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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-01-26
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 4:OO-Dance orchestra. 4:30-Classic Gems. 5:OO-Maline Story Program. 5:30-Summary of Programs 5:35-Stock Reports. 5:50-Sports and Recreation -
 Captain Charles Scully. s.eO-Start and Stop-Sketch. s:15-Mormon Tabernacle Choir
 and Organ. S:45-l.iterary Digest Topics in
 Brief-Lowell Thomas. 7:O0-Amos n Andy, sketch. 7:15-Tasyeast testers 7:3O-The Quaker Man. 7:45-RoXy's Gang. S:30-Luden's orchestra. 9:00-Maytag orchestra 9:3O-Cheseb brough Real Folks -
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 Maxine Iturralde. 5:15-Welfare Council Talk. 5:25-Curtiss Program. 5:3O-Rose Martin Hobby Club, 5:45-Nea politan Quintet. 6:00-Uncle Don. 6:3O-Journal of the Air. f:45-Gramatan orchestra. 7:15-The Super-EIighWay - Gen.
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-26
SPUR FIGHT ON
ANTI-LABOR LAW
Plan Huge California
Conference May 80

SAN FRANCISCO.-Despite ire
mendous obstacles in the form Of
bureaucratic red tape in the State
Department at Sacramento, the drive
for the repeal Of the vicious GRIM
inal syndicalist law is going forward.
Elaborate plans for huge state con-
ference of all labor liberal and SYM
pathetic organizations are being made
to be held in Frenso, May 30. The
repeal measure has gained the en-
dorsement of many prominent lib
erals throughout the state as well as
conservative craft union organiza-
lions.
one significant fact was brought
to light at the local Bay Cities Con-
ference for the repeal of the GRIM
inal syndicalist law Delegates rep
resenting eight A. F, of l.. unions took
part in the discussion on the pro-
posals and plans for Conducting the
campaign and vigorously denounced
the G. S. law and reactionary forces
in this state.
The California Criminal Syndical-
ism Law is not to be confused with
the California Red Flag Law under
which Yetta Stromberg was convict
ed. 1t is the vicious C. S. law under
which the bosses railroaded the eight
Imperial Valley organizers to AZ years
in the states prisons.
The repeal movement is being mi
tiated by the Communist Party and
the international Labor Defense. APP
peals are being made to every worker,
sympathizer and liberal to help in
this tremendous task of gathering the
11l,000 signatures of registered voters
necessary to get the proposal on the
ballot
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-26
$50 Girls Revolt in North
Carolina Forced Labor Pen

CHARLOTTE, N. C.-Twelve girls
have been sentenced to the peniten-
tiary of North Carolina for a term
Of Is months to 5 years. Their
crime" was to lead an organized
revolt of $50 girls against the hor-
rible conditions existing in a house
Of correction" near Charlotte, where
they we're confined. The only real
expression the revolt took was the
burning to ashes Of two out of the
seven wooden buildings
At the trial the state first de-
manded the death penalty for the
girls, even though two of them we're
only 10 years of age and only one
over II. The death penalty was de-
manded on the grounds that COM
mitting arson in the state of North
Carolina was a capital offense. The
girls all had pleaded guilty because
of the fear under which they con-
stantly lived at the state institution.
Later four of them changed their
pleas to not guilty, but the judge re-
fused to accept the change. Instead
the charges were changed to attempt
to commit arson because of the lack
of evidence against the girls, merely
accepting the teachers word
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-26

The girls all testified about the
terrible conditions in Samarcand, the
house Of correction" Shaved heads
of the girls, forced labor, starvation
diet and whippings Of 200 clicks"
with hickory cane were usual things
and almost part Of the curriculum.
The girls after every whipping we're
forced to say Thank YOU to the
bully who beat her.
While the girls were awaiting trial
in jail, they again revolted, knowing
that the cards were stacked against
them and that they had no chance
in a oss-controlled court A jailer
was severely injured while trying to
"quell" the last revolt.
The Young Communist League
points out that though the girls put
up splendid fight against their op-
pressive conditions, they could have
gained that which they wanted in
bettering their conditions by simply
organizing all of the girls of Samar-
cand in support of demands such as
better food, better housing conditions,
pay equal to that Of young workers
on the outside for all work, abon-
ton of beatings and other methods
of terror and repression
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-26

Senator Juan SummulOng, leading
minority member of the Indepen-
dence Mission, by his statement
that immediate independence for
the Philippines was impractical.
This comes directly upon the To-
cal Interpretation of an interview
in Washington in which Manuel
QuezOn. president of the senate
and member of the mission, said
that the definition of the Philip
pine demands must be revised to
eliminate the demand for indepen-
dence. All indications point to the
collapse of immediate independence
propaganda"
This fully confirms what the Daily
Worker has been pointing out TO
the past year or more-that such
leaders as Quezon, Roxas and Os
mena have deliberately betrayed TIT
independence movement and havt
been working with American imper
iaism for the further enslavement o.
the Philippine Islands.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-26
US. Demand for Right To Dump
Ends Intern, Wheat Conference

U. S. S. r. undoubtedly is interested
in regulating the grain market. 1t
Is, however, necessary to state en-
rhatically our position that the meth
eds adopted Of deciding this import
ant question must not lead to a low
cring of the standard of life of the
working masses"
The Soviet Union statement then
refers to the hypocritical proposal of
the U. S. to limit acreage and states:
In the condition of our social sys-
tenn and with the extraordinary rate
OF development of our industries and
the growth in the number of our in
dustrial workers as well as the rising
standard of life of our working pop
ulation, an increase in production is
necessary first Of all to meet our
growing internal demand. At the
same time it will doubtless lead also
to the growth of a grain surplus to
meet our" export requirements.
ut seems to us advisable to allow
each country to decide for itself
whether to cTtail production of agri-
cultural commodities, particularly
wheat. As gar as the U. S. S. r. is
concerned, other countries can only
be interested in the extent of its
wheat exports and sales abroad"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-26
Mobilize Subscribers and
Sympathetic Workers in
$4,000 f'Daily" Drive

we are nov working out plans &c
see that all Party Sections and mass
| organizations both in Detroit and
outlying cities obtain quotas OF
amount of money to be raised dur
ing Drive" writes S. c., new District
Daily Worker Agent for District T.
Instructions on Drive for $35 900, also
being sent to various units in Dis
trict 10' according to letter from NJ
w. DIV Agent Have received
coupon books and are distributing to
districts today" writes 3. s., District
9, Minneapolis, MINI. 80.
From A. r. N. new DIV Rep.
Chicago, comes word of "mobiliza-
ton of all members Sunday, May 81,
to go out to subscribers with coupon
books and sub blanks" Emergency
Conference also called for Wednesday
May 81, when quotas for all organi-
cations will be set. I'VE, will thru
the language fractions have clubs
and restaurants like the Russian,
Lithuanian and Workers Clubs ar
range two day benefit days for the
Daily" adds the Chicago Rep,
District 3, Philadelphia. makes ex-
cellent plans for raising funds.
Each Unit" writes E, S., District
DIV Rep must visit all readers in
their territory to secure donations,
draw them into the "Save Daily"
Drive, organize them into Daily
Worker Clubs, etc" Plans also being
made in Philadelphia TO have every
Language Buro, Workers 0rganiza-
fions, Units, etc, send in list of in
dividusls who can donate SO or more
to the Drive. Each Unit in District
; must devote major time to the
Daily Worker" concludes T.. s. Grand
Rapids, Mich, also mobilizing SYM
pathizers and subscribers. I'VE eX-
pect to call a special meeting to or
ganize a Daily Worker Club" writes
F. M, Section DIV. Agent.
More Red Builders Reports
Red Builders News Clubs should
send reports at once on progress OF
Campaign in their sections. No
time must be lost in making pre-
parations for meetings, planning
leaflets, agendas, etc, distributing
"Dailies" and organizing Daily
Workers Clubs. No opportunity
for gaining friends can afford TO
be overlooked. Every reader or
sympathizer is a possible Daily
Worker Club member. Factories
and shops should be well supplied
with Daily Workers. "a copy sold
"a friend gained" will save the
Daily Worker from suspension.
Rush Orders For Lansing, Mich.
Michigan Hunger March en- route
to Lansing, Mich, to present. unen-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-26
FORMER LIMOGES
IN TRAINING NOW

NEW YORK.-Carrying placards
bearing such slogans as THE way
of Jesus and Gandhi is stronger
than Guns" some 200 pacifists, So
cialists, rabbis and various others
marched to Union Square Saturday
afternoon and held so-called pro-
test meeting against the war man.
euvers which took place over New
York.
Included in this company, were
the Young Peoples Socialist League
the Rev John Haynes Holmes, sup
porter of the yellow Socialist Party
betrayers of the working class, and
Rabbi Stephen Wise, the great cru
sader who so ably supported the last
world war which the imperialists
said was "a war to end war"
The former Reverend MIR, A. J.
Music, head of Brookwood Labor
College, whom VIM, z. Foster recent
ly again exposed as a social-fascist
of the most dangerous kind, this
strikebreaker was the chairman. The
Women's Peace Society organized
the show.
Before the last bosses war, these
same hypocrites staged the same
kind of performances and at the
first call to arms by the Wall St
government, they jumped on the
band wagon and used their elo-
quence to support the jingoes, war
profiteers and butchers of the work
ing class. The social-fascist SIP
and Yipsels who sold out the work.
ing class in the last world war have
started early to rehearse their part
in the coming imperialist slaughter
This should serve as a warning to
all class conscious workers to expose
these traitors and line up for defense
Of the Soviet Union against whom
the war preparations are being
'speedesk up with furious speed, .s.rs,.
49, o. H.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-26
Girls Driven to Prostitution to Keep Jobs

OAKLAND, Calm one of the
Iich Women's clubs. where the wait
fesSes are working long hours for
small wages, where the slop is fed
and good food dumped into garbage.
We see so many examples of prosti-
tuition that it make one boil at the
system which corrupts the young
girls, some of them mere children
lwho should be at school.
On the other hand this is almost
In line with the policy of the old
fake A. p. Of L. Union, which on
many occasions as much as told us
girls in plain words that we ought
to make money ION the side" and
not kick on the non-fight policy,
when our wage-scale is not given.
Well, this making money on the
side is clearly seen at this exclusive
swomen's club house. The head chef,
}bout so years of age, always chooses
loung girls to give them something
Jon the side" for the privilege of tax
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-26

intended to limit the Russian quote
to whta was exported under the Ger.
with agricultural economy at prob
ably the lowest efficiency in the
world, whereas now Soviet agricul-
tural technique is the highest Gar
ist Russia exported 4,672, 800 tons c.
wheat yearly before the war, whereag
the Soviet Unioncrop last year hal
about 100000 tons for export, and
the greatly increased acreage th-s
year will make the export larger,
Fair Quota
The Soviet Union is willing to TAX
a quota giving the same proportional
share that Czarist Russia had, which,
in view of the large increase of Can
adam, American and Argentine eX-
ports during the period when block
ade, civil war and boycott had ruined
for the time the Soviet Union wheat
industry, raised loud walls from the
countries who then stole the markets.
The Soviet Union statement wipes
out the dumping" argument as a
preliminary, The USSR in the Pan
European conference now taking place
proposes an agreement that no coun-
try should dump wheat or anything
else. This proposition spreads woe
among capitalist countries also, for
not only are they dumping, as the
Soviet Union is not dumping, but
likewise any such arrangement takes
away their most used propaganda
piont against the USSR, bad as that
propaganda argument may be.
Can Compete
But the USSR answer on the ques-
ton of wheat goes further. 1t points
out that the wheat crop anticipated
in the Soviet Union is 36,500,0O0 tons, ="
and that it will not be dumped (sold
abroad below the price inside the
country) but nevertheless, that the
portion to be sold abroad can COM
pete successfully with the wheat of
capitals tcomtries. The statement
declares simply:
New principles of State and COL
IectiVe farming. combined with the
advantages of a system of planned
economy and utilization of modern
machinery makes it possible for the
Union of Socialist Soviet Republics
to enter the world market with a
high quality of grain at lower costs
al production than a number Of
other countries.
Differs On Causes of Crisis
"Some of the preceding speakers
have referred to the question of the
causes of the present agricultural
crisis. We entirely disagree with
them in their Interpretation of this
problem. We consider the crisis IL
rectly due to contradictions in the
capitalist system.
No Partner Of Famine
The U.S.SR. statement then goes
on to reject the proposition Of both
the U. S. and European countries for
an artificial fixed high price for
wheat on tn eworld market as fol-
lows:
CAS- All exporter with large and
constantly growing prospects, the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-26
ScOttsbOrO Defense
Conferences

May 26.
Washington. d. c., Gahlean
Fishermens Hall, 800 F. ST., s.
w at $3.50 p. m.
May 81.
Pittsburg, Pa.-At the Pythian
Temple, 20l1 Center Ave.
So Norwalk, Conn, at u So
Main st,
May 20
st. Paul, Minn.-HalI to be an
nounced
Boston, Mass.--At the Cairo
Hall, 528 Massachusetts Ave, at
Q p, m.
May 20.
Cleveland, Ohio, at Spiro Hall,
1904 Scoville Ave.
Minneapolis, Minn.-At t e
Workers Center, 12412 S. 4th st.
Duluth-Superior, MINI. Hall to
be announced.
May 81.
Chattanooga, Tenn,-Hall to be
announced.
.Newark-At 90 Ferry St, at 2:3O
p. m.
Elizabeth, N. j. Hall to be an
nounced
ST Louis, Mo, at Hibernian Hall,
1919 Finney Ave, at 2 p. m.
June 2
Hartford, Conn, at q Albany
Ave.
Stamford, Conn, at 49 Pacific
st.
June 5.
Springfield, Conn.
New Brunswick, N. AT the
Workers Home, IL Plum ST., at
2:30 p. m.
Indianapolis, Ind.-At Odd Fell
lows Hall, 53012 Indiana Ave, at
1880 p. m.
Baltimore, Md.-At Galilean
Fishermen's Hall, All w. Biddle
St, at 8 p. m.
Gary, Ind.-At 2 pm. Hall to be
announced.
June G
Chester, Pa, at Lithuanian
Hall, 4th and Upland Streets.
June
Danbury, Conn, at Ia Ives st.
Gary, Ind, at CroatianN Hall,
2Srd and Washington ST., at . pm.
Kansas City, p. m. Hall later.
June IL
New Haven, Conn, at SO Howe
st.
June IL
New Britain, Conn.
June Is
Bridgeport, Conn, at 81 Cannon
st,
June II
Gary, Ind.-At Croatian Hall.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-26

| chop stickers with knives, shears and
openers
Thrown on Scrap Pile
Let us turn to the Mill hospital
on May 10 where iodine perneates
the room and the doctors are very
busy. Three workers were so fati-
gued they fell down and they were
brought to the hospital. One of them
in particular, doubler on NO. .
had been unconscious for several
hours before anybody noticed him.
His fellow worker discovered him in
a prone position when he wanted to
ask for some help, because he him
self was falling down too. This "all
in" or cramps as they call it often
Injuries the workers for life. These
workers who are so injured lose their
jobs or are placed on the scrap pile.
Workers, we must organize into
militant revolutionary union, the M.
w T. l.. and fight against the at
tacks of these parasites
Metal Slave.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-26

LONDON England, May 24,-The
International wheat conference has
broken up, with nothing accom-
plished but the establishment Of a
committee to gather statistics. The
countries concerned recognize that
the collapse of the negotiations is di-
rectly the fault of the stand taken
by the United States, which, in spite
of statements to the contrary by Nc
Kelvie, the American delegates, is
determined to continue dumping of
wheat. McKelvie unblushingly de-
clared after adjournment that 1.-THE
United States did not want any con-
ference in the first place, but, since
there VS. one, is glad that the con-
ference did not undertake to do more
than it did He repeated that U. S,
would never agree to an export quo
ia system" Then he made an at
tack on the Soviet Union!
American capitalist papers expose
by their use Of misleading headlines
their bitter hatred of the workers
and farmers government of the So
Wet Union, which in a forml SITE
ment of classics clarity and frank
ness at the London wheat confer
ence has punctWed whole series
of diplomatic balloons flown by cap
italist governments at the interna
tional wheat conference now going
n.
The typical capitalist press line is;
Soviet demands right to dump at
will" New York Times and other
paperS).
What actually happened is that
the continental countries of Europe,
through their mouthpiece, Poland,
proposed a great corsortium, with
quotas allotted to each wheat export
ing country.
Hyp0critical Proposal
This the U. s. delegate, S. r Nc
KeIvie, countered with proposal for
limiting the supply produced in each
country. 1t is obvious that the U.
S. proposition is fake, put forward
for diplomatic reasons, and with the
hope of either limiting the Soviet
Unions growing wheat industry a
vital part of the Five-Year Plan, or,
in the more probable event that the
Soviet Union would refuse to reduce
the quantity of food products, to be
able to lay the blame for the col
lapse of the wheat conference on
1.-The Reds"
The purely offensive nature of the
U, S. proposal is evident from the
least consideration. 1t is absolutely
impossible for the U. S. to limit
acreage. 1t would require laws for
that purpose in each of the 48 states,
and an army of deputy sheriffs larger
than the U. S. army in the world
war to enforce these laws. Or it would
require a constitutional amendment,
and an rmy of deputy u. S. mar
shalls numbering millions.
Quota Joke
The quota proposal likewise had a
joker in it it was explained by con-
tinental Europeon statesmen as being
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-26

The organization of the Ang Ba-
kong Katipunan, under the leader
ship of Manuel Roxes, was step
in the direction of submitting to
American Imperialism under the
guise of economic development" of
the islands,
These startling statements on the
open betrayal of the independence
movement follows the visit to the
islands of Senator Vandenberg, a
close supporter of Hoover. Vanden-
berg promised independence in 80
years, and the Philippine Herald,
along with the other bourgeois
spokesman in the islands, accepted
this line. The object is in these 30
years to tighten the yoke of Wall st,
so tightly on the Philippines that
it will be more difficult to tear it Off.
Those who really lead the struggle
for independence, the Communist
Party of the Philippines, are jailed
and charged with "sedition."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-26
COMRADE BRILL
DIES IN BUFFALO
Active to Last - Mass
Funeral Planned

BUFFALO, N. Y, May 25.-Com-
rade Franklin B. Brill, prominent
Communist leader and secretary OF
the District Control Commission of
the Communist Party, died here yes
terday morning.
Comrade Brill was vigorously ac-
tive to the last moment in the strug-
giles of the working class against
starvation, wage cuts, boss terror, and
theoretically combating the socialist
party and A. F. of L. misleaders. He
was especially active in the work
against imperialist war and for the
defense of the first workers republic
the Soviet Union
A mass funeral is being arranged
under the auspices of the Communist
Party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-26

time only and with their wages
slashed, are now confronted with new
wage cuts.
The workers must slave ten hours
every day, whether they are on a
day or night shift. The Street Mill
Department was working two or three
days every fifteenth day, whenever
a small order came in On these or
ders the workers are forced to speed
up in order to finish them as quick
as possible regardless of the fact that
there is Blue Law on Sundays, but
Charlie Schwab has enough power
10 disobey any law, if it means his
profits.
Over three thousand tons of sheet
iron has to be produced every week
at the Sheet Mill Department. Most
Of the workers sweat over fire and
gases in the hot mill. Here there is
smoking and dust bangs and noises
everywhere, by the car workers who
break thru the rolls, then there are
noises from the stickers pullers, who
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-26
Jimcrow Mexicans In CowelI, California

Cowell, Cal
lear Friends
This is company town, owned by
he Portland Cement Co. l have
orked in company towns all my
He and can say that they are ideal
for the company Anybody's busi-
Iess is everybody's business. The
)stmaster is always company en-
oye and very often a company STOOL
lnyone receiving the Daily Worker,
other papers of that type, would
y known Immediately to the COM
hny officials. Any money orders
sade out receive the same publicity
I'D are reported.
8The mailed fist is used here in
Ealing with radicals" Many and
ANY a man has gone down the line
Ecause he talked too much. The
Smpany has evolved a system which
wonder for breeding stool
geons. The mems confidence is
|lItestn ANYONE may,writeL to tho
II -NFst. -
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-26

manager with suggestions for i'm
proving things. and the place has
been improved many times by
eliminating those who wished to bet
ter conditions.
AS near as can tell, the workers
are about evenly divided between
Mexicans, Portuguese and Americans
About 200 are employed or probably
225. The quarry men work 10 hours,
shopmen and a few others also 10
hours, while the mill itself works
only two shifts-12 hot, dusty hours
A Wage-cut was put into effect when
the mill started up this year. Labor
(unsklled) is being paid 35 cents an
hour, while skilled labor gets from
40 to 60 cents per hour; very few
get more than so cents an hour At
tempts are being made to keep the
workers divided by having the Mex
leans cat by themselves and the
Americans eat by themselves, etc.
v ~ "a Worker.