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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-18

crease Of 10 per cent on Saturday.
The management Of the plant pre-
pared to resist the demands of the
men. The plant was picketed and
some men we're induced to become
scabs. Seeing this, ting pickets mobi-
Lied all the workers immediately
available and entered and took pos
session Of the plant.
Call Sheriff
Geo. HORNED Jr., called the sheriff
and his deputies but before that Off
cial got to the plant, all the man
aging officials and the would be scabs
were elected. The sheriff, attended
by a force of deputies, was allowed
to enter, and on his order to vacate
the building being given, the strikers
answered him by bursts of laughter.
The sheriff then tried to deputize
force of thugs, but failed. He called
up the Governor, pointing out that he
could not eject the strikers, and asked
for the state militia.
CONSERVATION and Dismay
When the Governor received this
message, he called in his labor adj
yisors. They were thrown into a
state Of CONSERVATION and dismay.
They could not control the workers
through the Minnesota Federation of
Labor, because the union was indie
pendent, and not affiliated with the
A. F. of Il. 1t was decided to send
Frank Starkey, reactionary ex-busi-
ness agent of the milk drivers union
and secretary Of the st. Paul Central
Labor Union, but now Industrial
Commissioner in the Olson admins
tration, to Austen, to talk the strikers
out Of the plant.
Starkey Fails
Starkey arrived Sunday and spoke
for hours to the men in a vain en-
deavor to get them to vacate the
plant. He promised everything and
got the HORNED Company to consent
to arbitration by the Industrial Com
mission if the strikers gave back the
plant to the management.
When Starkey failed to
persuade the workers to abandon the
HORNED building he reported to Gov
ernor Olson.
Olson Goes to Austin
Meanwhile the big bankers and the
state employers had begun to bring
pressure on Olson. John Devaney,
liason officer between the banking
and employer interests and O}son..
who collected gigantic campaign
fund to elect the Governor, was
pressed into service. Devaney is re-
garded as the Boss of the Farmer
Labor Administration and recently
had himself appointed Chief Justice
Of the state. The result was, that
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-18

children are picking coal on the
rock piles to keep from freezing, we
should demand that the Government
buy $15,OO0,00O worth of anthracite
to put miners back to work, and give
the coal free to the unemployed.
Miners these are the things that we
must have now, there will be no code
made that viii give us these de-
mandS, we will have to fight for them
the miners who are still in the u.
M. w. of A. and the miners who are
in the U. A. M. P. must fight to-
gether for their demands, the OFF,
Gals of neither union viii fight for
these demands; do not let our forces
be divided as to who we are going to
pay dues too. whether it Is Maloney
and Cappelini, or BoyIan and Lewis.
Close your ranks fellow mine work.
ers and when we strike let us strike
for our demands and against the
coal operators. Get In touch with the
Committee of Action, 30s N. Main
ST., Archibald, Pa.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-18

Olson, accompanied by some A. F.
of L. men, set out by automobile, in
a binding snowstorn, for Austin. He
arrived Sunday night. Addressing a
meeting of the strikers he told of
how he was a worker in a freight
house and how his heart bled for the
tribulations of the men who toll. He
was their friend but he could not do
anything until they evacuated the
plant. He was Mortified at the idea
of breaking the law and Selling the
plant. AS he gained sympathy and
saw the tears come to the eyes of
some of the women workers, he said
he would have to enforce the law.
He had the State Adjutant of the
Militia with him. and Adjutant Walsh
stepped out and said he had given
mobilization orders for five companies
Of the National Guard.
While he made some impression on
the workers, they knew that they
would lose the edge by evacuating the
liant. Committees were appointed.
and Olson conferred with them all
night. Finally the strikers agreed to
leave the building and restore the
control of the plant to the Horned
Company, provided that an arbitra-
ton committee would be set, but that
there would be no walk out. The
agreement was received with glee by
the HORNED Company.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-18

Times Leader, who had been carry
ing full page ads for the Delaware
& Hudson Coal Co. for scabs to take
the place Of the striking coal miners.
Another who represents the N. r. A.
in this district is Comerford, owner
of chain of picture shows through
out the anthracite, and last but not
least the same Father Curran who
carried through the program under
Teddy Roosevelt Of giving the miners
Of the anthracite the first arbitra-
ton clause in any agreement of the
anthracite miners was particularly
effective with his humanitarian ap-
peal (for peace on earth and good
will to mem.
Father Curran had issued leaf
let to his pa-ishioners In the morning
before the miners had voted on the
question in which he stated that the
strike of the miners was over, and
appealed to the general public to
rive thanks.
Personally I was just sick that we
did not have one delegate that would
carry our program into the conven-
ton. There was one delegate that
we thought we had who could have
done the job, but he was nowhere to
be found before the convention.
There was a real ..sson for Us we're
in the anthracite, that hope will
not be lost, that If we had done any
thing to carry out the line Of the
open loStc.i about il2 building Of
groups of committees of action or
whatever we wish to call them, then
"a c"'''d hava MT I'D some kind of
struggle In the convention.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-18
Workers
Strike in Russian
White Guard Firm

STRATFORD, Conn, Nov. 1.-THE
strike of over q hundred workers en-
ployed in the Sikorsky plant Of the
United Aircraft and Transport Com
pany, located in Stratford, Conn,
(adjoining Bridgeport, is continuing
in full force despite the statements of
the company officials that the plant
is in normal operation. Work has
been interrupted on, the construction
of the worlds largest amphibian
plane, scheduled for completion by
the end Of this month.
About IS white guard Russians
make up the group Of scabs who are
trying to keep the Sikorsky plant 60
ing in spite of the strike.
The strikers who have just formed
an Aeronautical Workers Union, affi-
lated to the A. F. of L., charge that
Sikorsky and his clique of white Rus
slams, keep down the wages Of all
other workers to the starvation point
but pay a higher scale to members
of the clique. The strikers also charge
the -Bolshevik Russian officials
of the plant with gross mismanage-
ment and discrimination at the ex-
pense. of the non-white guard
workers.
The N.R.A. administrators in this
district are cn;seling into the strike
with the announced intention of
sending the men back to work with
out their demands being met, under
the guise of arbitration. But the
leaders of the strike who come from
the ranks of the workers, have served
notice that they will stay out until
they win their demand for general
90 per cent wage increase and the
abolition of the White Guard Rus
sian cliquism.\
In an attempt to terrorize the
strikers and to drive them back to
work, the company got the Stratford
police to issue warrants and arrest
eleven of the strikers on framed-up
charges of breach Of peace" The
strikers by their vigorous action, how
ever, in adopting strong resolutions
of protest and by marching down to
the City Hall in a body to demand
the release Of the arrested strikers
succeeded in getting their release
without bonds for hearing later.
Egan, the labor faker at the head
OF the Connecticut Federation of La
Dor, has become alarmed at the mil
liant manner in which the workers
are conducting their strike and is al
ready preparing a sell-out agree
ment with the company on which to
send them back to work. But the
strikers, who are getting the backing
of-the Trade Union Unity League of
Bridgeport and the active assistance
of the Leagues organizer, Sam Krie-
ger, are determined to stay out until
they win their full demands.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-18
Minnesota Range
Mine Jobs Drop

(By a Mine Worker Correspondent
VIRGINIA, MINI. Every news
paper on the Range has been yelling
shout the work that the N. r. A.
has created on the Range. Still we
see that the mines are closing, and
more and more workers are being
laid off. Only last week we saw
that the Commodore mine, which has
been operating up till now, closed
tight, with no idea of how long it
will remain closed.
What are the miners of the Com
n1odore going to do now? Winter
is coming, and looking at the start
Of it, very hard winter. Even the
charity handouts, which are few and
far apart will not keep the workers
fed and clothed during the winter.
There is only one solution to this
problem, and that is the organiza-
ton Of the unemployed miners into
militant Unemployed Councils to de-
n1and more and adequate relief, and
to show Mayor Barker and the steel
trust that we refuse to starve and
freeze.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-18
NationalSlovak Society
Officers Fight Strike
BY a Mine Worker Correspondent

BY Mine Worker Correspondent
YUKON, Pain the Oct. 10 issue
of the Pittsburgh Sun Telegraph,
there was plea from the officers of
the National Slovak Society urging
all the Slovaks to go back to work
who had been on strike and to back
up the N.R.A.
But A. S. Kodak, treasurer of the
MSS, some time ago was charged
with embezzlement Of 100000 in an
attempt to break up the MSS. He
was acquitted during the trial. Now
he is trying to break up the strike
by urging the Slovaks to work
Such men as these are the ones
who back the NR.A.
A. E. Kodak was formerly cashier
of the First National Bank Of Yukon.
The workers Of Yukon know that
these persons are their misleaders of
labor.
In the town Of Whyels the miners
received Scent cut per wagon. For
merly they received 10 cents per
wagon.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-18

the plant. The lockout win not be
broadened into an effective mass
strike as was proposed by the Auto
Workers Union. If this is the case,
It will amount to virtual selI-out
Of the men, since if the demands of
the final assembly can be won then
every department can gain some
thing.
Friday and Saturday the picket
ing was purely spontaneous and I'M
organized in so far as the A. r. Of
L. leadership is concerned.
Land N. r.. A.
The leading American Federation
Of Labor officials who speak at the
strikers meeting 1aud the N. r. A.
and Roosevelt. They say that the
N. r. A. is alright, only the manu-
facturers do not abide by 1t. They
forget to point out that Charley
Nash, as a member Of the National
Automobile Chamber Of Commerce,
helped draw up the open shop auto
code, which William Green, President
of the American Federation Of Labor,
signed in his capacity as q mem
Der Of the Labor Advisory Board.
This code provides for minimum
wage of 41c per hour in q city Of
the size of Kenosha Nash was pay
ing around 43c to Ate per hour, Just
slightly above the minimum. II was
against this miserable wage level
which the Open Shop Auto Code
fully allows that the Nash workers
went on strike. Charley Nash Is
abiding by every provision of the
auto code. Why shouldn't he2 He
helped write it. He knew II was 8
slave code, or he wouldn't have Sssp-
ported it in Washington.
Draw Up Demands
The Auto Workers Union, whose
members have been quite active on
the picket line, issued call for
unity Of all the workers in the plant,
whether members Of the Omitted
Automobile Workers ian American
Federation Of Labor Union), the
Auto Workers Union, affiliated to
t. u. U. L., or completely morgan
lied. It made the following pro-
posals: ID A 35c increase In wages
for all Nash workers; ca Abolition
of the gang system; 60 Turn the
lockout into an effective mass strike;
"a Elect broad strike committee
with representatives from each de-
partment; go No settlement by de-
partments, but by shop as whole;
90 No secret arbitration, but direct
negotiations between the represen-
tatives OF the rank and file and the
management; "a No settlement by
the committee without the fullest
consultation and vote OF al the men
in the shop.
A committee Of nine representing
the workers has been appointed by
the A. F. Of L.. majority OF whom
are not workers Of the shop. but Of
ficials of the A. r. Of L. Amongst
these officials are such people as:
Lockout Committee
John Kuehnl. lawyer for Tradee
and Labor Council: Felix Olkives,
president, Trades and Labor Council;
Henry Oil, president. State Fedora
ton Of Labor-member State N. r.
A.; Paul Smith, district organizer
from Executive Council OF the A. F.
Of L.; Eugene Stauder, president,
United Automobile Workers CA r.
L. union) foundry worker.
Most Of the negotiations are being
carried on by Paul Smith, represen-
tative of the Executive Council OF
the A. F. L., whose first act in the
strike was not to consolidate the or
ganization Of the workers, but to call
for arbitration from the N. r. A.
Labor Advisory Board.
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ther were forced to buy pianos from,
which the bosses received cut in the
form of what the miners call kick
back, that the Penn Coal Co. runs
hog farm, and that miners are forced
to bu- either whole hog or a half,
paying sometimes $40 for a half hog,
with another miner buying the other
half and having to pay So because
he had job that paid him more
money. But the main grievances
came as result of the coal operators
refusing to pay the colliery rate
sheet rates. Many Of the miners
worked for eight and ten days and
received $40 TO s14, and many of
them we're in debt to the company
FOR supplies.
New Deal" Breaks Strike
The strike Is now over and the
miners have returned to work with
he promise that the MIRA. will set
up a commission that will give them
new deal. There is lot of dis
satisfaction still among the miners,
f, that was not apparent In the con-
vention when the delegates voted to
return to work. The delegates were
not allowed to bring anything on the
floor Of the convention, other than
accepting the proposal to return to
work without discrimination being
practiced against any Of the adher-
ents to the Maloney Union. OF
course the usual array of takers were
invited to soft-soap the miners into
accepting the N.R.A. program. Chief
among them were Judge Mclean,
who is the attorney for the Glen
Alden Coal Co. and Col Smith, of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-18
Docked for Dozens of Items, and Then Dues
Are Handed Over by Companies to Lewis
Gang to Pay for Strikebreaking Service

that what the miner has taken out of
his pay for given amount of edibles
each senli-monthly pay day at the
company (pluck-me) store, would keep
his family for a month if spent in
other stores. This is so because, just
as the miner is robbed of the weight
on his car of coal, SO is his wife or
children robbed on the store scale
when purchasing things for the table.
Now, the "check-off" is getting lot
OF publicity again, in connection with
union dues" through the attempts of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-18
BY TOM MYERsCoUGH

A rather vague and far from wide
spread understanding exists as to the
full meaning of the term 'check-off,
as applied to miners wages. But
this, is not to be wondered at, when
it is told that even the miners who
suffer from 1t often have to spend
considerable time to figure out the
various items checked off their pay,
before fully realizing tho extent Of
the robbery made.
But because the general opinion has
existed that the term "check-off'
applied only to union dues, there has
been little thought given to the whole
sale robbery through the check-off,
carried on by the coal operators. And
while 1t IL true that even In the days
Of the union the check-off was very
much misused, with the knowledge
and consent Of the U.M.W.A. official
dom, 1t Is more so the case today.
Let me list some of the things
checked off each miner every pay day,
so that the reader may more fully
understand some OF the reasons for
the RIGHTEOUSNESS of the miners:
company stores; mine lamp; rent;
lights; coal; hauling; doctor; black
smith; explosives; mine (brass)
checks; board; insurance: hospital;
generator; burial fund; bath house;
overdraftS.
Duck Eggs" and "Kisses"
The above listed items. which are
all attended to through the medium
Of the check-off, leave the miner in
possession Of a pay slip" on pay day,
but often without pay. 1t is from
such slips that the terms duck eggs, y
Kisses" and Snakes" are derived
and come, according to the habit of
the particular mine office clerk in
marking such completely robbed
miners pay slips. Three zero's three
crosses or crooked line, In the order
listed, being the markings to which
the above names are applied.
OF all the methods OF stealing q
miners pay, several stand out boldly.
The worst is the company store. There
the miner Is compelled to buy, at the
cost OF his job, at prices ranging from
20 to rs per cent above private store
prices. II can be safely estimated
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-18

shop.
In spite of the repeated proposal
of the Auto Workers Union for the
drawing up of definite demands for
all departments, there has been no
discussion of this question allowed.
No statement has been made by the
anti-lockout committee as to whether
they will settle for the shop IS a
whole or plan to send all the men
back if the final assembly alone wins
its demands.
Every indication is that no de-
mands will be raised for the rest Of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-18

the bosses, their government and
their union" the U.M.W.A, to impose
something on the miners and, not only
try to make them like it, but also to
make them pay for it. But the real
question this time is that of checking
the rebellious moods of the miners
with the union of Lewis and charg-
ing it up to the miners at the rate of
81 per month. This is being done
through the medium of Roosevelt's
MIRA. and, when it is considered that
Lewis, Pagan and others Of this
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-18
Farmer>Labor Governor Praised by
Bosses for Breaking Austin Strike

nor when he threatened to send five i,
companies Of the National Guard in
to Austen to eject them from the
plant.
Went on Strike Saturday
The leadership of the Independent !
Union of All Workers, which embraces
all the employees of the plant on its
membership roll was forced by the
rank and file to demand q. fat in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-18
(By q Worker Cosrespondent)

10Y WUIkcf NUlEtSpUNuCHtJ
st. PAUL.--Floyd B. Olson, demon
strated that he is q shrewd strike
breaker Monday, at the Austin plant
of the HORNED Packing Co., when he
succeeded in getting 2,700 workers to
abandon the strategic position they
held when they seized the packing
plant late last Saturday. They only
acceded to the wishes of the Cover
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-18
How 40, OAnthracite Miners
Were Forced Back to Work
(By Mine Worker Corresponden.l

WILKESBARRE, that a
section
the
presented by the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-18
5000 Austin Auto
Men Face Sellont
ByAFL Leadership
Auto Workers Union, Active in Strike, Draws
Up Demands to Make Strike Effective
And Strengthen Ranks Of Workers

KENOSHA WiAfer carefully laying ground for betrayal
strike the Nash Motor plant which out last Thursday
the final assembly line tie Federation
the without
demands Of the vast majority Of the than 5000
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-18
Heads, NRA.
9 Betray 10000 in
An thracite Field
Action Committee Calls on Miners to Organize
Fight for Own Demands, Unemployment
Insurance; Against Strikebreakers


breaking miners district with
Of that the
their They make the
statement recognition
The Washington times., 1933-06-13
STORM BREAKS
HEAT WAVE

After sweltering for the past 10
days in an unreasonable heat
wave, Washington awoke today
to find a cool summer morning.
From a high of 90 yesterday, a
day which saw one person dead
and three overcome by the heat,
the mercury tumbled to 64 de-
grees early today.
Heavy rains during the night
and steady wind that started
blowing early today served to
bring about an end to the heat.
Today will be fair and cool.
Two fires were started last
night by lightning bolts during
the terrific thunderstorms which
brought a heavy downpour of rain
and broke the heat. Windows in
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Odie
Hargett, 1000 block Newton st.
N. E., were shattered when the
house was struck. The garage at
the home of Lee Durvin, at the
Soldiers Home, was struck and
destroyed. Durvin managed to
get his machine safely out of the
burning garage.
Merrill Gooden, 81, Surrats-
vile. Md, who was overcome by
the heat at Boiling Field last Fri
day, the hottest day of the year,
died yesterday at Casualty Hos
nital
The Washington times., 1933-06-13
D. c. Hunger Striker Seeks
To Enter Nudist Camp

Sarasota, Fla, where Ringing
Brothers circus folks train their
elephants, water boys, clowns
and other assistants during the
winter months, is about to get a
new claim to fame. And when
Opportunity knocks on the door
OF Sarasota this time, Oppor-
tunity wants in-or else.
What Sarasota has in prospect
now is DR.. Frederick Wolter-
honor graduate of two high-rank.
ing universities-who will either
be admitted to nudist colony
there or else he will go on an.
other hunger strike!
The doctor went on a hunger
strike here during February and
March, 1882, protesting against
unemployment.
He was 81 years old then, and
The Washington times., 1933-06-13
Band, Dance Group
At SULTAN TheGter

The United States Marine Band
and the Evelyn Davis Dance
Group, assisted by glee clubs of
Roosevelt High School, will pre-
sent this weeks summer festival
entertainment Thursday at 8 p.
M, at the National Sylvan Thea
ter, Washington Monument
Grounds.
It was also announced today
by the community center depart
ment of the Office of Public
Buildings and Public Parks that
an entertainment is also sched-
uled for Thursday night, June %,
at the Sylvan Theater as part of
the summer festival program.
The Washington times., 1933-06-13
Jobs Gain in April
Estimated 7I5,OOO

The number of persons EN-.
ployed in the United States rose
from 32,811,000 in March to
33,526,000 in April, an increase
of 715,000, according to an esti-
mate just released by the Alex
ander Hamilton Institute.
The Institute, which previously
has calculated that the number
of unemployed persons reached
the astounding total of 17,034,0
in March, 1888, expects the May
figures, not yet available, to show
a further decrease in unemploy-
ment,
The Washington times., 1933-06-13
CAPITAL GROUP
FUND CROWS

More than IS per cent of the
Greater National Capital Com
mittee campaign quota to finance
it for the coming year was sub
scribed in the first week of the
third annual drive, Robert v.
Fleming, campaign chairman. has
reported. The amount exceeds by
several thousand dollars the re-
suits obtained in the correspond
Ing period last year, he said.
The campaign will continue
another week with SO prominent
business men, members of the
committee, striving to raise the
balance of the fund. A luncheon
meeting is to be held at the
Raleigh Hotel Friday.
Citing the accomplishments of
the organization in bringing con-
Ventions to Washington and
advertising the attractions of the
District, Fleming said the travel
industry is second only to the
Government payroll in putting
money into circulation locally.