The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 26, 1933, Page 3

Communist Nominee OnlyNRA Opponent in Cleveland Polls | | Election Program Demands Immediate Relief | and Endorsement of Jobless Insurance | By L. MARTIN | CLEVELAND, 0.—The Blue Buzzard is flapping its wings over Cleve- | DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1933 “Refueling for Action” ei ‘ NEWS BRIEFS _| Boat Sets Record, Burns. LONDON, Sept. 25.—Thirty thou- sand persons watched in horror as | Hubert Scott-Paine’s speedboat, Miss | Britain III, burst into flames in Poole Harbor, Dorset, just after | smashing the British sea-mile record | with a run of 95.08 miles an hour. Damages on the boat were esti- mated at $125,000, but Scott-Paine | said he expected to replace the en- | gine and “within a fortnight, I hope, put the record over the hundred- mile mark.” Page Three PROGRESSIVE MINERS HEAD FOLLOWS LEWIS IN PRAISING CODE; MINERS PLAN STRIKE | Women’s Auxiliary Executive Sends Protest to Roosevelt Against Starvation and Strikebreaking Coal Code SPRINGFIELD, DL, Sept. 25.—While Claude Pearcy, President of the land’s city elections. Six of its chicks are running for mayor, each claim- ing to be the bird’s only genuine offspring. One candidate alone defies it, | Progressive Miners of America, praises the slave coal code and no-strike | Wage agreement signed by John L. Lewis with the coal operators, the execu- tive of the Illinois Women’s Auxiliary of the Progressive Miners have sent | Matter Out of Motion. | bitration the Communist, I. 0. Ford. | Through the NRA the streetcarmen’s strike for a 25 per cent wage increase has been hindered; NRA has® tied them down to a no-strike ar- agreement. The Swift reamsters’ strike against their NRA leader boss, Elmore Phelps, has been broken—arbitration again. The new NRA Compliance Board is found to be composed almost entirely of capi- talists, including the notorious labor- baiters, Wm. Frew Long and Mun- son Havens. Living costs are ris- ing sky-high, with wages lagging or | actually cut in many cases by NRA stagger plans. But all of these recent NRA “achievements” don’t faze the Buz- zard’s “favorite sons” one bit. Mayor Miller brags of making Cleveland “the leading NRA city.” Martin L. Sweeney has made his chief slogan: Back Roosevelt by electing Sweeney.” And so om down the line, with the Socialist Party candidate bringing up the rear “with reservations.” Demand Right To Strike ‘The NRA and its Cleveland spokes- | capitalism by | mien seek to save stabilizing wages at a low level. They would vs? a the nowers of the gov- t strikes which alone can raise wages to meet soaring liv- ing costs. Against this, the Commu- nis; Party demands the right to strike and n'cket, free from NRA strikebreaking. The NRA seeks to sidestep the de- d for unemployment insurance by ns of jobless on while it cuts re- his, the Communist y leveland demands a city ance for cash relief to the job- 7 a week. with $2 more for each dependent—this to be in effect till the Workers Unemployment In- surance Bill is passed: Other demands of the Communist candidates are for 5-cent carfare; re- duction of gas, water. and electric rates; stoppage of evictions and fore- clesures; elimination of slums and a public works program of benefit to the workers’ districts; cash pay at union rates on relief work; free school supplies and lunches and pay- ment of teachers’ salaries without cutting; reduction of taxes on small homeowners and increase on the rich. Besides I. O. Ford, the following Communist candidates will be on the ballot on Oct. 3: Elsie Young for Board of Education; Walter Dicks for Council, Ward 17; and Frank Kara for Council, Ward 13. A new feature of the coming elec- tion is the running of a united front workers’ ticket, the initiative for which came from the Small Home and Land Owners Federation. The following candidates have been en- dorsed by the Small Home Owners, by the Communist Party and by a number of other organizations par- ticipating in the united front: Yetta Land for Judge of the Muni- cipal Court, and these candidates for Council: E. ©. Greenfield, Ward 29; A. Kremarek, Ward 30; George Bires, Ward 28; J. 8, Kalavsky, Ward 16; Grace Levenhagen, Ward 32; Herbert Clemens, Ward 9; and S. L. Adams, Ward 4. Workers ‘Ticket in Buclid In Cleveland suburbs there is a Workers’ ticket at Euclid, John » Truppo for mayor; Garfield Heights, Fialla for councilman-at-large; Bed- ford and Linndale. In Cleveland the election meetings are featured by marches and parades, with an amplifier used at open-air meets, and big wind-up rallies each Saturday night. All workers should watch for the following meetings (8 p.m. unless otherwise specified) at which I. O. Ford will speak, as well as for the many additional ward meetings for the councilmanic can- , didates: Sept. 24, 10:30 a.m., May- field and 125th; 8 p.m,, Clark and Fulton hall; Sept. 25, lower Broad- way; Sept. 26, Grdina Hall, 6401 St. Clair; Sept. 27, 131st and Corlett; Sept. 29, upper Broadway; Sept. 30, upper Buckeye, also Public Square; Oct. 1, 105th and Superior; Oct. 2, Quincy and 65th. ‘March or Quit—_NRA Orders Workers for Schenectady Parade SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Almost every factory and store in Syra- cuse forced the workers to march or quit-in the NRA parade. The manager of the McCrory, ‘ad. 5e. to $1 store locked all doors at 5 .p. m, on September 18, and forced all the girls to.stay in the store. They were forced to eat in the store, and at 6 p. m. they - were forced to march in the parade for 5 hours, after 8 hours on their feet while at work. One girl pro- tested to the manager, the reply from the manager being, “If you want to work you want to march under the blue eagle.” c The same procedure took place in many other stores. The Boston Store gave warning as. follows: March or quit.” The Me Store signed under the blue buz- zard as follows: hours were reduced to 40 per week, wages increased to $13.50, but 24 out of 96 girls were fired. n BOSTON DISTRICT LL.D. BANQUET Wednesday, Sept. 27, 7 p.m. Dudley Street Opera House 118 Dudley Street, Roxbury Guests of Honor: RUBY BATES & ALICE BURKE Eat Proletarian Style! Lively Entertainment! 300 Strike in Mass. Shoe Plant. SALISBURY, Mass., Sept. 25. —/ When the workers’ demands for} shorter hours and higher pay were | rejected by the Ruth Shoe Co., the entire crew of 300° workers walked | out on strike here last week. | The shop displays the blue buzzard | in its windows but the management does not intend to improve the con- | ditions of the workers, unless com- | Pelled to do so. To break the strike, | the company is recruiting scabs | through the office of the chief of | police, Harold Condon, Chairman of | the Board of Selectmen of the town end a former bootlegger. The strikers are standing pat for | their demands. ‘What Daily’ Means, to a Dye Strike Leader in N. J. PATERSON, N. J.—A month ago | Herbert Snell, Chairman of the Gen- eral Strike Committee of the Dye Workers, had never seen a copy of | the Daily Worker. When the National Textile Work-| ers’ Union, which is leading the| present strike, was organizing the Weidman shop, where he works, he had heard of the “Daily” but never got to read it, “The first time I read the paper,” said Snell, “was when I went to the Cleveland Trade Union Convention |last month,” | “When I first read it I found it was different from any other paper I ever read because it told the truth about all the different situations of the workers and helped me under-: stand what's going on. Other papers tell everything in the bosses’ favor, but the Daily Worker is a paper for the working people. If it was in Cleveland that Snell first became interested in the “Daily” it was in Paterson during the strike he saw concretely how the “Daily” differed from all other papers. He found that the Paterson News, the Paterson Call and the New York Papers were writing on the strike from the standpoint of the bosses, but, said Snell, “The Daily Worker gives the true situation, supporting the strikers every time. The capi- talist papers tell everything to break the strike and hold up the N. R. A. The Daily Worker exposes what’s going on- and advises and gives courage to the strikers so they won't be buffaloed back to work.” Amalgamated Tailors Reject Tax Proposals At Philadelphia Meet' PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Sept. 25.— With a thunderous “No” the tailors of the Amalgamated Clothing Work- ers rejected new tax proposals of the union’s Board of Directors at a packed meeting last Tuesday. The meeting of shop chairman and active mem- bers was called to vote on a new $10 tax supposed to go into the or- ganization fund. Sidney Hillman, president of the union was present at the meeting to help put over this recommendation of the A.C.W. ma- chine. Charles Weinstein, local official who opened the meeting, was met with shouts and jeers when he tried realized resist burd i eae new lens im bance bs Lampshade Frame Makers Win Strike In Philadelphia PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Sept. 25. — All demands were won by lampshade frame makers on strike here since September 1, as a result of a settle- ment effected with the Manufactur- ers’ Association. ‘The workers won increases in wages ranging from 20 to 25 per cent and recognition of a union committee to adjust all grievances which may arise. The workers have organized a lampshade workers industrial union affiliated with the Metal Workers In- dustrial Union, PROTEST FOOD DESTRUCTION TERRE HAUTE, Ind—In a reso- lution to ‘President Roosevelt, the | Unemployed Council “condemns the Policy of destroying hogs and cotton, and curtailing and dumping wheat.” A demand is made to the President to use the tremendous amount of commodities for the unemployed this | To which the company’s officials an- | sible. | and that having no ava: Determined to resist the attempt of the Edenborn, Pa., mine owners to resume operation, these miners are shown gathering at mess time, while on picket duty that effectively kept mines closed. Flint Papers Print Lies | Misrepresent All Facts; Build United Front to Win Against Auto Bosses but they are all out 100 per cent] strong. About six weeks ago the Mechanics’ Education Society, who represents | the Tool and Dyemakers, commis- | sioned its Executive Committee to Detroit, to negotiate with the G. M. officials, presenting their demands of the recognition of their union. And about a few weeks ago, the unions’ Executive Committee again negotiated with the company. This time for the regulation of hours and wages, demanding 5 days per week, 7% hours per day at $1.50 per hour. swered with a laugh, stating that the hours will be considered upon, but | that the wage demands are impos- But instead of taking our demands into consideration, on Thursday after Labor Day, and after repeated nego-| tiations with the G. M. officials, the| company hung out on the (clocks @ notice, notifying that “All Tool and Dyemakers will work on Saturdays.” This notice caused a misunderstand- | ing among the workers, but after a) hasty meeting, the majority of Tool| and Dyemakers decided not to work, | and this ended on Saturday. The) company was forced to tear down the notices, But at the following meeting of the Mechanics’ Education Society, the tool and dyemakers were told that because of the company’s m work lable piace for more workers, and that certain jobs must be done on time, the tool and dyemakers would have to work six days a week. The union agreed to this in consideration of the com- pany, agreeing to the workers’ demands which the union changed from $1.50 to $1.15 per hour for tool and dyemakers, and $1 per hour for machine hands. ‘The Chevrolet officiais still thought that $1.15 per hour was too much, and again the Executive Committee of the Mechanics’ Education Society lowered the wage demands to $1 per hour. After these negotiations on Wage demands, the company officials Promised to have a return answer (Bq a Worker Correspondent.) FLINT, Mich.—The Mechanics Education Society, called a strike of all Tool and Dyemakers and Experimental at Chevrolet and Buick Motor Co., division of General Motors, A. C. Sparks, at Flint, Mich, The strike was called Thursday afternoon, and at Chevrolet approxi- mately 1,200 Tool and Dyemakers are out on strike 100 percent. The amount of men out at Buick is not known,® Trying To Smash Strike of Auto Die Makers 300 More Join Flint Tool Makers Strike; | More Expected Out AFL Leaders Work to | Break Strike; Rank and File Walk Out Worker Urges Men to Over 2,000 struck, ‘ready by Thursday, September i, 1933. And on Thursday, when the Executive Committee didn’t receive the promised answer from the com- DETROIT, Mich,, Sept. 25.— Three | hundred men of the AC Spark Plug | PASADENA, Calif Sept. 25. | Several radiation laboratories report experiments which show pure motion | apparently changingeinto solid mat- | ter. This would indicate that for the | first time man has seen the creation lof matter. Principally the experi- ments come from the California In- | stitute of Technology here and from | Cambridge, England. For, But Not By the People. ROME, Sept. 25.—Dictator Musso- lini extended a hearty invitation to- | day to a touring troupe of fifty mem- | bers of the French Pariament. | “I am sure you will find ours a popular regime,” he said. “We gov- | ern for our people although I do not | mean to say through the medium of ig: people.” y | Prepare Winter Forest"Camps. WASHINGTON, Sept. 5.—In prep- jaration for the forced labor camps | during the winter, the government will build approximately 550 new jcamps and “winter-proof” 990 | others. | Tt is expected that $1,000,000 will be ‘spent for clothing, shoes, hardware and other needs. Graft in previous purchases of toilet kits for the forest \camps will undoubtedly be duplicated. | AEE Swell Hotel Rented ‘By A. F. L. Leaders For 53rd Convention ‘Union Hall Spurned By Them Taken for Rank and File Conference 7; | # resolution to Roosevelt conde: Threaten to Fine | Arkar — 3-Okla. Miners $1 Per Day 4,000 on Strike Against Low Wages of Soft Coal Code , Ark. Sept. 25. ‘anks of the 4,000 striking Ar- kansas-Oklahoma miners remained | solid today. No violence has been re- | ported. Some mines have posted signs | | Saying that miners will be fined $1) a day for each dcy they strike. There are only hi ted rumors that some mines may atiempt to work in the next féw days. Fowler, district | president, returning from Washing- ton, spoke to a mass meeting in Ft. Smith Saturday Meanwhile the miners began rais- ing questions. You -hear them asking | | when they get together in groups: | “Will Fowler and Lewis order us back | to work? Is Pennsylvania still out? | Is Iowa still striking?” | News of solidarity came to the| miners here at noon today. Reports | came that District 14, Missouri and} Kangps, had come out on strike, pro- | testing the wage scale of $3.75 pro-| posed under the code. This will affect | 5,009 mine: 'Hellwig Strikers Hold | Parade in Philadelphia PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Sept. 25. eal mning the code for its perpetuation of hunger ——@in the coal fields. Pearcy has just returned here from Washington where he approved of the coal code. Despite Pearcy's praise, the rank | and file in the P.MA. are making | preparations for a strike against the code and for the six-hour-day and five-day-week without a reduction in pay. The district executive board of the Women’s Auxiliary of the P.M.A warns the Federal government. that “there can be no peace in the tur- bulent coal fields of America so long as hunger stalks these mining towns.” Local Union of the P.M.A. in Belle- ville adopted a resolution demand- ing the 5-day-week; Local No, 1 of P.M.A. in Gillespie, with 2,500 mem- bers, decided to work 6 hours a day and then quit; other locals decided to wait until Pearcy returns from Washington before they take defi- nite action in the struggle against the code. Already an attempt to discredit this movement is being made. Joe Picek, president of the Local No. 1, who takes pride in flashing a deputy sheriff's badge, and others spread rumors that the demand for 6-hour- day and 5-day-week comes from agents of John L, Lewis. They are trying to take advantage of the deep hatred that the miners have for Lewis to knock this genuine demand of the miners on the head. Everybody knows and sees the widespread sentiment among the rank and file miners for struggle against the code. Not only the left wing and more advanced miners, but especially these miners who had so much faith in Roosevelt and the NRA. are taking the lead in this movement. The main weakness of the move- .——| ment is that it is shaping itself main- Rain could not dampen the fighting | ly around one or two demands, name- | all tool and dyemakers where the Pany, a mass meeting was called of | Co, at Flint joined the strike of the | tool and die makers. facts were presented. The tool and f These crafts in the Chevrolet, dyemakers voted unanimously to go| on strike, Buick and AC Spark Plug plants are The strike started Thursday, with| out practically 100 per cent. The the afternoon shift still working un-| strike is led by the Mechanics Edu- til 10 pm, but after 10 ‘p.m. no| cational Society.- shift replaced them. The afternoon | a shift hearing about the strike, went; The men are striking for higher directly to the meeting place and| pay. Despite heavy rain, mass pick- supported the strike 100 per cent. | eting started at 5 am. * Winning the strike depends on the ‘ten thousand Detroit-too! and die unity of all tool and dyemakers. The local newspaper, “ ‘ ‘ Journal,” does ak hesitate to. write| Westion of a sympathetic strike. Sen- false reports on the strike, in which | iment for strike is especially strong they state the minority is striking.| at the Fisher Body Plant No. 23. This That is not ah Ae fot ane ye | and the Flint plants are General makers are out per cent in Buick | ‘1 and Chevrolet Motor Co. The only| Motors subsidiaries. re who oe Rha re cat Leaders of the A. F. of L. United oremen, ‘urther on the fournal | falsifies the cause of the strike, say-| AU? ae beg cm aig ing it is competition between the A.| Ment to help break-the strike. How- F. of L. union and the Mechanics’) ever, of 18 members-ef the A. F. of Education Society, for soliciting mem~ bers among the automobile workers, that the dues of the latter are less L, machinists’ union, joined the strike. in Flint, ‘i ‘ | “Flint Sein} Cee are still balloting on the | spirit of the strikers of the Hellwig NEW YORK, Sept. 25.—Carpenters’ | sik and Dye Company, who paraded Hall, housed in the ten-story building | through Wissonoming last week after recently erected as its official head-| 4 mass picketing demonstration. On |quarters by A. F. of L. labor unions | the route of march, about 75 workers in Washington, D. C., at 10th and K.| of the Fitler Rope Works, striking Sts, N. W.. has been offered at @/ under the National Textile Workers’ very low rental to the A. F. of L.| wnion, joined the parade. The strik- Committee for Unemployment In-/| ors carrying slogans on their plac- | surance for its Rank and File Con- ards, passed the Delta Dye House, the ference taking place on Oct. 2nd and | 4113. "hee works and other plants 3rd, it was announced yesterday by| 21002 the way where they - were Louis Weinstock, Secretary of the} a + cheered by the workers. The Delta Committee, who added that the offer elites, Wie: ash being led by the | | | has been accepted. |F. of L., greeted the strikers and | The same hall when offered to the | 4x idari pressed their solidarity with the A. F. of L. for its 53rd Annual Con-| struggie for decent conditions. Fif- vention opening in Washington also | teen dollars was collected along the on Oct. 2nd was spurned by its cor- line of march. |rupt leaders who instead rented the | a 12} than by the Federation. It shows plainly that Daily Journal is doing distort the facts of the strike. Tool and dyemakers stick to thi strike and no matter what union you | belong, to the A. F. of L. or to the | Mechanics’ Education Society, your | duty is to stand united in this strike. | Also the A.C. Spark Plug and Fisher | Body tool and dyemakers should sur- port the strike. Stand firm in unity for your de- | mands and do not believe the <alre statements of the Flint Daily Jour- nal, for you all know that our local |/paper has alweys been at the servic | of the General Motors, and their aim | is to misinform you, to break you. unity. the Flint On Saturday the Daily Worker has 8 pages. Increase your bundle order | for Saturday! The companies are™trying to get scabs at $1.35 an hour, 35 cents more | n the demand. The=strikers are ing on the production men to re- fuse to work with scabs. neld in Flint last nightefor ses and the rightto *€ Martial Law Governor Of New Mexico Dies Governor Arthur Séligman of New Mexico fell dead in“his hotel room teday of heart distasé. “He was at- tending a meeting of "bankers of the state. Governor Ssligman,-@ few months before he died, ordered national guardsmen to Gallup,-N. M., declar- ing martial law in an-effort to break the strike led by the National Min- lers Union. | Witlla~’ Hetel which employs non- | union labor on its maintenance staff. | |. This action by the A. F. of L. leaders has caused considerable re- | sentment among the carpenters as | well as other workers in Washington, | D. C., with the carpenters as a re-| sult pledging 5 delegates to the Rank | Beating of drums and singing of strike songs aroused the neighbor- hood, and the workers declared the parade to be one of the most spirited deménstrations ever held in this sec- tion. The strike is in its fifth week but the strikers are in fine spirit and will hold their ranks until their de- |ly, 6-hour-day, 5-day-week. This demand by itself although = good demand, will not solve the miners’ problems of feeding, housing and | clothing himself and his family or | the problems of the unemployed | miners. With this demand must go other basic demands, namely: 1) $6 a day | basic wage scale; 2) guarantee of a | minimum of 40 weeks a year work; | 3) gradual increase in wages to cor- respond with increase in prices of commodities; 4) adequate unemploy- | ment relief and unemployment insur- ance at the expense of the coal oper- | ators and the government. These are the demands that were | presented in Washington by the Na- | tional Miners Union and they are | contained in the program of struggle | adopted by the mining delegations in | the Cleveland Conference for United Action. Around these demands this movement must shape itself uniting j all miners and Women’s Auxiliary for and Pile Genference, and. with ad- | ands, including recognition of the} (7°,," Se ee ae ditional unions expected to join as|NT-W.U. are won j perma Se well. justin rewnee wens os Living Costs During Vets, Jobless, UMW Jemployment Insurance Bill, dues- “ ete M Aid Ut hMi 5 insH 4 . A t ‘toa toe vaio Aonst Continned to ened Ulan Miners of L. lead r more than 100 delegates from A. F. of L. | unions, many of them coming from | basic industries, such as mining, steel, | auto, textile, Louis Weinstock stated. At its last meeting, the A. F. of L. | Committee for Unemployment Th- | surance elected a committee of seven to draw up draft resolutions for the | Confer and to also complete ar- |rangomonts for the Conference. |‘They are: A. Basskoff, of the | Carpents! Moore, of Meche- ies’ Ascociciion; Louis Weinstock; A. Rosenberg, of the Big Six; D. Gordon, Paperplate and Bag Makers’ Union; A. Davis; Max Boardman, Paperhangers’ Union. of the | Big Donate Relief, Picket | Against Hiring of Seabs FORT STANTON, New Mex.— Patients of the Fort Stanton Mili. tary Hospital took up a collection of $5, and rushed it to the Gallup strikers with a letter declaring sol- idarity with the heroic Gallup strik- ers and condemning the use of troops against the strikers. e, Report Shows | NEW YORK, September 25.—Con-/ | tinuing an uninterrupted advance, | the index of the cost of living took another sharp move upward during the month of August, the National Industrial Conference reported yes- ced anether 2 * d cloth- ut aierially to the increase in the cost of living, the Board pointed out. | Food prices are now 18-20 per cent higher than in March, velt took office. Unemployed Picket WALSENBURG, Col o,—Unem- when Roose- ployed Councils of Trinidad and | Walsenburg, Colorado, are picketing /and patrolling all employment By PAT TOOHEY \ FY HUNDRED New Mexico militiamen. patrol all streets, guard all roads and highways, mount their machine guns on all tipples and mines throughout McKinley County, New Mexico. They arrived in McKinley County the evening of the second day of the strike called by the miners of Gallup, under the leadership of the National Miners’ Union, Martial law rules in all McKinley County. Gatherings of more than three are dispersed. All mass meet- ings are prohibited. Local union meetings, meetings of the depart- ments of the N.M.U., relief and de- fense committees—are prohibited “for the good of the state of New Mexico.” Private homes are raided regularly, Squads of troopers invade homes and ransack them. “Search- ing for arms” is the usual excuse. Squads of troopers go from house to house in the mining camps terror- izing and bulldozing the miners and their wives and children, threaten- ing them to return to work. The N. M. U. relief station is feed- ing 2,000 people. Also here “no more than five” are permitted at one time, although it requires at least 50 people to disburse the relief and keep the records for 2,000 people.’ Smash Picket Lines Picket lines are smashed by the troopers, who drive the pickets back with drawn bayonets. Picketing on federal highways is prohibit The troops block the road with their ar- tillery, machine guns, cavalrymen, ete, and allow no striker or strike wintes sympathizer to pass. Strikebreakers, “God Save the State of New Mexico”--Martial Law Order | agencies in this field to prevent any ' strikebreakers from being sent into | the Gallup, New Mexico coal strike. | Reports were circulated that the | Gallup mine owners were intending to recruit strikebreakers in Walsen- “Impartial” Deeds of 500 Militiamen Consists in Preventing Al Strike Activities, While Helping Bosses Run Scabs Through in Effort to Break Strike with the little white cards, are rushed through the troopers’ lines | with all haste, speed and protection. Wg. | N. M. U. headquarters is sur- rounded by squads of troopers, who drive miners away from the en- trance, and usually prevent anyone from entering the headquarters. Armed military police are stationed within the N. M. U./offices at all times. Any N. M. U. meeting, whether it is a meeting of the executive board or the local unions, must, according to the edict of Brig.-General Wood, adjutant-gen- eral of the strikebreakers, “be open to the public and members of the National Guard.” All N, M. U. meet- ings have as honored guests a squad of troops within the meeting. N. M. U. relief trucks enroute to the coal camps are halted and de- nied entrance to the camps by the troops. “Trespassing on company Property” is the gag. The aim here is to starve the miners into submis- where their homes are, compelling the miners to sleep in the desert. Is He a Strikebreaker? | Yet, Governor Seligman denies he lis strikebreaking. He’ denied through | the press and denied to the N, M. U. committees that he is using the | troops to break the strike. He used the ancient joke that “the troops are |in Gallup for the protection of law |and order—they are impartial, they take no sides for or against the bosses or miners.” | “Impartial’—yet it is the military who hamper the relief work of the junion, deny food going into the camps, smash picket lines, deny meetings to the miners, prohibit the |N. M. U. locals functioning. At the |same time Wood permits the Cham- | ber of Commerce, United Mine Work- ers of America and all other strike- breaking outfits, as well as the coal companies, to hold their meetings unrestrictedly and without interfer- ence or the presence of troopers. “Impartial”"—yet it is the military sion who live in the camps outside | that is holding incommunicado the Gallup. leaders of the N. M. U., arrested on Hundreds of miners who live in| faked issues. It is the military who the camps and who may come to|is denying these leaders the right Gallup to attend a mass meeting/to a trial, right to talk to a lawyer, (when one is allowed, which is rare) | right to even read a newspaper. It are halted by troops on their return] is the miliary who is the main, home and are not, permitted to re-|chief strikesreaking instrument be- enter the camps where they live and ing used bv the mine-owners against \ i the Gallup miners and - anything Seligman says cannot deny this fact. “Impartial"—yet it is the mililary who rides down the schoo} children protesting the errest and imprison- tment cf the N. M. U, leaders. And for this “impartiality” $1,000 of New Mexico in an effort to help God save the State of New Mexico from the dangers of 2,000 organized, militant and determined miners anc their wives, determined to wipe out once and for all the open shop tradi- tion of this notorious open shop, scab field. Despite the strikebreaking militia and the terror they are creating, de- spite arrests and jailings, martial law, troops, deputies, scabs, stool. pigeons and drunken sheriffs, the miners are standing like Gibraltar. Every repressive act against the strikers has had the opposite effect than that desired by the mine own- ers. But it is not terror which will de- feat the strikers. It is hunger. lup lies 200 miles in the desert, 200 miles from another town or a farm~- ing district, The strikers have re- mained solid three weeks now in face of a violent terror and have sup- plied themselves with food. They have had to bring food, vegetables and farm products from as far away Gal- Per day is being spent by the State! |as 200, 400 and 600 miles by truck. burg. NMU Locals here and Un- |N. M. U. trucks go as far away as|employed Committees immediately | El Paso, Denver, Santa Fe to col-/set up vigilance committees to see |lect food. But this requires gas and |that no scabs came from Walsen- | expenses, which means money. burg. The New Mexico and Colorado Ah? if | farmers have responded heroically to Donate Relief the aid of their miner brothers.. FREDERICK, Colo. — Locals of These farmers have sent food by the the United Mine Workers in the on, northern Colorado field, disregard- More help must come from the ing instructions of their officers and workers throughout the country. So! district officials, have invited to iar this aid has be2n negligible, in| their meetings representatives of New Mexico and in Utah (in Utah, the New Mexico strikers and do- where the struggle is more fierce). nated to strike relief. The I.W.W. The amount of this help and the members in the northern field are quickness of its arrival will larzely | assisting in raising strike relief. a acatmias the outcome of the ing WomanH | struggle. | hae this help come? We are wait~| WorkingWoman eads ‘Communist Ticket in Schenectady, N. Y. ling, At present there is but one | day’s supplies left and little in sight. SCHENECTADY, N. Y.—One of |the women workers exploited by | Raise the questicn before your or- | ganization or its executive and rush |the General Electric Corporation which controls this city, will be a contribution by telegraph or air-| the standard bearer of the Com: |mail. Have all members go among |their friends and sympathizers and [raise collections and donations for |the strikers, Send a steady barrage test against the martial law, use of|™unist Party in the fall elections I areca etc, to Governor Seligman,| The choice for mayoralty candi- | Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Governor| date is a radio G. B. worker whe | Blood, Utah. |has been laid off. {of telegrams and resolutions of pro- | Send all relief funds to the N. M.! Numerous workers’ organizations | Denver, Colorado. ASK POLL TAX EXEMPTION PITTSBURGH, Pa.—The Unem- ployed Council is demanding that unemployed workers be relieved of the poll tax, non-payment of which | bars them from voting | U. Relief Committee, P. O. Box 2823; | are being approached to support the Communist election program In a letter addressed to all workers the Party calls for “energetic sup- port and unity of all forces” which will “wrest more relief and other concessions from the General Elec. twe and its local government,”