Communists Aiding Lewis In Ill. Mines
COLEMAN, McALISTER
Communists Aiding Lewis In Ill. Mines 'National Miners Union' Agent of Old Officers —Money Held Deciding Influence By McAlister Coleman (geNial C«rr*.p«ndeBt «f TIM Hew Loader) U 0 r O...
...Last Mile" to Be Given For Pioneer Youth Camp "The Last Mile" is the play selected by the Pioneer Youth theatre party committee for the organization's annual camp benefit to be held Tuesday evening, April 29th...
...J. H. Paul, " H o w Utah Pensions I ts A g e d ; " Benjamin Glasberg, "The Wisconsin Pension Law...
...But Lewis' treasury, large as it is (he boasts of having over $900,000) cannot last forever...
...Till the Cash Hold* Oat There is consolation f o r those who are seriously concerned with restoring the United Mine Workers of America to that union's former place in the vanguard o f the labor movement, in the thought that this latest alliance of the Communists marks the end of their activities for a long time to come in this part o f the country...
...And when the money is gone, gone is the following...
...Uberal clergymen, backed thi* time by all the Pittaburgh newspaper*, have *agge*ted a committee of three to arbitrate the strike, the men to return pending the decision...
...When the unemployment p o sition became desperate a f ew months ago the Butler Government declined to provide adequate relief work for the jobless men...
...160,000 at present...
...The food coupons issued had to be exchanged only for food stipulated by the Government In this way the Butler Government made a very determined effort to break down the standard of living...
...T wo sessions will be held during the day a t Grand Central Palace, 10th floor...
...And whenever they demonstrated in protest against this callous treatment the Butler Government's mounted and foot police were turned loose and batons were used in brutal fashion...
...Samuel Perlmutter, secretary...
...New Effort Is Made To Arbitrate Strike Of Pitts...
...They don't want t o hear anything about reorganization they say, and in this way they are encouraged by the Communists...
...Police do not intervene to protect Hill's business...
...In the worse of the letter one comes upon an interesting reason for the enthusiasm for Lewis which a f ew recent converts are exhibiting...
...I reasoned that if tbe union in Illinois w a s destroyed, Lewis could blame the Communists...
...exists in other electorates...
...Metal* ere In a quaadry, hardly daring to refuse arbitration but unfriendly to the suggested choice of chairman...
...In the case of the squatters it passed legislation encouraging them to conserve larger land holdings, and thus retard production...
...On every tenet of law and fact I enjoin the worker's every act . . . Sol Perrin...
...The strike was marked . by much mill aad police-provoked violence...
...The elections gave Labor 26 seats...
...Lucille Eaves will discuss "Women and Old A g e ;" Dr...
...Taxi Men Pittsburgh...
...Parmelee Transportation Co...
...Luther Gulick, "Old Men and Women in N ew York State...
...Like the Communist* themselves, he apparently believes that the "end justifies the means...
...But a f ew short months ago t h is same man was exhausting the well-nigh infinite resources of Communist invective upon Lewis sad his colleagues, Phillip Murray and Thomas Kennedy...
...One striker was adlled and many friends o f the striker* were shot aad attacked by company gunmen aad police, "Yellow Dog" I n ant a job, I must have work '. . . You agree merer to grumble or shirk...
...An ex-official of the National Miners Union took the platform at a miners' meeting at Harris burg last Saturday where Germer was speaking and made a windy d e fence of Lewis...
...So l o n g as t h ey are spending Lewis' money they may boast o f a following o f illiterate Holy Rollers from Kentucky to whom a dollar bill looks as b i g a s a mountain, of a f ew immigrant miners who know nothing about the issues o f t he controversy but are easily intimidated by a show of force and o f the rag-tag and bobtail that loafs about any miningcamp with keen noses for the sources of white mule...
...and Germer, they are trying to prevent men from going to work at wage scales agreed upo:i by the union and the operatsrs, and in general they are proving themselves to be one o f tie mcrst sinister enemies that the coal diggers of Illinois have y e t hid to face...
...Conference on Pension To Be Held Next Friday The American Association f o r Old Age Security announces Its third annual conference on old age security t o be held Friday, April 23, in N e w Y o r k City...
...Cap and Millinery Workers International Union...
...I am a worker...
...At 10 a m., under the chairmanship of Agnes Brown Leach, and under the general subj e c t of "The Need for Old A g e Security," Dr...
...15th: - - "South Australian Labor is well prepared for the election...
...N. T. JOINT COUNCIL pAPMAKERS Cloth Rat...
...As usual they have failed utterly to gain any foothold whatsoever among the rank and file o f the workers and a s usual also they havi left behind misery and actual privation among the Innocent victims of their strategems...
...It expected only a comparatively small tax f r om the f ew landowners of the many thousands of square miles in the State...
...Look, no union most yon join...
...Organizers had failed to secure recognition to union clerks in these establishments...
...While not denying that wages are l ow in chain stores, the Clution emphasizes that wages 'independent" stores for the e kind of w o r k are no higher...
...133 Second Are.: Phone Orchard 0000-1-2...
...Cn dilapidated Ford cars, with windshields crumpled, battered hoods and wobbly wheels, men whose overalls are a mass of faded blue patches, ride round and round the main streets of these mining camps with signs on their cars reading ' W e a re loyal to Lewis," "Oust an Traitors," e t c Thus they express their loyalty t o a man w h o is t a k i n g . f r om their pockets $12,000 a year salary and 110,000 a year more in t he shape of expenses and under whose administration the union has declined from a membership of 500,000 to less than...
...MEMPHIS, Tenn.— ( F P ) —Local merchants who established a weekly paper here as part of the campaign that is being conducted against chain stores tried to make it appear that organized labor was backing their move...
...A Fantastic Story As the facts come out, i t is evident that the truth about the activities of the National Miners Union makes a s t o r y fully as fantastic and sordid as any that can D3 told about the doings of the Communists in N e w York...
...Nor were the unfortunate jobless allowed to pick and choose the kind of rations they needed most...
...On the contrary, a sister of the Hill manager at the Central and Main St...
...It introduced the iniquitous system of work for rations, with no pay...
...y t the Lewis parades which are supposed to b e spontaneous uprisings o f t he mine proletariat in lefence o f their beleagured chieftain and I have seldom seen anything more pitiful in all m y contacts with the labor movement...
...Operators, Local 1. Regular meetings every lit and 3rd Saturday...
...A. F, of L. official*, cooperating with Secretory of Labor Davis, "settled" the strike two months ago to t h e almost nn.almaal dtsgUSt Of the striker...
...I aad quite a talk with D asys the writer, "and he s a id that as had spent all h i s money...
...Southern Labor In Fight on Chain Stores Three Cities Report Resentment of Unions Against Anti-Labor Policies CHATTANOOGA, Tenn.—(FP) —Public opinion, mobilized b y organized labor, and particularly the meatcutters union, is showing the Hill chain stores that an arrogant cheap labor, long hour, anti-union policy of flaunting decent American working conditions is not always profitable...
...In a desperate effort to prevent Labor getting a square deal at the elections the Butler Government has followed the example set by th*r Victorian Nationalists in gerrymandering the electorates...
...Long since repudiated by every -intelligent coaldigger in Illinois, the Communists are making their last despairing stand in these isolated coal camps of "Egypt" where the fundamentals o f Communist philosophy a re about as clearly comprehended as the Einstein theory but where everybody knows that there are one hundred cents in a dollar...
...Fannie Fillin, treasurer of the committee, most of the seats have been subscribed by members and friends of Pioneer Youth...
...Mines 'National Miners Union' Agent of Old Officers —Money Held Deciding Influence By McAlister Coleman (geNial C«rr*.p«ndeBt «f TIM Hew Loader) U 0 r O N , 111.—"Communists in _?$ the Illinois mine fields are on tbe pay-roll o f J o hn I~ Lewis, the leader of the reactionary forces in the United Mine Workers o f America- and a re assisting Lewis in every way possible t o destroy the movement for the reorganization of the miners' union headed by Alexander H o w a t" This statement was z r - t j me by Adolph Germer, Vice-President of the United Mine Workers of America...
...Australia Labor Party Wins 26 Seats and a Clear Majority — Had 16 Seats in Old Hous (Or a Maw Easier Corroapoedoat) ADELAIDE, Australia...
...The investigation that we have been conducting in Southern Illinois proves that this reasoning was correct and that tasre is n ow a working arrangement between Lewis and what is left of the Natinal Miners Union...
...8. Hershkowits, Bec'y-Treas...
...The same unfair disproportion...
...Charles Johnson, "What N ew York' s Old A g e Security L a w Contemplates...
...of your own free will, Do yon agree to slave in its mill...
...But to its own wealthy supporters the Government was particularly generous...
...A few g o o d orchestra seats at $3.00 are still available and may be ordered by phoning Stuyvesant 7865...
...aad Abraham E p stein, "Old A g e Security Progress...
...You agree never to criticise Or ask the workers to organize Nor yourself any union join...
...Three other Hill markets were closed in one week in this region...
...The Labor Party won a sweeping v i c t o r y in t he elections f o r the South Australian Parliament April 6th...
...Their wages have been reduced and thousands have been thrown out of their jobs...
...By joining with John L. vLewis they have committed mass suicide as Cannon in his paper "The Militant" long since prophesied they would...
...The Council meets every 1st and Ord Wednesday...
...Miss Esther De Turbeville, "Since California B e g a n t o Pension I t s A g e d ; " Dr...
...These men, some of whom have been kept out o f w o rk for more than a month now b e cause o f wild-cat strikes called b y Lewis Organizers, g o t o t he meetings o f the local anions and stolidly refuse to allow Germer and John Hlndmarsh and the other reorganizers to speak t o t h em about the plans of the n ew movement...
...In Chattanooga Meatcutters Local 600 has increased the number of pickets on Hill stores...
...bate poinded tbe streets in pain for ages . . . You agree to accept oar standard of wages...
...At 2 p . m., under the chairmanship of James H. Maurer, "The Practicability of Old A g e Pensions will be discussed...
...Labor Issues Decide Poll in So...
...Thousands of land - hungry farmers and settlers were denied the opportunity to settle on the land and follow gainful occupations...
...When the National Miners Union was first started," said Germsr, "I was convinced that it W2s receiving encouragement from John L. Lewis, in spite of the fact that the spokesmen f o r the Communists were loud in their criticism of Lewis, it is n ow evident that Lewis wanted the Communists to raise all the hell they could in Illinois because Illinois alone of all the bituminous fields was one hundred per cent organoid and Illinois was and is the csntsr of the opposition t o Lewis' autocratic methods...
...A perfect contract, the Judge said, This document which I have read Shows a meeting of the minds * Which both parties strictly binds...
...Union members are working night and day to remind their friends that their Christmas present from the owner of the stores they had worked to build up in Chattanooga was a lockout f r om their jobs...
...Fitas^rald *nd Aberle Settlement Is Regarded as Victory For The- Strikers the most part, ia their protest against wage cuts, the board of arbitration ha* decided, in aa award which fixes wage* at approximately the tnsfon scale The three arbitrators insist that a system of taaaaf fV*e worker*' rcpre*eat*tl*n be set up in the The workers regard the settlement a* a real victory again*t the ie% wage cut, even though It dees net great formal union recognition...
...am out of work, I need a job, I must life, I want a job...
...My children starve, my wife is sick You agree to obey, honor and stick...
...I have been witness of severs...
...He said that he had a c c e p t e d a a offer from Lewis t o fight Howat.'' Southern Illinois may b e expected t o l a s t in direct proportion • o the length o f t h e purse of the Uctator at Indianapolis...
...A Lewis Recruit There is o f c o u r s e food f o r the ironist in the thought that John L. Lewis, who through Ellis Ssarles, the editor o f the United Lane Workers Journal, has been baiting "Reds" f o r the past eleven years should now be using these self-same "Reds" for his o w n destructive purposes...
...Executive Board meets every Monday...
...In t h e nearby town o f Zeigler, which has been the headquarters of Communist activities throughout all these regions, officials of the Communist National Miners Union have openly paraded the streets whooping it u p f o r Lewis...
...Other members of the committee are Harry,Schuster, chairman...
...Elinor Pancoardt, "The Aged in Baltimore...
...Some of them have been instrumental in closing down mines where there is no wage dispute but where the workers have shown sympathy for the Howat group...
...The conference will conclude with a dinner a t t h e Town Hall t t ub at 6:30 p. m., with a d dress oa "America aad Old A ge Security," by Bishop Francis J. McConnell, Senator C. C. Dill, Harold A . Hatch, Rabbi Stephen 8 . Wise, ^Rep^Roy^C...
...Thus we find, for example, that 50,000 electors in Sturt where there is a big Labor vote, are asked to return three members, while in the Alexandria electorate, a Nationalist stronghold, only 10,000 electors are required to return the same number of members...
...Public sympathy appears to be with the union against the chain, one of whose managers was convicted of systematic shortweighting a f ew months ago...
...Moved" is the sign in the window of the once thriving Hill store in Rossville, Ga., •while the former Hill manager, who operates a union shop nearby, does a brisk business...
...Should Labor succeed at the forthcoming elections it will find plenty of work in amending the existing iniquitous system of land legislation...
...Labor's slogan at the election will b e : W o r k for the Workless, Land for the Landless, and Equitable Taxation.' . . . The workers in South Australia are n o t l i k e ly t o overlook the treatment handed out to them under the Butler Government...
...Germer has in his possession a letter written by an active organiser of the National Miners Union in Northern Illinois to a former official of that organisation in which the writer tells of working with two Lewis organizers in the distributtion of a pamphlet gotten out by the Lewis forces libelling everyone connected with the reorgaaizatiton movement He tell*, of plans on t he p a r t o f the Lewis men to call a "rank and file convention" of the Illinois coal-digrers at which officials friendly to the Howat group would be "dumped overboard...
...Minnie Weinstein, Anna Wexler, Jennie D. Carliph and Harry Rubenstein...
...need employment . . . This glorious American establishment Asks you...
...It Is expected eventually to bring the shop into contractual relations with the anion...
...The campaign has just begun, they declare, and will be pushed until the Nashville merchant prince changes his treatment o f workers...
...OTP) — Oaee •gain aa effort ta to he made to end the S-month strike of Pittsburgh's 1,500 cab drivers...
...Selection of a chairman from James N. Tofts, Paul H. Douglas aad R. Leasersee, university men aad specialist* la labor problem*, I* urged, together with one labor and one jfcpitallst representative...
...store was fined $5 ! or disorderly conduct when she ore a sign off a young man picket...
...r — = - NEW ORLEANS—(FP)—The New Orleans Central Trades and Labor Council has placed the pigg l y Wiggly, Atlantic and Pacific and Hill stores on the "we don't patronize" list...
...To back i t up, Geraer has a mass of evidence gathered during his three weeks' speaking tour of the Southern Illinois fields...
...The strikers are suspicious of t h e proposal to name a conservative A . F. of L. leader to represent them...
...N ow they are running up and down t he coal-camps distributing scurrilous pamphlets supplied them by Lewis attacking the personal characters o* Ilov/ai...
...N. T. C...
...The entire Harris Theatre has been taken over for the affair and according to Mrs...
...The Central Trades and Labor Council has passed a resolution soundly castigating them for this misrepresentation...
...D . Jamieson will speak o a "The Canadian Pension Law...
...But factionalism, like politics, makes strange bed-fellows, and Lewis who is using gun-fighters s a d bootleggers to beat Howat is n o t notoriously finicky about his alliances...
...As a matter of f a c t in many places the Communists make ho attempt to conceal their alliance with the most reactionary of all latter-day labor officials...
...All meetings are held at 133 Second Avenue...
...Libers 17, the Country Party 2. Labor bad 16 seats aad the i others 28 in the* old Parliament The "Australian Worker" wrote as follows on the elections in i ts issue of Jan...
Vol. 10 • April 1930 • No. 11
