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CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE,

The terror campaign of the Biz
mingham bosses and their police
against the Negro masses is part Of
the nation wide terror now going on
against the entire working class. It
is aimed at smashing the growing
unity between Negro and white work
ers, and at crushing the struggles Of
the working class against starvation
and evictions. 1t is part Of the gen.
eral campaign directed by the Wall
Street government and its agents to-
ward the worsening of the conditions
of the working class by wage cuts,
denial of unemployment relief, the
lengthening Of hours Of labor, etc.
Part and parcel Of this campaign
is the widespread terror against the
mine strikers in Pennsylvania, Ohio,
West Virginia and Kentucky, the
massacre of Negro troopers at Camp
Hill, Alabama, the massacre Of I'M
employed workers in Chicago on Aug.
8, the deportation drive against mil
liant foreign-born workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-18

CANTON, Ohio, Aug. 1.-THE
workers in Timkens Roller Bearing
"sweatshop" reported for work on
Monday, Aug. 3, following their an
nual vacation Il don't know what
they called previous lay-offs this
Year,. A few went to work and the
rest were told to report Sept. 2.
Those working are promised only 10
days this month.
In the lying Repository Of today
there is a lot of hooey regarding
Timkens. 1t says they have an or
der for 100000 in bearings for the
Pennsylvania R. R., to be used on
their Washington identification
project. With the speed-up and
modern machinery this order df
they got it and if it is not cancelled)
will soon be finished and we work.
ers must remember that nine-tenths
of this amount goes into the bosses
pockets.
The yellow sheet goes on with a
sob story about the net earnings for
the first half of 1881, which were
$2,462,14.71, far below 1880. This
they attribute to the economic de-
preston. What profound reasoning!
I was afraid it would be blamed on
the Communists.
Lie About Wage Cuts.
They say they have affected many
economies in overhead expenses, but
have not cut wages. Oh, what liars!
I wonder if these workers sent back
home Monday see smaller income.
Department after department here
has taken wage-cut after wage-cut
and it is soon time that we answer
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aside its cloak of liberality and is
doing everything in the power of
yellow capitalist journalism to de-
feat the miners fight against starVa-
ton.
The Press" gave a fine example
of deceptive reporting in announcing
the size of the crowd of the local
August 1 demonstration against war.
They said that more than a thou
sand were there" Now 1,001 would
be more than a thousand; also 5000
(Which was near the correct amount)
would be considerably more than a
thousand. The POST Gazette" also
used the more than" ruse to avoid
giving the correct estimate.
Greatest Fight in History.
The miners are putting up one of
the greatest fights in the history of
the American labor movement and
they deserve the wholehearted sup
port of every worker. Pat Pagan
praises the strikebreaking policy of
the capitalist press.
Pagan Praises press"
1 quote in full letter of praise
to the Pittsburgh Press written by
strikebreaking Pagan:
Editor, the Pittsburgh Press:
Through the bitter years of 1927
and 1928 and now again in 1881
the newspapers of Pittsburgh have
as part of their mission the dis
semination of news about the coal
miners OF this district.
1t is particularly gratifying 10
read the accounts of the various
happenings in the mining COM
munitics in The Press because of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-18
eve Will VIM" Says 64-Year-Old Miner

we get 80 cents a ton and have to
pay $12 for house rent; Ga house
not to fit to live I'M, with the win
dows and doors and floors badly in
need of repair.
I have been working in the mines
81 years-that is long time, COM
rades. I have always had shoes on
my feet and a few clothes on my
back, but today I can buy neither
shoes nor clothes I am almost bare
footed.
Things look pretty good in North
ern West Virginia around Vaudeville
Scotes Run and Morgantown. The
National Miners Union is being built
here and we will carry the strike
on to victory. We have long. hard
fight against us, but we will win.
From q old miner and Communist
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-18
Bank Crashes; Pipe Line Strikers Win

lumbia Gas System won their strike
of So per day for 8 hours. Workers
everywhere should strike against wage
cuts. Strike for more pay. Now is the
time. You can win a strike Now!
All you need is the CUTS to put it over
Lets go, call meeting, elect your
strike committee, and get down to
business.
Call mass meetings. Demonstrate.
Protest the difference between the
cost of production and consumption.
Socialism removes the speculator and
the hijacker, and puts them to work
or chases them out of the country
Join the Communist organizations
and let's go over the top.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-18
Bad Conditions at
Cook CityInfirmary
Laid to Cermak
Undermined Staff,
No Attention Given
to Sick Patients

CHICAGO, Ill. - The conditions
existing at the Cook County Oak
Forest Infirmary are so critical due
to gross neglect and graft that emer-
gency measures must be adopted.
This report was made by investiga-
tors to Mayor Cermak, in his other
job as chairman of the Board of
County Commissioners, which, by
the way, he greedily holds on to re-
CARELESS of his pledge to voters he
would resign. Cermak is duly re-
Sponsible for the misery imposed
upon the four thousand inmates, as
he has been fully aware of the
shameful state of affairs during his
seven years as head of county insti-
buttons.
But Few Doctors.
The report reveals that where at
least twenty doctors should be in the
hospital staff, there are only six.
Twelve wards containing twenty
seven patients each are cared for by
six nurses-three hundred and TWEEN
ty-five patients with only six nurses!
Such criminal neglect speaks for it.
self. The institute is over thirty
per cent overcrowded. Uniform
meals are prepared for the four
thousand inmates regardless Of their
special dietary requirements. The
food purchased is of low grade and
is slovenly and indifferently pre-
pared-despite the fact that tuber-
cular, diebetic and other sick per-
sons are inmates there, there is not
one dietician on the staff. The cler-
ical staff is woefully under-staffed
and with resultant neglect Of keep
ing records of patients progress.
The report was sent in to Cermak
on the day he was departing to see
a prize fight in New York. Receiv-
ing scant attention from his excel
lency" the mayor, it is doubtful very
much if there will be any, if small,
improvement in the rotten conditions
at Oak Forest County Poor House
old home and tubercular home COM
bined.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-18
Martin, Ky.

Mart1n, KY.
Daily Worker:
Via Bus, Freight and the highway
over Counties: Found men going
and coming in droves hunting
work, and could not find one job.
All talk was more revolutionary than
the patriots of the American Revo-
luton. Met a General Mine fore
man from the Tug River field of w.
Va. He prayed for the Communists
and their revolutionary unions to
come; offered financial aid, or to
help raise 1t.
In the center of the Big Sandy
Coal fields met other under boss
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-18
MONTHLY SUBS AT 50 CENTS WINTHIN
REACH OF WORKERS! BUNDLES CAN BE
ORDERED AT RATE OF | CENT A COPY!

A Daily Worker Club is in process
of formation in Pittsburgh Cal
please inform me where l can sec
ure a number of membership cards
as 1 would like to organize a club
here" writes a worker in above
town.
There are no membership cards
in the Daily Worker Club. Nor
nre there dues. All work is of
voluntary nature and no salaries
are paid to officials. The club has
no formal constitution or by-laws,
just common sense. The workers
themselves decide the character of
the club and make plans in nc
cortinnce with their needs. The
first meeting Of the Pittsburgh,
Cal. will enable the comrades to
tell just how the club IN to pro-
coed. An outline on how best to
conduct meetings IN being sent the
Pittsburgh comrades. This outline
explains in detail the nature, du-
ties and possibilities of the Daily
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-18
Vaudeville, w. Va.

Vaudeville, w. Va.
Dear Comrades:
I am an old miner, 81 years old
and have worked in the mines since
I was ten years old, having first star
ted to work in the mines in 1878. I
saw these one man unions come and
go since 1882 and hope to see union
like the National Miners Union firmly
established. THIS Is what I have
been looking forward all these years
the establishment OF real work
ingman's union that will fight for the
workers.
UMWA Scab Scale
Before we miners struck on May,
18TH we we're getting 81 cents ton
and had to pay $3.50 for house
rent. And, now, under the United
Mine Workers yellow dog contract,
a1tsr
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-18

the fact that your newspaper is
fully cognizant of the distress of
the miners and their families.
During the past week especially
has The Press looked with a dis
corning eye upon the happenings
in the coal fields. /, of course, am
thinking particularly of the dis
turbance at Canonsburg last Sun
day.
The Press has not failed to
bear in mind that the actions of
the National Miners Union are
directed toward but one end, and
that is the Red world revolution.
On the other hand the United
Mine Workers of America has for
its goal the rehabilitation of the
American coal miner, and of this
fact, too, has The Press been well
aware.
/ am writing to you in this vein
because of my sincere apprecia-
ton of the cIear-cut, de-bunked
news stories which have appeared
in The Press about the coal
miners. May 1 hope with you
that their lot will be soon a hap
pier one?
p. T. PAGAN,
President, United Mine Workers
of America, Pittsburgh District"
The workers should answer Fagar
and the lying boss owned papers b!
rushing more funds than ever befort
to the Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Vir.
ginia, Kentucky Miners Relief, 81:
Penn Ave, Pittsburgh, Pa.
"A WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-18
BY a Worker Correspondent

LOS ANGELES, Cal.-"Send me
back to prison. At least I will have
a place to sleep and something to
eat"
This was the plea made the other
day by John Snare. starving odd
Job Los Angeles worker. who begged
to be returned to Anamosa, Iowa, to
complete a ten years prison term,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-18
Kentucky Workers Desperate, Talk Revolt

who wanted literature and offered
his aid in organizing this field. They
are being forced under slavery con-
ditions as well as the working man,
and they are waking up. Lets go,
lead these men to victory, we know
you can do 1t. Nowhere have I
found even an outpost of the United
Mine Workers organization. The
people have broadened their demands
and beliefs; they are rebelling
against this crooked minority govern
ment as well as against their en-
ployers,
A Worker
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-18
(By q Worker Correspondent

HUNTSVILLE, Ky.-The Bank of
Wayland crashed the other day
Small depositors face ruin. Small
merchants and small business men
also face bankruptcy. How long will
the small merchants and small
businessmen permit this system to
rob them and the workers for the
benefit of the large capitalists?
Merchants! Small businessmen! You
are facing ruination-why not side
with the workingclass and overthrow
such rotten one sided system. Soci-
alism is your salvation, and the soon
er you see it, the better for you.
The Goldman strikers of the Co
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-18
Hungry Worker Asks to Be Sent to Jail
A Worker

Inspector Staten, however, refused
to send him back. So, as far as I
know the worker may be dead from
starvation by this time.
According to survey of prisoners
recently taken in an Ell Paso, Tex,
Jail, the majority expressed the de-
sire to be in Jail all the time rather
than outside--because they didn't like
the idea at liberty in land Of plenty"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-18
August %. SaccO-
VanZett tt Day
Demonstrations
New York-Union Square.

New YOrk-Union Square.
Seattle, Wash.-S pm. in Denny
Regade District, 5th and BIan-
Chard.
Ironwood, Mich 7p.m., North
western Park, corner Suffolk and
Dyer st.
Boston, Charles st. Mall, Boston
Commons.
Minneapolis, Mimi, Bridge So.
at 4:30 pm.
Cleveland, Public So.
Read the story on Page 5.
Cleveland, Public So. at Q pm.
Indianapolis, Ind.-Military
Park at 3 pm.
Anderson, Ind.--Court House at
pm.
Terre Haute, Ind.-Court House
at 3 pm.
Detroit, Mich.-In front of CITY
Hall at Z pm.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-18
WORKERS VACATION"
EXTENDED UNTIL SEPTEMBER Z

as the coal miners are doing. Wen
have to organize shop committees
and get connected with the Metal
Workers Industrial League.
Yesterday, at the Municipal Court,
the clerk called the workhouse and
asked for a place to put mother
with a months old baby. She had
been arrested on liquor charge and
fined 500 and costs and lodged in
the city Jail, but the prisoners raised
hell and they put this mother and
babe in the workhouse.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-18
JOLIET sHAKEUP A WHITEWAsH

CHICAGO Ill-Rumors of q
shake-up in the executive personnel
of Joliet Penitentiary are current in
Springfield. But we hear that only
subordinates and not Warden Hill,
who is responsible for innumerable
atrocities at the penitentiary, are to
be dismissed. The Director of Pub
lie Welfare, in a statement admits
that the population of the prison is
so large as to create a dangerous
situation, but little can be expected
in the way of real reform from the
gang now in control.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-18
STRENGTHENING ROLE
OF PITTSBURGH PRESS
GETS FAGAN'S PRAISE
All Pittsburgh Papers Carry On Vicious Cam
paign Against Striking Miners
Pat Pagan Lauds Yellow Journalism's Attack
On Workers In Letter to Press
Pittsburgh, Pa.

Daily Worker
The three capitalist newspapers "The Pittsburgh
Press" "Sun Telegraph" and Post Gazette carrying
vicious skebreakng campaign AGAINST the miners and
their fighting union, the National Miners Union They
trying force the miners back into the mines and cab
under the United Mine Workers scab scale.
"Press" Lies
The "Press," which masquerades a liberal has cast
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-18

worker club and will he sent TO
everyone DESTROYS of organizing
one of these clubs. Address letter
to Daily Worker Club Department,
80 T.. I3th ST., New York City.
start 4 Club To-day
In the meantime we suggest that
Pittsburgh, Cal do everything pos
sible to prepare for initial meet
ing. A leaflet should be mimeo-
graphed and widely spread all over
town announcing formation of club
and inviting all workers and SYM
The Bismarck tribune., 1931-12-31
Currency and Banking Disturb.
ances All Over World Have
Dragged Condition

New York, Dec. 31.-(P)-Values
tumbled like rows of dominoes, dis
ruptlng the worlds business and belly
ing prophecies of an early upturn in
the economic cycle in the year 1881.
Currency and banking disturbances
IN various parts Of the world have
dragged out the unsettlement to a
point which places it with the depres-
sions OF l876-79 and 1868 as one
of three of the most troublesome pe-
rlods OF the past half century.
The year 1891 closes and 1882 be-
gins with mighty efforts being exerted
both at home and abroad to unclog
the channels of credit and reopen the
streams Of trade.
Conservative economists assert that
the one thing certain about a cyclical
depression is that it eventually ends.
and many leaders find solid ground
Tor hope IN the fact that the situation
Is being faced more frankly.
December Of 1880 was widely dcs-
ignated for few months as the bot
tom Of the slump. At the end of last
year Standard Statistics company's
index OF industrial production in the
United States had fallen about 80 per
cent below normal. as calculated on
the average rate of growth over a
long period Of years.
The index in 1891 fluctuated, then
fell in the autumn to a level about 40
per cent below the indicated normal.
Steel production, building ccnstruc-
ton and the movement of revenue
freight in the United States in 1891
Shrunk to levels not experienced since
the slump of a decade ago. Stock and
bond prices lost billions of quoted
value.
The Bismarck tribune., 1931-12-31

worldwide because the contest is one
of the greatest threats to world peace
since the great war, and one of the
greatest tests Of the power of the
League of Nations to settle interna-
tional disputes.
Two young men in hurry, Wiley
Post and Harold Gatty. demonstrated
what we always have been saying but
hadn't quite been able to prove-that
the world is q small place after all.
In circling the globe in under nine
days. Post and Gatty carved another
niche in the aviation hall of fame.
1881 Not without Deaths
Death always has its place in the
scheme of things and 1891 was no ex-
ception. The year saw the passing Of
one of the great men of all times-a
man who made the world more COM
Portable and desirable place to live
Thomas Alva Edison.
The tragic death of Knute .Rockne
in an airplane crash overshadowed
The Bismarck tribune., 1931-12-31

age, which in 1890 had increased O.5
per cent over 1929, showed no mate
rial reduction in 1881.
Declined rs Per Cent
During the same time the value of
agricultural exports has declined Is
per cent and the domestic demand
fallen to an extent rarely before
equaled in 50 short a time.
While the nature of agriculture is
such that limits the promptness with
which farmers can readjust produc-
ton, the secretary feels that hereto
fore they have not been convinced of
the urgent necessity.
1.-The situation has changed SO much
SINCE" he says. that it seems impos-
sible to doubt that they are convinced
now. If they are, voluntary action
should do what Is required. If they
are not, legislative action will meet
with resistance"
Since surplus difficulties now large
ly are export difficulties and the COM
modities most depressed those which
sell heavily in foreign markets, Mr..
Hyde says it Is fundamental to do
mestic recovery to understand the
progress Europe is making toward
feeding herself.
Dependent on Europe
Because Of tremendous agricultural
expansion to feed embattled nations,
The Bismarck tribune., 1931-12-31

that of Edison's because Of the ele-
ment Of surprise.
The historian of 1881 also can add
another paragraph to the lengthening
chapter on the twilight Of the kings
as he records the abdication of Al
fonso Of Spain.
And Murders, Too
Murder we have with us always. The
body Of a young woman was found on
the sands of a Long Island beach and
in a few days there had developed one
of the great mysteries of the year
still unsolved. it might be remarked.
The Starr Faithful case gave news
papers screaming headlines for weeks
and then ended just where 1t had
started.
The picture now shifts to Europe
where a Swedish scientist, Auguste
Picard. has gone up into the blue to
find out about the stratcsphere. An
other bizarre story of great human in
terest.
The historian may overlook the he
roism of Bryan Untiedt. the Colorado
boy storm hero. But Bryan's action
and his trip to Washington to re-
ceive the congratulations of his pres
ident gave tug at the hearts of many
readers.
No record of the big stories of 1881
would be complete without mention of
the terrific assault against gangland
eliminating in the conviction of the
big shot" of all gangsters-Al Ca
pOne.
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ul!y

3-Max Schmeling. heavyweight
champion, knocks out Young
Stribling.
Eight dead. 1868 seriously injured
in celebrating 155th anniversary
of nations independence.
4-Prohibition agents announce Al
Capone's liquor system covers one
quarter of the country.
6-Rudy Vallee and Fay Webb &'e
married.
7-Dr. Edward Goodrich Achcson,
scientist, dies.
0--Soviets offer to buy 25O,00O bales
of cotton turned down by federal
farm board.
l3-Prolibition report for fiscal years
ending June 80 shows more than
100000 arrested for violations. a
new nigh.
l3-President Hindenburg orders Ger
man banks closed because Of H.
nancial crisis.
2O-Albert B. Fall enters New Mexico
state prison at Santa Fe.
2O-Seven Power Conference to seek
relief for Germany opens in Lon
don.
24-Graf Zeppelin starts on scientific
flight to Arctic, carrying party OF
Americans.
25-Thirty die in fire Of Home for
Aged at Pittsburgh.
26--Princess 1leana of Rumanla Is
The Bismarck tribune., 1931-12-31

ply a huge portion of the raw mate
rials which compose its commerce.
We are asking that means now
available be put to work to stabilize
price levels and establish once more
the honesty of our unit of value, the
dollar.
Attack on Taxation
We are asking a national attack On
the common problem of excessive and
unjust taxation. There are other dc
tails in our program. which. when &C
complished. will be of benefit. not to
agriculture alone. but equally to all
other phases of our national economic
life.
This is not the time for bitter op-
position. inspired by the self-interest
of small groups. The crisis demands
a sympathetic national understanding
Of agriculture's aims. Business must
cooperate.
Farmers arc resolute lot The
very character of our arduous toll with
the forces of nature has bred a stub
born spirit of determination that
brooks no opposition once we are
aware of what we want.
And it is through the power of or
ganization that this knowledge is
spreading,
That is why 1882 is bound to be a
big year for agriculture.
The Bismarck tribune., 1931-12-31
biggest Ne,vs Stories of '37
Sh0lU World Gets Sn,o11or
Capitals Drawn Closer To.
gether; War, Deaths, and
Murders in Spotlight

New York, Dec. 3l-P-The worlc
has become a bit smaller, the histor.
ian will find as he thumbs the 3ss
pages OF 1875 story.
He will find that London and Paris
and Washington and Toxic and all
the great capitals of the world are
bit closer together as he notes the
quick reaction that news from one has
had on the others.
And likewise he will learn that Mos
cow and Siberia and Alaska and the
outlands OF the world have been
drawn into closer communion now
that it takes only few days to get
around this old earth.
The big stories Of 1891, the historian
will note, have had a distinctly inter-
national flavor. with worldwide re-
action, as he assesses the political. so.
cial and economic values of the out
standing events of the year.
Take the Hoover debt moratorium.
for instance. The effect was interna-
tional, as likewise was the effect of
other outstanding economic moves.
War Takes Spotlight
War always occupies a conspicuous
place on the historians calendar, and
SO the Sino-Japanese conflict in Man
churia will have its allotment.
Here, again, the effect has been
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November

3-"General' Jacob S. Coxey elected
mayor Of Massillon, o.
@Lloyd George resigns as head Of
Liberal party in England.
6-Senator T. H. Caraway Of Arkan-
SaS dies.
9-Prince Nicholas OF Rumania
elopes and marries a commoner,
Jana Lucia Deletj. precipitating a
squabble in Rumanian royal fam
lily.
l2-Presdient Hoover announces next
years naval budget is cut $4,000
900.
l6-Dino Grandi, foreign minister of
Italy, arrives in United States for
conferences with President Hoo
yer.
l8-Gene Tunney. retired world
heavyweight champion, becomes
father of son.
20-Mrs. Hattie Caraway appointed