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The daily worker., 1931-09-28
Belmont County Grand Jury
Frees Murderer of Striker

ST. CLAIRSVILLE, Ohio, Sept. 27
Joseph Peterlin, the mine guard
who murdered 16-year old William
Simon, member of the National Min
ers Union during picketing early in
the strike near here, was released
yesterday. The murder of Simon
was one of the most brutal during
the strike. He was sitting on the
ground, at the side of the picket
line, not at the time taking any part
in 1t.
Peterlin recognized him as an
active organizer of young miners
and a member of the union and OF
the Young Communist League. The
gunman deliberately shot Simon to
death. Enormous crowds of angry
miners and members of their fami-
lies laid siege to the Jail demanding
Peterlin's punishment, while the
sheriff rushed to issue statement
generating the murderer, and prac-
tically praising his crime. Thousands
gathered at the funeral of Simon
This was in Belmont County, where
the county government appropriates
ta5.oo0 TO hire and deputize gang
The daily worker., 1931-09-28
Governor Sends Troops
To Kill Them for
Eating Cattle

ranches owned by Ross Neal and
G. N. Carr, other wealthy U. S. cit
izen The peasantry seized and
slaughtered cattle for food
John Smaile, U. S. consul at En-
senada, has filed protests, with the
governor of Baja California and with
the state department at Washington
Governor Carlos y Lerdo de Tejada,
the governor of Baja California, has
sent troops to attack the peasants.
Starving Masses
These ranches were obtained for a
few cents an acre by American
friends of the grating Mexican gov
ernment officials, some of them as
long ago as the reign of the die
tator. Porfirio Diaz. The peasantry
on the land thus granted TO foreign
exploiters we're cruelty
driven off, with loss Of all their poor
by the government sold
iers. The Mexican peasants, corn
cred now on the poorer land, have
been starving during the present eco
nomic depression, as have also the
horribly underpaid and often unem-
ployed workers of the small cities
and the agricultural laborers.
A short time ago there was an
The daily worker., 1931-09-28

tters to shoot up the striking miners.
The Belmont County grand jury
meeting here yesterday also took up
the cases of various strike leaders
and threw out the criminal syndi-
calism charges against Hobert Siyert,
Edward Rebuilt, Tony Minerich, Steve
Rompa, Henry Wald, and Frank
Pasich.
Leo Thompson was convicted of
conspiracy, rioting and assault" in
Washington, Pa, while out on bail
after his arrest in Ohio on criminal
syndicalism charges. He faces five
year term in Pennsylvania unless his
case is reversed on appeal, and can
be sentenced to ten years in Ohio if
convicted there. Thompson came to
Pennsylvania to act as National
Miners Union section organizer at
Canonsburg and his arrest took place
along with other arrests because
miners of that vicinity demonstrated
against a meeting conducted by the
strike breaking United Mine Work.
ers of America and successfully de-
Tended themselves against the gang
sters of the U, M. w. A.
The daily worker., 1931-09-28
DEMONSTRATION
FOR TOM MOONEY
ON SATURDAY
All Workers Called to
Union Square

NEW YORK.-The rising mass
movement to free Tom Mooney will
reach a new crest this Saturday,
october 3, when at 1890 p. m. thou
sands of workers will gather in
Union Square and demand the i'm
mediate unconditional release of the
man who has become the symbol of
the struggle against capitalist class
justice on every field, This demon
stration will give a powerful impetus
not only to the Mooney defense cam
paign, but to the fight to free the
Harlan, Kentucky, prisoners, "a of
whom are threatened with death, the
Scottsboro boys, the five framed-up
Paterson silk workers, the Imperial
Valley and Centralia prisoners, as
well as all other militants now be-
hind the bars Of the bosses jails.
The New York District of the In
ternational Labor Defense is arrang-
ing this mass protest.
The October 8 demonstration will
have a real united front character,
uniting rank and file workers in both
the revolutionary and reactionary
trade unions, shop groups, members
of fraternal organizations, employed
and unemployed, native and foreign
born, Negro and white. 1t will be a
fitting answer to the efforts of the
Socialist Party, together with certain
fake A. F. of L. "lefts" led by the
Rev. A. J. Music, to confuse the
workers and defeat the united front
in behalf of Mooney.
All workers organizations revo-
lutionary trade unions, A. F. Of l..
locals, clubs, shop groups, etc.-are
also urged to send delegates to the
Mooney Harlan -Scottsboro Defense
Conference that has been called by
the New York I. L. D. for Sunday
October IL, at 10 a. m, in Irving
Plaza, 18th st. and Irving Place.
Elect one delegate for every five
members.
The daily worker., 1931-09-28
Two Organizers Shot
At. Beaten, Exile d
BY Harlan Gunmen

NORTON, Va, Sept. 27,-Tom
Myerscough and James Grace, or
ganizers of the National Miners
Union, were arrested at Neon, KY,
thrown in Jail at jenkins, and
yesterday turned over to the thugs
of the Harlan County coal oper-
atorS.
The company gunner took both
men to the Virginia line, and
slugged them and shot at them.
Myerscough was beaten up first
and driven along into Virginia
until he made his escape to APP
plachia, Va, in a badly bruised
condition, with his clothing torn,
but without actually being hit by
She bullets fired at him.
Nothing is known of the fate
If Grace. Further details are
being sent in a day or so.
The daily worker., 1931-09-28

the steel workers, to see if the A. F.
of L. is able 10 keep back action. The
railroad executives met a few days
ago and passed resolution to de-
clare wage cuts, but to wait to see
how the steel workers took their cut.
In Lawrence, Mass, where the tex
tile bosses have announced a general
wage cut for October 18th, the Ma
tional Textile Workers Union is mob
ilizing the workers for action. A
mass meeting will be held in Union
Hall Tuesday night at which the
workers will voice their desire for or
ganization and strike as an answer
to the advancing attacks of the
bosses.
Gary workers, where the United
States steel corporation rules the
government, on September 25th pack
ed Turner Hall to listen TO Frank
spector andswildly cheered the call
CONTINUED ON PAGE THBEE)
The daily worker., 1931-09-28
WAR SPREADS
.INMANCHURIA
THREAT USSR
League Of N a tion S
Backs japanese
Robbers
Against Wall Street
Lzvestia Warns of
Danger to Soviet

NEW YORK.--War is spreading
in Manchuria, with the Japanese
militarists increasing their lombard
ments, spreading their troops
throughout Chinese territory and
nearer to the Soviet Union. At the
same time the League of Nations on
Saturday, under the direct order Of
British imperialism, declared Jap
anese imperialism was within its
rights in extending its colonial en-
pire in Manchuria. through it's pres
ent war.
This is the expression Of the joint
interests of British and Japanese i'm
perialism in this section of China,
as against the United States. Wall
Street has been seeking to obtain
control of Manchurian territory and
its railroads as against the japanese,
and the action Of the League Of Ma
tions shows the sharpening fight be-
tween these powers over the present
drive in Manchuria.
An Associated Press dispatch re-
ported that British troops in Hong
kong went into action against cfif1s'
ese who demonstrated against Jap
anese robbery in Manchuria. The
Argyll and Sutherland Highlands
made bayonet charge against
Chinese at a mass meeting. How
many we're killed or injured is not
reported.
"Izvestia," the Soviet newspaper,
declares that the action of Japan in
Manchuria is war in the most lit
eral sense" "Izvestia" also warns
that japanese Imperialism is rapidly
pushing the war front towards the
Soviet Union. 1t calls on all work.
ers to act in the defense of the So
Wet Union; to expose the imperialist
grasping of colonies in China, the
murder of workers and peasants. and
the imperialist rivalries which are
covered in the capitalist countries by
the most lying phrases.
In Nanking, Charles A. Lindbergh
and his wife, who claim to be on a
so-called mission of mercy" in the
flood area, were exposed when thou
sands of Chinese workers who are on
the verge of starvation, flocked
around Lindbergh's plane and asked
for food. Lindbergh quickly got out
of the way as his intention was not
to alleviate the suffering of the
Chinese" but to strengthen the hand
of Wall Street. Many starving work
ers were severely beaten by the po-
lice and soldiers because they dared
to ask the Lindberghs for food on
their flight of mercy"
The daily worker., 1931-09-28
PAY CUTS SWEEP
ON; R. R. BOSSES
WORKUPTACTICS
Warning to Workers
to Act Now On
Pay Cuts

NEW YORK.-Wage cuts are ccm
ing soon on the railroads. The lead
ing spokesman for the railroads,
Daniel Willard, president Of the B. &
o. made that clear recently. The
strategy Of the bosses has already
been made clear enough to warn
every railroad worker. The New York
Times Gums it up, for the bosses. as
follows:
Should the railway manage
ments attempt to reduce wages
now, and should the unions fail to
acquiesce, a long period of ncgotia-
tion would follow"
It is not a question of should
They are going to cut wages and
have decided upon it, and they look
for the union to "acquiesce.' If they
don't do it openly, the railroads are
prepared to put over the cut and
then begins a long bubble TO wear
down the resistance of the workers.
In the same Times story there are
several admissions that the coming
wage cut for the railroad workers is
not the first. There have been plenty
already, through part-time, stagger
system, and through speed up. The
Times admits it in this way
"While wage rates on railways
remain at the levels that prevailed
before the depression the real wages
of railway labor have been curtail-
ed drastically through part time or
full unemployment"
And again on wage cuts through
speed up they say:
THE efficiency of railway labor
in recent years has been greatly
enhanced by the use of better
equipment and as a result the rail
ways moved record volume of
traffic In 1929 with fewer employees
than they had ten years before"
Even Willard of the B. g. o. ad-
mits this saying:
81 regret the necessity for the
furloughing of men on the Balti-
more g. Ohio Railroad. One third
of the number we employed in 1928
over the whole system has been
laid off. regret very much the
necessity for that"
willard will also regret" the big
wage slash he will soon order
CHICAGO, Sept. 81. - A general
wage cut will be put into effect here
Of from 1S . IS per cent in the
Stewart Warner Corporation. This
company has cut wages before.
PROVIDENCE, r. l., Sept 27,--
The daily worker., 1931-09-28
Textile Workers
Act Against Pay Cuts
Mass Meet In Lawrence to Rally Workers 10 Fight
General Pay Gut Bosses Anxious Over
Move Of Steel Workers

NEW Marshalling all their forces
to further the general wage cut drive, capital
lists, their government and the A. F. of L. lead
ership are extending the pay slashes to new
industries and plants and are now preparing
for an attack the railroad and the building trades
The action of the workers in preparing strike gain
ing momentum particularly fronts steel and textiles
In many the workers discuss nothing else but the
The daily worker., 1931-09-28
Imperial Valley Prisoners
Are Being Sentenced Now

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Sept. 27.-
The cases Of the Imperial Valley
prisoners came up before the Cali
fornia State Prison Board Saturday,
These prisoners, given indetermi-
nate sentences by the trial court are
now having their actual sentences
fixed, within the limits of zone to
fourteen years, "two to 28 years or
three to AZ years set by the trial
court.
Every workers organization, local
and national, as well as prominent
individuals, should at once send tele-
grams demanding the immediate re-
The daily worker., 1931-09-28
200 Spanish Sailors Jailed
In Widespread Wage Protest

aboard the battlesllfp Jaime, the
cruiser Espana, six torpedo boats,
and four submarines.
The sailors of the Chilean navy re-
volted ON September 2. The British
sailors refused to continue with the
naval maneuvers on September Is in
protest against the wage cuts of the
Macdonald hunger budget and the
government has not yet dared to send
them out again. September 26 the
petty officers of the Spanish navy
we're jailed for protesting against the
miserable wages of the Spanish capi-
talist repubD"
The daily worker., 1931-09-28

Capitalist press reports from Ense-
NADIA, in Baja Gower) California
the Mexican state which occupies a
long peninsula extending south from
California, U.S.A, tell of movement
of $50 armed Mexican peasants led
by Francisco Flores, against the own
ership of great ranches by U. S. cap
italists. The peasantry have invaded
the 1900 acre ranch called Circle
Bar" owned by George Gordon Moore
of New York City, and also the
The daily worker., 1931-09-28
Steel WORKERS. REJECT THE CUT! ORGANIZE TO STRIKE
Capitalist and Socialist

IF you swallow ceyworded capitalist
nobody favos cuts Hoover is supposed to be SO
sad time yet to brush
you But if Hoover is against wage
did he cut the of workers on his own California ranch?
of Ohio Chairman of the republican party ysn
"dpoe" cuts AS socholder in the u s.
Corporation, however, he is cutting
Clifford head of the American Telephone and Telegraph
employment relief says-accordng papers-hat Firmly
Of the A T & T. Co., Clifford cutting
they a of liars trying to fool you
what do the socialists about the wage cts2 Are they any
different?
pretend but they don't pretend to de
po capitalism socialists" pretend to depore"
capitalism cuts But actually they support capitalism
cuts And here is the proof:
Norman Thomas chief of party
the OUT in his paper the New Leader OF September @
opens the illustrate the fundamental
unsoundness Of cruel and crazy , capitalist I system ,s m m 81.
t bt9 him and senator Tes Mr. clifford or Hoover That
think they against capital
Bu-verything he is in favor of capitalism!
he talks about cuts First he says
This necessarily involves maintaining and
Wage cuts step in exactly the wrong direction
the head of the republican party Mr. Fe says Listen
is busine to pay which will maintain
standards of living Anything below that economically u
you Senator lying after Nor
ecion"-what he say2 He continues thus:
Nevertheless a
is a to what do by negatives"
that the socialist leader that
although wage cuts wrong" nothing
capitalist which is lie because
CAN do something about it-he adds:
In this when prices falling and the purchasing
dollar increasing wOrkerscan capitalist beat this
ying?-Editor); defaon
order reduce costs
of
Workers Party AND
STRIKE AGAINST WAGE cUTs you
do it right
think do moth
be- That really helps the bosses
the inevitable by keeping you
quiet
Still more proceeds mourn
workers the United States
which captass of "a partial policy of
which will English terms of dollars
with American trade
Since being
British capitalists Thomas should
address capitalists
British Socialists both Of whom
initiation.
But how initiation reduces say.
you reduction in REAL
workers that their won't
buy a before-inflation is cut!
Thomas of the American social
lists" propose to be done? He writes
between further deaiOn
initiation. S the latter that should be tried"
apologizng for the direct the capitalists
making think that
anything socialist"
capitalists another initiation
British workers!
excellent advice American capitalists beat their
socialist there
strike
there them!
the capitalists that they another
Party you way Organize
today strike against
grievance shopl Prepare
your soIdy
revolutionary of
Organize and strike!
The daily worker., 1931-09-28

Two hundred petty officers Of the
Spanish navy were arrested Satur-
day and jailed for protesting against
the refusal of the government to in
crease their pay while the pay Of the
higher officers had been increased.
The petty officers, who are the skilled
workers among the rank and file
aboard the ships, sent a telegram of
protest to the Minister of the Navy.
In order to prevent the militancy of
these workers in the navy from
spreading to other ships the govern
ment has issued statement denying
the arrests. The protest occurred
The daily worker., 1931-09-28
RAID "DAlLY
WORKED" in
ENCLAN D
Socialist" Macdonald
Orders Censorship of
Communist Paper
Step Toward Fascism
Capitalists Hail Traitor
SnoWden
Gable by IuprecoiT)

LONDON, Sept 27.-On Friday the
police raided the offices of the Daily
Worker, bearing warrants for the ar
rest of the two partners of the pub
fishing company, the manager and a
printer, on charges of incitement to
mutiny The partners and manager
of the publishing company could not
be found but the printer was ar
rested. The building was ransacked.
The police threatened to maintain
occupation of the building until the
wanted persons are arrested.
The raid occurred shortly before
the paper went to press. The police
delayed the printing of the paper,
examined all the manuscripts, as a
result of which Saturdays issue of
the Daily Worker appeared much
censored. Reports Tor Inprecorr were
confiscated.
AS the demand for elections in
Great Britain gets stronger it is be-
coming clearer that the demand for
elections is nothing but the prepara-
tion for fascist dictatorship. Lord
d'Abernon, one of the leading British
economists pointed this out to the
American Chamber of Commerce in
London on Friday. He warned that
the present world crisis was not
merely a passing phenomenon or a
trade cycle" but was something far
deeper and more serious and menac-
ing than that" He stated quite sharp
ly that this present crisis means the
sharpening of the class struggle, in
the United States as we'll as in Great
Britain. "The menace of a social dis
CONTINUED ON PAGB THREEI
The daily worker., 1931-09-28
Starving Mexican Peasants
Rise Against u. S. Ranchers

unemployed demonstration in the
northern cities of Baja California.
The state government is one of
the most ruthlessly exploiting and
grating in Mexico, and makes large
income for it's officials from the wide
open dives and gambling joints of
Tia Juana, border town. This gov
ernor was reported impeached Friday
for graft, one example being build
ing a $1,000 monument that fell to
pieces in three days.
The daily worker., 1931-09-28

lease of these prisoners. The ddress
is "Neumiller, State Prison Board,
San Quentin, Cal" Let the prison
board know that the working class
demands the release of thees rail-
roaded workersl
kilograms Sent
NEW YORK.-Telegrams from the
international Labor Defense, the
Trade Union Unity League, Unem-
ployed Councils and other militant
labor organizations insisting upon the
release OF the seven Imperial Valley,
CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE)
The daily worker., 1931-09-28
423 Delegates From
48 Steel 7 OaVnsDraqv
Demands for Fight

PITTSBURGH Pa. Sept 27With steel workers jammng
hall to the PLATFORM with all aies and platform crowded. the
delegates still arriving the Metal Workers Industrial League nation
rayng for organization and fight against 10
per wage cut opened Sunday morning at II o'clock
TOwnsSe Delegaes
fom48 steel
n Johnstown
iron
natonas r,anayzd tn SITUATE the M Il t
nauao O. III delegates h ke
equal work. pd il d
remain pay
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the situation nt it @
Wemuha eoml unions snwb se on dr i
aurderthe Iaderi o. tn atonh Ct vi
united m actor
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also the in the in
Freare fa afnneda action! We wi prints o m II ever
Thsr -sconern ceproesw have @ o d err
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The daily worker., 1931-09-28

where right now steel workers are
preparing action to resist wage cuts.
In Pittsburgh the fight Of the entire
working class is now centered against
wage cuts. The bosses are watching
The daily worker., 1931-09-28

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The daily worker., 1931-09-28

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The daily worker., 1931-09-28

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-09

Bob was grinning at her. You'd better B
thinking about Miss Weatherby"
ct am. I've just been thinking that If
were the kind Of man I'd like for my lover D
be and Miss weatherby were another ma
I'd kick her so far she'd have to learn Is nev
languages"
You'd be q cave man. eh?"
"In tell the world. I like men rough.
like to have them fight and swear and brea
up things"
I'm bet you'd slap a man who tried stuf
like that on you. However, what came II
for was to warn you that you'd better 20 cas-
on those cigarettes around here. II I werS
you"
IF were you" snapped Bea 'Id get bacl'
to my own desk and quit being o nuisance'
You'd make q good reformer."
Then came the arrival home Of old d. 8,
Everybody took 1t for granted that this would
be the signal for Miss Weatherby to let I'd
with her lightning. They knew she had painted.
up trouble aplenty. When she got through thi4
old place would be nothing but q splinter al
daubed up with blood.
D. s. was due in of his sleeper at about l
O'Clock. At $50 Miss weatherby was seen ID
be stealing about among the girls, whispering
something into each ones ear. All Of then'
giggled. Gloria Tindel, the drug store blond
who presided 1T the switchboard smiled like
Q third-row chorus girl. BET your sweet kfe|
old thing. It's sure an idea"
Then the curtain went up The big chief
walked In at the front door with smile on,
his face that could only come from . sincere
expectation Of finding Bea licked. He had had,
q good nights rest on the train. good shave
and o bully breakfast Now If this affair-ae
this point he saw Gloria.
what th-?" It was just o gasp. A help
less gasp. There sat Gloria pufing languidly
on o cigarette in Q long pink holderi
The old man dared not walt to say the words
that were on his mind. And there was no tell
ing what might be going on in the general
once. He strobe furiously into the big room
and stared some more. Oh, lots more. Water
loot
OF the 10 girls sitting around the room &c
tables, desks, adding machines and other what
nots, 16 were smoking cigarettes. A girl bent
over o sheet Of paper In her typewriter while
the fumes were being exhaled slowly from her
dainty nostrils. Another girl sat with her feet
on the top Of her desk. while cigarette hung.
q IL Bea, from her lips. Yonder was gira
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