graves, have “teavier taxes on their incomes, gifts | shrouded the sales tax in “mystery,” ind estates. It is an effort to shift | seeking to conceal the fact that it is he brunt of the crisis on those who| the consuming masses upon whom il have any kind of a job or the| the weight falls, But the editonal bility to purchase at least some of} remarks of the New York World- he necessaries of life. For although | Telegram have, in part, cleared up t is declared by Gov. Lehman's} this “mystery.” Said the World- they spend, are exempt from the tax| | $85 million, or nearly three times the | $30 million annual revenue expected by the state from the sales tax on the masses. Increases Jobless There is still another consideration, however. The sales tax would add further to the more than 2,000,000 jobless workers in this state, since the purchasing power of those still employed would be decreased by means of higher prices. But thr ‘apitalist government. is| not conc aed with these consider- | | ations, for ® ts tts duty to protect the Inconys, estates, inheritances and eight thousand workers (28,000). | | | large centers thruout the country. In 500 branches in almost 300 | | i} A dental department in New York City. The Order pays $15 a week con- sumption benefit. Provides for funeral and ceme~- | tery benefit for the member and | his family, cities, The International Workers Order pays from $3.50 to $15,00 a week sick benefit. | From $150 to $2,000 death benefit 1 Order New York City JOIN the International Workers’ 80 Fifth Avenue tenchmen that the state will profit | Telegram: “The idea seems to be to, gene/ 1 property rights of the capi- least thirty million dollars annu-| keep it dark who is paying ‘me tax,| tally class whose servant it is. could not get relief at their head- quarters. I asked how we were going to live and he said to have my wife go home to her folks, Were they home-break- ers too, I asked. Everyone in town was against this terrible discrimina- tion here, but the Anaconda is dic- tating to the people of Butte just what they are to say and do. So now we only eat when I am able to bum food from the warehouses and | stores, Workers and jobless workers, we | must all fight against discrimination! | Others worse off than us are suffer- ing through this deadly work of the Anaconda, —B. that the eight-inch topping was to D | t f th |be taken off, with the price reduc- eve opmen 0 @ tion in effect. The cars when loaded i ‘ carry ebout five tons. t ki | Strike Spreads ap @ I Yl Cul The Suffolks miners of the St, ‘ial , Nicholas Solhey. bbl offered at . jsame reduction and at 4 speci Worker Describes the meeting refused to go back to work AT, for the direct cut. Shenandoah Walkout It is now quite evident that while the operators and the officialdom of (By a Worker Correspondent) the miners are negotiating to give SHENANDOAH, Pa.— About 850/the miners a cut, the company is employees of the Maple Hill colliery already feeling out the miners. ‘The refused to ‘lps April 23 poet bed miners are preparing by electing failed to reach an agreement = committees, company officials concerning a re- BOnSWaRE Sit ee calling meetings one after another, Rank and File Action Last week the Shenandoah Gen- eral Mine Board had a non-wage cut conference of the rank-and-file opposition where important business was transacted in regards to the coming wage cut, All the delegates of the union were instructed to go back to the miners locals and prepare for the coming strike. The hall was filled to capacity. Delegates from the whole lower anthracite were present, e Ls. duction on the price of a car of coal. The men reported for work in the morning, but failing to reach a set- tlement, refused to enter the bowels of the earth. The Pennsylvania and Reading Coal and Iron Co. posted a notice the day before that there would be a Teduction for loaded coal cars, varying from 35 to 60 cents on a car of coal. At a meeting of the Maple Hill Jocal union N, 807 the miners unan- imously refused to accept the pro- position offered by the company.' ‘The rate paid for loading coal at, the Maple Hill colliery varies from) to $3.60 a car. The cars were to loaded to water-level, meaning ) |