The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-03

JOOS III Jne naIQ COSI. L nave no
place to go to tell about the mine
bosses selling jobs.
I haven't any money and can't
Get job without money. Now, l
have loaded coal for two years in
the Hudson Coal Co, and yet I can't
get job to be a miner.
Please, sir. how much will it cost
TO put it in the Daily Worker Tell
Us the amount it will cost. Please,
sir, send me an answer. What else
shall do?
EDITORS NOTE:-The Daily
Worker is publishing the above let
ter, and the one which follows, not
because it upholds the practice of
buying Jobs in the mines. The Daily
Worker wars on this practice. These
pieces of correspondence are pub
lished because of the condition
which they show to exist in the
mines of the Hudson Coal and other
companies, and because of the reli-
2nce which they reveal a non-Com-
rhunist worker placing in his fight
ing paper, the Daily Worker.
The following letter was sent by
cur Worker correspondent to the
Hudson Coal Co. headquarters at
Albany, N. Y:
81 am a mine laborer for the Hud-
son Coal Co. in Luzerne County. I
bought 4 job from a mine boss for
$3.50. This is gang-way coal. I
did not load any coal. I was not
working in Hudson Coal Co. for la
borer, but right away / got gang
way work for three months and
after that I got sick and l had the
doctor, and after l thought l would
90 to the mine boss so he would
give me my money back. was
afraid I was going to die; and the
mining boss gave me back the
money, $3.50, and my gang-way was
given to the other miner, but | was
sick two months and after two
months I went to ask for a job from
the mine boss, Thomas Edwards, so
he would give me a job, and the
nlire boss said that he didn't have
any job for me then, only for his
friends. And went to the super
iutendent, Mr.. Flynn, and l said that
! bought a job from the mine boss,
Thomas Edwards, and the superin-
tendent made a case and sent it to
Cadwaleter Evans, Jr., general man
ager, Scranton, Pa, and I went to
Scranton to the manager and the
manager asked me what company
is in Kingston. I said the Kingston
Coal Company and the Alden Coal
Company, and the manager said to
me: $50 you won't go working for
the Hudson Coal Company" So I
go working for the Alden Coal Com
psny.
81 said I did not buy a job from
another coal company, only from
the Hudson Coal Company, from
the mine boss. The manager said
to me that Thomas Edwards gave
me the money in Hudson Coal Com
pany. Manager said to me that the
mine boss gave me the money, so
won't ask no more job from him.
| asked the manager if the Hudson
Coal Company were selling jobs :?
And the manager said mo" And
] said why is the mine boss selling
jobs for miners? The manager
said nothing to me. | said that |
have no money, because | was sick
and I hadn't any job from the Hud-
son Coal Company. The mine boss
said who buy jobs and who has good
work and good pay, and who does
not buy job won't have good pay,
and the mine boss sells jobs. And
the manager covered up the mine
boss and protected him. Any kind
of case goes from the superinten-
dent to the manager is not pro-
ducing any results. The manager
said he got thousands of cases with
him and after l asked the manager
to give me any kind of a job, the
manager said l cannot give you any
work, but the mine boss is working
for us twenty years and the man
ager said he won't discharge him,
and the manager said if he would
give me a job he has to discharge
the mine boss, and the manager did
not give me any work.
81 was to the manager six times,
asking for work, and the manager
said, so l won't go working in the
Hudson Coal COMPANY, hence l was
obliged to go to the Alden Coal
Company. l said to the manager,
q haven't any money and no work
for the Hudson Coal Company, and
the mine bosses are selling jobs,
and ! said I have not got any money
and no work. And after | went to
Mr.. Vice. President, Fine. he gave
me the job rs laborer and ! worked
one year and my miner got sick and
I asked to get a miners job and
they did not want to give me any
work, because | have no money
And I said l do not want to buy
work and | do not want to rob the
company, the Hudson Coal Com
many. and now | am a miner and a