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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-19

ed by the UMWA, but to fight under
the National Miners Union.
L was in one part of the barracks
where a Negro miner, his wife, and
their four children had lived, winter
and summer, since the 1927 strike.
The So a month taken by the COM
pany for the wooden company houses
was too much to pay. The prices
of the company store would have
left the family starving. AS it was,
every two weeks, this mans pay
check would go untouched--right to
the man who owns the field where
the barracks stand. In return, the
miner would receive food. II never
cashed check since I've been work
ing in the NINE" this miner said.
And these workers considered this
sertdom good" arrangement, rath-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-19
HARLAN MINERS
NEED CLOTHES

NEW YORK.-The 100 miners Of
Harlan, Kentucky, who are now in
Jail for their militant activities and
20 of them charged with murder
have issued an appeal through the
International Labor Defense for
clothes for their needy families on
the outside. Hunger and eviction
from their homes" has been the lot
of hundreds Of these miners and
their families according to a report
of j. Louis Engdahl, general secre-
tary Of the I. L. d. who has recently
returned from Harlan in behalf of
the workers defense organization
helping the imprisoned miners.
AS the wives and children of the
imprisoned miners are starving and
helpless 1t becomes Of utmost inpor-
lance to send and bring clothes TO
the national office of the I. L. D.,
not later than Monday when Jessie
London OF the l. L. D. Is leaving for
Harlan on that day and will take
with her the clothes to distribute to
the needy victims Of the coal barons.
II is pointed out by the I. L. D.,
that 20 Of these miners are facing
death at the hands Of the coal oper-
ators and the others are charged
with criminal syndicalism which II
convicted will bring them long SEN
fences in the penitentiary. The
United Mine Workers have betrayed
these miners and would not come to
their help and they we're left with
out any defense until the Interna-
tional Labor Defense stepped in and
took the case at the request of the
imprisoned men. The clothes for
the families of these imprisoned
miners must be brought to the ma
tional office of the ]. L. D, 80 East
18th St., Room 40. NOT later than
Mondssh $50 f = I
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-19
SOCIALISTS ORDER
HUNGER FIGHTERS
BE- SHOT AT SIGHT
Gable by Inprecorr)

BERLIiJ.-Despite the order of the
socialist police president of Cologne
to shoot Immediately without warn
ing further hunger demonstrations
unemployed demonstrated yesterday
evening.
Collisions with poice occurred, the
latter being stoned. Police fired i'm
mediately but no one was hit.
WARSAW. - Powerful demonstra-
tions of unemployed took place in
Kattovitz. Collisions occurred and
police shot three workers dead and
many were wounded. A thousand
unemployed workers built barbados
The police arrested thirty-five Many
raids on workers organizations have
been ordered by the fascist govern.
ment
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-19
BY ANN ALLEN

The miners met at the hilltop above
the barracks"
About rs miners, miners wives, and
miners children, of all languages,
Negro and white, have come, on foot
and in cheap trucks ard cars. to at
tend the Avella Section Conference
to build the strike.
They are earnestly discussing
means of winning this strike against
starvation. Old children who have
spent their lives in the mines, young
boys just beginning, women, some
with children at their breasts, listen
together with the. same eager inten-
sity. To them this battles against
hunger, and those who are respons-
ible, looms like some final conflict
I'VE got to win Negro mother
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-19
Conference Called By
Governor, Coal
Company UNIV
Admit Their Scab Aim
B e gin Evictions to
Force Miners Defeat

HARRISBURGH, Pa, June 49,
Thirty-two white, Negro and women
delegates elected at strike meetings
of six Pittsburgh Terminal Mines,
headed by Frank Borich, left Harris
burg for the picket lines determined
to defeat the attempt of Governor
Pincllot, the coal operators and the
United Mine Workers of America to
make an agreement to break the
strike in a secret conference to be
held today.
No one, including the governors
secretary, knew where the conference
was to be held. Borich, on behalf
of the strikers delegation, protested
against the action of the governor
in turning the supposedly open coal
conference into a secret conference
with the Terminal operators and the
U. M. w, excluding the striking
miners.
Pinchot said: You are not invited
to the conference 1 have arranged
between the operators and the U. M.
w" Borich replied: Again you
turn your own proposed open inves-
tigation into a secret investigation,
as you did in the proposal to investi-
| gate conditions of the miners in the
strike area few DAYS ago.
I'VE demand an open investiga-
ton be held in Pittsburgh, at which
thousands of miners and their fam
lilies will expose their starvation"
81 will not hear YOU" said Gov
ernor Pinchot, unless you bring
along the operators. 1 am making
my investigation in my own way,
MIR. Borich. 1 am governor, not
you"
Protesting against this procedure,
Borich replied, saying: I'VE want to
state that this delegation is elected
unanimously by mass meetings at
each Terminal mine and from the
Central Strike Committee of the Ma
tional Miners Union and is the only
body authorized by the miners to
! speak in their name. The United
Mine Workers of America is despised
and understood by the miners to be
the strike-breaking agency of the
coal bosses, and no agreement made
by you and the operators and the
U. M. w. will be accepted by the
miners. The miners know that their
present starvation was brought about
through the u. M. W., represent
ir-- the coal operators.
"Sk1 cling the strike and bigger
mass pickeU Ines will be our answer
to any strike-breaking agreement
coming from your secret conference
Ninety eight per cent of the miners
are striking under the National Min
ers' Union Rank and File Commit
tee leadership. While you talk about
the right to picket, your armed forces
brutally slug starving miners ano
their families who are striking fol
the right to live. You are issuing
hypocritical statements on evictions
which have increased since then
You are openly trying to break thu
strike. Your attempts will fail. TIL,
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err than live in company houses, and
buy at the company stores. Then
we'd surely have starved"
The barracks are divided into four
rooms-home-made furniture, bench
es, tables, closet. Clean. Not
enough there to look disorderly. The
walls of the barracks are papered
with old copies of tht Goal Digger"
They were having their big Sunday
meal-coffee, without milk or sugar,
some potatoes and a little meat. This
Negro miner and his wife, are two of
the leading militants of the section.
Might as will starve out of the mines
as in them" the wife says.
In this strike, there are no barriers
Of language or race A white wom-
tCONTINU ED ON PAGE THREE)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-19
BY BILL DUNE

by DILL DONNE
WHEELING, w. Va, June 18-The
strike of Ohio and Northern West
Virginia miners continues to spead
with more than 5000 miners already
out of 80 properties.
The strike is spreading in the face
of the most several legal suppression
and armed terrorism and desperate
efforts on the part of the UNIWA
officials, state police, officers of the
Ohio National Guard, scores of spe-
cial deputy sheriffs and American
Legionaires, "self-sppointed depu-
/ ties as the local press terms them
ito start back to work movements"
Tony Minericn and Peter Peris, Or
ganizers for the National Miners
Union, we're arrested today. -Four
young miners have been jailed and
accused of setting fire to the wash
house of the Big Run Mine. The press
says they confessed but the boys deny
it. Five pickets, two women and three
men, were arrested at the Constance
Mines, WarWood w. Va. this morn
ing. Leo Thompson, now in Jail in
st. Clairsville, will be charged with
Criminal Syndicahsn, according to
the prosecutor, and Henry Valid and
Frank Kasich, with aiding and abet-
ting violation of the CS statute.
Every highway leading to mines in
Eastern Ohio, is patrolled by special
deputies, and most of the mines have
attachments of armed men posted at
strategic points At Lafferty No. 6,
for instance, altho majority of the
men are striking, the few working
are protected" by 80 to 40 thugs
armed with rifles.
Major Blount of the Ohio National
Guard is in the field giving earnest
aid to the coal operators in attempt
ing to terrorise strikers and their
families. An insight into the activ-
tiles of this gallant Major, in con-
nection with the mass struggle of
some $4,000 men, women and child
rem of the mine fields against starv-
alton and the operators dictatorship,
as well as that of the Belmont county
authorities is furnished by the fol-
lowing item in the strike story car
ried by the Bellaire Leader of June
Sixteen
Eleven Fairpoint men STRIKERS
B. D.. last night were ordered to
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-19
Hold Successful United Front
Scottsboro Conferences in
Oklahoma City and Detroit
BULLETIN.

BERLIN, ia powerful demonstration
yesterday in
windows Consulate a
offices containing demanding
When police rrived the demonstrators had disappeared
OKLAHOMA CITY June 18-A fighting alliance of
white and Negro workers in the fight to the
cent Sosboro Negro boys forged here last night the
local United Front Scottsboro Defense Conference
The conference enthusiastically supported the fight
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-19
Mine STRIKE
SPREADS IN
OHIO FIELDS
800 Strike Thursday
in Two Mines; AZ
Arrests Made
Clubs, Tear Gas Pickets
U. NJ. w. 4. Gets
Police Protection
in Strike-Breaking

BRIDGEPORT, Ohio, June 49,
Six hundred miners struck today at
the Blaine mine of the Lorain Coal
and Dock Company, also one hun
dred of the Kenwood mine. Forty
two arrests were made yesterday, a
number of women included. Brutal
clubbing of pickets at the Glen Run
mine took place this morning after
tear gas bombing, as result of
which one worker was sent to the
hospital. Three miners we're severly
dubbed at the Blaine mine. The U.
M. w, A. is working openly under
police protection. Peter Peris is still
held at Wheeling under ten thou
sand dollars bail, charged with incit-
ing to riot.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-24
EARNINGS REPORTED.

NEW YORK, March "a (Pl-The
pamphlet report of the Boston g. Maine
Railroad issued today showed that the
depression of 1880 resulted in reduc-
ton of revenues of $4,725 per mile of
road, from 1929. The aggregate reduc-
ton in gross operating revenues for
1880 was $9,2o3, 103
by dint of close control over ex-
penses," the report says, the road was
able, notwithstanding its revenue losses,
to show net income of S5,727, $50. de-
crease of $266,310 from 1929, and COM
pared with dividend requirements Of
S5,717,484
REQ Motor Car Co. reported for 1880
net loss Of S1,989, 148, against net profit
Of S1,073,524, or SO cents a share,
in 1929.
Union Bag g. Paper Corporation, in
Guiding Union Bag g. Paper Power Cor
poration, from January l to March 6,
1880, reported for last year net loss of
$155,283 against net loss of $2,874, 290
for 1929.
American Zinc, Lead g. Smelling Co.
reported for 1880 net profit equal to
$2.37 share on the Sc preferred stock,
against $732 share in 1929.
Net earnings of the Knott Corpora
ton, operators Of the Knott chain of
hotels, for 1880 were $490,592, against
$494,729 in 1929.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-24
CURB SHARES firm
IN BETTER BUYING
Market Shows Signs of Re-
Covery After Absorbing
Offerings.
BY JOHN A. CRoNE.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, March 24.-After OPEN
ing irregularly, todays curb market
firmed as the volume of trading showed
signs of increasing.
Public utilities furnished the strong
est spot in the entire list, while the
oils, in sharp contrast, provided the
weakest section. Between these ex-
tremes were such groups as the coppers,
motors and air shares, all of which dis
played little uniformity in trends. A
few higher priced industrials enjoyed
wide swings, but the bulk of dealings IN
that classification were in the lower
priced issues.
Electric Bond g. Share rapidly recov-
cred an early loss and recorded a frac-
tional net gain around midday. Cities
Service rallied, only to settle down
again. Shenandoah Corporation hit
new high, but later tapered.
Ford Motor, Ltd, softened in the flrst
few hours, despite London cables telling
of Ford's reported plans for purchasing
a South Wales steel works to insure
supply of raw materials for the huge
Dagenham plant and thereby escape the
proposed British tariff on foreign steel,
Standard OH of Indiana was the first
Of the Standard Oils to break into new
low ground today. Tt soon was fol-
lowed by International Petroleum, q
subsidiary of Standard Oil of New Jer-
sey, and by the when-issued stock OF
General Petroleum, which is the name
for the proposed merged company to
result from consolidation Of Standard
Oil of New York and Vacuum OIL.
Reduction of the price of copper for
export by one quarter cent pound
created weakness in the red metal
shares. Newmont Mining was down
more than a point in the forenoon.
Noranda Mines, twirled so rapidly just
q week ago because of the announce
ment about the new gold strike, was
fairly active, but met persistent profit
taking.
Van Camp Packing rose q trifie fol-
lowing President Tipman's announce
ment that the company had closed a
contract with the second largest chain
store system for sale of its products,
which promises a gain of Is per cent
in gross sales. This contract came as
no surprise, for the packing company
and the grocery chain are dominated
by the same banking interests.
A. o. Smith Corporation stirred fol-
lowing the statement that the company
has received an order for 131 miles Of
26-inch gas pipe for Southern Fuel
Co.'s line from Kettleman Hills to Los
Angeles. The order involves $4,000 tons
of steel. The company also booked so
miles of line for Texas Corporations
lines from East Texas to the Gulf.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-24
PATENT TRADE REMEDIES
ARE DECRIED BY THORPE

By the Associated Press
Merle Thorpe, editor Of Nations Bust
ness, says the application of patent
medicine" remedies viii retard, rather
than promote, a healthy business re-
covery.
Any attempt to bring about prosperity
through artificial means, he believes,
viii cause greater dihiculties. Only
through co-ordinated private enterprise
can the country hope to return to
sound economic basis, he asserts, and
American business leadership Is alive to
the problems while doing its utmost 10
hasten return Of better times.
THE present period Of business re-
adjustment, Thorpe says, will produce
new business leaders who have the
courage and foresight TO adapt them
selves to the great changes thst are now
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-24
SURVEY OF COPPER
SALVAG|NG STARTS
Non-FerrouS Metal interests
Aid Government
Inquiry.

Government experts have started a
survey of the copper and brass scrap
industries which is expected to yield
such important data for these growing
branches of trade that it will be es-
tablished as an annual canvass.
At the minerals division of the De-
partment of Commerce it was learned
today that the survey is being conducted
in cooperation with the Copper and
Brass Research Association the Nom
Ferrous Ingot Metal Institute, the
American Association of Engineers and
the National Association of Waste Ma
terial Dealers.
Importance of SaIvaging.
The waste material dealers in their
annual convention directed attention to
the Importance of salvaging metals
from the dump heaps of the country
as a means of inSuring adequate future
supplies. In fact, the welfare of the
industrial world Is now greatly affected
by the supply of secondary metals The
reclamation industry deals in a large
tonnage of salvaged metals annually.
The present survey covers all geo
graphic sources of scrap copper and
brass reduction points, the industries
solely dependent upon this material and
the industries partially dependent upon
it. The survey will endeavor to secure
data answering such questions as these:
Is it economical to export the material
thus gathered? Would 1t be CONNER
cially profitable to do so? OF the total
amount available, what is the percent
age of recovery? Why is there any
waste?
There is very little information avail
able as to the uses by industries Of
metals consumed by the industrial
world. Moreover, there are various ma
tional habits in this regard. The United
Kingdom for example, consumes much
more lead per capita than the United
States, although that metal is just as
available to the consumers Of the
United States as it is to those OF the
United Kingdom-perhaps more so.
Many other questions occur as to the
manifold actual uses Of metals and the
potential uses.
Character Of Metals.
Each metal must be approached with
a different conception. Gold, for ex-
ample, has almost everlasting life.
Abrasion is probably the largest loss
from the standpoint of dissipation.
Copper also is known as an Everlasting
metal" It may be used and reused
over and over again. Therefore, the
amount reclaimable is always on the
increase Mercury, on the other hand,
is subject to a radically different fate.
The services 1t renders in most cases
are such as to make it unrecoverable.
Summing up the significance of this
survey, j. w. Furness, chief of the
Mineral Division Of the Department of
Commerce, gives 1t as his opinion that
"the Importance to our national welfare
of the secondary trade in metals cannot
be exaggerated"
Copyright, 1879
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-24
NEW YORK CURB MARKET s s; III : st.: S Ss:

Note-An stocks are sold in one hundred-snare Iots
excepting those designated by the letter (s0s) (250s
which shows those stocks were sold In odd lots.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-24
MARYLAND TOBACCO PRICES.

BALTIMORE, March "a (SpeciaD -
Both receipts and sales Of Maryland
leaf tobacco showed sharp declines last
heads, while sales Of 80 hogsheads were
reported, leaving a stock in State to-
bacco warehouses of 6,425 hogsheads.
Prices are well maintained, but all
horsheads packed in questionable keep
Ing condition are being Disseminated
against Quotations today for Maryland
leaf tobacco per 100 pounds: Inferior
8 .OOaI0.O0; sound common, l0.o0a22.0o;
good common, 22.50a32.00; medium,
$500: fancy, 53.50a54.0O. Seconds
Common TO good common, i0.00a25 90;
medium. 25.O0a35. 90; good TO fine,
IS .6Oa45 90; ground leaves, nominal;
upper country hurley. 7.00a4o.o0.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-24
286, 1878 STOCKHOLDERS
OWN GENERAL MOTORS

The total number of General Motors
common and preferred stockholders for
the first quarter of 1881 was 2s6, 378,
compared with 263,528 for the fourth
quarter of 1880 and with 240, 483 for the
first quarter Of 1880.
There were 268,9O7 holders of COM
mon stock and the balance of 17,471
represents holders of preferred stock.
These figures compare with 247,885
common stockholders and 1888 pre-
ferred for the fourt quarter of 1880.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-24
New York Cotton


Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, March "a. - Cotton
prices were of to z points at the
opening today, continuing the sharp
decline of Mondays session. The mar
ket was still under pressure of liquida-
ton induced by the Farm Boards an
nouncement that it would not make
purchases from the 1881 Gotten crop.
The Liverpool market was also easier.
Opening prices were: March, 1865,
off Z; May, 1918, of 4; July, HOB,
off s; October, 11.35, off 3; December,
1854, of 8; January, l1.63, of 6.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-24
POTATO MARKET.

CHICAGO, March "a [P Omitted
States Department of Agriculture) =
Potatoes, l12, on track BIT, total United
States shipments, $40; weak, few sales,
trading very slow; sacked per hundred
weight, Wisconsin round whites, 150a-
Its, mostly LOCAL IS; Minnesota round
whites, 140a1.5 Idaho russets, No. l,
1.60a1.75, mostly 165a1.70; few best,
1885, commercials, 1.55a1 so; No. 2,
1.45a1 so; Colorado Red McClures, 2.10;
Brown Beauties, / go.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-24

taking place in our business life. From
every depression comes new names, new
faces, new fortunes and new leaders.
The future who's who of American
business will contain the names Of men
who had the courage to follow their
convictions in 1880 and 1881 and got
ready for the inevitable upturn which
Is now beginning to appear on the
business horizon"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-24

Diyidends rates n cellars based
cash or stock 6PsyaDls IN stock adjustments DIVIDEND
cent In stock Plus In Plus
D Paid last year-no regular rate
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-24

BENJAMIN, Hill g. Co.--The market
Is Showing remarkable technical resist
ance power, in view Of impending COR
poration reports, probability Of further
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-24

cuts In dividends and the strong posse
bility that taxes Of corporations may
have to be raised TO meet the Treasury
deficit
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-27
|WIRE-RADIO MERGER
IS DECLARED OFF
Accord of Two Years Ago Dissolved
Because of Lack of Necessary
Legislation.

Still insisting that current consolida-
lions of wire and radio communica-
lions services in foreign countries, par
ticularly Great Britain. furnish a po-
tential menace to Americas interna-
tional communications, officials of the
Radio Corporation of America and the
International Telephone g. Telegraph
, Co. last week announced that their ac-
cord of two years ago for a ccnSolida-
ton of their communications services
has been dissolved.
The reason given is that mo legisla-
tive action has been taken to eliminate
these handicaps or to facilitate the con-
Solidation." Extensive hearings before
the Senate Interstate Commerce Com
mittee, considering the Couzens bill to
replace the Federal Radio Commission
with Commission on Communications,
failed to obtain the repeal of a section
OF the radio act prohibiting wire and
radio mergers.
The Couzens bill died with the recent
closing of Congress, but will doubtless
be 'reintroduced in the next Congress.
Developments here and abroad will
probably determine whether the $780,
10000 merger will again be pressed, for
the officials of the company maintain
that they have Gin no way altered their
sincere conviction, announced in their
public statement of March 80, 1929, that
the unif1cation Of American record COM
munication services would be to the in
terest Of our country and people"
Meanwhile, Radio Corporation OF
America and International Telephone &
Telegraph, the first with worldwide
radio services and the other with land
line, submarine cable and radio inter-
ests throughout the world, must remain
competitors.