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rene Pace Six DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1933 Pittsburgh Coal Blacklist Fought by Three Strikes Miners at Montour No. 10 Learning That Broad Rank and File Strike Committee Is \ Only Effe etive Way to Conduct Struggle BY A WORKER CORRESPONDENT | LIBRARY, PA—The Montour No. 10 Mine of the Pittsburgh Coal struck agnin Aug. 23. This is the third time they struck since they were sent back | by the UMWA officials and President Roosevelt's emmisary McGrady. | The first strike was because the company would not recognize the checkweighmen the men elected and because the company claimed that Pee lezal Ur “laid off. » refusal o work The r of the cc aces posted ner words instance when the miners amediately there were me- and concilliators from the and Federal Department of They promised the men to everything “fixed”; they took heard hundreds of complaints, | really settled one case. The y striking forced the company | to retreat. | Labor, | ities to the strike committee and we 26 meddlers from Harrisburg) to strike against the Vvashington were well seconded | in their mines. by the UMWA district officials. Wm Patton—who happens to be one of| the trio of sluggers that framed-up and beat-up delegates at the 1927 In-} ternational Conyention — has been ning here for District No. 5. In every instance his song is the same; | Go back and let us settie it.” | In all these strikes at Montour 10,/ we are making one serious mistake; that is, we have not got a broad strike committee, that would be in charge of the strike. The original strike committee elected when we first struck was disbanded with the end of that strike. We should learn that every time we strike we should broaden the strike leadership by elect- ing all of the best elements from among all the groups and national- should give our strike committee the right to negotiate and not some med-| dlers whe never saw the inside of a| mine, or fakers and sluggers like Pat- ton. Secondly, since we know the miners in the other mines of the| Pittsburgh Coal are as badly off as/ we are, our strike committee should} visit these miners, report to them what we are doing, and also call them bad conditions —Y. M. ae ae rguments should not take They are likely toe in’ mealtimes so that you will not to be constantly getting up from That , May cause in- smaller table, or ", beside the table table. stion. 1 an exira er table or chair within dishes which are he first part this si 7 reach put y dishes. ny com- be mixed. two kiads of on hand before n into the boiling salted ual parts of oatmeal ar be mixed LUNCH Vegetable Soup ad Pudding potatoes, car- pbage, and any , and boil 1 cup bread crumbled 1 pint scalded milk 1 square inch of chocolate shaved | fine or two tablespoons of cocoa Peaphes and Cream Cake Milk—Coffee Proletarian Plate may be prepared | ‘teen minutes. It is made in Boil slices of cabbage sr. Make yellof corn mix one half a cup of meal with as much cold absorb (this prevents to two cups of Boil and stir parts. fing scited wat 1 sit r is the con: wage on a p half the hot bacon fat b, meal mush, pot which the meal is being served. | | cy of cake | 14 trip of bacon for every | i. 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Proletarian Pl be made with spinach or aucitower. | Pattern tern’ Write plainly name, address d style number. BE SURE TO TATE SIZE. Address order Department, to Daily Worker 248° West Instedd of the becon, olive oil or salad/17th Street, New York City. (Pat- oil my be used. ' terns by mail only.) | all winter. The night shift has been 16, 18, 20, 32, 34, 36, 38 and 40. | 'A Pictorial Histery of the Great Steel Strike of 1919 PAN Rico (Based on Wm. Z. Foster’s book, “The Great Steel Strike”) No. 1.—With little or no op- | portunity to meet for mutual | encouragement. | They were saved by their | matchless solidarity, bred of a deep faith in the justice of their cause. In the black cossack- | | ridden towns, there were virtu- | ally thousands of strikers who never attend a meeting during the entire strike, seldom saw a strike bulletin, | Miner Ore Miners Fast Losing Illusions in the New Code By a Worker Correspondent NASHWAUK, Mich.—The NRA has been creating illusions of pros- perity among the workers in this town more than any other place on the Range. The mines owned by companies, such as Interna- tional Harvester Co., Butler Bros. Mining Co., and several smaller ones, | have been running fairly well for a} few weeks with the new code of} higher wages and shorter hours. Here is how they work it. The workers go to work at all hours of the day to work a certain number of hours, sometimes two or three and then again six or seven and in cer- tain cases even eight hours. While | you are not working you can spend your time running to the mine to} find out if you are going on or not.| Every plant and mine is using tre- mendous speed-up. In this rush everybody felt that Hoover only mis- took the length of time it takes pros- | perity to come back and that now we have it. Still, there is an end to every) dream. A couple of days ago, we} received a rude awakening with the| | Hawkins mine firing 13 workers. This | | was followed by closing the Patrick | washing plant of the Butler Bros., who were to have run their mines out now for three days already and | half the shop crew are out. This fir- | ful competition In Coal Field 2. The Steel Trust turned loose Western Pennsylvania great masses of armed thugs. They consisted of every imagin- able type of armed guard, There were private detectives, armed thugs, coal and iron police. State constabulary, company _ police, city police, etc. In the shame- in brutal the constabulary took FIRST State place. No. instances of brutality. ternoon, the children were going $3.—There were countless One af- to schocl. They loitered for the school bell. And then came the cossacks, Thinking to to violence, they charged the children. But even at this mo- ment, the workers did not flash their knives. | } incite the workers | No. 4.—Wh)1 on a mission of terrorism, the first thing the State troopers do is to get their horses on the sidewalks, the better to ride the pedestrians down. Unbelievable though it may scem, they actually ride into stores and inner rooms. Picture the horror to a foreign worker and his family, already badly frightened, at seeing a mounted policeman crashing into the kitchen. (By a Miner Correspondent) HILLSBORO, Ill—Our difficulties and fight against the coal operators is being made harder and harder since the Progressive Miners officials | are starting to use the same J. L. Lewis methods in forcing us to get slaps from the bosses, On the 14th of this month our local union P. M, A. here declared a strike against the Hillsboro Coal Company, because of a local griev- ance. The company employs about 225 men at the mine. Recently the company installed a new cutting machine, which would have elim- inated 28 men from the job. We demand that the work be so ing took place right in the middle of the ore shipping season, Relief has been cut out entirely, and the winter looks tough. But, the workers and farmers already showed what they can do by organization in the Itasca County Relief March last winter and they are seeing it ahead of them again. The National Miners Union has been building the union in Nash- wauk and this union has fully en- dorsed the Relief Conference of the whole Range held in Hibbing on Au- gust 20. We must begin a united struggle now for a chance to live this coming winter. Organize into the National Miners Union, ® divided that these brothers stay on the job. We know it is division of starvation, but we wanted that ail of us stay on the job. The present divi- sion of work is also not equal, and we wanted to make the division so that all of us would equal amount of pay and keep the men who were to| be displaced by the new machinery. The company refused, and we de- clared a “wild-cat. What happened? Immediately the manager called our President Percy and comes down here and tells us that we should not embarrass the P. M. A. officials, who are trying hard to solve our prob- lems in Washington. Percy makes a big spill about “cooperation with | the company” and with his slick talk gets us to go back “pending negctia- tions.” Up to now we have not heard a word. Things have been taken out of our hands by the officials, The officials also tell us to be pa- tient and wait on the N. R. A. Ido not know much what it is all about, but we miners here expect a six-hour | day without any reduction in‘ our scale, and if the bosses don't give it to us there is going to be hell break- ing loose down here. Our local union also went on record condemning reactionary officials of the P. M. A., who are trying to stop militant left wing leaders of the P. M. A. from speaking at public meet- ings. 3.8. With this issue we begin a new department, “With Our Young Readers.” Here we will print out- standing news of the workingelass children of the United States, letters and poems, etc. from the children themselves. Young Pioncers and all working- clacs kids are invited to write for this section. Send your contribu- tions to the Pioneer Editor, the Daily Worker, 50 East 13th Street, New York, A Story Contest | The New Pioneer, the only maga- | zine for w s’ and farmers’ chil- | dren, announces a story contest for } all writers, old, young, experienced, inexperienced, etc. | 1. The aims of this contest are to create an interest in the New Pioneer jon the part of all revolutionary | writers and to get a fund of stories |from a large number of capable | writers upon whom the magazine can | draw in the future for contributions. | We want the New Pioneer to have | the best there is in the line of stories. We want everyone who has a good story to tell to write it down for the New Pioneer, } Prizes To Be Awarded | 2. The contest begins immediately, and ends December 1, 1933. 3. Prizes: The first prize is “Lenin- ism,” by Joseph Stalin, two volumes; second prize, “To Make My Bread,” a novel by Grace Lumpkin; third prize, “On Guard for the Soviet Union, by Maxim Gorki. 4, The stories should deal with the life and struggles of the children of workers and farmers. The specific subjects should be timely: N. R. A,, activities in the schools, etc. 5. Manuscripts may be submitted in languages should be accompanied by a translation if possible. All stories should be mailed to the Young Pioneer, P. O. Box 28, Station D., New York City. A Letter From a Live Pioneer Troop The Red Star troop of Brooklyn, New York, is doing quite a lot this month. We have a Science and His- tory class on Monday. On Tuesday we have a signalling squad. On ‘Wednesday we have a very interest- ing journalism class. Also the Young Soviets’ Squad mests. Thursday the Red Devils’ Squad meets. Friday we have a kitchen orchestra and after that our troop meeting. On Saturday we have gym for two hours, During gym we have a tumbling circle. For Sunday we prepare very interesting times. Through this plan of the week's activity we have suc- ceeded in obtaining many new mem- bers. We hope that all the other troops are working hard to get new members and to help the New Pio- neer. Always ready, LARRY HAUPONEN, Red Star Pioneer Troop. September New Pioneer Is Out! Before we forget, comrades, you ought to know that the September issue of the New Pioneer is out! It contains lots of swell stories, the kind that you have enjoyed so many times in past issues of the magazines. And all the steady, regular features are there, too: “Listening In,” “Science and Nature for Johnny Rebel,” “Dear Comrade Editor,” etc. And there are poems and pictures any language, but those in foreign galore, both by children and by the WITH OUR YOUNG READERS best workingclass artists in America today. All Pioneer troops are urged to write for bigger bundles right now! And all parents who happen to read this section should dig in deep and | pull out 50 cents for a year’s sub to | the New Pioneer for his (or her) child! . The Statue of I fool the people, They think I’m a statue of liberty. I ain’t—I'm a statue of hunger. The rich make money, But the poor not a thing. I am owned by the bosses of the U.S. A. Ha! Ha! Ha! Can I fool them! Yes, but not so many now! MIRKO KOZULICH, Red Star Pioneer Troop, Brooklyn, N, ¥. Poems by Children HUMPTY-DUMPTY Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall; Humpty Dumpty stuck up for the boss, Liberty * And so, to the workers he was no great loss! 1 —Lillian Morgen, 13 aba ag ' OLD KING COLE / Old King Cole was a merry old soul, And a merry old soul will he be, Until the workers up and fight And conquer the bourgeoisie. —Ruth Lyon, 12. And now we have to sign off for this week.’ We want every young reader of the “Daily” to write for this column, co that it will grow s Describe Forces Gathering | s for Renewed Struggle PMA Officials Use Lewis - Tactics Against Strikers ‘Arkansas Miners Seek Leadership in Fight on NRA (By a Worker Correspondent) GREENWOOD, Ark.—Miners here have awakened. For years they have known that the leadership of the U. M. W. A. was rotten—John L. Lewis and the whole gang, including the local district officials, David Fowler and Elmer Mikel. But they have clung to the union loyally, thinking that by some magic twist the rank and file would again get control or at least have a say. First, R, A. Young, the biggest scab operator in this field, has been se- lected as head of the N. R, A. Young is the man who broke the union here in 1925-26, after an 18 month strike. At that time he was operating Mine No. 2 at Greenwood. He imported the biggest bunch of gunmen that this country ever saw and lined the tipple with machine guns. Today, at Mine 18, Jenny Lind, he has the most complete spy system I have ever seen. Second, officials in Washington working on the coal code stated that miners in the Southwest were satis- fied with the present wage scale and were not asking for a raise in wages. This was noi true, and the miners held a mass protest meeting at Mid- lJand, Ark., and drew up a statement. branding the Washington report as a Jie. I do not believe that the miners in Arkansas and Oklahoma will stay with the U. M. W. A. much longer. They would have been out a long time ago if they had known any place to go, because they know that the U. M. W. A. is nothing but a com~- pany union, The miners talk some of the Progressive Miners Union, but now, with the kicking out of the mili- tants there, the Progressives have become just another racket like the U. M. W. A. I have made a special study of the seven or eight new unions that have sprung up as revolts against the Lewis union. None of them has a chance except the National Miners Union. It is the only union that really fights for the miners rights, and it does that because it is a rank and file union. I notice that miners of New Mexico and Utah have joined the National Miners Union, I, for one of the Arkansas-Oklahoma field, am ready also to link up with those of Ken- tucky and the East and give the Big Boys a real fight for their money. $1.60 a Month Relief for Uniontown Miners By a Worker Correspondent UNIONTOWN, Pa.—lI'm letting you know that I received the paper. About the United Mine Workers of America. I don’t care as much for it as for the National Miners Union, There's nothing the matter with the UMWA. It is only the leader’s fault. It is pretty bad, especially in the H. C. Frick Co. They want to put young men, 15-16 years old, in a mine. They think they are going to break the strike, and we are going to fight about that. Meny companies here don’t pay. ‘They work for eats, a litile bit, and single men get $1.60 a month and everybody in the family is about the ceme, Please send five papers two times a week. We will let you know how they will be on work here. We have a local Uniontown of the N. M. U. I showed letters to many men in the local. They were all glad to see that bigger and better every week. letter and especially the extra paper. Adventures in Bamboozle Land —By 0’Zim The head is off, but there appears The strangest thing for eyes and Appears a brand new Its. whisker vi Into a brawny pair of ears, It lives, and moves, and grows | tauch fatter, It scares the poor demented hatter. | ( It grows and swells and underneath ibly expands thunder With new found sot of feet, | hands. | “It was! T am! I | The child of labor's brawn and’ brain.” It cleaves the murky air asunder; voice as loud as The hatter, Opines that this is foulest treason; He faints, shall remain! aflutter, Falls backward into peanut-butter. sore bereft of reason The & and with his heart rain-trest took especial care ao notify the Perkinsmare, Of treasenable words reported— , The surplus is to be—deported. and how to overcome them. attitude of the leading comrades at the end of the strike is very illu- strative: It shows the lack of per- sistency and following up. It shows that here and there we are still following the old practice of jamp- ing to another place after the bat- tle, leaving the comrades of the Jower organizations without guid- ance. The concrete example of the concentration activity of his sec- tion at this moment further shows how the units clearly orientated and guided by the section buro are able to find the way how to approach the workers, convince them, draw the best elements into our ranks, establish shop nuclei, how to make the shop paper and increase its circulation. This letter is an example to be followed by other comrades espe- cally of the shop nuclei. We will be very glad to publish those that are a contribution to the improve- ment of our methods of mass work. In this manner, we will establish an exchange of experiences by in- dividual Party members and units which will help in increasing our ac- tivities, to better develop the meth- ods of work, to improve the inner life of the units and become a stim- ulus for the development of the initiative from below.—Edit. LO a HOW TO AND HOW NOT TO CONCENTRATE IN LINE WITH THE OPEN LETTER By a Shop Worker DETROIT, Mich.—Quite a bit has been said about the concentration in Sec. No. 2 which resulted in the last strike wave in the auto industry, so I think this should give a fairly good idea on how not to concentrate. The turn towards the shop which we made was the turn of a few comrades to- wards concentration. During the strikes that resulted from our ac- tivity, practically all of the members in the section were involved as in- dividuals, with the result that before and during the strike as a political Party we were out of the picture. leaflets by the street units, the sale of Michigan Worker and Daily Worker was conducted in their neigh- borhoods and not at-the shops. With the result that the Red Scare was partly successfully put across by the employers (Briggs) because the work- ers did- not know the role of the Party. After the strikes I attended a Sec- tion Organizers Meeting (I attended none during strikes) and our sec- tion was assigned the task of con- solidating the Union in all the plants which sruck, to strengthen the Party units in those plants which already had one, and to build in those plants where we had none, which decision was correct. How was this carried out? During the strikes, the District leadership was in the Strike Area helping us every day, but efter the strike they did not spend there much time. took this up with one of the leading comrades and he said that they fig- ured that I knew more about the sit- uation than they, so they would be of little help. Where I made the mis- take, which I see now, was that in- stead of saying to myself “the leaders were doing wrong,” I should have Before the strike the distribution of | 1, Worker Tells How to Concentrate in Line With “Open Letter” Proper Use of “Daily” and Shop Paper Helps Build Party Section in Detroit Auto Plant; Conerete Issues Presented The following article is a good example, showing how the Open’ Letter is helping the members of the shop nuclei to realize the mistakes of the past in our concentration work The point which this comrade brings forward—the wrong gone to the office and demanded that they come out and help us. At... about 1,200 joined the union, Here we tried to establish a Party unit. Another comrade and I, who was in the strike leadership at... set ourselves the task of building a Party Unit. One worker approached the leader of the Union about the Party. I got in touch with him and he joined the Party. Another worker I knew who had been a subscriber to the Daily Worker was approached and he joined the Party, then I for- got all about the workers that I knew when I worked there and who knew that I was a Communist, I forgot that these workers were sympathetic to the Party and that I had gotten them to- gether a year before in a group and the District organizer had spoken to them. I also forgot all about the Negro workers to whom I had sold five copies of the Liberator every month, Then the comrade that was working with me was tranferred to another section and new comrades put in charge. I was transferred to take charge at another plant. We who had contact with the workers, were separ- ated from them, As a result of such “concentration” up to the present time we haye no shop unit, At... we strengthened the Party Unit, at... we built a new Party Unit of 6 members. This was done by listening to what the workers had to say when the company raised the red scare and pick out the most sym- pathetic to the Party. Three of these workers were laid off and are now in other plants. Two were unemployed with the result that we now have no unit here. But here too we failed to follow up and talk to workers who had thought very favorably about the Party. Our Section is now making the be- ginning of some more shop work. The Section as a whole is making the turn in an organized manner. The street units are selling our papers at the plant. Party leafiets are now distributed at the plants. Here is a concrete example of how this works: Street Unit 14 is assigned to... A member sells the “Daily” and Michigan Workers at the plant. He made a connection with a worker and this comrade went out of his way to get the Daily Worker to this worker. He turned this worker over to the comrade assigned to this plant. This worker is now responsible for getting a group together in our task of re-building the Local of the union. The Section Committee decided that in order to more effectively bring for- ward the role of the Party we must get out a shop paper. We decided on one covering all of the plants in our Section. At we published a shop paper. In one issue where we had an article about a Stool pigeon in a Dept. 115, copies were sold. In the next issue we had nothing about the plant, three copies were sold. In the following issue we sold 70 because we had some- thing about their plant. This shows the necesity of finding out what are the issues that we can arouse the workers around and hasten dnd de- velop struggles. After reading the Open Letter and applying it to our Section, this is how I think it applies to our Section and how we can over- come these weaknesses. By PAUL LUTTINGER, M.D. WHY IRON OFTEN FAILS IN AMERICA 2 L In a previous article we traced the odyssey of one who is suffering, or thinks he is suffering from an- emia. And the first reason why he or she often fails to get relief is that, in a number of cases, they are either not suffering from anemia at all or are afflicted with a dis- ease which has to be cured first be- fore the anemia can disappear. Let us explain: It is not enough to be pale to be branded or to be diagnosed as an- emic.. There are many people who have a sallow complexion or who contain 100 per cent hemoglobin (the red color in the blood cor- puscles which is composed of a form of iron.) Some of the professional blood donors have a sallow com- plexion, On the other hand we know people who suffer from severe anemia whose face’ has a bright red color. This can be seen in young girls who suffer from tuberculosis of the lung or in chronic topers (drunkards). i these cases, the alcohol or the T. B, poison causes enlargement of the small blood ves- sels in the face which become en- gorged with blood. Only superficial observers would conclude that a person has plenty of blood because his face has color. It would be like concluding that America is pros- pezous from the display in the Fifth Avenue shops. ‘The only way to diagnose anemia is by a blood test and by a blood count. Once it is established that a pa- tient suffers from the ordinary form of anemia known as hypochromic anemia, there remains to find out what the cause of it is. Anemia it- self is not a disease (except Perni- cious Anemia which is a patholo. zice entity.) The ordinary or sec- ondary anemia is merely a sympton, a sign, like a headache which might be due to a dozen different causes. Here the fun begins. Poor blood or “Bad Blood” as anemia is com-~ monly but wrongly, called may be due to a number of rea:\os. It tay follow the Grippe or Influenza or any other infectious disease, such as scarlet fever or a chronic <‘sease such as chronic nephritis (kidney trouble). It may be due to the con. stant absorption of poisons from the outside, such as benzol, lead, ani~ line or from poitons within the body are pale and whose blood proves to} nown as auto-intoxications. Chroni¢ constipation, abscesses in the teeth, tonsils or sins, inflammations, malaria and cancer may all cause anemia. Tapevworms, hookworms 21d (in children) ordinary worms, ‘will result in a diminution of the num. ber and the color of the red blood corpuscles, Finally, large hem- morrhages following accidents, ex. cessive menstruation, injury to the bone marrow (one of the seats of blood production) or small hem- morrhages, like in bleeding hem. orrhoids (piles) may produce an= emia. (The second part of this article will appear tomorrow) * * ” ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS Pimples After Shaving. L. M.—tTry a safety razor. Ap- ply an pabeepate lotion to your face after shaving. When the pimples appear, squeeze the pus and paint them with o to bed, If , let us hese, out gentl; jodine, before you these suggestions fai from you again at nee ernment er NO Bee aS aE RN OOM Bite