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Extra Hours for No Pay in Saginaw Transit Co.

pleted.
This general manager is a new one
here. He comes from one OF the
southern states and when he pre-
scented his plan he told us that where
he came from the workers work for
less money than we get here and
that we should be glad TO accept
the plan to help the company-oth-
erwise we would have to stand for
a wage-cut.
So far all of the workers have been
working three or four hours extra
without any pay-an except three
of the car operators.
We have a lot of unemployment in
the city. What we workers must do
is to all organize together, employed
and unemployed, and force the bos-
ses to hire workers who are out of
jobs to do this work and to give real
relief TO the rest of the jobless. AS
soon as we organize strong into the
Trade Union Unity League We will
have these greedy bosses whipped.
A Car Worker.
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making production of coal impos-
Sible.
The fan house of Dillon No. I
Mine burned last night. It caught
fire from overheated bearings in
machines in charge of strike-b break
ers. The press, nevertheless. blames
the strikers.
A number of West Virginia mines
where armed guards have been sta
toned to herd the few imported
scabs are reported under rifle fire
from the hillsides.
Twenty mass meetings over tbs
weekend have been arranged in
preparation Of the July hunger
march on st. ClairsWlle.
There are leaflets out distributed
by the Communist Party's Eastern
Ohio section, supporting the hunger
march and calling on all workers TO
join in it and to prepare an anti
war demonstration on August l.
There are now 81 locals of the
National Miners Union regularly
holding meetings in Eastern Ohio
and the panhandle section of Yves
Virginia, with officers elected anc
definite meeting dates.
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WORKERS! PLEDGE WEEKLY
OR MONTHLY SUMS TO THE
D. w. SUSTAINING FUND!

Amboy. N. T., expects TO develop
widespread interest in the Daily
Worker through its club activities.
Workers hitherto uninterested in the
movement are slowly being drawn
to the Workers Center in Perth Am
boy. A real workers social life cir
culating around the Daily Worker is
the goal in this town. Clubs are slow
in sending reports of their progress.
What happened at the lat meeting
of the Kensington, Pa. and Oxford,
Miss. clubs? Tell us what you are
doing so we can tell others
Irene Fox, age III years col
lected So for Daily Worker dur
ing Tag Days at Camp Nitgedai-
get! One dollar twenty cents for
every one of her years!
Beginning today the Daily Worker
offers the following two pamphlets
free of charge with every monthly
subscription $50 cents) sent in.
"soyiet Dumping" Fable Cspeech
of Commixsar LitvinOv).
"Anti-Soyiet Lies and the Five
Year Plan, Max Bedacht.
Both of these pamphlets have APP
peared serially in the Daily Work
er. Both of them will be given in
conjunction with monthly subscrip-
tions for so cents. Every worker
can afford so cents and the PAM
phlets should prove a splendid in
ducement for him to subscribe for at
least a month.
Miners ON strike should send
collective subscriptions into the
Daily Worker. Four or five work
err can chip in for half year or
yearly subscription and in this way
assure themselves of getting their
Daily refuIarIy. When the paper
is received it can be read by all of
them, together. In this way "A
Daily WOrGer Club can be perman-
emily established, with NIL comment
and criticism taken down by u sec
rotary and sent to the Editorial
Department for publication.
Miners: Send your subscription
and start your group TODAY:
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pan1eS Thirty placards we're IN play
and all marchers had the Daily
Worker. the Working Woman and
tins for collection of funds for relief
to carry on the miners strike, which
is a life and death struggle.
Garry Banners.
Some of the placards read: I'm
employed Miners Demand Unem-
ployment insurance." Chase out
The UMWA From The Coal Fields "
Free Milk For Babies" Read Your
Paper, The Daily Worker" Death
To All Lynchers!" Join The Metal
Workers Industrial League" etc.
Many of these placards illustrated in
lively colors.
Along the line of march through
McKeeSport the marchers we're
cheered by those on the street,
though it was early in the morning.
Many more workers Joined the par
ade, which was led by three Young
Pioneers.
At DuqueSne "a city that keeps its
free" American citizens in constant
terror TO keep them from organizing
into real working class unions) we
we're met by at least is plain clothes
and uniformed police--they looked
like gorillas in mems clothing,
Crowds gathered on the street and
clheered our great working class par
ade. There were two cops on every
corner impatient to use their black
Jacks and guns. Several Of the
young workers in the parade, who
understood very well the terrorism
that existed in Duquesne, began TO
sing, 1--WE cracked the ice, contin-
ually, because the march was the ice
pick and Duquesne the ice and we
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Now that the Daily worker cam
iaign has been extended to July 19,
Districts must proceed to enlist all
possible forces for the successful
completion of the drive in the next
.wo weeks. This means greater in
justification of campaign activity in
shops, factories, workers neighbor-
hoods, street work, etc. Between
now and July 10th all coupon books
outstanding must be put into &C
ton and funds collected sent to the
Daily Worker. Starting today, pic
,ics, affairs, benefits must be planned
for the benefit of the Daily! From
now on workers should be urged not
only to contribute to the Save the
Daily" fund but also to pledge week
ly or monthly sums to the Daily
Worker Sustaining Fund. Every dol
lar contributed or pledged will add
60 the life of the Daily during the
summer months.
AZ meetings of Daily Worker
Clubs all member, should he urged
10 set aside n certain sum each
week to he sent to the Daily. Ap-
Deals ON picnic grounds, or Mt ben
Gift entertainments must emphasize
the Sustaining Fund weekly or
Monthly pledge as well as the inn
portunce of Immediate eOntribu-
items. Two more weeks TO go:
Let's put the drive over with n
bang in the closing days! There
must he thousands of workers not
vet visited with coupon books! All
working q ass neighbOrhoSds
should be thoroughly canvassed
and re-caBvassed in the next two
weeks! Getting n workers con-
tribution is not enough. IT is inn
portant that every contact made
with worker be followed Up and
vigorous effort made to draw him
into Daily Worker Club.
There are now six Daily Worker
clubs in New York City. But no
news OF any established in Detroit,
Chicago, San Francisco, Cleveland
Most of the clubs we have record of
are in the smaller cities.
The Daily Worker Club In Perth
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WOMEN TAKE BIG
PART IN STRIKE
Pittsburgh Conference
Spurs AuXiliaries
CONTINUED PROM PAGE ONE,

posal go, in the soup kitchens.
That the women strongly felt the
strike and were playing courageous,
effective part and frequently took
the lead where the men hesitated,
was made apparent by many color
full and militant speeches by miners
wives and daughters.
1--WE never seen so many women
at conference before" said Mrs.
Harkoff of Avella. And so many
Negroes. What's bringing them?
Conditions! The bosses are forcing
us to ORGANIZED"
When the UNIV organizer came
TO Creighton to try TO get a few
miners to sign the agreement they
were cooking up to sell out the strike
the women got wind of it. 1.-THE men
seemed TO think that tbs only the big
takers of the UNIV that does all
the damage and lets the peanut Fa-
gan come into camp and hold meet
ings to try to get our men to scab,"
one Creighton woman declared.
But when we heard about that
meeting in the firehouse, we went
right down there. with the kids and
all. Some of the men came and
knocked at the door. They had it
locked. But we women Just push
ed up the windows and told them,
You're a bunch of takers and can't
force us back to work with million
scab agreements So the meeting
broke up and when the handful of
them came out we told them, You're
scabs! Every single man who goes
back ON us gets his head knocked
off! We amt wanting any scab
agreements signed up for our men
who amt got no truck with that
boss stool pigeon outfit, the UNIV!
We tell our men, don't go back to
starvationl"
Men, don't you go back out on
u.s." cried the militant daughter of
a Maynard Ohio miner. Julia Pro-
ker was bailed out of Jail just in time
to come to the conference. The
women mean to win this strike. I've
been in jail several times and I'm
not ashamed of it! I'm a coal min
er's daughter, and I'm proud of It'll"
"Out our way at Provident, the
bosses came around and told the men
that everything was signed up with
the UNIV" she continued. The next
day is white and Is colored fellows
were on their way To work. But
there was 500 OF us picketing-they
didn't get into the mine. Again they
tried TO open the mine and then
they quit trying. No chance Of our
boys going back to 80 cents a toni"
How 10 make the auxiliaries func-
ton more effectively, picketing,
house TO house organizing work, re-
lief collection and distribution, chill
dren's work, were all dealt with eff
fectively by Caroline Drew. She
stressed the permanent work OF the
auxiliaries which must continue aft
err the strike.
1.-THE company doesn't only rob the
men on rates in the pits, but also
in the company stores they charge
us twice as much for food. We must
boycott company stores and wipe
them out. Then we must demand
decent houses, not those company
shacks, and sanitation. These are
some Of the things we must keep or
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Daily Worker
Here is an instance of how the
bosses in this city are robbing both
the employed and unemployed wor-
kers.
The general manager of the Sag
inaw Transit Company, which owns
the whole transportation system in
Saginaw, called a meeting on June
9th of all the operators that we're on
duty and all the shop men, as well as
the entire office force and presented
to them a scheme called the volu-
tary paving plan. He told the work
ers that the company's tracks were
in bad shape and that the city coun-
Gil is after them to have them re-
paired. This repair work, he told
the workers, can only be done
if the workers sacrifice themselves
for the sake of the company by Civ
ing free" to the company three or
four hours a day besides the regular
days work until the job is COM
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cheapest white paint"
To Mrs. Patterson. mother of one
of the Scottsboro boys, a pledge for
support in the legal lynching was
made by the conference.
I'D now be seeing my boy IL feet
deep, if it wasn't for the Interna-
tional Labor Defense Mrs. Patter-
son said
The conference was greeted by
Frank Borich in the name of the
National Miners Union, by William
z, Foster for the Trade Union Unity
League and Anna Daman. editor of
the Working Woman. for her paper,
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MANY DISTRICTS FALL DOWN;
ARRANGE AFFAIRS FOR DAILY!

(Kansas City,, II (AgriculturaD, 13
California;, and several others.
The Tag Day funds are not being
sent in. Instead of the $4,000 that
we expected to raise through the
Tag Days, not much over $1,000 has
come in by Wednesday Comrades,
we've got our work cut out for us
until July 10. The Daily Worker
drive MUST go over the top! Get
more contributions from your friends
and shopmates and from your or
CARNATIONS! Arrange picnics, con-
cerst and other affairs for the
Daily! Build Daily Worker Clubs!
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boys must now be pushed with even
more energy than before Workers,
Negro and white, turn out in masses
ON July Q in militant protest against
this frightful frame-up of working
class children. Demand the removal
OF the boys from the death cells in
Kilby Prison! Demand a stop to
the terror against the boys by the
prison authorities Demand that the
boys be permitted TO receive visitors
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with the white workers, have long
fought this injustice and demanded
an end to this form Of discrimina-
ton. The fight came to a successful
close June % when the City Council.
forced by pressure Of the workers.
voted 70 to to withdraw its former
instructions to the Playground and
Recreation Department, giving Ne
groes the right to dip and their chill
dren the right to use the play
grounds
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The total for Wednesday, $1,57S.so,
is deceptive since it includes much
more than one days contributions.
1t includes all the Tag Day returns
in the District 2 New York; since
Sunday. bringing New York's total
10 s12942S.
The second largest amount for the
day was contributed by District /
(Bostonl, which sent in S135.40. This
Is the biggest single days contribu-
ton this ditrict has sent in thus far.
Look at most of the other districts
and you find almost no activity. Dis
trict 5 CPhila delphia) forgot the
irive altogether, as did Districts 10
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(By a Worker CorrespOndent.l

LOS ANGELES, Gait gets dog
gone hot around Los Angeles in the
summertime and the nearby beaches
have afforded relief to many toll
weary worker after a hard days work.
Negroes, however, were refused ad-
mittance to the beaches and NUM-
cipal pools, except for small strip
along Crystal Pier between Santa
Monical and Ocean Park.
Negroes in Los Angeles, together
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CALL MINERS TO
MEET JULY 18TH
National Conference to
Plan Struggle
CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE,

conference.
'The miners conference Of July Is
and 18th, will take up the basic de-
nands of all the coal miners, will con-
slider the demand for a six-hour day
and five day week, will demand I'M
employment insurance-and will pre-
pare the struggle Of these and other
demands it will adopt.
I'm this way the miners will mo-
Billie against the greater terror, wage
slashes, and worsened conditions be-
ing prepared for them through the
federal governments proposed con-
ference on the coal industry.
Governor Pinchot's conference be-
tween the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal
Co., and the United Mine Workers of
America resulted in a strike breaking
agreement which the masses of the
miners repudiate, but which guns,
evictions and terror are being used to
enforce. 1t paved the way for similar
action by the federal government, on
national scale.
1.-THE newspapers have been urging
such move on president Hoover
since the strike started. Now they
announce that Hoover is sympathe-
tic to the proposal, that secretary of
Labor Doak indirectly calls the con-
ference by asking the operators to re-
quest it of him, that the department.
of commerce is working on it. Senator
Davis of Pennsylvania, states clearly
what the others hint, that this con-
ference will trustify the industry, will
hand over the small companies to the
great concerns. These big companies
are in control of the steel trust, the
big railroads, the bankers-of Mellon,
of Taplan interests, Paisley interests,
etc, They are profitable even where
the coal company books do not show
a profit, because they sell in their
own market and their profits show on
the books of the steel and railroad
companies, show as interest on their
bonds in bank vaults.
Into the hands of these great coal
companies, the proposed Hoover-Doak
operators and the U. M. w. confer
ence would place the whole coal in
dustry, with the power of the federal
government to back them.
Our experience with the Pinchot
agreement indicates that the federal
plan includes the use of the United
Mine Workers as cover behind
which to swing the whole state power
into strike breaking, into attacks on
the thousands who reject the U. M. w.
and are striking against starvation.
At the present time Pinchot's state
police are smashing the picket lines
at PittsburghTerminal Coal Co. mines
the Hoover Doak- Operators and the
u. M. w. A. program for a national
conference would involve the addition
of the U. S. cavalry and the U. S.
deputy Marshalls to the strike break
ing forces of the state.
THE federal governments national
conference scheme is therefore a plan
to centralizze, to trustify the coal in
dustry more even than the steel in
dustry, to crush out of the industry
some half million workers, make them
permanently unemployed without I'M
employment insurance. The govern
ment's national conference scheme is
a conspiracy to make the coal fields
one huge slave pen for the miners in
which they will work with more wage
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of venue for Roy Wright If he is
retried Demand a jury of workers,
at least half Negroes Support the
demand Of the parents and the boys
that the N. A A. C. p. misleaders
stop hamstringing the defensel Join
the nation wide protest on July o.!
Smash the lynching terror and ma
tional oppression OF the Negro
People,
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Indoor and open air meetings and
concentrations will be held through
out the country on that date. the
eve Of the day originally set for the
legal massacre Of eight OF the nine
boys Tho action Of the I. l.. D.
and the L s ". r, In appealing the
cass The Supreme Court OF Ala
bana has automatically stayed the
legal murder of the boys
The fight to save and free the
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and have private Interviews with
their parents and attorneys. De-
mand the right of the boys to re-
ceive mail, literature and informa-
ton on the progress of their de-
Tense. Demand the dismissal of the
charges against 14-year old Roy
Wright the only one of the 9 boys
not yet convicted by the@ Alabama
boss lynchers! Demand a change
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Thy a Young Worker Correspondent
McKEESPORT, Pa.-One of the most dynamic incidents
that happened in the cities of Duqesne Homestead and
McKeeport the Hunger March to Pittsburgh consisting
of unemployed white and Negro steel workers. striking miners
from the Versailles Pa, mine, and children and
ployed young workers.
At 1880 Tuesday morning 200 workers formed in ranks
of despite the fact that there many stool pigeons
nearby by the employment agents and the steel
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cuts, worsenend conditions, and with
a powerful, brutal centralized police
terror raging against their slightest
attempt to improve their conditions.
1.-THE miners answer 10 the federal
governments fascist conference on
the coal industry is the miners ma
tional conference in Pittsburgh, July
is and 18th, is organization of a mass
movement of all the miners to fight
starvation and terror"
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Bosses Seek To Build u. NJ. w. To
Break Strike; Miners Meet July Is
CONTINUED FROM PAGE oNEI

! CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONED
c., July 9th. The delegation will
come to denounce the conference as
a conspiracy of President Hoover. the
Operators and the United Mine Work
ers to perpetuate mass starvation of
the coal miners.
| THE miners striking agaist Starv-
alton will expose this conference as
an outrageous attempt of Hoover,
Doak, Lamont, Mellon and Lewis, to
duplicate on a national scale the at
tempt already made by governor Pin
chot to break their strike.
I'VE, the striking miners, will come,
men, women, and hungry children to
protest right in Hoovers capital, this
scheme of his to trustify the coal in
dustry at our expense, to drive half
a million of us out of the industry,
to make the whole coal fields a fas-
cist camp in which the miners take
more wage cuts. more cheating on
coal weights, still worse living con-
ditions, and more mass starvation.
Our experience with the strike
breaking agreement made by the state
Of Pennsylvania in the Pittsburgh
Terminal Coal Co. mines, shows that
the U. M. W., is used in such govern
mental scab agreements as cover
under which new wage cuts and more
starvation are enforced by savage
police terror, by tear gas, clubs and
guns, by beating and slugging the
men, women and children, by arrests
and Jail terms, and by wholesale
evictions Of strikers from their homes.
This conference is part of the
Hoover wage-cutting, speed-up, ratio
nalization drive. The main Signifi-
canoe of this conference is that the
U. M. W., is the principal instrument
by which Hoover and the operators
intend to rationalize the coal industry
and crush the miners into deeper
misery. The United Mine Workers
has never done anything for the min
ers for years but to sell them out and
smash every attempt to fight wage
cuts, and it is therefore hated and
repudiated by every one of the 10000
miners now on strike and by the
miners Of the rest Of the coal fields,
as is proved by their continuous revolt
against the U. M. w. A. officials.
I'VE will not stand for any attempt
of the United Mine Workers to claim
to represent the miners in the fede-
raj conference on the coal industry.
We will picket the conference with
every miner and miners wife and
child, who can get to Washington on
time. We will hold mass demon
stration in Washington to expose this
new government strike breaking and
the treachery to ths miners of the
United Mine Workers OF America.
We will take advantage of this OPP
portunity to collect relief for our
strikers on the streets and in the
houses of Washington.
Against the Hoover conference to
break our strike, we oppose our ma
tional miners conference, represent
ing the rank and file miners of all
the coal fields, to be held in Pitts
burgh, July Is and 18th, to organize
cuts, worsenend conditions, and with
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NATIONWIDE PROTESTS JULY9
AGAINST LEGAL LYNCHING OF
NINE SCOTTSBORO NEGRO BOYS
CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE,

,oro Negro boys has been issued by the international Labor
Defense and the League of Struggle for Negro Rights the
organizations charged by the and all nine the boys
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BY EyEc;lK'

that the NMU and the Central Rank
and File Strike Committee denuonce
the Lanonte conference and are
calling a national conference of min
ers instead, the miners would regard
these papers as enemies of the strike,
as strike breakers, and would treat
them accordingly. And the 10000
striking miners are accustomed to
use demonstrations, picketing, and
various other methods against strike
breakers.
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OHIO HUNGER
MARCH TODAY TO
DEMAND RELIEF
CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE,

There were IS arrests at Adena and
Dillonvale today. Six we're arrested
on the picket line and nine jailed in
raids on private homes, after bat
tie between the pickets and special
deputies.
In Gaylord Mine so men who have
been working since the strike started
were assessed SO cents a day to pay
for the armed guards who were herd
ing them. They quit yesterday in
protest at this assessment.
The new Lafferty Mine, with 800
on strike, has been manned by a
force of 100 Ku Klux Klansmen, all
armed and sworn in as deputies.
But with these kinds of miners all
the main workings have caved in,
working for after the strike" Drew
said.
do you remember at the begin
ming of the strike when visitors came
to see our picket lines down at Kin
lock that we're 1000 strong! They
saw the patch-the broken down,
dilapidated company shanties hud-
died together and fenced in looking
like the prison camp it really isl For
years Valley Camp Coal Co. didn't
do a thing when they saw the SYM
patty it was arousing for the strik-
ers, they splashed on coat of the
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PENN. HUNGER MARCH
A DYNAMIC INCIDENT,
SAYS YOUNG WORKER
McEeesp0rt Section Led by Three Pioneers
Rallied Many Workers to Struggle
Marched 25 Miles in 5 Hours Steel Workers
Pledge Solidarity With Miners

(By Young Worker Correspondent