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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-06
May Day Meetings In South
In Spite Of White Terror

ATLANTA, Ga, May Sin spite
OF the terroristic tactics of police
and mill owners, two successful
meetings we're held here. One was
on April 80, by the League of
Struggle for Negro Rights, and the
other on May Day, called by the
Communist Party. e..
The distributions Of leaflets made
by the workers at night forced the
city authorities to place a reserve
squad of motorcycle police to patrol
the city in an attempt to stop the
leaflet distributions for May Day.
Several workers of the Atlanta
Wooden Mill were inundated by the
owners of the mill and grilled as to
whether they were going to attend
the meetings and where they were
to be held.
Despite this, however, the meetings
were held and called together by
word of mouth. The workers were
exceptionally enthusiastic and at
each meeting they roared approval
to sending kilograms to the Governor
of Alabama, demanding the -imme-
date release of the mine Negro boys.
Much literature was sold and sew
eral workers Joined the l.. S. N. r.
and the Party. Doran spoke at both
meetings.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-06
1900 In Albany.

ALBANY, I. N X May. 5.-Fifteen
hundred demonstrated In the open
air meeting here May l. Speakers
were: Johnson, chairman; Taylor for
the Trade Union Unity League, Bal
ter for teh revolutionary press, KEEL
Ter for the United Front May Day
Committee, Peu for the Unemployed
Council and Brand for the Commu-
mist Party Of U. S. A.
Two hundred demonstrated in
Troy at the city hall.
There was an evening meeting at
the Sons OF, Italy Hall in Schenec-
tady.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-06
YOUTH PREPARE
FOR MAY Both

mot one cent for nlilitarism, all
funds for the unemployed" is the
rallying call of young workers for
National Youth Day, to be held on
the bosses Decoration Day, May 80
The Auto Workers Union of De-
troit issued a statement calling upon
all young auto workers to support
National Youth Day. The statement
reads, in part:
Millions of dollars are spent every
year to prepare the youth for war,
but not one cent is given the job
less youth for relief. Many young
workers are forced to join the army.
beg, or even steal in order to live.
1.-THE auto workers union calls
upon all young auto workers, ali
boys and girls, whether working or
iobless, to support the preparations
for National Youth Day. This day
Decoration Day-May 3oth) will be
an answer of the young workers to
the present campaign of wage-cuts
and speed-up. 1t must be an answer
to the growing unemployment, and
must demand, all war funds for the
unemployed
Unemployment affects the young
auto workers. The bosses discrimin-
ate against these young jobless, Re
fuse them relief, Instead they use
the youth for war preparations.
Forward to the youth day of strug-
educational Youth Day"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-06
TRIES TO STOP
EVICTION; BEATEN
Mexican Worker
Aiding Negro

CHESTER, Pa, May 5.--Frank
Rodgeds, militant AMexican work
er, was blackjacked and sbrutally
beaten up by three constables, when
he attempted to stop the eviction of
McMmray, a Negro worker. He was
then placed under arrest together
with four Negro workers who also
came to the aid Of the evicted work
er.
The eviction was originally sched-
uled for Wednesday. The Unem-
ployed Council Immediately organ
lied the lleighborhood and had $50
workers on the scene fully prepared
to stop the eviction, When the con-
stable noticed the size and nilitancy
of the workers present they inrme-
diately departed.
These "stalwart" defenders of pri-
vate property then resorted to a ruse
in order to carry out their dirty
work, They returned the next day,
when there were no workers around
and Immediately proceeded to throw
McMurray's furniture into the street.
A members of the Unemployed Coun-
Gil, passing by noticed what was TAX
ing place. He hurriedly departed to
mobilize other members of the coun-
Gil to stop the eviction. The first
one reached was Rodgers.
When Rodgers arrived at the scene
of the eviction one Of the constables
remarked: Don't come near here or
you'll get yours" Rodgers answered
by picking up one of the pieces of
furniture and attempting to carry
it back to the house He was i'm
mediately set upon by the constable,
However, Rodgers succeeded in de-
Tending himself ably and threw this
landlords lackey to the ground. He
began to shout for assistance and
Rodgers soon found himself fighting
against three men. " e''
Rodgers was severely injured.
A wide campaign is planned around
the issues involved in this case. The
arrested workers we're released on
bail pending future trial.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-06

She said, Il don't see why you can't
buy milk on that--a family of three
should live on SOC a day." Fifty
cents is the relief allowance from So
cial Welfare.) I wanted to ask her if
she did, but then she asked me if my
husband had had any work at all,
and I said that he worked a day and
half the week before. She imme-
diately shut up the book and said,
20, well-your husband is working!"
She wanted to know why we didn't
pay the rent from that! Then she
said, 'They can't put you out any
way, as it costs too much to get the
papers to evict YOU"
But this We know to be the bunk,
because the bosses all during the
crisis have been throwing families of
unemployed workers into the streets
for failure to pay rent.
We must organize into tenant
leagues and stop these evictions and
force the bosses to give us real re-
lief in the form Of unemployment
insurance.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-06

the united states cementlng is never
carried out under temperature of
80 degrees Celsius. On April IL the
first iodine factory was opened up
on the island of Kildino, in the Arc
tic Ocean. .,5
In Leningrad the Engineering In
stitute had drafted a project for the
building of the first Dagger machines
in the Soviet Union, with 80 tons
capacity. The Votkino engineering
works will produce these baggers. In
May a start will be made with the
building of an electric power sta
ton with a capacity of Sos 900 kilo-
watt in the Tchelymbiansk district.
Siberia is developing into a mod
ern industriaHzed country. The ex-
ecutive committee of one district hai
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-06
Many Strikes Over
NewCuts;;W Workers
Desperate, Revolt
STRIKE AGAINST
rs PERCENT CUT
u S, State, Rushing to
Berak Motor Strike

WILLIAMSPORT, Pa, May S. -
Last Thursday $50 men walked out
of the Lycoming Motor Co. plant here
against a new IS per cent wage cut
which makes total of rs per cent
cut during the year.
The men also are fighting the H.
hour day. They used to get 1889
for 100 pieces, then they got $5.16
When the company cut the wages
last week to $685., the men quit.
The federal government immedi-
ately rushed department of labor
"conciliators" to help break the strike
and the state of Pennsylvania did
likewise.
The Lycoming Motor Co. has been
making big money during the depres-
sion. 1t is part of the Cord Autonlo-
bile Co., which also owns the Auburn
Company, and makes engines and
parts of cars for the International
Truck and Gardner companies.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-06
SCOTTSBORO
CONFERENCES
in EIGHT CITIES
To Defend Nine Negro
Boys
CONTINUED FROM PAGE oNE)

with as few as three or four persons
to begin with. They will carry on
house toulouse campaign to spread
the movement to save the boys. The
members of the committees will be
drawn into the work of visiting their
neighbors, explaining the frame-up
nature of the case and rallying sup
port for the Scottsboro victims. The
committees will also help in circulat-
ing the Liberator as part of the. CAM
paign to rouse and mobilize the mas
ses against the plans Of the southern
bosses to legally massacre the nine
boys.
LID. Collecting Funds for Defense
In New York City this coming Sat-
urday and Sunday, the l. L. D. will
carry on a house to house collection
for Scottsboro and Paterson Defense.
In Cleveland, the Junior Section of
the I. L. D. will hold a tag day on
May 16 and II. At special meeting
of these young comrades. a motion
was unanimously adopted denouncing
the Scottsboro legal lynchings and
calling for special childrens tag
day on those days. The children will
meet in their headquarters at 14102
Kinsman Road at a. m. Saturday
and Sunday to get supplies and dir
ectives for the tag days. They are
issuing a leaf1et appealing to the
workers to donate to the defense of,
the nine boys.
Mass Meeting in Cleveland May s.
A mass meeting has been called
by the Cleveland l. L. D. for May 8,
at Spiro Hall, 1904 Scoville Avenue.
Open air meetings are being held
daily in all parts of the city. Chur-
ches and organizations are being Wis
tied, Support for the United Front
Scottsboro Defense has already been
obtained from a number of these.
The workers of Canton, o., have ar
ranged for a Scottsboro Defense week
to start May 8 to Is.
Erie Posses Trying to StifIe Protest
In E RE, Pa, the authorities have
come out openly in cooperation
with the southern boss lynchers and
have denied the workers their right
to protest this outrage. The work
ers of Erie, however, are going ahead
with their plans for big mass DEM
onstration on Perry Square on May
g and will resist all efforts of the
northern bosses and their police
agents to stifle their protest against
the murderous Scottsboro fran1e-up
and planned massacre of nine work
ing class children, The demonstra-
ton will begin at p. m.
Atlanta Workers Join Protest
In Atlanta, Georgia, teur orgsniza-
tons yesterday sent kilograms to
Governor B. M. Miller of Alabama,
at Montgomery, Ala, protesting the
Scottsboro outrage and demanding a
new trial for the nine boys with
'lry of workers. at least half Negroes.
Two kilograms were also sent by mass
meetings under the leadership of the
Communist Party; one by the Atlanta
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-06
Seattle Workers in
Jail Send Greetings
On the First of May

SEATTLE, Wash, May 5.-Four
workers held in Jail here have sent
May Day greetings to the working
class. They are M. Sagagansky, John
Mckinley, Ralph Burrows and Man
ue1 Flores. They say:
Prom behind the prison bars,
thrown in because we dared to raise
our voices against the dau1nable sys-
tenn which Expresses the working
class, we send our proletarian greet
ings to the working class Of America
and Of the world ON the day of Inter
national solidarity--First Of May.
I'VE pledge ourselves to carry on
the fight for the emancipation OF
the working class from the yoke of
capitalism, Prison bars or any other
persecution cannot stop us from
carrying on the fight for the World
Socialist Soviet Republic"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-06
Gene funny Admits
Soviets Go Strong.

Interviewed by a United Press
correspondent in Moscow on his
impressions Of the Soviet Union,
Gene TUmney, former heavyweight
prize-fight champion, said:
II am a sportsman and not an
economist, but the Soviet Union is
a going concern, right or wrong"
Tunney said he marvelled at the
tremendous advance of construc-
tion in the Soviet Union. He was
on his way TO Leningrad from
Moscow. Tunney said he didn't
understand how so much could be
done in such short time With the
elimination of personal initiative"
(Tunney meant capitalism.)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-06
1000 IN Tacoma.

TACOMA, Wash, May ga thou
sand attended the outdoor meeting
held here on May l. The speakers
were Mcleod for the International
Labor Defense, Mcneil for the Com
munist Party. Bourne for the Young
Communist League, Fiomer for the
Working Glass Women and Huddart
for the Unemployed Council
The workers were attentive but
not as enthusiastic as in previous
meetings. The comrades here be-
lieve that it is because oppression
is so bad, everybody is in a mood to
do something instead of listening.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-06
Boss Fires Painter Who Refuses to Slave
Overtime
New York City.

New York City.
Daily Worker:
In the five boroughs of New York
there are approximately $4,000 pain
tiers and about 10000 of these are
unemployed. I am very glad if can
find any small job in this line.
The union grafters demand $500
for membership card. I would like
to know how can worker get to-
gether SO large sum.
Well, looked for q job and was
forced to take a small job for few
dollars day. worked in a hall,
doing very dangerous work, where I
worked on planks near the skylight.
was forced to turn my ladder up
ide down on the hall steps in order
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-06

CHATTANOOGA, May 5.--Contin-
ling the policy OF the top leadership
Of the NAACP of attempting to ham
string the defense approved and en-
dorsed by the nine Scottsboro Negro
victims and their parents, Walter
White, secretary Of the NAACP yes
terday tried to trick Mrs. Mamie
Williams, mother of 14-year-old Eu-
gene, into signing statement turn
ing complete control of the case over
to the NAACP and the Chattanooga
Ministers Alliance, whose attorney is
Stephen r. Roddy, denounced by the
nine boys as traitor to their cause.
Negro Workers Enraged by Trickery
White had induced Mrs. Williams
to attend a meeting of a committee
Of the Ministers Alliance. There she
was asked to sign a statement, not
one word of which was read to her.
Suspecting trickery. Mrs. Williams
signed the statement but kept it in
her possession until she could consult
with the other parents of the Chat
tanooga boys.
When her husband came home
from the May Day demonstration
and read the statement he was furi-
GUS and started out to hunt up
James, the Negro police agent and
several Of the preachers involved.
The entire Negro workers district
where the family lives is enraged at
the latest attempt to help Roddy and
the boss courts railroad the boys TO
the electric chair.
Use Booze to Forward BETRAYAL
The same trick wa stried on Claude
Patterson, father of Haywood, who
was called to the phone several
blocks away and told that the minis
tiers committee wanted to speak with
him. He was told they would send a
car for him. Patterson returned to
his home and went to sleep. After
wards he said, ''as soon as hey told
me it was the Ministers Alliance /
knew it was some kind of trap"
Disappointed at not trapping Mr..
Patterson, the police spy James got
hold of York Maddox, brother-in-
law of Andy and Roy Wright, got
him drunk and took him to the min
listers committee and presented him
to Walter White as Mr.. Patterson.
James overstepped his mark, how
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-06

to be able to place my ladder near
the wall. One must be able to ball
ance himself well. While on this
job was forced to hurry up and
the boss got me so excited that I
almost lost my balance. Well, when
I told this boss that would leave
at 5 O'Clock he told me to quit, with
the following words: You're Just
like a union man, you want to get
off on the hour; well, get off and
stay off,"
Not only are we subject to wage
cuts, speed-up and lay-offs. but also
the paint and its chemicals get the
worker sooner or later. Painters dis
ease gets us all in the end, but we'll
fight before that. A Painter.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-06

decided to build 30 flax and 9 hemp
factories. Up to the present there
are only five flax and one hemp fac
tory in operation. All these new fac
tories will be in operation by Oct. I,
1881.
A million roubles has been voted
for the exploration of the waterway
from the Urals to the Kuznetzk Ba-
sin. Work is at present being con-
Quoted in the bed of the River Toni,
where 16 locks and l6 power stations,
each having capacity of $4,000 kilo-
watts, are to be built. The Tatar
Republic has decided to build two
power stations, one on the Kama
River at Tchistopol and the other
on the Volga at Kosrnodemyan.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-06

IRONWOOD, Mich, May S.
Over 600 workers demonstrated at
Farmers Market Square here against
the steel trust speed-up and wage
cuts and unemployment. They de-
handed unemployment relief.
The workers response to the call
for the meeting was so strong that
the police gave up whatever idea they
had for attacks.
The speakers were G. Rahkonen,
o. Salo, Irma Martin. They repre-
sented the Communist Party and the
Young Communist League.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-06
Southern Pacific Railroad Cuts Wages

in these shops have been gradually
reduced and the stagger system went
into effect for the last half of the
past year Some were working only
several days per week since.
The company union of the railway
workers is doing nothing to fight this.
Workers must do SO themselves over
the heads of the rotten labor" lead
ership. IS. p. Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-06
Meet In Birmingham.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, May 5.--Col-
ored and white workers united in a
demonstration here which had been
declared illegal by the police, The
meeting enthusiastically endorsed the
Communist Part} and the. Trade
Union Unity League program. A
telegram was sent to the governor
denouncing the frame-up of the nine
Negro boys at Scottsboro.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-06
DESPITE Police Orders,

ST. LOUIS, Mo, May 5,--Five
hundred workers took part in the
May Day demonstration here. In
Granite City, Ill, a good meeting
with 100 workers was held.
The East st. Louis meeting was
held despite police prohibition on
halls. Five workers joined the Party
here and fifteen joined at other
meetings.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-06
First In Years At CollinsvilIe.

COLLINSVILLE, Ill, May SAN
enthusiastic May Day meeting held
here at Miners Temple was the first
in years.
The workers applauded the speak
ers' attack on the A. F.. of l.. takers
who are selling out the dress strike
of 500 women workers. The strikers
fight Wage-cuts and call all to help
them mass picket against the in
junction.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-06
SOCIALIST CONSTRUCTION RAPIDLY /
ADVANCING IN SOVIET UNION; BEAT
AMER. RECORD IN DAM CONSTRUCTION
Siberia Developing Into Modern Industrialized
Country; Vote Million to Explore Urals-
Kuznetzk Waterway

MOSCOW-New socialist successes are reported from all
parts Of the Soviet Union In Magnogorsk dam has been
constructed in IS days whereby 10000 cubic metres cement
used The cementng carried without any special
heating apparatus and the American record beaten In
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-06
AFL DENIES OWN
BUILDING STRIKE
Ruthless Sell Out In
Indianapolis

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, May 5. --
Workers in at least ten A. F. l.. build
ing trades union struck May l,
against 20 percent wage cut. The
officials of these unions are most of
them eagerly denying that they ever
heard of a strike.
Secretary Hall Of the employers Or
ganization announces that the cleo
tricians and fod carriers have al
ready accepted bigger wage cuts 49,
naturally not the rank and file, just
the officials accepted these cuts for
the men.
Hall announces also that "a1 the
workers will benefit by these cuts"
The workers only hope to smash
this lie and conspiracy of employers
and A. F. L. officials is by spreading
their strike, making it complete,
electing their own strike committees,
and presenting their demands in their
own name.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-06

Use your Red Shock Troop List
every day Un your job. The worker
next to you will help save the Daily
Worker.
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PONTIAC, Mich, May 5.-Com-
mencing with a parade of several
hundred on Saginaw ST., over thou
sand workers demonstrated May Day
near the court house. Speakers were
Billips of Detroit and Holder Of Pom
tiac,
A packed mass meeting at VOL
VERNE Hall followed. Forty-two APP
plications for the Unemployed Coun-
Gil were turned in. A resolution
scoring the Scottsboro frame-up was
adopted.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-06

L. S. N. r. and another by the At
lanta 7. l., D. branch, A resolution
was forwarded to the governor by the
Negro Mssons protesting against the
legal lynching in no uncertain tones.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-06
Oakland, Calf.

Daily Worker.
May | or whereabouts for the work
ers in the Southern Pacific shops
mean wage-cuts of 5 per cent and
more, according to the departments
and labor performed, because not
only direct cut, but doubling up, will
be forced on us. The working force
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-06
Defeat Disturbers.

NEW BRITAIN. Conn, May 5.--A
thousand came out in an open-air
demonstration here May l. A few
gangsters and group of boys Of
high school age tried to start trouble,
bue the speaker, Sadie Van Veen,
knew how to rally and solidify the
crowd against them, and the dis
turbers failed to accomplish any
thing.
After the open-air meeting, at the
call of the speaker, 300 fell in line
to march to the Ukralnisn Hall To
continue at an indoor meeting. New
Britain is factory town with five
plants producing tools and Domestic
utensils. All the workers are on part
time and make less than sl3 week
The factories run less than half
capacity, The only relief TO the I'm
employed given by the city is a pack
age of food week per family. The
package has lard, flour, cabbage and
canned food--insufficien to live on
for a week.
The factories here could be turned
into munition plants over night.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-06
$50 Miners Strike.

PRINCETON, Ind, May s. --- Three
hundred and fifty miners of the Deep
Vein Coal Co. are on strike against
the placing Of men to work on the
night shift and not on the day shift.
They are also striking against the
terrible speed-up and wage cuts.
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Vote Red May IL!

PASSAIC, N. j., May 5.-The May
Day demonstration was held at Hud-
son and Market SITS, with more than
1900 participating. Five speakers, in
addition to the general May Day
campaign, urged the workers to vote
Communist in the city elections on
May IL. "a
A parade, with brass band lead
ing, carried plaeards and banners,
demanding unconditional release of
the five textile workers the silk
bosses are trying to frame in to the
electric chair in Paterson. Two to
three thousand took part in the pa
rade, which led to the scene of a
successful mass meeting,
=
TRENTON, N. J., May 5.--All fac
tories here for months on part time
gave orders to all workers on their