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Milford chronicle., 1931-03-20
ANDREWYILLE

Mr.. and Mrs. George b. Vincent
Mr.. and Mrs. c.. r. Griffith and
daughter Helen mOtored to Green
wood on Sunday to view the ruins
of the fire. ..,...
Mr.. and Mrs. John Schlegle spent
last. week with their parents, Mr.
and Mrs. George Vincent.
Mrs. G.. A. Henry of Hobbs, Md,
has purchased a new Chevrolet
coach and Friday she was a visitor
Milford chronicle., 1931-03-20

Dur Weekly Program Mailed ReIuestA
Screen Entertainment Or The Entire Family
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-19
TRADE UNION UNITY LEAGUE
SAYS KENTUCKY Mine STRIKE WILL
SPREAD TO NEIGHBORLNG STATES

italist civilization. The UMWA is
seconding these movements with its
strike breaking policy. The IWW is
trying to sabotage and confuse the
movement. But the Kentucky min
ers, resisting all these disruptive
forces, are uniting and standing to-
gether in a splendid manner. The
organization of the Kentucky miners
by the National Miners Union in the
past six months, after the previous
struggle had been broken by the U.
NJ. w. A. treachery, the use of troops
by the government and wild CAM
paign of violence by the operators, is
one of the greatest recent achieve
ments of the American labor move
ment.
"The Trade Union Unity League
heartily endorses the strike call of
the Kentucky miners and calls upon
the workingclass to give it every pos
sible support. In this strike, the ques-
ton of relief is of major Importance,
the workers even while on the job,
being already on the verge of starva-
ton. 1t is necessary, therefore, to
develop the broadcast relief campaign
this country has ever seen. This re-
lief campaign must be connected up
with military defense of the Har-
Ian miners now facing trial. 1t must
involve vast masses of unorganized
and A. F. of L. workers. The T.U.UL.
unions must do their part in this,
together with the Workers Interna-
tional Relief. They must participate
in the United Front Kentucky Mine
Strike Relief Committees that will be
set up. They must stir up their local
organizations and connections for &C
tive participation in this work. Every
industrial center must have a power
full relief movement. The fight of
the Kentucky miners is the fight of
the whole workingclass and it must
be Won"
National Committee, TUUL,
VIM. z. Foster. Sec'y.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-19
Jim Grace to Speak
In Pittsburgh On
Coming Mine Strike

PITTSBURGH, Pa, - Jim Grace,
militant leader of the Harlan, Ken
lucky miners, will.speak to the work.
ers of Pittsburgh on Saturday Dec.
10, at a meeting held under the aus
pices of the International Labor De-
Tense in the Workers Center, 2157
Center Ave, at pm. The next night,
Sunday. a banquet to greet Grace
here will be held at the same place
at TOO pm.
Jim Grace was one of the leaders
taken for ride" by the gun thugs
elements who did not like his activi
ties in organizing the miners of Ken
lucky. With Tom Meyerscough, now
serving two year sentence in Blaw-
nox Worxhouse, Allegheny County
Pa, in connection with the recent
strike of the Pennsylvania miners.
Grace was taken out in the woods
and shot at while he made his escape,
1.-THE workers of Pittsburgh will not
want to miss this chance to hear a
first-han daccount of the struggle
taking place in Harlan, where the
Dresser Committee has been indicted"
said Fred Bell. local organizer Of the
International Labor Defense.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-19
FASCIST GROUPS
SHOW THEIR HEAD
IN AUSTR ALIA
Bosses Fear Success of
Communists

The New Guard, fascist organ
ization recently formed in New South
Wales, has issued a call saying that it
intended purging the community OF
Communism and forcing the unions
to GUST the Communists. They have
sent petition to King George ask
ing that parliament be dissolved.
The formation of this fascist force
and few others in Australia follows
the tremendous victories of the revo-
lutionary movement in this section of
the British Empire. Recently the Aus
tralian Railwaymen's Union and the
New South Wales carpenters union
decided to affiliate with the Red In
ternational of Labor Unions. A few
weeks ago the shipping industry was
paralyzed by a strike under revolu-
tionary leadership and now miners
and railway workers of Queensland
are on strike.
Although this New Guard declares
itself ready to smash Communism
regardless of law, the labor premier,
Lang, beat them with law passed
last June) which defines sedition as
any act which tends ito bring the
Sovereign into hate or contempt, Or
promotes feeling Of ill-will between
classes. The Labor Party councils in
New South Wales are calling for the
outlawing of the Communist Party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-19
Censorship Clamps Down On
Films Of the Hunger March
But Workers Film, Photo Group Has Complete
Record of March; Will Show About Country

record the National Hunger March
Dec. 6 and 7 here They all took ex-
tensive film and sound records. But
managers Of these companies frankly
told the arrangements committee
members who inquired when the pic
lures would run that, ''The govern
ment is looking them over" and
probably none Of them will ever be
shown to the public"
NEW YORK. anticipating that
the capitalist news film companies
would either themselves censor the
pictures of the National Hunger
March, or would submit TO censorship
by the federal authorities, the Work
ers International Relief Film and
Photo League prepared a complete
history ON march. The pictures in
cIude the attack bN4 police in Ham
nond and the splendid resistance by
the crowd of workers and the march,
ers. They include the scenes before
the Capitol, the White House and
ALL. headquarters. They show the
nlihtancy of the imarchers, the sing
ing of the International on the Capt.
toll grounds, and the mrderous prep
arations of the police, armed with
machine guns and gas.
This film will be shown about the
country. It's first appearance In New
York will be Sunday at 1870 pm. at
Star Casino.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-19
MOONEY BACKS
FIGHT ON 1892
BOSS OLYMPIC
Accents Guardianship
Of Labor Sports

NEW York.-The Labor Sports
Union is in receipt of telegram sent
by Tom Mooney in which he accepts
the honorary Craftsmanship of the
Anti Olympics Committee and en-
dorses the fight against the 1892
Olympic games.
Mooney calls for renewed strug-
gle against the class which has kept
him prisoner for tSe last sixteen
years en- one of the mast callous
frame-ups in history. Recognizing
the class against class nature of the
opposition International Workers
Athletic Meet to be held in Chicago
next year, Mooney wishes the Labor
Sports Union success in its fight for
an international athletic meet.
Negroes, Soviet athletes and fac
tory sportsmen, who have not the
ghost Of show of participating in
the Olympics because of the "star"
system of choosing entries, because of
the policy of Jim CrowiSm of the
Olympics Committee and because of
the hatred Of the capitalist world for
the Soviet Union, will be the back
bone of the entire Workers Meet. 1t
will be major blow at the method
employed by the capitalist class for
winning over the working class youth
through the medium of sports. Moo
ney's telegram is as follows:
Accept honorary Craftsmanship
united front Anti-Olympic commit
tee. Hope organization International
Workers Athletic Meet successful.
Heartily endorse program boycotting
Olympics in state which keeps me
prisoner on perjured testimony for
sixteen years. Demonstrations should
demand publication of the Wicker
sham report buried in Washington
exposing Mooney frame-up. Both
boycott and pardon should be inter
national issue. Fraternal greetings.
(SigneO tom MOONEY"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-19
JAIL LAWRENCE
HUNGER MARCHER


LAWRENCE, Mass, Dec. IT,
George Gerard, a member of the I'm
employed Council and one of the Ma
tional Hunger Marchers,- was taken
from his boarding place to the police
station. There he was beaten and al
most strangled by the police, saying,
you're a Communist, damn you"
The worker answered that he is o
native born citizen, being born in st
Johnsbury, Vet. The cops left him
only when he was lying flat on the
floor in his cell.
He was kept one day without bread
or water, and then later let out of
Jail. The Unemployed Council is pre-
pairing protest meeting with the
aid of the International Labor De-
tense.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-19
Communist Daily
Shut, Many Jailed
in German Terror
Referendum in Saxony
Passes First Stage
Gable by Inprecorr)

BERLIN, Dec. 17.-Yesterday the
Communist daily newspaper. so
cialist Republic, which is published
in Cologne, was suppressed for a fort
night under the Emergency Decree
against political excuses in connec-
ton with the alleged biased reports OF
the collisions between workers and
fasciSts.
Yesterday the Supreme Court at
Leipzig sentenced two workers to two
years and six months hard labor each
on the charge of treason in connec-
ton with anti-militarist work car
ried on by the workers. A third work
err was sentenced to two years in a
fortress. A girl was sentenced to three
months imprisonment for theft" be-
cause she provided the other accused
with certain material obtained from
her workplace.
Yesterday the police raided the Of
fees Of the Communist Party in REM
schied confiscating three typewriters,
much printed material, manuscripts
and the like. Five editors were ar
rested.
Official figures show that the
first round of the Communist Peo-
pies referendum against the Saxon
government and favoring the dis
solution Of the Diet has been sue
cessfuI. Should the Diet stili refuse
to dissolve, the second round fol-
lows in which so per cent of the
electorate must support referen-
dunn.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-19
Police Used Poison
Gas In Raid Friday

EAST ST. LOUIS, ILL.,, Dec. 49,
All 16 of the workers and unem-
ployed workers arrested in the police
raid Dec. IL, with bail first set at
$1,000 each on framed "vagrancy''
"'0-'-'~T co"'e IN in court Wednesday,
and are now all out on reduced bail
cd through the
activities of the International Labor
Defense.
In the face of the workers re-
sentiment and open criticisms by the
capitalist press that the "job was
bungled," and open admission that
the police force and city authorities
are hooked up with the notorious
Shelton gang of robbers and booze
runners, Police Chief Leahy kept his
uniformed thugs somewhat in the
background.
But it was brought out at the trial
that the police conducted the raid, in
true gangster fashion on meeting
in private house, at which workers
were planning organization of the
unemployed. The police not only
flourished and fired their guns, but
shot into the room gas known as
mo. A. which as a mixture of tear
and mustard gas, this last being a
terrible poison which corrodes the
lungs, 1t was the deadliest gas used
in the world war. 1t is strictly for
hidden by police regulations and the
manufacturers to use mo. 4" in an
enclosed space.
Meant to XIII Workers
To shoot this gas into room full
of people in private house, showed
clear attempt to murder the work
erS there. just how they escaped
death is somewhat of a mystery.
Some current OF air, or the natural
hardihood of the workers themselves
seems to have saved them. T'7"~a
Dol'cs were IS much overcome by
their own gas that they were sent to
q hospital. One of them. fleeing
madly from the room, dropped his
machine gun. Detective Sergeant
Coombs went in to get it, and the
gas got him. He came out splitting
blood, and shortly after that dropped
dead.
All Workers Sick
The local capitalist press admits
that the prisoners were all made i'll
by the gas, and one of them, Har-
old Cisco, was burned by it, Mus
tard gas got its name in the war
from its ability to burn the flesh,
even when it is not breathed into the
lungc.
The st. Louis Post Dispatch has an
editorial on the police attack as
follows.
"Nctes on Raid"
"a raid by squad OF East st.
Louis, police last Friday evening
on residence where meeting of
alleged Communists was being held
suggests the following points,
II. II shattered the first amend
ment to the Constitution, guar
anteeing citizens the right peace
ably to assemble.
2. Conducted without a search
warrant, II violated tNe fo"-.h
amendment, guaranteeing the rirht !
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-19
Alabama Governor
Approves FlOgging
of JObleSs Veteran

MONTGOMERY, Ala, Dec. 10
Governor B. M. Miller has formally
approved the nogging given James
G. Kirby, unemployed war veteran
at Atmore prison farm.
Flogging an unemployed vet
means that neither the law nor
prison regulations have been vio-
lated" says the governor.
Kirby, looking for work, was ar
rested under the ordinary forced
labor trick of the South. He was
convicted of "vagrancy" in the cir
cult court of Walker County, and
fined $50, which, Of course, he
could not pay and had to work out
on the prison farm. There he was
given a severe whipping like other
prisoners, for not working fast
enough. Now he knows 1.-The world
is safe for democracy"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-19
CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE,

testify to the intensity of this cam
paign of violence and brutality by
the operators The N. M. u. is lead
ing the heroic miners in new and
better organized battle than ever
against the intolerable situation.
1.-THE strike of the Kentucky min
ers is a tremendously important one
1t will enliven the workers all over
the South. If properly organized, it
will open the gateway to the organi-
zation of great masses Of workers in
to the TUUL unions, throughout the
tyrant ridden industrial and agricul-
tural sections in the South. 1t will
give a new lead and inspiration to
the struggle of the workers every
where in the United States. The
strike is extremely important also
because it will draw in huge masses
of Negroes and whites in common
struggle in the face of the most vici-
Gus Jim-Crow lynching system of
terrorism. 1t will unite the employed
and unemployed in the Southern min
ing regions for joint struggle. The
strike marks the further advance OF
the National Miners Union as the Or
ganization of the coal miners and it
shows the tremendous effects pro-
6uced by the great strike of 10000
miners in Western Pennsylvania,
Eastern Ohio, and Northern West Vir-
GINA this spring under the leader
ship of the NMU. This big strike
was bright ray of hope to the min
ers everywhere.
1.-THE coming strike will demand the
utmost solidarity not only on the
part of the workers involved, but OF
the working elias generally. The coal
operators will use every possible
means to break the strike. The gov
eminent is already hard at work try
ing to terrorize and demoralize the
workers. The press is issuing endless
stories that the National Miners
Union is trying to destroy all cap
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-19
Iiberat0r' Parade
in Harlem Today

On Saturday afternoon, between
3 and O'Clock, workers in the
Harlem section of New York City
will receive sample copies of The
Liberator, weekly organ of the
League of Struggle for Negro
Rights when members of the L. S.
N. r., Harlem Unemployed Coun-
Gil, and Others will parade on the
streets in widespread distribution
of the paper. Sandwich signs on
The Liberator campaign for 10000
new readers will be used to attract
and draw Negro and white workers
of Harlem to The Liberator. Com
rades wishing to join the parade
should report to The Liberator,
Room 201, so E. 18th St., Saturday
at 2 Up. M,
Organize Liberator parades for
distribution and sale of old and
current copies, and write the re-
suits to The Libcrator.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-19
Organized JObless of
Milwaukee Force the
Agencies to Give Food

MILWAUKEE,, Wis, Dec. 1.-THE
outdoor Relief Station on Market St,
and the Transient Bureau were pass
ing the buck to each other for three
weeks and letting Cornelius Burnett
and T. Saneida starve to death.
Branch No. ! of the Unemployed
Council took up their cases, sent COM
mittees and forced the granting OF
relief.
The same action got relief for Mrs.
Copeland, a Negro woman the au-
thorities were trying to discriminate
against by telling her that she did
not keep her house clean" and thai
if she kept asking. her children
would be sent to en- institution" She
had no water, no soap, no food, and
could not pay rent.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-19

he would accept almost any trems."
Japan Pouring Troops Into Man
churia
More Japanese troops are being
rushed daily to Manchuria in an eff
fort to crush the rising movement OF
protests and armed resistance among
the Chinese workers and peasants
An additional mixed brigade is to sail
on Saturday. Two battahons of
troops are being sent to Tientsin in
China proper. A Tokyo dispatch re-
ports:
1.-THE military has been complain
ing for weeks that the army's
strength in Manchuria is not ade-
quate for the extent of the territory
being held and that the troops have
been suffering from overwork owing
to incessant bandit fighting in the
hard climate. A better system Of re-
lief was held to be necessary"
An issue of the Japan Advertiser,
an American owned newspaper pub
lished in Tokyo was suppressed yes
terday and the issue confiscated on
the grounds of violation Of the po-
lice censorship order of September %
prohibiting the publication of the
units, type and number of large troop
movements from Japan to Man
churia.
Admits Growth of Revolutionary
Movement In Japan
The growth of the revolutionary
movement in Japan at time Of the
deepening economic and financial
crisis in that country is causing grave
concern not only to the japanese
ruling classes but to all the imperi-
alists. Rodney Gilbert, in an article
in the Herald Tribune engages in a
vicious defense of the white terror
against the Japanese masses. Gilbert
admits that the Manchurian seizure
is part of the imperialiSt plans for
armed intervention against the Sow
let Union.
He reports among the japanese
ruling classes an almost universal
conviction that relations with Soviet
Russia are rapidly approaching a
breakdown and that, however, re-
mote actual war with Russia may
seem, Manchuria must be source of
food supply and secure base of OPP
erations if it ever does come"
Gilbert speaks of the phenomenal
growth of Communistic thought" in
Japan, and admits that the Man
churia seizure is to be followed by a
bloody repression of the masses at
home. He says:
There was talk in Japan months
before military action was taken at
Mukden Of likely Fascist coup,
to be followed by a military dicta-
tOrship that would not only adopt
a forward policy on the mainland.
hue would purge the homeland of
re6icalism."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-19
HUNGER MARCH
SMASHES THRU
EAST ST. LOUIS
CONTINUED FROM PAGE oNE)

own cops, a detective sergeant. The
whole town is seething over it.
Everybody expected an attack on the
National Hunger Marchers going
through, and the marchers did
nothing to make it easy for the police
to save their faces. The Column
consisted of 20 automobiles and
trucks, carrying big signs demanding
the release of the Is workers ar
rested in the police raid. The work
ers were out to support the marchers,
and the police discreetly remained
away with their shot guns and mus
tard gas
Up To Police Station
The procession Of Hunger March
ers went through the main center of
town, and right up to the police
station, where a committee placed
demands for the release of the IL
men and four women, Negro and
white arrested workers.
The procession then circled the
main streets again and went over to
st. Louis proper.
On the way to East st. Louis, the
marcherS were greeted by 200 miners
at Miners Hall, Collinsville. They
rested half hour and reported to
the miners and outlined the next
steps in the struggle for unemploy-
ment insurance. They were met by
an escort of Is cars from st. Louis,
to go with them the rest of the way.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-19
Unemployment Gains
Tn Fascist Italy

NEW YORK. - Unemployment in
fascist Italy showed during the month
of November the greatest increase in
italian history, reaching the unpre-
cedented figure of $4,000. According
to the fascists' own figures, only
100000 received any relief whatsoever.
Side by side with the increasing
mass unemployment the Mussolini re-
gime has intensified its terror cam
paign against the working masses.
Mussolini in a recent speech before
the fascist directorate announced that
new repressive measures would be
taken against all enemies of fascism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-19
Jail LOCO Jobless
In Bucharest Meet

NEW YORK.-Cable reports from
Bucharest, Rumania, to New York
capitalist papers state that 1000
workers were arrested in an unem-
ployed demonstration when they de-
manded unemployment relief. The
police found it difficult to break up
the huge demonstration, and it was
only by repeatedly charging the
crowd and arresting all small groups
that they were able finally to dis
perse the jobless demonstration