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Page Six An Outli Conditions in the ne of the * MiddleWest Mines The NIRA Is Making the Working and Living Conditions of the Miners Much Worse M and Creating Dissatisfaction (By a Mine Worker Correspondent) WESTVILLE, .—I decided to answer your call for news by writing | of conditions in the coal fields of the Danville district of Illinois and also | the Clinton-Terre Haute field of Indiana. y average 1'2 days a week; averaging of the miners « 2,.Peabody Mine No. 24, 2 days a week, 250 miners mechanical loading; dangerous conditions on account of roof, and extreme speedup methods. 3. Threatened with shutdown, dis- charge. Intimidated and discrimina- tion for any militant action of men in way of organization of union of | ad own choosing, supposed to be grante under N. R. A., by both operators and-U. M. W. of A. Lewis payroll henchmen. 4 Great dissatisfaction against Lewis and his machine, considerable P. M.A. sympathy. Approval of any kind of opposition to Lewis and State officials, but fear, for reasons men- | tioned in No. 3 5, U~. Fuel Co. launched cam- paign through mine bosses to have miners purchase safety devices, such as composition (hard) so-called safe- ty hats, hard toe shoes, non-break- able glasses for eyes, and possibly jater safety bug lamp with charge for recharging battery, etc., to be checked out .of miners’ pay, under the guise of their slogan “Safety First.” 6. Introduction of hand loading conveyors for more speedup and cheaper production of coal. Strict docking system, and layoff for dirty coal. Two to three days off for 200 lbs. impurities on 4-ton car. Trying to establish condition of miners to lay own track. Weight on cars de- creased 500 lbs. in last five years. Average $12-$15 earnings a pay of two weeks. No relief for part-time workers. Relief being cut and forced labor for unemployed INDIANA FIELD Division of work in all mines. Esti- mats 3 to 4 days pay at $4.57 scale. | Tonnage men still lower. Situation | is cf general opposition to Lewis and other U. M. W. of A. officials. Most mines chui down completely. U. M. W. of A. avpealing to scab miners to | join for check-off, and let striking | , and™'unemployed be deserted. Com- | promise with operators reported, to aecept certain percentage of U. M. W. A. men with certain percentage of Ss. scabs. U. M. W. A. 150, scab 50, is ratio. | Formation of company union at Universal Indiana, Bunsen mines. Be- trayal of men on strike here by Inter- national and state officials, also local. Building Unemployed Councils in| all “mining towns in Clinton field, | under militant leadership of National | * U. ©. program. Demonstration of all | miners in Clinton for demands soon. | Possible strike on all relief jobs. U. S. Fuel Co., Bursenville Mine, 1,800 men on division of work, $3 for loads, $4.75-$5 for 10 per cent | Officials Break — | Miners’ Struggle Against Murder (By a Worker Correspondent) UNIVERSAL, Ind. — The large| United States Steel-owned mine, | Bunsen Number 4,'had not worked | for eight years until last Winter, and | then Arch Spears, a non-union coal operator, started the mine. The miners from Vermillion Mine which the picketers closed down last summer belong to the Indiana Min- ers Association, an open company union, formed by Vern Bennett, a former leading Socialist around Clin- ton, About 150 of these non-union men took jobs at Bunsen No. 4. When the UMWA, Bunsen Local | 1535, picketed the mine, Sam White, |a loyal U.M.W. | miner, was shot by one of the pri- | vate guards of the Bunsen Mine No. of A. former coal 4. He died that night and the next day 2,000 miners came on the picket line without a call. They held a huge mass meeting and voted to keep out of the union mines until the non-union (scab) mines were closed. Joseph Poggiani tried to stop this rank and file action, but he was ig- nored by the miners. He said the union miners cannot strike because that would be “breaking their con- tract.” The miners struck just the same. For 6 or 7 days, these miners stayed out, but finally the District Vice-President Foncancon, talked the men into going back to work. Sam White, the union miner, was | killed. But Bunsen No. 4 is still working. Non-union and union men are still starving. They resent the betrayal and many firmly state, “It is not over with yet.” “A DAILY FOR EVERY MINER”. (By a Mine Worker Correspondent) HIBBING, Minn.—This is the first time that the Daily Worker is being sold in Hibbing. We have started a house to house sales and we find that the workers are willing to buy it. Workers that have gotten the Daily before think that the new six- page paper is a real paper. Daily Worker committees on the Mesaba range should get busy. Our slogan should be, “A Daily in the home of every miner, employed or unemployed.” Today’s Menu BREAKFAST Fresh fruit Goldenrod Toast Milk—Coffee “ Afrange toast on a placter and pou: it white sauce with slices of boiled eggs. Mash the yolks of Tnard boiled eggs and sprinkle them “A guet the toast. This not only looks| Wppetizing but it is a way of serving | ‘wa egg dish with a few eggs. | LUNCH Rice and Cheese Hot slaw Milk . Fill.a buttered pan with alternate , »,layers.of rice and cheese cut into, small pieces, butter, salt and pepper. | Gover with cracker or bread crumbs’ to keep in the moisture. Add milk | until it comes half way up in the dish. Bake until the cheese is melted and the milk absorbed. Heat cabbage sliced thin in a dress- | made of the yolks of two eggs pd tly beaten, one-fourth cup cold one tablespoon butter, one- fourth cup hot vinegar, and one-half | ‘teaspoon of salt stirred over hot water ‘until it thickens. i DINNER % ‘Ham with scalloped potatoes Spinach *) Boiled cucumbers j ** . Fill a buttered baking dish with al- ternate layers of sliced raw potatoes and pieces of butter, salt, pepper and flour sprinkled very lightly from the | edge of a knife. In the middle of the dish place a slice of ham or small pieces of ham. Pour in milk until) it comes half way up in the dish. | Bake an hour or until the potatoes | are tender and the milk absorbed. | Keep the dish covered to preserve moisture until 1 is nearly done; | | remove the cover to allow the) “top to brown. | | “‘The water which clings to spinach | ' it is washed is sufficient in} to cook it. Salt the spinach | ‘and cook it five or ten minutes—| . that is, until it wilts down in. the dish. and serve. Save the liquid in _.Which the spinach was cooked and | sjany ach that is left over for | 38 tomorrow. For the soup melt ; BD tebiespoon of butter, stir in two| wm of flour and add the, ‘and liquid, bring to a boil! add milk. Heat but do not! boil the mik. : ‘Pate old cucumbers, cut in pieces, _ until soft in boiling salted’ t. Drain, mash, season with Bee | r Salt, and pepper. Can You Make ’em Yourself ? Sheer wool is suggested for this jumper for school wear, For dressed- up occasions it could be made in velvet or satin. There is a washable satin, Pattern 1576 is available in sizes 8, 10, 12, 14, 16 and 18. Size 14 re- quires 1% yards 54 inch fabric and 1% yards 36 inch contrasting. Tllus- trated step-by-step sewing instruc- tions included with pattern. SEND FIFTEEN CENTS (15c) in coins or stamps (coins prefer- red) for this Anne Adams _ pat. tern. Write plainly name, address and style number. BE SURE TO STATE SIZE. ‘ Address orders to Daily Worker Pattern Department, 243 West 17th Street, New York City. (Patterns by Mail Only) ‘ DAILY WORKER, (Based on Wm. Z. Foster’s book, “The Great Steel Strike”) No, 1. The backbone of the Cleve- , land strike was the enormous mills of the American Steel and Wire Company. This calls attention to the fact that the employees of the U. S. Steel Corporation made a better fight than did the workers in any other branch of the in- dustry. Nowhere was there a more bitter fight than in the Buffalo district. So firm were their ranks, that when the gencral strike was called off January 8th, they voted to continue the fight. | M | Lewis Stops Strike to | |Let Owners Stock Coal; By a Worker Correspondent SIX-MILE RUN, Pa.—Two mines} employing 100 men each, went on} strike on August 17, one for a 10 | per cent increase, the other for back pay. Both the mines are organized under | the United Mine Workers of America. | The Lewis Machine appointed their | old organizer back here in this field | on August 15, a dictator. Ninety per | cent of the rank and file don’t want | him, The big operators in this field are stocking coal. I am urging the men to make their demands now but my | voice is not heard. If you have some | leaflets I could use them. I am sending a petition around for more relief and they say there is lots coming to our next meeting to join us. | 20 Cents an Hour for Forest Fire | Fighters | (By a Mine Worker Correspondent) EVELETH, Minn.—Workers are be- ing called to combat the forest fires which are raging about the iron min- ing section. They are taken out in trucks in the morning. If they take their own lunches with them they | are paid 20c per hour; but if lunch must be given them they receive 1l5c. The lunch generally includes one razor-thing sandwich for every j Worker, and coffee, which Council- man Roy “Foghorn” Rhodes is put- ting over on the workers. Next month we will again have our municipal elsctions. Workers—you must bind yourselves together and | Sweep out all these penny-ante poli- ‘|the P.M. of A. | ticians, grafters and opportunists, YORK, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1933 'A Pictorial History of the Great Steel Strike of 1919 % »Ax Rico No, 2. I, personally, was the first to feel the weight of the Pennsyl- vania terrorism in Johnstown. Alighting from the train, on Nov- ember 7th, I was met by two news- | papermen who advised me to quit | the town, warning me of a citizens’ | committee formed to drive organi- | zers from the city. Disregarding | this warning, I started for the | meeting. I was stopped again by | City detectives who told me I was risking my life. I was told to leave. No. 3. In the meantime, two of | us started to the Mayor's office to protest, when suddenly in broad daylight, a mob of about 40 men rushed us. They stuck guns against my ribs and took me to the depot. While there, they made a cowardly attempt to force me to sign a badk- to-word card, which meant to write myself down as a scab. Later, I | was put aboard a train. Several of the mob accompanied me a few | miles out. Up to this time, the | strike had been perfectly peaceful. | ' peaceful means, and that they were No, 4. The mob perpetrating these outrages, was led by the local sec- retary of the Y. M. C. A, and the president of the Chamber of Com- merce. This pair freely stated that | the strike could never be broken by Prepared to apply the necessary violence. Gf course, they were never | arrested. Had they been workers, engaged in a similar escapade against business men, they would have been lucky to get off with 20 years imprisonment apiece. Terror of Coal Operators, Le P. M. A. HEADS PROTECT SCABS FROM STRIKERS (By a Woman Worker Correspondent) PANA, Ul.—Last Thursday over 5,000 miners and their wives attended the mass meeting here for the first time in several months. bidden to meet in Christian County. This meeting Thursday was under the auspices of the Women’s Auxiliary who under mass protest forced the lifting of the injunction which was placed against the Progressive Miners iners’ Letters Expose Deceit of NRA, We were for- of America, ® We have here a double fight. Our first fight was against the UMWA officials and Peabody tools and scabs. There are 5,000 of us here still out while two companies of the National Guard are here protecting scabs who have been imported into the field. We didn’t care about the hardships in fighting the Peabody, but now we have to fight our own enemies within | In the last five months, our District leaders and the whole Executive Board has been go- ing more reactionary. They have made every compromise with the bosses and politicians here until now j the scabs are having the upper hand. The scabs are making fun of our kids and of us, and still officials are telling us to be quiet and wait. Our homes are bing bombed. Brothers Stanley and Besson, two of our lead- ers here are constantly in danger; Stanley’s home was bombed twice. We know, and the police know who did it, but they do nothing about it. Dozens of times we women here and also our husbands demanded ac- tion from the Executive Board, but they always stall us. Besides that, they tell us that we all here are Reds and they have been making most bitter attacks on those who did more to organize the PMA than Keck or | Percy. We know that something is being done behind our backs. There 1s talk here that we will go back to UMWA and that PMA will control only small mines around Belleville. Anyway last Thursday, we demanded that the Peabody agent, Mr. E. Bowen, who was put as Assistant Editor of the Progressive Miner, be removed. Many of us know who Mr. Bowen is, many of us know when he used to sell bonds for Peabody through Insull Corporation. We also refused to give the floor to Mr. Joe Getz, who is now editor of PMA because we know him as a reaction- A Letter from American | Children in the Soviet Union | To All Pioneers of America: We Pioneers from America are now spending our vacation in the Pioneer Camp of the Soviet Union. We are now having one hour brigade work, which we decided to use in writing a letter to our comrades of America. There are two seasons of camp here. The first is over and this is the second. There are over 175 Pio- neers in this camp. We are divided into four large groups called Otrads. A Komsomol (YCL) takes charge of each Otrad. Each Otrad is divided into four zvenos or brigades. We have a number of circles, such as handwork for the girls and aireo for the boys; besides there are dramatic, literary, library, young natural scien- tists, political, and many others. Our camp is situated among the most beautiful scenery. On one side”| we have rolling planes with a large hill on which we have big camp fires, dancing, singing, and games. On the other side are pine trees. Behind the pine trees is a river in which we swim and sail. We have swimming and physical culture every day. Dur- ing the day we hike or go berry picking. When we come back we are very hungry, but we are sure to find an appetizing meal waiting for us. After dinner we have a rest hour or “dead” hour. We have to lie down and rest for an hour and a half be- | fore we go swimming. We are al- | | are suffering and struggling while we ways under the doctors’ care. WITH OUR YOUNG READERS When we were in America we never realized what a free life the Soviet Pioneers led, but now we know and are experiencing it ourselves. The Russian comrades take great care and interest in us foreigners, for which we thank them very much, Although we know that you comrades are resting and having fun, we prom- ise to help yowball we can so that some day you shall enjoy all the comforts we are enjoying. Write to us and tell us how you are fighting for the working class. In return we promise to keep up correspondence with any Pioneer troop which will write and tell us of its work, Proletarian greetings to all friends and comrades, Your friends and comrades, (TEN PIONEERS) (Any troop or Pioneer wishing to correspond with these Pioneers may send letters in to the Daily Worker. We will forward them.) News from Akron, Ohio Since nobody writes from Akron, Ohio, I will try it out. Yesterday was rubbish day. I went down to the dump. The cops would not al- lcw the kids on the dump. Because they saw a man picking up some junk they set fire to the shack he had~built down there. They said he was a bootlegger for an excuse, but it was a lie, —LADDIE LALLO. Akron, Ohio., ary. Rk. R. | A Sad Story Roosevelt, Roosevelt, Lemonade pie Sat on a chair And began to cry “Why are you crying?” Asked Morgan, J. P. “The Reds are wiping out The bosses and me.” —HYMAN MENDELSON, ll, | New York. The Strike The strike is growing every day, The men demand a higher pay. Against the bosses they wage the fight For milk and bread, for homes and light. The Eagle Blue, with talons sharp,/ The Boss will use to kill the spark Of revolution in their eyes— But Workers now are growing wise! The NRA can’t fool them now, aes fight until they win —and iow! —MAE SANDERS, 15, itimore, Md. : Strike Bill and Mike went out to strike For better shop conditions The boss grew weak and could not speak ; When he read their petitions. He hired a cop to put a stop To picketing and striking, But Bill and Mike knew how to strike, |let_these flour barrels get empty. | Go Slow on Flour, Says UMWA Agent; By a Miner Correspondent. ST. CHARLES, Va.—As a miner I thought I would send a few lines on conditions in our country. The miners have all been misled by a skunk, Bill Mitten, a district organizer for the UMWA. There is something over | 4500 men out of work. The com- | pany has all shut down and people are all on starvation, as there is no other work for them to do, and the} organizer tells them there is no funds to back them. He told them not to} Bill Mitten got up at a meeting | Monday night and told the men, be- ware. The Communists were in the mines and they are the slickest- tongued, sharpest people in the world, he ‘said. | What we need is a real organiza- | tion to help us out as we have got! none. H A Virginia Miner. Editor's Nete: The National Min- ers Union, 149 Washington Place, Pittsburgh, Pa., has a clear record of honest and fighting leadership | of the miners everywhere. They will | give you advice on how to begin | your organization. \ Four NMU Miners. | Reinstatement (By a Mine Worker Correspondent) BENTLEYVILLE, Pa—At the On- tario Mine near Bentleyville, Pa., four miners were told by the Super- intendent of the mine that they could work no more at his mine un- til they would join the UMWA, but the local Chairman, John Sokol, with instructions from the internationel | Organizer, Bozo Damich, also of the | UMWA, refused to accept these four men into the UMWA, and the reason | they gave was that they were mem- bers of the NMU. First they went to the District Of- fice of the UMWA and demanded an explanation and also told the offi- cials of the District that if they don’t get their jobs back they will go back to the miners and tell the miners what the UMWA in reality is. They also sent a telegram to General John- son and one to the Secretary of the NMU, who was at Washington as a delegate to the code hearing, telling about this discrimination. Later they called the miners to a meeting at the Union Hall. They explained their case and the miners made a motion that the men were to be put back to work and that the UMWA Organizer was to pay the men for the one day they lost. This motion was carried almost unani- mously, with the only objection of the Local Chairman, John Sokol, Just to show what he is I will only mention one of more things he has done. A few years back, under the UMWA every widow would receive $150 from the union for burial ex- pense. This same John Sokol would and, did keep the money for himself after the union sent the check to him to forward to the widow and children. He was found guilty and’ expelled from the UMWA for 99 years, yet today he is again Chair- man of the Local and union check- weighman on the Tipple. Now the four comrades are back at work and are accepted in the UMWA and now they with the rest And sent the copper hiking. —MARTHA MILLET, 15. of the honest miners are organizing jpany funds. of the National “Guard’s Pay Cut After Praise for Fighting Miners By a Member of the National Guard CHICAGO, Ill. — The summer of 1933 finds the Illinois National Guard in full war and civil war training, infantry, machine-guns, automatic rifles, pounders, howitzers, tanks, ‘aeroplanes, and every war instrument | of division of an army. Even the 108th Engincers had a riot drill. One group of soldiers armed with rifles and ‘xed bayerets and another group armed with clubs. The group with clubs supposed to be civil- ians attacking the soldiers, and when the soldiers got beaten then a gas- attack began. Naiuvally both sides got the gas test. Well, when the i08th Engineers or for relief they'll yet the same treat- ment by the police as any other un- emploved workers, Praise and a Wage Cut On Sunday, Aug. 6. the governo: Mr. Horner came to camp and spoki |about the heroic struggles that the wis Thugs National Guardsman are going through at the mining area in keep- ing peace and orcer against a “few disruptive elements,” and then he told us about the 15 per cent wage cut, He told us that he pleaded wit Mr. Roosevelt that such a wage-cut at this time where 40 rer cent of th Netional Guardsmen are unemployed world mean the lowering of the living standards of the Guardsmen, but since it is only till 1934 he recon- sidered it and he told us what a great President we have now anc that we must cooperate in putting through his National Economy Act as good citi- zens and also the National Recovery Act, and how we must obey his or- ders to enforce the NRA. But Mr. Horner did not tell us of a furthe cut which they are fig- uring on putting througn, We are suppose to drill 43 days a year in the Armory and get pay for 36 days at 45 cents per day. We suppose this is for the second N. E. A. There is also a cut in food allow- ance. This is also for the N. E. A. We must read and be charged for a magazine called the Illinois National Guard. This is another NRA. We must have and contribute for com- That must be for N. EL A. The majority of the Guards begin |to think as to what to do. Some of them are quitting, which is the wrong thing to do. The armed forces have the N. E. A. and the workers the NRA. Practice Waste Now a few words of a just small amount of expenditures to enforce the NEA and the NRA. The Auto- matic rifles fired 12,000 rounds of am- munition in one day alone, or 10 jeases of 1,200 pounds. Each case cost $66, in addition to the amount howitzers, etc. Are the workers in America sur- any other unemployed soldier asks | NRA Makes Direct Raid on Standards. ‘Soldiers | Army Men Forced to Replace Civilians Who Are Fired By 2 Soldier spondent SHREVEPORT, La—We enlisted men of the United States Regular Army ,are just beginning to under- stand what the Roosevelt ‘New Deal” means for us. i First our pay was cut 15 per cen}, reenlisting bonuses were cut out, | longevity pay suspended, clothing | Jowances cut to practically nothing. | Second, prices of everything a soldier 'has to buy have gone up. And now { all the civilian workers on military posts are being fired and enlisted men are having to take over their | jobs in addition to our own. y | For example, here at Barksdale | Field 150 laborers who were working | around the post at 25 cents per hour | have been turned loose and soldiers —most of them at $17.85 per month |—have to do all the extra work of | cutting grass, gardening, trimming lowers and sodding officers’ lawns. Another example, down at the post | stables the commanding officer keeps | three polo ponies and there are three | other horses and six mules. Until this week there was a civilian black- smith and two horse tenders, each - drawing $105 per month. This week ll three were. fired and now an en- listed man drawing $26.77 is black, smith and six other soldiers at “New. Deal” wages are assigned to the stable. The civilian painter also had. been laid off. His pay was $135. A. soldier now has his job at $39.52. Civilian carpenters used to be hired, at 65 cents per hour. Soldiers now. do the carpentering. oa Men Growling aA Due to the fact that this is a new, , post and the civilian laborers have. been fired, the work has gotten out. of hand. As a result, yesterday a, new schedule of calls went into ef-_ fect: First call—6:15 a.m., fatigue call—7:15 a.m., one hour for dinner, afternoon fatigue for everybody 1 pm., recall 3:30. These hours were unheard of previously in the army. This is August, the hottest month of. the year in any country and espc- cially in Louisiana. All the men are growling at the longer hours and the amount of work. It’s a funny thing, but Roosevelt isn’t so popular any more with the j Soldiers here—not to mention with | the civilians who were turned loose with no chance to get a job. Roose- velt’s “New Deal” may have been a block of aces for Morgan, Mellon, | Rockefeller and Co., but as soldiers did not even draw a pair of ate prised why there are plenty of bullets ;but no bread? Some of the soldiers , Were asking questions amongst them- selves why do the workers make this Win Struggle for Ged on the, machine guns, tanks, (damn) peu, “Dont they know that they'll get it right back in their heads when they go on strike? By PAUL LUTTINGER, M.D. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS Impotence at 65 John De M., Toledo.—Your “fool- ishness” when you were a boy has nothing to do with your present plight. If your wife had lived you might have~retained your virility. For a middle-aged man to stop sud- deniy is equivalent to sure loss of power. There is no reason why you should not marry the woman who likes you and who is two years older than yourself. We doubt that she will insist that you “do your duty.” At your ages, companionship is the main issue. You will both be less lonely if you marry. Prevenception © Ed. F., Ironwood, Mich.—It is il- legal to give advice for the preven- tion of conception’ You surely real- ize that if the masses get this in- formation, there will soon be a short- age of machine slaves, cannon fod- der and brothel inmates. However, of the various methods you mention, the pessary is the safest and the one recommended by the birth control clinic. * + 8 8 Colitis—Foot Trouble—Optician Geo. M., Akron, 0.—Yours certain- ly is a pitiful condition and the worst of it is that we cannot be of any service to you, as we do not to clean house in the local. Adventures The New Deal in the Tulgey wood | Is not in very cheerful mood; | He’s growing lots of ‘“‘Woedin kale” While Green Bill blazes a hunger trail. in Bamboozle Land The Perkinsmare, away from folly Is singing here most melancholy; And to the sighing of her breast The comic eye shall answer best. Are benches fill’d with questien- “Why, Civil Night, in all our parks marks? Why do landicrds scratch their. heads Who cannot renttheir empty beds?” know of any optician in your city ¢ bebbling gossip of the who would fit you a pair of glasses without charge. Perhaps some Daily Worker reader who knows one will be good enough to let us have his address which will be forwarded to you. The same regarding your foot trouble and a podiatrist (chiropodist), ~ As to the colitis, try the following Ask a druggist to sell you a pound of calcium lactate (its a form of lime)” and a pound of milk sugar. Let him mix jt for you thoroughly. Take # heaping teaspoonfool of the mixture (three times) daily, before meals, and in orange juice. Let us know+ the result when you get through with the mixture. Calcium lactate and milk sugar aré inexpensive, ek aia Contribution—Mineral Oil Chicago Reader—Thanks for your: | contribution which we have turned: over to the D. W. maintenance fund. As to the mineral oil, if the heavy Russian product is used, there is no scientific evidence, as yet, that it, causes harm when taken as an in. | testinal lubricant. Has she tried to |add bulky foodstuffs such as cab bage, salads and bran to her diet? Most forms of constipation can be cured, if the real cause of it can be ascertained. ; * Readers desiring health info:m-., ation should address their letters | to Dr. Paul Luttinger, c-o Daily Worker, 35 East 12th St. New ~ oo te i He Lies abet a tet hd = fs “Th “To stop this process of decay air And save the system, (if we may) fet Boems out a messaze of des-| The progress of the world must be = pair, | Deported to—Eternity—!” = All cows have died! And : £ butterfat Pag Can only by the rich be had.” . , oo ¥