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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-14
ConciIiator German "Unifes" the Anthracite Unions


and their grievances are not taken
care of.
It is interesting to note that Ma
loney has not issued a statement
on the proposal of German for
unity of the two unions. Maloney
and his henchman, Schuster, are
laying the basis for a soft job for
themselves and then leave the rest
of the rank and file leaders holding
the bag.
For Rank and File Control
The rank and file unity commit
tee of District No. has come out
with a statement for unity under
rank and file local control. Unity
on the basis of a fight to improve
local conditions, to get the rate
sheet, to get paid for all dead work.
The rank and file unity committee
points out that unity under rank
and file control is for the interests
of the miners, while unity proposed
by German is nothing but unity I'M
der the domination of Boylan and
Lewis for the benefit of the coal
operators.
The operators are ready to store"
Maloney, Schuster and Cappelini
for the future. These f1unkeys have
rendered an excellent service to the
operators by splitting the ranks of
the miners and by continuing the
old policy of Lewis. The operators
took advantage of this service and
succeeded in worsening the condi-
lions of the miners. Cappelini was
rearrested and is now supposed to
be in jail. In the future when the
operators will not be able to bull
doze the miners any longer, when
the open reactionary policy of
Boylan will not do for betraying
of the miners, the operators will
bring forth their reliable servants
to play again their demagogic role
and try to mis,ead the miners.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-14
Strikes Are A
Disease, Says
.U.T.W. Leader
Talk Strike To Union
Men, But Another
Way To Employers

NEW YORK - In the last few
months, the A. F. of L. leaders Of
the United Textile Workers,
Thomas w. Mcmahon, president,
and Francis German. vics-presi-
dent, faced with a wide demand
among the rank and file cotton,
silk, wooden and rayon workers for
struggle against wage cuts (undeP
the MIRA. curtailment programs)
and increasingly intensive stretchs
out, have been sending out states
ments about mass strikes. Howe
ever, they have failed of action.
For example, Mcmahon this week
issued statement that 10000 cot
ton textile workers in Alabama were
ready for strike that would "ens
gulf the entire Southern textile ins
dustry." This strike, said Mcmahon,
cannot be stopped, and will have to
run its course, like a disease"
But A.. F. of L. officials speak
differently when they talk to the
bosses through channels that are
not so public. For example, last
Wednesday, " c. Finch, Alabama
representative of the American
Federation of Labor, spoke at the
luncheon of the Alabama Cotton
Manufacturers Association. The
speech, as quoted in the Daily News
Record Of Thursday, July u, which
is a paper for the textile bosses,
and is not published to be read by
the workers, contained the follow
ing statements by this A. F. of L.
official:
"The textile employees in the
South have always felt they we're
the poorest paid of any industrial
worker. Now they feel that the time
has come to improve their situa-
ton. Naturally, they are impatient
and inclined to do things that some
of us older ones in labor cannot ap-
prove of. I appeal to you as en-
ployers to meet with your employees
and try to adjust your differences,
and if that fails, to call in your in
dustrial relations board and let us
try to settle any differences"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-14

the priest, Father Curran worked
with both hands and feet to get
the miners to go back to work and
discontinue the last strike and
agree to Germans Cancellation
board.
The Cancellation board was ap-
pointed five months ago Mr.. Cor
man was on his vacation in Florida
at the time that he was appointed
umpire for the Cancellation board
in the anthracite. For two months
he was stalling off the investiga-
ton of the National Labor Board
here. To repeated kilograms sent
by Maloney to Florida, German
answered that he YVES getting ready
to investigate the grievances in Dis
trict No l.
N0-Strike Policy
After two months had passed
German began to "air" the griev-
ances. The local press was full of
stories concerning the work of the
National Labor Board and they
have never failed to try to impress
the public with the fact that Cor
man is going to give to both the
miners and the operators square
deal"
After five months we now have
the fruit Of the square deal The
Cancellation board has aired" about
1000 grievances. According to Mr..
Germans statement he hadn't met
one insolvable problem and that all
differences can be ironed out. What
solution does Mr.. German offer to
the hard coal miners?
He offers; ITO get more men to
work demands that more coal be
sold. To sell more coal requires
the regaining of the lost market
The regaining of the lest markets
can be achieved by restoration of
confidence in the minds of the
fuel consuming public Of the At
lantic seaboard in their ability to
get anthracite when they need it..
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-14

elementary rights-the right to
strike-to picket, to organize and
to assemble. The hordes of police,
deputies, company gangsters and
national guards are spreading a
reign of the severest terror on the
Pacihcport waterfronts. On the
same day that the mayor sneered
at the demands of the striking
marine workers and threw them out
Of his Office, the San Francisco Elk
aminer, in an eight column head
line, screamed, Troops move in on
Strikers" Another headline stated,
San Francisco and Oakland
Guardsmen Mobilize Like Wartime
Action"
Army Behind Terror
Col. r. MitteIstaedt, commander
of the 250th Coast artillery, who
on July issued his shoot to kill
orders, said day later as the SOL
diers moved in against the pickets,
THE public must realize that the
national guard is now part of the
/ army of the United States and is
trained and equipped by the
United States Government as are
/ troops of the regular army. Our
troops are Differed by world war
veterans and we propose to under
take the duty as soldiers in the
same manner as we would under
take a wartime mission. In view
of the fact that we are equipped
/ with rifles, bay0nets, automatic
rifles and machine guns which are
all high powered weapons, the
EmbarcaderO will not be safe
/ place for persons whose reasons
/ for being there are not sufficient
to run the risk Of serious injury.
I'VE have 1000 additional
National troops behind us, and
should this number be insufficient
we can call the regular Army,
Navy and Marine Corps to assist
us. Law and Order will be main
tanned at any cost"
IN THIS brszen statement, the
head of the armed forces of the
government threatens to call out
the army III order to keep pickets
away.
This threat of the army, and the
assurance from the waterfront Of
backing from the Roosevelt govern
ment, was made while Roosevelt's
marine Board was on the scene. 1t
shows clearly that the national
guard terror has the direct backing
of Roosevelt and the federal gov
eminent.
Four Police Refuse to Kill
So severe was the terror against
the strikers that even some hardened
policemen refused to carry on the
murderous work The Seattle Times
of July 5, reports the refusal of a
number of police to murder the
strikers, stating:
Mayor Charles L. Smith who
visited the pier with Chief Of
Police George F. Howard at the
time the trains were brought in
expressed approval of efforts of
the police. 7 am very well pleased
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-14
Miners won"
For Company
Union By Gyp
CaptiUe Mines Had
StOOIpigeOns at
Ballot Boxes

By Labor Research Association
A COMPANY union is fastened on
a the workers at the Dante mines
of the Clinehfield Coal Corporation
In Russell County Virginia. The
Dante election was held June lf
under the supervision of Charles B
Barnes. chairman Of Division 1
Labor Board-South, and formerly
impartial chairman" in the New
York needle trades Results Of the
election showed 546 votes for the
Clinchheld Employees Association
company union and 274 votes fol-
the United Mine Workers.
In hte case of the Henry Clay
mine at the Edgewater Coal Co.
Pike County, Kentucky, the labor
board revealed that workers hao
been fired for refusing to join the
company union. BY N.RA. decision
following upon the workers protest
they must now be re-employec
without being required to Sigr
any labor contract or join any par
ticular labor organization" Goal
Age. July, 19349
The Elk River Coal & Lumber Co
at Dundeen, West Virginia, is g
company union mine and is sup
posed to settle its future status by
a vote conducted under the new
National Labor Board in the neal
future. This is likewise true in the
case Of the West Kentucky Coal Co.
but from the past record Of the
Kentucky fields it is not difficult
to predict just how the elections
will be conducted, if left in the
hands Of the bosses and their allies
the National Labor Board.
Frauds in Elections
Further information has come to
light on the methods used in the
elections at captive mines in No
vember, 1898. to determine the Goa,
miners choice between the COM
pany union and the U.MWA. Two
boxes were used for the votes which
were secret" One ballot box was
marked accepted" and the other
was marked rejected"
Though the elections were con-
Quoted under the supervision Of the
National Labor Board the man ir
charge of the ballot boxes was g
company man. AS the miners came
up to the boxes with their ballots
this man accepted them only wher
they were recommended by a COM
pany stool-pigeon at his side. L
the miner was not known as 6
militant the ballot would be ac-
cepted; or it might be rejected or
the pretext that it was spoiled il
the miner happened to be known tt
be for the UM.W.A. In this manner
the company was able to win 6
victory for the company union.
The policy Of the coal operators
is now to favor the U.MW.A.. wher
necessary, though they Of course
prefer the company union. How.
ever. if the miners are sufficiently
militant the operators come easily
to an agreement with the officials
of the U.M.W.A. In fact, one Goa
corporation is reported as recog-
nizing the union in one of its mines
and at another mine retains the
company union, which Of course /;
far easier to manipulate than The
U.M.WA.
AS a proof of this policy on tht
part of the operators one need moi
look further than the agreement
made with the H. C. Prick Coke
Co. and other captive mines. This
settlement" was made strictly be-
tween the company and the off,
Gals of the UMWA and did mo-
involve recognition of the union a!
such.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-14
Celebrate Trade Union
Solidarity Day With A
Great Picnic Tomorrow

NEW YORK. - Workers will
celebrate Trade Union Solidarity
Day tomorrow with a picnic at
North Beach Park, Astoria Long
Island.
Leaders of important unions in
Greater New York as we'll as
representative of the West Coast
dock strikers will speak. An in
teresting program of entertain
ment and sports has been arranged.
To get to the park take B. M. T.,
I. R. T. or End Ave 81" to Ditmars
Ave, Astoria, then bus to park.
Admission Is cents.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-14

with the action of the police in
getting the trains in this morning
(strikebreaking)' he said. TT
WAS A DIFFERENT POLICE
ORCE. POLICE CHIEF
HOWARD'S DISCIPLINING OF
FOUR POLICEMEN YESTER-
DAY SHOWED THE BOYS THAT
WE MEAN BUSINESS TWO
POLICEMEN WERE DISMISSED
FROM THE FORCE AND TWO
OTHERS WERE SUSPENDED
FOR FIVE DAYS YESTERDAY
AS THE RESULT OF INCL
DENTS FOLLOWING THE
HALTING OF TAXICABS BY
STRIKERS PICKETS.". The
police did not carry out their muir
derOus work and were fired.
THE most drastic and sweeping in
L functions against picketing have
been issued against the strikers. The
capitalist press is screaming against
the strikers, raising the red scare
and squirting on the strikebreaking
terror. The Portland Oregonian o.
July carries an editorial two
columns long, entitled, Strike Prop
uganda" which halls the issuance
of the injunction against picketing
by the mayor and the sheriff.
Injunctions Issued
The laws. this editorial states, dc
not prohibit the issuance (of IN
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-14
BY CARL REEVE

THERE are two ways to
L settle this strike: By
mediation or by force. And it
has to be settled" This was
the statement of Mayor Rossi
of San Francisco to a dele
cation of striking marine
workers, in answer to their demand
for an end to the murderous attacks
of the police on the strikers.
Law and order are going to pre-
vail" Rossi said, on the very day
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-14

W h e n t h r e e
strikers lay dead
on the streets, in
pools of their
own blood, and
twenty two other
strikers were
wounded by the
pistol fire Of
Rossi's police.
The workers of
the Pacific Coast
h a v e b e e n
robbed of every
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-14

TRUCKS FOR HIRE for Picnics,
Outings, all occasions. Very reason
able to workers clubs. BROWNIES.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-14

The spread of the Daily" to
the mass of workers is pre-
requisite to their successful strug-
giles.
The Washington times., 1934-12-20
7 v D 'L|FERS'
SET FREE

CANON CITY, Colo, Dec. 20
G.N.SO.-Carl Erickson and Mike
Schmidt, Colorado penltentiary
life-termers, will leave the heavy
stone walls of the prison today,
free men, because they won their
gamble with death.
Erickson, who had spent 10
years of a life sentence behind
prison walls for the murder of his
wife, and Schmidt, who had served
13 years of similar sentence be-
cause of a statutory offense, were
the first convicts to be chosen as
subjects for testing a serum for
the prevention of tuberculosis.
The tests have been completed
on these two men, successfully, &C.
cording to DR.. H. j. Copper.
The Washington times., 1934-12-20
FISH INVOLVED.
IN '27 CRIME

NEW YORK, Dec. 20 UN.sJ.
Albert Howard Fish, confessed
slayer of little Grace Budd, may
be definitely identified today as
having been involved in another
kidnapping case-the disappear.
ance Of 4-year-old Billy Gaffney
in 1927.
Joseph Meehan, So, q former
Brooklyn trolley car motorman,
identified Fish through photo
graphs yesterday as the man he
saw forcibly taking Little Billy on
a trolley car ride.
Today Mr.. Meehan will face
Fish in an effort to make his
identification final and positive.
Billy Gaffney disappeared from
in front of his Brooklyn home,
where he had been playing, on
February II, 1927, and has never
been seen since.
Meehan claims to have seen
Billy with a man resembling Fish
that same day. He said the boy
was crying bitterly for his
mother and was trying to get
away from his companion.
Chief Assistant District At
torney Ferris, Of Westchester
county, announced that Fish will
be compelled to reenact his MUIR
der of the Budd girl IN ram
Shackle Wisteria Cottage, where
he has admitted the crime was
committed on Monday,
The Washington times., 1934-12-20
Show at Fox Theater
TOAidCheer Drive

If the Home Owners Loan Cor
operation.
Members Of the committee stag
ing the "gift-for -the-needy" party
put on by the division included
A. D. De Mott, R. c. Roberts, w.
B. Trigg, L. A. Bickerton and Ray
D. Butt.
More than 500 gifts and toys
and food were donated by the
division, which has a reputation
for going over the top in q, big
way. In the Community Chest
campaign they established a repu-
tation for cheerful giving which
was borne out by yesterdays gen.
erous response to the Christmas
Cheer Club appeal.
The toy-admiSsion howS at
Lust'S Theaters in Hyattsville, Mt.
Rainier and Rockville, Md, with
donations to be distributed by
Cheer Club branches in those
towns, will present the following
programs:
Cameo Theater, Mt. Rainier,
Md: alice in Wonderland" "
Betty Boop cartoon and Popeye
comedy.
Arcade Theater, Hyattsville,
Md: ED Wynn-the Chief" ="
Davy Jones' Locker and a Fine
Feathers comedy.
Arcade Theater, Rockville, Md:
Jack Pearl-Meet the Baron, 3"
Davy Jones Locker and Handle
Bars comedy.
At Georges Radio Company,
workmen are busy putting in or
der the "trade-ins" to be donated
by the company to the fund. The
radios are to be distributed among
a group of families selected from
the Cheer Club list by a repre-
sentative of the company and will
do much to bring bit of Yule-
tide joy into dozens of homes this
Christmas.
Stores Send Toys
Goldenberg's Department Store
called yesterday to announce that
it was ready with a second ship
CONTINUED on Page 10, Col. 2.)
The Washington times., 1934-12-20

Well-wishers of the Christmas
Cheer Club will gather at Loew's
Fox Theater Saturday morning at
9 o'clock to contribute their bit
toward the campaign to make
this a truly Merry Christmas in
Washington and nearby Mary
land and Virginia towns.
Lou Brown, Of Loew's theaterS
in Washington, in charge Of ar
rangements for the morning show,
has announced that Smoky" a
big hit picture, will be the fea-
ture.
Other features of the program
will be Larry Elliott and Ephraim
Lee in a blackface skit; Helen
Ault, singer; Marie Fowler,
singer; Susan Hall and Walter
Doe, dance team; Julia Cunning
ham, dancer; Archie Hawkes.,
dancer; Justin Laurie and chorus
from WJSV minstrel show; and
Eddie Perkins.
Godfrey to Preside
Arthur Godfrey, who, with Mr..
Brown and The Washington
Times, has been cosponsor Of the
Cheer Campaign, will be there as
master of ceremonies.
There will be Ripley 'Believe
It or Not" show and a variety
Of other features.
Every penny Of the proceeds is
to go to the Cheer Fund and viii
be used to buy toys, food, and
clothing for the little boys and
girls whose addresses Santa Claus
has mislaid this year.
Tonight at Loew's Fox Theater,
from 1880 to IL midnight, Ar
thur Godfrey will lead the
audience in the singing Of Christ
mas carols. This feature will be
Friday, Saturday and
Sunday nights.
The carols will be put on the
air by WJSV.
HOLC Workers Help
Today was Christmas Cheer
Club day in the auditing division
The Washington times., 1934-12-20
Rest Relieves Wife
YaWning 5 Days

STERLING, ILL.,, Dec. 20
G.N.S0. - Hospita tlization a n d
rest today were returning Mrs.
Harold Mckee, 27-year-old farm
wife, back to normalcy today after
she had yawned almost contin-
ously for eight days.
Yawning at an average rate Of
IL times a minute, Mrs. Mckee
was believed to have set record
when she passed the 200th con.
SeCutiVe hour.
The Washington times., 1934-12-20
Extension Given
On Music Books

Teachers of music will be al
lowed to keep books on their pro-
fession taken from the Public
Library for month, it was an
nounced yesterday by DR.. George
F. Bowerman, librarian. The teach.
ers will be required to identify
themselves as teachers of music.
The Washington times., 1934-12-20
SECRET PLANS
LAID F O R
U.S.LAWS
By FRANKLIN G. sARTWELL

By FRANKLIN g. SAKTWELL
Members of Congress who came
Ito Washington a week or two ago
ito complete the preliminaries nee
.essary to the conveni1g of Con-
gresS next month are going back
home today and tomorrow.
And they are carrying more
than Christmas presents for the
folks in their baggage. Most of
ther1 are carrying to the trains
leaving Union Station large
package of futility.
OF course, they aren't discuss
ing this package publicly and over
their own names, but privately
and "in confidence" they are ready
to admit that they don't know
what Congress is expected to do
after the gavels fall in Senate
and House on January 3.
Claim Program Is Ready
They are mystified, and some
of them are Mortified, at what
they regard as a total absence Of
program. There are others, how
ever, who aren't ready to admit
that there is an absence of pro-
gram, but insist the program is
ready, although it has not yet
been communicated to those who
are expected to pass upon it.
About the only Member Of the
House who is going to be able to
spend Christmas without this feel
ing of futility which is so wide
spread is Representative Joseph
w. Byrns, of Tennessee. He came
to the Capital few weeks ago
in state of trepidation over his
chances Of being elected Speaker.
That feeling has gone from Mr..
Byrns forever. He now knows
that he will be Speaker.
Committeeman Disappointed
Probably as disappointed a
crowd as there is in the country
today consists Of the members Of
the House Committee on Appro-
priationS. They are important
men. Anyone in washington
knows that.
And they were called to Wash
ington in advance Of the meeting
Of their Congress to get down to
the serious business of preparing
to legislate for the country. The
country couldn't wait for Congress
to meet to have these gentlemen
at their service. They must be
called here in advance.
They were called. They came
But they haven't conquered, and
now many of them are going home
to help Santa Claus down the do.
mestic chimney.
Cash Needs Kept Secret
They had expected that when
they got here they would be taken
into the confidence of the Admin
istration; that they would be told
how much money the Administra-
fion was going to need to put the
final knockout on the depression.
That presumably was to be their
job.
Actually, however, while they
have been here for a week or two
and have been working all the
time, they don't know any more
about how much money the Ad-
1ninistration needs or wants than
does the veriest tyro in public
life.
The Washington times., 1934-12-20
REALTY BOARD MEETS

Ninety-seven members of the
Washington Real Estate Board for
got about business for awhile yes
terday and listened to Santa Claus,
the only speaker, at their luncheon
in the Lafayette Hotel. Karl E.
FARRELL and Fred A. Smith ar.
ranged the party.
The Washington times., 1934-12-20
HIDDEN $40 STOLEN

Mrs. Ellen Lord, Of the 2100
block of California st. N. w., told
police today that $40 she had
creted behind a picture in her
home was missing. Mrs. Lord said
she suspected a colored woman
she had engaged to clean her
home.
The Washington times., 1934-07-14
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