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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-20
Bosses in Biggest Wage Cut Drive in u. S.
History; Get Aid of A. F. of l. Officials

profits that are squeezed out of the
workers, the bosses want to put the
entire burden of the crisis on the
backs of the workers they want
their profits to come out of the wage
cut that they intend handing the
railroad workers.
Answer the Bosses May
Green, Woll and the other A. F.
of L. misleaders have promised to
break strikes to advance the wage
cutting drive. This was the result
of their agreement with Hoover and
the leading bosses in November, 1929.
Only the Trade Union Unity League,
and its affiliated unions, supported
by the Communist Party, Is MOBILIZE
ing the workers to organize and
strike against wage cuts. The bosses
plans are made. Every worker must
join the fight against wage cutsl
Rally to the May Day demonstrations
where the unity of the workers will
be solidified, and the bosses chal-
lenge will be answered by counter
attack of the workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-20

reported meetings held by the lead
ing New York bankers and exploiters
On how to carry through these wage
cuts. Naturally, the details we're not
made public but the workers will
soon feel them in their pay envelopes
in the form of heavy wage cuts.
The railroad bosses present al
these conferences came out for heavy
wage slashes.
"An important transportation
executive"-thc capitalist press, of
course, refuses to name him--"ex-
pressed the belief that railroad
wages would and must come
down."
Concentrate On Rail Workers
Nearly all the financial newspapers
are carrying on heavy attack
against the wages of the railroad
workers. The American capitalists
own S25 900 100000 of railroad bonds
and stocks. They insist on receiving
high interest on these bonds and
stocks. The crisis has cut down the
income of the railroads. Instead of
standing one cent Of drop in their
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-20
Active Picketing in
Olympic Strike; Call
for Shop Committees

NEW YORK. = The strike of the
Olympic Suit Case Co., Sc Blocker
Street, which has been going on for
more than a week is in splendid
condition. The strikers hlod together
and the shop has been picketed every
day from am. till 7 pm.
Workers from other shops are to
be found around the shop during
the day. The workers in the shops
are also responding with money con-
tributions. The workers of the Metro
politan Suit Case Co. have already
contributed for the strike close to
So Workers from other shops are
also responding splendidly.
They must organize committees in
the shops to help the strikers. The
strike in the Olympic must be a be-
ginning of an organization campaign
in the luggage industry in New York
and also in. other centers of the
trade. The left-wing group of the
Suit Case and Bag Makers Union,
affiliated with the Trade Union Unity
League are taking an active part
in the Olympic strike. They are do
ing their utmost to take care that
the workers take an active part in
the leadership of the strike, to make
the wide membership of the union
interested in the Importance of the
strike and to lay a strong basis for
further organizational activity.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-20
Southern Landlords In
n G w NJ O b
Lynching
Intensity T error
Take Negro Out Of
Jail; Seeking
Another

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, April 10.
With millions of white and Negro
workers rallying to the defense of
the nine Negro youngsters framed
up and railroaded to the electric
chair by an Alabama lynch court,
the land monopolists and capitalists
in other sections of the South are sa-
vagely intensifying their mob terror
gainst the Negro workers.
In Union City, Tennessee, a boss
mob last night rode up in swell
automobile to the county jail and
took George Smith, Negro worker,
from his cell and lynched him. Smith
has been arrested on the usual
charge of rape used by the bosses
to get even with Negro workers who
insist on getting wages for their la
Dor.
On thesameday, in Huntingdon,
Tenn, mob sought to lynch Henry
Mumford, a Negro worker ccused of
shooting a Humboldt, Tenn. officer
who attempted to brutalize him.
While the sheriff hid with the keys,
his wife met the mob and told them
thte prisoner had bee removed to
another Jail.
y was waiting for them when the
cars drove up this morning" she
said. They we're mighty nice about
it and didn't come in" Every worker
can imagine what would have hap
pened if the mice" mob had insisted
on entering the Jail, where no plan
had been made to defend the Negro.
his increasing terror against the
Negro workers give additional en-
phasiS to the necessity of every
worker coming out on the streets on
May Day to demonstrate against the
murderous boss system of lynching,
starvation, wage cuts, and prepara-
ton for imperialist war against the
Soviet Union, the workers father
land which points the way to the
workers out of the capitalist system
of starvation and terror.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-20
Concentrate Their At
tack On Rail and
Steel Workers

Plans for the biggest wage cut
ting drive against the American
workers in the history of the coun-
try are well under way. The cap
italist press is already advancing the
propaganda under which this new
and national wage cut campaign will
go on. While the wage Gus, ac-
cording to open statements made in
the capitalist newspapers, will can
centrate on cutting the pay of steel
and railroad workers, it will be car
ried into every factory, shop, mine,
office and mill in the country. Even
now wages are being cut left and
right, directly and indirectly, all over
the country.
Months ago the Daily Worker
printed facts about this wage cutting
drive. 1t was shown how the rail-
road bosses insisted on wage cuts ON
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-20

the railroads. Hoover put Doak in
as Secretary IF Labor with the eX-
press purpose Of undertaking wage
cuts in the railroad industry. The
big steel bosses, particularly the Uni
ted States Steel Corporation, through
the columns of the Wall Street Jour
nal announced months ago there
would be wage cuts. Now we have
the reports of definite conferences
of the bosses at which plans for car
rying out these wage cutting drives
were taken up.
"Wage reductions i'm some of the
country's basic industries" writes
the New York Times (April 18)
Including steel, have been discus
sed tentatively here, some down.
ward revisions may be put into
effect soon"
This cautious manner of announ-
cling definite fact--that the bosses
have the plans ready--is an attempt
to disarm the workers and to keep
them from struggle.
Push Plans For Wide Cuts
The Associated Press on Saturday
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-20
Woods Gives Dope On
Unemployment; Press
Must Not Publish It!

NEW. YORK.-"With the assurance
that what they have to say will not
be published" Col Arthur Woods,
Hoover's unemployment committee
head, and Asst. Sec. of Commerce JUL
Jus Klein will tell members of the
American Society of Newspaper Ed
itors "the unvarnished truth about
unemployment and business condit-
ions in this country" according to
Editor and Publisher, newspapermans
magazine.
Woods and Klein will make their
addresses at the banquet of the So
ciety at the New Willard Hotel, Wash
ington, D. c., April 18.
William Green, president of the A.
F. of L., will address the editors on
"The Press and Labor News" on Fri
day, April II, at 2 p. m.
A confidential conference with Pres
Hoover will be held Thursday night,
April 16. The Hoover conference is
limited strictly to members of the as
sociations.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-20
PASSAIC WORKERS
PLAN FOR MAY |
Is Organizations in
Conference

PASSAIC, N. j., April ia con-
ference to make plans for the ce1e-
bration of the workers international
holiday, May Il, was held Thursday
evening, April Is, at SO Monroe st.
Representatives from 16 organiza-
lions were present.
David Gordon from Paterson re-
ported briefly on the importance of
May Day. pointing out the present
conditions under which the workers
are living The sharp contrast be-
tween the Soviet Union and the rest
of the world is due to the fact that
workers rule in the Soviet Union,
while in the United States and the
rest of the world, the capitalists rule
The resolutions committee elected
at the conference presented the fol-
lowing plan of work:
l. That all organizations not re-
presented be visited before May l
and drawn into the preparations for
the demonstration. 2. That a call
be issued to all organizations and
individual workers, in 4 languages,
urging them to take part in the de-
monstration. g. That the mobiliza-
ton place be Hudson Street, between
Market and Third. T. A parade be
arranged from the mobilization point,
through the workers neighborhood to
the City Hall 5. That the confer
ence endorse the Communist candi-
date running for Commissioners in
the city elections, namely, Simon
Smelkenson, Miriam Fireman and
Alex Bennett, Negro worker.
The resolution was adopted unani-
mously.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-20

istration here. The city officials have
been insisting there is little unem-
ployment distress in their territory,
and have refused to join in demands
on the governor, meanwhile allowing
the little relief to be cut down, and
letting the constables evict those who
can not pay rent because of lack of
work.
Four open air meetings are being
held in Reading.
Smash NorriStOwn Terror
The hunger marchers were received
with a tremendous ovation from the
workers of Norristown, whose city off,
Gals. had warned them that If they
came through, the state police would
be used to smash the procession. The
lynching arguments of the officials
| fell on deaf ears, and seeing that
they had no support whatever, the
city authorities gave up the plan OF
attacking the hunger marchers. -Four
hundred local workers jammed a hall
to hear S peakers from the hunger
march. and 90 more tried to get in
but we're unable because of lack OF
room. This spirited meeting, the first
of its kind in Norristown, was bold
exposure of the lie that there is n
unemployed probe min Noristown AS
a result of the march and meeting,
rs Negro and white workers joined
the unemployed council.
In Pottstown, the next stop after
Norristown, so 0cheered the marchers
at an outdoor demonstration, adopted
the demand for state unemployment
insurance, and demanded the release
of Everett, Trade unicr Unity League
representative arrested in Harrisburg
and sentenced to so days in jail for
hunger march activities.
All the mass meetings participated
in by the hunger marchers pass re-
solutions denouncing the attempted
legal lynching OF the. nine Negro
young workers in Alabama.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-20
PLAN LAST DETAILS FOR MAY DAY
TONIGHT AT MANHATTAN LYCEIF

NEW YORK. Tonight, at p. M,
in Manhattan Lyceum, the final May
Day United Front Conference meets,
with delegates from all workers or
CARNATIONS, unions, fraternal orders,
sports, defense and cultural clubs.
The big delegation assured already
may be made larger by last-minute
affiliations. This conference will
work out the last details Of the May
First demonstration.
1t is intended for the demonstra-
tors to mobilize at Madison Square
Park at 1890 and to march from
there to Union Square, in spite of the
united front plans of the police, So
calist party and fascist Veterans of
Foreign Wars to hold Union Square
all day away from the workers.
Garry Call to Bakers.
Sadie Van Veen, representing the
United Front May Day Committee,
came to the Amalgamated Bakers
meeting Saturday afternoon in La
Dor Lyccum. Brooklyn, and was de-
MED the floor by the officials. She
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-20
40 Hunger Marchers
Leave Pittsburgh on
War to Harrisburg
Miners. Steel Workers
Arrests of J o bic SIS
Leaders Everywhere
BULLETIN.


SHENANDOAH, Penn, April 10.
Two rousing meetings in st. Clair,
meetings in Port Carbon, Track
vile and MinersvilIe we're held
when the lower anthracite unem-
ployed delegation started to hunger
march to Harrisburg. Meetings
will be held tonight at Centralia,
Fiardville, Ashland, and Kulpmont.
Tomorrow meeting in ShamOkin,
the center of the strike of 1900
miners will assure the strikers of
the SOLIDARITY of the unemployed.
The truck going with the hunger
marchers is decorated with banners
saying: "On to Harrisburg. Thirty
Thousand Anthracite Miners are
Starving! We demand Unemploy-
ment insurance."
PITTSBURGH, Pa, April ia
hundred and ten hunger marchers
left Pittsburgh Saturday morning for
Harrisburgh, the state capital, to de-
mand passage of state unemploy-
ment insurance bill. They we're
from Pittsburgh and from the mining
and steel towns Immediately around,
and will be joined on the way by
dozens more marchers from other
such industrial cities.
The masses of employed and IN
employed workers who picked these
marchers to represent them at the
state capital are watching eagerly
news of their progress, and are build
ing back of the march a great cam
paign for demonstrationsMay First
to support the demands for insur-
ance and to expose the whole CAPT.
talist system to the masses of the
workers. Unemployed worker dele
gates will take an active part in the
May Day Conference here to. map
out details of the demonstration.
The Pittsburgh marchers paraded
CONTINUED ON PAGE THREEp
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-20
Boss Lynchers Raise Funds to
Defeat Struggle to SAGE Nine
InnocentNegroB oysf from Chair
REFORMISTS
AID LYNCHERS
Support Court Room
Lynching of 9

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, April 49,
The boss lynchers of Scottsboro,
Alabama, determined to carry thru
their court room lynching Of nine
Negro youths, have raised huge
purse to employ the firm of Proctor
and Snodgrass to assist the State
prosecutor resisting the efforts of the
workingclass to smash this murder
Gus frame-up and railroading to the
electric chair of these nine young
sters.
In the meantime, working class
resentment is constantly increasing
as the true facts in this vicious
frame-up are brought to light by
investigations conducted by the In
ternational Labor Defense. Thru
out the country, workers and their
organizations are laundering their
protests and intensifying the prepar-
ations for huge May Day demon
STATIONS and struggle against the
boss system of starvation, wage cuts,
terror against Negro. and foreign
born workers, and preparations for
war on the Soviet Union and against
the revolutionary masses of Mica
ragua.
Southern Workers Rallying To
Defense
In the South, where the boss ide-
ology of race hatred has taken
strongest hold, white and Negro
workers are uniting as never before
Meetings and demonstrations have
been held in Atlanta. Ga, New Or
leans, La, and Chattanooga, during
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-20
Coin JObless Misery
Into Solid Profits

= CLEVELAND, Ohio, April 49,
While over ten million starve, the
big corporations take such profit
from wage cuts, heightened hours,
and by refusing to do a thing for
the unemployed, that the nation
ally known accounting firm of
Ernst and Ernst is able to pub
Iish figures proving that an aver
age profit of 6.49 per cent was
made in 1880 by list OF 407 rep
reseptative corporations in 20 di-
versified industries. This COM
pares with 1.S9 per cent profit for
these industries in 1921, the last
depression year, and with 1l.35 per
cent average profit in the boom
year of 1929.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-20
Begin Lying Stories of Torture to Stir Up War Hatred
Rake Up Old Fake Yarns About
Bandtry in Nicaragua
DEMONSTRATE MAY / AGAINST INPER-
IALIST ATTACK ON NICARAGUANS
Liberation Army Pushes Fight to Drive mperalsts Out
of Nicaragua; Support the Fight of
the Mcaraguan Rebels

War against the Nicaraguan people is now
being carried on by American troops, in the
interest of the imperialists of Wall Street, The
capitalist press is printing the usual horror
stories against SANDING and the Army Of Lib
Grafton Not satisfied with the fact that warshps leave for
Nicaragua day loaded with troops machine bomb
ing planes and other Instruments the capitalist press
rehaing the torurestoes that used to initiate the
against Germany and which used to murder the Chi
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-20
"Atrocity" Yarns.

"Atrocity" Yarns.
The New York Sunday News, the
Times, and nearly every other cap
italist paper in the country print
scare head lines packed with lies to
stir up war against the Nicaraguan
people. The main "atrocity" story
is based on the living accounts of the
group of inperialists who arrived in
New Orleans Saturday on the S. S.
Cefalu from Puerto Cabezza. Most
of the men were involved in shoot
ing Nicaraguan workers, and when
they were defeated and a number of
their group executed, they cooked up
all sorts of lies about torture" and
'banditry" in order to increase the
Wall Street armed forces in Nicara-
qua and confiscate more of the lands
Of the Nicaraguan people for the ben
eft of the American imperialists.
Stimson's Hypocrisy.
Hoover and Stimson, in order not
to arouse the indignation and resent
ment of greater masses throughout
Latin America, have issued a state
ment saying they have changed their
policy in Nicaragua whereby troops
will be supplied only for the coast
tiles. At the same time, daily ship
ments of troops were made to carry
on warfare against the Nicaraguan
people, and especially against the
Army of Liberation led by SANDING,
and the new forces of workers and
peasants armies that are fighting the
impel troops and the Nicaragu-
= Al
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-20
Rush May Day
Greetings

Have you sent YOUR May
Day greetings to the Daily
Worker? Has your mass or
ganization sent its greeting?
Send individual greetings lat
rs cents and larger greetings
from fraternal organizations,
workers clubs, trade unions,
etc, before the following dead
lines: Pacific Coast edition,
Dists. IL, Is, Is, 19-April 20.
Midwest, Dists. Z. 8, 9, 10, IL, IL
April 20. Eastern, Dists. 1, 2
upstate N. Y. only 3, 4, 5, 6,
Is, 16--ApriI "a. New York City
and No. New Jersey, April rs.
Greetings and ads from local
dealers tS2 per inch) should be
rushed without delay. Thou
sands OF greetings for May Day
will be carried In the Daily
Worker. Be sure yours Is
there!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-20
Tile. Marble Settlers
Picket Today for the
SIR. Day: Organized

NEW YORK-The II workers at
the Excelsior Tile and Marble Co.,
Bronx, are ready to start picketing
this morning to enforce their de-
mands for the .eight-hour day, A
hour week, restoration of the Is per
cent cut in their wages no overtime
and recognition of the shop com
mittee.
They met Saturday and elected a
committee Of five, which presented
these demands, and the boss offered
to grant all but the recognition. The
workers met with the Trade Union
Unity League and decided to insist
on all the demands. They are now
organized in the Tile and Marble
Settlers League of the T.U.UL.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-20
Rousing for Mayl
Demonstrations In
All Cities, Towns
SMASH TERROR AT
NORRISTOWN, PA.
Score Socialist Crew in
Reading Meets

READING, Pa, April ia fine
augery for huge May First demon
strations against the capitalist. system
itself, and for unemployment insur-
ance is seen in the enthusiastic recep-
ton by the masses in the towns along
the way to the Philadelphia section
of the Pennsylvania state hunger
march. The militancy, courage and
dash of the marchers, wo go through
towns with hostile city governments.
singing and cheering and shouting
slogans, brushing aside the threats
previously showered upon them and
holding big mass meetings, is inspir-
iring all the workers.
Expose Socialists.
The 1875 marchers from Philadel-
phia have had additions to their
ranks as they came along, and are
now in Reading, where they are get
ting ready for the pushon to Har-
risburg, the state capital, tomorrow
Masses of Reading workers met
the mat the city limits, and marched
with them through Reading streets
and attended a big mass meeting a
the CITY han where speakers exposed
CnUougnIy the socialist party admin.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-20
BOAST OF CUTTING
WORKING FORCE

NEW YORK.-The Lamp" pub
LEGATION of the Standard Oil Co. of
New Jersey, boasts of the economies
it effected by laying off 10 per cent
of their working force. The rest
have been speeded up.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-20

Use your Red Shock Troop List
every day On your Job. The worker
next to you viii help save the Daily
Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-20

Against evictions. for rent reduc-
tons!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-20

For full political and social rights
and self-determination for Negroes!
Against imperialist war!
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CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-13
NEW YORK CURB MARKET

Note-An stocks sold in hunored-snare
excepting those designated by the t80s (250s).
which shows, those stocks were sold In odd lots
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-13
Washington Produce

Butter - One-pound prints. 34a35;
tub. 321aa335s.
Eggs-Hennery. 21a22; current re-
ceipts, 1920.
Poultry, ahve-Turkeys, young toms
and hens, 32a33; old toms. %: Spring
broilers, 3Ta4O; Winter chickens. 3oa33;
hens. heavy. 24a25; light, 22a23; Leg
horn hens, 20; ROSTERS, 12al4; ducks,
is; keats, young. 75a80; old, 40. Dressed
turkeys. young, 38a40; old, 34a35;
Spring broilers. IS; Winter chickens.
38a4O: hens, heavy, 2Ta28; light, 25a26:
Leghorn hens, 22a23 ROSTERS, 15al6i
keats, young, 80a90; old, SO.
Meats-Beef, 13Aal5h; veal, Hale;
lamb 10; pork loins, 19a2I fresh hams,
10; fresh shoulders. IA; smoked hams
81; smoked shoulders, IL; strip bacon.
81 lard IN bulk, IL; in packages, IL.
F4uits-iS ,TawberrieS, 25aA0; oranges,
Florida, 3.50a425; California, 3.50a425;
lemons, 4.50a5 90; lines, per 100, LISA
200; apples, per bushel, l00a2 90: box
stock, 2.50a2. rs: pears, 4.00a450; grape
fruit, 2.50a3 90; honeydews ESQ; rhu-
barb, hot house, per box, loo; grapes,
Argentina, 3.50a4.00.
Vegetables - Potatoes. Maine and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-13

DRoPERTIEs of the Associated Gas and
l. Electric System produced an average
of 14.390 more electricity each month
in 1880 than the same properties at the
beginning of 1928. This compared with
12.4%o more for the United States as
whole q grOWtb 1915 faster.
Tao factors accounted far this. :.
Opportunity and Management
OPPORTUNITY-The use of electricity
per family in areas served by Associated
System properties has been less than for
the country as a whole, while at the
same time, the buying power has been
fully up to the average of the United
States. Census figures show that the per
capita value of manufactured, mining,
and agricultural products in counties in
which Associated System properties serve
at least half of the population is $685.,
compared with $63l in all counties in
the United States having electric service.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-13

pensions-no special loans from the
Treasury
The national floating debt. which
rang the bell at about $4,000, 900, 900
after the war in 1919, was reduced to
around $483, 900 900 in 1925. After that
time it began swooping upward again,
with successive issues of short-term
notes by the Federal Trasury to cover
wartime commitments falling due. Al
though it is true that this taut finan-
cial condition of the Government can
probably be greatly eased by conversion
of large part of the debt into long
dodge the fact that 1t pays as much, for
the late argument overseas, only it Is
spread over longer time.
Unfortunately. those who will inherit
much Of this debt will be, in the mass,
unaware of its cause, just as there is a
great part of the public today practi-