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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-09
WHY MINERS STRIKE IN
WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA

PITTSBURGH, Pa, June 7.-Here
is one reason why the miners strike
in Western Pennsylvania. In the
National Miners Union office in
Pittsburgh is police Of little pink
pay slips for a certain miner of a
certain mine Of the Pittsburgh Ter
minal Coal Co., huge concern that
makes millions for its owners.
The first slip (they come two weeks
apart shows that the miner made
2547. That is about $l2.7O a week,
but the miner didn't get it, little
enough as it is. Instead the company
piled up list of deductions: smith
ing, doctor, as cents, explosives, near
ly 81, insurance something over a
dollar, bath house and board to equal
exactly $25.47. He didn't see a cent
OF the money he worked for
That first slip was for the last two
weeks in November, 1890
They let him make $26.79 for the
first two weeks in December, and
charges against him we're exactly
$26,79, The tale of peonage con-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-09
Building Maintenance Worker Criticizes Bronx
Shop Fraction

shop absent, and only the Negro
workers present creates the feeling
amongst them that they are the ones
who have to do the work, instead of
working together white and colored
On May % shop meeting was
called to raise funds for the Daily
Worker. One hundred and siXty-five
dollars we're collected by the main
tenance workers in the shop The
organizer of Section 5, who works in
the building as 3, fireman, took the
money to the Daily Worker and next
day we saw in the Daily Worker that
the money was collected by the work
ers in the Coop. Which workers?
The Coop is full of workers. Every
tenant is q worker, There are two
kinds of workers employed in the
Coop. That is, the food workers and
the maintenance workers. In our
unit meeting we are told that one
member of Section collected $500
in the Coop. Well, you could have
sent a pioneer to make the appeal
for funds and he would have done
Just as good as this one member.
Who is this one member? The sec
ton organizer? 1 should say not.
The maintenance workers collected
this money and no one else. The
$135 we're collected by the food
workers, and credit should be given
where it belongs. How can we other
wise activize and stimulate those
that gave the money to further &C
tivity.
Party members should work in the
unions and mass organizations and
stimulate their activities, and, if
through their activities, the mass Or
ganization accomplish certain things,
then credit should be given to them.
We must build our unions. If the
unions and mass organizations are
going to be the lever and the re-
serve of our Party, then this particu-
lar shop has failed in its purpose.
Comradely yours,
DAN. RICKERT.
B. M. w. Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-09
NEEDLE UNION IN
GAINS IN BOSTON
ACW Crew Try Force
Strike on Workers

BOSTON, Mass, June 5.-Workers
of the All America Garment who
organized and Joined the Needle
Trades Workers Industrial Union
were confronted with discharge
case the next day. The firm fired a
worker, using all kinds of excuses,
but actually making it a test case Of
how strongly organized the workers
are. Ths workers of the shop re-
piled to this arbitrary action. by de-
claring strike. The firms action
in firing the worker was instigated
by the Amalgamated and by the For
ward, with the aim of provoking q
strike which they consider favorable
at the present time to the firm, due
to the slack period prevailing in the
trade.
Amalgamated agents already at
tempted to get scabs in number
of mems clothing shops. This morn
ing Amalgamated agents visited Tri-
mount Clothing Shop with the aim
of rounding up some scabs, but were
threatened by the workers to be
thrown out Of the shop and they
were compelled to leave without &C
complishing their purpose.
Shapiro of the All America Gar
ment and Lefkowitz of the Neptune
Garment, where q strike is on, for
about week, also due to discharge
of several workers for joining the
union, are both Poli-zionists and
very close friends of the Interna-
tional, Amalgamated and Forward
takers
Strikes which were forced upon
the Industrial Union at the Neptune
and All America Garment are an
attempt of the Forward gang to
smash the organization campaign
carried on by the Industrial Union
among the Sheepskin, Leather and
Raincoat makers of Boston.
The sentiment of the workers in
both trades is very good. Industrial
Union is confident of developing the
organization campaign. of conduct
ing successfully both strikes and
calls upon workers of every shop,
both sheepskin, leather and raincoat
trades, to strike against any attempt
of their employers to fire them from
their jobs and to cut their wages.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-09

lCfSSCES III JlkC Cd1lD6s bub tIlS OIUO1l
was not strong enough to stand the
economic slump in 1921 and soon
ceased to have much influence in
the camps Though several attempts
were made to revive it, the IW.W.
developed q, sectarlan and reaction
airy policy which killed them for
ever up here.
T.U.U.L. Gets Results
This spring things are beginning
TO wake up. A policy has been work
ed out by the Lumber Workers In
dustrial Union of the Trade Union
Unity League that is getting results.
Already peSsinism has been rooted
out Of the camps. Just how many
workers have been signed up in the
past weeks is not clear over here
probably over 200 and the crust has
only been broken.
The background and base for this
is of course the ruthless speed up.
and several wage cuts which in the
past year total up TO as high as so
per cent
Wages Cut
The mad drive for profits has es-
pecislly hit the fallers and buckers-
in fact, all contract workers. When
this contract work was first introd-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-09
POLICE CHIEFS TRY
TOSTOP ILLINOIS HUNGER MARCH

free use of unemployed. Opening of
empty apartments for the unem-
ployed.
IL. Abolition of State Police and
injunction laws.
IL. Abolition of the State Sedition
laws and Vagrancy laws and imme-
date release of D. E. Early, arrested
in Chicago Heights on charges OF
violation of the State Sedition law.
10. No discrimination against Ne
gro. women and young workers i'll the
administrative of relief, equal rights
for Negro workers.
The state conference on unemploy-
ment will take place in Springfield
on June IA, l p. m, at Oh Fellows
Hall, 214 S. 14th ST., Springfield, III
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Several arrests we're made. Police
we're dubbed unconscious. Small
children we're hurled from trucks
down on the concrete pavement by
the police,
Many miners have arms broken,
eyes knocked out. Even students
and business men protested at the
brutality Of the troopers
The wildwood Mine is the most
mechanical mine in the world. Three
hundred men working there raise
5000 tons Of coal daily, At the
Crescent mine the pickets dissrmed
the coal and iron cop.
NEW YORK. - Firing machine
guns at the mass picket lines of the
5000 miners on strike against
starvation in the Western Pennsyl-
vania coal fields, state troopers and
coal and iron police failed to break
the militancy of the strikers.
The United Press dispatch from
Pittsburgh report states:
Hundreds of striking miners bat.
tied coal and iron police and state
troopers today in what was described
as the worst rioting in Western
Pennsylvania bitllminous fields in
nine years.
The disorders Cli1naxed the strike
of more than 10000 miners which
began 10 days ago, fThe strike Is
under the leadership of the National
Miners Union)
Police hurled tear gas bombs.
discharged machine guns and swynp
their riot sticks to di5psxss two
groups. in Washington County, Ttalt
q dozen persons, including two Of
ficers, we're beaten severely. two
miners were reported wounded
slightly, and scores we're said to have
been beaten down by the police.
Their tear gas exhausted, the po-
lice fired several clips from ma
chine gun to warn the aroused min
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-09
PROTEST CLOSING
CHESTER RELIEF
Big La:yoffs All Last
Week in Chester, Pa.
Especial to the Daily WOrker.)

Especial TO the Daily NOrker.)
CHESTER, Pa, June 8.--T'he I'M
employed army in Chester is grow
ing larger daily. Every day more
workers are being laid off. This
week the Ford Co. laid off about 700
men, the Sun Ship Yard laid off
about 200 and the Federal Steel Co.
has closed down completely, with 100
more men thrown out of work.
A wage-slaShing campaign has
been instituted in every factory; the
Standard Oil Co. has recently cut
the pay Of their workers Is per cent
and now they are preparing to give
them another Wage-cut. In the Sun
Ship Co. workers are only working
two and three days a week and are
averaging from 81 to $40 a week in
wages.
Misery Spreads.
Misery. starvation and evictions is
the lot of the workers Of Chester.
The little relief that the charity or
carnations and the emergency relief
committees organized by the bosses
and politicians Of Chester have been
handing out to the unemployed has
been cut off nov. Those hundreds
of families that have been Deepen
dent upon this miserable relief are
now left without any means Of sub
sides to starve from hunger.
The Unemployed Council Of Ches-
ter is rallying the workers in the
fight for immediate relief, to be paid
for by the bosses, instead of it be-
ing paid for by the workers as it
was before. The Unemployed Coun-
Gil is calling mass protest meeting
on Monday evening, June g. at 8
p. m, to be held at the Workers
Center, at l20 w. Third ST., Chester,
Pa.
Workers, both employed and unem-
ployedl Rally to this mass meeting,
at which we will make plans for the
relief of the unemployed. starving
and hungry workers. Only through
the organized protest of a strong
group of workers can we make the
bosses come across in this town!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-09
Funtiondries District
IS Not Cooperating In
DriVe! Phila, Very SloaV!

is impossible for me to convey in
words" he writes, "the interest and
satisfaction which I derive from my
Daily Worker 1 read it from begin
ming to end and when finish it, it is
passed on to at least one dozen more
men who devoW its contents. It is
very plain to me that the readers of
the Daily must now come to its aid
in these trying times of your finan-
cial distress. AS an advertising man
I feel that can more keenIy appre-
ciate better than many of your read
ers, the situation in which you are
placed.
workers" continues the appeal, 81
can honestly tell you that great and
mighty will be the rejoicings in the
camps of the Morgans, Rockefellers,
Farrells, Swifts, Dollars and thou
sands of other capitalists if the Daily
Worker is forced to suspend opera
ton. The capitalist employer will
dance in his glee if this real friend
of the laboring man and women is
obliged to stop!
Workers! the Daily must not
stopl With no mouth piece as vitri-
Ole and energetic as the Worker in
the field-the forces Of comrades will
be powerless in their far flung
reaches to withstand further oppres-
sion and wage cuts. ask you to Come
to the aid of the most needed publ
cation In the U. S. today-The Daily
Worker"
Build Daily" Clubs.
Red Builders News Clubs must now
expand into Daily Worker Clubs
composed of readers as well as sell
ers of the Daily"
Meetings everywhere should be
held every week and doors thrown
open to all who wish to come. No
discipline or mechanical control! All
duties voluntary. Entertainment can
follow meetings. Prizes also. District
7, Detroit, is giving a copy of Len
inism" by Stain with every $25
worth OF certificates sold. The D. w.
Club must remain a permanent insti-
tuition after campaign. Through this
agency it will be possible to spread
the Daily" should post office priv
leges be taken away
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-09
SATURDAY RECEIPTS DECLINE
AGAIN; DISTRICT 3 SHOWS LIFE

NcteWcrkers who do not wish their published
the possibility persecution
Saturdays totals till another
Contributions
for the first time
OF the other districts District
contributions of Sl1o. Keep it District 5!
District Is Connecticut, of the smallest the
tnued its the previous with $ contribution District
Detro showed little activity than usual but $2s75 still
below the that should be set by district with $500 quota
District (Chcago)
while Districts Buao) 10 City, II Agricultural 13
California II birmingham, Is Butte 10
District 49, with
shameful indifference to the fate of the Daily Worker activity
districts will fighting Daily
the workers of Cooperative Stores City
hnn riL.ior Eounru
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-09
Wage Cuts In Federal Knitting Mill: New Cuts
Threaten
Threaten

comes around and says we have to
work 2 and 3 hours overtime for
which we do not receive no pay for
our work.
New Cut
Now the factory officials tell us
that in order to keep the factory
going our wages will be cut to 50 a
week, and piece work will be cut
off, and every one will receive So
week. We realize that we should
organize and fight against this wage
cut.
The only way we can make con-
ditions better is by organizing into
one big union, the Trade Union Uni
ty League.
A Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-09
New York, N. Y.
Dear Comrade:

New York, n. Y.
Dear Comrade:
A special number of Labor Unity
on the Scottsboro case was issued the
week ending May 30, The organizer
of the Building Maintenance Work
er5' Union brought so copies of said
issue to the shop of the Coop. at
1900 Bronx Park East, and notified
tbs shop chairman and the shop
traction secretary to arrange shop
meeting and to work out plans to
distribute Labor Unity A meeting
was arranged for Friday. May %, at
Ais o. m Due to some important
work that had to be done in the
shop by the workers the meeting was
postponed for next day, May 80. at
1880 .. m.
AS the organizer of the union,
working in the same shop, I ap-
preached the shop chairman and the
shop fraction secretary at IL o'clock,
noon. and inquired whether they had
made arrangements for the meeting,
to which they replied in the affirma-
tive.
The meeting started with the shop
chairman and the shop fraction sec
rotary absent. I had to work on the
hot water boilers till p. m. and I
could not attend the meeting. There
are about 20 workers employed in
the maintenance of the building out
of which 10 belong TO the Party.
About half of the workers are Ne
groes.
At 1890 the meeting opened, with
two white and nine Negro workers
present. The shop committee did not
work out any plan how to distribute
the papers in the neighborhood and
those that led the meeting did not
know what to do. Yet they belong
to the Trade Union Unity League. So
on advice of the organizer is was de-
cided that everyone in the shop
should take three copies and dis
tribute them as good as they could.
With the white members of the
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porations over $4,000 a year and on
property or fortunes over $4,000, the
fund to be administered by the en-
ployed and unemployed and poor
farmers.
2. An emergency appropriation by
the State Legislature of $200000,000
for immediate relief for starving fam
lilies of the workers, miners and poor
farmers throughout the state. This
money to be raised by turning over
all the funds appropriated for state
police, military purposes American
Legion, by reducing salaries of all the
state officials to average wage of the
workers and by special tax on the
large corporations and banks. This
fund to be paid out to the unem-
ployed as indicated above.
3. Cancellation of all debts and
mortgages of poor farmers and ex-
empt taxation of poor farmers.
4. No eviction of unemployed and
no foreclosures on farmers for non
payment of taxes, mortgages or rent
ais. No taxation on houses owned by
unemployed workers and poor farm
ers.
5. No discrimination against Ne
groes or foreign-born or on the
ground Of residence.
6. A minimum of SIS day on all
government and charity jobs and 7
hours a day on all the state and
city jobs.
7. Abolition Of child labor. Free
milk, hot lunches, clothing for all
school children of the workers and
poor farmers.
8. Free use of gas, electricity and
water, free medical aid to all unem-
ployed and poor farmers.
8. Right of the unemployed and
employed workers and farmers to or
ganize, assemble, strike and to voice
their demands.
10. Opening Of public buildings for
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-09

CLEVELAND, Ohio.-1 am an en-
ployed at the Federal Knitting Min
and the conditions in this factory
are going from bad to worse. We
work on piece a work system at a
terrible speed up. In order to make
anything we have to fly.
We have been getting wage cuts
right along and again last week we
had a wage cut. Our wages are
from 10 to is dollars a week if we
work every day, but while it has
been slack we haven't had work
every day. But the funniest part
is when we are laid Off during the
week we are called to work on Sat-
urday, although we are only sup
posed to work half day the boss
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-09
Beet Workers Pay At
Starvation Level

WASHINGTON.-Wage reductions
in the Colorado sugar beet industry
is creating an appalling situation,
admits Thomas F. Mahoney, of Long
mont, Colorado, writing to william
Green. president of the A. F. of L.
Green keeps quiet about these wage
cuts. however. There are more than
10000 men, women and children
working in the beet fields. Their
wages are so low that despite them
they must resort TO charity to keep
from starving.
The Great Western Sugar Company
which dominates the industry here is
reaping heavy profits, mad sinve 1905
on an investment of less than $l3,-
100000 has paid out s93,0o0,ooo in
dividends.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-09
Jobless ST. Louis
Worker a Suicide

ST. LOUIS, Mo, June "a char
ity worker arrived at tn ehome of
the unemployed worker, William
Vanderbilt, So years old, but only to
find that he had attempted suicide
and had killed his wife rather than
see her starve TO death.
A clipping OF an editorial was
found near Vanderbilt entitled "sla-
very" 1t read: $50 far as we are
concerned we believe that death is
better than slavery"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-09
SENDS CABLEGRAM TO
MUSSOLINI.

CHICAGO, Ill.-Sending a cable
gram costing SITS, Cetrillo, president
of the Chicago Federation of Must
clans. lodged protest with the fascist
dictator, Mussolini, over the Italian
Consul here. The Consul refuses to
hire union bands, and this A. F. of
l.. misleader. Petrillo. is beseeehing
the fascist labor-hater, Mussolini, to
call him down for it! Union mem
bers paid on the SITS cablesrani.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-09
Newark Tuul Farewell
Banquet. Fri. June IL

NEWARK, N. 1.-THE Trade Union
Unity League is holding a farewell
affair Friday, June IL, 8 p. M, for
a group of its members who are
leaving for the Soviet Union. The
Arrangement Committee invites
everybody to come to 90 Ferry St.,
Newark, and assures those present a
most interesting evening entertain
rnesrt Adnnsnon free.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-09
Ford Plant Fires II Thousand Workers; Other
Plants LayOff

according to their way OF making
the workers tame and ignorant.
But that is not all yet, sixteen
hundred got laid off at the Hud-
son shops, six hundred at the Muir
ray Body and few hundred at
the Chevrolet local plant. That's
what Hoover calls prosperity. Let's
hope that the capitalist politicians
are fooling the auto-workers for the
last time. Come on. Ford workers--
organize and fight for your rights.
Comradely yours,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-09
Detroit, Mich.

Dear Conrade;
Indians beat Tigers" are the
headlines of the local press, and
one vainly looks for the news of
the fact that eleven thousand work.
ers have lost their jobs at the Ford
Rouge plant.
Yes Comrades, when two hun
bred get some sort of odd jobs q
big streazner runs across the cap
italtst papers, but . mere trifle on
eleven thousand losing one, that does
NJ an1et. IT, en- & spe ytatsDagen
L 1alk6sszk&kAA- EAS.A W M n xea y
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-09
LOGGERS IN CANADA
ORGANIZE TO FIGHT
SPEED-UP, WAGE-CUTS
Many Camps Line Up Solid in the Lumber
Workers Industrial Union
Spirit Of Struggle Spreading Throughout the
Northwest
(By a Worker Correspondent

PORT ALBERNI, B. ca strong attempt is being made
by organizers going from camp to sign up the oggers
into the Lumber Workers Industrial Union
The response is very encouraging far Some of the
camps line up hundred per cent. The smaller camps how
using mainly local married men are coming in little
slowly but still they coming in
Failure of WObbIies.
let step to 1917 and 1921 The old Lumber Workers
Union through militant policy got fairly good conditions
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-09

District 10, San Francisco, has
raised $26 in the $4,000 Campaign as
of June s. $26 in Is daysl What a
record of the largest district in the
Far West! Partly responsible for this
situation is the lack Of cooperation
on the part of functionaries in this
district. A letter from w. B., Daily
Worker Agent for District 13, makes
clear why the drive in California is
progressing at snails pace. mo CO.
operation to distribute old copies of
the Daily to acquaint workers with
their paper No. D. W. agent meet
ings held in spite Of the fact that two
were called and no comrades came.
No cooperation from Agitprop or
Org Dept.
Comrades Of District 10, this condi-
ton must be Immediately corrected.
The Daily Worker cannot be saved
by New York alone! It is up to ev-
cry district in the country to deter
mine whether the Daily shall go up
or underl The quota for District 10
must be fulfilled as we'll as that of
Of District 2. Program for the Cam
paign in District 10 should be drawn
up at once and put into effect with
out delay
p -DELPHIA AND DETROIT
SLOW!
District 2, New York, Is still
sending in over 20 per cent of all
campaign funds received. OF the
total of SS,192.7O raised as of June
5-S5,910.10 of this amount was
credited to New York. District s,
Chicago has turned in S903.34 ON it's
quota of $4,000. District s. Cieve-
land, with a quota of S2,250, has
roised SS6l.24. The combined totals
of the other Is districts is less than
a $1,000. District 3, Philadelphia,
with a quota of $500 as sent in
$23S.5O. District 7, Detroit, with a
quota of $500, is recorded with
S12S.S5.
The following letter from former
advertising man who lost $4,000 in
the depression as result of which
he is now serving a year in the peni-
Tertiary, gives pretty clear idea of
what the Daily" is up against. ut
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-09

GIVE YOUR ANSWER TO HOO
;VER'S PROGRAM OF HUNGER,
EMAGE GIFTS AND HERsECITTIQNl
I'll III AZ. e. rs X : ,sA g1tsss 49, r.
La gaceta., 1931-11-14

al mono Y aun al perro, uando
por acaso o por carino Sc atrave-
saban en- mi canine. Mi enfer-
medal me invadia cada vez mas
porque el NAL es comparable al
alcohol. Y, con el TEMPO, hasta
ell mismo Plut6n, que mientras
tanto envejecia y naturalmente
Sc iba hacienda un POGO desapa-
chile, empez6 a conocer los efec-
toS de mi caracter ma1vado.
Una noche que entire en- casa
ccmp'etamente borracho, me pa
reci6 gu ell cato evitaba mi vista.
Lo agarre, pero, espantado de
mi violencia, me hizo en- una ma
no con sus dientes una herida
muy Ieve. Mi alma anterior pa
reci6 q. ell cato evitaha mi vista.
pc, y una rabia diab6lica, satu-