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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-21
Central Strike
Lead hip Is
Key, Says Ryan
UNIV Insurgent Leader Admits Criticism,
at Recent Conference in Brownsville

of where they belonged before.
He is against the check-off, and
declared no local shall send any
money anywhere until they have duly
elected officers. If any local leaders
are not in full sympathy and sup
port Of the demands of the rank and
file, these officers must be removed
Immediately. They belong to the
Lewis-Feeney-Fagan machine.
He agreed with the left wing hold
ing these conferences. The confer
ence unanimously endorsed the four
district conference to be held Friday,
Oct. 20, at Croatian Hall in Browns
vile.
On the question of Pinchot; he
claims that Pinchot helped the min
ers, but he puts 1t on the basis that
he expects votes from the miners.
In other words, he does not believe
fully that Pinchot is doing 1t for
the sole reason of helping the min
ers. He does not see any reason for
not accepting this help in the fight
against Prick and U.MWA. officials.
He blames these union officials for
putting pressure on Pinchot in re-
voking the state troopers 'protec-
ton" to the miners caravans. His
hatred of Fagan-Feeney is agrees
sive and he called upon the miners
to drive these company agents out
Of their ranks.
Accepts Criticism
He did not feel angry at the criti-
cism centered against him ON the
question of not helping sufficiently to
crystalline the left wing in the other
districts, and also on the question
Of not marching into West Virginia,
and admitted that they all have
much to learn and they are apprecia-
tive of any help we give them.
After the meeting we spoke for a
few minutes, and he invited me to
come on the picket line at his mine.
Ryan is not a total newcomer to
the miners struggles. He was a
checkweighman at the Pike Mine in
Brownsville in 1929. Also an active
member of the UMW.A. before in
the Brownsville territory. He fought
VIC HldS4AlIle, OUpOSeu IllSlr program
on the question of the 1922 agree-
ment.
He has the confidence of the rank
and file and is one of the type of
extremely honest Americans. Is not
afraid of being called Red or a
Communist. Openly at mass meet
ings, he states: IF you want a piece
OF bread they call you radical, red
bolsheyik." He is championing the
foreign born, calls upon them to take
control over the union as they con-
stitute over rs per cent OF all the
miners and 80 per cent of all the
fighters.
He left upon me the impression
that the retreat on the question of
picketing all over the country, ETC.,
was based on the actual difficulties.
He agreed that they should issue a
strike bulletin; also that the question
OF an appeal for funds to the work.
ers outside of the coke region shall
be taken up with the leadership that
is, at the meeting of the local presi-
dents, secretaries and delegates.
which they hold practically once a
week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-21

16 of the 20 pickets sent to the
hospital had been shot in the back.
The film does not show the
deputies shooting at workers who
had fled to the side streets, after
the picket line had been smashed.
GRAHAM MacNAMEE, who never
" permits an opportunity to pass
without sneering at the Reds"
failed to announce, of course, that
the deputies were recruited with
the aid of the American Legion and
had in it's ranks a number of foot
ball players recruited from neigh
boring high schools on the plea that
they must defend the MIRA.
against the Reds"
MacNamee is only hired help. .
What's really important, though. is
the fact that the day before the
massacre Miss Evelyn Pitt, Roose-
velt's MIRA. "conciliator, was in
Ambridge, demanded of the author
tiles that they "clear the Streets y
thus giving free sway to the depu-
tized thugs who descended upon the
Spang- Chalfant strikers and moved
them down.
Announcer MacNamee concluded
his little piece with a note of syn
dicated wistfulness: "Why can't
some means be found for avoiding
such clashes?"
He should ask Sheriff O'Laugh-
lin, who, day after the murder,
announced pittsburgh "Sun-Tele-
graph") that well continue to
shoot picket lines out Of existence.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-21
SHERIFF WAS VERY SORRY" AFTER
Nnl Shows Deliberate cdBld

and scores of other violent episodes
in the class struggle.
actual riot scenes" Is the title
introducing the Ambridge film. It
is in front of the Wycoff plant of
the Spang- Chalfant corporation.
You hear the wheedling, saccha-
rine voice of Graham MacNamee:
Violence has flared forth once
more. :"
The words CRATE on you as your
attention is fixed on the strikers in
front Of the mill, part of the full
picket line (Which the pictures do
not show Of more than 1000 ex-
tending over six blocks. If your
eye is quick you catch the words
on sign; Steel and Metal Workers
Industrial Union"
THE camera shifts. You see a
small army of deputies, the
dregs Of the steel town underworld,
with guns raised. "They have white
arm bands to distinguish them from
the strikers" MacNamee informs
the audience. The white arm
bands" are handkerchiefs, an indi-
cation that the gun thugs were hur-
riedly modified for action.
Next you see the sheriff walking
belligerently towards the strikers,
some of whom have sticks in their
hands. The sheriff raises his hand
in friendly" gesture, while the
deputies--who have already re-
ceived their instructions--hold their
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-21
WIN YOUNG
MINERS FOR
RED LEAGUE
Youth Taking Active
Part in Present
Struggles
By DAVE DORIAN

Few struggles in American work.
ing class history have Witnessed
such tremendous fighting capaci-
ties of the youth as the present
miners strike in Western Penn
sylvania. The young miners at
first, because of their inexperience
and lack of knowledge of the Lewis,
Pagan and Feeney leadership,
were easily swayed by these, al
lowing them to dissipate their
fighting energies even to the ex-
tent of support of the corrupt
UNIV machine. Young miners
were used to railroad decisions
through mine locals. They were
even used as weapons of fascist
attack upon all militant elements
inside of the UMWA or against
NMU leaders. Every possible
means were used by the UMWA
leaders to capture the youth, thru
bribery and boozing, thru adven-
turist escapa les such as the might
Riders" to excite their magma
ton, calculated to win them as a
reserve Of support among the min
ers.
But just as hitherto the lack of
acquaintance with the UMWA mis-
leadership led the young miners to
their support, now the lack of
UMWA tradition among the young
coal miners, the absence of the
corrosive influence has transformed
the young miners into the most
violent enemies of Lewis, Pagan
and Feeney. Disillusioned in the
degenerate officialdom of the UNI
WA, and becoming fast disillusioned
in the local and national govern
ments because of their strike
breaking role, the young miners are
emerging from the present strug-
gle a tremendous potential revolu-
tionary factor to be reckoned with
by the coal operators.
The effects of the coal code
wage agreement upon the young
miners meant a sweaping wage cut
for them as they in the main are
outside workers and in those cate
gories of labor designated for
lower wages by the coal code. A
deep resentment and willingness
to struggle by the young miners
against the coal code and its wage
provisions played a large role in
the present re-strike movement.
1t is these young miners who are
velopment of the UMWA opposi-
ton based on program of strug-
gle. 1t it they who will fight the
hardest for the consolidation and
continuing of the present strike,
for rank and file central strike
leadership, for the immediate con-
vening of rank and file district
conventions where the young min
ers will be given full right of
expression, for a new agreement
drawn up by the miners and minus
the discrimination against the
young miners.
The UMWA opposition which is
at this moment gathering its
forces and consolidating its posi-
ton within the UMWA must con-
slider we'll the tremendous import
ance Of the young miners.
Hand in hand with this must
proceed the building of the Young
Communist League which must be-
come the instrument Of revolution
airy expression Of the young miners.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-21

Last week something happened that
broke this local. Pagan came here
and held secret meetings. Booze start
ed to flow freely. Last Saturday the
local meeting was called. The Off
GERS made report that 10 mines of the
Pittsburgh Coal Co. went back to
work and that there is no use of us
continuing to strike. The officers re-
ceived this information from Pagan.
The majority of the membership was
in favor to continue the strike But
the officers of the local insisted that
we must go back to work. The vote
was taken. Many abstained from vot-
ing and the vote to go back to work
was considered unanimous.
However, some of the rank and file
made a motion that if we find a
picket line, state police Or deputies
no one shall enter the mine. This mo-
ton was carried and we knew that
there will be no work.
Monday morning some 1000 pick
cts came, among them large numbers
OF our own members who went out to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-21
Steel Trust Placing Orders for
Arms to Shoot Strikers

YORKSee corporations have placing heavy
down strikers with the Winchester Repeating
according to information reaching the Daily Worker.
One plant reported have placed order for 1000
the
This information confirmed reports
Laugn Aquppa Pa declaring that
milton rifles being unloaded In the plant
Pittsburgh thugs being heavily armed against strikers
Other steel mills likewise storing virtual repeat
Ambridge
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-21

other pickets were reading the Daily
Worker, and Mr.. Jim Dixon, super
intendent of the three colleries, pulls
over with big Nash eight sedan and
thought it was the Morning Record,
and he said, Did you see what
johnson has for you men. If you go
back to work he'll take care of you"
And then he began to give the work
ers the old line, IF you don't go
back to work we will lose our orders"
etc. Trying to fool the workers back
to work at starvation wages, but the
workers told him to leg it and he did.
Now is the time the workers should
have their demands endorsed and
carry on the fight until their demands
are won.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-21

but the mines are paralyzed.
The Pine Ridge and Laurel Run
mines Of the same company they
are picketing 100 per cent; the
trouble is that the D. 81 H. Coal Co.
is getting coal from Prospect Conlons
and other mines and filling out Or
ders, but Cappelini and Maloney,
leaders Of the so-called anthracite
miners Of Pennsylvania. say they in
tend to pull out the whole anthracite,
but they will not do it unless forced,
because they are not there for the
interest Of the workers, they are
there for themselves and the bosses.
And as was on the picket line
this morning, President Andrew
Rushnak of Pine Ridge local and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-21
Pagan Drives Avella
Miners Back to Work
With No Terms Stated
BY a Mine Worker Correxnond.nt

BY a Mine Worker Correspondent
STUDA, Pa-Well, the Avella min
ers are working, because the miners
got word from Pagan to go back to
work, that everything was settled and
signed. But the rank and file miners
are not satisfied.
And the miners don't know what
they are getting paid yet. They are
Just taking a chance till pay day, and
that is the only way they will find
out.
The miners will come out again If
the miners from different places
come over here and picket the mines.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-21

gangs:ers, they we're not able to
speak As soon as the meeting opened
from all sides came the voices. mo
work until Coke Region goes back"
Our local made good for its mis-
take. AS soon as the opportunity pre-
sents itself, we will call Mr.. Pagan
to an accounting and give him his
passport from the UM.W.A.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-21

HAVERHILL, Mass.-The Haver-
hill, Mass, unit, realizing the Daily
Workers urgent need for funds
challenges Section 2 of Detroit l.
The challenge reads: Section 2 Of
District l has about ten times as
many members as cur unit, but its
quota Of $500 is only four times as
big as cur $50 quota. Nevertheless,
we challenge Section to enter into
Socialist competition with us, and We
warn them they will need to step
lively If they accept this challenge.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-21
Must Put Up Timber
For Nothing at Harriet
By Mine Worker Correspondent

BY Mine Worker Correspondent
CAMBRIDGE, o. - The miners
working in this field are not making
living. Those working at Harriet
must work the first eight days for
nothing. Everything they make the
company checks off. The other mines
are beginning to do the same.
We have no check weighman on the
tipple and are getting no pay for
dead work. We have to put up tim
Der for nothing. Powder and other
materials we need has reached the
wartime prices. If a miner COM
plains the boss tells him to pick his
tools up and go out.
We are getting &c a ton. But
everyone knows what the company
ton is. The Blue Eagle is not help
ing the miners a bit. They tell us
to buy now. But how in the hell
are we going to buy when We do not
have any money?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-21

guns in readiness. simultaneously,
a striker nearest the sheriff gets a
violent whack on the head. (AI
movie critic reported that "you
could distinctly hear the cracking of
the skull under the club.")
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-21

As the strikers start to dis
perse, the deputies rush the men,
beating them over their heads,
legs and shoulders; in another
second the guns of the deputies
blaze and the strikers are fleeing
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-21
Daily Worker Strengthens
Determination of Miners

MINERS HILL, PaThe state police teOzing
the Delaware
to
the workers With their children
with the the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-21
MOntOur 10 Mine Local Holds
Solid Despite Fagan's Tricks
BY a Mine Worker Correspondent

LIBRARY Pa-Since June the Montour 10
the general wakout began September
We picketed mines pulled them
Clarion to picket the steel mills We also decided
Region
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-21

He urged the local presidents and
active lr9-'bers to open their char
tiers and take into their locals all
the real good union man regardless
The Washington times., 1933-08-14
Hobos Draft Code, Demand
Cents An Hour Wage
MISS MARIE BENSOr

triouS, legitimate. and inde-
pendent, although itinerant.
So as travelling workmen they
voted to submit their own code
under the National Recovery act.
The provisions are brief, some Of
which are:
"HObos will not work in res
taurants if by doing so they de-
prive married men or work. No
real hobo ever took such job.
"HObOs will not clean snow
and ice off sidewalks or shovel
coal for less than so cents an
hour, nor will they wash win
dOws for less than that rate"
The hobo code has its mini
mum wage and maximum hour
provisions to fit the peculiar labor
problems of the average member.
Davis explained.
"A hobo travels to find work,
instead Of staying in one spot.
He is not dependent on charity
like a bum or tramp.
"We're gra d ualIy getting
there. In demanding this code,
hObOS only want justice, not
charity"
The Washington times., 1933-08-14
ADVERTISER EMIT
ADVERTISEMENT
One Cent a Day
Brings $1OO a Month
Over One-Half Million Dollars AL.
ready Paid in Cash Benefits

One cent a day 1855 per Year,,
invested in a National Protective
Policy, will now buy more insur.
ance benefits than can be secured
from any other Company for any
amount up to $40 per year.
This new policy. paying benefits
up to $100 each month or $1,000 to
$1,000 at death, is now being sold
to all men, women and children, be.
tween the ages of Z and 80 years,
whether employed or not.
The benefits for auto accidents
of 500 a month Gnstead of the
usual $50 a month) is said by many
to be alone worth the entire cost of
1856 per year. Yet this is but one
of the many features Of this new
and unusual policy.
The National Protective is the largest
and oldest company of its kind in the
,OOrld. 1t has paid ouer sir hundred
sirtV thousand dollars 1880. .O00.0Ol in
cash to thousands of its pOlicvhoIders
tChen cash a0GS most needed.
Send No Money
For 10 days free inspection Of
policy. simply send name, age, ad.
dress. beneficiary's name and rela.
tionship to National Protective In.
surance Co.. 4O6 Pickwick Building,
Kansas City. Mo. No medical ex.
animation or other red tape After
reading policy, which will be mailed
to you. either return it or send
1855 which pays you up for a
whole year-365 days. Send today
while offer Is still open.
The Washington times., 1933-08-14
FLOYD WILDER
RITES TONIGHT

NEW YORK, Aug. IA U.s),
Funeral services will be held to-
night for Floyd E. Wilder,
executive Of the Hearst organiza
tion, who died Saturday after ar
illness Of several weeks. Buria,
viii be in Mt Hope Cemetery,
Westchester.
Wilder, who had long expert
ence in newspaper and magazine
work, was production manager in
charge of printing Of Hearst mag
azines and of the Eastern division
Of the American Weekly and
Hearst colored comic papers.
He was born at Wakoosta, Michi'
gan, in 1877, son of Jason Wilder
and Louisa Tyler, descendant OF
President Tyler.
He enlisted during the Spanish
American War, served in the Phil
tppines, and later was a captain
of Infantry, Fourteenth Regiment,
New York National Guard.
For Is years he served with the
p. F. Collier publications. He was
also connected with the Conde
Mast publications, and then joined
the International Magazine Com
pany.
The Washington times., 1933-08-14
Johnson Refuses To Pay
Hotel Bill In Advance

reporter readily assured the clerk
that General johnson was no one
else but General johnson.
Then, the clerk-a stickler for
the rules of busniess-noticed
that the general had no lug
gage and told him he would have
to pay in advance.
The General, who was plenty
tired after a flight from st.
Louis, where he made an address
last night, had more than he
could stand by this time.
He turned on his heel and
walked out Of the hotel.
At the next hotel, the Cen
eral was welcomed ION credit" 4"
and he retired, calling for a
toothbrush as he went to his
room.
Gen. Johnson left Dayton by
airplane at TIT a. m.
The Washington times., 1933-08-14
JAIL
j, 8, SAILOR

BERLIN, Aug. IA GNSO.-The
United States Consul General to-
day was expected to send a rep
resentatiYe to Stettin to investi-
gate the case Of Torsten T. John
son, an American sailor jailed for
six months on charges he said
Chancellor Adolf Hitler is "a
Czech and a jew"
American officials expressed
amazement over the severity Of
the sentence.
Prior to his trial, johnson
wrote to the consulate denying
the statement attributed to him.
johnson, who said he spoke poor
German. maintained he merely
stated that "Czechs and Jews do
not like Hitler
The Washington times., 1933-08-14
j. 8. PAY GU rs
ARE HIT

The American Federation of
Government Employees announces
today that beginning with the
current issue the Trades Union
News will be the organizations
official organ.
The News, in announcing its
affiliation with the group, calls
attention to the need of protec-
ton of Federal workers under
the same standards as those in
vogue for workers in industry,
and its leading editorial says, in
part:
'Uncle Sam il elOquentIy
pleading the cause Of the tOilers
Of the nation under the high
promises of the National RecoV-
cry Act. We are impressed
with the conclusion that Uncle
Sam give consideration to the
argument that he prove his
high interest in the NRA by
demonstrating the very finest
qualities as an employer of
labor.
eff it is important that EN-.
plOyers acquire the Blue Eagle,
it is especially important that
Uncle Sam display the Blue
Eagle himself, in his multiple
ity of workshops from the Ca
madam border down to the
Gulf Of Mexico"
The editorial goes on to say
that one can't be simultaneously
a Guardian Angel and a Simon
Legree, and asserts that the worst
possible propaganda for the NRA
crusade is in Uncle Sans wage
Slashings. 1t adds:
zone can't blame industry
for tagging when Uncle Sam
set such a bad example him
SELF"
The Trades Union News is one
Of the Oldest trade union papers
in the United States. It is pub
liShed in Philadelphia.
The Washington times., 1933-08-14
LAMSON FEARS
DEATH TRIAL

SAN JOSE. Cal, Aug. IA
G.N.S). - Visions of innocent
men hanged or placed in prison
for life today disturbed David A.
Lamson, charged with the Stan
ford campus "bathtub murder"
Of his pretty wife, Allene.
Slated to go to trial here next
Monday in Superior Court, Lam
son reviewed the States case in
his cell in the old Santa Clara
county Jail while his attorney.
E. A. Rea, pointed out "how easy
it is for justice to miscarry."
The authorities meanwhile
continued to search for John P.
Emmerson, who wrote a letter
claiming that he heard a "big
negro itinerant" confess to Mrs.
LamSon's Staying.
The Washington times., 1933-08-14
LdLUE1S Donated
To Widen Street

Twelve property owners along
East Capitol Street nave indicated
a willingness to donate an 11.foot
strip of their front lawns to pro-
vide for the widening of the thor
oughfare from so feet to 72, it
was stated by H. P. Cammerer,
secretary to the Fine Arts Com
mission, and they will not be paid
for the land.
The property belongs to the
Government, as the right of way
for East Copitol Street is 100 feet
wide. Owners of adjacent prop
erty had taken in the abutting
strips of right of way for beauti'
fication,
The Washington times., 1933-08-14
AMY MOLL|SON
T0V|S|T HERE

Mrs. Amy Mollison, famed Brit
ash woman flier who with her hus-
band recently spanned the At
lantic, will arrive in Washington
tomorrow afternoon for two-day
visit and will be the guest Of honor
at a reception to be held by the
National Geographic Society.
Mrs. Mollison, who is accom-
panied by Miss Elvy Kalep, noted
Esthonian flier, will be greeted
at the airport by DR.. John Oliver
La Gorce, vice president Of the
Geographic Society.
Officials of the rBitish Embassy
and the Esthonian Legation.
have been invited to attend the
reception.
Mrs. Mollison had her first view
Of Washington for few minutes
yesterday from washington Air
port while flying from New York
to Atlanta.
She was high in her praise of
the manner in which the Ameri-
can transport planes are handled
in the air and at the terminals.
The Washington times., 1933-08-14
LARGE OFFICES
To Be SH|F TED

Two major moves of admins
trative offices will be made this
week by the Public Buildings Com
mission under the direction Of
n. A. Candland, executive Sec
retary.
The Tennessee Valley Authority
will move into Tempo F, Seventh
Street at the Mall, on Wednesday
or. as soon as building repairs are
completed. The Authority will
be given 10000 square feet Of
office space in the new quarters.
Instead of moving into the new
Commerce Building as previously
planned, the United States Ship
ping Board will be concentrated
on the first, second and third
floors front of the Navy Building,
contracting its space to 100000
square feet to make room for the
Federal Sterilization Board.