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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-16
New Mexico Miners
Support NMIJ; NRA
Head Makes Report

WASHINGTON, Sept. IL. New
Mexico and Utah coal miners are
striking for the recognition of the
National Miners Union it was re-
ported here today by Charles G
Grubbs, who was sent to the strike
fields by the National Labor Board
of the MIRA.
This is the first official recogni-
ton taken of the coal strike and
martial law in Utah and New Mexico
coal fields.
Grubbs was forced to admit that
the miners demand the right to be-
long to the National Miners Union,
the union Of their own choosing.
He said that despite peaceful
picketing in New Mexico, Governor
Seligman sent troops at the request
OF the operators, and martial law was
declared.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-16

ABOUT. He and his buddy loaded SO
cars of rock and 18 cars of coal
When payday came they had about
81, which the company took back for
expenses. When they asked the boss
about pay for loading the rock, he
replied, you fellows are lucky to
have a job. That is what you asked
for when you came here, work, not
pay for Rock"
The men who load coal are gypped
coming and going, because the COM
pany has so many different scales
for loading coal from tic to 43c a.
ton. 1t is supposed to work on the
basis of how thick the slate in your
place is. Many days we throw back
three or four cars of slate but get no
pay for it.
Company work has been raised from
$3.45 to 81, but the prices in the com
pany store are going sky high, under
Roosevelt's initiation.
The majority of the men around
here were fooled for few weeks
that the code promised by Roosevelt
and company would bring back some
kind Of conditions. All the takers of
the UNIV of A have been making all
kinds of promises. But we are get
ting tired of these promises. The
program of the NN1U is the only pro-
posal we have had to meet this stu
alton.
"A Montour Miner,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-16

NINA dUlIl11lSLTatlOIl, Une newspapers
and every other class force involved
in the present struggles between the
workers and the employers. This
strike offers tremendous lessons to
the workers all over the country.
The miners Of Utah and New Mex
leo were organized by the National
Miners Union. They were organized
on the basis of struggle against the
similar working and living conditions
prevailing in the Penna, Ohio, W.
Va. and other coal fields. AS soon
as the organization became strong
enough the miners decided to strike
for the improvement Of their condi-
lions. They struck solidly, including
the rank and file members of the
UMWA. The strike is completely un-
der the control of the miners. They
have their own strike and re-
lief committees and other strike ma
chinery. All the miners, their wives
and children participate in every
phase of the strike struggle, especi-
ally in the mass picketing. They have
modified broad support of all the
workers, farmers and large section
Of the middle class population in the
strike area and the surrounding ter
ritory. A real base for a successful
strike was established The militancy
of the miners and their families
stands above everything else.
Bosses Gunmen Act
But at the same time all the forces
of the coal operators have been mo-
bilized in an attempt to crush the
strike. The Commissioners in one of
the counties in Utah appropriated
$45, 900 to supply the coal operators
with Yellow Dogs and other gang
Sters in order to break the strike.
Governor Seligman of New Mexico
declared martial law and sent the
National Guardsmen into the strik-
ing area with the instruction to break
the strike. The right to picket, the
right to assembly and the right to
speak was taken away from the min
ers. Even relief collections and dis
tributions are not permitted, while on
the other hand the relief agencies
discontinued to give relief to the I'M
employed. According to THE Review
Chieftain," Gallup newspaper of
Sept /, the martial law was declared
on the request especially of the
United Mine Workers Of America and
Railroad Brotherhoods who joined
business mems organizations of Gal
lup in asking for troops"
DEPARTMENT OF LABOR, headed
" by liberal" Miss Perkins. is
holding some 200 strikers for depor-
tation. The local courts arrested all
the strike leaders, released them on
$4,000 bail, re-arrested them and set
new $4,000 bail, which, when fur
nlshed, was not accepted by the
courts. Mr.. McGrady, who, in the
name of Roosevelt, recently sent TO-
900 Penna. miners back to work and
thus bIo--1 their strike, is advising
Mayor Watson that the NMU is "un-
American" because it fights for high
er wages, shorter work days and bet
ter working and living conditions.
Some OF the newspapers, controlled
by the coal operators, have developed
greatest and most shameful SANDERS
against the strike and its leader, the
NMU. F
U.M.W.A. Officials
However, the most vicious strike
breaking instrument Of the coal oper-
ators are the officials of the UMWA.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-16
Jerome Miners
Ready to Fight
Scab Agreement
lBY Mine Worker Correspondent

fBy a Mine Worker Correspondent
YOUNGSTOWN. Pa. - While Roose-
welt, Lewis and the coal operators are
supposed TO be making a code for
bosses, we are facing the same condi-
lions in the mine. At the Jerome
mine the boss became so unbearable,
we had TO work in water up to our
kne25 and were getting no pay for
dead work. Some of the miners who
still know how to fight this racket
raised these demands and spoke for
them, and the whole mine went on
strike.
The Government arbitratorS and
the district officials Of the UMWA
came in, packed the meeting and rail-
roaded a vote through to go back
to work over the heads of our local
officers. The miners were very dis
satisfied with this system Of sell-out.
All of the local papers claim tenn
poraly truce has been reached but
this only means strikebreakers
agreement. Conditions are still the
same so it looks like we will have to
make another strike. But We will
also have to keep it out of the hands
Of the UMWA officials and govern
nent strike breakers.
"A Jerome Miner.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-16
New Daily Welcomed
by Miners in Michigan
By a Mine Worker Correspondent

BY a Mine Worker Correspondent
ATLANTIC MINE, Mich.-The new
Daily is getting good response
here from the miners, and they are
selling easy, although it is the first
time that we have begun to sell it.
At first when l brought it around
to the pool halls the workers we're
not interested, but now every time we
go around they ask for the Daily"
and they read every line.
Most of the miners are unemployed
here. There is yet one shaft operat-
ing and now that the National Starry
alton Act is being put into practice,
they have taken on a few men and
raised" the wages 40 cents per day,
while at the same time they raised
the rent for the miners in the COM
pany houses from $3.50 to IS, and
raised the prices on food in the COM
pany store.
At the same time they say that
production Of copper ore must be
raised to million pounds per month,
whereas formerly production was at
about $50 thousand pounds, which
means more speed-up and work for
the miners.
The N.MU. is working in the To-
cality and the Copper Miner" the
miners bulletin, is coming out.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-16
Illinois Miners
Realize Code Is
Only for Owners
tBy Mine Worker Correspondent

by a Mine Worker Correspondent
WESTVILLE, Ill.-Answer to Cues
tions in August 18th Daily.
1.-The NRA has not improved the
conditions Of the miners one iota.
1t has worsened them through the
higher cost Of living and relief cuts,
100 per cent in many cases.
2-Tricks of employers are as usual;
have patience, faith, peaceful cooper
alton ETC., while at the same time
they are worsening conditions in
every way possible.
3-Miners are losing faith in NR.A.
and being awakened to the fact that
it is an operators act, backed by
UMWA officials.
4-95 per cent of the miners are
opposed to Lewis policy.
Sit will soon be clear, and is to
some now, that Roosevelt will not
carry out his promises when the coal
code is finally adopted.
Also, I highly approve of the new
six page Daily with its, additional
news, Dr. Luttinger, In the Home,
Pictorial History, comic strip, editor
ials and much more advanced
method of clearly explaining the
struggle to the workers. 100 per cent
improvement and say it should be
100 times easier now to get subs and
sales. 1t has given me encouragement
to again try harder to get subs. I
believe finances will be the only rea-
son of many not to subscribe, and
not because the Daily isn't interest,"
ing.
P. S.-N.RA. will not help Illinois
miners as the proposed code is based
on SIS scale that we get. A six-hour
day will be cut for the loader as
he is unable to get as much tonnage.
We work much less than three hours
a week now. Average IL hours weekly.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-16
Special Page for Miners
Will Appear Each Saturday

New strikes and struggles Western
cssama This the of the
Ae promises Of Roosevelt
PRINT and voice the struggles of the militant fighting
me Daiy worker has made special efforts print
page on the mining industry
o.r task 70 keep this
Oh he Daily Worker new
scribers for the Daily Worker.
The Daily started capaisn for $4,000
~ guarantee the Daily Worker We
pse Day worker more than
'ne Lewis strke-bres support
.me Day Worker financial
help fill this
-BO SIvERT
District Daily Worker
ezes Center Pittsburgh Pa
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-16
Fight Evictions in
Pittsburgh Area
CBy Mine Worker Correspondent

tby Mine Worker Correspondent
PITTSBURGH, Pain the four
mines of the Pittsburgh Terminal
Coal Corporation owned or controlled
BY Taplin, the miners are beginning
to feel the whip end of the Mr. !.
More than les eviction orders haze
been given the miners from the four
mines. These are miners who have
openly opposed the company store
and the misleaders of the UNIV. of
A. Some of these miners belong to
the National Miners Union. Steps
are being taken to stop the evictions.
A mass meeting was held at No. s
Mine, Coverdale, one recent Sunday,
where Frank Borich, secretary of the
N.M.U., made a report on the code
hearings in Washington. Borich
pointed out just what the NR.A.
means to the miners. The miners
wefe enthusiastic over Unemployment
Insurance
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-16

their agreement with the miners. The
miners struck, but other fields, by or
der of Lewis, remained at work. The
strike was lost and the union broken.
In 1927 the Pennsylvania, Illinois
and Indiana miners came out on
strike. These were the only large
union fields in 1927. The union was
broken in all other fields. Lewis or
dered the Illinois and Indiana min
ers back to work while the PennSyl-
vania and Ohio miners remained on
strike. They struck for almost two
years. Finally, the strike was broken
and the union lost over 10000 mem
bers.
AS a result of these betrayals of
"A Lewis the U.M.W.A. lost over AGO.
900 members. At one time powerful
union, it became a mere skeleton,
which was later on used by Lewis as
a wage-cutting and strikebreaking in
strument.
In 1881 Lewis and his agents broke
the strike of the Kentucky miners
who put up one of the greetet St-.',,.,53-
giles in the history OF the American
labor movement The same year he
broke the strike of the Pennsylvania
Ohio miners. strike that was or
ganized and led by the National Min
ers Union.
In 1882 Lewis broke the strike and
Get the wages of the Illinois miners.
All Of his organizers served as spe-
cial gunthugs for the coal operators.
Just one month ago Lewis broke
the strike of 10000 Pennsylvania
miners. Lewis organizers in Utah
and New Mexico are expelling the
miners from the U.MW.A. because
they refuse to become strikebreakers
For the last four months Lewis is
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-16
NERS STRIKE AS ROOSEVELTS FAKE PROMISES ARE EXPOSED
JOHN L. LEWIS HAS LONG
HISTORY OF TREACHERIES

broke its agreement with the miners.
The miners OF this company came
out on strike. Again the rest of the
miners were ordered by Lewis to re-
main at work. Again the strike was
broken and the union lost IS 900
members.
Other BetrayaIs
The Kentucky Tennessee operators
followed the same policy and broke
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-16
NRA Brings Gun Laev to Neav
|Mexico~Utah Coal Strikers
By r. BORrCH

EVERY especially should be
deeply interested in the heroic strike the
under the conditions Of the MIRA the
militant unions and the AT of L. officials the role
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-16
Company Store Price Rises
Wipe Out Any Pay Increase
Load 90 Cars of Rock and IS Cars Of Coal and
Pay Is 81 for Weeks Work; Then Find
Company Boosts Prices
BY a Mine Worker correspondent .

COVERDALE, PaWhie trying
miners to the coal operators the
forced to slave under the old conditions
long to the UNWA and the
the fellows those johnson smoke
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-16

To keep up a six-page Daily Work
er,' the circulation must be doubled.
DO your share by getting new sub
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-16
Official Scabbing

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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-16

NO DANCE
mo BALL GAME
A Because of ordinances passed by
the Carbon County Board of Commits
sioners, the city councils Of Helper and
4 Price, all public meetings have been
prohibited. The ordinances by the
county commissioners and the Helper
2city council appear on this page.
4 Nopu6fc dfnres Nsf fff { permitted
~ tbs county and the feature dance
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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1933-05-18
PAGE SEVEN

to President Joseph with orders to
proclaim the new sovereigns unfor-
tunately died On the way and conse-
quently delay in the acknowledgment
Of the Protestant King and Queen mil
itated still further against the Mary
land proprietary.
The cry of 'No Popery" gathered
incredible momentum. Coode and his
followers, pretending to the gullible
that the Indians were on the march
and 60 others that they had organized
merely to proclaim William and Mary
descended on the capital and forced
its surrender. Then they pursued its
handful Of defenders to the garrison
a, Mattapani, to which they had re-
treated, and succeeded in forcing
them to yield The terms Of surren-
der included the one demand, that
noe Papist in this province (be)in any
Office, Military OF Civil as by their
Maiesties' Proclamation & the laws
of England"
Lord Baltimore in England brought
all possible pressure to bear at court
for the vindication Of his policies and
the restoration of his authority, but
his race in Maryland was run. The
provisions Of his charter were just so
much eyewash in the view of mon
arch who delighted i'll the soft insin-
uations which Coode and his party
lavished upon him and who lusted
after the revenue of the English colo
MES overseas. On February l, 1859
(Old Style), the King recognized the
insurgents, though he did not actu-
ally go to the length Of revoking the
Maryland charter, and empowered
them to continue the government. On
August 26, 1891, he added the fin
ishing touch to the defeat Of the pro-
prietary's hopes and sent over Sir
Lionel Copley, the first royal Govern
| or, to administer the affairs OF the
colony.
Charles Calvert's regime as a ben
evolent landlord was over. He lived
for years afterward, but he never re-
turned to Maryland, though often, as
he sat by the fire through the long
English tw;lights, beaten in life and
broken in fortune, he must have mus
ed ruefully upon the land to which he
Rad given so abundantly and which
returned his tolerance with rancor
and his zeal with insumection. But
if he was bitter, he gave no sign. In
all respects he stands cut, a a dis
tance Of more than two centuries, as
the embodiment of that Chaucerian
apostrophe "He Was q very parft,
aer,l l,nyht."
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portunity for which it had been pray
ing. Rumors sprang up simultane-
ously in al directions of Popish plot
whereby the Protestants (who out
numbered the Catholics thirty to one)
were to be exterminated root and
branch by the authorities with the
help of hordes of Northern Indians
who were said to be awaiting the sig
nal to swoop with intent to kill.
The credulous quaked with terror.
Coode end his spirators had
no traubl2 in raising volunteers. The
authorities, at the first hint of trouble,
renewed with the Indians the treaty of
peace which had been in force for
years and began to collect arms and
ammunition for defense. Many were
arrested on the charge Of spreading
false news" Excitement increased.
SO did Tension and suspicion.
The accession of William and Mary
to the throne of England precipitated
further complications. The messen-
ger whom Lord Baltimore dispatched
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1933-05-18
BITTfNGER


The daily rains of last week de-
layed further work of seeding the
spring crops and many farmers are
becoming disheartened with the pre-
vailing conditions.
J. l.. Ross, Of Jennings, was very
pleasant business caller in this viii
lage one day last week.
Archibald Bittinger, of near Engles
Mills, passed through Bittinger last
Monday morning.
Daniel Green, of the Dry Run Set
Element, was among the early visitors
on this side of the mountain this
week.
W. NJ. Race, of Frostburg, pur-
chased a number of young cattle in
this community last week.
Miss Huldah Stark spent the week
end with friends in Cumberland.
Dogs, the owners of which are I'M
known, killed a number of sheep in
this neighborhood during the past
week. Among those who were the
victims were Silas c. Beachy, Roy
Bethel and Edwin Bethel.
O. c. Buckle and son Ebert made a
business trip to Cumberland Thursday
Lawrence Buckle, with his family,
moved to the G. w. Engle farm one
dav last week.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1933-05-18

haps a careful search would disclose
some Of them today.
Concerning Philip Calvert's per-
sonal history, little is known. There
is a record of his two marriages, but
that is about all. His first wife was
Anne Wolseley and his second her
cousin, Jane Sewall. The latter mar
riage, incidentally, precipitated cur
ious tangle Of relationships, as Jane
Sewall's mother, after the death CT
her first husband, Secretary Henry
Sewall, married her son-in-law's
nephew, Charles Calvert. then Gov
ernor of Maryland, and, later, the
third Lord Baltimore.
Charles Calvert (son of CeciD, who
had come out to Maryland some time
before and had made himself uni
versally popular, succeeded his Uncle
Philip as chief executive of the prov
ince in 1861. This scion of the Balti-
mores seems to have inherited an eX-
traordinary degree Of statesmanlike
qualities of his proienitor, but the tide
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lud disclose the first naturalization law formulated pacate the

placata the FESTIVE element and they
delighted his adherents to such an eX-
tent that the Assembly Of 1852 voted
him 100000 pounds of tobacco as an
expression Of gratitude. This gift
was tactfully refused, his Lordship eX
planning that considering the great
charge of the province, he did not
think fit to accept thereof" This was
the aes Of man familiar with a court
where plumber was synonym for per-
spicacity and where the King himself
was a pensioner of France.
But this display Of magnanimity
was not enough to allay the unrest
which fermented from one end Of the
colony to the other and which was
fomented by Fendall, with the assis-
lance of John Coode, "a wretch with
no common share of villany." Their
plot failed and Fendall was banished,
but Coode, who was let off, continued
to stir up the ma!contents. Using the
Indian bugaboo, he managed to work
up hotbed of sedition on the Severn
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the llGSI DECENTRALIZATION law IUtllluloLtu
by any Colonial Assembly.
Thanks to the Governors admins
trative ability, too, court houses and
jails went up all over the colony soon
after he assumed the government, and
the first State House was built. Cor
oners were appointed in all the coun-
ties, the duties Of Sheriffs were reg
ulated and vital statistics were begun
with a provision for the publication
OF marriages. Roads were laid out,
some of them surviving still beneath
the concrete and asphalt of modern
progress, and ferries were established
to operate at fixed schedules.
Never had Maryland known such
felicity and progress. Then, on No
vember 80, 1875, Lord Baltimore, Faith
cr Of the Governor and proprietary
Of the colony, died. Governor Calvert,
after assuming the titles and estates
of his father in the province, set the
affairs OF the colony in order, APP
pointed Thomas Motley to act as dep
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Notes on Early Maryland Governors:

and to brighten the supplemented
settlers in the outlying districts half
cut of their wits. Troubles also arose
in connection with the royal revenue
officials, two Of whom were killed
while ON official business in Mary
land, and Lord Baltimore was accused
Of obstructing their activities in the
collection Of duties imposed by Parli-
ament Even the King took occasion,
in this instance. to administer a sting
ing rebuke to the proprietary.
K 4
New boundary disputes-this time
with William Pena-made it impera-
tive for the proprietary to go back to
England once more. This time he set
sail, never to return. To admins
ter the government during his absence
he appointed regency Of nine coun-
selo"s, with William Joseph as presi-
dent, to act under the nominal gov
crrc.ship Of his infant son, Benedict
Calvert.
The Fr2testan, Revolution of 1888
in England furnished the FESTIVE ele-
ment IL Maryland with the very OPP
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uty on behalf of his Lordship's infant
son, Cecil Calvert, and sailed for Eng
land.
Scarcely was he out of sight of land
when trouble REQUIRED on the score of
religion. Like England, Maryland had
become passionately protestant and a
Re, Mr.. Yeo, apparently grieved at
The lack of an Established Church in
the colony, wrote to the Archbishop
Of Canterbury complaining that Mary
land had become "a S0dOm OF unclean-
ness and pest house of iniquity."
Lord Baltimore was able fully to re-
flute the charges made by this cler-
Gyman, hut his blast was a warning Of
worse things to come. The new pro-
p1ietaTy, when he returned to Mary
land in February, 1850, endeavored to
forcstall his critics by proposing laws
Cor the speedy suppression of crimes
and TO restore, by a practical system
CT agriculture, the prosperity which
had departed with the overproduction
of tobacco.
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PHILIP CALVERT AND CHARLES, WHO SAW THE
END OF CALVERT RULE
By KATHERINE SCARBOROU II
On The Baltimore Sunday Sun, April 30, 1889

The fevers and seditions which had
agitated the colony Of Maryland for
nearly two decades following the
death Of Leonard Calvert, first Of its
proprietary Governors, subsidized like
tropical storm stated with its own
fury when Philip Calvert. half-brothcr
to Cecil, the second Lord Baltimore,
assumed the government in the au-
tumn Of 1860.
Philip Calvert had been secretary
of the province for several years. At
the instance of Lord Baltimore he
had served as a balance wheel to his
predecessor, the erratic and unscru-
pulous Josias Fendall, until that rogue
went completely berserk and attempt
ed to set up "a Republic in Maryland
with himself as chief potentate. It
was only logical, therefore, that, in