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visitor at Guaymas this week.
Julio Ullman returned from q
short trip to Tucson Saturday.
Mrs. E. J. Gibson is visiting
friends>in Quay mas this week.
Mrs. Chas. Walton is here on
q short visit from Minas Prietas.
The S. P. pay car came 10 this
morning and the railroad boys
are happy.
Deputy Collector Jas 2. Welsh
is ever from Buenos Ayres on
customs business.
r. &C. Earl, of the El Paso
smelling works, was in Nogales
Saturday on business.
Frank M. Crocker, U. S. con-
sular agent at Guaymas, was q
Nogales visitor Monday.
The John Wilson building has
been cut to the line of the street
aud a fine brick front put in.
Mrs. P. J. Zeimet expects to
leave for the east tomorrow to
visit her mother who is quite
i'll.
Work will soon begin on the
kindergarten school building
next to the Congregational
church.
Arturo Morales. one of the
big wholesale aud retail mer
chants Of Guaymas, was in town
Tuesday.
Jake Linder, son of A. J. Lin
der, has returned from Tucson
where be has been attending the
University.
Col. ". z. Harlow IFS been 10
San Francisco this week on bust
ness and will leave there for
home this afternoon on the flyer.
Mr., and Mrs. Ramon Nasquez
have moved into their new cot.
tage. This is one Of the neatest
and most modern cottages in
Nogales.
Eight horses belonging to
Wells Fargo and Co. we're stolen
out of . pasture near Benson
last week and they have not
since been heard from.
j. B. Mix was unanimously
chosen school trustee at last
weeks election. No one ran
against Mr.. Mix as be has given
universal satisfaction as trustee.
Pedro Trelles of the Esperanza
& La Francisco Mining Co., was
in NoRales Monday to meet some
New York stockholders. The
mill there is almost ready to
start up.
Mrs. ]. Monroe and her son,
George, arrived Saturday morn
ing from Tampico,in Old Mexico
and will remain in Nogales for
some time visiting her daughter,
Mrs. ]. B. Gordon,
Wu. II. Layer and Jimmie
Fisher of the Sonora News Co.,
are in NoEales from the City of
Mexico. Both gentlemen have
hosts Of friends in the Line City
who are glad to welcome them
back.
Col. Robert Williams has re.
ceived his new bar from San
Francisco and is having it pc:
in place. This is one of the
finest bars ever brought to the
Territory of Arizona. 1t is an.
tiQue oak and elegantly finished.
The ''Parlor'. with Mrs. Dia-
mond as the leading musical at
sfaction, is the most popular re
sort OF its kind ia Nogales.
Choice wines. sano cigars and
courteous treatment always. re
ceived at the 'Parlor" +
Harry Caraway, the cattle
prince, who has been in Nogales
several days on business. last
Monday purchased the elegant
team OF black trotters recently
brought here by Horsemau al.
bright, from his Salt River Val
ley stock farm.
John Dessart has commenced
work on his new building that is
to be occupied by the InterDa.
tional bank and the two stores
Of the Arizona Commercial Co.
THE building will be iron and
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DO YOU REMEMBER NOGALES-
50 YEARS AGO MAR. "a, 1893?
(THE BORDER VIDETTE)
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Jose Elias. presideute 'ot No
gales, Sonora, has returned from
Cananea, where he accompanied
Governor Rodolfo Elias Gales
OF Sonora, who left here Wed
nesday for Ensenads, B. c., by
Airplane piioted W Q. r. Titus.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-15
Miners Get Raise
On Store Prices
(By a Mine Worker Correspondent

by Mine Worker Correspondent
EAST BECKLEY, w. Val have
been a miner for 18 years. I am a
Sprague slave. 1t is hard to subscribe
for the Daily Worker here because
the post Office is in the company
store, and the super might see or read
it. have been trying to build the
National Miners Union for the last
3 months and have group started
Of white and colored.
Those who live in the company
house pour in s12 a month rent,
lights from $3.50 up to "a, water 81
per month, coal 50 a load, about half
a ton, supposed to be / ton. Those
who own their own homes have to
trade in the company store. Each
man In camp must whitewash his
fence on both sides, and all trees and
telephone poles close by. About 30
to 40 hours work every summer, keep
the lawn moved, or 1t will be moved
for you and charged against YOU.
Prices in the company store are high
and we are cheated even on our low
prices tor tonnage.
This is the New River Coal Co:
or Cranberry Fuel Co. IA big mines
at different camps. The workers
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inches. You ask how much you
gonna give me for this? IS cents an
inch. Where is your ruler or tape?"
oh, he says, the fashions come
out we don't have to carry them no
more" I says-"I hape your eye
sight insn't bad."-"No," he says, at
isn't bad, but it's just the way we've
gotta do it. If we give you the right
inches on that slate we get kicked
I Says-"kick or not, damn it, I de-
serve every cent of my work. If I
work like a damn mule every day"
There is 5 or 6 of us committees been
running around at the camp there
and see what the men would do about
coming out, about 50 per cent is
ready to come out.
Waters (emplOyed from POwhat-
ton Mine, Ohio TIN representing
the miners from Powhattan mine in
Eastern Ohio. 1t employs about 900
men at the present time. Last week
the mining officials counterfeited
some money at least that's what we
claim. They made a new system OF
scrip due to the banking holiday they
said. o ut Of these 900 miners, 4
took scrip, all the rest refused to
take it. 1t looked like a strike, at
least the men felt we'd strike against
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-15

ever, was headed by Pocine, Noon
and Dester, who paved the way for
a reduction In the days and also q
so cents cut. And now the mayor
has announced he will put over so
cent cut to start May l.
Workers, welfare workers, you all
know that we looked to Messrs. Po-
cine g. Co. to lead US, and they put
over wage cuts. We can expect the
same thing again If we rely on them.
because they work hand in glove with
the Welfare officials and. have pro-,
missed them not to use the only effec-
tive weapon held by the workers to
put stop to relief reduction.
Workers, to defeat the cut, We
must take the leadership ourselves,
we must elect committees on each
job and prepare to take action on
May First. Such demonstration.
a strike, or mass action is the only
way to defeat the coming wage cut.
Workers, Negro and white, demand
no reduction in pay, join the Unem-
ployed Council of the Trade Union
Unity League.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-15
United Mine Workers
Locals Recognize
Unemployed Council
lBy a Mine Worker Correspondentl

by a Mine Worker Correspondent
SHENANDOAH, Pa.-The Unem-
ployed Council has been functioning
now for about eight months, and they
won many demands. 1t is the talk of
the anthracite. The youth participate
the same as the adults, and recently
there were four youth delegates elect
ed to the Unemployed Council con-
ference held April 4 to prepare for
a county hunger march to Pottsville.
The Relief Board in its distribu-
ton of shoes. clothes. and milk. mott
fies the Unemployed Council first, and
asks them to send down the people
who need such things the most.
The young fellows are Just as in
terested in the meeting that the
Council holds every Tuesday at 1880
pm, as the adults, and participate
in fighting for the cases.
The locals of the United Mine
Workers recognize the Shenandoah
Unemployed Council. The U.MWA.
sub-district recognizes and partici-
pates in the Unemployed Council
meetings and its activity.
The Unemployed Council has two
delegates present at the sub-district
Of the U.M.WA., and the sub-district
sends two delegates to be present at
the Unemployed Council meetings,
s.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-15
STRIKING MINERS DETERMINED TO
CONTINUE DESPITE COMPANY TRICKS

by a Mine Worker Correspondent
AVELLA, Pa. - On April l over
100 miners struck at the Burgetts-
town Coal Companys mine in Avella
for the demands that were adopted
by the United Front Conference on
March 10, and additional local de-
mands. These were presented to the
company on April 6.
The company answered they could
not grant the demands, and would
close the mine. The strike is con-
tinuing to force the company to grant
the demands. RumorS have it that
this mine has leased the Bulger Block
Mine in Bulger, Pa, which in turn
recently bought the Bertha Mine OF
the Bertha Consumers Coal Co.
On April l, $50 miners Of the Bull
ger Block Mine struck 100 per cent,
and presented their demands to the
super on April Z. His answer was
that the men were asking too much
and it was impossible even now to
pay bills and operate the mine. To
prove this he showed the commit
tee, elected by the miners, an cleo
demands are granted The commit
tee went back to notify the super
who told us to get our tools as he
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-15
DOLLAR DROPS
ON NT'L MARKET
Commodity Prices Rise
Wheat Makes High

The value Of the dollar in terms of
other currencies fell to the lowest
level In years yesterday. At the pres
ent levels it is profitable for the banks
to ship gold to Europe. Since an
embargo exists on the export of gold
except for proper purposes" 1t is not
known how much gold will be ex-
ported. The New York Federal Re-
serve Bank announced that a license
had been granted for the shipment
of gold to Holland. The amount of
the shipment has not yet been an
nounced.
Despite the fact that certain tech
nical factors made it possible for the
dollar to drop so sharply, neverthe-
less, the drop in the dollar is tied up
with the steady growth of the forces
that are making for initiation. The
demand for initiation is increasing
in Congress. Premier Bennett of Ca
NADIA will offer a plan to Roosevelt
which will raise world prices more
than 80 percent. The Roosevelt ad-
ministration is gradually showing
that it intends to initiate credit thru
various bond exchange schemes.
Large buying developed on the
wheat markets sending wheat to the
highests price it has reached this
season, 7l1s cents per bushel. Com
modify prices all along the line
showed gains in price. Commodity
prices have been advancing since the
middle of March.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-15
MINERS READINESS TO UNITE FOR STRUGGLE
SHOWN IN REPORTS TO UNITED FRONT MEET

in 1t is liable to go off and this brings
forcibly to our mind that there is
great need for struggle on the first
day of April in this mine in parti-
cular. This system is being developed
i nthe state all over Eastern Ohio,
it means this, that every day these
900 men in Powhatten mines, goes
into this mine they are in danger
of being bowed up and coal dust is
the most dangerous gas we encounter.
Flora Misomich (Bentleyville Wom-
ems Auxiliary N. M. ". So far there
has been nothing said about women,
so it is up to me to bring up the
women and what they help to do
with the men. I represent the ladies
auxiliary We have a membership of
IS and also 20 good standing mmberS.
The women are all kood when strike
comes out to go on the picket line
just as well as the men. And also the
women are good for collecting relief
on the Hunger March and every
where, and I don't know why they
keep the women out SO far. And also
the women know more than the men
what they need for collecting relief
for the children and what they need
in the house.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-15
Exploited Prison Labor in
Milwaukee Cuts Pay Outside

or the 1900 prisoners in the Mil
Waukee County House of Correction,
some 600 are employed in the prison
factory, making chairs and other fur
niture. This prison, located on a
large county farm on the northwest
edge of Milwaukee, holds six political
prisoners who were arrested in 1892.
A Milwaukee furniture company,
headed by Frank Klode, owns the
machinery and the materials in the
workshop and markets the manufac-
lures. Although the House of Cor
rection is under the jurisdiction of
the 20 members of the County Board
of Supervisors-nine of whom are
sOcialists-Klode is reputed to be the
real boss of the workshop. That his
company is raking in large profits, is
seen by the fact that while thousands
Of Wisconsin furniture workers are
completely jobleSs or working part
time, the Workhouse has been operat-
ing at top speed.
Cuts Wages Outside.
The effect of the prison labor on
outside workers is seen in the 10
cents an hour wage now being paid in
furniture factories of Fox River val
ley, Wisconsin. The Fair, Hess Bros.
in Chicago and Bullock's in Los
Angeles are among the department
stores and furniture companies which
have placed orders with the Milwau-
zee County House Of Correction.
These facts, and the others which
follow, go along in bearing out the
facts revealed in Walter Wilson'S
recent book, Forced Labor in the
United States international Publish
ersl, from which few excerpts ran
serially in the Daily Worker recently
SIS for Any Number of Years.
For the labor of the prisoners in
the Milwaukee County House of Cor
rection Klode's company pays the
county so cents per person per day
but at the same time receives a sub
sidy from the county. The prison
workers who are serving less than a
year, however get no wages. Those
serving for year or longer, get a
fixed sum of SIS for the entire period
On entering the factory, a prisoner
is asked" to sign statement assum-
ing responsibility for whatever may
happen. No compensation can be
collected for injuries; the workshop
does not come under the jurisdiction
of the Wisconsin Industrial Commits
sion Should prisoner refuse to
sign the statement, he is denied such
privileges" as visitors and writing
and is held in a cell alone.
Prison Tyranny.
Within the prison walls, the author
titles exert supreme power. No talk
ing is allowed during work time.
There are host of unwritten rules
which prisoner may infringe. For
refusing to work at dangerous ma
chine, for being too slow or too care
full, or for even looking around at
the wrong time, a prisoner may be
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-15

was going to close the mine This
trio bill which he claimed he was
unable to pay. He instructed the
committee to report back to the men
that they go back under the con-
Gitions they came out or he'd junk
the mine. When asked about grant,
ing a checkweighman, he said he
could not do this as the other oper-
ators would raise hell.
The miners, on hearing the report,
voted to continue to strike till the
means that the strike has been turn
ed into a lockout. The miners i'm
mediately elected q committee to de-
mand relief from the Washington
County officials.
The miners at the Bertha Mine
Of the Bertha Consumer Coal Co.,
which has recently been sold or leas-
ed by the Bulger Block Coal Co.,
came out on strike 2 or weeks ago
for back pay and a checkweighman.
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this scrip situation. That nsant that
the men had to deal in tbs company
store and the prices during that week
end had raised anywhere from 20
to so per cent since they issued scrip
and this scrip was. payable only to
company store.
This mine belongs TO the Pitts
burgh Terminal Coal Co. and in the
past two weeks they have put condi-
lions on the men, extra conditions,
which the men is fighting against,
but cannot come out due to the terror
that is in the mines, they cannot
come out in the open, but despite the
terror and everything else they come
out in the open and fought against
the scrip. This is a great issue and
the men are ready to fight on it. And
in my opinion still ready to fight
when it comes April LIST with issues
bigger than merely scrip.
The Powhatton Coal Mining Co.
was the first company to make the
system of throwing coal dust bog
into COB You know this is dan
gerous condition. The condition of
the coal dust in the mine means that
without taking precautions as pres
cribed by the u. S. Bureau of Mining,
in trying to avert an explosion, it
means that the mine with 900 men
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-15

At the United Front Conference
Of Miners in Pittsburgh on March
18th called by the National Miners
Union the miners s'ioWed determine
tion to struggle against the pauper
wages and unemployment. They re-
solved to fight for wage increases.
They pledged TO go back to the mines
and develop struggles. Since then
mines in Pennsylvania and Ohio have
come out on strike and are carrying
on valiant fight in the face of
many odds. Here are few of the re-
ports of rank and file miners to the
conference;
ike Johns (Studa Nine. I amt
much of a speaker, comrades, but I
have come here to say this, that
bunch CT us men are working over
there at Studa mine, we're working
in water and big slate. 7 guess that
is about the only mine that has re-
ally an honest to goodness horse
laugh Well, I am working in the
entry, and the boss, he. comes up
there and instead Of taking a meas
ure or ruler, he'll take look up at
the slate and he'll mark down the
way he's he's been marking them
down for them always. If it's about
5 foot, he'll mark down Is or l6
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-15

inmates we're entirely without pris-
oner-doctor when such one was re-
leased. Should 1t serve the doctors
whim not to bother with prisoner,
the latter may be punished for
Sinking work..
Prosecute Political. Prisoners.
Carl Lester, Ben Fifer and four
other leaders of the South Side IN
employed Council are the political
prisoners who were sentenced to serve
total of al months in the Milwaukee
it was denied by socialists and others
that they are political, prisoners, the
fact remains that their sole crime was
resistance to police terror against the
demonstration which had been called
to win food and relief for families
who had been refused assistance.
But the deputies and guards recog-
nize them as politicals, Thus, while
no papers are allowed in. prison, every
Sunday capitalist papers. are sold,
At the same time the Daily Worker"
is barred from these prisoners. Trash
such as "True Stories" and the like
is allowed in the prison, but not the
Labor Defender, 'fThe Communist"
and other working class journals.
Despite these conditions, we have
heard no protest by the socialist Of
f1cials who help to supervise this
prison, nor by the socialist guard.
-Four of these socialist. supervisors
are prominent A. r. Of L. members
in Milwaukee. Neither the many re-
solutions against prison labor by tho
A. F. of l.. nor their standing as $50
cialists" has resulted in even the
nildest criticism of conditions by
these men who pretend to serve the
workers interests. On the contrary,
this is part of the socialism" OF
which they boast in Milwaukee.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-15
The Workers and the
Communist Party
WHY MINERS SHOULD JOIN

The question miner
and keep
the continuous cuts the official
administration that dollar day is the
American Build united
fea the bosses attacks This the miners in sections of the
are now doing the preparations April
But leading this struggle? National
A.
Union stand foremost Who active
and in these oppotions the members the
The Communist the mining n
struggles of the operators
represents the interests Of the well the whole
immediate
All MILITANT workers should therefore the
Communist Party
Get IN
Central Office Station us
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punished. The "hole"-solitary con-
f1nement-awaits these as well as
others who incur the displeasuue of
the prison officials. Being placed in
the hole means from five to ten days
On bread and water.
Stool pigeons and favorites, of
course, get the best jobs. These are
mostly on the prison farm whose pro-
duce is used partly for the prisoners,
but mostly by VIM. j. Momsen, the
warden, and his family. No one
knows just how the surplus is dis
posed of. Momsen nets a salary of
over $4,000 a year, and a palatial
residence and living expenses pro-
vided by the county. Women prison.
ers act as servants for him and his
family.
Jim-CrOw the Negroes.
Negroes are jim-crowed in a sep
arate dornitory where Mexicans,
foreign-born workers and political
prisoners are sometimes held for
slight attractions of the rules. These
workers are given the dirtiest jobs.
Ill feeling among them is consciously
melted by the prison authorities who
place their favorites over the others
as bosses; foster divisions between
native and foreign-born, and between
Negroes and whites.
One of the guards is a member Of
the Socialist County Committee. Yet
neither he nor the nine socialist
supervisors have been known to pro-
test against this discrimination.
Medical Facilities"
One doctor is now supposed to be
taking care of the 1900 prisoners,
although he spends only part of his
time there. At other times doctors
who happen to have been arrested
for drunkenness or the like assist in
giving the prisoners what passes as
medical attention. At one time, the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-15
FRAME ORGANIZER
OF FOOD UNION TO.
LONG JAIL TERM
Wave of Frame-Ups
Part of Boss Plan
to Smash Strikes

NEW YORk.-Pedro Martinez, or
ganizer Of the Cafeteria Department
of the Food Workers Industrial
Union was sentenced Wednesday to
the penitentiary for months to 8
years on framed-up charge of mali
ciouS mischief. This case arose as a
result of the strike at the Adele Ca
feteria at 7th Street and End Avenue
where the boss had taken out an in
junction against the union and the
strikers.
Although two witnesses testified
that Martinez was asleep in bed in
his home at the time that the So
called malicious mischief" was done,
their testimony was not considered
by the three judges sitting in special
sessions. The witnesses brought by
the boss testified that they saw Mar
tinez commit the act They are all
relatives Of the boss.
In connection with the same case,
another worker, John Mirabel, was
given the same sentence on a framed
charge Of third degree assault. AL
ready two workers, George Ruby and
H. Sanchez, have served 80 days each
in the same case. Three more work
ers arrested on similar charges will
come up for trial next week. They
are Harrington, Mishnaetz, and Bur-
gas.
These frame-ups are not isolated
events. The bosses of the cafeterias
and the Bosses Association, having
seen the victories of the Food Work
ers Industrial Union recently in de-
feating the Foltis- Fischer contempt
of court order and the Foltis- Fischer
injunction, are now using the tactics
of framing workers and their leaders
in order to try to break the Foltis
strike. However, both the strikers
and the Food Workers Industrial
Union have expressed determination
to fight to the end.