The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 13, 1933, Page 5

j i aemnemenresen ered ~ ip, sjlver_of war debts; remonetize "* labor camps will be started in other Nat'l Unemployed — ~ Councils Call for — ‘“Gnited Mobilization” Needed Now Says Letter ; fo Unemployed Workers Leagues Convention Unity of Jobless § NEW YORK.—The Federation of Unemployed Workers Leagues of America is holding its national conyention this week end in Chicago. The Aclegates and rank and file of this organization. The letter begins: “Brothers: Th: | | National Committee of the Unemployed Councils addressed a letter to the | | | ployed Councils in the name of its¢———_——— membership and hundreds of thou. #8Hids- of unemployed workers throughout the country sends its| fraternal greetings to your conven-| tion and hopes that you will take steps. that will result in the greater and} more successful struggles of the un-/| employed against mass starvation, foE dmmediate relief and for federal, unemployment insurance. Roosevelt's Record The letter reviews the two month} wererd of Roosevelt. The attacks on) the employed and unemployed. The| dectptive and cemagogic manouvres| of the “new deal” administration. It states that: “For every increase there are still) hundreds if not thousands of wage cuts. At the same time the bosses amé the government are already cut- ting down relief on the pretense that the need is not so great. This li must be exposed. The need is toda: greater than ever. Need Of Unity ao meet this situation we need the} &reatest united mobilization of em-| ployed and unemployed workers we e¥er‘had. The workers are clamoring fox sjich united action. The National | Committee of the Unemployed Coun- cists devoting its energies to forge | sneha united front for struggle. We} beliéve that all workers and all work-| ers organizations, especially all un. enifloyed organizations can be unite on''a-éommon program of action not- withstanding certain differences on ma important questions that may} The main question involved is| willingness and the readiness to| unite in struggle in defense of the! immediate interests of the unem- ployed. THe Unemployed Councils propose! demands to develop united struggie| of the unemployed. _ They include,} adequate cash relief; no evictions and! Pa oa] ROOSEVELT SIGNS BILL AIDING — MORTGAGE SHA ¢ National Committee of the Unem- the stopping of foreclosures of homes | of unemployed; no foreclosures and cancellation of debts and mortgages | of toiling farmers; payment of soldier | bonus and no cuts of disability al- lowances. Unemployment Insurance To unite in the struggle “for the} workers unemployment and _social| | insurance bill, providing insurance | for all workers, regardless of nation- | ality, color, age or sex, for the full; period of unemployment or disability at the average wages in the industries and territories, but at no time to be) less than $10 per week, plus $3 for) each dependent. Funds to be raised | solely by taxation of incomes of capi- talists, cutting down high salaries, | and use of all war funds for benefit | of the unemployed, and by the gov-} ernment, workers to make no con-| | tributions. Part-time workers to re-| ceive the difference between their| | wages and the unemployment insur- | ance benefit. The Unemployment and | Social Insurance fund to be adminis- | tered and controlled by workers’ com- | mittees composed of rank and file| members of workers’ organizations. | Proposals With this idea the Unemployed! Councils make three suggestions: 1 | That the Chicago conference go on ecord favoring united front action; | . That the conference approve united | front actions on a local basis in locali- | ties, counties and states. These locai | struggles can actually involve large numbers of workers in the fight for their immediate needs; 3. That the) executive committee to be elected at your conference be instructed to enter | | into negotiations with the National Committee Unemployed Councils, and | other unemployed organizations to} formulate a general basis and pro- | gram for United Front Action.” | RKS ROB FARMERS: Carries Inflation Clause Granting Unlimited ?{4ASHINGTON, May 12.—President RUokevelt today signed the currency| inflation and” ’So-called farm relief} bill, giving him sweeping control over) dheenation’s currency and aiding the| movigage holders against the farmers. | © outstanding features of the bill} arg; (1) The authority to expand| eregif« and currency to a total of) $6,000,000,000, accept partial payment sitver. This, with the Emergency Bank Act, gives Roosevelt unlimited inflation powers. (2) Sets up a fed- eral agency for the purpose of lifting | farm commodity prices. (3) Establish- e® a ‘system by which mortgage hold- | *6-can convert their mortgages into) federal bank bonds, the interest on which will be guaranteed by the! Breasury of the United States. / Government to Force Collections, — Aside from the inflation of currency | Weature of the bill, which will boost » to consumers, by cheapening ‘dollar so that its purchasing will fall, the bill is one of the | most vicious attacks ever made upon | #he farmers. Instead of easing the| mortgage burden, it scales down farm ges, but makes the government. responsible for seeing that the hold- ers_of mortgages, many of whom now get nothing, will have first claim on farm produce. The money for such mortgages will be collected at the éleyators and other markets where 8° fafmers sell their produce, and the buyers of such produce will be Yesponsible for deducting this money aid: turning it over to the mortgage holders. , Fells Mortgage Holders To Wait fhen he signed the bill, Roosevelt | issued an appeal encouraging the [A “STARTING WORK _ WASHINGTON, May 11.—Eighteen camps will be opened in New York! State-on the Roosevelt reforestation p b «This was decided after an it between Governor Leh-~ 3 "New York and Robert Fech-| teaie’e ace of si camps. Fechner | a ing official of the Ame- rican Federation of Labor, More than 3,500 now in the military ariel be put to work by the end Week on these projects, Many be sent to Camp Upton, where those who were drafted in 1917 re- ceived military training before being gent to France. | Fechner also stated that 69 forced parts of the country. These will be established on state and privately owned lands. yee” NOTICE TO CHICAGO WORKERS CHICAGO, Ill—On May 1, about 9:30, Comrade A. Asheroff was badly hurtin. a fall from a street car at , near the Chicago Stadium. He is now in the hospital. ;Those who saw the accident are asked to communicate with his fam- lly at11218 N, Claremont St., Chicago, ox witlt the secretary of his I. W. O. , N0.-96, a 1948 1-2 Spauling. ' Currency Depreciation Powers |the teachers by next Wednesday. | | Strike on Monday for the protection A tremendous ovation greeted every clearly that the workers are not be- ing intimidated by the slander being spread against the Communists and holders of farm mortgages to bide their time with foreclosure attempts | until the machinery is in operation | tor enforcing the bill. This statement was made primarily to try to defeat) the National Farm Strike that begins | tomorrow. It was this statement that) furnished Milo Reno and his asso- ciates the excuse to try to defeat the strike by advising that it be called off. | 14,000 Chicago School Teachers Get Pay After Seven Months CHICAGO, Ill, May 12. — 14,000| | school teachers who have not received | police station and came back at 1:30/ & penny for their work for 7 months | Were yesterday awaiting promised | and paid for us a simple cup of coffee. | pay checks due them last September. At the same time, to avert further protest and action on the part of both teachers and students, the cor- rupt city government made another! of its specious promises to pay three | months’ more of the back wages due In announcing the pay day, the city officials stated that the bankers | hhad agreed to purchase tax anticipa- tion warrants totalling $12,750,000 for | which they will collect when the taxes are turned in. This might have been | carried out months ago by the bank-! ers, who purposely forced the teach-| ers into starvation in order to gouge | te ad taxes and resulting higher re-| turns. \ It was the tremendous militant! demonstrations of protest and the! clear intention of the teachers to| mobilize even greater mass actions, | which compelled this payment. | | bosses. _ only two thirds of the veterans and DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK. SATURDAY, MAY 13, 1933 ““yart of the Veterans’ Hxpeaitionary rorce, New York conungent of ine March to the National C being addressed in Union Sq. by their Commander, George Alman, just before their column started on the way. On the Way to Washington (By a Veteran Marcher) { up all bridges, this time we would not, fee. Later we met a police sergeant PHILADELPHIA, May 11, — Glad| have to walk. At 2:30 a. m. slept on| asking us if we went to the Salvation} “| to give to the worker's paper some! Belmont Park’s benches up to 5 a. m.| Army, to whom we stated the ha of my experiences which I noted ever| At 6 we went to the Salvation Army | pening, so he sai since we left New York. | for cups of coffee and after being in} have no right to eat with white.” Our Soon as we landed at Hoboken and| line quite a while and we had three| answer was, “Why they did not discri- hiking up to Elizabeth, N. J. first, I] Negroes with us, they refused to feed| minate during war!” He answered: noticed that in the railroad stations| them with us, but we're going to be| “Well, I dont know about during the there were thousands of idle cars and| fed the last, we all went without cof-| war. I was in the navy.” —JI. 8. a couple of second-hand cars to sell; yards where I noticed too that there were hundreds of automobiles idle, | for sale and nobody can use them on| account of the depression, although | we have built them, but we can’t use them as workers, So I was just smil-, ing, thinking that nature itself laughs | at us, whereas everything we tuild,| we can’t use it ourselves but only the| Later between Jersey City) and Elizabeth, happens to pass by a@ truck and the horse riding the im truck. While we as veterans fought) PATERSON, N. J., May 12,—Calling upon the Associated Silk Workers’ for this country, fought for democ-| membership and executive committee to form a united front in the strike a i he far * i seule bee a which it is planning to call on Wednesday, May 11, the National Textile i edctiedeeetinany$ Work inion it da a i treated. with more demotracy than| ers Union in Paterson today addressed an appeal to all silk workers he workers of the U. 8. s Sk cr psp ih Wileabeth; we) Wk Market. 8t.,.et' 8p. m. to: hslpe———— if mM trucks which took away|Sttengthen the strike. It is estim-)2ssuring victory for the silk workers hired two trucks which too! an ated that the strike of the Paterson! re the eae bth oe aig the | silk workers will involve 5,000-6,000| Associated Silk Workers is by pre- one third were left behind hiking, | vorkers, leentig & solid front against the boss- which is-the group that I chose; Ar-| ;, }¢S, the NI'WU are making another riving in Linden, N. J., a worker gaye| Nearly a month ago the NTWU is-| appeal to the Associated to attend us a lift up to Camden, N. J., where Sued an appeal for united front) the conference Saturday. The con- we had a little conversation with po-|@¢tion in a real struggle for better) ference will march in a body to the lice. The police insist that as we are conditions for the . workers. The|mass meeting of the Associated and going to Washington, we should 0} Sere ten ae Ee Ga | demonstrate the solidarity of the del- stick with Communists in this march | Glisand: the “tebtile locals ng ‘he | Bates with the workers of Paterson to Washington. | terse of the! for a united struggle for increased | A. F. of L. of loom fixers, twisters and wages and the 8-hour day. Salvation Army Jim-Crows, | Warpers. The United Twisters Club : This morning reading Philadelphia at its membership meeting accepted its full strength to the support of newspapers (The Record) 1 noticed! the appeal for the united front. On| the silk strike regardless of the ac- that Roosevelt will revise the veteran April 26th the Associated Silk Work~|tion of the Associated. It calls all cut, and if it would not have been |ers replied, rejecting the united front | workers to join the strike and mass for what they call reds, the cut would) proposal, on the picket line for a unified and have been here long ago. So that this | For Solid Front unbreakable front against the silk means to be red, fight for your) Gonvinced that the only way of bosses, rights. Later this cop. went to the} - - : “Weil, the Negroes —— sa eS ate tie eearisat NATL TEXTILE UNION CALLS FOR UNITY IN PATERSON SILK STRIKE Calls Unity Meet for Saturday; Associated Silk Union Rejects Unity Appeal OCKING VALLEY MINERS PREPARE STRUGGLE AGAINST WAGE CUT Organize for State Hunger March, Challenge Eastern Ohio Column to Get Larger Numbers By L. W. going to be forced upon them, es- At a conference held in Columbus ; pecially since they have been pro- on April 19 between 10 coal oper- | mised a “New Deal.” ators and 10 U.M.W.A. officials, the can be summed up in the remark operators proposed that the miners of an old coal loader, heard on the \of Hocking Valley and Sunday Creek | street the other day coal fields agree to a 29 per cent jhell with the union if they take ‘reduction in wages. This means a | bread from our kids.” a.m. He took us up to a restaurant| Walking on the bridge to Philadel-| phia, one remark raised was: If in! 1917 the Germans came here to blow. A ROOSEVELT DIET We print this from the “Lancaster Workers Voice,” issued by the Unem- ployed Councils of that city. Sree One can of corn. One can of salmon. One can of tomatoes. One can of string beans One can of milk. One-half pound of sugar. One-quarter peck of potatoes. Two eggs. cut of from 38 cents a ton to about Only 800 Out of 11,000 Work One-quarter pound of butter. 28 cents. The operators also pro-| Out of the more than 11,000 coal ‘Two breads, | mised that if a reduction was ac- r jminers who at one time or another This is what an 85-year-old lady cepted they would recognize the un- | got for a week to live on. Divide this| ion, by 21 meals and see what it amounts|by the U.M.W.A. the conference ad- to, ° journed to reconvene on May 1. Governor White has delivered an worked in the mines of the Hocking jless than 800 of them are working at the present time and they are waging an almost impossible strug- OR CAMPS REGAL DOLL WORKERS CALL STRIKE "se, os 10 DEFEND UNION AGAINST BOSS, AFL 500 Will Be Sent to Fake Union Set Up by A. F. of L. to Smash the 18'Camps in New York Industrial Union — Boss Gets Help of U. S. Labor Department to Cut Wages TRENTON, N. J., May 12.—At a most enthusiastic and spirited meet- ing with over 700 workers present, the Regal Doll Workers Industrial Union affiliated with the Trade Union Unity League, voted last night to) of their union and their working con- ditions, This action follows a series of pro- | Vocative attacks against the union by the owner, Friedman, who is deter- mined to drive the union out of the shop in order to make drastic cuts! in the wages of the workers and to lower the working standards which they have won as a result of their last strike. At the strike meeting last night, A. Fisher, organizer of the Trade Union Unity League, Rebecca Grecht of the Communist Party and Dave Doran of the Young Communist League, addressed the membership. mention of the Party, indicating that they are determined to have! union leaders of their own. doll workers’ ranks are intact, their! militancy is high. They are mobiliz- | ing their full strength for the picket line on Monday. ‘Scuthern Ohio Column 2%, of Relief March Will Leave NextWednesday 17, at 10 a. m., from the Hospital Lot, ath and Central Ave. lege Hill by workers from Cummins- ville and Steele Sub-division. will proceed to Hamilton, where a welcome demonstration will be held the same evening, 6 p. m., at the Court House. Joined by the march- ers there, the column will leaye Ham- ilton on Thursday, May 18, at 8 p. m., from the Court House for Middle-| are Nine workers were arrested at the town, Dayton, and Columbus, ultimatum that if an agreement is S th |not reached by May 8 he will take |store. A miner receiving money on | pay-day is a sight seldom seen, | Those thousands of families who re- ceive no work have been forced to ‘an economic level wholly unbeliev- able to anyone not acquainted with the situation. Store orders are is- sued out in amounts of 80c for ingle persons and $1.50 for familie: egardiess of size and this mis able pittance must do at least two |weeks and more often three or even }four weeks. Red Cross flour con- | sisting of one sack to a family every |six weeks is parcelled out. Join State Hunger March Mafty a miner's family goes for he will settle in favor of the oper- {ators and force acceptance with his strike-breaking National Guard as |he did last fall. Through the winter months, the U.M.W.A, officials have stifled the jstruggle of the miners with pro- mises that when the present con- tract expires on May 17, they would see to it that the miners received increases to 45 and 50 cents a ton. As a result of the misleading pro- gram of the ofiicials of the U.M.W. A., the mines filled their orders un- | der the strike-breaking 10 point | | plan of Governor White, Now when ‘there is no market for coal and the minérs are starving, the officials | will force the union ‘to accept and | will get the union -recognized | is what the officials want so that dues may start rolling in to the office in Columbus. i ‘The 11,000 miners involved in this | jaction are . patiently awaiting the joutcome of this conference.. Mut- terings are beginning to be heard in the mines, ih the camps, on the street. corners .and* wherever min- ers gather, that indicate that they have been forced down to just as low a level as they are going to stand for. Mutterings are heard that, if the vicious plan of the op- erators and the equally vicious sell- | out of the union, is forced upon them, will echo and re-echo through- | out the entire length and breath | of this country. The miners of Hocking Valley have a traditional background of struggle and they efinitely agreed that this mis- ,erable starvation existence is demonstration today and six were| sentenced to 30 days in jail. The, food: in-the house. endurancé has also been reached in this regard. Preparations are un- der way in several sections of the scheduled to reach Columbus on May , 23. march through the press and the march calls have been met with great enthusiasm and _ preliminary |preparations ate going forward. The miners of this section are an- xious to see the coal industry well represented in Columbus, therefore they are challenging the Eastern ‘Ohio column originating in East Leverpool to outnumber them in their column. Hocking Valley will CINCINNATI, Ahio, May 12.—Col- umn 5 of the Ohio Relief March leaves Cincinnat! on Wednesday, May ‘The column will be joined in Col- Tt ance of Eastern Ohio through the columns of the Daily Worker. Forward to a mighty mass march jon May 23! On to Columbus for |more relief! Smash the starvation program of the coal operators and iheir side kicks, the rotten White not )gang! § | to attend a united front conference Saturday, May 13th at Oakley Hall, | The NTWU is preparing to throw! Their attitude | which was “To | After a pretense of resistance Valley and Sunday Creek coal fields, | gle to keep even with the company | | days at-a time without one scrap of | But the limit of | Valley for the State Relief March | Announcements of this | be looking forward to the accept- | Readv to Marchio Washinton." MIQRE STRIKES IN W. PENNA. AS _ MINERS FIGHT FOR HIGHER PAY 550 Isabelle Miners Strike; Negro and White Stand Solidly Together J April 1st Strike Movement Spreads to More Coal Fields; PITTSBURGH, Pa., May new wave of strikes is developing in the Western Pennsylvania mines con~ tinuing the April 1st strike movement under the leadership of the National Miners Union and the’ United Front committees Inspired by the recent victory in the Republic mine which resulted in a 60. ‘percent increase in wages for the workers, 550 miners of the Isabella mine, Fayette County, went out on strike on Tuesday demanding pay for | “dead work.” The strike is solid and the militancy of the workers is high. The National Miners Union is actively leading the strike Fifty of the strikers are Negroes and a splendid | spirit of solidarity is being shown. | Young workers and children are par- 12. A ticularly active in the picketing. Fol- loy ne action of the Isabella Mine workers another mine in this ficld struck yesterday. ‘The Hunker mine in Westmoreland County, after a ‘short strike in- MAPLE HILL COAL ‘STRIKE CONTINUES Call Unity Meeting for May 21st SHENANDOAH, Pa.’ (by mail) —On Friday, May 5, a meeting of the mine board, district No. 9 of the U. M. W. A., the miners adopted a resolution to continue the strike of the 150 miners in the Maple Hi!l mine of the Phila- delphia-Reading Coal Co. The strike is against the reduction of the wages from 56 cents to 35 cents acar. The strike started on April 21.! The officials of District 9 failed to adopt any measures, and Brenan, dis-| trict president, has not even shown his face in this strike section. The miners decided to call a con- ference of all locals for May 21 to wage a united struggle against the coal barons, Each local is requested to elect five delegates. ence will take place in Shenandoah on May 21 at 2 p.m. at the Moose Hall. The confer-| the 200 workers in the dem ra day 1 20 per was the company in two miners refused to accept and decided to continue volving won thei: shift or e struck Tu nan, day es and the hiring company concede the wage iner number and shifts, of increa The wage drivers. mine also struck jak Westmoreland County wa for local demands The strike ing to spread with t iories and concess' miners are joining t ers Union and form mc rs Fight Ou For Pay Increase | , | Struggles of is continu- | total number of mines which har® c united fror now totals ince the mine strike movement begr on April Ist. A broad base ig be laid for the development of struggles. The burning need for the NMU for the successful termination of the miners is immediate and substantial relief. Only the soli- darity of the workers’ organizations all over the country can provide the pport which the miners must haw continue their heroic struggle fo conditions, Yorkers’ organizations, take up thi question at your next meeting ana send your collections, donations or receipts fc ny affairs you are run- ning in behalf of the miners, with the speed to the headquarters af ed Front Committee, 1524 Pittsburgh WAGE CUTS FOR COAL MINERS IN STATES OF IOWA AND PENNSYLVANIA (Prepared by U.R.A.) lowa.—Officials of the l Workers in Iowa, District 13 pt ed a wage cutfor the district in April Under the new agreement, the basic day scale was cut from $5.80 | Gay to $4.70, while the base tonnage | Tate was reduced from $1.04 to 81 cents, Pennsylvania.—“Greb-bag” pay sys- tems are now common in the P; burgh coal district as they have been works for days at a time receiving of $18.86. The deduction mark- ss 39.01 per cent” is the deduc- tion from what the miner would have received at a verbally-agreed-upon. rate of 36¢ a ton if the company had per | sold its coal at a higher price. This kind of wage “agreement” is called “60-40 cooperative plan” by which the miners are supposed to receive 60 per cent of the proceeds of sale as their collective share, The miner may actually receive only a few cents, as in Kentucky and West Virginia.Grab-|in the case here given, where the bag rates inean that the miner often | worker received two cents in cash. Indirect cuts in the anthracite, even no pay at all and he seldom knows! while the operators failed in their receive, when he starts work what he is to| wage-cutting negotiations, have been An example of the system | attempted by certain companies and }is seen in a pay slip of a miner at | resisted by the workers, At the the Valda Coal Mining Co.’s Morris | Maple Hill colliery of the Philadelphia mine near Cecil, Washington County, | and Reading Coal and Iron Co., near | Pa. A slip with pay day noted as|Shenandoah, Pa., the men were re- January 15; 1933, credits the miner | ceiving $2.84 for loading a ear of coal, tions are: | with loading 1,079 hundredweight of |The company announced that cars coal at 35c # ton, or $18.88, Deduc-~ | were in future to be loaded to water- Jevel; in other words, the 8-inch top-~ | House rent, $6; store account, $5.50, | ping was to be taken off, and the rate and “less 39.01 per cent,” $7.36, or | for loading reduced to $1.63. Letters From Miners Show Their Determination to Struggle Old Employee of Mellon-Owned Mine Fired for Trading At Private Store Wages Have Gone Down and Hours Increased for All Miners at Monitor No. 10 (By a Mine Worker Correspondent.) FINLEYVILLE, Pa.—A few years ago the men who operate the Joy loaders and other machines in the mines at Monitor No. 10 and others of the Pittsburgh’ Coal Co., controlled by Andy Mellon, were paid on loaders as high as $8 to $10 per day for 8 hours. A bonus for the production of certain amounts of tonnage was given.¢ Less Pay and More Hours. However a change has taken place in the pay of these workers. The boss of the loader and machine is being paid $2.16 per day of 12 to 14 hours, and the laborers on these get $1.60. With a, shortage of work, with only 2 days per week in most instances, imagine what a man has to live on with a family of 3 to 8 children, and pay rent, gas-and water. $25 for 135 Men, I know of families with 7 and 8 children, who have not drawn a pen- ny for two or three years, and could not get anything earned. At some of the mines a few miles west of here, where there were 135 men employed, they had a pay of $25 for the whole 135 men. They compel the men to buy heavy caps and gum boots, so they can work in water and keep dry, Sometimes they have to bail water out of their places for two or mote hours. Laid Off for Trading in Private Stores. One man worked for the company quite a number of years. He had 8 children and always did hs work quite satisfactorily. Still the superintend- ent put him off work because he did not spend his wages in the store. | When the output went down because | the super had crippled the output by the discharge of the batch of men he put off, after he had laid him off work, the “super” had to begin to put men on again, to keep the output up, still he. did not put him on again. Such is the rotten supers who have charge of the mines. Tt is high time’ the mines had a minimum wage. There should be a checkweighman on every tipple to see the miners and loaders get their just ‘weight. All company stofes should be abolished to oblivion for they are a menace to the miners and to the community at large. “WE MINERS WORK FOR NOTHING” (By a Worker Correspondent) | TIRH HILL, Pa—I got laid off from work. Tire Hill superintendent is liv- ing in a private home and he does not deal in the company store. He told me on the Ist of May to take my tolls. Te told me when times get better he will give me back my work in the Bord Coal Co., Johnstown, Pa. Conditions are rotten. We miners work for nothing. We load 22 ton cars and get one ton 7 hundreds. Some give 142 ton price for loaders, machine cut 38c a ton, peck work 44c a ton, but nothing for cleaning jobs or stones. Loaders get not one penny for extra work. I talked to a miner. He said we are no millionaires. We have no work, we get bread and we organize Will not be for nothing, —Charles Wendel. support ourselves and families. T just | think that our call for an organizer to) STARVING MINER IS REJECTED BY BOSS HOSPITAL Wages Docked for Hospital Funds By a Mine Worker Correspondent MIDDLESBORO, Ky.—In the Pre- mier Mines conditions are bad. One |man worked there last month and only made $13. His company expenses was $6.50; whieh only left $6.50 to live on. Now this man is at the point of death. There's nothing wrong, but he | is simply starving. The miners are |eut for hospital funds, but they re- fuse to accept him in the hospital where -he “has: been paying. At the local Red Cross here they have cut some of the unemployed with small families off their govern- ment flour. Some complained about this and asked Mrs. Williams, who is in charge, why they were cut off, | while the coal operators. could get | flour to run their mines on, She re- | plied if it had noi been for the Red | Cross flour every mine in this sec- tion would be shut down On the sack it says, not to be sold, but the Atlas Coal Co. here charge ‘5c and 10c for every sack Now the unemployed are organizing an Unemployed Council here and have elected committees to work out local demands to be presented to the Red Cross and R.F.C, —T. Subscribe for the six-page Sat- urday feature edition—52 times a year for $1.50, TORGSIN enables your relatives in Soviet Russia to purchase all sorts of domestic or imported articles AT LOW PRICES |] pound); Shorx (Men's), $4.95 patr; | $4.50 pair; Rubbers (Men's), Bo peir; Suit (Ladies), | . Be piece. by parcel post. For instances: Flour, 1c; Beans, 100; Kasha, 10; Sugar, 28¢ a kilo (Kilo ts 2-1/5 American Shoes ait of Clothes (Ladies) ‘To cities that have no TORGSIN stores, TORGSIN mails your order ‘ pial “We're Going Back ° WhenWeWin and Not Before,” Says Miners By a Mine Worker Correspondent UNION TOWN, Pa—Five hundred sixty-five miners of the Weirton Steel owned Isabella Mine, Fayette County are out in a militant 100 per cent strike for 1917 scale, higher wages and against the dead work system which the company has been forcing onto the starving Isabella miners without a let-up. This mine is well known for the -unsafe conditions which every day cripples the hard- riven workers. Some months ago a miner of Denbo was killed by a rock in the man’s way in this mine, National Miners Union leaflets cali- ing the March 19 Miners United Front Conference were well received by the miners and the example of the Re- public Miners striking and forcing their steel company bosses to give better conditions has encouraged the Negro and white mining slaves to stand up together for better wages and conditions. “We're going back when we win and not before!” is every striker’s slogan. rike feeling is high and rising eadily in Fayette County and along the river in Washington County Hayes Mine near Uniontown, Pa., is on ‘strike, Measures to gain the support of the miners throughout District 7, |Na- tional Miners Union, Fayette County and the river section were thoroughly discussed at the district coi tee meeting, for the Isabella and Hpyes strikes. Action was decided on, for issuing an appeal for solidarity of all miners employed and unemployed to win the strikes, and far organizing strike acti in more mines to)win better conditions. é Colorado Governor : Pushes New Bill for Coal and Iron Police DENVER, Col., May 12—Attempt- to prepare for another workers’ odbath such as took place at Lud- low and Columbine, the Colorado State House has approved a bill es- tablishing a statewide Coal and Iron Police. The same Patrick J. Ham rock leader of the Rockefeller mob- sters who murdered the strikers of Ludlow will doubtless be connect with the patrol. i For orders on Torgsin apply ‘to these banks, or companies, ot their authorized agents, AMALGAMATED BANE, N. ¥. AM-DERUTRA TRANSPORT CORP. AMERICAN EXPRESS CO, GDYNIA-AMERICA LINE HIAS MANUFACTURERS TRUST CO, POSTAL TEL. CABLE 60, PUBLIC NATIONAL BANE. & TRUST ©O, R.C.A, COMMUNICATIONS: UNION TOURS AMALGAMATED BANK & SA¥~ INGS BANK, CHICAGO AS ot GENERAL REPRESENTATIVE. 26! 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