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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-24
Only $40 of Quota in Daily,
DriVe Raised; Boost Totals
On Tag Days June 26>27>28!
Build Circulation, as Well as Finances Of Daily;
Levin in Seattle, Tacoma, Portland in July

Daily Worker entering its final
week, only 81 per cent of the $55, 900
| has been raised. During the past
| $3,716.S0-an average of 1881 day
being contributed. This brings the
| totals to only a 10 per cent increase
over the previous week. Every dis
trict fell down, but particularly Dis
tricts (Philadelphia), 6 (Cleveland),
z DetroiD and (Chicago) among
the larger districts, with Chicago and
Detroit especially bad. These dis
tricts will have to do a great deal
of speeding up and exert themselves
especially on the Tag Days if the
Daily Worker is to be saved,
Cleveland is now in second place
with SIS per cent of it's quota of
$2,250 raised, or more actual money
than Detroit which has quota of
S3,250. District Q New York; is on
the way towards doubling it's quota,
with 1873 per cent raised. With the
exception of New York and Cleve-
land, all other districts are still
under so per cent-and this with
the scheduled time of the drive near
ly over!
ing the way to many larger dis
tricts with 49 per cent raised, which
puts it in third place.
No Action From Districts 8, 10, II.
men Will District (Mlnneap-
olis), which has a quota of $500,
get on the job? 1t has raised only
II per cent of it's quota and is pro-
ceeding at a snairs pace. The same
question might be asked OF Districts
10 (Kansas City, and IL (Agricul-
turaD, which are down at the bot
tom with only IL per cent each.
The district that made the largest
increase is IS (Butte), jumping from
10 per cent a week ago to A per
cent. Next comes is, with 40 per
cent as compared with 81 per cent
week ago. But practically all the
other districts have done very poor
work. With the Tag Days this
week, there is an opportunity for a
big Improvement. Put some life into
the drive!
Circulation News.
Due to a large temporary increase
of 1887 from District Z, Detroit, to
take care of the Alien Registration
Bill demonstration last week, the
circulation of the Daily Worker
jumped ahead by 53S, notwithstand-
ing several large decreases from
Chicago, New York, Pittsburgh and
California.
District is, Butte energies in the
tables with an increase OF 1872 COW
cred by gains of $50 and AZ from
Butte and Livingstone, Mont, re-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-24

bullets knocking over men here and
there. These miners were heroic.
They tried to answer the storm of
bullets and shot from pump guns,
sawed-off shot guns, rifles and pis-
tols-with stones. They stood their
ground and fought for fifteen min
utes, but they were broken. The
deputies continued to fire on those
who fled.
The ground was strewn with
wounded men. and the deputies
rushed about, herding all who could
stand into corners and placing them
under arrest. Forty-one we're ar
rested. Many of these were wound
ed. 1t is not known yet how many.
Those who could not stand lay
bleeding ON the ground without at
tention for twenty minutes. Finally
outsiders, not in the strike. were
permitted to load them into trucks,
and carry them to the hospitals.
Peter zigaric died either on the
way to the hospital, or in it.
Now in West Penn Hospital lie:
Pete zigaric, dead; Adolph Wagner,
shot in the side of the head and the
side; Charles Bestwick, shot in the
mouth; John Obrowski, with four
bullets in side, leg and neck; Robert
Young, shot in the side of the head;
Nick Wincwski. with two wounds in
his chest; Peter Brown shot in the
arm. In Allegheny General Hos
pital lies Joe Jendresak, shot in the
left side and with the bullet still in
his body. In New Kensington Cen
eral Hospital lies Stanley Miculski
shot in the arm.
Bestwick tells how he came up to
a mile of the company property
walked along the road toward the
post office at wildwood. Deputies
lurking in the post office shot him
down while he walked along alone,
toward the picket line.
Wagner says he was hundred
yards from the company store. He
was alone. They shot him from the
store.
Brown was with small group a
heh mile from the company property
when he was shot.
Winowski was shot from the store.
He has wife and three children
who hope he will recover.
Robert Young was apparently the
first to fall. The very first thing
anyone knew of the deputies trap
was when one shot him from the
side of the road.
Not one of the men was shot on
company property. The pickets were
not on company property at all. No
tice the prevalence of side wounds
which shows the character Of the
ambush.
The capitalist papers Of Pittsburgh
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spectively. District 8. Minneapolis
shows increase of so due to Sigh
gains from Iron River, Duluth and
Hancock, Mich. District s, Cleveland,
Dayton, Erie, Columbus, less decrease
of IS from Cincinnati District II,
Birmingham, shows gain of so due
to an extra order from Chattanooga.
Decrease I'm Chicago.
chicago is represented with a de-
of temporary order for duration of
Illinois Hunger Marches. New York
is shown with cut of ISL. This in
cludes unsold copies in New York
CITY. District 5, Pittsburgh, dropped
259 during week. This is covered by
deduction of temporary orders or
2,06s plus. increases of 1901 from
Pittsburgh McKeesport, Cecil and
other smaller points. District Is
California. cut 1913 on losses of SO
Stockton.
The circulation of the Daily il
growing, but not fast enough!
There are still hundreds of thou
sands of workers who have never
heard of the Daily. These must b.
found and made acquainted with
the paper. Thousands of uaem-
plOyed workers should he seIlinE
the Daily this summer. Every
worker who wants 10 sell the
paper should Immediately get In
touch with the Circulation Dept,
N. " g. Daily Worker clubs should
emphasize the Importance of sell
ing the Daily. at meetings, factor
gates. etc. The circulation as well
as the financial side of the Daily
must be built up.
Prepare For Tag Days.
Tag Days will be here Friday, Sat
urday Sunday, June 26, 81. 2sI Only
two more days! Ali Party, League,
Pioneer and fraterual organization
comrades must be out on the streets
during these days, otherwise the
danger of suspension of the Daily
Worker will be great
Comrade f. Levin, manager of the
Daily Worker, now on a nationwide
tour for the "Save the Daily Fund"
Will be In Seattle July 3rd. He win
address n meeting of friends and
readers Mt hall which will be an
nOunced In few days. Saturday,
July 4, he will be in Tacoma, Wash
at the Workers Center, 9l3 1-2 Ia
coma Ave-. for an evening naeetine.
Sunday, July 9Th, he will address .
meeting In the Workers Hall In Port
land, Ore, at 191 1-s Third ST. Com
rades in neighboring towns will
please see that they have no con
flicting affairs on those dates and
come in to Comrade Levin's meeting
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-24
ANSWER THE NURDEROUS ATTACK
ON THE STRIKING MINERS

derfng the miners and
Organize TO smash the injunction the fight the right
organize picket and Of assembly striking
Demand the
persecution Of the foreign Fight equal rights Negro
Workers in the A. F. L. w. A.
carrying out the policy Of
leaders, are openly acting
der the miners They stand for support
enees Of the They Adopt
tons OF endorsement Of the strike
Workers everywhere The miners strike
TO them the
Miners in illinois, Anthracite Support
Organize
Spread the strike with
Ohio and West Virginia in the struggle
Workers In all industries Follow
Organize committees in Prepare strike
against cuts low conditions csan,se Into
unions Of the Ir~ds Union Unity Ieasua
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refuse payment of debts incurred by its for.
l'mer oppressors and for purposes of it's op
preston.
The main debt claims of the United States
against Russia are based on sc million dollars
borrowed by the car from private banks in
the United States and on 1877 million dollars
borrowed by the Kerensky Government from
the U. S. Government. At the time of the
Soviet Revolution the former car of Russia
owned about 100 million dollars worth of
American stocks, bonds and other securities
This possession was managed and manipulated
by financial agent of the car in America
At the time of the Russian Revolution this
financial agent of the car was none other
than Boris Bakhmetev. Kerensky elevated
Bakhmetev from this post to the position of
ambassador in Washington of "his" govern
ment. The car having contracted the 81 mil
lion dollars debts mentioned above could and
should have been made to pay these debts
through his financial agent Mr.. Bakhmetev.
That, however, would not have been a civilized
course in the eyes of the Washington govern
ment. According to the capitalist rulers of
America it is the historic mission of the Rus
sian people to pay the debts of the dead car
just as it was their historic mission to supply
his wealth when he lived.
A still more interesting history is connected
with the Kerensky debt At the time of the
fall of the Kerensky government more than 60
million dollars of the money loaned by the
American government to Kerensky were de-
posted in the National City Bank of New
York. This amount had not yet been spent.
Upon taking over power the Soviets imme-
diately cabled instructions to the National City
Bank to make no more payments out of these
funds on orders of Bakhmetev or his agents.
The u. S. Government countermanded these
orders. 1t not only insisted that Mr.. Bakh-
metev has right to spend these more than 60
million dollars long after chs" government
had ceased to exist; the Washington govern
ment even saw to it that this fund was in
creased. $22,500,000 were realized on the sale
of property of the Russian people in the
United States. This money was not used to
hquidate Russian debts in America but was
paid by the Washington government into the
treasury of Mr.. Bakhmetev. War materials
which had been bought for Russia in the
United States were re-sold in America and II
million dollars were realized out of this sale
IneS6 IL n1llOn collars were nOC appleQ 10
the liquidation of Russian debts; the Amer
lean government paid them into the treasury
of Mr.. %Bakhmetey. The United States gov
eminent had chartered Russian vessels and
owed to the Russian people for their use about
S1,500,000. The Washington government did
not apply this to liquidate Russian debts; it
paid it into the treasury of Mr.. Boris Bakhme-
tev Several other payments due to the Rus
sian people from the U. S. Government were
also not applied to liquidate the Russian debt;
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-24

they were all paid into the treasury of Mr.
Bakhmetev.
What was done with all of these millions
the payment of which the American govern
ment now demands from the Soviet govern
ment? Mr.. Bakhmetev at the instigation OF
the U. S. government and in all cases with its
consent supplied war materials to the anti
Soviet forces of Kolchak and Wrangel. Tanks
guns, etc, were provided from these funds to
the armies which fought a bloody counter
revolutionary war against the Soviet govern
ment More than million and a quarter of
dollars were paid out of this fund to print in
America paper money for Kolchak Yet with
all the money all the guns and all the war ma
terials which the u. S. government together
with its allies supplied to Kochak and Wran-
gel, the latter could not defeat the Soviets.
This failure caused terrible shock to the
spokesman of civilization in Washington. In
true civilized capitalist fashion they presented
the bill of expenses for their unsuccessful at
tempt at assassinating the Soviets to the in
tended victims. With the blood of the defend
ers of the Soviets still dripping from his fling
ers, Uncle Sam presented this bill to the So
VETS and demanded payment as condition of
recognition. The noise made in the attempt
to collect On this bill is merely intended to
cover up the infamy of the .ansaction.
The capitalist constitution of the United
States provided that "debts and obligations
incurred in the aid of rebellion against the
government are illegal and void" The u S.
Government practiced this even before it
preached it. 1t repudiated the debts of the
Confederacy and then legalized this repudia-
ton in the 18th Amendment to the Consti-
tuition. But the same capitalist government in
Washington demands of the Soviets that they
either pay the "debts and obligations incurred
in the rebellion" against them, or be placed
out side the pale of civilization. The car Dor
rowed his money in 1905 when the revolution
shook his autocratic throne. He needed the
money to pay for the expenses of suppressing
the revolution. The revolutionists at that
time declared publicly and solemnly through
the mouth of the Bolshevik Party that the re-
volution when victorious will refuse to pay
these debts. The capitalists however laughed
at the idea of victorious revolution. They
loaned the money to the car, so that he may
crush the revolution. Now they present the
bill to the revolution. Here too, the noise of
the capitalists in their attempt to collect is
designed to cover the infamy of the transac-
ton.
All of the noise and all of the propaganda
in this connection are directed toward the
creation of the needed holy war myth. They
are designed to sustain the present economic
war of capitalist America against the Soviet
Union. They are intended to help turn this
economic war into armed capitalist interven-
ton against the Soviet Union.
The problem of the friends of the Soviet
Union therefore is no longer recognition, but
defense of the Soviet Union,
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nisn would come if Germany were
allowed to collapse" Macdonald
strove to save American investments,
as well as British in Germany, and
to keep the German masses under
the yoke of the Young Plan.
Unite Against Communism.
Similar expressions are made by
leading American capitalist politi-
clans. Senator Smoot, chairman of
the Senate Finance Committee, COM
menting on the Hoover proposal,
said that the danger of Commu-
nisn caused Hoover to act"
Senator King of Utah, Democrat,
supporting Hoover said: 81 knew of
conditions in the Reichsbank and
was afraid Of the effect on Europe
if it failed. was afraid it would
arouse both the Hitler party and the
Communists in Germany and have
dangerous consequences to the whole
of Europe"
Meanwhile, the souabble about the
Hoover plan is growing in France,
Belgium and Italy. Opposition is
developing among leading forces in
the United States, particularly
Hearst.
On all hands, the danger OF war
grows greater every day. Every
worker should rally behind the prep
arations for the international cam
paign against iniperialist war prep
arations to take place on August I,
under the leadership Of the Conln,u-
mist International. Smash the war
preparations Of the BOSSES! Defend
the Soviet Union!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-24
French Imperialists Express Opposition; Lon
don, Washington Dispatches Admit Wall
Street Fight on Communism

for world markets, colonies, and other
spoils. 1t signifies that both these
imperialiSt powers, faced with the
sharpening of the world crisis, have
united for an attack on Communism
an attack against the Soviet Union.
The leading American imperialists
admit now that they are bolstering
up the fascist regime of Bruening
in order to save the Young Plan and
the whole system of debt payments
resulting from the last World War.
Writing from Berlin to the New
York Evening Post, H. B. Knicker-
booker, anti-Soviet scribbler declares
that the Hoover plan was drawn ito
save Germany from what appeared to
be the inevitable throes of Conlmu-
nisrn."
Macdonald Acts.
Knickerbocker, at the same time,
reveals the fact that one of the
leading figures in this imperialist ef-
fort to keep the masses from over
throwing capitalism was the social
ist" Ramsay Macdonald, chief agent
OF British imperialism. Prime Min
lister Mcdonald" writes Knicker-
booker, heard a deal about Com
I1iunist preparations from Chancel-
lor Bruening when he was at Che
quers and it is believed that he GER
tainly passed along to Secretary Of
the Treasury Mellon the general
gloomy prognostication that Comnlu-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-24
UNWA Scab Pckcy Part of Murder Program

three scabs are at this mine and
there are 1900 strikers. All OF the
miners walked out Of the Hen6er-
sonville Mine yesterday when they
tried to open 1t. There were no scans
Mass murder rs now the main
weapon used by the coal operators
and their government against the
miners and their families striking
against starvation and slavery" de-
clared the National Miners Unior
in statement issued today against
the increased terror Of the mine
hcescss
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-24

! the interests of the working masses against
the profit makers. While the American police.
man helps the capitalist to keep the workers
down, the policeman of the Soviet Union helps
the workers to keep the capitalists down. This
! being so, the government in Washington feels
that Soviet recognition would mean sanction
| ing the proletarian revolution. The American
government spies for the capitalists on the
workers SO they may not interfere with
profits. This government, therefore, cannot
recognize the Soviets because they watch the
capitalists to prevent them from interfering
with the welfare of the workers. For the capt.
talist dictatorship in America it is only natural
that masses of American workers should be
disfranchised on the pretext of their race,
their color, their nationality or their lack of
permanent residence For this government,
therefore, it is intolerable to see that the
workers democracy of the Soviet Union dis
franchises the capitalists on the ground that
they are useless parasites.
Fourteen years of existence of the Soviet
Union have considerably changed the problem
of Soviet recognition The Soviet government
continues to exist because it is strong. It will
continue to exist whether it will be recognized
or not. 1t can tell the United States today
what capitalist revolutionary France once told
feudal reactionary Austria: "Our government
is like the sun; you may not recognize-but
yet it is there" Even capitalist judges in
America must acknowledge this. Federal
Judge Gaffey declared the other day in de-
Gliding a case which involved the Soviet Gov
eminent that the Union of Socialist Soviet Re-
publics is government whether the State De-
partment in Washington recognizes it or not.
Soviet recognition by the United States is
clearly no longer burning ISSUE The issue is
rather the economic war organized by the
American government against the Soviet
Union. The American government persistent
ly declares that it does not know of the exist
ence of any Soviet Government but Just as
persistently it is laboring to overthrow this
''non-existent" Soviet Government
Its very refusal Of recognition is based on
vicious propaganda and not on facts. The So
Wet Government has been declared repeatedly
outside the pale of civilization. Why? The
autocratic regime of the bloody car moved
down with machine guns the peacefully petit
tloning workers in front of his palace That
did not cause the slightest protest from the
guardians of civilization in Washington But
when the workers government of Russia exc
cutes kulak because of murderous counter
revolutionary activities, then outraged civiliza-
ton is defended vociferously by the Washing
ton government. Exploit little children for
profit; that is civilization. Send the workers
onto the battlefields of imperialist wars and
have millions of them killed and manned for
profits; that is civilization. Close your fac
tories and throw the workers on the streets by
the millions, exposing them to starvation; that
is civilization. But civilization becomes out
aged when workers government dares to
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burst forth with the usual scream
ing hes-the deputies fired Ito de-
fend themselves from a bowling mob
attacking them!" Foster Leads At
tack On Mine" shrieks a headline in
Hearst's Sun-Telegram. Most of the
stories in the capitalist press place
Borich at or near the scene of the
picketing; some say he was at the
Cheswick picnic. The fact is that
though Foster spoke at Cheswick on
Sunday. he was not even in the state
at the time of the picketing. AS for
Borich, your correspondent was with
Borich at Brownsville all day on the
day Of the Cheswick meeting. The
capitalist press agrees that the pick
cts fired on the deputies. But not
one of the picketS was armed, and
not one deputy was shot.
A wave Of rage sweeps over the
mine fields. The 10000 strikers are
more determined than ever to win
their strike, Injunction or no injunc-
ton. While the Widow picketing
and the murder by the coal operators
and Pinchot's deputies was taking
place, 1900 marched on Vesta No 5
and pulled out half of the 1900 work.
ing there. The rest will come out
soon. CVesta No. 5 was completely
closed by mass picketing Tues
day-Ed0 The men who poined the
picket line at Vesta marched then
on Clyde No. of the Rainey Coal
Co. at Fredericktown and brought
out half the men there. The rest
will come out.
Export Mine is struck, nearly COM
pletely, this morning. Penobscott
Mine at Penowa had 1877 men at
work; they all struck today. In West
Virginia, $50 men struck this morn
ing at Mine No. 8 Of the Pittsburgh
and West Virginia Coal Co., and
closed it tight.
At Arnold Mine. $50 struck, the
whole crew.
The strike still spreads, and muir
der will not stop it. Borich and
Kemenovich, secretaries of the Ma
tional Miners Union and of the
Central Rank and File Strike Com
mittee, respectively, have issued a
joint statement plastering murder
charge on Butler Consolidated Coal
Co., on Sheriff Cain and his depu-
ties, on Judge Rowand, who granted
the injunction, and on Governor Pin
chot, who rejected the demands Of
the delegation to Harrisburg, that he
withdraw the armed force of the
operators and the state from the coal
fields.
There will be huge protest meet
ing Wednesday night here, in Mos
Hall. There will be a. mass funers
for zigaric on Thursday at Wild
wood
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CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE,

shot back, created the Cheswick and
Accorsi cases. These five thousand
voted Sunday to go on mass picket
line at wildwood and smash the in
junction
They marched early this morning
in many columns. Every road to
wildwood was barred by deputies
with machine guns. Only the Wild
wood section itself, 500 strong, men,
women and children. proceeded down
the public highway TO pioksA There
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-24
TO SMASH INJUNCTION DESPITE
WILDWOOD MASSACRE

was q certain number Of men hur-
rying along TO reach the main body.
without warning, deputies, guards
and other company gunner, who
were lurking in ambush along side
of the road. in the company store,
and in the post office, opened muir
dercus fire on the solid ranks of the
parade, and on the men coming to
join 1t. They hurled a dozen tear
gas bombs, and the pickets stumbled
through the poisonous fumes that
drafted down TIE road, with q hail OF
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-24
THE USS.R.--INSPIRATIONO OF THE WORKERS IN U.SALO

This series of articles by Max Bedacht will be
concluded in the Thursdays issue of the Daily
Worker. They will Immediately reappear in pamph-
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