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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-13
$4,000 new GOAL IN DRIVE STILL
$4,000 SHY;N Y. DAILY" PICNIC
SUNDAY, AUG. 16. DON'T MISS TTl
Coupon Books Must Be Turned In at Once! Re
ports Wanted on Daily Club Meetings!

The grand total in the Daily
Worker Financial Campaign not in
GLIDING miscellaneous contributions
as of August 10 amounts to s3S,-
1852. AS only S555.98 was received
from all districts during the week,
this still leaves about $4,000 to be
raised to enable US TO reach the $40
600 mark. Districts 4, 16 and II
added nothing to its percentages
during the week. District sent
in only $500 during the entire week,
District IL responded with only 81
and District II with So. District Is
still lacks S143.1S to attain 100 per
cent of its quota of 81, 900. District
6, Cleveland, is represented in tables
with 80 per cent and lacks SI13s9
to reach its goal District s, Chi
cago, is shown with 80 per cent of
lts quota achieved. District has
reached 81 per cent District 3, So
per cent; and District 10. "A per cent.
Districts o, 10, IL, IL and 16 are all
below 80 per cent. The only Dis
tricts that have surpassed their
quotas are District i, Boston, Dis
trict 2 New York, and District II,
Birmingham.
Return Coupon Books And Funds
Comrades! The campaign is still
on. The Daily Worker is still in
danger! Most OF the money turned
in during the drive was used to pay
off the enormous deficit accumula-
ted over a long period of months.
pressing paper and office bills. The
responsibilities of the coal and tex
tile strikes also put an additional
dent in the Daily Worker fund,
We were compelled to extend the
Drive for while to help us raise
$4,000 more to keep us going during
august and September and we look
TO every District to do its share in
the closing days of the campaign.
Chicago Gains 1881
The circulation table this week
shows decrease of $3.50. This loss
is principally due to the deduction
OF special August l orders. The
er in the Districts to date now
stands at 46,oS6. This figure how
ever includes special orders from
District 8, Chicago, to take care of
demand for Dailies at the Chicago
Massacre Demonstrations. which will
be taken off next week.
District Is, California, gained 1856
due to increase of 1877 from San
Francisco minus loss of SIS from
Oakland. District IS shows a gain
OF % in spite of decreases of 25 each
from Walkerville and Butte. This
is due to an error in the figures for
last week. A re-check with the
mats proved the above figure Of "a
to be correct Sixty-two new subs
were received during the week.
Daily Worker Club News
Reports of Daily Worker Clubs
thruout the country are not being
sent. District 2 is practically the
only District that Is giving this
matter proper attention. Districts
should also send in more material
for publication in this column. We
want 20 include the entire coun-
try in our daily reports. Recently
we have been forced to confine 4
ourselves to two or three districts
on account OF lack of material. Let
US know what Is happening in
your District!
We publish below Minutegtef Chi
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-13

cago Daily Worker Readers Club
Meeting held last Friday at the
West Side, Youth Center. While we
are glad TO know that all the mem
beers took part in the discussion, and
that. a Drive for subscriptions was
mention in the Minutes of discus
SION of Workers Correspondence
This is an important function OF the
Daily Worker Club and should be
emphasized at all meetings. We also
hope next meeting will include en-
tertainment refreshments, etc.
Minutes of previous meeting ap-
proved as read. Comrade Rich ei-
ected chairman. An article appear
ing in the. Chicago Tribune and
similar article appearing in the
Daily Worker, selected by Comrade
GOOD was read and discussed. Every
member present took part in dis
cussion. An editorial or Readers
cubs which appeared recently in
the Daily Worker also read and dis
cussed After discussion on menu
oership drive, subscription blanks
we're distributed to members present
Each member set a goal Of two
new subscribers a week. Nineteen
notices were sent out and seven
memheEs were present. Meeting ad-
Journed@ promptly at 10 PM"
II seems TO us there should also
be more spontaneity, gaiety in the
club; that is more of a social get
together. But go to it in your owR
way, West Side, and send us more
detailed reports!
Picnic. Picnic: August 10
August Is at Pleasant Bay Park
thousands of militant workers. read
ers and supporters of the Daily
worker will get together in one Of
the gayest social events of the sea-
son, From tp
growth Of the evolutionary move
ment and the increasing influences
OF the Daily Worker, new mass0s OF
workers join in this festival.
The army of readers and supper
tiers has grown from hundreds TO
thousands in the last few ysaFa.
These annual events reflect %his
growing support and Influence Of
the Daily: at these picnics readers
ana supporters of the paper for the
1lrst tune meet under social and per
sonal circumstances
Unusual attractions. UNIQUE In
many respects will be preseilfed.
An innovation new in this Cwun-
try and practised in Europe will
be the "Living Newspaper" an en-
folding In public of the mysteries
of the Editorial Room. An annbi-
dous sports program, including
rousing competitive track meet
with the winner awarded a beau
tiful silver cup, will be the feature
of the days fun. A leading mem
her of the Central Committee will
lecture. Comrade Levin, Manager
of the Daily Worker, who has Just
returned from an extensive tour
ON behalf of the Daily Worker,
will relate some experiences.
No worker can afford to miss the
spiciest event of the season. What
ever you do mark August IS down
on the cuff of your shirt as "Daily
Worker Day. Nothing can be al
lowed that will stop me or you Join
ing the great Daily Worker army
that will flock to the Bay or this
Gala day.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-13
Gable BY InprecOrr)

BERLIN, Aug. 12.-The bourgeois
and socialist press is conducting q
furious campaign to secure the pro-
hibition of the Communist Party of
Germany. In connection with the
bloody events on the day of the ref
erendum they are publishing wild
stories Of Communist terror groups,
suggesting that the Communist Party
is responsible for the deraiIing of the
Basle-Berhn express, etc.
Discussions are actually going on
between the Reich and the Prussian
governments regarding the possibil-
ity Of the suppression of the Party.
The police continue to make hap
hazard arrests in connection with the
shooting, but their own reports show
that not the faintest evidence has
been found connecting the Commu-
mist Party with the shootings. How
ever, the police continue to occupy
the Communist headquarters and the
Rote Fahne has been prohibited for
fourteen days more.
Only seven Of the scores of work
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-13
Dock Owners Change
From Machines To
Manual Labor

NEW ORLEANS, Aug. Human
labor power is now cheaper than
horsepower on the New Orleans riy-
erfront. Formerly the shipowners
had their cotton carried to the HOSTS
on dock-autonotive- trucks. Now,
since the strike has been sold out,
workers carry the cotton on hand
trucks, making 40 cents per hour,
time out.
Most likely the shipowners won't
hire the former strikers, because
among the longshoremen who push
these hand trucks you see former
White-collar workers You can tell
the difference by the well-developed
arms and shoulders of the Negro
workers, compared with the flabby
arms of the white-collar workers,
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see by what has happened. Many of
the corporations that were at the
conference have long ago cut wages.
s and ID Per Cent Cut
Some of lis may not remember the
wage-cuts in the other industries, but
we know about those right here at
home. What about the reduction in
working time and a corresponding
reduction in pay of per cent which
took place on August at the Bell
Telephone Laboratories. Then there
was a 10 per cent cut in pay for
the lowest paid workers three months
ago. What does Mr.. Hoover, and Mr.
Clifford say about this. We can plain
ly see what a fake conference the
Hoover Conference was.
The president says that wage-cuts
undermine our prosperity. Well, that
doesn't mean anything TO this COM
pany, In the first six months of 1881
the Bell Telephones net income (ac-
cording to Moody was 80 million
dollars, eight million more than in
1880. Besides that they increased the
dividends of the stock holders by $16,-
100000. So we need not waste any
pity about the prosperity OF the com
pany. It's plain to every worker that
decreasing wages of the workers
means more profits to the coupon
clippers and the industriahsts.
Must Organize
1t is about time that we workers In
the Bell Telephone Laboratories be-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-13
MOONEY CALLS FOR FIGHT TO
FREE ALL CLASS WAR PRISONERS;
DEMONSTRATE AUGUST 22ND!
Thanks Mann for Supporting LID.
Amnesty Campaign.

AahA1 lNk&6Ah IVA SuPESSA NAAA& Ase4'A~s
Amnesty Campaign.
Remembering the cruelty and SUI
tering experienced by Sacco and
vanzetti at the hands OF the Massa-
chusetts ruin gclass and the final
death of these two brave workers,
Tom Mooney urges militant mass
campaign for the immediate release
Of all class war prisoners. In his let
ter to Mann he states: Thanks for
the statement you issued on this oc-
casion urging workers TO support the
amnesty campaign directed by the
International Labor Defense"
II Hold My Head High"--Moonsy.
Casting aside all liberal policies as
futile and realizing that only mill
tant class tactics can free him,
Mooney continues. I'm your state
ment. Comrade Mann, you say, with
reference to me: we revolutionaries
in Britain will join vigorously In the
agitation for his release That's
very fine. Tom Mooney you state.
has maintained 8 stout heart for the
past is years In San Quentin II,
as has been said. have come TO
symbolic militant labor In the enc
mics steel trap. then I must always
hold my head high and show them
q defiant ,nien. Again ! say 10 you,
comrade, that any pressure the Brit
ish working class can bring to bear
in my behalf on the new governor of
California will be timely"
All Out On the Streets Aug. %!
In a statement issued today by J..
Louis Engdahl. general secretary OF
the I. l.. D., on behalf of the amnesty
campaign OF all class war prisoners
1t was pointed out:
Mass pressure saved Mooney from
the hangnan. Liberal tactics have
kept Tom Mooney in prison for 10
years. Mass tactics have released
hundreds Of workers from ruling
class bastlles In the past few years.
The I. l.. d. calls upon all working
class organizations TO rally behind
Mooney and Billings and save them
from living death, In this period
OF depression, when the working class
is fighting against starvation and
unemployment, the ruling class is
failing thousands Of workers,
In the mine strike alons over
LOO miners. their wives and chill
dren HAYS been jailed for daring 10
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gan to look out for ourselves. Il
President Hoover can't keep up tbs
wages we can. We can, just as work
ers in other industries are doing. BY
organizing.
We must start with one. or tive
werkers on the Job who are dissat-
isiied. We INST use our heads.
Don't try to organize the bosses.
That's what the company wants
you to do-they want TO know who
Is doing the organizing. Organize
the fellow workers where you are
working into a group. This can
be done in all departments. Thcm
get in touch with the Metal Work
ers Industrial League at S E. 10th
St., fighting worldngman's or
ganization that will give leader
ship in our fight for better c0ndi-
tions.
One group has already been form
ed in the Bell Telephone Laboratories
and one is forming in the Western
Electric.
The size of these groups will be
by careful recruiting. When
we get the workers in the various
departments organized we will be
able to go about improving our con-
ditions.
Let us get together, Bell Telephone
workers, and prove that workers or
ganization and not fake conferences
is what we want.
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CONTINUED FROM PAGE oNrs

and clubs. The Wickersham re-
port is a comparatively mild state
ment since the brutality of the po-
lice against all working class &C
tivity is beyond description and
unprintabie."
In his letter Tom Mooney, who
Is now spending his fifteenth year
at San Quentin, tells Tom ann that
his pamphlet exposing the A. #.
of L. sought to have been printed
long ago but for many years !
have stified the urge at the sugges-
ton OF weIl-meaning friends.
Throughout my fifteen years of
imprisonment aye, since the very
day of my arrest seventeen years
ago, the labor politicians have done
nothing but flash their fangs at
me in the manner Of our dogs. But
when these labor politicians, an
gered by the part I played In de-
feating their candidate for gov
ernor Of California, proceeded 10
sabotage my defense movement, I
no longer hestitated to expose them
a. tools Of the master class and
aides Of my jailers."
Calls Operators and Labor Leaders
Enemies Of Labor"
While hailing Mann on his 18th
with deep affection, for
you are one grown gray in the strug-
gle to end capitalstic dominance and
give the worlds workers a place in
the SUM-" Tom Mooney calls the old
British labor leaders attention to the
corruption in the A. r. Of l.. and its
sell-out TO the ruling class. Mooney
says;
my accusations aSainst the A.
r. Of L. hierarchy wers reeently
oorroborated by the great novelist.
Theodore Dresser, who. writing for
the Scripps- Howard newspapers re-
Gently, expressed the opinion that
an understanding exists between
the big mine owners and the labor
leaders TO defeat militant coal
miners in revolt aginst the incf-
fective United Mine Workers Of
America. The militan's,' declared
Dresser. arc fighting both mine
owners and the A, r. Of L. leaders
~ scmbaned AsmisA'.
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listed only in the imagination Of the
police. The streets remand occu-
pied by the police until late at night.
Although not soul was visible the
police continued 10 fire volleys at
irregular intervals.
Yesterday the police confiscated
the Communist dailies-the Ham
burger Volkszeitung and the Nord
Deutsche acknowledging that the
reports of the Berlin events were cal
culated to cause unrest among the
people.
The police of Dusseldorf occupied
the local headquarters of the Com
muriSt Party and confiscated edi-
tons Of the daily and weekly news
papers without advancing any rea-
sons. Yesterday fifty workers we're
arrested in Aachen, charged with be-
ing members of the Red Front
Fighters League.
NEW YORK, Aug. 1.-THE at
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-13
Must Get Behind Unemployed Council Says
Chicago Worker

What do the city bosses think
these colored people are going to do
when they can't pay rent? Should
they sleep in the parks and out in
the rain like dogs or cattle? Prop
erty rights and profits are all that
the real estate bosses think about
Human lights mean nothing to them.
All the workers in Chicago should
get behind the Unemployed Council
now and carry ma real fight against
starvation and evictions and terror,
The Unemployed Council is real
workers organization and we must
all get behind it. white and coiored.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-13
Kentucky Miners Meet To Build ''Daily"

ing for starvation wages. The min
ers have been starved for the past
eighteen months and can't get a
nickel ahead.
They have to move machine cut
tings, scalp top and bottom coal and
sweep the cut twice for IS cents a
ton and yet they say they are good
to their men. The workers are all
dissatisfied with the starvation con-
ditions under which they have to
work. We must all get together and
organize against these conditions.
Build q strong National Miners
Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-13
BIRMINGHAM POLICE IN VICIOUS
ATTACKS ON GROWING UNITY OF
sgs NEGRO AND WHITE WORKERS

mist agitators." This vicious lie has
been smeared all over the local boss
press and has been broadcasted by
the United Press.
Workers. Negro and white! Raj
ly TO the defense Of the Birming-
ham Negro workers. Defend the
unity of Negro and white workers
against the murderous attacks Of
the capitalists. Defend the rcvolu-
ticnary party Of the working class
- the leader Of white and Negro
workers In the fight against star
walton, wage cuts, evicticns and the
opp opprsssacn d the Negro masses.
nsmenstxAts - AagqsA "A ss.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-13
BELL TELEPHONE LABORATORY
) SLASHES WAGES 5 PER CENT
DESPITE GIFFORD'S PROMISE
Stock Holders Earnings Increase $160O0,000
While Workers Pay Goes Down
Workers Must Organize To Fight Worsenng
Conditions; Build Shop Committees

NEW YORK, n IY.-The workers of the Bell Telephone
laboratories learning these days how much the company
and the government cares for the workers.
Shortly after the crisis started in 1929 Hoover called
conference at which Mr. Clifford president of the American
Telephone and Telegraph which controlling interest
the Bell Telephone Laboratory present Here in
the fake appeal of Herbert Hoover the ndusrasts present
promised not to cut wages
Just how much the presidents intentions worth
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-13
tsy . Worker Correspondent

CHICAGO. nis~-In reporting the
murder Of the three Negro workers
IN Chicago who we're killed by the
police for resisting the eviction of
an unemployed working woman, the
local papers said that the killing was
caused by Red agitators. They
failed to state that the local and
state charity organizations refused to
pay rent Of the jobless workers and
hat the real estate men here or
deed the cops to evict these work
ers and TO use force and violence
II they thought 1t necessary.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-13
tBy . Worker Correspondent

tBy . Worker Correspondent
HEALDSBURG. Cal,-Prune grow
ers of sononaa County held a meet
ing to set a price for prune picking.
A basic price was set of So per Ton
for pickers and 80 cents per hour for
yard workers.
Not only that but the growers have
organized into prune department Of
the county farm bureau TO study in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-13
tBy a Worker Correspondent

10y WORKER t0rre$p0nQentt
KONO, Ky.--The miners here dur
ing the past few weeks have held
several meetings for the purpose OF
building the Daily Worker and
teaching the workers here something
about the way they must fight and
organize. The bosses learned about
the work we are doing and have
tried TO start reign of terror
The operators are aroused and are
prying into everything they can.
They know that something is going
to happen. The workingnen of
eastern Kentucky are tired of work
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CONTINUED FROM FACE ONE,

and to jail their leaders. Several
Negro Communist leaders are al
ready In Jail, and warrants have
been issued for the arrest Of all
Communists In Birmingham.
At the same time the bosses con-
tinue their campaign to incite the
each other In lying statement,
Chief Deputy r. r. Smith tries to
absolve the railroad dicks of the at
tack on two Negroes getting off a
freight train, in which one of the
workers Was killed. He declares that
tn vuxkess WARE shot by Commit
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-13

and defend the Scottsboro boys and
the Camp Hill share troopers
Aug. %, the anniversary of Sacco
and vanzetti, is not day OF mourn
ms, but OF demonstration and pro-
test On that day millions of work
ers must and will protest the bru-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-13
Paterson Bosses Transport Goods Through
Strike Area In Hearse

The above is just another instance
of how the bosses are using all kinds
OF tricks to break the strike. Let
US not be fooled by the rotten tactics
of the bosses and the A. r. Of L. Our
slogan must be still stronger picket
lines and more solidarity of all work
ers In order to smash the bosses and
win the strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-13

resist the Mellon interests. Hun
dreds are being deported.
The Negro worker is awakening
and is fighting side by side with the
white worker against the ruling class,
The white worker, in turn. must
stand with his Negro fellow workers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-13
10y a Worker Correspondent

PATERSON, N. Ut has been dis
covered that the Morocco Peter Co,
undertakers at Al Mill ST., are using
their hearse for transporting WOODEN
raw goods from some Of the mills
here that are OF, strike to the under
taking establishment and from there
TO dye house.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-13
Prune Pickers Must Organize To Fight Cut

dusty, its curtailment and lowering
cost of labor.
So another wage cut is imminent
Growers are organized against the
workers. We, the latter, must wake
up and answer this attack upon our
lives, for we are practically starving
on the jobs now, Organize and
fight wage cuts.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-13

tally and terror let loose by the
ruling class. The International La
Dor Defense calls upon all working
class organizations to join on Aus.
~ in mighty protest against the trn\
prisonmsnt and torture OF MooneyS
aHA all class war prisoners"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-13


At protest meeting held BY the IN
ternational Labor Defense and ths
Unemployed Council of Battle Greek
the following telegram of solidarity
to the workers OF Chicago wal
passed.
This protest nesting, called by
the international Labor Defense
and the Unemployed Council Of
Battle Greek, Mich, against the
brutal attack on unemployed work
ers and the murder of four Negro
comrades and woundlng Of scores
Of white and Negro workers by the
Chicago police. acting under or
ders OF the landlords and the N.
A. A. G. r.
I'VE, the workers assembled here,
express ourselves In a united strug-
gle with the workers of Chicago
against starvation and evictions
and for equal rights for the Negro
people. We denounce the mas
sacre of workers and demand the
immediate release Of all workers
arrested by the police in an effort
to Justify this massacre.
Workers of Chicago! The
deaths Of our comrades have not
been In vain. II Is another mani
festation that more and more the
workers are awakening to struggle
against this damnable system Of
society, with lie mass unemploy-
mcnt and starvation Of workers
while the parasite bosses roll In
wealth and luxury. On with the
fight against starvation and evic-
tons"