The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 18, 1933, Page 4

ON THE STRIKE FRONT; STRUGGLES I ti yours 0% pay me *;. order that the unemployed can not} faq se aaa! ontent Cd ae od wif aise? & age i fe v2! vase ‘ste the promise that the N.R.A. will set ep @ commission that will give them i te a Gy it oY “Betray 40,000 in Anthracite Field How 40,000 Anthracite Miners Nee , to buy either a whole hog or a halt, ai them were in debt to the company % _(yedopracticed against any of the adher- ‘” course the usual array of fakers were id 1) © Aiden Coal Co. and Col Smith, of the eUnion Heads, NRA ! | Action Committee Calls on Miners to Organize - Fight for Own Demands, Unemployment Insurance; Against Strikebreakers Malonéy and Cappalinni, anthracite union officials, have succeeded in breaking the strike of the 40,000 miners in district one with the promise of N.R.A. mediation. Their only demand was that the coal operators do not discriminate against the members of their union, They make the statement that this means recognition of thelr union. This is done to cover up the fact that the actual de-©—— —— mands of the miners were pushed Children are picking ¢oal on the} into the background. | rock piles to keep from freezing, we Maloney states that they will have | Sbould demand that the Goverment fn observer at Washington while the | buy $15,000,000 worth of anthracite pon is being made. = ¥ |to put miners back to work, ae se sider" the coal free to the unemployed. re et aoe ware | Miners these are the things that we e UMW. o ve gol sh- | ‘ , there w: no code futon, Jolin 1. Lewis is one’ of the| TUE Dave NOW, thet ee ee ge aes oe cs oe caine ree - gree mands, we will have to BS aoe ee * 3 2"! the miners who are g palini are telling the miners to g0|y¢ w, of A. and the miners who are back to work and trust that these|in the U. A. M. P. must fight to- Sian a fae ¢ ani will | gether for este cae oe : Saye , cials of neither jon. for rnb ibe bol hee ; hoe gtaty these demands; do not let our Helped Lay. «hy yaar ed rade Lt * | be ded as to who We are goi ‘Smith, of the Times Leader who ran| pay dues too, whether it is Maloney @ full page ad for strike-breakers dur-| ang Cappelint, or Boylan and Lewis. ing the strike. No wonder that Judge | CGjose your ranks fellow mine work~- McLane, as a representative of the|ers and when we strike let us strike Glen Alden Coal Co. came to the|¢or our demands and against the assistance of Maloney and Cappelini| 699] operators, Get in touch with the dn sending the miners back to work, Committee of Action, 309 N. Main Mr. Comerford, representative of the |St., Archibald, Pa. N.R.A. and owner of a chain of thea- to the front with his full snare of Minnesota Range Mine Jobs Drop praise for Maloney, Monsigneur Cur- ran who v widance of Theo- dore Roos for the arbit: ent agreement than any ott What did these people ¢: (By 2 Mine Worker Correspondent) i rei VIRGINIA, Minn. — Every news- there tr Ente ee paper on the Range has been yelling al manner, Monsienens|*bout the work that the N. R. A. peace, while the State | as created on the Range. Still we were driving “the miners | S¢¢ that the mines are closing, and ver th "Hike wild bea more and more workers are being “the hills like wild beasts, Hane one bate ior eek ee tar ee tm codes done | +ia¢ the Commodore mine, which has egg AES role 4 |been operating up till now, closed n the instrument used by | feen Operating up ti now, ot to establish forced labor ill remain closed jut America, and right) “what are the miners of the Com- We see workers | -.odore going to do now? Winter er. while | the State Troopers were beating up} ur women, follo’ homes and <2 a is coming, and looking at the start 2 the | %f it, a very hard winter. Even the handouts, which are few and will not keep the workers nd clothed during the winter. N, R. A. was with the full support of the officials | req of the UMW. of A. There is only one solution to this *, The demands of miners | probiem, and that is the organiza- » throughout the anthracite must be/ tion of the unemployed miners into pier the restoration of the Colliery| militant Unemployed Councils to de- Rate sheet rates, the elimination of/ mand more and adequate relief, and > the arbitration clause, no discrimina-|to show Mayor Barker and the steel tion, the right of the workers to be- | trust that we refuse to starve and - long to any union that they choose, | freeze for cons‘deration work, for tNe pay-| tent of all dead work, for the six- | NationalSlovak Society Fight Strike “hour day, in fact the present agree- | & juent, with the abolition of the pres-| ebt clause on arbitration, in order to Officers énforce this agreement the miners - Will have to retain the right to strike| By ® Mine Werke ‘Corvempondesis » Where ever the agreement is violated, | |» Asa eae a oreieteon, the right to strike will be taken away there wasa plea from the officers of the National Slovak Society urging all the Slovaks to go back to work who had been on strike and to best the ff they can force the anthracite min- up the NRA. ,£Ts to accept the code now being prepared In Washington. The miners Must have as one outstanding de- -™mand. Worke: Unemp! a | w gand. Workers Unemployed and| “‘put A. 8, Rodak, treasurer of the| We must + the Workers Un-| N.S.S. some time ago was charged P smranioe’ SIL Whtet with embezzlement of $100,000 in an attempt to break up the NSS. He was acquitted during the trial. Now he is trying to break up the strike employed Insurance Bill, which de-| mands that unemployed workers be} by urging the Slovaks to work. Such men as these are the ones naid $10 for the head of a family | who back the N.R.A. “and $3 for each dependent, this to be | paid by the bosses, we must support | the unemployed workers in their] fight for more relief, the ever in-| creasing cost of living is driving the} A. E. Rodak was formerly cashier Kers ever nearer to starvation, in| of the First National Bank of Yukon. | ‘The workers of Yukon know that these persons are their misleaders of labor. In the tewn of Whyels the miners received a 3-cent cut per wagon. For- merly they received 78 cents per wagon, be forced by the bosses to take our| ‘jobs through starvation we must/ build a Union that will draw the un-| *“employed into the struggle for higher | Wages, and shorter working hours | Winter is here and our women and ~Were Forced Back to Work (By a Mine Worker Correspondent) WILKES-BARRE, Pa.—Of course you know that we have had a strike » f some 40,000 miners here in this section of the anthracite, under the lead- ership of Maloney and Capalinni. The strike developed over the breaking » of the agreement between the miners and operators. At the convention hun- ‘dreds of grievances was presented by the miners. Many miners stated that ther were forced to buy pianos from®. which the bosses received a cut in the | Times Leader, who had been .carry- form of what the mise:s call a kick-|ing full page ads for the Delaware back, that the Penn Coal Co. runs a| & Hudson Coal Co. for scabs to take hog farm, and that miners are forced | the place of the striking coal miners. | Another who represents the N. R. A. in this district is Comerford, owner of a chain of picture shows through- out the anthracite, and last but not least the same Father Curran who carried through fhe program under Teddy Roosevelt of giving the miners of the anthracite the first arbitra- tion clause in any agreement of the anthracite miners was particularly effective with his humanitarian ap- peal (for peace on earth and good will to men). Father Curran had issued a leaf- let to his parishioners in the morning before the miners had voted on the question in which he stated that the strike of the miners was over, and appealed to the general public to vive thanks, Personally I was just sick that we did not have one delegate that would carry our program into the conven- tion. There was one delegate that we thought we had who could have done the job, but he was nowhere to be found before the convention. There was a real “ssson for vs ‘ere paying sometimes $20 for a half hog, “with another miner buying the other half and having to pay $2 because “he had a job that paid him more ;,Money. But the main grievances _ Game as a result of the coal operators refusing to pay the colliery rate Sheet rates. Many of the miners worked for eight and ten days and received $10 to $i4, and many of ‘or supplies. “2 The strike is now over and the miners have returned to work with a new deal. There is a lot of dis- satisfaction still among the miners, that was not apparent in the con- vention when the delegates voted to return to work. The delegates were not allowed to bring anything on-the floor of the convention, other than accepting the proposal to return to ‘work without discrimination being vents to the Maloney Union. Of/not be lost, that if we hed done any thing to carry out the line of the ope: loites cboul ino brilding of groups of committees of action or whatever we wish to call them, then Anvited to soft-soap the miners into eecepting the N.R.A. program. Chief ‘among them were Judge McLean, in the anthracite, that I hope will| the DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1938 N COAL, AUTO, MEAT PACKING (By a Worker Cotrespondent) St. PAUL.—Floyd B. Olson, demon- strated that he is a shrewd strike- breaker Monday, at the Austin plant of the Hormel Packing Co., when he succeeded in getting 2,700 workers to abandon the strategie position they held when they seized the packing plant late last Saturday. They only acceded to the wishes of the Gover- Farmey-Labor Governor Praised by Bosses for Breaking Austin Strike nor when he threatened to send five) companies of the National Guard in- to Austen to eject them from the plant. Went on Strike Saturday The leadership of the Independent Union of All Workers, which embraces all the employees of the plant on its membership roll was forced by the rank and file to demand a flat in- Aid Meat Strike, Is Call of the Communist Party PITTSBURGH, Pa. — Calling on all workers to support the strike of the packing house workers, the Com~- munist Party of the Pittsburgh dis- trict, has issued the following state- ment: “The District Committee of the Communist Party of Pittsburgh is and will continue to give its full support to the strike of the Packing House Workers. The strike is for better working conditions and for recognition of their union, the Pack- ing House Workers Industrial Union. In th's strike, as in all strikes, the workers are being met with all kinds of attacks by the bosses and their servants. The police are at- tacking the picket line and attacks dozens of strikers while giving protec- tion to the scabs. “The courts are being used by the bosses to issue injunctions, on the excuse of “violence and in this way ‘help’ scabs. “The boss-controlied press of the City are attempting to prejudice the public and the strikers against the strike leaders and the Union, print- ing all statements made by the strik- ers, but refusing to print all state- ments made ‘by the strike leadership. Intimidate Foreign-Born “The Immigration Authorities, part of the Federal Government, are be- ing used to intimidate foreign-born strikers by threats of deportation. “The leaders of the American Fed- eration of Labor have attempted to split the ranks of the strikers to help ; Smash the strike. “All these attacks show that the boss class stands united against the workers,—the police, the courts, the Federal Government, the press (con- must stand united, men and women, members of the A. F. L. and mem- bers of the Packing House Workers Industrial Union, young and old, Negro and white, in one united front against the bosses and their servants. “All workers and working class or- ganizations. must unite with the Packing House Workers. This united front can defeat the employers. Party of Working Class “The Communist Party, not like all other political parties, is a Party of the working class. It stands guard in the interests of all workers, re- gardless of who their leaders may be, at all tfmes. Tis members have proven to be some of the best fight- ers in the interests of the class. That is why the bosses an their servants hate bitterly the Com- munist Party and its members. That is why so many lies are spread to prejudice the workers against the Communists, “Strikers, workers of all industries! Be on Guard! The Police, the court the N. R. A. Labor Board are all political tools of the boss class against the workers. These are controlled by the boss political par- ties. “The Communist Party is the poli- tical Party of the working class. You can trust that it will always fight | to the end for you and all other workers. Hold your ranks solid! Defeat the attempts of the strike- breakers to smash your strike! |Through unity you will be victori- | ous!” District Committee, District No. 5, Pittsburgh Communist Party of the U. 8.4. trolied by the rich), the A. F. L. leaders. Against this, the strikers By TOM MYERSCOUGH A rather vague and far from wide- spread understanding exists as to the full meaning of the term ‘check-off,” as applied to miners’ wages. But this is not to be wondered at, when it is told that even the miners who suffer from it often have to spend considerable time to figure out the various items checked off their pay, before fully realizing the extent of the robbery made, But because the general opinion has existed that the term “check-off” applied only to union dues, there has been little thought given to the whole- sale robbery the check-off, carried on by the coal operators. And while it is true that even in the days of the union the check-off was very, thuch misused, with the knowledge and consent of the U.M.W.A. official- dom, it is more so the case today. Let me list some of the thing: checked off each miner every pay day, so that the reader may more fully understand some of the reasons for the rebelliousness of the miners: company stores; mine lamp; rent; lights; coal; hauling; doctor; black- smith; éxplosives; mine (brass) checks; board; insurance; hospital; generator; burial fund; bath house; overdrafts. “Duck Eggs” and “Kisses” The above listed items, which are all attended to through the medium of the check-off, leave the miner in posssssion of a “pay slip” on pay day, but often without pay. It is from such slips that the terms “duck eggs,” and come, according to the habit of the particular mine office clerk in marking such completely robbed miners’ pay slips. Three zero’s three crosses or @ crooked line, in the order listed, being the markings to which above names are applied. Of all the methods of stealing a miners’ pay, several stand out boldly. The worst is the company store. There the miner is compelled to buy, at the cost of his job, at prices ranging from ‘who is the attorney for the Glen|-2 e-'4 bora nut i some kind of struggle in the convention. 20 to 75 per cent above private store Prices. Tf can be safely estimates “Kisses” and “Snakes” are derived, a: 2203 Center Ave. Pittsburgh, Pa. Bosses, UMWA Heads Rob Se Docked for Dozens of Hormel! Pl all |B Are Handed Over by Companies to Lewis Gang to Pay for Strikebreaking Service ant ase of 10 per cent on Saturday. management of the plant pre- ed to resist the demands of the |men, The plant was picketed and |some men were induced to become |scabs, Seeing this, thy pickets mobi- ized all the workers immediately |available and entered and took pos- session of the plant. | Call Sheriff Geo. Hormel Jr., galled the sheriff | and his deputies but before that offi- cial got to the plant, all the man- aging officials and the would be scabs were ejected. The sheriff, attended | by a force of deputies, was allowed to enter, and on his order to vacate | the building being given, the strikers | answered him by bursts of laughter. The sheriff then tried to deputize a force of thugs, but failed. He called up the Governor, pointing out that he| | could not eject the strikers, and asked | for the state militia. | ‘Consternation and Dismay | When the Governor received this > called in his labor ad- hey were thrown into a consternation and dismay. uld not control the workers ugh the Minnesota Federation of bor, because the union was inde- | pendent, and not affiliated with .the A. of L. It was decided to send Frank Starkey, reactionary ex-busi- ness agent of the milk drivers union and secretary of the St. Paul Central Labor Union, but now Industrial Commissioner in the Olson admi | , to Austen, to talk the strikers out of the plant, Starkey Fails Starkey arrived Sunday and spoke | |for hours to the men in a vain en-| |deavor to get them to vacate the plant, He promised everything and} got the Hormel C y to consent | to arbitration by the Industrial Com-/ mission if the strikers g: ack the pl to the man | Wher failed to} | persuade the andon the | Hormel building he reported to Gov-| | ernor Olson. | QGlson Goes to Aust! the big bar and the| had begun to bring | 1. John Devaney, Meanwhil een the banking and emp'oyer is and ‘son, |whg collected gantic campaign 1d to ele the Gov was d into service, Devaney is re- as the Boss of the Farmer tion ar recently inted Chief Justice app The result was, that of the state. . GOVERNOR, TROOPS END MEAT STRIKE Workers Who Held Plant Now See How They Were Tricked AUSTIN, Minn.—The strike of 2,500 packinghouse workers at the Hormel plant, during which the .workers seized the plant, ousted the company of- ficials and erected barricades at the entrances, ended Monday when, the Farmer-Labor politicians, Governor Olson and Congressman Shoemaker, together with the officials of the in- dependent union, forced through an agreement whereby the workers were ordered back to work without any gains. Their demands were sub- mitted to the State Industrial Com- mission for arbitration. Widespread dissatisfaction and re- sentment is spreading among the workers, who were tricked into go- ing back to work without gaining their demands for higher wages. The agreement signed was a complete sell-out, under which the decision of the State Industrial Commission will be binding on the workers when it is made. When the workers returned to their jobs on Monday, hundreds of them were not taken back. A delegation from the Packing- house Workers Industrial Union from South St. Paul was received vrey cordially by the workers on the picket-lines and when they spoke at the strike meetings. Many of the militant workers are beginning to look to the industrial union for lead- ership, when the real nature of the sell-out agreement became clear to them, The sentiment of the work- ers is that if the State Industrial Commission does not act quickly and grant their demands, they will go on strike again, despite the wishes of the independent union officials and the agreement they signed. When the workers went on strike last Sat- |urday, it was against the wishes of | the union officials, While Gov. Olson was putting through the sell-out agreement, meanwhile the National Guard was being mobilized in armories through- out southern Minnesota, to be used against the strikers if they did not go back to work. Olson, accompanied by somé A. F. of L. men, set. out by automobile, in a blinding snowstorm, for Austin. He arrived Sunday might... Addressing a mecting of the strikers he tgld of how he was a worker in a ffeight heuse and how his heart bled for the tribulations of the men who toil. He was their friend but he could not do. anything until they evacuated the plant, ‘He was horrified at the idea of breaking the law and seizing the plant. As he gained sympathy and saw the tears come to the eyes of some of the women workers, he said he would have to enforce the law. He had the State Adjutant of the Militia with him, and Adjutant Walsh steoved out and said he had given mobilization orders for five companies of the National Guard. While he made some impression on the workers, they knew that they would lose the edge by evacuating the “ent. Committees were appointed. and Olson conferred with them all night. Finally the strikers agreed to leave the building and restore the control of the plant to the Hormel Company, provided that an arbitra- tion committee would be set, but that there would be no walk out, The agreement was received with glee by the Hormel Company, Items, and Then Dues that what the miner has taken out of his pay for a given amount of edibles each semi-monthly pay day. at the company (pluck-me) store, would keep his family for a month if spent in other stores. This is so because, just as the miner is robbed of the weight on his car of coal, so is his wife or {children robbed on the store scale when purchasing things for the table. Now, the “check-off” is getting a lot of publicity again, in connection with “union dues” through the attempts of the bosses, their government and their “union,” the U.M.W.A, to impose something on the miners and, not only try to make them like it, but also to make them pay for it. But the real question. this time is that of checking the rebellious moods of the miners with the union of Lewis and charg- ing it up to the miners at the rate of $1 per month, This is being done through the medium of Roosevelt's N.R.A, and, when it is considered that Lewis, Fagan and others of this N.R.A. “Mediators” in Coal Strike by Check-Off crooked outfit are on the bor (ls that are to apply the “no strike” policy of this “New Deal,” it should be readily seen how the cards are stacked, Lewis’ Graft In a’ nutshell, it means that Lewis and his rafting fakers stand to collect hundreds of thousands of dollars from the poor paid miners, for which the miners will be told that they are not allowed to strike against the govern- ment. ly An example of what the U.M.W.A. will bring to the miners can be found at the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Co, mines, where, in order to break the 1931, N.M.U, led Pennsylvania “lib- eral” strike, Governer Pinchot, en- gineered the signing of a contract between this company and and Fagan of the U.M.A. two and a half years under tract, the Terminal miners direct wage cuts, several indirect cuts through loss of working conditions and dead work pay and all at a cost of more than a quarter million dol- lars which was checked off the miners and turned over to Fagan., When it amount was They should against paying to’ fund and thus serve Bi aa will fight against this schema 3,000 Austin Auto Men Face Sellout By AFL Leadership Auto Workers Union, Acitve in Strike, Draws Up Demands to Make Strike Effective And Strengthen Ranks of Workers KENOSHA, Wis.—After carefully laying the [ground for a betrayal of the strike in the Nash Motor plant here, which broke out last Thursday morning on the final assembly line, the American Federation of Labor leadership is preparing to send the men back into the shop without a struggle for the demands of the vast majority of the more than 3,000 men im the shop. & ene) the plant. The lockout will not be In spite of the repeated proposal of the Auto Workers Union for the|>toadened into an effective mass drawing up of definite demands for | Strike as was proposed by the Auto all departments, there has been no| Workers Union. If this is the case, discussion of this question allowed. |, will amount to a virtual sell-out No statement. has been made by the + Me Ba anne if the demands of anti-lockout committee as to whether | the oa assembly can be won then they will settle for the shop as a|¢very department can gain some- thing. whole or plan to send all the men Frida: alon: iy and Saturday the picket- potter hans ed ae ing was purely spontaneous and un- Every indication is that no de- | 0Tanized in so far as the A. F. of mands will be raised for the rest of |}: Jeadership is concerned. . The sae ner edie: Airplane Workers of Labor officials who speak at the Strike in Russian White Guard Firm strikers’ meeting laud the N. R. A. and Roosevelt. They say that the N. R. A. is alright, only the manu- facturers do not abide by it. They forget to point out that Charley Nash, as a member of the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce, Helped draw up the open shop auto STRATFORD, Conn., Nov. 17.—The strike of over a hundred workers em- ployed in the Sikorsky plant of the United Aircraft and Transport Com- pany, located in Stratford, Conn., (adjoining Bridgeport), is continuing in full force despite the statements of the company officials that the plant code, which William Green, President is in normal operation. Work has of the American Federation of Labor, signed in capacity as & mem-~- been interrupted on,the construction of the world’s ‘largest amphibian ber of the Labor Advisory Board. This code provides for a minimum plane, scheduled for completion by the end of this month. wage of 41c per hour in a city of the size of Kenosha. Nash was pay- About 35 white guard Russians make up the group of scabs who are ing around 43c to 47c per hour, just slightly above the minimum. It was trying to keep the Sikorsky plant go- ing in spite of the strike. against this miserable wage level which the Open Shop Auto Code fully allows that the Nash workers went on strike. Charley Nash is abiding by every provision of the auto code. Why shouldn't he? He helped write it. He knew it was a slave code, or he wouldn’t have sup- The strikers who have just formed an Aeronautical Workers Union, affi- liated to the A. F. of L.., chargé-that Sikorsky and his clique of white Rus- sians, keep down the wages of all other workers to the starvation point but pay a higher scale to members of the clique. The strikers also charge ported it in Washington. the Anti-Bolshevik Russian officials Draw Up Demands The Auto Workers Union, whose of the plant with gross mismanage- ment and discrimination at the ex- members have been quite active on the picket line, issued a call for unity of all the workers in the plant, whether members of the United Automobile Workers (an American Federation of Labor Union), the Auto Workers plea affiliated to T. U. U. L. or completely unorgen- Bagels of the non-white guard ite i : ede the fol an ro ‘The N.R.A. administrators in this | POS#s: ic increase in wages district are chissling into the strike |“0r all Nash Orhan or Leaner with the anriounced ititention of | Mie SANs Sve ve i an e sending the men back to work with-|(4o“om one Si Some beats out their demands being met, under} Fi, "yo vd Patloes trike commit a the guise of arbitration. But the partiert; ay pet geod . leaders of the’ strike who come from ents, but by se 4 5 the ranks of the workers, have served | Pt eo sieet pe Rag dl owns notice that they will stay out until si PB pieces on, direct they win their demand for a general 20 per cent wage increase and the abolition of the White Guard Rus- stan. cliquism.s In an attempt to ‘terrorize the strikers and to drive them back to work, the company got the Stratford negotiations between the represen- tatives of the rank and file and the police to issue warrants? and arrest eleven of the strikers on framed-up (1) No settlement by charges of “breach of peace.” The | the committee without the fullest consultation and vote of all the men strikers by their vigorous action, how- ever, in adopting strong resolutions in the shop. of protest and by marching down to A committee of nine representing the workers has been appointed by the City Hall in a body to demand the release of the arrested strikers the A, F. of L., a majority of whom are not workers of the shop, but of- ficials of the A. F. of L. Amongst these officials are such people as: succeeded in getting their release without bonds for a hearing later. Egan, the labor faker at the head of*the Connecticut Federation of La- Lockout Committee John Kuehnl, lawyer for Trades bor, has become alarmed at the mil- itant manner in which the workers and Labor Council; Felix Olkives, president, Trades and Labor Council; are conducting their strike and is al- ready preparing a sell-out agree- Henry Ohl, president, State Federa~ tion of Labor—member State N. R. ment with the company on which to send them back to work. But the A.; Paul Smith, district organizer from Executive Council of the A. F. of I.; Eugene Stauder, president, United Automobile Workers (A. F. strikers, who are getting the backing ofthe Trade Union Unity League of Bridgeport and the active assistance of the League's organizer, Sam Krie- L, union) foundry worker. Most of the negotiations are beirig ger, are determined to stay out until they win their full demands. carried on by Paul Smith, represen- tative of the Executive Council of the A. F. L., whose first act in the strike was not to consolidate the or- ganization of the workers, but to call for arbitration from the N, R. A. e y e Perkins NRA Trieks Workers , ° q In Cumberland Mountains : living wage couldn’t be used for buy- ing clothing and food. The sub- contractors openly made fun of us Labor Advisory Board. Labor by Cumberland Mountain |for expecting the N. R. A. to inter- lumber" through Roy Lane,|fere with the Tennessee Products president of the Cumberland Moun-|Company. Our plans to take mat- tain Workers League. ters in our own hands were ended The letter in full follows: by a letter from the Legal Division re Coe 2, Bere aioe that we were jue aode prices for our soodouherae: and that the company could be to pay such wages as were set by wage |the lumber code. We immediately got in touch with the Lumber Code, Authority asking that pressure bel brought to bear on the company. On! ‘Oct. 25, the Lumber Code Authorities write that woodcutting did not come under the code and re‘erred the matter back to the National Recovery Administration. : “Now it is the middle of November and we are asked to go back to where we were Aug. 22. We have been patient, much too patient. Some of us are on the verge of starvation. For some time now we have been having freezing weather. We have organized the Cumberland Mountain Workers’ League for the purpose of taking care of ourselves.’ “workers here in the mountains of scale to cut children themselves set for our . Somehow a delegation will come to Washington. We plan to leave Monteagle, Tennessee We a Nov. 22, and arrive in the following day. Perhaps there is nothing the Department of Labor or N. R. A. can do for us, mount promises made | determined by Mr. Hugh Johnson that all in- | workers dustries would be forced to pay a letter, dated Sept. 22, : “We are referring your letter