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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-30

1CN@& O4AC WNAASAS bAAJpASa44J GAANl
mentally. Some workers faint on the
lob from exhaustion.
Wage Cuts
The wages have been cut in all
plants from 10 to 40 per cent; s5 per
cent of the workers are on piece
work The workers have to work
hard to make S. in a day. In some
cases as low as 81. They let the
workers work on a job that pays
about S. for two days then they put
him on job that he cannot make
more than So or less. If any of the
workers complain about this they tell
him that there are plenty of men
outside.
About two Thousand Of unemploy-
ed workers are roaming the streets
In search for work. The poor COM
mission has been handing out a
measly relief of 81 a week claiming
that the city and the county is broke.
The single men and women they tell
them that they will take them out
to the country infirrnatory where
they will put the INTO work without
pay.
The workers In this city are awak-
ening to the fact that if the workers
ever will win anything it will be
through struggle. The workers are
looking toward the TUUL and the
c. P. for leadership. The Unem-
ployed Council in this city is fight
ing for the rights of the unemployed
workers.
Last week another bank closed It's
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-30
Miners, Write for the
'Daiiy Worker"

Miners, when you are off picket
duty and have few moments TO
spare, get some paper and pencil
and write few lines TO the Daily
Worker about the progress you are
making in the great strike. Write
about the conditions under which
You are forced 10 work and live
about the starvation system that
you are fighting against, Tell about
your strike and relief committees
how you organized them and how
they function. There are many inn
portant angles of the struggle that
you should write about; there are
many important stories that will
never be told unless you, the, strik-
ing miners, tell them yourself. No
body knows better than you how
the UMWA, is cooperating with the
mine owners and the police in an
attempt to break your strike. Tell
how the National Miners Union is
leading this determined struggle
against the bosses and all their
agents.
The ally Worker will publish
these !, ers as fast as they come
in Miners wives and children,
should write too. Letters from the
coal fields will help bring relief
they will rally new support to the
struggle. Send your letters to the
Workers Correspondence Editor,
Daily Worker, so East 18th Street,
New York, N. Y.
Write as you Fight!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-30
TAMPA, FLA, CIGAR WORKERS SHOW
TEE WAY; TURN IN TAG DAYS FUNDS!

Workers who do mot want their
names published because Of pos
sible persecution should indicate
this In sending in their eontribh-
lions. Collectors should ask those
who contribute whether they want
their names printed.
Thursday was more hike 1t
I,3s2.e0 received. But two sources
were chiefly responsible for this, the
cigar workers of Tampa, Fla, who
sent S4S2.sl, and District CCht-
easo), which sent s45o,52. Subtract
these two and you have very little
left. The contribution of the Tampa
cigar workers, who toll long hours
at miserable wages, should be an
Inspiration to the workers of the en-
tire country. Many of these Span
ish- speaking workers cannot even
read the Daily Worker.
District s's contribution was the
best for single day it has made in
a long time. 1t was long overdue
as this district has been doing very
poor work lately, We hope this
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-30
MARY RICHYNSKI
OF PHILA. DIED

PHILADELPHIA, Pa.-Mary Rych-
ynsh, charter member of the Com
munist Party, Philadelphia district,
and active member Of other working
class organizations died in a local
hospital Sunday, June 90. p. m.
after three weeks of illness and an
operation.
The body will lie in state Tuesday
and Wednesday, June 80 and July 1
at the Ukrainian Labor Home, IT'S
North Sixth st. The funeral will be
held Thursday. July 2 at .. m.
Members Of the organizations to
which Mary Rictynsh belonged and
ssierds are asked to attAnA ss,1s,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-30
Miners Face Stark Hunger;
Must Haze Relief Right NoaV!
PITTSBURGH. Pa, June 29-Men and

PITTSBURGH, Pa, June 29-Men and
women go out on the picket lines without bite
to eat, face the guns of the deputy sheriffs-
the yellow dogs" coal and iron police and
there is not thing to eat Yet despite they stick and fight
but it can't go that way You must help! Here is an
appeal for relief that worker should read signed by strike
leaders at all the fighting zones in the strike:
eve need food funds at once Our address is: Penn
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-30
"a Delegates Pledged Aid in
Fight to Free Scettsboro 9
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innocent working class children. A
Negro delegate amended the motion
that telegram be also sent to the
sheriff and TO Judge Hawkins.
The Hod Carriers Union No. 2To,
and the Building and Common
Eaborers Union No, $40, both afih-
ated with the Building Trades Coun-
Gil and the A. r. of L., have also sent
protest kilograms to the Governor,
Two kilograms endorsing the work
of the Conference were received while
1t was still in session. One from
Bishop william Montgomery Brown
and one from the Pueblo Branch OF
the I. L. D.
The organizations represented at
the conference are: New Hope Bap-
fist Church, international Labor De-
Tense, Communist Party, Young Com
munist League, Workers International
Order. Ladies Educational Club, Rus
sian Mutual Society, United Council
of Wosking-class Women, unemploy-
ed Council. Trade Union Unity Lea
que, K. P. Lodges No. 5 and IL;
Masonic Lodge, Billings Con-
ference, Agricultural Workers Indus
trial League, Rocky Mountain Lodge
Of Calanthe, Ladies Elk Lodge. and
the following A. r. Of L, Unions:
Brotherhood Of Maintenance Of Ways
No. II: Hod Carriers Union, Building
and Common Laborers,
CHICAGO, June 2s.--Sixty de-
legates representing various social.
political and religious organizations
attended the Conference called last
Friday by the Young Iiberators to
protest against the legal lynchins Of
the Scottsboro boys. The conference
was held at Movement Hall, 22e e.
43rd Street.
The conference unanimously adopt
ed resolution vigorously protestin,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-30

oJ4FuAAAb3 OA1AO anu Wcob VLISl41An
Miners Relief Committee, Gil Penn
Ave. Pittsburgh, Pa. We, the relief
representatives from all striking Sec
TONS composing the central relief
committee at our meeting decided
to call upon all workers, all workers
organizations, all synlpathizers, to
help us quickly and generously.
There are $4,000 of our mine COM
rades now on strike Altogether
there. are about 10000 striking min
ers, wives and children to feed.
"Our relief committees at every
striking mine are working very hard.
They are out in the field among the
farmers, in the towns in the strike
area, collecting everything they can,
even the stalest bread at the bak-
cries. Every bite Of food counts.
The coal operators have reduced us
to actual poverty. In thousands of
homes there is not even penny to
buy pinch of salt. The moment
this big strike against the starvation
began, we knew we would collect
strike relief Immediately. and out we
went, and we are still out, every
day and all day long. combing the
city streets and country highways
for every mouthful of food we can
get.
This strike has now grown so big
that 1t has become impossible for our
mine and section strike committees
to collect enough food for these
thousands of families, for the tens
of thousands of children whom the
coal operators have starved until
they are mere skeletons. The strike
spreads every day, into Ohio, into
West Virginia, and now we must ur-
gently ask the workers and their or
CARNATIONS In every city throughout
the nation. to come to our aid I'M
mediately.
I'VE know that workers In other
industries are also suffering wage.
cuts; we know that millions OF the
workers are unemployed-but we feel
that right here in this big strike we
are militantly fighting the slashing
Of not only our wages, but your
wages as we'll: are fighting unem-
ploYnent in that we join the unem~
ployed workers in their struggle for
unemployment insurance and innIne-
date relief. In marching and pick
citing, striking miners and their fam
lilies face all enemy forces unairaid.
Machine guns, gas bombs, coal and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-30

isn't another one Of those one-day
spurts,
Not enough was contributed BY
Districts (Philadelphial. s CCleve-
land, 7 (Detroit> and IS (Calttor-
MAJ, The same goes for Districts 1
(Boston). 4 (BuffaIo), tMirneap
olis) and 10 (Kansas City,. And
what has happened to District Is
(ConnecticuD, which for the second
day in succession failed to contribute
a cent? Districts 5 (Pittsburgh) and
10 (Seattle). which are very far be
hind, were also not heard from.
Most of the districts are still
showing little action. We hope
that they showed some on the Tag
Days But don't wait till all the col
lection boxes are in, send Tag Day
funds at once!
Correction
In . recent issue $40 was errone-
eusly credited under District 2 to
the Perth boy, N. j.. Unit of the
Communist Party This money was
contributed By the Monmouth County
Unit
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-30
Try Stop England,
Ark. Farmers in
Organizing Drive
Sheriff and Judge in
Threat to Kill All
Organizers, Reds
Special to the Daily Worker.)

Especial to the Daily Worker.l
ENGLAND, Ark.-In an effort to
stop organization of the heroic Eng
land, Arkansas, farmers by the
United Farmers League the county
authorities, headed by Sheriff VIII
iams, are resorting to legal and gang
terrorism. Last week Comrade T. H.
Davis, a syrnpathizer of the Party,
who had been distributing some cop
les Of the Daily Worker and the
United Farmers League program,
was arrested by Sheriff williams at
the head of posse. A skunk by
the name of Allison, who had posed
as friend of the poor farmers, was
responsible for getting Davis pinched
Comrade Davis was forced to get
into the car and was threatened by
Sheriff Williams as follows: "By
God, Davis, I'm sheriff of Pulaski
County and I am going to tell you
that could shoot your damn brains
out and there would never be any
thing said about it," A number of
times the sheriff and the deputies
left the car, hoping that Davis
would make a break for it, and so
they would have a chance to plug
him. But Comrade Davis was too
wise to fall for this little game.
All the way down to the jail the
deputies cursed the Communists and
threatened to shoot any Red that
came down near England. At the
company Jail Comrade Davis was
charged with vagrancy and melting
to riot The main witness against
him was this stool pigeon Allison.
who has a reputation not only as
snitch, but as a thief. Allison would
have been in the penitentiary now
were 1t not for the intervention of
the big land owner, Duncan, whose
tool he is.
During the course Of the trial
Judge Harb tried to browbeat Com
rade Davis, telling him that he
ought to be tarred and feathered.
But Davis stood his ground and
stated that he was trying to get the
farm laborers to strike for dollar
a day for chopping cotton, and that
there was nothing wrong in this.
The judge then fined him $500 and
six months in Jail, but suspended the
sentence pending good behavior"
If Judge Harb and Sheriff Blake
Williams think that this kind of raw
stuff is going to scare the farming
folks hereabouts they are mistaken,
Davis and the rest of us are going
to KEEP right on organizing. If we
don't do something it means that
we will starve this winter.
Last Thursday the sheriff got a
tip that we were going to hold .
meeting, so he rushed three carloads
OF law down near England to break
it up. But he acted a little too fast
this time. because he had wrong in
formation.
We don't know much about Conf
munism here, but conditions are so
that we've got to do something.
Please tell the readers of the Daily
Worker that what the farmers
around here did last January was
just a starter. There's going to be
more than that happen this winter,
II things don't start getting better.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-30
Push Anti-Soviet War Plans;
Workers Must Answer on August

not solve any Of the er-capitaiist
antagonis,ns because the Omitted
States will not make any basic con-
cessions to the other powers. The
conference would, however, agree on
one point-the attack on the Soviet
Union.
The Wall Street journal of June
20, admits that the antagonisms in
Europe are as sharp as ever. "Prsc-
tically," int says, "a moratorium does
not solve; IL merely postpones. Econ
omic Reorganization and the clash
o Interests between nations have not
suddenly disappeared" The attack
against the Soviet Union will be q
means for subn1erging temporarily
The hstaS among the -nsptte4lst BOW
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-30
Frisco Unemployed Council to Demand Food
from CITY

neighborhood for the last 66 years.
All through this district families
are starving by the hundreds and
the Associated Charities refuse to
disgorge their loot The Unemployed
Council found FIVE cases Of destitute
families in one block, ranging from
4 to IL in one family. We organized
them and went to large chain stores
like the McMarr to demand food,
but the only answer we got was to
go to the Associated Charities who
had already refused the food that
they needed.
The members of the Mission dis
trict council are organizing these
families and will soon go to the
City Hall. not to beg food but to
demand 1t, backed by the strength
of thousands OF unemployed in the
city Of San Francisco.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-30
New York City.

New York City,
Comrades:
Like every other line, the ladies'
neckwear line is on the bum. Con-
sequentiy the workers have
Jobs" but no work. The bosses,
particularly in A. Back a. Co., have
thought up a scheme to take advan-
tage of the situation. They let the
girls make stock" at half the usual
rates paid for the work. If by chance
an order arrives, the stock is on
hand, produced at half the former
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-30

out and kill cat and fry it in the
lard.
Lebech asked this man where he
lived, and when the man told him
he scolded him for living in neigh
bcrhood Of 'grafters and bootleggers,
The man told Lebech that there was
more graft right in the City Hall
than any place in the city. There
upon Lebech slammed the cage door
IN the mans face and told hin, to
get the hell out Of the office and to
consider himself lucky that he got
any "relief."
We are demanding the removal OF
Lebech and IN increase In food re-
Escascvstbe sauqeeseA -
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-30
LADIES' Neckware Cuts Piecework Rates

cost. The employers pretend that
they do this for the girls sake, Sin
order to give them something to do"
This same firm and others have
been continually cutting down the
piece-work rates, so that even did
business pick up the girls could not
make more than a meager living.
They also use the blacklist and re-
fuse to hire girls who have left other
neckwear factories, their excuse be-
ing that they do not desire to rob
the other manufacturer of his help.
L. S,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-30
Boss Press Admits Savage
Attack by Barbertoq( Cops

Later in telephope conversation
with the Times-Prsss, "ths mayor
admitted he had sworn in some ex-
ira officers, but insisted he didn't
know how many or who they were
They came in UNI ohcited ard
don't know their MINES or ad-
dresses, but they are II good cit
liens" Mayor Decker exclaimed.
J. Louis Engdahl, national Sec
rotary of the LID, who was @ have
spoken at the demonstration de-
nounced the vicious attack b. the
police end their thugs. He declared:
Charges against the adrninistla-
ton demanding removal. will be
filed Immediately with Governor
George White in the fight for tbs
elemental rights Of free speech and
free press.
"The I. L. D. will support It's de-
nands with mass meetings TO be
held in all sections of the state"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-30
(By a Worker Correspondent
Cav. nI,-a - ~;r,@ ro1.<

odbl Tt dA1CleCO, O6ll.
The Associated Charities has for
the past few months been conducting
an intensive drive for funds in this
city; all Of the workers who have
job as yet are forced to contribute
to this scheme for enriching gait
ers.
While visiting a house in the Mis-
sion district where 10 percent OF the
people are Of the old American stock
and had lived there all their lives,
a woman of 10 was found begging
a meal. After investigating the case
1t was found that the Associated
Charities had fatty refused her any
aid. on the pretext that In year
or so she may get an old age pension,
meanwhile ignoring the fact that she
has been useful member Of this
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-30
CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE,

pressure upon Germany In this direc-
ton as q concession for the one
year reparations moratorium. A spe-
cial dispatch to the Herald Tribune
OF June 20 states:
"The French insist that this
money (which the German fovern-
nent saves under the one-year rep
aration moratorium should not be
utilized to build up the Reich's
ornaments, or make loans 10 So
Wet Russia and will request assur-
snce against 'Anschluss' (Austrc-
German political union)."
In his statement Beck admits that
lts international conference would
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-30

Protest Mich. Alien Registration Law.
LANSE, Mich. June ga
large mass meeting will be hsld
ON July 2, at D. m. to protest
against the Michigan Alien Rag
istration Law. There are thou
sands Of workers facing starvation
In this territory but instead 81
the state doing anything to help
the unemployed 1t increases ths
persecution of ths foreign born
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-30
WORKERS BREAK DOWN
UNDER KILLING SPEED
AT GENERAL MOTORS
Wages Cut in All Plants From 10 to 40 Per
Cent: Thousands of JObless Roam Streets
Workers Awakening to Need of Organization
and Struggle
Pontiac, Mich.
Daily Worker:

DAILY Worker:
At General Motors plants in this city the workers are
receiving qualifications in form of ayoffs wage-cuts and
speedp At the present time factories are only working
part time during the last two weeks about two thousand work.
have been laid off, in the future plants are ex
pscted to shut down for month or longer
The workers that still working subject the most
vicious speedup system known The speed breaking
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-30

Editorial Note-Workers who have
savings in the Royal Oak Bank
should organize at once into COM
mittee and demand of the state gov
eminent that the deposits of the
workers be returned at once in full.
The Communist Party will give lead
ership to the robbed workers in
drawing up demands and organiz-
ing these committees.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-30
Detroit Bank Crashes: Robs Children's Pennies

were herded in front of Father
Coughlin's shrine and bribed with
ice cream to keep their hungry
mouths shut about their loss. Seven
trucks of ice cream were consumed.
So now, no one can tell me that
the priests are not in for bribing the
poor victims.
Comradely yours,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-16

At 90 Griffith williams still conducts
his provision store at yarmouth, Eng
land
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-16
AS Nash Distributor for
the Washington Territory

welcome assurance to thousands of Nash
owners in Washington, of unusually cour-
teous, prompt and efficient service.
The Nash-Orr Motor Company will
open it's doors at formal reception, Saturday,
January II, featured by special exhibit
of complete line of Nash Fights and Skies,
designed and dressed to appeal to individual
taste. These are the cars which, through
beauty and performance, coupled with sem
sational value have swept Nash within
few short weeks from their first showing, to
fourth place in motor car sales in the United
States, according to latest available registra-
ton figures.
You are cordially invited to attend this
formal opening and to inspect the three
Series of new Nash Eights-including the
115-horsepower Eight-9O-and the Series
of four new Nash Skies.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-16
WILL PROBE DEATH
OF R. c. A. OFFICIAL
Los Angeles Police Learn of
Drinking Party Before
C. ]. Ross Died.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, January 16.-The
death from a heart attack of Col
Charles j. Ross, SO, of New York, vice
president of r. G. A. Photophone Co.,
subsidiary of Radio Corporation OF
America, has started a police tnvestl-
cation to learn If alcoholism might
have contributed to the fatal illness.
Col. Ross was taken to hospital
shortly after / am, following what his
chauffeur, Rex Hume, said was an all
night drinking party involving two
women in the apartment of friend,
Walter Baker. Police said Baker dlo
not attend the party.
The investigation was ordered when
DR.. L. Felger, who attended Col. Ross,
telephoned the coroner's office the
executive had died from a heart at
tack, but he would not sign death
certificate. An autopsy was ordered
and police summoned.
Hume said Col. Ross hired him yes
terday to drive a rented car. The
chauffeur said he took Col. Ross to an
address where a quantity of wine and
whisky was purchased. Then, Hume
said, ,ney drove to the apartment and
two women came in later.
Col. Ross came here last Monday
from New York with Mrs. Ross and
had been comforting with film studio
officials.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-16
SEEK MURDER MOTIVE

BALTIMORE, Nd, January Is P1.-
Police today were seeking the motive
for the staying of Miss Katherine Ober-
muller by Emil Shempp and his subse-
quent suicide in the rear of an apart
ment building last night. Coroner John
]. Morrisey said the double tragedy was
murder and suicide.
The bodies of the man and woman
were found in an alley by the engineer
of the building as he investigated the
sound of several shots. Both were dead
when police arrived. The woman had
been shot in the abdomen and the man
through the head.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-16

The huge suspension bridge rapidly
nearing completion over the Hudson
River, between Fort Washington, N. Y,
and Fort Lee, N. j., is to be named the
George washington Memorial Bridge
out of respect for the worldwide cele-
bration of the 200th anniversary of the
birth of George washington during
1882, according to the word brought to
President Hoover yesterday by repre-
sentatives of the George Washington BIZ
centennial Commission and of the Port
of New York Authority.
The President was informed OF this
as chairman of the commission. In the
delegation of notification were Senator
Fess of Ohio, vice chairman Of the
commission; Representative Bloom Of
New York, associate director; Repre-
sentative Tilson of ConnecWcut, Senator
Capper of Kansas, Mrs. Anthony Wayne
Cook, Mrs. John D. Sherman and VIII
liam Tyler Page, members of the Execu-
tive Committee of the commission, and
George de B. Keim, representing the
New York and New Jersey members Of
the Port of New York Authority.
The President was reminded that this