The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 16, 1933, Page 4

Page MINERS SUC Sea SAILY WORKER, NEW 1UKK, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1933 % STRIKE AS ROOSEVELT’S FAKE PROMISES ARE EXPOSED i JOHN L. LEWIS HAS LONG HISTORY OF TREACHERIES Took Job in 1918 When Booze, Dope Gets Sec’y White By W ALTER ALLISON HIN “L. LEWIS has a long history of strikebreaking. This is little known fs the younger miners now in | the fieid 5 We will have trace the rise of John lL. Lewis to his heights of strike~ breaking on a National scale under the Blue Eagie In 1918 J. P. White resigned as president of the United Mine Work- ers of America and became a mem- ber of the Garfield Fuel Board. Hays ihe vice-president, became president of the U.M.V ys appointed John L. Lewis as vice-president. Later on 0 Europe where dope, hooze and g! got the best of him. x ed to the United St slete nervous wreck and sident of the Lewis became the president single miner voting for then Lewis is the Czar in The Wrecker Lewis became president of the sec- s’ organization peak of its devel- had 600,000 nediately institut- policy. as president, 1919. Close to 500,000 fe Anderson is- m against the d off the strike ‘We can not fight ” At the same ty from against o time $4,000 $8,000 a year to 500,000 union’ miners came were joined by who were At the very the Keniucky Je the others lasted for operators were all the demands of But Lewis signed separate rent for the Anthracite min- verate agreement for the union 110,000 coke never before mine ir in the soft coal, and sold out 119,009 coke region miners. The coke miners remained on strike for yeas and were driv back only after Lewis took yay them the tents and destroyed r barracks Inst€ad of one agreement for the whole union Lewis adopted a policy of seperate agreements for each dis- et. This was the worst union- wrecking policy. The coal operators iediately took advantage of tnis 1924 the West Virginia op- broke t agreement with ihe miners. Over 60,000 miners came cut on strike, but other fields were ordered’ to remain at work. The strike was broken and the U.M.W.A. lost 60,000 members. In 1925 the Pittsburgh Coal Co. broke its agreement with the miners. The miners of this company came out on strike. Again the rest of the miners were ordered by Lewis to re- jmain at work. Again the strike was broken and the union lost 25,000 | members. Other Betrayals | The Kentucky-Tennessee operators followed the same policy and broke NRA Flunkey | John L. Lewis, Sec'y. United Mine Workers of America, their agreement with the miners. The miners struck, but other fields, by or- | der of Lewis, remained ‘at work. The strike was lost and the union broken. In 1927 the Pennsylvania, Illinois |and Indiana miners came out on strike. These were the only large | union fields in 1927. The union was | broken in all other fields. Lewis or- dered the Ilinois and Indiana min- back to work while the Pennsyl- ia and Ohio miners remained on ke. They struck for almost two rs. Finally, the strike was broken | and the union lost over 150,000 mem- | bers. | AS a result of these betrayals of (AC is the U.M.W.A. lost over 400,- | 000 members. At one time a powerful nion, it became a mere skeleton, ich was later on used by Levis as ge-cutting and strikebreaking in- Oe aah | strument. | In 1931 Lewis and his agents broke |the strike of the Kentucky miners, | who put up one of the greatest strus- | gles in the hi of the American |labor movement. The same year he broke the strike of the Pennsylvania- | Ohio minets, a strike that was or- | ganized and led by the National Min- ers Union. In 1932 Lewis broke the strike and ect the wages of the Illinois miners. All of his organizers served as spe- cial gunthugs for the coal operators. Just one month ago Lewis broke the strike of 70,000 Pennsylvania miners. Lewis’ organizers in Utah and New Mexico are expelling the miners from the U.M.W.A. because they refuse to become strikebreakers. For the last four months Lewis is Began Strikebreaking | And Union-Wreck- ing At Beginning appealing to the miners not to strike for better working and living condi- tions and for the recognition of a union. He signed a code of the coal operators outlawing strikes of the | miners. ; Lewis’ right to be president of the U.M.W.A. was challenged in every election. And he was defeated in each election but yet remained the | president. EWIS was overwhelmingly defeated in the 1919 election. In the 1922 election Alex Howat, at that time a Progressive, received 75 per cent and Lewis 25 per cent of the votes. But Lewis remained the president of the UM.W.A. In the 1924 elections, George Voyzey, a coal miner, received | over 200,000 and Lewis 75,000 votes. Again Lewis remained president, tak- ing for himself 200,000 votes, giving his 75,000 votes to Voyzey. In the 1926 elections Brophy, at that time a Progressive, received 275,000 and | Lewis 67,000 votes. But again Lewis remained the president, claiming that he received 275,000 votes and Brophy 67,000. In 1928, 1930 and 1932 he re- fused any candidate even to run against him. The elections in all the districts were stolen in exactly the same way. Out of 31 international board mem- bers 21 were appointed by Lewis and only 10 elected through stolen elec- tions. Out of 31 district presidents, 21 were appointed by Lewis, the others got into office through stolen elec- tions. Every single organizer of the U.M.W.A. is appointed by Lewis, and not one elected by the miners, Lewis’s Gangsters All the conventions of the U.M.W.A. under the Lewis administration are packed up with the selected dele- gates and guarded by well paid gang- sters. At the 1926 International Con- vention 150 delegates were present from West Virginia, although there wasn’t @ single member in the union at the time. Every voice of the rank j and file was quieted with blackjacks. The present policy of Lewis is more openly a strikebreaking policy than ever before. As long as Lewis remains the president of the U.M.WiA., as long as he will act in the capacity as the representative of the miners; as long as his appointed international board members, district presidents and organizers will conduct the af- fairs of the miners, the miners will be betrayed and their conditions worsened. Therefore, one of the es- sential things the miners must do immediately, is to kick out of their organization J. L. Lewis and all of his appointed organizers and replace them by the real rank-and-file offi- cials, who. will work under the con- trol of the miners for the program that will improve the working and living conditions, Raise Demand for || Jobless Insurance in All Mine Locals In 1923 the mi ployed. 704,793 min average of 213 day: ng industry em- working an | miners of Western Pennsylvania. UMW Henchmen Take Steps to Break New Coal Strike Lewis & Co, are not satisfied with the recent sell out of 70,000 coal * For this and other betrayals they have In 1932 there | been promoted to the Labor Advisory Board of the Government under the Were employed 346,056, who worked | NRA. They with the government are faithfully fulfilling the needs of the an average of 145 d: the result of the cri: . This being anizei.c troduc.-on proposed than 3,000,000 miners from the in-| Gustry. They have no place to turn. No provisions minimum wor nor any wage guar- antee. No mention of unemployed in surance for the unemployed. The R.A. guarantees a code of slavery The struggle for unemployment in- surance becomes a burning demand for every miner employed or unem- ployed throughout the mining area. Every mine local and miners’ un- employed council must raise the de- mand to the county, state, and fed- eral ‘government for the establish- ment of unemployment insurance at the rate of $10 per week with $3 per week for each dependent. Organize and fight against the cuts now be- img put across by the welfare or- ganizations! Jerome Miners - Ready to Fight Scab Agreement (By a Mine Worker Correspondent) JOHNSTOWN, Pa.— While Roose- velt, Lewis and the coal operators are supposed to be making a code for bosses, we are facing the same condi- tions in the mine. At the Jerome mine the boss became so unbearable, we had to work in water up to our _ Kne2zs and were getting no pay for dead work. Some of the miners who still know how to fight this racket Taised these demands and spoke for them, and the whole mine went on strike. The Government arbitrators and the disirict officials of the UMWA came in, packed the meeting and rail- roaded a vote through to go back to work over the heads of our local officers. The miners were very dis- satisfied with this system of sell-out. All of the local papers claim a tem- porary truce has been reached but this only means a strikebreaker's agreement. Conditions are still the Same So it looks like we wild have to make another strike, But we will also have to keep it out of the hands af the UMWA officials and govern- ment strike breakers. A Jerome Miner, | coal operatcrs. No code has yet been written. ode. | union | miners, the miners back into the mines and the strike call. anything by striking. They are not strike breakers, Lewis, with the hope of getting the check-off abandoned ‘The operators are writing their own This will be agreed upon @ period for those | as members of the Labor Advisory Board. | The miners have answered this sell-out by striking once again. More ~ | than 35,000 Penna. miners are now on strike. Thousands more will answer | the call to strike against the Roosevelt promises for a code. Lewis and his henchmen are already taking steps to break the second strike of the Penna. John O'Leary, international board member and William Hargest, secre- tary-treasurer of district 5 are doing everything in their power to drive to prevent thousands more to answer ‘They issued the printed statement urging the miners to be loyal to the government and Lewis, to support the NRA, to support the bosses agreement that means only more hunger, want and misery haunting the door of every miners’:shack. They tell the miners that they can not gain only the agents of the coal operators in preventing strikes but enlist in service of the coal companies as open os New ‘Daily’ Welcomed |by Miners in Michigan By a Mine Worker Correspondent ATLANTIC MINE, Mich.—The new “Daily” is getting a good response here from the miners, and they are selling easy, although it is the first time that we have begun to sell it. At first when I brought it around ‘to the pool halls the workers were not interested, but now every time we go around they ask for the “Daily” and they read every line. Most of the miners are unemployed here. There is yet one shaft operat- ing and now that the National Stary- ation Act is being put into practice, they have taken on a few men and “raised” the wages 40 cents per day, while at the same time they raised the rent for the miners in the com- pany houses from $2.50 to $5, and raised the prices on food in the com- pany store. i At the same time they say that production of copper ore must be raised to a million pounds per month, whereas formerly production was at about 850 thousand pounds, which means more speed-up and work for the miners, The N.M.U, is working in the lo- cality and the “Copper Miner,” the miners’ bulletin, is coming out. To keep up a six-page “Daily Work- or,” the circulation must be donbled, Do your share by getting new snb- t Montour No. 10 Men See Correctness of the N. M. U. Policy (By a Mine Worker Correspondent) LIBRARY, Pa.In the strike of the Pittsburgh Coal Co. Mine, Montour No. 10, where 1,200 miners came on strike the U.M.W.A. sent Dr. Springer and a Mrs. Joyce to talk to the min- ers and tell them to go back to work, and by the miners not having the correct leadership, the strike was de- feated to an extent, We, the National Miners Union were there fighting side by side with the miners, but local leaders of the U.M.W. of A. were telling the miners that we came to break the strike, that we should not participate in the strike, but nevertheless, we were able to present our program to the miners of Montour No, 10 and now they he- gan to see our policy is correct and are willing to try to carry it out in some instances, although some are still under the influence that the National Recovery Act will solve the problem of the miners. Now it is our task to continue to point out to the miners that this act means the worsening of their conditions and through this method we can win over a large per cent. for the N.M.U. especially from among the Negro miners he operators code means wage cut, no pay for dead work, company | , hunger and want, more unemployment. re guaranteed for a| by Lewis & Co., just as they agreed on Auto, Steel and other codes, HELPE How Martial Law Works in Utrh Strike R w JOURNAL | | | Circulation That Is Proven-—Advertising That Gets Result—A Paper Dedicated tothe Better Interest of Helper and le Trade Testor | VOLUME XXi NUMBER ED He arhon County, Uuah, Friday, September &, 193) * Shopping Gvide Supplement 0 The Helper Journal over strike or organization. The above, reproduced from the Helper Journal, shows how under the NRA gunman and martial law rule keeps the workers from even attending dances or ball games so that they will not be able to talk By F. deeply interested in the heroic si and every other class force involved in the present struggles between the workers and the employers. This strike offers tfomendous lessons to the workers all over the country. The miners of Utah and New Mex- ico were organized by the National Miners Union. They were organized on the basis of struggle against the similar working and living conditions prevailing in the Penna. Ohio, W. ‘Va. and other coal fields, As soon as the organization became strong enough the miners decided to strike for the improvement of their condi- tions. the rank and file members of the UMWA, The strike is completely un- der the control of the miners, They have their own strike and re- lief committees and other strike ma- chinery, All the miners, their wives and children participate in every phase of the strike struggle, especi- ally in the mass picketing. They have mobilized a broad support of all the workers, farmers and a large section of the middie class population in the strike area and the surrounding ter- ritory. A real base for a successful strike was established. The militancy of the miners and their families Stands above everything else. Bosses’ Gunmen ‘Act of the coal operators have been mo- bilized in an attempt to crush the strike. The Commistoners in one of the counties in Utah appropriated $45,000 to supply the coal operators with Yellow Dogs and other gang- sters in order to break the. strike. declared martial law’ and sent the National Guardsmen into the strik- ing area with the instruction to break the strike. The right to picket, the right to assembly and the right to speak was taken away from the min-~ ers. Even relief collections and dis- tributions are not permited, while on the other hand the relief agencies discontinued to give relief to the un- employed. According to “The Review- Chieftain,” a Gallup newspaper of Sept. 1, the martial law was declared on the request “especially of the United Mine Workers of America and Railroad Brotherhoods who joined business mens’ organizations of Gal- lup in asking for troops.” Seek abate tte OF LABOR, headed by “liberal” Miss Perkins, is holding some 200 strikers for depor- tation. The local courts arrested all the strike leaders, released them on $5,000 bail, re-arrested them and set. new $10,000 bail, which, when fur- nished, was not accepted by the courts. Mr. McGrady, who, in the name of Roosevelt, recently sent 70,- 000 Penna. miners back to work and thus bic=> their strike, is advising Mayor Watson that the NMU is “un- American” because it fights for high- er wages, shorter work days and bet- ter working and living conditions. Some of the newspapers, controlled by the coal operators, have developed greatest and most shameful slanders il the strike and its leader, the | UM.W.A. Officials However, the most vicious strike- breaking instrument of the coal oper- They struck solidly, including |, But at the same time all the forces | | Governor Seligman of New Mexico ators are the officials of the UMWA. NRA Brings Gun Law to New Mexico-Utah Coal Striker BORICH 'VERY worker, especially every miner in the United States, should be ‘trike of the Utah-New Mexico miners. This strike reveals in the sharpest form the character of workers’ struggles under the conditions of the NRA and the “new deal”. militant unions and the A-F. of L. officials, the role of the government, the NRA administration, the newspapers® It shows the role of Official Scabbing Ley CALL TO ACTION To All Members THE UNITED MINE WORKERS OF AMERICA In the Gallup District BROTHERS: You have been ordered back to work by your superior officers. Some of you have not responded; patience has ceased to be a virtue and it ii for all men to show their color if am asking you all to report for work | |] at once or see your segretary and have your name stricken from the roll. sued VigiSs etiam femW Bode! —Me Gatewood { If you are afraid of your neigh- bors you are not the kind of men want- ed in the U. M. W. of A., so be men; get to work or get out of our Union. Yours for true Americanism, ILL REESE,* Gamereo. Ad printed in Utah paper by UMWA officials, order men to scab or be thrown out of the union. Despite their instructions the rank and the file of the UMWA joined the strike and are taking an active part in it. These strikebreaking officials appealed to the governor to send troops in order to break the sirike. They call meetings, issue leaflets and do everything possible to send the miners back to work. They instruct the rank and file members of the UMWA through the coal operators controlled newspapers to go back to work or else they will be expelled from the UMWA. They openly say that strikers have no right to belong to the UMWA. But the strike of the Utah-New Mexico miners remains solid. It re- mains solid because it is led by the miners themselves under the guid- ance and with every possible assist- ance of the National Miners Union. The heroic Utah and New Mexico miners are doing everything in their power to win the strike. They need support of the miners in other coal fields. It is necessary that the work- ers all over the country develop a mass pressure and force the govern- ment to withdraw the armed forces from the striking area and give the miners ‘the right to organize and strike for the improvement of their conditions. It is also necessary to send relief to the miners, their wives and children and thus make it pos- sible for them to win their strike. The miners of Penna, especially, whose strike was broken just one month ago by the same forces that are trying to break the strike of the Utah-New Mexico miners, must come to aid their brothers who are setting a shining example of how to carry on the fight against our class enemy. Pennsylvania. This is the reply of The Daily Worker is that The seribers for the Daily Worker. The Daily Worker has started against the Lewis strike-bresters. the Daily Worker financial drive, help fill this quota, Special Page for Miners Will Appear Each Saturday New strikes and struggles are sweeping over the coal fields of Western the miners to weeks of waiting and fake promises of Roosevelt, Lewis and Company on the Coal Code. the only daily working class paper in English will print and voice the struggles of the militant fighting miners, Daily Worker hag made special efforts to print each weck a special page on the mining industry and on the struggles of the miners. It is our task to keep this page and make it a success, See how many copies of the Daily Worker you can spread through the patch. Get new sub- @ campaign for 2 $40,000 sustaining fund to guarantee the six-page Daily Worker. We miners need the six- Page Dally Worker more than ever before. It is a weapon in our hands Let every miner give his support to Colleet funds for the Daily Worker. The Pittsburgh District has undertaken to raise a thousand dollars to —BOB SIVERT District Daily Worker Agent, 2208 Center, Pittsburgh ,Pa. Because of ordinances passed by the Carbon County Board of Commis- sioners, the city councils of Helper and Price, all public meetings have been prohibited. ‘The ordinances by the county commissioners and the Helper i be county and the feature dance | Young Miners Hold | Conference Oct. Ist! At Brownsville, Pa.. iCall On All Miners to Support Drawing Up of Demands By DAVE DORAN Preparations for a mine ith con- ference in western Pennsylvania for October 1 are speeding ahead. A com- mittee of young miners in Browns- ville have drawn up a call for the conference addressed to all young miners in the National Miners Union, in the United Mine Wofkers, in the mine pits and the various sports and social organizations of young miners. Already the call has been endorsed by young miners of a United Mine} Workers of America local in Car- negie and by young miners in Uni- versal and striking young miners of Westmoreland County. These will also affix their signatures to the call. The mine youth conference will draw up demands for young miners in~the industry. The eall issued by the young miners of Brownsville pro- poses the following demands for the mine youth: 1, All miners, including young min- ers, to receive a $6 a day basic wage scale for work in or around the mines, with a minimum guarantee of $30 a week and 40 weeks work a year. A 5-day week with 6-hour day with increases in wages, according to in- creases in prices. 2. Unemployment relief for the young miners and establishment of unemployment insurance of $10 a week and $3 for dependents of all unemployed. To be paid by the gov- ernment and the employers. 3. Miners’ checkweighman on every scale, elected and controlled by the miners. 4. Payment for all forms of dead work, slate, etc. 5. The right of all miners to be- long to any union they choose, rec- | ognition of all unions and mine com- | mittees. Recognition of mine youth committees. 6. The right to strike, organize and Picket; free speech and free assem- blage, and against arbitration. 7. The right of Negro youth to work on all jobs and to live in any houses in all sections of the mines and on equal terms with the white mine youth. So far only one union has taken an official stand on the Mine Youth Conference. That is the National Miners Union, which endorses it wholeheartedly. The young miners in their call, state simply that which they think of U.M.W. leadership. The conference will work out a program of struggle for the ycang miners in the mines. It will lay defi- nitely a base of struggle against the U.M.W.A. leadership and for the strengthening of miners oppositions inside of the U.M.W.A. All unions including the National Miners’ Union, will be invited to send speakers and delegates. Not only are locals send- ing youth delegates to the conference, but special mine committees of youth, oppositions inside of the U.M.W.A., sports and social teams are called upon to elect delegates. Young miners everywhere are called upon to band together in groups, work out your demands and present them to the Mine Youth Conference at Brownsville, October 1, at 2 p.m. i. Mining Company Spies Infest Iron Range (By a Mine Worker Correspondent) EVELETH, Minn.—The workers of Minnesota’s Iron Ranges are having it plenty tough while the Steel Trust clamps down on them, The mining company spies (in other words, their Police) patrol the banks of the open pits and report any untoward action on the part of the workers. Then the Steel Trust has arrived at the conclusion that the workers waste too much time rolling and smoking cigarettes. Accordingly, they make a rule strictly forbidding smok- ing on the job because every minute belongs to the Steel Trust, ‘Whenever we have a street meeting it is nothing unusual to see a scat~ tering of the O.LM. Co. stool pigeons. When the Communist Mayor of Cros- by, Emil Nygaard, spoke at a street meeting here, wesweie honored by the | tions in August 19th Daily. | 100 per cent in many cases. | have patience, faith, peaceful coopel- | | UMWA officials. | | news, Dr. Luttinger, In the Home,} ; dent, Nelson: Company Store Price Rises Wipe Out Any Pay Increase Load 96 Cars of Rock and 18 Cars of Coal and Pay Is $7 for Week’s Work; Then Find Company Boosts Prices By a Mine Worker Correspondent COVERDALE, Pa—While Lewis sits in Washington trying to se the miners to the coal operators and the government, we fellows at. Montour are forced to slave under the same old conditions. We are supposed to be- jong to the U.M.W.A. and the company makes sure it keeps the check-off. One of the fellows got a job this last month, one of those Johnson spoke Illinois Miners Realize Code Is Only for Owners (By a Mine Worker Correspondent) WESTVILLE, Tll.—Answer to Ques- | 1—The NRA has not improved the conditions of the miners one iota. It has worsened them through the higher cost of living and relief cuts, 2—Tricks of employers are as usual; ation etc.,, while at the same time they are worsening conditions in every way possible. 3—Miners are losing faith in N.R.A. and being awakened to the fact that it is an ,operators’ act, backed by 4—95 per cent of the miners are opposed to Lewis’ policy. * 5—It will soon be clear, and is to} some now, that Roosevelt will not carry out his promises when the coal code is finally adopted. Also, I highly approve of ihe new six page Daily with its. additional} Pictorial History, comic strip, editor- ials and a much more adyanced method of clearly explaining the struggle to the workers. 100 per cent improvement and I say it should be 100 times easier now to get subs and sales. If has given me encouragement | to again try harder to get subs. 1/ . believe finances will be the only rea-! son of many not to subscribe, and) not because the Daily isn’t interest- ing. P.S—N.R.A. will not help Illinois miners as the proposed code is based on a $5 scale that we get. A six-hour day will be a cut for the loader as he is unabie to get as much tonnage. ‘We work much less than three hours a week now. Average 12 hours weekly. Miners Defy UMWA By Voting Against Work On Saturday NMU Speakers Lead Defeat of Six- Day Week By a Mine Worker Correspondent POWHATAN POINT, Ohio.— The local president of the U. M. W. A, Whitie Nelson, informed the miners that the mine super and the mine owner, Mr. Taplin, insisted that the miners work on Saturday to fill the orders of the company. We insisted on calling a meeting of all the miners to decide themselves whether they wanted to work on Saturday or not. The meeting was called a few min- utes after work, with 95 per cent of the miners present. All the officials of the company were present in order to impress the miners to go to work. At the same time Mr. John Chinque, organizer of the U. M. W. A., came from Bellaire with the following tele- gram, addressed to the local presi- “Use all your influence with miners to go to work at company’s request.” Signed, PresidentPercy Tetlow. The local president just read the telegram without expressing his opin- ion, which of course was to go to work, The followers of the N. M. U. spoke sharply against working on Saturday, and demanded a vote of the miners. They insisted that the five-day week is sufficient, point- ing out the readiness of the U. M.| W. A. to carry out any decision of the coal company. The vote was taken. Those in sup- port of President Tetlow were to remain by the local president, and those against were to walk across the railroad tracks. Only a few miners Temained with the president, and more than 95 per cent went across the tracks, defeating the proposal for the six-day week. The Pothatan miners won first round in the struggle against their officials .nd will continue to fight until these corrupted officals are completely defeated. New Mexico Miners: Support NMU; NRA: Head Makes Report WASHINGTON, Sept. 12. -- New Mexico and Utah coal miners are striking for the recognition of the National Miners Union it was re- ported here today by Charles G. Grubbs, who was sent to the strike fields by the National Labor Board of the NRA, This is the first official recogni- tion taken of the coal strike and martial law in Utah and New Mexico coal fields. Grubbs was forced to admit. that the miners demand the right to be- long to the National Miners Union, the union of their own choosing. He said that despite peaceful + Presence of none uther than the Dis- trict Chief of the mining company | pelice, “Black Joe” Schonig. He must bave been properly bes ey ti by the declared, picketing in New Mexico, Governor Seligman sent troops at the request of the operators, and law was about. He and his buddy loaded 96 cars of rock and 18 cars of coal. When payday came they had about $7, which the company took back for expenses. When they asked the boss about pay for loading the rock, he replied, “You fellows are lucky to have a job. That is what you asked for when you came here, work, not pay for Rock.” The men who load coal are gypped coming and going, because the com- pany has so many different scales for loading coal from 17c¢ to 43¢ a ton. It is supposed to work on the basis of how thick the slate in your place is. Many days we throw back three or four cars of slate but get no pay for it. Company work has been raised from $3.45 to $4, but the prices in the com- pany store are going sky high, under Roosevelt's inflation. The majority of the men around here were fooled for a few weeks that the code promised by Roosevelt and company would bring back some kind of conditions. All the fakers of the UMW of A have been making all kinds of promises. But we are get- ting tired of these promises. The program of the NMU is the only pro- posal we have had to meet this situ- ation, Montour Miner, U. 8. Steel Co. Big Coal Strike (By a Worker Correspondent) CHICAGO, Ill.—The UW: 8, Steel Co. had a sudden spurt the first part of July and needed a large supply of coal. This made necessary the hiring of a large crew of Railroad workers by the Railroad operating in the U.S. Steel Yard, namely the EJ. & ERR. Many engines and crews were put to work. But those who were more ana- lytical could see tho uselessness of all this storing up of the open hearth coal. First, furnaces were being. shut down. No large orders of steel were being transported out of the mills. Second, the coal order amounted to 90,000 tons to be stored on the com- pany property, something that never before has been done in the history of the U. S. Steel Co, In the opinion of the wide-awake workers on the R.R. and the writer, the object of the hoarding of all this coal is that in case of a coal strike they will be well supplied. John L. Lewis, having in mind a coal strike, has undoubtedly “tipp-d off” his close friends the steel boss:3. Hibbing Conference Oct. 3 to Plan Struggl> far Unemployed Relic.’ HIBBING, Minn.—During the lact winter, when there was practically no work to be had here in Hibbing, and the majority of the workers were de- pendent on the Federal relief for existence we were able to mobilize workers here around the demands for more relief, against shutting off the lights, evictions, etc. Meetings called on these issues met with grati- ying rfesults. But we failed to keep up day to day activities in this fight for relief with the result that we have no un- employed council in Hibbing at pres- ent. Alregdy schools are being closed and relief is being cut. The only solution for us workers is to organize into strong unemployed councils and to fcrce relief from the local, state gcvoming bodies as well as direct from the mining eompanies. A step toward uniting the thou- sands of workers and farmers foor this struggle was taken at the con- ference Aug. 20th in Hibbing. At this conference a committee of seven was elected in carrying out the tasks outlined, four local conferences are to be held on the Range, The Conference that is to be held in Hibbing will fake place on Oct. 3rd. Street meetings will also be held in all parts of Hibbing in the work- ing class districts to get delegates as weil as to lay the basis for building the neighborhood and block commit- tees, Fight Evictions in Pittsburgh Area (By a Mine Worker Correspondent) PITTSBURGH, Pa—In the four mines of the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Corporation owned or controlled by Taplin, the miners are beginning to feel the whip end of the N.R ). More than 165 eviction orders hare been given the miners from the four mines, These are miners who haye openly opposed the company store and the misleaders of the U.M.W. of A. Some of these miners belong to the National Miners Union. Steps are being taken to stop the evictions. A mass meeting was held at No. 8 Mine, Coverdale, one recent Sunday, where Frank Borich, secretary of the N.M.U., made a report on the code hearings in Washington. Borich pointed out just what the N.R.A. means to the miners. The miner: Were enthusiastic over Unemployment Insuran