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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-06
Boston Dock Strike
flinders Shipping
Marine Union Calls
for Support of Strike

BOSTON. Mass, Dec. $50 effec-
tive is the strike on the job conducted
by the 1ongshoremen here for the past
month to compel payment of double
time for work during meal-time that
the Hamburg american Line an
nounced it would not unload its cargo
in the Boston ports any more.
The Hamburg-American Line will
dock at New York in the hope of
using the New York stevedoreS to
break the strike Of the Boston work
ers. The Boston workers have stopped
work during meal-time in protest
against the failure to pay double time.
That all forces are being modified
against the longshoremen was indi-
Gated when an editorial in the Boston
Herald last week attacked the strike
on the job.
The Marine Workers Industrial
Union has appealed to the New York
longshoremen to support the struggle
Of the Boston workers and has issued
leaflet to the men in Boston calling
on them to send rank and file COM
nlittee to New York to make similar
appeal for solidarity in the strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-06
Police Arrest Seven
i'm Raid on Workers
Club; Trial Friday

NEW YORK-Seven workers who
were arrested at a dance last week
in a raid by the police on the Scan
dinavian Workers Center, sill Fifth
Ave, Brooklyn, have had their trial
postponed from last uesday to this
coming Friday in Magistrates Court,
43rd ST. and Fourth Ave, Brooklyn.
This is the third raid on the Scan
dinavian Center by the police, who
are attempting to break the militant
activities being carried on by the
Scandinavian workers in the shops,
factories and dockyards on the
waterfront in Brooklyn.
Workers are urged to pack the
courtroom this Friday and demon
strate against the police terror and
brutality being carried on against
the workers of Bay Ridge.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-06
Tn the Law Smith
Organizes New Mine
Co. Union in XIV.
Leader in Harla n
County Terror, Bitter
Enemy of N.M.U.

PINEVILLE, KY, Dec. SIN a
move to force the miners into a COM
pany union, Walter B. Smith, county
attorney, responsible for the reign of
terror against the miners in the 1881
strike, has organized a union called
the Southern Miners Union.
Associated with him in this venture
are several known stool-pigeons in the
United Mine Workers Union.
Smith played leading role in the
murderous attacks on the militant
miners during the 1881 strike, which
was led by the National Miners
Union. He was responsible for falling
and smuggling many miners and SYM
pathi8ers of the N. M. y. 1t was by
his orders that the delegation OF stu
dents and intelleCtuals headed by
Waldo Frank were ouSted from the
county and that Frank and Allen
Taub, attorney for the International
Labor Defense, we're slugged.
The treacherous purpose of Smiths
new union" can be seen in its pro-
gram. The union, it is announced,
will work to obtain more equitable
freight rates for the mines south of
the Ohio River" Other purposes an
nounced, in order to deceive the
miners into joining, are promotion of
the welfare Of the miners, seeking
increased wages, better living and
working conditions, and such benevo-
lent and charitable work as the union
desires to undertake"
Miners are urged to resist any in
limitation to compel them TO join this
new company union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-06
JObIess Dressmakers
to Meet Dec. Z, at 1880

NEW YORK.-The Unemployed
Committee of Dressmakers is calling
a meeting on Thursday, December
IA, at 1870 p. m. at 140 West 36th
Street, where the problems Of the
unemployed, will be discussed, and
organizational steps will be taken
to mobilize against starvation and
misery.
While the workers are starving,
The bosses are maintaining their
profits with no provisions on their
part to relieve the burden Of the
dressmakers who are unemployed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-06
Metal Mining Bosses
Try to FO.st AF.L.
on IrOnRiv0r Miners
Company Union Calls
Workers to Vote; Has
Wage Cut Scheme

IRON RIVER, Mich, Dec SIN
an effort to force the American Fed
Grafton of Labor on the miners OF
the metal mining region here, the
Employee Representation Committee
of the NJ. A. Hanna Mining Co. called
{. meeting of miners from the Bates
and HiaWstha mines Of the company
on November IS. About $50 miners
gathered at the American Legion
headquarters to hear the proposals.
Without explaining what kind Of
a union the A. F. of L. was. or how
it would benefit the miners, the
chairman, an American legiOnnaire,
tried to railroad through the vote.
When a miner asked for inforraa-
ton he was told, "You ought to know,
read the papers"
A miner who arose to explain to
the workers the strikebreaking tao
tics of the A. =. Of L. and especially
that the Mesaba Range miners had
refused to have anything to do with
the Mine, Steel and Smelter Union
Of the A. F. Of L., was ordered out
of the meeting.
Miners raised the question Of draw
ing up their own code with demands
for more pay and for two men on a
machine but the chairman side
tracked the question
An unemployed miner, member OF
the National Miners Union, told the
workers of the code drawn up by the
District Board Of the N.MU., Which
could be presented in Washington aft
err the miners had made their pro-
posaIs for changes and had approved
it. The L.egionnaires declared they
would have nothing to do with the
NMU., indicating clearly that the
company rats want to force upon the
miners only that type Of union whieh
will serve their interests.
A Wage Cutting Scheme
The plan to fcist the A. T. of L
on the miners is tied up with the new
wage-cutting scheme announced by
the mine superintendent, to take ef-
feet after January LIST. The miners
will get more days and $50 a month
! At present the miners are getting
two days a week and in other mines
three days a week. The plan Of -four
or five days work at 500 a month will
mean more work and less money
The stock-piles will fill up more
quickly and the miners will be OUT
Of a job again.
Already the company has declared
that "it is improbable that the COM
pany will give its employees a wage
increase as asked by the miners"
Miners here point out that the
wage increase will be won only
through militant struggle organized
under rank and file leadership OF
the miners and call Oh the miners to
join the National Miners Union and
|repudiate the conlpany-c controlled A
F. Of L.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-06
The Nv York Syard Strike; Betrayal By A. F. of Officials

lists Joined the I. A. of M. The car
penters and painters, affiliated to the
A. +. of L., were not called out on
strike at all. The officials said this
was not strike of carpenters and
painters.
No mass picketing and mass pa
rades were allowed by the officials
during the whole period of the strike.
About $500 scabs were working in
the yards during the whole strike
The officials kept the men from tax
ing any action against them, on the
ground that these Scabs could not do
the work Of the strikers The Officials
by this maneuver, helped the COM
panies to break the strike.
stand Pat. The N. r. A. will set
tie the strike" Since the N. r. A..
came into existence not a single strike
has yet been lost. Even Henry Ford
had to come across This was the
line Of the officials.
Prendcrgast and Mellon OF the
Boilernnakers, Peabody of the I. A..
Of M, prevented the election of a
broad rank and file strike leadership.
When some locals, on their own in
itiative, did elect such committees,
they were forced cut OF existence.
During the seven weeks of the
strike, the A. F. Of L. Metal Trades
Department and Building Trades
Council did not touch their treasures
to help the strikers with cash relief,
although hundreds OF dollars were
taken in in limitations from these
workers. Money for picket signs was
collected in the fourth week of the
strike, when they were forced to
place at least two pickets at each
yard.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-06
Boy Gives Up 81 He
Saved for Bicycle
to Help the Daily"


NEW YoRK.-Not only adults
but workers children are helping
to put the $4,000 drive over the
top. Martin Goetz, of Detroit,
Mich, sent dollar which he had
been saving for a bicycle. "The
bicycle can wait" he writes, "and
| am sure the Daily Worker can't
wait. L like Jim Martin by Quirt
best"
Anna Evansky, Brooklyn, n. Y,
collected 81 by "maseueing" OH
Thanksgiving Day. She sent The
dollar to the DAILY" and asks
other fellow Pioneers to also help
the Daily Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-06
National Labor Board Smashes Strike of 1000
Against Powerful Shipbuilding Companies;
Workers Ordered Back With No Gains

active union men. Brother Hunter
a welder and good union man, was
the seventh man to be fired. That
was too much. The welders decided
not to take it on the chin any longer
and struck Immediately. The same
night the iron workers at Robbins
Dry Dock voted to strike. The great
shipyard strike started.
The strike spread and tied up the
largest shipyards of Todds and the
| United DrydockS in the port Of New
York, including Brooklyn, Hoboken
and Staten Island, with 1000 work
ers involved.
Role of the a. +. of L.
From the very beginning, the A. F.
Of L. officials undertook steps to be-
tray the strike.
They apologized to the companies
and the NJ. r. A., saying that it was
not their fault that the strike broke
out. They were against spreading
the strike to the other trades at Rob-
bins and the rest of the yards. Mr..
Prendergast, vice-president of the
Boilermakers' Union, upon the de-
mand of the Robbins men to spread
the strike, answered: you guys like
to see everybody out of job be-
cause you are out on the sidewalk"
The 7. A. of M. Kept the machinists
of Robbins Dry Dock at work while
the iron workers were on strike. with
the excuse that not all the machln-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-06
Myra Page to Speak on
Soviet Union

BALTIMORE. - Myra Page, we'll
known author and correspondent, who
has just returned from a two-year
stay in the Soviet Union, will deliver
a lecture, who Rules the Soviet
Union?" Dec. 8, at $3.50, at Workmen's
Lyceum, 1929 E. Baltimore ST., under
the auspices of the Friends of the
Soviet Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-06

protection.
According to DR.. Lei5erson. author
Of the Ohio unemployment insurance
bill" the statement continues, bills
VIII be introduced in Congress soon
after its converting. A group Of 'ex-
perts' is now working on three propo-
-itions; u An amendment to MIRA
requiring each coded industry TO set
aside portion of its earnings TO tide
over the employees periods CT IN
employment. . Federal aid to in
dustries which provide security to
their workers by eXeapting all secur-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-06
National
Events
Communist Party Bazaar

CLEvELAND.-The Communist
Party annual bazaar will be held
Saturday and Sunday, Dec. and
10, at Prospect Auditorium, 1912
Prospect Ave. An excellent program
has been arranged by the John
Reed Club and the League of Work
ers' Theaters. Many bargain sales
and games. Combination tickets in
advance are zoe and entitIe holder
to 10 per cent reduction on pur-
chases.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-06
Two Slain, Three Hurt in
GanpSter ShOOtinpS

NEW YORK.-Two were killed and
three. men and woman are dying
as the results Of gangster shootings
which took place throughout the city
yesterday.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-06
Alcoholic Deaths 45,549 in
Dry Era

WASHINGTON, Dec. SIS, SAC died
from alcoholism from 1920 to 1882,
the Census Bureau reported today.
Prohibition enforcement also took a
toll of $50 lives.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-06
.Neev Insurance Bills to
Be GiVen Congress Are
Useless to Unemployed
Aimed to Cover Up Sidetrackng of Workers
Social Insurance Bill; JoblesS Council
Calls for Action on Convention

NEW YORK, with the collapse Of the NRA and the rising
ayhoo the wonderful achievements Of the civil works program
being brought
statement National Committee Unemployed COupca
the unemployed viii fna
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-06
Mayor O'Brien's Pension
S1A.922 a Year

NEW YORK. Mayor O'Brien,
about to be succeeded by La Guardia,
will be retired on pension of nearly
$4,000 year. His is the largest single
item on the pension rolls.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-06
Callahan Disregarded Even
Boss Law in Decatur Trial
Numerous Raw Decisions Made by Judge in
Scottsboro Trial to Railroad Boys
: By JOHN L. SPIvAK
ARTICLE III

decision the Jackson County jury roll
throw judicial caution to the winds
prejudice which
observer And each time he Overrued
Hst would from the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-06
10000 Register in Cook
Co.; CWA Jobs for 26,34O
Another $4,000 to Register Soon; Expelled
A. F. of L. Men Disseminated Against
lA Letter from Chicago.l

CHICAGO, nIDespite
County given jobs Only
$4,000 expected to register shortly
building of supposed
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-06
Admiral Byrd in New Zealand

WELLINGTON, N. a., Dec. 5. -
Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrds' flag
ship arrived here today enroute to the
Antarctic.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-06
Nevs Briefs
'Lie DetectOr" Doesn't Tell
Truth Either

ATHEN, Ca, Dec. 5.-The lie de-
tector" used extensively in criminal
Investigations, is of no value in Grim
inology, DR.. A. S. Edwards Of the
University of Georgia, stated today.
He claims it registers innocent fright
and guilty fear without distinction.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-06

NEWARK, N. J.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1933-06-30
Offers Help to Youthful Romeos

in need Of a certain amount Of COM
mon sense. They maintain, however,
that they do not intend to blunt the
sharpness of Cupid's arrow. but rather
make its points q little more anti
septic.
The group heartily endorses bigger
and better love affairs, while at the
same time declaring that the petting
party route to matrimony usually
leads the couple to the divorce court.
Mrs. Stuart L. Mudd. counselor. into
whose receptive ears have been poured
innumerable tales of poignant regret
and wistful longings, said young peo-
pie of today are sincerely trying to
avoid the mistakes they see In the mar
riages of older persons.
During the war and post war pc
RODS, said Mrs. Mudd, literature and
public sentiment fostered promiscui-
ties that led to countless unhappy
marriages.
"But the pendulum is swinging
back" she declared. people are learn
ing in the school of bitter experience
that emotions must be bridled, social
laws obeyed. and the family unit pre-
served. Young folks are learning that
much must be given on each side in
a marriage contract
"Both men and women are coming
to us in increasing numbers. They
have before them the ideal of a per-
manent union. and ask for help in its
building"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1933-06-30
Salute Market Is Now
Experiencing a Boom

the salute at sea was raised to equal
that on land. By common agreement
today the International salute of all
civilized nations is twenty-one guns.
In the United States twenty-one guns
is also the national salute. given for
the President, ex-Presidents, heads of
foreign governments. members of a
reigning royal family, and for the flag.
"Once our national salute was ore
gun for each state. First authorized
in 1910, the national salute had grown
to twenty-one guns in 1918. The num-
Der of guns increased steadily with
the growth of the nation. until lS41,
when the national salute was reduced
to twenty-one guns. In 1875 the Unit
ed States also formally accepted twen-
ty-one guns at the international salute.
"This country has also an extra-spe-
cial ceremony known as the salute to
the nation which consists of one gun
for each of the As states. This mimic
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1933-06-30
Governors of States Get Two
More Guns

Washington.-The salute market Is
experiencing mild boom. Two
"booms," in fact, have been added to
the courtesy salute for Governors of
American states by Presidential de-
cree.
Henceforth governors visiting army
or navy posts within their own states
will be entitled to 19-gun salutes, plac-
ing them on parity with members OF
the Presidential cabinet. Formerly
governors received II guns
Salute by gunfire is an ancient GER
emory that grew out Of custom and
usage" says a bulletin from the Ma
tional Geographic society. Once
strong nations compelled weaker ones
TO salute by gunfire as an act of sub
mission. During the Seventeenth CEN
fury fine points in matters of inter-
national courtesy sometimes even led
TO hostility between states of Europe.
All Salutes Returned.
because the earliest gunpowder
greetings were largely forced affairs
on parties of the second part, vessels
and shore forts of stronger nations
could reply to them or not as they
saw fit. But custom gradually changed
With the spread of the idea of equal
ity between nations, gunfire salutes
were returned gun for gum This is
now universal practice among civilized
nations.
"The most widely-used salute today
is the international, which consists of
twenty-one guns fired one after anoth-
er. The ceremony and the number Of
guns was taken over by the United
States from the British.
"Why did the British choose twen-
ty-one as the number of guns suitable
for an international salute?
I'm the earliest days of saluting,
British men-of-war fired seven guns
The number seven was taken, it is
believed, because of its mystical and
symbolical significance. Among an
cient nations and in the Bible seven
is The Sacred Number Astronomy
once listed seven planets, and the
phases of the moon changed every sew
en- days. In the Bible creation was
finished in seven days, and every sew
enth year was sabbatical.
International Salute.
But while early British regulations
stated that ships might fire only seven
guns, shore batteries were allowed
three guns to every one on shipboard.
1t was explained that powder made
from sodium nitrate spoiled on ship
board, but 1t was easy to keep on
land The multiple three was chosen,
too, because it has had mystical and
symbolical Importance from remote
times.
when better gunpowder was made,
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1933-06-30
Alaska Gets Back Noted
Flag Used at Purchase

Seattle, Wash.-The United States
flag that was hoisted on Castle hill,
at Sitka, on october 10, 1867, signal
izing the transfer of Alaska from Rus
sian to United States sovereignty, at
last has been returned to the land
which 1t honored, gift Of the State
department to the people of Alaska.
It has found resting place in the
territorial museum.
An aged Russian-American resident
Of Sitka gives the following account
of the transfer:
ave saw strange ships in the har-
Dor. and soldiers In strange uniforms |;
then we learned that Alaska had been
sold to the United States.
1.-THE transfer took place in the rain.
The soldiers of the Siberian Line Bat
talon, in dark uniforms trimmed with
red, stood at the left side of the flag
staff. the strange soldiers on the right.
Captain Peschourov stepped up to the
representative of the United States
and said: BY authority OF the en-
peror of all the Russias, | transfer to
the United States the territory Of
Alaska
1.-The cars flag wrapped itself
around the pole while it was being
lowered and could not be torn loose.
A Russian sailor was sent aloft to
bring it 'wn. Captain Peschourov
told him to bring 1t down, but he
didn't hear. He tore it from the hal
yard and dropped it. 1t fell on the
bayonets of the Russian soldiers. Then
the strange flag was hoisted amid the
cheers of the Americans"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1933-06-30
Liberty Bell Rug
Valued at $50, 900

Buffalo, N. IA rug valued at
$15O.0OO. probably the most ia
nous and most historical rug in
the world, has been brought to
Buffalo by its owner. I. II. Kul-
lujian. of San Francisco.
rare example of oriental ham
dicraft, the rug Is known as the
Liberty Bell rug, because in 1915.
during the Panama-Pacific expo
sition. the bell rested on this rug
for more than FIVE months.
The rug has been pressed by the
feet of universally renowned per-
sons. Theodore Roosevelt stood on
the rug when he made speech at
the exposition. Governor Lehman
stood on 1t when he was inaugu-
rated as New York states chief
Executive. The rug was used in
the Electoral college when the
election of President Roosevelt
was formally ratified. Warren g.
Harding stood on II when he was
inaugurated in 1921. The Versailles
Peace treaty was signed on table
standing on the rug.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1933-06-30
Prisoner Wins Pardon,
but Is Allowed to Stay

Michigan City, Ind.-Although grant
ed his freedom three years ago
through pardon. Fred Kettleshake,
seventy-two. remains today. satisfied
to be an inmate of the state prison
here.
Kettleshake came to the prison 33
years ago. Six years later he became
iii and was confined to the prison hos
pital, where he has remained. Later
he could walk little, but age finally
pinned him to a wheel chair.
After 80 years the pardon he had
longed for as young man came.
There were no friends waiting outside,
however, no Job for an invalid. and
no hope for care. so Kettleshake
stayed.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1933-06-30
J;gsaw Puzzle Help to
Teacher in German Class

Redwood City, Calif.-Miss Julienne
VOTERS, teacher in the Sequoia Union
high school, near here, has discovered
that jig-saw puzzles aid the teaching
of German to her students.
Miss Wolters had large map of
Germany made into 300 piece jig
saw puzzle. Each day her pupils get
better acquainted with Germany by
the simple means Of putting the puz-
zle together.
by the time the class assemblies
the puzzle two or three times the stu
dents will have comprehensive idea
of Germany's geography" she ex-
planned.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1933-06-30
French Aerial Armada
Plans African FLIGHT

Paris.-France viii launch an am
bilious air expedition. in point of size,
next November, when 100 fighting
planes hop off for fight of more than
1000 miles.
The air fleet probably will take off
from lie Bourget and other fields In
the Pari ~'-inity and fly in formation
to Marseilles- The next stage Of the
flight will be Oran and thence by over
land stages to Egypt.
Air Minister Cot, who is licensed
pilot. probably will accompany the
feet. although command will be vested
In an officer OF the aerial branch of
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1933-06-30
the army, not yet appointed.

the army, not yet appointed.
The French expedition has two OBJ
jects: to demonstrate the practicable
ity of dispatching a large aerial fight
on long expedition. which might be
required in time of war; and to DEM
onstrate to the world generally the
efficiency of French planes and pilots.
In the months between now and the
take-off of the feet air ministry and
army officials will collaborate In pre-
pairing for the flight Not only must
all the participating planes undergo
the most severe tests but arrange
ments must be made for enormous
supplies of gasoline en- route. In adj
dition, landing facilities for 100 planes
must be provided-in itself consider
able problem.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1933-06-30
Bureau Gives Advice to Matri-
monially Inclined.

hiladelphia.-Social and welfare
leaders here have organized bureau
designed to give counsel to young PEG.
pie who are not married, but wish they
were. and consolation to those who
are married, but wish they were not.
1t is the opinion of this new mar
rage bureau that romance Is badly