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The daily worker., 1931-07-01
MORE MINERS STRIKE IN PENNSYL-
VANIA; BUILD N M. u; EXPOSE
u. NJ. W. STRIKE E-BREAKING ROLE

BROWNSVILLE, Pa, June 30-On
Saturday, Walnut Hill mine with 1870
working struck fifty percent, and the
rest are expected out today. A mass
march on Clyde No. 2 and No. Of
the Rainey Coal Co., and on Char
tiers mine (near where Thornton was
shot the day before) took place Sat-
urday, and brought out more men.
The march will be repeated daily
until they are all out.
The last of 68 workers in the Al
bany mine came out today, and the
place is shut down.
This MORNING, strikers marched on
Taylor mine, near Brownsville, and
brought out all but 18 day shifts of
$50 men. These 18 we're personally
solicited, ttf1reatened and probably
bribeO by the superintendent of the
mine They went to work with an
escort of troopers.
The night shift of $50 men had
already promised to strike if the day
shift struck, and it is expected they
will be out tonight, thus closing down
the mine.
In Vesta No 5, near California, all
are on strike. This is a big mine
with 1900 workers. The superintend-
ent, Joe Edwards has been told by
the company that he will get $1,000
bonus if he breaks the strike within
ten days, and he will be fired if he
does not break it. He is offering
500 bribes to the local strike leaders
The daily worker., 1931-07-01

take account Of the wage cuts before
March, 1880 or those since March,
1881.
The wage cutting campaign is 60
ing on. From all over the country
there come reports of wage slashes.
Wages that are already miserably
low are being cut closed to the
starvation line. But with the re-
ports Of further wage slashes there
come also the reports of resistance
to those attacks by the workers
strikes against wage cuts. The work.
ers are determined to fight back the
onslaught of the bosses. While the
wage cutting campaign goes on the
bosses are preparing to attack the
Soviet Union as another way to save
the profits which have been cut in
the present crisis. The working class
is just as determined to fight back
the bosses in defense of the Soviet
Union to fight back the wage slashes.
August first will be a mobilization
against wage cuts and speed-up
against the ilnperialist plans for war
aaginst the Soviet Union.
The daily worker., 1931-07-01
WHERE ARE RED BUILDERS
AND DAILY" CLUBS? WHY i
THE SILENCE? SOME NEWS!

so far no attempt has been made
to form Daily Worker Clubs in Dis
trict 49," writes r. S. K, Daily
Worker Agent. "The units have put
in their energy collecting money in
the drive. We are, however, urging
ferences, establish clubs, solicit
subscriptions, organize house-to-
house collections, etc"
This vital part of the Daily Worker
Campaign is being neglected in the
districts. To date we have on rec
ord establishment of only II Daily
Worker Clubs throughout the United
N. Y; Manhattan, N. z; Kensington,
Pa; Perth Amboy, N. j.; st. Peters,
burg, Fla; Pueblo, Colo; Butte,
Mont; Toledo, Ohio; Sacramento,
Cal; Oxford, Miss; Albany, N Y. A
discouraging record!
We cannot understand the silence
of the Red Builders News Clubs.
What has become of the Clubs in
Akron and Bartges, Ohio; Reno,
New; Chica go, ILL.,; Paterson, n. j.;
Stockton, Call Seattle, Wash. Gal
weston, Texas; New Orleans, La, and
all the others? We had depended
on the Red Builders to take the in
itiative in developing some of these
readers groups in their respective
cities but no such action has been
taken by any of the above.
Save the Daily Worker Club.
Red Builders! ID. w. Agents!
Workers. The Daily Worker Club
must not be allowed to perish!
Readers conferences and meetings
in HOnkers, Brooklyn, KcnSinEtOn
and other cities have gained the
attention of hundreds of workers
who have been waiting years for
such meeting ground! Thousands
of other workers and readers
throughout tn ecountry are await
ing opportunity TO join! II is up
to YOU to see that they are made
acquainted with the ID. w. Club.
Arrange for readers meeting
NOW! Distribute leaflets as widely
as possible! Prepare simple en-
tertainment! Cut down on SpeecbeSI
Encourage discussion from floor!
Plan future activities! Send min
utes of meeting to Editorial Dept.
of Daily Worker. BUILD THE
DAILY WORKER CLUB AND
SAVE THE DAILY WORKER
FROM CONSTANT DANGER OF
SUSPENSIONS!
CORRECT ADDRESSES OF FLOUR
ISHING DAILY WORKER CLUBS
REQUESTED. PLEASE SEND AT
ONCE TO BUSINESS DEPART
MENT, DAILY WORKER.
81 am working in n dry cleaning
plant days a week and u hours
day" writes A. ", Pocahantas,
Va" "and getting $3.50 per week.
Upon these miserable wages I have
to live, but this week | decided to
The daily worker., 1931-07-01

live upon SO and send the rest to
you as n subscription to the Daily
Worker and the Communist'
Build CIubs-Hold AffairSg
Sacrifices like this reveal the fine
temper OF the American workers
support Of his revolutionary paper
I'm this remote corner Of Virginia.
adds A. v, where superstition. big
otry. ignorance and the fear Of the
ruling class have a stro8g grip upon
US, we are brutally suppressed and
exploited and consequently totally
unaware of what is going on in the
labor world" Why not a Daily
Worker Club in Pocahantas, Com
rade V. No simpler way than this
for RcquRinting workers with what's
going on. Try inviting few friends
for an evening Mt home. Good talk.
little entertainment. Refreshments.
will arouse spirit. Let's hear more
of this section soon,
Plainfield, Conn. arran ging en-
tertainment for Daily" benefit on
evening of July 4 Westerly, R L,
also preparing entertainment on July
10. New Haven Nucleus, No. I, has
arranged for visitation Of all sym
pathizers on June 81 and house-to-
house collection for June %. This
is to be followed by a banquet at the
Labor Lyceum, 3S Howe ST. Good
work, District Is.
The daily worker., 1931-07-01
LAGGING OF FRATERNAL BODIES
KEEPS THE DAILY DRIVE DOWN

Workers who do not want their
names published because of pos
Eible persecution should indicate
this IN sending in their cOntribu-
tions. Collectors should ask those
who contribute whether they want
their names printed.
Friday was another good day, the
sort of day that we should have been
having right along, with S1,253.97
received. But one or two good days
cannot make up for days and weeks
of tagging. Three-fourths of this,
$S04.e4, was contributed by District
2 New York;. This shows that the
New York District meant business
when it raised the slogan of Double
the Quota by July l." 1t also shows
that the other districts are continu-
ing IN the old rut and are failing to
put the proper energy into the drive
to save the Daily Worker.
Only 1885 from District (Phila-
delphia), which has quota of
s2,5Oo. and 81 from District Z DE
The daily worker., 1931-07-01
Brand trike-Breaker Pinchot;
Mass Ohio March on July G

Pinchot for his strike breaking ac-
tivities; it scored his part in the in
junction gotten out by the Pittsburgh
Terminal Coal Co. in an effort TO
smash the strike. The resolution
showed UP and branded the trick
cry Of the UMWA, which it said were
acting as fascists. together with the
gunmen and coal companies in an
effort to smash the strike.
The resolution closed with the de-
mand for immediate relief.
Early in the day the Pittsburgh
police department mobilized 80 po-
lice squad cars, completely armed;
hundreds Of cops on foot and horse
back as we'll as on motorcycles were
gathered at various points at which
the demonstration was scheduled to
pass. At first the police order was to
prohibit the marching from the city
limits to West Park. But thousands
upon thousands of workers pored in
and Chief Of Police Walsh, who was
personally in charge of the police
mobilization, yielded to the pressure
of the demonstrators, asking that
the parades be kept on the side
walks.
Coverdale and caste Shannon
miners, mostly from the Pittsburgh
Terminal Coal Co. mines, where the
battle is especially intense, and
where the United Mine Workers is
doing its most active scabbing, we're
the first to reach the city. They ar
rived at $50 in the morning, singing
strike songs, waving banners with
slogans demanding immediate relief,
against the yellow dogs" deputy
sheriffs, against the state troopers,
against Governor Pinchot's fakery;
for mass picketing, and calling on
the employed and unemployed to
rally behind the struggle Of the 40,-
900 striking miners.
Steady detachments of workers
marched in from then on. They kept
pouring in all forenoon.
The demands presented to the
County government are as follows:
y Ten dollars a week for each un-
employed worker and striker, and IS
additional for each dependent.
% No evictions Of unemployed or
strikers. Free gas, light and heat for
unemployed and strikers.
81 Free food for all children of the
unemployed and strikers. Free milk
for all babies.
~ Immediate withdrawal Of all
armed forces, state police, county
deputies, UwMA gangsters, etc, from
the strike area.
81 Immediate release of all arrest
ed strikers in Allegheny County.
g. Abolition of the injunction
against the striking coal miners. The
right to picket. to strike, and to
meet.
y No discrimination against Ne
gro, youth or women workers or for
eign born workers, in giving out Of
jobs"
The daily worker., 1931-07-01
Miner Tells of Strikebreaking Role of A. F. L.

join the UMWA could work in the
mines. Under the agreement Ne
gro and Italian workers we're kept
out. I paid dues every pay day, but
when we went on strike against
another wage cut in 1927, the UN1WA
officials weren't around and didn't
show up until right now. Now they
are trying to break this strike.
All of the men are now picketing
with the National Miners Union,
and their women and children are
right on the picket line with them
Some of them haven't even shoes
and clothes and they haven't enough
food, but we are going to picket and
fight the wage cut and starvation
system of the bosses, the state police
and the UMWA until we win. We're
with the NIU for workers solidarity.
,--.--. A Striking Miner
The daily worker., 1931-07-01
WOll Calls for War
Against the USSR

Matthew Vol speaking IN Jer-
sey City, a few months ago: 'The
Soviet regime is bent on destroy
ing human relationship, the NOR
ais, and the religions of the peo-
pie, and all conceptions of a Gre
ator. The Soviets will destroy
things that have taken centuries
to build. The culture of the Com
munist is that of the beast and
the jungle"
Lord Brentford speaking on
slave labor" in London on March
s, 1881: E'Are we, Christian, ci-
vilized national, to stand by while
these things are being done?"
The daily worker., 1931-07-01
Clovendale, Pa.

C1ovendale, Pa.
Dear Comrades s.
We miners came out on strike
against starvation and wage cuts.
The bosses cut the wages so low we
could not make any money.
I am single man and could not
make enough to pay my board and
other expenses. I have worked at
Cloverdale since October l, 1929. I
owe money for my board ever since
The only money I've seen is script.
This money was spent only in the
company store where the prices are
very high. Instead of the company
owing the workers money, the work
ers owe the company money.
In 1925 1 paid $40 to join the u.
NJ w. A, because John L. Lewis
had signed an agreement with the
bosses SO that no worker who didn't
The daily worker., 1931-07-01

troit), with q quota ef $500. are
typical examples OF the way most
of the districts are conducting the
drive. Next to District 2, District
(Chicago) did the best work for the
day, contributing s12s57. District
(Buffalo). which is far behind,
showed more life than usual. send
ing in $50
One Of the reasons why we are so
far below the $4,000 goal is the
inactivity Of the fraternal organi,a-
tions. They were assigned quota
of $4,000, but all they had raised
by Friday was S3,366.45. An ex
ample of how NOT TO save the Daily
Worker is furnished by q number
of foreign nguage organizations.
The Jugo-Slavs have raised only 25E
the Latvians S5.14 and the Polish
organizations $3.50. Nearly all ths
others are far behind their quotas.l
Workers, demand action from yourl
organizationsi
The standing of the fraternaf or
CARNATIONS is as follows:
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junction! Down with the United
Mine Workers of America! Down
with Pinchot's numbering cossacks.
Down with the yellow dogs! deputy
sheriffs)."
The marchers sang Solidarity
Forever" Hold the Fort" etc.
The parade passed the railroad
yards and shops, yelling to the road
workers massed to view it, do not
haul scabs or scab coa1!"
They passed the headsuarters Of
the Association for Improvement of
the Poor, and shouted, "Relief, not
charity!" They passed many facto-
ries and were cheered by the work.
ers. In the windows were tens of
thousands Of workers as the hunger
march passed. Thousands lined the
sidewalks while the long parade oc-
cupied the streets. Many Joined the
parade as it progressed.
The first estimate was 10000 In the
parade, the biggest and most drama
tic demonstration Of workers ever
seen here. Hundreds of police massed
on the side streets to prevent the pa
rade from turning toward the County
Building Motorcycle cops rushed
from street to street to be between
the head of the parade and the
County Building, at all times.
Many Placards.
The committee elected by the mass
meeting included Helen Lynch, Ne
gro woman of a miners family at
Carnegie; also a white woman. Half
of the parade was composed of min
ers; the rest were mostly steel work.
ers.
The placards bore the slogans: "We
strike for IS cents toni" eve strike
against starvation!" 1--WE women re-
fuse to starve in the wealthiest coun-
try in the world!" 1--WE demand
checkweighmen!" eve Creighton
strikers fight starvation or any fake
agreements of the United Mine
Workers of America!" "We are for
the National Miners Union!" Join
the Metal Workers League!" Join
the Unemployed Councils!"
The resolution adopted by the TO-
900 workers at the demonstration
states:
"The masses of unemployed
workers and strikers who are starv-
ing, fight for the right to live.
Amidst the increasing numbers Of
jobless, Governor Pinchot and the
local governments callously ignore
the misery and the previous de-
mands for relief but fill the mine
fields with armed forces and give
not one cent for the hungry. All
war gardens, flop houses and well
fare stunts have failed. The motto
of Allegheny County and Pitts
burgh is Millions for graft, nothing
for the starving workers. We urge
all support to the Pennsylvania
and Ohio strikers. We demand irn-
mediate unemployment relief"
The resolution scored Governor
The daily worker., 1931-07-01

"You must join some organization
that stands for action for the work
ers," he told them. Then the pre-
parations began for the Hunger
March to Madison, June 1916. AS
soon as this worker heard of this, he
said: "Thre's your. action, that's
what we have to do instead of
listening to the promises of the
Socialists. We all should go on this
Hunger March!"
So all the or workers quit the
Socialist Party and joined the Hun
ger March. Now they have come
back from the march determined to
build strong Unemployed Councils
and carry out the struggle in Racine
for real relief for the unemployed,
against the bosses and their Socialist
agents.
The daily worker., 1931-07-01
n. G. Boss Court
Jails Evicted Worker

CHARLOTTE N. c., June %
Supporting the landlords in thei'
widespread evictions of jobless wor
ers, the sheriff arrested Mrs. Boo,
following the action of the UneA
ployed Council in putting back
furniture after it had been throE
on the streets. In court, this unen,
ployed worker was sentenced to- 25
days in jail or a fine of $17.35.
This arrest takes place at a time
when thousands of unemployed
workers are facing evictions.
Through the railroading of Mrs.
Boozer to Jail, the bosses and land
lords hope to terrorize the workers
into submission.
The International Labor Defense
IS demanding a new trial for Mrs.
Boozer. The LID. and the Unem-
ployed Council are rallying the work
ers to her defense and for resistance
to the eviction campaign.
The daily worker., 1931-07-01
Hinkle Iron Co. Tricks Workers Into Wage Cut
tBy a Worker Correspondent>

by Worker Correspondent
NEW YORK, N. Y.-The Hinkle
Iron Construction Company at 504
w. 56th Street, claimed to its en-
ployees that it lost money on the job,
and said it would either move or go
out of business. Many of the tools
were packed and many of the men
we're laid off for four or five weeks.
Then this company sent for some
of its workers who had been laid
off and took some of them back at
reduced wages. The laborers' and
helpers wages were cut from $27 a
week to S22 and $40 a week and the
ones hired we're speeded-up and
The daily worker., 1931-07-01

forced to do two and three mems
work.
Bonno, the shop foreman, has a
habit of borrowing money from the
workers and forgetting to pay it
back. He also likes his booze and
wine. and If you want to hold your
job you are expested to see that
he is supplied with free booze.
The workers in this shop should
organize under the banner of the
Trade Union Unity League, whose
headquarters is at 16 West 21st St,
and put a stop to these intolerable
conditions.
The daily worker., 1931-07-01
Cooperative Center
Los Angeles in Dan
ger of Being Lost

LOS ANGELES, Calf, June 30
A mass meeting will be held at the
Cooperative Center on July 5, at 8
p. m. to rally the militant workers
to save the Cooperative Center, which
is in danger of falling into the hands
of the capitalist mortgagers holding
the mortgage on the property.
The daily worker., 1931-07-01
SOCIALISTS AT MEET
SPEAK FOR BOSS CLASS
AND ATTACKWOR
Workers Beaten Up By Socialist Gangsters at
Brighton Beach Meeting
Speaker Bewais Suffering" of Bosses and
Businessmen; Assails Foreign-Born
(By a Worker Correspondent

NEW YORK, N Y-That the socialist party is the third
capitalist party and is allied with the gangsters and
and the most ruthless tool in the hands of the capitalists
against the workers. apparent at the socialists open air
meeting Mathon Street, Brighton Beach June 26
Speaks For Bosses.
Tired business grouped around the socialist speaker
Few workers present What do you think the
caists Indictment against capitalism Do you think he
The daily worker., 1931-07-01

AvE1LA, Pa, Jure 20. In the
small ESQ mem "Pig Ear Mine" here.
the United Mine Workers Of America
The Nome nugget., 1931-01-31
PROPOSES INTERNATIONAL
 AIR ROUTE

VICTORIA, B. c. Jan. 2S. P- Premier Tolmie is making efforts to have proposed International Air route from the United States via Winnipeg and western Canada. into Alaska and eventually to Rus sia and the Orient, laid out soon
 It has been suggested that the line cross the mouth of the Mo Kenzie River thence along the northern fringe of the continent to Alaska.
 Tolmie opened negotiations with Ottawa and U. s, government off cials. The premier is endeavor- ing to have the route follow thru British Columbia along the route of the International Highway from Prince George to Telegraph Creek thence to Atlin and Dawson, and from Dawson the route would be across Alaska's central towns ant points.
The Nome nugget., 1931-01-31

franzied followers gave him d great ovation. He declared he would
 be back in prison in two months.
 "I am not hoppy entering again into the whirlpool of life and the strife of the outside world. and am suffering sorrow and cannot enjoy my individual liberty while tens oi thousands of my brothers and sisters still remain in jail. he told the large crowds which greet ed him on his arrival here, indicat- ing if all political prisoners were not freed after the peace couver- sations with the British, that he would cause his own arrest agatn.
The Nome nugget., 1931-01-31
NO VOTE THIS SESSION

WASHINGTON. Jan. 26. (P3-- It has been forcast in Congression- al quarters that there are no e1- pectations of q vote this session On the early move to consolidate vets and drys on the proposal of a nation-w wide political referendum. already advocated by the Wicker sham Enforcement commission.
 Congressional leaders believe it is very probable for the next session.
 Representative Fort. dry of New Jersey has been active since last fall in an attempt to get the pro- blems before the people. He said We must find out what the peop- le think of prohibition and it's fun damentals. and to any solution of the annoying conditions" Fort is a closs personal friend of Hoover. He stated that this re-submission idea was not the presidents.
The Nome nugget., 1931-01-31
ANNOUNCES MORE PLANS

SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 26. (4) Miss Louise A. Boyd. San Fran cisco society woman today annouuc- ed plans for her third expedition into the Arctic. She has chartered the Norwegian vessel "Veslekari" sailing from Aalesund. Norway July 1st for northeastern Greenland and Janmeyen Island The expedition is also being sponsored by the Na- tional Geological Society for photo graphical work. the gathering Of specimens of seal, polar bear and other Arctic life. The saIne kind of an expedition was abandoned two years ago when she went to search for Amundsen and the survivors of the wrecked dirigible Italia.
The Nome nugget., 1931-01-31
$. $. COMPANY HAVH
 NEW SCHEDULE

SEATTLE. Jan. 2S. i4)-A~range- ments have been completed by tho Alaska Steamship Company for a new passeuseT and freight service from here to Hyder, west coast of Prince Of Vale, Island. and Chatham straits DOTS, eHehiVs with .he sailing of the steamer Alameda this coming Saturday.
 A weekly service via KstehiIan win be established I, connection with the Moves boat company which carries the mai! out Of Ketchikan, with thru rates afforded.
 Effective Saturday that will 0a weekly sailinss to southwestern Alaska instead of every ten or eleven days. The Alameda will en ter the southeastern Alaska service March 31st, the Northwestern June 2nd and the Aieutian will return to service June 18th, carrying 3 Los Angeles cruise party on ita initia. trip.
The Nome nugget., 1931-01-31
STARVATION IN THE SOUTH

FOREST CITY. Arkansas, Jan. 27, (P,-More than twenty-one thousand persons in St. Francis County. out of population of thirtv-three thousand five hundred. are receiving aid and food. Pract- ically the entire rural population is dependent on assistance. They are receiving approximately one third of the food which they have been accustomed to. although they were never accustomed to luxury, which is stated as the average being bread and molasses and either beans or rice. Disease. result of under nourishment is spreading rapidly especially among the negroes.
The Nome nugget., 1931-01-31
TRY sMuGGLE LIQUOR-sHOr

NEW YORK, Jan. 21. Up Dis pute over the position of the Jos ephine K" whose Captain. William Caluett was wounded by shot from coast guard vessel. added to international complications, as the cr,w were brought for arraign- ment before the United States at torney here. who demanded high bail on the grounds that the yes sel was within the twelve mile linn it. Defense attorneys argued that the vessel was well outside the limit.
 Twenty one prisoners are held on bail ranging from five hundred ito seventy-five hundred dollars, on
 charges of conspiracy to smuggle liquor into the United States.
The Nome nugget., 1931-01-31
PRESIDENTIAL YACHT SINKS

PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 26. P)- The presidential yacht "Mayfow- err. sank in twenty-four feet of water at her pier in the Philadel- phia Navy Yard last night, after fire had destroyed her. She list ed on one side and then finally went to the bottom of the Della ware River.
 The fire consumed her all the way to her water line. It was of un- determined origin. and started at 10 pm. with gigantic explosion, tearing the hatches away and send ing pillows of smoke and fire in to the air. All the fire fighting apparatus in the navy yard was sent to the scene Virtually ev- cry sailor in the yards helped fight the flames.
 Five sailors were overcome by smoke and fumes. The Mayflower was tied up to the pier undergoing repairs. She has served five presi- dents.