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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-27
,Revive Bridgeman Case, Try
to Jail Communist Leaders

DETROIT, Mich, March 90
Judge White granted the prosecu-
tons motion in the Bridgeman case
for an immediate trial and setting
aside former court order for sep
arate trials for the 81 indicted work
ers arrested in 1922 by operatives of
the Department of Justice when they
swooped down upon the convention
Of the Communist Party in Michigan.
In a statement issued by the IN
ternational Labor Defense it is
pointed out that this is a direct at
tempt at this time of attack Of the
boss class upon the foreign born and
Negro masses to cripple the entire
militant working class movement in
the United States by imprisoning the
leaders of the Communist Party,
which includes William z. Foster,
Earl Browder, Max Bedacht, William
F Dunno, Ella Reeves Bloor, Robert
Minor, Rose Pastor Stokes and 20
others"
The charges against the Commu-
rist leadership is assembling with an
organization which taught the doc
trine of criminal syndicalism and the
probable sentence, if convicted, will
be 10 years in the Michigan peni-
Tertiary. One of the indicted lead
ers is Charles E. Ruthenberg, for
merly secretary of the Communist
i =" and dead since 1927
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-27

of whom are actually on strike
today because some of the
mines concerned have their
days of no work in the last half
of the week. The mines are
generally on part-time work.
The action of the General Griev-
ance Committee was not only in flat
defiance of the orders issued Satur-
day by International President Lewis
and District President Boylan, that
the men should &C back to work, but
the miners boed and howled down
Boylan, International Vice President
Phil. Murray, who had come from
Pittsburgh to smash the strike;
Thomas Kennedy, International Sec
rotary Treasurer and International
Board members. Kmetz and Hughes.
With these officials was D. w. Davis,
Federal mediator.
There are % locals affiliated to the
General Grievance Committee, and
of these 81 answered the roll call.
Even Truesdale local. which has not
been in the cC,cmittee before, had its
CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-27
WORKERS TO ANSWER BOSS
ATTACKS ON NEGROES AND
FOREIGN BORN SATURDAY
n. Y. WORKERS
IN HUGE DEMON
STRATIONS SAT.
Mass Parade In Har-
lem and Other
Sections

NEW YORK, N. Y.-Throughout
the country and especially in New
York, the masses of workers, native
and foreign-born Negro and white,
will demonstrate tomorrow, March %,
against the rising system of terror
against the foreign-born and Negro
workers.
In New York, the main demonstra-
ton will be held in Harlem, starting
at 2.30 at Hath st. and Lenox Ave
from which point the workers will
proceed in parade through 144th
st. to Seventh Ave, down Seventh
Ave. to Hath ST., then east through
Hath st. to Fifth Ave, and down
Fifth Ave to 10th ST., where mon
ster demonstration will take place.
Negro and white leaders of the In
ternational Labor Defense, the COM
mittee for the Protection of Foreign
Born, and the League of Struggle,
the three organizations calling the
demonstrations, as we'll as the leaders
of other organizations cooperating in
the. movement, will expose the lynch
ing terror against the Negroes, the
deportation drive against the foreign
born workers and the general terror
against the working class. In the
evening there will be a huge affair
at New Star Casino, 10th st. and
Park Ave.
In the Bronx, there will be huge
demonstration at Washington Ave.
and Claremont Parkway at 3 p. m.
There will also be large number of
street and factory gates in midtown
and downtown Manhattan.
In Brownsville, the workers will
hold a mass march and demonstra-
ton starting at 100 at Hinsdale and
Suffer Ave. and winding up in a
huge protest demonstration on Pitkin
and Saratoga Ave.
In Williamsburg there will be a
demonstration at Court and Fulton
SITS. at 100 p. m. South Brooklyn
will hold mass parade and demon
stration beginning at 40th ST. and
Ninth Ave, and ending in a protest
demonstration at Fifth Ave. and 50th
st. Demonstration will also be held
in Long Island City and Astoria.
The Council of the Shoe and
Leather Workers Industrial Union
last night issued a call summoning
all shoe and leather workers in join
the m ISIS protest demonstrations
against the orgy of deportations and
persecution of the foreign born and
Negro workers"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-27

William z. Foster, secretary of the
Trade Union Unity League, was tried
Immediately after Ruthenberg's con-
viction, but the jury disagreed
Ruthenberg's conviction was ap-
pealed, but he died in 1927 and no
decision was ever rendered.
The arrests in 1922 took place dur
ing a period of great unrest amongst
the workers in America. Strikes
were going on a large scale, includ-
ing the coal miners, steel workers
and railroad men, and it was an at
tempt on the part of the authorities
to root out the militant spirit of the
workers.
In calling attention to the i'm
portance of the re-opening of this
case, and the new attempt to Jail
the Communist leadership in one
sweep, the International Labor De-
Tense calls upon all workers ito inn
mediately rally in militant fashion
to save these leaders from long
term in prison. Mass resistance and
counter-attack alone will save these
workers leaders and since the state
permits only few weeks time be-
fore our comrades go on trial the
International Labor Defense calls for
immediate action. Organize defense
meetings, mass demonstrations and
fight for the immediate freeing of
our militant leadership"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-27
Will Hold Huge, Militant Demonstrations Throughout the
Country in Determined Struggle Against T
DepOrtations and Lynch Terror
Attack Workers for Fight Against UnempI0y
ment, Wage Cuts, Persecution
Intensity Campaign to Incite National Hatred Against
Negro and Foreign-DDotn Workers; Lead Lynch MObs
in South; Frame Hungarian Worker in Gary %
BULLETIN.

BOSTON, Mass. March 26.-The immigration author
tiles in their hearing East Boston yesterday of the de-
pOrtaOn of Edith Berkman Pat Deviue and William
Murdoch officials of the National Textile Workers Union
and leaders in the Lawrence strike laying the base for
new frameup.
They trying to declare the n T. W. illegal sabo-
tage charges. They preparing the ground for
spracy indictment in Essex County and using Legion
stOopigeOns and prOvocateurs, and wagng terror
campaign of threats against possible defense witnesses
AS the workers of the United States mobfl4
jze their forces for militant nationwide dem.
onstrations tomorrow, March 3d. against per.
secution of Negro and foreign-born workers,
the bosses and their police and court agencies
rantcay attempting to defeat this expression of so
dary between native and foreign born white and Negro work.
in the struggle against the bosses system hunger and
unemployment, race and national hatreds Iynchng and
terrorism
In Philadelphia two Negro workers. Cornela Sanders and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-27

known as the Akron" The Good
year Rubber Co. has the lucrative
contract for the construction of this
giant dirigible. All work is subject
to rigid inspection by company and
Navy Department inspectors. The
company is subject to penalty if the
contract is delayed and of course
stands liable for losses resulting from
spoiled parts, etc.
Every worker in the plant knows
that many of the parts already COM
pleted are so imperfect that they are
decorated like Xmas trees with red
tags" by the naval inspectors. The
whole of Ring H. the first section
OF the Yep which was completed long
before Paul KGssay was employed in
the plant is so decorated. 1t is also
known that the bosses frequently ask
the skilled workers to cover up i'm
PROJECTIONS caused by the poor work
manship of unskilled workers WIN
CONTINUED on PAGE THREE,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-27
Socialist" City
Cons Attack Eviction
Meet, Arrest Four

READING, Pa, March rs. - Po-
lice Of the Socialist Party city gov
eminent yesterday attacked a DEM
onstration against evictions and ar
rested the following four workers
Hossmaster, Quin, Wordburn and
Eckert.
The unemployed workers, under
the leadership of the Unemployed
Council of the Trade Union Unity
League, organized committee of 100
which went to the socialist" mayor
and demanded the release of these
workers. The mayor refused to see
the committee, but the committee
forced Constable Weidner, the ar
resting officer, to withdraw all the
charges. All four were released as a
result Of the pressure cxerted by the
workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-27
PROTEST. TOMORROW, FIGHT DEPORTATION LYNCFIlNC
10000 Miners Called Out On Strike
All Out Tomorrow =!

YESTERDAY the capitalist courts Michigan undoubtedly
their own previous decision
that pending since 1922 against group workers charged
Michigan s''N'~'
At that time growth of strike struggles
against wagu shop the heat of the great
the workers the capitalist class jailed the
today the capitalists feared that the
unity mitany to the workers strg
giles the wagecut and openhop campaign
Michigan courts is thus plainly at
the workers of this country order to allow the CAPT
as the present wage-cu drive break up pos
Unemployment Insurance and weaken the
resistance to capitalist preparations for war
Bdgeman is therefore part OF the general offensive
Committee whose antwork recommendations being
with violence which at the same time
must be the task of the tog masses who are called to pro-
great throughout America
reopnng Brdgeman criminal syndicalm" after
the heels of the savage sentences OF AZ years i'm
agclaI workers in imperial valley California Today these workers
wa March Both their appeal coming And
today everywhere all protest meetings must demand OF the Governor OF
their immediate release!
Another plan the
and terror against the Negroes And clear
white Negro that the yncing of one Negro
Mississippi yesterday the threatened ncng nine others
today is linked closely to the Bdgeman Grim
persecution the general scheme of terror against the
workers
To protest this murdous nchng OF Negroes and to the
capitalists hatred the white tolng
working class
its united resistance to capitalist attack.
Likewise deportation of foreign birth
behind hypocrcal preten of relieving unempoy
make ones blood boil! No less than 100000 seamn
to be rounded up and dported> without trial!
$780, 5000 Mexican workers heded like cattle
Southwestern
that these
less workers who have piled up profits for American monaes have
o died of starvation!
Yokinen arrest for depora
followed declared for class solidarity between
the utter vany capitalist class
deportation
deportation attack all workers.
native and foregn-bon anke
The whole yncers prosecutors inspired by
Committee attempting defeat the
Party, only leadership mobilize
the have the entire teachous leadership
that of the F. of L. the hypocritca socialists
a both
All workers will clearly understand the Importance of defeating this
Council Struggle
Rights Defense
enthusiastic
foreign-born, regardless of nationality
All ont to defend your
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-27
BEAT JOBLESS
FOR STREET MEET
Sergt. OK's Beating
of Workers


NEW YORK.-An open air meet
ing held by the Harlem Unemployed
Council at the State Employment
Agency at LenoX Ave. and 132nd st.
at II noon.
Sam Brown was chairman; Partin
and Sam Nesni, secretary of Unem-
ployed Council spoke.
Police made an attack nthe meet
ing, demanding that Nesin get off
the platform. Nesin refused to call
off the meeting as ordered and was
pulled off the platform by the armed
thugs. The workers defended them
selves as best they could
Sam Brown, Nesin and Grantham
De Royal were arrested and beaten
by the cops. Brown had deep gashes
cut into two places of his scalp with
the butt of gun. Royal was badly
beaten and kicked in the ribs.
When the workers were brought to
the police station, Nesin protested to
the sergeant against the vicious beat
jngs that were being given them.
There are no beatings while I'm
here" said the sergeant. All the
while, right in front of his face the
cops were pounding the arrested
workers.
The International Labor Defense
defended the case in defense at the
151St Court and won a dismissal.
In the opening,
the Negro ana white workers we're
separated.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-27
Dept of Justice Stool Pigeons Work With the
Goodyear Rubber Co. to Push War Plans

Fish, Jr., are agog with a new, up
to-date, hair raising Communist
Plot" At the very moment when the
charge that Communists are wreck
ing banks by whispering" becomes
even too farcical for Ham Fish to
maintain, kind providence in the
person of some d. of J. stool pigeons,
suddenly pop up with an even more
sensational discovery that a Com
munist tried to wreck the largest
Zeppelin in the world, by splitting on
it. Cd
Ridiculous as the charge seems, it
Is nevertheless very serious matter
for Paul F. Kassay, an expert me-
chanic for the Goodyear Rubber Co.
who is being held on $4,000 bond for
trial under the Ohio Criminal Syn
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-27

dicalist Law. 1t is also very SER
ious matter for the whole of the
working class. This latest frame up
already has all the elements of a
classic conspiracy against the militant
working class movement ranking in
Importance with the Sacco- vanzetti,
Mooney and Billings, and other cases
that have made the history of the
struggles of the American working
class history of the vicious frame
up system.
Background and Facts in the Latest
Frame-Up.
The United States government is
making feverish preparations for a
new imperialist war. AS part of these
PIC. arations, it is now constructing
a giant Zeppelin which is to be
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-27
STRIKERS TO
PICKET DRESS
SHOPS TODAY
Union Calls On Work
ers to Smash In
junction

NEW YORK.-The Needle Trades
Workers Industrial Union calls on
all workers to report for picket duty
at a. m. at 131 w. 18th ST., the
union headquarters. Shops particu
larly to be picketed are Jerry Dress,
500 Seventh Ave, and Needleman
and Bremmer, 1853 w. 10th ST., but
there are also others.
Today, at p. M, all workers in
all industries who want to save the
right to strike should be out to
smash the injunction at the Jerry
Dress Co, 500 Seventh Ave. This
struggle is led by the Industrial
Union. in conjunction with the
Smash the Injunction Committee of
the Trade Union Unity League.
There have ben trials of three ar
rested for violating the injunction at
the Jerry. Ida Wall, charged with
assault, was fined $40. Jennie Gutter
and Bessie Siegel were charged I'M
der paragraph 800. but the charge
was later reduced to disorderly con-
duct and trial postponed.
National Board Meet.
The National Board of the Needle
Trades Workers Industrial Union
was called in for meeting this Sat-
urday and Sunday, March % and
90, to meet in New York.
The board meeting will evaluate
the dress strike in New York and
Philadelphia and many other strikes
and struggles that have occurred
since the last meeting of the National
Board. Many other problems will
be discussed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-27

William Dixon, were arrested yes
terday and held on $500 bond each
for distributing leaflets calling on
the workers to show their solidarity
by demonstrating on March "a
against lynChing and deportations,
In Inverness, Mississippi, a Negro
worker was lynched by the bosses
on Monday in a campaign to stir
up race passions In Wynne, Ark,
the boss press is whipping up lynch
sentiment against two Negro youths
who dared to defend themselves
when murderously attacked by a
plantation boss fter they had de-
manded their wages. In Scottsboro,
Ala, 9 Negro workers we're picked up
by the police yesterday on vague
charges of attempting to attack"
two white girls. The boss papers
played up the fake attack and last
night mob of business men in auto.
mobiles attacked the Jail. In the
meantime, white workers who reiecs
the boss poison of race hatred are
brutally beaten up, as in the case
Of Cooler and Hurst. two white
Southern workers, in Texas, Jailed.
as in the case of four others IN
CONTINUED ON PAGE THREFsy
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-27
Finds Daily on
Bench; Sends Sub

Enclosed is 81 for which
please mail me the Daily Work
er until my subscription runs
out. 1 do not know the price
of the paper but found one on
bench in the park, and IL you
do send 1t only three months
will be satisfied, for IL has
more truth in it than any paper
L ever saw"
Thus writes o. II. b. Of Dial.
las, Texp proving that once o
worker finds the paper on
park bench or anywhere else, ne
wants TO read il. Get 1000
more like him before May I.
1000 new subscribers, new sub
scriptions or renewals is the
goal for May Day in the Daily
Worker drive.
Cj9"90 ciycula ton tips pg. 81
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-27
IL BIG U. M. W. LOCALS
OF GLEN ALDEN COMP.
VOTE TO JOIN STRUGGLE
International Officers, District Bureaucrats and De-
partment Of Labor Agent Rushed to Stop Ii;
Howled Down By Miners
Murray, Kennedy, Boylan, Scored AS Takers
When They Enter Joint Grievance Committee

WlLKES-BARRE Pa, March 26.-Seventeen big locals OF
the United Mine Workers of America through General
Grievance Committee meeting yesterday voted strike
medatey against the indirect wage cutting and the direct
frightening of hours The decision men
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-27
Madison So. JObless
Council Organizes
Tenants League

NEW YORK.-Mrs. Fulton, moth
er of four children and only one
month behind in her rent, was being
evicted by the landlord. The Madi-
son Square Unemployed Council was
on the job, and organized Tenants
League in that neighborhood between
37th st. and 9th Ave.
Mrs. Fulton is a Negro worker liv-
ing at 1923 w. 37th ST., and was sick
in bed at the time.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-27
Ham Fish Joins il, Frame>Ub of Akron
Worker to Put Over Wage Cut for Bosses

I'm the following article we have
startling example of the lengths
to which the bosses go during the
present crisis with its growing I'M
employment to put over wage cuts.
The frame-up against Paul Kassay
by the Department of Justice and
the Navy Department in Akron,
Ohio, was used to aid the Good
year Rubber Co. to put over
wage cut and at the same time to
intensity the drive against militant
foreign born workers. Every work.
er should give his answer to this
Shiny bit of frame-up by demon
strating on March 2Sth against per-
secution of the foreign born, and
against discrimination Of Negro
workers.-Ed.)
BY HERBERT BENJAMIN.
The City of Akron, the capitalist
press, the department Of dn) justice
and the Honorable" J. Hamilton
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-27

The question of work in the COM
pany union, united front tactics, I'M
employed work, work among the
new elements in the industry, Negro.
youth and Spanish.
The first session of the board will
begin Saturday at l p. m. sharp
The Sunday session will begin at 10
a m. sharp at the office of the
union, 131 w. 18th st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-27

CONTINUED ON PAGE THHEEy
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-27
nine NEGRO WORKERS MENACED BY ALABAMA LYNCH MOB

Let your protests against lynching, de-
portations, discrimination and perse-
cutiOn of the working class re-
sound from coast to coast on
March %. All out!
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-29
NUDGE NAMED
MODERATOR BY
PRESBYTERIANS
Challenge to Church in
Industrial Slump, Says
David Reed.
BIZ United Press

BIZ United Press
PITTSBURGH, Pa, May 30
There is a challenge to the church
in the industrial depression, Sena-
tor David A. Reed (Pa.) said in q
short address before the 143d gen.
eral assembly Of the Presbyterian
church in the United States here
today.
The business crash brought a
realization for the need Of spiritu-
atty in our lives" Senator Reed
said.
DR.. Lewis Seymour Nudge, Phila-
delphia, advanced from stated clerk
to moderator of the assembly Thurs
day. After brief revival Of the
Observation-Disclosures contro-
versy he announced his appoint
n1ents today.
Thirty eight overrures were placed
in the hands Of the standing COM
mittee on bills and overtures for
consideration and action. These
covered problems ranging from
birth control to life insurance at
cost for ministers, church union to
prohibition.
The presbytery Of Arkansas de-
sires the assembly adopt and send
down to the presbyteries the plan Of
organic union adopted by the re-
formed churches Of America.
The same presbytery seeks CEN
ergetic action" on the part OF the
committee on church union in re-
spect to the proposed merger with
the Methodist Episcopal church.
The Chester, Pa, PreSbytery
favors further consideration Of the
proposal to unite with the reformed
churches.
The assembly is asked to instruct
the board of Christian education to
arrange a large program in regard
to the whole prohibition movement
in an overture submitted by Los
Angeles presbytery.
This program would give ed
ucation as the vital value Of pro-
hibition and the evil effects of
alcohol on the individual and on our
social and industrial structure.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-29
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-29
Estate Worth $2S,4OO

By Times Special
ANDERSON, Ind, May 29.-The
personal estate of Mrs. Virginia
Pierse is valued at $28,400 in an ap-
praisement filed in Madison circuit
court. She was the widow of the
late Eldon B. Pierse, manufacturer.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-29
BRIDGE REPAIR
CONTRACT LET
25th Street Canal Span in
Works Board Award.

Contract for repairing the canal
bridge at Twenty-fifth street has
been awarded by the works board
to the Acme Gravel and Construc-
ton Company on bid Of S2,341.
Other contracts awarded by the
board in the past week include:
Ogden street, from Sixteenth 70
seventeenth streets, concrete. r. NJ.
Bowen Company, SLIGO; alley west
OF West street, from Indiana ave-
nue. to first alley north Of Indiana
avenue, Schwert Brothers, concrete,
s0sOS9; Montcalm street, from In
diana avenue to Eighteenth street.
Il. M. Bowen Company, concrete
reSurfacing, $12,e642a.
resolutions adopted include:
Iwenty-third street. from Sugar
Grove avenue to Harding street,
paving; first alley north of Pratt
street, from Keystone avenue to
aley east Of Temple avenue, vaca-
tlon; alley east of Butler avenue
from Lots 81 and % in H. NJ. john
sons addition, to st. Clair street,
vacation; alley east of Butler ave-
nue. from Lots 81 and % in IRVING
ton Heights to Pratt street, vaca-
ton.