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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-26
Tasks of the Labor Youth Conference

Dor Youth Institute. Secondly, facts
about young workers in industry:
numbers, distribution, conditions by
Tom Tippett. Thirdly: Legislation
affecting conditions and status of
young workers by Lefkowitz.
The question of unionization of
young workers is divided into 8 sub
divisions: az In miscellaneous trades
such as laundry workers, candy
workers, paper box makers, etc.
Rose Schneiderman; b. in mass in
dustries such as textiles, steel, auto
mobiles-C. Miller; g in skilled
industries such as building, printing,
ETC., speaker to be announced.
Saposs will report on young work
ers in the union and their organi-
rational, recreational, and educational
activities. In conclusion, there will
be discussion on how to spread the
message of this conference.
1t is of significance to us as left
wingers and Communists to know that
G. Miller, former president of the
Plumbers Helpers Union, will report
on organizing the young workers in
mass industries. The plumbers help
ers have long been fighting for ad-
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Lewis Big Help to COMPANY Unions in Missouri Mines

Sept, 1929, and then furnished scabs.
The initiation of the dual union set
up is $500, the dues are SO cents.
The contract gives the diggers $1.03
la ton, and outside men $500. The
III. M. w. A. refused such an offer
$50 Helms and his company union fill
the bill. No acknowledgment are per-
mitted and the Pit Committee takes
grievances to the president of the
company and the union" together
they "arbitrate" and decide. The
whole scheme is nothing but a form
of the company union, with the COM
pany in full control of the union.
Helms is the secretary-treasurer of
the organization, called the Indepen-
dent Mine Workers of Lexington, Mo-,
with about six hundred members to-
day. The dual union signed up ac-
|cepting 80 per cent wage reduc-
ton. The former secretary of Local
I'll is president of the dual union.
Picket Mines.
When the dual union furnished
scabs last fall, the rank and file
formed a picket line, met these men
at the gates and turned them back
and kept down coal production. The
war was on.
A temporary restraining order was
issued and three days later Judge
Otis of Kansas City issued an injunc-
ton against the Lexington miners
and today three such injunctions
stand over the U. M. w. A. heads
in Missouri.
The local business men lined up
with the company dual union. Scabs
were deputized and later business
men also were called into service to
protect these miners from the U. M.
w. A. rank and file.
BY this time, Mayor Minor, a min
er, elected by the miners, issued in
formation that he would arm two
miners to every scah and business
man. This brought on conference
for peace by the chamber of COM
merce. Three representative from
this body, three from the business
men and three miners officials, the
president and two others, were chos-
en- as committee. Such a commit
tee in the first place is stacked to
flavor the operators and when the Of
ficials of the union are of the Lewis
| type it is still worse. This is what
happened: They kicked out Helm and
would have to agree to the wage con-
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81 Special mass meetings Of morgan
lied young workers should be held.
g. All working class youth organiza-
tions should be drawn into this work
and their support and aid solicited and
obtained.
Must Have Results.
These in brief are some Of the
tasks of the conference, and after the
conference. We must have something
more than mere talk result from this
youth conference. The left wing and
the Communists must see to it that
some progressive steps are taken at
the conference to help organize the
young workers. The left wing, to-
gether with the progressives, must
make this the starting point for an
organization campaign. The A. r. of
L. bureaucracy is unwilling and I'M
able to unionize the youth. If the
progressives present at the labor
youth conference fail to go beyond
the stage of mere mouthing of empty
phrases, then the left wing and the
Communists will be faced with the
problem of going out and achieving
the tremendous task of organizing the
young workers by themselves.
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mission in the union. The helpers
have expressed not only desires to be
organized, but showed the finest of
fighting spirit during the plumbers
strike in Brooklyn, and then later in
the lockout of the plumbers that took
place last year. They did not scab
on the plumbers. The helpers-95
per cent of whom are youths--took
their stand solidly with the adult
workers. Now-and yet--they are
still maintaining their organization
and have not been recognized by the
officials of the plumbers union.
The tasks of the youth conference
are: y the discussions must be sum-
married into concrete form in the
form of adoption of resolutions on
methods of organizing the young
workers in the miscellaneous trades;
in basic industries on the question
of education; sports; and on making
the unions more attractive to the
youth. These resolutions should be
sent out to every local and central
body m the A. F. of L. y Unlike
the last conference, where very
vague and unofficial committee was
set up, this conference must elect a
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got another Lewis man. At the con-
ference through the nilitancy of the
business men and the weak action of
the officials the mayor was made the
goat. Today the mayor who was true
to the workers, now thinks less of
the U. M. w. A. and is working in
the mines as member of the dual
union,
Negro Miners, Good Union Men.
Many of the miners at Lexington
are Negroes. Good union men too!
When the strike was called the city
officials who had influence, saw to it
that the public work was not given to
Negroes and kept them out of other
work. This drove many of them into
the ranks of the dual union for they
were starving and needed food. Also,
Helm put two of them in as officers
of the dual union and such tactics
west of the Mississippi. 1t is up to
Now many of the Negroes are in the
dual union and lots are still fighting
with the U. M. w. A. Three miners
who were imprisoned for picketiny
49, - ihoieh 1iiiu OuS u tHSlT num-
Der loyal Negro worker.
Join Up Company Unions.
The latest move of the bosses is
the amalgamation of the dual unions
of the nearby states into one union.
The United Brotherhood Miners Of
Centerville, Iowa, that controls APP
panose county and has contacts with
the operators, has joined with the
Lexington Independent Mine Work
ers and together with the member
ship in Lexington, Novinger, Beyier,
Mo-, and Appanose County, Iowa, to-
falling over $500 members, has form
ed the Southwestern Mine Workers
of America. This is move of the
Southwestern Coal Operators Asso-
citation for the Iowa union was a COM
pany dual union and the lexington
union with Helm was also company
union. Both worked scabs and both
signed contracts for lower pay, etc.
This dual company union, the South
western Mine Workers of America,
has the full support of the operators,
the press and the capitalists. The
operators are confident the company
union will spread through the states
west of the Mississippi. 1t is up to
the rank and file of the u. M. w. A.
and the left wing to get busy and
stamp out this new menace along
with the Lewis machine.
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AT the hearing on the dwellings, law
bill which provided standards of
health and safety, all the wealth in
terests, chambers of commerce and
realty associations massed their for
ces to defeat it. The hy pocrisy is too
thin We all know they want profits
and still more profits. Their inter
ests are directly opposed to the in
terests of the tenants who want bet
ter homes and lower rents.
Organization Is Slogan.
The property interests will strug-
gle agairst every move to improve
the conditions of the tenants. We
must organize our power to save our
selves from rent profiteerino and
vicious conditions. We must build the
Harlem Tenants League to protect
our homes and families. Only the Or
gained mass power and militant
struggle of the tenants and workers
will avail to protect them against
ruthless exploitation and oppression
Every tenant a member is our slo.
gan. We are resolved to rouse anc
organize the tenants to fight this
oppression to finish"
The Harlem Tenants League meet:
every first and third Monday evening
in the Public Library, 103 w. 1851
st.
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spirited address told of the struggle
for the extension of the New York
State Emergency Rent Laws.
These laws would never have been
extended but for the persistent fight
Of the tenants associations. Though
the extension bill has been signed, it
covers aaartments between $40 and
SIS pei room per month for six
months only. This means that thou
sands of tenants will be faced with
dis~oseesses and rent raises next De-
ccmber
"Ue must not be lulled to sleep by
temporary gan, but must re-
our efforts to build our ten
~ organizations, Mrs. Zeumer
II "For it is the organized power
of the tenants which is respected by
! gislators and officials. The need
TO- powerful tenants organizations is
greater than ever"
"Profiteering landlordism is a pill
lar Of prostitution" said Miss Grace
P. Campbell, vice-president of the
Harlem Tenants League.
eve are oppressed by powerful and
ruthless forces which are not in the
least concerned about the health, NOR
ais or welfare Of the masses of the
people," said Richard B. Moore, presi-
dent Of the Harlem Tenants League.
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By HUGO oEHLER.

Conditions in the Missouri and
Iowa coal fields are the fruits of the
Lewis policy and could not have de-
veloped under left wing leadership.
Without doubt the driving force at
present is the economic situation but
the pilot that is leading the miners
organization on the rocks is Lewis. The
dual union Company union) and the
operators, together are crowding out
the United Mine Workers more each
day.
This dual union is more than that,
it is weapon of the operators that
is spreading and consolidating its
forces over the southwest. 1t is a
variety of the company union that
the Lewis machine is competing with
to serve the operators. Why accuse
the Lewis machine of giving birth to
such a son? Would the Lewis ma
chine be so stupid as to allow this ?
Let US see.
Result of Lewis Policies.
First the Lewis machine stabbed
the miners of the southwest in the
back when Howat and the Kansas
miners were fighting the Kansas In
dustrial Court Law. This treachery
weakened this section and bore fruit
for the operators. Later the separate
agreement policy of the Lewis ma
chine further weakened this field. The
representatives Of the operators and
the miners of the southwest meeting
in Kansas City last fall signed a sep
arate agreement until April, which
again strengthened the operators.
In Missouri there are over 5000
coal miners and today less than 5000
are organized in the U. M. w. A.
Lewis has capitulated to the dual
union and so far has failed to check
its advance. Now the rank and file
is thinking and seems to be ready to
act.
The Lewis henchman of the dis
trict, Helm, in the last election was
not even nominated. The miners had
learned to know him. He had been
an official for IL years and was also
friend of the Nelson, Paterson,
Rivers labor gang of Kansas City.
Removed from the payroll, this faker
continued to serve his real masters
the operators, just as Harrington CON
tinues to serve the operators. Helm
acts now as an official Of the COM
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Jonah and the WhQle--1Q28.

Stotely reentesslu the steel machine
pounds IN an endless rhythm
and the b'ne JGaUs open
and snap shut again.
open and snap shut again
OPEN and. snap shat. :. again. 80.
And Jonah the feeder stands before IL
throwing gGudy cloth into its jaaos
sohen 1t opens, taking out pulp
when 1t opens again, throaUing guudy
cloth IN its yaaoniag mouth
When 1t opens again;
a1oays gaping, alaoays swapping q
again, again.. again.
Which is the and aohich the machine?
Dress Jonah up IN steeI-blue suit
and you acM know
the one from the other
But Jonah is human:
his thoughts outside the factory
those of every man;
lie hopes and IN his eyes
sparkle that even the machine
cannot dim. There is happiness
lchich is not his but which he dreams Of.
Jonah hears a0ontart's voice
and turns around to see,
forgetting the machine and the gag bright cloth.
But the machine never foygets;
1t opens its ya0aiag jaacs
and Jonah is caught
(Thc machine cannot distinguish cloth from man.
II opens, and Jonah is ats food this time;
il snaps shut again. and splits out pulp.
Bat the pulp this time is not of cloth,
It is bloody pulp gaudy
Iohonaans head gaudy,
aud horrible.
and the blaze joaos open
and snap shut again,
open and snap shut again,
open. and. snap shut. again.
EDWIN
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pany union. 4 -'--'''-----
A defeated district president, a sep
arate agreement, demoralized union
force gave Helms the basis to start
a dual union of miners at Lexington,
Missouri. The Consolidated Sales
Company, owners of the four mines
at Lexington, South, East, West and
Woodward, subsidiary of the Mis-
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souri, Pacific, decided that the miners
ditions, issued by them in the book on
wages and working conditions. A
yellow dog contract!
Form Company Union.
The company decided to push the
workers further. Helms formed a
union, made a compromise, signed a
contract with the company to end
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Cunning Agents

OTTAWA, Ont, April 25.-The
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EDWIN ROLFE.
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TENANTS ORGANIZING
FOR RENT PROTECTION

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