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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-19
Cooperage Men Strike
(Special to the Daily Mnrkerl

DETROIT, April 10. "A depart
ment strike involving 100 workers
at the Michigan Cooperage broke
out today The workers are de-
handing a 10 cents increase in
wages from their present SIS cent
hourly rate. The workers are or
gained in A. F. of L. local 81 of
the Coopers International Union.
The company had a contract with
the local promising to raise the
wages to IS cents an hour. When
the company failed to carry out its
promise, the workers in the depart
ment went out on strike. The COM
pany also tried to bride the presi-
dent of the local by raising his
wages S. week. The local is try
ing to get out the men still work
ing in the Sacond department The
plant employs 200 workers and is
located at Rademacher and Fort.
The chairman of the striking local
is Charles Lands, and the secretary
George Aston.
Expose Gangsters
Especial to the Daily Worker)
DETROIT, April 18.-It was lust
brought to light that the Michigan
Stove Company, while a strike has
been on for the past week, hired as
its employment" manager a notori-
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FINA N CIAL
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-01
Alabama Coal Miners
Strike for Back Pay
And Debt Cancellation
Federated press Photo

revolt against miserable conditions,
boss oppression and Mitch strike
breaking.
For instance, one hears talk of
breaking with Mitch and the
UNIWA to join the National Miners
Union. The Nyota miners at one
time were organized in the National
Miners Union, but extreme terror
and Door leadership smashed the
local, but despite this one can sense
the difference in unionism in Nyota.
They are by far more militant and
determined to smash the betrayal
of the UMWA misleaders and win
their demands.
1t is in Walker county that Mitch
put over his most open betrayal. An
agreement made with the DeBar-
deleben Coal Inc. that no literature
of any kind would be distributed to
the miners without it being first
endorsed or censored by the COM
pany. Here Mitch betrayed away
the constitutional rights of the
miners, and made a crushing blow
at the rank and file.
Mitch is now organizing the scabs
that took the jobs of those miners
that fought against his betrayals.
He is organizing the scabs into a
separate local of the UMWA and is
isolating the local controlled by the
rank and file black-listed miners.
There is in Walker county
mounting desire for rank and file
leadership and control SO much
that the miners sent a worker to
the Birmingham office to find out
about it. Steps are being taken to
organize the rank and file move
ment among the miners by the
Rank and File A. F. of L. Commit
tee here.
Here is the general program of
the Rank and File Committee:
For recognition of the bona
fde unions. Against company
unions. Against compulsory arbi-
tration.
VI lain ol1O 1l1C SOl1OAOl Va
the labor unions through demo-
cratically conducted elections.
3.-For lower dues and initia-
tions, exemption for the unem-
ployed members.
Against high salaries for
union officials. officers to receive
average wages of union men in the
industry.
5.-Equal pay and right to any
job for Negro workers. No discrimi-
nation against the Negro members.
6.-Against the differential estab-
lished by the N. R. A. for Southern
labor. Equal wages with Northern
labor.
For the passage of the Work
ers Unemployment Insurance Bill
H. R. 1898.
8.-For the right to organize
strike and picket without police or
| National Guard interference.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-01
Miners Grid for Fight on Lewis Despite Ballot Trckey
Rank and File
Maps 8 Points
In Miners Poll
Six Dollars for Six-HOur
Day Is Chief Demand
of OppOsitionists

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Nov. 30.-The
eight-point program Of the Rank
and File Coal Miners in the United
Mine Workers of America, which is
the platform Of the Rank and File
candidates in the present U.M.WA.
elections, is given below:
For the $500 day, 6-hour day
and 5-day week, with the abolition
of the differential between the
North and South, for a national
one year agreement and miners
on all agreements.
2-For the unity of the employed
and unemployed and for support Of
the Workers Unemployment and So
cial Insurance Bill CHR. 1899.
3-For the right to strike, against
forced arbitration, abolition of the
penalty clause and the withdrawal
of all U.M.W.A. officials from the
N.R.A. Labor Boards.
Against discrimination and for
full rights for the Negro miners,
against lynching and for support Of
the Negro Rights Bill.
5-To sanction the organization
Of Women's Auxiliaries and Youth
Sections of the union and for equal
pay for the young miners.
6-For the right of every local
union and district to elect their
own officers. For rank and file
democracy and against appointive
power. Any district or International
officers can be elected for two terms,
after that he can be used in an adj
visory capacity.
Against the use of armed
forces in strikes and against war
and fasciSm.
$40 reinstate all miners I'M
justly expelled from the U.M.W.A.
and to unite all of the miners driven
from the UM.W.A. by the policy of
John L. Lewis into one union of all
coal miners.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-01
Company Unions Flourish
Under the N.R.A. Patronage

of the u. M. w. A., and not that the
officials Of the U. M. w. A. signed
the agreement in their official ca
pacity, but nevertheless it can be
readily seen that the coal operators
take accurate notice of the diff
ference between the officials and
the rank and-file of the union as
such. The Officials of the Union
gained their most important point
by having complete check-off of
dues included in the settlement,
just how will this help the rank
and file of the union when it is OBJ
vious that there is the closest COL
alteration between the U. M. w. A.
officials and the coal bosses?
A company union is fastened on
the workers at the Dante mines of
the Clinchfield Coal Corporations
in Russell County, Virginia. The
Dante election was held June 16
under the supervision of Charles B.
Barnes, chairman of Division l..
Labor Board-South, and formerly
impartial" arbitrator in the New
York needle trades. Results of the
election showed 546 votes for the
Clinchfield Employees Association
Company union0 and 274 votes for
the United Mine Workers.
In the case of the Henry Clay
mine of the Edgewater coal Co.
Pike County, Kentucky, the labor
board revealed that workers had
been fired fer refusing to join the
company union.
The Elk River Coal and Lumber
Co. at Dundeen, West, Va. is a COM
peny union mine and is supposed
to settle its future status by a vote
conducted under the National La
Dor Board in the near 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 con-
Quoted, if left in the hands Of the
bosses and their allies, the National
Labor Board
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-01

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Nov. 3d.
The coal miners, here in Alabama
are again striking against their
depressing bosses, and for back pay.
The Nyota and Navoo miners are on
strike for the third time this year,
for their demands and the agree
ment with the Mccormick in
terests at the settlement of the last
strike.
Bill Mitch, president of District
20, UMWA, engineered the SELL
out of these miners along with
$4,000 others, but was forced, be-
cause of the militancy of these min
ers, to secure for them an agree
ment with the coal operators that
was better than the average
throughout the Alabama coal fields.
Bosses Violate Agreement
For long period these miners
we're out of work and the coal
operators continued to charge the
unemployed coal miners house rent
and hospital fees, and when the
miners started to work again they
we're docked for these "back debts"
The miners struck against this and
for demands that we're raised
throughout the coal fields. At the
settlement the coal operators were
forced to cancel these debts. But
when the miners went back into
the mines the coal operators begin
to dock them again despite the
agreement.
Strike Again
Now these miners are on strike
solidly against the lying, betraying
tactics of Bill Mitch and the coal
operators. A trip to the Nyota
mines will convince one that the
miners have every right to strike.
They are charged an average of one
dollar a month for each room
rented. These are huts, without
sanitary equipment of any kind, no
electric or gas lights, except in the
home of the company superinten-
dent and company store.
AS a maneuver to draw miners
away from the mines, and to shove
scabs into the mines, the relief
officials, in cahoots with the bosses
are trying to force the striking
miners (Who are now getting
grocery orders as relief threaten
ing to cut off relief.
These miners are paid the aver
age wage that is being paid
throughout the coal fields here
which is about SITS per day after
paying for carbide, fuse powder, etc
Starvation reigns in the Alabama
coal fields. Commissaries charge
prices that in some cases are twice
that charged by retail stores.
Over in Walker County there is
thunder against the Mitch sell
out policy. Throughout the fields
the starving miners are cursing
Mitch for betraying them. Every
where can be sensed the growing
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-01
Rank and File
List
In 2 Districts
Pittsburgh and Indiana
Slate Given for Dec.
III Voting

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Nov. 30-The
Rank and File coal miners slate
for the coming elections in the
United Mine Workers of America
in the Pittsburgh and Indiana dis
tricts, is printed below:
Rank and File Slate in District
Five, U. M. w. of A.
For President-Charles Nolker Of
Curtisville.
Observation-Disclosures "Scotty"
O'Hara of Renton.
Secretary Treasurer - Robert
Crawford of Richeyvillie.
International Board Member -
Russell Esken of Fayette City.
Tellers-M. G. Culp Of Vestaburg;
Joe Msravitz of Vestaburg.
For Auditors-Dick Schultz of
Harmarville; William Duke of
Washington.
For District Board Member:
District 4-Joseph Yablonski
Of California.
Sub-District 5-John Indoff of
Fitz- Henry.
Sub-District Theodore Ted
Gall of Russellton.
Rank and File Slate of Indiana
District No. II, U. Nj. w. Of A.
President j. w. Norrick of
Princeton, Ind.
Secretary Treasurer-Hugh Will
son Of Sullivan.
Auditor-Criss Ashia of Boone
vile.
For Board Member Sub-Dis-
trict Ellis Vellor of Oakland.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-01
BY BILL McHENRY
Labor Research Association

Last year in the Connellsville
region an election was held to de-
termine the coal miners choice be-
tween the company union and the
U. M. w. A. Two boxes were used
for the votes which were secret, ;"
One ballot box was marked "ac-
cepted" and the other was marked
rejected"
Though this election was con-
Quoted under the supervision of the
National Labor Board the man in
charge of the ballot boxes was a
company man. AS the miners came
up to the boxes with their ballots
this man took them, and on the
recommendation of the company
stool pigeon at his side he accepted
the ballot, providing the man was
not known as militant: or the
ballot was rejected on the preteXt
that it was spoilt if the miner hap
pened to be known to be for the
U. M. w. A.
U. M. w. A. Leaders Help
We learn from reliable sources
that the policy of the coal operators
is to favor the U. M. w. A, when
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 coal
corporation recognizes this union in
one of its mines, and at another
mine retains the company union,
Mine operators policy now is to
work with the officials of the U. M.
w. A., when necessary, or to keep
the miners misled by the demagogy
of the officials
AS a proof of this policy On the
part of the operators, one need not
lock further than the agreement
made with the H. G. Frick Coke Co.
and other captive mines. This
settlement" was made strictly be-
tween the company and the officials
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-01
Miners Heads
Seek To Split.
Militant Local.
JOhnstOWn Local Resists
Efforts to Divide 1t
Into Four Parts

JOHNSTOWN, Pa, Nov 30.-1n
Central City, miners have been
furnished one of the most glaring
proofs of the work of John L. Lewis
and his provisional" appointees for
the coal operators. There, under
the blessing of the district officials,
the Reitz Coal Company has tried
to foist yellow dog contract on one
of the best rank and file leaders,
and the district officers themselves
have tried to split a large local
union into four parts because the
members stand together against
Lewis and operators alike.
Mike Balya, at that time president
of the Central City local union, was
fired by the Reitz Coal Co., early
this Summer because the miners
were only loading one car day to
force the company to allow checking
of the mine scales in the presence
of union representatives.
The miners struck, returning to
work after several days only on the
promise of the company to re-hire
Balya. In the contract proffered
him by the company, which later
was proven to have been authored
by the UNIV. officials, were the
following points:
81. The Reitz Coal Co., agrees to
reemploy Mike Balya as a repair
man at its mines. 2. Mike Balya
agrees that he will resign from the
presidency of Local Union No. 6410,
and from any other position which
he may now hold in said union and
that he will not serve on any COM
mittee Or in any capacity including
that Of checkweighman in the
United Mine Workers, nor take any
part in any negotiations or adjust
ments or complaints arising between
the Reitz Coal Co. and the United
Mine Workers, for term of two
years from the date hereof, should
he be so employed.
SO. Local Union No. 6410, by its
duly authorized officers hereby
agrees that Mike Balya will not be
elected to any Office, nor appointed
to any committee, during the term
of two years from the date hereof,
should he be so employed"
The rank and file miners Of
Central City refused to accept or
sign this contract, which had been
drawn up under the supervision Of
the Lewis district men.
Shortly after this refusal of the
Central City local to sign the yellow
dog agreement an order was issued
by the international Office COM
handing the union there to split up
into five parts. This order was re-
fused by an overwhelming vote Of
the membership, and the local union
Immediately took steps to enlist
other militant locals of District in
the fight to prevent the split.
F few miles from Center City, in
Hooversville, the miners formed a
strong local Of the Unemployment
Council to fight foc relief to sup
plement their miserable earnings
in the mine.
Frank McKenna, President of the
United Mine Workers Association
local union and checkweighman
was chosen as president of the I'm
employment Council
The district officials induced
Lewis men in the local to bring
charges against McKenna in an
effort to GUST him as president and
checkweighman. Martin, district
organizer, was afraid to confront
McKenna at a scheduled hearing,
the charges were dropped, and Nc
Kenna was given the confidence of
the local by a landslide vote.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-01
Church in Rockford
Forms Scottsboro
Defense Committee

ROCKFORD, ILL.,, Nov. 30-The
first meeting in an intensified cam
paign in this district for the free
dom of the Scottsboro boys was
held here last week in the colored
Bethel Baptist Church.
AS a result of the meeting a
Save the Scottsboro Boys" Com
mittee was formed with three rep
representatives from the church
congregation and three from the
International Labor Defense. The
committee was instructed to launch
a campaign to strengthen and
broaden the united front thus set
up.
The meeting was addressed by a
representative of the I. l.. D., and
the Rev. Jackson, pastor of the
church, who pointed out that only
the mass fight can save the boys.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-01
Relief Workers Form
Union in Lynwood, Cal.

LyNWOOD, Cal, Nov 30.-One
hundred relief workers met here
Monday to form a local relief work.
ers union to give leadership to the
fight against discrimination and for
increased relief pay.
The workers totally ignored the
trickery of a handful of local poll
ticians, who worrned their way into
the meeting, and elected commit
tee Of Is to draw UP a plan of ac-
tion and organization and to formu-
late constitution for the union
Leaflets are being drawn up for wide
distribution on the jobs for building
the union.