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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-26
Young Workers in the
Navy Eager to Hear
From Com munist S

SEATTLE, Aug. 24.-The fleet
week is now over and the sailors
have departed. But while they were
here they became better acquainted
with the class struggle through the
efforts of the Young Communist
League, the Communist Party and
other workers organizations.
They were greeted with special
edition of the Daily Worker, telling
them of the advance of the Chinese
Revolution and calling on them to
defend it. 1t pointed out to the
sailors that they were workers and
that the revol'. tionists of China
were workers and peasants, who are
fighting to throw off the yoke of
capitalism, both foreign and domes-
tic.
We learned that most of the sail
ors in the navy were young work.
ers, and that, because of the abuse
and discrimination that they re-
ceive in the navy, they were far
more easily approached than we
had expected. Some of them were
quite eager to talk with us and
some of us got into some interesting
discussions.
Many interesting discussions were
had with these young workers and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-26
CASTONIA BAIL
CASE PUT over
Fascists Are Active in
Atlanta, Ga.

CHARLOTTE, N. c., Aug. 25.-
The Menklenburg Superior Court
today did not hold session on the
question of the forfeiture of bail
in the Gastonia case because they
have not yet received a decision
from the Supreme Court which is
located at Rawleigh.
The |. L. D. attorney, ]. Frank
Flower, developed demands against
forfeiture of bail and for a contin-
uation of the hearing to October.
The I. L. D. is fighting against
the forfeiture of bail on the plea of
extending the time for the appear
ance of the defendants one month,
bringing them before the October
session of the court.
Because of the proximity of the
trial of the Gastonia defendants a
hostile attitude was intensified
against the Sacco-Vanzetti demon
STATIONS which were to have been
held in Loray Square, Gastonia, and
at Atlanta, Ga.
In Atlanta, Ga, the American
fascists, the xxx. and etc., held a
counter-demonstration with partici-
pants numbering 10000.
But workocs held large and sue
cessful LID. meeting at Charlotte
N. c., the headquarters of the
|. L. d.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-26
Unemployment Hits
Chicago W.I.R. Plans
For Children's Camp

CHICAGO, Aug. 24.-The Work
ers' international Relief announces
that its children's camp will not be
opened this year as planned. A
campaign was carried on beginning
in March and a total of 80 organ
izations were brought together in
a Children's Camp Conference which
met twice month up to the middle
of June. During these months the
receipts on the money-raising cam
paign were very low. Apparently
the mass unemployment in the Chi
cago district had very serious eff
feet upon it.
In the beginning of June the W. l..
r. initiated the campaign for Che
feeding of the delegates to the Ma
tional Unemployed Convention in
Chicago on July 4 and 5, which abb
sorbed all the energy of the men,
bers and friends of the w. I. R. be-
cause of its great political impor-
lance. The very considerable sue
cess achieved in the campaign for
feeding the delegates to the Unem-
pioyed Convention was reflected in
reverse in the complete failure of
the camp campaign from that time
on.
A total of s445.72 was received.
Out of this, however, it was neces-
sary in the course of the campaign
to spend $3.50 for postage. Other
direct expenses amounting to an addi-
tional $500 were necessary. The
balance that was left over at the
time of the Unemployed Conven-
ton was loaned to the work of feed
ing the delegates. This, however,
is to be repaid.
1t is planned to invest the bal
ance remaining as quickly as avail
able in camp equipment, SO that a
certain minimum Of equipment will
be Immediately available for next
years camp, to insure the opening
on time.
The w, !. r. is proceeding with
its campaign for a 1881 camp.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-26
EXPOSE I.W.W. IN
M'|NERNEY DEATH
LID. Brings Out Class
Issues

CENTRALIA, Wash, Aug. 20
The funeral of James McInerney,
one of the eight Centralia prisoners,
who died in the penitentiary on
August 10, was held in Centralia,
Wash, on August 20. The funeral
was arranged by the Centralia Pub
licity Committee.
The town of Centralia was quiet
and peaceful, no signs or posters OF
leaflets anywhere around. The
Centralia Publicity Committee head
quarters in the Labor Temple, SAT
North Tower Ave, Centralia, had
a small sign in the window an
nouncing the death and funeral of
James McInerney. So insignificant
was his death to the committee that
it merited merely notice on wrap
ping paper.
About so cars and two buses were
lined up in front of the Labor
Temple. The cars bore no placards;
only the International Labor De-
tense car had signs and slogans
and the car containing members of
the Single Weavers Union of
Hoquiam had their banner hung in
the car. The members of the
Single Weavers Union had been
modified for the funeral by men,
bers of the Trade Union Unity
League. "Stumpy" Payne, the
I.W.W. faker, had contented himeslt
with quietly and ineffectively in a
matter of fact way, announcing it
on the floor of the Single Weavers
Union. This was a decided contrast
to his usual believing.
To every worker present this
funeral was a complete exposure OF
the Centralia Publicity Committee
and the I.W.W. The affair was in
every sense exemplified and was
an expression of bankruptcy and
the role of the /. w. w. as betray-
ers of the working class.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-26
To Study the Five
Year Plan i'm Action

Collective farms, new factories
and workers settlements, as we'll as
many other features of present Gre
ative life in the Soviet Union, will
be visited and examined by the
group leaving on the Five-Year
Plan tour.
The World Tourists, representing
the Intourist of Moscow, is ar
ranging the tour, under especially
favorable conditions, with the view
of giving the workers a chance to
make a real study of how the ia
nous plan is working and how it is
affecting the life of the workers
and peasants of the Soviet Union.
The group which leaves in October
will be in Moscow during the No
vember celebrations.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-26
'OWA C.P. PUTS
TICKET IN FIELD
tate Nominating Con-
vention Success

SIOUX CITY, Iowa, Aug. Is
The Iowa State Nominating Con-
,ention of the Communist Party
was held here yesterday Comrade
Swezey was elected chairman by
reclamation.
The convention went on record as
Internationally accepting the ma
Cional platform of the Party" and
calling upon all workers and work.
ing farmers to support the Commu-
mist Party. The convention adopted
several resolutions, demanding social
insurance for the unemployed, and
sharply denouncing the fascist at
tacks by the Fish Committee and
others upon the Communist Party.
Other resolutions demanded the re-
peal of all criminal syndicalist and
sedition laws, the release of all
political prisoners the dismissal of
Tho insurrection charges against the
Atlanta Six, and calling upon the
workers for defense of the Soviet
Union against the maturing attacks
f the imperialists.
The convention nominated four
workers on the Communist ticket:
Comrade Patton, of Council Bluffs
for governor; Comrade Albert Ger
ing, of Madrid, for lieutenant gov
ernor; Comrade Anderson, of Wat
2rloo, for attorney general; Comrade
Swezey, of Sioux City, for secretary
state.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-26
FRAMED IN TUUL WORK,
DARK GREETS WORKERS
FROM WELFARE ISLAND
Was Framed During Window Cleaners Strike
Together With Peter Lahawit
Letter to LID Comments on Sacco-Vanzetti
Demonstrations

NEW YORK.-Peter Dark is a
eader of the Window Cleaners
Union, now the Building Maintain
anee Union, affiliated to the T.U.
U.L. He was framed-up by the
bosses during the last strike and is
now serving a four months SEN
.ence on Welfare Island, with Peter
Lahowit, another worker in the
same frame-up for assault. This
letter was received by the LID,
district office.
Dear Comrades;
your letter of Aug. IA, and
money order for the sum Of $3.50
received. I and my family sincerely
and comradely appreciate your true
and fraternal interest shown to us
and your, indeed generous financial
weekly support. l wish that all
the working class would realize the
true meaning and correctly estimate
the necessity and value of l. L. D.
in class struggle, and rally to sus-
tain and maintain its existence and
function.
81 being a class-conscious mem
Der of the working class, fully sup
porting its movement and class
struggle, do not lose my courage
and spirit for being so brutally
thrown into the prison on brazen
framed up charge in all its ugly
nudity. l do, indeed, realize that
Law and Order" of present gov
eminent cannot and, surely, for its
own safety, will not produce any
other form of "justice, justice of
its own system,-Wall Street Sys-
tem"-To me all that so much
'ulogized and glorified statement
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-26
W1R Dance Held Aug.
31st in COney Island

To raise funds for the rebuilding
of the Workers International Relief
children's camp at Van Etten, N. Y,
recently attacked by a gang of
Klansmen and American Legion
members and property to the
amount of $4,000 destroyed, a Sea
Shore Dance will be held Sunday,
August 81, at Casa D'Amor Hall,
Mermaid Ave. and West 31st St.,
Coney Island. The funds raised
will also be used for the develop
ment of the W.I.R. camp activities
throughout the country.
The program will include chill
dren's pageant of 100 and music by
the Gascar Harlemites, popular Ne
gro orchestra. Admission for chill
dren will be free. For adults, so
cents in advance and rs cents at the
door.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-26
RED MASS MEET
HELD IN SEATTLE
Send Greetings to RI.
L.U. Congress

SEATTLE, Wash.-The T. U. U.
L. held a mass meeting on the Skid
Road in Seattle on August Is to
celebrate the opening of the Fifth
World Congress of the Red Interna-
tional of Labor Unions.
Hundreds of workers were pres
ent to hear the different speakers
tell of their delegates from their
respective unions.
The secretary of the Marine Work
ers' Industrial Union told of the
struggle of the seamen and the
longshoremen, and appealed to all
marine workers, black and white, to
join in the struggle against The ship
owners and to be prepared at all
times to defend the Soviet Union
and support the Chinese masses in
their struggle to overthrow the yoke
of Yankee imperialism as well as
all capitalist countries who are ex-
plotting the Chinese workers.
A delegate of the National Lum-
Der Workers Industrial Union spoke
of the organizing of the lumber
workers that is taking place in the
Northwest, and how the lumber
barons were trying to make the
workers believe that the cause of
100000 lumber workers walking the
streets and no place to sleep was
caused by Soviet Russia using con-
Wet labor to produce lumber, thereby
underselling American produced
lumber. He pointed out that this
was a dirty lie, that the lumber
barons were using this propaganda
to poison the minds of the workers
against the Soviet Union and pre-
pare them for an imperialist war
against the first workers republic.
Another comrade represented the
Communist Party who spoke on the
Fifth World Congress and the Red
international of Labor Unions, and
when it was pointed out that Com
rade Roy Brown (ex-I. w. W. was
elerted delegate to the Fifth World
Congress by the workers of the
Northwest District the lumber work.
ers were very much interested and
they sure showed it by the way they
applauded.
R. /. l.. U. stamps, Labor Unity
and the Daily Worker were sold.
Lumber workers of the Northwest
District, watch for the return of
your fellow-worker, Comrade Roy
Brown, in the Labor Unity and the
Daily Worker. Mass meetings will
be arranged in every city of the
Northwest. Every worker in the
Northwest should hear Comrade
Browns report on the Fifth World
Congress. Don't miss it.
(Sgd.) worker"
Fellow-workers, this is the greet
ing sent to the Fifth World Con-
gress by the workers of the T. u.
u. L. mass meeting held on the
Seattle Skidroad:
Revolutionary greetings Fifth
Profintern Congress. Northwest
proletariat regards Profintern only
international industrial union lead
ership."
(Signed)
T.U.U.L. MASS MEETING,
Seattle, Washington.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-26
EMPIRE OIL CO.
FIRES WORKERS
w orkers Must Split
Pay to Hold Job
by a Worker Correspondent


EAST CHICAGO, Ind.-At the
Empire Oil Co. an average of about
10 workers are either laid off or
fired because they refuse to divide
their pay with the foremen and the
stool-pigeons on the inside.
Although the workers only earn
40 cents per hour, and have to put
up with all kinds of insults and
speed-up systems, they feel deeply
and sharply the miserable condi-
tons in these days of high prices
and rent.
This company hires workers every
day, and every day fires the same
number. This is done in order to
find the cheapest and the most
willing slaves. They keep only
those workers who are ready to
loan" $40 or more to the fore
men and pushers, if they want to
have a job. OF course, it is clear
in the mind of every worker, that
the loan" is asked by the bosses
in order to make the worker "bribe"
or buy his job. So the sloan" has
no time limit; it is an eternal loan,
which must be renewed every two
weeks. The wages are low enough
as they are, let alone the loans"
In some cases the "loan" is much
higher.
The Metal Workers Industrial
League held about a half dozen
gate meetings, and right now there
is a shop committee in formation.
The bosses use the bride" strategy
in order to crush the organization
of the working class.
But the workers will organize
just the same.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-26
$1,000 More Natives
Victims of Belgian
Imperialism in Congo

BRUSSELS, Aug. 25. - Reports
cached here today of the death of
yer 10000 natives of the Belgian
ongo from a famine in Ruanda.
The famine was caused as a re-
al. of punitive raids several months
go by armed forces of the Belgian
mperialists who set fire to the
fields and crops of the natives and
Rove hundreds of thousands across
he border into Uganda where, with
he help Of the British imperialistg,
many thousands of the revolving ma
ives were slaughtered. The addi-
icral famine deaths are among the
latives who survived these raids.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-26
BAZAAR DELEGATES
CONFERENCES AUG. Il

All unions, T.U.U.L. groups, Com
munist Party units, and fraternal
organizations, and language bur-
eaus are called upon to send two
delegates to the mass conference of
the National Communist Press,
Daily Worker-Morning Freiheit
Bazaar, tomorrow, August 81, 500
p. M, at the Workers Center, 1928
Union Square, where all plans for
the bazaar will be outlined.
This years bazaar must demon
strate the unified and determined
will of the workers ready to sup
port and defend their press from
all the attacks of the enemies Of
the working class.
Organizations that did not meet
before the date of the conference
should be represented through their
officials.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-26
COPS ASSAULT
Open AIR MEET
Brutally Beat Up the
Workers

Tammany cossacks attacked an
open-air meeting of the Office
Workers Unemployed Council yes
terday at Park Ave. and 33rd st.
Comrade Santos-Tumin, speaking
for the social insurance bill put for
ward by the Communist Party and
rallying the workers for the Sep
TENDER First demonstration, was
grabbed by the arm and dragged
off the stand by policeman.
Bessie Norton, of the Office
Workers Council, who Immediately
assembled the stand, was roughly
pulled down bys the cop, who
wrenched her arm and threw her to
the ground. Comrade Vince, an
ex-service man and a member of
the EX-Servicemen's League, next
followed and was jumped on by the
first cop, now reinforced by two
others, who knocked him in the gut
ter and kicked down the stand and
flag.
In the Fifteenth Precinct Police
Station, the sergeant, puzzled by
the courage of the workers, held ex-
serviceman Vince and attempted to
lecture the others, who he then dis
missed.
The Unemployed Council of the
Office Workers Union, undeterred
by police attacks, will hold another
meeting at the same corner, Park
Ave. and 33rd St., today.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-26
TO HAVE might IN
SOVIET CHINA" SEPT. 10

The Chinese Vanguard is organ
izing an affair, "a Night in Soviet
China" on Friday, Sept. 10, at Z
p. m. at Manhattan Lyceum, Sc E.
Fourth St., N. Y. C. A rich pro-
gram is in preparation, including
Chinese revolutionary posters, mu-
sic, boxing, bazaar, chop suey,
dancing, a huge detail map of the
Soviet territory in China, etc.
All proceeds will go to the Chi
nese Vanguard, which is the only
revolutionary organ in Chinese in
America. New York workers are
urged to come and help to build this
paper for the mobilization of the
Chinese workers in America to
fight against U. S. imperialist in
tervention in China and for the de-
tense of the Chinese Revolution.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-26

that justice is blind and that it
weighs the scales of proofs and
facts is but bitter and quite I'M
pleasant realization to the contrary.
In fact, at least in my opinion and
experience, it slyly peeps under the
blindfold and is positive in punish
ing its enemies and rewarding its
friends. On the occasion of August
22nd demonstration in memory of
butchered Sacco-Vanzetti, l am
proud to greet through the LID.
the mass gathering of the workers.
l greet them in the name of mill
tant workers unions, in the name
of T.U.U.L. in the name and prin-
ciples of the R,IL.U. which as a
gigantic labor force in the process
of class struggle brushes all the
obstacles that are thrown in by the
bosses through their governments
and their hired labor agents of
AF.L. and gangdom, and paves and
leads the rock road of the toiling
class to the International Workers
Solidarity and thereafter to the
workers emancipation from the
slavery and establishment of the
workers government. l hope that
the spirit of this demonstration will
not be only mournful but spirit of
class solidarity and final victory
shall prevail.
with this true spirit greet you
all,
Comradely yours,
PETER DARCK."
"P. S. Our lawyer and union
wrote to US that we have to do our
terms of six months. There is no
hope to take US out"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-26
Section Six Affair
For Workers School

Arranging a colorful affair and
dance for Saturday, September 6, at
8 p. m. at the Laisve liberty Hall,
corner Lorimer and Ten Eyck SITS,
Brooklyn, District Six of the Com
munist Party is helping make the
Workers Training School a reality.
A good dance orchestra has been
gotten for the occasion and the price
35 cents win permit all workers to
be present at this affair.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-26
AUTO union DRIVE
FOR MEMBERSHIP
To Take Part in Sept. l
Demonstration

DETROIT, Aug. 25.-In the face
of the growing wage cutting and
speed-up campaign of the bosses,
the Auto Workers Union has
launched into the largest organiza-
ton drive of its history. Selecting
the biggest plants in the industry,
the union has set as its task to or
ganize strong shop committees in
side the plants and develop militant
strike struggles against the vicious
attacks of the bosses.
Numerous shop gate meetings
and indoor mass meetings are
being prepared. Thousands of
pieces of literature will be dis
tributed in and outside the plant.
Al the same time the union has
started a campaign to raise $4,000
as an organization fund to finance
TIE drive, as part of the National
Trade Union Unity League "Organ-
ize and Strike" Fighting Fund of
100000. In addition to the fund
to be raised by the Auto Workers
UriGn, the Food and Packing House
Workers Industrial League, the
Building and Construction Work
ers, the Tunnel Workers. the Clean
ers and Dyers and other TUUL
groups are taking active part in
the campaign in order to speed up
organization work in their respec-
tive fields.
Unemployment Demonstration.
Combining both the raising of
the fund and the organization
drive, the Auto Workers Union
and other TUUL organizations are
planning big Field Day at the
Workers Camp on the ~ Mile Road
The TUUL is calling d conference
for preparations for the Field Day
to be held Fridays Aug. goth. at
1880 p. m. at the Trade Union Cen
ter, 1854 Woodward Ave-. near
Warren, to which all affiliated
TUUL organizations are sending
delegations. All sympathetic work
ing class organizations are invited
to send delegations of three mem
bers to assist in making the Field
Day big success. At this Field
Day Conference, we will also make
final arrangements for the Unem-
ployment Day Demonstration at
Cass Park on Monday, Sept. LIST
labor Day. at p. m. of which
main feature will be the Workers
Social Insurance Bill and the cleo
ton campaign which is an important
part of the fight for the enactment
of the Bill. This unemployment
demonstration will also be an i'm
portant part of the organization
drive of the Auto Workers Union
and the other T.U.U.L. organiza-
tions.
To Hold Field Day.
The arrangements for the Field
Day on Sept. 7, at the Workers
Camp, include a selected sports pro-
gram, swimming, running races,
ETC., whichswill be presented by the
Labor Sports Union. Philip Ray
mond, National Organizer of the
Auto Workers Union and Commu-
mist candidate for mayor of Detroit
will speak on the mayoralty election
and its significance for the workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-26
Many JObIess in South Philadelphia

so many more men, South Philadel-
phia is done for"
Congress having rushed through
the navy bills, the navy department
was able to take immediate action.
The Navy Yard at South Philadel-
phia secured its part of the new
disarmament" building program
and many workers are now being
hired az the Navy Yard. So, for a
brief time, there is prosperity of
kind for South Philadelphia.
Getting ready for the next war.
But the workers at the Navy Yard
can feel no sense of security, for
this kind of prosperity can't last a
long time.
SOUTH PHILADELPHIA.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-26
by a Worker Corrcspondent.)

by Worker Correspondent)
Observation-Disclosures in
The southern part Of South Phila-
,lelphia were very bad during July.
Then came the sudden announce
nent that from 1900 to $500 men
we're to be laid off at the Navy
Yard unless additional work was Sc
,ured by August l.
So the petty-bourgeois storekeep-
4rs, restaurant keepers and other
business men sent a frantic SOS.
after getting together to the White
House.
"We will be ruined if the lay-offs
axe place. Already we are nearly
uined, and, with the laying off of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-26

we are sure that they left this city
much more interested in the class
struggle and that from now on they
will be more eager to obtain infor-
nation. 1t is now the duty Of the
comrades in any city where there are
soldiers or sailors to get to them
with literature and any other prop
uganda they may have.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-26
Communist Activities

Section Z. Attention!
All members of Section z must at
tend the signature collections on
Wednesday. Aug. 81, at p. m. at 1906
Thatford Ave
-
Section I, w. Il.
Meets tonight at 615 p. m. at 81
e. Fourth st.
Leading Fraction F.WLU.
shop delegate council WA meet to-.
night at ) y. m. at 20 Union So
Youth Fraction F.W.IU.
Will meet tonight at u. M al 20
Union Sd.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-26
View Wage Cuts Fol
low Auto LayOffs

DETROIT.-Following the lay-off
Vt thousands of men in the automo-
'ile industry here the General Mo-
.ors has begun new wage-cuttire
ampaign. Cadillac workers have
lad their wages slashed Is per cent