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Have you heard the new "OkEH' re cords at Syivia's. They are wonderful.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-10
lBy . WORKER Correspondentl


BOSTON, Mass.-Ryan has proba-
bly, met with his final defeat in the
Boston District. When he again at
tempted last Saturday to present the
demands of the shipowners TO the
men at separate membership meet
ings of the three locals of the LILA.
involved, and at the same time try
ing to put over the Australian Bal
lot" he met with defeat on both
propositions.
First, the men demanded an open
vote and got it. Secondly, they
unanimously rejected the proposals
of the shipowners and voted to con-
tinue the strike. The Marine Work
ers' Industrial Union, upon getting
information that the vote was to be
taken by secret ballot, at once clari-
fled the men by means Of g. leaflet
as to just what this maneuver meant
and its usual results.
Ryan, in the meanwhile has re-
turned to New York, as the ship
owners are now convinced that he
can serve their purpose no longer. 1t
must also be pointed out at this
time that Ryan, who claims to rep
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-10
Longshoremen Defeat Ryan In Boston

resent the workers, is the director Of
the Federation Bank and Trust Co.,
in New York City, which has just
failed, with deposits Of over $l3,000,-
GOO of workers money which these
workers now stand to lose.
Organizers OF the Marine Work
ers' Industrial Union are keeping in
close touch with developments, and
due to their activities, great resent
ment has been worked up against
Ryan, especially in the ports Of
Philadelphia and New York.
Due to the fact that the City Aid
and the Soldiers Relief have already
turned down the strikers, and that
the LILA, through Ryan's manipu-
lations, will not get behind the strike
with the full force of the Interna-
tional, it has been suggested to the
longshoremen that they organize a
committee to interview the Workers
international Relief, with headquar-
tiers at IT'S Washington ST., Boston,
Mass. Arrangements can be made
whereby the most needy cases will
be taken care of through this or
ganization.
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BramhaIl Gets Cheers at the
Lawrence Election Meeting
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Public Safety Commissioner, Ryan,
came up in his auto and standing
on the seat made one of those old
time personal appeals for himself.
This is the keynote of Ryan's can
didacy: my heart bleeds for the
people of Lawrence wild swing of
the arms). Good people of Lawrence,
give me your Yotesl You'll never re-
greet 1t. / can't be bought All ask
is the right to sacrifice two years of
my life for you'll"
Then came the Brsmhall meeting.
Bramhall has no automobile. He
spoke from a portable wooden stand,
which he may have made himself,
being a carpenter by trade, although
a former textile worker and chair
man of the strike committee in 1919.
The crowd that had been listening
to Ryan remained, and more came,
until the street was full from curb
to curb, four or five hundred. I'm
mediately, along Essex ST., right at
the edge Of the crowd, tremendous
racket, a parade OF a dozen automo-
biles, honking and with screaming
sirens and flaming with torches.
This parade was that of a capitalist
candidate, and it went up and down
Essex st. with shouts and yells from
the campaign workers inside the cars.
Then, one after another, out of an
alley at the other side OF the crowd,
came half a dozen loaded furniture
trucks. Then a mail wagon drove
right through the crowd.
1t was obviously pre-arranged
interference with the Bramhall meet
ing, but it didn't work. The crowd
only got bigger, and Bramhall
pointed out to the satisfaction of the
audience that strikers were not al
lowed to do anything like that.
A worker from the audience sud-
denly interrupted Bramhall just as
he was exposing some of the most
atrocious graft in the city hall,
squandering of millions of dollars
that could have gone for unemploy-
ment relief. This worker yelled: Are
you a worker?"
Eyes, sir" Bramhall shouted back.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-10
by a Worker Correspondent

LAS VEGAS, Nev.-The capitalists
here are so frightened at the number
OF jobless that they have caused the
police and special deputies to wear
two revolvers, one over each hip, and
on the outside where they can be
plainly seen.
There are also rumors that the
capitalists are pulling strings to have
troops sent here to prevent trouble"
These rumors seem to be pretty well
founded in view of the fact that there
are being built along the u. P. rail-
road tracks what appears to be SOL
der barracks. There are also rumorS
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stayed at hotel at $50 day. The
place was owned by Charles V. Bob
who was recently indicted for fraud.
When the conversation turned to the
question of the extent Of the depres-
sion, Mr.. Clifford declared that he
did not propose to make any expen-
ditures for improvement or expansion
in the American Telegraph and Tele-
phone Co. until the last two months
of 1882. (Another full year,
Prepare for Hunger March
Clifford advises everyone except
himself and the other millionaire to
buy and help" Workers should
realize that everything else that Gift
ford and his gang puts forward is
just as insincere and hypocritical.
Get ready for the Hunger March, ex-
pose these fakers-force the bosses
and their government to give us I'M
employment insurance.
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coal mine but was forced to sell out
later. Evans paper is now the lead
ing organ in the attack on the Ma
tional Miners Union. 81 am opposed
to Communism, he said, and /
think the National Miners Union has
no right TO organize the miners"
Evans said he believed in fairness"
but thought the coal operators had a
right to hire as many deputy sher-
ifs as they need to keep the workers
from organizing in the National Min
ers Union and going on strike 10 bet
ter their conditions.
Heralded by a special editorial,
Evans ''Pinveille Sun" of october 20
carries full page advertisement with
a screaming headline reading: Min
ers! Awakel Do you know that you
are being led, blindly, into an or
ganization that seeks to destroy your
government. your home life, your re-
ligion"? The advertisement, which
is paid for by the coal operators, IS
signed by the Bennett Asher Post
No. 10, American Legion"
Expose Home Life" Lies.
The call for the miners to maintain
their home life" by refusing TO or
ganize and fight behind the militant
National Miners Union is especially
ludicrous in the face of the stream Of
testimony before the Dresser com
mittee. This testimony showed that
the miners are all faced with the
deadly flux disease as a result OF
starvation. Very few Of the miners
eat more than two meals a day--if
few beans and gritty corn bread can
be called meal. The home life" of
the miners is protected by the oper-
ators who want to destroy the Ma
tional Miners Union through whole
sale eWctions of miners: through the
constant pay cuts which have brought
the miners below the living stand
ard of the Chinese coolies. AS one
miners wife put 1t: ''If the coal OPP
orators and their gunner are able to
drive the miners out Of the National
Miners Union, they will have the men
on their Bonded knees asking the coal
operators for drink OF water! The
miners and their families aren't a.
going to let them do It'll"
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all of the miners being informed Of
the steps taken
In the preparation Of strike, the
miners, in view of the ferocious ter
ror, point out that only general
strike is feasible. They state that a
single mine going out on strike would
Immediately be attacked by the COM
pany gunner. There could be no
march of pickets on other mines as
the strikers would be met with ma
chine-gun fire. Hence, the strategy
of the miners, through the formation
of the geenral committees with rep
resentatives from all mines, having
the support Of fully rs TO 80 per cent
of all the miners tNMU members and
others is to prepare for a general
walkout which could smash the ter
ror and push the strike through to
victory against starvation.
Miners Want General Strike
The miners are convinced that the
only effective way to drive the COM
pany thugs out of Harlan county is
by a general strike which would es-
tablish strong Nh1U and end gun
men rule. A strike in Harlan county
would spread to Alabama, Tennessee
and Virginia where the NMU has
been forming mine committees.
In Straight Greek and the sur
rounding territory, IS miles from
Harlan, miners daily call for the
National Miners Union organizers
Strikes have been called and won in
three mines under the leadership OF
the NMU recently, the first strike
won by the NMU in the southern
coal fields.
Women's auMharies of the NMU
are functioning throughout Harlan
county. In the mines in Straight
Greek the miners are already building
up strike fund as well as a strike
apparatus.
Conditions in these coal fields are
daily becoming worse. One miner
who had been evicted for striking,
was able to get job after many
months Of unemployment. Mrs. AIDE
laide Walker of the Dresser COM
mittee visited this miners shack.
There was not one chair in the place.
Tin cans we're used to sit on There
was not bite of food in the house
to feed the children, and though 1t
was bitter cold, the children were
running around the streets bare
footed.
The miners wife said that her
husband had been working for about
a week. For the first few days she
obtained scrip" and got q few
crumbs of bread for it. The last two
days, she said, though her husband
worked, the company refused to give
her anything, saying the man had
nothing coming.
Nearly every one OF the leading
members OF the NMU has been the
;'ictim Of some act of terror. They
have been either jailed, beaten, taken
for ride. threatened, and some have
been killed.
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heart Of the bushes district, not close
to any mill and while there was no
picketing. With Dunno were only
two persons, Etienne Lebrun who is
not striker and one striker. Lebrun
was also arrested and charged with
vagrancy with bail set at $500.
Capuani was arrested and found
guilty of intimidation and lettering
and fined $12o. His case has been
appealed and he is being held on $500
BAN. Danny Carmasso was held for
the juvenile court on $500 bail. FL
guerado was charged with lettering
and disturbance with ball set at $500.
Two Of these arrested at this morn
ing's demonstration at the police
court are Guido and Lacasto and
each fined $40. Their cases have also
been appealed and are out ON 5000
bail.
Saraduk, member OF the United
Front Relief Committee, who was
arrested on the Arlington picket line
this morning was also fined $40. The
case has been appealed and he is out
on 5000 bail. Tomiselli was charged
with lettering and disturbance with
bail set at $500.
Biedenkapp, secretary OF the United
Front Rank and File Strike Com
mittee was charged with lettering
and intimidation. His case has been
set for November 16, with bail at
$1,000. His case was continued when
the prosecutor stated. "Mr. Chase
wishes to look up this man." Chase Is
the Immigration Inspector.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-10
HONOR MEMORY
OR NAT TURNER

CHICAGO, Nov. 6.-The League OF
Struggle for Negro Rights is making
arrangements for a mass memorial
meeting to honor the memory Of the
heroic Negro revolutionary Nat Tur-
nei, murdered one hundred years ago
by the slave holders and their gov
eminent.
Contrary to the impressions the
capitalists are interested in develop
ing, the Negro slaves carried on o
continuous struggle against their en-
slavement. The League Of Struggle
for Negro Rights that is carrying on
the struggle today inherited the best
traditions of the militant fighters
against slavery, developing these
struggles in unity with the white
workers against the slavery Of the
Negro masses today.
Mass Meeting to Protest Ban on
Liberator.
This meeting will also mobilize the
workers to protest and demand the
lifting of the ban placed by the post
Office against the Liberator. Fearing
the growth Of the Liberator and its
supporters as an instrument Of strug-
gle against the conditions Of today
and especially Of the Negro work
ers. the capitalist class thru its gov
eminent tries to shut the mouthpiece
of the oppressed.
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OF course all this free advice to
buy now" has done no good in the
past and it will do no good now.
The Daily Worker has shown
how Mr.. Walter S. Clifford. chair
mar of the Hoover unemployment
committee, has been adding to the
work of his committee by firing
over a thousand workers from the
American Telephone and Telegraph
Co., Of which he Is president.
I wish to point out what Mr.. Gift
ford is doing in his company TO has
ten business recovery by increasing
expenditures for improvements"
Meets With Cronies
In the Spring of this year Mr.. Gift
ford with a crowd of cronies. among
them j. P. Morgan and Owen D.
Young, was vacationing at the mil
honaire resort at Phoenix, Ariz. They
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-10
.. 900 WORKERS
ON LAWRENCE
PICKET LINE
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F. Of L. treachery caused about 9
few hundred to return to Arlington
Mill. Arlington perchers, loom fxers,
examiners and other highly skilled
labor, members Of A. F. of L. unions,
held little meetings Of their crafts
men in front Of the Arlington Mill
and urged return to work. In many
cases this tactic was not successful,
but in some cases the skilled workers
walked into the mill.
ALL. Officials Push Strikebreaking
A. r. Of l.. leaders are assisting the
the terrific propaganda campaign to
start the back to work movement.
The Lawrence Morning Eagle carries
headlines: End of strike may be near.
Expected that majority will return to
work in mills today" and carries a
statement made by Robert Watt, head
Of the local A. F. OF L. central body,
as follows: "I am today reporting In
the last analysis you people will de-
eide when and where you are going
back to work. I know great many
are confused. Obey the law in every
detail and when you decide to 90
back, Watt won't quarrel"
Workers Vote Not To Go Back
Oliver Christian, president of the
Loomfixers Union, said Nobody can
compel the strikers to return to work
Monday morning unless they want to-.
That is your privilege. am not rec
ommending anything but be peaceful"
These statements were made yester-
day at big meeting on the Common.
Watt started voting yesterday by
taking q yes" or mo" vote Of the
crowd on the Common on the ques-
ton of returning to work with the ten
percent cut. That vote was unani-
mously not to go back.
Biedenkapp, Capuani and Car
masso were arrested ON the picket
lines. Mill meetings Of the strikers
marching from the picket lines are
now going on in the halls and are
preparing more vigorous picketing
this Afternoon and tomorrow.
In front of the Wood Mill the po-
lice vigorously kicked woman picket
who demonstrated when pushed. She
was then arrested. but afterwards
released
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vote!"
The crowd broke into great APP
plause. Nothing like this ever hap
pened at the meetings Of the CAPT
talist candidates. Bramhall spoke 20
minutes, and the chairman, a young
textile worker organizer, Figuerado,
took the stand for ten minutes and
explained the Communist Party posi-
ton on unemployment, for relief and
insurance at the expense of the state,
and called for defense of the Soviet
Union against the war danger.
Just as the time was up and Bran
hall was starting away, another burst
of applause answered worker in the
crowd who shouted in Italian: vote
for Bramhall and get on the picket
hnew
The slogan of the Bramhall cam
paign is vote AS You Strike
Against the BoSses"
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BOULDER DAM ACRoBAT1Cs

LAS VEGAS, Nev.--'The workers
on the Boulder Dam have to be aero
bats. They're doing stunts on the
sides of Black Canyon that would
curdlc the blood Of an average CIR
Gus performer" These we're the
cheerful remarks made by Superin-
tendent Frank T. Grove to a United
Press reporter. These, acrobatics that
he talks so cheerfully about have
been the cause of dozens of deaths.
For these acrobatics the workers re-
ceived such wages that they went on
strike last summer and are prepar-
ing to strike again d. w.
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Prepare to Move Troops Against Jobless

that great supplies Of army goods
have been shipped here and upon
investigation 1 find that these ru-
mors are true.
And so it seems that our little
oasis will shortly be invaded by SOL
dier boys who will endeavor through
force and violence to force the
freezing unemployed to freeze and
starve without murmur.
We must organize against this Into
strong Unemployed Councils. We
must fraternize with the soldiers and
win them over to fight with us for
immediate relief and unemployment
insurance.
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THE JAPANESE
SPREAD WAR
THRU CHINA
CONTINUED FROM PAGE oNE)


Yah as "discounting the idea that
Russia might quickly join with China
against Japan in Manchuria." This
rumor has been carefully spread by
the imperialists.
Walter Duranty, Moscow cores
pondent for the New York Times
in his dispatch Of Nov. 8. reports So
Wet concern over the lies Of the ia
panese inperialists that the Soviet
Union Is furnishing aid to the Chin
csc militarists. He states:
mot, OF course, because there is
any sense Of guilt manifest here
indeed, It would be hard to find
foreign diplomat in Moscow who
does not think the Soviet Govern
ment would do almost anything to
aviod war unless directly attacked
but because, say the Russians,
these reports, though baseless in
fact, have Q foundation in purpose.
They are intended to serve as an
excuse not merely for Japanese
troops to remain I'm Manchuria but
for further japanese advances to
northwest and northeast"
Direct Attack Now Planned.
The Japanese imperialists are Or
ganizing an army of Russian White
Guards. The United States inper-
ialists are trying to stir up revolts
among the workers and peasants OF
Siberia. Their plans are not only
completed but are being rapidly
pushed into effect. A dispatch to the
New York Times from Hardin, Man.
churia, declares:
Hardin at present Is seething
with gossip and conjcctures about
the international situation and the
possibility Of tremendous complica-
lions II Japan proyokes Russian In
reference"
The dispatch then stresses "the
ease" with which the Japanese i'm
perialists could capture "all Siberia
west to Lake Bail,al"-with the help
Of the Russian White Guards they
are mobilizing. 1t says:
See Easy Conquest Of Siberia
Undoubtedly vast numbers OF
White Russians would espousc ia
pans cause, and 1t Is believed that
japanese forces could easily cap
turc vladivostok and all Siberia
west to Lake Baikal. The Whites
believe that II Japan and Russia
clash, Poland, with France backing
her, might attack the Russian west
ern frontier with the probable as
sistance Of Rumania."
The notorious White Guards know
that this is exactly what has beer
planned by French, American, ia
panese and British imperialists for
many years. The White Guards In
Siberia have long been preparing fol-
the role they are to play in the muir
derous attack. planned by the i'm
perialist bandits, against the Soviet
Union and its successful socialist
construction and abolition OF unem-
ployment. They know, too, that the
tens of thousands of White Guards
shcltered In France. In Poland an
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other imperialist countries, are pre-
pairing to play their part on the West
ern front.
Peddles Lie Of Misery in Siberia.
The Hardin dispatch to the New
York Times peddles the following
significant lie:
''All reports from Siberia detail
the misery and hunger of the Rus
sian masses. Only officials and the
military are said to be warmly clad
and well fed"
Realizing that American workers
will see through this ridiculous lie,
since the capitalist papers themselves
have been forced to admit the ire
mendous improvement in the living
standards Of the Soviet masses, the
dispatch adds:
Whatever the situation in Euro
pean Russia, credible first hand ac-
counts indicate that the Siberian
population is facing winter of the
worst condition since 1919"
The peddling of this damnable lie
plainly shows that the imperialists
are attempting to incite revolts in
Siberia. And since they cannot in
cite the workers and peasants to re-
bel against their own rule, they will
use the murderous White Guards to
start the war in Siberia.
Lie More Brazenly of Soviet "Aid."
At the same time they have revived
their lies of Soviet participation with
the Chinese forces in even more bra
zen form. Yesterdays Evening Jour-
nal carried the headline:
1900 Soviet Soldiers Reported in
Battle"
This was followed by deck stat
ing:
Toxic Charges Sin oRussian
Pact to Control Tsitsihar- Koshan
Railroad"
The article reported the Japanese
war Office as announcing it had OBJ
tanned confessions from two captured
officers Of the Chinese General Mas
forces that the Chinese troops we're
being assisted by 500 Russian SOL
diers and that 100 Russian cavalry
men were directing the defense of
Tsitsihar."
The Japanese also claim to be 'puz-
Sled by the hitherto unknown deadly
accuracy of Chinese artillery south
of Anganchi, which they admit has
caused large Japanese casualties"
On this, they base "the belief that
Russian artillerymen are assisting
General Ma Chen shan"
Try Pass OFF White Guards As
Soviet Troops.
The Evening Journals story then
declares that "the Russian cavalry
men" are commanded by Captain
Semenoff. Semenoff is a notorious
White Guard leader. The admission
that he is in command Of the So
called Russian cavalrymen" cxplodes
the lie that Soviet forces are with
General Mas army. Moreover, tex
poses the role that General Ma is
playing as Japanese agent, under
the pretense Of resisting" the Japan
ese advance. This was already indi-
Gated when Ma abandoned strong
defensive position to vastly inferior
Japanese force Moreover, the Ja-
panese are reported in q Hardin dis
patch to have turned bacl; tic po-
sition to General Mas forces. The
dispatch s. ltes
THE development surprises and
mystifies the Chinese as well as
the local Japanese authorities, and
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Arrest Strike
Leaders in Hope
to Smash Strike
Bill Dunno Is Charged
With Vagrancy

LAWRENCE, Mass, Nov 9.-The
court room was packed with strikers
at $50 this morning. The police
cleared the court. Those driven out
assembled with others outside in
demonstration for the release Of the
arrested strikers. They shouted, I'VE
want Biedenkapp; We want the
strikers out"
Marshall O'Brien and a squad OF
police broke up the demonstration
and arrested Edward Tomiselli, chair
man Of the United Front Rank and
File Strike Committee. and Figue-
RADIO, United Strike Committee picket
captain, and one young worker who
came in with relief from Worcester
and was standing in the crowd
After the demonstration was over.
three more were arrested near the
police station Saraduk, member of
the United Front Relief Committee
was arrested on the Arlington line
this morning
All the local leaders went to a
meeting of three hundred Arlington
weavers and loom fixers in the A. F.
OF l.. headquarters after the picket
line and urged that they vote to
return to work. Rank and filters de-
ncunced this advice and the meeting
voted to stay ON strike. Thereafter
81 tue leaders called the wcavers to
a separate secret meeting.
LAWRENCE, Mass, Nov 9'--Bill
Durne was arrested by O'Brien and
q squad Of detectives and is held for
'sncy on $500 bail. Dunno was
'saed at about 11.30 this morning
While walking on Essex Street in the