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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-20

last resort
We may at once discount the legend about the
consideration Of the bosses for the workers in
the mater OF giving them preference over salaried
executives in wage cuts as the professional balm
which the soothsayers Of capitalism are in the
habit Of pouring into the wounds of the mas
ses. The whole course of the crisis has shown
this to be a lie.
The second philanthropic act for which the
capitalists claim credit is the cutting of execu-
tive salaries by 2 percent more than wages.
This is small comfort to the worker who is al
ready on starvation level. In addition 1t
conceals what percentage always do-the actual
facts embodied in the absolute figures of reduc-
tons. Salaried executives with incomes of $20,-
600 or more year may receive Is percent re-
duction without even noticing it. The worker
whose very existence depends on the most eco
nomical utilization Of his last penny receives
starvation verdict together with the is percent
reduction. This little fact is of course glibly
passed over in the report Of the National Indus
trial Conference Board
Lest the workers think themselves too badly
of, the apologists of capitalism even offer to
prove that wage cuts are not only necessary
from business point of view but also lust"
from moral point Of view.
In the "Annalist" for April is, the noted ef-
dciency expert who glories in the title OF man
agement engineer, j. p. Jordan, writes as follows
concerning the moral sanction with which wage
cuts are administered:
Employees who must be cut deeply in in
or laid of may suffer; but when BUSH
ness returns they are still possessed Of their
earning powers to 60 on. But stockholders may
be seriously and permanently impaired IL los
should permanently impair the capital of
the company whose stock they own"
This Sanctimonious blessing Of the whole wage
cutting drive OF the capitalists now has the adj
ded benediction Of the famous management
engineer in the White House, President Hoover,
who, together with the Democratic and Iepub
lican congressman has decreed the maintenance
unimpaired Of the interests of the stockholders OF
the government-Wall Street.
The whole economy program" Of Hoover and
Congress is aimed at the rank and file of the
civil service workers. OF the $2l0,000,000 pro-
posed economy fully $199 100000 will come out
of the pockets of the million government employ
ees whose average wage is $1,z41
Even the straight II percent cut first pro-
posed by the House Committee on Finance was
rejected by Hoover 10 gsvoe OF his own stagger
plaa heosuse u snNGS6 lhaE Ehe yaGe ousA would
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Starvation of the Miners in
Southern Illinois

from developing movement for adequate re-
Lief and TO keep the miners down to the point
OF starvation
The counter revolutionary Trotzkyite, Jerry
Allard, boasts at meetings that this organization
is supported by the American Legion, Red Cross
UMW.A. So we have in Southern Illinois
united front OF Legionnaires. Trotzkyites, Re
pubncans, Red Cross and coal operators against
the miners. This fact must be known not only
In Southern Illinois, but 10 the workers through
out the country and clearly understand the
counter revolutionary role Of the Cannonites
and Trotzkyttes In the United States This
brings out the correctness Of the Daily Worker
that Trotzky Is part of the counter
airy front and forerunner i'll preparation for an
attack on the Soviet Union.
But despite this vicious united front Of the
enemies OF the working class, the miners In
Franklin and Williamson County are not fooled
by these elements and here are some facts: On
April 8, a meeting of the unemployed miners
had been called in johnson City at which $50
miners we're present The meeting was under
the control of the American Legion, "box-car''
jenkins, well known faker who came as a spokes-
man of the Jerry Allard Ray EdmundSon Fake
Unemployed Association, and at that meeting,
after all the speeches Of the takers had been
made, g. miner introduced the Workers UneYn-
ployraent Insurance Bill. and there was such
ssnsMelA W suppcgt n " Gsse We aaaagraan
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was forced to put 1t TO vote and every miner In
the hall voted for the Workers Unemployment
Insurance Bill. Among these miners was large
number OF young miners, who especially enthu-
siastically endorsed the Workers Unemployment
Insurance Bill
But after the meeting was over, when the
miners demanded that the Bill be endorsed the
secretary and chairman both refused on the
grounds that they have to Investigate" In
other cities at meetings the miners are taking
the floor and exposing the fakery and treachery
OF the Jerry Allards and Edmundsons cIioues
and winning support Of the miners This must
continue and the miners in Franklin and viii
hanson County must fight for relief fight for
the Unemployment Insurance Bill, developing a
mass movement, uniting unemployed and en-
ployed miners and especially at the present situ-
aGon, when the miners are closed by the coal
operators, N an attempt TO Starve the miners
Into accepting starvation wages, dictated by the
coal operators and UMwA. officiaIdom.
In other mining towns, such as Stauntou.
Collinsville, Bellville, Unemployed Councils have
been organized and they began to develop strre-
giles, demanding immediate relief, demanding a
portion of the twenty million dollars appropri-
ated by the Illinois State, which was won.
thanks to the militant struggle of the Chicago
working class and for the Unemployment In
surance Bill
AT the local union of the UM.WA the Orient
mine, miner on the floor of the union. ex
posed the Jerry Allard. Edmundson fake move
ment' that by begging the bosses, nothing can
be gotten, pointing out that the 20 million dol
Lars appropriated was won in struggle by work.
ers Of Chicago and other cities, calling upon the
miners to support the Unemployed Councils.
This was received by the miners with so much
enthusiasm that Jerry Allard who was present
sS the meeting, did not dare take the floor in
2ace OF the sacts brought out by the militant
aatzeg on Ssae Gcor Of Gae local union Of she
uAEWAs ''''-- = -.
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The Crisis Goes Deeper

is also an important sign of the economic trend
which the important events Of unknown char
acter,: that may come to pass before next July
will press downward, not upward. The index for
March is 617 as against 626 for February and
62S for January The most important factors in
the fall are the low records of freight carloadng
steel 1ngot production. electric power production
pig iron production and automobile production.
But what Is more important in connection
with the fall, is the fact that retail activity
which before offered relative" resistance, was
cutailed during the first quarter of the year
Equally important is the decline in the produc-
ton Of high rate electricity for domestic con-
sumption, which previously offset the drastic
fan OF low-rate electric energy for industrial
activity. This proves that with the sharpening
of the crisis and with the intensified efforts to
unload it upon the workers by cutting their
wages frightening their working days, ETC., the
buying power Of the consumers is curtailed and
the crisis is again utterly deepened
dispatch from Washington to the New
York Times" states that the heavy buying of
government securities is interpreted with "cauti-
GUS optimism" by some officials who believe that
this movement will provide the stimulant which
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-20
BY NJ. SALERNO

THAT the second quarter Of the current year
will mark deepening of the economic crisis,
which is already the proSoundest crisis ever
experienced by American capitalism, is frankly
admitted by Benjamin Baker, Editor Of "The
Annalist"
In leading article published in the last num-
Der OF this journal, Baker writes: $50 many inn
portant events, Of character as yet unknown, will
come to pass before Che first of July that this
second quarter appears period of critical
uncertainty beyond the scope Of rational fore
casting"
He suggests however that perhaps II is well
FAR as 1t is possible to take the term Critical
period" in its medical sense as meaning "the
passage Of critical point, very frequently into
state Of definite recovery" Obviously enough
he wants to dispen, with his naive suggestion,
the very same despairing prospect that he is
compelled to present upon reviewing the specific
statistical data among which, he admits, "there
are few If any that are really favorable for the
second quarter"
The truth is that the Editor Of 1.-The Annalist"
finds no motive for hoping in the unquestionable
fact that business is utterly failing to revive
itself' as q result Of the reconstruction" pro-
grams of recent months which ''hoId little pro-
msfe of real relief"
The proposed wage cut affecting all the steel
workers throughout the United States suggests
to him that an upturn in business Is unlikely TO
take place during the next three months, and
the new low point by the Business index Of
THE AnnaIist" causes him to be peSsmistic
about the future
The wage cut to be announced soon is indeed
an index Of the deepening economic crisis, the
fsofY fhY Sryl1Sa
coming months. Although result of the eff
forts TO unload the burden Of the crisis on the
shoulders OF the workers, the wage cut will not
bring about business revival, as the bosses
and their agents want us to believe. On the
contrary, In so far it will further reduce the
buying power Of the worker, the wage cut will
sharpen the crisis
On the other side the fall of the business index
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1t can be seen from this that the famous en-.
gineer not only proposes that the rank and file
government workers bear the brunt Of the eco
Monty" program but also that il bear 1t exclu-
sively with the higher paid bureaucrats and rep
resentatives OF the Wall Street practically un-
touched
The whole economy program in Washington
has not only the immediate significance of a cut
for Federal employees, but also of a signal flare
for the entire capitalist class that the wage cut
ting campaign now in progress for the last three
years has the full support of the government
Not even the hypocritical pretense of resisting"
wage cuts will be maintained any longer
The immediacy Of attack on the SOVIET Union
together with all the other factors of the deep
ening crisis mark out the path of even more
vicious attempts of the capitalist class to shift
the burden of the crisis onto the masses by the
most far reaching wage cuts, direct and indirect.
A gainst this drive the work. class must rail-
ly behind the banner OF the Communist Party
and the Red Trade Unions. The fight against
wage cuts is simultaneously fight against the
increasing imperialist war attempts on the Soviet
Union and against the very denial OF the right
Of che masses 70 Nycs j
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(By a Worker Correspondent


WEST FRANKFORT, Ill, April H. --- Little
Egypt is the name Of the southern part OF IL
lnois coal fields. In Little Egypt there is un-
JoId misery and starvation among the tens OF
thousands OF miners and their families who
receive hardly any relief whatsoever. The Daily
American, published in West Frankfort, Illinois,
on April 2, reports as follows:
Following Z two-dsy run, the local head
quarters OF the Illinois Emergency Relief Com
mission closed last night for the reminder Of the
week"
They are giving very little relief and TO
very small percentage OF the miners families In
Franklin and Williamson County. The attempts
of the miners to set up their Unemployed Cotln-
ellis, met with the most severe attack on the part
of the sheriffs in Franklin County -- Robinson
raided the meetings, arrested speakers and
threw them into JAIL preventing any attempt of
the miners TO hold meetings, which shows any
attempt to develop struggles for adequate relief
to fight Hunger and Starvation Is prevented.
While the Unemployed Council movement is
being stopped by the terror Of the sheriffs, act-
ing for the coal companies the local authorities
are cooperating with Ray Edmundson SUBJ
district president OF the U.M.W.A., Republican
party. and Jerry Allard Trotzkyite and the
American Legion, TO set UP a fake unemploy-
cd council in the name OF FRANKLIN County Un~
g1aplcyed Association. The purpose Of this fake
cranudsAaacn 10 % aaaesaHe 70 Eagsyeat a.sases
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by BURCK

will start business slowly on the upgrade"
Their belief is based on the hope that the new
step taken by the Federal Reserve Banks will
lberalize bank credit.
The April Business Bulletin" Of the Cleve-
land Trust Co. remarks however, that bank
loans and deposits continue to shrink because Of
business inactivity" 1.-THE Annalist" on the other
SIDE observes that it is not enough to increase the
supply OF credit, by liberalzing it, but it is nee
eSsary to provide a plan for using it. AS a
matter of act,"-it says-"from the beginning of
1890 to the middle OF 1881 the banks had an
enormous surplus OF lending power Yet that did
not prevent q continued decline In commodity
prices, stock prices and business activity. Indeed
there is ground for believing that part Of our
present difficulties have arisen from this very
excess OF credit"
That the expansion" policy Of the Federal
Reserve Banks warrants no optimism OF any
SORT is clear from what the above mentioned
bulletin of the Cleveland Trust Company says,
sharply: "Our efforts to restore business activity"
one reads in the bulletin, "are national or local.
scattered and mostly directed at the prevention
of breakdowns"
In other words, all the steps that are being
taken do not prove thaDan upward turn is near,
but on the contrary they show, 1t Is clear from
what We just quoted, that their purpose is that
OF preventing still further breakdownS.
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fall more heavily on the lower paid civil service
employees.
A tabulation made by the Herald Tribune re-
veals the full extent of the consideration for
wage workers over salaried executives" which
Wall Street is exercising.
The two plans, with the stagger plan PROF.
posed by Hoover, will make the following wagey
cuts as the contributions of the White House
to the whole wage slashing campaign Of the
bOSSeSs
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1932-04-30

Introduction OF bimetalism into
the monetary system would no
doubt renew activities in the sill
yer mines at Neihart. d. /. Hayes,
manager OF the silver Dyke mine.
which closer down in March.
1923. stated here Friday Alr.
Hayes. now located at St. Louis.
Is on his way to the Pacific
coast.
The silver Dyke mine. located
on Carpenter creek, about six
miles northeast Of Neihart, start
ed operations in February, 1893.
From that time until It closed
down 10 1929 in excess IT H..
500, 600 tons Of ore was handled.
Mr.. Hayes said the concentrates
we're on the basis Of about 20
to i. The ore was shipped TO
and Anaconda for smelt-
ing and refining.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1932-04-30
MERCURY COST
RISES DUE TO
NEW USAGES

The metal which every
body now calls mercury
was generally spoken Of q
few years ago as quick
silver. Remembering that
quick" in oId-fashioned
English meant alive"
and not, as il means now,
speedy" it is easy to
see how this mysterious
liquid metal, heavier than
lead, was regarded as
live silver. "
Man has used mercury for
centuries for the backs of mir
rors, q shorter time for the
"stuffing' of thermometers
and barometers, for recovering
gold from its ore and for
silver" Filings in teeth. Its
newest use, instead of water
in steam boilers, promises to
create an unheard-of-demsnd
for mercury.
Experiments with a 5000
horsepower mercury yapor
boiler and turbine made by
w. Il. b. Emmett demonstrate
ed D saving Of about $1,000 a
day over the use of water.
Now a plant twice as large is
being built, in which 125 tons
of mercury will be vaporized
to produce steam" then con-
densed and used over and over
again.
One result has been to raise
the price Of mercury from ST.
a pound to 81; another, to start
a mercury rush" in. Arkansas
where beds Of cinnabar, the ore
from which mercury is refined,
have been discovered. There
may not be enough mercury in
the world to enable everybody
who wants to use it in engines
to do so. The largest produc-
ton in a single year in the
whole world was In 1929 when
less than 5000 tons were ex-
tracted.
Here's q chance for adven-
ture and wealth. Hustle a.
round the odd corners Of the
world and find a cinnabar
mine.
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Recent developments In the
mine have warranted the expan-
sion OF this operation and the
mill has been enlarged. giving
It a capacity Of 100 tons per
day. AT present It is handling
so tons OF ore daily and within
the next 50 days viii be up to
its full capacity
The oxide ore Is being mined
from the 900 and soO-fOot levels,
across q width Of eight to twenty
five feet. Development work is
being carried on towards a known
Darailel vein. which should be
encountered within the next 80
DAYS In addition to the large
tonnage OF milling ore now de-
veIoped underground. President
Hewitt says a vast tonnage Of
ioW-grade ore is available for.
surface mining by steam shovel
Plans are also under way 70
construct a concentrating plant
to treat the gold-bearing sulDhide
ores. OF which there Is g large
tonnage developed to q depth OF
500 feet.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1932-04-30

Unlike the old-timer who rush
ed in droves from boom camp
70 boom camp as new strikes
were reported, the present-day
prospector is making methodical
surveys OF the area he intends
70 work. with the intention Of
taking advantage OF every pos
sibIe Incorporating factor.
Newcomers Favored
Also, strange as It may seem,
the present-day prospectOr has
many things in his favor which
the pioneers lacked.
An outstanding example Of this
Is seen in present operations in
and adjacent to Confederate
Guloh.
In Famous Gulch
The GuIch has almost pre-
cipltous walls, rising sheerly from
the bed Of the creek. During the
boom days every inch Of the creek
bed was staked and occupied by
men who naturally refused to let
Others, on the higher benches.
cover their claims with tailings.
One result OF this situation may
be seen today, in the existence
Of numerous elaborate rock walls
on the canyon side, designed 20
prevent debris from the benches
rolling into the valley below.
Under such conditions, owners
of the bench ground we're natur-
ally restricted to a somewhat
superficial working Of their
ground. When they moved to
new diggsngs, they left behind
them millions OF dollars in gold,
by ordinary sluicing
processes but then unworkabls
because they could not get their
raw gravel down to the river.
Changed Conditions
Now conditions have changed.
while many Of the claims in the
Gulch are still IN the hands Of
definitely known owners, In
many instances ownership Is vest
ed in absentees, in many instances
impossible to definitely ascertain.
AS a result. the walls Of Con-
federate Gulch today are pierced
in many cases BY pipes leading
up to the bench-lands. where
gravel Is fed into them to flow BY
gravity to boxes near the creek
bank. Here the gravel Is taken
by wheeibarrows to the creek
and there sluiced.
Secrecy Maintained
Although there Is today a
increase IN the NUM-
Der OF such operations. miners en-
gagged In the work are very nom
semmittaI regarding their sue
Continued on Page Eight
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From the Records
T0OLE COUNTY
~ Tools County AbsfFaet Co.
SHELBY. MONTANA

ASSIGNMENTS OF ROYALTY
Frank II. Klemer 20 j. A. StenbOrR
1852 West. ST.
Gordon ID. McCuteheOn to Ruby
Page Euwer, 1874 Of 1gs on 1870
aevres in 4, 9, 10, 10. II. 20, 2i-36-2
East 81.
Ray Goff 70 Glen A. Davis Ia OF 1et
on NW3SW3 WiNWl, NEaNWa. Is
35-2 East. 81.
John I. Buckley to John H. Strange
1852 Of 19s on SbSW3 /, NANWi 12-S7-
West ST.
1ss on NiSW3, WiNE3, NWlSEs
1852 West 81,
Archie Burns to r. Earl Dawes.
1876 on SE1NE3, NE3SEi. 10. SW1
NWl, NW4SW3. 2O-35-2 West 81.
ASSIGNMENT OF LEASE
Gordon d. McCutcheon to Ruby
Page Euwer 1-120 interest In WiNW3
NE5NW3, 1902 East. 81
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1932-04-30
U. S. BOOKLET
AIDS PLACER
NINE HUNTER

Gold seekers VIII find
most Of the information
they want in D. s. Bureau
Of Mines information Cir
cular No. 6e11, just re-
cedved from Washington,
d. c. Il is called small
Scale Placer Mining Meth
DDS"
The mimeographed pamphlet
is prepared by Charles f
Jackson, principal mining en-.
gineer, U. S. Bureau of Mines,
and John B. Knaebel, assis-
bant. It consists of is pages
Of reading matter and plates,
with maps indicating the
olacer-mining districts of all
yOld-producing states and Alas
"a.
The maps are valuable, in
hat they indicate where un-
men who wish to try
prospecting should look for
,Old worth panning. They
eveal a placer district on the
Potomac River just above
Washington, D. c.; others in
yirginia, the CarOlinas, Geor-
ia and Alabama; as well as
he recognized placer areas Ill
he West.
Idaho, Montana, Southwest
IN Oregon and California are
CONTINUED on Page y
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4 Abundance Of Water
One Factor Sending
Many 70 Mountains


Aided by an abundance Of water which
has made possible working Of placer mines
throughout Montanas mountain districts. a
small army Of men is now in the hills prepar-
ed to make a summers stake by working
virgin placer ground and by re-working old
diggings from which only the cream was
taken by the old-timers.
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LIBERTY COUNTY
~ Eahersy County Abatract ca
CHRsTKR. MONTANA


Ar8AAH AAEHIH UT IUMAAAA
L. F. McCurdy 10 VIM. q. Newman
1875 on WISE aaSW 1856. 81.
L. F. McCurdy to A. L. Helsserer
1-4sb on WISE saSW $3.50 81.
Z. r. McCurdy to A. L. Helsserer
1876 on NWNW SiNW NfsW 2
sS-6. 81
L. r. McCurdy to H. A. Goslin 1-16g,
on NWNW SiNW NaSW 1886 81.
L. r. McCurdy to Rufus II. Small.
Jr.. 1876 on NE $3.50. 81.
II. II. Eester to Frank H. Klemmer
l-4es on NWsW NV s sENE EASE
1918 81
L. r. McCurdy to r. A. S0rhen 1-ect
on SEsE 3 MEME 10 WiNW 1880
OIL AND GAS LEASE
Western Natural Gas Co. TO b. p.
Radigan EiW3 26-37-4 East. NJ. NJ 81
AesTGNAFENT OF OIL a GAS LEASE
B. p Radigan to Whitlash Petroleum
Inc. B3W1 1854 East ST.
Stevenson Consolidated on Co. 70
VIM. B. Finlay NESE 54-34-6 East 81.
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NUGGET FOUND
IN AJAX MIN

Spokane. WASH. Apra 30
IA "Nugseey found last
week in the Ajax mines h
the Coeur d'Alenes Win never
be made into sticl-pin. In
the first place it Is . little
over weight 70 rest upon
the manly bosom Of even a
husky miner. then it happens
70 be lead. It was necessary
20 SKATER IL with dynamite
before IL could be moved.
II weighed approximately 10
tons. Il Is considered q
most remarkable find.
The Ajax company Is not Itself
working its property but has
given a lease to Gust Benson who
IS taking out good ore from thai
portion OF the mine, whore q
slide several years ago broke
thru the workings causing havoc,
The leasers have almost a car
load OF high grade ore ready for
shipment, including the broken
mass OF the nugget which was
found to be almost solid metal,
he lead content being about rs
per cent