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veloped all around you. Now and
then social affairs can be held and
workers invited. New clubs should
be started, particularly in working
class districts.
One very important aspect, that
they are neglecting, is to discuss ways
of raising money for the Daily, such
as holding informal dances or gath
erings and concentrate the sale Of
tickets, etc, among the workers.
Hold open-air meetings, where every
day problems are brought up, such
as the unemployment situation, Ne
gro oppression in Chicago and in
the North, and the right Of the Ne
gro masses for determination In
the Black Belt, deportations Of for
eign-born workers, etc. All these
questions can be raised in relation
to the Daily.
The Pioneers Get On the Job.
Comrade j. B. writes that he and
Ills lilcllu Wd4lJ W sell DdlICSs lucy
are Pioneers. They want five Dailies
a day until they establish a route.
Then they expect to send for more
Leave it to the Pioneers.
S. B. writes that at last he has
better news from their too slowly
growing Daily Worker Club. They
got two new members and two new
subs. They are planning a dance
about the 18th and are printing and
planning to sell tickets. They hope
for success and the club being rich
and strong after that. We hope it
goes over big. The affair can be ad-
vertised by means of mimeographed
leaflets, which are very inexpensive.
See that they reach as many work
ing class sections as possible. Make
personal contacts with workers and
invite them down. Boost the sales
Of the Daily and try to draw new
workers into your club.
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FEAR COLLAPSE
In EUROPE
Correspondent Warns
of Immediate Danger

Europe regards the hour of reck-
oning as postponed for six or eight
months" was the warning given to
the capitalist class of the United
States Saturday by Leland Stowe,
head of the Paris Bureau of the New
York Herald Tribune in radio
speech from Geneva. The Hoover
moratorium, the conferences, the
credits have at the most, admits this
capitalist correspondent, postponed
the collapse of capitalism for a brief
period. at is still possible" he said,
within a year for Communism to be
on the Rhine"
The capitalist system in Europe is
in a critical state and only by the
support of American capitalism can
it be saver, warns Stowe. IT cannot
help believing that it is up to the
American people (capitalists) to save
capitalism in Europe if it is to be
saved" were his words. This is a
warning that in the attempt to
crush tt c revolutionary upsurge
of the masses in Europe the United
States must play leading role. The
attack will not only be against work.
ing masses Of these countries but
primarily against the Soviet Union.
He is forced to admit in his speech
that the Soviet Union is one of the
two most stable governments in Eu-
rope today. The other stable power
which he picks is, however, France,
which is itself in the throes of the
crisis covering the capitalist world.
1t is the Soviet Union which is the
only stable power in the world. This
stability of the Soviet Union and the
crisis in the capitalist world is the
difference between socialist construc-
ton and capitalist chaos. In the So
Wet Union the workers provide their
own economic security; in the capt.
talist countries the workers have only
the insecurity of hunger, wage cuts,
unemployment. The workers of the
world must rally to defend their
fatherland against the attacks of the
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coal operators in this struggle. Bur
nett, one of the miners, is charged
with first degree murder because he
is one of a group of white strikers
who defended Negro miner when
attacked by gang Of deputies near
Evarts.
Burnett's trial was postponed till
November because the mine owners
courts hope to deaden the mass pro-
test by delay. Among the large num-
Der of imprisoned miners many are
Negroes. The operators have been
unsuccessful in their attempts to in
ject race hatred among the strug-
Cling miners.
The International Labor Defense
points out the significance of this
fact-"that in the South white work
ers have come to the defense of
Negro workers in their common
The Operators Association that i'm
struggle for living conditions"
ported the gunner and that controls
Judge "Baby-Face" Jones, whose wife
owns extensive coal interests in Ken
tuoky, consists of the following COM
panies: insult, Paisley (Mellon)
mines, Commonwealth Edison, United
States Steel, Peabody Coal Corpora
ton and other smaller concerns. The
miners say that U. S. Ambassador to
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$4,000 Cleveland JObIeSS Fight for Jobs;
Scores Drop Of Starvation and Wounds

to register the applicants. About
1000 men assembled at the East Side
storeyard yesterday and their names
and addresses were taken, although
registration was not scheduled to
start until today.
"In view of the number registered
yesterday, the size Of today's crowd
came as a surprise.
GAS registration started the huge
throng surged forward, crushing one
of the doors to the warehouse. Fight
ing broke out and two windows and
a large electric lamp were shattered.
1.-THE crowd was so unruly at the
time, however, that employees on the
scene decided it would be unwise to
attempt to distribute food"
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Communist Party of
( Britain Leads
Resistance e

lists. Morris Gilbert, correspondent
of the N. Y. Evening Post in Lon
don, writes:
"a large element Of the labor party
is turning to this most unsocialistic
recourse (the tariff, and thus lines
up beside the conservatives"
The Communist Party Of Great
Britain is gaining wider support in
its leadership of the fight against
British capitalism and its socialist
defenders both in and out Of the
labor party. The latest issue of the
British Daily Worker reaching here
declares:
From all over Britain reports of
determined opposition to the ma
tionar government are flowing into
the Daily Worker. The Communist
Party and Minority Movement dn
the trade unions) are to the fore in
building up the workers united front
around the fighting slogans of:
mot one penny off the dole! Not
one worker off benefit! Not a penny
off the wages Of the workers!
mot one penny off the teachers
salaries! Not a penny more tax on
the peoples food! Down with the
bankers government"
Then long list Of mass meetings
held throughout the country endor-
sing these slogans are printed.
The New York Times reports that
many of the Unemployed who dem
onstrated before parliament build
ing on Tuesday were given stiff Jail
sentences. The report states:
"a crowd of unemployed was dis
persed by the police today in front
of the Bow st. police court, where
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per cent; now the company is plan
ming to give us another wage-cut,
but I am sure the workers will not
stand for this any longer.
The company used all kinds of
methods to terrorize the workers.
Most of the workers are living in the
company stables. They are forced to
pay from SIG to $35 rent, besides
they must pay for the gas, water
and electric. Many Of the workers
can not only pay rent for their
homes, but they do not earn enough
money to pay for food for their chill
dren. About fifteen families have
been thrown out of their houses be-
cause they can't pay rent, although
they are working.
Ready to Organize.
The workers are ready to be or
ganized and fight against the IN
bearable conditions that prevail in
the steel mills. The other day one
of my fellow workers handed me an
election program of the Communist
Party, which states that all the
Pittsburgh industries can be turned
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the International Labor Defense and
the Share Choppers Union forced the
release of most of the choppers. Sew
eral are still being held on various
charges, however.
In California, Tom Mooney and
Warren K. Billings are still held in
prison after is years in spite Of the
thorough exposure of the frame-up
against them, engineered by the Cali
fornia bosses and courts and the
traitorous n1isleaders of the A. F. Of
L. The Imperial Valley strike leaders
are still in Jail.
In Greenville, S. c., the National
Textile Workers Union is being at
tackled by the bosses for its activities
in organizing white and Negro work
ers against wage cuts, starvation, and
the efforts of the bosses to divide the
working-class with the vicious boss
poison of race hatred. Clara Holden,
local organizer of the union, was kid
mapped a few days ago by mill bosses
and the xxx agents, taken a few
miles out of town and brutally
whipped.
In the same city, few days ago,
young Negro worker was handed
the brutal sentence Of 25 years i'm
prisonment on the framed-up charge
of setting fire to barn on the prop
erty of white boss farmer.
In the fight against this terror and
for the release of Tom Mooney, Bill
ings, the Scottsboro boys, the Harlan
miners and all other class war pris-
oners, the International Labor De-
Tense has designated the ten days of
September Is to "a for nationwide
demonstrations. These demonstra-
lions will be followed by United
Front Mooney Harlan Defense Con-
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Macdonald Wants Wage and Dole
Slashes Rushed; Teachers March

charges were being heard against
seventeen persons arrested as a re-
suit of a demonstration outside the
doors of parliament last night.
sixteen men and one woman we're
charged with assault and disorderly
conduct. Fines for obstructing the
police were imposed in some cases.
Other prisoners were sentenced to
month at hard labor. The woman,
Muriel Guest, received suspended
sentence of twelve months"
The teachers, whose wages are be-
ing slashed by the socialist lead
ers in the interest of the parasites,
are breaking "all traditions" as the
capitalist papers put it, and are pre-
pairing for a demonstration on Friday
against wage-cuts. The Associated
Press reorts this event as follows:
Three thousand London school
teachers, scrapping professional ira
ditions, will march through the city
Friday as a protest against pro-
posed is per cent salary cut in the
interest of national economy. The
police are planning similar DEM
onstration Sunday.
SIN the past there have been such
demonstrations in the interest of al
most everything, from disarmament
to Communism, but the school teach
ers are the first professional group
to break with tradition and parade
as the unemployed have DONE"
AS the national government pre-
pares to slash wages and unemploy-
ment insurance, the last official re-
ports show that the jobless army is
increasing. The latest figures for the
past week are 2,762,219 registered
without jobs. This is 28,437 over
last week and 701,775 above the
same week of last year. Meanwhile,
the economic crisis is growing worse,
with foreign trade decreasing sharply.
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Of Negro workers have had their pay
slashed; some of the leading rail-
roads that run into Chicago. Be
sides, Strawn has taken a leading
part in fastening the imperiaist
bonds tighter on the Chinese masses
through the Extraterritoriality Com
mission.
Speaking Of the necessity Of hiding
the fact that few rich exploiters
control the major portion Of the
wealth in the United States, while
the great mass Of workers and farm
ers face starvation, Strawn declared:
Talk about the few rich owning
the country or failing to do their
duty as citizens is, generally speak
ing, bolshevistic propaganda"
What are the facts? Here is some
data from government and other
capitalist sources, that even Strawn
could not call "bolshevistic propa-
ganda."
According to the Federal Trade
Commission, a government body, in
its Report on National Wealth and
Income" published in 1926, the rich
est 1 per cent of the population in
the United States owns at least SO
per cent of the wealth; the small
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-11
DAILY CLUB BEGINNING =
WORK OF BUILDING UP INNER LIFE
ACTION FOR NEW CLUBS NEEDED

Comrade P. P. writes in to inform
us of the exact nature Of his club
and its activities, and for criticism
and suggestions for the betterment
Of their future program.
First of all the club has a peculiar
aspect. The majority of the club
consists of physically handicapped
boys and girls of senior in high
school and junior college age. The
difficulty of these comrades to get
around prevents distribution of the
Daily Worker to the degree which
they desire. This disability neces-
sarily confines their actions along
certain lines, and, consequently their
scope is not as large as it might be,
Their activities, however, are eff
fective in their way. They have two
meetings a week. The first, known
as 1.-THE class meeting" is devoted
to a systematic study at the present
of Marks Capital and Communist
Manifesto under the supervision of a
comrade educated in this, besides
discussion Of the Daily Worker.
AS far as advancement is con-
cerned, they are making Roadway.
Some of the members jOinde with
the idea in mind: "I'll show them
how foolish red ideas are" or
when become an author I'll be
able to write about this COmmu-
nism, probably showing where it's
wrong" Now we can safely say that
these Indifferent and opposition
elements have entirely disappeared.
The first meeting of the club a
month ago was attended by nine;
now they have as many as twenty
and many more on the way. They
are about to get mimeOgraph to
print leaflets.
We do have a few suggestions to
make. Activize other workers who
can get out and sell the Daily.
Workers correspondence can be de-
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FURIOUS BOSS TERROR RAGING
AGAINST NEGRO, WHITE WORKERS

imperialists. Defend the Soviet Union!
ferences, drawing in Scottsboro,
which will be held not later than
October 10. In turn the conferences
will be followed by nationwide day
of protest and demand for amnesty
on october "a.
All workers are urged to take up
the question of these demonstra-
tions. All working-clas and sympa-
thetic organizations are urged to
rally to the fight against the growing
boss terror and for the immediate,
unconditional release Of Tom
Mooney, the Harlan mine strikers,
the Scottsboro boys and all other
class war prisoners.
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Salvation Army Tries
Forced Labor Scheme

STOCKTON, Cal. - The holy
grafters of the Salvation Army make
a pretense of feeding unemployed in
this town. They collect considerable
in money, food and clothes in order
to feed the lords beloved poor" Of
course, they follow the practise Of
selling the best clothes and giving
as little as possible because most of
the money must go to Jesus who not
withstanding the fact that he has
been dead for 1000 years is always
in need Of money.
They feed between $50 and 200
some sweepings from the bean ware
houses and something that passes for
coffee. I was going to say there was
no meat in the beans, but would
have been mistaken. There is plen-
ty of meat. This meat is composed
of worms which are in the beans.
The Unemployed Council has thoroly
exposed their wormy diet with which
they are slowly poisoning the unem-
ployed.
One of the big officers went to the
park in order to conscript workers
to prepare this sumtuous repast
which they regale the unemployed
with. He approached worker and
tried to force him to go to the kit
chen and work for nothing, Of
course, the Lord only pays wages to
a select few. The worker refused.
This officer of the gospel then
showed a police badge and told him
he would have him arrested. The
worker told him what disposition to
make of the badge as far as he was
concerned. This disciple of peace
then called the wagon and had the
worker pinched. He was not held,
however, because the police knew we
would have filled the courtroom with
workers mad the LID would have de-
Tended him. And they talk about
"forced labor in the Soviet Union"
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payment for all unemployed to pro-
vide winter relief; no forced labor;
unemployment insurance, in no case
of less than SIS per week, and So
for each dependent.
The Cleveland Press, reporting the
rush of the unemployed says that
many bore cuts, bruises and scratch
es, and many others had their grimy
clothing torn. Then they go on to
tell the details as follows:
Disorder occurreda both the East
and West Side county storeyards to-
day as thousands of unemployed
men lined up to register their ap-
plications for county ditch jobs.
desperate for work, the men tried
to push ahead of each other in the
registration lines and fighting broke
out at frequent intervals.
Squads of police and deputy sher-
Ills were TuSIlGu W DOG1l bllC 1CSlS~
tering offices to keep the crowds in
order. Windows were broken in the
melees, several men were slightly cut
and others tainted from hunger and
exhaustion after standing in line for
hours.
1.-THE crowd at the East Side store
yard, Miles Ave. near Warrensville
Center Rd in Warrensville Heights,
was estimated at 8,oOo About 5000
men assembled at the West Side
storeyard, Brook Park Rd. near State
Rd.
In Line All Night.
Several hundred men stood in line
most of the night at the East Side
storeyard, according to Fred G..
Wilks, supervisor. The crowd had
reached 5000 before dawn and when
registration opened at 7:45 it num-
bered about 5000, Wilks reported.
"Only nine men had been assigned
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-11

NEW YORK.-Details of how the
National Government, composed OF
the leading British exploiters and
led by socialists, will slash the
standard of living of the workers,
employed and unemployed, will be
read in the House of Commons by
the socialist, Snowden. Macdonald,
acting with Churchill, leader of the
conservative party, will drive through
measures providing for virtual die
tatorship and will clamp down on
discussion.
Arthur Henderson, leader OF the
Opposition" made a hurried trip to
Bristol, where the Trade Union Con-
gress is discussing how to avoid a
sharper class struggle, and how best
to save capitalism without too openly
slashing wages and unemployment
insurance. Henderson, in his speech,
offered a way out through 10 per
cent tariff. Henderson declared he
was for free trade, but that in the
present emergency he would favor a
10 per cent tariff to avoid cut in
unemployment insurance.
The tactics of Macdonald and the
trade union misleaders, who are
more and more favoring tariff, is
very evident. BY this means they
hope to increase the cost of living
by 10 per cent, which for the unem-
ployed would amount to the same
thing as a 10 per cent cut in pay
ments, and for the unemployed
would be 10 per cent wage-cut. At
the same time, Henderson and his
cronies reason, since the cut is in
direct it would help to lessen the
sharp class battles which Henderson
fears will arise out of the direct at
tack that Macdonald is making for
the bankers.
The tariff proposal by Henderson
has even surprised American journal
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-11
YOUTH WEEK AT CAMP

From Sept. Labor Day. to Sept,
IS will be Youth Week at Camp
Nitgedaiget and Camp Unity. A very
interesting program for this week
will take place at the camps. 1t will
consist of volley ball, games, elm
ination races, discus and javclin
throws, soccer game between two
workers organizations, and many
other such interesting features. Duff,
the young Negro worker who won
two events in the recently held Spar
takiade in Berlin, will participate in
the events at the camps. Other
members of the Spartakiade delega-
ton will participate also.
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ur section for party candidates.

our section for party candidates.
The purpose of the picnic is, to
raise the finances in order to mobil-
ize hundreds and thousands of work
ers in the section to vote for the
party program.
At the picnic there will be refresh
ments and good music. Also there
will be a good speaker. We call upon
the workers of the entire section to
come to the picnic and to make it
successful. Prepare trucks and come
in masses. Admission 10 cents.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-11
Communist Party
Holds Election Picnic
In SlOvan, Pa.

SLOVAN, Pa. - The Communist
Party of District Five of the Avella
Section is preparing Section Elec-
ton Picnic this coming Sunday, Sep
TENDER 10, at Bailey'S Farm, Slovan,
Pa.
The Communist Party participates
this year in county and local cleo
lions in this district, therefore, this
picnic is the beginning of further
and intensified campaign through
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BOSSES DELAY TRIALS TO STOP MASS
MUST RUSH AID TO MINERS

Germany Sackett, is one Of the lead
ing coal operators in Kentucky.
The miners have counted an army
of $40 gunner, led by an Al Capone
lieutenant, imported from Chicago.
Their orders have been to shoot and
shoot to kilp'-whether by ambush
or direct attacks on the miners set
Elements.
The gunner travel in fleets of
ten cars, armed with Lewis machine
guns that can sweep to all points Of
the horizon. These gangsters, fight
ing in Chicago fashion, are dressed
in vests of steel that extend from
their necks to their thighs. Miners
say all the gunner can be imme-
diateIy recognized because they wear
the best of clothes, swagger about
with expensive cigars in their
mouths, "and are smooth-looking as
if they Just come from beauty par
lor." The sheriff and the gangsters
work in complete unity, mingle, eat
together, both taking their orders
from the Operators Association. The
police always protect the gangsters
regardless of what murder they have
recently committed against the
miners.
These gunner are the direct
agents of the coal operators in starry
ing the wives and children of the
striking miners by blowing up the
food kitchens established by the min
ers' relief. These gunner dynamited
the Ford car of the LID representa-
tive, Jessie Wakefield, who was car
rying food and clothes to strikers
families.
Mrs. Vincent Bilotta, one Of the
most active workers in the relief
kitchen in Evarts, who sacrificed her
own meals so that some little child
did not suffer the pangs of hunger,
has been stricken with the starva-
ton disease, flux She is the wife
of Vincent Bilotta, who is in Harlan
County Jail on four charges, Grim
inal Syndicalism, Possession of Pro-
hibited Literature, Obstructing JUS
tice, and Breach Of Peace. She has
no money for a doctor, medicine, or
food. Her little son is starving, and
so are the hundreds of other pris-
oners' children.
Starvation is claiming Mrs. Bilotta
as one of its victims. Starvation is
also widespread among the prisoners
in Jail. According to the statement
of Sheriff John Henry Blair, he
wants the militant miners to rot in
Jail. Starve and rot, because what
the prisoners get to eat is barely
enough to keep them alive.
Immediate mass demonstrations
throughout the country, for the re-
lease of the Harlan miners, and
against the coal operators terror,
have been called by the Interna-
tional Labor Defense. The fight for
the Harlan miners, imprisoned by the
Kentucky millionaire mine owners, is
also the fight for Tom Mooney buried
alive by the California millionaires.
Mass united front conferences for
Mooney and Harlan as well as all
class war prisoners, will be held
throughout the country the week OF
october lib.
The International Labor Defense is
calling upon all workers and then
organizations to Immediately rush
funds for the defense of the strug-
Cling miners and for aid to the pris-
oners families and the prisoners
themselves. Speed funds to the
Harlan Aid Fund, care of Interna-
tional Labor Defense, Room 430, 81
e. 18th ST., New York City.