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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-01
Arrests Continue in Alabama
in Attack On Negro Masses
Boss Lynchers Trying to Stiffle the Protests
Against Scottsboro Outrage and Crush
Struggle Against Starvation

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Aug. 30. -
The Alabama boss lynchers who
framed up the nine innocent Scots
boro boys and massacred Negro crop
pers at Camp Hill are continuing
their attempts to frame up some in
nocent Negro worker nj connection
with the murder of two society wo-
men in this city on August 4. The
two women, in company with an
other, were shot while resisting a
hold-up man, laleged to have been
a Negro.
Several new arrests were made to-
day, in addition to the scores of Ne
gro workers already arrested. Carl
Montgomery, a colored worker, is be-
ing held for coroner" charges after
being arrested at Eastoboga, near
Admission. The reason given for his
arrest is that he arrived at Easta-
boga shortly after the hold-up and
has since "been in secluSion."
Another worker is being held ION
suspicion" in Pineville, w. vi. In
Chicago, two Negro workers, held for
extradition to Alabama con suspi-
cion" we're released after the Inter-
national Labor Defense brought
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-01
By HARRISON GEORGE

Otto H Kahn by the grace of his millions
philanthropist scattering benefactions on the
arts-and artists--has undertaken to sprinkle
holy water on capitalism. He starts OF by say
ing
1.-THE economic collapse which started in the
autumn of 1929 is not traceable to the system
of capitalism"
A rare and engaging absolution, were 1t not
for the fact that where capitalism has been
overthrown by the workers--in the Soviet Union
there is no economic collapse" but on the
contrary unparalleled economic advance; while
simultaneously wherever on the wide earth cap
italism still holds the reins of power there is
unparalleled economic decay, collapse and dis
Indignation.
But perhaps Mr.. Kahn has not heard about
the Soviet Union, so we will take him on his
own ground and examine his arguments. 1t is
not capitalism which caused the crisis, he states,
but rather the effort to sneak "socialistic" vices
into what otherwise would be a pure and crisis
les5 capitalism AS proof" he cites England,
wlac5e problems, he says, are "due to the capital
destroying taxation. to provide means for the
dole and other measures of socialistic COM
plexion"...
But unfortunately for Mr.. Kahn, who speaks
with the authority of the great Wall Street firm
of Kuhn, Loeb g. Co., it can scarcely be denied
that America also has some problems in the
line of an economic crisis, in spite of the fact
that it has no - -"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-01

anti trust" legislation must be modified" Well
did that cause the crisis? If So how does Kahn
account for the crisis in Germany and England
where they have no such legislation More
over, Mr. Kahn, the Clayton Act is not a $50
cialistic measure" and was enacted by strictly
kosher capitalist government. But pardon our
laughter at your innocence in assuring us that
-"Of course, we will not have monopoly in this
country"
The third way to overcome the crisis is the
ancient hokum of the A. F. of L.-"modify the
volstead Act" Well, they have beer in Ger
many and wine In Australia and a healthy
crisis in BOTH
But Mr. Kahn reserves his sweetest suggest
ion for the last 1t is that the railroads poor
things. be accorded "more adequate compensa-
ton" And he gives the following heart-rend-
ing reasons
Thousands of millions Of dollars of railroad
securities are held for investment throughout
the length and breadth Of the land, large
proportion thereof by saving banks, insurance
companies and other institutions. representing
the investments Of millions of men and women
of small means"
How touching So touching that one scarcely
misses the old catch-word about the widows
and orphans" who own railroad stocks! SO
touching as to make one overlook entirely that
the Wall Street firm of Kuhn, Loeb e. Co.. in
which Mr.. Kahn has invested his small means"
is the greatest holder of railroad securities in
all the worldl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-01

Mr. Kahn anticipated our protest, and was
silent on that phase rather choosing to men
ton France-"in which capitalism socially and
economically, has been least hampered France
is the most prosperous today" Yet Mr.. Kahn
had he picked up the August 30 issue of the
NJ Y Times in which his statement was pub
lshed would have read on another page, the
following:
storm in France Seen as Brewing as
headline of a story wherein prominent French
economist writes:-"It needs great deal Of in
sistence to get Frenchmen to admit that we are
a privileged nation among all others. Last year
when the State was promising plan for ma
tional equipment and large subventions for their
declining industry they still believed it. Now
they seem no longer to believe the resources OF
the State are sufficient support in any measure
for an r-weakening economic situation"
We leave MIR. Kahn to chew over declining
industry" and an ever weakening economic Sit
uaton" as the best example he has to offer of
a capitalism pure and undefiled by "socialistic
measures and turn to what he thinks is wrong
and to be remedied in American capitalism.
Here Mr.. Kahn qualities as humorist rather
than as an economist. His first suggestion is
that, although we have no "socialstic" "dole"
although we do have a crisis the crisis is to be
cured by refusing dole" and in keeping
"stiff upper lip" Workers should not mind their
babies dying before their eyes of hunger. All
that is needed is "a stiff upper lip
Secondly. Mr.. Kahn says the Clayton Act
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-01
Hoover Cuts Pay 10 Cents
Per Hour ON His Cal. Farms

100000 was expended for the sea-
sons crop. Majority of the workers
receive SOC for 100 pounds for picking
seed cotton. Average pickers will do
well if they pick 200-250 pounds of
seed a day. You can figure the
grand pay we will receive. Last
year majority places paid 75c per
hundred pounds. A cut of SO 1-3 per
cent over last year. (This is real
Hooverian Standard.
The cotton owners not only pay
low labor costs, but according to es-
Inmates of agricultural statistics have
unusually low ginning costs. We will
starve on the jobs while they profit.
Hoover talks of no wage reducing
policy, while we are piling up more
profits for him at his farms at re-
duced wages and terrible speed-up
Can such a president who has such
enormous incomes be considerate of
labor, when he depends upon labor
for more profits?
There is no sanitation installments
for workers and the drinking water
is hot and filthy.
Hoover's Cotton Plantation Slave.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-01
Wasco, Calf.

WdSCO, 'CallI,
Daily Worker:
New cotton crop has ripened in
California. Already bales of cotton
started to move and the Hoover
Farms boosted of the first ship
ment. The first. cotton sold was sold
at a premium of cents over the
prevailing market price.
We who are working on Hoover
Farms have to rush almost beyond
human endurance in the hot fields
to pick and prepare cotton for gin
ming. At least one third more of
extra work is added upon us this
year. New and inexperienced hands
hired receive Is cents an hour, cut
of 10 cents per hour over last year.
The old help get soc per hour That
is for day work. Another story on
piece work.
Lowest Level Known
1t is claimed that more than
100000 will be paid out in labor
payrolls for harvesting the 1881 cot
ton crop in California This shows
that the wage scale is the lowest ever
for harvest rate. Last year about
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-01
Bumper Peach Crop
in Illinois ROts AS
F a r m er S Starve

WEST FRANKFORT, Ill, Aug.
81. - Thousands of bushels OF
peaches will be left to rot in
southern Illinois, because the low
price does not make it worthwhile
to pick them. There Is a bumper
.crop-but the farmers are glad to
get forty and fifty cents bushel.
If you will pick them yourself, you
can have them for twenty five
cents.
Peach pickers get 75c to $1.25 a
day-for a long, hard days work.
Seventy five cents is the more us
ual price.
At the same time, Belleville
peaches which pay the farmer SOC
a bushel in the field, or 75c deliv-
cred in st. Louis, are sold there
by the merchants for two dollars
and two and a half a bushel! 1t
does not pay to ship the fruit to
the cities. One farmer shipped a
carload and had BIC left over ex-
penses. This is why carloads will
rot in the fields. Meanwhile thou
sands of miners in Saline, Will
amson, Franklin counties, will
face starvation this winter - but
they cannot touch the fruit at csc
a bushel. Many have not worked
fifty days in two years.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-01
RISE IN JOBLESS
SUICIDES PROVES
HUNGER SPREADS
Unemployed Jailed For
Fishing In Cleveland

What appears to be a wave of sui
cides among jobless workers, as well
as an increased number of ailings of
unemployed, indicating the growing
misery Of the out-of-work. is spread
inc throughout the country. The Dali
ly Worker has already printed dozens
of cases in Detroit and elsewhere. In
the course of one day the following
instances were sent in by workers.
In Chicago on August 30 jobless
woman killed her four year-old son
with chloroform, rather than see him
die of starvation, and then jumped
out of the window in an effort TO
kill herself and end her hunger
pangs.
From the Minneapolis Journal Of
August Is, worker clips the fol-
lowing item: Mrs. Felia Fay and Mrs
Josephine Howard were found dead
in gas-f1lled room. The newspaper
comments: The copboards il the
kitchen were empty of food. They
were apparently destitute. Mrs. How
ard was the widow of the late Cap
tain Fred Howard of the fire depart
ment."
To save themselves from starya-
ton unemployed workers in Cleve-
land have been catching fish. but now
sries Of raids and arrests are made
on them by the police.
Four unemployed were arrested in
one batch and given heavy fines,
which meant Jail terms. One worker.
Kassey, who had been without job
for ten months was given stiff fine
and when he told the judge he was
hungry and could find no other way
to get food was told TO get the money
in eight days or go to Jail.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-01
Boss Gunner Kill J
More in Harlan, KY;
Relief Need Greater
Workers Int'l Relief
Delegates See Need
For Mine Relief
Solidarity Day Sept. Z
All Districts to Take
Part in Relief Drive

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Aug. 80. - A
session lasting all forenoon of the del.
egates to the Workers International
Relief national conference here, end
ed this afternoon (Aug. 800 with
trips to the mining towns by all del
egations from cities outside the mine
strike area.
The forenoon session was not at
tended by the delegates from the
mine area, who had all gone back the
night before to prepare the Sunday
mass meetings, the picket lines for
Monday morning, and conduct other
strike work.
District by district, the delegates
detailed plans of organizing the w. I.
R. on permanent, dues paying basis
and for mobilizing every possible re-
source to bring food and clothing
and shoe and tents to the miners
striking against starvation.
Full plans were made for activizing
union locals and workers fraternal
organizations for thu Solidarity Day,
Sept. 7 a day Of huge mass meet
ings and mobilization for relief and
organization of relief collecting ma
chinery, as well as for rallying masses
in support Of the strike Then in
each district there will be Relief
and Solidarity Week, of collections
leading to a big tag day at the end.
Preliminary distribution of leaflets
and propaganda meetings will be
conducted. Bulletins will be issued
by districts, assigning quotas for or
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mass pressure to bear In their case
Another worker brought here from
Lincoln, Ala, was released yesterday
when the police found he could prove
his whereabouts on August 4.
Although the hold-up occurred
several weeks ago, the sheriff has
made a request for two bloodhounds
to be used in hunting down "suspi-
cious" Negro workers. The county
commission is Considering" the re-
quest. The commission has already
authorized the employment by the
sheriff of seven additional deputies
permanently. U.s..
Negro and white workers! Protest
the boss terror and murder and
frame-up Of Negro workers in Ala
bama! Demand the release Of the
nine Scottsboro boysl Smash the
frame-up charge against the Camp
Hill croppers Support the mass
struggle, initiated by the Interna-
tional Labor Defense and the League
of Struggle for Negro Rights, to free
the victims of Alabama capitalism!
Organize block defense committees,
collect relief, rush funds to the Inter
national Labor Defense, 80 E. 18th
St.. New York City. Support the
struggle for Negro rights! Support
the demand for self differentiation
for the NEGRO majorities of the Black
Belt with confiscation of the land of
the rich landowners for the white
and Negro workers who till the landl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-01
Help Us Nail the Lies!
Send Us Reports On Suicides and Starvation Of Jobess

HOOVER recently cooked Statistics that the
III the millions jobes
nothing ALL in fact excellent their health!
this falsehood the refusal
Winter Relief to the ob the $3.50
jobess
relief" will
this winter
capitalist spreading this lie and assuring
Y
that will be allowed
winter worand August 9th
determined that this
be allowed to sarve because he cannot find work.
of the Daily Worke Help reute this
the capitalist localities
despairng
the utter starvation
partial reports published usually obscure
local capitalist
Daily them cty
the
written
clipping which make list of the crimes of
capitalism against the workers!
jobess commits suicide murdered
capitalist starvation
to of the working class!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-01
5000 MORE N. ].
WORKERS FIRED
MONTH OF JULY

NEWARK, N. j., Aug. 31.-The New
Jersey Department Of Labor for July
shows that lay-offs, unemployment
and wage cuts continue in the state.
A report of 1888 factories and es-
adjustments show that employment
decreased 2.3 per cent between May
Is and June Is, and total wages de-
creased "a per cent.
About 5000 workers lost their jobs
in these 1888 factories. The greater
decrease in wages than employment
show that either wage cuts are in
force or the higher paid workers are
laid off, or a combination of the two.
Employment in dyeing and finish
ing textiles decreased II per cent and
total wages 21.7 per cent.
Wage Drops
Thirty-one electrical machinery
apparatus and supply establishments
employ 1000 workers less or per
cent and total wages decreased 7,8
per cent.
Employment decreased IL per cent
in the foundry and machine shop
products factories, the most impor-
tant industry in the metropolitan
area of Newark and Jersey City.
A decided reduction in wages &C.
Cured in the smelling and refining
concerns. The average weekly wage
was reduced per cent.
Six hundred less workers are en-
ployed in the petroleum refining, the
leading industry of the state.
The Election Campaign Committee
of the Communist Party is exposing
these conditions and urging the
workers to vote Communist by vet
ing for John J. BALKAN for governor.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-01
BOSS PRESS
PRAISES N. Y.
MODEL PLAN
Plan Is Attack On
Insurance For the
Unemployed
Will Study Jobless
Socialists Favor tn e
Stagger Plan

Governor Roosevelt's plan for I'M
employment relief has been hailed by
the capitalist press as a model of
deception to the working masses.
The capitalist press halls this plan
for what it is-an attempt to curb
the struggle of the workers for I'M
employment insurance by dema-
gogic plan for the construction of
public works and of charity through
forced labor. The Journal of Com
merce, the organ of the bankers,
points this out as the first important
feature of the Roosevelt plan. It
states that the appropriation of the
100000 $3.50 for each of the
100000 jobless if they got it instead
of the grafters, is of an emergency
character only.
"This assistance is specifically de-
clared to be supplementary and the
State administrative agency vii
function only until such time as the
Governor shall declare that the en-
Urgency necessitating its creation nc
longer exists"
The capitalist press praises thu
Roosevelt plan first and .foremos
because it is direct step in tht
attempt to refuse all unemployment
insurance. While the millions O
jobless have been starving for over
two years Roosevelt only found out
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-01
;, I'll olice Raid
Workers Homes in
Weapon Search
Gable BY Inprecorr.)

BERLIN, Aug. 31.-Saturday the
police conducted unprecedented raids
in the working class sections of Ber-
lin, such as Buelow Square, Weld
ing, etc. The streets were cordoned
by 1000 police and many detectives.
From 5 O'Clock in the morning until
late in the afternoon all workers
housese we're searched for weapons.
Only isolated revolvers, war souvenirs,
etc, were found. The premises of
the Workers International Relief and
the International Labor Defense
we're searched and pamphlets were
confiscated.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-01
Knitg00d Strike Is
Still Going Strong

The response of the knitgoods
workers on the picket line Of the
Vanity Knitting Mills, 40 w. 21st St,
was good The union calls upon the
knitgoods workers to come every
morning and during the day to help
these strikers.
A membership meeting OF all knit
goods workers is called for Thursday,
September 3rd, 7:30 p. m. at the Of
fee of the Union, 1911 West 18th
Street, to take up immediate trade
problems and also mobilize the mem
bership for organization activities
and for the support of the Vanity
strikers that are now out on the 9Th
week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-01
SOLIDARITY
MEET TOPUSH
Mine RELIEF
Free Imperial Valley
Fighters, Harlan
Miners"
Held at Starlight Park
WIR and LID Take
Part Together

A mass demonstration for the i'm
mediate release of Tom Mooney,
wellknown labor prisoner, who has
already served Is years in st Quentin
penitentiary, and all other class war
prisoners will be held on Labor Day,
September 7, at Starlight Park, 177th
st. and West Farms Rd., at 8 o'clock.
The demonstration for Mooney is
being held in connection with the
Solidarity Festival arranged by the
Workers International Relief for the
relief of the striking miners of Penn
Sylvania, O., and West Virginia. BY
arrangement with the WIR, speakers
representing the International Labor
CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-01
POLICE IN LONG
BRANCH USE TEAR
GAS ON MEETING
Try to Stop Red Drive
in Elections


LONG BRANCH, N. j., Aug. 81
The police of this city broke up a
Communist Party election campaign
rally Saturday by using tear gas
bombs to dispense the crowd of SOC
workers gathered around the plat
form listening to the speakers.
This melting was held on private
lot at the corner of Ocean and Coop
er Avenues, 8 P. M.
Several weeks ago meeting held
at the corner of Morris and Chelsea
Avenues was broken up and three
workers were arrested, The chief of
police and the city commissioner said
that there is a city ordinance against
any street meetings of any political
party in Long Branch, and therefore
the Communist Party can't hold a
street corner meeting. If the Commu-
mist Party hires a private lot or a
hall they can hold there meetings
without any interference from the
police.
To call the bluff of the city Off
Gals the Election Campaign Commit
tee of the Communist Party hired a
private lot at Cooper and Ocean
Avenues (where the international
Labor Defense held a meeting Thurs
day. to hold its meeting Saturday
j. Murphy was chairman of the
meeting, J. Halpern, Geo r. Carroll
and James Sepesy, campaign man.
ager were the speakers at the meet
ing. The whole police force was pre-
sent at the meeting to overawe and
terrorize the crowd of 500 workers
present Also two fire department
trucks were present at the meeting
The meeting proceeded in an or
derby manner until j. Sepesy was
introduced to speak. Then the fire
trucks started to sound its siren and
blow its horn continuously, to drown
out the speakers voice. This angered
the crowd and caused the workers tc
crowd closer to the platform into &
solid ring. The fire trucks came also
closer on the field, nearer to the
speakers stand to disrupt the meet
ing, but unsuccessfully. The army Of
police present, with the chief of pol
ice, McGarvey armed to the teeth
seeing that the fire trucks could moi
break up the meeting, lost patience
and shot two tear gas bombs amons
the crowd. The cops then began push.
ing and poking everyone to move on
and to break up the meeting. Tht
workers were incensed and one work.
er came to the Communist head
quarters and asked for six copies o.
the Daily Worker to give to hi.
friends.
The break up of this melting on s
private lot proves that the city Of
ficials of Long Branch are trying t
keep the Communist Party out O
Long Branch, and off the streets O
the city.
The Communist Party Election
Campaign Committee is going aheaS
arranging another meeting, setter.
mined to campaign for John j. Bal.
lam, candidate for governor of New
Jersey and to battle for the rights K
the streets for the workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-01
STARVED MAN EATS MEAL

CANTON. Ill--A hungry man en-
tered the home of Clyde West, To-
cal business and ate all the food that
was prepared on the dining room
table. A purse of money in the same
room was untouched. This shows that
it was some starving unemployed
worker who was not used to stealing
anything, although the paper calls
him q thief.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-01
LABOR FAKER is REWARDED

CHICAGO, Ill-With great pride
the Federation News, official organ
of the Chicago Federation of Labor,
announces that former president
of electrotypers union, Mr.. Ewald
Zimmerman. has become the man
ager of the local Office of Fintex
clothes. A good enough career per-
haps for such labor leader as Mr.,
Zimmerman
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-01

Write to the workers in the
Soviet Union. They will answer
your questions concerning the Five
Year Plan. Send all letters to
International Letter Exchange,
Daily Worker, SO E. 18th st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-01
3 More Also Wounded
AS Sheriffs Go
On Rampage
Miners Trials Are Set
Coal Bosses Jury Still
Grinds Out Frame-Ups
BULLETIN

The following wires were sent to-
day to Governor Samson at Frank
fort and Sheriff John Henry Blair,
Harlan, Kentucky, by the Southern
District of the International Labor
Defense:
1--WE protest the murder of Jo-
seph Moore and Julius Baldwin by
Deputy Sheriff Joe Fleener. We
demand cessation of cold blooded
murders and the reign of terror
in Harlan County by coal operat-
ors, thugs and deputy sheriffs. We
demand the right of miners to or
ganize their union and relief for
their starving wives and children.
The Harlan authorities have i'm
prisoned hundreds of miners for
organizing and defending ther1-
selves, but let the thugs and depu-
ty sheriffs who kill workers go free.
We hold you responsible for the
lives and safety of the miners of
Harlan County"
Two more miners in the Harlal
coal area we're shot dead by deput.
sheriffs in the pay of coal operators
and three others were wounded
when deputies of Sheriff H. Blair
who has frequently threatened whole
sale shootings of miners went on /;
rampage with intent to murder
miners.
The reports of these deliberate
killings by company gunner in thu
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REMEMBE3 +!

Solidarity Day for Miners
Relief, September 7th, at
Starlight Park!
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CONTINUED ON FACE THREE,