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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-05-12
FEAR INTERNATIONAL.
REPERCUSSIONS NOW

GENEVA, May 12.-(UP).-
Bolivia handed a note to the
CONTINUED on page three)
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-, DISTINCTION. Nay 12. (UP)
|s,,.., from tinder-dry prairies
b Isa a yellow curtain between
h. @ I earth Friday as the rich
\ 90 .ands Of the midwest thirst
Siip'S'ng out the sun as it
FIo, ,.sO eastward, the dust storm
East ~ . around M2nhattan's spires,
b. pail over Washington and
Ec, S%' along the Atlantic sea-
h. e. II was the first experience
|Sou oSs' !. mas had with the record
shesi s. mat is turning western
The I G,Ics into dust piles.
be e,s lust cloud which visited
Ealy Ss5 coast coast yesterday yir.
hig6t aaa disappeared late last
Fecsers according to weather OBJ
b sea Ca, -. The dust was blown out
E'areII f Where it was expected to
''r 20 or 80 miles before
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\, lIAGO, May 12.-UP).-
E.. "er scattered areas of the
g., western grain belt today
~, hopes for a break in the
\, Drought in a generation.
~, M Vas expected within "a
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-05-12
DRIVE CAREFULLY TODAY

The hostility between motort and pedestrian unreasonable
Yesterday we cursed the motos who mar
running down he speededup to beat the req
light Today we impatient with the who steps off the
curb just we around the in The point
of view changes in the it takes to climb out of an
automobile BUT SHOULD IT?Highway Safety Committee
Carolina Motor Club. .n' .-,,t ....y...,
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WEATHER

-, tonight and Sundays
warmer Sunday
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-05-12

Four unemployed men struck q
rich gold claim in Colorado. Now
they can enjoy being jobless.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-28

Ea@rM St NewYm 4 city
VIZ ARE MARCHING TODAY

WE ARE MARCHLNG IUDA11
Listen, Comrade-
You In the steel mills of Pitts
burgh,
In the cotton fields of Alabama,
In New York sweatshops,
On under the sun of Imperial
Valley
You Chinese coolie,
Scotch miner, Danish seaman,
Singapore stevedore, Canadian
lumberjack,
Wherever your back Is bent, your
arms ache,
And you can hardly lift your
Listen, Comrade, We are marching
today.
With our fathers and mothers,
brothers and sisters WE ARE
MARCHING TODAY.
Listen
Velvet-eyed black children.
Look up from your cotton pick
ing
Sad-faced little Mexicans
In Colorado's beet fields.
Unbend your tired backs
Yellow-h haired poor white trash" "
Stop a minute from stacking that
sorghum
In city streets, bootblacks and
neWsieS,
DO YOU KNOW WE ARE
MARCHING TODAY?
And you, unemployed worker,
On the dole, in the breadlines of
the world,
In flop house, or half dead on
park bench.
You who have heard nothing but
Sorry
No help wanted
Factory closing
No help wanted
Layoff
No help wanted
COME JOIN US WE ARE
MARCHING TODAY!
And you in Nazi dungeons,
In Kilhy Prison,
In jails of California,
In Polish concentration camps,
In the Penitentiary of Walla
Walla-
We salute you
Thaelmann, Herndon, Mooney
Malatesta, the Rueggs,
The Scottsboro martyrs.
And thousands of others un-
known,
But dear to us
FOR YOU, WE ARE MARCHING
TODAY!
We have heard
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-28
MAY DAY is OUR DAY

May First was first of all work
er's holiday all over the world.
All militant workers organizations
celebrated 1t. But the bossse began
to plan ways of taking the work
ers' attention away from this hoh-
day.
SO Hoover, whom you all re-
declared that May LIST
should be celebrated as Child
Health Day. On this day the gov
eminent TALKS about Child
Health. The other days they don't
even talk about it, But we know
they don't DO anything about it.
They need the money for battle
ships, Let us tell the bosses on
their fake Child Health Day that
we don't want one child health day
in the year, but 1865, and 1855 in
Leap Yearl
On May 1st, let us demonstrate
for workers government in the
United States. And then every
day Will be real Child Health Day,
Just as it is in the Soviet Union,
where the workers rule.
We don't want smooth talk. We
want food, clothes. and decent
homes. And we're out to get them!
That's why we march ON May Day,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-28

struggles, we extend the heartiest
May Day greetings
The U.C.W.C.W. was organized in
1927, having now 81 Councils with
a membership of about 1000. A
membership drive Instituted last
october Melted 700 new members,
About 1,40O new members we're en-
rolled since last years annual con-
ference.
The victories Of the Councils in
bringing down or holding down
rents, and cost of groceries, have
been reported here from time to
time. Prices on baked goods were
brought down in Brownsville and
the Bronx, and in both these terri
tories and in Williamsburg, active
campaigns are now being conducted
to lower other grocery prices, par
ticularly those of dairy products.
In other cities Gin all eoncentra-
ton points there are other Wo-
mems Councils. not affiliated with
the U.C.W.C.W. In Los Angeles
there ere seven; in Cleveland, eight;
In Detroit, twenty; in Boston, seven
or eight. in Chicago, about eight.
In the State of Connecticut there
are at least six Most Of these have
been organized since last May Day
One of the Los Angeles Councils
sent to the U.C.WC.W. a report
which was written in Yiddish. 1t
is being translated and we shall re-
port on this later.
The new Domestic Workers Union
In N. Y. G. also came into being
since last May Day, having been
organized about seven months ago.
There is also a women's auxiliary
of the Workers Ex-Servicemen's
League, from whom we have not yet
heard. To all these, as we'll as to
ell working class women's organi-
cations, we extend May Day greet
rgs and an invitation to write about
leir work. We pledge support IN
matter of publicity, and will do
lat we can to make next year a
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-28
Owes Company for
Slave Work; Is
Refused Due Wage
Mine in Ohio Is Tricky
Death Trap; Imperils
Workers
By MING Worker Correspondent

BY Mine Worker Correspondent
POWHATAN POINT. Ohio. - I
left Premier, W. Va. the day after
Christmas. The reason was that
I owed the company for working.
I had a balance of $3s and on
Nov. Is pay I Jumped out SO; on
the second pay in November 1
jumped out 81 and on Dec. Is pay I
jumped out 81 and the Christmas
pay broke even. The day before
Christmas went to the store and
I asked for IS scrip and the book
keeper tried to give me one dollar.
I had worked SO out and I only
had 81 scrip. He refused to give it
and left Premier.
This is the scheme TO get rid Of
active members from the local
union at the Powhatan Mine. The
mine is not so safe to haul man
trip in The halfway is bad top
hanging rock that is cracked one
inch and has sagged down one inch
and the mine management don't
care. Some of these days q piece of
stone might fall in the car and
then a few men will be killed.
It happened about one month ago
as a man trip was coming out and
it just passed under one of them
hanging rock and the other trip was
blocked as the rock fell right after
the first trip passed and the last
trip had to walk from IL Left; that
is a good three-quarters Of mile
All of this is going on at the Pow
| hatan Mine.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-28

of protesting to the N. r. A. labor
board, of even threatening to strike
Nor is all this fanciful theory on
our part. It is actual, factusl his
tory on the pilots part. Witness
the Air Line Pilots Association. "a.
F. of L., the Aeronautic Federal
Workers Union, etc.
1t is beginning. 1t is a begin
ming which must be followed
through. We who are not airline
pilots must support this beginning.
But even as the airline pilots could
not make this beginning as indi-
viduals, but only as an organization,
so we cannot support them as indi-
viduals, but only as an organiza-
ton. We pilots who are not airline
pilots must also organize.
But further: even as the indi-
vidual airline pilot is realizing his
inability as an individual to effec-
lively resist the pressure which was
Sinking his living standard in the
midst of an expanding industry, and
is forced to seek the support Of fell
low pilots, so will pilots as a group
realize their weakness as merely q
group of pilots, and will be forced to
seek additional support. They will
find 1t only among other workers
in the industry who are faced with
the same problems of wage reduc-
tons and unemployment that the
pilots are faced with.
The caste relation Of officer to
enlisted man, created by the military
tradition in aviation, must be broken
down between pilot and mechanic.
AIRLINE pilot and private pilot,
n employed and unemployed pilot,
airline mechanics and private me-
chanics, employed and unemployed,
pilot and mechanic, office man and
factory man, must all band to-
gether. We must organize and sup
port each other. For wage cuts and
unemployment are not respecter of
persons. But wage cutters and lay
off artists are respecters Of organ
lied mass action.
We, a group of pilots and mechan-
les, believe this. We have banded
Together to seek ways and means of
translating this belief into action
We call on every other individual In
the industry who believes with us to
do the same. We call upon all to
help us translate this belief into
action.
Now what we say Is, In unity and
organization is our strength.
And this means pilots too, shiny
and romantic pilots, the supermsn
of tradition, who are rapidly be-
coming only worried men of reality
whose wages are being cut, whose
Jobs are becoming scarcer, who are
wondering how to pay their rent
and even, more and more, where
there next meal is coming from.
Come along and join us. We as
a group of Pilots and Mechanics
issue an invitation. Let's see what
we can do to help ourselves.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-28
AS ONE AIR-PHOT
TO ANOTHER
by a Group of Pilots and Mechanics

Note: This column marks the
beginning of a weekly feature
dealing with all branches Of the
aviation industry. It will appear
every Saturday. We invite all
aircraft workers, pilots, mechanics,
or orthers connected with the avi-
alton industry to write to us.
THE romantic era of the profess
] sionsl transport pilot has passed
The era of the pilot-entreprener
Is passing. For the pilot has be-
come a commodity.
1t all came about with the mate
REALIZATION of his early dreams of
the day when aviation would be-
come an industry. And it has left
the pilot in a position he did not
picture in his early dreams.
He pictured in his early dreams
8 transport system, winged and
speedy, far flung over blue sky air
ways ingeniously controlled. He
pictured wide spread airports, shiny
buildings, wonder ships. He pic
tured passengers and cargoes. He
pictured factories, schools, and
many people flying. And, some
how, in all these dreams, he pic
tured himself on top, controlling
with the practical hand of expe-
rience these mammoth enterprises
Of the air.
He didn't picture bankers, finance
and monopoly, which doesn't give
a snap for dreams or pilots, but
does for profits. We didn't picture
routine flying, routine hours being
boosted, wages being cut. He didn't
pictre unions, wage-fights, unem-
ployment.
In short, he didn't picture him
self as a wage Garner. And still
that is precisely what he has be-
come.
And so the pilot has become q
commodity. for that is what the
labor power of a wage Garner is. A
wage eaner's ability to work, is a
commodity in the labor market like
q sack of corn is a commodity in
the grain market.
But not only has he become a
commodity. He has also become a
surplus commodity He has become,
in part, a commodity for which
there is no market
HERE we must take leave of our
II analogy between the pilot and
the sack of corn, They are both
comodities, it is true. And, today,
It Is also true, they are both sur
plus commodities. But the pilot Is
human, and the sack of corn Is
not. So, when the pilots price, as
a commodity, is pushed down and
down until as surplus, commodity,
1t gets down to nothing, he is not
content to lie on a shelf, innert and
rotting, as q sack of corn is, but is
rather stirred to action. He is
stirred to the action of organizing
himself, of banding together with
other pilots, of forming q union,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-28
Fear Of Nine Strikes Forces Pay Raise; But Nine
Companies Increase the Rents and Price on Lamps
Lewis, Other Mine Takers Hail Small Gain As a
Huge Victory to Boost Themselves

the Western Penna. coal industry,
and believes that tremendous good
will follow with this magnificent be-
trayal of the starving coal leaders
in western Penna. But the stsrv-
ing coal leaders here see through
J. l.. Lewis and Co.'S magnificent
betrayal and is talking Of strikes
not for IS cents q ton, but for 10
cents a ton to meet the wage in
crease of day men and the higher
rise in prices for rent, powder and
food and that they would not be
kept back by Lewis and his trusted
heutenants; their fines and the
anti-strike clause.
And to show how the coal COM
pany is carrying out the agreement
here, and what happens to any
miner and member of the United
Mine Workers of America if he
tries in the mine or in his local
union meeting to force the company
to carry out their agreement, or
if he is only talking about it, they
get laid off or discharged for dirty
coal, or for other excuses of the
coal company. In that way, no union
miner dares to say anything against
his conditions in the mine To the
mine foreman or at his local union
meetings. IF he does, he gets dis
charged for dirty coal next day.
Only through mass militant &C
ton, rank and file leadership can
we win better wages and working
conditions for the miners-not by
Lewis policy of class collaboration,
and remember, what you get from
the coal companies without struggle
is not worth having, and on this
point Lewis protects the coal oper-
ators through his no-strike clause
and fines.
Our shortcoming is that We have
not as yet exposed j. L. Lewis new
agreement and his magnificent be-
trsyal Of the coal leaders.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-28

SHENANDOAH, PA stspen-
sion Of four collieries has been called
by district president, Martin Bren-
nan Of the United Mine Workers of
America. There is a system of me-
chanical mining in operation on a
company rate of wages which is $6.25
per day, the miners claim they can
make from SO to $40 or more per
day if this work was put on con-
tract. The miners raised the griev-
ance and the Cancellation board
which is composed of three opera
tors and three miners representa-
tives agreed to a contract rate to be
paid, but no sooner had they agreed
than the coal company refused to
abide by the ruling and still in
sisted on paying the company rate
This decision for a contract rate
was handed down Dec. %. At that
time the big demand for coal was
the cry of the operators. Now the
coal company is stocked up with
coal and the union officials called
the suspension of work for those
four collieries, and the giant st
Nicholas central breaker Is still
working along with other mines that
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-28
Miners Boo New Wage
Scale Set by U.M.W.A.
Officials and the Bosses
By Mine Worker Correspondent

BY a Mine Worker Correspondent
VESTABURG, Pa. The local
union 1852 of the United Mine Work
ers Of America met April It'll, to
take up the new wage agreement
that was sent by the International
officials. There were many rank and
file present. When President Sam
Rhodes began to read the new wage
scale, there were many Kisses and
boos, and finally the rank and file
rejected the rotten scale.
And the rank and file members
demanded that committee be
elected to go to the district to take
some of the rotten clauses out of
the agreement.
The Communist Party calls upon
the miners to fight for these de-
mands: Abolish the hard safety
caps and goggles, S. day, s hours
and 5 days a week, with an increase
Of wages according to the increase
of the price of commodities; against
speed up; equal rights for Negroes,
foreign-born or non-citizens; sup
port the Workers Unemployment
Insurance Bill CHR. 1899,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-28
gAN q
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bigger and better year in the de-
velopment of work among all wo-
mems groups, and allied groups
youth and children's movements. We
must work fast, not only for the
immediate betterment of living con-
ditions, but to deepen claSs-con-
seriousness among our women and
awaken them to the menace of an
impending imperialist war.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-28
Fake Strike Called by UMWA
To Balk Action by Miners

are not affected By the suspension.
If this strike or so-called suspen-
sion had been called In the month
Of January and closed all mines
down along with the central break
er, the miners would be granted a
victory in short order.
But we understand the officials
are carrying water on both Shout
ders. They know the coal company
is in the wrong so they are calling
this strike Of the four colliery locals
to make it look good on their part
but why didn't those officials help
us in the 1882 strike? Instead they
helped the coal companies to senc
in state troopers to stop us from
picketing and helped blacklist some
of the most militant union men.
Now those same officials see tbs
anger Of some Of the mine workers
and another thing, election year Is
coming around again so, to win the
grace of the mine workers again
they are trying to lean towards
those that they betrayed time anc
again.
1t looks TO many Of us that there
should be reorganizf lion of a rea,
union under rank and file leader
ship, who will have the right Of
referendum vote, not the ruling of a
few whether they are right or wrong
who in the long run hamper the
fight for real demands Of the mine
workers. Not only rank and file
union is our object, but to affiliate
with the Trade Union Unity League
where the real leaders are, and moi
the rotten racketeering organization
as the A. F. of L. is today.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-28
N.M.U. Leads Strike in
Gallup, Gaining Cut
In Charge for Lamps
Ry q Mine WORKER Correspondent

BY Mine Worker Correspondent
GALLUP. N. Mex.-The Allison
Mine three miles west Oh Gallup
came on strike April Q, under the
leadership of the National Miners
Union. After two days strike they
gained a cut in the charge for lamps,
which was s1.75 per month before
the strike. After the strike was cut
to 81.
This should prove to Rank and
File miners that only under the
N. M. U. can we gain any Of our de-
mands. So miners you should look
to the N. M. U. and not the N. r. A
and let's get one big N. M. U.-then
we can reach out for our demands
in a body. With the unemployed at
our side, not against us, we can
fight a winning battle Forward for
a United Front with the N. M. U
in the front.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-28
By Mlne Woke CorrespOndent

LIBRARY, Pa.-Fear Of min e
strikes forced pay rise, and hour
cut for the day men to IS a day,
but a wage cut for the coal leaders
of 70 cents.
This represents important gains for
only the day men, and John L, Lewis
halls this as a gain for the miners,
But Lewis conceals the fact that
these gains we're made only to fur
Their divide the dsy-men and the
coal leaders in case Of strike, and
on the basis of this wage increase
for the day men to IS a day for
seven hours. the coal company's in
crease house rents, powder and
everything in the coal company's
stores, and already the coal COM
panies have increased house rents
as high as 81 a month.
But, what about the coal leaders
wage scale of Sc cents a ton and
seven hours day? No coal loader
can load as much coal in seven
hours az 90 cents a, ton as ne dld
in eight hours at 50 cents a ton
Instead he received q wage cut OF
70 cents q day.
But what about non-payment OF
dead work9 What about the steal
ing of coal by the coal company
from the coal leaders from 100 tc
$50 pounds on each car, for so
called dirty coal7 What about the
rase on powder, rents and every
thing in the coal company store7
Under this April new agreement OF
IS day for the day men and u
cents wage cut for the coal loader
this is what John L. Lewis and the
coal operators conceal, and hail this
as financial gain for Lewis anc
Co., but not for the coal leaders.
This is what Lewis and Co. call;
remarkable demonstration of the
efficiency of collective bargaining If
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-28
AlaSkanS Demand
Action To Fight
Huge Price Rise
Wages Sink in Mines ;
Prices 5000 Higher
Than in u. S.
lBy a Mine Worker Correspondent

lBy Mine Worker Correspondent
FAIRBANKS, Alaska. - Alaskans
are subject to the same cuts as
those in the United States, although
living expenses are about 300 per
cent higher here than in Seattle,
Wash.
Even our delegate In Congress did
not state the facts accurately, or
rather his comparisons are mislead-
ing. In his remarks in the Con-
gressional Record, 73rd Congress,
second session, printed January IL,
1884, he compared the prices Of the
necessities of life in Seattle with
Betchikan and Anchorage, Alaska.
The cost Of living in Ketchikan was
averaged at rs per cent higher than
in Seattle, and the cost in Anchor
age was 1876 per cent higher than
in Seattle, No mention was made
Of the cost in Fairbanks or any In
terror city, Prices are approximately
100 per cent higher in Fairbanks
than in Anchorage,
Take one small item. the STAFF
Of life," a loaf Of bread. In An
chorages it is 10c, while In Fair
banks it is 25, or 25OT higher. A
haircut is still 81 in Fairbanks, the
Golden Heart Of Alaska.
The U. S. Goyernment-opera
Alaska Railroad freight-rates are
too high. The rate from Seattle to
Fairbanks is 800 per tons. I know
one man who paid $42.45 for $50 lbs.
The men working on the track re-
ceive only SIS per month and board,
so I guess they are not responsible.
The General Manager, I am told,
receives salary of $4,000 per year.
A large mining company here six
years ago employed labor at 81 per
day when gold was s16 an ounce.
Now, with gold around S35, they
pay laborers s5.75 per day and
board.
The CWA employs men to shovel
snow around that Nature always
took care of before. They are not
given enough work to keep them
alive.
We need a good organizer here
We are past the talking stage. We
demand action.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-28
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS

Springs Of AidipSOs
d. p, New York City-The springs
of Aidipsos located near Euboea,
Greece, are beneficial in cases of
arthritis (rheumatism of the joints
We would advise you to write to
your sister to take the baths recon-
mended to her by her physician.
Crab Lice
s. G., Brooklyn.-We have an
swered this query several times. For
your benefit we'll say again that
shaving of the hair is not sufficient.
You must also take a hot bath and
after that rub into the affected
parts q generous quantity of Blue
Ointment, which you can get with
out prescription from any drug
store. You must repeat this three
nights in succession and be sure to
discard all underwear or bed clothes
which might have become contami-
mated with the lice.
Smallpox Cases
T. F., Boston, Mass.-There we're
$4,000 cases of smallpox in the
United States in 1882, and about
$4,000 in 1881, Most of these cases
developed in states where vaccina-
ton against smallpox is not COM
pulsory, During these years, there
we're no cases of smallpox in several
European countries where vaocina-
tion is compulsory Only India ex-
ceeds the United States in the num-
Der of smallpox cases,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-28

ing hell. It's about 10000 workers
gone out on strike, the biggest strike
ever been. The workers are sending
the scabs tc the hospital. I just
wanted to point out word to you
about the T,CI. strike.
So here is 81 I send and I will
send more just as soon as can get
it. We are working in a hurry now
in this strike.