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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-23
BY ROsE CLARK

On Sunday, May 10, the Ohio Hun
ger Marchers reached Columbus af-
ter 10 days strenuous march. The
group from Cleveland, Akron, Toledo,
Youngstown, etc, came in on High
Street and the Cincipnati-Dayton
group came in on West Broad Street.
The delegates from Cleveland, etc,
numbered $50 and reached the Capt.
toll steps about IS minutes before the
delegation coming from the opposite
direction. Six abreast with the cap
tains at the head of each company
the marchers came in keeping time
to the beat of the drummer and the
song which carried them thru, Soil
darity."
The Capitol steps we're thickly
packed with workers and the grounds
around the building.
The Standardization Delegation
marching six abreast we're q few
blocks off. Then cheers for the Ohio
Hunger Marchers we're heard and
then a burst from both delegations
of Solidarity" as the two delega-
tons merged on the Capitol steps.
The $50 Cleveland, ETC., delegation
had spent the previous night in De-
laWare in coats at the Starvation
Army Camping grounds, The Gin
cinnati-Dayton Delegation spent the
night in London, Ohio, where they
we're given the fair grounds to sleep
in, minus any kind of bed.
Enthusiasm ran high. In spite of
the fact that the police arrested two
of the Columbus comrades for col
lecting along the line of march as we
we're entering the State grounds; an
appeal for collection was made at the
Capitol steps. The response from the
workers showed that they were With
the hunger marchers in the right for
Unemployment insurance. The police
did not dare arrest the collectors.
A GrilIing March
The meeting in front of the State
house steps lasted about forty-five
minutes. The marchers were worn
out But they reluctantly admitted it.
However a few of those from the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-23
A Letter From An
Elk : Serviceman

NJ attention vas attracted as ]
was passing through Indianapolis,
Indiana, enroute to California, by an
extraordinary display o. military
force around about the state house
Being an ex-serytcemsn, my curl
osity was naturally awakened at the
mobilization of uniformed and armed
officers of the law. I stopped to in
vestigate and see what was going on.
I learned that q hunger march,
starting from industrial points in IN
diana. had focused upon the capitol
building of Indiana TO petition the
governor for redress Of grievances l
saw the ely police fore il action
purported to be under the leadership
of the governor. I saw them disperse
the hunger marchers from the cap
itol grounds, under stern orders,
backed with the show of huge hol-
sters, pistols and ammunition, be-
decking the uniforms Of officers of
the law. I saw the crowds of hun
ger marchers and sympathizers thus
dispersed to less conspicuous and
more remote location and the crowd
was in this manner divided.
They would have attracted many
sympatllizers had they been permit
ted to have their speeches on the
capitol grounds, and, therefore, the
governor took precautions.
Five npJIlion of us we're drafted and
modified to go to France to fight
presumably, for better world Nov,
as an ex-servicemazn, 1 wish to ap-
peal to all other ex-servicenen that
this being the sort of world that our
sacrifices have brought upon us, 1t Is
now high time that we unite With
working class organizations and do
our bit in helping to make the world
safer for the useful producers, the
farmers and workers.
l mingled in the crowd and bought
from the literature sellers paper
entitled the Daily Worker" from
which gained your address, to which
send you this brief message Of a
tourists and ex-seryiceman's obser-
vations on May 4, 1881.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-23
Dynamite. by Louis Adarnic, Viking
Press, A52 pages. Prics, $3.50.
Reviewed by VEIN Smith,

Reviewed by VEIN Smith,
A32m-c calls his hook. The story
II Glass Vtolsnce In America" Glass
violence started II America within
q few years after the first colonist
landed, and continued from then on.
There were hangings and burnings of
slaves and freemen; there were re-
bellions like .Bacon's and Shay's. The
class war in its modern form, that is,
between proletariat and capitalist,
devclcped violence. almost with the
fisct strike, the first attempt to or
ganize. Thus the Baltimore Federal
Gazette CT April IL. 1900, tells Of
hot fight for control Of a ship where
scabs we're hired and of several e.
very considerably wounded" Other
records of the time tell of incidental
destruction of property during fights
between strikers and scabs, police,
troops and citizens"
But Adanlic says: THE struggle of
the have-nots against the HAYES in
the United States was first referred
to as class war in 1926 in New York
City by Frances Wright, that bold
blssphemer and voluptuous preacher
Of RIGHTEOUSNESS, as a conservative
writer Of that day called her; but
at that time, and for some while
afterward, the war was merely ver-
bal" Then he says that the strikes
Of the first quarter of the nine
teenth century were tame, peaceful
affairs
have quoted you the first SEN
tence in the book and it is not only
the first bit Of misinformation, but
gives the clue to all the many, many
more falehoods that follow. It was
more sensational, more dramatic
and would make better selling book
to give the 'voluptuous preacher of
RIGHTEOUSNESS the credit for opening
an era of bloodshed than to present
the real facts take 1t for granted
that Adamic knows them, because
the jacket OF the book claims he
spent nearly two years concen-
trated research and study" gathering
the facts. But Adamic does not give
you the facts unless they happen to
fit into his program. His program
Is just to tell the most lurid and
Interesting" story possible.
This Adanic characterizes the
Molly Maguires as simply the first
racketeers' In fact, the Mollies
we're an 1r1sh-American group using
the general tactics Of the socialist
revolutionsries under the Car in
Russia. Adsmic gives you the So
called Chicago Anarchists as mere
experts in explosives; whereas in fact
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-23
BY NELL A1ITER.

A small western Pennsylvania steel
own It is a company town. differ
ing from others only in that there
IS more than one company and phase
of the steel industry here. The COM
panies own the newspapers, the po-
Ice. everything. Here, as every
where. hunger is Widespread, Thou
sands are unemployed young
women grow old rapidly here. Boys
and girls are more militant and Bit
ter than the adults,
The Metal Workers League has
been built here, and many shop
groups Of the organization are
quietly, carefully carrying on their
work. They are spreading the net
work of their organization over the
shops in the town. agitating and
mobilizing the workers against ever
recurring wage-cuts, speed-up
schemes and Iay-offs, The Unem-
ployed Council has brought fear into
the hearts of the companies, who.
through the Boro Council have
granted recently q weekly subsidy of
SIS to 100 needy families when
thousands are jobless,
Only last week worker, seeing his
family evicted from their home
rushed to the company offices to
demand work or food, was thrown
out. With a gun in his hand, he
held the police at bay on an open
field for hours during which time
his wife, in desperation, drank poison
and is now lying dangerously i'll in
a local hospital. The worker is
facing a jail sentence on several
charges.
The company police try to terror
ize the workers. Leaflet distributors
are arrested. Before May Day police
fired two shots into the air TO stop
two workers who fled arrest, Not
far from here is the place where
three steel workers got sentences of
five years, charged with sedition, for
being Communists.
The May Day demonstration raj
lied over 500 workers to the open
lot. They listened quietly. raptly to
speakers from "out-of-toWn" and 70
cal speakers who came from the
shops, from the heart Of the indus
tries. Company dicks carefully scan
the crowd. Militant workers stare
back and the dicks turn their eyes
away. Mothers, with babies in
their arms, both with hungry eyes;
iobless workers, growing determine
ton to struggle, young workers,
coming out of curiosity, remaining to
be convinced and inspired; old men, !
worn out, thrown out Of the mills.
After the meeting resolution is
presented Condemning the Scottsboro
frame-up. Although there is but z
handful Of Negro workers in the
audience, since the mills discrinin
ate here and do not hire many,\a !
mighty AYE goes up from the
crowd, protesting this legal lynching |
The Young Communist Leaguers and |
Pioneers burst into song and cheer +
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-23
BY CARL MuNBI.

And We. the Jury, find the de-
PENDANT NOT GUILTY."
While the judge pounded the desk
with his fist for quiet, and the prose-
cutor went white and fled the court
room and the stool-pigeons in the
chambers gave vent to their disap-
pointment, the workers of Portland,
who had crowded that courtroom all
day, gave way to their feeling of Joy
and relief They clapped, and that
clap sounded like a bolt from the
sky. Then they quoted down; the
tide had begun TO turn.
A jury with workers on it had
brought in an acquittal of the third
defendant in the criminal syndicalist
cases of Oregon. John Moore was
freel
The little knots of workers who
had gathered in the streets during
the day heard the words. Applause
filled the air in the plaza block.
Moore was free-the bosses had lost
the ground they had gained in the
conviction of 70 Boloff. The tide
was turning. Papers carried the story
to the workers who we're unable to
attend. They told them of the move
ment to repeal the vicious law that
was undertaken by the International
Labor Defense. All pick up heart
again, the workers can, they MUST
win! The dark hour has flown. The
workers are showing the way and
Moore's acquittal was the spark that
viii set them TO The fire Of greater
StrugsleT
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-23

and misery, the unemployment, the
manning by unguarded machines
and industrial disease, of the work.
ers. He recites all this as q reason
for bomb-throwing. But Adamic
isn't going to throw any bombs; we,
the Communists, are elected by him
for that particular task--and then,
if we did, I suppose he would write
another saleable book.
Meanwhile the Communists, with
out going in at all for assassination
and bomb throwing, will go on or
ganizing the workers and the I'M
employed for class war, for the even
tual overthrow of capitalism. Yes,
If the workers are attacked, they
are no pacifists, they will fight back.
In a revolutionary situation, they
will even attack. But they will not
cblige Adamic with acts of individ-
uel terro"-whatever the state Of the
book market
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-23
WELFARE WORKERS
IN PONTIAC, MICH.

midget in comparison with the 6-foot
foreman, who ordered him away
from the fire and to work. Attempts
to chase. Sherry away proved futile
He refused to leave the fire, refused
to work and rebelled against being
driven, % The midget was stubborn
and the giant angry. insistent but
unsuccessful.
Shorty demonstrated: Il don't feel
like working and I don't have to
work; besides, according to Law, tbs
city will have to pay me so cents
for every hour / worked in the morn
ing and take me home in the eve
ming a ring of men surrounded
the fire. They looked and listened.
This did not go with the foreman.
1t was bads for discipline.
The foremea get together and q
course of--aetion is decided upon.
Shorty is left alone. Glad OF win
ming his. point, he began to preach
"sedition9as, TO-. the men who come TO-
the fire 10 set warmed up. Sure.
you all don't have to work. It's
against the law to have men work
without paying them in currency for
it. If YOU wotid all stick up for your
rights, you'd sll get paid so cents an
hour hlst1.d of just working for
grocer'c--, like you do now
Shorty's LECTURE was cut short. A
police patrol wagon with two cops in
the front seat appeared. They stopped
their car, f1ad-a few words with the
supe then they drove up close to
the fire, got out and said: What
seems to- be. the trouble, buddy7"
Shorty started to explain.
you better come with us, and tell
it to the Chef, the bull interrupted
him. THE heck, I wontr' defied
Shorty. Il don't have to. You can't
take me, according to law"
Jaw come on" and two strong
hands of this same law clutched
Shorty's diminutive shoulders and
first dragged his squirming, shapeless
body, then pushed it into the cab
and locked the door. AS the police
wagon drove away the supe rejoiced
silently and .asfew men laughed nois-
ily But most. of the men just dug
and pushed the black. frozen nucks
thinking
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-23
THE DEFENDANT IS
FOUND NOT GUILTY.

In the name Of the district at
torney's office, ask for a conviction;
in the name of the people of the
state of Oregon, l DEMAND con-
viction." With these words Of the
prosecutor and the similar instruc-
tions Of the Judge that John Moore
must be found guilty, the jury retired
at 1918 a. m. on Tuesday morn
ing. The instructions Of the court
we're in direct contrast to trc-c Ct
the judge in the trial OF Fred Wal
ker and resembled those of Judge
Ekwald in the trial of Ben Boloff
The jury, mostly workers, who had
listened for week to the frantic
flag waving of the state and its
vicious attack upon the defendant
and his attorney, wsnt out and DELHI
Grated over five hours and came in
with the verdict They had seen
through the maze Of boss frame-up
and had voted with honest convic-
ton.
The demand" Of the prosecutor
had been met. Word swept like
vildfire through the city. Moore was
free! The workers of Portland had
contributed no small share of the
defense pressure. but only when they
saw how vindictiye the boss tools
we're in this trial did they realize
how much hung upon the outcome.
billiard, the prosecutor, had limited
in his closing argument that these
"traitorous activities" would be
smashed upon conviction. The
tide has begun to turn 1t can only
be held by renewed vigilance and
effort.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-23

domen) . well, I told the s. of
q B. he'd sure sleep there to-
night. We gettem about one
day, and there's over a million of
them they're responsible for I'M
employment Say what about
Mac? I thought he could hold
his drink better Well, stop and
see me some day. I'm in the
immigration service, interesting work
Illegal entries, and all that.
Well, glad as hell to/see you"
And two more foreign born work
ers are beginning the long journey
Of deportation But still demonstra-
tons and struggles are growing and
broadening. The voices Of workers
from this little town, with those Of
workers throughout the world, are
growing, growing into protest into
struggle against hunger, for the right
to live. Ever higher are shining
the achievements of our fellow
workers on the other side of the
pond, More and more Of us are
applauding the Soviet Union, where
hunger has been abolished; where
the youth grow up to full manhood
and Womanhood unstunted by long
hours Of Shaving in dungeons. in
mines and sweatshops, where work
ers are huilding socialisni
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-23
A Company Steel
TopVn on May First

The workers Join, Fundamentally
to he'll with the dicks and stool
pigeons!
Late at night, on the last train
out, are two we'll dressed, slick dicks,
with two obviously foreign-born,
hungry Woodworking steel workers.
A conversation is overheard between
the dicks and a friend: oh, yeh,
they thought they was tough babies
Hadda tell them if they wouldn't
come, I'd carry them down this
one says he can't sleep in Jail, he
has a pain here touching his alb
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-23

the biggest steam hammer i'll the
place Orders had begun to come
in fronl-War swept Europe, West
ern Steel Car g. Fdry, Co. received
large order for cars from the old
C2arist Government. Our forge de-
partment was set busy and steam
hammers were pounding out buffers
for Russian cars Speedy jerking of
levers, and pounding with q sixteen
pound homnler, to raise the buffer
from deep down in the huge die.
would hammer at times until foam
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-23
Bed of Boards IL,
A Blacksmith Shop

would come out of my mouth before
the steel would jump up high enough
for the tengs to catch. That's a
tough kida-the big fat bellied straw
boss would say as he and a lot Of
inspectors would stand around to
watch the process,
One evening before quitting tins
the worst came. was to come back
and. drive the hammer nights. Hell
now 1 won't be able to go out With
my boy friends and I only boy Of
sixteen. We worked every night un=
til about three am. After sheer ex~
haustion we'd gather boards and lay
'em close TO the furnace. The nights
we're very cold that winter, with no
protection from the outside: tbs
building was old. But we'd doze OF
for 3 couple of hours. Later we
worked all night long from six to
six. To This day 1 wonder why !
never smashed the helpers or the
hammersnfftf1's hands or their heads
whenever they reached under tbs
hammer to adjust the hot steel, as
after midhigllt I could not keep my
eyes open, it was horrible agony. I
slept on the stool and only inst1nc~
lively atythe yell of Vol 70! I showed
the lever which brought the two ton
weight down God dam watchem
Joe what de. bells a midder, shleep!"
These words yelled out would waks
me up for while, it would be when
ever Schmidt would jerk his hands
the nick of time before the weight
came ramning down - to the great
laughter Of the crew
. The helpers and l rebelled. We
we're determined to get at least
few hours. of hay before mornings
at all cost. The hanlmersnitn had
TO yield. We, scattered, some behind
piles of logs, in the dark corner of
the building piled for construction or
repairs. Behind the big furnace for
Stasiek and myself he was tickled at
this idea. I liked him very much
he kept explaining Socialism, I was
no longer wild about Catholicism
The morning the straw boss called
our attention to the fact that the
hammer did not run all night
How do you know this" I asked.
THE power house does not register
any steam used after three O'Clock
in the morning he answered. Old
Schmidt, the faithful lackey, saw to
it that We worked all night there
after, Each morning I'd come home
eyes red as fire, exhausted, usually
throwing myself alongside the kitchen
stove for an hour before gathering
enough strength to pull my greasy
overalls off and wash my face.
Again we decided to rest befors
morning After hot argument with
Schmidt we had our way; fell upor,
the scheme of letting the hammer
run UP and down slightly the steam
recording the action in the power
house that stood about a hundred
yards away Together with Stasiek
we crawled behind our favortte furn-
ace But even here it was cold as
this PARTICULAR furnace when not used
during the day, was cold place to
sleap s.
It felt like 2 feather bed on thosA
straight boards. Now and then &
rat would scoot past us on his way
to his corner, I would giggls think
ing how closely related our doors
were. Stasiek would talk about So
cialism while I'd be fading away into
sleep, but also awaking to the TACT
that God belonged to the bosses who
were strewing workers limbs all ovsr
Europe for profits.
ro-Eies
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-23

The first part of this story told
of the miserable poverty which
forced the young boy to start work
in the steel factory, and of his first
few jobs.-Ed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-23
BY JOE POGDoRNEY

was advanced TO operate two
ton steam hammer, the job on the
dingy seven hundred pound hammer
was vacant on appealing in behalf Of
my school mate, John got the job.
1t was good to have chum close
by. On scorching hot days we'd meet
at the water through and drink
heartily like two good horses. We'd
put our heads down and kicking side
ways laughing and remarking about
being ponies. Let's find a place to
rest Joe" - upon looking around,
suggested behind big furnace close
OF my hammer, the boss could not
see us behind there easily we nailed
up some seats. This was our resting
for a year, away from the hot ham
ners and the big white hot piles of
finished draw bar Jokes.
On slack days I'd sneak away from
the bosses sight-sit behind the fur
mace for hours, now and then yank
out big husky sandwiches with nice
red tomatoes-my mother was good
to me now, the pay went all TO her
The gas and smoke behind the furn-
ace did not seem to annoy me with
the rats playing around; filling my
belly, I'd doze off in a heavenly sleep,
to be awakened by smoke shooting
me in the face from cracks in the
walls Of the furnace. finally patched
them all up with fire clay.
A grand lay-off came. After seven
months of tramping, summer found
me back in the old blacksmith shop
as a blacksmith helper, swinging an
eight pound sledge hammer for a
crankey cursing blacksmith, One
La gaceta., 1931-12-10
INFORMACION
DEL PUERTO

En- ell dia de aver entraron los
vapores americanos Cuba, Go
vernon Cobb, Major Wheeler,
Julius Seep, la goleta auxiliar
inglesa Porto Novo y g remol-
cador Bafshe con las barcas
Pure Lubwell y Pure Tiolene.
Aver mismo zarparon 81 Gu
da, con un cargamento de fosfa-
Ogontz, americanos; Ell ingles
Stonegate, que Sc dirige a Holan
da, co nun cargamento de fosfa-
to; la motonave nicaragiense
Whirple, la goleta Star y ell re
molcador Cadmus con la barca
S. D. Warmer.
La gaceta., 1931-12-10
ACUSADO DE ROBO UN 10
VEN DE Is AMOS

Ell Fiscal del Condado Skin
ner present6 aver en- la Corte de
10 Criminal acusaciones directas
contra Whitfield Christian, de
10 amos de edad, por ell robo de
un autom6viI de la propiedad
del ST.. James r. McCullers, de
Jesup, Ga.
Ell autom6vil, robado ell A de
liciembre en- ell distrito conner
cial fu6 recuperado Ell lunes por
I. M. Chevis, a cargo del nego-
ciado de robos de AUTOMOBILES de
la ciudad, quien a su Vez detaV0
al i6ven Christian. Este dltimo
La gaceta., 1931-12-10
PALMETTO CAMP. 161
W. O. w.

Use recuerda a los miembros
y esta Logia que hoy, a las 8
~ la noche Sc celebrara Tenida
y de Elecciones, por lc.
quNse ruega la mas puntual asis
tenck de todos.
\ A. del Castillo,
Secretario.
La gaceta., 1931-12-10
Ell CHANCEN
NOMBRO A LORENTE

An,vs de marcharse aver 2
una cace.A en- los Everglades
que durara hasta ell sabado, c,
alcalde Chancey nomhr6 para
ell puesto de serene del parque
dc McFarlane, con sueldo d
S75 al mss, a Miguel Lorente, E
conocido manager de gladiado
res.
Lorente prestara servicio de
noche y por las tardes seguir;
"entrenando" a sus pugilistas.
La gaceta., 1931-12-10

es hijo de la Sra. NJ. Fl. Chris
'tian, que desempva un cargo
de policia.
La gaceta., 1931-12-10
PIeitos y Divorcios

Corte Federal: Gentle Bros.
Co. contra V. H. Jones.
Corte del Circuito: Norma Els
calante contra Jose Ismael Es-
calante; Amelia Betancourt con-
tra Manuel Betancourt; Teodo-
no Robinson contra Teodoro Ro-
binson; Luisa Rahming contra
Adolfo D. Raining; Mildred
Stanley contra G.. B. Stanley ;
Frank Harris contra John S.
Berry.
La gaceta., 1931-12-10
KIssINGHR QU7Do SIN EN-
PLEO !.

FL Alcalde Chancey anunci6
aver ell nombramiento de 0. L.
Michele para sustituir a Steve
Kissinger en- ell cargo de vigilan-
te del puerto.
sueldo de Michele sera de
mensuales, algo menoS de
ID gu edevengaba SUI %antecesor.
NJ lvigilante del puerto no solo
tile la mission de responder a
TONS las llamadas que Sc lie ha-
gahlde dia o de noche, sino tam
bien estar provisto de una Ian
cha de SUI exclusive propiedad.
La gaceta., 1931-12-10

DesRu6s de IN pro- ngado des
canso en- Alemania, Ell campe6n
esta ahora liSto para regresar
en- busca de una nueva cosecha
de pesos. Con Sharkey la cose-
cha seria abundante y segura.
Pero Schmeling insiste en- decir
probando que los campeones en-
NO-y ell No parece quedarse,
estos dias-a 10 menos del tipo
de Schmeling-dejan mucho que
desear y no llevan airosamente
ell titulo.