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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-15
Mother BlOOr Tells
Sioux City Workers
of Farmers Misery
AZ a WOKE Correspondentl


SIOUX CITY, Icwa, Aug. 10. -
Comrade Mother Bloor spoke here
last Saturday night in Anderson Park
to a crowd of over 500 enthusiastic
workers. We received a telegram
from her Saturday NIGHT while we
were getting ready for our regular
meeting, There was no time to adj
vertise her meedng as she was just
passing thru on her war to Kansas
City. However we announced her
meeting at the street meeting and
the crowd cheered to the echo when
it IVES announced as most of them
know her.
At her rnaet:0q she held the crowd
spe'lbcund while telling about the
restitution Of the farmers in the
DcEotas and western Montana. She
told how they were flocking into the
United Farmers League. Not only
the farmers are joining but also the
farm women and the youth As a re-
suit of the militancy of the farmers
the bankers and the Chambers OF
Commerce are getting scared. The
farmers and the city workers must
unite for a common struggle against
the bankers and the capitalists, who
are TRIM to make them bear the
burden Of the crisis.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-15
PETITIONS FOR
REPEAL LEGAL
To Collect 10000 Sig,
natures Needed

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 14.--After
trying to hinder the collection of sig
natures for the repeal of the Grim
inal Syndicalism Law the police
have been forced to admit that the
collection of signatures is legal, Sew
eral days ago plain clothes cops
stopped Leo S. Polling from circulat-
ing his list and took it away from
him. Polling went to the city attor-
ney's office and to police headquar-
tiers where he demanded his list
returned.
At the police headquarters he was
told that the circulation of the ie-
gal petition was not legal" Later
the deputy city attorney admitted
that the circulation Of the list was
entirely legal and that the police
action was illegal. Thereupon Lieut..
j. A. Barclay, head of the police de-
partment's personnel bureau, when
he learned that the city attorney
would not back up this open piece
Of lying denied that he had said
that the petition was illegal.
The police department later re-
turned the petition to the office of
the State Committee for the Repeal
of the Criminal Syndicalism Law,
The workers of California are de-
termined to get the 10000 sigma
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-15
BAD CONDITIONS
AT NAT'LCASTING
(By a Worker Correspondent

CHICAGO, Ill. = The conditions
in the National Malleable Steel and
Casting Company are so rotten. The
workers have averaged two days a
week for two years, and their wages
were cut many times. The bosses
attempt to cut again, But they use
different method Before they
used to put in notice that they cut
so much percent. Now they tell
us one by one that they vii. cut
wages from the first of August and
more workers will be laid off. They
know well that workers will not be
able to make living. They extend
working hours from to IL hours
day. Old workers begin to be laid
off. Many workers have been work
ing over thirty years in shop, but
now they are cast off on the street
and replaced by young ones.
The foundry works on piece work.
BY terrific speed up and hard work
we make only $500 in eight hours
Laborers get only 4oc an hour. Ma
chinists get 55c an hour
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-15

~ol,daritv Of wo~'2ers in mines or
ioi1s. We are in revolt and on a
sold front from the pit . the cell,
Our families starve. But they did
that whcn we shaved for some COM
ranv scrios Disease is spreading and
the bosses shout with hopes that the
revolting slaves will die off. They
continue to use every low trick to
keep the mas-es down. We have
heard fascists fear the next interna-
tional war because disease, poison
gas, orqanized famine, fire, bombs
and bullets would kill off the COM
mon peonle. Let the Weakened
come to Harlan County and see the
bosses use every one of these methods
against the miners. Any person who
BRINGS in or sohcits aid-food or
cIcthingv-is subject to death or Jail.
Organizers Of miners are hunted like
dogs. Defense organizers for the
class war prisoners are ordered out,
threatened out threatened, shot, or
thrown behind bars. To belong to
the National Miners Union means
Criminal Svndicalisnn under the
bosses laws Of this state and twenty
years goes with it.
Tear gas is thrown into union
meetings. While a large number OF
union people were eating in restau-
rant in Evarts, the twenty sheriffs
threw tear gas bombs in the place
Men, women and children were trap
ped. No union persona red
shall eat according to officials. and
operators. But, they can't stop US
Cars and homes are dynamited
Houses of union people have been
burned and riddled with bullets. We
know our enemies.
The International Labor Defense
and tie National Miners Union have
pointed the way and are leading us
in this right against the bosses. On
the Jail sector and the mine front
we know the lives of workers hang
in the balance. The masses of the
world must rise up in protest demon
STATIONS. We unite with the workers
of the world in revolution against
capitalism and the exploiting class
While we are ready to rot in Jail or
burn in the chair, we are not ready
to lie down in this fight against the
bosses and their tools. We call on
the readers of the Daily Worker to
march with us. Starvation, exploita-
ton, wholesale murders through dis
ease, thug-made company law, and
boss ridden courts and jails must
be broken. Workers must fight this
battle on a solid front. Harlan
County writes another chapter to the
revolt of the working class.
JaiIbirds--Class War Prisoners
Harlan County Jail
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-15
PLAN BIG AUG. y
MEET, RONWOOD
Demand Release of the
Class War Prisoners

IRONWOOD, Mich, Aug. 14.--As
a part of the world wide demonstra-
tons to commemorate the martyrdom
of Sacco and Vanzetti and protest the
existent boss terror. the workers and
farmers of the Gogebic Range will
hold huge outdoor mass meeting at
Northwestern Park, corner of Suf-
folk and Aver streets on the 22nd
of August beginning at p. m.
On the same evening of Aug. %,
there will be very good program
arranged at the Palace Hall which
will begin at $3.50 p. m. This program
will be varied and constructive. 1t
will given in different languages, SO
that all workers regardless of their
nationality should participate.
All workers and farmers on the
Gogebic Rangel Come to the DEM
onstration and the program and show
your solidarity with the toiling mass
thruout the world, to fight for the
liberation of the Scottsboro boys, to
fight against the bosses terror against
the Negro people, to fight against
the Michigan Alien Registration Bill
which is an attack on tsa whole
working class. Let your voice be
heard in demand for the release of
Mooney, the Imperial Valley COM
rades and thousands of others.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-15
CONTINUED FROM PAGB ONE.

fCONEkNUED E'hUm PAGH UNEl
In his speech Pinchot particularly
pointed out that Communism was
rapidly spreading, and that it was
the function of the Federal govern
ment, not so much to worry about
the unemployed, but to act deci-
sively to protect capitalism. Pinchot,
arguing that capitalism must --act
against a militant working-class
said:
"A depression like this one Is not
:. merely an economic calamity. 1t Is
a threat to our institutions. 1t sup
plies the soil for the growth Of
ideas of government hostile to
our own. A depression is always
a harvest time for revolutionists and
other trouble makers" o
He called on all the charity Or
CARNATIONS to unite to resist the
demands of the unemployed. He told
: of the starving children lining up
with Communism, but forgot to men-
ton the fact that Pinchot's police in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-15
RENEWALS AND SUBS
WILL BUILD DAILY"

Enclosed find $500 covering my
renewal of Daily Worker which
expired July IL, 1881. 1 can hardly
spare the money because I only
worked about six weeks this year.
But / can't be without the Daily
Worker" writes C. D., Chicago, Ill.
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You can help too by sending in
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ton or donation sent takes a load
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CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE,

a fake charge of "raping" two pro-
fessional prostitutes.
The Southern District of the I.
L. D. has sent the following tele-
cram of protest to Chief of Police
McDuff of Birmingham:
eve protest falling of Lowell
Wakefield because of his visit to
attorney on behalf of other mill
tant birmingham workers thrown
in jail. After holding him on the
flimsy excuse Of making an in
vestigation', As hours after his ar
rest Wakefield is still held with
out charges. This ispart of the
reign Of terror launched against
Southern workers to smash the
Communist Party and other
workers organizations. 1t is oc-
curing in the same state where
the Scottsboro frame-up victims
and the Camphill troopers face
iaiI terms and electrocution. We
demand the unconditional release
of the scores of Negro and white
workers arrested in Birmingham
in your terror drive"
Following the hold-up and shoot.
ing on August Of three society
women, one of whom has died, al
unidentified Negro was accused O.
the crime. Birmingham police a
once begun making wholesale ar.
rests of Negro workers, using thu
murder as a pretext to search theil
homes for Communist literature.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-15
DEMAND POLICE
FOR EVICTIONS
Furniture Put Back By
Council

CINCINNATI, o., August 10, - A
member of the Unemployed Council
was recently evicted from his house
at 1872 Arnory Avenue. The Coun-
Gil immediately put the furniture
back. The following day the Gin
cinnati Enquirer carried the news
that G. J. Carroll, executive secretary
of the Property Owners Division of
the Real Estate Board, had COM
planned to the city officials on be-
half of the owner of the property
at 1872 Armory Ave.
The landlord had got an order
from the Municipal Court for the
workers in the flat to move. When
the eviction was to take place the
police were called to prevent the mil
liant Negro workers in the neighbor-
hood from upsetting the eviction.
When the flat was empty it was lock-
ed by the landlords son. Half an
hour later he called the police and
told them that the furniture was be-
ing moved in again. They, how
ever, decided, in view of the militancy
of the workers, that it was in the
jurisdiction of the Municipal Court
and not in theirs.
Carol, representing the property
owners demands that the police give
them the fullest support in their evic-
ton cases. The workers of the city
are determined to build the Unem-
ployed Branches and prevent the ev-
iction of workers who cannot pay
their rent.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-15

Jail that does not hold working class
prisoners. Numerous deportees are
being held in the detention prisons
Of the federal government on both
othe Atlantic and Pacific coasts.
.a Many Glass. War Prisoners
Tom Mooney, who has just started
serving his sixteenth year in San
Quentin Prison, California, is the
best known of Americas class war
prisoners. The San Quentin and Fol-
som prisons of California, however,
also hold the Imperial Valley prison.
ers, Mcnamara and Schmidt, and
numerous other victims OF boss class
Justice. The Centralia prisoners are
buried alive behind bars at Walla
Walla, Washington; the Woodlawn
prisoners are serving five year sem
fences in the Blawnox Workhouse, at
Blawnox, near Pittsburgh; Pat De
vine is being held in the Federc
Pententiary at Atlanta, Georgia; t.
] Scottsbro Negro boys in the Kilt
Prison ldeath cells) at Montgomer,
Alabama; Roy Wright, one of tn,
Seottsboro boys, Lowell Wakefield
Southern organizer Of the Interna-
tional Labor Defense, and others in
prison on various charges at Bir-
mingham, Alabama; five Camp Hill
Negro share troopers still in prison
at Dadeville, Alabama; Jesse Wake
field, Kentucky organizer of the In
ternational Labor Defense, in Jail at
Harlan, charged with criminal syn
dicalisn; William Murdoch, textile
strike leader in New England, being
held in Boston for deportation, as
well as many others under arrest.
Demand Amnesty for All
One of the outstanding demands
Praised on Sacco-V anzetti Day is to
be found in the intensified struggle
for. the immediate and unconditional
release of all the class war prison
ers. This is being linked up with the
international demand no Sacco-Van-
zetti Day for the liberation of class
war prisoners in all lands.
The international Labor Defense is
| today faced with its greatest strug-
giles. and its greatest obligations. The
mass mobilization for Sacoo- Vanzetti
Day is joined with the drive for a
mass membership, in the. lid and
the collection of. funds for carrying
on the struggle against capitalist class
justice. The need for financial sup
port is tremendous. Workers are
judged to take up collections every
| where. Send all donations imme-
| diately to the National Office, Inter
national Labor Defense, Room 430
! so E. 18th ST., New York, N. Y.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-15
NEGRO TRAITORS
AID SO. LYNCHERS
Knife the Scottsboro
Defense

S. LOUIS, Mo.-Open collabora-
ton with the Southern boss lynch
ers and abject belly crawling before
the oppressors of their people mark
ed the attitude of the leaders the
Ancient United knights and -DS6gh-
tiers of Africa In its convention here.
Although the Scottsboro Case has
aroused storm of protest through
out the world, these bootlickers OF
the white masters refused to permit
Miss Beatrice Maddox, sister of two
of the Scottsboro boys, to address
the convention. The Uncle Toms at
the head of the organization were
afraid Of offending the Southern
BOSSES. They would prefer to let
nine innocent Negro children, VIC
tins of frightful frame-up burn in
the electric chair. Their slogan is
the same as that of the reformists
at the head of the N.A.A,C.P.-DO
NOTHING THAT WILL OFFEND
THE WHITE DEPRESSING CLASS.
The Grand Master of the organ
ization, Mr.. Putillo, is a government
employe. To him Mrs. Holly, head
of the order in Missouri, passed the
buck when the Scottsboro Defense
Committee requested hearing for
the sister of two of the boys. Mr..
Putillo absolutely refused to permit
her to address the convention or to
have the subject of Scottsboro
brought up in any way.
Nor did these misleaders of the
Negro masses offer the slightest pro-
test to the jim Crow practices in
this city which forced their dele
gates, numbering many hundreds, to
stay in tent colony while here be-
cause the Jim Crow hotels would not
accommodate them.
The Scottsboro Defense Committee
issued an open letter to the rank
and file delegates exposing the
traitorous, lick-spittle role of the
misleaders. The committee called on
the delegates to pass resolutions of
protest against the Scottsboro legal
lynch, and the Camp Hill, Alabama,
and Chicago massacre of Negro
workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-15
Detroit JobleSs Demonstrate AS
Pinchot Feeds Them Phrases

Pittsburgh threaten to arrest 1000
starving miners children If they
commit the crime of collecting strike
relief. Regarding the children Pin
chot said:
"The children of Western Penn
=syivania miners are being trained to
charge against the government the
suffering through which they are
passing. Their Communistic leaders
are teaching them to hate the Gov
eminent under which they go hungry.
"Many Of these little children have
NOT. tasted milk for many months"
Pinchot's demagogy is just the
beginning of new drive by the IL
-beraI takers to help the Hoover gov
eminent against the unemployed and
against the demand for unemploy-
ment insurance. The takers of the
Pinchot stripe realize that the action
of Hoover too openly exposes the
hand of the capitalists, and offer
new schemes to keep back the adj
vancing struggle of the workers and
to protect capitalism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-15
Ben Gold to Speak in
ST. Louis in Campaign
in Needle Trades Shops

ST. LOUIS, Mo.-Ben Gold, gen.
eral secretary of the Needle Trades
Workers Industrial Union, will
speak Monday, Aug. "a, at pm, at
the West Side Workers Center, 1905
Semple. Ave, near Easton.
The needle trades workers of St.
Louis are faced with new wage-cut
and speed-up drives by the bosses.
The need for organization is there
fore becoming an immediate neces-
sity.
The bosses realize that they will
not be able very much longer to
continue to force the workers to &C
cept the rotten conditions that pre-
vail in the needle shops now. They
are therefore increasing the terror.
For instance, in the Korrekt Cloth
ing, where the workers are working
part time, although August is sup
posed to be the height of the sea-
son, they are forced to sit at the
machines while waiting for work
The boss is afraid that when the
workers will speak to each other or
ganization may be discussed, In the
Model Pants the boss was forced to
give an increase in wages after the
eedle Trades Workers Industrial
Mon gave out number of leaflets
that shop calling upon the work
to organize and fight against the
ten conditions.
Leaflets are being distributed and
operations are being made to make
lie Gold Mass Meeting the largest
Gathering of needle trades workers
Of st. Louis.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-15
JOBL.EI,SS LEADER
JAILED IN ERIE
Are ted by Order of
Poor Director
(By a Worker Correspondent


ERIE, Pa, Aug. IA Committee
of eight workers from the unem-
ployed council was modified and
went down to the Poor Directors Of
flee at Seventh and French SITS, at 10
o'clock. Comrade Hayward, spokes-
man for the committee, entered the
Poor Directors office and demanded
to see the director, Mr.. Wagner. He
was told to wait a minute So while
waiting, we received our answer. The
police were called to throw us out.
The police asked for the Council
Committee and then Comrade Hay
ward spoke up and said: Il am the
spokesman and the parties concerned
are going into the office"
Then the honorable peace officer
says: You come here and he took
Comrade Hayward into the office
and called the patrol wagon to take
him down to the station. When
Cofnrade Hayward asked the officer
what the Poor Director was for, the
officer refused to answer.
Comrade Hayward requested the
use Of the phone. He was asked what
he wanted with it, for they wanted
to know if he had any one outside
who would work for his release. They
we're informed that an organization,
Gust a world wide organization was
interested. He meant the Interna-
tional Labor Defense.
He was held pending charges from
the Poor Director. Forty-five minutes
later he was released under bond and
told to appear in the police court
last Sunday at o'clock.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-15
UNITED FARMERS
LEAGUE HOLDS
A CONFERENCE
N. Dakota Conference
Draws Up Demands

STANLEY, N. D.--The State Con-
ference of the United Farmers
League was held here July 20. After
hearing reports from the state or
ganizer, Comrade Ella Reeve Bloor,
and also from county organizers the
conference adopted a resolution con-
tanning the following demands:
ID Increased taxation for utility
companies, railroads, telegraphs,
elevators, power and gas Companies,
banks and mortgage companies,
chain stores and rich farmers, these
funds to be used for relief of the
poor farmers and unemployed work
ers. CD All tenant and poor farm
ers be exempted from paying taxes.
g Immediate discrimination of
spending public funds for construc-
ton of war memorial buildings, these
funds also to be given to the relief
Of unemployed and poor farmers.
"a Billion dollar war fund to be
used for relief and not for war
against the Soviet Union. (5) In
mediate cash relief of $40 per week
per family and 81 in addition for
each child and Sc per week for single
adult workers and farmers. Also free
doctor, free hospital and medical at
tention for the unemployed and poor
in case Of sickness, also feeding of
live stock in drought stricken areas.
(6) No evictions Of farmers and
workers from their homes for non
payment of rent; no foreclosures on
land, chattels or crops. Cancellation
of all debts of poor farmers.
The resolution also calls upon
farmers to organize Committees of
Action and to join into the United
Farmers League and wage organized
struggle for their demands in aIli-
ance with the industrial workers.
The conference elected the State
Relief Committee, which will in
struct each township secretary of the
U. F. l.. to make an immediate sur
vey of the township as to the actual
needs of the farmers. Relief sta
tons are to be set up in every county
to secure and distribute the relief.
Relief will be demanded from the
county commissioners and from Red
Cross funds. The conference de-
msnded that all railroads and trans
port companies transport relief free
of charge.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-15
Birmingham Terror Against Negroes
Extended to County, Other Cities

At least two Negro workers, one
a woman, have been murdered by
the Birmingham police to date, and
scores of others shot down in the
streets by police and other thus
Several are now in hospitals in
dying condition. Scores have been
thrown into Jail. Eugene BraXton,
David James and John James, three
Negro leaders of the working class
are among those in Jail, facing a
frame-up. Warrants have been is
sued for all white and Negro Com
munist leaders in Birmingham. Harry
Jackson, acting southern organizer
of the Communist Party is locked
up. The boss press admits failure
in several previous efforts to frame
him up, but think they can do it this
time.
The police terror has been ex-
tended to Selma and Montgomery,
Ala, and to Athens, Tenn, where
scores of Negroes were arrested yes
terday @
Negro and white workers. Defend
the Southern workers! Defend the
unity Of white and Negro workers!
Defend the revolutionary party Of
the working class! Organize protest
meetings and demonstrations at
once! Mobilize for the nationwide
demonstrations on August % against
boss terror and for the release OF
the Scottsboro boys and all class
war prisonersl Defend the right OF
the workers to organize! Demon
strate AUGUST %!