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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-31
lBy a Miner Correspondent

WEST FRANKFORT, III. Last
week I attended the Orient No. 2
local meeting for the first time in
the last three months. This was
because I was one of the many
Progressive Miners who went back
to the mine under the U. NJ. w. A.,
after We have seen that P. M. A.
officials betrayed the strike and We
had no other alternative but either
to go back or be blacklisted.
I went back the third day with
about $50 others, when we saw
there was no strike leadership and
no picketing. When we got back
into the mine, we were not allowed
to attend any local meetings of the
U. M. w. A. for a long time Roy
Groves, was appointed by Lewis as
provisional president for 900 men
in this mine and a clique of 20
other gun-thugs did the local
business" for US.
So last week I went to see what
can be done to arouse the men to
come to force the officialdom, elect
our own president and officers of
the local, and to fight against the
vicious speed-up which is going on
in the mine.
The men are forced to load Is
and 16 cars. Shooting of the coal
is done in such a way to make us
slave double.
In the local meeting I found only
about IS men present out of 900.
Groves is still president After
preliminary reports of the Sec
rotary, correspondence and the
usual rigmarole, what did I hear?
The president gets up and intro
duces Mr.. Curtis Mundell, Secretary
of the U. M. w. A. subdistrict No. 8,
who made us a speech. Among
other 100 per cent patriotic bunk,
he told us that his brother Stanley
Mundell well known chief deputy
gun thug under the present sheriff
Robinson who killed three P. M. A.
miners) is running for Sheriff and
that we had better support him if
we want to keep our job. Mundell
made the usual attack against the
reds and closed with a regular
Hitler style that he is for Roosevelt
100 per cent and that the rank and
file of U. M. w. A. must stand be-
hind the president.
Advice from P. NJ. A. Leaders
Because most of those present
we're cohorts of the off1cialdom, I
didn't ask for the floor, because
they would have pounced on me.
sent several letters to the Progress
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-31
DOLLAR AND A DOLLAR AND
A HALF
By a Miner Correspondenl

ny M1AiCI Correspondent
LIBRARY, PA couple of days
ago we heard rumors that the
Monitor IA at Library (Mellon in
terests) would hire some men on
the job, and one of my boarders
went up to get a job too. They
were waiting for while for a boss
to come. Workers was coming from
the mine and two of them start to
pass the words Dollar and dollar
and-a-half." Then one man asks
what he means by that and he
said, "You get a job here and you'll
find out what I mean. That means, 4"
he said, 'the men in this mine can
not make more than one dollar or
dollar and-ahalf. That's what
you could make here"
1t is pretty hard for old miners
to get a job. Some of them come
from some other places with some
kind of ships. This is from the
other Pittsburgh Coal Co., and they
got hired.
They work here two shifts, two
men daytime; two men night time
in the same place, and we have
rumors here, but we don't know
how true it will be, that they are
supposed to start a third shift. II
they will, then the men would not
be able to make half-a-dollar and
they will be far away from a dollar
and-a-half.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-31
Arithmetic

Say, did you ever think over things?
Let's 90 it now and see what it brings.
There's two kinds of guys in this world,
you know,
ones got nothing, the others got dough.
Let's stop and take look at the two.
Maybe there's something we can do.
Look at the fellow on the left
He's what we call capitalist.
He owns all the factories and big machines,
Bags of money and limousines.
Now look at the fellow on the right,
He owns nothing but brains and might
worker he is, who never gets fat
He's one of the proletariat.
There's the picture-funny, I'd say.
How did the fat one get that way?
He didn't build factory or machine,
And yet-hes got the limousine.
The worker there made everything.
Shaved all his life from Spring to Spring.
That house that bridge, that factory,
He built them almost satisfactory.
But, OH this bothers my head bit,
Makes me dizzy. come on, let's quit
One does nothing, has limousines,
The other does all and hardly has beans
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-31
BuildingUp
the Party in
PIMA Ranks
Historical Attacks by
Misleaders Result
of C.P. Growth
By a Miner Correspondent

NOKOMIS, nl.-The renewed n.y.
sterical attack in the Progressive
Miner" against the Communist
Party is ample evidence of the sue
cess of the Party in building frac-
tons within the local PIMA. unions.
1t is interesting to note that the ten
Party members recruited in the last
week and a half are as follows:
Three members of the PIMA. work.
ing in the mines; four PIMA. MEM
bers who are not working due to
strike reasons or because they were
thrown out when the West mine
folded up; and two members of the
Women's Auxiliary of the PIMA.
Is it any wonder that the reaction is
alarmed at the growing anger of
the rank and file who are turning
to the Communist Party for leader
ship?
Arrival of the Bulgarian Bolshe-
vik heroes in the Soviet Union has
aroused great enthusiasm among
the workers in this section.
I forgot to mention that six of
the aforementioned ten recruits
were former Socialist Party mem
bers. This is the Nokomis unit.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-31
Southern Strike
Wave Against
Slavery Program
(By a Miner Correspondent

BESSENIER, Ala.-The Roosevelt
Good Talk; we cannot eat it at all.
And this is the same thing that Mr..
Hoover said when he was President
of the United States. He said that
prosperity is around the corner. In
the period of Mr.. Roosevelt's time, it
is different from Mr.. Hoovers time.
At present they are out with the
New Deal.
What has the N. R. A. meant to
the working class of America? It
means more unemployment, wage
cuts, and strike-breaking.
In Bessemer, Ala, we see the COM
pany underground police are riding
the mount of the Raymond Mine
and also the Reeders Mine.
The Birmingham News said 10000
miners we're out. The Post gave
10000 miners in the walkout in this
district.
The strike wave in the Southern
States is against the N. R. A. pro-
gram of Mr.. Roosevelt.
The steel corporations are prepar-
ing to fight down the strike here
in Birmingham, Ala, all the time
Roosevelt was also preparing to
break the strikes of this district
The company has done all in its
power to make the workers sign up
in the yellow dog union, particularly
in the Raymond Mine, where the
company bosses tell everyone that
they will give them a good job if
they leave their union.
The Communist Party of the
United States is the only guarantee
for the white and Negro workers
of the South. This Party calls on
all workers to organize themselves
on committees in all shops and
mines and mills.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-31
Refuse To Starye
In Midst Of Plenty
Says Native Texan
Salt and Oil Workers
Reported Organizing
As Never Before
lBy a worker Correspondentl


GRAND SALINE, Tex. = The
people are waking up in Texas as
they never have before. Old-time
Socialists are coming over to the
Communist side.
We have the Salt Workers Union
here, affiliated to the Federation of
Labor. The Morton Salt Co. has
the biggest salt mine here in the
South. They work 291 men and wo-
men, of which we have as paid-up
members 228 in the union.
AS you know, we have also the
greatest oil producing area in the
world. Oil workers are organizing
as never before. We have organ
lied thousands of them in the last
six months. Oklahoma, Arkansas,
Louisiana, Texas and New Mexico
these states have been slow to take
to organization, but they are fall
ing in line by the thousands.
I have been with the labor move
ment IS years. I'm rebel soldier,
fought with Pancho Villa in Mexico
in two revolutions. If we had any
nerve, we would not let a few blue
bloods starve us to death in land
of plenty.
I'm a native Texan and over five
million Of us natives down here
know no superior, only God him
self.
We have asked Congress, asked
H. S. Johnson, begged and prayed
for relief just as long as we are
a-going to. Now they can do some.
thing to put these men all to worl
or Hell itself is a-going to breal
loose.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-31

Comrade Preston, an I. L. D.
member, active in the struggle for
the release of the nine ScottSboro
Boys, died recently. She was on the
relief list. The charities only gave
her $1.85 weekly food check. The
last two or three days of every week
she had nothing to eat. Despite
the worst winter weather in the
history of the city, with sub-zero
weather prevailing for weeks at
time, Comrade Preston received no
coal for her home. The combined
lack of heat and food brought about
her death.
The I. L. D. and the Unemployed
Council jointly held an open hear
ing and Public Trial Of the Asso-
ciated Charities. A few contacts
were secured for I. L. D. member
ship. We then followed this up by
carrying thru a Memorial Meeting
for Comrade Preston.
A delegation of I. L. D. members
and friends and fellow church-goers
went to the minister to demand use
of the church for the Memorial
Meeting. 1t was granted. We then
gave out leaflets, calling the mem
bers of the church and the workers
and others in the neighborhood to
the Memorial Meeting. The leaf1et
stated that the Associated Charities
were responsible for Comrade Pres
tons death. A few days before the
meeting, we were notified that we
could not have the use of the
church for two reasons:
l. That the attack on the AsSo-
ciated Charities was not justified.
2. That it was a reflection on the
church to say that she died of
starvation.
We then went to the pastor with
a delegation of 25 and explained our
position-that we were not attacking
the church but the Associated
Charities, and that we had definite
proof that she died of starvation
The Charities were the only ones
we said who knew of her condition,
for she would not tell her sisters or
brothers in the church or her fellow
I. L. D. members of her condition.
The minister still refused to let
us have the church.
We then stated that we had al
ready distributed the leaflets, and
the people would come to the
church and he would be responsible
to the people if the meeting would
have to take place on the street.
He then said if we dared to hold
the meeting in the street he would
call the police. This enraged the
workers on the delegation. We then
left and those on the delegation
pledged to work with might and
main to make the meeting big
success.
The leading I. L. D. comrades
then discussed the advisability of
holding the meeting before the
church and the probable effect that
it would have. Considering that we
had no strong influence in this
territory, nor with the workers in
volved, we felt that it would be
bad to have the meeting in the
street if we were barred from the
church. Also the weather was sub
zero and it would be impossible to
have a good outdoor meeting from
which organizational results could
be gained.
We then rented hall right next
door to the church and assigned
two comrades to stand before the
door of the church and direct the
workers next door, where the
meeting would take place and an
explanation would be made why the
church was refused to us.
To answer the charge of the min
lister that Comrade Preston did not
die of starvation, we went to her
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-31
WITH ORR VOTING READERS oo%%assf g ST
st, New Yn city

Here is the poem with the best
line sent in by Charles Galen.
Three Hitler eggs sat on a wall
They certainly thought they knew
it all,
But the first chance the workers
get
They'll beat them up, you bet.
The following readers have be-
come members of the Puzzle Club:
Ruth Bialon, Irwin Marquit, Alex
Berger, Sylvia Greenwald, Helen
Greenwald, William Cohen, Martin
Kloomok, and Charles Galen.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-31
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
Prohibition and Alcoholism

PrOn1DltlOn ana ALCOHOLISM
D. T., Boston-The book by Haven
Emerson that you are referring to
is political, not a scientific treatise.
This individual was one of the rabid
prohibitionists who were responsible
for the passing of the Volstead Act.
We have known him for many years,
ever since he was (for a short time)
Commissioner of Health in New
York City. He has been crashing
his teeth ever since the Prohibition
Act has been repealed; but his opin-
ions are not based on scientific data.
1t is not true that the number
of cases and the death rate of alco-
holism had diminished under Prohi-
bition; on the contrary. Statistics
published by the New York State
Board of Health, a few days ago,
show that the death rate in New
York State for January was only
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-31
NOTE:

We publish letters from coal
and are miners, and from oil
field workers, every Saturday. We
urge workers in these fields to
write us of their conditions Of
work and of their struggles to
organize. Please get your letters
to us by Wednesday of each week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-31

The April issue of the New
Pioneer is out today! We cannot
tell you about everything that's in
it. There's an exciting story about
happenings in the New Mexico
desert. Then there is story about
James Connolly. On April Oath
1916, James Connolly led his army
in the greatest Irish uprising
against the English ruling class
Do you know anything else about
him? If you don't, read the April
NEW PIONEER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-31
DANCE-BUT BE CLASS
CONSCIOUS!


From the South and West come
letters asking how to organize the
women: these indicate that the task
in many cases, is far from easy. For
instance-these few lines from a
letter from a northwestern state:
I'm writing for advice in re-
gard to interesting housewives in
labor movement.
Our men are organized in the
NLW. Union, as this is a lumber
mill town. There have been several
good speakers from nearby cities
and each time they extend an in
vitation to the ladies to attend. Do
they come? Perhaps ten at the very
moStl-and you don't see them
again unless they attend dance
given by the union. They can all
seem to come out for that What
bothers me is that they don't come
to the meeting along with their
husbands, and try to understand
what it is all about. It wouldn't be
difficult if they would only come
and listen to some of our speakers.
There are a few, perhaps four,
besides my daughter and myself
who CO. Sometimes I have been the
only woman present.
1--WE have organized an LID.
branch and hold the meetings in
our homes, and have a social hour
at most meetings. This has helped
to bring out a few younger women
but they want to leave early for
the dance!
There seem to be SO few class
conscious women here. There is
great need to interest the women in
the movement as there is no doubt
there will soon be stirring times in
cur little town and we women must
do our part
81 talked with my husband and
son about it at breakfast: in re-
gard to getting good woman
speaker to come in and lecture or
hold meeting For Ladies Only or
something to get their attention
we thought we could send out cards
to an afternoon lecture on work
ing Women and What They Are
Doing What are women in
other small towns doing? 1t seems
-. even the farm women are more
alive to the labor situation than
these working class women, wives
of wage-earners who have been
canned because they dared to orga-
nize and affiliate with a militant
union.
We have had sample copies of the
working Woman" magazine sent
to this comrade, who inquired about
it, and are writing also privately,
as our space is limited. For the
benefit of other women facing the
same problems, we advise here that
Ladies Only" lectures are all right,
with invitation cards as the writer
suggested. Such lectures might
touch on conditions of working
class women under capitalism as re-
CARDS economic situation, lack of
maternity provision and free nur-
series and birth-control clinics, con-
ditions for women working in fac
tories, etc. Contrast with the lot of
women in socialist countries. Well
print here soon a list of pamphlets
which supply material for such lee
lures.
Moreover, it appears to me that
the very fact that these women are
so fond of dancing, should be uti-
lized, if it is financially possible.
The obvious thing to do is to give
dances, with political talks first on
the program, and again during the
evening, between dances. (Adver-
tise the Working Woman" and
Soviet Russia Today.')
The drive to interest women
should not rest solely on love-and-
marriage questions: see last chapter
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-31

Here is a picture that we hope
explains itself, at least as far as it
goes. 1t looks very much as if the
man Git isn't very hard to guess
what he Isl were saying" Help, We
need you. Save civilization, save
your families from the barbarians."
That's what he says to the worker,
but he is really thinking something
like this
Business is getting worse and
worse-no more profits-we must
have war! The Soviet Union, the
land without unemployment, grows
stronger every day and the life of
the happy workers grows better and
better. We must destroy it. That
is a bad example for the United
States where every day the work
ers are thrown out Of homes and
jobs"
The worker looks little puzzled.
What will he do with the gun?
You can see that our picture needs
an answer. Suppose you draw an
other picture and show us what the
worker will do. The best picture
will be published next week. And
do you know what happened April
6. 1912
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-31

Wait, don't quit now-let's go on
This is where we start the fun.
I'll give you a problem; not one plus two
A bigger one See what you can do.
Workers 7 workers, = what, you say?
Masses and masses who get no pay.
That's right, you know, but you're not 81
wise.
Workers workers = ORGANIZED
Workers + workers I brains + might
Gee, it seems we're coming out right.
Don't stop, go onl that means FIGHT
All for the workers. Down, Parasitel
By c. D.
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80 O0ckot>
.,[AGAifEsqe'u
NG1UGAeA:
BY PAUL LUTTINGER, MD.

81 to 100000 of population. This is
the lowest point for the last twelve
years and one must conclude that
the Repeal has materially reduced
the alcoholic mortality in this state.
In New York City, there were only
twenty -seven deaths in January and
nineteen in February; while sixty
five deaths from alcoholism were
reported in the month of December
which just preceded the Repeal.
Dry Skin-Dew Of Sahara
Carmelita, San Pedro, California.
Yes, sunshine has a tendency to
dry the skin. Try the following ap-
plication. 1t is known as Pusey's
Mixture or the Dew of Sahara. Get
your druggist to mix one drachm
of boric acid and of tragacanth with
five drops of phenol, glycerin and
oil of bergamot. This should be
shaken with four ounces of olive oil
and distilled water up to one pint.
CIFVETAND OHIO
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Can You Make EN-
Yourself?

Pattern 1910 is available In sizes
IA, 16, 10, 20, 80, "a, So, 38, 40, AZ,
A and 46. Size Is takes Az yards
Sc inch fabric.
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and address of the new sub
scriber clearly.
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Answer to Picture Talk:
/. Lenin
2. Mooney
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CLEVELAND, OHIO
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1934-01-27

hours.
Mechanical difficulties slowed
Operations o. n. C. Tarrant wAo
has been tne most active opera
cor IA the field until now. he
has deeidad 60 run Smother string
Of easing In his Brstfon No. 2
well. sW swH NEH 14-s4-eW.
a. 29oz feet. having been un-
able to get q water shut-0ft with
the present pipe.
Tmsmmf-H nglmnd sr., No. 2
NV corner as-sa-ew. Is fishing
for lost tools at 2aoo feet.
Tarranf-W inkIcr No. sw
corner zs-s5-6w. IS cleaning out
at 1900 feet, having a lost ball
err in the hole.
REORGANIZATION No. 3, NV
Nwz swH 12-s4-sw. and Mon
tana Neutrality-suspicious. No 2
NE corner i1-s4-sw. are botn
smut down. as IS the Haglund,
~ No. 4. Sc corner 1s-s4-6W.
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MISCELLANEOUS

ELEcTRaC LIGHT AND POWER
PLANTS.
GASOLINE. DIESEL AND
WAT&R POWER
X. 3. BAILEY.
Box 4o2 Great Fails. Aontans
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Par OIL company has 41sneo out
all the lost tools from It's Haines
No. 2, Sc SEA sWl 2-s4-sw.
and at last reports was five
feet off bottom. at 27Os. With no
more bad luck. tnds should be =
producer next week. after two
months fishing job.
A. p. Con-Kissel No. 8, NwA
NwA 1l-s4-ew. rigged up this
week with rotary tools The hole
had been spudded with cable
tools.
Santa Rita milestone No. 4,
offsetting Cruniley Weaver, the
former in NEA SEX 27-s5-sw,
is cementing IL h-nch pipe At
5s2.
Santa Rita-Trfhal No. 8. NEA
NwN 15-s5-sw, northernmOst
well in the field, is drilling at.
1910.
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s.
IzE On

egmmetallsm win Be the basis
Of stabilisatiOn Of currency Of
the Omitted States before June.
according 70 DR.. Jose PUG. Ca
sauranc. Mexican minister Of
foreign affairs a. New York.
This would make money ex-
changeabie for 3 given weight
OF gold plus = given weight Of
silver. regardless Of the value
Of either metal.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1934-01-27
IoaEPHINE sHTps oRE

Josephine Gold Mine. located
in the Tobacco Root mountains,
Is shipping ore to the A. C. Al.
works at Anaconda. It runs about
three ounces Of gold per ton. as
ii has averaged for three years
past. according to A. Doorubos.
president OF the company
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RATIO Is So 70 4.

Were the government to re-
monetize silver on the basis OF
the presidents Degged price Of
s4sk cents per ounce. the ratio
OF silver to gold would be So to
/ against Sen. wheeler's plan
OF 1e to /
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sWKETcRAgs ARCH MAP-Coneoavs
Topography, ali well I0ca4aons.
Finest m@D OF ita kind ever pre-
pared. ny ~ B. Mmrick. 8utpiy
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Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1934-01-27

In the west end OF the fiela,
Jeffraes CLARK No. ! sWN NV X
s-sA-sw, is drilling AZ 1886 while
farther south. IN NEA NWA
22zs4-SW, DunstaI-Kenneriy No.
/. is drilling at $50.
Gomznemwea1th-Gett No. 4,
NEH swH aS-s4-gW, has had
trouble with It's working barrel
and has not been able to start
pumping during the past week.
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MAr--Cuk Bank field, By
@. @. Howard showing al wlls
drilled ana latest guosugfaee e&ta.
supply Deparsment, MOntsns on a
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fnRRAfnY APpOrNTEIl

Thomas F. CORDIALLY has been
nominated BY President ROose-
welt as register Of the o. 8. land
office in Great Falls. succeeding
NJ. d. Nicholson, repbIican.
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