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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-22
MCNEIL TRIAL ON
THURSDAY
Young Seaman Beaten and
Arrested.

The trial of Randolph Mcneil, a
young marine worker, will be held
in general sessions court tomorrow
at 10 a. m.
Mcneil was arrested by the po-
lice who beat him so brutally at the
City Hall unemployment demon
stration just before March 6 that
he was for some time confined to
a hospital. Following their usual
practice when they have committed
so atrocious crime, the police ar
rested their victim.
Mcneil was Seattle secretary OF
the Marine Workers League until
coming to New York as delegate
to the general executive board meet.
ing of the Trade Union Unity
League. He took part, as mill
tant worker, in the demonstration
and was set on by several of Whal
ems Cossacks when he protested the
smuggling of another worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-22
UNE:MpL Dyed To
Score FAILING
Demand Release; Many
Workers Resolutions

"On with the fight for the I'M
conditional and immediate release
of the unemployed delegation! For
ward to May Day. Fight for social
insurance! Fight for work or
wages. On to a mass unemployed
convention in Chicago on July A and
s." says statement issued through
Pat Devine for the National Bureau
of the Councils of the Unemployed
as soon as the sentencing of Foster,
Minor, Amter. Raymond and Lestel
was announced yesterday.
The statement further says:
"The National Buro of the IN
employed Councils vigorously pre-
tests against the sentencing of the
New York unemployed delegation,
representing 10000 workers to 8
years in the penitentiary and calls
upon the entire working class to
carry on militant struggle foG
their immediate and unconditional
release.
"Mass demonstrations of unem-
ployed and employed must be our
answer to this latest example of the
determination of the bosses to crush
the rising fighting spirit of the g.
100000 unemployed workers in the
country.
"The Broadway Butterfly Mayor
Walker and his fashion plate fas
cist Police Commissioner Whalen
must be deluged with resolutions
from all working class organizations
demanding the release of the dele
cation.
The May Day strikes and demon
strations all over the country must
be high spot in the fight to bring
our comrades back into the ranks
"The National Unemployed Con-
vention in Chicago on July and !
must be made an even greater dem.
onstration of our determination e
carry the struggle for social insur.
ance and the release of all those i'm.
prisoned for fighting for it to 3
higher stage"
/. l.. d. Continues Fight.
j. Louis Engdahl, national secre
tary of the international Labor De.
Tense, which defends the delegation
of the unemployed stated yesterday
Immediately after leaving the court
Continued on Page Three)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-22
FILIPINO MISLE-ADERS
Masses Will Fight for INDEPENDENCE

Posing as leaders Of the independ-
ence movement of the Philippines,
the representatives of the rich Fill
pino landowners Gil, Osias and Bri-
ones, who are members of the fake
independence commission, were BAN
quoted at the International House,
500 Riverside Drive, yesterday by
the Filipino Youth independence
Movement OF America.
The speeches of Gil, Osias and
Brioncs were to the effect that the
Filipinos should be good Christians
and nationalists in the abstract, but
they did not point out that in order
to attain independence of the Phi.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-22
FAKE OLD AGE PENSION
Means Stare Until 70 Then Beg

On September /, $1,000 persons
of seventy years and over will be
eligible to apply for state pension
which OF, the average will not be
more than S242 year. This "bless-
ing" has been bestowed upon the
workers who have been thrown on
the industrial scrap heap in New
York state, by an old age pension
bill approved by Governor Roosevelt
last week. Actual "relief" will not
be Forthcoming until January, 1881.
This hypocritical gesture of char
ity by the bosses state after it has
sucked the life-blood out of the
workers and cast them pcnniless and
broken Oh to the "Uld' age junk pile
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-22
Do ~ n Tools d 10 d.
Demonstrate, MQylst
Call of the Central Committee, Communist
Party, u. S. A.

the the workers and oppressed
people of all countries against the bosses and their On
the American workers will strike with the workers the
world in the fight against their enemythe capitalist class
the American workers 1886 who first the workers
of the world the the political strike
forceuy bringing forth their class demands May h We will
uphold the heroic revolutionary traditions of class and down tools
May LIST, 1880.
Nothing dreaded by the bosses and their than
the political strike The workers. have
effective than this They will this May
fight back the attacks of the and their
The workers will challenge the capitalist machine
the warning of its approaching downfall Down Tools May First
The Political Mass Strike Our Weapon the
Capitalism today in crisis The entire capitalist
decayng Capitalism longer able provide living
the workers. Twenty million
unemployed On March millions
pOyd workers demonstrated the world
systematic of unemployment the their
starvation.
The crisis of capitalism is general. affects
and the colonies The crisis of
completely smashed the lies
its about unlimited widespread prosperity
prosperity the Two
made 1929 but while obless
of the workers the peedup and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-22
!. l.. d. Continues Fight.

| ippines a struggle based or the
workers and peasants must be car
ried on against American imperi-
alism.
The chairman Of the meeting,
however, pointed out that the Fill
pinos in this country should try to
reach the masses Of American work
ers, and not the capitalist politicians
and their school authorities. Osias
went out of his way to try to con-
tradict this. He voiced the views of
his class, which is opposed to indie
pendence because they profit from
the exploitation of the Filipino
people jointly with the American
masters.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-22

Bronx, to which they are compell-
ing walters to purchase tickets at
80 each. If waiter refuses, the
business agent OF the union comes
around, gives him another chance
to buy, and if he doesn't, has him
fired.
The purpose of the banquet is to
celebrate a sell odt agreement made
by the Officials behind the backs Of
the workers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-22

before they have reached even so
years Of age will be understood for
all that it is worth by the working
class.
Capitalist industry today does not
hire men over forty, forty-five and
the highest fifty. For twenty to
thirty years the worker is to starve
in the streets, and when he reaches
70 he Is to take chances of getting
less than seventy-five cents a day
from graft-ridden pension-fund.
Only the militant, mass, political
struggle oil the workers will force
the bosses and thcit state 20 supply
adequate social insurance for work
crs.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-22
Today in the
DaiIp a.. IWorker

Reply to the Comrades on the Col
iectiye Farms-J. Stalin-Page 4.
For Working Class Policy in the
CO-operatives-Letter of L. c. c. /.
Page 4. Fascist Hoover's C0ncep-
ton of leadership. Amtcr writ
ten in TOmbs Pris0n)-Pagc 4. Pol.
ish Fascists and War Danger
Against U. S. s. R.--Page 3. Phila-
delphia Young Workers and May |
Page ).
TOMORROW:
T. W. W. Dnocd b. 1c2,,lc Johlcs,s.
yellow Dog Grows ugiier--by SO
Ion Dc Leon.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-22
GAST0NlA CASE
TODAY IN court
Strikers Repulsed Raid
Meant to Murder Them

Arguments in the appeal against
the decision of the lower courts in
the conviction of seven strikers and
organizers of the National Textile
Workers Union, in the interna-
tionally famous "Gastonia case"
will be heard today by the North
Carolina Supreme Court at Raleigh.
Thomas w, Hardwick, former
United States senator from Georgia,
will make the argument for the de-
PENDANTS, Fred Beal, Clarence Mil
Ter, X. Y. Hendricks, Louie Nc
Laughlin, George Carter, William
McGinnis and Joseph Harrison. He
will be assisted by j. Frank Flow
ers of Charlotte, North Carolina,
who has been the attorney for the
international Labor Defense since
the beginning of the case, resulting
from the attack on the textile strik-
ers' tent colony by the police and
the Committee of 100" of the Man
ville-Jenckes Corporation on the
night of June 7, last year. While
leading this attack the chief of po-
lice, Aderholt, was killed.
Hit Carpenters Argument.
Some of the points that will be
'aised by the attorneys for the de-
PENDANTS will include the failure OF
the court to have the defendants
plead to the charges against them
the raising of the question of the
defendants belief in god, attack OF
the hysterical, holy-roller closing
argument by Solicitor Carpenter
the Gastonia prosecutor, and the
argument that the degree of force
Continued on Page Three
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-22
CUT WAGES IN
JAPAN
Textile Workers Get 20 Per Cent
Slash.

TOXIC, Japan, April 21.-The
Kanegafuchi Cotton Spinning Co.,
employing thousands Of workers,
proposes to slash wages for all
workers 90 per cent. Many other
mills will follow in this general
wage-cutting campaign, in an at
tempt to transfer the burden of the
crisis onto the backs of the workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-22
JOBLESS FLOCK TO HELL
SHIPS.

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, April 81.
Hell ships that house the cannery
slaves in Alaska are being fitted
out for their annual trips and crews
recruited. Men who have not had
a square meal all winter are beg
ging for the jobs on the hell ships,
which are usually avoided.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-22
~YOU Will NOT STOE Them
ORGANIZING SAYS FOSTER,
MINOR TELLS OF MAY DAY
Same Justice as Sacco and Vanzetti Cot,
Raymond Tells Judge; Amter Gagged
Court House Flooded With Police While
Workers Gather to Protest

"You may send to Jail but you will not stop the unen-
ployed workers organizing and fighting said William H.
Foster standing yesterday before the judges who
about him for being the chairman of the committee
the UNEMPLOYED and marching to lay their demands before
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-22
CELEBRATE SELL
OUT
Eaiters' Local l Officials Force
Members to Pay S. For Tickets.

The Restaurant Owners Associa-
on and the officials of Walters
MON Local are arranging ban
iet tonight at Winter Gardens,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-22

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 regular subscriber
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-22

sickness, old age, accident and IN.
employment to be financed by tau
ing the bosses and to be administer
ed by the workers. Although Amer
Continued on Page Three
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-06-13
Injunction Bill Action Adds New Fuel
President Green Declares Issue Will BE Carried Into State
of Every Senator Who Supported Friend of Yellow Dog

, journed.
1t was an amazing procedure To
say that trade union leaders were
shocked and stunned by the side
stepping puts it mildly
eve insist upon vote, for or
against" said President Green. A
vote will join the issue definitely
but scarcely more definitely than did
the side-stepping move, for count
has been entered against every sena-
tor who joined in the majority that
sent it over to the attorney general,
who is not known as a friend of labor.
Five Joined Opponents
Five senators who voted for Parker
Joined in the move to sidetrack the in
junction bill. 1t is to be expected
that these five, or those who face the
electorate this fall, will come under
as hot a fire as can be directed their
way
From President Green on, all along
the line, there is boiling. seething re-
sentiment; and it doesn't stop at the
senate in all cases. There is a feel
ing which its possessors by means
disguise, that if the administration
wanted this bill to pass as badly as
it wanted Parker nominated there
would have been no tricky reference
to the attorney general.
SO the forces are being marshalled
for tremendous electoral battle 1t
will be battle of men, not of money,
Men, fired with zeal for freedom.
will pour their effort into campaign
in which real issues will be fought
out. And in the end, on that newt
able morning after, there will be lame
ducks, squawking dismally that they
didn't know it was loaded so gosh
awful heavy!
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-06-13

Gillette, Robinson, Waterman, Has
tings, Overman, Stephens.
Opponents were; Messrs. Norris,
Borah, Blaine, Ashurst.
The following senators were abb
sent: Messrs. Hebert, Walsh Mont ,
Caraway, King, Dill.
Several changes in the bill were
made by the committee. These, it is
believed, may widen the scope of
equity judges to issue injunctions in
labor disputes.
As amended an equity judge will
decide whether public officials "have
failed" or are unwilling to furnish
adequate protection to compliments
property.
Labor's request for specific legis-
lation that would annul the Bedford
cut stone decision (enforcing compul-
sorry Iabor) and the Truax decision
denying labor the right to withhold
patronage was ignored.
The claim is made that these deci-
sions are covered by the statement,
''ceasing or refusing to perform any
work or to remain in any relation or
employment" can not be enjoined.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-06-13
ROOSEVELT MEDAL
TO WILLIAM GREEN

New York-James A. Garfield,
president Roosevelt Memorial Asso-
citation, announced that the medals of
the organization for 1880 have been
awarded to William Green, president
A. F. of L., for his efforts in behalf
of cooperation in industry; to Rear
Admiral Richard E. Byrd for his
polar explorations, and to Hastings
Hart, president American Prison
Association, for his work in penology.
The medals will be presented to the
three men October 27, the seventy
second anniversary of the former
presidents birth
Gas president of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor" says the citation of
Mr.. Green, "he has both symbolized
and directed the new policy of CO.
operation in industry, representing
the American concept of industrial
ism and self-reliance and fighting
with success the disruptive influence
of the radical element preaching
communism and class war. In a pc
riod of unrest and readjustment he
has prevented conflict and at the same
time strengthened the position of the
trade union in the social order"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-06-13

Reports to Chairman Smith at the
Birmingham headquarters indicate
that organizing work over the South
is proceeding with regularity.
1--WE are not doing the spectacular
thing" Mr.. Smith said, "but are
making this business like campaign.
The workers want trade unionism and
we are trying to give it to them. Of
course there is opposition from GER
tain employers, but that doesn't mean
anything. Certain textile operators
have passed out loyalty pledges to
their employees for them to sign.
This is nothing more than a yellow
dog contract designed to prevent
workers from joining the union. Since
the expose of the yellow dog contract
in congress in the Parker debate,
workers are getting wise to the fact
that they have constitutional rights
which can not be abrogated. We are
bringing this to their attention"
Organization work in Tennessee,
Louisiana and sections of Alabama,
Georgia and Virginia where no work
has been done is being planned and
organizers sent in as rapidly as they
are available.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-06-13
By JOSEPH A. WISE

Chicago (ILNS)-The julius Ros-
enwald fund has announced gift
of $4,000 to finance study of the
causes of sporadic and seasonal un-
employment in the Philadelphia area
The study will be made by the de-
partment of industrial research of the
Wharton School of the University of
Pennsylvania.
Rosenwald, principal owner and
chairman of the board of Sears, Roe
buck & Co., non-union Chicago mail
order house, is not spending any
money to investigate the acute un-
employment situation in this city.
Were he to start such an investiga-
tion in Chicago attention might be
directed to the status of the hundreds
of former employees of Sears, Roe
buck & Co., who were thrown out of
work when the printing plant of that
firm was put out of business follow
ing the turning over of $30,000,000
printing contract to the unfair R. r.
Donnelley Sons Company last March
Many of these former employees of
the "philanthropic" Rosenwald arc
still walking the streets vainly seek
ing work.
The probable reason that Rosen-
wald is spending $4,000 for such an
investigation at Philadelphia is that
the eastern headquarters of Sears,
Roebuck & Co. are located in that city
and that the firm is keenly feeling the
public disfavor into which it has fall
en- in that territory since the adop-
tion of a non-union policy.
Philadelphia is the distributing
center for the Eastern States for the
mail order business of Sears, Roebuck
& Co., just as Dallas, Texas, serves
that purpose for the Southwest and
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-06-13
Big Mail Order House Seeks
To Win Back Public Favor

! Seattle and Los Angeles the far
Northwest and Pacific Coast regions.
The huge catalogues for each OF
these branch mail order houses are
now being printed under the worst
possible non-union conditions. Also
| the printed matter for the chain of
315 retail stores operated by this
firm is being executed under the
same conditions.
Rosenwald will have acquired a
great bargain if he can regain the
good will of the people of Philadel-
phia and adjacent territory at the
cheap price of 5000. All of Rosen-
wald's Charities" for which he is
world famous, are designed with an
eye to their advertising value as busi-
ness getters and incidentally to ere
ate an aura of sanctity about his
head.
In d further effort to overcome
widespread unfavorable public opin-
ion, the general offices of Sears, Roe
buck & Co. in this city have an
nounced that they will inaugurate the
five-day week for their Chicago mail
order employees for the months of
July and August. Employees of the
315 retail stores will receive weekly
half holiday during the designated
period. The announcement is am
bigous as to what the mail order en-
ployes of the firm at Philadelphia,
Dallas, Seattle and Los Angeles are
to expect in this connection.
1t is safe to conjecture that none
of these employees would have re
ceived this concession at this time if
the labor policy of Sears, Roebuck
& Co. had not become a national scan
dal through the medium of the labor
press.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-06-13

because of the determination of the
members that no change be made.
There were but two contests-they
were for that of recording secretary
and inductor, the incumbent secre-
tary winning out handsomely for re-
election, and the only change in the
list of officers being that of inductor
Stanley Ogg was reelected president
for the 'steenth time, and the other
officers are: Vice president, Walter
Price; recording secretary, Clyde
Bartel; corresponding secretary, Fred
Woodrey; financial secretary, Charles
Stephen; treasurer, Edward Elcook;
doorkeeper, William Roger; inductor,
James Nudd trustee, August Meyers;
delegate to Trades Council, Fred
Woodrey.
1t is easy to figure out that all is
harmonious and well in "Old g."
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-06-13
By CHESTER M. WRIGHT

Washington, D. C. GLNS)-Amer-
lean labor's biggest political cam
paign in years is in the making at
/ this hour.
The Parker case made the para
mount issue and the Shipstead bill is
doubling its size.
Labor's national spokesman, Presi-
dent William Green, declares that la
| Dor is going into every state where
pro-Parker senator is up for re-
election this year to wage fight to
finish.
Among the outstanding targets of
labor's most sizzling fire will be Sen
ator McCulloch, of Ohio.
That means that Ohio, for decades
a pivotal fighting ground, will be once
more battle center upon which ma
tion attention will focus.
Ohio is President Green's home
state and he knows it like a book. He
was a state senator in Ohio, in which
capacity he secured enactment of the
best workmen's compensation law in
America.
A. +. of L. to Join Forces
Not only will state federations of
labor marshall their forces to defeat
every senator who voted for Parker,
but the American Federation of La
Dor itself will go into those state to
lend its aid. This is going to be a
fight.
Adding to the fury of the contest
will be the record on the anti-injunc-
tion bill and the tricky footwork of
the senate judiciary committee in re-
ferring the measure to the United
States attorney general will not
abate the resentment of trade union
lists.
''These committee votes count,
President Green said. We regard
the action as an unfriendly action"
Was Political Maneuver
Beyond question the move was a
piece of political opportunism. Sen
ators who didn't dare vote against
reporting the measure favorably to
the senate voted to send it to the
attorney general, hoping, of course,
that he would ponder over it until
this session Of the senate is ad-
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-06-13
Violence Threats Fail to Stop
Southern Toilers Rush to Union

Birmingham, Ala. (ILNS) More
than 1000 textile workers in the
Huntsville district have signed the
membership roll of the United Textile
Workers despite threats published in
a Huntsville newspaper that American
Federation of Labor organizers would
be chased out of town if they persist
ed in their organizing campaign. L.
V. Hurst, who has charge of the
Huntsville work, reports to headquar-
ters that the workers are anxious to
join the union. Organizing in other
crafts is also proceeding, there being
four unions organized and function
ing, including the textile workers,
painters, BARRIERS and carpenters.
In Columbus, Ca, textile center,
mass meetings have been held for
more than a week, attended by 1000
to 1900 workers and business men
nightly a local of some 400 textile
workers has been formed. Local
unions Of bricklayers and motion pic
ture operators also have been organ
ized. George Googe, representing the
A. f. Of L., and Francis German, of
the textile workers, have had charge
Of the work, which will be continued
indefinitely. Chairman Smith, of the
A. L. Of L. organizing committee
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-06-13
SIDETRACK
Injunction Bill; Refer To
Cabinet Member

Washington The senate judiciary
committee, after changing the anti
injunction BILL sent the measure tc
Attorney General Mitchell for ar
opinion on its "constitutionality and
other legal aspects"
The action, according to Mr.. Nor
ris, chairman of the committee, means
that in all probability no further
action will be taken on the bill al
this session
1t is asserted that the purpose OF
the majority was to delay action
rather than secure additional infol-
nation on a question that has been
before the committee for more than
two years.
Legal authorities point out that
there is no authority for such refer
ence by the committee.
The motion to send the bill to the
attorney general was made by Sena-
tor Steiwer. Other senators who ia
vored this plan were Messrs. Deneen,
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-06-13
STANLEY OCC
Again President of MOlders'
Union; All Officers
Reelected

"Old 68" of Molders' Union had
another one of its old-time meetings
Monday night. The Standing room
only" sign was hung out early. The
big feature of the meeting was the
regular election of officers. 1t seems,
however, that the big attendance and
keen interest in the election was not
because of dissatisfaction with the
manner in which things are being
conducted by the official family of
the organization, but was brought out