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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-17
Times Praises AFL
Example to Bosses
Fighting Insurance

The New York Times yesterday
,ditorially complimented the
American Federation Of Labor for
being more willing to make the
millions of jobless starve without
insurance than even nervous"
business men themselves. Writing
on the majority vote against I'M
employment insurance in the A. F.
Of L. convention the Times says:
1.-THE action at Vancouver might
well selve as an example of stead
fastness and intelligent self-inter-
est to nervous business men who
have been behaving and talking
as If the end of this familiar
American world OF opportunity,
courage, energy and enterprise
were here. They ought to be will
ing to wait a little while longer
before throwing up their hands
and calling for revolutions and
miracles. The Federation of La
Dor, with general unemployment
rate Of perhaps rs per cent-and
N some trades nearly SO per cent
has been as hard hit as any eco
nomic interest in the country,
The force of the implied argu-
ment that the A. F. L. leadership
is more In favor of saving profits /
at the expense of workers lives
than are many Of the employers !
who fear the rehabilitation Of the |
masses Is not made less by the |
fact that the Times underesti- |
mates the extent of unemploy-
ment. There are many A. F. L.
groups with rs per cent unem-
ployment.
The Times editorial actually ad-
mits that many business men are
convinced that the special con-
ditions under which American
labor has existed and prospered
have come to an end and that the
chapter Of higher living standards
has been closed" While lauding
the A. F. l.. for waiting another
year to see what the suffering
masses will do, the editorial shows
that a section Of American en-
ployers are in favor of openly ad-
justing their class war tactics to
this conviction. which means wage
cuts and misery for the workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-17
French Imperialists Sharpen
Attackin FinanceW ar on US.
"Rumor' Attacks Effectual Because Based On
Growing United States Financial Crisis

this attack is not favored by the
but quite the contrary,
the government has also no power
to check it.
Confidence in the dollar and in
its maintenance on the gold stand
ard is being slowly undermined here
by the use of the same methods
as were employed to destroy con-
fidence in the pound sterling.
The French public is being led to
believe that the United States is
going in for wholesale initiation, and
that in such initiation there Is i'm
mense and immediate danger to
the dollar.
In virtually all this comment 1t
has become customary TO describe
the American situation as critical"
and as if there we're likelihood of
a forced departure from the gold
standard.
Under the guise of commisera-
ton with this critical" situation,
panic is being surely spread more
and more extensively, just as was
done some months ago with regard
to sterling"
The attack in Poland has already
resulted in flight from the dollar
which has played 8 very important
role in Poland as currency. The
French attack through rumors has
been successful" because the fin
ancial conditions in the United States
which the French have said are seri-
Gus, are very serious. The attack OF
the French imperialists against the
bankers of the United States, as the
attack by both Of them against the
British pound, are based on such SUBJ
stantial facts of the worsening of the
economic situation and the approach
of financial instability that they have
their full effect in actually helping
to bring this about. The financial
situation is connected with the ques-
ton of war not only in the fact that
the reparationS debts are involved but
in that the imperialists are preparing
to carry on the financial war through
armed struggle.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-17

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----
ening of the conflict between the
United States and japan.
The reaction in Tokyo to the vote
In the League was so sharp that the
United States counselor Immediately
had a conference with the Japanese
foreign office to explain Americas
position It is now revealed that
in addition to the published confer
ences which have taken place re-
garding the Menchuria situation the
United States sent two memoranda"
to japan (which had not been pub
hshed because the Japanese govern
ment was doing its utmost to prevent
public irritation" These memoranda
were a very sharp statement of the
position of the United States i'm
perialists to the invasion of Man.
churia. In addition secret conversa-
tons have been going on in Geneva
"of so informal and confidential
character that nothing has been re-
yealed concerning them
The New York Times now reveals
that the Stimson statement of last
Friday which was the occasion of a
sharp attack in Japan was not the
real cause of it. The cause was the
conversations" in which the United
State simpeTalists had revealed
more of their position. The Times
reports the following from Washing
ton regarding the massage Of Slim
son:
Scanning this communication,
diplomatists resident here conjec-
tured as to whether the objection
voiced toward it in Japan might
be largely pretext and that the
resentment was actually felt be-
cause of something said i'm the
course of conversation which had
led the Tokyo Government to be-
lieve that the American attitude
was unsympathtic."
While the struggle of the United
continues in diplomatic manoeuvres,
the Japanese militarists continue
their advance in Manchuria. Against
this the Chinese masses are rising in
more militant struggle. I Shanghai
the Chinese refuse to sell the Jap
anese residents any food products.
japanese marines took part in an
attack on the militant masses of
Shanghai but "the ugly temper of
the Chinese crowds when the mar
ines appear is becoming more dan
gerous daily reports the Times cor
respondent. In Canton thousands of
students paraded to protest the muir
der of twelve students last Sunday
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-17
Solidarity" Shows
Up the Milk Racket 4;
Get. Issue Now Out

With tie news rolling in Of chill
dren in all great Industrial centers
iaintingfrom hunger Of babies under
nourished for lack of milk, the pro-
posed new robbery from the workers
kids Of what little milk they get is
appropriately the main article in the
October issue Of solidarity monthly
organ of the Workers International
Relief.
The cover design is a striking car
toon by Chopper, showing the milk
trust dumping mix in the gutter
while a policeman clubs hungry
children away from it. The facts on
the milk graft are brought out by
Paul Claude. in a leading article:
The fight of the trust to abolish
"loose milk" is explained
Grade A." the only form OF
bottled milk for which any argument
exists on the score of cleanliness,
costs 10 cents a quart in New York
and costs about cents to buy from
the farmer The milk trust gunman
and racketeers come in for mention
Other articles are: "Racketeering
in Relief" by Harry Raymond; THE
Greatest Disaster in History 1.-THE
Chinese Flood by Grace Hutchins;
Prepare For The National Hunger
March by Alfred Wagenknecht; an
article on the war danger by Vern
Smith; and still other articles. You'll
want to read this we'll illustrated
issue Five cents q copy Get a sub
scription for SO cents a year, at 1893
Broadway, New York
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-17
lCable BY Inprecorr.l

BERLIN, Oct. l4.-The debate Oh
Bruening's speech began this after.
noon. The first speaker, Preitscheid
socialist, announced that although
the socialists opposed the principl
of government by emergency decree
fayoring democracy, they were pre-
pared TO vote In favor of the gov
eminent and against the withdrawal
Of the DEGREES. daughter from the
Communist bench 81 The socialists
opined that the repafations payments
in their present form we're an intoler-
able burden on Germany.
The next speaker, Frick. fascist
and former minister of the interior,
of Thmingia, delivered a very weak
speech, the only interesting point in
his statement being that the fascists
were now prepared to arrive at an
understanding with France. The
Franco-German understanding was
always declared BY the fascists to be
missionary and impossible.
The third speaker, Herman Rem
mele Of the Communist Party. de-
clared that the Communists would
continue to fight Bruening with all
their energy and all possible means.
The second Bruening cabinet was the
final stage preparatory to an open
fascist dictatorship. He declared
that placing the Reichswehr police in
the hands of Groener was a sign of
weakness and not of strength. Groe-
ner's task is to suppress sthe workers.
but the government, which is sup
ported solely by bayonets. is bank
rupt. He exposed the pacifist
phrases of Bruening and declared
the League Of Nations to be an in
strument for imperialist war, as
proved in the attitude OF the brutal
Japanese invasion of Manchuria.
Remelle stated that the League of
Nations was the capitalist interna-
tiocal against Bolshevism. The Com
munist Party demanded that Ger
many leave the league.
Remelle declared that Bruenings
economic policy was solely in the in
terests of the rich against the poor
and that Bruening's boast that big
strikes had been avoided is true,
solely thanks to the treachery of the
socialists.
Referring to teh campaign to force
the Communist Party into illegally,
Remmele declared that the workers
would answer as the prevail social
sts answered the anti-socialist laws.
The capitalist world is approaching
collapse rapidly and it was no longer
a question who would win in the
class struggle, but merely a question
Of when the final victory of the
workers would arrive. Fascism could
not alter the issue. The united front
Of the workers would smash fascism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-17
BULLETIN

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Oct. 10
Willie Peterson Defense Committee
have been formed in Birmingham,
Ala, and Chattanooga, Tenn, under
auspices of the Southern District of
the International Labor Defense. At
torney Rosenthal of Birmingham has
been engaged to defend Peterson.
The general sentiment in Birming-
ham among both Negro and white
workers, as well as some other
groups, is that Peterson is being
framed.
A protest telegram has been sent 10
Gov Miller Of Alabama by the Chat
tanooga branch of the 1. L. D., de-
handing Peterson's release and hold
ing the sheriff and the governor
responsible for the cold blooded
shooting of Peterson in the Birming-
ham county Jail.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. Oct. 15.--
The traitorous role of the Negro
petty bourgeoisie Landlords, shop
keepers, doctors, etc. as betrayers
Of the Negro masses was once more
sharply exposed when a prosperous
Negro barber of the city came for
ward to help the white bosses in their
murderous frame-up of Willie Pc
terson, unemployed Negro miner.
Peterson is now near death in the
Hillman Hospital as a result of a
cowardly attack on his life in the
County Jail here, Peterson is the
latest of many Negro workers to be
arrested in the police attempt to
framedup any innocent Negro worker
in connection with the Staying on
August 4 Of two society women.
The Negro barber, who was evid-
emily picked by the bosses for the
purpose, was taken to the hospital
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-17
Miner Murdered: His
Little Daughter Is
Hungry; Send Food!

HARLAN, Ky, Oct. 4.-Widowed
when her husband, Joe Moore, was
shot down by gunner before the
National Miners Union soup kit
chen in Wallins Creek, KY, Nan
Moore and her children are now
destitute in this city.
my little girl is now going to
school and half the timeI have
nothing to cook for her when she
comes home" she writes to
friend in the International Labor
Defense. 81 am keeping house
with my kids, but am having a
hard time and if / don't get help
I just don't know what I'm going
to do"
Nan Moore and her children are
only few of the 50 odd Deepen
dents of class-war prisoners in
the Harlan coal field for whom
the International Labor Defense is
raising relief. Send contributions
to the Kentucky Prisoners Aid,
Room $50, 80 f. 18th ST., New
York City.
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by the agents of the imperialists.
Martial law is being enforced "be-
cause of the fear of a popular up
rising"
Due to the continuance Of the
struggle Of the imperialists and their
agents in the attempt to divide up
China the masses are faced not only
with starvation in greater and great
er numbers but by death through the
bubonic plague. The plague is
spreading death among hundreds of
thousands of Chinese peasants in
Western Honan and Western Chansi.
The plague is expected to extend to
the Yangste flood area where MIL
lions of those hit by the flood will
succumb.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-17
Boston Workers Demonstrate
This Sunday to Free Mooney

BOSTON. Oct. 16.-Joining their
protests to the protests Of millions OF
workers throughout the United States
and the whole world, Boston workers
tomorrow Sunday will rally in
thousands on Boston Common, Park
man Bandstand, to demand the i'm
mediate freedom of Tom Mooney.
buried alive for Is years in q Cali
fornia cell upon CHASTITY frame-up
by the American ruling class.
The demonstration will also de-
mand the release of all other class
war prisoners, OF the Scottsboro Ne
gro boys, the white and Negro Har-
Ian (Kentucky) miners, Berkman and
Murdoch and other Lawrence strikers,
the Imperial Valley defendants, etc.
The demonstration which is called
by the International Labor Defense
will begin at $3.50 Sunday afternoon.
The Boston Mooney demonstration
will be followed by a United Front
Mooney Harlan Scottsboro Confer
ence on Sunday, October Is, 1890
a. m. at the American House, Sc Han
over St., Boston. A call has been
sent to all working class organiza-
tons to elect delegates to the con-
ference. The call declares. in part:
1.-THE International Labor Defense
calls upon all workers and toiling
farmers, upon the local unions of the
Federation OF Labor, the
trade unions affiliated with. the
Trade Union Unity League, the rank
and file members of the Amalga-
mated Clothing Workers and other
unions independent of the A. F. Of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-17

Just as the United States capital
fst press stated some days ago that
Hoover did not have a program all
worked out for the visit of Laval, SO
the French government now denies
that Laval has such a program. The
French government had to deny this
because the New York Times already
published what it said was the basis
OF this plan of Laval's. The French
capitalist class has already rejected
through its press the attempt on the
part of Hoover to draw Laval out by
intimating that he was in favor of
revision of debts based on the
ability of the various countries to
pay.
Laval demanded, in the struggle
that has gone on through the capt.
talist press and is therefore not of
fical," that the United States agrees
to cut the debts of the European
countries to the United States by
fifty per cent il they cut their arm
ament expenditures by % per cent.
Hoover has answered also "unoffi-
cially" through the statements of
various senators, that the United
States is going to demand cuts in the
ornaments before the debt question
is discussed. tA
The struggle between the United
States and France is around the
question as to which set of imper-
ialists is going to get the most out
OF Germany now. The United States
bankers are trying to save their in
vestments at the expense of France,
and If necessary by cutting the war
debt to the government of the United
States.
The French imperialists are strug-
Cling to get the reparations out of
Germany before the United States
bankers get their investments back,
and whether or not the United States
investments are ever paid back.
tn New York Times reports that
The attack aaginst the United States
n Europe is proceeding at full force,
particularly in France and in Poland.
The Times points out that although
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-17

L., the Unemployed Councils, Factory
Groups, the working class members
of the Socialist Party, the Communist
Party, working class fraternal organ
izationS, especially Negro and for
eign born, and workers clubs to join
in the United Front Conference
called by the 1. L. D. for the release
OF Tom Mooney and Billings. the
Harlan miners, the Scottsboro Negro
boys, and the Imperial Valley, Gen.
tralia, Woodlawn, and all other class
war prisoners at the American House,
Hanover Street, Boston, Sunday, Oc-
tober Is, 1881, at 1890 a. M"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-17
Hub Clerks to Get
Cut In Commission

CHICAGO, Ill.--The sales clerks of
the Hub Department store, who a
year ago were placed on strictly a
commission basis (no salary have
had their rate of commission cut by
ten per cent. The tailors, members
of the fake Amalgaated, have been
informed, that the Hub bosses are
negotiating for a reduced wage
scale on this years contract. That
the Amalgamated takers will assent
to this cut is the rumor going about.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-17
NEGRO JoBLEss JOIN COUNCIL

CLEVELAND, Ohio.-About 100
jobless Negro workers Joined Branch
No. of the Cleveland Unemployed
Council on Monday evening at the
first meeting since the mass funeral
of John Rayford and Edward Jack
son. This is the branch to which
both the martyred Negroes belonged.
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FOSTER IN
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candidate for mayor and also strike
leader, we're on trial yesterday on
charges of speaking without permit
and creating a disturbance. They
were railroaded through, in spite OF
a brilliant defense and fined $40
each. The two workers conducted
their own defense and proved the
charges were rtunped up for strike
breaking purposes. The court took
great pains to bar workers from at
tending the trial.
A speaker at the Foster mass meet
ing was Fred Biedenkapp, secretary
OF the strike committee, who reported
on the results of the arbitration 81
far. The State Board of Concilia-
ton and Arbitration is meeting be-
hind closed doors in the City Cham
bers at Lawrence. Eleven hand pick
ct leaders of the U.T.W. are with
them, cooking up a plan to make
settlement by means of wage cut.
The Beard of Arbitration will then
officially endorse the settlement.
Strikers Barred
The National Textile Workers I'm
ion at meeting held Immediately
after the picket line, modified the
workers for a meeting at 10 a. m.
Wednesday, where fifteen delegates,
ten men and five women. were cleo
ted to met tn Board of Arbitration,
and tell them that they would not
accept the wage cut
When this committee, headed by
Fred Biedenkapp, appeared at the
City Chambers, they were told that
the chairman of the Board would
only see Biedenkapp. Biedenkapp
told them that it was against the
principles of the N.T.W. for an Off
cial to discuss settlements or policies
with the bosses or their agents, be-
hind closed doors.
When this message was given the
chairman of the Board, he sent word
that he would receive committee
of three. The committee of fifteen
elected three from their ranks. This
committee told the chairman Of the
Board of Arbitration that the Ma
tional Textile Workers Union, and
the Rank and File Strike Committee.
represented the majority of the
workers, and that they demanded tn
right to talk before the Board. tn
Committee told the chairman Of the
Arbitration Board that all that could
be done was to stop the wage cut.
They were told that the Board
could only see the eleven 1t had in
vited today. that the meeting was
secret, and that they could wait
around. When Biedenkapp asked
them if there was any chance of see
ing the Board if they did wait, the
chairman said he did not think so.
The committee came back to the
N. T. w. hall and reported to the
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workers the results of the interview.
They pointed out that this policy of
stalling the workers is another way
of getting them to Just wait and be
quiet while the bosses creased the
rails for the railroading of the wage
cuts.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-24
JURY FIXING CHARGE
HALTS LIQUOR TRIAL
Woman Says Man Approached
Her-Federal Judge Or.
ders Inquiry.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, September a.
The trial of eight men charged by the
Government with a conspiracy to
divert 100000 worth Of. alcohol into
bootleg channels, which began here
Monday, came to sudden end today
when it was alleged an attempt had
been made to tamper with one Of
three women members Of the jury.
Federal Judge william H. Kirk
patrick declared a miStrial and ordered
the arrest of Lawrence Ward OF this
city. who was pointed out by the
woman Juror as the man who first APP
preached her In the corridor of the
Federal Building yesterday. The juror
is Mrs. George Merkel OF Miners
vile, Pa.
1t was the second time In q year the
eight defendants, including two former
Federal prohibition agents, ofacials Of
the Glenwood Distilling Co., and former
Pennsyly ania Railroad employees, had
been placed on trial. The flrst trial
ended In disagreement Of the jury after
1t had been out 40 hours.
Judge kirkpatrick told the jurors
and attorneys the report Of the incident
made by Mrs. Merkel was substantially
correct.
"As there are eight defendants in
the case" he said, Il do not know
which Is 10 blame, but an immediate
Investigation will be made"