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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-26

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do whatever she considers neces-
sary for her security. That is a
great advance on the affirmationS
which have been so often repeated
that France must be obliged to re-
duce her ornaments.
ut also is not without interest
that he should declare that the
time for moratoriums is over and
that total settlement Is neces-
sary on debts and PREPARATIONS, with
special consideration for France
and Belgium on account of their
payments for reconstruction"
The statement of Borah was worked
out with the cooperation of Hoover
Prior to the arrival of Laval TO the
United States, Hoover and Borah
had long conferences as to the pro-
gram which the United States should
set forth. The Borah statement is
the adoption of the Hoover plans on
a proposed agreement with the
French imperiahsts.
In his statement to the press SEN
ator Borah said that he was in ia
vor of some changes in the YER
sailles treaty" The first change he
mentioned when the press asked him
to be more definite was the revision
Of the Polish corridor. The revision
Of the Polish corridor is for the
purpose Of aligning Germany in the
anti-British and at teh same time
anti-SoWet front by giving the Ger
man imperialists some change in the
Polish corridor situation. 1t Is sig
nificant that Borah, traditionally
hostile to Japanese imperialism, has
endorsed the Wall Street-Japanese
agreement for the division of China
by keeping still about it entirely.
The capitalist press is trying to
create the impression that the con-
illusions arrived at in the conference
were of an economic character only.
Those conclusions that will be in
cluded in the official statements will
be around economic" questions while
the definite political and military
understandings that we're arrived at
will not be reported in the official
statement. 1t must not be forgotten
that i'll addition to French bankers,
Laval also brought along the highest
French military advisers. Both i'm
perialists had sufficient technical"
staff for mapping out the broadcast
war plans. In addition, the serious
character OF the agreements is
shown by the fact that Laval con-
suited his bosses in France by tele-
phone. The capitalist press tried to
represent the conflict around the
question of ornaments in the light
that Hoover wanted general disarina-
ment while the French demanded a
security pact prior to disarmament.
The real question has been the ques-
ton OF hegemony over the military
forces in Europe against the Soviet
Union and against the revolutionary
upsurge of the German masses.
AS the Daily Worker goes to press
the official statement Of the results
OF the conference have not been made
public yet. The United States and
French press estimates of the con-
ference, however, indicate what was
arrived at on the political front. The
United States has acceded to the
French demand for military leader
ship in Europe while refusing on the
IJa woe laa1I tffz..
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-26
HUNGER MARCH
In MO. GETS
MASS SUPPORT

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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-26

rs signed up in the Unemployed
ouncil.
When told by Whidden, the speak
that the purpose of the delegation
AZ to lay before Governor Caulfield
lernands for immediate cash relief
1as greeted with cheers from the
7orkers and farmers present"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-26
Strikebrcaking Tactics

LAWRENCE. Mass. Oct. 25.-The
situation in the Lawrence strike of
$4,000 wool textile workers is one in
which every agency Of employers
government, church, and reactionary
unions is being used TO break the
strike. The tactic is first to split the
strikers own union. the National
Textile Workers Union away from
the mass and Isolate it, to give the
control and leadership Of the strike
to misleaders of the United Textile
Workers, and then sharpen the knife
for the wage cut.
Friday was typical day. In sd-
dition to the strikebreaking attemrS
Of the Catholic church, the Unitcd
Textile Workere Union held 4 meet
The Washington times., 1931-05-15
Husband Gets SII5
For Death of Wife

MADISON, Wis, May 15.-James
Medley was awarded Sis for the
death Of his wife by a bed bug
exterminator.
The Trenton Investment Com.
pany Of Superior, Wis, hired an
exterminator to do away with bed
bugs in the apartment below the
MedleyS.
The exterminator filled the
apartment with hydrocyanic gas.
Mrs. Medley became i'll of the
fumes and died,
The Washington times., 1931-05-15
Still Single, Says
DOrOthU M1ckdiLI

SAN FRANCISCO, May is
0.NS0.-Her fair skin overlaid
with a typical Hawaiian tan,
Miss Dorothy Mackaill, Los An
geles film actress. arrived here
today from Honolulu on the
liner Malolo.
I'm still single" she told in
reviewers, and declined to dis
cuss the cancelling of her en-
gagement to Neil Albert Miller,
of Los Angeles, after they had
obtained a marriage license in
Honolulu.
The Washington times., 1931-05-15
Georgia Legislature
To Get SteriLity Bill

ATLANTA, Ca, May Is uN.
S0.--A bill providing for steriliza-
ton of habitual criminals and in.
sane persons will be introduced
in the next session Of the Geor-
gia legislature. DR.. William I.
Pace. representative from Cobb
county, announced here today.
DR.. PAGES announcement fol.
lowed a resolution adopted by
400 Georgia doctors. demanding
LEGISLATION to establish legalized
sterilization.
The Washington times., 1931-05-15
Brazil Raises Tax
On Sale of Matches

SAC PAULO, May 15.-The
lowly PHOSPHORUS match has
popped into fame, following the
provisional governments decree
increasing the sales tax from IS
reis per box to 80 reis (about
cent?, forcing the retail selling
price up 100 per cent. The front
page of leading newspapers in
Rio de Janeiro and Sac Paulo are
devoting columns to the issue,
hoping to get the price reduced.
The Washington times., 1931-05-15
Passenger AirpLGne
Forced DOLUn in Lake

CLEVELAND, May Is QN.S0
A Transamerican Airlines Cor
poration amphibian, bound from
Cleveland to Detroit, with four
passengers, was forced down in
Lake Erie about mile from the
Cleveland harbor. yesterday when
the planes engine ripped partly
loose from its mounting.
None of the passengers was
injured. Three of the group
continued to Detroit in another
plane.
The Washington times., 1931-05-15
Lord Mayor Sails,
PrdiSin1 America

NEW YORK, May 15.-Edwin
Thompson, Lord Mayor Of Liver.
pool, who has been spending 10
days visiting in this city with
Lady Mayoress, sailed for Eng
land on the Cunarder Berengaria.
Before departing he said:
"We have been received with
tremendous cOrdiality, far be-
yond anything / thought posi-
BILE, I am sure what We have
learned here will benefit all OF
MS in iYerpOOl."
The Washington times., 1931-05-15
King of Siam GiUen
Substantial Food

PURCHASE, N. Y, May Is
QNSO. II King Prajadhipok, Of
Siam, who Sunday underwent an
operation for cataract on his
left eye, was reported today to be
progressing toward recovery.
The monarch's diet ,as been
varied to include more substantial
food, and his physicians report
that there is no sign Of infection.
The King and Queen Of Siam
are staying at the country estate
of the late Mrs. Whitelaw Reid
The Washington times., 1931-05-15
Panama Will Use
American MOney

PANAMA CITY, May Is (USo.
PRESIDENT Alfaro today declared
That an error by a government
official had led to the incorrect
announcement that American
coins were to be withdrawn from
circulation in Panama. The Presi-
dent said that the agreement
reached by him, U. S. Minister
Davis and Governor Burgess, Of
the Canal Zone, referred only TO
worn out coins now stored in the
Banco Nacional.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-24
100 MINERS
INDICTED BY
GRAND JURY
Court M a h in cry
Prepares To
Railroad Them
Free Boss Gunman
LID. In Fight To
Free Strikers

WASHINGTON, Pa, Aug. 23-The
grand jury of Washington County, a
coal operators instrument for strike
breaking, has been grinding out in
dictments all last week. With saw
age haste they have brought in "true
bills" charging riot, Indictment to
riot, assault and anything else they
can think of, against over 100 miners
arrested on the picket line.
Eagerly and vindictively, the whole
court machinery of Washington
County prepares to bring them on
trial, almost in masses, this week.
The following have been indicted
and ordered to stand trial Monday,
Aug. "a: Charles Rumble and Dewey
Vukas, for aggravated assault and
battery" These were arrested in
Avella section. Peter Ugren and
John Balch, also for aggravated as
sault and battery"
Then there are the Canonsburg
cases, also on trial Aug. "a, where the
United Mine Workers of America,
best strike-breaking tool of the OPP
orators, is the complaining witness,
because miners defended their union
and themselves against a meeting OF
U. M. w. district president Fagan's
thugs. In this group, Leo Thomp-
son is charged with conspiracy,
rioting and assault and battery.
Thomas Boich is charged with Con
spiracy, rioting and aggravated as
sault and battery" The following
among the Canonsburg defendants
are charged with conspiracy: Mike
Turk, Louis Fazzio, Anna Rasefski.
The following Canonsburg cases have
the charge of rioting; Anna Rasefski,
julius Hollis, Mike Turk, Pete Wag-
! ner, Steve SAVIOR, Louis Fazzio, Ed
gar Jones, Henry Stark, Will Nc
Queen, John Zigon and Stella Rasef-
ski.
The next day, Tuesday, Mike Kola-
rik is placed on trial for aggravated
assault and battery"
Then on Wednesday the operators
plan to bring on trial Ad;tn Getto,
Joseph Getto and Mike Tarzas for
"inciting to riot" and various other
| things.
On the same day they will try Jo-
seph Andrews on charges of "fel-
onious assault, pointing firearms and
assault"
Then, on Wednesday, also, they
will bring up for trial on "inciting to
riot and riot" charges: Anton zilich,
william Diehl, John White, Sam
Belts, Dominick Dellapine, Silvio Di
Nino, Leo Dellapino, Albert Brunn,
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-24
LA. POLICE, MOB
ATTACK NEGROES
Drive Many Fimilies
Into SWamps

DENHAM SPRINGS, La, Aug. %.
Following an alleged attack on a
white woman by Negro, police and
deputies and other thugs terrorized
the Negro district of Livingston par
ish, driving more than 300 colored
families from their homes to seek
refuge in the swamps and forests.
The terror followed an order by the
sheriff for all Negroes to get out
of town.
A few day ago Negro worker,
Ellis Smith, was arrested ION sus-
picion" of being the unidentified Ne
gro alleged to have entered the home
Of Mrs. Maribelle Hatchell and at
tempted to attack her. Following
their usual custom, the bosses and
their press at once began melting to
a mob lynching.
A mob, numbering more than 1000
gathered under the leadership of To-
cal landowners and shopkeepers
Finding that Smith had been re-
moved to the prison at Baton Rouge,
the leaders of the mob started their
followers towards the Negro district
Warning of their approach had pre-
coded them and all but few fam
lilies had escaped to the swamps
Those who had been delayed by the
necessity of removing their sick and
young children were set upon and
brutally beaten up by the mob
Many invalids and young children
were trampled under foot. The mob
then began setting fire to the de-
serted houses, but this was stopped
by the leaders because most of the
houses are the property of the saw
mill companies by whom the major
ity Of the colored workers In this
district are employed. The mob then
looted the houses of the personal
properties of the Negro workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-24
Mine Camp Under
Siege; Terror RACES
lin Harlan Trial

PINEVILLE, Ky, Aug. 2S.--
Deputy Sheriff Smith, former
lieutenant, when the militia was
in Harlan, yesterday ran over and
killed the six year old daughter
of ]. Asher, a miner. Smith was
speeding his car recklessly, but
was not arrested.
Camp of Molus, near Harlan,
was under siege last night and to-
day machine guns are covering all
the roads and hills around while
thugs break into every house in
town in an effort to find literature
and men. The Criminal Syndi-
calism case of Preacher Martin,
who has been active in relief
work, begins tomorrow, also the
hearing for the change of venue
in the murder cases.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-24

Under the pretext of aiding the
misery of the thousands of Chinese
workers and peasants who face FAM
inc and disease as the result of the
flood of the Yangste River, the
United States Navy is sending more
warships up the river. The American
fleet is being sent up the Yangste,
according to admissions of the Asso-
ciated Press, for the purpose of
strengthening the forces of the Ma
tionalist butchers against the work.
ers and peasants who are starving by
the tens of thousands, and who will
be driven still more to revolt. I'm
addition to protecting American lives
and property, however, the fleet Of
fered its assistance to the Chinese
authorities the A. p dispatch adj
mtted
While the rich Chinese landlords
and business men are going to
Shanghai on the river boats, the tens
of thousands of peasants aud work.
ers are being left TO Starve and die
of disease. Thousands upon thou
sands who escaped the floods will
starve. Typhoid, typhus, cholera,
smallpox and other diseases have al
ready broken out OH a mass scale.
The Nationalist agents of the imper-
ia lists are reOOrtpd tn he making Gar
rangements" to help the starving
masses. But following the practice
of the Hoover and other capitalist
governments the Nationalist are
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-24
Makers
Gust Right Wing and
Mus teite Officials

NEW YORK.-At a special mem
bership meeting called by the Inter
national Pocketbook Workers Uric
held Thursday, August 20, at Stuy-
vesant High School, the workers by
a vote of 545 to 27s decided to GUST
the right wing Musteite administra-
ton.
The motion was made by the rank
and file committee.
After announcing the vote the ad-
ministration to forestall any further
action on the part of the workers
made a motion to adjourn the meet
ing, to which the workers answered
with powerful roar, mo"
Break Up Meeting.
After their second defeat the ad-
ministration made a few unsuccess-
full attempts to break up the meet
ing, but when very popular rank
and filler made a motion to imme-
diately elect rank and file commit
tee OF 70 to take care OF the election
of new administration, they threw
the motion maker from the platform
and started general slugging Of the
rank and file leadership in the midst
of which they turned off the light
and broke up the meeting.
The workers realized that the ad-
ministration was attempting to stay
in office in spite of the opposition
of the overwhelming majority Of the
membership.
The Next Step.
The Rank and File Committee
later issued statement outlining
the next step in the fight to elect
an administration responsive to the
CONTINUED ON PAGE TwOD
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-24
MASS PICKETING
FOR SHOE STRIKE
All Out Monday at 7 in
Morning!

NEW YORK.-The strike of the
Shoe and Leather Workers Indus
trial Union against a IS per cent
wage cut at the Glenmore Shoe Co.,
221 Powell ST., Brooklyn, enters the
It'll week with the workers solid in
their struggle.
The bosses have resorted to all
means of breaking the strike: gang
sterism, professional scabs and in
junction proceedings, but in spite Of
all this the strikers are firm.
The union has issued call to all
shoe and sympathetic workers to
rally to mass picket demonstration,
Monday at o'clock lin the morning.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-24

III Street Journal of Friday, Au-
Gust 81, says that this wholesale wage
'ch will start lin the not distant
tuture" and the New York Evening
ost of Saturday August q, states
hat the slash will take place per
7ps next week"
The slash in steel wages will af-
-ect directly 100000 workers who
nave clready been living on the most
ris-rable wages under the Hoover
ss12ger system The Wall Street
Journal points out that the wage
-'2ra has come after the spsed-up
r9dar the s-ag5er system was not in
elf srIlic snt to prevent a reduc-
ion in prcfits.
Wage Slash Camoaign Already On
The campaign for wage slashes
which is to start with the U. s.
Steel will be followed by other COM
')anics" according to the New York
Evening Post. The campaign has al
.ca6y started in U. S. Steel On Au-
gust 10 wages were cut from ten to
twenty per cent in Monessen Pa.
plant of the American Sheet and
Tin Plate Co., subsidiary of U. S.
Steel. Last Thursday the Wheeling
Steel Co. cut wages 10 per cent in all
its plants. The Weirton Steel Co.
laid off its men and gave the rest
an indirect wage.
The wage slash in the steel in
dustry is the beginning of the cam
paign along the entire line of basic
American industry to save the bank
CONTINUED on PAGE THREEp
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ton of II went into the Mayors Of
flee, and demanded that he stop the
police department from interfering
with the action of the Unemployed
Councils on eviction cases. The an
swer Of the Mayor was his usual an
swer that he could not do anything,
nd that there is state law whereby
the landlords have the right to evict
workers from the houses for non
payment of rent. Also, on the cut
ting off of the $4,000 families from
the welfare lists, he blamed the City
Council; although saying: 81 SYM
pathize with all the actions Of the
City Council and the welfare de-
partment. 1t is necessary to econo-
mize because the city is broke; but
I would have done it in a different
way" meaning by that he would
have cut off $4,000 families from the
welfare, and thrown out 4,300 FAM
lilies from their homes for non-pay-
ment of rent, but would have put
little sugar-coating over it.
Murphy Sneers at Demands
He asked Anthony Gerlach, Com
munist Candidate for Councilman in
the coming elections on October 6,
what would you do if you would be
Mayor and I would come in as a
delegation protesting against evic-
tions?" Answer given by Gerlach.
THAT I would make sure to clean
sCoNTINIIED ON pAGD ruREEN
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-24

PATERSON, N. j., Aug. 23.-Five
workers, including the strike leaders
Fred Biedenkapp and Sophie Melvin
are being held for $500 bail as the
result of police attack on the
Sacco-Vanzetti demonstration yester-
day. The police started the drive
against the militant workers of Pat
erson in the morning when at 10 a.
m. they arrested Comrades Gardner
Gordon, and Weisman without any
charge being preferred against them
The police stated that these three
workers would be held only until
after the demonstration, but after
the demonstration the police held
them on the framed up charge of
distributing leaflets.
Although the demonstration was
scheduled to start at 1 p. m. there
were about 5000 workers waiting at
the City Hall Plaza at u o'clock.
The police of Paterson were out in
full force and had even drawn in
cops from the surrounding towns to
break up the demonstration. For
twenty minutes before one o'clock
the workers marched back and forth
before the city hall in picket line
formation.
At one o'clock several workers
lifted Fred Biedenkapp on their
shoulders and he began to speak. He
had only uttered the words, Fellow
workers, this demonstration is being
held to commemorate the murder of
Sacco and Vanzetti." when he was
pulled down by the cops and ar
rested. The workers Immediately re-
formed their lines and fer fifteen
minutes they continued their picket
ing,
Then another worker was picked
up but before he could start his
speech, motorcycle cops drove
through the mass of workers, at
,acked the WORKERS VITO were hold
rag him and this worker a This
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-24

likely perhaps
according SeetN Evening Post Saturday, Au
gust 22.
stocks today came under the
industries
and other basic lnes"-Wal Street Journal August H.
THE above not merely ruors proven by only
Tuesday
Corporation already cutting
remember that Daily
steel ben bo nased nv bvnoce Hoover and the living canast
press lie preparing
workers realize that only the Communists told them the truth
to strike against the wage cuts This still only hope defeating
reduce their still further down
The Corporation
there 6ooooooo funds piled up from past profits
from the sweat of its 20oo workers Only four years ago.
dividend of Steel stock which
stock wishes dividends by starving the workers. The
greedy audacty the capitalists knows limit!
steel in fact already have big Reduction
admitted even by the Evening Post August q which said
se fact have been daica reduced by the decrease
in hours worked-sIashed than half"
slightest that this part time cut
will modified the least degree the steel workers attacked with
And all this in spite of the demagogy
Corporation who May "a
three months agodenounced cuts as cheap business
Steel workers. Answer the call of the Metal Workers Industrial
fellow workers Monessen Form
ectedshop Committees Prepare to strike! Defend
the bread of table the lives OF your women and babies from the
stockholders of STEEL Organize and strike
against cuts
And what about you Journal
quoted railroad cut for granted The rail-
cevery for months
for higher freight rates making the excuse that they
pure raroaders should Railroad stock
dripping with billions imaginary stock values
dividends they intend
dividends hdes The cut in
Steel Justify" it. Your Brother
cut by standing
fol of the railways"
that Brotherhood officials will finally betray
you with the Bosses with the infamous Watson
compulsory arbitration Be warned
file Committees, that
take strike the officials
of your Brotheroods Watson
compusory-forced decentralization sell out!
,y,oa o,,s +, s+se, ond ro1road roean
wage struggle! Organize
of the struggle And
the immediate strike
relief of the Striking Ohio vr
Kentucky
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-24
Demand Amnesty For
All Class War
Prisoners

at the Sacco-Vanzetti and Amnesty
Day demonstration because he read
parts of the Declaration of indie
pendence. He was held on $1,000
bail on the charge of "crime against
the government" The bosses an
nounced their intentions of breaking
up the meeting in the metal trades
controlled Morning Telegram, saying
that police will prevent a meeting
of the I. l.. D. on this common this
afternoon if it develops that it is for
the purpose of concentrating the
murders of Sacco and Vanzetti." Be-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-24

the grown folks, but it's especially
hard to see tuberculosis worm its way
into the children's little bodies, and
it is spreading with terrorizing rap
idity.
Food is needed Every day the
children come to the relief kitchen
with buckets to get their families
share of what food there is. Local
relief committees, elected by the
strike committee, scour the neighbor-
ing towns, raising relief. But that
is just fraction of what they need.
Together with what the Penn Ohio
West Virginia Kentucky Striking
Miners Relief Committee sends in,
the kitchen just about manages to
provide bucket of soup or pot of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-24
u. S. STEEL CORP. OPENS
DRIVE; ALL BASIC INDUSTRIES
WILLFOLLOW;; STRIKES LOOM
Wall Street Paper Says Pay Cut Will Come Next Week;
Bosses Fear Strike
Workers Must Organize to Strike Against Capitalist
Offensive On Their Living Standards

A sweeping wage cut of from ten to fifteen
percent, to affect every worker in the steel in
dustry will be put into effect perhaps within
the next week, according to capitalist press re-
ports of Friday and Saturday.
This shows that the denial wage sashes which the steel
bosses have broadcast during the past three weeks
right lies.
The bosses prepared the way for the wage cutting
pagn by cutting salaries of the office workers July g.