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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-16
WOrcOrr Groups Are
Forming in Chicago;
Join Them at Once

CHICAGO, Ill. Workers cor
respondence groups are arousing
high enthusiasm among the COM
rades of the city. 1t is planned to
start class Immediately on the
South Side, under the direction of
COmrade Gertrude Brown. The
exact time and place will be pub
lished soon. All readers of the Daily
Worker, members of Daily Worker
clubs, Daily Worker agents, and
any worker interested in getting
some hints so he can write up the
experiences for our paper, is in
vited to attend. There will be in
teresting discussions, exchanges of
opinions, mixed with lively social
activities also. Get in touch with
us at the Daily Worker office.
Other groups throughout the city
will be organized as soon as this
first one is well under way. All
comrades are urged, if they cannot
attend classes, to get in touch with
us personally.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-16

are ready and willing to work--to
save them from the stigma of pau
perism and the dole, and to save
our government from the menace
of the racketeer and the Commu-
mist.
While this fascist leader talks, like
the rest of the Hoover crew, about
finding work for the jobless he knows
that there will be millions more job
less this winter than at the present
time and he wants to prepare to
smash with force the militant surge
of the masses.
Secretary of Labor Doak who is
one of the leaders in the attack on
the militant workers was represented
at the conference by John r. Alpine
This demagog went so far as to say
that II am not going to let anybody
tell me there are no jobs. know
there are and we are finding them
every hour and every day." This hyp-
ocritical lie was too stupid for even
that crew of wage cutters and one
Of them, Henry Savage, former com
mander Of the Legion, told him he
was liar.
The American Federation of Labor
was represented by M. J. McDonough
who repeated the program Of the
ALL. for the five day week and six
hour day Hoover stagger system. He
even went so far as to recommend
a three day week which means that
the ALL will put all its forces be-
hind the spreading of the Hoover
Stagger system. He then added the
rest of the ALL. program Of mis-
leading the workers-the abolition Of
the prohibition amendment. The
ALL. is trying to divert the strug-
gle Of the workers fron defense Of
their living conditions and demand
for relief at the expense of the capt.
talists to the struggle against the
volstead act.
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tile courts of the Southern boss
lynchers.
N.A.A.C.P. Deny Floor to Parents.
Time and again the parents have
denounced the disruptive tactics of
Walter White, William Pickens and
other Negro and white reforrnists at
the head of the N. A. A. C. P. On
their part, the N.A.ACP. misleaders
have attacked the parents and the
boys as "fgnorant"-too ignorant, in
the estimation of these hifaluting up
filters to be permitted to select their
own defense and decide the defense
policy. On several occasions, mothers
of the Scottsboro boys have been de-
MED the floor at mass meetings held
by the N. A. A. O. P. "in the name"
Of the Scottsboro boys. Mrs. Ada
Wright, mother of Andy and Roy
Wright, was refused the floor at
N. A. A. G. P. mass meeting in Har-
lem. Mrs. Ida Patterson, mother Of
another Of the boys, was refused
permission to address the 21st an
nual conference Of the N A. A. G. P.
held short time ago in Pittsburgh.
NA.A.C.P. Working With Bosses.
Both the boys and their parents
have plainly told the N. A. A. G. P.
misleaders that if they really wished
to help, they must cooperate with
the I. L. D. This the N. A. A. c. P.
traitors dare not do for fear of Of
Tending the big inperialists, whose
corTupting contributions enable the
officials Of the N A. A. c. P. to COL
lect big salaries for their service to
the imperialist oppressors Of the Ne
gro people.
The danger to the Scottsboro boys
lies not in anything that the N. A.
A. G. P. misleaders can do OF them
selves toward ignoring the wishes of
the boys and their parents. The
danger lies in the fact that the N.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-16
(By a Worker Correspondent

STOCKTON, Cal-An aged, gray
headed man, citizen of Stockton
for many years, entered the Welfare
Department headquarters in order
to apply for some of the much-her-
aided unemployment relief.
Upon entering the office and ask
ing for MIR. Newton, this worker of
twenty years faithful service in
Stockton was greeted with growl
from Newton himself, who referred
him to one of the female parasites.
The following dialogue took place;
Parasite-Where do you live?
Worker-On the waterfront.
P.-Where is the waterfront?
W.-What, you've lived here all
your life and don't know where the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-16
British Sailors ResenfAl of Wage
Slashes; Macy Ordered to Port

The attack on the British workers
thru cuts in the dole was one of the
terms on which the American bank
ers granted further credits to the
British government. This is revealed
in the statement Of George Lans-
bury, laborite, and former Minister
of Public Works in the Labor govern
ment, in the House of Commons, that
"The American bankers said to
us, Your social services are at
tracing the notice of workers in
the United States, who are going
out with banners demanding I'M
employment benefits as in your
country The bankers and capt.
alists said wages must come down"
The capitalist class in the United
States wanted a sharp attack on the
dole in order to stifle the demands
of the workers In his country for
immediate relief and unemployment
insurance. The British capitalist
class wanted the attack on the dole
to save its profits.
MacDonald's Price
The British capitalist class is go
ing to reward Macdonald for his
treachery to the workers by making
him an Earl and probably by ap-
pointing him ambassador to the Uni
ted States according to the capital
list press. This is the reward for
bruta1ly attacking he living stand
ards of the workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-16
Stockton Welfare Agent Insults Aged Man

waterfront is?
P.-Don't get funny. thought
you said front street. Whereabout
on the waterfront do you live?
Win a box car.
P.-Oh, I'll see what I can do for
you.
The worker frightened up at this,
thinking that he would get back
some of the hard earned dollars that
he donated to the community chest
in years gone by, when the boss still
had some use for him. But the
worker was soon doomed to disap-
pointment. He is still wondering
how he can get along through the
winter on the rs cents worth of cof-
fee tickets that the parasite gave
him. Maybe someone could suggest
a budget for him.
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ranged for the following speakers:
Mrs. Ada Wright, mother of two of
the Scottsboro boys facing the cleo
trio chair; Pat Toohey, district or
ganizer of the LID in California;
Frank Spector, released Imperial Val
ley syndicalist prisoner, and Sender
Garlin, co-editor of the Labor De-
fender.
At these demonstrations and con-
ferences workers must send protest
kilograms to Gov. Elem. D. Sampson
in Frankfort, KY, in behalf of the
miners facing the death sentence in
Harlan, KY; Gov. James Rolph at
Sacramento, Calf, must be deluded
with wired demands for the uncondi-
tional release of Mooney, Billings
Mcnamara, Schmidt and the Imperial
Valley Prisoners. To Gov. Miller at
Montgomery, Ala, kilograms must be
sent demanding that the eight Negro
boys held in the death cells at Kirby
Prison, Montgomery, be transferred
from the death cells, and demand
ing their release and in behalf Of the
Camp Hill troopers Al
Other kilograms should be sent to
Gov. Pinchot, Harrisburg, Pa, in be-
half of the mine strike prisoners, the
Woodlawn sedition prisoners, lima
and Reseter; Leo Thompson, Tom
Myerscough, and other victoms OF the
coal operators. To Gov. Roland H.
Hartley at Olympia, Wash, must be
sent demand to free the Centralia
prisoners. kilograms must also be
sent to Gov. Conley of West Virginia
in behalf of the Wellsburgh mine
strike prisoners and to Secretary of
Labor Doak, at Washington, D. G..
in protest against the persecution and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-16
Reign of Terror Launched Against Florida
Unemployed

icemen working on the roads dawn
here with a ball and chain on their
legs.
Judge Hendry says that he will stop
the crime wave by giving all the I'M
employed stiff jail sentences. He did
not say anything about the graft spen
not say anything about the graft
spent by the racketeers for protection
to the city and county officials.
There has just been a new mayor
elected here advertised far and wide
as a CRATER and a thief who imported
gunner to be used at the polls on
election day to intimidate the work
ers going to vote.
The workers of Tampa are prepar-
ing to hold a huge mass meeting to
Eprotet against the sentencing of un-
employed workers to the chain gang.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-16
Mac Donald Tariff to
Increase Workers
Living Costs

will use as a means of selling out
the workers to the bosses. This CON
cession" means simply that the man
ufacturers will make the weaverS run
six, eight, or ten looms in the place
of the four at present and will pay
the workers the same miserable
wages they now get for four. The
workers will be speeded up fifty, a
hundred and fifty per cent, thou
sands will be thrown on the streets
in addition to those now unemployed
and the profits Of the cotton manu-
facturers will increase at the ex-
pense of increased hunger for the
workers. This is the program of hun
ger. This is part of the Macdonald
attack on the workers.
No Cut In Armaments
While this attack on the British
workers sharpens day by day, the
Nationalist government "has no in
tention of curtailing its present naval
building program" This was an
nounced by Sir Austern Chamberlain,
First Lord of the Admiralty, in the
House of Commons Monday. This
is the other phase of the hunger
program. No cut in armament APP
preparations. Increased naval facil-
tiles. Continuation of the prepara-
tons for the attack on the Soviet
Union. Attack on he British workers
and attack on the workers of the
Soviet Union. This Is the Macdonald
program.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-16
NAACP MiSleaders Resume Fight
On Defense Rights of ScOttSbOrO Boys

A. A. c. P. reformists are doing the
dirty work of the Alabama boss
lynchers and are supported by the
Alabama bosses and their courts, as
was shown in the hearing at Scots
boro on the I. L. D. motions for new
trials for all nine boys. At that hear
ing, Judge Hawkins, the lynch YER
dict Judge, deliberately ignored the
authorization of the parents ap-
pointing the L L. D. to have sole
charge of the case. Judge Hawkins
refused to rule an the question Of
whether the l. L. D. or the NAACP
was authorized by the parents and
their boys. BY his refusal to rule on
this question, Judge Hawkins gave
the NAACP n1isleaders the chance
to pretend they were in the case.
Alabama Bosses Supporting NAACP.
The Alabama boss lynchers and
their courts are frantically support
ing the NAACP traitors in their at
tempts to smash the mass defence
movement and narrow down the
struggle to free the boys to a mere
court room trial in the courts Of the
very boss class which is seeking to
crush aut the lives of these innocent
working class children
The workers, Negro and white,
must defeat this traitorous attempt
of the murderous southern bosses
and their Negro and white reform
list tools. Workers. Support the
Scottsboro boys and their parents
in their right to say who shall de-
fend the boysl Support the mass
defense campaign Of the nDI Build
block and neighborhood comn1itteesi
Tell your neighbors the facts in the
case! Rally your fellow workers to
the mass fight to smash the legal
lynching frame-up against these
innocent children. Collect and rush
funds to the International Labor
Defense, 80 East 18th Street, New
York City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-16
Houston Mayor Threatens Jobless with Jail
and Forced Labor

eight hours of useful work, the
committee has decided.
"Drifters who refuse to work will
be booked as Migrants by the po-
lice and all will be required to
move on after three days of Hous-
toms hospitality"
There has been much written in
the capitalist press about forced la
Dor in the Soviet Union. We know
that the workers in Russia, all have
jobs and their rate of pay is increas-
ing and there is no unemployment.
I have read many letters from work
ers in the Soviet Union exposing the
lies of the capitalist press. The real
forced labor exists in the United
States-and it exists with all the
trimmings, threats of Jail mingled
with honeyed words about Houston's
hospitality.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-16
Conn. Conference
Hits Boss Terror;
Demands Amnesty
Gives Rousing We'll
come to Scottsboro
Mother

NEW BRITAIN, Conn, Sept, Is.
"A mass state defense conference
was held here Sunday at the call of
the International Leabor Defense
with 80 delegates representing rs or
CARNATIONS
The conference formulated plans
for a broad united fornt campaign
for the release of jackson, Foster and
Landers arrested in the Putnam tex
tile strike. A delegation of IS was
elected to make demands on gov
ernor Cross of Connecticut.
The conference pledged full and
militant support to the mass cam
paign to free the nine innocent Scott
sboro Nebro, boys and gave rousing
welcome o Mrs. Ada Wright, mother
Of the two boys, who addressed the
conference.
Richard B. Moore, national Negro
director of the I. L. D., representing
the national Office and gave an ex-
cellent analysis Of the present stage
of the class struggle in the United
States. and the growing boss terror
against the Negro and white workers.
Resolutions were unanimously
adopted for the defense and release
of the Scottsboro boys, of the Har-
Ian, Kentucky, white and Negro min
ers, Of Mooney and Billings, of the
Putnam textile strikers and the fight
for free speech in New Britain.
The conference named September
81 for the statewide amnesty dem
onstrations for the release of all class
war prisoners.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-16
(By a Worker Correspondent

(By a Worker Correspondent
CAMDEN, N. 1.-THE workers in
the Campbell Soup Co. during the
short time tomato season are work
ing from IL to IA hours a day for 25
to SO cents an hour. The conditions
under which they are forced to work
continually endanger the workers
health and lives The poor facilities
render a terrific heat and workers
are continually collapsing on the
Job.
Stood in Line for Weeks.
Thousands of workers stood in the
line for weeks, to be pushed around
by the police and to be trampled by
the police horses and few Of them
were finally greeted with these slave
driving jobs, which offer them the
most miserable working standards
known to the history of this indus
try.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-16

that Of the common laborerS' union
OF the building trades And then he
added. 1.-THE bosses are paying two
dollars a day"
I protested at the statement and
said that most of the men who we're
working were getting IS per day.
A. F. Of L. Helps Cut Pay
"Try to get it," is all he answered
The ue.3on scale is 81 and there has
never been an Official wage cut
The wage-cuts have been put over,
however, and the A. F. of L. Off
Gals have stood by and winked while
the scale was being slashed-they
even helped the bosses put over the
cuts.
Every house that was visited yielded
the same story. Seven months out
of work, three and half years, nine
months, eight months, two years. IN
employment everywhere. CHRONIC I'M
employment. The recital was over
whelming.
We approached two women sitting
in the doorway of an empty store, one
a young italian woman with baby
in her arms, the other Scotch with
her hand on a baby carriage. The
latter spoke up.
Her man has not worked for a
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plans for this terrible speed up as
follows:
Owners wish to 'rationalize'
their production by putting one
worker in charge of six, eight, or
even ten looms, instead of the four
which is the traditional number in
Lancaster.
Experiments made in various
mills have convinced the owners
that a skilled worker can handle
twice as many machines as he has
been accustomed to-"
The Post reports that negotiations
have already been started between
the manufacturers and he reaction
airy union leaders concerning the
terms of this speed up program. The
union leaders are preparing to fol-
low the lead of the Macdonald in
the attack on the workers standards.
While they are conducting negotia-
lions "on the basis OF offers made
by mill owners" they have thus far
refused to reveal the nature of these
offers to the workers. They fear the
revolt Of the textile workers if the
terms are made public now.
The Post reports some of the terms
on which it is expected the negotia-
tions are being conducted. These in
clude speed up and intensification of
the work in one form or another.
There is one Concession" that the
owners are offering. They are will
ing to recognize the principle of a
minimum wage equal to the average
wage for working four ordinary Lam
caster looms" This is one of the
concessions" which the labor takers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-16
Frank SpectOr to
Speak in S Cities
During This Week

Frank Spector, who has recently
been freed by the mass pressure of
Californian workers from the I'm
perial Valley prison and who has
been touring the country under the
auspices of the LID speaking at mass
meetings demanding the freedom of
all class war prisoners will speak in
the following cities; Erie, Pa, Sept.
Is; in Cleveland, Slovenian Hall, GAIT
st. Clair, Sept. 16; Youngstown, Sept.
10; Akron, Sept IS. He will then
go to Detroit where he will speak
at two meetings arranged for him for
Sept. 81 at 1348 E. Terry Ave. and
3014 Yamand ST., Hamtranck.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-16
BY A Worker Correspondent


TAMPA, FLA reign of terror has
been launched on all the unemployed
workers here in the South. Hendry,
the country court judge, is beginning
to deal out stiff sentences to all the
unfortunate unemployed workers.
These workers are being put on the
chain gang and are being forced to
work on the state road without re-
ceiving any wages, thereby filling the
pockets of the contractors and the
rich grafters.
Ex- Servicemen Jailed
Many of these jobless workers car
ried gun in the late world slaughter
to make the world safe for financial
capital. Now these same workers are
looked upon as criminals because they
end work There are many ex-serva
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-16
(By a Worker Correspondent

HOUSTON, TexaS.-The Hoover
unemployment plan has struck Hous-
ton with full force. The mayors IN
employment committee met recently
and decided to force all the jobless
non-residents to slave hours a day
for their meals They will receive
no pay and if they refuse to work
for their board and bed they will be
thrown into Jail as Migrants.
The Houston Post Dispatch, in
editorializing on this plan, says:
mo work, no food" is the edict
of Mayor Monteith's unemplOy-
ment committee after considering
the problem of drifters who will
come to Houston this winter.
able bodied men willing to work
will be given three meals and
place to sleep in exchange for
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-16

fence is deputy. A little while ago
he wore coal and iron police badge
and was paid by the company. But
the Goal and Iron" was abolished,
and the next morning he appeared
with deupty sheriff's badge pinned
on the coal and iron uniform. Now
he dresses like civilian, save for
the badge and gun he swaggers at
his hip. These are the thugs who
do the worst of the company'S work.
The state policeman sits in the COM
pany office, demonstratin his neu-
trality, ready with his gas bombs to
help the deputies if they need it.
Sometimes they have needed help.
Tries to Buy Votes.
The Penn-Ohio-W. Va.-Ky. Strik-
ing Miners Relief Committee has
been sending in food to keep the
striking miners and their children
while they fought for better condi-
tons. For months the government
has refused to do anything in the
way of immediate relief. Now, with
the election campaign sweeping the
state, Governor Pinchot has set up a
milk station for ailing babies here.
The sickliest babies among the strik-
ers' families get 80 gallons of milk
a day divided among them. Before
this 20 gallons of SKINNED milk, that
an enterprising relief group per-
suaded the dairy to donate, had been
distributed. But more is needed
Mr.. Pinchot's milk, together with
what the relief has given so far, is
not enough. Babies are ailing. q
200 in Old Barracks.
Renton, five miles away, Is in
great difficulties. In the barracks
built during the 1927 strike 200 peo-
pl elive. The barracks rooms are not
over ten feet skuare. Whole fanlil-
les live in each. Thin board walls
and taxpayer roofs are hot and
miserable in the burning sun, damp
and dismal in cooler weather. Every
thing in them is burning hot on a
summer day. Everything is dripping
wet when it rains or fog settles in
the valley. Two hundred people in
all. There is no sympathetic city
near Renton, what the relief COM
mittee sends in means life to them
here. The green apples Of nearby
abandoned orchards are stripped
from the trees. The kids are sadly
undernourished, but no Pinchot sta
ton is located there to give out free
milk. There is no voting population
around Renton, except those in the
company patch-in the company's
pocket. These outsiders" must pay
tax to vote. The company CO.
operates with the tax collector and
takes out Of the miners pay not
only his own tax, but his wife's, even
though the whole family starves the
rest of the month as result.
Children Sicken.
All the children are barefooted at
Renton and winter is not far away.
Most of them have rash on their
faces. Bad food? A local infection?
Or what? There is no doctor to tell.
The only doctor is the company doc
tor. He would never go to the bar
racks. f~d medicines cost money.
Renton Ids relief and needs it
badly. u che in Renton even owns
a Ford to 60 out for relief. Renton,
like scores Of other camps, needs re-
lief sorely. Send all you can in food,
money to buy food and clothing to
the Penn-Ohio-W. Va.-Ky. Striking
Miners Relief Committee, Room 2o5,
Gil Penn Ave, Pittsburgh, Pa.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-16
WORKERS OF MANY CITIES PREPARE
|: L. D. AMNESTY DEMONSTRATIONS

deportation of foreign born workers,
and demanding the right of political
asylum for the workers Lii, Serio, Ma
chado, Kermotsu, Dea and others
who are threatenea with deportation
to fascist countries where certain
death awaits them.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-16
IS PER CENT JOBLESS
ON ONE WORKINGCLASS
STREET IN NORWALK
Young and Old, Skilled and Unskilled, White
and Black, All Face Starvation
Bosses Spout Empty Phrases About "Relief' !;
Workers Must Organize and Demand 1t
(By a Worker Correspondent

NORWALK Conn-Seveny- five per cent of the workers
my street. Benton ST.. unemployed.
y husband has been out of work for nine MONTHS said
Italian she hung out her wash.
"I not in good health and cannot do heavy work
have been without job for two and half years. declared
of forty the back porch of three-story wooden
tenement.
eyes am union and have been without work for
year. stated his companion He showed his union card
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-16
COAL MINERS
PICKET AS
THEY STARVE

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