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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-11
DISTRICT Il PLANNING new
TAG DAYS JULY 25-26; $4,000
HALFDOLLARS NEEDED IN D. W.

English working class. paper in the
United States, the Daily Worker
Advertise Your PIcnics.
A Two-Day Picnic to help the
Daily Worker Is also scheduled to
be held at Milan Farm, Akron, Ohio,
on July 18th and 18th. Tickets
costing 35 cents are good for both
days. There will be barn dance,
rain or shine, with Jack Green's
Novelty Entertainers. Also shade
trees and swimming in running
water. Amusements and refresh
ments for everybody. To go there
by auto go west on Springfield Road
turn left on 28th St, Kenmore, and
follow the arrows, or Barberton
street car to Kenmore Niaduct TO
9th ST. and follow the arrows. All
workers and their friends are in
vited.
Collect 5O-Cent Pieces by House
toulouse CanVassing.
New Haven Units are having
house-to-house collections on July 6,
Z, 8, and a banquet on July 10 at
the Labor Lyceum, SO Howe St, New
Haven. What about a Daily Worker
Club in New Haven, District l52
Comrade p. Brown, New York
City, has pledged so cents a week to
the Daily Worker Sustaining Fund!
This is challenge to other workers
in New York and elsewhere!
Redeem Tag Day Failures.
Tag Days in San Francisco, as
well as elsewhere, poorly Orgnn-
lied. District ID has, however, de-
cided to run another Tag Day July
2J-26. 1--WE had intended to have
our Tag Day on the 1Ith and 18th
of July" writes NJ. r., Acting ID.
o., ain which COmrade Levin would
help us mobilize, but the Unem-
plOyed Council is running a Tag
Day on the 18th and 18th and City
Unemployed Convention takes place
GA the 19th--therefore the emily
date left on hand is July rs and
26." Other districts should follow
suit and redeem bitter disappoint-
ment of last Tag Days! ~
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-11

the public SO whole heartedly In
sympathy with the strikers"
The paper is speaking of the strike
in the Valley Camp Coal Co. (owned
by Paisley interests, and with mines
also at Kinloch and Soudan, Pa
The West Virginia mines Of this
company are at Elm Grove, and the
strike has been going on for weeks.
The Daily News quotes Elm Grove
business men as follows:
THE truth of the matter is that
the people of this community are
helping to pay the price of digging
coal for the Paisley interests. That
is literally the truth. Before there
ever was strike here or any sugges-
ton of labor trouble, the Valley
Camp miners were not self-support-
ing. They have been utterly unable
to support themselves upon the
wages paid and the work provided.
AS a result they have not only been
unable to take part in the business
life of the community, but have &C.
tually been objects of charity
The paper tells how strike-break-
ers have been brought in, picked up
on the streets of big cities without
being told there was a strike, many
of the men so hired having never
seen a coal mine before. Dozens
thus swindled into coming to West
Virginia escape from their armed
guards at the first opportunity, and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-11
BEAT BACK
SCAB s IN
MILL STRIKE
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riot" Police Chief Collette, appealed
for aid to the state police barracks
at limerick, and Governor Case
quickly sent a detachment in an ef-
fort to smash the strike.
The APP story stated that "a crowd
of 1000 workers, synpathizers and on
lockers gathered tonight at a mass
meeting conducted in a vacant lot
near the mill, by the National Textile
Workers Union.
PROVIDENCE, r. l., July 10.-The
first day Of the walk-out of the Wey-
bosset Mill to the Providence Worsted
Mill (also American Wooden Coz, and
then continued along Valley Street
into Olneyville Square.
A big representative Strike Com
mittee has been elected and has al
ready gotten down to the work of
organizing the strike. At a special
wonens' meeting today, a large num-
Der of women strikers added to the
Strike Committee from the various
departments. Others will be added as
department meetings are held.
The workers in Lawrence, Maynard
and other American Wooden Com
pany centers, are bound to be affect
ed by the strike of the Weybosset.
Over 400 American Wooden Co. work
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-11
$50 100000 Wool Firm Bankrupt in Germany;
Conditions of Masses Grow Worse
"Tottering," Says Won Wiegand

debt suspension plan brought Wash
ington's action too late to save the
German Republic?"
He also tells of the bankruptcy Of
the leading wool concern, the North
German Wool and Textile Co., with
$50,000000 involved. This news Is
not published in any other metro
politan capitalist newspaper. This
large concern is connected with over
20 banks, all of which face collapse.
Besides, many of the other leading
banks in Germany are on the verge
of topping over.
The Reichsbank, according to Won
Wiegand, is in desperate straits. He
points out that the situation in Ger
many is much worse than it ever
was heretofore, with the Hoover &C.
ton having an opposite effect from
that which it was intended to have.
The startling inside story of the
Hoover action is sent in letter
from one of our readers, showing
how Wall Street viewed the possible
revolutionary action throughout Eu-
rope. This information, he says, is
sent out by a well-known financial
service.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-11

Hungary; 90 Declaration Of national
bankruptcy by Rounania; (43 FIJI
nancial and economic failure of Ger
many; 90 Fascist seizure of power
in Germany; Co Formation of Boil
shevik Government at Vienna; CD
Communist control of Hungarian
and Roumanian Governments; 90
German fascist regime 8 failure and
Communists in control; 90 Revolu-
tionary movement spreading to
France; Q0) Revolution in India:
I'D Establishment Of Communist
Government in China; Q2) Grave
civil disorders in the United King
dom. The map hesitated to go fur
ther. 1t was based on precisely the
information, which, later, when re-
viewed at the White House, led to
immediate action by the President
The possibilities envisioned show the
excitement that existed behind the
scenes and how thoroughly fright
ened responsible men in Europe
were. A more seasoned view in dip
lonatic circles was that, so soon as
the Hitlerites had seized power in
Berlin and disavowed all reparation
obligations. the French would have
moved at once to occupy German
territory and war would have fol-
lowed. Moreover, the French were
confident that they could have
handled the situation. :"
Conflicts Sharpen.
More conflicts are breaking through
the so-called debt postponement
agreement supposed to have been ar
rived at in Paris between the United
States and the French governments,
after conversations between Prime
Minister Laval and Secretary of the
Treasury Mellon. 1t develops now
that the basic questions are not at
all solved, with a special conference
being called by British imperialism
in London to talk over other mat
tiers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-11
WALL STREET
Is B AC K OF
His MURDER
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lean workers. 1t is the American
capitalists who cut the wages Of
millions of American workers, who
throw 100000 American workers
on the streets to starve, that unite
with Chang Kai Shek in an attempt
to wipe out the revolutionary work
ing-class forces in China.
The American workers must give
their answer! In every city in the
United States there must be inme-
date mass demonstrations in front
Of the Chinese consulates. Down
with the bloody executioners of the
Chinese workers and peasants!
Down with the American bosses who
starve and butcher American work
ers and strikers and order the exc
cution of Chinese revolutionists!
Support the revolutionary struggles
of the Chinese workers Do not let
these murders of your Chinese
brothers, by the wan Street and
Chinese exploiters, go unanswered
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-11
TENS OF THOUSANDS in TREMENDOUS
DEMONSTRATIONS JULY 9 FOR RE-
LEASE OF 9 SCOTTSBORO NEGRO BOYS
Raise Thunder of Protest Against Lynch Yer
dict and General Imperialist Oppression of the
Negro Masses Defy Police in Barberton

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our strength. We must defeat these
manouvres of the bosses and their
1ackeys in Office by building our pro-
test ever greater and crystallizing it
into organizational form"
Herbert Newton, for the League of
Struggle for Negro Rights, stressed
the intolerable conditions under
which workers are exploited in Bar
berton's industries. Jennie Cooper
Cleveland District Organizer of the
LID, reviewed the significance Of
the July 9th protests against the
Scottsboro outrage. The meeting
unanimously supported the mass
fight to save the 8 Negro boys, and
the struggle of the striking miners.
Mrs. Norris Speaks at Cleveland
Meet.
CLEVELAND, July 10.-Scottsboro-
Barberton protest meetings were held
throughout the district, special sue
cess being registered in Barberton,
and in Cleveland, where Mrs. Mamie
Norris, mother Of Eugene, one of the
Scottsboro victims, spoke. The speak
ers also included william w. Vein
stone, who came to Cleveland from
the Pittsburgh strike area.
5000 In Two Demonstrations In
Detroit
DETROIT, July, 10.-Six thousand
workers demonstrated before the City
Hall here for two hours. Sixty per-
cent Of the crowd were Negro work.
ers. The crowd shouted for the re-
lease of the nine boys, and carried
banners denouncing the cooperation
with the Southern boss lynchers of
the Northern capitalists and the
NAACP leaders.
Mrs. Mamie Norris, mother Of one
of the boys, was cheered for several
minutes. A resolution demanding the
unconditional release of the boys was
unanimously adopted.
Two thousand workers participated
at the same time in another demon
stration in North Detroit, with BAN
ners demanding freedom of the boys
death to the lynchers, and denounc-
ing the boss terror against the Negro
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-11
Crisis in Germany Groavs Worse; Failures
Increase; Wall St. Admits War Is Brewing

NEW YORK.-Saying that Gu
ropean war" was probably averted,"
a confidential letter, issued privately
by one of the leading Wall Street
financial services, gives some of the
inside happenings in the Hoover
Mellon war debt negotiations. While
this financial service takes it for
granted that the crisis has been allie
waited somewhat, latest news from
Germany published by the New York
American on Thursday morning
shows that the crisis in Germany is
worse than ever before; that the
war danger is greater. The an
nouncement of Hoover and his fl
nancial hackers is an attempt to
cover UP the conflicts and drive to
war of the imperialist powers.
Karl H. Won Wiegand. correspon-
dent for the Universal Service, in a
dispatch to the New York American,
starts out by saying: Germany is
tottering!" He goes on to show the
whole financial and economic struc-
ture. despite the Wall Street help,
is sinking into bankruptcy, with the
masses going deeper into misery.
Behind the calm, outward as
pect of the government and econ
omic picture today June 81"
writes Won Wiegand, bank and
industrial heads are discussing des-
perate measures to bolster up the
Reich's economic and financial
structure"
He explains why Herr Luther,
president of the Reichsbank, is
rushing to London, pleading for a
loan of $25O,0O0,0oO The $100ooo,o00
loan from the Federal Reserve Bank
had little effect on the collapsing
German financial structure. At the
last moment, under threats of all
kinds, the Reichsbank central Ger
man bank was able to get $118,-
100000 from the leading German
capitalists. This helped not at all.
Thinks It's Too Late.
Won Wiegand says that leading
capitalist politicians in Germany ask
the question: HAS Frances 17-day
delay since President Hoover an
nounced his moratorium and war
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-11

Districts! Make immediate plans
10 order thousands of eXtracopies
of the important August LIST Red Day
edition of the Daily Worker! This
issue viii be one Of the most vital
dailies published and must be widely
distributed throughout the country!
Make preparations now for mass
distribution! Copies can be ordered
now at the rate of IS per thousand!
DON'T delay until the last minute!
Rush your orders today! August list
is a red letter date in the workers
caelndar! Celebrate it by spreading
the Daily Worker in every workers
neighbOrhood in the country!
Remember the greater Daily
Worker celebrations to be held all
over the country on July 10th, the
last day of the campaign! Hun
dreds of these affairs must be held
on this date to insure the success
of the campaign! Thousands of
dollars must be collected ON this
date! Appeals must be made for
weekly and monthly pledges to the
Daily Worker Sustaining Fund!
Daily Worker Clubs should be or
ganized at the scene of the cele-
bratiOn! Districts! Sections! Units!
FraternaI organizations! Make the
July 10th celebrations remembered
all over the country! Let's have the
biggest turnout of workers during
this day than ever befOrei Spread
leaflets announcing the affairs!
Send special invitations to all sub
scribers of the Daily! Advertise
the date in every possible paper!
Send notices to the Workers CAL
endar! End the campaign with "a
bang!
An International Picnic for the
benefit of the Daily Worker is being
held on July u at Stanley Woods,
on Spring Brook Road, South Ken
osha, Wisconsin. The Kenosha Daily
Worker Picnic Committee feels it is
the duty of every worker and sym
pathizer of the working class to
come to this affair because the en-
tire proceeds will go 10 the only
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-11

In the United States, the stock
spectators answered the Optimistic"
agreement by plunging stocks sharply
downward, United States Steel which
had previously gone to over 104,
dropping again below 100
Again Hoover stressed the question
of ornaments, insisting, in diplo-
matte language, that the United
States be given the leadership in
arms supremacy, by European rivals
of the United States, such as France
and England, cutting down their
military budgets.
Reports from Germany state that
the Bruening government, now that
the Hoover war debt arrangement is
supposed to be in effect, insists on
further economies" This means
greater wage-cuts for the German
workers, more unemployment, cut
ting down Of unemployment relief
payments, and many other added
burdens Of the working class.
The New York Journal of Com
merce, in a special editorial, headed
after the Hoover Plan, What?"
points out that the economic world
crisis is just as deep as ever and
that the Hoover plan has had no
effect; that the capitalists must con-
tinue their drive on the standard of
living of the working class.
The conflict between British and
American capitalism will now come
out more sharply in the London con-
ference Of experts" that is supposed
to work out the agreement of Paris.
There is no doubt that this confer
ence will develop the sharpest strug-
giles. Meanwhile, the conditions in
Germany get worse. The currency
is being inflated huge funds are
being withdrawn from the Reichs-
bank Central bank of Germany
undermining the financial situation.
The $4,000 900 crash of the Bank
of Catalonia in Spain will have its
effect on the world crisis, and in it.
self shows that Hoover's plan has
had practically no effect as a brake
on the worsening world economic
crisis.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-11
District Must Show More Life;
Rush Half Dollars to Put Drive Over!

CChicago). $3.50 from 9 CMinneap-
olis), nothing from I3 (California)
these are the returns from the dis
tricts with the largest quotas.
And S1.5O from District / (Bos-
toni and 80 from 10 (Kanses city,
is also mot so hot"
The camnai@n for $4,000 half dol
lars by July 10 must galvanize the
districts into action. New York
can't do II alone. This is a popular
aioegu win a broad appeal and can
BE- used for collections in shops in
o-'~a;,t-g lions. at affairs. etc. Throw
ell energies into the final week Of
the drive and wind up with a big
Dolly Worker Celebration on July
10!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-11

struck a snag yesterday when four
teen operators, representing most Of
the biggest producers in the nation,
informed Secretary of Commerce
Lamont and Secretary of Labor
Doak that they would not confer
with the miners.
Many of the operators held that
little could be accomplished by a
national coal conference at this
time, Lamont and Doak said in a
joint statement last night.
1.-THE attitude of the operators was
so discouraging that when the con-
ference adjourned after a four-hour
session Lamont announced that the
operators would not be recalled to
Washington. Individual operators,
speaking for themselves, said they
had no intention of comforting with
the miners"
The strategy of the operators seems
to be to crush the strike directly
first, and. if possible. root out any
form of unionism among the ro'n-
ers. They discovered that their fake
concessions" through the U.MW.A.
was not fooling the miners.
WHEELING, West Va. July g.
The Wheeling Daily News, leading
local paper, states in the main story
In its issue of July 7:
"Perhans no labor strike in the
history Of this section has found
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-11

Workers who do not want their
names published because OF pos
sibIe persecution should indicate
this in sending in their cOntrfbu-
tions. Collectors should ask those
who contribute whether they want
their names printed.
OF the s5597S received wednesday,
all but about 500 was contributed
by District 2 New York;. This
doesn't look much as if the other
districts are really trying to reach
their quotas by July 10. Only 81
from District (Philadelphia), $3.50
from District CCleveland), S105C
from (DetroiD, S2455 from
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-11
Probabilities Chart"

PROBABILITIES CHART: In
view of previous statements that the
Hoover proposal probably averted a
European war, it ought to be said
that there was drawn up by Ameri-
can officials in Europe, prior to
Hoover Intervention, probabilities
chart sort of hypothetical map
diagram, which undertook to show
graphically what the outlook for the
immediate future then was. 1t all
seems very fantastic but, as it has
been filed in the official archives an
epitomization of it may be proper
here. The probable course of events
was given as follows: ID Collapse
of Austria; (2) Complete smash in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-11
become charges on the community

become charges on the community
PITTSBURGH, Pa, July "a
COMMITTEE Of IS striking miners,
headed by Frank Borich, secretary
Of the National Miners Union,
walked into the national convention
now going on here Of the Serbian
National Federation. They came to
ask this Jugo-Slav nationalist or
ganization for relief for the striking
miners, a large percentage of whom
are also South Slavs.
They found the convention at
tended by half a dozen royal Jugo-
Slav counsels, dominated by priests,
and pursuing a mad fascist and
anti-labor program. The conven-
ton simply refused to even give these
Jugo-Slav miners the floor.
AKRON, Ohio, July 10. Several
meetings and conferences for miners
relief have been held here. George
Wagner, one of the striking miners
from Ohio spoke about conditions.
July IS and 10Th will be tag days
for striking miners relief. The fol-
lowing relief stations have been
opened to collect relief Workers
Center, 8 w. Barges ST., central
station; 4o5 Pioneer St., Goodyear
Heights: Gil East Avenue, West
Side, 112 West Dalton, North side;
Ukrainian Hall, Corce st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-11
TO Work Out Common Program
In the Fight Against Starvation

Twenty men we're taken from 1.-THE
Helping Hand" a flop house and
charity, part of the general city well
f>"e sT'stenl in Pittsburgh, and sent
through Star Employment Agency on
Third Ave. to scab in the Versailles
mine near here, of the Hubert Min
ing Co. icy we're told there was
''lots of work." and were not told
the miners were on strike. They
were promised 38 cents a ton or
$3.75 for day work
When these men reached the mine,
they found themselves almost pris-
oners. The company has big
searchlight at the entrance to the
bunk house, trained on the road, and
armed deputies stand guard. The
imported men were told that no one
knew what they would be paid; they
we're told this by the bosses in the
mine. Then they found that they got
no pay for rock, that the two wag-
ons they could load of coal brought
them about go cents day, that they
| had to pay $3.50 for their hunks,
that the price of the tools they
worked with was checked off their
wages, etc.
The pickets, men, women and chill
dtren appealed to them and argued
with them.
On July s, in the morning, seven
quit; at night five more quit, and
this morning three more. -Four depu-
ties also quit.
This morning four state police
escorted two scabs into the mine
During the night three shots were
fired. A fat man, without creden-
tials but suspected of U. M. w. con-
nections brought unlimited liquor,
and got the owner of the garage
where the Pennsylvania Ohio strik-
ing miners relief station is located,
drunk, so that he ordered the relief
to vacate.
MCDONALD, Pa, July 9.-The
United Mine Workers of America has
opened a speakeasy in the Belgian
Hall here and gives out large
amount of free booze, and money,
too, it is suspected, to any who will
promise to scab. The U. M. w.
seems to have largely abandoned its
attempt to bride strikers with food,
and is trying more than ever with
moonshine.
VESTABURG, Pa, July 9.-James
Mades, the deputy who shot the
strike organizer, Topolsky, twice for
trying to talk to man on the Vesta
Coal Co. patch, has quite reputa-
ton. He is an ex-convict, having
served ten months in Edensburg, Pa,
on white slavery charge. He has
criminal record from Alabama,
also
Some disagreements have devel-
oped among operators at the Hoover
coal conference in Washington, ac-
cording to Scripps- Howard News
paper Alliance telegram from Wash
ington. The story reads:
Government officials today are
discouraged over the prospect of
successfully intervening in soft coal
strikes in Pennsylvania, Ohio, West
Virginia and other states.
"Their efforts to bring a settle
ment between miners and operators