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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-12
(Wireless By Inprecorr)


BERLIN (By Inprecorr MaiD.-
The Dairen correspondent of one
of the worst anti-bolshevist gutter
journals in Berlin, the semi-official
organ of the Berlin Police Presidium
Tempo" writes under the above
title as follows:
"Now that Russia has withdrawn
its small army from the Manchurian
frontier (the Chinese troops retired
in hot haste long ago. the first re-
liable news is arriving from the
field of operations. During the hos
tilities both the Russians and the
Chinese maintained the traditions of
warfare and lied manfully, ascribing
to themselves all the heroism and
to the others all the atrocities. Now
however, the civil population in the
fighting area has chance to talk
and this is the result:
eve did not suffer much from the
fighting. Little more than preli-
minary skirmishes occurred, and
when the. Russian artillery opened
up the Chinese soldiers ran as fast
as their legs could carry them, and
when they had put themselves out
of range they commenced to plum
der. We suffered more from that
than from the fighting.
"The Russian troops behaved bet
ter. They paid cash for what they
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-12
'PRAVDA' WRITES UPON
THE RELIGIOUS" WAR
AGAINST THE SOVIETS
People Who Demand No Propaganda Against
Them Should Indulge in None Against Soviet
IAN Endless String of Examples of Religious
Prosecutions in Capitalist Countries
Buddhists in India.

Buddhists in India.
We could quote an endless string
of examples of legal and other per-
secutions of people for uttering
thoughts about religion disagreable
to the ruling classes. The people
who are now rallying against us
should pause for a moment to con-
slider the countless crimes committed
against the oppressed masses, to
hear what the masses think about
them and say about them.
They should consider carefully be-
fore they commit themselves to any
Crusade against the Soviet Union"
Any such crusade" might bring I'M
expected results in its train.
In any case it would undoubtedly
accelerate the process of convincing
the majority of the working masses
that the great experiment conducted
by the Russian Revolution must be
repeated all over the world. 1t will
then no longer be possible to drive
one country against the other.
On our part we shall do our ut
most to assist this process of free
ing the masses from the theological
influence of capitalist slavery under
the cloak of "the defence of reli-
gion."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-12
''The Red Army in Enemy Country"

took. In Fuchin they confiscated
the Province Bank and the mills.
Then they hired coolies to load the
sacks of flour and paid them six
silver dollars a day each. Not only
the poor fought for the chance of
working for the Red Army.
"Six silver dollars day are about
ten times more than the usual pay.
The rich worked too. Even Chinese
soldiers took off their uniforms and
worked for the enemy. The flour
left over the Russians distributed.
Each family received a sack of
flour"
Gone can easily believe that such
propaganda was successful. The
propaganda was all the more dras-
tic in it's effect, because the next
day Chinese soldiery plundered the
inhabitants and took away the flour
the Russians had given. The result
is that the spirit along the Man.
churian frontier has become pro-
Russian even where it was formerly
nationalist. Soviet Russia will prob
ably reckon this propaganda sue
cess higher than its military sue
cess"
The fact that the "Tempo" then
hangs a furious anti-bolshevist tt
rade onto this account does not
reduce the value of the above ir-
reproachable evidence.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-12
5000 Demonstrate in Portland, Ore.

Then the Mayor stepped forward and
also tried to persuade the workers
to go on the other side of the hall
where he had stand prepared for
the speakers. This stand was al
ready observed by the leaders of
the marchers as being surrounded
by bourgeois hackers, disrupters,
etc. The Committee told Mayor
Baker that they had a resolution
to present to him there and now.
The Mayor seeing the determina-
ton on the faces of the committee
and the workers gave way and asked
for the resolutions. Then Comrade
Jenkins, Secretary of the Unem-
ployed Council, took the improvised
stand which the workers arranged
for him, and read the resolutions,
which incorporated the demands as
outlined by the T.U.U.L. and the
Communist Party, in a loud and
clear voice and then presented the
resolutions to the Mayor. The Mayor
then took the stand and handed out
the usual dope that he was Sin
sympathy with the unemployed"
Our men made a laughing stalk
out Of the Mayors talk, receiving
enthusiastic cheers from the work
ers.
The streets were crowded by the
demonstrators and traffic was
blocked. There was at least six
thousand workers in the demonstra-
ton. F. J.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-12
WHAT WORKERS SAY
OF DEMONSTRATIONS
ON MARCH THE SIXTH
Ex-Service Man Joins Communist Party as
Result of What He Saw and Heard
Says American Legion, Veterans Foreign Wars
Do Not Represent Worker-V Veterans
(Bu O Yorker Correspondentl

by q Worker CorreSpondent.)
l am an unemployed war veteran.
l was Is months in France in the
Infantry, would like to know why
the working class who built Broad
way, cannot parade on it, without
the murderous police trying to kill
them. | never saw such brutality in
France as | saw in the demonstra-
ton, Thursday. The reptile police
force beating mere youths with
blackjacks, clubs, etc. | saw numer-
Gus police attack boys who were
alone and tried to knock their brains
out, I saw police officers kick wo-
men in the stomach without any
provocation.
The police were only waiting I'M
til the speech making was over so
that they could attack the workers,
whose only crime was to demand
a job and the right to live. Why
is it that the city officials spend
the workers money, thousands of
dollars in welcoming the nobility of
Europe, and parading them on
Broadway, and blockading traffic on
numerous occasions, and nothing is
said about it? For instance, the
time Queen Marie of Roltnania
came to this country, and also that
rat Ramsey Mcdonald.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-12

Why can't the workers parade to
City Hall and demand work or
wages? Who built the City Hall
anyway? Mayor Walker, Whalen?
The workers built it.
l am so sickened and Disguised
with what I saw yesterday the way
the workers were attacked that l
am now joining the Communist Par
ty, and 1 will devote my life to
overthrow this dirty rotten system
of exploitation of the many by the
few. l also call on other war vet
Grams to join the Communist Party,
the vanguard of the working. class.
l also wish that you would inform
the workers through your great
newspaper that the Veterans Of
Foreign Wars" and the american
Legion" do not represent us, the
great mass Of war veterans, most
of US have become disillusioned since
the dirty way we got treated since
we came back from France. They
won't even give us a job. Not ten
per cent of the American Legion
ever saw France. Very few mem
bers Of the Veterans Organizations
were in actual combat, they are
homeguards and non-combatants
r
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-12
Houston Forced to Take
Note of $4,000 Jobless
by City Hall Meeting

HOUSTON, Texas, Mar. 1.-THE
mass demonstration which took
place on the city hall steps of Hous-
ton, March 6, was the first of this
kind here. Fully $500 were there.
A set of resolutions, drawn up by
the Unemployed Council of the
Trade Union Unity League, was
read by the chairman of the council,
J. S. Morgan, who is also local sec
rotary of the Marine Workers
League.
Waiting on the steps ready to re-
ceive the council presenting the
resolutions were the mayor of the
city, chief of police and captain of
detectives; backed up by a force of
detectives.
Morgan was hastily rushed up to
the office of the secretary of the
mayor to be made to get a permit.
The permit being issued he was
returned to the steps of the city
hall, where he proceeded to read the
resolutions, and attempted to make
talk at the conclusion, but was
abruptly stopped by the chief of
detectives. He was told to tell the
concourse to dispense. He remained
silent. The fire commissioner pres
ent extended his arms in papist fash
ion and shouted at the top of his
voice, "Church is out! Hurry up
and beat itw
Work or Wages"
Rose Fleer was busily engaged in
displaying the posters "Down With
Boss Charity, We Want Work or
Wages" and down With Jim Crow
ism-Detrimental to All Workers"
Other comrades and members of the
Unemployed Council were milling
among the crowds with posters of
like slogans.
The sentiment that has been
aroused by this demonstration is
without doubt In favor Of the DEM
constructors. They are the first here
to have made open, public demands
with a solid front of Negroes and
whites, for the workers benefit.
Thriving, prosperous, industri-
Gus Houston" had to stop and take
notice of its $4,000 unemployed. The
work here has just started and we
are going strong.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-12
Stretch OUT is
BACK IN Marion

MARION, N. c., Mar. 11.-This
mill town is seething with excite
ment, both among the blacklisted
strikers of last summer and the
workers employed in the Marion and
Clinchfield mills. Announcement by
the mill arrangements that the
stretchout system is to be put back
into effect has caused threats of a
strike from those who returned to
work last fall. Before and after
work they are seen knotted in small
groups discussing the new order.
One hundred and thirty families,
numbering 735 men, women and
children, are facing starvation
here. They are the victims of
strikes at the two scab mills. Evict-
ed from company-owned shacks, they
are now living in dugouts, barns
and abandoned shacks, as many as IA
adults and children in two rooms.
Weakened by Work.
The Quakers, who have been CIV
ing out flour, salt pork and beans
to these people for the last three
months, are leaving. The strikers
then will be left to the mercy of the
poorhouse. They are not the stout
robust people they were when they
came from the hills. Twelve hours
and 20 minutes work each day in a
hot dirty mills has changed them.
The strikers were sold out by the
United Textile Workers, which also
prohibited pickets from arming
themselves, and left them to be
massacred by the sheriff. Six were
killed. The U.TW. has provided no
relief for the strikers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-12
Naval Arms Race Meet
Heads for Rocks as
Boss Rivalries Grow

LONDON, March 1.-THE race
for-armament conference is virtually
on the rocks, despite the attempts
Of Macdonald and Stimson, through
their "peace" propaganda speeches
to fool the masses. This was readily
admitted by many of the delegates
today.
Due to the ever-sharpening rival
ries of the imperialist powers they
cannot even come to an agreement on
building their war naval arms.
Further complications now arise
over the defeat of the Macdonald
"labor" government over the coal
bill.
The talk about a security pact"
is merely the diplomatic covering of
the various imperialist powers for
alliance for the next world war.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-12
Labor" Regime Fakes
Fight; Fools M asses

Continued from Page One)
the Macdonald government con-
tinues to carry on in the naval con-
ference, and by grandstanding some
alleged victory" there-also on the
basis of imperialist interest as die
tated by the Tories, continue in pow
er by fooling the masses.
On Monday the government was
attacked by the liberal leader, Lloyd
George, who is anxious to pose as
friend of labor by shedding GRO
codile tears over the unemployed.
He pointed out that the number of
unemployed who are registered (and
great masses are not even regis
tered) had grown from 100000
since the "labor" party took power
last May, to 100000 at present.
While passing bouquets to j. H.
Thomas, the "labor" party's "Lord
Privy Seal" Lloyd George stuck a
pin in Thomas alleged remedy" for
unemployment by saying:
"The Lord Privy Seal is concen-
trating on the naturalization Of in
dustry as cure for unemployment.
But by that every process he is in
creasing employment"
Lloyd George, correct enough in
making that point, could offer moth
ing better himself than the liberal
party's fake Solutions" of "back to
the land, afforestation, reclamation
of waste land and road construc-
tion"-which are so much nonsense.
The fact is that unemployment in
England as in other capitalist coun-
tries cannot be cured except by ov-
erthrowing capitalism, and neither
the liberal nor the "labor" parties
will do that in England, but the Eng
lish workers led by the Communist
Party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-12
FOSTER "CRIME:"
RECORD is FREE
SPEECH DEMAND
Used by Bosses Courts
to Deny Bail

(C0ntlnNed from rage One)
ing. Then all of the local members
of the I.W.W. went out to speak.
They were arrested on the charge of
disorderly conduct, and some were
sentenced to jail for 80 days. 1t
was merely necessary to say Gel
low Worker!" on the street in order
to be liable to a fine of $500 and
costs.
Frank Little received 80 days for
reading the Declaration of Independ-
ence, while altogether there were
over 100 arrests the first day. Spo-
kane was flooded by Wobblies from
neighboring towns.
The I.W.W. headquarters was
raided. The arrested workers were
locked up in school building, where
they were subjected to the most I'M
sanitary conditions and the vicious
brutality of the police. The police
were forced to report 344 sick men
as treated. After this fight the
Wobblies were allowed to talk I'M
molested.
Free speech fights were conducted
in 1909 at other places also, such as
Missoula, Montana and Newcastle,
Pennsylvania. By 1913 over 20 free
speech fights had been made, last
ing from a few days to more than
six months, in Washington, Califor-
MIA, Colorado, Oregon and Massa-
chusetts. And now the ruling ma
chine of New York's capitalist class,
Tammany Hall, holds Foster with
out bail because he committed the
crime of having fought for free
speech in 1907.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-12
Leningrad Intellectuals for the Soviet

exterminate illiteracy, the capitalist
enemies of the Soviet Union are
not only conducting furious cam
paign against the Soviet Union, but
are actually organizing an armed in
tervention against the Soviet Union
whose working masses are engaged
in peaceful constructive work.
The signatories of the appeal de-
clare themselves ready at a mo-
ment's notice to rally to the banner
of the Soviet government in order
to repulse the insolent interference
or intervention of the capitalists.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-12
Z Months Chain Gang
for NTW Organizer

Continued from Page One)
had not been collected by the South
ern bank at the time of the arrest.
The clear-class nature of the case
was shown when Municipal Judge
Watson launched into an attack on
the "Reds" at the time of the trial
of Martin before him, and asked the
defendant, "Do you believe in over
throwing the government"
Martin was given the limit. The
his political beliefs were what he
was on trial for.
Refuses to Leave Town.
Martin was giving the limit. The
Judge offered him freedom if he
would promise to leave town before
p. M, and Martin refused.
The judge then attacked w. G..
Binkley, attorney for Martin, and
demanded to know whether Binkley
was a Southerner. When Binkley
said he was, the judge declared, 81
am ashamed to own you"
After the case was over the Judge
delivered lecture to the Negro
workers in the audience in the court
room, warning them against "join-
ing any organization to overthrow
the government"
Judge Not Spotless.
Local workers, and particularly
the older inhabitants of the town
consider the case aggravated by the
character of Judge Watson. He
is known as an cold rounder," and
his escapades while under the in
fluence of Volsteadian bever-
ages are a town byword.
They say Watson was once mixed
in a bawdy house, and at that time
was accused of killing Negro pros
titute. He wiggled out of the case
through the influence of his father.
This is the type of judge that the
Southern employers use to sentence
honest workers on flimsy pretexts
because they dare to organize work.
ers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-12
Detroit COPS
ENRAcE T0ILERS

DETROIT, Mich, March liz
Over 100000 workers, among them
a large number of employed who
struck in solidarity with the I'M
employed, responded to the call of
the Communist Party, the Detroit
Council of Unemployed and the
Trade Union Unity League, to dem
onstrate for work or wages, against
starvation and for immediate relief,
according to statement issued by
the Detroit District Committee of
the Communist Party.
"This splendid response" the
statement says, "shows that the
masses are losing their patience and
will no longer starve silently, but
will fight for relief, for a right to
live. This response of the workers
of Detroit to the call of the Com
munist Party, shows that large num-
bers Of them are beginning to under
stand that capitalism offers only
misery and starvation to the work
ers and are taking up the struggle
against it.
"The workers came to demand
bread. They were given clubs, brutal
beatings and jailings. The car of
Russia in his days was an expert
in the kind of treatment Mayor
Bowles and Police Commissioner
Emmons gave the unemployed of
this city, but this only fastened the
downfall of czarism and capitalism
in Russia, and brought nearer the
rule of the workers.
Mayor Bowles hypocritically
tries to disclaim responsibility by
being agast at the action of the
police. The mayor can not hide. He
stands exposed markedly as an enemy
of the workers and as servant of
the bosses. The brutal suppression
of the demonstration, the vicious
smuggling of the workers was the
answer of the auto bosses through
their servants, the city government.
The Mayor also hypocritically let
it be known the previous day that
the demonstration will not be dis
persed if there is no violence. The
workers who still had faith in the
promises of the capitalist govern
ment will now see what this is
worth. The police without any cause
were most violent in their attacks
against the workers. They only car
ried out the orders of the bosses,
the mayor and the police commits
sioner.
"The City Council consented to
meet the unemployed representa-
tives before l p. m. when the dem
onstration was scheduled for that
time and adjourned when the slug
ging began. The workers will know
that the City Council is fully res
ponsible for the police brutality. For
the workers there is not cent for
relief but there is money to raise
the salaries of the judges, for more
police to beat the workers. Raise
in fare, heavier burdens on the star
wing workers-this is the policy of
the Detroit City Council and Mayor
Bowles.
"The Communist Party that has
taken the initiative in organizing
the demonstration will continue to
organize the unemployed and to
press forward their demands"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-12
by Worker Correspondent.)

by q Worker Correspondent)
PORTLAND, Ore.-The Workers
of Portland, Ore, rallied in the I'm
employment Demonstration staged
under the leadership of the T.U.U.L.
and the Communist Party on
March 6.
The assembling began about noon
and by two o'clock Plaza Park was
damned. At this time Comrade
Bjorkman, Chairman of the Unem-
ployed Committee, stepped to the
speakers stand and announced the
purpose of the meeting. He was
followed by Comrade Jenkins, Sec
rotary of the Unemployment Coun-
ell, who after primary statement
of the causes of unemployment,
read the demands as outlined by
the T.U.U.L. and the Communist
Party and adopted by the Unem-
ployed Council of Portland.
The workers cheered the demands
with great enthusiasm.
The workers then fell into line to
parade to the City Hall. The police
were there 300 strong, with all their
rif-raf such as capitalist newspaper
reporters and photographers, fly
cops, stool pigeons, agent provoca-
tours, etc. The police did nothing
until the marching workers reached
the Fifth st. entrance to the City
Hall, when the police met the lead
ers of the parade with a strong
front, The Chief of Police, whose
name is also Jenkins, stepped for
ward and told the committee that
the Mayor was waiting at the fourth
street entrance and for them to go
around on the other side of the hall
to interview him. This the COM
mittee refused to do and demanded
to see the Mayor here and now.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-12
(Wireless Bu Inprecorrl

LENINGRAD (By Inprecorr
Mai) six thousand Leningrad
professors, scientists, educational
workers and others have addressed
an appeal to progressive intellec-
tuals in Western Europe and Amer
lea to protest against the reckless
and slanderous campaign being con-
Quoted against the Soviet Union by
the bourgeoisie.
Whilst the toiling masses of the
Soviet Union are working to raise
the cultural level of the country and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-12
Walker Asks Green to
Help Him Rule Miners

Continued from Page One)
battle with Lewis unless a treaty is
struck.
There is every evidence of hot
struggle in this convention" be-
tween Howat and Brophy and their
followers on one side, and Fishwick,
Harrington and Walker on the other,
but there is suggestion here that
this is fiction, to make the miners
think they are getting their own
leaders,"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-12

TALK to your fellow worker in
your shop about the Daily
Worker. Sell him copy every
day for a week. Then ask him to
become a regular subscriber,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-12
MOundsville Strikers Appeal.

PITTSBURGH, Pa, March IL
Calling attention to the brave strug-
gle of the 1000 miners of Mounds
vile, w. Va, and Powhatan, O.,
since the first week in February, the
National Miners Union today issued
an urgent appeal to all workers and
working class organizations to aid
the strikers and their families.
Gone thousand coal miners, TO-
gether with their wives and chill
dren," the appeal says, shave for
nearly six weeks been fighting the
j. A. Paisley interests. Refusing to
slave further for the company FOL-
lowing 10 per cent wage cut, the
third in a single year, the miners
struck under the leadership of the
N.M.U. and have continued their
struggle in the face of the mobiliza-
ton of the whole terror machine Of
the bosses-guns, blackjacks tear
gas, jails and injunctions.
"These miners have taken the lead
in resisting the wage-cut offensive
of Re American bosses. They are
thus fighting a battle of the whole
working class. They are in desper-
ate need. Rush funds at once to the
National Miners Union, 119 Federal
St., MS, room 410, Pittsburgh, Pa.
TWO Killed at Scranton.
SCRANTON, Pa, March IL
Fourteen children were left father
less today by the death in the mines
of two men, Thomas Evans, SO, and
Frank Cardalotti, As, of Old Forge.
Evans was asphyxiated last night
by black damp while at work in the
Muskrat Colliery His brother,
David, who had been working with
him was revived only after several
hours. He is survived by nine chill
dren.
Cardalotti was caught in a de-
layed explosion in the Pickaway Col
liery, near Pittston. His body was
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-12
Two Killed in Fire.

. STEUBENVILLE, Ohio, Mar. II.
Two Of the 80 miners trapped I'M
foreground by the fire in the Wolf
Run mine of the Warner Galleries
were killed by inhaling fumes from
the fire, caused by an explosion of
the dust which the company took no
means to make safe. The rest broke
their way to safety, after running a
bad risk of all being killed.
The fire was caused by trolley,
overspeeded by the company's ra-
tionalization scheme, jumped the
track and threw off sparks 800 feet
underground, and more than mile
from the entrance.