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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-22

No. 1852, 709 Plum ST., Danville,
Ill; M. Williams, Local NO. Al, Box
Ga, Catlin, Ill.
For audi ors, Lee Grace, Local No.
1914, Danville, Ill; Clarence Nolan,
Local No 1862, 913 N. Griffin ST.,
DanvilIe, I'll.
For delegates to the American
Federation of Labor, John F. Sloan,
Local No. $500, ia Illinois St.,
Westville, Ill; Oscar Guynn, Local
No 3917, Lansing, Ohio; George
Green, Local No. 1443, 524 West
Washington, Ave, Shenandoah, Pa;
James ENERGY, Local Union No.
1852, 100 Plum ST., Danville. ILL.,:
Lee Grace, LEGAL No. 1914, Dan
vile, Ill; Clarence Nolan, Local No.
1862, 913 North Griffin, Danville,
ii.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-22

to convert the existing company
unions into trade unions, and de-
peding on the situation in the given
shop or industry, to organize these
workers into the unions of the T. U.
U. L., independent unions or A. F.
of L.
The bosses would appreciate
nothing better than if we Commu-
nists and revolutionary workers will
abstain from work in the company
unions under the left phrases this
worker uses in the article to the
Daily Worker This purity" has
nothing in common with the reali-
ties confronting us. The "leftism"
in this respect Of abstention from
work in the company unions means
to permit The bosses to carry their
program of establishing in the
shops a basis for a fascist organi-
ration.
The Right to Vote
Among other things we must
raise the demand for the right to
vote in the company union of
women, youth, for the righJ Of
everybody to vote in the elections.
There are ell kinds of examinations,
the question of citizenship, young
workers, etc. In short, work within
the company unions for the purpose
of the destruction OF company
unionism, for the purpose of con-
verting them into mass trade
unions in the shops. Maybe in
many cases then we will convert
the company unions into trade
unions, to organize shop delegated
bodies on the basis Of delegates
from each department, excluding all
representatives of The company.
All these questions are still
problem confronting us in our daily
work in the shops. We must be
clear that without clear-cut
policy, politically and organization
ally toward the company unions we
cannot speak Of winning the ma
jority Of the workers in the basic
industries and shops. Any ,heory
OF abstention helps to strengthen
the company unions and not to
weaken and destroy them,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-22

ticket is pledged to 3 fight
for the Improvement Of the
conditions of the miners, par
ticularly the abolition of the
Southern wage differential, the Sc
daily wage, the fight for the Work
ers Unemployment Insurance Bill,
and the creating of genuine dem
ocracy in the union, which has long
been strangled by the Lewis gang
ster administration.
The Rank and File Committee.
which publishes an official organ,
the Rank and File Coal Digger"
stated that John F. Sloan, West
vile, Illinois miner, will head their
slate in opposition to Lewis for
presidency of the powerful union.
The complete text of the rank
and file program follows:
1.-For the S. day, 6-hour day
and 5-day week, with the abOli-
ton of the differentiaI between
the North and South, for Ma
tional one year agreement and a
miners referendum on all agree
ment.
2.-For the unity of the en-
ployed miners and the unem-
ployed and for support of the
Workers Unemployment and So
cial Insurance Bill, H. r. 1898.
3.-For the right to strike,
against forced arbitration, aboii-
ton of the penalty clause and the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-22
Many Join Unemployed
Councils to Carry
On Fight

since the captive mine strike Of
1898.
Already 5000 Prick miners have
flccked into the Unemployed
Councils over the heads of Presi-
dent Heinz and the officials of
District 4. Miners Of the Alicia
and Smock locals asked local OFF,
Gals whether UMWA members
could Join the U. c. and Heinz ruled
emphatically against any such &C
ton. The wholesale movement
into the Councils was their answer
to the district leadership.
Heinz does nothing to organize
the UMWA in the face of the
growing fascist brotherhoods Of the
companies, fulfilling the orders of
the Lewis machine which ZAP
pointed" him president when the
militant miners drove traitorous
Bill Feeney from their midst dur
ing the strike.
X. X. X. Grows.
Linked with the coal operators
and their puppet UAWA officials
are the fascist xxx. bands, which
have sprung up in the district.
Following the Labor Day parsdes
of the miners at Mather, Union
town, and Fredericktown, Is fiery
crosses were burned along the
Monongahela valley and on nearby
hills.
When company evictions are the
order of the day, the company
deputies assist constables in NOV
ing families into the street.
At Oliver, near Uniontown, 40
youths, members Of miners falni-
lies which have been thus evicted,
have formed a coke oven colony.
But the miners are determined
to fight against the rule of the
operators. Unemployment Coun-
ellis are growing rapidly. A miners
delegation is among those which
are demanding the provisions Of
adequate relief funds by the State
Legislature now in special session
at Harrisburg. The answer of the
miners to fascisation and starva-
ton under the N.R.A. is fight, and
the fight is spreading quickly in
Washington and Fayette counties.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-22
Portland Holds Dance

PORTLAND, Ore, Sept. 21.-The
American League Against War and
Fascisnl, which got its start in this
city in July and has been conduct
ing an energetic organization drive
with the help Of working class ex-
service men, held an Anti-Military
Ball last week to defray the ex-
penses of its delegation to the Sec
ond United States Congress Against
War and Fascism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-22
Fight for Own Union
Despite Employers
Terror
BY Tom keenan,

BROW VILE, Pa,
Sept. 21.-Miners of Wash
ington and Fayette Counties
who will not submit to the
rule of the coal operators who
are attempting to force them
into company unions Broth
erhoods" are being evicted whole
sale from the company patches
and forced to find shelter in
abandoned coke ovens of the dis
trict. Whole colonies of these oven
jewellers have already been formed
under the spreading wings OF
RooseveIt'S blue eagle, where work.
ers and their families make miser-
able shift against the rains and
SHOWS of winter.
Hundreds of company houses
stand vacant while these victims Of
the new deal huddle under the
damp roofs of these earth-covered
novels, striving to keep alive on
the starvation relief orders dis
pensed grudgingly by the authort-
ties.
The accompanying pictures show
g few of these coke oven huts.
One of them, at Old Bestco, near
East Bethlehem township, is that
Of John Kubatchko, a typical ex-
ample of what happens when min
ers attempt to Organize into I'M
ions of their own choice" in
Fayette.
A Typical Case.
Kubatchko had worked IL years
for the w. ]. Rainey Company at
Clyde No. /. but when he joined
the United Mine Workers in 1888,
and was once spied talking to a
miner who was catalogued by the
company stool as a red he was
fired Immediately and driven from
company house. Since then he
has been an oven dweller.
Another photo shows the home
of Helen Byrd and her family OF
four. Her husband was fired, also
by the w. j. Rainey Co., after
which she and her little ones were
dumped unceremoniously into the
street. A coke oven in Luzerne
township was the only shelter she
could find, despite the over album
dancy of vacant houses in the vi
entity. In three of these ovens,
serving as bedrooms and kitchen,
the Byrd family stays alive on
miserable s615 per week supplied
by the relief board, the children
picking coal on nearby slate dumps
with which to cook the Scanty
meals and provide enough heat to
keep from freezing during the
winter.
Repeated appeals to the relief
authorities to find decent shelter
for these victims of coal operators
greed have fallen on ears which
are purposely deaf, since the oper-
ators own and control the whole
district. The unemployed are left
to huddle in coke ovens, to serve
as warnings to those miners whom
the companies can still intimidate.
Cattle Fodder for Humans.
At once place, in the Old Bestco
colony, a bin OF coarse field corn.
such as that used for cattle fodder,
has been stored up for consump-
ton during the coming months, to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-22
Pennsylvania Miners, Evicted from Homes
For Fighting Company Unions, Must
Seek Shelter in Abandoned Coke Ovens

augment the $3.50 starvation relief
order each week.
In the abandoned Champion
ovens, right near Brownsville, over
thirty expelled miners make their
homes
During the past three months
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-22

wise developing.
This is clear from the Wa
in which miners are rallyir
to the meetings Of the ran
and file opposition. Las
Sunday between five and six hun,
dred miners stood two hours in {
drizsle to hear the eight-point pro
gram OF the opposition at a meet
ing at Centerville, Pa. The meet
ing, held under the auspices o.
Local Union 2399 Of Daisytown, one
Of whose members, Robert Craw-
ford, is candidate for the Office Of
Secretary Treasurer of District OF
the union, heard Charley Nolker,
candidate for district president of
Local 2242; Joseph (''Scotty'D
O'Hara, Of Local 1893, candidate for
district ice-president; and E. C.
CUP, of Local 6875, candidate for
District Teller.
For Fight for Better Conditions
Speakers at the rally all dwelt
sharply on the fundamental issues
confronting the miners at the pres
cn5 time: district autonomy, the
fight against company unions, for
the right to strike, for the removal
Of all .. M. w A. officials from
the N. R. A. Boards, for the 6-hour
day and 5-day week, for the Sc
daily wage scale, for unemployment
and social insurance and for sup
port Of the Workers Unemployment
Insurance Bill introduced into the
last session Of Congress and known
as H. R. 1899.
Repeated applause was the only
thing that disturbed the meeting.
None of District President Pat
Fagan's gangsters were in evidence.
Delegations Of miners were pres
ent from Wes5moreland and Fayette
Counties.
In order to give the coal diggers
of this territory another opportu-
nifty to hear the candidates and the
program of the rank and file eX-
planned, another meeting will be
held tomorrow at the same farm as
last Sunday, at Centerville. A
meeting will be held also on Sun
day at Acmetonia, at 2 pm.
The rank and file opposition
urges that its supporters see that
members Of the opposition slate are
nominated in all local unions.
Nominations will take place in
october.
Opposition Slate
The complete list of candidates
of the rank and file opposition for
officers of the United Mine Work
ers, District 5, follow:
President, Charles Nolker, Local
Union 1882, Curtisville, Pa.
Joseph (Scotty) OHara, Local
Union 1898, BENTON, Pa.
Secretary Treasurer, Robert Craw-
ford, Local Union 1899, Richeyville,
Pa.
International board member, Rus
sell Esken, Local Union 4439, R. D.
No. l, Fayette City, Pa.
Tellers, E. c. CUP, Local Union
6875, Vestsburg, Pa; Joe Maravitz.
Local Union 1852, Vestaburg, Pa.
Auditors, Dick Shultz, Local Union
1925, HarmarVille, Pa; William
Duke, Local Union 1143, Enterprise
Washington, Pa.
Subdistrict board members Sub
District 4, Joseph Yablonski, Local
Union 1877, Richeyville, Pa; Sub
District 5, John Indof, Fitz- Henry
Local Union; Sub-District T. Theo-
dore Ted Gaul, Local Union
3506, Russellton, Pa.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-22

over 90 families have been driven
from the H. C. Frick patches at
Grindstone No 4. because they re-
fused to join the Brotherhood and
chose the UNEWA as their union.
The Prick company has been at
tempting to weed out all militantS
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-22
Racine Holds Conference

RACINE, Wis, Sept. 81. Wide
response is expected to the 10 calls
sent out for local conference to
be held tonight by the Provisional
Committee Of the Second United
States Congress Against War and
F'ascism.
Plans for huge send-off and for
the transportation of the delegates
from this city will be worked out
at the conference.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-22
What Are the Issues
Before the Delegates
To AFL Convention?
NR.A., Strike Wave, Unemployment Insurance,
the Fight Against Green's Red-Baiting
Are Central Problems, Says Weinstock
By Louis Weinstock

The 54th Convention of the A. F. of L. is approaching
The reaconay leaders of the Executive Council of the A.
of L. will try to at this convention as they
did at last years convention and in previous years e..
Before raising the important issues facing the working
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-22
File Full Slate
Of Opposition in UNIV

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Sept 21.-A complete list of can
ddates pledged to struggle against the strikebreang adj
mnisraon of John L. Lewis president of the United Mine
Workers. has been nominated the office of the Rank and
File Committee announced here The entire and file
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-22
Opposition to LewiS.
GrOWS in District 5.
OF the United Miners.
Rank and File Slate Runs for Office on Program
OF Fight for District Autonomy,
Improved Conditions

BROWNSVILLE Pa, Sept. 21.-Opposition to the
machine of President John L. Lewis growing in the ranks
the United Mine Workers. The strength of the rank and
file slate fighting Lewis and ell his district agents is like
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-22

Unemployed? join the Red
Builders.
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Evening star., 1934-04-08
INDIANA PRISON FIRE
PERILS $500 FELONS
Convicts in State Prison Guarded
After Blaze Is Brought
Under Control.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MICHIGAN CITY, Ind, April T.
Flames that ragged through the re-
ceiving building of the Indiana State
Prison and threatened to spread
to 10 other buildings. housing nearly
$500 felons, were brought under con-
troll tonight.
Authorities asserted that they did
not believe the fire was a plot to
free prisoners
The building. a brick structure of
about 40 by so feet, was damae eed
badly, but quick responses to alarms
by the city. prison and nearby La
Porte Fire Departments. resulted in
the flames being quenched.
Extra guards Immediately we're
thrown into cell blocks. About $50
prisoners, nearest to the flaming
building. were transferred to more
remote quarters.
The flames spread quickly through
the wooden portions of the build
ing. Among supplies burned in the
structures were the civilian clothing
of prisoners recently brought to the
institution. The nearest structure was
about 100 feet from the burning
building.
Inmates of the prison were de-
scrlbed by authorities as remaining
quiet throughout the fire.
Peculiar precautions have been
taken at the Indiana institution since
last September when 10 inmates.
several of them henchmen of the
notorious John Dillinger, escaped
from the prison.
Evening star., 1934-04-08
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
MOSCOW April 7.-Russian avia-
tors today rescued five members of
group of 88 who have been adrift
since February Is on the Arctic ice
pack off Siberia.
The flyers Kamanin and Molokoff
hoped to the floating ice camp of
the castaways from Cape Van Karen,
Siberia and returned to the latter
place with those believed the weak
est of the party.
Although the government rescue
commissions official announcement
gave only these details. it was assumed
the aviators made the fight in sep
arate planes, possibly alighting stimuli
taneously on two landing fields which
earlier reports said the marooned
men had cleared near their camp.
The identity of those taken off was
not given, but the castaways some
time ago drew up an order OF depar-
ture when rescue was effected.
Eighty-three men now remain on
the ice. the aviator Babushkin, who
had been a member of the party, hav-
ing made his way to the mainland
after 10 women and two children
were saved by the flyer Liapidevsky
The Russians have been marooned
on the foe since their boat, the Cheli-
uskin. was crushed by ice and sank
on a return trip from Wrangel
Island.
A later report said Pilot NJ T. Slet-
neff also flew today to the ice pack,
but damaged the fuselage of his plane
in landing and was therefore unable
to make a return trip with the other
two aviators.
Sletneff, however, expected to re-
Evening star., 1934-04-08
Critics RidicuIe
actors Expenses
On Entertainment
Laugh Off Claims for
Deductions IL, In.
come Tax.
BY the Associated Press.


NEW YORK, April 1.-THE asser-
ton Of Sidney Alderman Blackmer,
stage and motion picture actor, that
he found it necessary to spend money
entertaining theatrical managers,
playwrights and others to advance his
career, was viewed with polite amuse-
ment tonight by dramatic critics.
Blackmer was allowed a ST ,687 de-
duction from his Federal income tax
when he said it had been spent on
luncheons, suppers, parties and COM
plimentary tickets.
Brooks Atkinson OF the New York
Times expressed a belief Blackmer
was mistaken" when he told the Fed
eral Court that many of the first
line dramatic reviewers play favorites
decidedly in the theater."
Ward Morehouse of the New York
Sun said the situation was reversed
as far as he was concerned. II spend
all my money entertaining actors and
actresses, he said. They don't en-
tertain me-"
John Anderson of the Evening
Journal declared good artists don't
have to entertain critics and good
critics don't want them to-
Evening star., 1934-04-08
RIDERS
ADD TWO CLASSES
Committee Plans to Change
Program of April q
Trials.
BY staff Correspondent of The Star.


ROCKVILLE. Md. April Two
new classes were added to the pro-
gram for the hunter trials to be staged
by Redland Hunt on Rock Spring
Farm, near here. April 81. at a meet
ing held last night by the committee
in charge of the event, which is ex-
pected to attract the outstanding
hunting horses of Maryland, Virginia
and Washington
One of the added classes is to be
for officers of the armed forces of
the United States. while the other is
TO be for hunt teams. Handsome tro-
phies will be offered for the winner
of each event, as we'll as for the
three classes originally listed
The program, as revised by the
committee, is to be as follows. with
the first class set for l:30 o'clock.
Members Will Ride.
Glass l. Redland Hunter. Open
to horses that have been hunted one
or more times with the Redland
hounds Entries to be ridden by men,
bers of Redlsnd Hunt.
Glass 2. Masters Cup. For lady
riders riding horses that have been
hunted one or more times with a
recognized hunt during the l933-34
season. =
Glass 3. Manor Plate. Open to
Evening star., 1934-04-08

any horse hunted one or more times
with a recognized hunt during the
l933-34 season. Glass is open to all
riders.
Glass 4. Cavalry Cup. For officers
of the armed forces of the United
States
Glass S. Sportsman's Cup. Open
to any team of three hunters. includ-
ing officers of the armed forces Of
the United States. Combined own
ership permitted.
Major Is Named Judge.
The classes are to be judged by
Maj. John J. Bohn. attached to the
Office of the chief of cavalry in
Washington and George R. Slater,
prominent Upperville horseman.
The committee, which is headed by
N. o. Terpening. master of Rock
Spring Farm. appointed five sub
committees at the meeting
Mrs. James B. Welsh was named
chairman of the Refreshments Com
mittee, O. w Anderson, chairman of
the Gate Committee; Ralph P. Coun-
selman and w. o. Lasell assistant
secretary of the hunt. Course Com
mlttee; Miss Mabel Lasell and Mrs.
Ralph P Counselman. entry secre
taries; Mrs. Alice Berry and Miss
Lasell, Trophy Committee.
An entry fee of So for each horse
in each class has been set by the
committee. and entries may be mailed
to Lasell at post office box l2l. Rock
vile, or may be made with Miss
Lasell or Mrs. Counselman on the
grounds at the trials.
Evening star., 1934-04-08
RED CROSS OPENS
SESSION MONDAY,
EXPECTING 1900
Continued From First Page.)

of the Red Cross, will preside at the
convention dinner at the Willard Hotel
Tuesday evening. The invocation will
be by Archbishop Michael j. Curley of
Baltimore. Speakers will include Mrs
August Belmont of New York and Mrs.
Henry P. Dawson of Long Island, both
members of the Central Committee;
Rev. Joseph R. Sizoo, minister of the
New York Avenue Presbyterian Church,
Washington; Mile. Lucie Oder, men,
Der of the Comite de la International
Croix- Rouge CT Geneva, Switzerland,
and Mrs. William K. Draper of the New
York chapter.
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt will ad-
dress the Wednesday morning session,
which will be devoted to discussion of
the annual roll call for membership.
Round table conferences will occur
again in the afternoon. Juniors will
visit Mount Vernon.
An American Red Cross pageant will
be given at the Wednesday evening ses-
sion, with actors drawn from the VOL
unteer workers Of the District chap
ter. Miss Boardman will direct the
pd6SdllI.
At the closing session Thursday
morning two interesting annual events
are scheduled, when the winners Of the
membership contests for two banners
are ahnounced-one for junior increase
in enrolment and the other for adult
increase. The Junior banner will be
presented by DR.. Thomas w. Gosling,
new national director NJ IlInior Ped
Cross, and the other by its donor, Miss
Boardman.
Many delegates who work among for
mer service men and in social case
work through their chapters will re-
main over for a three-day institute,
April II, l3 and IA, to be held at St.
Elizabeth's Hospital, under direction of
DR.. William A. White. superintendent.
These lectures are not open to the
Evening star., 1934-04-08
COUNSEL LACKING
FOR THAYERPR0BE
PeCora Hesitates to Accept
PoSt-Inquiry Due to
Open Tomorrow.
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
ALBANY, N. Y, April 7.-Ferdinand
Pecora's hesitation about undertaking
the Thayer- public utility investiga-
ton, task declined by Attorney Cen
eral John j. Bennett, left the New
York State Senate Judiciary Commit
tee still without a counsel tonight, al
though the inquiry is scheduled to open
at pm. Monday.
Pecora said in New York he hoped to
decide by tomorrow whether to accent
the invitation rendered by the COM
mlttee when Bennett refused to be it's
counsel.
He added that he would mot permit
anything. either of public or private
nature" to divert him from his work
as counsel for the United States Senate
investigating Stack Exchange prac-
tees.
Prefers Broader Inquiry.
Il would be much more disposed to
serve as counsel to a much broader
field OF inquiry" Pecora said, referring
to the New York Senate Committees
plans to limit its investigation to the
authenticity of letters purported TO
have been written by State Senator
Warren T, Thayer.
The alleged letters were written to
the Associated Gas and Electric Co. in
1922 and 1928 when Thayer was chair
man of the Senate Public Service Com
mittee. Thayer has neither admitted
nor denied he wrote them.
In PecOra'S comment members of
the Judiciary Committee caught an
echo of the sharp criticism made by
Bennett and Gov. Herbert H Lehman
Thursday night of its investigating
plans.
Called a Gesture.
Gov. Lehman said the proposed plan
Of inquiry would be only gesture
for the purpose of misleading the
public"