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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-25
Steel Workers
Meeting
Sat- Plan Strike
Capitalists Greet AFL
Statement AS Offer
To Strikebreak
ut Is Morally Wrong"
Green-Hoover Met To
Plan Wage Cut Drive

NEW YORK.-Great satisfaction is
derived by the magnates of the United
States Steel Corporation, the United
States Rubber Co, as well as other
Morgan and Rockefeller interests
from the mild statements Of officials
Of the American Federation Of Labor
on the OCCASION of the October LIST
pay cut announcements.
Particularly, the expressions of Will
liam Green and Matthew Vol are
exactly what the exploiters expected
from their faithful servants in the
A. F. of L.
After remaining silent for while,
Green came out with q carefully
worded statement, constructed not to
hurt the feelings of the wage cutters,
and to mislead the workers.
The strongest point in Green's
statement is that wage cutting "is
morally wrong and economically I'M
sound" In order to cover up the
extent Of the wage cutting drive,
Green goes SO far as to minimize
the amount of profits that the u.
S. Steel Corporation will make out
Of the ten per cent wage slash. Green
Gays this will mean loss to the
workers of $25OoO,OOO, when every
capitalist sheet sets the figure at
from $39oOO,OOO to $5o,OO0,O0o.
Green Against Striges
Especially great satisfaction is ex-
pressed in capitalist quarters in the
fact that Green purposely avoids any
mention Of strike" and that this
statement on the actual announce
ment Of the wage cuts is milder than
any ever made by Green in the past.
Most typical of the capitalist greet
ings of the A. F. Of L. reaction to the
wage cut drive is the following taken
from the Herald Tribune special
Washington correspondent:
ut was considered significant,
however, that in this first formal
statement from the American Fed
COMMITTED on PAGE THREEI
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-25
STRIKES IN FUR
SHOPS DECIDED
Workers Hear Unity
Conference Report

A huge open air meeting of fur
workers was held yesterday after
noon at goth st. and Seventh Ave.
to hear the report of last nights So
called unity conference" j. Vino
gradsky, one of the delegates. j
Schiller, active furriers. and Sam
Bert, reported on their fight to have
an open conference in the presence
Of the mass of the furriers who ara
most vitality concerned about this
question of unity.
The workers responded enthhsi-
astically to the program of the In
dustrial Union for real unity in the
shop in the struggle for better con-
ditions. The meeting pledged sup
port to the Industrial Union and de-
cided to spread the shop strikes
throughout the industry. 1t was also
decided that the workers march in
organized ranks to the conference
which is to take place on Monday,
and regardless of any police inter
ference insist on an open conference
in the presence of the fur workers.
The committee of SO elected at the
Cooper Union meeting will meet to-
night to take up some very import
ant matters. All the delegates ara
urged 10 attend. A. - - -.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-25
HALT MURDER OF
CHILEAN SAILORS!
Demonstrate Saturday
At Consulate

NEW YORK.--Latest dispatches
from Chile tell about the prosecution
Of dozens of Chilean sailors for their
participation in the sailors mutiny
for better conditions In addition to
the six sailors upon whom death
sentence has been imposed many
others are to be murdered by the
American imperialism is directly
implicated in this murderous drive
Chilean bosses
against the workers and sailors of
Chile. The Young Communist League
of the New York District has taken
the lead in calling a demonstration
to demand the unconditional release
of the Chilean sailors All workers
should be down this Saturday, Sept.
26th, at p. m. at the Chilean Con-
Sulate, II Whitehall st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-25
PARTY MUST BE
ON BALLOT In
ALL DISTRICTS
Signature Collection
Must Be Spaeded in
Last Few Days

Owing to the broad activities car
ried on by the Communist Party sup
ported by the mass organizations,
there has been some negligence in
collecting signatures in several very
important Assembly Districts. There
is danger, therefore, that the Com
munist Party may not be on the
ballot in these districts unless a full
mobilization Of the Party, Y. C. L..
members, unemployed workers, men,
bers Of the mass organizations, turn
out in full force to canvass the Elec-
ton Districts and definitely put the
Party on the ballot. Harlem, Down
town East and West Side, Williams
burg, East New York, Brownsville,
and Astoria, Queens, are the danger
points.
We sound the alarm because it
would be calalnitous if with the most
favorable possibilities, the Party
should not get on the ballot in these
districts. Therefore we appeal to all
workers to appear at any one of the
headquarters below enumerated at
any time of the day or evening, espe-
cially on Saturday and Sunday, to
go out collecting signatures.
District Secretariat,
Communist Party, District 2.
The headquarters are:
Manhattan: 1874 E. 7th ST., 301
West 29th ST., 1872 E. Goth ST., 10 w.
l29th st.
Brooklyn: 81 Graham Ave, 1883
43rd St, los Thatford Ave, 313 Hins-
dale ST., 412 Suffer Ave, 261 Utica
Ave, 48 Bay 18th ST., 799 Flushing
Ave. 10 Ten Eyck St., 118 Cook st.
Richmond: 1877 CaStleton Ave,
Staten Island.
Queens: 1888 End Ave, Astoria, L.
l., CO Ward, End floor
Yonkers: 252 Warburton Ave.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-25
HOSIERY STRIKE
SPREADING FAST
Local Musteites Try to
Behead Movement

NEW YORK.-Four thousand no.
siery workers are striking against en-
forcement of the 35-45 per cent wage
cut agreement concluded by the Am
erican Federation of Full Fashioned
Hosiery Workers, according to the
Daily News Record, textile trade
journal. New York, New Jersey and
New England union mills are in
volved.
AS yet the movement against the
pay cut contract of the AFFFHW
misleaders is under the direction and
influence of the secondary function
aries of the national leaders CMuste-
ites), who are trying to head the
strike movement off and prevent
militant strike leadership.
Emil REEVE, national president of
the AFFFHW, said the national Of
flee was opposed to the strike and
that he would take sharp measures
against the workers daring strike
against the wage cut pact.
The hosiery workers should organ
ize their own rank and file Strike
Committees to lead the strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-25
JAPAN WAR
MOVES Are
ADVANCING
Imperialist Troops On
March to Hardin
Against USSR
Wall st. Wants Share
Shidehara Says "No
Outside interference"
Gable BY 1nprecorr)

MOSCOW, Sept. 24.-Reports in
the capitalist newspapers alleging the
departure of Commissar of War Com
rade Voroshiloy, to the Far East in
connection with the Manchurian
event, is unfounded. Voroshilov is
remaining in Moscow. Yesterday he
commanded maneuvers at the Mos
COW garrison.
NEW YORK. Wireless dispatches
from Shanghai, China, to the New
York Times state that Japanese
troops are planning march on Har-
bin, Manchuria, which is near So
Wet territory. The reports in the
capitalist newspapers about Soviet
troops. massing at the border, and
about the trip of Voroshilov to the
Far East, is the capitalist propaganda
making it appear that the Soviets
CONTINUED ON PAGE TRREE)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-25
Though Starving, Ky. Miners
Outwit Thugs, Build Union

thugs rowing the country in high
powered cars and met 81 other dele
gates who couldn't get through the
thugs Gordon.
Meanwhile, Harlan 81 ikers whose
families literally are dying of the
starvation disease, flux, have sent out
a strong appeal for food. They are
building up real organization and
now will spread the strike to defeat
starvation. They need your help
now. Their babies need food. They
need even dry bread to keep them
going while they build their organ
ization. Send every penny you can
spare today to the Penn Ohio Strik-
ing Miners Relief Committee, GIL
Penn Ave-. Pittsburgh, Pa.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-25

and solidarity" and calling upon
militant workers to rise as never
before" in united front to free all
class war prisoners.
AS Mooney wired this appeal from
his prison cell, International Labor
Defense organizers in Is large Am
erican cities are rallying workers into
huge mass demonstrations of protest
against his imprisonment on procured
testimony of the power trusts in
California. The LID is tying up
with this case other victoms of cap
italist justice, such as the eight
Scottsboro Negro boys, framed for
rape and facing the electric chair in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-25

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Sept. PA
strong strike situation is developing
in Kentucky. Miners working IL to
IA hours day and starving are grid
ing for a real struggle. Already 5000
miners in two countries where the
situation is sharpest are members of
The National Miners Union out Of
$4,000 to $4,000 in the territory.
Thirty-six charters have been is
sued to locals meeting regularly in
the woods, etc. Strikers in Harlan
County, under great difficulties, are
spreading organization in spite of
the most tremendous terror.
A real showing Of strength was
made at conference where 1875 dele
gates from AZ mines outwitted the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-25
Birmingham Boss Press Incite
Terror Against Negro Workers

life and safety. Demand cessation
lynch terror in Alabama"
BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Sept. "a. -
The brutal police terror against the
Negro workers of this city flared up
again yesterday with the arrest Of
another Negro worker, Willie Peter
son, an unemployed coal miner.
Peterson's arrest is part of the
frame-up attempts of the bosses and
the police to connect Negro worker
with the murder of two society wo-
men and the wounding of third on
August 8, last.
The local boss press today carry
the most vicious lynch-inciting ar
CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-25
PREPARE TO
HIT ENGLISH
COMMUNISTS
Socialist" Opposition
Prepares Fascist
Dictatorship
Initiation Is Certain
War Threatens Thru
Market Struggle
Initiation Is Certain

Thousands of workers throughout
Great Britain are protesting against
the wage cuts and the dole cuts in
the Macdonald economy" budget.
At Glasgow $4,000 workers demon
Strated Wednesday and police re-
serves were called out. The workers
burned the local magistrate in eff
gy. The militancy of the workers was
so great that the police did not dare
make any arrests. In Liverpool the
police smashed a parade OF 5000
workers. In Birmingham 5000 work
ers paraded.
Gable by InDrecorr)
BERLIN, Sept. 24.-lt is probable,
according to reports from London,
that there will be an attack on the
British Daily Worker. The offices
of the paper have been under con-
CONTINUED ON PAGE THBEE)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-25
Jobless Winnipeg Families in
Demand for Relief from Govt

Nineteen unemployed workers from
Winnipeg, Canada, including forty
children, marched on the Parliament
building to demand relief for them
selves, the Canadian press reports.
They settled in the hall of the build
ing to await definite action on their
cases from the government.
According to the report the fam
lilies we're barred from the limited
charity relief being doled out be-
cause they had not lived long enough
in Winnipeg.
The demands for relief OF the fam
lilies were presented to Minister Club
of Public Works. by Thomas Q.
Woods OF the National Unemployed
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-25
Legion Calls for Fascism to
Suppress Workers Resistance

DETROIT, Sept. 24.-To support
the violent capitalist offensive Of
wage cuts and crush the struggles q
the American workin class, the Le-
gion chiefs today offered a resolu-
ton to the convention calling upon
Hoover to declare a national emer-
gency as pretext for completing the
fascination of the capitalist govern
ment of the United States.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-25
BULLETIN

CHATTANOOGA, Sept. 24.-The
Southern district of the Interna-
tional Labor Defense today sent the
following telegram to Gov. Miller
protesting against Birmingham po-
lice attempts to frame-up innocent
Negro workers in connection with
the shooting of three society wo-
men:
Identification of Willie Peter
son, unemployed miner, by Nell
Williams while riding along street
six or seven weeks after event for
which innocent Negroes have al
ready paid with their lives bears
all the earmarks of brazen frame
up. Hold you responsible for his
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-25

sentiment Of the rank and file for
immediate cash payment Of the
Graveyard Bonus. The demand for
the bonus payment which would have
helped to relieve the sufferings of the
more than $4,000 unemployed vet
Grams and their starving families was
killed by the capitalists and off
GERS in the subcommittee of the
legislative committee.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-25
ANOTHER JoBLEss SUICIDE

ROCHESTER. Sept. II. - The
Rochester Times Union reports:
"Despondent over lack Of work,
according to police, Barbara Hance,
FL, took poison at the home of
friends, 212 Lyndhurst St, where
she was staying, and died two
hours later at Municipal Hospital
early last evening.
Coroner Atwater issued a GER
tificate of death by suicide while
temporarily insane"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-25
SO Militiamen Help Workers
Stop Evictions in Chicago
Militancy of Workers and Guardsmen FoiIs
Police Attempt to Arrest Them
Telegram to the Daily wOrker)

CHICAGO, Sept 24-Thirty-
three together with
eviction unemployed Oakley
The police failed in attempt to arrest three of the National
Guardmen the mancy of the the
of the joined Communist
workers Milwaukee and deed
holding meeting taking the
from the police arrested other
activity throwing
their furniture the
the increase throughout the city.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-25

Alabama; the Harlan Negro and
white miners still behind bars on
flimsy charges Of murder and Grim
inal syndicalism; the Imperial Valley
prisoners held for organizing agricul-
tural workers; foreign born workers
held for deportations and many
others.
MONEYS complete telegram fol-
lows:
Fighting miners Of HarIa n:
Greetings of genuine working class
fellowship and solidarity. You face
CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-25
WAGE CUT NEXT
FOR 100000 RR.
WORKERS SURE
Hoover, Green, Doak
Have Planned 1t
BULLETIN

BULLETIN
PITTSBURGH, Pa, Sept. PA
mass meeting of steel workers at
Pythian Tempe here will be ad-
dressed by william 4. Foster, Bill
Dunno, John MeIdon, Frank Borich,
1. Hawkins and Edith Brisker on Sat-
urday night before the National Con-
ference Of the Metal Workers Indus
trial League opens.
The conference call and stickers
have been plastered around all steel
towns where the workers are heat
eddy talking about the announced
wage cuts.
Big delegations are coming from
Mansfield, o., where last week 500
workers marched upon the plant su-
Perintendent demanding more work,
and two additional days were grant
ed there. Homestead, Pa, an impor-
tant steel town, sent credentials for
40 delegates. Other steel cities will
have proportiOnate delegations. 80.
The Metal Workers Industrial
League headquarters is the center of
activity, with workers coming from
the mills far ana near for leaflets.
bringing reports, etc.
The Conference opens at the
Workers Center, Sunday morning at
10. This will be truly historic con-
ference, the most significant since
1918, the year of the great steel strike
when over 100000 steel workers
struck. 1t comes in the midst Of tre-
mendous wage cuts which were Iong
anticipated by the League when the
conference was called.
NEW YORK. - The next step in
the general wage cutting drive will
be an attack on the railroad work
erS. Action on the stock market,
where the bankers and stock gam
blers cleaned up on the forthcoming
wage cuts which pushed stocks up,
shows that wage cut is coming for
the railroad workers. Besides, the
pay slashes are spreading to other
industries
The industries in which over 2,0OO,-
coo workers have been already hit
by wage cuts are steel, auto, rubber
copper, oil, textiles and brickmaking.
Most important in the October
CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-25
Mooney Calls for United
FrontAmnestyC
In Solidarity Telegram to Harlem Miners, He
Calls on Workers to Defend Their
Advance Guard

NEW YORK Sept ga telegram will appear in the
October issue of the Labor Defender official organ of the
International Labor Defense just off the press from Tom
Mooney San Quentin addressed to he fighting miners
Harlan KY in greetings of genuine working class fellowship
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-25

Workers Association, corresponding
to the Unemployed Councils in the
United States.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-25
Profits for Bosses Rise As Wages Are Cut
1880 (Dec.)
$1,315,S13,059
sos. 932.428
1881 July
S1,357,747,751
S84,122,176
General Motors Co.


1923 inclusive the total
Co.
1928 1880 the paid dividend
with dividend in 1928 extra dividend
cent in 1923.
1879 G. president Bethlehem
S6s00 Bonuee In 1880 he S06000 Between 1918 1880
Grace bonus
Schwab the
salary Of $50OOO 1921 1929 raised s250000
The earnings Bethlehem dducng
bonus payments amounted to S28577,36S.
On July &c. 1884, Eugene Grace said Th steel industry in the
United States position take itself
The industry financially in this country"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-25

CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-08
PRIZE
 IN BATTLE TO
 PROVE MAN DEAD
Hearing May. Disqualify Record That He Is
 Alive

Menphis-One of the queerest cases in Tennessee court is expected to be heard here this spring when a court fight will be resumed to prove that Joseph w. Martin, miss ing heir of a $1,0O0.000 estate is dead and that partition of the estate should begin.
 The court hearing will be in the form of petition to remove from the records dispositions taken from Clarence Eldridge, Los Angeles, pro- moter and former resident of Memphis, that the missing man is a resident of Quintana Roo, Mexico.
 The dispositions disclosed that Martin, who dropped from sight IS years ago in London, England, was living on a ranch in the fastness of the jungles; that he had the belief ing for him and was fearful of his identity being known and further that Eldridge and he had discussed Memphis events.
 Two young Memphis attorneys early this year deserted their book lined offices, donned cork hats and boots and journeyed hundreds of miles from the Mexican coast in search of Martin. After 30-days trip they returned, empty handed and without clues regarding the missing cotton man whose evening cape and cane were found on the banks of the Thames river.
 Martins brother, Hill Martin, who paid debts of his brother total- ing approximately $80,000 and not a direct heir to the $1.000,000 Will liam H. Wood estate is fighting to have the depositions kept in the court records. If they are removed from the records Hill Martin will receive nothing from the estate which under the will of the deceased man will partitioned between the surving grandchildren of Wood. four brothers and sisters.
 Should Hill Martin be successful in his proof that his brother is not dead and the estate be ordered par titioned five ways, Hill Martin wil, be leagally permitted to sue for the $8O,000 he has paid to his missing brothers creditors.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-08
TORRINGTON
Hospital Open To
 Public May 18th
National Hospital Day to Be Observed Rev Homer Lane
 to Give Memorial Day Address

On National Hospital day, May IF, Charlotte Hungerford hospital VIII be open to the public. afording an opportunity for inspection or the new hospital in operation. This date marks the official "open house" since inc new Institution was opened to patients in January of this year, ana those who have not had an oppor- tunity to visit the new hospital re- centlyp will be welcome at this time' A cordial invitation is extended to the public by the board of governors of which F. l.. Braman Is chairman, to visit the hospital on that day and take part in the observance being planned.
 The hospital auditorium will be opened for the first time, and oppor- tunity will be afforded the public to inspect the most recent addition to the facilities. The auditorium has been equipped with apparatus for the protection of motion pictures as well as stereopticon slides, and it is anticipated that frequent meetings, both for professional groups and for the public, will be held there.
 For the opening of the auditorium on May 12 two programs are being planned, one to be held in the after noon and the other in the evening.
 owing to the limited seating ca- pacity to the auditorium, the two programs will afford ample oppor- tunity for those attending, to choose the time most convenient. and will assure a place for all who wish to take advantage of one or the other.
 To Speak at Memorial Day
 Exercises
 The Rev Homer Lane. pastor ot the Center Congregational church himself an ex-service man, will be speaker at the Memorial Day exer- cises to be held a the soldiers memorial in Coe Park on the morn ing of May 30. Announcement oi the selection of Mir Lane was made by the committee yesterday.
 Rev Arthur c. Flandreau, pastor of the Methodist church, will be speaker at the exercises in memory of sailors and marine dead. under the auspices of the Women's Relief Corps at the church bridge on the afternoon of Sunday, May "A.
 The musical program will be Tn charge of Miss Mary H. Burns, su' pervisor of music in the Torringtor public schools.
 NAhS8lhB EhOshh AAOAhHS
 Otto 10. Jaeger, we'll known Tor. rington roofer and sheet meta worker, is missing from home and no one has any clue to his where. about. He has wife and two chil. dren who reside at 172 Park avenue MT Jaeger was last seen by hi family at about 10 a. m. April 29 At that time he was dressed in ( dark blue suit, gray cap and browr oxfords. and was driving tan Chev' rolet sedan, license number 61-529 The rear left window was broken Members of the family are at loss to account for his disappearance but say that he might have left be- eau of worries incidental to thu business depression.
 Briefs
 Charles W. Shanks and family
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-08

have moved from Haley place to S9 Migeon avenue.
 The condition of Mrs Albert E. Wellman of Northridge avenue, who recently underwent an operation at the Charlotte Hungerford hospital, is reported as favorable.
 Mrs George Knight of 36 Cooper street has left the Charlotte Hunger ford hospital and is recuperating at the home of her daughter, Mrs Irv- ing Friend. 33 School street.
 A bakery sale will be held at the Mertz store Saturday afternoon un- der the auspices of Troop 9, Girl Scouts. Donation will be appre- ciated.
 General Sanford H. Wadhams of Torrington, state water commission- CT, will speak at the meeting of the Hartford Quota club Monday eve- ming at the Bond in Hartford.
 The automobile license of Angelo Lamoncia. 89 Wall street. has been suspended, according to Information received at police headquarters from the state motor vehicle department.