The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 20, 1934, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, ‘W YORK, FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 4 Relief Heads in New The Shining Light That Failed--" Captain” Shaw, Fight on Minneapolis Co-S Jobless; Trial Ends City Council Backs Dow Welfare Head, Admits n on Demand for Jobs; Relief Cuts; Chamber of Commerce Endorses Clubbings MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. As the trial of the first 19} By HARRY RAYMOND One of the most notorious stool pigeons and labor rats loperating in recent strike struggles in New York is a gentleman known as Nathan S. Shaw, for years associated | with Max Sherwood, head of the Sherwood Detective Bu- reau, 1457 Broadway. Like Sherwood’s co-worker George workers who were arrested in the demonstration of jobless! wittiams, who sent thugs into the and C. W. A. workers on April 6th came to a close, the court,|Parmelee garages to slug striking after centering its attack upon S. K. Davis, fired C. W. A taxi drivers, Shaw helped to supply | tool Pigeon of Sherwood and Williams Plotted With Nozovitsky, Notorious Forger, To Plant Bombs in Te Gang That Is Sui Raymond To Answer Libel Charge Tues. xtile Mill; Was Part of ng “Daily” Writer Nathan Shaw re: ed a climax in 1926 during the strike in the Botany | Textile mill in Passaic, N. J. | Worked With Nozovitsky Soon after this strike began Shaw and Nozovitsky were to be found in | conference with the mill owners. J. Katz, a justice of the peace in Pas- saic, then appeared on the scene. | Judge Katz told the whole story were strike, But Nozovitsky’s documents were too obvious a fake even f 1 owners. The forgery through. Nozovitsky was away for about week, presumab! Judge Katz. | was noticeably better dressed was able to spend left. He apparen documents of sor dently they were not successf' in breaking the satisfactory to ; the mill mem, and they have not yet used or published them, to the best of my knowledge.” UMWA Heads Jim- Crow N eg ro Miners In “ Victory” March Rank and File, However, Carry Fighting Slegans in Pa PITTSBURGH, Pa took place, in many ganized as Day.” Or parts of victory” April rades By TONY MINERICH marches of coal miner marches and on what is called “Mitchell The most import town and Greensburg, Pa. of these marches were in Union- In these marches the policy of *the officialdom and that of the % " ¢ . "| gangsters to the hotel owners to) ; worker and leader of the C. W. A. union, turned its attention} break the recent hotel and eitaus 1 to trying to convict the other » }rant strike. Shaw, who styles himself as Capt. of how these two scoundrels con-|, 50 all the schemes of the two jcocted all kinds of swinish schemes |{4Mous detectives met with defeat to break the strike in a signed| Zhe strike went on. The mill own- jers, however, paid a good price for ganized strikebreaking machine in| the committee which placed approached Nozovitsky and asked rank and file carried fighting jai 7 i ey A statement, which is now in the po- oe ; - sy Lieut . * rae ibacargel il eds Louisville, Ky. Fired |x. 8. shaw (Crying Nat), appeared | | session of the Daily Worker. |the “services” of these gentlemen. Ready for May First ||*20 and file stood out ix ‘ on the scene as the head of -| i jay Nathan aw, however, 3 shar rast. Ahi C.W.A. Workers March} ; a ral | According to the judge, Shaw had | continues to ply his dirty trade in eae ee | oe eee While the | the workers’ demands before the City Council was concluded, and sentence was reserved by Judge White until Friday, April 20. During the testimony, the police attempted to place the charge against the workers that they had carried tear gas bombs. Levinson ex- ploded this charge by asking the police where any private citizen could buy police equipment, scoring the new appropriation of the City Council of $800 for buying additional tear gas equipment. Forces Court to Grant Blanket Levinson forced the court to grant blankets to the prisoners who re- mained in jail, bringing out in court that the prisoners had been forced to sleep on the bare tile floors of the jail. As a result, the city pro- ‘vided blankets and pillows for the prisoners. Repeatedly the state brought up the “red scare” issue, and a cam- paign of terror is being prepared and organized by the Junior Cham- ber of Commerce and the Real Es- tate Board. Out of the assembled thousands ef workers who took part in the April 6th demonstration, the police are being instructed to testify that individual workers now on trial had started the attack although worker after worker took the witness stand and testified that the first attacks Were begun by the police. The Chamber of Commerce and the Real Estate Board marshalled their forces for an attack upon the jobless. I. S. Joseph, chairman of the Board of Welfare Relief Com- mittee, in addressing a joint meet- ing of those two bodies stated the position of the city in continuing its starvation policy toward the un- employed. Joseph said, “They think they won a victory before the coun- cil last Friday. They can consider it a victory. But they have still got to come before the Welfare Board, and we're going to stand pat. You've got to back us up, gentle- men.” (On Friday, April 13th, the City Council reversed its promises to the unemployed on the orders from the Chamber of Commerce, and voted for the forced labor schemes.) Admits Relief Cuts Joseph continued to outline the relief situation in Minneapolis, showing how relief has steadily been cut, pointing ut that with the in- creasing number of jobless applying for relief, the relief appropriations have not been increased. Taking his own figures, 18,000 will be on relief in April, or 22 per cent of the city’s population. To the jobless, Joseph said, relief amounting to $23.19 was given to family heads, plus a $4.68 grant in clothing. To insure that the demands of the unemployed will not be granted, Joseph stated that he had tele- graphed Hopkins in Washington, in- structing him in what to answer the delegation which was meeting with him. The Chamber of, Commerce and the Real Estate Board, after adopt- ing a resolution backing up the po- lice in their clubbing of the work- ers, elected a committee of three to organize “all good citizens” to support the starvation plans of the city. PHILADELPHIA SPRING FESTIVAL and DANCE Phila. Branch, Nature Friends Saturday, April 21st 8:15 P.M Labor Lyceum 2914 N. Second Street Nature Friends Dance Group—Dram Group—Concert and Dance Orchestra Tickets 850 in advance; 40¢ at door On City Hall for Jobs LOUISVILLE, Ky., April 19.— One hundred and fifty fired C, W. A. workers marched on the | City Hall here Tuesday, demand- ing jobs or adequate relief. Mayor Miller told the workers’ delegates that with the firing of 8,000 from C, W. A. on April 1, he “hoped” to re-employ 800 on work relief, asking the jobless to starve in patience, As the crowd of jobless swelled to more than 300, the mayor was forced to spedk to the workers assembled at the City Hall steps. | While the mayor pleaded with the jobless to starve in “good humor,” scores of police armed with tear gas guns skirted the crowd of jobless workers, Relief Buro Kills Child; Refuses to ‘Child Dies at Hospital After H.R.B. Fails to Send Doctor NEW YORK—After murdering | seven-months old Russell Flores of 10 E. 115th St.. the Home Relief Bureau refused to pay $18 burial expenses. Last Thursday, seeing that the child was dangerously ill with diarrhea, the father of the child, Jesus Flores, applied to the Home Relief Bureau for medical aid. When the doctor did not arrive, Flores went to the Home Relief Bu- reau doctor, Dr. Calvelli, who, after examining the child’s excrement, stated that the child was danger- ously ill, but that he could do noth- ing until he received instructions from the Home Relief Bureau. Flores called a nurse who was passing on the street on Friday. The nurse advised him to get immediate care for the child. When Flores ar- rived home after pleading with the | Home Relief Bureau, the nurse had | called an ambulance. The father ac- companied the child to the hospital, | where, after an examination his blood was transfused in an attempt to save the child. child, and on Monday the police summoned him to the hospital to again transfuse blood. Yesterday, when he went to the hospital the child was dead. It only cost $18 to bury the child in the Flores’ burial plot. The fused to bury the child which it had murdered. 20 HURT IN CCC TRUCK CRASH WEST ORANGE, N. J., April 19.— Twenty young C. C, C. workers were injured Wednesday night when the truck in which they were riding back to South Camp Mountain camp overturned. Five of the C, C. C. workers are in the Orange Memorial Hospital. Mass Conference On “Daily” in Detroit DETROIT, Mich.—To stimulate the subscription drive, the circulation drive and to make the final mobilization for the 25,000 copies of the May Day edi- tion which District 7 ordered, a mass conference is being called for Sunday, ‘April 22, at 10 a.m. at Finnish Hail 5969 14th Street. very Party unit every workers’ mi organization are urged to send delegates to this con- ference. reet the Daily Worker on International Solidarity Day MAY DAY Greetings inclines cual tec f RCOURE BEG cca All greetings mail: d before April 22nd to the DAILY WORKER, 50 east 137H St., New Yor will positively appear in the May Day Edition Pay for Burial On Saturday he again saw the | Home Relief Bureau yesterday re- | 1926, when he launched a stool-| Pigeon venture known as the In- | dustrial Assurance of United Indus- tries and set up an office at 154 Nassau Street. | Follows Sherwood’s Teachings | Following the teachings of his/| | master, Max Sherwood, Shaw got }out a little booklet telling of the/| benefits of the open shop. He told| | the capitalists he could keep out the unions for a price. This booklet advertising Shaw's |racket was mailed to the leading factory owners throughout the country. | Quoting Warren G. Harding,‘ Chas. E. Hughes and John wW. Weeks, then Secretary of War, on} | the blessings of the non-union shop, | Mr. Shaw in his booklet then pro-/| ceeded to scare his prospective cap- italist clients into handing him sums of money with lurid pictures of “the evil effects of Communism.” “The way to peace and plenty in | industry” was the slogan blazened jforth on the second page of Mr. | Shaw's red baiting booklet. | “The Industrial Assurance stands for an open shop that stays open, that is, a shop where workmen are employed, not, as union or non-union men, but on individual merit, on their willingness and ability to do good work and to do an honest day's work for an honest day's pay.” This is how Mr. Shaw advertised. Now about his methods of work. Shaw was always closely asso- ciated with the Eagle Detective As- | sociation, Max Sherwood’s venture, | and in the year of 1926 worked with | Jacob Nozovitsky, who forged the | red-baiting Mexican documents, | which Sherwood and Albert Mc- turers all over the country. A Provocateur search Association in | that Shaw worked for certain shoe manufacturers during a strike ini Terror Reigns in California Berry | 1,000 Pickers Strike Under C.A.W.LU. for 5c. Increase SACRAMENTO, Cal. —Picketing autos manned by striking straw- berry pickers were moved away by sheriff's deputies in armed cars in the Florin district, near Sacramento, and on two occasions the strikers shave been bombarded with tear gas. The strikers, nearly 1,000 strong, are all Japanese or Filipinos. The strike is being directed by Pat Cham- bers, of the Cannery and Agricul- tural Workers Industrial Union and leader of the San Joaquin Valley strikes last year, The ranchers are practically all Japanese, and, scabs, they and their families are Picking berries. The men are de- | manding 25 cents an hour instead of the present 20 cents, and have refused a compromise offer, obtained by a mediation committee, of 221% cents, 3 Bathrobe Shops Go on Strike in N. Y. C. NEW YORK—In line with its de- cision of the last membership meet- ing, held a week ago, that the union initiate a broad campaign for im- mediate increases in wages, and pre- pare for a general strike to establish the 35 hour week and minimum wage scales, the Bathrobe Workers Union has declared strikes in the following three shops: Hanchow Robe Company, National Robe Com- pany, and Catalano. Due to the determination of the workers, the first two shops of the above mentioned have already set- tled with the union. The workers gained increases from 15 to 40 per cent. In addition to the campaign for increases in the union shops, the union has also announced a, drive to unionize the open shops, which will begin with the coming week. PHILADELPHIA ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION 12th of the “Morning Freiheit’’ Saturday Eve., April 21st At MERCANTILE HALL Broad and Master Streets CLARENCE HATHAWAY, Editor Daily Worker, Main Speaker Preiheit Gesangs Farein, Hall Johnson Quartet, A. Rabofski, Baritone Donald used to frighten manufac- | - Growing Section | | | instead of hiring} HARRY RAYMOND NEW YORK.—Harry Raymond, Daily Worker staff writer, who has |been charged by George Williams, notorious strikebreaker and labor spy, with criminal libel, in an at- tempt to halt the “Daily's” expose April 24, at 10 a.m. to answer the ji harges. He went on to tell what his “In- |° | a ” The charges against Raymond dustrial _ Assurance organization | . 16 based on the Daily Worker's stood for: | Pentti tt * }expose of Williams’ activities in supplying strikebreakers for the | Parmelee Co. during the recent taxi | strike. While directed personally | against Raymond, the libel charges are part of an attack launched by; an ill-famed_ strikebreaking ant forging ring, headed by Max Sher- | wood, against the Daily Worker, | |the only daily working-class news- | paper in America. Raymond will be represented in court by Joseph Brodsky, head of the legal staff of the International Labor Defense, and Edward Kuntz, outstanding I. L. D. attorney. Workers are urged to protest this attack on their paper by packing the courtroom Tuesday morning. Brooklyn. His specialty was to send | men in to create a disturbance and| ised the documents, but sai that he Facts gathered by the Labor Re- | then to blame it on the strikers.| woul have to go to Chicago to get: 1926 prove| His is a record of a professional|/them. For this trip he received a provocateur, The strikebreaking activities of St. Louis Relief Heads Ask 73 Year Old Negro to Work at Forced Labor (By a Worker Correspondent) ST. LOUIS. Mo.—In their vicious forced labor drive, the relief officials here attempted to force a 73 year old Negro woman to wash and iron clothing for the miserable relief | groceries which they hand out. Mrs. Palmer, the daughter of the aged woman, accompanied her mother to the relief station. Here | the aged woman was refused relief on the grounds that Mrs. Palmer, who is herself on relief, should sup- port her aged mother, She was told to go to the Urban League and get a job. This is just a case of passing the buck. Every day about 100 women ate sent to the Urban League; only one or two are called out on day work. 350. N. Y. Multigraph Operators Strike for Increase in Wag’ | NEW YORK.—Three hundred and fifty multigraph operators went on strike yesterday, demanding higher wages, shorter hours, security of their jobs and recognition of their union following a meeting of the United Multigraph Operators Union of Greater New York. The strike was unanimously voted for by the workers when Irving Kelter, president of the union, an- nounced that the Mail Advertising Service Association had made no re- ply to their demanas, Workers set out, immediately after the decision, to picket the re- spective shops they had worked in. The union demands to boost the wage scale of from $12 to $15 a week for expert operators to $20 him to help break the strike. Nozovitsky, who was a distant re- lative of the judge’s wife, came to the judge and asked for help. |. “He knew I was well acquainted jin Passaic, having been elected | Justice of the Peace on the Demo- \eratic ticket and having many con- nections with the working people |there, particularly the Polish ele- | ments,” said the judge. | Shaw was then introduced to the |judge by Nozovit The three | discussed the strike. | Concocts a Bomb Plot | “They discussed various ways of breaking the strike and discredit- jing its leaders,” said the judge. “One of them was to plant bombs | jand guns on some of the strike | | leaders, to have these captured or| discovered by the police, and thus| to discredit the strike officials. I told them I would have nothing to do with such a plan.” jof Williams’ criminal activities,| The two provocateurs continued | [will appear in Jefferson Market | to plot. They took the judge into} |Court, 425 Sixth Ave. Tuesday,| their further plans, one of which |he describes as follows: | “They suggested another scheme | whereby I might be of service in ending the strike. This was for me! |to go to Passaic and gather some | ,of the Polish people around me in| |@ committee that would oppose the | workers’ union committee. . . .” | The judge knew better, however, | than to participate in any of the | shady schemes of Shaw and Nozo- vitsky. Forged Documents | Mr. Shaw then trotted out the| | forged document racket. He ap- |Proached the mill owners, Messrs. | |Johnson, Davis and Scheel. He} |told them that he had a man who | |could prove by documents that the | | strike was led by Communists and |that there was a plot brewing to| destroy the mill owners. | Nozovitsky was brought in and| |introduced to the mill owners as “Mr. Sanders.” “Sanders” . prom- | sum | of money. Nozovitsky and | Shaw were promised $20,000 if they Then | | co-operation with Max Sherwood and George Williams. He no longer | has an office. His old “Industrial | Assurance” racket failed. But wherever there is a strike he tries | to stick in his dirty paws. His most | |recent address was 191 Pacific St., | Brooklyn. | He is also a member of the Sher- | wood Association, or organization of | | professional strikebreakers, of which Max Sherwood is the guiding light, | jand which meets every Tuesday at the Victoria Hotel, in New York. Why does Mayor LaGuardia al- low this gang of professional rack- | eteers to operate with immunity? 'The Daily Worker would like to | know, | ae Cer Watch for the next article on | G. TI. Bergoff, one of the oldest strikebreakers in America, | Strike Threats Win’ Rise for Cleveland Metal Co. Workers. Call Meeting of Steel Workers in Youngs- | town Friday | CLEVELAND, Ohio, April 19.—A} half day strike won a general 5 per cent wage increase for all workers | at the National Copper end Smelt- ing Co. here. Last February they won a 10 per cent increase by threat- ening to strike. This is a third wage boost by the company since the} workers organized into the Steel and | Metal Workers Industrial Union| | eight months ago. By threatening to call a walkout | |at the Chase Brass and Copper Co. | | plant in Euclid Village in order to stop discrimination against members of the union, the company agreed to a conference with representatives of | the Steel and Metal Workers Indus- trial Union on Monday, April 16th. The S.M.W.LU. demanded imme- Empty Promises ‘From Labor Board | the union when proof is given that | Men. |the union represents the majority | |of the plant.” The conference took | threatened to open Nash plants | place at the plant and further nego- | there unless the Seaman strikers | | Weirton Strikebreaking Dec sion Is Handed | To Them | NEW YORK.—Another futile de- cision of the National Labor Board has been rendered in Washinton in the case of the Fifth Ave. Coach Co., which has forced its workers jinto a company union and fired | the most active union members, be- | longing to the Amalgamated Asso- ciation of Street and Electric Rail- way and Motorcoach Employees. |is similar to one rendered in the | Weirton Steel strike last September, |and still a scrap of paper. It pro- | vides that the Fifth Ave. Coach Co. | reinstate all workers fired for union activity, hold an election, and rec- | ognize the elected representatives of the workers for the purposes of collecting bargaining. An election was called March 1 by the New York Regional Labor Board, but because the company had the polling place heavily guarded with its spies, the workers did not vote. | Frederic T. Wood, president of the company, declared that the Na- tional Labor Board decision did not mean anything to him, and he would ignore it. The bosses know from experience that such decisions are meaningless, and aimed to raise illusions among the workers so that the National Labor Board can more effectively smash strikes. for apprentices, $30 for Grade B operators and $3750 for Grade A operators, NEW YORK.—When asked what he thinks of the addition to the Daily Worker of a trade union sup- plement, Samuel Kramberg, Secre- tary of the Cafeteria Workers’ Union, and Chairman of the Na- tional Committee of the Food Work- ers’ Industrial Union, said with evi- dent enthusiasm, “It is one of the best things that has happened and is of outstanding importance to the labor movement.” ‘ Kramberg was especially enthusi- astic because the supplement will enable an exchange of experiences in the various unions. ie “Tt will give the workers a better understanding of their common problems in the trade unions; it will teach them strike strategy, and popularize and spread the lessons of strikes,” Kramberg said, Trade Union Supplement Is Important, Says Kramberg Tot these struggles,” said Kramberg. Kramberg stated that the supple- ment should popularize strike vic- tories and analyze minutely how the victory was achieved. “Our members will be intensely interested in the supplement. There will be a greater inducement to buy the Daily Worker because they will know they can find their trade union problems discussed in a par- ticular place instead of finding them scattered all over the paper. “The supplement is a long sought addition to the Daily Worker and sorely needed. It will play an im- portant part in leading and stimu- lating struggles in the revolutionary unions, and in the work in the A. F. of L. oppositions and indepen- dent unions. It will raise the level The National Labor Board decision, | | diate reinstatement of all union men | | laid off for union activities, and rec- |ognition of the union. After a two! | hour confererice the company agreed | to “put back to work within reason- | able length of time several union men as proof that they are not dis- criminating against the union” and “to recognize the shop committee of tiations will take place on Wednes- | day. tiations with the company and for not satisfy the demands of the | union. The Chase Brass Local 1107 of Waterbury, Conn., to support them in any action and to build the union. in the plants at Waterbury. er aoe Youngstown Steel Meet YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, April 19.— and Youngstown Sheet and Tube Ave., near Indianola, Friday, April 20, 7:30 p.m., at the call of the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union to hear a report on the present campaign of the S.M.W.LU. and to prepare the fight for real wage in- creases to meet the rising cost of living. A special feature of the meeting will be a report from the national convention of the Amalgamated As- sociation of Iron, Steel and Tin workers now in session in Pittsburgh, where repeated clashes are taking place between the reactionary offi- cials and the demands of the rank and file for militant action. The meeting is sponsored by the Republic Local 601, S.M.W.1.U. Joe Dallet, district secretary of the union, will be the main speaker. There will be also speakers address- ing the meeting in Slavic. All mills in Youngstown are hir- ing and laying off simultaneously. Most departments of most of the mills are madhouses—with the men never knowing when they are going to work, and sometimes being called upon to work 3 turns within 48 hours, then being laid off for sev- eral days. The S.M.W.LU. demands weekly posting of working schedules to meet this situation. _ Police Jail 21 Pickets in Tele-Radio Co. Strike NEW YORK.—The militant strike at the Tele-Radio Engineering Corporation, 57 Wooster St. con- tinued Tuesday with a mass picket line of 50 in front of the establish- ment early in the morning. with several taxicabs loaded with scabs. onstration calling on the hackmen not to bring the strikebreakers to the plant. Immediately police in radio cars surrounded the pickets and arrested 21, The remainder of the strikers tee The S.M.W.LU. has called a spe-| Milwaukee worked cial meeting of all union and non-| With the company to force settle- |union workers of the Chase Brass| Ment. He threatened to expel every |Co., for this Saturday afternoon at | Militant worker as a Communist |6p.m., for a full report on the nego-|UNless they voted yes in the third | appeals to the Chase Brass workers | Steel workers of Republic, Carnegie | will meet at Sokol Hall, Homewood | The boss of the plant came down) The strikers staged a dem-} The stirring manifesto of the Eighth National Convention of the Communist Party to the American toilers is ready for distribution. . This historic document which clearly and simply puts forward the posi- tion of the Communist Party can play a tremendous role in rallying the workers for the May Ist demonstrations. Orders should be placed at once! Millions should be dis- tributed! The cost is low. A four-page, neatly printed leaflet for $1.00 per thousand. Dis- tricts, sections, units and in- dividual readers of the Daily Worker. Funds must accom- pany all orders. Send the or- 4ders to A. Benson, P. 0. Box 87, Station D, New York City, Seaman Auto Body Strikers Return With Wage Gains AFL Heads Bring Heavy Pressure on Third Vote to End Strike | (Epecial to the Daily Worker) MILWAUKEE, Wis., April 19— The Seaman Body strikers yester- day voted 794 to 224 to return to work ending the strike here. In Racine and Kenosha the workers also voted to return. Settlement terms provide for a 10 per cent increase, with a 50 cenis an hour minimum for men and 44 cents for women. Most of the women voted against going back, without the demand for equal pay for equal work. Two rank and file demands were granted: That work resumes in all departments simultaneously, and every striker is taken back regard- | less of when hired. * The first offer of the automobile labor board and the company was voted down, when the company insisted on keeping scabs. The second was rejected when it provided for rehiring of only those employed before Novem- ber Ist. After the second refusal, the | board brought tremendous pressure on the workers through A. F. of L. | officials, newspapers and business Racine and Kenosha officials settled. President Schutz of the United Auto Workers’ Union of} hand in hand strike vote. The rank and file is | strike action if the company does| 80s back into the shop to orga- nize all departments and carry on a | struggle in the union against the ureaucracy. A total of 4,700 men are going back in three cities. The | strike lasted seven weeks. | Protests Banning Of Daily Worker | Delegation DemandsEnd | of Prison Jimcrowism | | NEW YORK, April 19.—Protesting | the banning of the Daily Worker, Labor Defender and Grace Lum kin’s book, “To Make My Bread, from the New York City prisons, | and against segregation of Negroes, | a delegation of 22, representing | various New York labor organiza- | tions, appéared yesterday afternoon | before First Deputy Commissioner | of the Department of Correction | David Marcus at the Municipal | Building, Room 2400. | The delegation demanded to know | by what right the department was | barring publications from the City | Prisons, which are permitted to go| through the U. S. mails. | The commissioner blandly an-| swered that when a man enters} prison he loses all his rights and the authorities do not permit opium and razor blades and therefore he |has the right to bar literature. | | When members of the delegation | pointed out that there is a great difference between opium, razor | blades and literature, Mr. Marcus | agreed to study the question a week | and then make a reply. | In answer to the segregation of | | Negroes, Mr. Marcus said that the) Negroes had a rhythm and music | which does not harmonize with other prisoners. | reformed their ranks and continued | picketing. The arrested strikers were taken to Bleecker St. Station where they were held on trumped-up charges | of disorderly conduct. There are 70 out of the 90 work-| }ers employed in the plant out on strike. They have been striking for] one week for increased wages and) | recognition of their union. } Twenty more strikers were ar- rested Wednesdays | way | Yukon local carried Slogans, the U. M. W. A. officials organized two dances, one for the Negro miners and one for the white At the meeting in Uniontowr many thousands of coal miners from all over Fayette County were in the march At the meeting while Mrs. Pinchot was speaking one of the “Independent Miners Brotherhood” miners, the company union of the H. C. Frick Coal Co. shot a few rank and file miner and was ued from the ener: miners by the police After the meeting the miner were asked to go to dances, one foi the white miners and the other fo: the Negro miners, This {a their policy of dividing the Negro and white coal miners. In the same they divided the miners into “commercial” and “captive” so that the company would have an easier time in breaking the strike. At the recent U. M. W. A, con- vention, when a resolution on the freedom of the nine Scottsbore boys came before the delegates, the Lewis machine was against pa z “because we have to get more acts.” This is the way they carry out the part of the U.M.W.A, con- stitution that says, “There shall he no discrimination between color creed and nationality.” Anyone ‘that knows the history of the miners’ struggles, and there Were many, knows that amongst the best fighters are the Negro miners In all of the strikes the Negro men and women were in the front l'=~ Take a few examples. Try to Keep Negroes In At the West Penn mine, in Kiski Valley, mostly Negro minc were employed. All of the miner in the Valley were out on strike but the company and the coal and iron police and the state poli were carefully guiding this mine tc keep the Negro miners from comine out. The Negro miners organizes @ mass meeting in a hall owned by the coal company, and held thei: meeting, elected .a. strike. committe: and came out on strike. The com- pany, of course thought that Negro miners were having chur services. At the Edna mine strike in West- moreland County, one of the Negro miners was out of jail on parole He still had a ten-year sentence to serve. and the company said the: would turn him in if he went on strike. The Negro miner asked the ke committee what to do, and 1ey told him to go to work, He worked for a few days, and one morning, as he was going to work he saw the state police clubbing the pickets. He threw down his bucket and took his place on the picket line. This is the way the Negro miners fought in all of the strikes. And what do they get for this. Jim-Crow dances, worst places in the mines, living in the worst of the company shacks, and, when nine young boys are framed by the bosses class, the same U. M. W. A. leaders “need more facts,” when the whole world knows that they are innocent and demonstra- tions for their release have been | held in all parts of the world. A New Form of Strike At the march in Greensburg, the signs. They were fighting signs, “We want pay for dead work and cross bars,” was the sign emphasizing the need to fight for better conditions in the mines. “We demand the passing of the Workers’ Unemployment and Social Insurance Bill,” was another. “We don’t believe in strike, but a wagon a day will bring results.” This was gotten out, not because the miners are against strikes, bui because they must pay $1 a day for striking, and they had recently won a “strike” by having all of the miners go into the mine, but tc load only one car per man. Thit “strike” was won in one day. An- other slogan was “for the electior of new officers, what's organiza- tion without good leaders?” During the whole of the marct the miners and other workers were saying, “That's Yukon, they'ré a good bunch of fighters.” The miners in these fields are building their rank and file orga- nization in the local unions, The} are getting ready for the June elec- tions for the local union officials Not a Lewis official in any of the locals, the miners say. Together with the Rank and File Commit- tee in the United Mine Worker: they are getting out their own rent and file paper. Tt is called th Coal Digger. Arkwright Strikers Defeat Speed-Up Ple: FALL RIVER, Mass. (F, P.)—Abo- lition of the speedup has been agreed to in the strike at the Algon- quin and American textile printing companies’ plants in Fall River, Mass., and the strikers have returned to work. All issues henceforth will be settled by an arbitration board of | six, equally divided between employ- ers and workers. But the strike continues at the Arkwright Corp.’s No, 2 mill, where the owners have refused to eliminate the speedup