The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 29, 1933, Page 3

& UNITED MINE OFFICIALS TOOLS OF BOSSES UNDER THE RECOVERY ACT Organize Pit Committees to Fight Fakers ; Prepare for United Front Attacks ofCoalOperators and Labor Conference in Pittsburgh,Aug. 12 By P. BART. The United Mine Workers of America has geared its whole apparatus to carry out the provisions of the Industrial Recovery (slavery) act. Its president John L. Lewis is a mem- ber of the Coal Industrial Board of the Industrial Recovery Administration. Its strike breaking acts from now on wi i PENN. MINERS — EXPOSE U.M.W.A. MEMBER DRIVE 59 Join Nat'l Miners; See U.M.W.A. Role as Company Union ‘PITTSBURGH, Pa., June 28.—One hundred miners of the Westmdre- Innd Coal Co. attended a meeting of the National Miners’ Union at which Joe Ladisic, local miner and active organizer of the N.M.U. and Dave Doran spoke. The mine sup- erintendent and a group of company steol pigeons attempted to disrupt ‘the méeting and provoke a fight, but were forced to retreat before the mil- itant spirit displayed by the miners. The miner superintendent spoke, bringing forward the United Mine . Workers and slandering the National Miners Union. ‘The miners answered the proposal of the superintendent to form a company union by electing a check- . 59 miners of those pre- . Sent joined the National Miners Un- fon and pledged to build the union in the entire mine. * # ‘The U.M.W.A. ,has imported 14 gangsters into Westmoreland Coun- ty. They were brought into this County on account of the sharp re- sistance that the leaders of the U.M. W.A. met and the strong influence of the N.M.U. Threats have been made against Joe Ladisic, militant Miner in the territory, who is the strike chairman at the Edna 2 mine. Six of these U.M.W.A. men armed with guns and filled with booze, planned an attack upon Ladisic in his home, but were driven off by the presence of N.M.U. members at that time. The U.M.W.A. leaders hypocritic- ally talk about the thugs of the coal companies being used against the miners while they use the same tactic in an attempt to sink their claws into the miners. Miners in this territory are preparing to meet all attacks of the U.M.W.A. and de- fend their right to organize into the union of their own choice. 500 Workers Strike to Oust Efficiency Man-Speed Up Plan NEW YORK, June 28—Five hun- dred workers of the Anchor Cap & Closure Co. won a 4-day strike to oust efficiency men who tried to introduce 2 stop-watch sped-up system into the plant and work out a seale of wage slashes. federal government. For this purpose a new wave of activity in the mining fields, conducted by the United Mine Workers can be observed. “The New Deal” In a leaflet headed “‘The New Deal” and signed by “Nicholas Fonteccino, International Representative; United Mine Workers of America,” in Utah the full strike-breaking program is disclosed. He states, “We are happy to announce that we are in your won- derful State of Utah to assist in the establishment of mutual relations with peace and prosperity for the coal | mines in this state.” (Emphasis mine.) To assure the coal operators his wholehearted cooperation, he con- tinues, “You can rest asstred that there will be no strikes nor turmoils im our work. The iminers are asked to join our Union and to remain at work until a joint contract is consum- mated.” (Emphasis mine.) There will be no strikes, say the leaders of the United Mine Workers. ‘The miners are to work for further wage cuts, and the officials will con- summiate agreements of wage cuts for them, It is such agreements that the United Mine Worker's official holds out as a pledge to the coz! overa- tors for the price of “organizin> the miners.” In Western Pennsylvania, ‘one of the most important bitumin- ous fields, Pat Fagan, president of District 5, is busy in the mining fields. This notorious strike breaker tells the miners that “they enjoy the inalienable i#ght to join the United Mine We:xers of America.” In other words, the workers cannot decide the union which they desire to join. It is to be decided for them by Fagan and, the coal operators. Their Pledge What this means is best illustrated in a pledge card distributed among the miners. This card which miners are to sign, states, “I further pledge myself that when I am admitted to membership that I will abide by the laws and policies of that organiza- tion.” What policies are the coal miners of the Terminal mines asked to abide by? It is the policy of Fagan that has sold them time and again. It is the policy which forced the, miners. back a.mumber of times to work. this. year, each. time with a new wage cut. Fagan the Strikebreaker A leaflet issued by the National Miners Union to the Avella miners who have been striking against un- bearable conditions shows the policy that the miners are asked to carry out against their own interests. “Over 50 leading members of the U.M.W. of A. and American Legion were deputized by the notorious strikebreaker, sheriff Seamen” to break the Avella strike. And this “was done with the consent of Fagan.” Evety mine field’ is entered by the United Mine Workers with the sup- port of the coal operators to “or- 1 have not only the approval of its executive board, but will carry the official stamp of the ® 3000 READING TEXTILE ‘MILLS ON STRIKE WORKERS IN READING, Pa. June 26.—Three thousand workers in the hosiery and | cotton textile plants are reported on strike led by a so-called apparel trades union bloc, with an organizer from the Amalgamated Clothing workers of the Fashionmade mill at Boyertown, the H. W. Anthony plant | at Sinking Springs and two hundred workers in the spinning and carding |departments of the Bancroft Mills are reported to have joined the strike. The National Association of Hosiery | Manufacturers are urging the workers to join their company unions again disproving the “collective bargaining” | promises under the Industrial Re- covery (Slavery) Act. ganize the miners” for further ex- ploitation under the Industrial Reé- covery (slave) Act. A special convention of the UM. W. of A. meeting in Fairmont, W. Va. adopted a resolution endorsing the Recovery Act. It states “that a joint conference of all the operators of Northern .West Virginia with the representatives of the United Mine Workers of America will be called to negotiate a wage agreement that will raise our standards of living, shorten the working day and relieve unemployment.” The miners of West Virginia have learned full well what these phrases of Van Bittner, head of the U.M.W. of A. in West Vir- ginia mean. To resist the new attacks of, the coal operators and mine union offi- cials it is necessary to build pit com- mittees representative of all the min- ers in the pit. To prepare and con- duct strikes against every effort to use the Industrial Recovery (slavery) Act to further beat down the con- ditions of the miners’and to fight for increased wages and imprové- ment of working conditions. In these struggles the role of the U.M.W. of A. officials as collaborators with the bosses against the miners should be brought forth. This way it is pos- sible to build broad opposition move- ments of the rank and file in the UMW. of A. locals for developing strike struggles. The united front conference called by the National Miners Union in Western Pennsylvania and East Ohio is a means of uniting the organized and unorganized miners for broad strike struggles against the attacks prepared under the Industrial Re- covery Act. To this conférences de- legates from National Miners Union, United Mine Workers, unorganized miners should be elected and toge- ther work out on a common program of struggle, DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JUNE 29, 1933 ~™ Mellon’s Pittsburgh Coal Co.Orders a Company Union Under the Slavery Act Cp A 0D. A.Moazow ai 70 OUR MINE EXPLOTEES:- (vw ‘ Agents of outside thet you must join then to get absolutely not true. Aclaw his Just deen Give everybody in the coal indus! the I am saying will protect you in cb independent of any outside gi pr agg " Z Preah smo, A mumber of our men have already talked with us about « in for this purpose. with you about theif plan. We are glad to have then men work with you in our mines. I bave: met with the Government officials in Nashington sho will carry out the now law. employees I have told these officials that the stale which Ceathys worked = by the Pittsburgh Coal ey of and ite entation be higher ther ‘throug! plan of enployee any ninimm wage scale for this district fixed by the Goveruneat. We therefore assure you that when you choose reprosenta~ td ives by operate your om election according te this plan, the Ooupeny will co- with your representatives. Tours very truly, PLAN OF EMPLOYEES’ REPRESENTATION ar 4 THE PITTSBURGH WORKS OF THE JONES AND LAUGHLIN STEEL CORPORATION © JUNE. 1938 \ Above: Plan of Employee Representation In Mines of Pittsburgh Cool Company Cover of booklét put out by Pittsburgh Coal Co., containing the description of their company union. Alongside: Cover of pamphlet containing company union plan of Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation. The fact that these plans were already prepared and in print shows these big companies were in the plot of the Roosevelt regime to force company unionism on the workers. Steel Trust Spreads Its Company Union Plan YOUNGSTOWN, ©., June 28.—The employee representation company union plan is now being rapidly introduced in the steel miills here as the Steel trust moves to head off any strike struggles of the workers for wage increases and to enforce its hunger program on the steel workers under the Industrial Recovery (Slavery) Act. Action of the steel mills exposes clearly that the “collective bargain- ing” clause in the Industrial Recov- ery (Slavery) Act guarantees nothing to the workers and that it is a cover for the widespread introduction of company unions to fasten more firmly the yoke of the trusts ever the work- ers. A large propertion of the employee representatives elected last week in the mills in Youngstown are known company tools. The company plan Green Wants A. F. of L. to Be Chief Company Union to Support Roosevelt’s Program Under Slavery Bill Tells Bosses That Is Better Way Under Industry Act By HARRY GANNES. v. An ambition, long latent, has been stirred anew in the breast of the A. F. of L. leaders by the industrial re- covery act. That is, to become the official labor agents of the big scab tions. eoiliam F. Green, president of the A. F. of L., in praising the act, com- plained mildly of only one feature. The act recognizes the existence of any unions, and permits the ~ as and others to give the ) of worker-employer “ne- is” through this means. Green believes the A. F. of L. offi- cialdom could do much better, be- cause achieving the same end desired by the mammoth trusts, they could more ably allay suspicion. Besides, there is greater graft possible from .. sources (1) from the new corpor- 3 which turn their company over to the skillful hands of leader whose wage-cutting rd during the crisis is unimpeach- by Wall Street, and (2) from : dues of the workers who would have the A. F. of L. leaders as nego- ‘Mators for them in slashes in real " Th us, the A. F. of L. executives, al- sensitive to the program of Street in the crisis, see in the act @ great advantage in in advance the fascization unions—drawing them to control by state apparatus to the decisive They A = # Hs Fe i smashing blows hov- heads. Iilegal’zing Strikes. : lustrial recovery act already basis for the illegalization , for the crushing of the Gnions of the workers. the strike-breaking of L. unions, ai 2 : eg 23 : 5 struggles of the workers), will pro- ceed to a more ferocious attack on the Communist Party as the most devoted, class-conscious leader of the day-to-day opposition of the workers and as the greatest obstacle to the fascist development which must be the next phase of the breakdown re- sulting from the “recovery” act. In other words, every economic struggle, even the smallest struggle around wages, hours, rights of or- ganization, strike, formation of shop committees, workers negotiations committees, will become a political struggle. Every political struggle will be more and more closely welded to |the direct economic struggle of the | Workers. So far as the attitude of the A. F. of L. officialdom to the act is con- cerned, let us trace their maneuver- ings with the bosses. A. F. of L. Maneuvers. On June 6 and 7, a week before Roosevelt signed the act, A. F. of L. officials, representing 106 national and international unions met in Washington. they issued a statenent saying: “The representatives of the American Federation of Labor who have been meeting in Washington during the last two weeks gave unanimous approval to the indus- trial recovery act as passed by the House of Representatives. This decision was arrived at after two days of careful thought and study of the proposed legislation with particular reference .to labor sec- tions.” And they further declared “their sincere desire to co-operate with the representatives of indus- try and government in making the industrial recovery act a complete success, The “sincere desire to co-operate with representatives of industry and government” is no sudden outburst of evangelical fervor. Didn’t these very same officials “co-operate with representatives of industry and gov- ernment” under Hoover throughout the crisis to slash the wages of every union and non-union man in the country? Didn't they co-operate to fight against unemployment insur- ance? While Green, Hillman and Lewis outline the broad aspects of the A. F, of L. program, some of the smaller fry put it more crudely. For ex- ample, the Journal of the Electrieal Workers’ and Operators’ Union, in its After their conference]. June, 1933, issue, put these questions to the bosses: “Will the administration con- sider the technicological value of labor unions, their ability to return more to management than either an unorganized group or a con- trolled company union? Will it avail itself of the wealth of ex- perience achieved in certain in- dustries. where union co-operation with management has been in effect?” That is, will the General Electric and Western Electric and- the other Morgan corporations and the new trusts to be formed under the act, consider the value of the experience of the A. F. of L. officialdom “their ability to return more (more what? profits out of the hides of the work- ers) to management?” The same Journal goes much fur- ther. “Where a trade association does not exist, labor will likely, if neces- sary, take’ the initiative and seé that @ modern trade association is made. . . Concessions should be made, if necessary, by all-unions, in ordér to forward the common goal of organ- izations (of industries). The official organ of the American Federation of Labor, controlled by William F, Green, goes é¢ven much further in promising the big corpora- tions that under the A. F. of L.-~ company union scheme there ‘will be no labor troubles, The June, 1933, issue of the “Federationist” decrees: “When decisions are democrat- leally decided they must become binding upon all if we are to hold the unruly and nonsensical in check.” Once decisions are made by the new A. F. of L.-company unions, of- ficial labor bureaus of the scab cor- porations (with their contact in the government apparatus through Green, Hillman, Lewis and Frances Perkins) they will keep the “unruly and non- sensical” in check. Hitler could not be more adtoit. Those workers who are unruly under the crushing wheel of the gigantic trusts so near to the capitalists’ hearts’ desire, those work- ers sO nonsensical to resist starva- tion wages, to fight for their own class organizations and for unem- ployment insurance are to be held check. How will they be held The industrial recovery care of that, First there Tells Workers to Give “Concessions” for Slavery Bill fine and _a six months’ jail term de- crees. Then there is the federal court jurisdiction. Judges who will put. the tradition of Landis ‘and Shumacher in the shade will soon become bywords to the workers. No wonder Norman Thomas of the Socialist Pa can exclaim: “The best feature of the bill is the rec- ognition it gives to labor!” No wonder the National Associa- tion of Manufacturers and the U. 8. Chamber of Commerce, advocating the open shop, can fully reconcile their scab ideas with the industrial act! H. I, Harriman, president of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, re- ceived the support of Robert L. Lund, president of the National Associa- tion of Manufacturers, in issuing this statement: will pie “teal open sot i time ugh closer suppo! A. F. of L. officialdom, Let every worker ponder the irony of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce and the Man- ufacturers’ Asso¢iation being con- vin¢ed of the fairness to labor and capital of the labor clauses of the in- dustrial recovéry act! The capital- ists, with the state machinery in their hands, with the power of the strike-breaking courts, police, jails— with their history of murder and bru- factory régimes— being sure that the idea of the “real open shop” will prevail. Yes, it would take a Socialist leader to say: “The best feature of the bill is the recognition it gives to labor!” was sprung on the workers with such speed that they were caught unpre- pared. In some mills the plan was announced and the election took Place on the same day. Confusion among the workers, which resulted in many workers refusing to have anything to do with the plan helped the company to put over its scheme of electing its own hand picked rats. A. F. of L. Tries to Revive. The Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers (the A. F. of L. union) is receiving publicity in the local capitalist press and is trying to get the workers to join by offering to chain them to a sliding scale agreement which will involve extensive wage cutting. Their leaf- lets spread in the Ohio Valley rec- ently read as follows: “Under the Industrial Recovery Act, the workers of the steel mills are challenged by the president of the United States to become members of a labor organization. Will you be a, slacker, or are you going to help him bring back the economic security of the steel workers. You can do this by complying with Section 7 of the Industrial Reécovéry Act. This act gives the employees the right by law to help themselves.” Steel workers see clearly that the speed with which the steel trust is orgenizing company unions proves the statement false that the Roose- velt administration is challenging them to join labor organizations. They also know that the Amalgama- ted has co-operated with the steel company throughout the crisis in put- ting over wage cuts and lowering their living standards and that in- stead of bringing economic security the A. F. of L. has been responsible for preventing any struggle against the steel trust. Steel workers are saying that the real purpose of the revival of the A. F. of L. and the company unions is to keep out the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union. The Steel and Metal Work- ers Industrial Union is answering the Amalgamated in a leaflet which being widely distributed. ‘ Reports from the Ohio Valley re- veal that the com union plan, almost identical with that of Youngs- town is being introduced in the Car- negie mills, the Wheeling Steel Cor- poration and the Weierton Steel Co. Additional reports come from the Il- linois Steel in Gary and from the Universal Atlas Cement Corporation in Hudson, N. Y. subsidiaries of U. S. Steel that the same plan is being introduced there. Miners report that the company union agreement is almost identical to that issued by several mining corporations. The be- lief is rapidly gaining ground among steel workers that these company union agreements were drafted by the Rocsevelt government at the same time as the Roosevelt Recovery (Slavery) Act and with the full con- gent of the government. Steel and Metal Industrial Union Gives ‘The Steel and Metal Workers’ In- dustrial Union calls upon the work- ers to fight to elect the most honest, courageous fighters among the work- ers to the company commitees for 5 ‘OWNER OF ATLAS) (CO. IS BIGGEST OF STEEL TRUSTS Enormously Rich, Now Pushes Co. Union Wage Cut Scheme NEW YORK.—The Universal Atlas Cement Co., whose workers are now defending themselves against com- pany union wage cut plans put over on them under the National Recovery (Slavery) Act, have as their employer the United States Steel Corporation, one of the wealthiest concerns in the world. : The following list of U. S. Steel holdings was compiled by Labor Re- search Association, of New York. By Labor Research Assn. The United States Steel Corpora- tion was originally incorporated under the New Jersey laws, February 25, 1901, and certificates amended on April 1, 1901 In Jan., 1980, it acquired the Atlas Portland Cement Co., paying therefor 176,265 common shares. The Atlas properties were subsequently conso- lidated with those of the Universal Portland Cement Co. under the title, Universal Atlas Cement Co. Also pur- chased the properties of Columbia Steel Corp, in Jan., 1930, pay- ing therefor 251,771 shares of com- mon stock, The properties of Steel Corp., were transferred to a) subsidiary of United States Steel Corp. In 1930, H. C. Frick Coke Co., a subsidiary, acquired the Washington Coal & Coke Co. Acquired Oil Well Supply Co. as of Oct. 1, 1930, paying therefor 108,402 shares of common stock. i In April, 1931, the American Steel | Wire Co., a subsidiary, acquired the business and smelting plant of Edgar Zinc Co. On June 2, 1931, it was reported that the Sharon Coal & Limestone Co., a subsidiary, had ac- quired the property of the Pittsburgh & Erie Coal Co. Subsidiaries and Properties: Some of the original companies and their various subsidiaries were subsequently consolidated or merged. At the close of 1931 the principal operating sub- sidiaries of the corporation were as follows: American Bridge Co. American Sheet & Tin Plate Co. American Steel & Wire Co. The Canadian Bridge Co., Ltd Canadian Steel Corp., Ltd. Carnegie Steel Co. Clairton Steel Co. Columbia Steel Co. Cyclone Fence Co. Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock | Co. Illinois Steel Oo. (includes Indiana Steel Co.) Illinois Scully Steel Warehouse Co. Isthmian Steamship Co. The Lorain Steel Co. Minnesota Steel Co. National Tube Co. Oil Well Supply Co. Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad Co. Union Steel Co. United States Steel Products Co. if ge Three ~ Letter from Illinois Steel Co. to Employes Announcing Its ease me # 7 e-em Ne Te Raplorrie of the Iilinete steot dat sponeored by the President ant provisions of which the omplepees 0} A copy of the Plea meg be secure 4 copy of the Plan, read it M6 provided under the Plan. jg The whelonbearted support © sephorees wibi be opprecisted. idenata Sten Gompong eae ow, 1h plves me ploarure to anoeuses shat the Titinete Steet Sompampy # sthering to the principles net forth in the ational Mndustrial Recoweny / Sater, bes inaugurated 2 plan af Inployes Reprwsentecton unter the wAM deve a voice in uatters perteining to industrial relations, Plant or trom yoor Department Superiatentent, It is hoped thet you wil euppert. Me would suggest thet arrengenents be made promptly te howe thts plen become effective by nombuation unt slection of reprarenteviver Company Union pom sre nm argerm passed by the Congress sf the United $e pe (ome various plante ad opeeustons fo a obtained at the General Offtes of pour carefullg, end give it year hearty sant Sia Of the Pham by you sot poor fobte Yours very teuiz, “(je 4 “41, Lumber Co. Union, Asks Control Under Slavery Act Organized by Government During War; Crushed Strikes; Revived to Betray Workers Again; Offers Lumber Code TACOMA, Wash., June 28.—Increased activity of the Four El, the com pany union composed of bosses and workers in the lumber industry indi cate that this fake organization will attempt to get official recognitio: under the Industrial Recovery (Slavery) Act to impose the bosses hunge! program on the lumber workers. The Four El, the abbreviated name for the Loyal Legion of Loggers and Lumbermen, was established by. the government during the war to break the strength of the I.W.W. in the lumber camps and to stifle the heroic general strike for the 8-hour day. It was imposed on the workers by force and terror, backed up by patriotic ballyhoo, Employers were encouraged to join and were respon- sible for compelling the workers to sign up. The Four El is giving wide pub- licity to a code which it has drawn up for the industry under the In- dustrial Recovery (Slavery) Act, in which it attempts to speak for the workers. It is also active in forcing employers to repudiate A. F. of L. unions in the mills, In Portland, Oregon, the employ- ers infirmed the mill workers who are affiliated with the Carpenters’ Union of the A. F. of L. that’ they Universal Atlas Cement Co. would no longer recognize the local, but would deal with the Four El in- stead. Similar action is underway in Tacoma. The employers are strongly behind the Four El to defeat any possibility of growth of the militant Lumber Workers’ Industrial Union of the Trade Union Unity League. The Four El has ben virtually a paper organization in the past seven years and retained its machinery only for the purpose of checking the growth of any militant unions in the industry. The majoritg of lumber workers distrust and resent the Four El. They are well aware of its treacher- ous role. - The greatest energies must now be put forth by the workers to, elect committees of their own in every camp and mill, to formulate de- mands, for improvements in their conditions and to organize to fight to join a union of their own choice FARM LEADERS ARRESTED FOR RESISTING FORECLOSURE (By a Farmer Correspondent.) CUSTER, Mich—White Cloud offi- cials have once more carried the trials of George Casper, Clyde Smith, John Casper, and John Rose, who were arrested during a demonstra- tion of farmers against a foreclosure on March 15, until the September term of court. As court opened Monday morning at 10 a. m, the courthouse was packed with sympathizers. Judge Pugsley at once announced that Wm. Bird, the sheriff, one of the State witnesses, was ill and could not appéar. This is merely an excuse, as fhe county has no money with which to pay the jury, etc. Defense lawyers were Maurice Su- gar and John Safron of the Inter- national Labor Defense from De- troit. The prosecution by Stanley Streeter, prosecuting attorney, and Reber of Freemont. After Judge Pugsley's announcement, Maurice Sugar presented motidns to quash indictment. In every case the Judge denied the motions. Comrades, the trials are not yet ‘over and so all must join in send- ing protest resolutions to Stanley Streeter, White Cloud, and Judge Pugsiey. NOTE, ‘We publish letters from farmers and agricultural workers every Thurs- day. Get them to us by the preced- ing Monday. the purpose of discrediting the com- pany union plan, exposing its anti- working class character and defeat- ing any attempts to drive down the workers’ conditions. But more im- portant than this the steel workers should immediately begin the or- ganization of factory committees in every department and to affiliate themselves with the Steel and Metal Workers’ Industrial Union as the only means of winning real condi- tions for the workers. At public hearings on the codes proposed by the bosses and the gov- ernment for the industry the workers should demand that their own com~- mittees be heard and present de- mands which they themselves have formulated. Through these commit- tees they can expose the company union plan concretely. They must flood the representatives with griev- ances in every department and thru the shop committees mobilize the workers for strikes to win improve- ments in their conditions, NO COURT TaDAY £ WARNS FARMERS AGAINST RENO AND PARMENTER (By & Farmer Correspondent.) OMAHA, Neb—In cooperation with the leadership of the Socialist Party the Farmers Holiday Associa- tion (Milo Reno group) is going to hold a mass meeting at Fort Cal-| houn, Nebraska, on July 4, to break up a real united front of farmers and workers. It is on this day that the Continental Congress (led by the Socialist Party leadership) intends to hold mass meeting in every state in the union. This meeting is led by Harry C. Parmenter who has failed in several attempts to break up the strong left wing group (Madison County plan group) of over 26,000 members in Nebraska. Parmenter will no doubt try to fool the farmers and workers who attend this meeting into be- lieving that this newly organized Continental Congress of Farmers and Workers is a real organization of united mass action, Farmers and workers in Nebraska should again be warned against Reno and Parmenter, and also against the ContinentalCongress of Farmers and Workers. The attempt of the Fort Calhoun meeting’ will be to break up the real militant wing of the Farm- ers Holiday Association in Nebraska (the Madison County plan group) which has done, and will continue to do, real good for the poverty stricken workers and farmers. The Continental Congress on a national scale, to fighting moods of the masses and to win them over to the of Farmers and Workers is an attempt, Against Misleaders and Arrests APPEALS FOR SUPPORT OF MILITANT “We Must Go Hungry, But We Musn’t Ruin |Private PropertyIdea” | (By a Worker Correspondent.) BROOKSVILLE, Fla.—They talk of times picking up. I guess they are picking all right, picking the last ounce of energy that labor has left, Cornel Robbins turned back to the government his big tract of land, two thousand and eighty-five acres, and now they use us stiffs working | for the R, F. C. at one dollar a day, | to cut down trees and burn them up So they can spend thousands of | dollars experimenting on raising beef. As a rule down here it takes | about thirty acres to keep one cow on the natural pasture her, They want to reverse it and raise thirty cows on one acre by producing a new grade of pasture. Of course some of us dumb bells wonder why they don’t use this money to investigate why millions go hungry when there is plenty to eat, why people go in rags when | there is plenty to wear, and going | without shelter with plenty of empty houses. Machinery is rusty from the want of use. The block game has been played here. They use these blocks to make veneer for vegetables and fruit cakes. The men who do the sawing and loading are supposed to get one dol- lar a day, but they don’t get their money until the cars are unloaded Something will always happen that they don’t get unloaded until they have shipped out eight or ten cars. Of course the fellow who is playing the game will give his men one dol- lar or two dollars a week, figuring on squaring up when he gets all his money. But all at once this bird left, leaving his men hold the bag. —-wW. Politicians Hail Job As Great Relief Project; Gives Work to Only Six (By a Farmer Correspondent) MILFORD, N. J.—For the last three days in this little rural com~- munity over 100 men have been gathering in the hopes of getting work at the bridge head here, where a repair job on the river bridge is going on. Only a half dozen are lucky to get work at 25 cents an hour and these mostly find work on this job from the relief list. Hardly as many more will later find work on this job and yet they @esher and discuss conditions bit~ telly. Talk of organization of unem- Poyed finds a ready audience. ‘This job has been hailed by the as a great relief project who support the bankers and the|snd now as they walk by they try bosses and their Roosevelt starva- ~ = B. Hes. see who is most sore about these , r Bes | \