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Page Six Locals F; Jim-Crow in Va. Mines By a Worker Correspondent RODA, Va—On ‘ Were raised from OD} In the mines rm Six cars a day employment prog of starting new p! hiring coal loa all the working plac half enough loaders’ somet production week. House 8; doctor, $1.70; lights, 1.6 $2.85; mine lamps, $1.12; Roda church, 25c.; U. M. W A. dues, $1, burial fund, 25c With all these, one can imagine What is left for food and clothing. This has always been counted a slave-driving section, and they have always practi: the worst form of speed-up. e contract with the U. M. W. 4 it in the least The rank ginning to nd file When t id was being ized the company fired several for their t vity, and some mever had any action taken on their cases. Dale Stableton, who Was appointed provisional presi- dent of this district, would always say his hands were tied, when the local officials would try to get a hearing for them. So now the rank and file have combined 12 locals and are demanding the re- moval of Stableton, and through threats of strike have forced the board to meet to consider five Of the five, two are Negroes. hen they met in a hotel in ' Electric Shock Is dnswer to Starving W orkerAskingRelief a Worker Correspondent YANDOAH, Pa. — It is that eve’ who a ite region nemployed are not treated with they are politely in- ited to sit down in the chair then an. electric current is gas. DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JULY 7, 1934 Hired To ‘Improve’ Pittsburgh Police By a Mine Worker Correspondent PITTSBURGH, Pa—This is the crowning insult to the members of the United Mine Workers of America—Fagan, President of Dis- turned on. When the unem- ployed receives the shock and ings into the air frightened, the staff of the relief to laugh merrily ved r, com- Appalachia the hotel man told the Negroes they would have to get out. When the chairman of the mine committee started to the hotel, he met the Negroes and told them to come on, and they were} told to get out again. But Com-/| rade Masters told them, no. They) told him they would call the po-| lice. He told them to call the| police. The police came, and when he told them they had cases there, they were fore to seat them. | The company police are going through the camps telling the Negroes they are not going to be allowed representation on the com-| mittees, but the whites and Negroes | are both wise to their trick. We have one Negro on our mine com- mittee and one vice-president, | which proves the police to be| liars. | So, comrades of the rank and| file, let’s organize against these | appointed opportunist officials and | be ready to expose the lies of our} enemies, and build a union for the | workers and of the workers. the Brooklyn Delegation Selected to Present Demand | For Hearing to Bo The demonstration at Hopkinson and Pitkin Aves., Brooklyn, last Monday evening, to protest against the high cost of living, was well| attended and very effective. Quite @ large crowd of workers, hearing | about the demonstration, had as- sembled to wait for the meeting. The number of demonstrators rew close to 500. Placards were plentiful, several speakers were met with the greatest enthusiasm, a collection was made, and a number of women gave their names to join the Women’s Councils. A delegation was elected (there were plenty of volunteers) to pre-| sent demands to the Board of Al-| dermen for a hearing on the high | prices of food, esyecially milk. The Bronx meeting did not come Out so well, Attendance was small, | which is unusual for the Bronx. The hour—1l1 a.m—probebly ac- counted for this. Housewives are | tied up with housewor in the] morning. We have a letter from a house- wife in Rochester, N. Y., announc- | ing a newly formed Council of 12| * members and asking for directives | for discussion and activity. We'll | print and answer this next week. STORK OVER LENINGRAD Comrade Edith R. of Woodridge, N. ¥., has sent. us a copy of a/ letter she received from her sister in Leningrad, U.S.S.R. It follows: lear Papa, Mama, Ruthie, and Natie: A little boy was on May 13 born to us. We expected him on May| 1—but he was not yet ready—and | refused to come. | Both of us are feeling fine. 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Illustrated step-by-step sewing in- structions included. | | | Send FIFTEEN CENTS (l5c) in coins or stamps (coins preferred) for this Anne Adams pattern. Write plainly name, address and style number. BE SURE TO STATE SIZE. St., New York City. Address orders to Daily Worker | Pattern Department, 243 West 17th) trict 5, hooks up with the crooked Pittsburgh Police Department, ap- re | pointed to the “Police Research Commission, to investigate possible | corruption and inefficiency in the! police bureau.” What was he appointed for? Lest we forget, some time ago the same Fagan toi a revolver from a miner and killed him with it. There was but very little investiga- tion made at the time by the same police of Pittsburgh, except to shout that it was a Red who tried to kill} Fagan, but there was a U.M.W.A. card found on the dead man andj Fagan had given him money the day before (but, it seems, not | enough, for we still think he had| day he was killed.). | The same Fagan helped put over | the infamous agreement taking away all the rights to strike, the | only way the miners could fight. | In return for the check-off the/| check-cff the rest of the miners’ pay (sec. 43 and sec. 46). Fagan approved the wholesale firing of the miners at the Knot Hole Mine last month under this last section. I happened to work at the same mine Fagan worked in, and his record was always one of retreat and arbitration. Sloss Ore Miners | Demand Wage Raise | (By a Mine Worker Correspondent) BESSEMER, Ala.—The T. C, I. contract was read in the Sloss- Sheffield union (International Un: of Mill Mine and Smelter Workers). The T. C. I. miners accepted an increase of 5c and 3c an hour for muckers and skilled labor, and 30c an hour for common lebor. Why should T. C. I. pay more for the same work than Sloss? Ask any Sless laborer what class of work he does and what he gets paid and many who are doing chilt work at Sloss are making less than 30c an hour. Where does the difference come from? —A Sloss Ore Miner. NOTE: We publish letters from coal and cre miner, and from oil field | workers every Saturday. We urze | workers in thes» fields to write us of their conditions of work and | of their strugzle to improve their | conditions and organiz>. Please get your letters to us by Wednes- day of cach week. The Daily Worker gives you full news about the struggle for unem- vloyment insurance. Buy the Daily Worker at the newsstands. Three | cents a copy. WITH OUR YOUNG READERS | | WHY THE CITY CHILDREN CAN- NOT HAVE MILK TO DRINK? The city children cannot have! milk because their fathers and mothers cannot buy it for them. The city people are very poor so they cannot buy milk for their chil- dren. The country children do not have i: either because their fathers | have to sell it to pay their taxes and | interest and to keep them living} and to keep them in clothing. But still the sheriff comes and makes | you leave your home. But some time | the farmers do not le! the sheriff sell your home. | LEWIS BENTZLEY. | % | Lewis lives in Pennsylvania. His | father is the secretary of ‘the United Farmers Protective Asso- ciation. This organization fights for the interests of the poor dairy farmers. | | | Dear Shirley: | | In your letter you brought up a| | very important question. I'd like to} | answer it in this column so that others may know also. So watch | for your letter with its answer. It | will be printed soon in our Question | { | Box. ” ie Cae TO THE GRAND CROSSING TROOP, CHICAGO, ILL, Dear Comrades: We have sent a letter to the Chicago District Pioneer Council about your com- plaints, We think that they can be very easily settled through your leader. Please have him take it up with the Chicago Council. KAPPY, National Pioneer Council. You can join the Daily Worker puzzle Relief in Madiso By a Worker Correspondent GLEN CAREON, Ill—I am en- c 1g here a cop} which was sent to Brother Joe Cun- ningham and to August Doeller, It reads “I have been informed by the Board on account of complaints coming into them, to notify you that all Negroes must transact their business and leave the city limits at once, as the people of Glen have never associated with the color race before. “(Signed) Otte Raffaele, Clerk.” This notice comes as a result of | the growing unity of the Madison County Negro and white workers in their struggle for relief and be’ ter conditions,.under the leadership of the Unemployed Councils, Negro of the letter Village Board Orders Negroes Deported | Fagan, UMW Head, °°**** Act Against Growing Unity in Struggle fer | n County, Illinois workers on several occasi to the entertainment given by th Council of Glen Carbon, also Negro minstrels and playcrs, who were| greeted by workers of the village. | But this evidently is too much for | the political machine of Madison | County, because they have recently found out that the C. P. is placing | its own candidates in the coming election. | It is also significant, that most of | | the Village Board of Glen are for-| eign born, Bohemian and German elements, small business men, who know that the attack upon the Ne- groes is no less the attack upon| the foreign born workers, carried on | | by the bosses. It is proposed that protests be! sent to the Village Board against | this vicious discrimination. Miners In City Win Relief | By Or By a Worker Correspondent CENTRAL CITY, Pa—The con- ditions of employed and unemployed | some coming, and came after it the| in this mining camp have recently gone from bad to worse. The mines in Central City are working one and two days a week, and in Cairnbrook, Lohal Hanna mine No. 6 is working on the same schedule, with no payment for | operators were given the right to! slack or other dead wo:k, Miners who are working find themselves starving on the job, as most are getting snags, or 12 or 13 cents on pay day. Many of the miners applied for relief, but the relief investigator, Clara M. Russel, told them, nothihg doing for you The miners came to the unemployment council where we took up the cases, elected com- mittee to fight for relief. She didn’t want to recognize the committees, or at first take up the cases. The spokesmen of the committees took the floor in the relief and spoke, exposing the relief officials, and called on the workers to join in the council and fight for relief for every family. The investigator then changed her tone, and says now, “What can I do for you, Mr.?” We forced her to put the first 11 cases we have on relief immediately, some getting relief the next day, and others by the end of that week. Since that time we haven’t had much trouble putting families on relief, as we send the committees to the county emergency relief board in Somerset, and we forced relief for all, Two weeks ago the investigator tried the same trick, “Nothing doing for you.” We sent the committee back, and she didn’t want to recog- nize them, and when the committees demanded relief she left everything on her desk and phoned for the police to come. The committees stayed there. One of the committees called the County Emergency Board director to come up and see that the com- mittees be heard, and cases taken up, or we will come to Some:ret. One of the directors of Somerset came too. By this time there were the in- ACROSS 1. To play the 24. Soaks part of 25. Periads of 4. Bosses’ way time out of the) 27. Union railroad crisis (abbr.) 7. Blue Buzzard’s| 28. U. S. Gov't initials wanted 8. Something to to drink Tom Mann 9. Leaders of the from this A. F. of L— country the ‘workers | 29. 18th, 19th 10. Gir’s nick- 20th letters | alphabet name | i. P rinte r’s| 30. Farm tools measures 31. Principal food 12. 56 in Roman of Chinese numerals workers 13. French defi- | 32. The workers’ nite article flag is —— 14. Exclamation 34. To stitch 15. The man in| 35. The poor far- the picture mer finds it 20. Exclamation very hard to 21, Bosses expect | pay workers to | 37. So met hing live on hot workers can- —_— not get in a 22. Prepesition | club by sending in the solved puzzle. Cs eneae from the | Wholescie and Retail Shawls, Blouses, Candy, besses’ court Central e e | anizing vestigator, the police, and the| | Somerset director, and the miners, men and their wives. We brought up case after case for relief, and exposed the investigatoz, and forced them to take care of every case. | Over 40 cases were put on relief during these four or five weeks. The investigator was removed. We held a special meeting and invited all workers to come and we ex-| plained the struggles for relief carzied on by our council, and the need of unity to fight against hunger. Also we read the workers the Unemployment Insurance Bill, H. R. 7598 and explained the need for all workers to support it. The president of the Central City local spoke too, Averages 5 Cents A Day in Colorado Tungsten Mine By a Mine Worker Correspendcat RANDSBURG, Col.—As I am out in a mining camp looxing to see if I can make beans, here are the con- ditions. The leaders have to give one third to get fo work, and have to furnish all of his tools, powder, etc. and take all the chances, then sell to the company for. $2 per unit less than the company gets. This is tungsten, and you have to have 100 pounds before you can sell, and then wait three months for your money, Some are getting $1.50 per day, and others are somewhat better off —$2 to 3.50 per day. Board is about $1.25 per day, meals only. I have received some very good letters from Russia, telling of the way they handled their conditions. They are so far ahead of Americ2, that we don’t know where we are at. I will fight for Communism as long as I live. I have put in some time here and have only averaged earnings of five cents per day, so how long can a Slave 10 to 1 Alaska Gold Mines (By a Worker Correspondent) .. FAIRBANKS, Alaska.—Thousands | and thousands of U. 8. dollars are spent here yearly on the Alaska railroad, and on the highways and \trails, building roads to the mines, | to help the mine owner get his gold out. And when the president jumps the gold to $35 per ounce. how the boss rejoices. Then the president asks (not demands) in a gentlemanly way that the boss cut the hours that more men can work and ra’ the pay. “I have doubled your profits, commodities are going up, boost the wages to meet them.” Did they do it? The big company, the F. E. said, “Fine, we will give the slaves back that 10 per cent. cut we took from them last year, but the hours, well, we could give them -more, but not less.” The F.E. works from 600 to 800 men, and the large majority work 10-12, and some 14 hours a day. The writer approached a back- ward worker on the subject of working 12 hours and he answered: “Why not, I would just as leave work 12 hours as have to waste so much time sitting around in a dirty stinking bunkhouse. What do I care for the other fellow or his family? ‘ Gold—that yellow. metal that men go crazy over, starve, and freeze on the trail—that calls men to the hills to hunt, and live on bacon and beans, wild méat and rabbits, just to stake a claim that the big boss will give you maybe 5 per cent. of its value for, or cheat you oui of it all. That is prosperity in Alaska, those are the conditions for the worker by the day. Now, as the gold barons seem to be the government of this part of Alaska, it is up to the class conscious work- ers to organize. The golden oppor- tunity of the age has been at hand to demand 8 hours and a $6 per day per minimum; with the long- shoremen on strike, no boats can come to Alaska to bring men. But no organization exists, and the boss has stool pigeons. in all camps, looking for agitators, and as soon as your number is known you are laid off. No work for lots of the old timers thet came in the early days and pus Fairsanks. on the map, to live on long trail mushing in that 50 and 60 belcw temperature. It has made their cyes dim, their hearing bad, and their hair gray. We have a home for these men, known as the Pioneers home, but that is full and hard to get into. Now what we need in Fairbanks is some good live wire organizer. There is room for two or three times as many men as are working under this system, and a good liv- ing for all. So let’s get together. Remember, united we eat, divided ‘man live on that? plight sy a dee thom we starve. Conducted by Mary Morrow. Chil- dren’s editor, The Daily Worker. 50 East 13th St.. New York City. DOWN 1. First name of ; prison? the man in| 5. A worker can the picture hardly keep| who | 2. was arrested) 6 on the miser- for organiz- one — the ing. Nesters a outfit working 2%.A dish of ane waives: | 15. The Tee eee 18. Doctor (ab - class : meat and The bosses stir up ig x ony thls. ds pane a 2 breviation) 23. Emblem of vegetables pi Negro, act 19. Last name of Italien fas- 33. Werkers’ cnif- wee ie one of the cists, If you dren do nat 3. Bugle call paddler Bee Sc o ttsboro have a dime get enouch mean ing oraer 56 beys cok at the to ‘Lights Haig as 20. Dimitrof and back of it 35. Traie School eut.” 16. Sun god his com- ?@4. Industria! part ({abbr.) 4.What sur-/|17. Roos evelt’s rades are of western 33.11 in Roman rounds a racketeering — of the Germany \ numerals they Line - one. up. Watch ~ AGtum ancl PARTY LIFE _||How One AFL Local Voted to | Back Workers Jobless Bill ns came | Hours A Day in || Correct Method of Bringing Forward Bill Re- sults in Isolation of AFL Burocrais At a recent meeting of our A. F.; of L. local, the bill for Unemploy-| |ment and Social Insurance H. R. | 7598 was passed with only one vote registered against it, | The local in question has a membership of about 500 of whom 300 are new members recruited in the organization drive since the be- ginning of the N. R. A. At first the members thought NRA. and President Rooseveit would bring them better conditions. But as time went on and members were laid off right and left with local officials taking no action, there was a growing feeling of un- rest and discontent. All this time two militant members had been criticising the N.R.A. and the vacil- lation of the A. F. of L. officials and had made the membership conscious that the officials weren't working for their intersects, When one of the militant mem- | j bers breught un the question vf the Workers Unemvloyment and Social Insurance Bill by making a mcetion that the local go on record for its adoption, there was al lengthy discussion, but the leaders of the local succeeded in having it referred to the Executive Board to to be considered and reported on | at the next meeting. The Fight for the Bill At the next meeting the minutes of the previous meeting were read and no mention was made of the motion for the passage of the Bill. One of the militant members got up and asked that the minutes be corrected and demanded to know what the Executive Board hed de- cided. The answer was that the Executive Board had mislaid the Bill and only found it the day of the meeting so that they would have to take it uv at the next) meeting. The question was raised to bring it up for discussion im- mediately but it was referred to| “new business.” Then the District minutes were read and it was found that the District had thrown out the Bill and instead had passed the Wag- ner Bill. The Chairman of the local announced that as long as the District had thrown out the Workers Bill and passsd the Wag- ner Bill there was nothing the Local coulld do but pass the ‘Vag- ner Bill. Under “new business” one of the militant members made the mo- tion that the discussion be opened on the Bill. He then took the floor and explained the Bill—what it meant to the organized workers, to the unorganized, to the unem- ployed in terms of the present day speed-up, lay-cffs, increased use of machinery which meant that many of the fellows would never get back on their jobs again, what it meant to their wives and children, their standard of living, etc. The talk was made as real to the workers as possible so that they would know what it meant in terms of their every day needs and that it was not a lot of baloney as was the Wagner Bill, He drew com- pariscns between the Workers Bill and the Wagner Bill, point by point. After this brother sat down it . was surprising to see the members who had never had a werd to say about anything get up and defend the Bill. Even the old members of the local who had always followed the “machire” got up and had something to say for the Bill, Im= mediately the officials brought up the Red Scare, charging that the Bill was a Communist Bill and that the Local Would have nothing to do with it. Fighting the “Red Scare” This meant that one of the mili- tant members had to get up and fight the question of the “Red Scare.” He explained that the Bill was not a Communist Bill but a Workers Bill, that if the Commu- nists were for it that showed they. understood the needs of the work- ers, that the Communists were the mos; militant fighters and pointed out some of the strikes in which Cemmunists were in the forefront, up by 3 that the past when wo: could red with the “Red Scare,” they are learning who are their friends and who their ene- mi>s. This telk was greeted with great applauce. The question on the motion was called for, Instead of calling for a yote in the usual manner by; aye and nay, the chairman calied for a standing vote thinking he would intimidate the members but every one of them, with the exe ception of a few of the officials, got on their feet and voted for it. Even one of the officials who had spoken against the bill voted for it. And this was not all. After the Bill was voted on and passed, a motion was made by one of the brothers that the Local go on rec- ord demanding that an officiel of the District attend the next meet= ing to take up the grievances of the Local such as the question of fellows who had been thrown out of the shops for organizing and nothing had been done about it, ete. This motion was the natural re- sult of the rising feeling of the members against the N.R.A. and the A. F. of L. officials which had come to a head with the passing of the Bill. It was 11:30 p.m. when the meet= ing broke up but the discussion was so interesting that all of the members had stayed through to the end, not leaving early as they usually did. And the members were still discussing things when they left the hall. This shows that when the Work- ers Unemployment and Social In- surance Bill is put forward prop= erly, it can be passed. When prop= erly brought forward it becomes the entering wedge for the estab= lishment of unity between the more advanced, class-conscious workers and he militant but as yet not class-conscious workers. Also that when the “Red Scare” is faced properly, it is no longer useful to the officials. We now have a group in our local around the two militant members and consider this a good start for developing and opposition movement. E. A. W. HOW TO GET RID OF PARASITES 1. The Bedbug We are not referring, of course, to the human parasites who live on the sweat and blood of the working class. These will be disposed of by the social revolution which is one of the easiest methods if the work*| ers would only unite in mass action. At this time of the year, the work- ers are plagued by a host of para- {22s belonging to the family of in- secti which, like- their human counterparts, fatten on the blood of the wretched, underpaid ‘toilers. These insects hide from the light of the day and only work in the dark, like the human beasts of prey. They shun sunlight and open air, and, like the rapacious landlords, find their best hunting grounds in the miserable, unsanitary and over- crovded hovels which the starving workers ere permitted to rent at exhorbitant prices. One of these gen.lemen (for they consider work beneath them) para- sites is the bedbug and his lady, Mr. and Mrs. Cimex Lectularipus, who came over to this country, accord- ing to the best authorities, in the Spanish galleons and with the best families in the Mayflower. The bed- bug had also a number of less aris- tocratic names, such as, Well louse Doctor By PAUL LUTTINGER, MD. cave A liar smeii, due to a stink gland under its belly, behind the hindmost pair of legs. Whether it uses the odor for the purpose of attracting its mate, like the musk and chypre, scented male and female parasites, or whether is is a measure of de fenze, we do not know; but it does ; mot prevent ants nor cockroaches from eating them. In the United States, the centipede (“Thousand legger”) seems to like the bedbug, in spite of its objec‘ionable odor, and eats it alive. The bedbug, like the capitalist, is untiring in his blood-sucking greed, He will travel 50 yards to get hig victim and if he or she cannot reach the bed by any other way, it will creep up to the ceiling and drop on the sleeper from above. (To be con inued) PICTURES WANTED! Red Builders selling the Daily ‘Worker — subs getters — carriers on their routes—pictures that will drama- tize the drive for 20,000 new readers in two months. _ Also—reports on how sto best. sell the “Daily” on the street, house to house, before factories and at meetings. What slogans and argue ments are most convincing to new readers? Send us your ideas'on what will make this drive a success! Daily Worker, Circulation , 50 EB, 13th and others. The bedbug has a pecu- St., New York. Beaccn, New York, during which fighting fund of this only Party quet has been arranged for this (fractions) will be the guests of tional speakers will participate, ganization secretary officiating. hes leaked out indicates that it tonight. time. still giiarding the details of the program, A mass chorus will be included in the cast. ADVERTISEMENT | Communist Banquet at Nitgedaiget To wind up the Communist Party month at Camp Nitgedaiget, period all.profits went toward the of the working class, a gala ban- Sunday evening, July 8th, Delegates to the National Conference of Jewish Organizations with Max Steinberg, district or- As this goes to press, the social staff of Camp Nitgedaiget is Inside information that will be a very amusing and in- ovesting program, All campers, of course, are invited. The first International Pzozram of the season is planned for Scengs of six nations will be sung and Free Ernst Thael- mann will be produced by the Theatre Brigade here for the first honor. Leading district and na- | i { ' { if ! 4 : t t 1 (Ady.) L