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who attended to be a most suc- cessful meeting and the members were enthusiastic about the no- host luncheon as meeting place.
 In addition to the highly enter taining and educational program, there was a brief business meet ing during which it was decided to omit the regular monthly meet ings during the holiday months and resume them in February when the annual meeting and election of officers will be held.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-11-13
CANADIAN CUSTOMS
 OFFICIAL ARRIVES

G. A. Yardley, Inspector for the Canadian Customs, with head quarters in Victoria, B. C.. arrived here on the Princess Norah on his fourth trip north this year. He will leave on the southbound trip of the Norah to return to his headuuarters.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-11-13
HALL LEAVES

Murray Hall, Aeronautical In- spector for the Department of Com merce in Alaska, left for the Westward on the Alaska.
 He had been here a week inves- tigating the recent crash of the seaplane Baranof He conferred here with Pilot Gene Meyring, who is convalescing in St. Ann's Hos pital.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-11-13
BRIDGE MEN LEAVE

Paul Collop, c. Peterson, Jim Reed and William Priem, all steel men to be employed by the John Pomeroy Construction Company. Inc, of San Francisco, left Juneau on the Yukon. They had been brought here to work on the Doug las-Juneau bridge.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-07

pointed to the Police Research
Commission, to investigate possible
corruption and inef1ciency in the
police bureau"
What was he appointed for?
Lest we forget, some time ago the
same Pagan took a revolver from
miner and killed him with It.
There was but very little investiga-
ton made at the time by the same
police of Pittsburgh, except to shout
that it was a Red who tried to kill
Pagan. but there was a U.MW.A.
card found on the dead man and
Pagan had given him money the
day before (but, it seems, not
enough, for we still think he had
some coming, and came after it the
day he was killed..
The same Pagan helped put over
the infamous agreement taking
away all the rights to strike, the
only way the miners could fight.
In return for the check-off the
operators we're given the right to
check-cff the rest of the miners
pay (sec. 43 and sec. 46). Pagan
approved the wholesale firing of the
miners at the Knot Hole Mine last
month under this last section.
I happened to work at the same
mine Pagan worked in, and his
record was always one of retreat
and arbitration.
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Appalachia the hotel man told the
Negroes they would have to get
out. When the chairman of the
mine committee started to the
hotel, he met the Negroes and told
them to come on, and they were
told to get out again. But Com
rade Masters told them, no. They
told him they would call the po-
lice. He told them to call the
police. The police came, and when
he told them they had cases there,
they were forced to seat them.
The company police are going
through the camps telling the
Negroes they are not going to be
allowed representation on the COM
mittees, but the whites and Negroes
are both wise to their trick. We
have one Negro on our mine COM
mittee and one vice president,
which proves the police to be
liars.
So, comrades of the rank and
file, let's organize against these
appointed opportunist officials and
be ready to expose the lies of our
enemies, and build union for the
workers and of the workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-07
ADVERTISEMENT
Communist Banquet at Nitgedaiget

Communist Party month at Camp Ntgedaiget
Beacon York during which period all profits toward the
fighting only of the working class gala BAN
ouet arranged this Sunday evening" 8h
Conference of Jewish Organizations
of honor Leading district
tiona speakers participate with Senbeg
ganization secretary officiating
goes press the social staff of Camp Nigedag
guarding details Inside information
indicates that it will be
to1csting program. All invited
first International Program of the planned
tonight nations will be Free
will be by the Theatre Brigade the
time. chorus will be included in the cast (Adv)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-07
Locals Fight
.Jinl-CrOaU in
IA. Mines
By a Worker Correspondent

Df WORKER correspondent
RODA, Va.-On April l wages
were raised from $500 per day to
$3.50. Prices on the cost of living
went up from 10 to 100 per cent.
In the mines men load four to
six cars a day. Under the re-
employment program, instead of
starting new places, they began
hiring coal leaders to double up
all the working places, with about
half enough company men. The
leaders wages were cut h;lf, and
sometimes more. Then they cut
production down to three days
week.
House rent, So; doctor, $1.7O;
lights, 1.6o; coal, S2.85; mine lamps,
S1.12; Roda church, Csc; U. M. w.
A. dues, 81, burial fund, Csc.
With all these, one can imagine
what is left for food and clothing.
This has always been counted
slave-driving section, and they
have always practiced the worst
form of speed-up. and the contract
with the U. NJ. w. A. hasn't helped
it in the least.
The rank and file miner is be-
ginning to try to find a way out.
When this field was being organ
lied the company fired several men
for their union activity, and some
never had any action taken on
their cases. Dale Stableton, who
was appointed provisional presi-
dent of this district, would always
say his hands were tied, when the
local officials would try to get a
hearing for them. So now the
rank and file have combined IL
locals and are demanding the re-
moval Of Stableton, and through
threats of strike have forced the
board to meet to consider five
cases. Of the five, two are Negroes.
When they met in hotel in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-07
HOW TO GET RID OF PARASITES
/. The Bedbug


We are not referring, of course,
to the human parasites who live ON
the sweat and blood of the working
class. These will be disposed of by
the social revolution which Is one
of the easiest methods if the work.
ers would only unite in mass action.
At this time of the year, the work
ers are plagued by host of para
eias belonging to the family of in
secia which, like their human
counterparts, fatten on the blood
of the wretched, underpaid toilers.
These insects hide from the light of
the day and only work in the dark,
like the human beasts of prey. They
shun sunlight and open air, and,
like the rapacious landlords, find
their best hunting grounds in the
miserable, unsanitary and oTer-
crowded novels which the starving
workers are permitted to rent at
exhorbitant prices.
One of theac gentlemen Cor they
consider work beneath them) para
sites is the bedoug and his lady, Mr..
and Mrs. Cimex Lectularipus, who
came over to this country, accord
ing to the best authorities, in the
Spanish galleons and with the best
families in the Mayf1ower. The bed
bug had also a number of less aris-
tocratic names, such as, we'll louise
and others. The bsdbIg has pecu-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-07
BY a worker Correspondent

CENTRAL CITY, Pa.-The con-
ditions of employed and unemployed
in this mining camp have recently
gone from bad to worse.
The mines in Central City are
working one and two days week,
and in Cairnbrook, Lohal Hanna
mine No. is working on the same
schedule, with no payment for
slack or other dead wo.k. Miners
who are working find themselye s
starving on the job, as most are
getting snagS, Or II or IS cents on
pay day.
Many of the miners applied for
relief, but the relief investigator,
Clara M. Russell, told them, nothing
doing for you The miners came to
the unemployment council where
we took up the cases, elected COM
mittee to fight for relief. She didn't
want to recognize the committees, or
at first take up the cases.
The spokesman of the committees
took the floor in the relief and
spoke, exposing the relief officials,
and called on the workers to join in
the council and fight for relief for
eve-y family. The investigator then
changed her tone, and says now,
What can I do for you, Mr.?" We
forced her to put the first II cases
we have on relief Immediately,
some getting relief the next day, and
Others by the end of that week.
Since that time we haven't had
much trouble putting families on
relief, as we send the committees
to the county emergency relief
board in Somerset, and we forced
relief for all.
Two weeks ago the investigator
tried the same trick, Nothing doing
for you" We sent the committee
back, and she didn't want to recog-
nize them, and when the committees
demanded relief she left everything
on her desk and phoned for the
police to come. The committees
stayed there.
One of the committees called the
County Emergency Board director
to come up and see that the COM
mittees be heard, and cases taken
up, or we will come to Some. yet.
One of the directors of Somerset
came too.
By this time there were the in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-07

the wages to meet them" Did they
do it?
The big company, the F. E. said,
Fine, we will give the slaves back
that 10 per cent. cut we took from
them last year, but the hours, well,
we could give them more, but not
less"
The FE. works from 500 to 800
men, and the large majority work
1912, and some IA hours a day
The writer approached back
ward worker on the subject of
working IL hours and he answered:
why not, I would just as leave
work IL hours as have to waste so
much time sitting around in a
dirty sinking clubhouse. What
do care for the other fellow or
his family?
Gold-that yellow metal that
men go crazy over, starve, and
freeze on the trail-that calls men
to the hills to hunt, and live on
bacon and beans, wild meat and
rabbits, just to stake claim. that
the big boss will give you maybe
s. per cent. of its value for, or cheat
you out of it all. That is prosperity
in Alaska, those are the conditions
for the worker by the day. Now,
as the gold barons seem to be the
government of this part of Alaska,
it is up to the class conscious work
ers to organize. The golden oppor-
tunity of the age has been at hand
to demand hours and $6 per
day per minimum; with the long
shoremen on strike, no boats can
come to Alaska to bring men.
But no organization exists, and
the boss has stool pigeons in all
camps, looking for agitators, and
as soon as your number is known
you are laid off.
No work for lots of the old timers
that came in the early days and
put Fairbanks on the map, to live
on long trail muehing in that SO
and 60 below temperature. 1t has
made their eyes dim, their hearing
bad, and their hair gray. We have
a home for these men, known as
the Pioneers home, but that is full
and hard to get into
Now what we need in Fairbanks
is some good live wire organizer.
There is room for two or three
times as many men as are working
under this system. and a good liv-
ing for all. So let's get together.
Remember, united we eat, divided
we starve.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-07
Averages 5 Cents
A Day in Colorado
Tungsten NJ in e
By a Mine Worker Correspondent

BY a Mine Worker Correspondent
RANDSBURG, Col-As I am out
in mining camp looking to see if
I can make beans, here are the con-
ditions. The leaders have to give
one third to get to work, and have
to furnish all of his tools, powder,
etc. and take all the chances, then
sell to the company for 81 per unit
less than the company gets. This
is tungsten, and you have to have
100 pounds before you can sell, and
then wait three months for your
money.
Some are getting $3.50 per day,
and others are somewhat better off
80 to $50 per day. Board is about
$125 per day, meals only.
I have received some very good
letters from Russia, telling of the
way they handled their conditions.
They are so far ahead OF America.
that we don't know where we are
at. I will fight for Communism as
long as I live.
I have put in some time here and
have only averaged earnings of five
cents per day, SO how long can
man live on that?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-07
Miners In Central
City Win Relief
By Organizing

vestigator, the police, and the
Somerset director, and the miners,
men and their wives. We brought
up case after case for relief, and
exposed the investigator, and forced
them to take care of every case.
Over 40 cases were put on relief
during these four or five weeks
The investigator was removed. We
held a special meeting and invited
all workers to come and we ex-
planned the struggles for relief
carried on by our council, and the
need of unity to fight against
hunger. Also we read the workers
the Unemployment Insurance Bill,
H. R. 1898 and explained the need
for all workers to support it. The
president OF the Central City local
spoke too.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-07
Village Board Orders Negroes Deported
Bosses Act against CrO,Oing Unity in Struggle for
Relief in Madison County, Illinois

workers on several occasions came
to the entertainment given by the
Council Of Glen Carbon, also Negro
Ministries and players, who were
greeted by workers of the village.
But this evidently is too much for
the political machine of Madison
County, because they have recently
found out that the C. P. is placing
its own candidates in the coming
election.
1t is also significant, that most of
the Village Board of Glen are for
eign born, Bohemian and German
elements, small business men, who
know that the attack upon the Ne
groes is no less the attack upon
the foreign born workers, carried on
by the bosses.
1t is proposed that protests be
sent to the Village Board against
this vicious discrimination.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-07
Nw Doctor
..kGl1GsGEO err
- O. o.
GlG1A>G0RA
By PAUL LUTTINGER, MD.

liar smell, due to stink gland
under its belly, behind the hindmost
pair of legs. Whether it uses the
odor for the purpose of attracting
its mate, like the musk and chypre.
scented male and female parasites,
or whether i is measure of de-
fence, we do not know; but it does
not prevent ants nor cockroaches
from eating them. In the United
States, the centipede ('%Thousand
legger'O seems to like the bedbug, in
spite of its Objectionable odor, and
eats it alive.
The bedbug, like the capitalist, ID
untiring in his blood sucking greed.
He will travel so yards to get his
victim and if he or she cannot reach
the bed by any other way, it will
creep up to the ceiling and drop ON
the sleeper from above.
(To be con inued)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-07
By a WORKER CORRESPONDENT

GLEN CARBON. I'LL am en-
closing here a copy of the letter
which was sent to Brother Joe Cum
bingham and to August Doeller. 1t
reads:
II have been informed by the
Board on account OF complaints
coming into them, to notify you
that all Negroes must transact
their business and leave the city
limits at once, as the people of
Glen have never associated with
the color race before.
"(Signedl Otto Raffaele, Clerk"
This notice comes as a result of
the growing unity of the Madison
County Negro and white workers,
in their struggle for relief and bet
ter conditions, under the leadership
of the Unemployed Councils. Negro
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-07
PARTY LIFE
HOW One AFL CaLVOted to
Back Workers JObIeSS Bill
Correct Method Of Bringing Fortoard Bill Re-
suits in Isolation Of AFL BurocrGts

At a recent meeting of our A. F.
of L. local, the bill for Unemploy-
ment and Social Insurance H. r.
1898 was passed with only one vote
registered against it.
The local in question has
membership of about 500 of whom
500 are new members recruited in
the organization drive since the be-
ginning of the N. r. A. At first
the members thought the MIRA.
and President Roosevelt would
bring them better conditions. But
as time went on and members
were laid off right and left with
local officials taking no action,
there was a growing feeling of I'M
rest and discomfort. ALI this time
two militant members had been
criticising the MIRA. and the vacil-
lation Of the A. F. of L. officials
and had made the membership
conscious that the officials weren't
working for their interests.
When one OF the militant mem
bers brought up the question Of
the Workers unemployment and
Social Insurance Bill By making q
motion that the local go on record
for its adoption, there vas
lengthy discussion, but the leaders
of the local succeeded in having it
referred to the Executive Board to
to be considered and reported on
at the next meeting.
The Fight for the Bill
At the next meeting the minutes
of the previous meeting were read
and no mention was made of the
motion for the passage Of the Bill.
One of the militant members got
up and asked that the minutes be
corrected and demanded to know
what the Executive Board had de-
cided. The answer was that the
Executive Board had mislaid the
Bill and only found it the day of
the meeting so that they would
have to take it uo at the next
meeting. The question was raised
to bring it up for discussion i'm
mediately but it was referred to
new business"
Then the District minutes were
read and it was found that the
District had thrown out the Bill
and instead had passed the Wag-
ner Bill. The Chairman of the
local announced that as long as
the District had thrown out the
Workers Bill and passed the Tag-
ner Bill there was nothing the
Local COULD do but pass the yVag-
ner Bill.
Under new business" one of the
militant members made the mo-
ton that the discussion be opened
on the Bill. He then took the floor
and explained the Bill-what it
meant to the organized workers,
to the unorganized, to the unem-
ployed in terms of the present day
speed-up, lay-offs, increased use of
machinery which meant that many
Of the fellows would never get back
on their jobs again, what it meant
to their wives and Children, their
standard Of living, etc. The talk
was made as real to the workers
as possible SO that they would
know what it meant in terms of
their every day needs and that it
was not a lot of baloney as was
the Wagner Bill. He drew COM
parlscns between the Workers Bill
and the Wagner Bill, point by
point.
After this brother sat down it
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-07
Electric Shock Is
AnStCer to Starring
WOrkerASki ngReLief
By a Worker Correspondent

nF hNAhEA Oti LoAAuEnl
SHENANDOAH, Pa. - It is
well known that everywhere the
unemployed who are demanding
work are receiving clubs, tear
gas. etc.
Here in the anthracite region
the unemployed are not treated
with gas, they are politely in
vited to sit down in the chair
then an electric current is
turned on. When the unem-
ployed receives the shock and
springs into the air frightened,
then all the staff of the relief
bureau begin to laugh merrily.
The unemployed worker, COM
ing to himself, walks out hui
inflated.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-07
SIOss Ore Miners
Demand Wage Raise

(By a Mine Worker Correspondent
BESSEMER, Ala.-The T. G. L.
contract was read in the Sloss-
Sheffield union international Union
of Mill Mine and Smelter Workers..
The T. C. I. miners accepted an
increase of SC and SC an hour for
muckers and skilled labor, and 30c
an hour for common labor.
Why should T. c. I. pay more
for the same work than Sloss? Ask
any Slcss laborer what class of work
he does and what he gets paid and
many who are doing chit work at
Sloss are making less than SOC an
hour. Where does the difference
come from?
A Sloss Orc Miner.
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have the right to eat.
Yes, dear Ruthie and Matte, the
Soviet Union is growing and build
ing a better world to live in for
all those who work. While in the
capitalist countries there is more
and more misery, more and more
unemployment. in the Sovie t
Union there is more building and
striving toward a better future.
That is why I am happy that
our boy was born here where he
will grow from an Octobrist-to
Pioneer-to Comsomol--to fighter
and builder of Communism.
From Jean and Al w.
Leningrad, US.S.R.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-07
WITH OUR YOUNG READERS
WHY THE CITY CHILDREN CAM
NOT HAVE MILK TO DRINK?

The city children cannot have
milk because their fathers and
mothers cannot buy it for them.
The city people are very poor so
they cannot buy milk for their chill
dren. The country children do not
have l. either because their fathers
have to sell it to pay their taxes and
interest and to keep them living
and to keep them in clothing. But
still the sheriff comes and makes
you leave your home. But some time
the farmers do not LEI the sheriff
sell your home.
LEWIS BENTLEY.
Lewis lives in Pennsylvania. His
father is the secretary of the
United Farmers Protective Asso-
citation. This organization fights
for the interests Of the poor dairy
farmers.
Dear Shirley:
In your letter you brought up a
very important question. I'd like to
answer it in this column SO that
others may know also So watch
for your letter with its answer. 1t
will be printed soon in our Question
Box.
TO THE GRAND CROSSING TROOP,
CHICAGO, ILL.
Dear Comrades:
We have sent a letter to the Chicago
District Pioneer Council about your COM
plants. We think that they can be very
easily settled through your leader. Please
have him take it up with the Chicago
Council.
HAPPY,
National Pioneer Council.
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was surprising to see the members
who had never had a word to say
about anything get up and defend
the Bill. Even the old members Of
the local who had always followed
the machine" got up and had
something to say for the Bill. I'M
mediately the officials brought up
the Red Scare, charging that the
Bill was q Communist Bill and that
the Local would have nothing to
do with it.
Fighting the Red Scare"
This meant that one of the mill
tant members had to get up and
fight the question of the Red
Scare" He explained that the Bill
was not a Communist Bill but
Workers Bill, that if the Commu-
nists were for it that showed they
understood the needs of the work.
ers, that the Communists were the
most militant fighters and pointed
out some of the strikes in which
Communists were in the forefront.
He ended up by saying that the
time was past when workers could
be scared with the Red Scare"
that they are learning who are
their friends and who their enc
mi,5. This talk was greeted with
great applause.
The question on the motion was
called for. Instead of calling for
a vote in the usual manner by
aye and nay, the chairman called
for a standing vote thinking he
would intimidate the members but
every one of them, with the ex-
ception of a few OF the officials,
got on their feet and voted for it.
Even one of the officials who had
spoken against the bill voted for
it.
And this was not all. After the
Bill was voted on and passed, a
motion was made by one Of the
brothers that the Local go on rec
ord demanding that an official OF
the District attend the next meet
ing to take up the grievances OF
the Local such as the question Of
fellows who had been thrown out
Of the shops for organizing and
nothing had been done about it,
etc.
This motion was the natural re-
suit of the rising feeling of the
members against the N.R.A. and
the A. F. of L. officials which had
come to head with the passing
of the Bill.
1t was 100 pm. when the meet
ing broke up but the discussion
was SO interesting that all of the
members had stayed through to
the end, not leaving early as they
usually did. And the members were
still discussing things when they
left the hall.
This shows that when the Work.
ers Unemployment and Social In
surance Bill is put forward prop
erly, it can be passed. When prop
erly brought forward it becomes
the entering wedge for the estab-
lishment of unity between the moro
advanced, conscious workers
and he militant but as yet not
class-conscious workers. Also that
when the Red Scare" is faced
properly. it is no longer useful to
the officials.
We now have group in our
local around the two militant
members and consider this a good
start for developing and opposition
movement. E. A. w.