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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-29
Two Strikes Called in Hard
Coal Fields Galleries

WILKES BARRE. Pa. FP)7
Two strikes have made the hard Goa
fields a battle ground again.
over 1900 mine workers of the
Glen Alden Coal Co at its Maxwell
Colliery went on strike. when COM
pany officials forced miners to all
low check-off of union dues for the
United Mine Workers Of America.
This is now a common practice, but
the members Of the United Anthrs-
cite Miners of Pennsylvania, who
are bitterly opposed to John L. Lewis
and the U. M, W. A.. demand that
miners not belonging to the old
union be permitted to pay dues to
the new union.
The Payne Gallery of the East
Boston Coal Co was tied up when
its miners went on strike against
the company operating the breaker,
while the mine is idle.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-29

the war for the purposes Of setting
up municipal food selling project.
Hoan refused to give an accounting
Of this project and refused to turn
the profits over to the city. He
needed the support Of this Alder
man Lassa and one other non-par-
tiSan in order to have the Common
Council drop this suit. He got this
support by means of the good so
cialist" principle of horse trading"
Mudroch refused to make room
for Hoan's choice, and SO the dis
pute started. In themselves such
deeds are not very eventful-prob-
ably occurring in every city, Mil
waukee included. each day of tlae
week, But the upshot of this has
been 2 long drawn-out dispute in
the Milwaukee Socialist Party, which
like every similar election machine
has taken the position that If one
wants to maintain power, machine
must be well oiled on the principle
that to the victor belongs the
spoils."
The "spoils system" in capitalist
politics has been the life juice of
every corrupt machine, Tammany,
Ware, etc. Without it, the whole
coterie of followers and ward heelers
would disapper into thin air. Thus
also in Milwaukee.
The Socialist officialdom and some
Of their supporters have become so
corrupted through the many years
of job-holding in this city that Just
like any other capitalist politicians
they seek to perpetuate themselves
in power through the use Of the
"spoils system" the giving out of
thousands of Jobs, big and small, to
vote getters, campaigners, ward heel
ers, and friends" of one sort or an
other. The Milwaukee municipal
payroll amounts to some $4,000, O0O
annually and a good deal of this
goes to appointed officials, or grease
for the political machine.
Mudroch, for whose views we hold
no brief, found himself bucking
against this well-oiled machine for
reasons of his own. The steam roller
went into effect and this week Mud
roch was expelled from the Socialist
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-29
Bv H. YABIs

Nv n 4 JANIS
MILWAUKEE, has been one city
Vi which has been boasting that it
vas free from machine politics,
or which New York's Tammany Hall
has been the national model, and
I'll the evils attached to such politics.
The Socialist Party, which has been
The dominant Party here for the past
Is to 18 years, claimed no small part
IF the credit for this achievement in
Milwaukee civic life. Many outsid-
Frs, whose naivete surpassed their
knowledge Of facts and good sense,
believed this. and as a result in mu-
licipal annals Milwaukee has always
been placed in a sort of exceptional
position.
In the past few weeks. some very
interesting facts have been coming
% light which throw a new angle on
Milwaukee politics and which show
he basically reactionary and degen-
grated character Of the Milwaukee
SOCIALIST Party and its politics.
That Party has laid its chief claim
10 leadership in this city to its pre-
lenses for clean, honest and cheap
government and to its fight against
Party domination and "bossism" in
city politics.
Socialist Politicians Corruption
The first pretense has been wiped
away by the many acts Of corrup-
hon which have come to light in
recent years, the latest Of which is
HE scandal in the Milwaukee House
II Correction which has enmeshed
The Socialist politicians up to their
poses. The story Of some other shady
sealings were printed in the May
First edition of the Daily Worker
Ind the facts cannot be challenged
Now another side of the picture
Ihattering their second pretense has
pome TO light. Starting as something
Insignificant, it has developed into a
Frankenstein threatening the very
foundation of the Socialist Party ano
It's hold on the political life of this
kity.
Some time ago, a controversy
ltarted between an elected official
city Treasurer John w. Mudroch
member of the Socialist Party fol-
more than 20 years, and some other
SOCIALIST city officials, namely, Mayor
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-29

the steel workers and the coal and
ore miners In the Birmingham
area, became more clear. In fact,
such strike action becomes the
basic perspective in the gigantic
struggles ahead in Alabama.
Activity of Party
The Party was very active in these
strikes. 1t issued close to quarter
of million leaflets during the ten
weeks the strike wave was develop
ing. The Party's influence was wide
spread among the strikers. A num-
Der Of Party slogans were being
adopted by the strikers They began
to see the Party as the real fighter
for union recognition, against the
differential, and for rank and file
strike leadership. Here was q golden
opportunity for our Party. 1t is a
fact that the Party stepped forward
and made progress in this situation.
But for every one striker we re-
cruited, twenty others wanted to
Join but we didn't get at them. Our
main weaknesses were that we did
not carry out a correct concentrs-
ton policy We didn't pick out one
key mine in order to build up a
strong Party unit and develop a
powerful opposition in the local
which would show the way to the
conscious revolutionary leadership
Of the strike movement This is all
the more serious since our Party
units were functioning in the FIVE
biggest ore mines, and number Of
Party members we're local union
officials and strike leaders.
Another serious mistake was our
failure to prepare our Party units
to function solidly in the strike
situation, no matter how intense the
terror became.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-29

II, to plan action against the con-
tinued slashing Of the hours Of
FE.R.A. workers, the program pre-
scented by the Unemployment Coun-
ellis was unanimously adopted, The
program for immediate action calls
for % not less than 48 hours a
month for single workers, 96 hours
for workers with families of four
or less, and more for those with
larger families; ~ so cents an hour
for unskilled workers. no pay reduc-
ton for skilled workers at union
rates; go 9-hour days; and %
recognition of job committees.
After a unanimous vote of ac-
ceptance, a committee of three was
elected to present the program to
the Laborers Union Executive Com
mittee, which took no action, but
promised to endorse any action the
committee would take. After the
demands we're circulated among all
the workers on the projects. the P E
RIA. administration shut down all
work on May %,
Another mass meeting was called
on May "a by the union. Practically
all the workers were anxious to join
demanding mass action of all work
ers, unity of action between en-
ployed and unemployed and indus
trial unioniSm for struggle.
John Dennison, YCL. organizer
Immediately called for a mass dem
onstration. The chairmen of the
Laborers Union Executive Commit
tee attempted to drag the meeting
into passive channels. At the mo-
tons raised by the workers. a COM
mittee Of Is was elected to draw
up leaflets calling for mass dem
onstration to back the workers
committee when it meets with the
City Council, state relief admin
strator county relief administrator
and county FER.A. work director,
on Tuesday May 30.
After the mass meeting was sd-
iourned, a special meeting of the
Laborers Union was held. All the
demands except that calling for nc
reduction in pay of skilled workers
were adopted, This exception was
made because of A, f. Of L. unior
rules. Further steps are being taker
to broaden the united front.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-29
AL Report Paints Gloomy
Picture Of Employment

WASHINGTON May pa gloomy picture Of employment
mtted today William
American Federation of Labor the
still a
THE that relief rolls
3o130oO families addition $4,000 individuals
families dependent direct relief payments
throughout the country the the
estimate and one-haf constituting family
141T25OO throughout
try.-Edtor)
Although Federation percentage
members employed April per
first part Of May Green that lin comparison with the large
numbers still unemployed these gains small"
Despite the Spring busy the report points
seasons peak April unemployment still September
level G0103000Ed9 with 100000
the report shows continuous part-me employment
per cent in August 1888 81 cent in September per
May, 1884
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-29
Nike MdntGrm'kGs.
Charter Member C.P.
Dies in Fl. Stanton

FORT STANTON, N. NJ, May
25.-Comrade Mike Mantarakas,
member Of the Communist Party,
and a charter member of the
Marine Workers Industrial
Union, died here today after
long illness Of tuberculosis.
He was a steadfast revolution
airy, and although dying for the
past two years, it was through
Comrade Mixes unceasing eff
forts that many of us here in
TT. Stanton became class cons
cious and found our way into
the revolutionary movement.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-29

vote Of certain Alderman Lassa
in support of the election of a So
cialist as president of the Common
Council, Hoan promised q good
Juicy job in the city treasurer's office
to the son of this Alderman Lassa,
and simply forgot to mention it to
the city treasurer who had to fire
a leftover from the previous adj
in order to make room
for young Lassa.
The very interesting fact about
this deal is that it was also an at
tempt on the part of Hoan to quash
q court action against him by the
Common Council as to his DISPOSE
ton of certain funds which had
been entrusted to his care during
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-29
500 Workers and Farmers
Demand Relief

MILTON, w. Va.--Six hundred
workers and poor farmers stormed
the Welfare Office here Saturday
demanding increased relief
Relief here has been slashed to
practically nothing Welfare Off
Gals claim that the farmers can live
on their farms, and the iobless
workers can secure seasonal en-
ployment on the farms for their
board.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-29
Texas Unemployed
Demand Food

SAN ANTONIO, Texas. - De-
handing food 800 unemployed
stormed the Harlandale relief sta
ton here last week. Unemployed wo-
men in the demonstration slapped
the faces of relief officials who re-
fused them food, and the relief off,
Gals ran from the building shouting
that attempts were being made to
murder them.
Other workers entered the rear
of the building and threatened to
wreck the flinsy shack unless they
were given food.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-29
Cigar Workers Strike for
20oo Raise in Philadelphia
BY a Worker Correspondent


PHILADELPHIA, Ps.-The work.
ers Of the Bszarte Shop, about q
in number, are out on strike now
for q 20 per cent increase in wages
and better sanitary conditions. The
average wage is So 2 week. 10 hours
work day and FIVE and a half days
work,
The boss has just ordered a ma
chine to make punches. Before this
the cigars were entirely handmade.
This machine will very likely throw
some of us out Of work. As yet there
are no scabs working there because it
is very hard to find Cubans to scab.
Most Of the workers are Cuban or
Cuban descent. Five Of the workers
read the Daily Worker. They are
very class-conscious, having been in
many struggles in Tampa, Fla, be-
longing to the Tobacco Workers In
dustrial Union there.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-29
Penn. Unemployed TO
Meet in Harrisburg
Today
(By a Worker Correspondent,

NEW ORLEANS, La, May %. -
Workers delegations from the IN
employment Councils marched to
the offices of the Emergency Relief
Administration here May 81 and
forced the officials to grant many
concessions. A number of the job
less workers, demanding that they
be Immediately given food, marched
to the federal food warehouse. -Four
workers, one q white worker and
three Negro women, were jailed.
The arrested workers were tried
Immediately. Two were sentenced to
$40 fine or 20 days in Jail and ten
days extra"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-29
1,200 Workers and Farmers
Demonstrate in Wavne, VIVA.

WAYNE, w. Matchmaking in
creased relief and living wage on
work relief jobs, 1900 workers and
poor farmers demonstrated on the
Court House lawn here Friday.
County F. E. r. A. Administrator
Stroebel, cowed by the mass dem
onstration of jobless. relief workers
and farmers, promised to obtain a
larger appropriation for the county.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-29
Olson in SeH-Out
peace TERMS M'pIS
Yorker Writes Daily
BY a Worker Correspondent

AAN n ~ u MI NaNA BNAAAfAAN
MINNEAPOLIS, MINI. - AS
the Daily Worker is the only
militant working class organ in
the U. s., it behooves me to eT-
plain through your press, as
there Is no other that will let
me express the truth and woes
Of my class, as I wish to say in
relation to our local truck strike,
it was the biggest sell-out.
Governor Olson and his
henchmen are the fault of it.
We've elected governor Olson to
represent us, but he called the
militia. The peace terms weren't
made through militant labor, but
through the friends Of Governor
Olson. We fought for the closed
shop. And it was this we fought
for, but didn't get it.
I, as a pioneer builder of the
Farmer-Labor Party, am opposed
to such hypocrisy.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-29
Ne,O Orleans WorersWn Demands Jobess March, Demonstrate

creased relief. When squad cars,
detectives and patrolmen placed
Carl Rode and Ellen Allen under
arrest for speaking without per-
NIT although a permit had been
obtained, the workers, mostly Ne
groes and women, demanded and
won their release.
The meeting was held q block
from the entrance of the Armour
plant in the neighborhood in which
the packinghouse workers live.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-29
Pittsburgh Gas Station
Workers Demand Pay Raise

PITTSBURGH. Pa, May %
Recognition of their union and an
in wages are the demands
laid yesterday before Is Of the larg-
est oil distributing companies here
by the Gasoline Station Employees
Union. local i9204, Unless these de-
msnds are granted by the bosses,
the union announced, it would call
a strike within II days.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-29
Pittsburgh JobIess Meet;
Win Concessions

PITTSBURGH, Pa, May %. - A
committee of five representatives of
the City Council met with an equal
number Of delegates from the I'm
employment Councils and the I'm
employed Citizens League here
Thursday, and agreed to meet the
expenses of two representatives from
each group who will present de-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-29
Labor Board Imposes Fake
Peace on Poultry Workers

LOS ANGELES, Cal.-The strike
of $50 workers in four wholesale
poultry plants ended here on May
"a when DR.. Towpe Nylander Of the
Regional Labor Board effected a
shameful peace" between the strik-
ers and plant operators.
Here is what the strikers got from
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-29
700 Paper MiH Workers
On Strike in Louisiana
Coal, Gas, Poultry Workers, Cigar-MaI1ers and
Other Trades in Strikes Turnout Country

the Regional labor Boards inter-
ventlon: only one half Of the STRIKE
ers are to 60 back to work "tuas-
much as the other Jobs had been
filed by recruited workers ." the
unions demands for wage increase
and shorter hours are to proceed"
but without the plants being shut
down by the strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-29
Milwaukee Socialist Party in
Horse Trading' Of Juicy Jobs
SEEK TO PERPETUATE POWER BY "sPons sYsrEM'

Dan Hoan, that exenplsr of honesty
and cleanliness in civic life. The dis
pute covered little horse trade"
which Hoan wished to put across in
order to get the support Of several
bipartisan" aldermen.
A Little Political Deal
The trade was just another one Of
those deals which every capitalist
politician, since Boss Tweed" has
had in his stock. In order to get the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-29
Metal Workers Win Strike

NEW Workers Of the
Yankee Metal Products Corpora
ton, 460 W Gath St. who have
been striking for two weeks under
the leadership of the steel and
Metal Workers Industrial Union,
went back to work victorious, wins
ming their demand for equal de
vision of work.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-29
clearinghouse Workers Force
Cops to Release Speakers

OMAHA, Neb. - Cops attempted
to provoke a riot at meeting of
the Unemployment Council held at
% and r SITS. here last week to
protest relief cuts and demand in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-29

mands for surplus God, shoes and
clothing and the payment of rents
of the unemployed. The City Council
refused to support the demand for
the Workers Bill CIR 1899,
The committee will meet with the
Pennsylvania Relief Commission in
Harrisburg, May 49, Unemployed
workers delegations from through
out the state will also meet in Har-
risburg to back up the demands of
the committee.
The delegation will report back to
the workers assembled at South
Side, Pittsburgh, at the National
Youth Day demonstration, which is
being held in the territory near the
Jones-Laughlin Steel Mills.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-29

Party, apparently for defending
principles which are supposed to be
the cornerstone Of Socialist NUM-
cipal policies.
Such instances of Tannmany meth
DDS are not isolated events. What
city employee in Chicago, New York,
Philadelphia, ETC., is not forced to
contribute" several times a year to
the war chests Of the local political
machine, or of some individual pol
itician, through taxes imposed upon
him in the form of expensive tickets
for picnics, bazaars, and what not?
One must suffer such voluntary
contributions, in order to keep a
Job.
Socialist DemagOgy
In Milwaukee the only difference
in method is that the price Of each
ticket is reduced somewhat and the
quota each individual must take is
raised considerably. Thus tens OF
thousands of tickets are sold" an
nually for the S.P. picnics and
bazaars, and the city employee whose
wages have already been cut, has tc
smile and like it.
This political machine, which has
become quite an efficient vote getter
has been one of the chief means
with which the Socialist Party has
kept itself in power. However, it has
not been the sole means; to think SO
would be to greatly underestimate
them. AS means of winning mass
support the Socialist Party had de-
veloped whole series of municipal
demands, like municipal ownership
of light, power, gas, water, etc. By
means Of such demands, which an
swer some of the discomfort of the
masses with capitalism, they car
still succeed to win large numbers
Of votes in each election.
In the coming state election cam
paign, the Communist Party mus
develop its own program of NUM-
cipal demands and demands cover.
ing the various utilities. Such a pro-
gram would be good lever with
which to win over large sections o.
the working population who still
vote for the Socialist Party, but who
are rapidly turning away with dis.
gust at such spectacles of Tamman,
politics as the recent Mudroch af.
fair.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-29
Form United Front on Relief
Demands in Lincoln, Neb.

LINCOLN Neb, May %. - At a
mass meeting called by the A, F.
of l.. Laborers Union here on May
The Redwood gazette., 1934-06-21
LUCAN, ECHO TIED
WITH FIRST HALF
ENDING SUNDAY

Lucan and Echo go into Straight
Eight league contests Sunday, both
needing victories to hold their first
place tie positions and both facing
formidable opponents.
Seaforth will play at Echo and is
foe not taken lightly since it turned
back the Redwood Falls aggregation
S to 3 here this week. Lucan plays
at Clements, 500 per cent team in
the league standings.
In other loop contests, Redwood
Falls entertains Delhi and Belview
plays at Evan to decide final places
on the first half loop ladder. Evan
won from Clements A to 2 Sunday,
pushing it's runs across in the seventh
after Clements had held the lead
from the first. Bloedow famed 13
and allowed but four hits. Clements
got six hits including two triples by
Ed Eichten.
Lucan Wins II to 2
Belview-Three pitchers worked
out for Belview Sunday against Lu-
cna but the loop-leaders garnered
eight hits and tied them in with six
errors to walk off with an II to 2
victory.
Bauer, Lucan hurler, held Belview
batters to four hits and famed eight
while the runs were partly due to
five Lucan errors j. Johnson who
started on the Belview mound, fan
ned two in two innings and o. John
son, who relieved A. Anderson, fan
ned six.
Score by innings R H E
Lucan ------ 1873 211 900 II 8 5
Belview - 900 OO1 001 2 4 6
Batteries, Bauer and Schiffman; j.
Johnson, A. Anderson, o. Johnson
and J. Sagness.
Echo TrOunces Delhi
Delhi-Echo scored in every inning
except the fifth here Sunday to run
up Fl to total against Delhi and
hold its lead in the league.
Echo batters were credited with
Is hits but Delhi's IL errors had full
ly as much to do with the rout.
Score by innings R H E
Echo ------- 113 pol ITS 21 Is l
Delhi ------- 900 11O 1O3 ID 12
Batteries, Van Krevalin and Ra-
dach; Berg, Ekfelt, Peterson and Os-
lund.
The Redwood gazette., 1934-06-21
SMALL CROWD Sees
WRESTLERSPERF

Before the smallest crowd to attend
any of the three wrestling matches
held in Redwood Falls, six profes-
sional heavyweights of the modern
school performed Thursday night on
the three-event card at the Redwood
county fair grounds.
Abe "King-Kong" Kashey of War
zen, Ohio, won a one-fall match from
al Loset of Minneapolis in % min
utes as shivering fans began leaving
the arena. The Kashey victory fol-
lowed % minutes of hair-pulling,
kicking, fighting and everything else
that go to make up wrestle under
the Texas rules. He was scheduled
to fight Babe Camera but the Babe
failed to appear.
Feeling his opponent was not
enough for him the terrible Abe en-
gagged in throwing the referee around
the ring several times and once was
wrapped up in both of them. Point
ing his finger at Kashey after they
untangled, the referee said "Don't
you do that"
In the semi-windup, Ed Meske and
AL Schuler fell and rolled and rolled
and fell for 80 minutes before Meske
pinned the Buffalo Schuler to the
mat after series of body slams. In
the first event, Andy Moen took ID
minutes to pin the Bulgarian Frank
Topas to his shoulders.