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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-23

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, June d.
Flinging defiance into the faces of
the capitalists and their city COM
mission which few days ago passed
a city ordinance prohibiting meet
ings of the Communists or the rev.
pulmonary unionists, 300 Negro and
white workers assembled in Capital
Park yesterday and listened to the
program of the Communist Party
and the Trade Union Unity League
as outlined by Jackson, acting dis
trict organizer of the Communist
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she arrives on the Crescent Limited
at Has daylight saving time. Bur-
lax is Southern representative of
the International Labor Defense
and was arrested with three others
at meeting May q in Atlanta, Ga.
The meeting was called by the
American Negro Labor Congress to
unite white and Negro workers for
common defense against lynch
gangs and for organization into the
National Textile Workers Union
and other T. U. U. l.. unions in
fight against starvation ON the job
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ent was against this treachery of
the Fagen clique, in hand with the
A. F. of L. Local 500. When Pin
chefsky and Klien, members of the
Food Workers Industrial Union
asked for the floor to expose the
true nature of their maneuver, they
attempted to railroad this issue.
The workers resented it very much
and forced them to allow Pinchefsky
to speak, and when the clique then
refused to give Klien the floor, the
workers brok2 up the meeting.
When they saw this so-called mill
tant" Gross attempt to beat up
Klien, after the meeting, they did
not allow it.
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Party, and Frank Burns Of the T.
U. U. L. The meeting was called
to protest the attempt to murder by
electrocution six worker organizers
in Atlanta, Ca, and a strong reso-
luton demanding their release was
passed.
The meeting was preceded by an
act of attempted terrorism by the
Ku KluX Klan, which paraded Thurs
day night through the Negro Sec
ton, blowing horns and distribut-
ing leaflets and later burned an
effigy Of Tom Johnson, district or
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or off of it.
Burlak was released Friday after
noon when her bond, few days
before set at $4,000, was finally re-
duced to $4,000. With the other
three, and two more arrested in
April, she is charged with ''insur-
rection" and if convicted will be
electrocuted under a Georgia law
dating from 1861, which provided
the death penalty for that offense.
Grecryille Workers Greet Militant
GREENVILLE, S. G., June D.
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National Miners Union issued
here yesterday.
In the anthracite where the
Lewis-Boylan machine of the
United Mine Workers of America
has systematically aided the speed
up drive of the operators, some
$4,000 miners have begun an open
struggle centering around a de-
mand for equalization of work.
They have elected a committee
of thirty to take charge of the fight
and conduct it over the heads of
the U.M.W.A. officials.
n. NJ. U. President Sent.
The National Miners Union has
sent its president, Freeman Thomp-
son, into the anthracite, together
with Joe fash and Carlo Sabatini,
Youth Section organizers of the N
M. u, and Dan Singer, national
organizer. The Trade Union Unity
League has sent John Little, Youth
Section organizer.
Ten thousand leaflets have been
distributed by the N. M. U. to the
anthracite miners. They point out
that ethe demand for equalization
of work is not sufficient, that the
demands for abolition of the speed
up and the contract system must
be raised, that the struggle against
wage cuts must be combined with
the fight against mass unemploy-
ment, for Work or Wages. The
leafIet calls for the spreading OF
the strike.
The leaflet puts in the center OF
the struggle the slogan Of a general
strike September /, when the Lewis
slave contract, signed five years
ago, expires.
The statement of the executive
board of the N. NJ. U. declares that
the Lewis-Boylan fascist machine
must be defeated and that the
agents of the Springfield faction Of
the U. NJ. w. A, the social fascist
wing controlled by the Peabody
Coal Co., must be exposed and driver
out of the coal fields in order tt
assure advances in the fight against
the coal barons and their govern
ment,
In Western Pennsylvania tht
strikes against wage-cuts, begun
last week by the National Miners
Union mine locals, are still il
progress, with mass picketing being
carried on.
Relief Is Needed.
Relief is needed badly and the N
M. u, in cooperation with tn
Workers International Relief, i
setting up its strike machinery il
preparation for a national relic
campaign which the entire series o
developing struggles against wage
cuts and mass unemployment show
to be necessary.
Fifty thousand "Strike Agains
Wage Cuts" leaflets have been is
sued by the N. M. U. in Western
Pennsylvania, Central Pennsylvania
Northern West Virginia and East
ern Ohio.
The rapid development of tn
sharp drive of the bosses agains
the living standards of the miner
and their families is illustrated b.
the situation in mines No. a, an
6 of the Vesta Coal Goa subsi
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iobless, three meetings will be held
Monday, June %.
The meetings for jobless mems
clothing workers are scheduled iii
Brownsville, Brooklyn, and New
York.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-23
Jobless Clothing
Workers to Meet

NEW YORK.-To spur on efforts
to organize the ever growing num-
Der of jobless mems clothing work
ers, and to elect delegates to the
July 4th National Convention of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-23
Conference Demands Release.

NUHI VTtHCt DtNdIluS NeIpdst.
MILWAUKEE,, Wise, June o.
A defense conference, held here
in Bues Hall, 296 W. Water St., ON
June II, with representatives from
80 workers organizations, includ-
ing union locals, denounced the at
tempted electrocution Of workers
leaders in Atlanta and demanding
their release. The delegates repre-
sented something over 1000 work
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-23
NATIONAL UNEMPLOYMENT
CONVENTION JULY 4 IS
TO BUILD BIG MOVEMENT
Orders Immediate Completion of Delegations;
All Rally to Union Park Demonstration
Census Admits 100000 Out of Work in N. Y.
$4,000 Apply for 200 Low Paid City Jobs

NEW YORK.-"The struggle against unemployment is
the struggle of the entire working Glass; states letter of
instructions sent out by the national office of the Trade Union
Unity League to all affiliated unions national leagues district
organizations and unemployed councils The letter orders them
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-23
@'Into the Shops" Keynote of
Opening Report at the 9TH
National Party Convention

NEW Y0Rk-The business sessions of the Seventh Com
venon of the Communist Party which the report of the
Central Committee given by Comrade Max Bedacht,
opened Saturday morning with the election of Is delegates to
the Presdum The Presdum consists of the fOIowng Com
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-23
NATIONAL MINERS UNION
OFFICERS IN ANTHRACITE;
WAR ON CUTS, SPEED-UP
Miners Defy UNIV Bureaucrats; NMU Urges
to Spread Strike, End Contractor System
Great Struggles LOOM Wages Cut In Coal
and Copper Mine Fields; Troops Called

PITTSBURGH, Pa. June 22-The mining industry
bitumnous anthracite and metals today field of rapidly
developing struggles with groups of workers in the various
sections either already striking against the speedup and
wage cuts or preparing for BATTLE statement of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-23

Demand the release of Fos-
ter, Minor, Amter and Ray
mOnd, in prison for fighting
for unemployment insurance.
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ganizer of the Communist Party.
There was every indication that
an attempt to smash the meeting
yesterday was being planned, but
the temper and determination Of the
workers was so evident that the
thugs did not attack. Squads of
police, Klansmen and bosses thugs
were all around it.
Meet Burlak Today.
NEW YORk.--All workers are
called TO Pennsylvania station this
morning to meet Anna Burlak when
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-23

$4,000 Miners Strike Against UnempIoy-
ment. More and More Join the JObless
Army as the Crisis Grows. Mobilize
for the July As Unemployment
Conference in Chicago to Broad
en- the Fight for Work or
Wages"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-08-29
Workmen' 5 Compensation Insurance

The laws of Ohio now require that
every person, firm or corporation
which employs in the regular conduct
of his or its business three or more
persons, shall have insurance in the
state insurance fund.
This insurance provides compensa-
tion to employees who are incapacitat-
ed by injuries received in the per-
formance of their work for their en-
ployers and benefits to the depend
ents of such employees in the event
that the injury results in death, to-
gether with the necessary medical
treatment, disqualification and nurs-
ing The benefits provided under the
law, are not limited to employees and
their dependents, but extend also to
to the employer, in that it renders
an employer who has this insurance
immune from damage suits for the
injuries which his employees receive
in the course of and arising out of
their employment.
Before this law was enacted en-
ployers were subjected to numerous
damage suits by employees who claim
ed to have been injured in their work
Many of these suits were without
merit. In many meritorious cases the
amount of damages claimed was Sc
great that the employer felt compell.
ed to resist the suit vigorously, anC
often incurred great expense. Under
conditions which existed prior to the
enactment of the workmen's compen.
satloE law, both employer and EN-
piCye were subjected to heavy court
costs and lawyers fees. In many
cases the damages which the EN-
ployer was called upon to pay were
in ruinous amounts, although tbs
sum actually received by the EN-.
ploye, after payment of attorneys
fees and other expenses, was but 8
fraction of the amount allowed by
the jury. Many lawyers then made
law suits for personal injuries THEN
speciality, and were known to look fol
this kind of practice.
The evils which grew out of these
conditions caused the state legisla
ture to look around for remedy
The workmen's compensation law was
enacted as a means to protect EN-
ployers from ruinous damage suits
and at the same time furnish to the
injured employe and his dependent.
speedy relief without cost or uncer
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-08-29

tainty, This law has been successful
in accomplishing both purposes in a
measure far beyond the hopes of even
its most ardent advocates. 1t has
been accepted upon all sides as be-
ing the best solution of the very
serious problem which industrial acci-
dents previously presented. Not only
have both the employer and the en-
ploye benefited by this law. but with
no less certainty has society in gen.
eral been benefited. Before the en-
actment of this law, even in cases
of the greatest merit, litigation often
dragged along for years. In many in.
stances the wage Garner died his fam
ily was broken up before relief came
in the way of payment of damages.
The law now leaves the employer
who, although amenable, does not
have this insurance, in more pre-
,arious situation than before. Before
the enactment of this law the en-
1loyer had three common law de-
fenses any one of which under Ger
tain circumstances, was a barrier to
recovery of damages by the en-
ploye. These defenses are known as
the fellow servant rule, "assump-
ton of risk" and "contributory negli-
renee" If the injury were inflicted
nrough the negligence of fellow
workman, or if it grew out of haz-
ard peculiar to and ordinarily known
exist to any extraordinary degree
the peculiar work in which the en-
ploye was engaged, or if the injury
was wholly or in part due to the EN-
ploye's own negligence, no recovery
ould be had. Under the present law
The employer is not permitted to set
up any of these defenses.
While the law compels the EN-
ployer of three or more persons tc
have this insurance, the employer OF
a lesser number may have it with the
same benefits to both himself and his
employees as are provided where the
number employed is three or more.
Strange as it may seem, some en-
ployers of three or more persons dc
not carry this insurance. Invariably
such employers are engaged in small
businesses which require but a few
employees The employees of such en-
ployers have the choice of one of two
remedies where injuries are SUSTAINED
they may either bring courf
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-08-29

action for damages, or file claim
for compensation with the industrial
commission. If an action for dam
ages is filed recovery can be had III
such amount as the employe or his
dependents are able to convince the
jury they are entitled to. If claim
is filed with the industrial commits.
sion, it is only necessary to show
that an injury was sustained in the
course of employment and that the
employer was at the time amenable
to the law. The commission will then
make the same awards for compen-
sation, doctor bills, hospital and
other medical expenses as would be
made were the employer complying
with the law, but the employer will
be compelled to pay these awards
himself.
STANLEY OGG,
Field Deputy.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-08-29
CANADIAN RAIL
CHIEF WOULD BAR
IMMIGRANTS

Toronto, Ontario. = immigration
into Canada from the United States
and Europe should be stopped, said
E. w. Beatty, president Canadian
Pacific railway, in an interview here.
The railroad chief insists that bad
unemployment conditions make it nee
essary for the Dominion to protect its
interests.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-08
The Coal Companies Order a Raid

U. M. W. A. and by the capitalist press of
the anthracite.
Therefore investigations" are being con-
Quoted of the Communist Party and the N.
M. U. The operators and the Lewis machine
have placed special investigators" to check
up on Communist activity. Therefore County
District Attorney Owens declares that the
"Reds will be driven out of this country"
The coal operators ordered the raids to be
made on the offices of the Party, the N.M.U.,
etc. Five arrests have been made Sedtion
is the charge. The Flynn Sedition Law passed
in 1919 is being invoked against u.s. $1,000
bail is clapped on each organizer. The press
is carrying on real red scare campaign. The
trumpets are being blown the flags are being
flown, and all loyal patriots are being called
to the colors in the holy war against the Com
munists. 1t is repetition of the Palmer
Days all over again-except that this time
we are a real danger and menace to the pres
ent capitalist order. The bourgeosie has
more to fear from us-the masses are rallying
in hundreds of thousands to the slogans and
demands of the Party.
Must Resist Attack
1t is of the greatest Importance to defeat
this attack against the Party and red trade
unions The masses must be modified to pro-
tect and defend the Party and N M U. from
being driven into illegality. This attack is
part and parcel of the whole national attack
against the Party and working class revolu-
tionary movement. 1t is link in the chain
of the Gastona case, the Atlanta cases, the
Foster AmterMinor case in New York, Ell
Centre cases on the coast, etc.
The federal authorities are being called in
to help prosecute the Communists and N.M.U.
organizers. We must mobilize the entire
working class to fight against the concerted,
organized attempt to drive the Party into
llegality. We must sound the alarn1-we
must wake up to the grave danger facing us.
Not that we fear iegality-but we know that
we can rally millions of workers in defense
of the Party on this issue
Organize More.
We must expose the open alliance of the
state, the coal companies, and the bureaucracy
who are all working to accomplish this end
We must intensity our organization work in
the anthracite, and all throughout the coal
fields. We must establish an illegal appar-
atus, while fighting to maintain our legality
The lessons of these fascist attacks against
our Party must be drawn for the workers, and
the masses better prepared to resist politi-
cally and Observation-Disclosures also physi-
cally-the attacks of the boss class against us
We must weld together mass, militant, fight
ing Party-and even broader revolutionary
trade unions. Only in this way will we sue
coed in defeating the onslaught of the bour-
geoisie against the vanguard of the working
class-which goes hand in hand with the
bosses attack on the conditions and standards
OF the working class as a whole.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-08
By P. FRANKFELD.

NEGOTIATIONS between the fascist officials
of the United Mine Workers of America
and the coal operators opened in New York
last week. The wage scale negotiations
opened at time when the miners in the Penn
Coal Co. were being sold out by Boylan-Lewis
Cappelini and Carey, and when the miners
militant spirit of struggle was being crushed
by the combined, united efforts of the state,
the coal companies and the corrupt U. M. w.
A. machines.
At the opening sessions, the coal operators
made it clear that they intend to ask for
reduction in wages for the hard-coal miners;
and are also demanding that the output per
miner be considerably increased.
The operators have already served notice
on the miners that they will not tolerate any
opposition to the schemes. They have made
their position clear and forceful-through the
state troopers, through their coal and iron
police, through their burgesses and courts.
The operators have gone even further and
have declared that whenever they meet with
any kind of opposition-even when this comes
from the militant rank and file of the United
Mine Workers of America-they will simply
smash this opposition and the organization
along with it.
Yellow Dog.
After the betrayal by the grievance COM
mittee which called off the strike, and told
the miners to go back to work-the Penn. Coal
Co. locked out the miners in the Underwood
Colliery-and demanded that the miners in
Dunmore sign yellow dog agreement which
repudiates not only the National Miners
Union-but the U. M. w. A. as well. This
step of the operators is a most significant
one. 1t means that a definite group of coal
companies do not even want the corrupt, fas-
cist U. M. w. A. as an organized factor in
the anthracite Yes-they will and must use
the fascist officials against the miners and
against the National Miners Union. But
when the miners in the organization develop
a certain degree of consciousness of their own
class interests-then the operators will pro-
coed to smash the U. M. W. A. in the anthra-
cite, just as they did in the soft coal regions
Lewis and his machine men will undoubtedly
sign on the dotted line and accept the wage
reducton-or the demand for increased pro-
duction from the miners. Possibly both. In
return for this-Lewis and Boylan will be
given a modified form of the check-off. Tit
for tat! Lewis will receive his 80 pieces of
silver for his treachery to the anthracite
miners.
Communists Lead Struggle.
Where will the opposition to Lews's treach-
cry arise? Only from the National Miners
Union and the Communists 1t is only the
N. M. U. and the Communist Party that will
and is proceeding to mobilize the miners for
struggle-and to prepare them for struggle
against the new 5-year sell-out. This fact is
very we'll recognized by the operators, by the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-08
AMERICAN ENGINEERS FORM
"SHOCK BRIGADE" IN U.S.SR.|

dustry $50 per cent. (plan III per cent?; agri-
cultural machinery 600 per cent. of pre-war
production; electrical industry 270 per cent
(1S0 in plan); pig iron production 67.7 per
cent. (51.5 per cent?; coal 45.8 per cent. (31.6
per cent?, and is now 78 per cent. above pre-
war average; oil 37.S per cent. (26.5 per cent?,
and is "a per cent above the pre-war output;
cement $40 per cent 1888 per cent?, and is
1873 per cent above pre-war.
Capital investments in industry in two years
have amounted to 5,SO0OOO,OOO roubles (about
8 billion dollars). Cost of production has been
lowered "A per cent.-not up to the per cent
provided by the plan.
Unemployment (of agricultural workers
who are waiting to be placed in the newly
erected industries) has decreased 40 per cent.
$4,000 workers have been added to the number
of industrial workers in the past yearl Real
wages in the past two years have increased
70 per cent and now amount to 1879 per cent.
of the pre-war wages.
Hundreds of thousands of workers are on
the seven-hour basis, working four days, then
day of rest. By 1882 the entire industry will
be on the. seven-hour working day basis.
S670000,000 has been spent by the Soviet
Government in two years in building workers
honest
These figures are eloquent-and it is no
social-fascist socialist party are shrieking in
dismay! Hundreds of millions of dollars of i'm
ports, especially of machinery of production
from the United States, thousands of engineers
and technicians from the United States to aid
installing and operating the new plants!
American Workers Cooperating.
One can understand the deep interest of the
American engineers and workers now help
ing in building Socialism in the Soviet Union.
Their number is already 5000, and soon Amer
lea will have mighty brigades of American
workers assisting in building the new world,
the new workers Fatherand-in the Soviet
Union
Art to Be Pushed Forward.
Five Year Plan of Art has also been in
augurated, embracing all arts, though the
greatest stress is being laid upon theatre and
movies. $4,000 amateur theatrical groups now
exist in the cities; $1,000 in the villages This
number is to be increased to $4,000 and $4,000
respectively-with extensive financial aid from
the Soviet Government!
Misery in Capitalist Countries
Thus the Soviet Union, which has gone
through more struggles than any other coun-
try in the world, moves forward in planned,
organized, Socialist production, with increas-
ing well-being, leisure for the workers and
peasants--while in the capitalist countries
there is mass unemployment and hunger, wage
slashes, increasing hours of work, heartbreak-
ing speed-up agricultural crisis, widespread
miseryl
The workers in the United States must learn
more and more from the Russian workers-and
from the enthusiasm of the American "shock
brigades' in the Soviet Union-and follow the
example of our Russian comrades.