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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-21
Threaten Troops
Against Striking
MINI. Drivers
Terror RACES as Olson,
Farm-LabOr Governor.
Projects Scabs
tspeeiaI 70 the DaiIy Workerl

MINNEAPOLIS, MINI, May 20
The. truck drivers strike has tied I'D
the whole commercial transporta-
ton system in Minneapolis, with an
estimated FIVE thousand on strike.
Militant picket lines of strikers. of
Unemployed Council members, Com
munists and workers of other or
CARNATIONS are holding back all
trucks attempting to enter the city.
A reign Of terror is beginning to
develop against the strikers with
hundreds OF workers taken of the
picket lines and arrested. The A. F..
Of L. leaders succeeded in prevent
ing the Twin City street car men
from Joining the strike; they are
also doing all in their power to stall
all the st. Paul truck drivers from
joining the strike.
Trotzkyites are doing police duty
for the A. =. Of L. leaders to point
out the Communists and try to pre-
vent them from Joining the workers
on the picket line. V. Dunn delivered
a provocative speech against the
Communist leaders, urging the
strikers to use personal violence
against them. The Communist Party.
Trade Union Unity League and the
Unemployed Council are calling a
mass solidarity, meeting to mobilize
for the strike at Block 20 Minnea-
polls on Sunday 4 pm. The Com
munist Party warned all the strik-
ers to watch out for strikebreaking
moves Of arbitration by the Labor
Board.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-21

Coal and hauling, $3.50; Company
insurance, S2.48; ShOtfiremen, 81;
House lights, S1.75; Mining lamp,
SLIGO; Doctor, S1.5O; Dues, S1.50;
Burial Fund, 81; Water, 81; Wash
House, 81; Checkweighman, 81;
Extra electricity for washer, 0.75;
Garbage, O.60; Blacksmith, O.60;
Extra electricity for radio, O.5O;
total, $45.7S.
Then there are additional charges
that do not come under the regular
monthly deductions, such as: Initia-
ton Fees to the U.M.W.A, specia,
assessments, deposit of 50 for the
garbage can, assistance to the COM
pany baseball teams, etc.
Local Unions Lose Treasury
When the mines are working every
day the best a miner can average
is 500 per month. And of this S45
goes regularly to the company. But
most of the mines already work
three days a week or IL days q
month. This cuts the monthly in
come Of the miners to about S65 per
month. Making $65 a month the
miner actually gets $40 to live on
with his family.
The second outstanding feature OF
the new agreement is that it robs
the miners, that is the local unions
of their treasury. Under the old
agreement the company checked of
the dues and turned it over to the
local union. and the local union, in
turn, paid the dues to the District
and International Offices. Under the
new agreement the company con-
tinues to check off the dues, but it
sends them directly to the District
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-21
Steel Union Calls
for Contributions
To Fighting Fund

NEW YORK.-The Steel and
Metal Workers Industrial Union,
in connection with the coming
strike action in the steel indus
try, has appealed to all organi-
zatidls and individuals to con-
tribute to the $1,000 Fighting
Fund.
The Trade Union Unity
League points out that the steel
workers now stand before the de-
velopment Of big strike struggles
in the steel industry, and the
raising of this fund is necessary
for the proper organization Of
these strike struggles.
ALI funds should be sent at
once to the Steel and Metal
workers Industrial Union, Room
511, 929 Fifth Ave-, Pittsburgh,
Pa.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-21

Office of the U.M.W.A. There is a
group of miners in most of the
mines that do not belong to the
UM.WA. and therefore do not pay
dues. The District Secretary Treas
urer of the UMW.A. has a COM
plete record of all the miners en-
ployed in each mine. He considers
them all as members of the UNI
WA. The share of dues belonging
to the local unoins, because of this
consideration, is used, in most cases,
to pay dues to the District and In
ternational Offices for those miners
that do not belong to the UM.W.A.
Locals Voice Opposition
The agreement as a whole, and
these two new features in partic
ular, have caused a bitter fight in
every local union. Some Of the
locals have voted not to pay dues
to the UM.W.A. officials. The Usage
local, until recently the stronghold
of the U.MW.A. officials in SCOTS
Run, voted to pay no more dues and
to send committees to other local
unions with the request to do the
same.
The entire crew Of the U.M.W.A.
organizers is busy attending local
meetings, intimidating and attack
ing every voice Of protest against
the anti-strike and highway robbery
agreement. Where a motion to ac-
cept the agreement is passed, in
diyidual miners are Withdrawing
from the U.MW.A.
The basic weakness in this mass
fight of the miners is the lack of
organized opposition forces. with a
definite immediate program and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-21
Postal Workers
Hit Jim CrOWiiSIll
In Wash. Hotels
White Delegates Walk
Out When Negroes
Are Barred

WASHINGTON, May 2O.-White
and Negro post Office workers
walked out in body from two jim
Grow Washington hotels when Ne
gro members of a New York dele
cation from the National Associa-
ton of Substitute Post Office En-
ployees were barred by the Local
and Everett Hotels here on May
II.
The delegation, together with
other N.A.SP.O.E. delegations from
all over the country, had come to
see President Roosevelt and Con-
gressional leaders to seek passage of
H.R. $3.50, providing for Immediate
filling of vacancies in the post
Office.
At the Everett Hotel, several Ne
groes in the delegation were re-
fused accommodation. The group
then went to the Logan Hotel,
where they discovered that william
A. Bailey, a Negro sub clerk in the
Grand Central post Office, New
York, and vice-president of the
NY. local of the NASP.O.E., had
been elected five hours after he
registered with another group Of
delegates. The second group aroused
the other delegates, most of whom
were in bed, and together they pro-
tested this action. The entire dele
cation, now numbering over 10, left
the hotel at 1 o'clock in the morn
ing, and went to the Salvation
Army headquarters where they ex-
perienced the same racial dis
elimination.
Finally, both the Negro and white
delegates were housed by federal
in Washington who dis
played splendid hospitality and
class unity, and voiced their firm
of the protest actions of
the New York delegation.
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Mine Committee to adjust griev-
ances; the right of the operator to
rationalize his mines with an open
provision for wage cut; the right
of the operator to sell coal to the
mines or other industries on strike;
instructions to the engineers, pump
men, firemen, hoistmen, etc, TIC
work as Strike-breakers in case OF
a strike, etc. There is not q single
provision that would protect the
miners.
Many Deductions From Pay
However, the new agreement has
some vitality important new features.
The most outstanding new feature
Of the agreement is that it robs the
miners Of almost SO per cent of
their earnings. The new agreement
concludes:
Deductions for dues and mi
tiation fees of the United Mine
Workers of America shall follow
wages Of checkweighmen, rent,
fuel smithing, insurance, doctor,
hospital and mining expense.
"The operators are hereby au-
thorized to make deductions for
store bills and all other legitimate
accounts upon proper assignments
by the employees.
THE UNITED MINE WORK
Frs OF AMERICA AGREE TO
PROTECT THE OPERATOR IN
DER THIS SECTION"
The following monthly deductions
from each miner are specified in
the various sections of the agree
ment, or are supplemented in the in
depreciation of the agreement:
Explosives, SIS; House rent, S.;
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-21
Labor ROuses the Waterfront
SEAMEN

for establishment of the Marine
Workers Industrial Union code. I. L.
A. longshoremen knocked of in
sympathy. Saturday a mass picket
line was thrown around the pier
a line of AIWIU. seamen and lila.
longshoremen. President OK Of the
I. L. A. came out to the dock and
ordered the steVedores back to
work. Many refused TO obey. OK
went up to an NJ. W. I. U. picket,
Max Phil, and picked a fight. Walter
Stack, NJ. W. I. U. leader, rushed
forward to separate them. Cops,
msbilized on the pier, arrested the
three. OK, however, was freed i'm
mediately upon identifying himself;
the other two were jailed.
But the seamen Immediately or
gained protest demonstration,
And the strike continues solid!
(To be Continued
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owners step by step. When ship
owners boycotted the Centralized
Shipping Bureau, so did they; when
shipoWners attacked seamen's con-
troll Of relief by way Of getting at
the Centralized Shipping Bureau, so
did they; and finally they added
open strike breaking to their record.
AS a result Of the latter, two Balti-
more seamen are in jail today.
With the sharpening Of the united
front direct charge on the Central
lied Shipping Burea in April and
May, strikes occurred in support Of
the seamen-controlled job agency.
The I. S. u. supplied seamen to re-
place the strikers,-forcing worker
to scab on worker. Finally, last
Friday, May 10, the crew Of s. S.
West Eldara Of the Black Diamond
line, struck for recognition Of the
Centralized Shipping Bureau and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-21

inquiries among the rank and file
on the waterfront, I searched dill
gently for any trace Of evidence
that the seamen fell into the mis-
takes of such tactics. It wasn't
there. They did, Of course, defend
themselves against professional
scabs, but as for workers-We have
seen how they swiftly reversed the
policy of even applying the name,
"scab," to workers shipping the
Standard Oils STANDARD Pete"
IN SHORT, it was the traditional
/ role of the A. F. Of L. faker that
Baltimore officials of the I. S. u,
the I. L. A. and the central labor
body choose-everything for the
shipowner, everything against the
seamen both in and outside Of their
own membership. Their moves fitted
into anti-worker plans of the ship
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-21
ChiCagO,IL. Seamen
Organize to Fight
fOrReIief Demands
Win Recognition, Gain
Partial Demands,
] Plan March
Daly Worker Midwest Bureau)

sOaily Worker Midwest Bureau
CHICAGO. May 20.-Over $50 sea-
men have registered with the Sea-
mems Relief Committee, sponsored
by the Marine Workers Industrial
Union.
The organizer of the NJ. w. I. U.
was elected permanent general
chairman of the S.R,C., composed
Of 25 men and also chairman Of oil
committees. The committee is to
report to the men every two weeks
for re-elections.
The Federal Emergency Relief
Administration officials tried to split
the unity Of the men Friday morn
ing by refusing to recognize their
committee, which was sent to sit
with the case workers, instructed
that the "seamen are always right.
This committee had been recognized
Thursday. The men responded by
throwing up a picket line and fore
ing the Official to meet with them
in the Union hall and settle the
grievance to their satisfaction.
Then the government made an
attempt to bar all men now receiv-
ing state relief from being carried
over to Federal relief. These men
were only getting two meals day
and had to do forced labor. The
men forced the authorities to trans
fer all state men to Federal relief
Friday, over $50 men jammed the
hall for a meeting at which they
elected their committee Of Is. They
voted unanimously to march into
the FER.A. headquarters Monday
morning If the officials didn't take
them out Of the flop houses by that
time. The government had offered
to put the men in rooming houses
with q two-dollar a week food al
lowance, until permanent project
Is established. The men demand
minimum of so cents a day fol-
food.
At the end of the meeting. sc
men staying at the flop house
marched in a body to smash the
clothes-rllining sulphur fumigatisr
rule of the flop house, and also to
prevent their being locked out fol
being late, it being an hour and q
half after Closing time" They put
up real struggle, and got theii
beds without the fumigation. and
forced adjustment of the "closine
time" rule.
Negro longshoremen have come tc
the hall to ask for a meeting tc
launch an organizational drive
among the dock workers. This
meeting will be held this week.
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"campaigner'' for the Republican
Party politicians. According to his
own statements he had been prom
ised $1,000 to turn traitor to the
interests of the workers and to use
his influence among the workers of
this locality to secure the election
of Republican candidates in the re-
cent elections. Whether he got this
money or not, is immaterial, the
fact remains that he accepted the
offer. He has even had the temerity
to approach members and Sympa-
thizers of the Communist Party,
privately, for the campaign purposes
of the capitalist politicians, though
getting only fiat .efusals.
Characteristic of this faker is also
the fact that not so long ago he
Accounted" for over $50 of Party
and other workers organizations
funds by a story that he had been
kidnapped" and that the money
had been taken away from him.
WAUKEGAN SECTION,
-. COMMUNIST PARTY
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-21

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, March 20
The seven Scottsboro boys held in
Jefferson County Jail here, estab-
lished solidarity with seven white
and Negro workers recently impris-
oned by sending through subterra-
mean channels the following reply
to a letter struggled to them by
these workers, telling them Don't
you all worry for the LID. will be
with you, for they have been with
us boys for three long years" Their
letter follows in full:
Dear Comrades, I received
your note and was glad to hear
that you all was doing all you can
to see we poor boys but sorry to
know that you all got in jail, but
/ hope that you all will come all
right, and I have seen the girl
yesterday but sorry that 1 did not
have time to talk with her and /
will never lose faith in the LID.
because they is my best friend
which they have been so far and
we do believe that they will con-
tinue on until the end. And what
1 mean about that they will fight
for we poor boys until we are free,
and give the COmrade girl my
best wishes and tell her don't
worry and don't you all worry for
the LID. will be with you for
they have been with us boys for
three long years, from Charlie
Weems, Roy Wright, Ozzie Powell,
OIen Montgomery, Eugene Will
Iiams, Willie Robertson"
The seven recently arrested work
ers are to go on trial Thursday
They will be represented by G. B
Powell, local lawyer, and Alexander
E. Racolin, international Labor De-
Tense lawyer and Scottsboro investi-
gator, who was arrested Tuesday
but was later released without
charges.
Judge Abernathy's court is noto-
rious as a kangaroo railroad court
but the defendants are aware that
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-21
Bridgeport Relief
Workers Paid $3.50
For z Weeks Work
Leaders of the Socialist
Party Behead Fight
of Jobless
Rv ]. ]. SOLYENT

BRIDGEPORT, Conn, May 90
The warnings of the Unemployed
Council and the Communist Party
that Bergin, the Socialist Commits
sioner of Education, had thrust
himself into the leadership of the
relief workers only to sabotage their
fight for $12 cash and supplement-
airy relief was born our when the
city relief workers received only
$500 and box OF groceries after
two weeks.
Instead Of answering the Relief
Board with a general strike and
urging the workers to demonstrate
for their demands, Bergin is adyis-
ing the men that there is no use
taking any action against the city
administration because there is nc
money available to pay them their
full demands. His plan is to first
organize the relief workers and the
unemployed into one workers league
and when they succeed in doing
that, then they will appeal to the
state for better social legislation
for the unemployed. Meanwhile, the
workers in Bridgeport, because Of
the inactivity of their leaders, are
wary of joining this league where
they have to pay 5 cents a week
dues and get no action in return.
Many of the workers realize that
only through a program of action
can they force the city authoritie;
to come across with more relief
They also realize that all the talk
about the city not being in posi-.
ton to meet the workers demands
is so much socialist leaders bunk
The money is there, the manufac.
turerS and bankers are making
plenty of profits and they can b5
forced to come across by united
fight of the relief workers and the
unemployed. Some of these workers
will demand at the mass meeting
that action be taken and they viii
find that the majority of the work.
ers want the same thing.
The Unemployment Council anC
the Communist Party provided {
program of action for the reIe1
workers which most of them nov
realize was the only correct one fol
them. That is why some members
of the executive committee of thu
Relief Workers League as well q.
individual members are coming tx
the headquarters of the Unemploy.
ment Council for advice as to whaf
next steps to take, etc. The answer
of the Unemployment Council al
well as of the Communist Party il
a general strike of all relief anC
unemployed workers for S12.OO il
cash at once.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-21

ACVfettfbttoN , VIZ 4 "a -
continuing attempts Of Mike Tighe,
president of the "A, to prevent the
strike struggles.
The letter of the S.M.WI.U. ma
tional board to the Committee Of
Ten of the "A, follows in fulli
ITO An Lodges and Members of the
AmaIgamated Association of Iron,
Steel, and Tin Workers of North
America.
"To the Committee OF Ten N
Charge of Offensive Action
Brothers.
"The National Board of the Steel
g. Metal Workers Industrial Union
recognizing the need OF unity Of all
workers in the coming strike, pro-
posed to the Convention of the A.
A. on May LIST an appeal for united
action of bottle unions, based on the
economic demands raised by your
convention.
Propose Joint Committee
mike Tighe, your president, re-
fused to read this appeal to the
convention or to inform the dele
gates Of it. He proved again by
this action, that he opposes the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-21
Theatre Workers Win Their
Demands from Warner Bros.

YORK, Pa, May 20. Theatre
workers in the four movie houses
belonging to Warner Bros. won
their demands of Is per cent, shop
recognition and no discrimination,
in strike that had the support
of almost the entire town.
About 1850 operators Of the
Nirnberg Shirt Company went out
on strike last week, after the
president of the union had been
fired.
Workers were being paid be-
low code specifications. The Anal
gamated Clothing Workers Of
America has charge Of the strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-21
Sc0ttsbOrO Lads in Solidarity
Greeting to jailed Communists

the vagrancy charges fled against
them are merely a stall to hide the
accusation Of Communism, and are
not going to deny that they are
Communists but will affirm it yigor-
ously despite the danger Of sentence
of one year on Alabama's vicious
chain gangs, and threat of addi-
tional fine Of $500, which will pos
sibly mean 81 months on the chain
gang.
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Jail 3 for Conducting
H.R. 1888 Campaign in
Rhode Island
PROVIDENCE, r. Z, May 90
Three unemployed workers, William
Riley, John Webb, and Fernando
Ciumo, were jailed for passing out
stickers with the inscription: 4
endorse the Workers Unemployment
Insurance Bill (7R 1898 and ask
R. I. legislature to pass resolution
instructing Senators and Congress
men to work and vote for its pas
sage" to be pasted on the ballots in
the May 10 special election here.
The Right to Live Club has been
conducting an extensive Write-in
campaign on the Workers Bill in the
election.
The election laws state that 'no
ballot shall be declared defective
because Of any distinguishing mark
Thereon"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-21
Jersey TO HOLD PICNIC

On June TO- 1884. three sections Of Dis
trict IA Communist Party, Essex, Union
and Middlesex Counties. viii hold a joint
picnic at Willicks Farm in Linden, New
Jersey. The program includes sport events.
dancing. refreshments of all kinds, and a
national speaker. An orchestra which win
furnish American and Russian music is
being provided for the dance. Every eff
fort is being made by the Joint Picnic
Committee to make this an affair Of mass
proportions.
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for discussion at such meeting,
and as basis for Joint action:
THAT the following economic
demands in line with those adopted
by the "A. convention to become
the main demands Of the strike
such as:
"a) For the 6-hOu day, 5-day
week,
"b) S1O0 per hour minimum
wage for common labor, other
trades to be increased in proper
ton.
q Abolition Of differentlaI be.
tween North and South.
cd Against the speed-up.
~e) For Unemployment Insur-
ance Bill H.R. 1888, now before
Congress.
~ Equal rights for Negro
workers.
"2.-That this Joint meeting issue
a joint statement to all steel work
ers in the name of both unions to
prepare to strike and to immediate
ly set up rank and file committees.
warning the workers against Mike
Tighe and the International Off
GERS who will attempt to defeat the
strike through maneuvers such as
not bringing forward the economic
demands adopted by the conven-
ton and by the use of arbitration
etc.
National Conference Proposed
80. That this joint meeting issue
call for a national conference tc
popularize the strike and to effect
the coordination of the broad strike
movement.
eve further appeal to all lodges
of the "A. in order to insure tht
development Of the strike and tx
guarantee its successful conclusion
that the A.A. lodges together witt
the locals of the S.MW.IU. wher
both exist in the same mill, set VI
joint committees Of action immedi
ately without waiting for any fur
ther negotiations in order to pre-
pare and carry through the strikr
and effect the united action Of al
the workers in the mill.
an those places where botl
unions exist in the same mill, W,
! propose that in regard to the de
nand for recognition of the unior
We shall fight for a joint agreement
to cover both unions, in addition
to the demand for the recognition
of a Economically elected mil
committee to be elected by all thu
honest workers. Our understand
ing of a union shop is that tn,
workers of such union shop hav'
the right to Join any union of thei
choice where more than one uniol
exists and the abolition Of the com
pany union. In proposing thi
policy and expressing our proposal
for united action we emphasize tina
our position is for one militan
union in the industry which cal
only be realized by defeating tn
burocrats and their policies.
eve make this appeal for unitet
action to the committee Of ten an'
| to all lodges and members Of tn
AA. in full confidence that ever,
worker and every honest leader vii
work untiringly to establish thi
unity. You must judge those VIII
come into the leadership of thi
strike by their attitude toward tn
unity of all the steel workers anc
those who stand in the road o
such unity are dangerous to tn
strike and must be ruthlessly cas-
| aside.
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200 March in Everett, Wash.
Stop Relief Cuts

EVERETT, Wash, May 2O.-Two
hundred unemployed workers and
farmers, members of the Relief
Workers Protective Association and
the United Farmers League, striking
Iongshoremen and other workers
marched on the relief bureau here
on May IS, stopped a two-thirds cut
In relief and won full relief fol
striking longshoremen. MANY
smaller demands, such as forcing
the welfare department to continue
disbursing clothing and commodities
were also won.