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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-09

NEW YORK.-In report just is
sued by the International Labor De-
Tense to all its districts and affiliated
organizations, j. Louis Engdahl, ma
tional secretary, outlines the work
accomplished in the Scottsboro case
and how the Negro question has been
brought to the attention of the en-
tire world.
In its report, the. LID, which is
the organization charged by the boys
and their parents with their de-
Tense, states that zone of the most
difficult problems confronting the
United Front Movement in its de-
Tense of the nine Negro boys is the
spreading of untruthful reports by
the N. A., A. C. P. leaders in their
attempt to cover up their allegiance
to their rich contributors of the
white ruling class"
The report details the frame-up
charge of rape which was launched
against the boys, who are all minors,
and compares the cry of rape, which
is raised against the Negro workers,
to the Passover ritual persecution
brought against the Jews in Czarist
Russia. The LID. report tells how
in the old Russia of the Cars, when
the Jews were in the same POSITION
as Negroes in present-day America,
the ruling class would charge that
Jewish workers murder Gentle chill
dren on Passover as part of their
holiday ceremony, thereby stimulat-
ing the wholesale butchery of inno-
cent people.
"The forward march Of the Negro
masses since the Scottsboro case is
remarkable" continues the report.
"a realization of the Importance of
organization and unity with Negro
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-09
1900 at Solidarity Day Meet
Demand Mooney Be Freed

Among those who adore 3ed the
meeting were William 2. Foster, AL
fred Wagenknecht, Scherer, Bill Dun
can, Landy, and Lena Chernenko,
who described the struggles of the
Paterson strikers. The speeches we're
interspersed with orchestra numbers,
singers, and huge mass pageant
presented by the Workers Laboratory
Theatre.
While primarily arranged as a
demonstration of solidarity with the
striking textile and mine workers, the
meeting fired the opening gun in the
huge nationwide campaign for am
nesty for TON Mooney and all other
political prisoners. This amnesty
drive will be featured with series
of mass demonstrations throughout
the country between Sept. 10 and "a.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-09
Negro Gets Is Yrs.
On Framed Charge
Vicious Sentence By
Boss Court

GREENVILLE, S. c., Sept. 8.-One
of the most. brazen frame-ups Of a
Negro worker was carried through by
the boss courts today when Lee VIII
son, a young farm laborer, was SEN
fenced to Is years Imprisonment at
hard labor on a framed-up charge
of setting 10 to a barn on the farm
of C. P. HenGo11on in Butler town.
ship.
The capitalist press reporting the
vicious sentence says:
"a sound, which might be de-
scribed as low moan that gath
cred volume steadily, escaped from
the balcony which was packed with
Negroes.
Let there be order in the court
room" Judge Rice ordered, striking
mis- desk with the gavel, and the bal
cony became quiet.
1.-The sentence is alternative"
Judge Rice continued, "at hard labor
either on the public works Of Green
vile county or in the state peniten-
tiary."
This brutal sentence was handed
out in spite of the fact that many
Negro workers testified that Wilson
was in church at the time the barn
was set fire to. But Negro workers
have no standing in the bosses courts
in the South Their testimony is not
accepted unless supported by white
boss. This is one of the methods used
by the bosses to degrade the Negro
workers and to force them to kow-
tow to, and sell their labor cheaply to
some white boss in order TO have
friend" at court. Negro workers are
denied trial by jury with Negro
workers on it since Negroes are not
permitted by the southern ruling
class to serve on juries. Negroes at
tending the court as witnesses or
spectators are jim-crowed in the gal
lery and are brow-beaten as in this
case into sitting their protests
against the outrages committed
against them by the southern lynch
bosses.
And while these frightful crimes
are being committed against the
Negro people, cowardly Negro tools
of the bosses like Du Bots, Pickens,
Walter White, Schuyler, Floyd Cal
win, etc, are busy defending Jim
Grow capitalism and the murder
Gus southern white ruling class.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-09
SCOTS Ran Miners
ReStrike Under NMU;
Need Relief to Win
148 w t Virginia
Miners Families Ask
For Aid
Fight UNIV Contract
Must Prepare Relief
For Steel Workers

PITTSBURGH.-Aft working two
months under the scab contract of
the United Mine Workers the miners
of the SCOTS Run District, w Va.
are coming out again in the ranks
Of the National Miners Union. Eighty
families from SCOTS Pun asked the
Penn-Ohio-W. Va.-Ky. Striking Min
ers Relief Committee to send them
feed as they had nothing to eat when
they walked out. Before the relief
could arrive the number of families
had increased to las, and is growing
rapidly. The miners are disguised
with the scab tactics of the Van A.
Bittnec machine which accepted
wage cuts for the miners in making
the Sellout agreement with the coal
operators. Bittner's contract reduced
the tonnage rate from the 80 cents
paid when the strike started, to 80
cents with a UAIWA contract and a
check-off Of union dues from the
miners pay. The miners CAM. make
enough to eat under the UdWA con-
tract and discomfort is spreading.
More strikes are expected in this
and other districts, boJn of non
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-09
Ex-Serviceman Is
Offered So A Week:
Told to Sleep in Park

DETROIT, Mich, Sept. IAN ex-
serviceman who applied for a job as
an experienced counterman at the
Bagley Employment office, was in
formed that the salary would be
three dollars a week. In answer to
the enquiry of the ex-serviceman as
to how he was going to pay his room
rent out of such low wage, they
informed him that it was not ex-
pected that he pay any room rent,
that he could sleep in the park and
use the money for buying cigarettes,
etc.
The same ex-serviceman applied
at the Fox Restaurant for a busboy's
job. He was informed that the
wages would be seven dollars a week
for which he was expected to work
seven days a week of II hours daily.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-09
C Hi I'D r E N AND
PARENTS DEMAND
FOOD, CLIO 7 HE'S
Demonstrate Sept. %
Before Board of
Education

In joint statement issued yes
terday, the New York District of the
Communist Party and the Young
Pioneers of America call for a mass
picket line and demonstration on
Sept. 18th for free food and cloth
ing for the children of the unem-
ployed, to be given out Immediately
upon the opening of the citys public
schools on Sept. 22nd
The demonstration will take place
in front of the offices of the Board
of Education, at 59th st. and 5th Ave
A delegation of working class parents
and children will present the work
ers' demands for free hot meals in
schools, free clothing, and all school
supplies free.
while Jimmy Walker squanders
money in the cabarets of Europe"
says the statement, "thouss Ids of
working class children in this city
will enter the public schools on Sept.
22nd suffering from malnutrition,
which together with congestion in the
working class districts, is one of the
main causes of the epidemic of infan-
tile paralysis now sweeping the city.
"The coming winter will witness
still greater misery among the work
ers children. Whereas during the
last winter the fainting of children
in the public schools was daily oc-
currence, the conditions of the chill
dren will be even worse this winter.
The working class parents and chill
dren must organi1, and fight for free
food and clothing for the children of
the unemployed workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-09
PUSH DEFENSE
OF MINERS IN
COUNTY JAIL
P la n Demonstration
Saturday, Sept. 10
At Washington, Pa.

MEADOWLAND, Pa, Sept. c.
Here in the Miners Hall, a two-story
building of which the upper part is
a meeting room and the lower floor
is a relief station of the Pennsylva-
MIA -Ohio-W West Virginia Kentucky
Striking Miners Relief, over 200 dele
gates from all local unions of the
National Miners Union in Washing
ton County met Sunday, with dele
gates also from the International
Labor Defense. The conference was
held in the spirit manifested by Pete
Getto and Mary RaSefske.
Il am the daughter of Anna
Rasefske and the sister of Stella"
said Mary. They both are in Jail
and sentenced to prison, and they
expect us to get them out. I learned
more about the courts on the first
day of that trial than all my life
before" said Mary, telling how the
court railroaded the Canonsburg de-
ACAAN4elAAIDs
eyes, you can clap your hands
when speeches are made" said Pete
Getto, brother of one defendant in
the Ellsworth case and father of an
other defendant in that case. But
what the men in Jail expect of us is
some action. The doors don't open
just because we clap our hands"
The conference adopted a plan of
action for a mass demonstration in
Washington, Pa, on Sept. 10, Sat-
urday, in the forenoon. The miners
and other workers will mobilize at
Tylerdale Old Fair Grounds at 10
am, hold meeting to endorse the
demand for release of the prisoners,
then march through Washington in
what will probably be the biggest
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-09
Notes Great Gains for Negro
Masses in ScottsboroC Campaign
Working Class of Whole World Aroused
Againts Imperialist Oppression of Negro
People-Calif. Writer Raps Pickens

workers is also now becoming part
of the program of the white work.
ers. They are commencing to re-
alize that every time a Negro is
lynched, or legally lynched, the rul-
ing class is making that much in
road into the struggle of all workers,
no matter what their color or race.
The Kentucky miners struggle is a
fine Illustration, in which some white
workers are held on murder charges
for protecting Negro workers. The
Pennsylvania and Ohio strike also
brings home the point. There 10000
Negro and white workers are fight
ing side by side in militant fashion
for better conditions and against
starvation wages.
"The role of the N. A. A. C. P.
in the Scottsboro case" the LID.
report continues, has been to try
to confuse issues and one of thee
latest attempts is to spread the
story that Negro worker was re-
sponsible for murders and hold
ups in Birmingham. This was done
in an attempt to place the blame
of these hold-ups and murders on
Communist, propaganda This is
exactly the strategy used by the
yellow boss press and the Ku Klux
Khan. The LID, the League of
Struggle for Negro Rights, and the
United Front Scottsboro Defense
Committees will continue in their
struggle for the unconditional re-
lease of the Scottsboro boys and
will back the legal defense of the
boys with mass protest that will
finally wrest the boys from the
bloody hands of the murderous
Southern ruling class"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-09
Hunger Gripping More
In u. S. AS Crisis
Gets Deeper

The case of a working woman,
Mrs Mary Anne Mcclellan, AZ, left
destitute and without food, going in
sane from hunger and the bitterness
of viewing her children starving to
death, is told in the Pittsburgh Post
Gazette Of Sept. O. When taken to
the police station after she attempted
to kill her children, and thus end
their misery, Mrs. Mcclellan told a
story of long starvation. The Post
Gazette says: Mrs. Mcclellan told
police between sobs she was desper-
ately hungry, and, rather than see
her daughter starve, tried to toss her
out of the window"
The New York World Telegram
reports the plight of Frederick Kru
ger, an unemployed carpenter, who,
together with his wife and eight chill
dren. was evicted from his basement
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-09
RALLY SUPPORT
FOR COMMUNIST
ELECTION DRIVE
Mass Ratification Con-
gress in City on
Sept. 18

NEW YORK.-Great interest is
being shown among workers organ
izations in the ratification mass con-
gress which will be held Friday eve
ming, September 10, at Central Opera
House to ratify the candidates of the
Communist Party for the coming
elections this November. Several or
CARNATIONS are planning to elect
delegates Immediately. on the basis
of five delegates for every IS mem
bers. All uninos, shops, fraternal or
CARNATIONS, etc, are urged to take
such action at the earliest possible
date.
The rank and file members of the
A. F. of L. unions are urged to rally
to the support of the only political
party of the working class, and to
repudiate the misleaders. who have
sold them out with their support for
the stagger plan of spreading starva-
ton throughout the working class
and their traitorous opposition to the
struggle for adequate relief and un-
employment insurance, Send dele
gates from shops and unions to sup
port the Communist Party in the
Election Campaignl
The Communist Party calls upon
all workers to support the Election
Campaign Tag Days, Saturday and
Sunday, Sept. 10 and 20. An organ
ization meeting will be held this
Thursday evening at the District Of
flee of the Communist Party, IS East
18th St., to which all organizations
are asked to send delegates to pre-
pare the Tag Days. The Communist
Party depends ucon the working
class for its campaign expenses in the
fight against the bosses and their
starvation system.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-09

miners he has betrayed to wage cuts
and starvation live. Pat made this
speech here at West View Park, far,
far from the miners, and with Muir
ray, international vice president of
the u M w. A. and John Phillips,
president of the Pennsylvania Fed
Grafton of Labor as his admiring sup
porters. Try as they may, these
gentlemen have never been able re-
Gently to put over such a swindle
as Pat did on the Pittsburgh Ter
minal miners.
Fagan's speech was mainly an ap-
ology, nevertheless. Somebody in the
crowd passed the reminder around
that last Labor Day Pagan had We
hemently denounced as traitors to
humanity those who said that the
depression would not end within a
year. Pat now says he was mistaken
in the ability of American business
enterprise and leadership to provide
the necessary impetus to dislodge our
nation from its economically fettered
impasse." eyes, this labor t1alCor
who quarrels with and kills his own
U. M. w. A. gangsters on the door
step of his own house talks just like
thatD
But, said Pat, although American
business enterprise and leadership
slipped for couple Of years, it
should always be given another trial
Surely by the time another Labor
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-09
STEEL AND METAL
WORKERS START
HOMESTEAD DRIVE
Select Forces For Spe-
cial Work

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Sept. 7.-Se-
lection of forces to do special work
in Homestead and Braddock-coming
Immediately after the formation of
49, ,-lrers' Industrial
A---c = up il lie Edgar Thomp-
son works of the Carnegie Steel Co.
was one of the most important tasks
performed by Sunday afternoons
conference of steel and metal work.
ers from the Clarion -McKeesport-
East Pittsburgh section. This COM
mittee, working together with a
squad of unemployed miners, plus
special forces assigned to the work
by neighboring M. w. I. L. locals,
plus one or two regular organizers,
will hammer away at the big Car
negie Steel works in Homestead,
scene of the historic 1892 battle of
the steel workers with an army of
company gunner, and one of the
hottest spots in the big 1919 strike.
An executive committee, represent
ing the major mills, was elected to
lead the work in this section. Last
week McKeesport Tin Plate Co. cut
hot mill wages 10 to 80 per cent and
the Fort Pitt Steel Castings Co. men
struck against 10 per cent wage
cut. The Fort Pitt men have re-
turned to work without winning the
withdrawal of the cut but they have
effected a certain amount of organ
ization, and won the company's
promise not to discriminate against
any strikers.
The Steel Trusts mills at Home
stead, Clarion, Rankin and Brad
dock are all working short-handed
and on short time, so one of the
important problems considered by
the conference was the question of
the fight for unemployment insur-
ance. American Steel and Wire Co.
has its Braddock works entirely down
and is doing practically nothing in
Rankin. The Edgar Thompson
works of Carnegie Steel in Braddock
have only two furnaces out of II in
blast, and the men, Staggered" are
only getting few days pay. Ar
rangements we're made to get Ne
gro rank and file organizer into
Clarion, where many Negro workers
have had jobs until the coke ovens
were mostly closed down. Over 400
were laid off few weeks ago. Sew
eral hundred workers sleep in empty
box crs ain this stronghold of the
Steel Trust. Prospects for building
the new union in this section re ex-
cellerS, and work will go full speed
ahead.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-09

NEW YORK 600 workers DEM
onstrated at Starlight Park, Monday,
Solidarity Day, in militant solidarity
with the striking miners and textile
workers and for the demand for the
immediate and unconditional release
of Mooney and Billings, the Harlan
mine strikers and all other class war
prisoners.
The demcrstra lion lasted from l
O'Clock in the afternoon to II al
night, and vas marked with the
greatest enthusiasm, the workers Wig
orously applauding as the speakers
exposed the Joint A. F. of l.. CAPT
talist conception of Labor Day and
stressed the need of converting the
day into day of solidarity and sup
port for the struggles of the working
lass
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-09
MASS Staying
.DOESN'T STOP
CHILE REVOLT
Fear Workers Rising,
So Fleet Is Sent
To Wall st. Port

The latest reports of the capitalist
press indicate that the revolt of the
Chilean sailors and masses which the
government has reported as over is
on the verge of breaking out again.
In order to prevent any news getting
out, the government has sharpened
the rigorous censorship of all cable
and telegraph news. Thus a late In
ternationaI News Service dispatch
states that while
Official dispatches from Santi-
ago continue to affirm the revO-
luton has been quashed, and that
peace and quiet now reign through
out the country" individuals in
Santiago reported by telephone
that, despite the governments
claim that the revolutionary move
ment is all over dangerous sit
uatiOn still exists and may burst
into flame at any time, especially
if the executions of the mutinous
seamen who have surrendered con-
tinues."
The government is attempting to
crush the revolt by mass executions
of those of the revolving seamen who
surrendered.
NEW YORK-With the aid of i'm
periaIst-trained aviators, and by the
quick arming of the exploiting class
and their flunkies. the Chilean gov
eminent was able to end the revolt
of 5000 sailors. The sailors seized
control of the navy on September 2
and after repeated commandments
from the air force. as we'll as the de-
feat of the workers in Talcahuanc
and at other coast cities. the sailors
surrendered on September Z.
A reign of terror is now sweeping
through Chile in an effort to keel
the tens of thousands of hungry
workers from organizing to demand
food. liver 1000 workers have beer
jailed in Talcahuano. The leaders
of the sailors mu+iny are threatened
with torture and execution. In order
to carry ON this terror against the
sailors in the utmost secrecy, the
government has issued a statement
asking the public" not to ask fol
news in the carrying out of the "se-
rious measures" against the mutt
neers. The government statement
says:
''The Ministry of War asks the
public to remain calm and not
| alarm themselves if no news is Civ
en- out, as the carrying out of these
serious measures requires serious
ness and exactitude in issuing
news"
Realizing that the struggle of the
masses of workers and peasants will
not end with the defeat of the nava.
revolt, the white guardist elements
who overthrow the dictatorship Of
Ibanez on the pretext Of establish
ing liberty" are now themselves in
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-09
MISSOURI ROAD
STRIKE AGAINST
l5C AN HOUR PAY
Demand 40 Cents An
Hour; AT of L Faker
Tries Sell-Out

INDEPENDENCE Mo (by maiD.-
After contractors on a road jobhere
cut wages to 15c an hour and brought
in cut of town labor to do a Job that
would have given jobs to about 200
men, group of unemployed men Or
ganized and pickeeed the job, pulling
the men out on strike.
The contractor-M. D. Ackley-had
agreed to pay minimum wage of
4Oc and to hire IS per cent Jackson
county men.
Local A. F, of L. Fakery
The Trades and Labor Councils
Immediately had a faker on the job
trying to sell the strike out. At
meeting called in an abandoned the
alter, he told the men what fine fell
lows the contractors were; then he
called a meeting of the militants the
following day, and while he was ar
guing with them the contractors were
using scabs on another part of the
road, in an effort to keep the Job
going. The contractor. sensing the
fighting spirit Of the men, offered
them soc an hour But despite the
sell-out methods Of the faker the
men stuck to their original demand
Of 40c. Previous to this the contrac-
tor claimed to be only able to pay
% 1-2c.
A. T.U.U.L. Speaker.
At meeting held September 4. an
organizer for the Trade Union Unity
League spoke. He presented the line
of the TUUL for which the men APP
plauded Immediately following the
meeting a small group was organized
to keep the organization on the
TUUL line. The takers want to grab
control of this raw, young, loosely
organized group. But with the com.
ing of the TUUL the takers are
afraid to show their faces and the
workers are more and more breaking
away from them.
On Saturday morning September 5.
a chamber Of commerce man came
into the hall to try to recruit some
scabs at DC, John Dawson, the TUUL
organizer, spoke up and told them
that the contractors had the de-
mands of the men, and that they
we're not going to work for less than
40c minimum wages. One worker on
hearing the argument. yelled, Throw
him out" Shouts of Hell, nor,
Outside with him", ETC., were heard.
The Chambe rof Commerce rat then
sneaked out.
All the men are determined to fight
to finish against the contractors
and the labor takers. They are real
izing that the only way out is to ac-
cept the line of the TUUL and wage
q persistent, militant struggle for all
Of their demands.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-09

the Saturday demonstration was
emphatically repudiated by Green
baum, a member of the United De-
positors Committee. Greenbaum said
that he introduced Engdahl as the
secretary of the LID who was invited
by the Committee of IS due to the
fact that the LID always defends
workers in capitalist courts and was
called upon many times when the
police arrested representatives of the
committee.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-09
22Miners Held TOR Grand
Jury in Brooke Co, VIVA.
Pat Pagan Calls On Workers to Give Capital
ism Another Trial

PITTSBURGH Pa, Sept 8--Pat Pagan, UDIWA district
president of Pittsburgh District made another speech La
Dor Daybu not certainly not in the mine fields. Pat can't
speak in the mine fields without at least Of state
troopers escOurt him in and out of the where the
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