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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-18
Bring Ne the LIAR

WE forget exactly which old poentate
" with the necessity of public
r The example however to have useful to
President
This revealed by Associated dispatch May
obviously
the effect Of which is expressed in the following hnes
The Administration believes
declined"
pleasant suffered wage
April bulletin of the National City Bank shows that while the cost of
figures 49, the payroll of
fallen to 68 in comparison On the day and in the
which Hooers denied wage cuts the Chicago correspon-
dent Of The New York Post began article from that city with the fol-
lowing ines 8
metropolitan
reductions Chagos
already
a s The answer i that Nv denvno the waae cs
moral the fictitious that prices of
commodities have declined" that follow The index
the National will attack Bohevk
propaganda are point blank refutation of this he
is incidentally interesting observation that the statement of
A
which labor lackeys capitalism pretended
1t the A F. of L to with Mr. Hoover
that there opainfu the
of ese edion" by contradcting he Admin
this alternative like the opposing"
point apparent
happen will doubtless flood foggy which the
A. will sadde the continue policy helping
shrinking hypocrisy
ty initiative organizing striking
attempted everywhere
conditions capitalism
upon them the conditions of the
ead in the following quoted from the New York World Telegram of
May Is:
Including privileges
cent between December 1929 and December 1880
this the of underground further
increase 20 cent"
the working class
the
attack
is
possible mention the American
that their employers only
prpgran Of
wage ard revolutionary
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-18
THREE STRIKES Won BECAUSE TU.U.L4 BLOCKS SELLOU]
Shortcomings in Saturdays
Demonstration

GArURDAYs demonstration against legal
ynchlng the undoubtedly bring
the Issue OF Scosboo quare before thousands of Negro
white workers. and modified additional
to save the lives of the nine innocent
An excellent innovation but which sufficiently
was the holding of street meetings along the line of march mobilize
the workers for the parade
Especially
other selling
the revolutionary movement and explaining the implications of the
to the thousands of workers lined the sidewalks
However there garing evidences mpermbe
estimation Of the Scottboro the
generally The comparatively small
parade itself showed that little
building block and neghboood committees support the
horo defense agiatonal in the Harlem section
The small number of organizations participating shows
that the Communist fractions the organizations
alive the the
Defense the Struggle
Servcemens League the only organizations marching
body and behind their banners
Only
at
have been distributed only hundred evidence
This mpernbe underesmaion further emphasized the
the party district leaders With the
wrong
leaving to the attitude the
sharpest condemnations.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-18

Lynching OF Negro Working Glass
Boys" Flight Lynching and De-
portations" Smash Scottsboro and
Paterson Frame ups!"
Give Mrs. Wright Ovation
Mrs. Ada Wright, mother of two Of
two of the Scottsboro boys, was one
of the many speakers at the DEM
onstration at 10th Street and Fifth
Avenue. She was Justify cheered for
five minutes. Mrs. Wright told the
pathetic story of how her two young
sons, Andy II, and Roy IA, left home
to seek work after pointing out to
her that the family could not exist
on the S. a week she was able to
earn, and of their arrest and frame
up the very next day.
She praised the International La
Dor Defense for rushing to the help
of the nine boys, and appealed to
the workers of all races to join the
fight to save the lives of the nine
boys by rallying behind 1.-THE united
front defense campaign Of tthc l.
LID. and the League OF Struggle for
Negro Rights. She declared that she
and all the other parents of the boys
would stick with the LID through
life and death"
additional News on Page 81
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-18
5000 Parade in Scottsboro Protest
AS Throngs Cheer the Line of MarcF,

NEW YORK.--The/ fight to save
the lives Of the nine innocent Negro
boys railroaded through the boss
courts Of Alabama to the shadow of
the electric chair reached a new
high point Saturday afternoon as
a parade of 5000 white and Negro
workers through the streets of
Harlem brought home to tens Of
thousands of workers of Harlem the
vicious injustice of the frame up
against these boys and the necessity
of united front to save their lives
and secure their freedom.
Thousands of sympathetic workers
lined the sidewalks as the parade
got under way from l28th Street
and Lenox Avenue. Cheers and APP
plause greeted it all along the line
of march up Lenox Avenue to 145th
Street, through 145th Street to 7th
Avenue to 1l6tth Street, where it
turned east to be enthusiastically
welcomed by thousands OF Latin
American workers on its way to
Fifth Avenue and 10th Street, where
a demonstration was held with over
5000 workers taking part.
Thousands March Along Sidewalks
Time and again the crowds on the
4.,lewalks and in 1.-THE windows OF
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-18
HOOVER'S lies ON WAGE CUTS BLASTED
BY DEPARTMENT OF LABOR FIGURES;
WAGES OF SOVIET UNION WORKERS RISE
Hoover Spouts Lie S
About wages
Staying Up"
Follows Usual Stunt
Aims to Keep k
Resistance

WASHINGTON, May 17.-FolloW-
ing usual policy of deliberate lying,
Hoover declared yesterday that wages
have not been cut. The statement
was given after the reports from all
over the country of wage slasheS and
on the very day that the United
States Department of Labor an
nounced that wages had been cut
heavily.
HooYer's statement declares.
"The administration believes that
wage Levels generally have not de-
clined, although hours of work have
been shortened in some industries"
The occasion for this utterance was
the statement of VIM. Green, presl-
dent of the American Federation OF
Labor, admitting that wages have
been cut and that the workers may
strike, despite the wishes of Green
and the other takers in the A. r
of L.
Green has persistontig supported
Hoover's lies about there being ne
wage cuts. However, wage slasheS
have come down recently in such a
heavy food that Green could no
longer fool the workers and began
talking "militancy'' in order to main
tain leadership. Hoover took the
whole brunt fthe lying on the very
day when every capitalist newspaper
in the country reports a heavy in
crease in wage cutting,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-18
DEVIN HEARING
IN Us COURT MON.

NEW YORK.-Pat DeVine, acting
secretary of the National Textile
Workers Union, was released from
Federal Detention Headquarters Sat-
urday on bond of $4,000 provided by
the New York District of the In
ternational Labor Defense. He is
scheduled to appear for a hearing
Monday in the U. S. District Court,
Post Office building, Eighth Avenue
and 31st Street.
Deyine was arrested in Boston
about week ago on trumped-up
charge of obtaining passport under
false pretenses. He was brought to
New York and kept in the Federal
Detention Headquarters until Satur-
day. The charge against Devine is
part of the efforts of the govern
ment to deport him to Scotland be-
cause of the part he played in the
successful Lawrence textile strike
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-18
T,U.U,L. HITS SELL
OUT PLANNED BY
ALL. IN ST. LOUIS
Carmen Vote Strike
Against Wage Cut

ST. LOUIS, Mo, May 1.-THE
stree car men i'll ST. Louis have voted
for a strike against 10 per cent
wage cut served on them by the Pub
lie Service Company to take effect on
June /, The agreement expires on
May 10 and the men have voted to
go on strike when the agreement ex-
pires.
Acting Mayor Neun has already is
sued statement that there must be
no strike" and the machinery is
being prepared to break the strike.
Since the beginning of the contro-
versy the Trade Union Unity League
has issued two leaflets to the street
car men calling upon them to organ
ize committees in the bars, and not
to permit Mahon, and the local pres
ident Nelson of the Arnalgamated
Association of Street and Electric
Railway employees (A.F.L) to sell out
the strike.
The A. F. of l.. leadership as usual
is on hand making the workers be-
lieve that they are fighting for them
while at the same time carrying on
negotiations and calling upon every
strike breaking agency of the bosses
from the mayor to the Chamber of
Commerce to come into the situation.
The Trade Union Unity League has
constantly warned the street car men
to watch out for these friends" of
labor, and take steps to stop the sell
out that is being prepared by their
officials. The street Car men must
not forget the strike breaking activity
of Mahon in the strike of the New
Orleans street car men.
Need Rank and File Leadership.
The street car men can not rely
upon the present leaders to carry
through tn strike successfully.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-18
SOVIET WAGES
RAISED Is ?. c.
Number Of Workers
Grows by Millions


Wages in the Soviet Union in
creased "a per cent for all workers
over the 1928 level 1t was precisely
during this period when the wages
of all the workers in the capitalist
countries were cut from 10 to so
per cent Business Week" says
wages of American workers during
this period was cut 20 per cent.
The number of workers in the
Soviet Union, also, is constantly in
creasing. In 1880 there we're 1929 900.
The number of workers in 1929 was
12,394,000 a growth of the working
class of nearly 100000. In 1881
there were 100000 workers in So
Wet Industry, In the United States
in the same period nearly 10000 600.
workers we're thrown aut of work.
Those left on the job had their pay
cut, with certainty that their pay
will be slashed still further.
The current number of the Eco
nonic Review of the Soviet Union
published by the Amtorg Trading
Co. points out:
Excluding agriculture, transport,
construction and social and cul-
tural work, industries in the Soviet
Union employed an average of
3,161,000 workers in 1929. In 1880
the number increased to 4,51l.00O,
and this year a total of 5,159,000
are expected to be employed. In
addition, more than 100000 work
ers are currently employed on con-
structjon work, compared with
1,432,000 last year and 1000 in
1929.
In 1880, the survey continues,
real wages averaged Al per cent
above those of pre-war. Including
social insurance and other privi-
leges the increase was 10 per cent
above the pre-war level. As shown
by the table below, the average
earnings last year were "a per cent
higher than 1928. In the coal
industry wages increased "a per
cen tbetween December, 1919, and
December, 093l. In February of
! this year the wages of underground
4; miners were further increased by
20 per cent"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-18
REVOKE BAIL OF
PATERSON FIVE
Feared Demonstration

PATERSON, N. Jon the ground
that the International Labor Defense
and the National Textile Workers
Union had issued leaflet calling on
the workers of Paterson to demon
strate in front of the Jail in Paterson
to greet the five workers framed for
murder who were to be released on
bail on Saturday, the judge revoked
the bail The judge is also said to
have objected to cartoon in the
Daily Worker. The prosecutors Of
flee has informed the LID. attorney
that they intend to treat the case as
an ordinary criminal case, and will
make this another Sacco and Van
2etti case in the true spirit of Ameri-
can capitalist democracy.
The Paterson Eagle of Sunday,
May II, in reporting the demonstra-
ton of the workers on Saturday,
states that the Jail was guarded by
city police and county deputies.
On Monday, today, another at
tempt will be made to argue the mo-
ton of bail before the same Judge
Harlan who previously fixed the bail
of $500 for each of the four men
comrades and $1,000 for the woman
comrade, The official reasons for re-
voking the bail and keeping the
workers behind the bars will then be
aired. The inside story written by
the comrades themselves: Lieb, Hart,
Harris, Gershonowitz and Kalzen-
buch, will appear in the Daily to-
morrow. That the textile bosses and
their tools are determined to take
vengeance on the comrades whom
they have framed for murder, is
clear. Mass pressure of the workers
organized through the LID. and the
National Textile Workers Union
must and can smash this bosses
frame-up.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-18
5000 Give Huge Ova
ton to Mother of 2
Boys at 10th st.

the houses along Lenov and It'll
Avenue, and along 1l6th Street,
broke into applause and cheers as
the banners and placards with their
militant slogans against boss lynch
law and for the demands Of the Me-
gro masses came into view. at
several points along the line OF
march red flags we're waved from
windows and roof tops.
Many Negro and Latin-American
workers Joined the ranks OF the pa
rade. Other thousands marched on
the sidewalks all the way to 10th
Street, where they took part in the
demonstration.
Workers Cheer Protest - Against
Frame-up
Some Of the slogans which brought
cheers to THE lips Of the thousands
of sympathetic on lockers were
Death to Lynchers, Free 8 Scots
boro Boys" They Shall Not Diet"
Hungarian Workers in Fight to
Save . Negro Boys" stop the Legal
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-18
$500 SEIZE
PHILA. CITY
RELIEFOFFICE
Jobless Find Orders to
Discriminate

PHILADELPHIA. Pa, May H.
Fifteen hundred Negro and white
workers, invaded the headquarters of
the City Emergency Relief Com
mittee, 1903 S. Broad Street Friday.
This committee, headed by Horatio
G. Lloyd, president of Drexel and
Company, member of the House of
Morgan, has made itself notorious
through its system of collecting
days pay from employed workers,
and using the money to hire workers
on made jobs for scab wages.
This money which was supposed to
go to unemployed workers. for &C
tual relief was being used by Lloyd
and the clique Of bankers. who head
this relief committee as weapon
of the wage cutting program of the
Bosses
Make Demands.
But even SO the last two weeks has
seen the cutting off of the entire
fourteen thousand who were working
on these made" jobs. also cutting of
what little relief they have been Civ
ing to others. The unemployed
councils sent committee headed by
Leslie Copeland, secretary to de-
n1ard from Lloyd that the thousands
of needy cases, which were presen-
ted to him be taken care of, also
that all money on hand be turned
over to the unemployed, the $4,000
900 loan which the city is getting
from the state also be turned over.
There Are 100000 Jobless Here.
Lloyd told the committee that he
could do nothing for them, as he had
no funds. Copeland jointed out that
Lloyd and his committee had never
tried to do anything for the unem-
ployed. What had been done was be-
cause of the pressure of unemployed
workers, and their fear that these
workers would take things in their
own hands.
This committee came back to the
headquarters of the Lloyd commit
tee and reported Lloyd's attitude.
pointing out that only by struggle
would they be able to get any kind
of relief.
Members of the unemployed coun-
ellis simply took possession of the
CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVEl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-18

and their agents, the white and Ne
gro "uplifters," and called upon the
workers to unite in struggle against
the terrorism that now seeks to ter
rorize the millions of destitute Me-
gro workers by mass lynching.
Many of the workers went after
ward to 252 Warburton Avenue,
where a branch of the League Of
struggle for Negro Rights was or
ganized, consisting bf many Negro
and white workers.
The indoor meeting was addressed
by Mrs Ada Wright, mother of two
of the boys, and f. e. A. Welsh, Of
the L.S,N.R. An appeal for funds
to finance the Scottsboro campaign
resulted in collection of s23.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-18
City Welfare Admits
Few Fairgrounds For
Workers Children

NEW YORK.--The Welfare Coun-
ellis "city recreation committee" an
nounces that it finds at its meeting
Of May ID:
"There are not half enough ath-
letic fields for the boys and girls in
the public schools of New York City,
much of the heavy increase in fatal
accidents to children on the city
streets is undoubtedly due to the lack
of sufficient or properly located play
spaces, and that the city is proceed
ing more rapidly in its provision of
Fairgrounds in outlying areas than in
the highly congested districts where
they are most needed"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-18
1000 Steel Strikers Chase
AFL Organizer Out; End Cut
Albany Foundry Workers Threatened by A. F. Of l. With
Expulsion and Told Strike Is Lost, Cheer T. U. U.L
Speakers, Garry On and Win

MANSFIELD, Ohio, May 1.-THE two thou
sand Mansfield strikers in the plant of the En-
pire Steel Corporation have won. The grip of
the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel
and Tin Workers CA F IL by which this gang
hoped to smash the Empire Steel strike they did the great
steel strike of 1919 broken by the agitation for rank
and file control of the strike started by the Metal Workers
Industrial League of the T. u u. L.
The Amalgamated organizers early in the strike and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-18
paxrolls in April Down


WASHINGTON. - More proof Of
pay cutting is contained in the re-
port on unemployment released by
the Department of Labor last Sat
urday While employment was sup
posed to have increased by two
tenths of one per cent. payrolls de-
creased by one and one-half per
cent. This is clear evidence of wags
cutting.
WomenS Wages Siashed
The Women's Bureau of the De-
partment Of Labor, IN its news re-
lease Saturday reported food of
wage cuts for women. Wages for
-omen on full time are now as low
as three dollars and four dollars a
week, says the Women's Bureau. III
Massachusetts textile firms wages
average S., Sc, and ST week. The
same department goes on to report
wholesale wage cutting. rollowins
arc some details
Clerks wages used 10 range be-
tween $40 and $22 a week. now
they are from So 10 SIS, Stenos-
raphers used to get SIS TO $S5 and
now collect SO to $50. Bookkeepers
are being offered SIS week instead
of s23 and SIS. Telephone opera
tors at private boards are getting
| SIS instead of SIS or SEQ.
"a large chain of restaurants
which formerly paid mattresses $40
week is now paying So. Laundry
ffatwork operators who formerly re-
ceived from S14 to SIC week nov
get $40 and sl2.
I'm factories, the report shows
payment on a piece work basis is
being adopted rapidly for unsailled
workers. Thus beginners must
learn at their own expense, and Of
ten earn less than dollar day
for months"
All these instances from the gov
eminent bureaus--who hide as muck
as possible the facts of pay cutting
give Hoover and the bosses smash
ing answer to their lies about "wag'
es being maintained"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-18
Yonkers Workers
Hit Lynch Verdict

YCNKEI2S, May 17.--Hundreds of
Negro and white workers gathered at
Larkin Plaza Saturday afternoon in
mass protest against the while rul-
ing-class of the South who are en-
eaqed in the attempt to snuff out
The lives OF nine innocent Negro
children.
Speakers from the International
Labor Defense unmasked the Shiny
n,anouyers II the Southern bosses
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-18
Labor Dept. Figures
Show Heavy Wage
Reductions
Farm Pay Cut 30-50%
Slash Women's Pay in
Every Industry

WASHINGTON, May II. $50 Hoo
ver's lies about mo wage cuts" was
rammed down his throat by report
just published by the U. S. Depart
nent Of Labor, stating that the past
year showed history of increasing
wage cuts.
The scripps- Howard Newspaper AL
lance in q special release on wage
cuts saying that government figures
made public today" showed that the
workers had ample reason for be-
ing alarmed at the situation Of the
workers" in the face of increased
wage cuts.
"A long record of wage cuts pro-
posed or already effective is con-
tanned in the latest weekly report
on the Labor Departments concili-
alton service"
Then long list of immediate wage
cuts is given such as steel, rubs
Der. auto, coal, taxtile, etc
Farm Wages Cut So to SO Fer Gent
NEW YORK. - Farm wages have
been cut 80 to so per cent, says q
leading article in Saturdays issue Of
the New York Post. Michael w.
Strauss, Chicago staff correspondent
Of the Post, writes:
while metropolitan bankers ana
industrialists in convention at pa
latiaI hotels discuss wage reduc-
tions, the workless on Chicago's
main stem find farm labor has al
ready had its pay cut SO to 50 per
cent" Besides, he points out, jobs
are scarcer than ever even at these
greatly reduced wages.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-18
Teachers Face Pay Cut

WASHINGTON, May II. - Teach
ers are having their pay cut, their
hours increased, and their classes
made larger regular process of
Speed-up and pay slashing &C
cording to a report issued yesterday
by the experts in the office of Com
missioner of Education William Coo
per, and research workers of the Ma
tional Education Association
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-18

sbegan to swindle strikers into their
organization. When the strikers,
who were rnorganized, realized full
1y what was up, they forced the
Anaalgamated organizer to return ini-
tiation fees to the men who had
paid them, and they ran the Anlal-
gamated organizer out of town
The local authorities, police, ag-
ents of the Mansfield A. z. L. or
ganization and American Legion
naires kidnapped Meldon and Cush
organizers of the Metal Workers In
dustrial League, and took them in
automobiles to the adjoining coun-
ty. But by that time, the strike
breaking trick had failed. and the
company capitulated an hour after
the militant organizers were seized.
The strikers have forced the COM
pany TO give up the announced Is
per cent wage cut. The wages of
common labor have been raised four
per cent.
The company announces through
c. H. Henkel, its president, that I'm
restoring the wage scale of April 80
the corporation expects TO profit by
a higher degree of efficiency from
the men" This means, the T. U. U.
L. points out, that the company will
try to get more work for the same
pay, and thus put over an indirect
wage cut, with speed up and increased
accident rate, etc. The men have
no union yet, and one is needed to
fight this new attack of the COM
pany. They are urged to join the
Metal Workers Industrial League of
the T. q. U. L. and build their shop
committee organization.
Smash Sell Out ind Win.
TROY, N. Y, May 16 - Quick ac-
ton by the Trade Union Unity Lea
que and hearty response by the work
ers on strike blocked at the very last
moment sell-out all fixed up by the
A. F. L. leaders, and turned a des-
perate situation into a complete vic
tory here.
Seventy foundry laborers were on
strike at Ludlow Steel and Valve
Works against a wage cut from &c
cents an hour TO so cents. The
Moulders' Local was out in sympathy
| AT the strike meeting Thursday
! CONTINUED ON PAGE FtyE)
The Washington times., 1931-08-29
NewsCossip
!. OF Radio
World
Rx BROADCASTER

Stellar comedy, harmcny and
concert artists will join tonight
to celebrate the addition of WFBR
! to the WEAF network OF the Ma
tional Broadcasting Company.
! The testers, comedy. so3g and
Instrumental trio; Snoop and
Peep, the singing detectives; Ray
Perkins, comedian and singer,
and Elizabeth Lennox, concert
cOntralto, will feature the dedi-
cation program from 10 to II
p. m. over q National Broadcast
ing Company-WEAF network. Or
CheStral and choral groups also
will be heard.
The addition of WFBR makes
available all National Broadcast
ing Company programs t0 Balti-
more for the first time. The
WEAF network previously had no
outlet. The National Broadcast
lng Company-WJZ programs. how
ever, have been heard in the
Maryland city through WBAL for
some time.
The dedicatory WFBR broad
cast will originate in the National
Broadcasting Company New York
NfStudios and will be heard through
WEAF and all available associate
rEtations. The program presents
several of radios best.knoWr acts
In q special performance for
Maryland listeners.