The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 2, 1933, Page 4

ere Page Four COAL MINERS OF GALLUP, N. M., WIN STIRRING Pay Not Enough | Gallup Miners’ Militancy Wins Strike Miners’ WagesDown As UMWA Leaders Work for the Bosses Central, Pa., Field in Misery; Checkoff Taken | from Part Time Pay; Rank and File DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1933 for 50 Cents a Day | Fare to Work’ Miner at Montour 10, Says Neither Code Nor Pact Helped By a Mine Worker Correspondent MONONGAHELLA, PA~-Here at | Montour 10 of the Pittsburgh Coal! eS ee STRIKE VICTORY Cappelini Is Losing Grip on Miners After Anthracite Sell-Out One Thousand Blacklisted as Result of Strike But Cappelini Machine Sent Miners Back at Mercy of N. R. A. Wy ———s Co. we have the Code and the) # UMWA agreement. But neither the} cods nor the ‘agreement have! our conditions. The men/ Must Organize Opposition (By a Mine Worker Correspondent) WILKES-BARRE, Pa.—The new union, the U.M.P. { By TOM MYERSCOUGH @Presiient of the National Miners Uniéoss as a result of wep ts. this is sure to be the case. poal field of Central Pennsylvania. (seab) field, & suffered with Fayeite Cont axtuing and misery go band in hand. Where the U.Mi.W.A. leaders | It ls so now in the Somerset County Regarded as a perpetual open shop and Westmoreland Counties in the yloious betrayal by John L. Lewis in 1922, Now the U.M.W.A, is “recognized” by such unfon-hating coal corpora-@— tions as the Hillman, Consolidated | and Berwyn-White outfits. This “recognition” was “given” to} keep out the National Miners Union | which for some time has had the| Support of large numbers of the) miners of Somerset County. Finding | that the U.M.W.A. was recognized by | the government under the terms and) provisions of the N.R.A. coal code! Agreements, many of those who pre-| ferred the N.M.U., because of famil-| Yarity with its record of struggle as| ‘Compared to the betrayals of Lewis, set Co, Superintendent of Road Con- struction. Under Roosevelt's “four million jobs by Christmas” plan at 50! cents per hour, the unemployed of Somerest County are being told that “living is cheap” in the county and that the rate to be paid here is 35c per hour. The Unemployed Councils, organizing to resist this scheme find again the coal companies and the U. M. W. A. leaders collaberating to} defeat them. Local unions of the) U. M. W. A. are encouraged to either | postpone regular meetings to such nights as the unemployed meet or to still have to haul their own coal,| timber, lay the track, etc. When we) ask the bosses when these conditions | will change, they generally answer: | “Ask your big brother Fagan”! | I read the letter of a Montour 10] miner from Carnegie that appeared in the Daily Worker, and I want to say that that man told the truth. I am also forced to travel from where to work. § will have made enough to driver. I y Mine AM Day For Nothing | =: ie In e day the machine was broke | I waited all day for the cut.) getting the place cut, I had a| roof and it caved in. There is| BREE Scene During Gallup Miners’ Strike, V Terror, Troops Attacked with Sabres at One of These Meetings, Wounding Several. The Miners Won in Spite of this Terror. When Miners Held Strike Meetings in the F; Strike Leader, is Addressing this Meeting. ‘ace of Martial Law and the sell-out, is losing the confidence where at the regular meeting of No. Strikes Growing in Lower Anthracite Region of Dist. 9 Jobless Miners Hear of the miners in one of the strong- holds of the Maloney Cappelini machine, that is, in the Pittston section, 6 Pittston Coal Co., only six miners showed up for the meeting, and at No. 14 of the same company only 10 showed up. This in my opinion is quite significant as they had been having over 300 at the meetings prior to the convention. Now the investigation by the com- mission is on, and they have told the miners who have come before them with grievances that the Com- mission can do nothing, but that they will make their report to the Labor Board in Washington, after the in- vestigation is completed here, and the miners are starting to say that Martha Roberts, Rank and File Code in Shenandoah this is just another way of passing | the buck, |. Maloney and Cappelini both admit, \in press reports, that more than 900 |miners have been dischared as a re- | SHENANDO ee 2 ie fea eager be sult of the strike. The miners are lower anthracite region in district 9 nevertheless, decided to take a chance | call special meetings for these nights. ‘ . } no timber or timbermen. I had to ee oe Caw | However, the opposition in the U. M. wait a day for that. The turn was! _peral” Governor Pinchot. 4 Z : » i « Downward Trend Continued Conditions and wages were so bad , wat something had to be done about} W. A. is being organized, so are the unemployed, and delegates will be in Washington, D. C, on Jan. 18, 14 and it,,. Naturally the miners felt that|15, for the big National Unemploy- | once the union (even the U.M.W.A.) | waa recognized, it would be possible t arrest the downward trend in working conditions which now ‘yrought empty pay envelopes. But the U.M.W.A. leaders, with the N.R.A., ~ayd the employers, nued the at- ‘tacks on the miners’ living standards and empty pay envelopes and ragged *alothing still remain. Where possible these conditions became worse or Where possible, debts increased. n- Stead of arresting the downward trend, the U.M.W.A. leaders have ac- cellerated it. In charge of the U.M.W.A. activities in these parts one can find Dave ‘Watkins of Ohio, whose welcome has been worn out in every other sec- tion of the country iding and abetting in the fo. enslavement of these Somerset County miners is one “Jones (supposedly of Illinois), and Me International Board Member of District 2 (Central Pa.) U.M.W.A., John Ghizzoni. An Employee of Pinchot Tt is not surprising that Watkins and Jones should come from distant ftates to this field for it is customary, ‘since all the Lewis fakers are known fm their own districts and must, therefore, go to places where they are unknown to do their “work.” Even Ghizzoni, while in his own district, is comparatively unknown. This be- cause Somerset County is new in the “organized” fold. It took but a short time, however, for each of these fakers began to show what they are. Instead of getting better, things have got worse and Watkins, Jones and Ghizzoni are equal to the task of keeping them so, if one would take ‘the trouble to ask them. Ghizzoni particularly has continu- bus training in this. During the days when the District 2 union consisted | only of the two “grandpas,” Marks and Dick Gilbert, Ghozzoni was @ “mediator” (meddler) in labor disputes for his demigod, the “lib- When the ,N-R.A. scheme was launched, he too wes launched sgain as the reincar- | mated International Board member | and by many it ts thought that he| _..48.8lso still on Pinchot’s payroll, No Pay for Dead Work | Classical of Somerget County’s hell | +noles is the Jerome, Pa., mine of the ‘illman Coal Co. Here the company and UMW. (Holy Roller) preacher named Mur- ray into the local presidency. Since ‘hen, the foremen firmly and not| 00 politely tell the men to go to| hell to get paid for “dead work.” Of eourse, it can be assured that this ig more than likely done because it will avail them nothing to go to the “heavenly” Holy Roller to get paid for ‘this work. _ Check-off to U.M.W.A. Leaders For this kind of “union protection” ‘the miners, over their protests, are forced to pay $1 per month. In ad- dition, they pay $20 a day for two seheckweighmen ($10 a day each). The @election and “election” of these two ‘Was put over jointly by the company and the U.M.W.A. leaders. Neither fore. The superintendent refuses to allow a car of coal to be taken to ‘@nother scale for weighing and the “febbery goes on. Ten dollars a day two checkweighmen, more twice the high day rate and Eg Mlaanillllcersg mal cerd the tonnage men can get, is what costs to be robbed at Jerome, Pa. harge for Blacksmith earned $9 for seven days this $4 was checked off $2 for back rent, while f,” burial fund, etc., took of the worst of these parable to the com- is the blacksmith. fo} = 4 Eg s # ult Jim | leaders combined to} remove the militant local president, | “freeze” him and his brother out of | a job and install a “holy Nazarene” | Soviet Miner’s Letter Helps Answer Lies (By s Mine Worker Correspondent) WILKES BARRE, Pa.—The other day Major Inglis came out in an at- | tack on the Soviet Union, declaring | that forced labor was the order of |the day, that women and children | were forced to work in the mines, {On that same day we received a | letter from a miner in the Don Basin | Coat Region in the Soviet Union, | telling about the real conditions there. So we decided to take the | letter to the evening “News,” and see what they would do with it, never | dreaming that they would give it any space. But they did, not everything, but at least some parts of it. I am sure that even the little news that |they published as 8 result of the letter will reach thousands of work- ers that we could not reach other- wise, and will do a lot to break down the red scare, The recognition of the U. 8. 8. R. was one of the best tonics that I have had in some time, because I felt that it would at least make our approach to the workers here less difficult, and would give us the op- | portunity to reach wider circles of | the American workers than we had reached in the past. Yukon, Pa., Miners Send $12 to “Daily” By a Mine Worker it YUKON, Pa.—We receive here om Saturday 16 coples of the “Daily” not counting subscriptions, We will try our best to increase our bundle order or get a few subs, We also have sent $12 towards the drive. We realize the necessity of our Daily a6 an organizer and would feel lost without it. The next article will be written by several miners in a collective. Our op- | How Trade Basis Contrasts With By JERRY ALLEN The Soviet Union is the only coun- of an organization class interests this organization resents, Industrial Unions In America the bulk of the trade unions affiliated to the A. F. of L, are organized on a craft basis and the workers are brought up in a nar- row craft {deology, many times an- tagonized even against other crafts of the same industry. In the build- ing industry, for example, there are dozens of craft unions. Often we find & hundred workers on one construc- tion job but belonging to twenty dif- ferent unions, that have different agreements with the same boss, ex- piring at different times. The result is that very often when the carpen- ters strike the painters are at work and when the painters strike the car- penters work. In the Soviet Union, where the | ’; unions are built on a class basis, they | Soviet Union Only Country in World Where Entire Working Class Is Organized! Industrial try in the world where practically the a very slow, my buddy and I got 3-4 cars a day, one day in the whole pay | should get 5 cents an inch for all slate over 12 inches. If you ask pay for the slate, the boss will tell you it is not thick lenough; if you measure it and show him that you have more than 24) inches, he calls you a lawyer, and too smart to work in the mine. Those that kick and demand pay are soon | out of the mine, for dirty coal or | some such offence. While we have to pay four check} weighmen, two on the day and two on the night shift, our weights con- tinuously get worse. In the local union if you open your mouth they call you @ National, meaning that you are an NMU member. Some guys who were loyal UMWA organizers in Montour 10, like Tedd Barwell, John Dick and @ few others, and were fired by the company in June, are still without jobs. Neither Fagan nor the NRA have put them back to work. The damn fools do not realize that Mellon owns the Pittsburgh Coal and the Republicans and Demdtrats in Allegheny County. Will a Mellon se- lected judge, find a Mellon corpora- tion guilty for firing s coal miner? Barwell and John Dick still belitve that the sun rises and sets in Fagan’s hind end. They came to a meeting that was held on the NMU code in Library with an intention to break children on the county beans he will Jearn a lesson. Here in Local 73 UMWA the Bell- Evans, Jackson gang still rules. This is because we do not organize against these misleaders that helped to break this last strike, and recruited the men to scab after the picket line from the Coke Region leff Library. All those who are not in sympathy with Fagen, and the Pittsburgh Coal, all those who are opposed to this slave agreement must get together, kick out the Fagan coal company agents in our local, and make our it. Maybe after Barwell feeds his| Clinton Jobless Won Relief Through. Good Organization CHICAGO, Tll—Two years ago IT was back in my home town of Clin- ton to lve there. TI noticed the rotten conditions of unemployment and starvation. I decided to help & fellow worker organize an Unem- ployed Council, but not being fully experienced of how to go about or- ganizing, we failed. A couple of weeks ago T learned that a fellow worker and friend passed away, and I decided to attend his funeral. I was there only two days. I remained just to see for| myself what really can happen in| Jess than two years time by having someone that knows how to organize | the workers. What did I find? 1} found that just previous to my visit a hunger march took place and 13 | per cent of the eight thousand popu- | lation participated in the march. | Gas bombs had been thrown at the workers and the leaders thrown im jail. The workers kept marching exhausted from the gas bombs. The result was that many of the workers got an increase in relief and the leaders that were cut off en- tirely are getting relief again. I never enjoyed myself so much as when I passed through Universal and saw the striking school children. They are striking because they will | not go to school and sit side by side with the scabs’ children. A comrade whom I have known for the last 20 years, said to me recently about the Daily Worker: “The Daily Worker is the only paper that tells you the truth of the class struggle throughout the world. It is the only paper that comes straight out with what the capitalist press hides away from the working class. It comes right out with the news we should know. “Why you should see in the morn- ing when all three of us brothers are at home. If you don’t believe me stay until my Daily Worker is delivered. Everyone tries to get it first, and no one leaves home until we all get to read it, especially now that tt comes out with the 6 and 8 pages. “Do you know that if it hadn't been for the Daily Worker we would never have had the gigantic hunger march, and it’s the same Daily Worker that is teaching us how to organize the miners against that strikebreaking John L. Lewis. If local really a local union of the miners. Unions in Factories of the Soviet wont j tory committee in each A. F. of L. Burocracy are also organized on an industrial leadership of the union is elected as follows: 1. The leading body of the trade The Factory caine 4s large and represente- 2. In each department the workers discuss who should be proposed as candidate to the Factory Committee. The best and most devoted workers there was no Daily Worker we would still be sending our children to school HOW THE BLACKLIST SYSTEM WORKS (By a Mine Worker Correspondent) COVERDALE, Pa.—In a previous | sign this petition, demanding that story to the Daily I wrote about two miners that were fired at Coverdale for cutting a place that was not, supposedly, properly cleaned up. indicated in that story that the whole thing was a frame-up against one of the men. One of the men that was fired got a job in mine No.-3 of the Pitts- burgh Terminal. The other man, 4 with a petition asking the people to Hyman be moved out of the patch. Practically 95 per cent miners and all the business people in and in the immediate vicinity of Coverdale signed this petition. However, Hyman Joe Bortak is definitely ous of a | job and blacklisted. At the time when Fagan was try- ing to send miners back to work in this last strike, these two men raised the question of their case. Fagan stated, “It is no time now to raise is case. I shall see to it that you get a square deal after the miners go back to work.” Bortak’s buddy who was the machine runner, and therefore more responsible for any violation of the “mining law” got a job, when Bortak went to see Fagan, he told him that nothing can be done for him, because the Mine In- spector found him guilty and sus- tained his discharge. It was pay day for the U. M. W. A. organizers and in the goodness of their heart they took a collection and collected a tremendous sum of $4. Also free advice to go and get a job somewhere else. According to his friends, Bortak wen; to 12 mines. At one of these mines, an organizer advised him not to seek a job as he is blacklisted all over. No one can accuse Bortak of be- ing an N, M. U. or Communist Party member! He was afraid to join the N. M. U. for fear that the stool pigeons would find out. So he never joined! On the other hand he dis- liked Hyman’s gang that broke the 1931 strike. He attempted together with some other rank and filers to oust this rotten gang out of the lead- ership of the local Union. They suc- ceeded somewhat, the mainspring Hyman was ousted from the official position of Scale Committeemen. However, he continued with his stool pigeoning activities in the local. Bortak and several others went out without shoes and clothing. The re- lief we are getting is nowhere near enough, but we wouldn’t have that if tt wasn’t for the Daily Worker.” ‘Then he asked me “Why don’t you subscribe to the Daily Worker?” I answered him, “I read it every morn- ing before breakfact.” | | i} | still lives in the patch, but Bortak is blacklisted. Several other men who were active in the attempt to move Hyman out of the patch can expect the same kind of treatment as Bortak, because Taplin and Fagan will need skunks of the type of Hyman to do their dirty work. This incident also should be a lesson to Bortak and others who tried to play “politics” with Taplin, Brooks, etc. It so happens that the local union pledged to help these two men finan- cially while they were idle, but since the local has no money this help did not mean a thing. Bortak’s wife is in, the hospital waiting for an operation. His children are without winter clothing, he received his second eviction notice from the gen- erous Mr. Taplin, who “loves” his men. Now Bertak says he is going with a petition to Pinchot, also be- fore the N. R. A, Board. Thus-he will learn still another lesson, that he cannot expect anything from the bosses and their agents, regardless of whether they are township con- stables, state governors or N. R. A. Board members. The only way that the workers will protect their jobs, is by taking over the control of the U. M. W. A. from the bottom up, |of the U. M. W. A. are growing | steadily. Eight hundred miners in the En- terprise Mines at Shamokin Pa., struck for two weeks recently and went back under orders of their of- ficials, but they are already ex- pressing dissatisfaction after work- ing one week. Another mine in Mahoney City is on strike. Smaller mines have been struck, | throughout the region. The Unem- ployed Council of Shenandoah has led miners in foreing the collieries | to hire local men, This fight is of extreme importance to the miners, and is one of the main demands | Bringing in members of other local | unions is a means of breaking union | | agreements. . | A rank and file conference of dis- | trict 9 has been set up and prepara- | tions for mass meetings, culminating in a district mass meeting are under way. Distrust of the N. R. A. has become open as the men watch the fate of the 1,000 blacklisted for mili- tant activity in Cappelini’s strike, |'They also are questioning why Cap- | pelini handed his men over to the N. R. A. knowing that Lewis, hated by all the miners, is a member of it. Local struggles against “stripping” (mining with steamshovels by strip- ping the soil) which endangers thou- sands of miners now working, have been a decisive factor in bringing the unemployed and employed closer to- gether through the Unemployed Councils. is Jobless Miners Meet SHENANDOAH, Pa.—Unemployed Miners delegates at a meeting called by the Shenandoah Unemployed Council, heard delegate Fred Blase present the Rank and File miners code, with the statement that through unity the miners can enforce the col- iery rate-sheet, fight for shorter hours and unemployment insurance. Peter Paul, district organizer of the Unemployed Councils was elected chairman of the meeting and pointed out the need for unity of employed and unemployed miners. Delegates came from Mahoney City, Port Car- bon, Pottsville, Locust Gap, Miners- ville, Shamakin and Shenandoah, The code which was presented in Washington includes the following points: a minimum rate of wages should be paid for a six hour day and this should not be made the maximum — $6 per day for inside labor, $5 per day outside labor; the . and making it a real union that will protect every miner, Some miners may say that Bortak forfeited his job because he violated the mining law. The answer to these guys is, and they know it, that “every time a wheel turns in the mines a law is broken by the coal company.” physical examination should be abolished; recognition of the union; unemployed insurance for all unem- ployed miners who cannot be given work, unemployment insurance; for those miners and others who are too old to work, old age pensions should be provided. U 3. In sddition to the general fac- ent, there is algo an elected department commit! Functions of Factory Committee The Factory Committee after elected sets up different committees (that are called departments) to sa- tisty the various needs of the work- ers. Among the most important com- mittees are the following: Economic Committee: This com- mittee regulates the wages of the workers, participating in working out. wage scales together with the man. agement. The economic committee also has a grievance committee that solves difficulties and complaints in regards to wages, etc. The grievance committee is com- posed of representatives of the work- ers and representatives of the ad- ministration. Only in the Soviet Union where the factories belong to the workers and the administration of the factories is also in the hands of the workers, is it correct to have such grievance committees, | In case the members of the griev- | ance committee cannot reach an agreement, THE FINAL DECISION I8 MADE BY THE HIGHER BODIES OF THE TRADE UNION. Such grievance committees also exist in each department. Commitiee On Workers Conditions ‘The task of this committee is to be in charge of sanitary conditions of the workers in the factory, safety de- vices, medical aid to workers, housing of workers, food supplies, social in- surance, rest homes, sanatoriums, va- cations for workers, free railroad tickets, etc. This year alone the Karl Marx factory in Leningrad has sent 50 workers to sanatoriums to Crimea are elected to ths factory committes, and Caucagus, the places where the capitalists before the revolution used to live in luxury. 500 workers of the same factory were sent to rest homes, for @ period of two, three and four weeks, Also another 170 workers were sent to sanatoriums in different parts of the Soviet Union to strengthen their health. All the above is free of charge. The expenses are covered by the factory administration, from a special fund controlled by the trade union. Full Social Insurance When a worker is sick he receives full wages from the social insurance fund of the government and the fac. tory. Pregnant women receive full wages two months before and after giving birth. In addition to social insurance each trade union has a national mutual aid fund and each factory local re- ceives from the national office of the union a fixed amount of money. The trade union local of the Karl Marx factory has received this year from the National Office of the Machine Building Workers Union 117,584 roub- les for this fund. The general trade union accumulates this fund from the dues payment of the union mem- bership, The District Trade Union Council of Leningrad has accumulated this year a fund of 40,507,000 roubles, that is being spent for the cultural needs of the trade union members. tni, rv etaoi etaoie shrdiue hrdl rdl ‘The Mutual Aid Fund of the trade union is of tremendous help to the union members, Whenever &@ mem- ber is in need of money he can al- ways obtain a loan for a period of five months, THE WORKERS DO NOT PAY ANY INTEREST FOR THE MONEY THEY BORROW, The Mutual Aid Fund is also of great assistance to those workers that are nion Represent the Workers i | Full Social Insurance, Rest Homes and Health Care, Committees Elected by Workers Take Part in in trouble becouse of unforseen cir- cumstances, such as fires, death in the family, etc. The aid the worker receives in such situations IS NOT TO BE RETURNED. 50 per cent of the total money given out to the workers from this fund is not re- turned. Cultural Commitiee The Factory Committee also has @ special cultural committee that or- organizes special theater parties for the workers in the factory, concerts, excursions, lectures, picnics, celebra- tions, etc. In the Soviet Union the most prominent and talented actors perform before the workers in the factory clubs, or the general trade union clubs and theaters. In Leningrad alone there are four houses of culture that are visited daily by over 15,000 workers. The Leningrad District Council of Trade Unions has spent this year 57,786,- 000 roubles or 47.7 per cent OF ITS TOTAL BUDGET, FOR THE CUL- TURAL NEEDS OF ‘THE WORKERS. Production Committee In the Soviet Union, where the factories belong to the workers where exploitation has been abolished, the working class is naturally interested in the growth of its industry. The So- viet Union is the only country in the world where everything is not only produced by the workers but also FOR THE WORKERS. From the above it is clear that one of the major tasks of the trade unions in the U. S. 8. R. is to improve and increase production. For this reason All Activities the trade union Factory Committee has a special department whose task is to call special production con- ferences where the workers discuss ways and means how to improve pro- duction, quantitatively and qualita- tively. What new methods can be used, how to lower the cost of pro- duction and how to eliminate waste. These are some of the questions that the workers who are the bosses of the factories take up at the produc- tion conferences. ‘There is no graft or corruption in the Soviet trade unions, as we have it in the A. F. of L. unions in Amer- ica. There are no high paid and no burocratic trade union officials in the Soviet Union, The officials do not get more than the average wage of the worker at the bench. The trade union officials do not spend their time in offices and hotels. The ot- ficials are at the point of production from early in the morning till late at night, tirelessly working for the in- terest of the union and the working class as a whole. The workers in America can and must learn great lessons from the trade unions in the U. 8. 8. R. IT IS HIGH TIME THAT A MASS AMERICAN TRADE UNION DELE- GATION SHALL VISIT THE SO- VIET UNION AND SEE THEM- SELVLS THE GREAT HISTORICAL VICTORIES THE RUSSIAN PRO- LETARIAT HAS ACHIEVED UN- DER THE LEADERSHIP OF THE miners have been discharged as a re- statement of the discharged miners, but Maloney and Cappellini both ad- vise the miners to remain at work, to give the commission a chance to make its report, and then see what will happen. There is a very grave danger now that the foreign born miners are going +o be the ones that will be discrim- inated against. The company are making the miners who come back to work produce their citizenship papers, and if they fail they are told there is no work for them, and the U. M. P. A. is saying and doing nothing about this, In most of the collieries where the miners have returned to work, they report that the condi- tions have worsened sincé the strike was called off. The Unemployed Council here is preparing to call a convention of the employed and unemployed miners and other workers early in December. The purpose of the convention will be to bring a closer unity between the em- ployed and the unemployed. We have in mind also the setting up of an opposition group consisting of work- ers from different unions of the A. F. of L. Of course, this will be con- nected up with the convention in | Washington and the going to local unions to have them endorse the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill and elect delegates to the Un- employed Convention. Tt will not be an easy task to carry this through, but I am sure that once we prove to the comrades here that it can be done, they will become more active, I am sure that you are as excited as we are here over the recognition of the U.S.S.R. but we have no il- lusions that this will make the Blue Buzzard grow fat. I can imagine the thrill that must have come over the workers who passed the hotel in New York and saw the red flag from the flag pole over the hotel, and then I can imagine the gnashing of teeth by the fakers Woll, etc., etc, when the red flag flies to the breeze in Wash- ington, We are living in a glorious time, sometimes slow and sometimes fast, but the steady tramp of the millions advances toward the goal, and weak as we are here, we still do our part in bringing nearer the day when the workers will take power. In spite of all obstacles the world of socialism rises, and the world of capitalism dies. This is what the recognition of the Soviet Union meant to me, Shenandoah Miners Tell How They Help Sell the Daily Worker By a Group of Mine Correspondents SHENANDOAH, Pa.—We, a group of Shenandoah miners, want to re- late our experiences in connection with the Daily Worker. Some time ago we came in con- tact with the Daily Worker and have begun to read it regularly. ‘We find the paper very interesting and instructive. It gives us guid- ance and directions how to ore ganize, how to fight for more re~ lief, how to fight our misleaders, who are daily selling us out to the boss class with whom they work hand in hand, We decided that if the Daily means so much to us, it will mean as much to the rest of the em- ployed and unemployed miners, most of whom are out of work, and forced to live on the meager relief, after we put up a struggle to get it. So four of us got together and decided to go out Saturday evening and sell the Daily, We begen with a few, and are now selling 12 every day, and 60 every Saturday. ‘When we come in to the hang- out places where the miners are to he found, they all call out “there go the boys with the Daily Worker.” Last night for instances, two of us sold 39 Saturday issues in a very brief time. Many of the workers pay 5c and more, telling us “Send the rest of it along to the paper.” What we need is some help from a few of the Party members here. If every one would just put in about one hour every night to the selling of the Daily, we could in- crease our daily sates to 100 daily and 590 Saturday's issues. How about it? NOTE:—We publish letters from the mine fields, both coal and ore, every Saturday. We ask the miners and their wives and children, to write us of their conditions of life, conditions on the job, and their GREAT BOLSHEVIK PARTY OF LENIN AND STALIN. struggies to organize, Get the let- ters to us hy Wednesday ef each week, +R | fl iW }