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of 5000 population. Tuesday when
the first verdict was brought in there
\ was demonstration in the crowded
courtroom against the defendants.
y In the face of this. the trial judge,
Nudge j. A, Hawkins, has the ef-
fFontery to deny the charges of the
International Labor Defense that the
Negro workers are not receiving a
fair trial, that they were being le-
gally lynched.
Hawkins made his denial following
receipt of telegram from the ma
tional Office of the International
Labor Defense denouncing the trial
as a frame-up and legal lynching,
and warning the judge that the
working class of the Unitad States,
and of the whole world, would hold
him responsible for this atrocious
crime against the working class. The
/. L. d. had also denounced appoint
ment by the judge as defense attor-
neys of local attorneys who had pre-
viously openly expressed their desire
for a speedy execution.
Governor B. M. Miller to whom the
International Labor Defense had also
sent telegram of protest has re-
fused to take any action to prevent
the mass legal lynching. He said
he would take no official recogni-
ton of the 1. l.. ID. protests
A Frame Up.
The nine youths are charged with
raping two white girls after throwing
their white male companions off a
freight train on which all hands were
cumming rides. The two white
girls, who are, known here as motor
ious prostitutes are busy capitalize
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-10
J S Gunboats Fire
On Chinese SOviets

A dispatch to the New York World
Telegram on Friday tells of the action
of the American gunboats in China
shooting at revolutionary workers and
peasants. The manner in which the
World-Telegram reports this action of
the imperialists is that of thinking it
good sport of numbering men, women
and children in Soviet territory,
The Chang Kai Shek government
very gladly accepts the assistance of
the imperialists gunboats on TIL e
Yangtze river. The World-T elegram
dispatch says that the American gum
boats of the Yangtze Patrol ARE en-
gagged in constant potshot warfare
with armed Chinese" The officers of
these gunboats. the report says get
great thrills out of this slaughter in
the interest of imperialist rule.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-10
TAKERS BETRAY
Y. |. MASSES.
Negro World Offers
Bosses "SOlution"

NEW YORK. - Concretely illus
trating the rotten reformism of the
Garvey misleaders and their consis-
tent betrayal of the liberation strug-
gle of the Negro masses in every part
of the world, the Negro World in its
current issue makes the proposal that
the impoverished masses of the Vir-
gin Islands be permitted to buy back
themselves and their country from
the United States imperialists to
whom they were sold, willy-nilly, by
the Danish imperialists.
After reviewing the difficulties of
American Imperialism in the islands,
quoting Hoover's statement that they
are IAN effective poorhouse," and
claiming that the American bosses
are faced with a yearly expendi-
ture of $500,0O0 in order to maintain
their rule in the islands, the Negro
World offers the following solution:
ITO overcome all these obstacles,
the Negro World suggests that the
Virgin Islands be SOLD to the IN
HABITANTS thereof"
Not one word does the Negro
World say about the right to self
determination of the Virgin Islands
masses, the right to determine and
control their own form of govern
ment, irrespective of any claims of
American imperlaists who bought
them like so many cattle. Not one
word of criticism has the Negro
World for the Danish imperialists
who sold a people and their homes
or for the American imperialists who
bought them.
The Negro World accepts the deal
as quite proper. 1t even goes out of
its way to praise the Danish impe-
rialists with the lie that the popU-
lation was prosperous, contented
and happy under the Danish impe-
rialists. 1t paints Danish imperial
ism as beneficial, deliberately cover
ing up the fact that imperialism,
whether British, Danish or Ameri-
can, functions to rob the colonial
,1asses for the benefit of the impe-
ialist oppresSors. While the is
,nds were more prosperous under
ne Danes than now, the popula-
on was certainly never happy and
0iltented
Negro workers! Repudiate the
Earvey misleaders! Fight this fake
solution for the misery of the mass
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-10
Albany Dock Bosses Try to Cut Stevedores Pay

Albany, N. Y.
Daily Worker:
The dock bosses on the pulp
wood docks here are up to some
old tricks. First they put an lad"
in the paper for longshoremen to
unload pulp. But the longshore-
men want IS cents an hour for
this work, to which they are en-
titled. When you consider how we
are speeded up ON the job, many
times being forced to work straight
through, without any dinner, it is
Wy no means enough. And nobody
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Mayor Kline suffering from boils
caused by over-eating and over
spending of the city's funds, refuses
to refer to the graft scandals which
are being investigated in Pittsburgh
for the past month. Charges that
over million dollars was wasted in
the past year by the Department of
Public Workers and actual proofs of
it have been shown. Thousands were
wasted in other departments. Daily
new charges are BROUGHT to light
showing that the geod-hearted May
or, who is so generous with the city's
funds ordered solid gold souvenirs"
for his friends, golden-tone photo
graphs, mother-of pearl fittings for
the police chiefs toilet, custom made
tires for Mr.. Kline's $1,000 limousine,
etc, and paid for them with city
funds while thousands are turned
down by the relief agencies, and the
Pittsburgh Plan grafters go to work
ers' pockets for their relief schemes.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, April o.
When the delegate from the lnem-
ployed council of Philadelphia, Gill
wear, went to the Norristown officials
for permit to hold an open air
meeting in Norristown as the first
stop of the hunger marchers on the
way to Harrisburg, he was not only
refused but blmtly told that If any
attempts are made to parade through
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-10
Hoover Jokes About
Starving Kids
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will be known as either strike day
or Communist Labor Day." said the
A. F. of L. resolution.
But the workers who now feel the
betrayals and sell-outs of the fax
ers in the A. F, of L. will rally to
May Day as day of struggle against
unemployment and wage-cuts and
for strikes to smash the bosses at
tack on the working class.
CHICAGO H., April 9--The Chi
cago District of the Communist Party
has been mebilizing all of its Sec
tons to have the biggest May Day
demonstrations possible, not only in
the larger cities, but in the smaller
industrial towns. The District Com
mittee has set out a quota of May
Day demonstrations in rs places, as
compared with the ID demonstrations
on Feb, %,
So far the following CITIES reported
on making preparations for May Day
demonstrations Chicago, Chicago
Heights, Roseland, Hegewich--Se.
Chicago, Cicero, Gary, Hammond, In
diana Harbor, indianapolis, Milwau-
kee, Cudahy, Racine, Madison, st.
Louis, East st. Louis, Madison, Col
linsville, Rockford, Rock Island, Wau-
kegan. indianapolis and the South
ern Illinois mining section did not
send in yet a detailed report, but
these two sections will at least have
5 or 6 demonstrations
So far nine united front May Day
conferences have been reported by
the sections, Preparations for May
Day will be specially concentrated in
the factories. Plans of work SUBJ
mitted by the sections show greater
concentration than ever before on
reaching the employed workers, with
out neglecting, of course, the unem-
ployed and the workers in the vari-
Gus mass organizations.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, April ga
broad united front conference to
prepare mass demonstrations May |
will take place Sunday, April IL, al
2 p. m, at Boslover Hall, Seventh
and Pine SITS. Organizations that dc
not meet or for one reason or another
have not elected delegates to this
conference are asked to be repre-
sented through their officials. Nc
working-class organ" alton can af-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-10
AKRON TAG DAYS TO AID
HUNGER MARCH

AKRON, Ohio.-Since the city
council has refused to feed the hum
ger marchers on April IT, Akron
workers are preparing for tag days
on April II and u to provide for the
jobless delegates who will make the
long trail to Columbus.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-10

knows how many get crippled ON
the job.
Well, now they advertise for
'LabOrers" to come and do this
!engshOre work. For this "labOr"
they pay so cents an hour. This
is a low-down trick, and the long
fhoremen here are going to organ
ize into the Trade Union Unity
League, which has its headquarters
at 9712 Hamilton Street, Albany,
to fight against conditions on the
docks here in Albany. -.
A. ].
formerly on the Lakes
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-10
I, L. ID. Takes Up Defense.


I. L. ID. Takes Up Defense.
NEW YORK=-The International
Labor Defense has sent another tel
egram to the governor of Alabama
and the trial judge advising them
that the workers defense organiza-
ton is entering directly into the case
and is sending an attorney to offer
to the defendants the services of the
I L. D. The telegram warns the
governor and the trial Judge that
they will be strictly responsible for
the safety of the I. L. D. attorney.
The I L. D. attorney will arrive
in Scottsboro tomorrow.
The Communist Party last night
issued an official statement calling
attention to the significance of the
case, and exposing it as lynching in
another form, that instead of the
mob, the bosses are staging a legal
lynching.
In the statement, the Communist
Party calls on the International La
Dor Defense, the League of Struggle
for Negro Rights, The Trade Union
Unity League and all workers or
CARNATIONS Immediately to send tel
egrams of protest to the governor of
Alabama and the trial judge.
A national campaign of protest
meetings of various kinds is being
organized, according to statement
given out by the League of Struggle
for Negro Rights last night. Efforts
will be made to rally all Negro and
white organizations on the basis of
the sharpest struggles against the
legal lynchings of the nine young
Negro workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-10
Fail to Intimidate Chi
Student Who Exposes
Teachers Lie on USSR
Chicago. III.

CIIVdgU, III.
Daily WORKER
1t may be of interest to your read
ers in particular and to the working
class in general to know what is 60
ing on in some of the Chicago
schools.
AS a son of worker I know my
duty to the working class. Whenever
there is a discussion on the system of
govt in the Soviet Union I tell my
teacher and classmates what 1
know. Then a few so called social
lists" get up and dump" the usual
lies of forced labor" ''soviet dump
ing" and religious prosecution"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-10
WEST FARGO ARMOUR'S
IN EXTENSIVE LAYOFFS;
FIRE ALL OVER 40 YEARS
North Dakota Farm Jobs Now Offer from SIS
to $50 Month
Local Railroad Slow in Retiring Men Laid Off
Around Christmas
West Fargo, N. D.

Daily Worker:
Armour and Co. last week had another extensive layoff
their plant here the second in two weeks Thirty workers
laid off W business picks up CD in the first ayof
alone An issued then that all workers of
40 will be laid off and hired. Armour
m young to stand the speedup that prevails in all depart
ments The pay to workers 37 cents hour but the
layoffs preparing the way for wage soon
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-10
JOBLESS SALESMAN COMMITS
SUICIDE

CLEVELAND, ohio.--Despondent
because of unemployment, William
Corners, a jobless salesman, shut
himself in his car with the engine
running and killed himself by breath
ing the exhause fumes through a
hose.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-10

many workers got sick, especially
children.
The poor workers had to depand
on the Red Cross, and they have
quit what little they did do.
1t is high time that the men who
are working should get together
with US and demand real cash re-
lief for the unemployed workers.
UNEMPLOYED.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-10
British Troops Kill
Four Burmese Rebels
Gable BY Inprecorrl

LONDON, April 8-British troops
charged Burmese rebels outside of
Thinin, village in the Tharawaddy
district, when a detachment of mill
tary police encountered a rebel en-
campment. Rifle fire was exchanged
with the two British troops. -Four
rebels we're killed.
Against persecution of the foreign
born.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-10

Workers! Send protest kilograms
to the governor of Alabama! Organ
ize protest meetings against these
mass murders by the ruling class
landlords and capitalists of the
South! Demonstrate on May Day
against this legal lynching of nine
young workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-10
Mine, STEEL JOBLESS READY
FOR HUNGER MARCH, APRIL Is

their borough they will be stopped
Immediately even if they have to
bring in the state police.
1t might be remembered that
George Bauswine, who is now the
chief of police of this town, was
formerly connected with the Phila-
delph.a police force and fled from
Philadelphia when asked to explain
to the Grand Jury his sudden aeeu-
mutation of a large bank account.
Burgess William Wilson is also
editor-in- chief of the Norristown
Times Herald which is the bosses
most effective means of breadeasting
lies and keeping workers from organ
izing and fighting for the right to
live.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-10
500 We're Killed In CawnpOre, India,
During Fighting; Worst Battle Since
1857, Gandhi Plans More Betrayals
Goes to London to Talk Over Crushing of In
dian Rebellion Together With British
Labor" Government

What the capitalist newspapers have been suppressng
about the fighting in CaWnpore India that took place
recently is coming to light committee elected by the
Indian National Congress- representative of the Indian boge
ose reports that 500 persons killed in the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-10
Birmingham Soup Line Shuts Down
From the Southern Worker.)

From the Southern Worker)
Birmingham, Ala.
We want to let you know about
ctr sIop kitchens. They closed
them up. before the workers that
had to cat there died of poisoned
food.
Since they started that dump for
the wholesale houses to sell their
rotten food to, there have been
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-10
March Starts April IL

The hunger march starts from
Philadelphia April IT, and mass
meeting of employed and unemployed
workers is called to meet at am.
ON that day at the city hall to give
them a send off.
These marchers and those from
the other end of the state will call
all to the international demonstra-
tions against unemployment, for re-
lief, and against the imperialist war
their bosses are planning, as they go
through the industrial towns on the
way to the state capital, This in
ternational demonstration is on the
First of May. international Labor
Day.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-10

ford to stay away from such a con-
ference and it is to be expected that
this conference will be a real mass
gathering Of working class organiza-
tions."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-10

Against the high cost of living!
Against wage cuts and speed up.
For the defense of the Soviet
Union!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-10

Against evictions, for rent reduc-
lions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-10

es of the Virgin Islands! Demand
unconditional independence! Sup
port the, struggle for q free, feder-
ated West Indiesl Demand mcon-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-10
Case Stirs Mass Resentment; LID. Rush
Attorney Start Appeal Proceedings

ing their appearance as star wit
nesses of the State to drum up trade.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-27

eat and two-bit cigars to smeke. They gave me newspapers with stories about my kidnapping and paper-b back novels. Too many of the stories were about people get ting bumped off by gangstere:; though, and I didn't read much"
 Lynch said he had no Idea where he was kept prisoner, nor how Tar 1t was from Kankekee.
 "A bag was thrown over my head when was first seized. Tnc men drove me around a long time until I was thoroughly lost.
 "Then I was taken to a room somewhere. When no one was in the room was allowed to take the blindfold off.
 'sWednesday they put the bag on and drove me around for what seemed like several hours. Then they sped away in another car. When got the blindfold off It was 1O:2O D. m. I drove until got 10 town. It was Kankakee. bought. gasoline and oil and drove
 Lynch went to bed after eating A sizeable breakfast. His wife, near collapse from worry, got up from bed to meet him when nis motor was heard purring in the drive.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-27

T. Edgar Hoover, chief of the department of Justices bureau of investigation, took personal com mand and said:
 we will bring as many agents hare as we need. If necessary, we will call them in from investiga- tons in other states. We intend 10 get to the bottom of this situa- ton.
 we will not only investigate the Harker case. We will fnvesti- gate every case we discover or hear of. Results of our tnvesu- gation will be turned over to the district attorney"
 Four policemen accused by Har- ker of beating him have been sus- pended. Twenty-four others. 1n- cluding a captain. signed afhdavits denying the prisoner had been beaten. Dr Luther Reichelderfer, chairman of the District of Column bia commissioners, announced the 24 would be suspended forthwith if Harker's charges are substan- tiated.
 1t was Reichelderfer's request that President Hoover directed the Justice department to supplant po- ice officials in charge of the in- vestigation.
 The president two years ago announced his determination to make the capital city a model or law enforcement. Since then sev- eral events have combined to make many citizens skeptical that this goal had been achieved. .
 Three sensational murders or young women remain unsolved. A grand jury is Investigating charges by a former policeman, now Tn prison for robbery, that he was ordered by superiors to assassinate a fellow officer who had informed a congressman about police condi. tions here. In recent months half a dozen patrolmen have been in- volved in liquor and bribery charges.
 General allegations of corrup- ton and laxity are heard ire auently. The federal Investigation is expected either to prove these charges unfounded or to result In a top-to-bottom clean-up of the department.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-27
Fire Lieut. Was
 Found Dying
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entered the fire station to get drink of water. Lieutenant Ma guire was bleeding profusely from his crushed arm. They spoke to him but he did not answer. Police were summoned and the fire ofh- cial was taken to the hospital where he died. investigation showed the injuries could not have been suffered in a fall, police said. They believe Mcguire was either Q victim of foul play or of a hit and-run motorist who carried him into the fire station and then fled.
 Police Chief George Rowe called County Attorney Harold Bedding into the investigation Lieutenant Mcguire, father of two children, had been 8 fireman 10 years.
 Police learned that Lieutenant Mcguire was granted permission by Fire Chief George Ancroft to take last night off. A brother, Thomas Mcguire, replaced the lieu tenant and was asleep in the sta- tionhouse when the fatally injured man was found.
 Where Lieutenant Mcguire went to spend his night off, investiga- tors were unable to determine. Shortly before noon they were questioning the brother in this connection.
 A doctors report indicated that the fire official might have been mortally beating with blunt in- strument. Several bruises were found on his shoulder and back.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-27

Waterbury has been done by dis tricts. Such procedure was made possible in a bill passed by the last legislature in conjunction with the adoption of the new city charter.
 The Hayes and Kennedy forces will have a big army of automobiles to send out to the homes of those desiring to vote. The Kennedy head quarters on Bank street and the Hayes headquarters in the demo- cratic rooms on East Main street will be on the job ready to cooper ate with persons ready to vote.
 The preparations today for the prmiary battle were similar, al- though on a much smaller scale, to the arrangements laid down for a regular city or state election. Both sides had perfected working organ izations which appeared quite effi- cient.
 Last night the Kennedy forces fired off their last broadside at the Hayes administration at rallies held at Duggan square, Washington school and lower Baldwin street The speakers included Attorney Thomas F. McGrath, Attorney John ". 1OUA1. SOuHibbioiCi Det.OAb .>@ John Hayes and John McHugh, who attacked the administration oi Mayor Hayes and urged support of MT Kennedy in today's voting. It is figured that the returns on the primary balloting will not be known until about II o'clock. The polls close. of course, at 9:30 but then the district votes must be counted. Then the wards must pc counted. And then the total votes will be available.
 There were varied opinions on the outcome of the battle heard on all sides today. Some predicted Mayor Hayes would win. Others picked MT Kennedy as the victor However, there was no betting ap- parent on the outcome.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-27

of course. the weather is favor able.
 This morning the men who will be in charge of the polling places were given their final instructions at the registrars office. They were emphatically told that no ad- ditions can be made to the pri- mary list and were instructed to ignore any and all requests Of such 0 nature.
 The moderators will be as fol- lows: First district, John A. Say CTS; 2nd, John T. Mullaney; 3rd, Charles Smith; 4th, Matthew Doyle; 9th, Clifford McHale; 9th, David Ryan; 7th, Walter Monogan; 8th, Charles Fully; 9th, Harry Mi- nor; 10th, James E. OLeary; 1Ith, Matthew Dunphys 12th, Thomas Shanahan; 18th, John De- laney; 14th, Michael Kelly; 1bth. Martin Parker; 18th. William stanton; 17th, Maurice Tansney; 18th, Henry Hayden; 18th, Robert Mccormack; goth, Thomas F.
 The Hayes ticket of delegates remained unchanged to-day ana there were no reports of persons 
 on the Kennedy ticket dropping off. It was explained at Kennedy headquarters to-day that although a few have withdrawn from the Kennedy ticket their names VIII remain on the ballots.
 Special warning was issued to- day by the registrars to those planning to vote in the primaries. "Be sure you have a ballot for your proper ward" they said in broadcasting a general message to the voters. It was explained that if [. fourth ward ticket is cast Tn the first ward and son on. these tickets will be thrown out. ...
 Although the voting tonight VII be by districts, however. the total vote will be counted by wards. III other words, the districts Tn eacn ward will he segregated ana then totaled. This is the first time tnat
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