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HURRY TO BEDSIDE

SEATTLE, Feb, ', (P-Carl Lomen, of the Lomen Reindeer Corporation, and his wife, Laura Volstead Lomen, left last night for the bedside of Andrew Vol- stead, author of the volstead Act, at St. Paul, weher he was operated on last Tuesday for ap- pendicitis He is doing as we'll as can be expected.
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ANOTHER SUICIDE

NEW YORK, Feb. '. (Pl Harry Dever, vice president of Petroleum Heat and Power Co., committed suicide by hanging himself in a hotel room
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NEW VESSEL s. w. ALASKA
 ryncryTNcTON Feh T lpl-

WASHINGION, FtU., [, tHJ- President Hoover signed the de- ficiency bill which included pro- vision for construction of a $4OO, 900 vessel for Southwestern Alas ka, Bureau of Indian Affairs, carrying supplies and passengers in connection with the depart ment.
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UMBRELLA ATRPLANE
WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 t4

WASHINGTON, F'eb., 7, (Rl- "A small flying boat which, with wings folded, can be fitted into a special tube on a submarine, has been invented by Grover Loening and tests indicate it will meet Navy requirements.
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A LIVING DENIAL

LONDON, Feb, \, tP- Reports that Premier Ramsay VI MacDon- aid has suffered a breakdown in health were denied at No 10 Downing Street, where the Pre- mier was at his desk as usual
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HOCKEY SCORES

SEATTLE, Feb. ', (R)-The Seattle squad defeated Vancouver GA which places all the hockey teams tied for first place. Seat tie scored four in the third quarter.
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POPE TO TALK SOON

NEW YORK, Feb. T (H1 - About 155 American broadcast stations will carry the speech of the Pope. which is planned for February 12.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-25
GOVT JAILS 3MINE
OR GAMERS TO
HELP COAL BOSSES
All Face Threat of
Deportation

CHICAGO, Ill, Aug. 24.-Federal
authorities have gone into action to
help the South Illinois coal operators
against the National Miners Union
Joe fash, Lednicky Of the National
Miners Union, and zip Kushinsky,
youth organizer, were arrested today
at Carlinville on fGieral framed-r)
charges and taken e Benton, Frank
lin County Jail, where all face Gepor-
tatlon, though Ie5nicky and Kush-
insky are natIvc-born
The LID demands that they be
transferred from the Benton I'LL to
st. Louis, as ctiier NMU members
have been tortured in this prison.
This has been refused. Cash bail is
demanded fLr each.
This is an attempt on the part of
the operators, Doak and Lewis, to
drive the NNU underground and
thereby to be in better position to
betray the miners. The MUM calls
on all workers TO send wires of pro-
test to the Franklin County, Illinois,
jail, and to Doak, secretary of labor,
protesting against these arrests and
demanding these workers be released
or transferred to st. Louis.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-25
5000 IN AMNESTY
DEMONSTRATION
in THE BRONX
Hit Boss Terror and
Legal Lynchings

NEW YORK.-Over three thou
sand Negro and white workers par
ticipated in the demonstration held
in commemoration of Sacco and
Vanzetti in the Bronx Saturday, Aug.
22nd. About 1000 workers heard the
speakers at l80th st. and Prospect
Ave, from where march took place
to Washington and Claremont Park
way Six hundred participated in
the march and over 1000 workers
were present at the mass meeting at
this point.
Many workers joined the Interna-
tional Labor Defense and contributed
for the defense of the political
prisoners.
The police first wanted to prohibit
the march, but when they saw that
the workers were determined to 90
ahead with the demonstration az
planned, they changed their minds.
The parade was led by the band Of
the Workers Defense League 81 ~,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-25
U. s. Steel Wage Cut
May Come This Week

NEW YORK.-That action to cut
wages for all steel workers would be
taken Tuesday, or very soon there
after by the United States Steel Cor
poration, which would then be fol-
lowed by cuts in all other basic in
dUssriea, was the main topic of the
stock market Monday.
The New York Evening Post, q
Hoover paper, confirming the fact
that wage cuts are pending in the
steel industry and on the railroads
declared in its financial section as
follows:
Persistent reports that the Unit
ed States Steel Corporation would
announce general reduction in
wages, as an emergency measure,
after the scheduled meeting of the
finance committee tomorrow, we're
believed to have some foundation,
and il was assumed that such ac-
ton would stimulate the movement
for lower pay scales in other
branches of the industry. Discus
sion of the wage question revived
suggestions that the railroads
would begin negotiations for read
justments along this line as soon as
decision had been reached on ther
application for Is per cent ad-
vance in freight rates.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-25
URUGUAY JOBLESS
FIGHT FOR RELIEF

A crowd of more than 500 unem-
ployed workers stormed the Prov.n-
cial State House at Fray Bentos, in
Uruguay, according to cable reports
to the New York Times, when the
President of the provincial council
refused to live up to his promises for
relief.
Police fought the unemployed for
two hours. The jobless we're not
successful in forcing their way in the
State House.
TIE cause Of the demonstration, as
explained by the Times is as follows:
"The President of the Council had
promised the unemployed that If the
Legislature approved the project for
establishing vehicle tax a certain
part of the funds collected from this
tax would be devoted to public works,
on which the unemployed would re-
ceive work. The Legislature ap-
proved the project but the Provincial
Council appropriated the funds for
other uses"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-25
SOVIET WORKERS IN MIGHTY
PROTEST ON SCOTTSBORO OUTRAGE
Demand Release Of Negro BOys-Langston
Hughes and Claude Mackay Join Mass
Fight to Smash Legal Lynching

and book stores. In one of the Mos
COW theatres, where Eugene O'Neil's
play, "All Gods Chillun Got Wings
is played, the performance was
stopped to permit speaker to ad-
dress the audience on the Scottsboro
case. A ringing resolution of protest
was passed by the audience.
In addition to the Scottsboro case
the murder by the Chicago police OF
three Negro unemployed workers
thoroughly aroused the Soviet work.
ers against the lynchers.
"The Russian workers, after CEN
turtles of oppression by the bloody
Tsars, have learned to hate and
fight their oppressors. They ex-
I pect white workers in the United
States to follow their example and
join hands with the oppressed Ne
gro masses, as well as the other
races and nationalities In the
United States colonies. In the
struggle for the overthrow Of all
oppressors and lynchers. Russian
workers have learned by centuries
of experience that the only success
full way of fighting the enemy is
by united action Of all workers and
poor farmers Of all races and ma
tionalities."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-25
The Kings Desire---Also
the Bankers

LONDON reports Kings that the
the Baldwin Macdonald the
director
the Fifth made his mind this point and the banker
later in constant contact with Macdonald no doubt assisting him. also
to enter coalition with Tories and Liberals
Ramsay
Socialist
the monarchy
before mpeial social fascist
supposed control labor"
Actually there coalition government all the time of the labor
capitalist parties parcu
ar Lloyd Georges Liberal Party And from this fact the socaed
talist than other capitalist government
protection government the capitalists could
they thousands
premier imperialism
easily its the Indian people with soft
capitalists coudand already have
cut unemployment thrown tens of thousands entirely
benefit thousands to death by starvation
Naturally these socialists" held in
British British bankers And they
still attacks the British
They are to save" Britain from the financial crisis
Incidentally commentary
which along with American banks have posed the powerful saors
themselves collapse only remains for the
inevitable sickness to lay hold Of the powerful American nan
put finishing pense
that his
continue, British finances
psed apparently by carrying through the OF the
which the socaled opposition" MacDonds
delayed its that their
indignation is only shadow boxing
While question but wave hostility rising
opposition" parliamentary
the Union merely social fascist of
misead the opposition"
within the labor constitute obstacle that might block the
from going to the revolutionary leadership Of the Commu
mist of Great Britain
proposed Economy
the which this rated split has taken place between Mac
these takers ft pensns2 The economies call
mostly
abandoning maternity
child welfare health cutting the
file civil servants soldiers and sailors
taken from the gigantic of $575oOOO
of interest debts that to bankers Nor the s548ooo going to
air forces against the Soviet Union
protecting attacking the
fascist British Union
opposition" MacDonald Their main
proposal Nations together separately
should this prepoerous not impossible remedy"
certainly of workers making
mores the "be" thing the cleft extremists"
think up
America all these proposals of capitalists
and socialist will not only fail to solve the crisis but
the conditions the working class And the
late themselves from the illusions
of both right" and left and follow
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-25
PARADE IN BRONX
SAT. IN DEFENSE
OF FOREIGN BORN
Workers to Dem on :
strate Against
Deportations

NEW YORK.-The international
Workers Order. the International La
Dor Defense, the League of Struggle
for Negro Rights, the Prospect
Workers Club. the Middle Bronx
Workers Club, the Spartacus League,
the Women's Councils, the Young
Pioneers of America, the Working
mems Benevolent Society and a
number of other workers organiza-
tions will demonstrate under their
own banner and with their own
bands under the leadership of the
Communist Party on Saturday, Aug.
18th, for the protection of militant
foreign born workers against the
persecution and deportation of these
workers.
The gathering point is 156th st.
and Prospect Ave. and the time is 6
p. m. This will be the first torch
parade this year that will draw the
attention of tens of thousands of
workers on the line of march from
156th st. to wilkins and Intervale
AYES.
Fifty thousand printed leaflets are
being spread all over the Bronx to
mobilize the workers for this huge
demonstration.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-25
BEDACHT SPEAKS
AT FSU MEETING
Prepare To Send Is
Delegates to USSR

The New York Local of the Friends
of the Soviet Unoin will open the
campaign to send worker delegates
to the Soviet Union with mass
meeting at Irving Plaza, 18th Street
and Irving Place, on Friday, August
%, at $3.50 pm.
In all twenty-five American work
ers are being sent as delegates to the
Fourteenth Anniversary of the Rus
sian Revolution. These workers will
investigate the conditions of the Sow
let Union at first hand and will re-
port their observations to the Amer
lean workers on their return.
The speakers at the meeting will
be A. A. Heller, who has recently
returned from the Soviet Union, au-
thor of Industrial Revival of Soviet
Russia" and of another book soon
to appear describing his ten years
activity in the Soviet Union, and
Max Bedacht, author of "Anti- Soviet
Lies and the Five Year Plan" and
editor of the monthly Communist. :"
There will also be a program of con-
cert features supplied by the Work
ers Cultural Federation.
Invite all your friends and fellow
workers to come to this meeting.
Help destroy the lies of the en-
emies of the U.S.S.R.!
Spread the truth about the U. S.
s. r.!
Defend the Soviet Unionl
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Ford Plans NeW Slashes In
Wages OF Auto Workers
Adds Forced Labor to Hellish Speed-Up In
Attack On Miserable Living Conditions

Henry Ford is starting a vicious
wage-cutting and forced labor cam
paign in his factory at Iron Noun
tain, Michigan, under the pretext of
having every married worker in his
factory raise a garden. Ford warns
the workers that they will have to
raise their own vegetables for next
winter if they hope to. keep from
starving.
Next year every man with a
family who is employed at the
plant will be required TO have
garden of sufficient size to supply
his family with at least part of its
winter vegetables" Ford said yes
terday.
In other words, workers in his plant
can expect to have their wages cut
so low that they will have to depend
on these vegetables to keep them
selves and their families from star
wing
Ford is using this hunger plan as
an attack to prevent the workers
whom he has hired from demanding
immediate relief and unemployment
insurance. He says that those work.
ers who will be affected by his plan
will be benefited far greater than
they would be by unemployment in
surance." He does not say that the
hunger plan is for those who are
working at hunger wages in his fac
tory and that for those whom he has
fired he offers nothing but starva-
ton.
Those who do not comply with
the rule will be discharged" is open
evidence of the most vicious form of
forced labor yet put into practice on
wholesale scale. Ford, who has
become symbol for the most hid
eous and grinding speed-up in the
capitalist world, is now forcing his
workers to spend the energy they
have left after he has driven them
for day to the utmost on his speed
belts, in planting gardens to- keep
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-25

For the daily plate of soup, the
children gather at the door of the
relief kitchen long before the time
for feeding. Notice the eagerness
with which this boy goes after his
soup. The next shift" is awaiting
its turn. It's wonderful thing, that
plate of soup and the slice of bread
that goes with it after a morning of
picketing and activity around the
camp.
The children know why they can't
have more now. They're on the
fighting line of the struggle day
after day, working to win this strike.
And on the picket line they face the
armed deputies. their tear gas and
terrorization, just like their fathers
and mothers. Even the hunger
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-25

join the Metal Workers Industrial
League they point out that,
The U. S. Steel Co. has plenty Of
money which we made for them. Be-
sides the millions of dollars which
each of the stockholders have gotten
in dividends, the company has a sur
plus of $3.50 100000 on hand. In cash
alone they have $4,000, 900; this is
enough to pay us full wages for a
year!"
Steel workers, throw back this at
tack on the living standards of your
families by united defense. Organ
lie committees of action in every
shop. Rally your fellow workers to
beat back this hunger campaign on
the part of the bosses. Join the
Metal Workers Industrial League,
1900 Adams ST., Gary, Ind.
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from starvation. This is the forced
labor of American capitalism which
is trying to use the lying slogan of
forced labor" to start an attack on
the Soviet Union.
With this plan Ford will cut the
market of the truck farmers in the
middle west sharply. Hundreds of
more farmers will be forced into
bankruptcy as the result of his plan
For years this speed-up driver has
been preaching the necessity for a
large market among the farmers.
And now he openly convicts himself
as brazen liar. For months the
capitalist relief agencies and city Of
ficials have been subjecting the I'M
employed workers to forced labor.
Ford carries this form of exploita-
ton still further by driving those
working in his factory into forced
labor.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-25

Through this means, the British capi-
talists hope to carry out their plan
of cutting down unemployment in
surance, putting over drastic wage
cut, instituting a tariff which will
raise the cost of living in England,
and thereby the hope to end the
sharpening financial crisis.
For some time Macdonald, under
instructions of the leading London
bankers, has been holding cabinet
meetings in an effort to get the en-
tire Labor Party membership in par
lament and in the cabinet to agree
to the bankers demands. While they
we're ready to do this, some pointed
out it would be impossible to rally
the workers behind this open be-
trayal.
Hence, the Macdonald government
resigned only to merge with the ex-
press purpose of lowering the stand
ard of living of the British workers
in a drastic effort to save British
capitalism.
Enemies of U.S.S.R.
The heads of the new government
are Stanley Baldwin, conservative
leader, and the most vicious enemy
of the Soviet Union in England, as
well as an open advocate of wage
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-25
MACDONALD GOVT RESIGNS
FORMS COALITION TO CUT.
JOBLESS RELIEF AND WAGES
National NOn-Party Government" to Slash Down the
Workers Living Standard
Deep Crisis Developing As Masses Threaten to Resist
Capitalist Offensive

In an atmosphere admittedly more tense
than during the last World War, the Mac
Donald labor government resigned Monday
with the avowed intention of helping British
capitalism carry out it's smashing attack
against the British workers and to foresa the onset of the
worst financial crisis faced in Britain
What is called national non-party" government,
posed the Conservative Liberal and Labor Party leaders
has been formed under the direction of the British bankers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-25

NEW YORK.-Langston Hughes
and Claude Mckay, two of the most
outstanding Negro novelists and
poets, have joined the National
Committee for the Defense of Polit-
ical Prisoners, which is cooperating
with the International Labor Defense
in the fight to free the nine innocent
Scottsboro Negro boys. Eight of the
boys were railroaded to the electric
chair on a frame-up charge Of rape.
The I. L. D. is fighting the convic-
tons In the case of the ninth boy,
Roy Wright, there was a mistrial at
the original trial. The Alabama
bosses are planning to put him on
trial again within short time.
The National office of the LID.
has issued the following report on
the agitation and protest meetings
which are sweeping the Soviet Union
in condemnation of the Alabama
court lyIlCu VcIO
LAS. soon as details Of the Scots
Dor frame-up were received in Mos
COW the thousands of MOPR (Inter-
national Red Aid groups in the
shops, factories and mills began to
arrange protest meetings. One meet
ing of about 10000 people was held
at the Park of Culture and Rest.
Meetings we're held in every big
shop and factory. Resolutions of
protest we're unanimously adopted
and cabled to Alabama and the 1.
L. u. Many NEE. $ we're ESQ held
in l. villages, Red Army units and
in schools. Groups of scientists,
writer's, etc., issued appeals in con-
nection with this case. Some street
demonstrators we're held in Mos
COW.
A pamphlet, THE Alabama Hang
men," is on sale at all news stands
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mill have had their wages cut from
10 per cent to Is per cent. At open
hearth furnace $500 workers have
had their wages cut from 10 to IA
per cent. Slaggers' wages were cut
10 per cent, first helpers IA per cent,
second helpers 12 per cent.
These wage cuts are only the be-
ginning of the campaign in the en-
tire industry, and the financial writ
ers of the bankers openly state that
the drive in the steel industry is the
front trench of the fight to slash
wages in all basic Industries during
the coming months.
The Metal Workers Industrial
League is rallying the workers of
Gary and of the steel industry as a
whole to fight against this wage cut
ting campaign of the bosses. In a
leaflet calling on the steel workers to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-25

gnaws, and they have no shoes and
hardly enough clothes for covering
The kids say: "Stick it out, dad
We got to win!"
Help their fight! Help fill that
bowl with food! tuberculosis is
spreading in the northern fields
Flux is ravaging the Kntucky fields
starvation brings them. Send all
the money you can to the Penn
Ohio-W. Kentucky Striking
Miners Relief Committee, Room $50
1893 Broadway, New York, N. Y, so
that food for these gallant young
fighters and their parents can be
sent into camps where they are
fighting for local demands. Make at
least one meal day possible!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-25
Amnesty Drive Is Speeded by
Big SaccO -Vanzetti Meetings
Chicago, San Francisco, Demonstrate For the
Release of Class War Prisoners

SAN FRANCISCO, Calf, Aug. "a.
One thousand workers at Embarca-
dero--in the state of California
where more than Is class war pris-
oners are held behind the bars-de-
manded the immediate release of all
Jailed workers and the repeal of the
infamous criminal syndicalist law on
the anniversary of the INJURED of
Sacco and Vanetti.
Defying the police, whose officials
repeatedly threatened to prevent the
demonstration. the workers raised
sharply the demand for the freedom
Of Tom Mooney, the Imperial Valley
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-25
Paterson Strikers to Send
Delegation to Allentown
Workers Take Up House To House Collection
In Campaign For Relief

PATERSON, N. j., Aug. 24.-The
police have been forced to release
Sam Weisman, James Gardner and
David Gordon, who we're arrested
arrested Saturday prior to the dem
onstration and who we're then let out
on bail of 500 each. The charges on
which they had been held of dis
tributing leaflets we're plain frame
up.
The strike leaders who we're ar
rested are still being held under the
excessive bail Of $500. Fred Bieden-
kapp, the first speaker at ten Sacco-
Vanzetti demonstration at the City
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sections. IN
The road to Wellsburg was block
AIDED by troopers and every bus
searched for literature, leaflets. etc.
as it came along.
The prosecutor openly announced
in the newspapers that: 1.-THE march
is prohibited because it is a National
Miners Union march. If the organ
ization sponsoring it were the United
Mine Workers of America there
would be no interference"
A permit had been issued il Wells
burg several days before the march.
However, following on the Wheel
ing conference of mayors and opera
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-25
BROOK COUNTY HUNGER
MARCH SMASHED BY
100 STATE TROOPERS
Official Permit Fails To Prevent Attack On March Led
By National Miners Union W.
Prosecutor Admits Planned Assault; Roads Are Blocked
Buses Searched =

WELLSBURG, W. Va, Aug. %. - The
Brooke County hunger march on Wellsburg,
for which thousands Of miners and other work.
ers had modified, was smashed by nearly a
hundred state troopers, who occupied the town
Wesburg before the march arrived then charged down the
road to where it assembling hillside the road
Foensbee and violently dispersed each little group a
rived at the concentration point The power of the workers
had chance to mateaz they scattered by
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-25
MORE IN PRISONS

AS result of the deep crisis In
Illinois, states report of the wal
fare department Of the state, the
number confined to prisons and re-
formatories has greatly increased =
almost 1870 in 1s30-31. The number
of inmates in July 1, 1880, was 1880
In July 1, 1881, 1t was 11,460. In
the other state institutions there is
a corresponding increase
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-25

Hall Plaza, is being held for s2,5oC
bail, while the four other workers
Sophie Melvin, Solomon Gross, Jacob
Shafter and AL Samuels are being
held under $1,000 bail each. The
court will accept only cash as bail
and late yesterday these workers
we're still in Jail. The International
Labor Defense is endeavoring to
raise the required bail. The charge
against all of them is melting to riot
and Biedenkapp is being held on the
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