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gomery.
Side by side with this hypoeritical
appeal to maintain the cordial rela-
tons which the authors lyingly claim
to exist between the Alabama boss
lynchers and their Negro victims, the
Detroit Independent publishes the ex-
perience of a Detroit Negro worker
who has just returned from a visit
to the South. This worker, Leroy
Parker, of 3014 Hastings st., Detroit,
was seized by two white men in the
delta town of Gwynn, Miss, and sold
to another white man for the sum of
two dollars. Parker telling his ter
rible experiences, says:
Sold For s2-No Wages Paid.
Shortly after, four other colored
men were brought in and each sold
for the same sum. We were all put
on cotton farm to chop cotton.
Our overseer was a colored man
named Thomas Reeves, who beat
us without mercy. His cruelty was
almost indescribabIe.' This shows
that the white bosses can always
find tools among a certain class of
Negroes, whether TO act as Simon
Legree overseers or TO issue state
ments, as has been done by the
Negro tOadies on the Alabama
Inter-raciaI Commission and by
DR.. Du Bots, Pickens, Walter White,
etc, in an attempt to confuse and
mislead the Negro masses and be-
tray their struggles.
After 10 days on the cotton farm
Parker managed to buy his way out
by money furnished by friends to
whom he managed to get word of his
plight. 1t was useless appealing to
capitalist "law and order" While
Parker was still at the farm, one of
the other men died as a result of ILL
treatment. For all their labor on the
farm they received no pay whatever,
and only one meal a day consisting
of vegetables.
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UNITS! HOLD AFFAIRS FOR
DAILY" DURING SEPTEMBER!

More affairs and entertainments
for benefit Of the Daily Worker will
enable us to go through the autumn
months without accommodating a large
deficit Receipts during the past
weeks have been dangerously low
Affairs, dances, socials, will remedy
this situation. Peabody, Mass, raised
$1O3.66 clear for the Daily at Daily
Worker Picnic held August 10th.
Other units should be able to do like
wise. Every Unit no matter how
small or how large should hold an af-
fair at least twice a month. Expenses
should not be high workers can
meet at the home of a worker, or at
the workers center, or in the open air
Daily Worker Clubs particularly
should hold regular affairs with en-
tertainment, refreshments and dis
cussion. Affairs also should lay the
basis for starting Daily Worker Clubs
Providence, r. l., held success
full Daily Worker Picnic last week
at which SIS was raised for the
Daily. 1--WE had large crowd of
sympathizers and comrades and
representatives of the General
Fabric strikers" writes A. B., one of
the functionaries present. STRIKERS
are learning every. day about the
class struggle" he adds, land they
are putting up a strong fight
against the Central Falls Bulls and
Flat Fleet The working class of
r. /. are learning more about the
Daily Worker and the Communist
Party now than before the strike,
and the working class is support
ing the strikers with strenuous eff
fort. The Providence Unit won't
forget the Daily Worker"
DAILY" Needed in Strike Regions.
Glad to hear of the excellent use
of the Daily" during the fabric
strike. The Daily Worker fights for
the entire working class of America.
1t is equally necessary for the work.
ers of America to support the Daily
Worker in its campaign for financial
existence. This can be done by in
dividual donations, subscriptions, and
affairs and entertainments for the
benefit of the Daily. Subscriptions
and renewals will help greatly to
finance the Daily. E. M, Gary, Ind,
makes a real Communist sacrifice to
renew his sub: II am reading the
Daily for number of years" he
writes, land 1 did not renew on time
because of the crisis. I am saving
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twice and thrice as many tubes as
the capitalists before the war. We
are building houses for our ourselves
with all Accommodations. We all
learn in Soviet schools. We have no
more illiterate workers who have
been left behind in a very great
number by the drunken aristocracy.
Improving the living conditions and
raising the cultural level of our
workers, we are raising at the same
time the productivity of labor. Do
the tubes manufactured by us suf-
flee for country where daily and
hourly are growing up new mines,
factories, mills, power-stations and
many other plants? Do these tubes
suffice for a country where millions
of strong workers hands are creating
a new socialistic economy? Certain
ly not.
The whole erection work is nat
urally hampered by certain difficult
ties, but we workers are facing these
difficulties with pride and proletarian
faith, as we know that the erection
work is done by the workers and that
they are building for themselves.
Capitalists of all countris cannot
stand the gigantic growth of social
istic construction of Soviet Union.
They knew well that all oppressed
people are feeling the odour of the
socialistic gardens flowers. They
know that the Soviet Union repre-
sents lighthouse, guide of all the
enslaved no matter of what nation.
We are therefore quite aware that
capitalists are earnestly preparing all
sorts Of war guns to kill people.
These guns are being prepared for
us, for the workers of the USSR.
We, tube casters of Makeevka trust
on you, that you, our comrades, our
brothers will come forth not only
with fighting against the imperialist
but that you will defend us, workers
of U.S.S.R.
Goodbye write us an answer, we
are waiting for it.
Signed by workers of Makeevka's
tube-plant.
Our address: Moscow, Tverskaya, 3.
"Rabotchaya Gazeta."
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ALABAMA BOSSES IN NEW ATTACK
a.. ..a5. ON SCOTTSBORO MASS DEFENSE
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under capitalism. And, in the be-
lief that they still can fool the Ne
gro masses into acceptance of the
boss Iynchers and slave drivers as
their true friends" the committee
calls upon the Southern Negro MACS
es to take no part in the mass fight
for Negro rights but to trust them
selves once fore to the wise leader
ship of their white (boss) friends"
and the Negro tools of these bosses.
The appeal ends with the hypocrit-
icai statement:
Glow good and how pleasant ii
is for brethren to dwell together in
unity"
Has No Word of Protest Against
Lynch Terror
This appeal, which has not single
word of condemnation against the
frame-up of the Scottsboro or word
of protest against the widespread
lynch terror, is issued by a commit
tee appointed by the Alabama Inter
racial Commission. This is the same
body which in the early days of the
Scottsboro case declared that it had
no interest in the case as it felt con-
fident that the boys had had a fair
trial and received only the just pen
atty for their crime" Later, when
the Commission found that millions
of workers throughout the world re-
fused to accept its views but were
militantly protesting against the
lynch verdict the Commission made
haste to cooperate wit the NAACP
leaders in their efforts to hamstring
the mass defense movement.
Some of the signers of this traitor
Gus appeal are: DR.. Henry M. Ed
monds, Robert M Jemison, Jr., Supt.
c. B. Glenn, Rev. M. Sears, and w.
B. Driver, all Of Birmingham, Ala,
and Prof. Robinson Brown, of Tus-
caloose, and Jesse H. Herrin of Mont
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one meal day in order to renew my
sub. Enclosed you will find three
dollars for six months.
Chicago d. w. Club Meets.
The regular meeting of the Daily
Worker Readers Club of Chicago, Ill,
was held Friday, August 18th, with
Comrade Bittenfield, chairman. Six
regular members were present and
three visitors who it is hoped win at
tend regularly.
Minutes of the previous meeting
were approved as read Comrade
Riegel read an article on the British
crisis, appearing in the Chicago Tri-
bune, and similar article in the
Daily Worker. He then led the dis
cussion showing the difference Of
handling the story by a workers
newspaper and a capitalist paper.
All the members participated in
very interesting discussion.
One of the members said that
though he had read many articles on
the English political crisis he did not
have a clear understanding Of what
it was all about until this discussion.
Another member said he did not
realize how interesting and instruc-
tive the reading and discussing of
newspaper article could be.
Worker Correspondence Wanted.
Under Worker Correspondence,
Comrade Cohen wrote story for the
Daily Worker on a family he knows
in distress. Comrade Good volun-
teered to write story for the Daily
Worker to be read at the next meet
ing Comrade Drucker was then
elected to write story for the fol-
lowing meeting.
Tea and cake were served and the
meeting adjourned at 10 p. m.
We would like to ad dthat there
should be more reading and dis
cussion of contents of the Daily
Worker. We believe also that
Daily Worker Club Affair every
other week or so will succeed in
drawing new members into the
club. The proceeds Of the affair
of course to be sent to the Daily
Worker. We suggest that future
meetings of the Chicago Daily
Worker Club be widely advertised
in Chicago. The average attend
ance of one of the New York Clubs
is sixty workers. There is no rea-
son why Chicago could not have at
least half. A mimeographed leaf1et
widely distributed will do the trick.
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at the public swimming pool, de-
manded only that Negro policemen
be sent to the pool to help the
whites. Much literature on the
League of Struggle for Negro Rights
was handed out at this meeting.
At South Brgetts town, about $50
workers, mostly miners and steel
workers, gathered for the meeting.
Fannie Rudd spoke for the Relief,
while Charles Guynn spoke for the
NMU, Dan Lane spoke for the Ne
gro miners, and Joe Chandler, Y.C.
L. organizer for Pittsburgh, spoke for
the youth movement.
AT the South Burgettstown meet
ing, 80 miners from the p g. w mine
came to the meeting. They have
been working under a UMWA con-
tract but the mine closed down a
few days ago, because the NNIU has
been organizing the men and pick
citing the mine. The machine boss
was among the P 81 w men at the
meeting. They were especially in
terested in the Soviet Union, and
wanted to know all about working
conditions for miners there. They
also wanted to know about chances
of being sent to the Soviet Union.
At the Lansing, Ohio, picnic, Vim
cent Kemenovich, secretary of the
Western Pennsylvania district secret
airy of the National Miners Union,
spoke to a large crowd, including
many miners. Kemenovich spoke
on correction of the weakness in the
strike. He said that the present task
was to bridge the gap between the
miners in the mine and the miners
on strike. The line of the NMU
met the approval of the workers. A
series of meetings is being arranged
in the Burgettstown region.
At the same time that the YCL
meetings we're being enthusiastically
IAAC TCuGtdIlOIl VI
Labor held its widely announced La
Dor Day meeting at West View Park,
Pittsburgh. The meeting had been
advertised for weeks in the capital
list press, but only $50 gathered to
listen to Pat Pagan and. another
speaker. Three officials who were
scheduled to speak failed to show up.
The small crowd was quiet and the
loud speakers blared at the empty
scenery while picnicers in the park
retreated as far as they could to
get away from the racket. Pagan
said the UMWA wanted to put good
men in office to give labor its rights.
NEW YORK.-Starting from Rut-
gers Square more than 5000 young
workers and students paraded thru
the streets of the lower East Side in
a brilliant demonstration against
war. Sympathetic and encouraging
comment from the thousands of
young workers and adults lining the
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CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONEb
with severe cases Of tonsilitis we're
sent away because all available fa-
cilities were filled until October.
With further undertaking a good
many of these children will die.
DR.. Meyer went on to say that
there were $500 patients suffering
from all types of diseases crowded
into the hospital when 1900 is nor
NAL for this time of the year.
1.-THE increase in sickness" added
Commissioner Whaelen, "is out Of
all proportion to normal times. We
should not be having more than $50
applications day, but the applica-
tons are averaging at the rate of
500 day."
DR.. Meyer said that the worst is
yet to come this winter, as it is then
when the peak of sickness is due.
With the unemployment this winter
greater this year, with starvation in
creasing, the prospects for the work.
ers is frightful. DR.. Meyer stated:
"And to make matters 5till mere crit
rs' there -'~- t''a fact s1wavs urs5-
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Children Die of Hunger in Ky. Coal Fields

they taught in every school, and in
every textbook, and in the censored
reading put before them that no one
can attain fame except he trampled
down his fellowman and rise up and
gain success (riches) over the pros
trate forms of his victims.
That is in line to a dot with the
present system of demagogy prac-
ticed in almost every church-house
in this country. The leaders of this
system don't care an iota for this
government-outside of what they
reap for their allegiance. Nobody
cares that is connected. Except for
his personal benefit. Down with capt.
talism. Raise the banner of COMMIT
nism.
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to destroy violence and slavery, and
the hearts of millions of oppressed
workers and ours form involuntarily
one great heart, heart which is
longing only for freedom. And free
dom will come of course.
Now, although we are far from
each other, we see that your blood
thirsty capitalists are showing few
erish hysteria. We see that world
capitalist crisis has passed through
all capitalist countries. We have
seen and we see still now that mines,
mills, factories and many other
plants are being closed. We see how
thousands of workers with their
families are thrown out into the
streets of rich towns and read sem
fences condemning daily hundreds
and thousands of proletarians to a
dreadful death of famine. We hear
the whistling of the whips of the
policemen and fascistS. We see the
gloomy gray prisons, gallows, places
of executions and the horror of the
world proletariat-the electric chairs.
We see floods of blood and tears. We
hear continual groans and lanenta-
tions and cries for vengeance on the
capitalists. We know it is you cry
ing, our brothers, our comrades,
pressed by the capitalists.
No Slavery in U.S.S.R.
Comrades, we have got nothing of
all these horrors here. There is no
violence, slavery and oppression, no
prisons for workers in our country.
No gallows, no executions, no whips
and no electric chairs. There are
no tears, no bloodshed, no voorhees,,
no famine. No groans, no lamenta-
tons are heard here, nobody does
press us. We have no capitalists.
Workers of the USSR are governing
themselves and for themselves. We
tube-costers of Makeevka are all
concentrating with all our power,
all our enthusiasm and attention
around our industrial program and
the industrial financial plan. We
struggle with pride for its compile
ton and especially for the compile
ton of the great famous five year
plan. We are at present making
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tBy a Worker Correspondent

tBy Worker correspondent
CINCINNATI, Ohio. - Winter is
right on us again, and a real hard
one at that, for there will be as much
as twice the amount of unemployed
as there was last year I SILVER when
the cool breeze reminds me of my
prospects of another such as the one
that experienced last year in the
South.
The detectives and the harness
bulls uniformed policemen are dog
ging the footsteps of everyone who
does not seem to hold so-called re-
spectacle position in the capitalist
scheme of life. The scramble for
place to sleep at night is a fright.
There we're from half a dozen to 6
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(By a Worker Correspondent

by a Worker Correspondent
GARRETT, Ky.-There is a wave
of deaths raging up and down this
river. 1t is among the children and
called first one thing and another,
but in reality it is nothing short of
malnutrition in nearly every case.
Thousands of pale faced kids
throughout the. coal fields never
know anything about milk-except
seeing it in the hands of their more
fortunate fellowmen. And of course
the rich hddies have their share,
for amt they trained seed of CAPT
talism's tomorrow? Amt they the
pedigreed stock that is religiously
taught how to trample and hold in
subsection the working class? Amt
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-10
Cops Drive Unemployed from Town to Town

hundred and fifty iobless workers on
trains going in all directions-men,
women and children.
When 1 came through Vicksburg,
Mass, on a rainy night a freight
train was delayed an hour as the
crew tried to locate a place for two
families with fourteen children, the
Oldest girl of twelve, to find place
to ride. In Louisiana policemen
would meet all trains and tell the
workers to stay on and not get off
there as there were ne jobs.
Now is the time to join the I'm
employed Council If there is not
one in your town build one. The
only way we can keep from starving
Is to organize and fight.
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SOVIET TUBE WORKERS
SEND GREETINGS TO
WORKERS IN AMERICA
Tell How Cultural and Living Conditions Are
Improving in u. S. S. r.
Call on American Workers to Defend Soviet
Union Against Imperialists
Moscow, U. S. S. R.
Dear Comrades:

Dear Comrades:
In the first lines of letter sending you at the
request of hundreds of fellow workers of the tubewos
hearty brohery greetings to workers of all nations su
fering under the press of heartless capitalists.
Workers of America today far dstanced from each
other distance of thousands and thousands of miles Does
that far from each other hearts and
purposes No. doesn't that We have mutual object
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-10
POLISH FASCISTS
ATTACK MINERS

Two miners, John Pasko and John
OleSchik, were beaten by Polish fas-
ciSt thugs while collecting for miners
relief at conference of the Polish
Sick and Death Benefit Society," be-
ing held in Arlington Hall, 10Th and
st. Marks SITS.
The fasciSts were angered by the
favorable reception the miners re-
ceived from most of the worker dele
gates at the conference and tried
continuously to disrupt their
speeches. The miners started the
collection and had a few dollars in
their caps, when they were grabbed
and told by the fascists that they
had their own committee and would
send the money in. Il jumped on
chair" states John Pasko, telling the
delegates and friends that if they
would contribute to this committee
that the starving miners would never
get a penny of it," Just as I ended
my speech they jerked me off the
chair. After a rumpus of q half
hour they got us both into the lobby.
where a gang of thugs beat us up.
speech of Arthur Henderson turned
out to be an appeal, likewise, to save
capitalism, but not through attack
ing the unemployment insurance
payment, as this is one of the most
dangerous roads, arousing mass re-
sistance.
Henderson forgot to explain the
fact that he favored slashing unem-
ployment insurance payments before
he resigned from the Macdonald
cabinet. The entire speech was
mild, gentlemanly debate in the most
accepted parliamentary form, which
left Macdonald a free road to carry
out the fascist dictatorship.
Supporting the Opposition" were
the three ex-Labor Party members in
the new independent" group of IL,
open fascist, Mosley. Mosley, in
recent article, declared the main OPP
position should be against Commu-
nism not Macdonald.
Realizing that the masses are
moving towards a militant fight
against the mockery of the Labor
Party opposition" and the decaying
capitalist system that it is helping
to protect, Maxton, the left" Labor
member of Parliament, INDUCED in
one Of the most demagogic speeches
ever heard in this prize academy of
demagogy. Replying to the ultra
conservative Churchill, Maxton said
II hope the Labor movement will
soon realize the Parliamentary OPP
position is not its only resource and
that the revolutionary stage is now
rapidly approaching"
Such playing with words and at
tempting to fool the masses has now
become an important function of the
Maxtons In England. Maxton has
followed policy Of first acting with
the Hendersops, then apparently re-
naming neutral" then again cri-
itching Henderson: later mouthing
revolutionary phrases, but yet doing
all he can to keep back revolutionarv
a"tiaSl
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Telegram to the Daily Workel

NEGAUNEE, Mich. - Three hun
dred participated in the Interna-
tional Youth Day demonstration
with the Young Communist League
taking an. active part very enthu-
siastically. No disturbances. An in
side meeting was held after the de-
monstration in Labor Temple.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-10
Telegram to the Daily worker)

CHICAGO, Ill. - Five thousand
young and adult workers, Negro and
white marched in the Chicago Inter
national Youth Day demonstration
against bosses war, for defense Of the
Soviet Union, against starvation, and
for immediate relief. Two resolutions
were passed against war preparations
and for the immediate release of the
nine Scottsboro boys and all class
war prisoners.
Police broke up the meeting at the
Western Electric plant.
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CHICAGO HOSPITALS CROWDED WITH
WORKERS DISEASED FROM HUNGER

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international Youth Day Celebrated
Turnout Land by Thousands of Youth

pavements could be heard on all
sides.
Preceded by a band, the youth
marched four abreast with torch
lights at frequent intervals. Mass
singing and cheering marked the de-
monstration.
The parade ended in mass meet
ing at the Manhattan Lyceum, &c E.
4th ST., where representatives of the
Young Communist league, Young
Pioneers and the Communist Party
spoke. Many young workers joined
the Young Communist League.
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Telegram to the Daily Worker

CANTON, Ozone thousand work
ers demonstrated at Nimisilla Park
with 400 young workers in spite of
the fact that the League speaker,
Margaret Sabol did not show up.
Masses were held with great en-
thusiasm with local Young Com
munist League forces.
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PROVIDENCE, r. Three hun
dred gathered yesterday in front of
City Hall in an enthusiastic demon
stration on International Youth Day.
The workers very readily responded
to the speakers who pointed out the
war danger which is hanging over
the heads of the hungry workers, es-
pecially the young workers.
A collection of SO was made and
several young workers joined the
Young Communist League. A Ne
gro worker joined the Communist
Party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-30
Young Defenders
Lead In District
Amnesty Campaign

Twelve hundred signatures-this is
the splendid record made by the
Young Defenders of the New York
District OF the International Labor
Defense in the drive for signatures
to the amnesty petitions for political
prisoners. The Young Defenders are
leading all other branches of the
New York I, L. D, in the drive.
In addition, the Young Defenders
have collected among the signers of
the petitions more than 500 to fl
nance the amnesty campaign. This
is also far In excess of what other
branches have collected.
The amnesty campaign in New
York state, which is part of a nation
wide drive being conducted by the
LID. is now going forward with re-
newed vigor and will continue till
June. The record made by the Young
Defenders ought to inspire other
branches and all workers to increased
activity. The amnesty petitions de-
mand the unconditional release Of
all class war prisoners and the re-
peal Of the infamous crimina
anarchy law.