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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-28
Spread Drive.
In Iron County
For H.R. 1898.
By a Worker Correspondent

IRON RIVER. Mich.-The Iron
County Labor Union, a rank and
file controlled relief organization,
has been active in the campaign
for the Workers Unemployment In
surance Bill, H. R. 1898. We have
two locals of this union, which COM
prises a membership of over $50
paid members at present. We have
won many concessions from the re-
lief officials.
In the campaign for H. r. 1898,
we have secured the endorsement OF
the bill, and a resolution has been
sent to congressman from this dis
trict (12th) after presentation to
the following organizations:
1. Caspian Village Council "a
mining town with a population Of
1000.
2. Two locals of Iron County La
Dor Union, membership $50, Caspian
Iron River locals.
3. Duke of Abruzzi lodge, a bene-
fit society, The lodge has a mem
bership of $50, located in Caspian,
Mich.
4. Giordano Bruno Society of
Iron River, benefit society, member
ship $50.
5. Local No. 125 international
Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter
Workers GA. F. of L. located in
Iron River; membership of 100000.
6. Local No. 1899 United Brother
hood of Carpenters, A. F. of L. To-
Gated in Iron River membership $50.
7. Local of the Finnish Workers
Federation, a cultural organization !;
membership 70 members, located in
Iron River.
We have also sent in over 300
cards signed by individual workers
to the congressman from this dis
trict. In one mine to which cards
were brought by N. M. u. members,
both shifts signed these cards, in
Guiding the shift bosses. There is a
tremendous support for this bill by
the miners and relief workers from
this locality, which is a mining
camp.
We have found out that mass
pressure will force city and village
councils to endorse the bill. When
our COMMITTEES was small we had no
results. But when we had large
committee and delegation, we forced
them to sign.
In Caspian which is mining
town, the delegation was backed by
$50 workers who used the floor and
forced an open vote by the coun-
Gil men. The miners saw who were
company men. The result of such
a large committees was to force its
endorsement.
Fellow workers, forward toward a
mass campaign for H. R. 1898. With
the best of working class greeting
from the backwoods of Michigan.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-28

1t tells the story of Lenin's
life from the time he was a
little boy until his death,
which caused so much sorrow
to the Russian workers. For their
freedom he had given all the years
Of his life. Today his memory lives
for all the workers of the world. His
work is our guide to a better life.
The many pictures tthere are 10
of themD makes very real and alive
the exciting things that take place
throughout the book. You can see
exactly how magnificent were the
homes of the rich landlords, how
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-28
Work Doubled, Pay
Cut at Powhattan
Nearly 200 Fired in Mine, While Others Make
Halt As Much in 5 Days As in 3 Before

The day man is the only one that
makes what the code calls for. The
leaders don't make what the code
calls for in two CT three shifts, so
I am just wondering how long will
we wait with this slavery system.
We should load this coal by day
work, then we would make what
the code calls for.
I should like to see ourselves
unite at once and get down to real
business and defeat this company
machine that runs the U.M.W.A.
Because they got an order from the
district to double everybody, they
did it. And besides, they want the
day men to work about SO as to
split their work. In ether words,
they want them to split their pay.
So there is another cut.
I do not know what the result
will be, but it looks to me like the
officials of the UM.W.A. and Lewis
ought to split their pay. Because
Lewis gets his thousands of dollars
to serve the company, and for
European touring. I understand he
is in Europe trying to study how
to break Europeans solidarity.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-28

Reader Comments on Farm Articles
BY HELEN LUKE
Dear Comrade Editor

Dear Comrade Editor of the
Women's Column:
IT have followed the articles on
the life and conditions of the farm
woman. I must say that the Daily
Worker has raised the issue
of organizing the farm woman in
the proper time when the
working class is strangling with the
fourth year Of the most severe
crisis Now. the Daily as we'll
as the Communist Party must
penetrate the farms and forward
our revolutionary message to the
most neglected of the workers, most
affected by the crisis, the farm
weman.
She was always backward ele-
msnt. Suffered from ending
hours of work. Oppressed by the
men folks A victim of priest and
church. Subjected to a dull I'M
happy life. The articles in the
Daily clearly poin.ed out those
larger and minor things from which
the farm woman suffers.
They could be raIi;ad around a
demand for free clinics, with COM
petent doctors to serve them when
they are in need of an abortion or
anything of this kind. The farm
women in the best times suffered
from small incomes and large
families. In these hunger times she
is losing the ground under her feet,
must search for bread under the
most horrible conditions.
When a woman is faced with a
situation where she must free her
self OF burdensome pregnancy due
to lack of bread, she finds all legal
doors closed to her.
Il say that we must raise an
educational campaign among the
farm women and strongly expose
the existing conditions in our
country; point out the privileges of
motherhood in the Soviet Union. A
child born there is a welcome men,
her, a shareholder in the whole
Soviet Union. In the United States,
Calldren of unemployed parents
arc also privileged class-pri-
yEeged to search for food in gar
bage cans.
Prostitution in the Soviet Union
is practically wiped out, while in
the capitalist world mothers indulge
il prosti ution in exchange for
Tread for the child. At this time
Of the bitter crisis hundreds of
married men and women ask to be
s8erilizsd (see Sexual Sterilization,
Robert G. Dexter in order not to
sse their offspring die Of want.
"We must raise in the women the
fighting spirit of Ella May Virgins
end her kind. A kind that could be
found only in revolutionary ranks,
ready to leave her children behind
end if necessary die for the cause
OF the working class. We must
draft the zetkins, Krupskayas, and
Porovskayas of America and send
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-28

Pennsylvania
Rank and Tile
.GroO Stronger
By a Mime Worker Correspondent

By a Mine Worker Correspondent
YUKON, Pa.-After nine months
Of organization of the United Mine
Workers of America, the miners
situation is as follows:
l. The operators openly state that
the miners have no closed shop.
2. The attempts are being made to
build the company unions.
3. The struggle of the rank and
file miners for closed shop of rank
and file control within the U. M.
W. A. is going on.
In WeStmoreland County the rank
and file movement has been started
by the miners of Westmoreland Coal
Co., namely Yukon, Hahntown, Ril-
ton, Westmoreland City, Export,
Mccullough and Hutchinson. Al
ready six of these mines meet reg
ularly to find out their grievances
and methods of fighting these
grievances.
AC ~ M. W. a. OlllCldlS diC
doing everything possible to split
the rank and file movement, brand
ing it as a Communist organization,
and trying to split the UM.W.A.
The rank and file movement
began with only three mine meet
ings at first, and six mines meet
now with the excaI0tiOn Of McCul-
Tough, which local is controlled by
stool pigeons.
The miners plan the following:
To fight for a closed shop and
uniform scale, for the seven West
moreland coal mines when the ne
gotiating committee meets for agree
ment next April. The demands are
as follows:
A 6-hour day Sc day, five days
a week, and 20 weeks minimum a
year. Payment for dead work, for
unemployment insurance, and many
other miners demands.
Unless these demands are met
with uniform scale, these seven
mines will strike in April.
At present these mines are plan
ming the following: Each mine is
getting on the grievances. and put
ting them before the Westmoreland
operators. We need the leadership
Of the working class movement.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-28
By a Mine Worker Correspondent

By Mine Worker Correspondent
POWHATAN PIT. Ohio. - The
Powhatan Co, has stopped the night
shift work and has doubled every
body up, and now two men work
in a place and get from one to three
cars a shift. And now the mine
runs days week.
Nobody makes anything, although
they are working few leaders on
the night shift. Nearly 200 men
have lost their jobs, and the ones
that are working are making half
as much for days a week as they
made for working days before.
Fellow workers, it Is nothing but
a cut in wages and big saving
for the operators. Before, they had
two sets of day men and now they
have only one set and nearly 900
leaders, and they cant get the cars.
as the mine is not well equipped
enough to handle so many men on
enc shift. One motor has As to 60
leaders and by the time he makes
two trips to a place the seven
hours are up. So two men make
what one used to make.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-28
By Mine Worker Correspondent


JOHNSTOWN, Pa. = Two weeks
ago we held meeting of the local
union of the United Mine Workers
in Johnstown (the local of miners
working in Franklin mines, known
as Conemaugh Local $500, which
mines are run by the Bethlehem
Steel Corp These mines are run
on vicious open shop basis, which
John Lewis and his whole official
dom are responsible for, because
they signed an agreement with the
Bethlehem officials giving the Beth
lehem Steel Corp. the right to run
the mines as they see fit, and to
hire and fire.
Any mine worker wishing to join
the union must sign slip Of paper
which reads as follows:
81, the undersigned, agree to pay
the check-off, so cents, for every
two weeks, to the District No. 2
of the UM.W.A., and the money is
to be sent to Secretary Treasurer
Of the District, Richard Gilbert, etc.
This be deducted from my earnings
every two weeks. until 1 further
notify the company to stop, or de-
duct"
The agreement also says that any
miner not wishing to sign has a
perfect right not to do so. and shall
not be compelled, thus insuring that
the company can run the mine
under the vicious open shop system.
For this kind of agreement the
company rewards the U. M. w. A..
officials by deducting the check-off
for U. M. w. A. from miners who
don't want the open shop system.
n return the U. M. w. A. officials,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-28
Metal Workers Plan
Pre-Convention Rally

STEUBENVILLE, Ohio, July 81
A mass pre-convention rally of
Wsirton and Steubenville steel and
metal workers will be held at Stan
ton Park, near here, on Sunday. 1t
has been called to popularize the
approaching national convention of
the Steel and Metal Workers Indus
trial Union, to be held in Pitts
burgh on August 3, and 5, and to
acquaint the workers further with
the class struggle program of the
S.M.W.I.U. Many unemployed work
erS, part of the thousands who have
been laid off throughout the Ohio
Valley, have been invited to attend.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-28
CORRECTION

In last Saturdays mine CORES
pondence page, a letter with the
heading, Strike threat forces pay
rise in gold mine" was printed as
dated from Grass Valley, Nevada
This was incorrect. The letter came
from Grass Valley-Nevada City,
California.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-28
NOTE

We publish letters from coal
and ore miners, and from oil
field workers, every Saturday.
We urge workers in these fields
to write us OF their condition of
Of work and of their struggles to
organize. Please get your letters to
us by Wednesday of each week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-28

says: If this is so, 1 don't want to
belong to the Socialist Party any
more. I guess must join the Com
munist Party, as I see it is the
only party which stands and fights
for the working class. A third
miner got up and said; We must
ali join the G. P. it's the only way
out.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-28
ID n A mdmedh yNmrwCm
East 18th st MwY kCM

send many more children to the
camp during the rest of the sum-
mer. Send any sum, no matter how
small, to Pioneer District Office, 35
E. 18th Street, 5th Floor, New York
City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-28
PUZZLE CORNER

The name of nine fish are sug-
gested by the pictures. To join the
Daily Worker Puzzle Club" write
as many as you can on postcard.
Send it to Daily Worker Puzzle
Club, 50 E. 18th Street, New York
City. Names of members will be
printed next week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-28
Can You Make EN-
Yourself?

Pattern 1864 is available in sizes
IA, Is, 10, 20, 80, "a, 36, 38, 40 and
AZ. Size Is takes 3 yards So inch
fabric. Illustrated step by-step sew
ing instructions included.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-28
t A l. E

Change enc let e. each time and
make new word, until you change
fish into tale.
Answer to last weeks "Strike"
puzzle.
Toledo, San Francisco. New YcrE,
New Orleans, Detroit, Minneapolis.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-28
OUR LENIN

THIS is the first picture in a
1 big beautiful book for
called, "Our Lenin."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-28

them to the small city and farm to
bring the masses the light of rev.
struggle. :"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-28

Send FIFTEEN CENTS (15c) i
coins or stamps (coins preferred
for this Anne Adams pattern. Write
plainly name, address and style
number. BE SURE TO STATE
SIZE.
Address orders to Daily Worker
Pattern Department, 243 w. 18th
ST.. New York City,
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1934-03-29
7echnicalities Of Corn-Hog
Contract Phrasing Explained

at Golden Saturday where they
transacted business.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wells Wohlford and
family of Sleepy Eye were callers at
the Andrew Olson home Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Theodore Kettner
visited relatives at Morgan Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Oscar Routhe and
daughters, Melba and Bonnie, of Gil
fillan were Sunday guests of Mrs.
Routhe's parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. F.
Christensen.
Mr.. and Mrs. Nels Nelson and Miss
Myrtle Field of Mahnomen were
visitors at the H. F. Meyer home Sun
dav. The Nelson's are guests of Mrs.
Liva Lying.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chris Thompson and
family and Virginia Dugas of Glenn
ents visited at the Theodore Kettners
Tuesday evening.
Anna Croft of Minneapolis came
Tuesday for three weeks visit with
| her father, Ole H. Croft and other re-
latives.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1934-03-29
Shutdown Woman Given
Birthday Surprise

STANDARDIZATION and friends
surprised Mrs. Ida Tonak at her
home Tuesday evening, the occasion
being her birthday anniversary. Cards
were played at six tables. Prizes
were won by John Kagel and Mrs.
John Amann, high and Mrs. Otto
Bredvold and Robert Peterson, low.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Kagel, Mr.. and
Mrs. Robert Peterson and Mr.. and
Mrs. L. H. Clements of Clements and
Mr.. and Mrs. John Amann of Wanda
attended.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Giesler of
Kasson were Sunday guests of Mr..
and Mrs. Louis Laurence.
Rev. Hanson of Lakeiield conducted
Lenten services at the Shutdown
church Wednesday evening.
Myrtle Christensen, teacher in dis
trict IL, attended the funeral of her
grandmother, Mrs. Foster, at Sleepy
Eye, Wednesday.
Orville and Richard Jensen and
their mother, Mrs. Senuis Jensen,
drove to Byron Friday where they
visited the latter's daughter, Mrs.
Donald Ramthun and family. They
returned Sunday.
Milton and Elmer Lawrence and
Clifford Nelson attended the wrestling
match at Redwood Falls Thursday
evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ebert Meyer were at
New Ulm Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred Ziegenhagen
and son, Calvin, attended the funeral
of a relative at Sleepy Eye Wednes-
day.
Henry Skow visited with the Henry
Hanson family near Evan Sunday.
The Julius Jensen and Otto Jensen
families were Sunday guests of Mr..
and Mrs. A. G, Olson at Storden.
Henry and Carroll Show and Rus
sell Jensen drove to Storden Tuesday
and attended an Easter cantata CIV
en- by the choir of Bethlehem Luth-
eran church.
Mr.. and Mrs. Rudolph Nelson and
family were Sunday guests of the
Rudolph Nelson family in Brookville.
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul O'Callaghan of
Mankato were visitors at the Harry
O'Callaghan home Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. August Bloedow Of
Wanda spent Tuesday with the lat
ter's mother, Mrs. Mary Tonak.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Anderson Of LIE
Sueur were guests Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Ebert Meyer last week.
Mr., and Mrs. Andrew Olson were
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1934-03-29
Big-Six League May
Increase to s Teams

Plans to perfect an eight-team
baseball league were made at recent
meeting in Sanborn, when members
of the "Big-Six" league met TO re-
organize. Wanda, Walnut Grove,
Comfrey, Springfield and Sanborn
were represented at the Sanborn
meeting but at another meeting Luz
can, Morgan and Evan will be repre-
scented and it is anticipated that an
eight-team league will be formed.
Officers elected at Sanborn were:
Cracker" Dederich of Wanda, presi-
dent; Philip E. Fischer of Springfield,
vice president, and H. ]. Weber of
Sanborn, secretary and treasurer.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1934-03-29
Additional Questions about New
Deal Plans Answered by
County Agent BOvee

Following are questions raised by
Redwood county farmers about the
corn-hog reduction contract with an
swers supplied by the county agent.
@. How should one figure the total
crop acres" and "total acres of feed
crops other than corn and hay" re-
ferred to in the corn-hog contract
What crops are "basic commodities!
A. "Total crop acreages in 1884 in
clude the acreage of small grain, tame
hay, corn and special crops such as
canning crops, sugar beets, etc.,
planted for harvest (but not necess-
arily harvested) in 1884, plus the
number of acres contracted to the
government in 1884, and which have
not been included in any of the above.
This total shall not exceed the cores
ponding number of crop acres COM
puted in the same manner for 1882 or
1888, whichever was higher"
Land idle in both 1882 and 1888
NAV not be included in the total crop
acreage but land planted for harvest
in one of the two base years may be
included in the crop acreage for that
particular year. Land used for pas
ture only in 1892 and 1888 may not be
included in the crop acres. Sweet
clover cut for hay or seed may be IN
cluded in the crop acres only for the
year or years in which the crop was
so harvested.
"Feed crop acreage" includes the
acreage planted to such crops as oats,
barley, and rye, whether grown 1or
feed or for sale; grain sorghums, sweet
sorghums and other crops (corn and
hay excluded) ordinarily used Tor
feeding. Sweet corn may be included
in this list if grown as feed.
The only circumstances under
which larger acreage of these crops
NAV be planted in 1884 than was
nlanted in either 1882 or 1888, are as
follows: (1) if the field corn acreage
is reduced Tin addition to the con-
tracted acreage) to the same extent
that other feed crop acres are lncreas-
ed: (2) if winter wheat, hay crops OF
pasture crops seeded in 1888 for har-
vest or pasture in 1884 kill out, then
such acreage may be replaced with
similar acreage of feed crops otner
than corn and hay.
The ruling permitting the replan-
ting of abandoned 1888 hay or pas
ture seedlings, however, restricts tne
contract signer in his selection OF re-
placement crops to oats and barley
for use only as pasture, or for hay cut
green well before reaching maturity.
"Basic crops" include wheat, TO-
bacco, cotton, corn, and rice.
@. I planted no wheat N 1882 or
1888. If l sign the 'corn-hog contract
will be permitted to plant two or
three acres of wheat for home use
this year?
A. No.
@. | am farming piece Of land IN
a county adjoining the one in which
live, using one set of machinery @or
NV entire acreage. Must / sign sep
arate contract covering this land?
A. No. One contract may be signed
to cover your entire farm. It should
be placed with the control association
in the county where you reside.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1934-03-29
Drake Estate" Check
Nearly Causes Furor

A genuine cashable check Of the
Drake estate was presented at a gar
age in Spencer, Iowa, recently and
word spread through northern Iowa
and southern Minnesota that fam
Gus hoax at last was paying off. Hun
dreds of investors" eagerly dug up
dust covered receipts. They learned
that the check was not from the
estate of Sir Francis Drake, but the
C. G. Drake estate at Dickens, Iowa.
Nogales international., 1934-09-15

Costing 100000 pesos, (about
IS 500 900 in American money!, a
huge irrigation project is to be con-
tructed on the Yaqui river in So
nora as a part of the Mexican gov
ernment's six year improvement
program. Construction work is tc
start on January l.
General Lazaro Cardenas, Pres =
dent Elect of Mexico, who arrived
at Hermosillo yesterday, will visit
proposed sites for the Sonora
dams during his stay in Sonora.
Work Of building the dams and
other parts Of the irrigation works
will require about three years, a.
600 900 pesos to pe spent each year
The main dam will be built near
Cananea and a large diversion dam
near Ciudad Obregon, formerly
aloa by the Mexican government.
General Cardenas, after visiting
the Altar district, will return to
Mexico City via Chihuahua.
known as Cajeme.
The project will irrigate thou
Nogales international., 1934-09-15
$4,000 MAY BE
TURNED LOOSE
HERE SHORTLY

Settlement of the wage contro-
versy raging here for sometime be-
tween the r A. Allen Construction
Company and the company'S work.
ers on the flood control project is
expected shortly and will result, it
is said, in payment by the company
Of approximately $4,000.
According to j. D. Wiley, secre-
tary of the Nogales Federal Labor
Union, about % men, Gall of the
number still working but two),
have signed an affidavit and sent
it to Washington alleging that
helpers en- the local project should
be paid 62h cents per hour and
$1.O0 an hour for setting steel and
that helpers have been paid only
10 cents and steel settlers 62k
cents.
The Allen Company according to
Wiley, has the 6219 and $1.00 wage
scale posted in it's office but is not
paying it.
Senator Ashurst, Congresswoman
Isabella Greenway, Senator Hay
den, President William Green of
the American Federation Of Labor,
the Arizona Industrial Commission,
and q Mr.. Green Of the office OF
the Secretary Of the Interior, are
looking into the matter, and a de-
c'son in favor of the workers Is
expected within the next few days
forcing the Allen Company to pay
the helpers 621k and the steel set
ters $1.O0 per hour for all the work
they have done here to date. The
difference between what has been
paid and what is to be paid, If the
labor union wins out, amounts to
about $4,000, Wiley said.