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crisis in its history. More than TO-
100000 workers walk the streets in
the United States in a hopeless
search for jobs, while their families
are being starved and evicted from
their homes-and the capitalist class
is conducting furious offensive of
speed-up, naturalization and wage
cuts to reduce our class to the lowest
standards of living. And again prep
arations are being made by the same
capitalist class for another imperial
list war, in the first place against the
Union of Socialist Soviet Republics.
1t is therefore logical that the class
that murdered Sacco and Vanzetti
and entombed in its prisons thou
sands of other militants Of labor's
cause, is today engaged in still
more savage offensive Of frame-ups,
unspeakably brutal prison sentences
az years Imprisonment for organiz-
ing urion), extra-legal fascist vio-
lence and straight-out legal murder
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-21
SHOE WORKERS IN
N. Y. c: ENDORSE
RED CANDIDATES
Experiences In Strikes
Show Up Boss Rule

NEW YORK-Long hours of hard
labor, averaging between SIS to IS
hours per week, miserably low wages,
averaging between $40 and $35 per
week, long periods of slack, wide
spread unemployment, yellow dog
contracts, union misleaders who are
working hand in hand with the boss
es to check the rising struggles of the
shoe workers for an improvement Of
their conditions. AL thees are the
problems and forces the workers in
the shoe industry have to contend
with.
The shoe workers are that section
Of the working class that has tasted
very sharply in various forms the Bit
ter experience of boss rule, of the
boss y preston and of ruthless ex-
ploitatlon. In their strikes and lock-
outs the shoe workers saw before
them clear example Of how the
bosses government through its vari-
Gus agencies has done everything
possible to break the strike. The shoe
workers have learned very clearly
that the government in Washington
and In the states are the bosses gov
eminent who suppress the working
masses. Today the shoe workers in
their struggles against wage reduc-
tons and unemployment buck up
against Tammany politicians, social
list takers, Lovestone, renegades who
support the various cliques which call
themselves unions.
1t is precisely for these reasons
that the Shoe and Leather Workers
Industrial Union endorses the Com
munist Party in its present election
campaign. All shoe workers must
rally around the Communist Party
election campaign, collect signatures
to put the candidates on the ballot,
respond to the calls of the Party and
mobilize every fellow worker Of his
shop for the Party election program.
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are preparing for one of the biggest
demonstrations in their section, hav-
ing spread broadcast leaflets yester-
day calling for mass turnout.
To-day mass deportations, per-
secution of foreign born workers,
an unleashed terror drive against
the Negro population, arrests of
strikers, frame ups and jailinss are
among the favorite methods of
the capitalist class trying to sup
press the efforts of the working
class to struggle against the ever
mounting attacks against living
and working standards" The
fourth anniversary of the death of
those two working class martyrs
Sacco and .Vanzetti must be the
occasion for large and widespread
demonstrations against all forms
of capitalist te>>or," declares
statement issued by the Interna-
tionaI Labor Defense rallying the
workers of this city for August
22nd.
Turn to page three for a complete
list of points of meeting and demon
stration and routes of marches and
parades.
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M in ers Determined
To Fight For Local
Demands
Com mite e NJ e e t s
Ohio Miners Adopt
New Tactics

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Aug. 19.-The
meeting of the Central Rank and
File Strike Committee today (Au-
gust 49,, full meeting in spite OF
the heavy rain in which many Of the
delegates had to travel miles, showed
by its practical spirit of discussion
on the carrying out of the details of
the organized retreat" that the min
ers in general are not dismayed and
that they know that this retreat is
not a defeat, that they are optim-
istic and confident and certain Of
winning yet The delegates reported
the ready acceptance Of the new line
in all parts of the field. The only
section where the new line met with
some real misunderstanding opposi-
ton was the Connelsville coke region,
where the U. M. w. A. so cruelty be-
trayed the miners during the 1922
strike. Here is was necessary for
Frank Borich, the secretary of the
National Miners Union, to go out
and patiently explain all details Of
the plan, but, when this was done,
the section strike committee Of
Brownsville section lin which the
coke region lies) voted "a to l in
favor of the new line, although pre-
viously in smaller meeting, there
had been majority against it. All
other sections accept the new tactics
in the strike unanimously, and the
meeting of the Central Rank and
File Strike Committee devoted itself,
not to the discussion of the policy
itself so much as to the details OF
its application.
Delegates reported that particu-
larry in Allegheny Valley arrange
ments are completed for sending the
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as well as acts under the orders OF
the coal companies. His statements
against the men on trial on the first
day the jury was called in clearly
showed that Judge Jones is insistent
on repeating the Sacco-Vanzetti trial
for the IS miners.
Besides, it was also brought out,
that Judge Jones has stock in coal
companies and shares in the profits
squeezed out of the starving miners
whom he is now helping send to their
death in the electric chair.
Attorneys Golden and Hall for the
defense we're told by Judge Jones
that if they repeated their attempt
to expose the judges connections
with the coal companies and their
gunner, he would send them to Jail.
A wholesale reign of terror has be-
gun against witnesses and attorneys
for the defense, which is being con-
Quoted by the International Labor
Defense. Stink bombs were placed in
the cars of Golden, Robesey and
Taub -Four dicks have been following
Allen Taub, LID. attorney, around
for days. Witnesses are threatened
with murder Taub, in the corridor
of the court, was threatened to be
put on the spot" by TIputy Sheriff
Earl Brock, son of the prosecutor,
Commonwealth Attorney A. w.
Brock.
A witness by the name of Mrs. Far
ley of Evarts, KY, has been held in
the Harlan County Jail for the past
seven weeks because she refuses to
testify against members Of the Ma
tional Miners Union. Because she
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-21
HALT EVICTION
NEGRO WORKER
Rich Negro Landlord
Had Ordered Toilers
Evicted on Street

CHARLOTTE, N. C.-About fifty
workers, modified by the Unem-
ployed Council of Washington
Heights in Charlotte, today put back
the furniture Of an evicted Negro
worker. The fight against the eNc-
ton took place after a committee
was sent by the Unemployed Branch
to demand the worker remain in his
home, rent free, until he could get
a job. The committee was answered
by the landlords agent that the
owner was wealthy Negro, whose
name he feared to divulge. and that
his orders were to evict the tenants
Immediately upon non-payment of
rent He also added that the land.
lords had just organized in town and
that an agreement was made that all
unemployed workers would be put
outdoors if rent due was not
promptly paid up.
The evicted workers name is
Henry Lewis of Booker Ave. in
Charlotte. Lewis has six small chill
dren. He only owed rent for two
weeks. In the neighborhood in which
he lives several workers have been
threatened with evictions and this
fight to keep Lewis In his home halls
the beginning of mass movement
of unemployed white and Negro
workers against hunger and evic-
tions. While the many workers were
carrying the furniture of Henry
Lewis back into his home, group
of Pioneers formed around the fur
niture and sang, 1.-THE Cops Are
Having He'll Of a Time, Parlay
Woo" The Unemployed Council Of
Washington Heights is a newly
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-21
NEW STRIKE CERTAIN IN KY.
TENN; MINERS OUT TO WIN
Evicted Miners Family
Forced to Live In
Chicken Coop
Relief Need Urgent
Workers Must Show
Their Solidarity

YATESBORO, Pa, Aug. 19-(by
maiD One evicted family moved in
to a chicken coop here; beds, stove,
clothes, babies and all. The whole
family is crowded into the little coop
that formerly housed the chickens
belonging to a sympathetic farmer.
Now chickens, family and furniture
are all sheltered from the rain in the
little wooden shed.
In the adjoining barn, another big
family is crowded Rags on the
ground serve as a floor The depu-
ties pick the days when the rain is
coming down in torrents to break
into strikers homes and say. Back
to work. or out of the house you goi"
Here in Central Pennsylvania, min
ers are forced to load coal with coke
forks. Every miner knows what that
means. The prongs are very far
apart and only very large Jumps of
coal can be loaded; smaller pieces fall
through. That means that about half
the coal mined reaches the tipple to
be weighed, and then the weight has
a habit of shrinking when the COM
pany weighman reads the scales. And
the pay? Starvation!
Company Invites Explosion.
The Pennsylvania state laws for
bid throwing slack (smaller pieces of
coaD into the COB where slate (the
rock that runs in thick veins through
the coaD, is disposed of. But the
miners here are instructed to throw
all coal that falls through the coke
fork into the COB. This is directly in
viting an explosion in the mine.
The miners are fighting against
starving to death, and working under
conditions that already have caused
hundreds of deaths. That is why so
many are moving into chicken coops,
sheds, barns-even stables, to avoid
being forced back to work. On the
basis Of local demands, the miners
who could not Fold out and went
back to work, are being called to join
with the strikers in renewed struggle.
These local demands must be wo.l!
Help the miners win their de-
mandsl Send ycur contribution to
the Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Viz
ginia, Kentucky, Striking Miners Re-
lief Committee, Room $50, 7s9 Broad
way, New York City.
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PENN. ADMITS
DEATHS FROM
STARVATION
Extent of Hunger Is
Concealed by Govt
Figures on Deaths

The annual report of the Bureau
of Vital Statistics Of Pennsylvania
admits that two workers died Of
starvation in the state in 1880. This
open admission that there is starva-
ton in the United States bellies all
Of the lying statements that there Is
no starvation in the United States,
that have been made by the capital
ist class and its agents in the appa-
ratus of the state and in control Of
the relief organizations.
The statement that two workers
died in Pennsylvania of starvation
means that in these two cases the
capitalist class was unable to assign
any other cause for death. Dozens
Of more workers died. but In these
cases the cause for death was prob
ably given under the head OF one or
another of the many diseases that
attack the worker who is weakened
by hunger.
The true figures. not those the
capitalist class publishes, would re-
veal that thousands of workers and
workers children have died of star
walton or Of disease brought about by
starvation during the past year.
AS winter approaches and the crisis
deepens these deaths will increase
sharply. The workers of the United
States must save themselves from
physical destruction by taking up .
gigantic struggle against capitalist
starvation. Intensity the struggle
immediate relief and unemployment
Insurance. Organize the fight against
,huneeAs 4
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Allentown Strike Delegates
Pledge Solidarity at Huge
Strike Meet in Paterson

PATERSON, Aug. 20-This morn
ing's special strike rally was the big
gest and most enthusiastic meeting
that has yet been held in the strike.
The balconies of the Turn Hall were
filled and hundreds of workers lined
the walls. The outstanding feature of
the meeting was the delegation of
the Allentown workers who came to
pledge their solidarity and to expose
the sellout of the UTW in Allentown.
Each one of the delegation said that
the fight had only begun. One of the
strikers summed up the spirit of the
Allentown workers as follows: I'VE
are rallying our forces and in a short
time we will strike again This time
it will be a real strike with a real
leadership and under the banner of
real union, the National Textile
Workers Union"
Allentown Workers Join NTWU.
One Of the Allentown strikers, a
member of the UTW, tore up his
card in the sell OUT union in sight of
the entire mass of workers at the
meeting. He said that 300 workers
had joined the NTWU in the one
day that had elapsed since the strike
was sold by the UTW. The strike is
not settled although the UTW told
the workers to go back. At least 1000
workers attend the strike meetings
every day. Those workers who went
back to the shops want nothing to
do with the UTW. They recognize
the UTW as the enemy Of the work
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ers and realize that they must gel
rid of it.
Rubin, secretary of the Genera
Strike Committee, pointed out the
lesson that the Paterson workers
must learn from the Allentown strike
sell out. The fight of the strikers
must be intensified to prevent the
fake sell outs and settlements of the
UTW-Associated-AFL outfit. The
strikers must prevent the bosses and
the AFL unions from discriminating
against members of the NTWU in
the shops. These lessons, Rubin en-
phasized, must be learned by every
striker in the city.
Mother Bloor Exposes Takers.
Mother Bloor received tremen-
dous ovation from the workers pres
ent when she rose to speak. The
workers stood up and cheered for
several minutes. She told the strik-
ers of the awakening of ever more
workers in the country to struggle
against capitalist oppression. She
explained the role of the UTw as
shown in its long history of betrayal
OF the workers interests. The role
of the UTW is the same as that OF
Green at the head of the AFL and
Lewis, the head of the United Mine
Workers, and that role is one of SELL
ing out the workers to the bosses on
every occasion. They don't want
unity" said Mother Bloor, because
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-21
City Wide Demonstrations
Tomorrow to Protest Boss
Terror Against Workers
Demand Amnesty For All Class War Prisoners On The
4th Anniversary of Execution Of Sacco-Vanzetti

NEW YORK.-Leading the struggle for
immediate amnesty for all class war prisoners,
and in sharp protest against all forms of capt.
talist class terror, the International Labor De-
Tense has organized series of open air meet
ng and demonstrations which will be held Saturday August
o. the fourth anniversary the execution Sacco and
zetti, in all boroughs of Greater New York.
Preparations completed for big demonstrations
and marches in workngcass sections Harlem workers
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necessary that every
workers organization,
every relief committee
and every work er
should collect twice as
much as it has up to
now. The tactical turn
for unity with the
working miners for de-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-21
FIGHT AGAINST HUNGER!

special supplement of the Daily Worker to be devoted
to the Communist Partys program of struggle against
starvation advertised to appear tomorrow August g. has
been postponed.
1t will be published on the following Saturday the
Daily Worker of Saturday, August 49,
Workers must special
No extra cost; postpaid
program separately cents per
100, 100O
NOW
Remember the date Of publication: Saturday August 20.
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miners on strike than
fun DIS received can
feed them. There are
still ten times more
evictions than we can
provide tents for.
For purposes of con-
solidating forces for
further struggles it is
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-21
Harlan Judge Threats Defense
Attorneys Because of Exposure
Labor Defense Lawyer Taub Is Told He viii Be
Put On Spot; Reign Of Terror Against Miner
Witnesses and Defense

HARLAN, KY, Aug. 20-Because they ex-
posed his connections with the coal companies
in this vicinity which hired gunner to shoot
down coal miners, Judge D. c. Jones, who is
presiding in the trial against IS miners framed
murder harge yesterday fined Ben Golden and F. NJ
Hail. attorneys for the International Labor Defense $50 each
for contempt of court
The affidavts, it learned exposed that the judge
receives money from coal companies is closely allied with
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are on the increase.
Workers everywhere,
rally to the support of
the Central Strike
Committee and the Ma
tional Miners Union
and the Penn-O hio-W
Virginia and Kentucky
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-21

PITTSBURGH, Pa,
Aug. 90" The miners
relief campaign must
double in mass support
and collections imme-
diately in every city. In
all cities where there is
no relief committee,
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one must be organized
Immediately. The min
ers will continue their
fight against starva-
ton upon the basis of.
a g ain mobilizing all
forces to drive hunger
from the mining fields.
There are still more
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-21

Striking Miners Relief
Committee to assist the
miners in their militant
battle against m ass
starvation imposed by
the coal operators.
Rush funds and food
so that the miners can
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-21

mands upon the coal
operators on the basis
of each mine, necessi-
tates increased solidar-
ity on the part of all
workers everywhere.
Demands for relief
from Kentucky and
Central Pennsylvania
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-21
)UBIE THE MASS SUPPORT OF THE MINERS RELIEF CAMPAG

double their fighting
strength and forces. :"
Frank BOrich. Sec'y of
the National Miners
Union.
Vincent Kemenovitch,
Sec'y Rank and File
Strike Committee
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formed one, having had only two
meetings before the eviction.
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The Washington times., 1931-11-09
BRIDGE TRAFFIC
IN BIC JAM

Park police, Arlington county
officers and a detail Of Washing
ton police spent three hours yes
terday untangling traffic jam
at Highway Bridge which was es-
timated to have involved more
than $4,000 automobiles.
The jam, which became acute at
4 o'clock, was occasioned by the
number of motorists who were
seeking to drive along the uncom-
pleted Mt. Vernon highway to
view the autumn beauties of the
river. The approach to the road
has not been completed and con-
fusion as to the best way to enter
it responsible for the jam.
Thomas H. Macdonald, director
of the Bureau of Public Roads,
viewed the tangle Of cars which
stretched for two miles along each
of the three roads which converge
at the bridge, and threatened to
close the new highway to traffic.
The Washington times., 1931-11-09
IRELAND FACES
SUB-MACH|NE
GUN RULE
BY LINTON WELLS
Copyright, 1881, by lnterna tional
News Servicel

News Servicel
DUBLIN. Nov. 9 0NSJ Rule
Of the gun has been revived in
ireland by on alliance Of Com.
muniSts and agitators for Irish
independence of England, vii.
liam c. Cosgrave, president of
the Irish Free State. declared
here today IN an interview with
International News Service.
The insurgent minority now in
revolt against the established
government is receiving aid both
from Moscow and from the
United States. American sub
machine guns have made their
appearance in the arsenalS of
the Irish Republican army, the
illegal organization which Cos
grave declared does not repre-
sent one-tenth Of the opposition
to the government he heads.
Appeals to America
In a message to the American
people through international News
Service, Cosgrave said:
1--WE ask them not to be
miSled into contributing towards
movements which encourage
destruction under the guise of
patriotism"
President Cosgrave continued:
'During the nine years my
government has been in office,
we have established law and
order, immensely improved eco
nOmic conditions, completed
land purchases, developed the
agricultural industry and nat
ural resources and placed ma
ti0nal finances on a firm,
stable basis.
Gun Rule Revived
"NOw a small group of NAL
contents calling themselves the
Irish Republican Army. opera.
. ting under the aegis of Irish
independence and egged ON and
abetted by certain Communist
elements, have revived the rule
Of the gun and are attempt
ing to destroy what we have
built.
81 won't permit it. This is
my government. helped to
make it and 1 intend that it
shall survive"
The majority of the prisoners
who will face a military court
are being held virtually incom.
municado, International News
Service learns.
Explaining the difference be-
tween the old public safety law
and the present one Cosgrave
said.
'The present one has less
artistry and more teeth. The
deportation provision has been
eliminated. After all, where
could you depOrt an Irishman?"
The Washington times., 1931-11-09
HoboeS Collect Toll
From AutOiStS At
Highway Bridge

Added to the troubles OF mo-
torists, in the traffic jam at
Highway Bridge late yesterday
was the new racket attempted
by three "hoboes." Park Police
man j. E. Shawhan said the
trio stretched a cable across
the Mt. Vernon Highway, in
Arlington county, and collected
rs cents toll from every car they
let pass.
Shawhan said he found the
three last night huddled about
a campfire near the railway
underpass counting their re-
ceipts, and, lacking authority
to arrest them there, made them
leave.
The Washington times., 1931-11-09
Times League Team
To Get NeU Balls

Members of the She'll baseball
team, champion colored team in
The Washington Times Baseball
League, will be presented with
new baseballs at the Lincoln
Theater tomorrow at $50 p. m.
The presentation will be made
by Col. Cammel johnson, U. s. A.,
and Rufus Byers will preside.
The team won all of the 27
games which it played.
The Washington times., 1931-11-09
Jai1bird Kills MayOr,
Police Chief, BGbu

SOFIA, Bulgaria. Nov. 9 UNSD.
Search was on today for Sladkow
Manaloff, recently escaped con-
Wet, who ran amuck with re-
volver and an axe in the village
of Kuaritz, killing eight persons,
including the local mayor. the
police chief, a baby and an
octogenarian,
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-06-21
Harrington
CAErEN CLUB A
SUMNER WORK

The Garden club net IN the home
q the president. Mrs A J Pollard
Out a. town guests we're: Mrs
French and Miss French. Combes.
Mrs n w Leach. president OF the
san Benito Garden club.
The club Will take I'D as parti-
cular work for the summer and
IN preparation for thu next flower
show and the floral exhibit az the
Valley Nid-WI1ter Fair. the study
NJ the classification ~ roses and
other flowers. In this wav there
VII Ne sufficient data for the
D'acinE az an flowers IN exhibit.
m their proper class. with botan-
meal names and whether native
70 this country or imported
Mrs r w Leach will act as
chairman of this committee. With
Mrs & r. McTnnIs. as one CT the
committee members. the others Vill
be selected later
Rose culture Will be a feature Of
TIE club work. during the Fall. The
flower show held here TN Nav was
such a success that plans will he
made on a larger scale for the next
n
The club viii take a vacation ~
one month as 81 many members
are ont Of town