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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-11
10000 STRIKING
MINERS SPEAK
Statement of the National Miners Union the Washington
Conference of u S. Government Representatives and the
Coal Operators, July 9, 1881

We protest against this conference
as a. conspiracy of the Hoover-NGeI-
lon government, the coal operators
and the United Mine Workers of
America to break the present strikes
Of the miners in Pennsylvania, Ohio
West Virginia, Kentucky and Hi
nois against starvation, and to force
the miners down to still greater
depths of poverty and restitution.
In making this protest we speak
directly in the name of the 10000
striking miners and their families
under the leadership of the National
Miners Union in Western Pennsyl-
vania, Eastern Ohio, and Northern
West Virginia, and we voice the SEN
timents of the overwhelming mass of
workers in the whole coal industry.
The Washington conference is
part of the program to perpetuate
the regime of starvation and terror
ism which the operators have set up
in the mining fields. Wages have
been cut as much as 10 per cent. The
miners are mercilessly robbed on the
scales. No relief is given the I'M
employed. Men, women and chill
dren are living in famine conditions.
Starvation stalks among not only
the unemployed and strikers, but
also the miners at work in the var
ious fields. In the company towns,
ruled by armed thugs, sheer terror
ism prevails.
The local state and national gov
eminent gives its full support to
this program of starvation and ter
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-11
MINERS BALLAD SONG
Ey N7YRA PAGE

At the recent hunger striking
employed county coal
digger sang
and the lack
of spread throughout the coal fields
The miner who sang these ballads Moat
rnond
the next" No
body real
their paintve melodies to the ballads which the
southern raountaneers Whites
striking ballads meeting where
sing present They sad intensity for
xperenceIt forth the cndi
against fighting desperately Forey
expecting city to have little
pity"
present gigantic struggle fields will
militant and words Already this miner
has to compose So far
fragments they quickly up
earlier ballads developed
MINERS PRAYER
.-.-y keep listening whistles morning
the
children crying the
cupboard empty SC
little feet O they stumble
And to the their back
broken down and humble
winter blowing through
Chorus
Oh It's hard to heart hungry children crying
got that want do their shars
you the city
q
" And Just listen to a miners
beneath the ground the coal Is laying
VS. Only waiting till we dig it from its bed
up the earth heavy heart praying
AS each mother
oh only ask enough to cohe and feed
And 10 sing play
could give things to those who need them
know that would be miners happy day.
hungry csadrer
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-11

horror at the revelations. The 81
beral' New York World Telegram
shamefacedly announces: "U. S. Jails
Torture Children" The staid New
York Sun tries to play it down say
ing mildly: Child Prisoners of U. S.
Suffer Daily Abuse of Torture" The
more sensational tabloids, like the
Evening Graphic. burt 1t out a little
more boldly: Children Beaten, Tor
trred in Dungeons of 2. S. Prisons"
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Ev FEIEDA TRUHAR

and unemployed workers WITH their
wives and children marched from
three starting points into st, Glars
vile, Ohio, seat Of Belmont County,
TO demand from the authorities the
right to live, the right to strike and
to picket. Many of them barefooted,
most Of them hungry, they made a
determined picture as they marched
into this company controlled town,
where the Sheriff, the Prosecutor
and the Major Of the National
Guard form a ruling dictatorship
Of three,
It was in st, Claisville that almost
8 score Of strikers were arrested
and held on high bail when they
dared demand the release of ar
rested pickets It was here that
tear gas and clubs we're brought into
play to l1sperse the strikers who
had gathered before the Court House
to protest against the brutality Of
the hired thugs Of the coal-operators.
It was here that the County authori-
ties said they had no food for the
thousands Of unemployed and yet
appropriated $4,000 to gas, club,
shoot and jail miners striking
against slavery and starvation.
To this town the miners paraded,
over six thousand strong. to have
a final showdown with the. County
Commissioners. Led by bands play
ing strike music they marched into
the Fairgrounds, stream after stream
carrying signs and banners. a small
child carried a sign I'VE want milk
for our babies Other signs were
displayed. TO Hell with the UNI.
w. A" 1--WE demand SO a week
cash relief Marching because we
are hungry Down with gFafters."
ssWe demand an end to the eviction
of strikers Don't be scab, join
the National Miners Union These
slogans expressed quite ably the SEN
tinnents of the strikers. They were
here because they were hungry, be
cause they were determined to fight
against starvation and slavery.
Soon the Fairgrounds were dense
with people over a hundred depu-
ties mingled with the crowd, finger
ing their blackjack and revolvers.
Cops in uniform, stool-pigeons and
the ever present reporters were on
the scene. The crowd gathered near
the speakers stand. Big Frank Sc
pich opened the meeting. A COM
n1ittee of Afteen was elected to in
terview thu Commissioners. Before
they went they spoke one after the
sther, pledging themselves to fight
for the right Of the miners to live.
A resolution was read condemnlng
the brutslity Of the deputies, de-
nanding an accounting of the $780,
600 Incorporated by the County
authorities, for which no one was
ever Jailed or prosecuted, protesting
the arrests Of miners and their wives
for daring to fight for their very
lives. The voice Of Paul Bohus rang
out, "We demand that the $4,000
appropriated to shoot us down be
turned over to feed us We demand
free light, free gas, no evictions. :"
Arid the cheers Of the crowd the
delegation marched of for their in
tervieW.
While they we're gone the meeting
was carried on, speaker after speaker
denouncing the scab-herding UNI.
WA. and pledging himself to fight
for the workers union. the National
Miners Union,
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tors found the torture Of the children
too much for even their hardened
skins, 50 they report some of the
b-utaLzed to-tures The capitalist
press, SO quick to manufacture lies
about forced labor" in the Soviet
Union-though in its n1addest mo-
ments it never invented tortures des-
crlbed by the Wickers1an Commission
such as are inflicted on children IN
der the protection of the stars and
stripes-actually could not stifle its
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-11

them Here are a few of the quot
atoms as given in the United Press
and Associated Press dispatches.
In the Washington State Refor-
natory, where Uncle Sam keeps some
Of his child prisoners, the Wicker
sham Commission found:
Punishment in the dark cells Is
given trivial as well as serious Of
Tense; not standing at count (the
children have been forced to labor
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-11

Local union grafters and racket
GERS often receive much more than
these nominal amounts. 1ncon- IS of
100000 q, year are not unknown
among the business union" type of
labor CRATER especially in such rich
territory as Chicago and New York.
The Labor Fact Book gives thou
sands of other facts about the labor
movement as well as about the eco
nornic crisis, imperialism, the Soviet
Union, speed-up, social insurance
and hundreds of others topics of in
terest to workers.
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prisoner chat is, child was found
dead in one Of these cells (of torture).
From the refor1natory at Chilli
cothe, Ohio, where Uncle Sam en-
trusts some Of the other children,
about whom Hoover will concern
himself next May 1st, we get this
report:
IA minor offense noted "A the re-
cords as punished by from, 8 to 6
days in the guard house were, DOS
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all day, and sag after the forced labor
is finished for the day--H. CD, speak
ing in the dining room (probably
asking for a slice of bread, laughing
in the cell block, making loud pop
ping noises with the mouth, were
listed on some of the discipline slips
of the federal cases"
For such Grimes" as the above, the
Wickersharn Investigators report, "It
was related to our field worker by
one Of the reforrnatory staff that a
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-11
.Wickersham f eport.
Tells Of Prison
Horrors

We do not have the entire report
with its maze of details about young
girls and boys beaten into unconsci-
business, or starved in sinking cells;
or dying on cement floors slippery
with their own blood beaten out of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-11

In 1917 the
i1nperialist rob-
bels were Just
learning cir
trade; today they
have b 6 C o m e
masters In the
art of lying
propaganda,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-11

THIS is the first of series of three
i articles, showing how the capital
ist propaganda machines manufact-
ure and spread lies to poison the
minds of the masses, and herd them
into the slaughter of imperiaIst war,
whipping up the fury Of hate against
the enemy nation. The war propa-
ganda machine is already working,
spreading lies for war against the So
Wet Union. All out on August 1st
Demonstrate against imperialist war;
Defend the Soviet Union!-Ed.
BY N. SPARKS.
war is a continuation of politics
by other means" said an old war
maker. This is true, but in war
all the contradictions of politics be-
come UNNECESSARILY intensided-above
all, the main question of politics
that of keeping the workers and poor
farmers in subsection to their mas
ters, the capitalists. For in war the
workers must not only slave as never
before, they must surrender for the
benefit of their bosses even the right
to live. At the same time, the bosses
have to put guys into hands Of the
mass of toilers that they force into
he army-guns, which can be turned
against the bosses themselves, when
once the toilers understand who is
their real emmy. For this reason,
the capitalists not only intensity all
theft means of oppression (nartial
law, fascist violence, sedition laws,
but make a really tremendous in
crease in their propaganda machine
their apparatus for poisoning the
minds of the workers.
Bourgeois writers on the subject
try to give the impression that the
wartime propaganda of the capital
lists was something that sprang out
Of thin air, They do not admit that
this whole poisonous cloud Of afro
cious lies. which lured millions OF
workers to their death, was merely
an intensihcation of capitalisms
peace-time propaganda They do not
admit the existence of the poisonous
lies of peace time" instilled by the
schools, the press. the movies, the
radio. and countless other means,
which disarm the workers and pre-
vent them from fighting with their
full strength against the masters.
They do not admit any lies in de
mocracy" equality prosperity,
liberty" and freedom
Already, we can see sharp in
crease and greater viciousness in
the capitalist propaganda against the
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trivial as well as serious offenses1
at count, speaking in dining roo5
the cell block, making loud poppiI
the mouth. were listed on some oA
slips of the federal cases studieA
1t was related to our field 1
OF the refornatory sta. that q
found dead in one of these cells. \
Concerning the industrial u
Chillicothe, Ohio, she charged -
La gaceta., 1931-02-14
D E-P~O R TIE s
20
VENCIERON LOS GLADIk-
DORES DE LA UNIVERSE
DAD DEL ESTADO

Coral Gables, Fla, Feb, Ia.
Los pugilistas de la Universe
dad de Florida derrotaron aver
a los de Miami, triunfando en-
cinco combates Y siendo derrota
dos en- dos.
En- cambio los muchachos de
Gainesville fueron vencidos por
los de Miami, con d puntos por
s.
Fran de a tres rounds cada
uno los matches de boxeo Y So
10 dos llegaron al final.
Carroll Lancaster, 1876 libras,
de Florida, puso a dormir a j.
R. Brukhalter, en- ell tercer asal-
to; Carlos Proctor, floridano de
peso complete, acost6 a Fred
Fahrenfeldt, en- ell segundo asal-
to. John Minardi, ell captain, de-
rrot6 por decision a George
Marley; Bill Zoller a B. Barner
por puntos; Johnny Bates de
Miami, triunf6 sobre T. F. Gam
bell; Sam Slavin derrot6 a Stan
Phillips; Billy O'Day, de Mia
mi, superb a Charles Cobb, de
peso complete ligero.
La gaceta., 1931-02-14

ligero, aleanz6 aver su segunda
derrota a manos de Vicente Dun
dee.
Comeren la primeraspelea,
Harveysfue vencidoper elsfallo
de los jueces y Ell referee, pers
ell p1blico protest6 de mane1
vigorosa. iii
Las $4,000 personals que E
hallaban en- Ell Garden gritaHon
EN- contra de los jueces, estiman
do que ell britanico habia triun-
fado.
I'm juez vote por Harvey. O.
trio por Dundee Y ell referee Do
novan di6 ell vote decisive en-
contra del mejor de los dos pu-
gilistas.
La mayoria de los criticos die
ron siete rounds a Harvey, cua-
tro a Dundee y uno tablas.
Era ell peso de Dundee, las
libras, cuatro mas que su con-
trario.
La gaceta., 1931-02-14
NO ESTA DE VENTA Ell
CINCINNATI

Cincinnati, Feb, 14.-Sidney
We'll, presidente del Club Gin
cinnati, desminti6 anoche ell ru-
NOR de que este en- negociacio-
mes con Norman Perry, de In
dianapolis, para vender su club.
"Nada de ESQ hay. Los rojos
no estan de venta".
Perry es ell dueno del Club In
dianapolis, de la Association A
mericana.
La gaceta., 1931-02-14
NOTltfAS De.
INTERES LOCAL.

Los Centres Asluriano y Es-
panol y la Camara de Concrete
de Ibor organizaron la parada
que aver recorri6 la Novena a.
venida, la Gale % y la Septima
hasta ell Tampa Bay.
Al frente de la civica proce-
sion iba una banda de m1sica
c~ompuesta por profesores es-
panoles e ~italianos, que lleva-
ban boina a la cabeza y tocaban
pleas populares.
Seguia un autom6vil con ell
Embajador espanol Sr. On. Ale
La gaceta., 1931-02-14
BASE PAIL
CUATRO DEL
WASHINGTON NO HAN
FIRMADO

Biloxi, Miss, Feb, 14.-Ef
presidente Clark Griffith, de los
Senadores, que va Sc encuentra
aquf esperanto sus peioteros,
manifesto aver que todavia no
han firmado sus contracts Fred
Mar Berry, Ad Liska, pitchers,
Jack Hayes y Jim Mcleod.
Cree que estos cuatro firma-
ran antes de 10 dias.
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la 6 de MARIO y sera a diez a.

dfa 6 de mario y sera a diez a.
saltos.
Dicese %ue los directories de
Levinsky recibiran ell 500 de
las entradas y con estas paga-
ran a Griffiths unos $25, 900.
Concedese importancia al
match por haber Levinsky de-
rrotado por la "vfa deA sueno".
en- tres rounds, al franco cana
dense Jack Gagnon, vencedor
de Griffiths por "nocao'.
La gaceta., 1931-02-14
TRATASE DE CONCERTAR
UN MATCH ENTIRE GRIF-
FIFTH Y LEVINSKY

Chicago, Feb, 14.-Se han
comenzado negociaciones para
concertar I'm combate entire &C.
raj Ambrose Griffiths, de Sioux
City, Iowa, gladiator de peso
complete, y King Levinsky, CO.
nocido por ell 'rey de los nocaos'.
Preparase ell match para el
La gaceta., 1931-02-14
VICTORIA DE CHICHO CTS
NEROS

Hot Springs, Arkansas, Feb,
14.-Jimmy Watts, de Atlanta,
perdi6 aver la decision de los
jueces en- I'm combate con Chi
cho Cisneros, de MEXICO.
Pesaba Watts 1914 libras Y
Cisneros, 1864.
La gaceta., 1931-02-14
DE MANANA AL LUNES A
lRRIBARA Ell CAMPEON.
DE PESO COMPLETE Ii
Zero

Ell promoter Kennedy, del lac
de Artillerfa, tiene va hechos
los preparativos para recibir en-
esta ciudad, entire ell dia de ma
mana y ell lunes, al campe6n
mundial de peso complete lige-
ro, Make Rosenbloom.
La llegada del famoso pugi-
lista fue anunciada por su ma
nager, Frank Bachman, en- un
telegrama que ell viernes reel
biera ell empresario de Benja-
min Field.
Make, a quien Sc llama ell pa,
yaso del cuadrilatero, sostuvo
su Ultima pelea hace pocos dfas,
en- Birmingham, hacienda tablas
con Battling Bozo, ell payaso del
Sur.
Anoche Sc decide que en- la
semifinal del programa del dfa
20, ell espafiol Antonio de la Ma
ia, de peso complete, Sc bata con
Rassinion, atleta de In
dianapolis.
La gaceta., 1931-02-14

Dict6 aver una orden ell juez
Parks, de la corte del circuito,
ordenando al alcalde Nc Kay y
otros funcionarios de la ciudad
que componen ell comite de pa
tronos del fondo de p~ensiones
de los bomberos, paguen 1852,
SO a la Sra. J. w. Sweat, viuda
de un bombero retirado.
Debera pagan esa cantidad,
seg1n la orden, ell tesorero del
fondo, Tom C.. Keller.
Falleci6 ell bombero en- no
viembre de 1929.
Al House, ell bandido que ell
La gaceta., 1931-02-14
CLASIFICADOS

AGENTES-Dos agentes para
Ybor, que hablen espanol e in
giles. Buena comisi6n. Trabajo
fijo. C. W. Smith, Box 1913,
Tampa.
La gaceta., 1931-02-14

La direction del Cincinnati
ha confirmado la yenta del club
Columbus, Asoeiaeien America
ma a Leland Be MaePhail car
pitaIista de Columbus.
Durante cuatro amos los "ro-
jos" mantuvieron csc club para
prepayar a sus ju~gadores.
La gaceta., 1931-02-14

HACK WILSON NO PODRA
UsAR QCHo UNI
Chicago. Feb
Hack Wilson,
'jonrones' de ii
recientemente
to con los aeug
obtiene consider
de sueldo; perQ
a ocho ell n1mero de
que debera usar en- ell q
Wilson tiene propen
suciarse r~aIpidamente v
ha decidido comparable cuatft
uniformes para los desaffos d
Chicago Y cuatro para los qut
juegue fuera de aqui.
81 "Hack" necesita mas d.
esos ocho debera comprarlo'
con su dinero.
Para los otros jugadores s,
compraran dQs para jugar aqu
y dos naSSa@e Ell canine.
La gaceta., 1931-02-14

Tony Cancela sige hacienda
~ejercicios en- ell gimnasio de Joe
Leto.
Hoy practicara con dos boxea
dores de la raza negra y mana
ma descansara, volviendo ell Luz
mes a sus ejercicios.
Cancela debera pesar dos Ii
bras mas de IT'S, ell Unite de la
division de peso complete ligero
La gaceta., 1931-02-14

AL House, ell bandido que ell
juez PetteYay condenara a 70
La gaceta., 1931-02-14

~
raj arregle la .oVersia dera
vada del propuesto traslado de
laskf0 mas de Tampa a Winter
HApeb
yes resolution. presentada y
pasada por los directories, sera
sometida a las ratificaciones
CONSEQUENCES.
Bajo los terminus del coilpro
misc, ofrecidos por Clinton l..
Bolick, de Fort Myers, la Bolsa
tendra ave acatar la decision
final del comite. Sc
La gaceta., 1931-02-14
AVIS0S EN YbOR CTEY

DR.. PortoeSrrero. DR.. A. A. Gonzalez. Or.
DIR Is. M. Tiscn, DR.. Sulio J. Guerra, en-
90 del Cfrculo Cubano Telefono No. Y 1863.
La gaceta., 1931-02-14
EN- WEST TAMPA:
SERVIcIo DE AMBULANcIA. Teis:onO Y 1lls

Tel6fonos para visitas por Ell dia: Ybor City, Y Ia
West Tampa, FL 3846. Para llamsSss por 10 noch
10 mSmo en- YbOr que en- West Tampa. Y 1A1O.
La gaceta., 1931-02-14

New York, Feb, 14.-Len
Harvey, campe6n ingl6s de peso
La gaceta., 1931-02-14
AWISOS EN- WEST TAMPI

DR.. A. Gonzalez, DR.. A. Bustillo, DR.. B. d.
DR.. Julie j, Guerra On Ia BOtIca q Bisn Pdbljco.
fonO No. Il 8S46. sx
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-15
DOROTHY DIX'S LETTER BOX
Talk to Youth Who Would Marry for Money.

1EAR MISS DIX rs OF considered
good looking well educated and Of fine family woman
with and me to marry her DO viii have every luxury
and never have TO do not love her and am IN love with
and
Please after all talks
all the dehgntu things do with 1T. r. r. r.
Answer.Ceainly despsed
you possess happiness
ous enough the thing that it viii always the thing
It will not buy life for the will not health for the sick
it
will
don't care for while heart to another
a a a pretty poor
bargain and have who didn't
when a
leash and he shows It,
When money
VIII not get It, Don't dede yourself the belief that the
bonds end real estate The rich girl hard
boiled and she knows that the husband
paying
allure in her pockebok and she death it.
in
drive
out little pocket money but that's about all will And really
after ALL
and the respect who for
living?
You that the
a while I
chug into the discard the really wonderful things life Surely
wonderful nothing
bring that with the being with love
and who loves
The really wonderful ambition.
and who throws these parasite
money, because any man can make that for himself. -
tcopyisht
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means that you don't trust yourself.
That cramps your mind and hand. It's
lust like a nervous man driving q car
for the first time. He's apt to do the
wrong thing only because he isn't sure
of himself. Practice gives him self
confidence.
Active work in an Office is your best
cure. Take your friends position. Even
If YOU fail, you will have learned some
thing. You will have had some expe-
rience, and the next stenographer's job
YOU get you will be able 10 fill all right.
But probably, after one weeks actual
stenographic work in the first job, all
your fear and nervousness will disap-
pear.
I shall never forget the first letter
I took down in shorthand in an office.
It was five pages long, OF single-space
tipping, when it was done, but before
was almost i'll with terror. I lay awake
half the night trying to remember
what the boss had said. I was pretty
sure that I couldn't read my notes.
Next day I had to make up part OF
the letter, but it wasn't as bad as I
had expected. and after that there was
no further trouble.
You will have a bad day or two to
begin with Nobody can help you to
avoid that. but you will get over that
soon enough and in a month will be
laughing at yourself. The girl who re-
fuses to try something new because
she is afraid of few nervous hours in
the beginning is never going to get
anywhere. Imagine how the premier
Of England feels the first day or two
in his job.
Comfort yourself with the thought
that hlgh-strung and clever people are
nj tn ha q fraid Nf tOhS than
stupid people,
cCopyright, 1879
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-15
AUTUMN
BY d. C. PEATTIE.

Build up the first Autumn fires in
your hearth. Put bittersweet in
vase upon the chimney shelf. Bury
chestnuts in salt. and have cold but
ter ready to spread on them when they
come popping and sizzling out of their
shells. Remember all the old tales you
have ever heard of ghost stories and
the Civil War and the high old days
of the Northern Neck. And lastly, have
a bag of apples. crisp whey, cold and
rosy on the table. That's a recipe
for a fine Autumn evening.
No mango of India, no breadfruit
from the South Seas, no pomegranate
of Seville has ever supplanted the apple
in the affections of Americans. I have
never, in Europe, tasted an apple, even
in Normandy, that would be considered
for a moment by American farmers or
American grocers or fruiterers. Have
no illusions that you will get better
apples anywhere. We have the best
if you choose the right kind.
So popular Is the apple, even though
we have been urged ad nauseam to eat
an apple, that I have always wondered
If it was not the American love Of
apples that made Johnny Appleseed
the heroic-sized figure he has become
in American mythology. In himself, the
doughty John Chapman was not the
sort of person that, If he were living
today, would be very good hero stuff,
except, perhaps, in certain districts.
Born somewhere in New England about
ITS, he came to Ohio about 1901, on
a raft, with nothing on but some gunny
sacking and no goods but some apple
seeds.
Contrary to the best horticultural
opinion, he would never take cuttings
of apples. He claimed that this method
of reproduction was unhealthy. APP
pies from honest seeds for Johnny!
Nor must you ever prune. an apple tree,
that, too. was sacrilegious. Uncon-
sciously, he seems to have been tree
worshiper like the Druids.
Many sections of the country claim
that the wild apples of their regions
were scattered by the wandering
Johnny, but actually only Ohio, and
toward the end of his life, Indiana.
ever received his attentions. He used
to combine apple sowing with sermons