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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-25

Oldest daughter, Mary, was denied
aid by the priest and told to get
out.
Unemployed Branch Gets Relief
The Strappone family, behind
three months in rent, with no light
and the gas about to be shut off,
were facing eviction and were actu-
ally starving. They heard of the
Unemployed Council and went there
The father joined the Harlem Branch
at once. He spoke at the meetings
The workers rallied and collected
immediate aid for the family The
Harlem Unemployed Branch is now
mobilizing the workers in the neigh
borhood to resist the eviction of the
Strappone family and force the city
government and the rich bosses to
turn over to the Unemployed Coun-
Gil more relief. The workers in Har-
lem must mobilize at once under the
leadership of the Harlem Branch OF
the Unemployed Council to expose
the false charity institutes and fight
for food for this family.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-25
JobIess, Protesting Wage Cut
Storm Greenwich ToaVn Hall
Smash Doors and Windows; Militancy Forces
Contractors to Grant Jobs on Road;
Policemen Cut by Flying Glass

but whose members have been paid
$425 instead. Several previous strug-
giles resulted in the officials of the
union using every art to persuade
the workers to go on pending me
gotiations." Some of their meetings
were addressed by representatives of
the Trade Union Unity League who
drew mighty cheers when they urged
the workers to take over the strug-
gle into their own hands, and stand
fast for their demands.
The demonstrators had paraded
the streets with placards denouncing
the wage cutting before they rushed
the Town Hall
In the struggle at the doors of the
building, two cops were cut by fly
ing glass. The demonstrators forced
their way into the entrances of the
building. Two of them, francesca
Disanto and Dominic Chiapetta were
arrested, the former being charged
with throwing stones at the police.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-25
Worker Jailed In Eviction Case Calls On Miners
to Organize and Fight

That cheap double crosser promised
those miners that he would not send
unions miners back to work until
their grievances were settled. That
smooth faker not only double-croSsed
those miners, but he went and signed
up with the Jinks Shafe coal opera
tors, claiming to represent 60,000,000
short tons of coal Think of 10000,
600 out of 6800OO,00O tons This
heroic misleader signed a contract
for 9 per cent Of the coal miners
and let 81 per cent go to hell.
Build National Miners Union.
You miners wonder why your
wages are low and working condi-
tons rotten. Lewis has broken your
backbone in that strike. You will
never recover until you miners build
the National Miners Union.
Underground workers, for your
sake and your family. organize your
selves into the National Miners
Union. Don't take wage-cuts, fight
You have nothing to lose but CAPT
talist chains, and gain liberty and
happiness. IS. NJ. Martin.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-25

Nucleus here just been reorganized
and comrades going to start work
in real earnest. First step of course
is to build up Daily Worker sales, +"
says A. P, DIV agent F.. G., In
dlanapolis, Ind, also sends order for
10 daily. Daily Worker Clubs will
help build Daily" fast Don't fail
to involve every reader in work.
Bundle orders must not be stopped.
II comrade has to leave town or is
offered better job, papers should be
turned over to another worker L. T.,
Pontiac, Mich, has right idea. Sorry
to stop bundle. Send is copies daily
to F. X, Pontiac"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-25
3 Meetings i'm City
Join in Protest lat
ScottsbOrO Frameup

NEW YORK. Three meetings
of workers in this city yesterday
passed resolutions denouncing the
Scottsboro boss court lynchs verdict
against the nine innocent Negro
youths and sent kilograms to Gov.
B. M. Miller of Alabama demanding
a new trial for these young workers,
facing the electric chair on framed
up charge of "raping" two white
prostitutes.
The meetings we're; a membership
meeting of the Russian Mutual Aid
Society held at 35 East - Street;
a membership meeting of the Down
town Unemployed Council held at
its headquarters, 81 East Street,
and an open air meeting of $50 work
ers at the corner OF 9th Street and
End Avenue
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-25
CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE,

tIONlIN UEu FROM FASE oNEl
Wright when she told the story Of
the frame-up and stated her faith in
the International Labor Defense
and the League Of Struggle for Ne
gro Rights and in the effectiveness
Of the mass protest of the working
class. A resolution demanding new
trials for the boys and their uncon-
ditional release was unanimously
passed by standing vote as well as
thunderous "Aye."
Charles Irving, acting district or
ganizer Of the I. L. D., contrasted
the role Of the DAILY Worker" and
the "Liberator," working class news
papers, and of the Pittsburgh Cou-
rier, an agent of the bosses. He point
ed out that the Pittsburgh Courier
had at first ignored the case, then
printed news articles in the best style
of the boss press branding the nine
innocent boys as "rapists,' and was
now carrying its support Of the
southern boss lynchers another step
by attacking the International Labor
Defouse and the League Of Struggle
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-25


The police had helped him once.
They gave him pound of coffee,
! pound Of beans ! pound of rice,
pounds of prunes and pounds
of potatoes. This for a family Of
nine for one week And the next
time he went to the Tammany police
they told him to go get a gun and
rob-
Charities Refuses Aid
Then another kind Tammany
cop told him to so to the Catholic
Charities, 81 Street and Madison Ave.
This fake organization claimed
that Streppone was unemployed be-
cause he was mentally deficient and
tried to send him to the insane asy-
lum, but they failed in this because
the doctors through some misunder-
standing failed to cooperate with the
charity gang by declaring that he
mad no psychosis.
The Catholic Charities, however,
again refused him aid as did the
Mayors Committee in the Leonard
Building. He was then advised to
go to the Saint Cecilia Church. His
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-25

GREENWICH Conn, May "A, -
A crowd said by capitalist papers to
number 1000, made up of striking
road workers and their wives and
children, many of them babes in
arms, stormed the Town Hall yes
terday, smashed in the doors and
windows and showed back the police
guard which menaced them with
tear gas and other weapons.
This militant demonstration forced
the immediate granting Of a part of
their demands. The workers refused
to disperse until they were told that
while they were demonstrating, a
hadty meeting called in the offices
of the Tudor Mitchell contracting
firm had agreed to put 200 men back
at work on the highways Monday.
Wage Cuts
These workers are members OF the
A. F. of L. "Hod Carriers and Com
mon Laborers Union, which has had
a contract to work at $3.50 day.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-25

War will come before the end of
1881" wrote General Erich Lunden-
dorff in the Munich "Volkswarte,"
just a few days before 672 planes
in New York City took part in the
biggest air war maneuvers ever con-
Quoted.
General Lundendorff said that this
would be primarily war against
the Soviet Union. He stated the only
way the capitalist nations could avert
this war was by uniting in a drastic
economic boycott to destroy Social
ism in the Soviet Union.
War is coming" Lundendorff said,
land is coming in the form of Broth
err Brands preventive war" Ia
short, war is coming under the
slogansof "peacew
In New York City on Saturday
hundreds of planes swooped down to
the Battery after a siX-hour delay
and took part in the far-flung war
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-25
All Districts, Sections
Clubs Must Hold Affairs
For Daily Worker Benefit

On Sunday, May "a, the Arbeiter-
bund of Manhattan, N. Y. hello
Picnic at Edenwald, Pa, half the
proceeds of which wen to Daily
Worker. On Sunday, May 81, Dis
trict 10, Denver, Colo, will also hold
Picnic at Golden Park, Denver, the
entire proceeds to be presented as
donation to Daily Worker. Good
moves on part of Architectural and
District 10 in emergency campaign
for $4,000 to save Daily" Should
set example to other clubs, organ
cations, sections and districts in
country.
From now on, until end of Drive,
the Workers Calendar, Page 2,
should be filled every day with
dates of meetings, affairs, picnics,
etc. to be held for benefit of 'Dai-
ly," and reports of these activities
sent in for publication.
The DAILY" must not suspend
Daily Worker Clubs to insure con-
tinuous mass support must be Or
ganized. Independent initiative OF
readers and sympathizers must be
stimulated. Daily Worker Agents,
Red Builders News Clubs, and Work
er Correspondents should make them
selves responsible for acquainting all
working class sections with the i'm
portance Of the campaign and the
need for their support. T.. The Daily
Worker must become an integral
part of Party activity.
Send Detailed Reports on Campaign
Received your telegram for money
viii try my best. Am sure of sue
cess" is encouraging report from Dis
trict 3, Philadelphia. Coupons" adds
the new Daily Worker Rep. will be
Immediately forwarded to sections in
district in accordance with quotas. y
Letter from j. F., DIV. Rep. District
5, Cleveland reads. "All material will
be sent to various sections to begin
drive at once" Discouraging report
from District Is: Il don't think we
are in position to do much here in
raising funds. VIII do our best how
ever to reach sympathizers with
coupons and forward results" writes
j. c., Charlotte, N. C.
There must be no question OF fall
ure, if the Daily" is to go on.
Rush Orders For All Conferences
Philadelphia has excellent Dis
trict Page this week. Scottsboro
and Daily" Defense Meetings
should have plenty of Dailies on
hand for distribution, PhiIa. Also
National Youth Day Convention at
Passaic. Extra orders for Scots
boro, Daily" and N. Y. ID. con-
ferences all over country should
be rushed Immediately.
Are doing best to increase sales
I'd expect to increase bundle TO rs
pies writes T. o., Salt Lake City,
yah. Now getting so. Similar de-
elonments in Indiana Harbor, Ind,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-25
Vol. Building His
Insurance Racket,
Urges Treasury Nab

The Upholsterers' Journal for May
carries an article by Matthew Vol,
vice president of the A. F. of L.,
acting president of the strike break
ing National Civic Federation, and
president of the racket known as
"The Union Labor Life Insurance
Co"
VOL urges, and claims that the
practice is already growing, that The
officials Of the a. f. of L. unions
insure their lives and pay the pre-
miums from the union treasury. This
most outrageous footing of the trea-
sulies of money taken from wage
cut workers is put forward by Vol
with all the SNUG assurance Of a
good business man.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-25
Toledo Woman Worker Active In Boosting for
Freedom of ScottsbOro Boys

Toledo, Ohio.
Daily Worker:
am doing everything in my power
to bring about the freedom of the
Scottsboro boys. I was at two meet
ings yesterday and I actually found
a minister of a church who knew
nothing about the case. Well, I soon
put the wheels of action turning and
I am going to furnish him with leaf
lets on the cause. / will attend this
church this mid-week for the purpose
Of getting action in sending the re-
suit to the Alabama governor.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-25
WatervIiet Workers Lucky to Have Food
Wages So to SIS A Week

over the sewing machine for whole
week for SIS, and glad to get it! Over
at Cluett Peabody, in Troy it's just
as bad; they pay their help SO mis-
erably, and rush them SO, that at
night to watch those women coming
out of the factory is like looking at
an army of ghosts.
Ford Speed-up.
Ford's plant at Green Island is
practically shut down. Those left on
the job are speeded up inhumanly.
making their blood turn to gall.
Slowly, they are beginning to see the
way out--the only way--the way
pointed by the Communist Party.
RIG. (Former ORD InspectOr.)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-25

Anacortes, Wash.
Daily Worker,
AS the class struggle deepens, the
lumber bsrons Of the Pacific North
west are making the burden more
difficult for the workers, not only
ge-cuts, which go as high as IS
per cent, but are also using the Wis
cious method of oeporting the foreign
horn.
Bosses Urge Deportation of Workers.
These foreign-born workers were
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-25
Watervliet, N. Y.

Watervliet, N. Y.
Worcorr:
Those who believe all this rot about
the high standards of living of the
American working class should come
out here to Watervliet, Green Island
and Cohoes. In house after house
they'll find whole families sitting
home, wearing away the long hours
in monotonous boredom because
they haven't the money for the
movies, or to buy book or radio.
They're lucky to have enough to eatl
SIS to So a Week.
What wages are paid here? For
man Clark pays So a week go hours
for lining pressers. Women slave
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-25
Morgan and Co. Associates Take Leading Part
In N. Y. Air Maneuvers; War Policies
Commission Busy In Washington

lists spouted for peace" - of the
BRAND type. The Rev. White, who
spoke along with Paul Porter, So
cialist, said that the pacifists there
assembled were really the best AM
erican patriots as they were for peace
and human brotherhood.
After the New York maneuvers the
672 planes head for Boston wnere
they will continue the war show.
WASHINGTON, May "a. - Plans
for war are being perfected here by
the War Policies Commission which
is still in session. The main task is
how to make war as profitable as
possible for the capitalists by forcing
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-25

maneuvers. The war demonstration
was participated in by two indiW-
duals heavily interested in Morgan
& Co. The maneuvers were under
the direct charge Of F. Trubee Davi-
son, Assistant Secretary of War
whose father was a partner in the
House of Morgan and made millions
in the last World War. Col. Lind
bergh, son-in-law of Dwight Morrow,
another Morgan partner, took a pro-
minent part in the maneuvers.
There we're $4,000 people at the
Battery watching the maneuvers. At
18th Street and Madison Square a
small group of sky-pilots and social
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-25
SENTENCE LUESSE
TO ONE YEAR
CONTINUED FROM PAGE oNEl

dence, for the police witnesses con-
tradicted each other in fragrant IA
Shion. This unusually heavy sentence
is the frantic effort of the court to
uphold the capitalist theory that the
jobless must be evicted, harrassed
and starved to make the wage cut
campaign success and to save
profits.
Protest June 4.
The workers and unemployed
workers here are determined to fight
on. There will be a mass protest
meeting against the sentencing of
Luesse, at Workers Center, $685.
South Mendean, Thursday, June 4
at 8 pm. Richard Moore will be the
main speaker and the meeting will
also demand the release Of the
ScottSboro Negro boys.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-25
Stockton, Calf.

pUUCkUUII, OdIII,
Daily Worker:
While countless thousands Of
working families in California
are actually starving in the midst Of
plenty, the jingoist Hearst papers of
this section loudly applaud the
youthful Almeda High School rifle
team, winners Of the national junior
Hearst trophy
The victory Of these youthful
marksmcn is being used here to slim
ulste the glories Of militarism in the
minds OF our young workers and TO
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-25
Pacific Northwest Lumber Co. Forces Is p. C.

fooled into coming to this land of
prosperity" and now the bosses at
tempt to deport them Workers are
being checked up in the mills by
these rats and stool-pigeons Of the
bosses. one worker is being held for
deportation to Canada because of his
militant activity in behalf of his
class.
Anacortes Workers Urged TO Organize
All Anacortes workers are urged to
join the Lumber Workers Industrial
"A Lumber Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-25
CirculateS Daily.

I also circulate the Daily Workers
in the dormant centers. I hope to
help a lot. I've got the good will
and ambition. I hope to be useful
and am waiting to see the whole
country all Communist. I belong to
the Unemployed Council, Unity
League, International Labor Defense,
and I mean to work hard If this
is the spirit you work with let me
hear from you, please.
Yours for labor and liberty,
M. Il. II.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-25
Frisco Sets Pace m Pay Cutting


SAN FRANCISCO. Dollar Line
has cut the wages of all it's en-
ployees, from the white collared
slaves in the offices down to the
galley slaves on the big ocean liners.
This cut can better be called a slash
one-sinxteenth of the wages are cut
off, or over Is per cent.
Following close, are the wage cuts
at the Linotype Co. on Sacramento
and Sansome streets. Cuts of 5, 10
and 10 per cent, with one month off
without pay for each employee. Wage
cuts and the stagger system COM
bined! Hundreds of workers are af-
fected
Lay-offs too, continue fast and
furious The San Francisco "Exa-
miner" recently layed off 400 office
clerks, some of whom had been en-
ployed as long as 8 and 10 years.
Every employee as soon as he Is en-
rolled on the payroll, is compelled
to take stock bonds-four shares at
$24 a share. Weekly payments of
81 are deducted from the wages
without the consent of the employee.
This is how William Randolph Hearst
further robs the workers. When the
lay-off took place, they were deduc-
ted another 81 on each share. The
lay-off affected every department,
eight to two layed off. The two left
on the job will be speed-up terrific
ally to make up for this.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-25
GREEN AND WOLL SUPPORT US.
STEEL CORP. PAY CUTTING PLAN

CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE)
that have cut wages; / do not want
to embarrass them"
Farrell, also, did not mention the
name of his own company, the U. S.
Steel Co., which cuts wages through
speed-up and the stagger system
While saying open wage cuts would
be dangerous, Farrell agreed with
Schwab that there must be slashes
in pay in some form.
Nov all these economies that Mr.,
Schwab has referred to have been
pretty generally done In nearly all
companies. But those economies are
necessary
Farrells main emphasis was on
keeping up steel prices, the attempt
of the big capitalist monopoHes to
overcome the crisis, and in a fashion
that has resulted in a proionging
and intensification of the crisis,
In showing the depths to which
the present crisis has gone, Farrell
warned of the growing instability of
capitalism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-25
GET A GUN AND ROB-"
POLICE TELL FATHER
OF STARVING FAMILY
Mayors Committee and Catholic Charities Re-
fuse to Give Relief to Family of 9
Harlem Unemployed Branch Takes Up Fight
20 Force Relief from City Government

NEW YORK.-"Go get gun and rob" That's what
officer at the 23d precinct police station told Sam Step
oone unemployed electrician and father of small
children when he went to the station and told the police that
lis family was STARVING
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-25
S765 CONTRIBUTED ON SATURDAY;
NEARLY ALL FROM new YORK DIST.

A of $76535 Figures PM received SatW
campaign the Daily This consider
previous days but still below the $1,000
day Saturday all but $22O
contributed by the York district WHERE THE OTHER
DISTRICTS?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-25
Train California Youth for War; Hearst
Papers Applaud

prepare them for the coming war
against Soviet Russia.
Workers. In 1917 did Hearst and
his fellow ingoists suffer with our
fathers and mothers? Of course not
Organize and fight those who use the
workers for the bosses interests.
"A Young Worker
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-25
Railroad Wages Cut


NEW YORK.-Rail executives at
the Eastern Presidents Conference
of railroad executives admit railroad
wages have already been cut. Others
say they will be cut much further.
The New York Herald Tribune COM
menting on wage cuts in the rail-
road industry says: There already
has been a deflation of railway labor
costs by about 80 per cent, because
about 100000 workers are doing
work which only recently required
100000 workers"
More Steel Pay Cuts in Youngstown
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio.-Informa-
ton privately given out by steel eX-
ecutives in the Mahoning Valley
state that wages will be cut in the
steel plants here still further,
Most of the executives propose an
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-25

Workers Correspondence is tho
backbone Of the revolutionary press
Build your press by writing for
about your day TO day struggles.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-25

average wage cut of from 10 to Is
per cent.
10000 Get Pay Cuts in Film Co.
NEW YORK 10000 workers
in the Paramount PubliX Corpora
ton will get wage cuts from to
Is per cent beginning July l. This
was announced last Saturday by
Adolph zukor, president Of the COM
pany. All workers employed by the
company are affected.
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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1931-09-17
CRELLIN YOUTH IS HELD
FOR ATTACK ON MAN, so
Coy Dalton Alleged to Have
Struck w. A. Bell on Head

w. A. Bell, so, of Crellin, is in a
critical condition following an alleged
attack by Coy Dalton, about 10, also
of Crellin, at the Stanley Mines Tues
day morning. Dalton is said to have
struck Bell on the head with an iron
bar, which rendered him unconscious
for several hours.
According to the story given out by
authorities Dalton and several others
were creating a disturbance on Bells
property Monday night and he
ordered them away. Early Tuesday
morning as Bell passed the boiler
room of the mine, just across the
West Virginia-Ma boundary
line, preparing to go to work, Dalton
is said to have stepped from a door
way and felled Bell by blow behind
the ear with the iron bar.
Dalton was later apprehended in the
Stanley Mine by authorities from
Preston county, assisted by mine Off
Gals, and lodged in the jail at King
wood, w. Va.
Bell is married man and has
several children.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1931-09-17
Fifteen Gradutes of Last Years
High School Will Join Ranks
of Advanced Students
FIVE ARE POSTGRADUATES

Forty-two students from Oakland
and vicinity, the majority of whom
are graduates of Oakland high school,
have left here or will leave within the
next few days, for various business
schools, hospital training schools, col
leges or universities, when the doors
of those institutions open for the
coming school year.
Fifteen graduates of last years
high school class will seek higher
learning away from Oakland, while
five will attend Oakland high school
and take postgraduate courses. The
remaining students will return to
their respective schools to further
pursue their studies.
Those who are beginning their ad-
vanced work are Mary Jane Porter,
Ethel Stier, Mary Sollars, and Vir-
ginia Paulie, Frostburg Normal; Kath-
leen lessee, University of Maryland;
Violet Dewitt, Catherman's Business
school, Cumberland; Virginia CHESS
man, University of Cincinnati; Olive
Gnegy, School for Secretaries, Wash
ington, D. c.; Mary Frances Yutzy
and Hasaleah Yutzy, Passavant Hos
pital, Pittsburgh, Pa; Joseph Glot-
felty and Bernadine Canty, Strayer's