The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 24, 1934, Page 3

P.M.A. Heads Halt March (34 Jobless D At Governor’s Request Wacklicted Minors Were to Demands Jobs in Taylorville March they have left to thet the only way they have le! get jobs to the 13,000 blacklisted off the march, according to officials, is the “deference to some of the State and Federal officials who asked that the march be called off.” The P. M. A. officials admit they called off the march on tne request of Gov. Horner and the N. R. A. board, who advised that there is still the President to whom the miners may appeal to, for final settlement of their grievances. The officialdom of the union are now sending an appeal to Roosevelt to set aside the decision of the N. R. A. board, which awarded and approved the contracts between the U.M.W.A. and the Peabody coal Company, and force the N. R. A. to these contracts to the P. M. A. roiners and the whole rank and file in the strike area as well as those miners working under P. M. A. con- ‘act, had very little confidence in the cerity and good intention of those were preparing a march to Tay- loryille.” Hundreds of miners openly said they would not go to Taylorville to be put into a similar hole ag they were two years ago on their march to Franklin County, when the P. M. A. leaders deserted the rank and fite and let the state police put the miners on the spot for the Franklin Co, thugs to shoot at. The rank nd file Opposition leadership of this territory elected a Committee of the Miners-to investi- Cleveland Workers to Demand Free Lunches To All School Children East Third St., for free hot lunches for workers’ school children. Other demands will be for free books and school supplies, clothes and shoes. ‘The demonstration is being or- ganized by the Federation of Wo- men’s Clubs of Cleveland and the ‘Young Pioneers of America. All workers are urged to dem- onstrate together with their chil- dren and neighbors. N. E. Shoe. Workers Fight to Oust Nolan Machine from Office Rank, File Elect Action Committees to Obtain Control of Union HAVERHILL, Mass., Jan. 23.—Har- nessing press and police to aid them in retaining control over their strong- hold in N. E., officials of the Shoe Workers Protective Union are des- perately trying to frustrate the ac- tion of the rank and file to take over the union apparatus and remove District Agent Keleher. Despite an overwhelming vote by all the locals of the district council for his removal, Keleher has refused to vacate the union offices and has surrounded himself with # force af police prepared to club the workers of | Foliowing the exposure by the central DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 24, 1934 ie In Minneapolis Lodging House, Workers to Protest Against Unsanitary Conditions MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Jan. 23— branch of the Minneapolis Unem- ployed Council that 34 workers have died in the city flop-houses between Dec, 1 and Jan. 10, a city-wide dem- onstration of single unemployed workers is being called here for Wed- nesday, Jan. 24, at 2pm. This dem- onstration is being held in prepara- tion for the general city-wide dem- onstration of all unemployed workers on Jan. 28 at 10 am. at the city courthouse. The Union City Mission and the Salvation Army flop-houses are prof- itable rackets, supported by the city relief administration, which shares the responsibility for the death of the 34 workers. It has been disclosed by the Un- employed Council that as many as seven men sleep in one room at one time, and this is repeated for two shifts each day,, for which the city pays ten cents a day for each. this manner the Rev. Paul of the Union Mission rakes in $9.80 a week for each of the filthy rooms in the flop-house. When the Union City Mission is filled, the jobless workers are sent to other “hotels” owned by the mission. ‘The mission also owns a farm for Jobless workers on which workers slave for 25 cents a week. Cleveland CWA Men Inj} Page Three | Ordered Woge Cus ||Graft in CWA |7 Months of NRA, With Aid of A F of L Harry L. Hopkins, federal relief administrator, whose recent an- nouncement that all C.W.A. workers would receive wage cuts, and that thousands of others would be im- mediately fired, yesterday said that he “could not venture a guess as to what would happen” after the abandonment of the C.W.A. UseC WA Millions for War Preparations States Build Airports With CWA Funds BIRMINGHAM, Ala. Jan. 23— Plans are under way here to build a state-wide network of 50 airports, Millions of dollars are being spent by each state for airports being built with C. W. A. funds. Sumpter Smith, supervisor of the projects, stated recently that 21 such projects had been approved in Ala- bama, five projects are pending, and 25 more airport projects are on the way. * Combat Grievances Plain Dealer Annoyed at BEMIDJI, Minn—Six airports are to be built in this section with funds supplied from the C. W. A. according |to a statement by H. Reese, district | Builds Fences Of Roosevelt: Democratic Machine Is Strengthened by Robbing Jobless (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, Jan. 23—The Fed- | eral Relief and Civil Works Adminis- | tration organizations are honeycombed with graft bied from the unemployed workers by business men and their Democratic and Republican politician associates, it was disclosed today in | circles close to high relief and ©.W.A.| greatest boom ever given to labor. officials, The N.R.A. was signed by President No important indications are con- | Roosevelt on June 15, Seyen months | templated, for it is understood that | have now passed.‘ We get 2 flash of Federal Relief and C.W.A. Adminis-|Mr. Green talking at a hearing on | trator Harry L. Hopkins feels that his |*4e lumber code | temperament won't stand “prosecut-| Js this the s |ing.’ Furthermore, it was disclosed, the same Hopkins is “quite bored with this re | Mef business, anyway.” | 9,000 Protests A Day \ | Hopkins believes, it was explained, |that this wholesale corruption “has | | nothing to do with the new deal and| %% | that it might just.as well have been committed under a Hoover set-up.” | No mention was made of the Farley- | Roosevelt political machine, | | Obviously, the maneuvers of these | high relief officials is intended to | neutralize the expected protest of the | | millions of unemployed when they be- | come acquainted with all the sordid| facts. It was freely admitted that! “Hopkins is on a hot spot.” Early in today’s press conference | Hopkins ill-humoredly admitted that) 9,000 letters a day protesting against the termination on May 1 of C.W.A. projects are being received by his of- fice. “And I know that there's a high-grade propaganda going on be- hind these letters,” Hopkins com- plained. Hopkins “Can't Lay” | Minimum Wages Become | the Maximum, Admits William Green By HARRY GANNES When Roosevelt was cooking the witches broth known as the N.R.A |to make the dish more palatable to | the workers he found it necessary to invite the A. F. of L. cook, Mr. Green. |Green declared the N.R.A. was the rikebreaker. But ing so differently. | What is he up to? | Just as the Com inists forecast, 1 ‘-|™maximum wages paid.” | Officials, Finds Workers Are Now ‘Much Worse Off Tnan They Ever Were Before’ as his friends all are, because he Negro Workers Paid As apparently sees his hope as prac-/| Low As 14 Cents An tically realized.” bs Everybody 1s very happy because} Hour in the South |coolie standards for the American | workers are being prepared | Mr. Green warms up and becomes |N.R.A., after this blow at @ very vital enthusiastic: “This proposed legis- |Spot, the Fede t says that j lation marks a very definite step for- | “’ have gone to work, how- ward in industrial stabilization, ra-|ever, and total payrolls or buying | tlonalization, and economic planning. | Power of all workers has increased ..+ It is, in the judgment of labor,| The N.R.A. codes were first applied |the most outstanding, advanced, and|to the cotton textile industry, and forward-looking legislation designed | therefore New England would show |to promote economic recovery thus | the results of the A. more dras- | far proposed.” tically than any other section of the } In another instance he declared it | country. was “a new charter for labor.” | The National Industrial Conference Or John L./ Board after surve 350 represen- as the | tative firms under the N.R.A., regard- operators | ing employment declared: coal industry is and mine workers alike ca ail the new law (N.R.A.) as an act of eco- nomic emancipation.” But just seven months later, on | Jan. 15, 1934, Mr. Green appears be- | fore a hearing on the lumber code and declares “that the A. F. of L.| |has voluminous evidence that dras- | tic reduction has taken place in the | wages of skilled workers since the | adoption of the code, and that the | | minimum wages tended to become the “The total man-hours resulting fro mthe combination of decreased hours and increased employment changed but little, and in some in- Communists Warned of N.R.A. | s precisely what the Com-| arne‘| the workers about seven months previously, urg- them to organize to struggle inst the lowering of their Kving itions revealed in the lum- dustry under the N.R.A. in the South were particularly vicious, |not exceptional. In two mills Gaffney, S. C., Negro workers were paid only 15 cents an hour. | In the current issue of the Daily |Worker we publish an official order signed by General Hugh S. Johnson, Wie AM (aeen dustries decreased. So far as these total man-hours are indicative of the COSTUME | a4 ; chief N.R.A, administrator, providing velume of work performed, gate the so-called march and the/if they attempe to take over their s | manager of the re-employment sery-| Asked again what is being planned | 5 OSEV. |14 cents an hour for iaundry w 3| there was little change when Octo- plans of the officialtom. Their state-|own union. Communists on Jobs ice. A seaplane port with adjoining| by relief and C.W.A. officials for the eee |(mainly Negroes) in the South, ber is compared with June. ment three days before the march is} After issuing a statement in the 5G a | airport will be built at Baudette, | 4,000,000 C.W.A. workers who Will be| the NRA. is sla hing the living How It Works | In short, the number of uneinploy- fully confirmed by the agtion of the |Morgan-owned Ciasstte thet the DS-| By a 0. W. A. Correspondent | which will be the point of entry at destitute because of the May 1 deci-|¢RO NAA, @, Slashing the living | Florida lumber mills we have an|€d remained. stationary throughout nilaneuariychecangten, Aiceper tate itd Malian Athy on! At ig oe CLEVELAND, Ohio. — The Cleve-|the, Canadian and United States) sion, Hopkins replied with his stock| them to “coolle levels’—C‘living |exampie on a small scale precisely | the period of the NRA. from June me ers are 100 pie. for mass sacs TTnpointed Releber vcoméalé- \iand Pliin, Dester hed an item has |e co hee phraseology: “Now I can’t project the| standards are being reduced to the |how the N.R.A. Works nationally to|to October, while those employed were ciugdin ta force the Béavody: Coal of the Haverhill district and | said, “C, W. A. Breaking Communist | = |geonomic situation on May 1. How | level of Chinese coolies,” statement |lower the workers’ living standards, |Baving their living standards reduced ‘truggle to force tne es y Me sioner” 0! mae Pitzg as a that. Gea tcoeees “at Con | PEORI, Il., Jan. 23.—Since private| qo I know what's going to happen? jof F. H. Fijozdal, Pr of the led Negro rkers are paid the Regarding industry perag Et i pty ger aotemisaloner’™ ae the Newburyport Tapco pees epserctahadaligs companies are not able to avail them-|Phings may pick up in the Spring.” | Brothezhood of Maintenance of Way |minimum code wages. But they are | Says the National Indu s¢ We find however, that our officials are not preparing for a mass. militant march to Taylorville, but to the contrary they are using the 13,000 blacklisted miners as cheap publicity stunt and another boss court appeal. What is necessary for a successful march to Taylorville and to close Pea- body shafts there: 1. We must have some forces detinitely organized in- side the mine to demoraiize those im- ported scabs, 2. We must prepare the plan of, me so that the outside il partly be inside the town, ing-in in groups before the h and welding these with the miners on inside for united action. That we close down the P. M. A. es now working and reinforce the ing miners and blacklisted miners with the 14,000 part-time miners, 4. That we organize the Women’s Auxi- ih s to this march,” THIS SAT. Eight P. M. BALL and | CONCERT district. Both in Newburyport and in Lowell, where s similar appoint- ment was made, the workers told the commissioners to get out of town and have affiliated with the United Shoe and Leather Workers Union, which is merging all the shoe unions of New England. In Derry, New Hampshire, Boyce, another agent of the Protective was ousted by the rank and file when the 800 shoe workers here, found that the loan he hed tricked them into m&king to the boss to “keep the shop going” was really 2 wage cut. The boss declared a 124 per cent wage cut last week which the work- ers refused. When they asked for guarantees for their loan, the boss declared, ;“I told Boyce I couldn't guarantee anything.” Rank and file committees of action are being elected in cach of the “Haverhill locals to support and help the District Council in its struggle to remove Keleher and _a movement is now under way for Keleher’s ex- puision from the union. '2 Chicago Negro Youths Murdered CHICAGO, Jan. 23.—Two young Negro employees of the Frost Club, | exclusive Lake Shore Drive home for young women, were found beaten to ‘death in the basement of the club yesterday. ‘The two workers had been killed by blows on the head and body with &@ heavy iron bar used for shaking furnaces. They were identified as Leon Dibbs, 23, janitor of the prem- ises, and John Netter, 22, porter, The victims were clad only in their underwear, One of the men, police Say, was murdered in his sleep, and the other was attacked as he climbed from the bed, Furniture in se room had been overturned, indicating a terrible struggle. ‘Fifty girl inmates of the club were in-the building at the time, but no one heard the poke Aad re- port themselves Workers’ lions of Chicago are investi- CELEBRATING th ANNIVERSARY I. W. O. 8 GALA PROGRAM Prizes! Prizes! Prizes! at Gailup under the leadership of FOR BEST COSTUME Piodensl Miers, Usien. ie articles tell the story of the strike- e breaking activities of the U.M.W.A. Ether - Waye Instrument pasersht een he: weplaen: “onal Music Out of the Air! |. - etit PAR HE ° By PAT TOOREY Sol Braverman’s 2 Negro a (Article 2) i “Another service the U.M.W.A. lead- and White Orchestras atop reniaeroa torte t segs : ben to ice a ite sete from the Two Aysiihony p Openers (Mentmore camp. ‘The eviction mee < ‘an, Director to.come become the local Justice of : fot Gime eae Mass Pageant by EW.0. © . e NM. at- Youth & Childrens Section |wnici, was wrarves Chante of venue, e - sng Foray camp. mi 69th REGIMENY ot the Beace was Tom iokend vee 25th St. & Lexington Ave. |one or then” anecusieined every Admission 35c_ organizati gating the brutal erime, to Demand Jobs in Taylorville March isth St, LW.O. 80 Fifth Avenue, and at Box Offce. 4 ‘Tickets at Workers Bookshop, 50 x, |.A8Sisted the company in attempting | Blacklisted Miners Were| of protection. At the Allison meet- ing the scabs were rounded up into the meeting and Hefferley “organ- ized” another loca), ture of a union. But the recognition for the miners‘ resulted only in $10 for initiation beiny checked oft. not counting the hiza dues, created by the C. W. A.” ‘Well, of course the workers do want jobs, and have succeeded in being put on by hundreds. In fact, they were told to take these jobs by the leader- ship of the Unemployed Councils, Does this look like our organizations are being deserted? Not in the least, but on the contrary, the Un- employed Councils are being popular- ized like I never dreamed possible. Everyone has suddenly become an agitator. One young fellow told me that the most he received from the Relief Bureau. for his family of three was a $1.50 food order per week. He was surprised when I told him my family of four received a $9. food order every week. Although in- sufficient, it looked like a fortune to him after being forced to live on the ;Meager sum he had been receiving. the fob expired. This is an example, multiplied by hundreds of what is going on. One Thursday a grievance arose. day could b> made up. He said, “No, that time lost for bad weather, could not be made up.” We im- mediately mobilized around 70 of the workers and marched over to the Relief Bureau, where’ we had been enlisted for these jobs. The super- visor told us that he could do nothing about it, so we told him that any time we lose would have to be sup- plemented by the Relief Bureau. He asked for a day's time to see what he could do about it. The committee agreed and the next day we were told that all lost time could be made up by working Saturday or an hour or ‘80 overtime each day. This proves that they fear the in- fluence of the Communists and that we can gain much more if we organ- ize into a mighty union. Workers jof the C. W. A. join the Relief Workers Union ! P. S. All comrades should bring Revolutionary pamphlets and the Daily Worker to sell to the workers on the job. | He promised to join the U. C. after) It rained, so we were told to go home. | | We asked the superintendent if this | munist Organizations were eager to| selves of C. W. A. funds, the Peoria| accept the jobs that were being | City Council voted to lease the private | |owned airport for a period of five years, and a gang of C. W. A, work-| ers are now at work improving the | land. Fire 10,000 CW.A. | Workers : in Wash. | Remaining Workers Get Pay Cut \ OLYMPIA, Wash., Jan. 23.—Ten thousand C. W. A. workers in the state of Washington were fired, and | Payroll reduced $300,000 a Week following the tack upon the workers, Those re- maining on C. W. A. payrolls re- per cent. . * * SPOKANE, Wesh.—Iwo hundred | C. W. A. workers here were imme- | diately fired, and all others on C. W. A. jobs were handed a 20 per cent wage cut when hours were re- | duced, following Roosevelt's aban- | donment of the C. W. A. Textile Boss To Rehire Fired Shop Chairman PATERSON, N. J., Jan. 23—Unit- ed militant action of the women workers of the Kluger shop recently compelled the owner to reinstate the shop chairman whom he had fired. The entire shop was at a standstill, including the warpers, who pledged to back up the girls in their stand. When the shop committee, guided by the National Textile Workers’ Union, went to see the boss demanding that the shop chairman be taken back on the job, reed to yield. the boss was | for militant united action against the bosses who have been discrimi- nating against many workers since the general strike. In the Kluger ceived a wage cut of from 20 to 50} Shop Committee Forces | Hopkins announced that $500,000,000 for the impending fifteen months’ period. He estimated that on May 1 there will be 9,000,000 unemployed heads of families. |A. F. of L. Officials | Sabotage Minnexpolis Upholsterers’ Strike | MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.. Jan. {The sell-out of the upholsterers’ strike by the A. F. of L. officials and the N.R.A. Labor Board decision has aroused widespread indignation among the rank and file upholsterers and among the members of all A. F. of L. unions. Although the N.R.A. ordered bind: ing decision, which does not |many strikers refused to go back to work with scabs. On Friday they continueed to maintain picket lines at the plants, despite the sabotage of the A. F. of L. union leaders, The efforts of some workers to ;continue the strike, and protes’ against working with scabs, proved futile, however, in the face of the national Juridicall Association, will workers and confused and demorai- ized them. The strike is definitely over. ‘To cover up this betrayal, the “left” demagog Cramez, editor of the Labor Review, continues to talk about or- no one is fooled by this. In many local unions the deman is being raised that the A. F. L. officiais resign from the strike~ breaking N, R. A. Labor Board, and an_explanation is demanded of the sell-out by A. F. of L. officials. shop, N.T.W.U. members were being replaced by A. F. of L. members. Un- organized y re bei i od A. were meetin, ani shop committee went into action with the resulting victory when the boss tried to force the shop chairman out of the shop, Nebent Hitebvelt at |the strikers to return to work, in a} {grant a single one of their demands, | leaders which split the ranks of the]. ganizing a “big demonstration,” but | “| Just befor Employees, Dec. 23, 1933). The prom- will be needed for relief requirements | 8° of the N-R.A. were the means of | where the pri | attempting to keep the workers from je sisting, while the Roosevelt regime, | through its program of inflation and |lowering wage standards, helped the } capitalists increase their profits. The | Communists declared that the N.R.A. was a step towards fascism, with the |A. F. of L. officialdom acting with {the government to smash strikes and to the workers’ rights to or- Growing Disconten: Green, wit | Workers’ ranks, hea: of rising strike struggles. The more drastic inflation steps of Ro velt di deeply into the worke: | living ndard, | The workers have noted that the N.R.A, broth shrinks the stomach. It good in spe wh comes to the pay ders on starvation. his ear to rumblings the |; forced to bu: at company stores, | ence Board, “the belief is widespr are raised for both! that many small manufacturers must |food and housing in order to slash |80 to the wall, partly through ab- |the real wages below their former | Srption in larger concerns.” Hevel. F | The central point made by the | In some industries, lower paid|Communists—that the NRA. is a |Workers were given the minimum. | Weapon for the further centralization |Higher paid workers were reduced to|@Nd monopoly of capital—is here |the minimum. Through inflation|Shown to be accurate beyond the |prices were shot upward—and are still | Shadow of a doubt. skyrocketing—reducing the standard | Maer eae jof living of the entire working class} In future articles the strikebreak- {to a lower vel than at any period| ing role of the A. F. of L. and So- during the ent crisis, | cialist leaders will be dealt with, | 0 longer 2 question of “chis in yee Pane, " argument was} a shield raised by the A. FP. of L. bu-| reaucracy and the swashbuckling ad-| sucncy aad de tmatioting C/N, Y, Trade Unions [iste nee aetotmcnure’ senes| Plan Drive To Stop Injunction Menace |were chiseling on wages. But the fact ‘as the N.R.A. itself was the chisel y means of which the bosses slashing the wages of the entire wo 3 : seq ing class. : The same Mr. Green who helped | "te Daily worker in articles, Issue Conference Call put over the N.R.A., to |stories and workers’ correspondence | ‘faithfully in the pres |the perspeciive of strike struggles, finds iit necessary to yoice, in his | particulai dous 1 ~ coming from the been sliced N.R.A. slave codes jas the ‘spokesman of labor,” but this | time a labor which has felt the crush- jing weight of the N.R.A. codes. | In this manner, Green and the A. |F. of L. bureaucrats groom them- |selves to stem the r y jand if this fails. t order to behead them. “We Are Happy” the N.R.A. bec. jon Friday, May 19, 1933, Mr. is called on to express the views of the A. F. of L. offictaldom on the N.RB.A., which is up for considera- tion. He pays his compliments first to the gentleman who later is to head | the National Lal | Co. |. Mr. Green: “First, may I pay a just compliment to my good friend, that faithful public servant, Senator Wagner. I know he must be happy, way, the tremen- | - | ployed . | passed. for February 10 at - Irving Plaza Hall jhas printed hundreds of instances of | jlowered wages. | Worse Off Than Before Now we have the bald admission from the American Federation of La-| _ Ni - |bor bureaucracy itself that the em-) fighting strength orkers are worse off now and ee hetic labor pee : efor NIR.A. was| tO en e epid of injunctions pes Delore the Nea | striking at the fundamental rights of In the January issue of the Ameri-| the trade unions has just been is- can Federationist, official organ of| Sued by the New York United Shoe the A. F. of L., we read the following | 8nd Leather Workers’ Union: statement on “wages and prices.” The call appeals to ell local unions “Since the bank crisis, the aver- |and shops of the A. F. of L., Trade age worker's weekly income has | Unicon Unity League, independent risen 7.4 per cent (to October), but | urfons and s; thetic organiza rker has to pay for his es to an antle have risen much |i ion conference to be heid on Food prices are up | Saturday, Feb. 10, at 1 p: m, at 18 per cent (to November 21), prices | Irving Plaza Hall, Irving Plaza and of clothing and furnishings are up | 15th St. The conference call is en- 26.3 per cent (to November). dorsed by A. Severino, president of “Thus the worker who had a job | Local 37, of the Bricklayers Union right along is worse off than he | (A. F. of L.), Sam Friedman, secre~ was when the year began. His pay | tary of Local 2090, of the Carpenters’ | envelope may be larger but it buys | Brotherhood (A. F. of L.) and by wage is smailer. r NEW YORK.-—A call to rally Il trade uni | than thi Shoe Union Hit Hardest T United Shoe and Leather | ‘ ‘ js, Workers’ Union, which has initiated pe ot erp aged pager jthe anti-injunction mevement, is the rise in prices is much greater. | among the unions hardest hit by this "To sustain the worker's faith in the | StTike-breaking weapon of the bosses. A total of 60 drastic injunctions, Mr. U. M. W. A. Leaders of We st Evicted Strikers, Enforced (Reese, Statham, Ferguson) could go anywhere they wished, hold any meeting, enter any camp. Needless to say, the strikers were even denied entrance to the camps where they lived. Under such conditions the of- ficials “organized” the U.M.W.A. Bosses “Organized” U.M.W.A. The U.M.W.A. was “organized” in the following way: In Gamerco mine the superintendent and general man- ager, Horace Moses, called the meet- ing. The meeting took place outside the shaft as the scabs came from sort of a bull-pen. Only working scabs were allowed to attend. Moses the meeting, urged the scabs to form a U.M.W.A, local and prom~- Reese In Allison, the same procedure was followed. The management obli- gingly called the meeting, invited Hefferly, who attended escorted by Soldiers. In fact, Hefferly was al- ways escorted by soldiers when he came to town, as he was in bad need Moses did “recogrize” this earica- Such a “union,” a company union, a union in the camp, signed by the Joint Committee of U.M.W.A. providing Moses with a claim that he had recognized a union, thas he has complied with Section 7-a of the National Recovery Act, that no two unions can exist at his mine, that the United Mine Workers of America was fhe “unanimous” choice of his “em- ployes,” ete. Rank and File Form United Front But this strikebreaking activity was too raw for some of the sincere U.M.W.A. members. Clearly they realized that in helping to smash the N. M. U, strike they were smashing themselves. The worsening of condi- tions in the mines accelerated this trend of thought among the miners, especially at Allison mine. At first some thought that by working, under pressure, during the sirike, that conditions would be bet- ter and that after the strike they would be sitting pretty with good jobs. But the contrary has hap- pened. Conditions of the scabs got worse than before the strike, At the Allison mine the N. M. U. strikers and sincere U.M.W.A. rank and filers commenced negotiations for eommon action to change conditions. A Joint Committee of the N.M.U.-U.M.W.A. members was set up and agreed to call a meeting of the N.M.U. and UM.W.A. members of the Allison mine—the meeting to trek to Ari- zona—to discuss common problems and work out a line of joint action. What happened? As soon as the circulars appeared of scabs, served orly the purpo:e otjers of Allison calling thi (the need for same had been widely discussed by the miners of this camp for some days) the mine management immediately decided to capitulate and come to a settlement with the strik- ers. The management infoymed the strike committee it was ready to negotiate a settlement of the strike. What brougth the company to a conclusion it had to meet, the work- ers? Simply that the miners of that mine had united on 2 prograin of common demands and held a threat of joint aetion over the head of the company. Strikers Gain Demands The strike at Allison was speedily settled and the workers granted 12 out of 15 demands for which the miners were striking two months. When the bosses found that no longer could they divide the miners against leadership was no longer of any in defeating the miners, the bos: signed with the N.M.U. This inci- dent at Allison gave to all miners a convincing proof that when the rank and file developed united front that their conditions are bettered and union organization established. | In one place in New Mexico the! U.M.W.A. reached before the NMU./| and succeeded in establishing an or- | ganization. That is in Dawson, where the mine is owned by the Phelps- Dodge Corporation. The Dawson) miners struck under the U.M.W.A. A comparison of the Gallup-Madrid ec “0. min- meeting | vagie under the N.M.U. end Daw- themselves, and that the U.M.W.A.} interesting. What did the miners in Dawson get, after a strike of a month? Precisely nothing! were herded back to work defeated. They struck for U.M.W.A. recogni- tion and local demands. Hefferley denounced the strike and ordered |them to return. |a month and went back defeated. } | In Galiup, led by the N. M. U., at Southwestern mine, the miners got | 14 of 15 demands; in Allison 12 of | 15 demands, in Madrid 12 of 15 de-| mands, in Gamereo, Mutual and Mentmore mines, 9 of 12 demands and amnesty for all strike prisoners. New Mexico miners are comparing Gallup-Madrid with Dawson and more firmly than before know their choice of the N. M. U, was correct end no mistake made. Will these things be told at India- |napolis? We believe not. UM.W.A. In Wyoming Last year the Union Pacific Coal Co. demanded that the Wyomirg miners accept a 20 per cent wage U.M.W.A. in Wyoming would be part of this machine. Wyoming is the only Western state an organization for a considerable | time. The explanation is simply thet son under the UM.W.A, is highly | the Union Pacific finds the USM.W.A.| They | - denying the workers all rights, have been issued against the shoe union jsince the outbreak of its general ut |strike last fall climaxed by a suit of damages for $600,000 against the junion which parallels that of the ene! r Danbury Hatters Case. Minimum Wages Become | _ since the injunctions have been is- | ‘’ ° |sued against the shoe union, - a the Maximum, Admits | similar damage suit has been ordered es They remained out | I William Green serviceable to the U. P., and the U. . W. A, officials loyal lackeys of lugene McAuliffe, “liberal” U. P. president. The question of the 20 per cent cut was put to a referendum vote, as per the constitution of the union. The proposal (the question being jagainst the Metal Workers’ Union, |and scores of other unions affiliated with the T. U. U. L. and A. Ff of L. have been faced with attack by this legal weapon of the bosses, aimed to destroy all rights of the workers and | prevent militant struggles forim- proved conditions. => 5 The conference committee head- auc is located at 77 Fifth Ave where the U.M.W.A. has maintained | PPosition groups in the U.M.W.A. to | Voted was a new scele with a 20 per |eent cut) was defeated by a huge | Pickets Convicted, Fightesn Released LOS ANGELES, Cal., Jan, 23/— Four of the 22 milk strike ts who were on triel for picketing | blackjacking the miners, threats, in- | ; timidation about shutting down, etc.) down, | When the scale was voted | properly the n: S They simpiy | |told the Wyoming minezs: We have | signed the new scale. Go to work. | |If you do not, you will be expelled | cut. Union Pacific is octupus | 5, A Adohr Dairy were found guilty of .1|1rom the union, which means no job} Pr : HE ueRpreia ih te toate tay anywhere in Wyoming (as the U. P.| (00 a ae pane se Ria: te. in its gresp. The government of the |! State boss). | Fisher, Mayeur and Rauch were gen= state of Wyoming functions, not in| poededrptcrqapell h; SARE tenced to ten days each; Sims, who Neturally, then, the leadership of the Lapa Tigimeeocie pa gia oes a d out his order | ai at 5 Wyoming miners are organizing | the anti-working-class nature of the anti-picketing law, and the fact that the 22 were not arrested because of any crime, but in order to ‘break the milk strike. ieee Lambert, Radilj, ete.? get rid of such leadership as Morgen, (Te Be Continued) |