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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-05

blows against the landless share
choppers in the South, white and
especially the Negroes. 1t is driv-
ing huge numbers of them off the
land and out of production. In
addition, the Negro farmers are de-
MED all political and social rights.
They are forced to live as an op-
pressed nationality subjected to
seni-slavery by the while landlord
ruling class.
Unity Of Negro and white farm
ers struggle is a necessary pre-
requisite for winging freedom from
their oppression.
Reformist Politicians and MisIead-
ers
Progressive" politicians such as
Norris, LaFollete, Frazier. and Lang
er speak loudly against Wall Street.
because they represent the interests
of the smaller capitalists and rich
farmers. The Frazier Bill which pro-
poses mortgage refinancing at lower
interest rates, offers no solution to
the poor and small farmers and the
masses of tenants. because ruined
farmers cannot pay these debts any
way. 1t can only aid the rich farm
ers and the mortgage sharks.
The Farmer Labor Party, the So
cialist Party. and the newly formed
American Workers Party leaders,
such as Lemke, Norman Thomas,
Oscar Ameringer and Music, make
f1owery speeches and even call for
a change of system. But their every
Pct is directed toward preventing
the workers and farmers from us
ing united action to better their con-
ditions.
Milo Reno, Walter Sineler, c. C.
Talbot, snd other leaders of the
oId-line farm organizations such as
the Farmers Union. the Holiday As
ISOLATION, and the marketing COOP
eratives, are another group Of wolves
in Sleeps clothing. While COM
PEELED even to call strikes under
pressure of the rank and file in their
organizations, they have upon every
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-05
Glove Strike
Solid; 5000
Picketing
Militant Strikers Break
Down Craft Lines Set
Up by ALL. Heads
sss..
By M. E.

By M. Il.
During the week end of April IA
over 5000 glove workers belonging
to the International Glove Workers
Union, Local SO, voted to go out on
strike. The six different branches
of Local SO. each representing diff
ferent crafts in the industry, voted
separately on the strike. Yet, in
spite of the policy Of the A. F, of L.
union leaders to divide the workers
along craft lines, so great was the
indignation of the workers against
their conditions, that every craft
voted to go out together. This was
the first time IN the history of the
glove industry that such thing
happened.
Eager to Picket
The workers are eager to picket.
A large group went on their own
initiative to Mayfield to picket
scabbing shops. The union presi-
dent ordered the pickets to go
home, when he conferred with the
bosses. AS a result the factories in
Mayfield continued to scab.
Tt is this kind of collaboration
with the bosses that is endangering
the glove strike. The glove workers
are in a better position than ever
to win their demands. If they do
not win 100 per cent it will be be-
cause of the policies of the A. F. Of
L. leadership and because the rank
and file opposition failed to point
out to the workers the correct
policy of action. Workers, if you
wish to win your strike, organize a
rank and file strike committee with
delegates from each shop. Fight
the bosses militantly. Refuse your
leaders policy of class collaboration!
Demand daily mass meetings! Then
you will know what is happening
in your strike.
You have followed the example
Of the leather workers by, uniting
your ranks solidly. Now carry on
like they did, a militant war against
your enemy, the bosses. In this
way, and in this way only will you
win your strike and maintain a
union which will protect the in
terests of the workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-05


The miners on the job are
being speeded up to the limit;
a constant cry of the boss is:
Load coal! Give me coal or take
your tools and get to hell out; there
are plenty Of men that are looking
for work"
Many Are Killed
There is not sufficient timber in
the mines to hold the roof up, nor
proper ventilation to chase the gas
out and the powder-smoke after
blasting the coal.
On account of the threats by the
bosses and the efforts to make a
couple of dollars day, the miners
are taking chances on their health
and lives in hazardous places. The
local press carries news like the fol-
lowing almost every day:
Shenandoah Miner Killed. Fall of
Rock in Makeshift Mine Hole Snuffs
Out Life of William Kotzen."
OlllObA4CAC0 III d uoll VI lOul, All
drew Taren, Al, of New Philadelphia,
a miner of fifteen year experience,
was working on steep pitch and
was making a hitch for timber. The
face of coal was pushed out by the
gas and he was caught beneath the
fall.
While the coal companies are en-
ioying profits, the diggers are suf-
fering daily injuries and fatal &C
cidents!
Fired for Stating Grievances
Miners have plenty of grievances,
but they do not present them to the
union U. M. w. A., because they
have no confidence in their officials.
For example, in one local union of
the U. M. w. A. six have put in their
Yes, they won their petty
grievances with pay for a few days
that they lost on account of the
bosses fault, but in few days all
six were fired. The Cancellation
Board took up their cases. After six
months of waiting the Umpire ruled
them out of the Industry. One was
called lazy" another "drunkard."
nevertheless, they worked an aver
age of Is years in the mines, a third,
unhealthy" fourth "too old to work
in the mines" etc. The local union
took up a collection at the miners
payday and then forgot them and
their families.
There is a resentment against the
intolerable working conditions in the
mines. Miners are walking out in
spontaneous strikes. The union dis
trict officials are busy settling" the
strikes by driving the miners back
to work on the promises that the
Cancellation Board will win their
cases and, generally, forget all about
it.
Fight Unemployment
For almost one year the Socialists
influenced and controlled the Labor
ers and Farmers Unemployed Union
in Schuylkill County. With their
fascist rule in the organization and
play in political game known as
"robber check" they supported Mr..
Cloud Lord for mayor of Pottsville.
He was elected and recently ordered
tear gas bombs and machine guns
against workers in Pottsville. After
political maneuvers and financial
crookedness the organization ceased
to fight for the needs of the I'M
employed workers.
The branches of the L. & F. Union
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-05
RI. Wage''Victory"Conceals
Joker, Workers. LetterReUeaLs
agreement Gives Rail OtUners Exactly What
They Asked for in the First Place

railway workers really get that
much?) the bosses would take ten
dollars per month for at least
months more at any rate from the
workers.
The workers. because Of the
miserable starvation conditions I'M
der which they were living, de-
manded immediate restoration Of
the wage cut and an additional ten
per cent increase.
Under the compromise" 2lA per
cent is to be restored in July, an
other ~ per cent Is to be restored
in Jan. 1885, and the final per
cent is to be restored in April, 1885.
This means, as shown in the chart,
that the employers are getting just
what they we're demanding in the
way of extending the cut in wages.
OF course, on May /, 1885, under
the agreement signed, they have the
right again to demand change in
the ge scale" You can figure
out for yourself how much opposi-
ton will come from the Brotherhood
leaders"
Everybody all the way down the
line, from Roosevelt to Whitney,
praised the wisdom of the parties
concerned" The workers can effec-
lively smash this machine by organ
izing rank and file organizations of
struggle and throw out the reform
ers. Socialist workers, please take
note.)
A WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-05
Westmoreland
Mines Raise Rent

Ey Mine Worker Correspondent
YUKON, Pain the town where
I live the miners who work at the
Westnoreland Coal mines have got
a raise in rent. The company be-
fore charged the rent, So monthly
Now they have made a new one
on the miners. 1925 for single
houses per week, So for double
houses per week. The company
gains one rent a year, due to the
fact there are So weeks a year. Nov
the company gains on the single
houses $21; on double houses SO, to
a total Of 500 gain.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-05
Dear Comrsde Editor:

Dear Comrsde Editor
I believe that the Daily" over
looked one of the most important
aspects Of the recent railway com
promise" between the Railroad
Brotherhoods and the N. R. A. Co.
ordinator Eastman.
AS the enclosed chart shows, the
workers were completely betrayed in
that under the compromise exactly
the same amount Of wages is being
taken out of their envelopes for the
next year anyhow as the employers
originally proposed. The railroad
owners did not want to restore the
ten per cent wage cut before jan
uary l, 1885.
In other words, figuring on wage
basis of 800 per month chow many
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-05
10000 VIVA. Miners
Betrayed by UMWA
Leaders, Lose Strike
Sent Back to " o k Without Agreement;
Militants Should Stay Inside
UMWA Local Unions
BY F. BORICH

TOR years the northern West Virginia coal operators have
enjoyed wage differental' the Pennsylvania OPP
orators The dferena based on the theory that the
sbnnent Of coal from West Virginia was more costly The
difference in the cost of Transportation met by the diff
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-05
Lower Anthracite
Coal Miners Faces
Hunger and Death
Workers Fired When They Bring Grievances 7
U.MW.A. Leaders; Taxes of Companies
Are Lowered
Rv CARL HERMAN

nUE to the cold winter the production of coal in February
and March considerably increased but no more miners
were hired Despite the seasonabe demand for COAL only
900 miners were working out of $4,000 members in Dis
trict U. NJ W. A. (the majority worked only to daA
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-05
s3,9OI771 s2,s13,s19 s1,o95,15l

s3,9o777l s2,s1s,s19 sl,O95,15
The P. & R. Coal & Iron Co. pays
the smallest amount of the taxes,
but in fact owns most of the coal in
Schuylkill County. This fact alone
proves that the county commits
sioners are only the servants of the
coal companies and the REAL GOV
ERNMENT in Schuylkill County
Pa, is the PHILADELPHIA &
READING COAL & IRON COM
PANY. (These figures are taken
from the Philadelphia Record April
IS, 1880.
At the same time the taxes for the
small home owners have been in
creased up to the 300 per cent.
The bankers and parasites are at
tempting to take advantage of the
unemployment and are maneuver-
ing, through the schemes of the
county politicians, to swallow the
houses of the small home owners
who have invested their own sweat
and blood of their life time savings.
The bankers think they will have
a sheriff's sale and evict innocent
families on the streets. Like Hell
they will! The taxpayers of West
Mahanoy Township, April 18th, 1884,
came into the County Courthouse
one thousand strong, broke the doors
of the county commissioners and
upset their Office. The county COM
missioners dare not face the tax
payers and could not answer their
questions. The fat county commits
sioners were dragged by large
committee of the taxpayers into
Courtroom No. l and we're compelled
to face the small home owners
whom they wanted to trick out OF
their own homes.
The unemployed taxpayers are
beginning to organize in the fighting
organization of the Unemployment
Councils in the Schuylkill County
and will not give up their right to
live.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-05

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of Coaldale, Post Carbon AM
SchUylkill Haven are working Jointly
with the Unemployment Council Of
Schuylkill County. The members Of
the L. & F. union of Port Carbon,
despite our advice not to change the
name Of the organization, have
organized an Unemployment Council
in their town. Workers of Pottsville
in the seat OF the County have Or
ganized an Unemployment Council
and established the headquarters at
SOB N. Center st. Second floor.
Also workers Of Frackville have or
'ganized an Unemployment Council
there.
A real new enthusiasm has arisen
among native born workers in
Schuylkiu County to fight the
misery and starvation in the "land
of plenty"
Farming
Along the coal mining fields there
are hundreds of small farmers, who
used to sell their farm products
direct to the miners and in winter
used to work in the mines them
selves.
Now when most of the mines are
shut down, miners have no Jobs, no
income to buy the farm goods. Small
farmers can not pay their loans nor
the taxes, can not afford to buy
fertilizer, The land is being turned
into wilderness. The cattle are
dying off because Of shortage Of
food. The machines are turning in
to rusty scrap iron. There is no
money to buy the chemical liquids
to spray the orchards; the insects
are destroying the fruits, All they
have left, a few COWS; they are
compelled TO sell the milk for three
cents quart to the milk dealers who
are selling it aJ &c, a quart to the
consumers only a few miles from the
farm fields.
Small impoverished farmers de-
pend on the meager relief orders,
They have no electricity, no radio,
hardly any news papers. All they
have left is to pray in their small
churches, where the roofs begin to
leak too.
They live in exile. There is
ground for the Unemployment
Councils to fight for immediate
needs and for the Communist Party
for a final emancipation.
Taxpayers
The county politicians Of Schuyl-
kill County have reduced the taxes
for the following coal companies:
Reduc-
Tax 1882 Tax 1884 tion
Raven Run
Coal Co. $2i2,27s sl921i2 s2o,1o4
LehiVh Valley
coal Co 1850 $3.50 $4,000
Locust Noun
tain Coal Co. 120,77S 4s,953 II $50
Phila.65 Read
ing Coal d.
Iron Co. 1a,44i IS ,8e4 s,577
Girerd Estate 3.473, 63l 2,499, GAO 9745el
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-05
The Great Railway Compromise

What the Bosses wanted
Extension Of 10 per cent
pay cut to Jan. LIST Compromise"
The Amounts Below show the wage cut
per month on a wage OF $500 per month.
Hyder weekly herald., 1934-10-20
First Gold and Silver Are
 Recovered From Sea Water

OF interest to miners and others associated with the min- ing industry is an announce ment from New York that the Ethyl-Dow Chemical Company has made the first actual re- covery of gold and silver from sea water. The announcements was made by Dr. Willard H. Dow, head of the company.
 The first recovery consisted of one-tenth of a milligram. The nugget is half gold and half silver and was taken from 12 tons of sea water running through a bromide plant in Wilmington, Del, by means of treatment of collodial sul- phur, which dissolved and when settled cut like sediment, carried gold and silver with it, according to the reports.
 Dr. Dow said the metal re- covered was about one three hundredth of that existing in the same 12 tons of water.
Hyder weekly herald., 1934-10-20
Alaskan Has Big Potato Crop

James McGrath, 'tpotato king" of the Panama valley in central Alaska, still reigns su- preme as the leading potato farmer in that district, accord ing to the Fairbanks News Miner. Between 13 and IS tons of potatoes were grown on each acre of the McGrath ranch on Engineer Hill this season. McGrath has turned over to the Elks lodge of Fair banks all seconds and over size potatoes to be used for charity purposes.
Hyder weekly herald., 1934-10-20
This Is Not Imitation

Under the above caption, Mining Truth comments on the governments present financial policy as follows:
 Relieve it or net, the gov ernment is not embarked on what is ordinarily termed "in- fla.ion." The decision to take the seniorage on gold and sil- yer and to issue money against it, merely restores to the peo- pie of the United States some of the purchasing power which was wiped out in the cataclysm of 1929.
 "The government is on the way toward remonetization of silver. In fact Washington dis patches indicate that silver will ultimately be revaluad at $2.18, which will reestablish the ancient ratio of 16 to l with gold.
 "This is not imitation. It may properly be termed "reflat- ion." It is equivalent to letting the air into a vacuum, which is not at all the same as pump ing air into a balloon till it ex- bands to the bursting point"
Hyder weekly herald., 1934-10-20
Pilot Drops Half Ton
 Of Dynamite Safely

Capping a recently widely heralded feat of delivering a large portion of a 16-ton ore milling plant for the Big Four Mine near Valdez by dropping the parts attached to para chute2, Pilot Bob Reeve recent ly delivered 10 the. same mine a half-ton of dynamite by the same method and without mis- hap.
 The explosive, wrapped care- fully in large mattresses, was dropped onto a glacier near the mine, which is located at a point in the mountains diffi- cult of access by ordinary means of transportation.
Hyder weekly herald., 1934-10-20
Transplanted Animals Doing
 We'll On Alaska Islands

Food and fur bearing ani- mals planted on Kodiak and Afognak Islands by the Alas ka Game Commission e thriving and have increased greatly in numbers, according to Game Warden Homer Jew ell, who recently visited the two island groups.
 Returning to his headquarters in Ketchikan, Warden Jewell reported that a herd of nine elk placed on Afognak island in 1927 has increased to be- tween 50 and 60 animals, ac- cording to estimates. Deer planted on Kodiak island in 1923 have increased in num- Der, as have also plantings of muskrat and beaver.
 Rabbits planted under the CWA program last winter have done exceptionally we'll and can be found in great numbers throughout the Kodiak and Afognak groups, MT. Jewell said. The islands were form erly the habitat of only one an- imal, the Kodiak bear.
Hyder weekly herald., 1934-10-20
Juneau Miners Vote
 Against Closed Shop Strike

Members of the Alaska Mine Workers union of Juneau, num- bering around 800 members, voted 3 to 1 last week against a proposal to call a strike at the Alaska Juneau mine, ow- ing to a decision of the mine officials to employ workers without regard to their affili- ation with the local union, ac- cording to reports.
Hyder weekly herald., 1934-10-20
Negro Colony For Alaska
 Proposed By Cleveland Man

To establish a Negro colony of one million persons on 40O,- 900 Alaska farms of 160 acres is the proposal of Dr. Joseph T. Thomas of Cleveland, Ohio, according to press reports of recent days.
 Dr. Thomas is the self-ap- pointed head of the Alaska colonization branch of the United Congo Improvement Association, Inc, and the aims of the association, as eXpre2 2sed by Dr. Thomas in literature on the subject, are "To prevent Japanse invasion of the United States by colonizing 100000 Negroes in Alaska; to set up a state under federal jurisdiction where the Negro can enjoy po- litical freedom and be a Demo- crat or Republican, whichever he likes"
 Under his plan the farms would be allotted to members of the association, who are re- quired to pay fee of $1 to be- come members, together with monthly dues of 25 cents. Thomas was said to have some 300 members on the roll at the time the scheme was made known through %he news papers, So he has a long way to go to secure the proposed million colonizers, even if the government permits him tc' go on with his plan, which was being investigated to deter mine if the association was le- gitimately organized from the viewpoint of postal regula- tions. The government does not want Dr. Thomas collect. 1 ing a lot of money in fees and dues through the mails.
Hyder weekly herald., 1934-10-20
B. C. Legislator Criticises
 International Highway

Proposals for the construction of highway through British Columbia to Alaska were criti- cized by Give Planta, a mem Der of the British Columbia legislature in an address to the Service Club at Prince Rupert a few days ago. MT. Planta declared that the highway is required by the United States as a strategic road and part of a plan to develop commercial and military facilities, adding |:
 "For l.he United States to build the Ala7ka highway with the full knowledge that is is re- quired for strategic purposes by the United States and to build it with American money is to commit an act in this day of peace between countries that will in the future inevi- tably embroil Us in information al difficulties"
Hyder weekly herald., 1934-10-20
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When you move report your new address to the Herald, instead of to your local postoffice. Unless you do 90, your papers will not be forwarded by the postoffice without payment of extra postage for forwarding. Just write your old as we'll as your new ad- dress on penny post card and mail direct to us.
Hyder weekly herald., 1934-10-20

The Moose lodge has e:tab- lished new lodge quarters in the Empress building in Stew art.
Hyder weekly herald., 1934-10-20

Don't freeze while slow fire starts Start it quick with old papers from the Herald Office.
Hyder weekly herald., 1934-10-20

Glover leaves are the favorite design in Japanese decoration.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1934-12-13
Cedar Lake

Mr.. and Mrs. A. J. Orth motored
to Richmond, Saturday to attend
the farm bureau meeting.
Grandma Pauly was greatly sur
prised Tuesday when Mr.. and Mrs.
Albert Doege and children and
Mr.. and Mrs. Theodore Schmitz
dropped in to remind her of her
birthday anniversary.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ben Ahrens and
family, Norbert and Louis Van
Havermaet, Mr.. and Mrs. Christ
Rehkamp and family, Mr.. and Mrs.
Peter Ritter and Ed Ritter were
visitors at the Paul Ritter home
Wednesday evening.
J. L. Drinker called at the Thor
wald Hansen home Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Hume and
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Domke were
Sunday evening guests at the Sam
Clark home.
Mrs. Minnie Gamradt and sons,
Delbert. and Gehart, and daughter,
Doris, were among those who help
ed surprise Mrs. Ed Lambrecht ST.,
on the occasion of her birthday
anniversary Thursday evening.
Mrs. John Proell assisted Loret-
ia Liebel with her work Tuesday.
Roger Baily spent from Friday
until Sunday with Harry Gamradt.
Miss Elvina Orth was a business
caller in Long Prairie Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Lloyd en-
tertained the following guests Sun
day at dinner, ad$d supper: Mrs
Jennie Stevenson, of Chicago, Ill;
Mrs. Charles Koterba, of Outlook
Montana; Mrs. Frank Quade, OF
! Milwaukee, Wis; Mrs. August Buet
tier, of Sank Centre, and Mr.. ant
Mrs. Albert Kind Elmer Gamrad
and George Kind and sons, Arnold
! and Arvin.
Catherine Ulunda and Valeris
Lentz spent Sunday afternoon with
Lucille Kind.
Albert Kind, Arthur Lloyd, anc
Henry Lloyd, called on John Proel
Sunday afternoon.
Lucille Kind spent from Thurs
day until Saturday with her sister
Mrs. Henry Lloyd.
Miss Laverne Gamradt, who i!
attending business college at Min
neapolis, arrived home Wednesday
evening to attend her grandmoth
er's funeral Thursday afternoon
She returned to Minneapolis Thurs
day evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Kind called
on Mrs. Augusta Buettler Tuesday
and Thursday.
Joe Mikels, Paul Domke, Ed Lieb
ell and Walter Eckman helped Johr
Proell butcher Thursday.
Mr.. Sole was a business caller
at the Thorval Hansen home Satur.
day.
Orval Gamradt and his friend
from Princeton, Mimi, were sup.