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The daily worker., 1933-09-23
Miners Children
Join WalkOut in
Universal, Ind.
(By a Miner CorrespOndent.)

UNIVERSAL, Ind.-The miners
children are striking, tool
All the school children of the Uni
versaI Grade School have walked out
solidly from all eight grades in a
strike against non-union (scab) min
ers children attending their school.
This strike involves over $50 children.
Yesterday, only eight children from
the company row houses attended
school. And forty children, who are
on the fence, were afraid to attend
school.
The strike has been in progress for
over a week, and the state officials
are baffled as to what action to take
against them.
Deceit and threats are of no avail
They cannot use force, because the
entire community is backing them in
their fight and any form Of brutal
ity against these children would
arouse the most militant town in
Vermillion County to its highest
fighting capacity.
The one strong point of the strike
is that the strike is showing the
children their power and will I'M
doubtedly lead to a strike for hot
school lunches, provided by the school
this winter, because most of these
children's fathers are unemployed
miners who refuse to work below the
prevailing scale.
The daily worker., 1933-09-23
Alaska Workers
Also Exploited
in Labor Camps
By Mine Worker Correspondent

BY Mine Worker Correspondent
JUNEAU, Ala9ka.-I will try to re-
port once more conditions of the
workers of Alaska
The Democratic leaders of Alaska
promised lots Of things in the news
papers, but workers didn't see much
prosperity any better than in the
Hoover times.
Some time ago we started a few
camps, Roosevelt starvation recruits
under the National Recovery Act.
They hired a bunch of young men,
whites and natives, for certain camps
for 81 a day. The bosses do not work
for 81 day, but they received clear
pay of S165 a month-you see how
much difference between the bosses
and the workers.
Two weeks ago lots of young re-
cruits quit the camps and came back
to the city, because the boss drove
them like horses eight hours for only
81.
The crisis all over Alaska is growing
hard at present, and the future will
be more difficult for the workers
The daily worker., 1933-09-23
Gets Fired, Finds
NRA Committee
Aids Boss Only
Br a worker CORRESPONDENT

To the N.R.A., New YORK Guy:
The N.R.A. is a big fake! You're
lust a lot of noise, but when 1t csmes
to actually going through with your
threats YOU don't do it. The ffR.A.
made me lose my job, but YOU stin
stick to the boss.
worked for julius Kohn Hosiery
Shop. 40 E. 28th St., as q saleSgArl.
Your code says that I should WORK
no more than 40 hours and get no
less than SIS.
I worked 81 hours and at the end
Of the week my employer offered me
only So plus S1.80 commission, claim
ing that that's all his former sales
girl made. When 1 mentioned that
he has the MIRA. out in the window
to attract customers and so should
follow the code or that I'd report.
he cursed the NR.A. and fired me,
claiming he doesn't need any N.R.A.
sympathizers.
I went to the MIRA. thinking 1t
was my friend and expecting justice
from it. Instead, after complaining
twice and sending letter to the de-
partment as instructed, I received
check from my employer for only $8
plus $180 commission.
He gets away with everything and
I'm minus a job with $3.50 (Which
is now worth half the amount, with
prices gone up more than double)
hanks to the N.R.A.
And this is justice!
At least I'll do my part and change
my opinion of the NRA. and inform
the people what the N.R,A. really is
The daily worker., 1933-09-23
Urges Miners
Committees to
Enforce Safety
BY a Worker Correspondent

Dy a NNOEHCT OOIICSPOhACht
POWHATAN PIT. O.-With the
conclusion of the N.R.A. code and the
frantic attempts of the government
to strangle any body of workers strik-
ing for better conditions and the
right to live, we find that conditions
in our mine ere get5inT wc--s.
The safety laws are being entirely
neglected. Saturday morning at $3.50
motorman was murdered in the
course of his employment. He was
pulling car out of an entry when
his motor hit the UPRIGHT Of cross
timber that fell on him, knocking
him under his motor, killing him in
stantly. This cross timber had not
enough space between the upright to
clear the motor.
He had previously told the boss of
this condition, SO therefore main
tain it was a brutal murder by the
coal company bosses This worker
leaves behind a wife and three chill
dren.
The State inspector of mines made
an investigation a day or SO later
and of course, said that it was an
accident.
Miners should have committees
elected by the miners who are ex-
perienced in coal mining and are
honest. This committee should make
an examination of the mine. 1t
should be their job'to have dangerous
conditions removed from the mine
until the same has been removed
and all time lost to the workers be
paid by the coal company.
The daily worker., 1933-09-23
Owner, Priest and
UMWA Heads Forge
Miners Chains
BY Mine Worker Correspondent

ST. CHARLES, Val will try to
write you our conditions. We were
forced back to work under the N.R.A.
slave act. Our organizer, Bill Milton,
called the men together and the op-
orators done the talking. The presi-
dent of VIC Coal Co. was the first
speaker The next speaker was sky
pilot, who began with a prayer, 20,
God, thank thee for bringing these
men together. AS a matter of fact, o
God, l know you will do justice be-
tween the company and the men. o
God, I thank thee that the NRA.
has ended the depression"
Comrades, beware of the sky pilots.
This one has played hell with us.
Now this is our condition. We are
back at work. Bill Milton, the organ
izer, read our contract to us. Every
man that had been fired will be
taken back, but one, the president of
our local, the company will not take
back. His case will go before the ar
bitration board. Every man will have
to load 100 per cent clean coal or
drag his tools from the mine.
IF you are fired for loading dirty
coal we don't want you in our union .
The contract quotes this.
Mines will work scales and there
had better not be any discrimination
between union and non-union men
If you want to work at these mines.
We need the National Miners
Union.
The daily worker., 1933-09-23
1,004 Families Cut off
Relief in Three Months
in St. Louis County
By a Worker CORRESPONDENT

EVELETH, Minn.-The workers of
Eveleth are still hanging around
street corners or cooling their heels
waiting for some boss from whom
they hope to get few days of work
a month.
With chances for employment
practically nil, 1904 families in ST..
Louis County have been dropped
from the relief rolls in the past three
months. And the ole Buzzerd still
smirks.
Eighteen million tons of iron ore
are to be shipped out of northern
Minnesota this summer. This ore is
necessary no doubt for the prepara-
ton of the murderous machines to
be in readiness for the next capital
ist war Tremendous military appro-
priations have been meted out not
withstanding the fact that relief
funds are shamefully inadequate.
Workers employed by the city of
Eveleth receive $4 a day for eight
hours work. Good. Now say a man
gets five days of work month, this
entities him to $40. But does he get
it? First Of all, the Steel Trust hos
pital gets SIPS from each man who
puts in more than three days of
work. That leaves our worker with
$1e75.
But the city is broke, so he cannot
get cash for this amount. According
ly, the worker issues an assignment
en- his wages to some storelleeper-
say to a grocery store For taking
the assignment the grocer deducts
IS or 20 per cent. Say IS per cent.
That leaves the, worker 1854, which
he takes out in groceries. The graft
ing doesn't even step here. For al
mcst every article he takes, the work
er is charged 5 to 10 cents over the
rstail price.
The city elections are in the off
ing. Our good man politicians are
ALREADY beginning their handshsking
and bac.zslapping campaign. Men
whom they have not known in the
PAST two years are again the famil-
iar Jack, Frank and Tony. But will
Jack, Frank and Tony be fooled
sgain this year as they have been in
he past?
Wcr.-cTs! Pest events have proved
TO you the necessity for a United
front! Work for a United Front at
election time. Draw up a Workers
'Plo5fcrm! Fight for the Workers
-'oket
In Unity we'll sweep to victoryl
The daily worker., 1933-09-23
WE AGREE WITH HARVEY!
Pittsburgh, Pa

lOGoUul Bll, Ids
Comrade Editor:
Mike Gold did magnificent job
in contrasting the Times and the
Daily Worker, in his two columns of
Sept. 13 and IA. But why did he have
to say that the Daily" is Crude" and
"badly made-up"? I've been in
newspaper work for Is years, mostly
on the makeup end, and the Daily"
seems to me to be a mighty well
made-up paper.
And while the Daily is always
direct and vigorous, I can't see the
Hcrude' stuff at all If Mike will
take the trouble to wade through the
Times again, he ,'ill see plenty of
lapses from ordinary grammatical
rules and from many of the technical
rules of journalism.
Harvey O'Connor.
The daily worker., 1933-09-23

2aplenty, Hurry up girls, hurry boys,
speed up there"
Now we want 40 hour week with
a minimum of SIS, recognition of the
union and shop committee, holidays
with pay, etc. And we'll get it.
OF course the bosses are using all
sorts of tricks to break the strike
and the cops are with them. They
are trying to buy the best workers
with a sweet promise. But we know
that the bosses will have to give in
if we stick together and hold out as
long as is necessary.
Mr.. Nesin from the Trade Union
Unity Council is with us; like true
worker he is helping us all he can.
Remember, Mirror workers, we'll
win the strike, if you show the bosses
that YOU are not as dumb as they
think. Let us not fall for their
tricks. Let us stick together and we
will win more and more.
"A Mirror Worker.
The daily worker., 1933-09-23

enough to be given away. We Went
to the park where there are usually
unemployed, but there were none
that day. We went to a pool room
bu5 we could not get them to take
the Daily" The comrade did not
know what else to do, and so he
said that we would have to go home.
suggested another way of circu-
lating the Daily" and we went can
vassing in the houses. We knocked at
the door of a Negro workers home
and spoke to the man. He told us
that he could not buy anything be-
cause he was working for the city
on the relief jobs for which he did
not get paid but only got a basket
Of food for the week and his rent
paid which was SIS month.
He had seven children and he and
his wife made nine He worked four
days a week at So per day. He got
one bottle of milk for his children
and no meat. THE groceries I get is
canned goods, a bag of flour and lit
tie things like that" Because he did
not get any cash he could not buy
any clothes for the children and they
are almost naked and bare-footed.
Three married children come for
meals a few times during the week
and sometimes for quarters. You see,
he went out to the dumps and picked
w rags and sold them. After cover
ing a large territory he would make
81 a week. Sometimes he has to do
extra jobs for which he does not get
paid
We suggested that he go to the
Welfare and demand to get what
was coming to him and convinced
him that he was being cheated by
the Welfare. He said he would go to
the Welfare and demand every pen
ny CT which they had robbed him and
his starving children. We made him
understand that it would carry more
weight and prevent him from being
cheated some more if he spoke to the
ether men on the job and showed
them that they also were being
cheated and to get them also to go
ell together and demand to get what
WIS corning to them.
a very enthusiastically agreed
with us and asked us about the pa
rsr we were selling, We told him it
was the Daily Worker and that since
Il was very difficult for him to buy
It We would reduce the price to 10
csn1-s week and deliver it to him
osilY. He agreed and thanked us
vs1v much and asked us to come and
v~5 him again and called us broth
e..
nat was reader No, that we got
for the Daily Worker by canvassing
the homes O. workers.
The daily worker., 1933-09-23
Leaders Block
Miners Fight for
Checkweighman
BY a Worker Correspondent


BENTLEYVILLE, Pat is nee
essary again to say a few words
about the developments in the On
tario mine. The ex-president of
our local union, while in power,
handed down a decision at the
local union meeting that any
miner loading dirty coal" shall
be fired for the first offense. The
company fired 20 miners in one
day. The ex-president, Sokol, in
structed the mine committee that
they must not accept this case of
the 20 fired miners.
Because of this and because the
company refused to recognize the
new checkweighman who was
elected to replace Sokol, the COM
nittee went to Pittsburgh with the
demand that a representative of
the UMWA District Board must
come to the next local union meet
ing and settle these controversial
questions. Jack OIeary, Interna-
tional Board member was to come
to the meeting.
Over $50 miners, all members Of
the UMWA gathered to attend the
regular local union meeting In
stead Of OLea~y the county e:leriff,
Seaman, came to the UMWA local
meeting The Sheriff gave the
miners the following instructions:
There will be no meeting today
because no one from District of
the UrIWA is present here. Every
one of you must go home now"
This makes it clear that the
UMWA leaders are working hand
in hand with the strikebreaking
forces in order to make it possible
for the coal operators to do what
ever they please With the miners.
The daily worker., 1933-09-23

SWe went DaCK we elected cnecK-
weighman, and we thought that now
we will get better weight. However,
we made mistake. The checkweigh-
man is a damn good man, but the
scales are rotten, and secondly, the
checkweighman has no power to stop
the cars and make the company put
them back on the scales if he feels
that weights are rotten.
Sometimes, when the tipple has
plenty of coal, cars go over the scales
so fast that not one in ten comes
anywhere near being weighed cor
rectly. The company weight boss
calls the weight of each car, and
since the mems weighman has no
right to put the cars back on the
scales, he has to take it or leave
it." This situation developed to a
point where we could not stand it no
longer, so we struck for better
weights.
How Union Official Helped"
Since the majority of us are in the
U.M.W.A, we thought that we would
get help from the officers in our
fight. We called a meeting and James
Malone, an organizer of the
U.M.WA., came to the meeting. He
spoke to us, and gave us plenty of
hell for striking. He told us that we
can't strike; we were as bad as Mon
tour No. 10, which is striking every
day; we were discrediting the
U.M.W.A., and that it was wrong to
strike"
His explanation Of the poor weights
is gem for the archives. He said,
"The reason you are getting poor
weights is because it is getting cold
er, and the oil and grease thickens,
SO the scale cannot record the weights
correctly, but after the tipple gets
running for a couple of hours and
the oil and grease softens, you get
your weights"
| I never heard such a lame excuse
for poor weights in all my life, and
the U.M.WA. leaders are thinking
nights to find new alibis for the coal
companies. Majority of the men were
not satisfied, but are afraid to say
anything, because the U.M.WA
leaders have issued orders not to ac-
cept into locals "any one who talks
radical"
s25 Initiation
Also the u. NJ. W. is issuing
threats that it will cost man s25
initiation to join the U.M.WA. And
that those who are not U.M.W.A
members will not be able to get job
The daily worker., 1933-09-23
Can You Make 'em
4 Yourself

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6, 3, 10 and II. Size takes 25s
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coins or stamps (coins preferred for
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Pattern Department, 243 West 17th
Street, New York City. Patterns by
mail only.
The daily worker., 1933-09-23
UNIV Leaders Get
Miners Just Enough
Work to Collect Dues
By a Mine Worker Corresno

BY a Mine Worker Correspondent
BEAVER MEADOWS, Pa. - The
leaders of the U.MWA. make sure
we work five days every month to get
their money by checkoff.
They can't mislead the miners any
more. We have the people talking
about the National Miners Union, and
they say it is truly all right.
The mine here belongs to the Cox
people, but the Jeddo Highland Coal
Co. has a lease on it.
The daily worker., 1933-09-23
AFL Prepares
Window Cleaners
Strike Betrayal
BY a Worker Correspondent

NEW YORK K-The window clean
ers are going out on strike October
l. under the leadership of the A. F.
of L. The field organizers have
stopped me while at work and de-
manded that I join UP at So fee.
1t looked to me like a drive to fill
up the pockets of the clique OF graft
ers in the N. Y local. My premoni-
ton materialized this morning when
I showed up at the office. The boss
said that he received a letter from
the union with the names of six men
that joined.
I did not see this letter as 1t was
destroyed, but if the members who
just joined up with the union and
the old timers still have faith in the
leaders I ask this question, Where
did the bosses get the names OF the
ones who joined up? And how did
the Premier w. G. Co.. the American
w. G. Co. and all the other open shop
bosses find out that their shop was
organized?
A Window Cleaner.
The daily worker., 1933-09-23
Home in RoOseveltburg

nome IN R0OSeYeltDurg
No place like home
if you've got one.
But say,
even If you amt,
you sure can build
a happy home in Rooseveltburg.
No place like Rooseveltburg:
any beggar's an architect,
any packing box mansion.
Here's a sewer tile swell chimney.
Jeez! Swelles. home in Roosevcltburg
Some place, Rooseveltburg.
lever try to use
campaign promises
to stuff the cracks
and keep the fall winds out?
Look down there:
The Blue Eagle
pasted across the broken door:
Old Hank died about a week ago
hard to live without eatin'
even in Rooseveltburg.
Harlan Crippen, 16.
Aberdeen, South Dakota.
international Children's Week
The week of October 20 should
be marked on the calendar of every
Pioneer troop in red. For this week
The daily worker., 1933-09-23

ternationcl, collect dues for our local
needs; call upon the other locals to
do the same; demand an immediate
convention to adept constitution;
and an immediate election of all the
District and International officers
and organizers. We also must fight
for the right of the miners to be-
long to any union they wish.
IT. S.
The daily worker., 1933-09-23
THE MATTHEWS EXPOSE

Comrade Editor: New York.
The murder of James Matthews
and the attempts to frame-up and
lynch New York Negroes by Tam
many should not only be exposed in
the Daily" but should also be ex-
posed in pamphlet form. I suggest
that the Communist Party, District 2,
issue two-penny pamphlets, one on
the Matthews murder and the other
on the attempted lynchings as re-
corded in Thursdays Daily" These
would be excellent election campaign
material. Suggested titles are Tam
many Murdered James Matthews
and "Tammany, the Lyncher of the
N. Y. Negroes"
Congratulations on the Matthews
scoop. Keep up the good fight for
the Negro people. 1t is only through
having such good material that we
white comrades can convince the
Negro masses of the necessity of hav-
ing unity of Negro and white.
Comradely yours,
The daily worker., 1933-09-23
List 1900 Pieces of
Property for Tax Sale
in Day in Birmingham
By a Worker Correspondent

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. = The Age
Herald of September 1S carries 161a
pages listing real estate in Birming-
ham to be sold for delinquent taxes.
Approximately 1900 pieces of proper
y listed in this issue.
This is N.R.A. in Birmingham.
The daily worker., 1933-09-23

Write to the Daily Worker
about every event of inter-
eat TO workers in your fac
tory, neighborhood or city.
BECOME A WORKER COR
RESPONDENT!
The daily worker., 1933-09-23
Finnish Federation Backs
DAILY" Drive for $4,000

NEW YORK, Sept. 2-"Realizing
the Importance OF the Daily Worker
as the main organizer of the Am
erican working class, says resolu-
ton adopted by the National Execu-
tive Committee of the Finnish Work.
ers Federation, "it calls upon every
one of its Worker, Working Women's
and Youth clubs to give the fullest
possible financial support to the
Daily Worker in its present cam
paign to secure the $4,000 necessary
0 insure its uninterrupted appear
snce."
Backing the action, the commit
&c contributed $3.50 to the drive.
All local organizations affiliated
with the Federation are urged to
Immediately set up campaign COM
mitteeS responsible for conducting
the drive.
The resolution says that 'The
Daily Worker with six pages every
day and eight to ten pages on Sat-
urdays will be real agitator and
organizer of the American working
class" and continues:
"The National Executive Commit
tee of the Finnish Workers Fedora
ton realizing the Importance of the
Daily Worker as the main organizer
of the American working class, calls
upon everyone of its local Workers
clubs, and the Working Womens
clubs and the Youth clubs to give
the fullest possible financial support
to the Daily Worker in its present
campaign to secure $4,000 which is
necessary to assure the uninterrupted
existence of the Daily Worker"
follow:
DISTRICT NO.
Concord, n. H., Unit Of the
@. p. -------.--------------- $500
J. Dslugu, Central Falls, R. I. LOO
DISTRICT NO.
Harry Lester, Brooklyn, N Y. .25
Harold Slater, Bklyn, N Y,
Sustaining Fund ----- rs
Geo. Holm, Cedarhurst, L. ]. as
Martin Mueller, N Y G. 400
Anon, N Y. -- 500
Finnish Federation, N. Y 10000
I. Tomchin, Local No. 81,
NO. 35084 ----------------------- 2O5
J. Finkelstein, Local No. 81,
No. 1890 .----.----------------.----- 400
Julio Mella I. l.. d. Branch
List No. 53323-Aexander
Coca
Antonio M. Diaz Cuba 20
S. Royes. Bronx, N Y 30
@. A. Quintero, Bkyn,- as
G. Bello, N. W rs
BJlCan III
T. Hotenod ---------- 10
A. Socauas - 10
T. Lajorchere --- 10
The daily worker., 1933-09-23
LETTER FROM A FORMER YPSI

Cleveland, o.
Comrade Editor
I was a member of the Socialist
Party until recently, when 1 resigned
to join the Y. C. L. While a member
of the S. P. had the opportunity
of studying Karl Marx and other
writer's. began to analyze the Labor
Movement and attempted to apply
what I had learned. 1 began to see
that labor reform is in itself just that
and no more, and that the system of
social order itself had to be changed
And began to study Communist
Party literature and I realized that
the reforms of the Socialist Party
were impossible.
I then began to see that the pro-
gram laid down by the Revolutionary
Socialists was the only logical pro-
gram. Onward to a real United Front
of all workers and to the day when
we can throw off our chains and real
i2e Karl Marx.
New Ycler.
*. p.
The daily worker., 1933-09-23
Blue Lips-Pinlples.

Helen B.-If you are certain that
your heart is in good condition, you
need not pay any attention to the
color of the lips. 1t might be q
nervous reaction. If the pimples ap-
pear periodically, there is probably
a connection with the menses. Many
girls are subject to this breaking out
which disappears within ten days.
Nevertheless, it would be advisable
that you eat more vegetables and
fruit.
Readers desiring health information
should address their letters to DR.. Paul
Luttinger, co Daily Worker, s6 Z. 1eth
ST.. New York City.
The daily worker., 1933-09-23
HOuse-to-HOuse Canvassing
Best Way to Spread D. w.
Comrades in Chelsea Visit Negro Family,
Show Them How to Organize to Fight
for Relief; Get Subscription
Nv HARRY FINE

while getting
supposed
mi wha lie with the Daily Worker.
himself to get rid of the Daily Workers.
hidden until
The daily worker., 1933-09-23
Rotten Scales Rob
Miners in Spite OF
A CheckWeighman
u. M. w. A. Gives Lame Excuses to Workers
to Exonerate Boss for Cheating The Men
at the Mine Tipple
By Mine Worker Correspondent

HENRY Pa-After when McCSrady
from Washington troubles
the New Deal" is the old rotten deal
The daily worker., 1933-09-23
Young Strikers at Novelty
Mirror Determined to Win
BY A WORKER CORRESPONDENT

CITY-Ou strike, Novelty is two weeks old The
striking the first time, Previously
putting 5OhOur
h period worked
pleased the boss and heard yelling