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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-15
CALL WESTMORELAND MINERS I
TO JOIN STRIKE AND FORCE
STARVATION FROM Mine FIELDS
Miner Tells How Company Robs Workers Al
Mines and Company Stores
Forced to Work in Water Doing Heavy Work
For No Pay

of for rent, store, power electricity
and other things and the miners do
not get any cash out of the few dol
lars they earn. The coal companies
steal from the miners right and left.
Miners of the Westmoreland field,
you know the conditions of the
mines. The officials and the bosses
are misleading you by telling you
that the National Miners Union is
composed of Reds" and are not
fighting for the rights of the work
ers. Every miner knows that the
National Miners Union is now lead
ing the great fight against the bos-
ses that has ever taken place in the
mine fields. The sooner the miners
in the Westmoreland fields get be-
hind the National Miners Union, the
sooner we will better our conditions.
Come out 100 per cent on strike. DO
not listen to the lies spread by the
bosses and their stool pigeons. We
must understand that the reason the
bosses are against the N.M.U. is be-
cause the NM.U. is the only union
in the mine fields that is fighting
the mine owners. "A Miner.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-15
Hermeine, Pa.

Daily Worker
Conditions In the Westmoreland
Coal Mines and the prices in the
Coal Company store are terrible.
In the mines you have to work in
water and you have to drag rails so
feet or more and carry posts to their
places and the company don't give
the right weight on the cars we load,
For the cars that weigh 5000 pounds
we get credit for only 400 to 5000
pounds.
We have to load screen coal and
We do not get paid for any coal that
goes through the screen. We also
have to load slate for nothing and
do a lot of other dead work.
Miners Robbed.
When pay day comes the miners
get SIS to $40 for two weeks work
and some make less. And what lit
tie we make in the mines we have to
spend In the company store, which
charges twice as much as the other
stores. If the miners don't buy in
the company stores, they can't work
in the mines. The company takes
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-15
Gather from Many Coal Fields; Strikers
Must Have Relief Immediately

former Coal and Iron Police and
other deputies under the protection
of state police. The deputies fire.
quently smash the few sticks of fur
niture that represent all the fami-
lies possess. For example. in the
Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Company
mines where you negotiated an agree
ment between the company and the
United Mine Workers of America
and where the miners reject this
slave agreement, many hundreds of
miners have been served with evic-
ton notices. Cases Of eviction in
clude 81 families thrown out Of their
homes in Newfields with one family
with five children living under an
apple tree for days and other fami-
lies forced TO live in stables, chicken
coops and garages since their evic-
ton and still other families without
shelter of any kind. Henderson Coal
Company deputies seized the furni-
ture Of three families last week at
Hendersonville and moved 1t miles
down the road and threw it out on
the roadside in a rain storm with
no shelter for the families whatever.
Saturday, deputies, laughing and
making a holiday sport of the occa-
sion broke into miners home at
Atlasburg and smashed the furniture
by throwing it out of a second story
window. These are but instances.
Many women and children of evicted
families must have shelter. This
situation demands that you provide
at once one thousand tents from the
military stores of the Naional Guard
to be turned over to us for shelter
of the evicted families in this emer-
gency.'
The telegram Is signed by I.
Hawkins, as district secretary of the
Pennsylvania Ohio Striking Miners
Relief Committee. Hawkins is a Ne
gro striking miner from the Penn
sylvania fields.
AVELLA, Pa, July 14.-The two
weeks pay slips of the Pittsburgh
Terminal Coal Company mine here,
called up & w" mine, shows what
peonage and slavery the United
Mine Workers scab contract brings
the miners. One who went back to
work under that contract, or better
said, was forced by the terror of the
state police and the deputies to go
back, shows sample pay slip. For
two weeks work he is given credit
for loading 536 hundred pounds of
coal for which the wage is $1206,
and is given credit for six yards on
a yardage basis, for which he is
promised $3.50. But he doesn't get
any of the money. The company
charges him with SIS at the company
store, six cents for smithing. 81 for
doctor, 1920 for explosives, 40 cents
for miners lamps, then adds it up
and finds he has Sc still coming to
him, and takes the six bucks for
rent"
"P g. W. miners are all anxious
for a picket line and the signal to
walk out on strike again. And that
will be soon.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-15
DISTRICTS MUST SPEED UP AND FILL
QUOTAS; TURN IN COUPON BOOKS!

Workers whc do not want their
names published because of pos
Sible persecution should indicate
this In sending in their cOntribu-
tions. Collectors should ask those
who contribute whether they want
their names printed.
With contributions Saturday total
ing only S39S.99, We are still consid-
erably below the $4,000 mark. The
districts that are behind, which
means practically all except New
York; and II (Birmingham), ought
to be putting all their energy into
the drive in an effort to reach their
quotas. SO far they have not been
doing this.
Outside Of New York, only District
3 (Philadelphia) went over 800 on
Saturday. Only dribbles came in
from Districts 6 (Cleveland), (De-
troit), (Chicago) and 13 (Califor-
MAJ. These districts. as well as the
smaller ones, must get on the job!
Only about $4,000 has been received
from the Tag Days-a disgraceful
showing; this is due to the fact that
the Tag Days were not properly or
ganized and that outstanding Tag
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-15
Aug. / United Front
Conference July Is

BALTIMORE, Md, July IA
general united front conference to
prepare the August LIST demonstra-
tions in this city and vicinity. will
be held on Wednesday July 18th. 8
p. m. at 8 SO. Greene Street. Work
ing class fraternal organizations,
shop groups, clugs, etc. will be rep
resented to this conference. Detailed
plans will be formulated at this con-
ference for the Anti-war parade and
the demonstration which will take
place August LIST, p m. at the City
Hall Plaza. All workers organiza-
tons are urged TO send delegates TO
this conference
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-15
Many Districts Still Far
BeloaV in the Daily DriVe;
NeqU York Doubles Quota

The Daily Worker drive during the
past week made a gain Of per cent
and has now reached 81 per cent of
the SS5, 600 goal. However, this is
due chiefly to the work of District
z New York;, which has practically
doubled its quota of $4,000 and
raised more than helf the total con
tributions, A small district. II
(Birmingham), with n quota of $3.50,
has raised 872 per cent ian increase
or per cent over the previous
week. and is in first place in per
The biggest gain Of the week was
made by District (Philadelphia)
which raised its percentage from A
to 81, District CCleveland) by
increasing its totals 10 per cent, has
Jumped into third place. SURPRISING
District l (Boston). which did sur
prisingly poor work during the
week, making only a per cent gain.
Districts Below so Per Cent,
Six districts. (Minneapolis) 10
(kansas City,, IL (AgriculturaD. 70
Seattle, IS California and I6 (the
South. have stin failed to raise
half Of their quotas. These districts
especially must make strong efforts
during the next few days to raise
their full quotas. Districts and 10
have made a particularly disgraceful
showing. No. has raised only "a
increase of l per cent over the pre-
vtous week., and TO- with a quota
of $3.50, has contributed only 20 per
cent "a per cent gain.
Two districts, II CAgriculturaD
and 16 (the South, both of them far
below their quotas, failed to con-
tribute cent during the past week.
This has gotten to be habit with
District II. Come on, you farmers,
show the workers what you can do
for your paper
Every district must speed up ef-
forts to reach its quota Picnics and
other affairs will help a great deal
in this respect. The drive will not
end until every district has com
pleted its quota.
Check Circulation Drops.
The circulation figures this week
show tendency to drop, which must
be checked b ythe comrades in the
districts. The tables show a drop
OF L49S from 1.-THE previous week
This is mostly due to a drop of 977
in. the Pittsburgh area, where the
sale OF the Daily Worker is being
arranged on a broader basis. The
Daily Worker is entering with more
and more vigor the task Of organ
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-15
PROTEST MURDER OF HSIANG
AND DEPORTATION OF MACHADO

against the Gomez regime, which for
over % years has maintained a
bloody dictatorship of that country,
thanks to a brutal and continued
terror supported by Yankee inper-
ialism. In 1919 Machado WAS one of
the leaders of the Students FEEDER
alton Of Venezuela. In 1924 he was
forced to leave the country. He ar
rived in Cuba, where he continued
the struggle against the dictatorship
in Venezuela while at the same time
participating in the islands labor
movement. From Cuba he went to
Mexico, where he also continued his
revolutionary activities.
In 1927 he came to New York and
Immediately took part in the strug-
giles of the Latin-American workers
against the exploitation Of which
they are victims He helped in the
founding of the Spanish Workers
Center and served for some time as
secretary. He was also active in Eu-
rope and in Trinidad, B. w. l., and
has long record of activity in the
cause of the working class.
Workers. an out Wednesday In
New York in militant protest
against the deportation of Comrade
Machado. Protest the murder of
Comrade Hsiang and the white
terror against the Chinese workers
and peasants.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-15

lzing the miners in their struggles
throughout the strike area
A real blow to the circulation Of
the Daily Worker, however, is the
dropping from the lists of The De
trOit page. due TO lac kOf organ
iEatiOn and news, Detroit must
get down TO the serious business
of regaininE this lost circulation
as quickly as possible. The COM
rades in the Detroit District must
lend every cooperation in build
ing up the apparatus for the Dis
trict Page. The units and sections
should mobilize for the workers.
correspondence news and distribu-
tiOn OF the Detroit Page SO that
Detroit will soon again take its
place on the page schedule. Re
member, Detroit, we are keeping
your date open for you! Act i'm
mediately.
District shows a drop Of IS. This
is due to a temporary order,
A scattered dry, temporary in ma
ture, amounting to 60, covers the
decrease in District 10. Memphis
experimental with q bundle increase
of 100 this week showing the in
crease, but at the present moment
we have a request to drop this or
der. The decrease of IS in District
- IS due to drop of so in Denver
Some interesting gains are shown in
Rochester, N. y. with an increase
of 20. and in Akron, with an increase
of so.
Develop Carrier Routes.
Done Of the best ways of increas-
ing the circulation Of the Daily and
one which is being neglected en-
tirely is the development Of carrier
routes. The establishment of these
routes must depend upon the unit
membership to large extent. After
the contacts have been made, they
must he followed mp with regular
deliveries. In this end of the work
unemployed workers can be drawn
in Experience has shown that
highly successful routes can be
maintained even under the most sd-
verse conditions.
Many districts are entirely ne
ElactinR following up expired and
expiring subs, Now, with the
summer months here, this impor-
fant phase of Daily Worker active
ity must be stimulated. Comrades
are urged TO canvass all lists Of
subscribers overdue and expiring
which are sent to the District Reps
each month with q view 10 renew
ing subs and calling readers 20
meetings OF Daily Worker Clubs.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-15

Day money is stilI being held up.
Workers, turn in every collection
box and see that your districts send
the money to the Daily at once
Coupon books must be turned in
now. Spend & few hours today try
ing to make final collections on
them and then bring them back TO
the place where YOU got them.
whether they are full or not Dis
trict, section and unit Daily Worker
agents. as wen as the district or
ganizers, must see that the coupon
books are turned in and their num-
bers properly checked
Affairs should be arranged to put
the drive over with a bang. This IS
a good way TO raise money for the
Daily and offers a field of activity
for the Daily Worker Clubs
Keep up the campaign for 5000
half dollars Solicit every source of
funds and make every day count in
the Daily Worker drive!
Correction
A contribution OF So was credited
in the Daily of June 2S to Unit T.
Section 6, District g This money
was contributed by a worker, An
toni Monaco.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-15
Camp for Workers
Children i'm Maine

This summer a Pioneer camp will
be conducted near Rockland, Maine,
for workers children. The camp
will open July 20 and will remain
open four weeks. The camp fee is
only three dollars a week. Those
comrades who would like to send
their children to camp but who can
not spare the money should write to
the camp and arrangements may
possibly be made for them. Children
between the ages of and is are eli
gible For information about the
camp write to Ailene Holmes, Box As,
Long Cove, Maine.
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CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE,


wage increase and forty-eight hour
week. State police have been sent
to the mill in an effort to break the
strike.
PROVIDENCE, r. l., July IA
The mass picket line in front of the
Royal Silk Mill in Pawtucket proved
effective today in preventing any at
tempt Of the company to reopen
According to the local press over
1900 workers participated. The ra-
dio announced that the picket dem
onstration at two occasions pre-
vented the efforts of the police to
break them up.
Joseph OFT, president Of the Royal
Weaving Co. printed notices that he
would attempt to reopen mill no. 4
with scabs this morning, When he
heard about the mobilization for
picketing it seems that he changed
his mind and informed the press
that the attempt to reopen would
not be made. The mass picketing
sthis morning was guarantee
against Joe OFT changing his mind
again.
According to unverified reports
some 20 strikers were arrested at
the Royal picket demonstration this
morning and the line was finally
dispersed. The police were armed
with tear gas and riot guns.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-15

calm" In the face Of the sharp turn
of the government towards fascism.
The collapse of the Danat Bank
of Germany, which endangered the
entire financial structure, has swept
through other countries Of Europe.
All banks in Hungary have been
closed by the government to forestall
collapse. This has resulted in the
virtual collapse of the economic life
of Hungary. The masses are in a
panic and rumors of war are being
broadcast in Hungary. The Merkur-
bank of Vienna crashed. The Bank
of Dacia of Jassy, Rumania, one of
the largest banks in that country,
crashed. Many more bank crashes
are expected as the conditions grows
worse in Germany.
Wall Street banks, also, are heavily
involved in the crash of the Danat
Bank, though the American capital
list press keeps this fact silent
The German Reichsbank is begin
ming to print new money which is
not exchangeable on the world mark
et This undoubtedly is the first
step to initiation and a collapse of
the German currency. Stock ex-
changes in Germany and other Eu-
ropean countries have closed to hide
the extent of the collapse from the
masses.
Meanwhile. the Bruening govern
nent is seeking loans from the Uni
ted States, England and France.
In Germany the impoverished
conditions Of the masses, already
frightful as a result of wage cuts
(thanks to the aid of the Socialists,
cutting down of unemployment re-
Lief and the worsening Of the gen.
eral economic crisis, are now being
intensified hundred fold. The I. c.
Farbenindustrie, one Of the leading
plants in Germany, employing 100,-
900 workers, reports 1t will not be
able to pay wages If 1t cannot OBJ
tain funds from the banks. The
employed cannot obtain the few
marks they may happen to have In
the banks. The present bank crashes
with the new financial DEGREES, are
cutting deep into the living stand
ards of the masses.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-15
GIVE YOUR ANSWER TO HOO
vERS PROGRAM OF HUNGER,
WAGE CUTS AND PERSECUTION!

Read the Labor Defender on the
0cottSboeo casa.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-15
WORKERS CLASH
! WITH FASCISTS

CONTINUED FROM PACE ONE,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-15

San Francisco, Cal. 1850
Total S16.50
DISTRICT IL
Ukr. Womcn's Wrks.
Soc, Hartford,
Conn. 1890
Total $500
DISTRICT
X. l.. Lee. Birming-
ham, Ala. so
-
Total 80
"
Total all dist. S 39s.9s
Prev. received 33,343.9f
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-03-13
A Useful Investigation.
Cincinnati Enquirer.)

The character of recent Congressional probes pokng their collective into all sorts of petty private affairs making themselves extremely foolish in Washington, have given the very word investigation" bad name. In this light the plan to make wide survey of the workings of the Federal Reserve System through a special Senate committee is likely to cause uneasiness.
 This inquiry, however, promises to be strictly different sort of investigation, free of political op portunism, excited speech making and the usual hystercal demands for this, that or the other reform. The committee is heaed by Senator Garter Glass of Virginia, who did more than any other man to create the Federal Reserve System, and is now perhaps familiar with it's workings than any other man in Congress. He may be trusted to lead in a survey that will sift much needed inflammation, and to do the job calmly and sim cerely
 The Investigation was first planned to learn just what part the Federal Reserve plays in the financing of stock market operations. It has been Reserve System with member and associated banks Many of these have suspended in the current de- pression. Any study of the of this partial failure of the system and of possible measures to bring about greater stability is important
 Since the stock market break many voices have been raised against the Federal Reserve System Much of the talk has been demagogic in the ex- treme The best way to silence it is to bring the facts clearly to light.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-03-13

 anticipated for the future. It includes studies of the status of arports by States, by sections of the country, and by groups of cities segregated according to their population sizes,
 The amount of expenditures planned for expan- sion of airport facilities is shown by the survey to be S20225000. This figure includes expenditures which the arports preparing to make during the last half of 1880, while the study was being completed, and those which they expect to make during 1881. It does not include money to be spent proposed arports the survey covered only airports in existence up to the first of this year.
 Commercial airports, it found accounted for nearly half of the total capital investment in these projects despite the interest that has been evil denced by municipalities in the building of air terminals. The survey showed that commercial air ports outnumbered municpally owned airports by 15 or that there were 564 commercial arports and 549 municipal airports The total investment in commercial airports was S56,856,50O and for muni- cipal arports s58212O00 a difference in the amount of investments devoted to city airports and the amount used for commercial projects of about S2OO0000 in than S115O00000
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-03-13
"HOme Option.''
(New York World.)

Of the various documents submitted to the Sen ate by the Wickersham Commission only has been published at any length This is report pre- pared for the benefit of MT. Wickersham and his colleagues by Colonel Woodstock, Commissioner of Prohibition. For the most part this report reer- ates views which MT. Woodcock has often expressed during his eight months in office Though the Pro- hibtion Bureau is notorously understaffed, MT. Woodcock does not think that the Federal Govern ment should be stampeded toward the appropra- tion of huge sums of money" for enforcement He prefers to wait for the nonexistent cooperation of the States to manifest itself and to believe that the effort of the Federal Government should be linn tied to such steady pressure" be eXerted by staff which has agent to every 1900 square miles of territory, At point in his re- port however, MT. Woodcock advances a new sug gestion The suggestion consists of a policy which he describes home option"
 Embarkng upon this policy, the Government would make effort to overcome the difficulties that legally exist in getting evidence to violations in the' home" The Government would recognize that such violations are commonplace. It would interfere with no man who made liquor in his home in violation of the law, provided he made it lin such way as not to be observed by the public The Government would interfere only in those cases in which violator of the law breaks the peace in any way fails to take care of his family" fails to keep himself fit to perform any public duty
 The virtue of this policy would consist of it's frank admission that it is impossible for the Gov ernment to enforce the law where it is most fre- quenty violated Adoption of the policy, however would require the Government to become a spirator in thousands of violations. To what ful purpose? If the Government enforce" law only by consenting to see it dsobeyed, why should MT Woodcock anyone else wish to the law retained?
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-03-13
WHAT COMES NEXT?

That the management of the Alaska Railroad is not optimistic over the outlook for the immediate
 future under the new regime of higher tariffs seems to be reasonable inference from the interview given The Empire by Col O F Ohlson General Manager, this week. He said it lis probematcal' if the receipts from higher rates will be sufficient to make up the $5OOOOO cut made by Congress in the Federal appropriation the roads antic- pated deficit.
 As an experienced transportation man, Col. Ohlson knows, of course, that higher rates not conducive to increasing freight tonnage boosting passenger business. If and that's big IF, the road hauls as many tons of freight and many passengers during the next fiscal year the higher rate levels it did last year on the lower ones then it's revenues will be sufficient to cover the half million dollar cut Very properly he might term this eventuality as extremely problematical. Certainly there will be no inducement to open up new industries and those already in the field are not going to pay for any traffic than is sary for continued operations
 question of vital import to Alaska is What will be the next step Congress will take if at the close of the fiscal year it shall be found that despite the increased tariffs, the road has failed to cover it's operating expenses? Will Congress then compel further raises will it itself and bring about a reduction to levels which will act as stimuant rather than deterrent to industrial development? Of course, there is another alter native left. It can shut down the property and let the nations investment go down to ruin with the country to which it could and should be the greatest factor for settlement and reclamation from the wilderness.