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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-09
Army Men Forced to
Replace Civilians
Who Are Fired
Bv . soldier Correspondsnt

SHREVEPORT, Lave enlisted
men of the United States Regular
Army are just beginning to under
stand what the Roosevelt New DEAF
means for US.
First our pay was cut Is per cent,
reenlisting bonuses were cut out,
longevity pay suspended, clothing al
lowances cut to practically nothing.
Second, prices of everything a soldier
has to buy have gone up. And now
all the civilian workers on military
posts are being fired and enlisted
men are having to take over their
jobs in addition to our own.
For example, here at Barksdale.
Field $50 laborers who were working
around the post at 25 cents per hour
have been turned loose and soldiers
most of them at $17.85 per month
have to do all the extra work of
cutting grass, gardening, trimming
flowers and sodding officers lawns
Another example, down at the post
stables the commanding officer keeps
three polo ponies and there are three
other horses and six mules. Until
this week there was civilian black
smith and two horse tenders, each .
drawing $105 per month. This week
nj three were fired and now an en-
listed man drawing $26.77 is black
smith and six other soldiers at New
DEAL wages are assigned to the
stable. The civilian painter also had
been laid off. His pay was $135. A.
soldier now has his job at 1882.
Civilian carpenters used to be hired,
at IS cents per hour. Soldiers now
do the carpentering. 1.
Men Growing go.
Due to the fact that this Is new
post and the civilian laborers have
been fired, the work has gotten out
of hand. AS a result, yesterday a
new schedule of calls went into eff
feet: First call-6:15 am, fatigue
call-7:15 am, one hour for dinner,
afternoon fatigue fo1 everybody /
pm, recall $3.50. These hours were
unheard of previously in the army
This is August, the hottest month Of
the year in any country and espc-
cially in Louisiana. All the men are
growing at the longer hours and the
amount of work.
It's a funny thing, but Roosevelt
isn't so popular any more with the
soldiers here-not to mention with
the civilians who we're turned loose
with no chance to get a job. Roose-
velt's New DEAF may have been a
block of aces for Morgan, Mellon.
Rockefeller and Co., but as soldiers
did not even draw pair Of deuces.
*.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-09
MIRA Makes Direct
Raid on Standards
of the Soldiers
National Guards Pay
Cut After Praise for
Fighting Miners
By a Member of the National Guard

BY Member of the National Guard
CHICAGO, Ill. - The summer of
1888 finds the Illinois National Guard
in full war and civil war training,
infantry, machine-guns, automatic
rifles, Founders, howitzers, tanks,
aeroplanes, and every war instrument
of division of an army.
Even the 108th Engineers had q
riot drill. One group of soldiers armed
with rifles ana liked bayorets and
another group armed with clubs. The
group with clubs supposed to be civil
ians attacking the soldiers, and when
the soldiers got beaten then a gas
attack began. Naturally both sides
got the gas test.
Well, when the i03th Engineers Or
any other unemployed soldier asks
for relief they'll get the same treat
ment by the police as any other I'M
employed workers.
Praise and Wage Cut
On Sunday, Aug. 8. the governor
Mr.. Horner came to camp and spoke
about the heroic struggles that the
National Guardsman are going
through at the mining area in keep
ing peace and order against a few
descriptive elements" and then he
told us about the is per cent wage
cut. He told us that he pleaded with
Mr.. Roosevelt that slch a wage-cut
at this time where 40 FER cent of the
National Guardsmen are unemployed
world mean the lowering of the living
standards of the Guardsmen, but
since it is only till 1884 he recon-
sidered it and he told us what a great
President we have uow anc that we
must cooperate in putting through his
National Economy Act as good citi-
zens and also the National Recovery
Act, and how we must obey his or
ders to enforce the NRA.
But Mr.. Horner did not tell us of
a furthe cut which they are fig
uring on putting through. We are
suppose to drill 48 days year in the
Armory and get pay for SO days at
as cents per day. We suppose this
is for the second N. E. A.
There is also a cut in food allow
ance. This is also for the N. E. A..
We must read and be charged for a
magazine called the Illinois National
Guard. This is another NRA. We
must have and contribute for COM
pany funds. That must be for
N E. A.
The majority of the Guards begin
to think as to what to do. Some of
them are quitting, which is the wrong
thing to do.
The armed forces have the N. E. A.
and the workers the NRA.
Practice Waste
Now few words of a just small
amount of expenditures to enforce
the NEA and the NRA. The Auto
matte rifles fired $4,000 rounds of am
munition in one day alone, or 10
cases of 1900 pounds. Each case
cost SOS, in addition to the amount
fired on the machine guns, tanks,
howitzers, etc.
Are the workers in America sur
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-09

Percy.
We know that something is being
done behind our backs There IS
talk here that we will go back to
UMWA and that PIMA will control
only small mines around Belleville.
Anyway last Thursday, we demanded
that the Peabody agent, Mr.. E.
Bowen, who was put as Assistant
Editor of the Progressive Miner, be
removed. Many of us know who Mr..
Bowen is, many of us know when
he used to sell bonds for Peabody
through insult Corporation. We also
refused to give the floor to Mr.. Joe
Getz, who is now editor of PIMA
because we know him as reaction
airy. r. X.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-09
Officials Break
Miners Struggle
Against Murder
fBy a Worker Correspondent


UNIVERSAL, Ind. - The large
United States Steel-owned mine,
Bunsen Number 4, had not worked
for eight years until last Winter, and
then Arch Spears, non-union coal
operator, started the mine.
The miners from Vermillion Mine
which the picketers closed down last
summer belong to the Indiana Min
ers Association. an open company
union, formed by Vern Bennett, a
former leading Socialist around Gin
ton. About $50 of these non-union
men took jobs at Bunsen No. 4.
When the UMWA, Bunsen Local
1885, picketed the mine, Sam White,
a loyal UNIV. Of A. former coal
miner, was shot by one of the pri-
vate guards of the Bunsen Mine No.
4. He died that night and the next
day 1000 miners came on the picket
line without call They held a
huge mass meeting and voted to keep
out of the union mines until the
non-union (scab) mines were closed.
Joseph Poggiani tried to stop this
rank and file action, but he was ig-
nored by the miners. He said the
union miners cannot strike because
that would be breaking their con-
tract" The miners struck just the
same. For 6 or days, these miners
stayed out, but finally the District
President Foncancon, talked the
men into going back to work.
Sam White, the union miner, was
killed. But Bunsen No. is still
working. Non union and union men
are still starving. They resent the
betrayal and many firmly state, at
is not over with yet"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-09

Ham with scalloped potatoes
Spinach

Ham with scalloped potatoes
Spinach
Boiled cucumbers
Fill a buttered baking dish with al
ternate layers of sliced raw potatoes
and pieces of butter, salt, pepper and
-four sprinkled very lightly from the
edge of a knife. In the middle of
the dish place slice of ham or small
pieces OF ham. Pour in milk until
it comes half way up in the dish.
Bake an hour or until the potatoes
are tender and the milk absorbed.
Keep the dish covered to preserve
the moisture until 1t is nearly done;
then remove the cover to allow the
top to brown.
The water which clings to spinach
when it is washed is sufficient in
which to cook it. Salt the spinach
and cook 1t five or ten minutes
that Is, until it Wits down in the dish.
Drain and serve. Save the liquid in
which the spinach was cooked and
any spinach that is left over for a
soup tomorrow. For the soup melt
q tablespoon of butter, stir in two
tablespoons Of flour and add the
spinach and liquid, bring to a boil
and add milk. Heat but do not
boil the mix,
Pare old cucumbers, cut in pieces,
cook until soft In boiling sailed
water. Drain. mash, season with but
ter, salt, and pepper.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-09

OF Jne miners.
2. Peabody Mine No. "a, days a
week, $50 miners mechanical loading;
dangerous conditions on account of
roof, and extreme speedup methods.
g. Threatened with shutdown, dis
charge. Inundated and discrimina
ton for any militant action of men
in way of organization of union of
own choosing, supposed to be granted
under N R. A., by both operators
and u M. w. of A. Lewis payroll
henchmen.
4. Great dissatisfaction against
Lewis and his machine, considerable
P. M. A. sympathy. Approval Of any
kind Of opposition to Lewis and State
officials, but fear, for reasons men
toned in No. 8.
S. U. s. Fuel Co. launched cam
paign through mine bosses to have
miners purchase safety devices, such
as composition (hard) so-called safe
ty hats, hard toe shoes, non-break-
able glasses for eyes, and possibly
later safety bug lamp with charge for
recharging battery, ETC., to be checked
out of miners pay, under the guise
of their slogan Safety First"
s. Introduction of hand loading
conveyors for more speedup and
cheaper production of coal. Strict
docking system. and layof for dirty
coal. Two to three days off for 200
lbs. impurities on Atom car. Trying
to establish condition of miners to
lay own track. Weight on cars de-
creased 500 lbs. in last five years.
Average $12-S15 earnings a pay OF
two weeks. No relief for part-time
workers Relief being cut and forced
labor for unemployed.
INDIANA FIELD
Division Of work in all mines. Esti-
mate to 4 days pay at $4.57 scale.
Tonnage men still lower. Situation
is CT general opposition to Lewis and
ether U. M w. of A. officials. Most
mines shut down completely. U. M.
w. of A. appealing to scab miners to
join for check-off, and let striking
and unemployed be deserted. Com
promise with operators reported, to
accept certain percentage of U. M. W.
A. men with certain percentage of
scabs. U. M. w. A $50, scab so, is
ratio.
Formation of company union at
Universal Indiana, Bunsen mines. Be
trayal of men on strike here by Inter
national and state officials, also local
Building Unemployed Councils in
all mining towns in Clinton field,
under militant leadership Of National
U. C. program Demonstration of all
miners in Clinton for demands soon.
Possible strike on all relief jobs.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-09
20 Cents an Hour for
Forest Fire Fighters

by Mine Worker Correspondent
EVELETH, Minn.-Workers are be-
ing called to combat the forest fires
which are raging about the iron min
ing section. They are taken out in
trucks in the morning. If they take
their own lunches with them they
are paid zoe per hour; but if lunch
must be given them they receive 15c.
The lunch generally includes one
razor thing sandwich for every
worker, and coffee, which Council
man Roy 'Foghorn" Rhodes is put
ting over on the workers.
Next month we will again have our
municipal elsctions. Workersyou
must bind yourselves together and
sweep out all these penny-ante poll
ticians, grafters and opportunists.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-09
Lewis Stops Strike to
Let Owners Stock Coal
BY a Worker Correspondent

SIX-MILE RUN, Pa.-Two mines
employing 100 men each, went on
strike on August IT, one for 10
per cent increase, the other for back
pay.
Both the mines are organized under
the United Mine Workers of America.
The Lewis Machine appointed their
old organizer back here in this field
on August Is, dictator. Ninety per
cent of the rank and file don't want
him.
The big operators in this field are
stocking coal. am urging the men
to make their demands now but my
voice is not heard. If you have some
leaflets could use them.
I am sending a petition around for
more relief and they say there is
lots coming to our next meeting to
join us.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-09
News from Akron, Ohio

Since nobody writes from Akron,
Ohio, will try it out. Yesterday
was rubbish day. went down to
the dump. The cops would not al
lew the kids on the dump. Because
they saw man picking up some
Junk they set fire to the shack he
had built down there. They said he
was bootlegger for an excuse, but
it was lie.
--LADDIE LALLO.
Akron, Ohio.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-09

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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-09
"a DAILY FOR EVERY MINER.
(By a Mine Worker Correspondent

HIBBING, Minn.-This is the first
time that the Daily Worker is being
sold in Hibbing. We have started a
house to house sales and we find
that the workers are willing to buy
it.
Workers that have gotten the
Daily before think that the new six
page paper is a real paper.
Daily Worker committees on the
Mesaba range should get busy. Our
slogan should be, "A Daily in the
home of every miner, employed or
unemployed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-09
~ Doctor
LAHin4e,a
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who would fit you pair OF glasses
without charge. Perhaps some Daily
Worker reader who knows one will
be good enough to let us have his
address which will be forwarded TO
you. The same regarding your foot
trouble and podiatrist (chiropodiSD.
AS to the colitis, try the following.
Ask druggist to sell you pound
of calcium lactate dts form of lime)7
and pound of milk sugar. Let him
mix it for you thoroughly. Take .
hearing teaspoonfool of the mixture
(three tines daily, before meals
and in orange juice. Let us know
the result when you get through with
the mixture. Calcium lactate and
milk sugar are inexpensive.
Observation-Disclosures OIL
Chicago Reader.-Thanks for your
contribution which we have turned
over to the D. w. maintenance fund.
AS to the mineral oil, if the heavy
Russian product is used, there is no
scientific evidence, as yet, that IL
causes harm when taken as an in-'
festival lubricant. Has she tried to
add bulky foodstuffs such as cab
bage, salads and bran to her dieta
Most forms of constipation can be
cured, if the real cause of it can be
ascertained. =
TAO
Readers desiring health infosm-s
alton should address their letters
to DR.. Paul Luttinger, CO Daily
Worker, IS East 18th St., New
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-09

prised why there are plenty Of bullets
but no bread? Some of the soldiers
were asking questions amongst them
selves why do the workers make this
damn stuff. Don't they know that
they'll get it right back in their heads
when they go on strike?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-09
P. vi. A. HEADS PROTECT
SCABS FROM STRIKERS
tBy Woman Worker Correspondent


PANA Last Thursday 5000 their attended
meeting the first time
hidden Christian County This meeting Thursday
Auxiliary
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-09
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Can You Make 'em
Yourself?

Sheer wool is suggested for this
jumper for school wear. For dressed
up occasions it could be made in
velvet or satin. There is washable
satin,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-09
An Outline of the
Conditions in the
; MiddleWest Mines
The. MIRA Is Making the Working and Living
Conditions of the Miners Much Worse
g and Creating Dissatisfaction
(By Mine Worker Correspondent

decided call for by writing
in district of Illinois and also
on-Te Haute field of Indiana
u division Of
S45S5 for 10
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-09
By PAUL LUTTlNGER, MD.
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
Impotence at 65

Impotence at 65
John De NJ, Toledo.-Your fool
ishness" when you were boy has
nothing to do with your present
plight. If your wife had lived you
might have retained your virility
For middle-aged man to stop sud-
denly is equivalent to sure loss of
power. There is no reason why you
snould not marry the woman who
likes you and who is two years older
than yourself. We doubt that she
will insist that you do your duty"
AT your ages, companionship is the
main issue. You will both be less
lonely if you marry.
Prevenception
Ed. F., Ironwood, Mich.-It is IL
legal to give advice for the preyen-
ton Of conception. You surely real
ize that if the masses get this in
formation, there will soon be short
age of machine slaves, cannon fod-
der and brothel inmates. However,
of the various methods you mention,
the pessary is the safest and the one
recommended by the birth control
clinic.
Colitis-Foot Trouble-Optician
Geo. M, Akron, O.-Yours certain
~ is a pitiful condition and the
worst Of it is that we cannot be
of any service to you. as we do not
know of any optician in your city
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-09

"Why, Civil Night, in all our parks
Are benches fill'd with question:
marks?
Why do landlords scratch their
heads
Who cannot rent their empty
beds?"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-09
A Sad Story

Roosevelt, Roosevelt,
Lemonade pie
Sat on a chair
And began to cry
why are you crying?"
Asked Morgan, J. P.
The Reds are wiping out
The bosses and me-"
-HYMAN HENDERSON, IL,
New York.
The Strike
The strike is growing every day,
The men demand higher pay.
Against the bosses they wage the
fight
For milk and bread, for homes and
light.
The Eagle Blue, with talons sharp,
The Boss will use to kill the spark
OF revolution in their eyes
But Workers now are growing wise!
The MIRA can't fool them now,
They'll fight until they win = and
how!
MAE SANDERS, Is,
Baltimore, Md.
Strike
Bill and Mike went out to strike
For better shop conditions
The boss grew weak and could not
speak
When he read their petitions.
He hired a cop to put stop
To picketing and striking,
But Bill and Mike knew how to
strike,
And sent the copper hiking,
MARTHA MILLET, Is.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-09
Miners Letters Expose Deceit of NRA,
Terror of Coal Operators, Lewis Thugs
Go Slow on Flour,
Says UMWA Agent
BY a Miner Correspondent.

ST. CHARLES, Va.-As a miner
thought I would send a few lines on
conditions in our country. The miners
have all been misled by skunk,
Bill Mitten, district organizer for
the UNWA. There is something over
$500 men out of work. The COM
pany has all shut down and people
are all on starvation, as there is no
other work for them to do, and the
organizer tells them there is no funds
to back them. He told them not to
let these flour barrels get empty.
Bill Mitten got up at meeting
Monday night and told the men, be-
ware. The Communists were in the
mines and they are the slickest-
tongued, sharpest people in the
world, he said.
What we need is a real organiZa-
ton to help us out as we have got
none.
A Virginia Miner.
Editors Note: The National Min
ers Union, 149 Washington Place,
Pittsburgh, Pa, has a clear record
of honest and fighting leadership
of the miners everywhere. They will
give you advice on how to begin
your organization.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-01
REPAIR THE ROOF

THOUGH the New York legislature may
- not know it. other states will be influenced
by its action on the pending unemployment
insurance bills. Unless the nations largest
richest, and most progressive industrial state
is prepared to go forward with compulsory re-
serves to combat future unemployment, the
national movement for this essential reform
will slow down
The issue is insurance versus charity 1t
is not question of whether money will be
provided for the jobless. 1t is a question of
how the money shall be provided
Americans should be the last people in the
world to need persuasion that insurance is the
better way, and the more honorable way.
In fact most Americans are persuaded of
the necessity and justice of compulsory state
unemployment insurance. This applies not
only to labor and social workers, but also to
the desire of leading employers.
The Governor and his party are committed
definitely. But the danger is that the pres
sure of other legislation and administrative
matters will crowd out this measure.
We do not profess to pass upon the relative
merits of the Wisconsin or Ohio plans, or OF
the several bills now before the New York legis-
lature. There is room for honest disagreement
over the details
Those who would postpone actual pay
ments by industry until the employment and
pay roll indexes register substantial improve
ment have a right to be heard.
But that New York and other states should
pass compulsory unemployment insurance
laws Of some kind now while the storm is
upon u.s. without waiting for the sunshine to
make us forget to repair the roof, is clear to
all who remember our fatal inaction in other
depressions.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-01
JAPANESE FEAR OF AMERICA

nNE of the oldest of all axioms is that there
~ are two sides to every question
Somehow, too, it is the first thing that
gets forgotten when relations between two
great powers become strained. Each side can
see only its own Interpretation of things.
misunderstanding feeds upon it's own fruits,
grows as it feeds-and presently leads the
two nations to position where war is more
than possible.
For this reason every American ought to
ponder over the interview given in New York
recently by Yosuke Matsuoka, the Japanese
statesman.
Mr.. Matsuoka remarked bluntly that his
people are quite as disturbed by the Amer
lean menace" as we ourselves are by the
yellow peril"
He pointed out that while Japan has no
Notifications or naval bases in American
waters, we have some in far eastern waters,
almost under Japans doorsill
He pointed out that for twenty-five years
prominent Americans have written books
and made speeches calling on the nation to
get ready for war with Japan. And he added:
I'VE always have known that we had no
capacity to wage war successfully against the
richest and the most secure nation in the
world. We therefore-we as whole-have
been given to believe that your arguments
about your necessities for defense against
a Japanese danger had design behind them.
"At times, and not far distant times, you
spoke in terms and displayed naval force in
the Pacific that caused our people no little
anxiety.
1T will take more than statement that
you are concerned mainly with maintaining
anti-war machinery to allay our popular
anxiety"
All of this is both surprising and enlighten
ing.
We always have looked on ourselves as a
peace loving nation faced, in the Pacific, by a
designing hard-boiled, and militaristic power
-Japan-from whom almost anything might
be expected.
And now it develops that the Japanese feel
that the exact reverse Of all of this is true.
We fear what they may do, they fear what we
may do-and misunderstanding and suspicion
increase year by year.
There are two sides to every question. 1t is
a good thing that we are able. at this stage
OF the game, to get a look at Japans side.