The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 9, 1933, Page 4

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1933 | Convicted for B : l Strike Activity oost DY Coal Code Page Four New Strikes Loom in Pennsylvania John L. Lewis—“Coal Miner” ‘Protest Terror —By Burek on Strikers in Western Fields Roosevelt's Strikebreaking Orders Are Carried |County Commissioners Two Face Jail Terms, “Miners Must Strike Against Slave Code,” Out by Lewis Machine in Utah Appropriate One Has Family of Says Communist Leader in Pittsburgh By F BORICH establish an Arbitration Board. £45,000 for Gunmen ‘ | 10 to Support verb’ JACK JOHNSTONE except to create the illusion trat TOR strik . sre ‘ > ing that the miners are = | | 7 ery vicious feature of company|the Ri lt N Deal thr ‘ - ing et the Peanetiehie coal Aaa. | striking spite the CoEewian of |)7HE UTAH and New Mexico miners Pe thd bated Ok Cartland Min-| control over the miners is et ine NRA will Mae eek ect pe The Montour No. 10 miners are|strikes and the promise of Le are striking for their immediate lers Union, and Frank Hunts, active | Sttensthened in the coal eode now| perity for all. striking for the fifth time since the betrayal of the strike one month ago. The Vesta 5, Clyde 1, 2 and 3, be no more strikes, S nt to come knowing eep the to any ter: well that Le demands and the recognition of the National Miners Union. As soon as/| the strike went into effect the Goy-) member of-the union, and a father of eight children, were found guilty and conyicted in Washington Coun- being worked out in secret sessions by Lewis with the coal operators and the goyernment, The company town, company stores, the right to pay in Why Unemployment? But what are the conditions in the coal industry? In 1918 bity- © minous coal supplied 72.7 per cent Mather and other miners have} that ty 1@ ernor of New Mexico, Arthur Selig- ty Court on malicious mischief perce, Bike is a eomunion topic in lease cot & a oe eaaee ad men declared mortal ley, forbidding | charges. The sentpnce has es hase baat enone Beet bre gna oS the ital heat vane Peognese- < laily discussions o: e miners. Assays Beet eecazenecs as he miners Pp >| pronounced pending a motion for , . a arge, ‘ougl e use of other fuels, This in spite of strenuous efforts | operators demand similar codes to /anq sent the National Guards to en-| new trial demanded by the Inter-| discrimination against the Negro, no|troleum, gas, hydro electrie, * his { ~UMWA of all the instruments of the em-| automobile indu: ’|force the martial law. ‘Fhe martial | national Labor Defense and the payment for dead work, slate, yard- has been reduced to 44.8 per cent | ployers to discourage the strike *\law was declared in order to break National Miners Union, age, ete. No relief or unemployed|in 1982. Along with this develop- |) movement. : the strike. Over 400 miners, includ- Stuart and Hunts were conviet-| insurance. ment the yearly working time \of © Promises Not Carried Out ing organizers of the National Min- ed because of their participation in| Lewis's pretended fight for the $5.00| tre miners has been cut from On August 5, when Roosevelt made his strikebreaking appeal to the miners, he promisea that with in three days all of their grievances will be satisfactorily settled. He re- ferred to the coal code hearings. The coal operators, under the p sure of the strike movement, prom- ised a $5 basic wage scale, a 32- continue to fir i st fighters. Checkweighmen, ‘ the }are not being put on the tipples. Even where thi , there are veme! weights. e cases where there is a ighman on the tipple but At present there are more on pay day than no § empty envel ers Union, Charles Guynn, Paul Crouch, Huff and others, charging} them with “criminal syndicalism.” | The New Mexico miners are walking miles over the state line into Arizona to hold their meetings and organize | picketing. In Utah the County Commissioners | the April strike of the Ayella min- ers. The miners were striking under the leadership of the United Front; Committee. Mr. Fagan, district president of the U.M.W.A., did ev- erything possible to break the strike, but without suecess. After one month of struggle, Fagan, Sheriff Seaman and the leaders of per day; for the six-hour day, arid the coal operators’ own proposal for the $5.00 per day has been traded for | the $4.60, $4.34, $4.20 and the eight- hour day. The right to strike and to picket has been traded for arbitra- tion. Lewis sells the mjners to the coal operators on their conditions j average of 218 days during the 2 year period ending 1921, From 1921 to 1930 this average was eut to 189 working days. Im 1981 it was 160 and in 1932 it was 145. This does not mean that every coal miner is included in this average. In 1928 there were employed 704,- P 4 4 7 r - ‘i rd m 7 i 932 there were 846,056 hour working week first six months, |ever before. The relief of the un-|in the striking area appropriated $45, K, for the check-off. Without the aid|793. In 1 2 and 86 hours per week for the next | employed is being cut but they have |000 for the use of Sheriff Bliss to| é the American Legion, et @ secret) of the government and the coal oper-| Miners employed. six months. J. L. Lewis promised a|no right to present this problem to} hire gunmen in order to break the iia cs i at all costs. About 75 members of | 80'S, Lewis knows that the miners} This means more than 300,000 6-hour day 5-day*week, and the|the local ynions. The company|strike, Most of the gunmen are-be- . aS UES, the UMLW.A., selected by. Fagan, would kick him and the rest of his) miners are no longer considered in Tecognition of the UMWA with a|towns are closed more than ever be-|ing mobilized by the U.M.W.A, or-| : ky were deputized by Sheriff Seaman, | Counterfeit labor leaders out of the| the industry, Lewis says that they national agreement. The mediators, |fore. The conditions in every re-|ganizer, Nick Fontachie, notorious cs armed, made drunk and sent to raid | UM-W.A- must find employment somewhere McGrady, Dr. Springer and others,|spect became worse. gunman himself. Fis vatsarahonnaa Sheriff Seaman| The strange hold that the coal else. This is his solution. But ald the nee Reonerele 8 worn Try to Save Lewis eee) led the raids. As a result some of | operators have on the UMWA is|Where? there are too many steel as Bona be the ee SARTRE The overwhelming majority of | [HE Bxecutive Board of the National the miners were driven back to the check-off and the Lewis leader- ROrkerh,, toe, Tay | Ous> Fee ke, y 8 will pe i e: 5 m vy. ‘ A 5 % i i ii ‘i i ri indus- and|the miners see the strikebreaking Miners Union calls upon all locals wor! ship which insures a continuation ELISE pede v established. Judges, lawyers other liberals promised abolition of company towns and establishment of full civil rights in these town real emancipation of the miners was to come as soon as they go back to work, One month has gone by since these promises were made. But none of these promises were carried out. The coal code hearings ended in a fiasco. The coal operators withdrew the $5 basic wage scale and offer to pay $4.60 in the Pittsburgh Dis- trict, $4.34 in Fairmont and $3.20 in the southern districts. They also withdrew the proposal for a 32 and 86-hour week and now insist on an 8-hour day. Lewis withdrew his de- A | yet |mail and telegrams. Last week a| of the N.MU., U.M.W.A., P.M.A. and all other organizations to send pro- tests to Miss Perkins, Governors of Utah and New Mexico, demanding withdrawal of all armed forces from the striking areas and a complete freedom of the miners to join the union of their choice, to assembly, strike and picket for the improyement of their living and working condi- tions. Down with bloody terror! Down letter was sent to all local unions | with martial law! All support to the requesting payment of initiation of | striking miners of Utah and New 25 cents per member and a small | Mexico! amount of dues. Practically every local union rejected this with the and wage cutting role of the Lewis m ine. However, many can not as that the Lewis machine is carrying out the orders of the Roosevelt government. The Lewis machine is discredited to the point that his organizers are not per- mitted to speak at the miners’ meet- ings; in fact they do not dare to appear before the miners. The only way the Lewis machine is communi- | cating with the miners is through| ~ JGNORED BY U.M.W. A “Working 25 Years in a Negro Cutter,” Writes Worker By a Worker Correspondent PITTSBURGH, Pa.—As a Negro, I wish to use the columns of the Daily Worker to say a few words to my people goncerning the present situation in the coal fields. Mines and Never Saw our conditions there, sinee it is be-| low the dignity of Mr. Lewis to pro- | test against segregation? Nothing of the kind! Does the code, presented by Mr. Lewis, say one word about our con- Little Attention Given by N.M.U. to Young Miners Youth Conference Will Be Held on Sept. 24 in W. Pennsylvania of the eringing, belly-crawling policy to the coal operators on the one hand, and on the other, the brutal slugging of the mines who refuse to accept this policy as he is now doing to the miners striking under the leadership of the N. M. U- in Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico, As he is doing to the opposition in the UMWA and to the miners strik- ing under the leadership of the P. M. A. in Illinois. As he will do to the miners in Western Pennsyl- vania when “peaceful” persuasion will no longer keep the miners at work. The miners must strike against the Lewis slave code. Lewis and cOmpany must be eliminated The thing in a nut shell is that capitalism has developed a system of production so highly efficient it comes into violent conflict with the distribution of the wealth pro- duced. While production is a so- cial act, the wealth produced be- longs to the owning class who only give what they are forced to give to the working class. The miner gets from 20c to 50c a ton. The consumer pays from $4 to $6. The farmer get low prices; the consumer pays high prices. Between these two points in every commodity pro- duced is expressed lies the slavery of the working class, the starvation ee tart Ar: ° ditions? Not a word! On the con-| Young miners played an out- mand for a 6-day week and 6-hour |decision that no initiation and dues U S Steel in Gary Not long ago the miners of Penn-| tory Mr, Lewis agrees to a lower|standing part in the historic strug-| from the U. M. W. A, by mass re-|and misery of the miners. This day and accepted a lower wage|will be paid until the UMWA is . sylvania came on strike 70,000 strong. | 1.52’ scale in the South where the|gle of 70,000 miners in Western|fusal to accept him. Defeat the|exploitation which has created scale. For this he was promised the | check-off, proyiding he and the NRA administration could guaran-| tee to the employers that there will | be no more strikes. The government | agreed to outlaw all strikes and Rank and File Fire Checkweighman of. U.M.W.A. Machine Agree on 36 Cents Ton recognized by the employers and government. If the UMWA should be recognized a special convention will be called and all the officials icked out and new ones elected. |This because the miners see that the Lewis policy leads them from |one defeat into another. Trying to keep the miners from striking and to pA the Lewis ma-| GARY, Ind—It has been learned |chine, the high government offi-|that the U. S. Steel Corp. in Gary cials have been called upon to speak | has ordered and is having delivered to the miners. Governor Pinchot,| by rail (not by boat, for saving pur- United States attorneys, priests, | Poses) 90,000 tons of special coal used welfare officials and similar types | in the blast furnaces, for storage pur- Stocking Up Coal With Aid of Lewis (By a Worker Correspondent) are speaking at miners’ meetings, | praising Lewis, Fagan and others. However, this campaign has no ef- fect upon the miners as far as Lew- is is concerned. jan unprecedented amount, and the poses. This huge amount of coal is only other time the company put in any such supply was before the last large coal strike in 1921, I think it We, the Negroes, took an active part in the strike. Our women partici- pated on the picket line and singing songs to encourage other folks for better fight. But what happened? We were sold out! President Roose- velt sent us back to work without giving us anything. Leaders of the UMWA, Mr. Lewis, 7 x |for us by Mr. Lewis, Mr. Fagan, and Negro constitutes the majority of the miners. Our complaints were raised by the National Miners Union and its rep- resentantives. Not only this. I am informed that of the nine delegates sent by the NMU to Washington, two were Negroes. Not only did the NMU protest against our conditions but they presented a program how to change these conditions, I think that this should convince very Negro miner that we cannot ot that anything will be done their high-salaried friends. If we do what the NMU tells us, that is, if we and the white miners develop a fight Pennsylyania. With few exceptions the 17,000 or more young miners, participating in the strike swal- lowed the bait, hook, line and sink- er, of the United Mine Workers leadership, and were banked upon by the coal operator’s union offi- cials to betray the strike. The young miners wanted to_ fight against their worsening conditions," against the discrimination held out against them in the NIRA coal op- erators’ code, which calls for lower wages for spra8gers, oilers, greas- ers, ete. But their little knowledge and lack of experience with Lewis and the U.M.W. led them into sup- porting this crew of pirates parad- ing under union guise. ' The little activity the National check-of f. y i Not one word is being said about unemployment in the coal industry Knot Hole Mine Has NRA | Blessing N.M.U, Policy Correct, Says Correspondent By a Worker Correspondent In the Knot Hole mine of the Peters Creek Coal Co. we have full enormous accumulation of wealth that has made the American cap- italist class the richest, most pow- erful and arrogant in the world. Unemployment insurance is one of the most important immediate demands of the miners, both em- ployed and unemployed. The ¢gal | industry owes the miners a livitg., The miners can only win thru con- tinous struggle. i i separable demai Struck Five Times d 5 against the operators and Mr. Lewis,| |‘. : i While Other Mines |N-M.U. Program Widely Discussed | ¥%5 we will be able to change these |,Miners Union has conducted among | blessing of the NRA and J. L. Lew-| » ’ To combat and expose all these| ‘This appears to be a result of col- damnable conditions both of the |the native born miners, particularly | js) We were loading coal by the! ]}} Montour 1 Get 40 Cents maneuvers the National Miners|laboration between the “sell-out.”| regan and others told us that every-| white and Negro miners and their |@mong the young miners, has led to | acre. Finally we decided to demand ¥ 5 (By a Worker Correspondent) PITTSBURGH, Pa. — A few tmonths ago the Ontario mine signed a tempo: agreement with the rhout us miners knowing @nything about #. Our agreement calls for 36c a ton while the min- ers in other mines receiye 40c a ton. Bozo Demich, who signed the agree- ment, got us also a checkweighman. Union is carrying on an energetic campaign. Every maneuver is be- ing explained to the miners through ersonal contacts, meetings, leaf- lets, etc. In doing this the National Miners Union is presenting the miners with a concrete program of action that can result in a great victory. (This program is published elsewhere on this page.) Large sections of the miners are beginning to realize that this pro- John L. Lewis, and the bosses of such large corporations as U. S. Steel. He, no doubt, has planned or knows of plans for a nationwide coal strike in the near future and has tipped his friends, “the bosses,” off so they can be prepared to break the strike by having suppplies on hand enough to last a year or so. They will thus not be embarrassed by a lack of coal for continued distribution, if any, in spite of a long coal strike. Such thing will be ail right when they go to Washington, D. C. to the coal code hearings. They said that we'll get everything that’s coming to us. Well, the hearings were held, but not one word was said on our behalf, neither by Mr. Lewis nor Mr. Fagan. It is a known fact that we Negroes get the worst jobs in the mines. Very few of us can get a job running motor, laying track or setting tim- bers. I am working 25 years in the families. College Diploma Is Needed for 43 Cents an Hour Job (By a Worker Correspondent) EAST CHICAGO, Indiana.—Hun- dreds of young workers appear at the | a separation of our union from this mass of miners and left them easy pickings for. the Lewises and Fa- gans. To deliver the youth bound hand and foot to the coal operators, |the U.M.W. leadership used many| choice methods. The young miners back in the mines are full of fight. There is every indication that the code that will be finally adopted in Washing- ton with Lewis’ endorsement will have the same discriminatory sec- a checkweighman. The company re- fused us. We came solidly on strike. At the same time the leaders of the UMWA came to us and told us of the blessings we will get from the NRA and the “New Deal.” We were striking about six weeks and finallv foreed the company to ive us the checkweighman. We lelected the checkweighman but ABOUT A 7400 POUNDS to Get Concessions f Men Defy Decision of - Fagan Not to Fight Operators’ Attacks ,| (By a Worker dent) PITTSBURGH, Pa.—Since the. - His right-} ; snakes in the guise of labor leaders! gates of the oil refineries of the | « F- oe Was Clected checke ech ang Reh | gram alone can meet their needs.) “Eators Note-—We have other in-| mines and I never sew a Negro eut-| Shell Petroleum Co, (Roxana Plant) |tion against the young miners. At betrayal of our big strike on Au- formation along these lines. ‘The| tef. The only thing we can get is|in an effort to get jobs. Even though |this moment the N.M.U. is broad- gust 5th we, the miners of Montour president of the local. The first thing they decided to do was to fire}united struggle of all the miners. four active members of the NMU. After they were fired the whole local union put up a fight and| forced the reemployment of these | oamembers of the 'NMU which pre-| ‘yented the firing of others and gave ‘Mr. Demich and Sokol a signal that they can not be bosses in the local. | The weights on the scale were so| bad that we decided’to elect new} checkweighman. However Sokol| refused to surrender his soft job om the grounds that three days no- tice was necessary to elect another eheckweighman. Then we posted \\a & Rok announced the purpose of only through a most determined and The growing strike struggles. are the best proof that the illusion that Roosevelt will do anything for the miners is disappearing. How Washington, Pa., Owners Fought Union By a Worker Correspondent WASHINGTON, Pa.—For 12 years the workers of the Washington Tin Plate Co. had a union without any affiliation. Then the company broke the union. In 1921 the Hazel Atlas Glass Co. workers of this shop had a small union. In 1926 the manager of the Hazel Company fired all the workers, and closed the shop. Again in 1926, they tried to break the United Mine Workers Union at stocking up of coal is not only a pre- caution against the imminent coal strike, but also an imminent steel strike. situated in Washington, Pa. A gun- man killed a boy 11 years old because he shouted “scabs” at a group of scabs that were going into the mine. This murderer was never arrested. I will never forget the Bonus March | in 1932. I myself went on this march, |and saw the tools of the capitalist class burn two innocent kids and kill two of our comrades. The next day two of the blue shirts said to me, “You see, what happened to your brothers in Washington, D. C.,” and I answered: “Yes, they are my broth- ers, my class brothers and your brothers, too, but you don’t know it. Instead of defending them you killed the mine of the Gas & Coal Co., them.” loading coal, And eyen here we get places with thick slate and deep water. Not only this. The bosses are segregating us ein separate sec- tions, usually worst section in the mine. They also segregate us on night shift. We do not get as many cars as the white miners. In most of the patches we are being segre- gated in the worst shacks, which are usually called “Nigger Patch.” Mr. Lewis and Mr. Fagan know all of these things. Yet they did not say one single word in Washington nor anywhere else raising their voice of protest against these conditionns of ours. Just take notice of this. Is there any Negro on the Inter- national Board of the UMWA? Not one! Is there any Negro on any of the District Committees of the UMWA? Well, I do not know of any! Or, did Mr. Lewis invite one Negro miner to Washington te voice CLEVELAND CON they are willing to work for only 4c | an hour, they are refused jobs by the company. Young workers are employed mostly as gaugers (testers) and are on the go bringing the tubes containing gas from the huge tanks to the laboratory. They get a maxi- mum pay of 46c per hour. The company has declared that only college graduates will get jobs. —A. K. easting leaflets and agitation among the mining youth about the true color of Lewis, Fagan, Feeney and company A Mining Youth Con- ference will be held in Western Pennsylvania on September 24, where a broad program of work among the mining youth will be hammered out by young miners. This conference mat haye the task of buitding a leadership of | young miners in the Nationa] Min-j ers Union, to be specifically in charge of developing youth forms of work in the union and of winning | the mine youth for the N.M.U. The main pivoting point of sup- port of the young miners for the N.M.U. will be the demand of no discrimination against the youth, guaranteeing the same. basic rate for them as the adults regardless of the type of work. It is this demand which will create a wedge inside of the U-M.W. locals. there was no scale on the tipple. Nevertheless the checkweighman went on the tipple. The eompany weigh-hoss and our checkweighman are weighing our coal without the \seale. This seems impossible but it is true. So this is one blessing we got from the NRA and Mr. Lewis. Another blessing we got is mass lay-offs for dirty coal. Just the} other day 28 men have been laid off for dirty coal. In the whole | mine only about 100 men are work- jing. | Now we begin to see how correct the policy of the National Miners Union is- FERENCE ADOPTS MINE PROGRAM No. 10, came on strike on five dif- ferent occasions. The last time we struck on Sept. ist. Each time we struck trying to settle some local Grievances. The September ist strike came as a result of this: We have a man trip. The motor- man and ‘snapper of each man trip used to get one hour extra every day for the handling of the man trip. The company put the bosses on the man trip and cut the motor- men off. The motormen and snap- pers in this mine were forced to work dinner hour but were not paid for it. The tip#le crew is working nine hours but get pay for 8. There are 20 mules in the mine but only The other 17 mules are 3 drivers. = meetings. bh we gathered front the we could not i being driven by the miners who get in is Boxed had the keys. The| were forced to haul empty and eee went to get the key from 1 but instead received pick- handie and a threat of being shot if they didn’t leave the house at ‘once. As the men were waiting in front of the hell Bozo Demich eame and to raise hell with the miners began for loading “dirty coal.” Bozo was away and few minutes later Unable to Rob Mine | _At the special mining conference in | Cleveland, Ohio, August 27, a pro- gram for united action of the coal miners was adopted. This program is important, especially now when the NRA, Coal Operators, and. Lewis Machine rs of Strike Weapon The miners are feeling the effects of the N. R. A, and the strikes are now taking place in spite of the efforts of the Roosevelt Administra- tion and the Lewis machine of the Vitss & tote osc ee ae oode is supported by Lewis and Ken- and white miners. Negroes are, in |nedy of the U. M. W. A. and Pearcy many instances, giving leadership to|and Keck of the P. M. A., proposing the strike movement, The mining code, a product of the | any minimum guarantee of earnings, establish even | without any demands for unemploy- worse conditions for the miners. The | ment insurance, and both support the N. R. A, tends to the $5 a day basic wage scale, without Joint Struggles of Employed and Unemployed Aids Campaign for Jobless Insurance no-strike proposal and arbitration. The codes supported by Lewis and Pearcy and the coal operators do not represent the interest of the rank and file coal miners. The coal miners, ticular case, and in every mine Tre recognition of the mine com- mittee elected by the miners, with- loaded cars without being paid for and take the mules in the mine and bring them back. No Change | We raised objection to these practices. The government conci- liators came here to settle the griev- ances but no change in the condi- tions took place, So we decided that the only way to settle our ° coal and iron policemen of | coal operators, using the labor section |UM.W.A., Who attempt to sto; M ! “ thay??? 6. The right to strike, organize i ied | : hie pat mer. ou divided and engaged in disconcerted| and picket; free speech and free (grievances was to strike and we Ellsworth mine came and tried | ot the N. R. A. are planning the|strikes and rob the miners of their $s es e r au y movement, have been unable to ac- : d against arbitration. | it. We will continue to do so unijJ to force the men to go home. Being ble to do this they went to f '$okol’s home and guarded him until all men went home, At the next regular meeting we elected another checkweighman. In the morning Sokol was going on the tipple despite the decision of |of the P, M, A. and rank and file|decree outlawing strikes, The special page in today’s issue was only made possible by the members. The Mine Commit- | opposition groups of the U. M. W. A.,| In these struggles the unempl efforts of the Daily Worker staff, 1. A $6 day basic wage scale for | miners throughout the country in the| We were waiting for years. Our bo informed the super that if |sets forth before itself the task of|give real pelea They also gi all miners in or around the mines, abe ory cana re and | conditions went from bad to worse. Sokol goes on the tipple the men would strike. The super, whose Sokol is, stated that the new eckweighman was not elected legally and he can not permit him to go on the tipple. Rather than have Sokol weighing the coal one establishment of company unions | similar to those of the auto industry. |The United Action program follows: This special mining conference of the General Trade Union Conference for United Action Against the N. R. A,. representing the N. M. U., locals carrying into effect the decisions of the General Conference for United Action Against the N, R. A, With the starvation, low wages, | mass unemployment and miserable working conditions in the mines, and subjected to the most brutal terror, TO8e important weapon in their de- ense. Although the miners in Pennsy]- vania were tricked back to the mines by the N. R. A, and the Lewis ma- chine, strikes are now breaking out anew in defiance of the government great fights of their own against relief cuts, for more relief and un- employment insurance. In the an- thracite, for instance, the unemployed initiated and led the strike movement which involved 18,000 miners, These struggles also reveal the strong women movement in actual Daily Worker staff, District. ATTENTION, MINERS OF THE PITTSBURGH DISTRICT: You are no doubt one of the readers of the Daily Worker who is quite well satisfied with the improvement our DailyWorker has made during the past two months. The six-page “Dally” is a credit to our What ean you do to help the Daily Worker? We are asking eyery miner to become a part of the Daily Worker organized by the District Committee of the Communist Party of the Pittsburgh In order to keep the Daily Worker supplied with live news from the mining field, we are asking you to write short articles to the Daily Worker on the conditions in the mine, what your local union is doing, being tually present a code expressing their demands. Only the code presented by the N. M, U. in Washington in any way approaches the real desire of the miners, The following are the demands of the miners: with a minimum guarantee of §30 a week and 40 weeks’ work a year. A maximum working week of five days and six hours a day. Increase in wages shall be paid correspond- ing with the increase in prices, % Increased unemployment relief for the unemployed and part-time » an 4. The right of Negro miners to work on all jobs and to live in any houses in all sections of the mines and on equal terms with the white miners, Around these demands it is neces~ sary to organize the unity of all This unity to be established in every mine and every m@aing field in every district the election of miners’ committees of the rank and file to lead these struggles. The establishment of correspon- dence between these different centers our conditions are improved a’ es we want them to be. It is ixl- portant to mention that we struck each time against the will of Mr. Fagen and other “friends,” such as Dr. Springer and Miss Joyce, who are paying us frequent visits. Now we know that the only way to improve our conditions is to strike. And we will continue to strike re- gardless of Mr. Fagan, Springer and regardless of the law which says that we can not strike, / But I must say that our strikes have had some serious weaknesses. “more day the men agreed that the|the miners throughout the country how the proposed code will affect miners and the establishment of | is necessary for the exchange of opin- i} ‘ ‘ are again taking to the struggle to|@conomic struggles. Thousands of le the miners, etc. It is our task to see We never elected broad strike com- | — ary Peele | Welsh te ©81| ccreat these conditions with more de- | Women are now organizing in Tilinois| | teat the Dally Worker reaches every miner possible. ‘The Dally Worker | | Wemployment Insurance to the ex~ |lons and experienoss in the struggle | tte, We did not try +0 spread | | “oo "This example in our local should |t¢*™ination than ever before, and Pennsylvania, Thousands more | | needs at least 500 new readers from the Pittsburgh mining field, How | | tional for each dependent for all |ers for meetings and should prepare | Cur strike into other mines fiteRMavines every miner how the U. M. Miners Preparing Strike will be organized, many new subs can you get? Our District has undertaken the task || unemployed paid the govern- | conferences necessary and| Pittsburgh Coal Co., although "OW. A. is being controlled by the op-|_ 1 Tecent Weeks strikes of 60,000! The young coal miners are also| | to raise $1,000 for the sustaining fund of the Daily Worker, in order|| ment and employers, Part-time |possible for the miners to further | S8me conditions and grievances i |, erators and fakers. If we want to |Sivania. 18000 in the eetheecta Unhampered Sa by the trnstth ea kes. | | that ean comtinue with the ix page paper and give special attention | | workers shall be paid the difference | carry forward the aims of this con-| in Bee snditio h that have a qusee (eae by the ee 13,000 in Tlinols, strikes in Utah, |sition towards women end the Baise to our mining news. You can become a part of this campaign by asking Li be eth stb itar fund, és eee ie aig Bi Peoclnayn thea the fo. > &§8 we must accept the proposals of | Kentucky, Virginia, Indiana andelse-|as practiced by the conservative | |YOUr fellow worker, your local union, club or fraternal organization to 2 bgp piggy nea Re ond bhai ti st fi the local lead ||| National Miners Union and oust donate to the Daily Worker C: which every scale, elected and controlled |in all fields to popularize the |-| ture we must force the local lea | nit where have taken place, It is definite |movement for years, the rank and ‘ampaign, starts officially today, by the m sions of the conference should be] ers to c out our decisions an | swwevery faker from our ranks and | that thousands of miners in all coal|file miners are recruiting additional| | September 9. Collect funds for the Dally Worker. 4. Payment for all forms of dead [carried forward, and immediately| if they fail we must change theme fahave the union to serve our purpose | fields are preparing to strike and that | forces, who form a powerful front BOB SIVERT' work, slate, ete. taken to finance the issuing of | We, the followers of the NMU must ‘» amd not the purpose of the coal op-| the near future will see tremendous| against their common enemies. An- District Daily Agent *. the right of the miners to be- 000 leaflets calling on the miners| consolidate our forces and beeome yoaserators and Demich, Sokol and their | increase in the strike struggles of the | other significant development in the 9203 Center Avenue, Pittoburgh, Pa. long to any union they choose, the | throughout the country to put this| the outstanding defenders of the ¢ eee various mining, strikes is the unity — recognition of Program into effect interests of the rank and file miners,