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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-13

/ Dresser, who headed the writer's COM
mittee that Investigated the hunger
| conditions in Harlan and Bell Coun-
ty, answers the frame-up Of Judge
Jones. The statement points out that
the court terrorists and their gun
men, Infatuated at the exposure Of
the starvation and terror of the Har-
Ian gun thugs, could find no effective
answer and therefore resorted to the
despicable sex frame-up against Drei-
ser. Dresser pointed out:
But 1 found that these miners,
working for almost unbeIievably
low wages land because of this, in
most cases, compelled to accept
charity from others in order to piece
out the necessities which their
wages would not supply saw in the
National Mine Workers Union and
The Daily Worker their only friends
and desired to retain both mmo-
Iested.'
Stir Up Race Hatred.
The Harlan coal operators know
the growing influence of the National
Miners Union and are resorting to
desperate measures to keep the min
ers out of it and out of the forthcom-
ing strike. They hired stool pigeon
by the name of Rice to draw up a
leaflet directed against the National
Miners Union. The leaflet tries to
stir up race hatred and to stir up
prejudices in order to blur the real
issue of starvation. Part OF the leaf
let says: Are you willing to join an
organization that will Danish the
marriage VOWS, and force your wife,
daughter or sweetheart to meet Negro
men as their equal, and have them
forced TO live with the Negroesr
The Harlan coal operators have to
stoop to this sort Of filthy propaganda
in vain effort to keep back strike
against starvation.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-13
To Produce Movie
Of Hunger March

NEW YORK.-A movie dealing
with the coming National Hunger
March to Washington on December z
and other features of militant work
ing class activity is soon to be pro-
duced by the Workers Film and
Photo League of the Workers Inter
national Relief. 799 Broadway.
The Photo League calls upon all
cameramen, still photographers, OPP
orators, in fact anyone interested in
photography, to aid in the produc-
ton and distribution of this entirely
working class picture.
All workers who are interested
should call or write to room 800, 799
Broadway, N. Y. C.
The Film League also acts as dis
tributor for all Soviet movies and
German Workers International Relief
movies. The movie department Of the
Workers International Relief will be
glad to cooperate with any organ
ization DESTROYS of showing these
working class films.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-13
German Police Raid
Communist I'll cad
quarters On Excuses

The "Volkshaus," which is the CEN
ter Of the revolutionary working
class movement in Gelsenkirchen, the
local headquarters of the Communist
Party, the branch offices of the Com
munist daily newspaper, "Ruhr
Echo" ETC., was raided by large
force of police yesterday. Forty
workers, who were met with on the
premises, were arrested. The 'Volks-
haus" has now been closed down by
police and it is announced that it
will be kept sealed for four weeks.
Neither the halls, offices, restaurants,
nor any other part Of the house may
be entered.
The bourgeois press reports that
this totally arbitrary police punitive
action has been undertaken in con-
nection with shooting affray which
took place in Gelsenkirchen, dur
ing which policeman was shot
dead. Not even the bourgeois press
goes so far as to contend that
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-13
DAILY WORKER BUNDLE ORDERS
MUST BE- INCREASED TO KEEP PACE
HUNGER MARCH DEMONSTRATIONS

in advance. On temporary bundle
orders cash must accompany each
order.
The Daily Worker must have
money on hand to print enough
copies TO reach the new masses being
drawn into the workers struggle thru
the Hunger March demonstrations.
The Daily Worker must not lag be-
hind the fight against wage cuts
and starvation. The Daily Worker
must get into the hands Of millions
of workers to point out to them the
great extent and the great ferocity
of the bosses wage cut campaign,
and to show them that this big wage
cut drive is the beginning of the
world wide struggle for foreign mar
kets and redivision Of colonial ter
ritories, and is directly connected
with the plot of the Japanese and
American imperialists to increase
their share of the loot in Manchuria
and China, and with the plot of all
capitalist countries to attack the So
Wet Union.
To mass the workers to fight for
unemployment insurance, to fight
against imperialist war, and to defend
the Soviet Union, is one of the main
detectives of the National Hunger
March. The Daily Worker, which
day by day points out to the workers
the connection between their every
day shop problems and the interna-
tional capitalists plots, is one Of the
powerful weapons of the Hunger
March. Therefore every penny Of
extra money sent in advance with
increased bundle orders helps to put
more Daily Workers into the hands
of the masses and helps the fight for
wage cuts and against imperialist war
plots. Every extra copy distributed
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-13

CONTINUED FROM FACE oNE)
opened court in Bell county he would
wipe out" the National Miners
Union.
Miners for Struggle.
At the two open mass meetings,
held under the auspices of the Ma
tional Miners Union and the Inter-
national Labor Defense, the miners
enthusiastically voiced their deter
mination to strike against their mis-
cradle conditions. In the most pow
erty stricken section of this coal re-
gion, Straight Greek, KY, the miners
for some time have been laying aside
funds for the coming general strike
Miner after miner got up and de-
clared he is ready to die in the bat
tie to end hunger and starvation for
the families.
The National Miners Union organ
izers in the Harlan and Bell County
field declare that at least 70 per cent
of the miners adhere to the National
Minrs Union and anxiously await the
strike call. They all point out, that in
face of the extreme terror, with 400
armed company gunner. deputized
by Sheriff Blair, roaming Harlan
County, the strike must be general so
that the miners can en- masse answer
the terror threat and the attmept TO
murder strikers.
The reports Of miners from all Sec
tons Of this coal region we're unani-
nous in saying that the strike call
would rally at least rs to 80 per cent
of the miners in the first week, and
that II within two weeks the relief
apparatus is notwithstanding the
miners few pinto (red beans, and
some corn bread, they will stick it out
It'll hell freezes over" The miners
are convinced they can win victory
in go days If they go out 80 to 100 per
cent and can maintain their relief
apparatus Not only do they feel will
this strike smash the starvation con-
ditions, but 1t will be the only real
and effective answer to the unparal-
Ieled terror-reign of the coal oper-
ators.
A statement issued by Theodore
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-13
1924 Delegates Attend
Unemployed Conf. in
Northwest Germany

BERLIN.-A conference of unem-
ployed workers in Northwest Ger
many took place on Sunday in Ham
burg. Three hundred and twenty
four delegates were present, repre-
senting all the northwestern districts.
One hundred and fifty-one Of these
delegates were not politically organ
lied, 107 were members of the Com
munist Party, 2 were members of
the Young Communist League, IS
were members of the Social-Demo-
cratic Party, were members of the
Socialist Youth League, 2 were mem
bers of the Socialists Workers Party
(Seydwitz group, 3 were members
of the Reichsbanner, etc. After the
main speech thorough discussion
took place, in which 80 delegates took
part. All the decisions of the con-
ference were unanimously adopted
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-13

workers to meet. With calculated de-
liberateness the police and the Le-
gionnaires provoked groups of work.
ers, and, growing holder, tried to
beat up some workers.
The workers, seeing that the po-
lice were venting their brutality upon
them, resisted, in many instances eff
fectively. The police then pulled
their guns and commenced to fire
into the crowd. In the melee that
followed one worker was wounded,
and the police reported four casual
ties on their side.
Twenty-four workers we're then ar
rested, including Comrade Lezama,
organizer for the Communist Party
and the revolutionary trade unions
and held on charges ranging from
"intent to xii" to melting to riot. The
jailed workers are being maltreated
in Jail, the brutal police trying to
take their revenge for the splendid
resistance the workers put up.
One Of the arrested workers is
Crawford, Communist Party member,
who was kidnapped and beaten the
previous week.
The police that made the attack
were brought in from st. Petersburg
and from other country towns. The
statement Of the mayor and the
American Legion point to the fact
that the bosses, especially of the
cigar factories, are pushing a mass
frame-up to cripple the revolutionary
workers movement in Tampa and
Southern Florida.
Conditions in. Tampa are growing
worse, with much unemployment
among the cigarmakers who do not
even receive charity relief. The
bosses and their officials fear the
growing influence of the Communist
Party and the revolutionary unions
and have carried on a terror cam
paign against the workers.
1t was reported that the Interna-
tional Labor Defense will intnedi-
ately take up the mass defense of
the twenty-four framed workers and
rally support for their release.
A mass protest meeting will be held
in Tampa on Dec. 7.
The Tampa workers that told the
Daily Worker the events of Nov. Z
said that the terror made them more
determined than ever to fight for
organization and against the bosses.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-13

sales and subscriptions to build a
firm foundation for the National
Hunger March and for all future
mass activity?
Some time ago we received let
ter from Comrade E. F. in Kokomo,
Ind, that told us how the comrades
out there were using mass meetings
to build up Daily Worker sales. While
the letter deals with organization &C
tivities among Negro. workers and
with the use of the mass meetings
celebrating the 14th anniversary of
the Bolshevik revolution, we quote it
to give other comrades some idea of
how to use mass activities in the hun
ger march demonstrations to push the
sales Of the Daily Worker.
eve have been having great success
selling Daily Workers" writes the
comrades from Kokomo," and want
to order more for next week. We
are staging three big meets-one for
the purpose of organizing the Negro
workers, the second our regular I'm
employed Council meeting, and the
third a great mass meeting in the
heart Of the town to celebrate the
14th anniversary of the Revolution
We wish to order so copies of the
Daily Worker for each meeting"
In the same way we urge all Daily
Worker Clubs and agents to be sure
to have enough copies on hand for
sale at the mass meetings and dem
onstrations held in connection with
the National Hunger March. Increase
your bundle orders as the demon
STATIONS increase. The National Hun
ger March is just beginning to gath
er force. Begin increasing your bundle
orders now. And make every effort
to send in cash in advance for your
bundle orders. On permanent bundle
orders cash must be paid one week
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-13
FASCIST KILLER
OF A COMMUNIST
GETS ONLY 10 YRS.
Fascists Clash With
Workers In Germany
Gable By Inprecorrl


BERLIN, Nov. 12.-At the trial of
the fascists yesterday, the prosecutor
declared that the conspiracy to muir
der the Communist leader, Edw.
Henning, was non-existant and that
the killing was done at the spur of
the moment, but that it bore a par
ticularly atrocious and cowardly
character.
He demanded ten years hard labor
for the chief of the accused, and nine
and eight years hard labor, respec-
lively, for the other accused.
Yesterday the police attacked an
unemployment demonstration at Lue-
beck, firing into the masses, killing
the worker Schuett.
On Tuesday two trade union off
Gals we're seriously wounded by fas-
cists at Neumuenster. Further COL
lisions occurred yesterday when one
fascist was killed and two seriously
wounded. The Communist leader,
Weissig, was arrested for the Sus-
pected shooting.
Fierce collisions followed yesterday
at fascist meeting at Lugau. One
fascist was killed and five seriously
injured.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-13
by = Worker Correspondent

NEW YORK.-Recently the West
ern Union Telegraph Company cut
the pay of the operators and clerks.
Here is a trick the Western Union
bosses use against the messenger
boys: They charge the boys cents a
day for uniform rental. A boy would
report for work and be told to put
on his uniform. Then after doing
so he would be told that there is
no work, that he could go home. He
would be charged cents for the
rental just the same.
then went to work for the Postal
Telegraph Co. A month before !
came the clerks and operators re-
ceived per cent wage-cut. The
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-13
Wage-C Cuts Loom for Telegraph Messengers

bosses then gave them another cut
this time 10 per cent. in addition
they have began charging messengers
6 cents a day for uniform rental.
Ostensibly this 6 cents day is to
pay for new uniforms, but no new
uniforms are visible at this so far.
The messenger boys sarcasticaIy re-
fer to this rental charge as helping
Mack pay for his honeymoon.
There is also a rumor to the effect
that all salaried messengers are to
receive a quarter less a day-a cut of
IA pr cent. The boys are naturally
incensed over this and some of them
are in quite militant mood. I heard
one of the messengers say, What we
ought to do is to take over the in
dustry ourselves"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-13
ARREST % IN CUBA TO STor
NOV. Z CELEBRATIONS.

HAVANA-The terroristic Machado
government in Cuba made % arrests
in order to stop November 7 celebra-
tions. Twenty workers were arrested
when police raided trade union inset
ings. Three Communists, one Woman
and two men we're arrested m Gusnn-
bscoa, a suburb of Havana "ou the
charge of attempting to Organic a
public demonstration in connection
with the Soviet Anniversary" reports
the capitalist press.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-13

by Daily Worker agents at this crit
zeal period is stumbling block in
the path of the capitalist butchers.
Therefore, comrades, increase your
bur die orders, send cash payments
in advance, turn temporary bundle
ders into subscriptions. Build up a
solid barricade Of Daily Worker sales
increases into permanent bundle Or
ders, and turn permanent bundle Or
and subscriptions that will stand up
against the increasingly severe at
tacks of the imperialist butchers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-13
(By = Worker Correspondent.

SAN DIEGO, Cal-Capitalism is
dripping with the blood of untold
numbers Of men, women and chill
dren who have died from starvation
and the scores of jobless who have
committed suicide.
Here in this city II persons have
flung themselves off bridge that
spans deep canyon in the park.
The mayor OF this city is deeply
"grieved" He wants to have a net
ting put around the bridge. He says
that he does not want TO have one
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-13
Post Office Endorses Fake Relief Plan

the average of Sc to So a week, we
are expected to contribute to the
pockets of post office officials and
Tamnlany grafters or face the alter
native of losing our jobs.
Under a Soviet United States this
could not happen, because there
would be planned production of COM
modities for consumption and not for
profit. Therefore there would be no
more unemployment, because there
would be no need to throw workers
out onto the streets in order to keep
up bloated profits and dividends Of
the ruling class and their right arm,
the capitalist government. I hope
the U. S. Soviet will come soon.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-13

Pubic hearings Of workers thru
out the country are being held to
expose the starvation conditions Of
the masses. Elections will soon be
In full swing TO choose delegates to
the National Hunger March which
WIN converge ON Washington Dec.
Z. What are the Daily Worker
Clubs and Daily Worker agents and
readers doing to use these mass
hearings and conferences to spread
the Daily Worker, and through
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-13
Organize the Neuman Factory, Says Worker

what time it is. They are only al
lower to go to the toilet twice a day.
About two months ago one Of the
workers downstairs took sick from the
smell and the water. He was splitting
blood. He got infected there.
There is lot Of dirty work going
on il this shop and still the workers
do not realize what the bosses are
doing to them. It's high time that
we workers wake up in this shop. We
must organize the shop so the bosses
will not be able to step all over US.
Let us organize shop committees
under the leadership Of the Trade
Union Unity League and prepare to
strike against the miserable condi-
tons. i
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-13

Permission to hold a meeting was
demanded of the mayor several days
before the meeting. The mayor re-
fused point blank, saying that he
would mobilize the entire police force
of the city and county, the American
Legion and the National Guard to
crush the meeting If the workers held
it. Despite the threatened terror
directed against them, the workers,
under the leadership o fthe Commu-
mist Party, decided to hold the meet
ing, to be followed by parade.
Police Open Gun Fire.
When the Tampa workers arrived
for the meeting at the Labor Temple
they found the street filled with po-
lice and Legionnaires, blocking the
doorways and refusing to allow the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-13
(By . Worker Correspondent

(By Worker Correspondent
NEW YORK.-The following letter
is now being posted in all post Of
fices:
You will be asked In few days
to make contribution TO the
emergency unemployment relief
fund.
You will be EXPECTED to do
nate ONE DAYS PAY. payable In
five monthly installments. 1t is
hoped that every laborer will sub
scribe, as the need was never
greater than now.
With laborers getting IS cents an
hour and clerks IS cents, with clerks
working part time and making at
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-13
(By q Worker Correspondent

ley Worker Correspondent
HOBOKEN, N. jim this shop, the
Neuman factory, where they produce
fancy leather the worker is slave
The smell itself is enough to knock
one out. Girls are forced to work 8
hours a day for $12 week. The
bosses are behind us all the time
shouting, Hurry, hurryl" If one does
not do as they want out he or she
goes. The bosses try to buy the
workers off by telling them that they
will call them back, but once fired
a worker Is never recalled.
Many Of the workers got poison In
their hands from the chemicals that
they have to work for. A worker
can't even look at the clock to SEQ
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-13
IL JObless Suicides at San Diego Bridge

of the parks. most picturesque fea-
lures called suicide bridge"
The park commissioner is against
having a netting put on the bridge.
He says that the would-be suicides
would try the California building or
the First Ave. bridge if the Cabrillo
bridge was made suicide proof.
Let us demand that the city Off
Gals stop all the bunk about put
ting up nets. Demand that the city
give relief to the jobless. Support
the Hunger March to Washington.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-13

the opponents Of the police were
Communists. They may have been
fascist, burglars or what not. In any
case, any excuse is good enough for
the police to attack the Communist
Party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-13
Providence Demonstration

PROVIDENCE, r. l., Nov. 12.-At
large mass meeting held Saturday
afternoon in front Of the city hall,
workers voted unanimously to raufy
the delegation proposed at member
bership meeting of the Unemployed
Council of Providence, TO present the
denanrs OF the unemployed workers
to the city council when its session
took place on Monday.
Many meetings had been held dur
ing the week, and large numbers OF
workers had joined the Council, and
cheered and applauded our speakers,
voting to jam the city hall and force
relief from the city politicians. This
put a scare into these fellows, who
ing, and discussed loan Of $500, 900
Immediately called their special meet
for the $4,000 jobless workers Of Prov
idence. Our delegation Of 5, unem-
ployed workers. one citizen Of Prov
idence for over IS years, jobless and
starving, was headed by James p.
Reed, who acted as spokesman for
the delegation.
Reed pointed out that such an ap-
preparation is inadequate, and at best
could only be distributed with favor
itism to some, because it could not
possibly be stretched over $4,000 work.
ers throughout the coming cold win
ter. II evenly divided would only
give $12 to each worker, and they
would continue to starve. Reed de-
manded a substantial appropriation,
and said that 100000 would hardly
be sufficient for weekly appropria-
ton, he demanded that the unem-
ployed workers be permitted to COL
lect their own relief as they see fit,
and that they be in charge Of its
distribution. That they know their
conditions and who are victirnized
better that you fellows sitting up
here even want to know"
Harris, member of the Unem-
ployed Council demanded the right
to have . tag day on the streets Of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-13
UNEMPLOYMENT INCREASING IN
ENGLAND.

The number of unemployed work.
ers in England according to official
figures, is 2,71o,94 an increase Of
447,817 over last year.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-13
Tampa Police Push Frame>UbI
of "a Arrested on NOV. 9TH
Police, Legion Thugs Opened Fire On Workers Meeting
In Tampa, Florida

group of Tampa Florida workers yesterday told the
Daily Worker of the framep of "a Tampa workers charges
that may have serious proportions result of brutal at
tack upon workers meeting Nov celebrating the 14th
anniversary of the Russian Revolution.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-13

Providence, so that we could realize
some results, and the collection of
clothing for the workers unemployed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-13
CoverdaIe Unemployed Force Town
Council to Call Special Meeting

tify at the hearing. Delegates to the
Greater Kansas City United Front
National Hunger March Conference
will be elected.
Another mass public hearing will be
held at 7:3o p. m. in the Workers
Center, 73o Central Avenue, Nov. 10,
Wednesday.
A general membership meeting OF
all members of the Unemployed
Councils and branches in Greater
Kansas City will be held Friday, Nov
10. to make final preparations for the
public hearings and the financing OF
the Kansas City National Hunger
March delegation and the United
Front Conference.
NEW KKENSINGTON, Pa. Nov. IL
"A committee Of jobless and workers
went down to the School Board to
present the demands of the parents,
to tell of their starvation conditions
of the children that go to the New
Kensington School.
The demands we're free milk for all
of the school children, two hot lunch
es a day, free shoes and other cloth
ing.
The school authorities answered
that they could not be expected to
take care Of all of the 400 kids that
go to that school, that it was not
in their power to give the children
food and clothing. The superintend-
ant then had the gall to state that
the children would soon be getting
milk through the Unemployment
Fund which is raised through rob-
bling the teachers of part OF their
wages and through the school chill
dren of part time workers, who also
are forced to give days pay out OF
their already starvation wages in the
aluminium, the mines and the glass
house.