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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-21

worker that there is nothing wrong
with him and that he can go back
to work. Very often this boss tool Of
a doctor intim1dates the workers by
warning them that if they stay away
from work very long they will lose
their jobs. However. if the worker
is seriously injured he must lay in
bed two and three weeks before he
gets the miserable compensation
Of So a week.
No Compensation.
A worker was hurt while on the
Job and lost almost a weeks pay
because she was unable to work To
take the accident case to court.
which is also under the control Of
the company. would mean the loss
of the job and she would not get any
compensation anyway. So she did
not do any thing about it,
The workers here feel the oppres-
sion and speed-up and although We
never had union here, we would be
glad to be organized and hope that
someone from your Trade Union
Unity League Will come out here and
help us. "A Worker,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-21
MASS INDIGNATION ROUSED
BY ALABAMA MASSACRE

will mobilize the Negro and white
workers all over the country in pro-
test against this massacre of Negro
share choppers in Alabama. and de-
mands the right Of Negro and white
choppers, tenants and poor farmers
to organize meet and defend them
selves against lynch mobs The In
ternational Labor Defense will un-
dertake the defense of those in Jail.
and its attorneys are leaving imme-
diately for Dadeville for a prelim-
mary hearing which takes place Mon
day, July 20"
Workers Stirred to Depths
BY Outrage
Negro and white workers through
out the country are stirred TO their
depths by the Camp Hill massacre.
Scores of meetings are being called
to protest this latest outrage against
the oppressed Negro people. Pro-
test kilograms have been sent to the
Governor of Alabama and Chief of
Police Wilson from several meetings
held within the past two DAYS. At
these meetings the workers furiouslv
denounced the bloody terror of the
Alabama bosses and the traitorous
support OF that terror by the NAACP
misleaders who rushed into print in
Sundays boss papers not TO condemn
the attack on the share troopers but
to attack the Communist Party for
supporting the struggles of the share
choppers against the starvation con-
ditions imposed by the landowners
Demonstrate Against Boss War and
Terror August First
The working class protests against
the horrible prosecutions and bloody
terror against the Negro people will
take on new force and emphasis on
August First when millions of work.
ers in the United States, in Europe.
in China, South Africa, etc, will take
the streets in militant support Of the
struggles of the Negro masses. and in
stern resistance to the war prepara
tons of the imperialist bosses and
their plans for Intervention against
the Soviet Union
Negro workers, white and black OF
the United Statesl Demonstrate on
August First against the capitalist
system Of unemployment, starvation.
wage cuts. race hatred. lynching and
terror against the working class,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-21
NEWARK DAILY WORKER CLUB TO
HAVEEACH MEMBER ORGANIZE HIS
FRIENDS; FOLLOW THIS EXAMPLE!

Boy. that Newark Daily Worker
Club is hitting a fast pace! The
clubs executive committee met the
other day and made a number of
proposals that are corkers. In fact,
they Should be followed by every
other Daily W orker Club.--
Here is one idea. It's simple,
bat how 1t will build the Daily if
properly carried out: The execu-
tive committee proposed that each
member of the Newark Club ar
range n social gathering of SYM
pathizers and friends In his own
neishberhood and explain to them
the role OF the Daily Worker. In
other words, each member be-
comes the organizer of another
Daily Worker Club.
Will Visit Organisa tions.
And here is another idea: A com
mittee is to be appointed to go to
organizations and speak to them
about the Daily Worker. Each or
ganisation is to be asked to elect a
representative TO keep in close touch
with the activities of the Newark
Daily Worker Club. Revolutionary
competition in the gathering of subs
for the Daily is to be started among
the various organizations, with three
prizes to be given to the winners.
The Daily Worker Club is also to
participate in this competition.
And still another idea: The estab-
lishment of a workers correspon-
dsnce group as part of the Daily
Worker Club to supply the Daily
with material about the conditions
of the workers i'll Newark.
Now let's see whether the Newark
Club will actually put these propo-
sails into effect And let's see how
many other clubs will take them up.
Especially important is the idea of
having each member become the
Nucleus of another club. A social
gathering, with refreshments and
entertainment, at which talk can
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-21
Meet Of ImperialistS on German Crisis
Drives to War; Give Your Answer Aug. |

feeling that Secretary Stimson and
Secretary Mellon left Paris Sunday
night for London"
The London conference has opened
in this piling up of sharper antag-
onism of all the imperialist powers.
In Germany, the fascist DEGREES
are being manipulated against the
workers.
The j. F. Schroeder Bank of Bre
men, with S3,50o,0oo involved crashed
on Monday. This is the most i'm
portant bank in this seaport city.
The so-called emergency DEGREES
for the re-opening of banking opera
tons are not working at all. The
banks are not open, but merely go
through the PAGES rekuired, Of them
by the Bruening government. A
New York Evening Post cable from
Berlin says:
"As q matter of fact. the new
rules provide for no resumption
(of banking business) and only
give an opportunity for the with
drawal of the minimum sums ne
cessary TO satisfy the necessities
of life"
The same correspondent says If
the situation continues much lon
ger hundreds of factories will close
and the unemployed ranks will be
increased by the millions.
On August 1st throughout the
world the revolutionary workers
will mass to demonstrate against
the war preparations of the imper-
iahst powers. Every worker should
join in. Smash the war moves! De-
mand all war funds be turned over
to the unemployed for jobless re-
lief! All out August LIST!
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be given on the Daily followed by
discussion, is the best method; and
it's simple.
differentiation of DAILY"
But not all workers realize the
Importance of the Daily Worker
and the outstanding role it is play
ing In the struggles of the work
ers. This is especially true Of
many comrades who have been i'm
the movement for some time, i'm
GLIDING leading functionaries. This
question was brought up at re-
cent Daily Worker banquet i'm New
Haven, Conn. The district organ
izer of the International Labor De-
Tense, speaking at the banquet,
said that the committee that ar
ranged the affair hadn't taken the
trouble to notify the New Haven
Local of the, LID, which met the
day before that the banquet was
going TO be held. The district ID.
W. agent reported that nearly
everybody, Including the respon-
sibIe committee, failed to partici-
pnte in the house-to-house coiiec-
tions for the Daily.
This attitude is not peculiar t.
New Haven. 1t can be found all over
the country. The rank and file
workers, the thousands of unem-
ployed, those who are fighting or
the picket lines, are willing TO dc
anything for the Daily but many OF
those who care supposed to be the
vanguard of the working class and
to provide leadership find time fol
everything except activity for the
Daily Worker. This situation mus
he changed at once! Party members
must take the initiative in collecting
funds. in securing subs, in organ
izing Daily Worker Clubs, in spread.
ing and building the Daily I'm every
way. Only in this way will the Daily
become in truth the voice and or
raniser of the great working class
battles that are looming.
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CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE,

ternational Labor Defense is defend
ing the so Negro choppers who were
arrested and are being framed up
by the landowners and their police
and county tools. Charges of assault
with intent to murder have been pre-
ferred against five Of these workers.
Twenty have been charged with con-
spring to commit a felony, seven
with carrying concealed weapons.
Similar lying charges will no doubt
be placed against the others. They
are to have a preliminary hearing
Monday. The following statement
was issued today by the Southern
District lid:
lid Denounces Police Murderers
The murder of Ralph Gray by
Sheriff J. Kyle Young and deputies,
and the probable lynching of four
other Negro share troopers at Camp
Hill, Alabama, by police and land
owners, is an effort to drown in blood
the struggle of the choppers against
starvation" declared Lowell Wake
field, secretary Of the Southern dis
trict. These troopers, organizing to
obtain the bare necessities of life.
we're protesting the attempted legal
lynching of the nine Negro boys at
Scottsboro, Alabama, whose death
sentences they rightly denounced.
Every attempt on the part Of Ne
gro and white workers and poor
farmers to organize against starva-
ton or against the bosses terror is
met with rope, fagot and shot. These
Negro share troopers were organized
against the plan put through on July
/ by the landowners and Tallapoosa
County Chamber of Commerce to cut
off food allowances to the share
troopers and tenants, leaving them
to starve to death. The Choppers
Union during the past few months,
has been organizing in this territory
for the following demands:
DEMANDS OF UNION
"That food advances continue
until settlement time, settlement to
be made in full by cash, giving the
troopers and tenants the right to
sell crops where they see fit; the
right Of the garden for home use;
three-hour midday rest period.
The International Labor Defense
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Unemployed Demand Relief for Family of 10

hospital cue TO burns on her hands
caused by using pure I've because
she couldn't get soap to wash with.
The case was callde to the attention
of the charities at that time.
We are going back in q couple OF
days with a larger committee force
the charities to give a real relief to
this family. We are also getting
ready for big unemployment dem
onstration to be held here against
war. Anyone who thinks just lit
tie bit will agree that the war debts
will never be paid and that it wont
be long before the capitalist govern
ments will call on the workers to
shoulder guns and go not and coll
lect the debts for the bosses.
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CARPENTERS AND MINERS LEAVING
D FOR SOVIET UNION AID THE DAILY

Workers who do not want their
names published because of pos
sibla persecution should indicate
this In sending In their contribu-
tons. Collectors should ask those
4sho contribute whether they want
their names printed.
Fridays totals went up to S4sI.29,
This shows that there is still q good
deal of life in sthe Daily Worker
driYe. We must keep it up until the
extra $1,000 is raised.
Quite number of the districts
Which had been down in the rut
spurted for the day District l
(Boston) sent in s42.S5 District 5
tpittsbursh), SS7; District ODE
troit), s5460; District 9 (Minneapo-
lisl. sl7.66 and District Is Com
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dictions would be gravely comprom-
ised."
This recalls the admission made by
David Lloyd George. leading British
capitalist politician, in which he
said war Is driving nearer. Several
weeks ago, Lloyd George declared:
I'm the last war you had hOr-
rible time. The next war is incon-
ceivable, yet the world is going on
steadily, horribly, stupidity march
ing on the next war. singing songs
of peace and preparing for war;"
More evidence of the sharpening
conflicts at Paris between all 2he
imperialist powers as to who is TO
save Germany from Bolshevism and
which power is to make the greatest
profit in the undertaking is con-
tanned in special dispatch from
Paris by William Bird, special cor
respondent for the New York Sun.
Bird cables:
''The mystery of what happened
between the French and Germans in
the private conferences of the two
government heads here over the
week end has deepened, and this
correspondent was informed today
that even Secretary Stimson of the
American state department and
Secretary Of the Treasury Mellon re-
ceived no inkling of what occurred.
He goes on to say that France was
adopting a go it alone policy and
had more or less plainly intimated
that American and British assistance
was not needed.
This attitude has created feel
ing of distrust, and it was with this
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-21
MINERS RELIEF
HITS ATTEMPTS
TO HALT HELP
Pittsburgh Magistrate
Statement Worst Kind
of Strikebreaking

PITTSBURGH, Pa.-Replying 10
Magistrate Leo Rothenberg's state
ments that "this collection is a rack
ct" and that none of the money
goes to the striking miners" in con-
nection with the dismissal of 18 min
ers who were arrested for partici-
pating in the tag day for miners
relief, the Pennsylvania Ohio-West
Virginia Striking Miners Relief Com
mittee, GIL Penn Ave, denounced
them as "the most contemplate
form of strike breaking-an attempt
to prevent the feeding Of the hun
CRY miners, their wives and children"
All boxes issued TO the collectors
in Pittsburgh, with the exception Of
those taken by the police, we're
turned in in a regular fashion to the
Pennsylvania-Oh = st Virginia
Striking Miners Relief Committee,
and all the funds are used to buy
food for the starving miners.
This rumor about Big Mike
who is said to have disappeared with
more than $1,000 is absolutely I'M
true. Nobody has disappeared. All
the collection boxes are accounted for
but the money in the boxes of the
prisoners arrested is not accounted
for, The story of the police that
this money in the arrested miners
boxes at the Central Police Station
was used to buy the prisoners food,
is untrue. The prisoners got no food
except sandwiches and coffee sent
in to them by and at the expense
of the Pennsylvania-Ohi West Viz
GINA Striking Miners Relief Com
mittee.
1.-THE collection was conducted by
the local relief committee, affiliated
to the Pennsylvania Ohio West Vir-
ginia Striking Miners Relief Com
mittee. All the collectors knew
that permit had been refused on
three different occasions by the
City Welfare Department. There
was never any question of paying
the collectors, as the police charge
All worked in the collection on a
purely voluntary basis, and gladly,
because they knew, as striking min
ers themselves, that all the funds
collected would be used for the
striking miners, distributed and adj
ministered by committees of miners.
The only form in which pay" en-
tered, is that the collectors get, on
the day of the collection, Is cents
to buy sandwiches and coffee, and a
meal was served late in the after
noon when the collection was fin
ished, and when the boxes we're
turned in, to the relief
Reports thus far as to money
taken from the boxes of arrested
prisoners while in the police station
by the police, show:
William Sicily, from Fairhope, had
81 stolen.
Frank Shewshuk from Cokeburg
Junction, had Sc taken from him..
Others include George E. Stern,
of West Brownsville, missed so cents;
Victor Kukler Of Belle Vernon, mis-
sed 20 cents; Andrew Pancek Of
Daiseytown missed 40 cents"
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MASS
PICkETING In
RI. MILLSTRIkE
.Arrange Providence
Anti War Meet Aug. l

NEW YORK.-Capitalist press re-
ports from Rhode Island tell of the
mobilization of the workers for mass
picketing at the mills on strike, and
the attempts of the police through a
massing of armed force to stop the
picketing.
The "Womens Wear Daily" or
gan of thetextile and garment bos-
ses tells of attempts by business men
in the mill cities to put over a fake
vote to have the men return to work
without insisting on their strike de-
mands. The businessmen, with the
help of the police and the mill own
ers, opened hall in which they in
vited the strikers to vote TO return
to work.
PROVIDENCE, r, L, July 20.-A
United Anti-War Conference held
here Friday night made plans for
the preparations for August LIST, in
ternational day of fight against i'm
perialist war.
Delegates representing eight or
CARNATIONS, including strikers from
the Weybosset american Wooden
Coz local Of the National Textile
Workers Union, participated in the
discussion. giving practical sugges-
tons as to how to involve the men,
bership of their organization in the
work for August l, in order to make
this day real day of protest against
imperialist war and for the defense
of the Soviet Union.
Each organization will participate
in the distribution of the August
leaflets, which takes up the wal
danger and calls upon all workers
Of Providence to participate in the
August anti-war demonstration or
Memorial tMarkeD So. at 3 pm
Stickers we're also taken by the dele
gates to be posted in workers neigh
borhoods and in front Of the shops
and mills.
The conference also decided to
hold open-air meetings in front Of
the U. S. Rubber Plant. The first
meeting will be held next Wednes-
day at IL noon. A committee was
elected in charge of this meeting. A
special leaflet, dealing with the con-
ditions Of the workers in this plant
and calling upon the workers of the
U. S. Rubber Co. to participate in
the August l demonstration, will be
issued by the conference.
1t was decided that this confer
ence meets twice before August 1
to lay further plans and checq up
on work done so far. All organiza-
tons have pledged to have their
membership turn out en- masse on
August l at 8 pm. at Memorial
Market So, Providence.
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necticut), 1860.
Two groups of workers leaving
permanently for the Soviet Union did
not forget their fighting Daily--a
group of carpenters contributed 500
and a group of miners Sic.
Coupon books are not coming in
the way they should. All district
section and unit Daily Worker
agents must see to it that the books
they have given out are turned in
at once, whether filled or not
Money collected on them must not
be kept lying in somebody's pockets
Every effort should be made during
the next few days to raise the eX
ira $1,000 that the Daily needs so
badly. Every district, every fra
terna1 organization must complete
its quota.
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Walters Forced to Pay Bus Boys Wages

Spaghetti House and the Rubin Dell
icatessen Stores:
That cockroach Baxter charges the
workers for these lousy jobs and in
addition encourages the bosses to fire
workers so that he can fatten his own
bank roll at the expense Of the work.
ers.
Baxter and the bosses know that
there are thousands Of walters out
of work and are taking this lousy toll
from them and splitting it $3.50.
Smash these lice who are preying
on the working class. Organize in the
Food Workers Industrial Union, Is
West 21st Street. New York City, and
exterminate these Baxters and other
takers who live on your labor.
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persed, their work for the day being
done and crowned by success. They
left for their homes in trucks, auto
mobiles and by foot.
Women and Children
"In the throng there we're hun
dreds of women and children and it
seems that the incentive to riot and
assault came largely from the wo-
men as they danced about, yelled,
urged and proded their men folk TO
attack the speakers"
Indignant, abashed and defeated,
Philip Murray, international vice.
president, and one of the chief scab-
bers Of the U. M. w, and Frank
Pagan, lamented woefully to capital
list newspaper reporters. Murray
walled about being defeated despite
the fact that I'VE had taken every
precaution to prevent trouble" which
meant they thought they had suf-
ficient gunner to handle the stu
alton. Pagan excused himself, but
said he had to flee from the plat
form"
indicative of rank and file revolt
against the Lewis bureaucracy in the
United Mine Workers is United
Press dispatch from Scranton, tell
ing of a fight precipitated by Boy
lan's plan to railroad the District l
convention:
THE District / convention of the
United Mine Workers broke up in a
riot this afternoon, when insurgents
made a personal attack on President
John Boylan. Several were injured.
"Boylan had called the convention
together after a forced adjournment
earlier in the afternoon and sought
to continue the proceedings.
when the report Of the Creden-
tials Committee was presented Boy
Ian ruled that the convention had
voted favorably on its acceptance
Immediate disorder followed.
Flights broke out around the hall
and crowd Of insurgents rushed to
the stage where Boylan was presid-
ing and attacked him.
State troopers adjourned the con-
ventioI> - $500 ---------
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fBy a. Worker Correspondent

ny q " VI hCl Stt1CS tJAAtASAAbl
NEW YORK, N. Y.--The Griffin
Employment Agency. 1927 Sixth Ave,
makes easy money out of the misery
and unemployment of the workers.
This agency is run by a faker by
the name of Baxter, an ex-waiter
whose chief activity is to send walters
out to jobs which pay no salary They
are forced to exist on the tips they
may get. These walters must also
pay a dollar day out of their tips
for bus boys wages. At the end Of
the week the boss makes the walters
sign a receipt for the Sc as wages in
order to protect himself.
The houses that make practice of
this form Of slavery are: The Joe
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-21
(By Worker Correspondent

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.-A commit
tee from the Unemployed Council
recently went before the charities OF
this city oget more and better re-
lief for a family whose name is Fire
stone. This family consists of 10 at
present to have to live on a basket
of groceries which the city gives the
husband in return for 2 days of
forced labor on the charity chain
gang of the city.
Mrs. Firestone lost a small child
last winter through pneumonia and
starvation. Even the capitalist press
admitted this. At the time of death
of the child Mrs. Firestone was in a
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-21
Kona, Ky.

Dear Sirs:-
: The miners are working for a
starvation wage scale here in the
coal fields Of Eastern Kentucky.
The coal leaders receive from %
TO 80 cents ton. Day labor Is IS
TO 50 cents per hour. Miners pay
S12 month for house rent and SO
for load Of coal. The prices at
the company stores are so high
that II keeps all the miners over
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-21
Call Kono, KY, Miners to Join Strike.
drafted to the company.

drafted to the company.
When pay day comesaround the
miners have nothing left to buy
few clothes that they are so bad
ly in need Of. We will have to get
busy and organize into the real
workingman's union, the National
Miners Union, and go out on strike
like the Pennsylvania miners are
doing. That's the only way we will
defeat this starvation in the mine
fields. "A Daily Worker Reader.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-21
HEAT KILLS FORD WORKER

Daily Worker:
I work at Ford's three days week.
July first we got sent home-the
bosses said it was too hot to work.
What does the boss care if the men
fall from the heat, if they have the
stock piled up. There were $50 men
in the Ford hospital from the heat.
One man died on the way to the
hospital. They have a lot Of stock
piled up, that is why they sent the
men home.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-21
BEACON NAT. BISCUIT
LAYS OFF, SPEEDS UP
WORKERS AT LOW PAY
Fire Workers Over IS Years Old; Many
Collapse Under Strain
Never Had A Union, But Want to Organize to
Better Conditions ..u..
(By a Worker Correspondent

BEACON N Y-The National Biscuit Company in Beacon
of the worst speed places there is Only last week
so workers were thrown out of work. while the packing de-
partment shut down entirely
The workers that fired all 32 years Old
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-21
Repudiate UNIV; Plan Strike Action;
Smash Pagan Scab Meeting

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