The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 25, 1933, Page 4

Page Four DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, NOV RER 1933 MINERS FIGHT STARVATION; RESIST Publisher and Priest Give Strike Against | MinersSympathy But No Aid Forced Labor | Men Defy Bosses’ Demands That They Give Their Dues to Boylan and Lewis (By a PLYMOUTH, Pa.—We fown tight. Delaware and Jo. But the Lehigh & Wilkes Barre Jo. won’t come out. 4 the in the county, he e it himself if it in front of | the one we send that | to help us. ber of the An-/| ‘an gave a speech. | are holding a convention in the Y. |no relief 0 Worker Correspondent) on strike up here. Hudson also. The Glen Alden ts shut And part of the Pittston Coal and the Pennsylvania Anthracite Coal M. C. A. building in Wilkes- irginia, Minn., Jobless Miners Now Organizing (By a Mine Worker Correspondent) VIRGINIA, Minn. — This Steel Trust stronghold of the Iron Range jis getting to be the city of poverty | for the unemployed miner. Unemployed single men who get have established several Hoovervilles on the outskirts of the | town. i » & n | ging a well | This took place some | take ch, | this mu In trying to make their liv- 's as comfortable as pos- up of men started dig- to obtain fresh water. ime ago. In gging the well two workers were qu overcome by gas and died at the bottom of the well before help couid | r of the Times}be gotten. Things like this are allowed to place while residences and mt buildings stand vacant in ed “Queen” city. employed commit- The V! | work on the county roads. i he was there | + | g contacts while throughout the working class sections of Virginia, to | start a mass movement for immedi- jate relief and compel the Steel Trust | controlled St. Louis County to come across with food, clothing and | shelter for all unemployed. is almost unbeli id, in 1867 he drove 1 go any place at s. He also told t be sure of adjust Warns Against UMWA \Leaders Who Pretend \to Be in Favor of Strike | (By a Mine Worker Correspondent) FAYETTE CITY, Pa. — I notice that the U. M. W. A. leaders are 3 methods in §] ing | Not long ago all of | Oke and demanded that the | must return to work. Now, | shots, Fagan and ntinue to drive the miners | Comerford. So there | back to work, their appointed hench- |men in order to be able to speak | ig to give you some of/|at meetings, are speaking in favour te stuff I saw and heard myself /of the strike. A man cannot take up a griev-| John Kramarich, better known as | aee in the Colnon Coal Co. unless | “Switcher,” is one of these henchmen | 2can fight. You go in the office|who spoke asainst strike, but now | ad he has three guards. If he|speaks in favor of the strike. They | m’t lick you he sicks his three | do this because they know what hap- | vis on you. And then if you are | pened to Feeney at Searight. I want | < the Giant Killer and get out j|to tell the miners something about ive, you have no committee to go|this guy Switcher, as I know him ey are for the coal company | real well. | 1 discharged for being 8| Switcher was a radical at one time. And of course you have} Later on he turned to be a traitor. | That's what John|For his treachery he got a job as! organizer of the U. M. W. A. and | | held if in 1927 and 1928, When the | back to work is as a shep- and forgotten ited_a gen- d for a Father Curran was | yesterday. And |v mimittee is in ses- bess To Pay Check-off You ‘stem here. check of $1 taken out of your pay. know we have a check-off | ou are oylan, Well, the w€ checks and gi lan, and we got days, loaded | i tons of y of $99. But {$ laborer nd powder and} gpleder’s ense came to 1899. He got 01. Another man, | Mechanical con vor, loaded 650 | ms of coal ing of $513. | he compar m $56 to pay | tg laborers four crosses. x. When the | & H, delegate got ge he had about 20 due in April by miners for | Orking from 6 to 12 days and they | FPreceived crosses on the envelopes. | @ showed four due bills 8 and 12 Here are some of them: , $1.60; two days, $.45 $16; one day, $.23; five iys, $2.35. There are over 1,000 due bills like t@m, and they call us “rebels” for yerting the U. M. W. A. fiat John Boylan says ‘The Payne Coal Co. demands that | employes buy ys. They pay $60 to $75 for them. Mr. Payne a@ farm in Dallas. One miner ® $4 pay. They took $2 part int for the pig. Another had pay and they took $2 for the | That's | @ and Boylan took $1 for union | aes. | Henchell Co. Gets Milion Dollar War Order From Gov’t By a Worker Correspondent AMESBURY, Mass—The Hen- ehell Co. here, after its owners bad returned from Washington, secured a million dollar order for N. M. U. was organized he was one | You get your pay with | Of the organizers of the sluggers, and posed to put that in|img up the convention. for John Lewis and|® @ spy by going into the Mononga- | nen are keeping | hela Hotel and identifying delegates | ving them to the |for the police and gunthugs. | | material for the United States Navy—compasses for destroyers, telegraph equipment for submar- tes, telephone systems, detecting system to detect boats without the old method of the pipe stick- tng through the water. The local Anti-War Committee gecured this information, al- though the press and all author- ties kept quiet about it, A pro- test meeting will be arranged. eentione |now stands fourth in the list of coal | |producing countries, having passed! Average money wages for 550,000| | 1932, output of bituminous (soft) coal| between 1928 and 1932, Before the |in production, |crease of 50 per cent. became a slugger himself in break- He acted Since he lost his job as an organ- you when you |izer he went into the bootleg pro- demand your | fession and continued in the role of | Mather local to reinstate the local | McMaster was re-elected in Steuben- not getting | SPY. F a ed over 1,000 | Men, Croatian miners, with deporta- time the Avondale gave | tions. He threatened his country- Now again he is an organizer. Re- | Urged By Miner | (By a Mine Worker Correspondent) FINLEYVILLE, Pa—The blessings Gf Roosevelt's w Rotten Deal for |Us unemployed in the Finleyville | Borough and the neighboring town- | ships such as Union, Peters, and | |Nothingam, are not the kind some | expected. First, the une loved ranks are not smaller, but er. Some of the men who succeeded in getting a day now and then working for the farm- ers are now out of jobs. Some who } went to the steel mills are working only one day a week. Others who went for jobs to the mines, like Montour 10 Nut Hole, and others are forced to ask for relief as they can’t make enough to keep their families. Secon: the went up ly. up to $1.25 Fatback. | more. | Third, during the summer we had} the gi s. Coal was not needed |so bad, nor as much of it, as now Children could co without shoes, and | in only one cheap or made over} dress or pants. There was not se| much sickness among the children Families Sick Now all this is changed. The chil- | dren must have warm clothes and | good shoes. In one family there | are three children going to school | One week two were sick, the follow- ing week the third one was also il) Practically every family is in the same fix. During the summer we did not Now with the winter weather here, we were told we must work or have our re- | lief cut off. How in hell can a map | work when he has not got shoer to walk in to get relief, but must | borrow them from his neighbor? | The Relief Board in Finleyville, or | its chairman, a Mr. Gerry, stated | that any one who does not work wil} have his re stopped. Some of the men refused, but some went tc work, so we do not know what wil! happen. Those who refused should organize a picket line and pull al! the workers off these jobs. We | should demand, shoes, clothing, coal compensation in case of an accident “nd cash payment for our work at *he prevailing wage rates. jdaily through the mining company controlled publications, that as a result of the N. R. A, | product: | take a look. Bethlehem Output in Lackawanna Rises While Jobs Decline BUFFALO, N. ¥.—You have to U.M. W. A. MISLEADERS Nikita A. Isitov at left, gives the shock brigadier of the 2nd coal pit, Lavrov, instructions before his descent into the pit. Soviet Shock Brigaders at Mine Mesaba Range | the |mines are be! operations are com Calls Montour 10 Mining Coming to | Miners to Join A Standstill Hunger March (By a Worker Correspondent) (By a Mine Worker Correspondent) HIBBING, Minn.—It is broadcast LIBRARY, Pa.—Here tn Library there is quite a group of unemployed, among them a group of single men, ‘on has increased; but let us | Some of whom have been unable to |eet work since 1931. We were get- find that | ting relief of $1.50 a week; some g in the | single men were getting $1.25 a week; Mining | some 95¢ a week, whatever the re- lief investigator, Miss Cook, would radios, etc., few wor we be a capitalist m: mati |still. As an example of this, bot thier oo ethematician * W/have Nashwauk where the Butler | sive us inderstan steel production }) Brothers Mining Co. is Inving off its| Last week, the relief checks that figures. | forces. As a result of the closing | wete supposed to come on Thursday, The Bethlehem plant in Lacka- || wanna, adjoining Buffalo, laid off 35 riggers last week, and 15 per | cent of the worekrs in the tool, machine, electric and blacksmith shops were indefinitely laid off. The 9-inch, 6-inch, 10-inch, 15- inch and rail mills are not work- ing at all, 14-inch mill is work- ing three days a week, in the chipping department 80 men have || been called in, but only to finish one job, and out of 24 open hearths, only three are working now, Last winter, when this plant was || operating with the same number of workers, it was considered operat- ing at 18 per cent of capacity. This year it is being called 40 per cent. Perhaps the plant is figuring in the rumors that it will have | 400,000 pounds of steel to make. | eee te eee rennnneneane enna secre! | seatty he attempted to force the | president, who was a company stool Pigeon and as such was kicked off. He was not successful because the miners of Mather know him well. | transport }at Kelly Lake, whieh is a sub sion of the | point from where a lot of the ore territory, have been laid off during the last ‘week. Work Slackenine in of these mines less ore is be! ing| Friday and Saturday, did not come d and it means that rail- | until Monday, and all the single men Toad workers are also being laid off. | were leveled down to 70 cents. The The entire sectiae crew employed | families were also cut! I know one family, that was getting $3.60 a weck for 4, only got $2.70; another family that was getting $2.70 a week got cut to $2.14. All over this part of Allegheny County a cut was forced upon the unemployed. The excuse of the investigator is that the Relief Board is changing, and mistakes were made! I don't believe this lame lie. They have a record of every one getting the re- lief, and why should the change in the reliof board cut our checks? T believe it is one of those “smart” Great Northern and a is handled th is mined in this Steubenville Plants. YBy a Steel Worker Correspondent) | STEUBENVILLE, Ohio.—A success- ful program of the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union was held here recently. Comrade I. O. Ford spoke on the 16th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, Work is slackening. The LaBelle plant hardly does anything. Weirton has some departments going two days @ week, On Nov, 13, the scab-herding Mayor ville. This is the man who gave a talk on constitutional rights while the company put the scabs in the Pope Tin Mills in Steubenville, Soviet Miners,On Six Hour Day, Get Doubled W Soviet Miners in Athletic Meet No Unemployment in Soviet Union, While in| United States One-Third of Miners Have No Jobs ® if By the Labor Research Association Soviet coal miners are reviewing their achievements for the 16 years since the establishment of a worker's state, the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. Listing their gains, we find a steady increase in production, in employment, in wages, in benefits, for the Soviet coal industry and i workers, as compared with a decline in employment and wages, even to the point of starva- tion, for coal miners and their fami- lies in the United States. To make this comparison, we need a few fig-| ures, but such figures are of great interest to workers who want to know the truth about conditions here and aa the country where the workers rule, Soviet Fourth in Production The Soviet coal industry attained | the pre-war level of output in 1926,| and during the last four years, output has risen continuously; from 36 mil-| lion metric tons in 1929, to 50 million | in 1931, to 54 million in 1932, an in-| In_ 1933, the coal industry shows a steady upward movement. Thus, for the first half | of the present year the output of coal was 105 per cent in comparison with the first half of last year, and for | a |the first eight months of this year,| Miners.”) 112 per cent, in comparison with the same period in 1932, The U.S.S.R. France within the last two years, In the United States from 1929 to fell by about 43 per cent, and outout of anthracite by 33 per cent. Not for nearly 30 years, since 1904, has so litte Wikuminone gonl been pro- jduced in the United States, | This year, 1933, coal output in this| country rose slightly with the short speculative boom following the fall of the dollar, but it remains far be- low 1929; by 39 per cent for soft coal |and by 32 per cent for anthracite, No Unemployment in U.S.S.R. |. Every coal miner in the Soviet | Union has a job, Numbers employed in the coal industry increased from 290,000 in 1928 to 550,000 in 1932, Un- employment was eliminated during the period of the first Five-Year Plan. If there should be unemployment |again at any time in the workers’ | state, every miner and every other} | Reeser is fully protected by unem- | | ployment insurance, paid for by the |industry and by the state, One-Third Jobless in U. 8. Meanwhile, in the United States, ; 31 per cent of the 503,000 soft-coal miners who had jobs in 1929 were out of the industry in August, 1933 (latest figures available.) This means that nearly 160,000 were totally un- employed, after six months of the | Roosevelt “New Deal,” in addition to |the 200,000 who were dropped from |the coal industry between 1923 and | 1929. (See Labor and Coal, chapter on \“The Changing Job and Jobless There ts no unemploy- |ment insurance to protect any of these jobless miners, Soviet Wages Doubled | | workers in the Soviet coal mining in- | dustry doubled in the five years Revolution, average wages for coal | Miners in Russia were 33 roubles a month; by 1932 this average per Worker had risen to 122 roubles. methods to cut relief by thousancs of dollars without openly stating that it is a cut. However, we are preparing for the Allegheny County Hunger March on Nov. 26th. We have comnfittees out getting signatures of all who will go. We are collecting money for tr 5 and receiving a very good response We must get among the miners in Montour 10 and get them to supnor our march, through a_ resolution, donation of funds, and also by par- ticipating through a committee, since ee Nikita A. Isotov, miner-athlete, is shown tn conversation with the athletes of the Tcherembas (East Siberia) coal fields during the Spartakiade, athletic field day, of the coal miners of the Soviet Union. ‘There has been an unbroken rise in Alabama, Colorado and Kansas av- wages every year since 1924 A further increase of 19 per cent in coal miners’ wages was planned for the current year, 1933, and will be shown in later figures on the industry's rec- ord for this year, Wages Down 55 Per Cent Here In the United States, on the other hand, coal miners’ wages have shown a steadily downward trend from 1922 to 1933, Average earnings per day for soft coal miners and loaders de- clined from $7.03 in 1922 to $3.18 in January-February, 1933. This repre- sents a drop of nearly 55 per cent. Moreover, extreme irregularity of Awork meant that miners in Illinois, |eraged less than three days’ work a week in January-February, 1933, Total wages paid to soft coal miners in the United States (that is payroll totals) were 56.7 per cent lower in August, 1933, than the av- erage for 1929. Hard coal miners fared no better; their total wages in August, 1933, were 53.4 per cent lower than the 1929 average. Soviet Union Has Social Insurance But in the Soviet Union money wages represent only part of the miner’s real wages. “Socialized wages” form about 35 per cent of the entire wage fund for the mine workers, as for other workers, and Lists Wage Cuts in lowa Mine by Lewis and Bosses (By a Mine Worker Correspondent) CENTERVILLE, Iowa. — My sub- scription expires Dec. 4, 1933, but I am sending you $6 for another year. My paper is read by more than me, because here are workers that have not worked for six months. Some for @ year, and are not working yet, but like to see what the Daily Worker has to say. This is a coal mining town. John L, Lewis collaborates with the bosses and they cut wages of the day men from $4.86 to $4.56, pick digging from $1.47 to $1.30, loading after cutting machine from 93c to 82c per ton, etc. A lot of miners lived on county re- lief, but because some miners started to work many have been cut off relief. One miner told me he was cut off from the relief because he is “working.” In the last two wecks the mine worked 1% days and he had to load about ten thousand pounds which amounts to not quite oo miners are in just as bad a 5 Long live the Daily Worker! Misleaders Help Coal Operators Break Agreement (By a Mine Worker Correspondent) YUKON, Pa—The workers of Yukon and vicinity are now begin- ning to see the real contents of the United Mine Workers agreement, which is supposed to give so much jto the workers, Last Saturday the District No. 5 chief organizers, Med- vid & Nelson, were present, Medvid something new for the miners, that although it is not a good contract, it is better than we ever had, that the companies are causing them a lot of trouble and do not live up to | the agreement, | The miners know that the union is |@ company union. Why? The Yukon union passed a resolution not to load slate by contract at 62 cents per wagon. So none of the union men went to work, But the company, having the right to hire and fire, hired three non-union men for the above price, and put them in a place where they could make $5 a day. The pit committee found out about this and next day told the three miners of the resolution and they willingly went home. At noon the pit committee, company, and union | Officials, Pres. Hughes being present, met to settle the dispute. Previously the district officials stated that such a contract was not in the agreement and the company had to pay the regular wages of $4.36. But at the meeting the officials said the com- pany has the right to make any kind of a contract it wishes, if the men are willing to work, Then the U.M.W. officials gave the pit committee hell, because they stopped the operation of the mine. Now the union decided to go to work. But the union men can no longer get a job because they were militant. All of the miners openly said to the organizers that this is a company union, They are now sesing what the former N.M.U. leader told them, that it will be a comnlete sell-out. The organizers plead with the min- ers, But the miners are now bein- nine to stir. Many say there {s goine to be more hell in April, 1934, than there ever was before. the mine may be working and all cannot go. The fight for relief is the fight of all, employed and unemployed. The Montour 10 men should not forget that very soon they will be depend- ing on this relief as they did the last two years. include social insurance for illness, accident, industrial and occupational diseases, old age pensions, free med- ical aid, and supplementary benefits for retirement and death. None of the workers receiving the benefits of social insurance contribute to the insurance funds, which are provided by the industry and by the state. | Every mine worker has an annual | holiday of two weeks, and all under- | ground workers have a month's vaca- tion, with full pay. For the miner's wife, who is expecting a baby, there are also maternity benefits, free med- {eal care during pregnancy and con- finement, a lump sum for the baby’s clothing, and a supplementary sum for feeding the mother and the child for nine months after the birth. No Insurance In U, 8S. Of all these benefits, the only one known to miners in the United States is workmen’s compensation for acci- dent or death, and this one “benefit” (see Dangerous Jobs, new pamphlet by Grace M, Bummham) is accompa- nied by so many delays and by so much graft in the administration offices that the miner often gets less than what he is allowed by the law. The miner in the United States who becomes ill or too old to work is thrown out “like burned-out ashes.” Miners see their children slowly dy- ing of starvation and neither the county nor the state nor the fed- eral authorities do anything about it. (Quakers) and other conservative bodies indicate that over 90 per cent of the children in certain coal min- ing areas are suffering from under- nourishment, Yukon local held its meeting. Two} | spoke and said that the contract was} ages--U. S. Miners Starve Wages in United States Went Down 55 Percent; In U.S.S.R. Wages Went Up 100 Per Cent In Last Five Years Reports from the Society of Friends | District Board of the N. M. U., met concentrated drive through the winter Mullins Mfs. Co., Salem. 0., Scabbed on Detroit Strike (By a Metal Worker Correspondent) SALEM, Ohio. — At the present time we are having a boom here in our Mullins Mfg. Corp. caused by the strike in Detroit of the tool and die makers. I am writing this to | show how the tool and die workers are scabbing on themselves and de- feating their own purpose. Hundreds of tool and die makers were shipped from Detroit here to Salem, O., probably workers at Dodge and Chrysler, working on new Dodge and Chrysler tools and dies, also several other jobs which are being kept secret. This is to point out that to win their strike they must organize solidly, taking in every one from the | floor sweepers up. To win they must | call a general walkout, and when these dies and tools from this shop and other shops arrive in Detroit, to ston all production coming from these dies. All Detroiters whose friends have left Detroit, and have come to Salem to work on tools and dies should now their so-called friends are scabbing. Our N. R. A. prosperity has flopped. All departments are} laying men off or completely shut- ting down, except the tool and die room, which works 24 hours a day. UMWA Leaders Fight) Against Demands of Greensburg Miners! (By a Mine Worker Correspondent) GREENSBURG, Pa.—The workers here returned to work only to find that two of their brothers have been laid off on the tipple due to the speed-up system under the NRA. After all the talk of a 6-hour day and a 5-day week the miners are working at the face of the coal 8 hours, which in turn means at least 10 hours from bank to bank. The first day upon returning to work the miners made a decision to push no cars, and all members that would push cars would be fined $1 apiece. A committee was sent to the super to inform him that no one would push any cars and the suner’s answer was that the agreement signed by the U.M.W.A. at Greensburg under the NRA called for miners to receive their cars at the switch where they will have to push them into the face of the coal. This is a direct violation of the State Miners Law. After all this, where the miners formerly had a man trip the first day, upon returning the miners had to walk out of the mine which takes one hour of time, because of the lack of a man trip. The miners of Export local of the UM.W.A., resent these conditions and are determined to fight against the Lewis machine who has bargained all their lives away to the coal opera- ors. To the Soviet miner the future is bright. As the industry develops, greater advantages come to the work- ers in the form of increased wages and shortened working day, while new homes, bathhouses, laundries, kindergartens and children’s play- grounds are built near the pits. The miner's working day is only six hours from bank to bank, including the traveling time from the mine mouth to the working face and back to the surface. The miner knows that in the Soviet Union industry and gov- ernment belong to the working class, His wages will increase from year to year and his living and working con- ditions will improve surely and stead- ily. For miners in the United States, the outlook is exactly the opposite. Instead of improving conditions, the National Recovery Administration is fixing wages at a level far below the already lowered level of 1929. The daily wage rates under the N.R.A. agreement for the two most import- ant coal states, Pennsylvania and West Virginia, are even lower than the miner's average daily earnings in 1931, (See Mining Notes, October, 1933). Instead of the 6-hour day, the code keeps the miners at work eight hours at the working face, in addi- tion to traveling time. The Anthra- cite code, as proposed by the opera- tors, calls for a 48-hour week and does not provide for the employment of any additional men in the mines. Neither this code nor the bituminous, already in effect, sets forth any pro- visions for increased employment in —@the metal mine Metal Miners of the Northwest ‘Fight Against NRA Pay Cuts /Convention Shows Iron and Copper Workers Are Ready to Struggle Under N.M.U. IRONWOOD, Mich., Nov. 24.—Miners from Northern Michigan, Wiscon- sin and Minnesota, representing sub-districts and lecals of the National Miners Union, unorganized miners from several mines, and members of the here this week and laid plans fer a months to bi @ mass union among ‘s by spring. Build New Locals and Groups The conference was able to record the building of some new locals, i the Copper Country of Northe: Mich., reorganization of some old lo- cals that had broken up, in the River sub district, and the building of new groups of miners on the Mes- aba Iron Range who, while not yet i nthe union, are carrying on osme work in the mine and make a good base, on which to build our union. These, while they are only small be- ginnings, smash all arguments that our comrades may have raised about it being impo: le to organize the metal miners y: We have the job of going out among the miners with our union and act- ually building @ mass union that will be able to carry though the fight that will come, Struggle for Every Day Needs Our union will never grow as a propaganda organization! We will build a mass union only by going into the mines, raising the grievances of the miners, and carrying on struggles to win victories for the miners. That there are plenty of grievances, was admitted by everyone at the confer- ence, Huge reductions in taxes have been granted throughout the entire district to the mining corporations, These reductions mean the curtail- ment of relief for the unemployed miners, All through the summer months huge amounts: of stocked ore was shipped. This did not require the hiring of v: many miners of workers. Now, some localities have opened up @ trifle, hundreds of miners find them- selves permancntly taken off the em- ployment lists. For instance in Ironwood over 100 were stricken off in the Oliver Steel Trust) Mine alone. ‘he introduction of new machin in every mine increased the amount of miners who will never get work in the mines. Those that were lucky enough to get back to work, are faced with the most brutal s ip ever seen in the metal mining district. The bosses are always hollering for more dirt. In many of the mines the miners com- plain that they cannot last under the terrible grind. Wages Cat The company, knowing that tt will have to lay off more miner lists of “safety rut ing of even one of thsse me: ‘Up you go.” The min are actualy worse off working than when tt were on relief. on the Gogebic were on relief they pay rent, light, insurance and ccc- tor fees. Now when they are working these are deducicd and get any relief. ‘The; ing three days a @ 15 per cent “incr had b times this, and now wh climbing ra heights, the m less wages than at an} the crisis. In the Ironton Mine, the committee of the Ironton Miners Protective As- sociation (built last Spring when the mine closed and carried on some struggles at the time, but has been practically dead for months) cir- culated a petition among one shift of the miners, and presented only a few days ago and is a sample of the readiness of the miners to struggle. The attacks of the mining companies, through the N.R.A., are stirring the miners to action, It is up to the members of our union to show the road and lead these struggles for- ward and in this way we’ will build a strong union. Struggle for Miners’ Code ‘The conference planned to carry the miners’ code into every mine. To reach out and make a mass cam~ paign to force the recognition of the code. That this code will really an- swer the needs of the miners, it must be discussed by thousands, must pen- etrate every mine, and must be pre= sented in Washington by a delega- tion of miners elected by the miners themselves, This code must be made an instrument to build our union and organize struggles throughout the en- tire district. For a Mass Union By Spring The conference called for an in- tense campaign to build a mass union by spring. It pointed out that the possibilities for building our union are great. It called for the most con~ stant every day work by all members and sympathizers of the union. Forward to a mass union and mass struggles, * U.S. Navy Orders 45 Trucks to Be - Used in Cuba By a Worker Correspondent CLEVELAND, O.—The White Motor Co, is now working on an order for the United States Navy for which it is making 45 trucks. In this order, there are six trucks to be used for service in Cuba, They are to be sent there in January. Three of them are to go to Havana and three to San- tiago. I believe it will be of interest to the workers and peasants in Cuba to know that the United States Navy is making trucks which will most likely be used to transport American sailors and marines to shoot down the Cu- ban masses. We in the White Motor are organizing the work- ers to fight together. In the Ironton en prices are e-depression the coal industry.