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The Washington times., 1933-10-27
"Student" Gets SIS,
Radio in RObberu

Posing as a college student, a
youth esterday robbed two
homes of radio and a savings
bank containing S.. They believe
he also is responsible for a mum.
ber of similar robberies in the
last few days.
He rented a room from Mrs.
Martha Williams, of the 1400
block Twenty-first st. N. w., and
then robbed the premises, she re-
ported. The same man is blamed
for robbing the home of Mrs.
Cecilia Sherman, of the 900
block Morris st. N. E.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-02

q few others, and were fired by the
company In June, are still without
jobs. Neither Pagan nor the MIRA
have put them back to work.
The damn fools do not realize that
Mellon owns the Pittsburgh Coal and
the Republicans and Democrats In
Allegheny County. VIII a Mellon Sc
lected Judge, find Mellon corpora
ton guilty for firing coal miner2
Barwen and John Dick still believe
that the sun rises and sets in Fagan'a
hind end. They came to a meeting
that Was held on the EMU code in
Library with an intention to break
it. Maybe after Barweu feeds his
children on the county beans he will
learn a lesson.
Here in Local 70 UMWA the Bell
Evans, Jackson gang stu rules. This
Is because we do not organize against
these misleaders that helped to break
this last strike, and recruited the
men to scab after the picket line
from the Coke Region left Library.
AL those who are not In sympathy
with Pagan, and the Pittsburgh Coal,
all those who are opposed to this
slave agreement Must get together,
kick out the Pagan coal company
agents in our local, and make our
local really . local union OF the
miners.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-02
Soviet Miners
Letter Helps
Answer Lies

(By g Mine Worker Correspondent
WILKES BARRE, Pa.-The other
day Major IngIs came out in an at
tack on the Soviet Union, declaring
that forced labor was the order Of
the day, that women and children
were forced TO work in the mines.
On that same day we received a
letter from q miner In the Don Basin
Coal Region In the Soviet Union,
telling about the real conditions
there. So we decided to take the
letter to the evening News" and
see what they would do with it, never
dreaming that they would give it any
space. But they did, not everything,
but at least some parts Of it. I am
sure that even the little news that
they published as q result Of tho
letter will reach thousands of work
ers that we could not reach other
wise, and will do lot to break down
the red scare.
The recognition OF the q. 9. g. r.
was one OF the best tonics that I
have had In some time, because I
felt that 1t would at least make our
approach to the workers here less
difficult, and would give us the op-
portunity TO reach wider circles Of
the American workers than we had
reached in the past
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-02
Full Social Insurance, Rest Homes and Health
Care, Committees Elected by Workers
Take Part in All Activities

the trade union Factory Committee
has special department whose task
is to call special production con-
ferences where the workers discuss
ways and means how to improve pro-
duction, quantitatively and qualita-
lively. What new methods can be
used, how to lower the cost OF pro-
duction and how to eliminate waste.
These are some of the questions that
the workers who are the bosses Of
the factories take UP at the produc-
ton conferences.
There is no graft or corruption in
the Soviet trade unions, as we have
it in the A. r. of L. unions in Amer
lea. There are no high paid and no
burocratic trade union officials in the
Soviet Union. The officials do not
get more than the average wage OF
the worker at the bench. The trade
union officials do not spend their
time in Offices and hotels. The Of
ficials are at the point of production
from early in the morning till late at
night, tirelessly working for the in
terest of the union and the working
class as whole.
The workers in America can and
must learn great lessons from the
trade unions in the U. 8. S. r. 1T
IS HIGH TIME THAT A MASS
AMERICAN TRADE UNION DELE
CATION SHALL VISIT THE So
WET UNION AND SEE THEM
SELVL4S THE GREAT HISTORICAL
VICTORIES TIE RUSSIAN PRO
LETARIAT HAS ACHIEVED UN-
DER THE LEADERSHIP OF THE
GREAT BoI!SHEvIK PARTY OF
LENIN AND STAIN.
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showed up. IniS IN my opinion is
quite significant as they had been
having over 300 at the meetings prior
to the convention.
Now the investigation by the COM
mission is on, and they have told
the miners who have come before
them with grievances that the Com
mission can do nothing, but that they
will make their report to the Labor
Board in Washington, after the in
vestigation is completed here, and
the miners are starting to say that
this is just another way of passing
the buck.
Maloney and Cappelini both admit,
in press reports, that more than 900
miners have been dischared as a re-
suit of the strike. The miners are
miners have been discharged as re-
statement Of the discharged miners,
but Maloney and Cappellini both ad-
wise the miners to remain at work,
to give the commission 8 chance TO
make It's report, and then see what
will happen.
There is very grave danger now
that the foreign born miners are going
70 be the ones that will be discrim
making the miners who come back to
work produce their citizenship papers,
and if they fail they are told there
is no work for them, and the q. M
p. A. is saying and doing nothing
about this. In most of the collieries
where the miners have returned to
work. they report that the condi-
lions have worsened since the strike
was called off.
The Unemployed Council here is
preparing to call a convention of the
employed and unemployed miners and
other workers early in December. The
purpose of the convention will be to
bring closer unity between the en-
ployed and the unemployed. We have
in mind also the setting up of an
opposition group consisting of work
ers from different unions of the A.
F. of L. OF course, this will be con-
nected up with the convention in
Washington and the going to local
unions to have them endorse the
Workers Unemployment Insurance
Bill and elect delegates TO the I'M
employed Convention.
1t will not be an easy task to carry
this through, but / am sure that once
we prove to the comrades here that
it can be done, they will become more
active,
I am sure that you are as excited
as we are here over the recognition
Of the U.SS.R., but We have no IL
lusions that this will make the Blue
Buzzard grow fat. can imagine the
thrill that must have come over the
workers who passed the hotel in New
York and saw the red flag from the
flag pole over the hotel and then
can imagine the gnashing Of teeth by
the takers Vol, ETC., ETC., when the
red flag flies to the breeze In Wash
ington.
We are living In q glorious time.
sometimes slow and sometimes fast,
but the steady tramp Of the millions
advances toward the goal, and weak
as we are here, we still do our part
in bringing nearer the day when the
workers will take power. In spite OF
all obstacles the world Of socialism
rises, and the world of capitalism
dies. This is what the recognition
of the Soviet Union meant to me.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-02
Soviet Union Only Country In World Where
Entire Working Class Is Organized! Industrial
Basis Contrasts With A. F. of l. Burocracy

are also organized On an industrial
basis. Let ~ take for example, the
Kari Marx Machine Building factory
In Leningrad, where there are 5000
workers. All the workers Of this fac
tory belong TO one rnion-Machine
Building Workers Union. The ma
chinists, the welders, the polishers,
the helpers, the Office help, ETC., all
belong to the same union.
Leadership from tbs Bench
IN America the trade unions are
organized on o craft and territorial
basis. Such q form Of trade union
organization makes it almost impos-
sible for the union to know how the
workers live and work, what are the
needs and demands Of the workers
In the Soviet Union all the work
ers Of one factory are organized into
single factory local union and the
leadership of the union is elected out
OF the workers themselves.
The very structure Of the trade
unions in the q. s. s. r. eliminates
the btirocratic system Of leadership
that we have In the q. 8. A. The
leadership of the union is elected as
follows:
I. The leading body Of the trade
union inside the factory s the FAC
TORY COMMITTEE. The Factory
Committee La elected at q general
meeting of all workers. The Factory
Committee is large and representA-
tive.
4. In each department the workers
discuss who should be proposed as
candidate to the Factory Committee.
The best and most devoted workers
are elected to the factory committee.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-02

set Co. Superintendent Of Road Con-
struction. Under RooSevelt's -four
million jobs by Christmas" plan at so
cents per hour, the unemployed Of
Somerset County are being told that
Giving Is cheap" in the county and
that the rate to be paid here is 55c
per hour. The Unemployed Councils,
organizing to resist this scheme find
again the coal companies and the
Q. NJ. w. A. leaders collaborating to
defeat them. Local unions Of the
q. M. W. A. are encouraged 10 either
postpone regular meetings 70 such
nights as the unemployed meet or to
call special meetings for these nights.
However, the opposition in the q. M.
w. A. is being organized, 80 are the
unemployed, and delegates will be III
Washington, D. G. on Jan. IS, ii and
IS, for the big National Unemploy-
ment Conference.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-02
HOW THE BLACKLIST
SYSTEM WORKS
[Rv a Mine Worker CORRESPONDENT

(By a Mine Worker Correspondent
COVERDALE, Pain previous
story to the Daily ! wrote about two
miners that were fired at Coyerdale
for cutting a place that was not,
supposedly, properly cleaned up. I
indicated in that story that the
whole thing was a frame-up against
one Of the men.
One of the men that was fired got
job in mine No. 8 OF the Pitts
burgh Terminal. The other man.
Joe Bortak is definitely ous of q
job and blackIsted.
At the time when Pagan was try
ing to send miners back to work in
this last strike, these two men raised
the question of their case. Pagan
stated. TT is no time now to raise
this case. I shall see to it that you
get a square deal after the miners
go hack to work" Bortak's buddy
who was the machine runner, and
therefore more responsible for any
violation of the mining law" got a
Job, when Bortak went to see Pagan,
he told him that nothing can be
done for him. because the Mine In
spector found him guilty and sus-
tanned his discharge.
1t was pay day for the U. M. W. A..
organizers and in the goodness of
their heart they took collection
and collected a tremendous sum Of
81. Also free advice to go and get
a job somewhere else. According to
his friends, Bortak went to IL mines.
At one of these mines, an organizer
advised him not to seek a job as he
is blacklisted all over.
No one can accuse Bortak of be-
ing an N. M. U. or Communist Party
memberl He was afraid to join the
N. NJ. y. for fear that the stool
pigeons would find out. So he never
joined On the other hand he dis
liked Hyman's gang that broke the
1881 strike. He attempted together
with some other rank and filers to
GUST this rotten gang out of the lead
ership Of the local Union. They sue
ceeded somewhat, the handspring
Hyman was ousted from the official
position of Scale Committeeman.
However, he continued with his stool
pigeoning activities in the local.
Bortak and several others went out
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-02

capitalists before the revolution used
to live in luxury. 500 workers of the
same factory were sent to rest homes,
for period OF two, three and four
weeks. Also another ITO workers we're
sent to sanatoriuns In different parts
Of the Soviet Union to strengthen
their health.
All the above is free of charge. The
expenses are covered by the factory
administration, from a special fund
controlled by the trade union.
Full Social Insurance
When worker is sick he receives
full wages from the social insurance
fund of the government and the fac
tory. Pregnant women receive full
wages two months before and after
giving birth.
In addition to social insurance each
trade union has a national mutual
aid fund and each factory local re-
ceives from the national Office Of the
union a fixed amount of money. The
trade union local of the Karl Marx
factory has received this year from
the National Office Of the Machine
Building Workers Union 1854 roub-
les for this fund. The general trade
union accumulateS this fund from
the dues payment Of the union MEM
bership.
The District Trade Union Council
of Leningrad has accumulated this
year fund of 40,5O7 900 roubles, that
is being spent for the cultural needs
of the trade union members.
tni, nv etaoi etaoie shrdlue hrdl rdl
The Mutual Aid Fund of the trade
union Is Of tremendous help to the
union members. Whenever mem
Der is in need Of money he can al
ways obtain loan for period OF
five months. THE WORKERS DO
NOT PAY ANY INTEREST FOR
THE MONEY THEY BORROW. The
Mutual Aid Fund is also of great
assistance to those workers that are
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-02

in trouble becouse Of unforeseen CIR
cumstances, such as fires, death in
the family, etc. The aid the worker
receives in such situations rs NOT
TO BE RETURNED. so per cent Of
the total money given out to the
workers from this fund is not re-
turned.
Cultural Committee
The Factory Committee also has
g, special cultural committee that Or
organizes special theater parties for
the workers in the factory, concerts,
excursions, lectures, picnics, celebra-
tons, etc. In the Soviet Union the
most prominent and talented actors
perform before the workers in the
factory clubs, or the general trade
union clubs and theaters.
In Leningrad alone there are four
houses of culture that are visited
daily by over $4,000 workers. The
Leningrad District Council OF Trade
Unions has spent this year 57,786,-
900 roubles or ATT per cent OF ITS
TOTAL BUDGET, FOR THE Gull
TURAL NEEDS OF THE WORKERS.
Production Committee
In the Soviet Union, where the
factories belong to the workers where
exploitation has been abolished, the
working class is naturally interested
In the growth of its industry. The So
Wet Union is the only country In
the world where everything is not
only produced by the workers but
also FOR THE WORKERS. From
the above it is clear that one OF the
major tasks OF the trade unions in
the U. S. s. r. is to improve and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-02

still lives in the patch, but Bortak
is blacklisted.
Several other men who were active
III the attempt to move Hyman out
Of the patch can expect the same
kind of treatment as Bortak, because
Taplin and Pagan will need skunks
Of the type of Hynan to do their
dirty work. This incident also
should be lesson to Bortak and
others who tried to play politics"
with Taplin, Brooks, etc.
1t SO happens that the local union
pledged to help these two men finan-
cially while they were idle, but since
the local has no money this help
did not mean a thing. Bortaks wife
is in, the hospital waiting for an
operation. His children are without
winter clothing, he received his
second eviction notice from the gen.
erous Mr.. Taplin, who loves" his
men. Now Bertak says he is going
with a petition to Pinchot, also be-
fore the NJ r. A. Board. Thus he
will learn still another lesson, that
he cannot expect anything from the
bosses and their agents, regardless Of
whether they are township con-
stables, state governors or N. r. A.
Board members. The only way that
the workers will protect their jobs,
is by taking over the control OF the
U. M. w. A. from the bottom up,
end making it a real union that will
protect every miner.
Some miners may say that Bortak
forfeited his job because he violated
the mining law. The answer to these
guys is, and they know it, that "every
time wheel turns in the mines a
law is broken BY the coal company"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-02
Shenandoah Miners
Tell How They Help
Sell the Daily Worker
BY Group of Mine Correspondent

BY Group of Mine Correspondent,
SHENANDOAH, Pave, a group
of Shenandoah miners, want to re-
late our experiences in connection
with the Daily Worker.
Some time ago we came In con-
tact with the Daily Worker and
have begun to read it regularly.
We find the paper very interesting
and instructive. 1t gives us guild
ance and directions how to Or
ganize, how to fight for more re-
lief, how to fight our misleaders.
who are daily selling us out to the
boss class with whom they work
hand in hand.
We decided that II the Daily
means so much to us, 1t will mean
as much to the rest of the en-
ployed and unemployed miners,
most of whom are out OF work,
and forced to live on the nleager
relief, after we put up a struggle
to get it. So four Of us got together
and decided to go out Saturday
evening and sell the Daily. We
began with few, and are now
selling IL every day, and so every
Saturday.
When we come in to the hang
out places where the miners are
to be found, they all call out "there
go the boys with the Daily WORKER
Last night for instances, two Of
us sold 80 Saturday issues in a very
brief time. Many Of the workers
pay Sc and more, telling us "Send
the rest of IL along to the paper"
What we need Is some help from
few of the Party members here.
II every one would just put in
about one hour every night to the
selling Of the Daily, we could In
crease our daily sales to 100 daily
and 500 Saturdays issues. How
~
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-02
How Trade Unions Factories Represent the Workers

3. rn addition to the general fac
tory committee in each department.
there is also an elected department
committee.
Functions Of Factory Committee
The Factory Committee after
elected sets up different committees
(that are called departlnents) to sa-
tiSfy the various needs Of the work
ers Among the most important COM
mittees are the following:
Economic Committee: This COM
mittee regulates the wages of the
workers, participating In working out
wage scales together with the man.
agement. The economic committee
also has a grievance committee that
solves difficulties and complaints in
regards to wages, etc.
The grievance committee is COM
posed of representatives Of the work.
ers and representatives Of the adj
ninistration. Only in the Soviet
Union where the factories belong to
the workers and the administration
OF the factories Is also in the hands
of the workers, is it correct to have
such grievance committees.
In case the members of the yriev-
ance committee cannot reach an
agreement, THE FINAL DECISION
IS MADE BY THE HIGHER
BODIES OF THE TRADE UNION.
Such grievance committees also exist
In each department.
Committee On Workers Conditions
The task OF this committee is to be
in charge of sanitary conditions OF
the workers in the factory, safety de-
vices, medical aid to workers, housing
Of workers, food supplies, social in
surance, rest homes, sanatoriums, va
cations for workers, free railroad
tickets, etc. This year alone the Karl
Marx factory in Leningrad has sent
so workers to sanatoriuns to Crimea
and Caucasus. the places where the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-02
Clinton Jobless
Won Relief Through
Good Organization

CHICAGO, Tll.-Two years ago I
was back in my home town Of Gin
ton to live there. noticed the
rotten conditions Of unemployment
and starvation. I decided to help
q fellow worker organize an Unem-
ployed Council, but not being fully
experienced Of how to go about or
ganizing, we failed.
A couple of weeks ago I learned
that a fellow worker and friend
passed away, and I decided to attend
his funeral. I was there only two
days. remained just to see for
myself what really can happen in
less than two years time by having
someone that knows how to organize
the workers. What did I findP I
found that Just previous to my visit
hunger march took place and Is
per cent of the eight thousand popu-
lation participated in the march,
Gas bombs had been thrown at
the workers and the leaders thrown
In Jail. The workers kept marching
exhausted from the gas bombs.
The result was that many of the
workers got an increase in relief and
the leaders that were cut of en-
tirely are getting relief again.
I never enjoyed myself SO much
as when 7 passed through Universal
and saw the striking school children.
They are striking because they will
not go to school and sit side by side
with the scabs' children.
A comrade whom I have known
for the last 20 years, said to me
recently about the Daily Worker:
1.-THE Daily Worker is the only
paper that tells you the truth of the
class struggle throughout the world.
1t is the only paper that comes
straight out with what the capitalist
press hides away from the working
class. It comes right out with the
news we should know.
why you should see in the morn
ing when all three of us brothers
are at home. If you don't believe
me stay until my Daily Worker is
delivered. Everyone tries to get it
first, and no one leaves home until
we all get to read it, especially now
that 1t comes out with the and 8
pages
"Do you know that If il hadn't
been for the Daily Worker we would
never have had the gigantic hunger
march, and it's the same Daily
Worker that is teaching us how to
organize the miners against that
strtkebreaking John l.. Lewis. If
there was no Daily Worker we would
still be sending our children to school
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-02
COAL MINERS OF GALLUP n M WIN STIRRING STRIKE VICTORY
Pay Not Enough
for so Cents a Day
Fare to Work
Miner at Montour 10,
Says Neither Code
Nor Pact Helped
by . Maine Worker Correspondent

By o Mine Worker Correspondent
MONONGAHEl1AA, PAs-Hers at
Montour 10 OF the Pittsburgh Coal
Co. we have the Code and the
UMwA agreement. But neither the
Gods nor the agreement have
changed cur conditions. The men
still have to haul their own coal,
timber, lay the track, etc. When we
ask the bosses when these conditions
win change, they generally answer:
ASK your big brother Fagan"l
T read the letter Of Montour 10
miner from Carnegie that appeared
in the Daily Worker, and I want to
say that that man told the truth. I
am also forced to travel from where
/ live near Monongahella to Library
to work. I pay SOC day to one of
the men who drive US to work. For
the pay ending Oct. 30th I don't
think I will have made enough to
pay nay driver.
Ssay LIN Mine AN Day Fos Nothing
One day the machine was broke
and I waited all day for the cut.
After getting the place cut, I had a
bad roof and 1t caved in. There is
no timber or timbermen. I had to
wait a day for that. The turn was
very slow, my buddy and got ga
cars day, one day In the whole pay
we got S cars. No pay for the slate,
sltho according to the agreement we
should get cents an inch for all
slate over IL inches.
If you ask pay for the slate, the
boss will tell you it Is not thick
enough; If you measure it and show
him that you have more than "a
inches, he calls you lawyer, and too
smart to work In the mine. Those
that kick and demand pay are soon
out of the mine, for dirty coal or
some such offence.
While we have to pay four check
weighmen, two on the day and two
on the night shift, our weights con-
tinuously get worse. In the local union
if you open your mouth they call you
National, meaning that you are an
NMU member. Some guys who were
loyal UMWA organizers In Montour
10, like Tedd Bsrweu, John Dick and