The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-07
All Out to Starlight PI':> !.
Today in Solidarity
With Striking Miners
Relief Is Greatest Need
Of Miners Today
Foster Will Speak
Demand Amnes1v For
Class War Pris hers

A gigantic demonstration of solid
aTity with the thousands Of striking
miners and textile workers will be
held today, Solidarity Day, in STAR
light Park and Bronx Coliseum, lit
ST. and West Farms Road, under the
leadership of the Workers Internal
tional Relief.
Solidarity Of the workers against
the bosses is the keynote of today's
gigantic demonstration and festival
at Starlight Park, 177th Street and
West Farms Road solidarity in the
defense of the 9 Negro boys at
Scottsboro, solidarity in the demands
for the release of Mooney and Bill
ings and all the other political pris-
oners now rotting in the bastiles of
the bosses. solidarity with all work
ers in their struggles in the mines,
the shops, on the picket lines and
in the jails.
First-hand accounts of the terror
unleashed against the miners of Har-
Ian, KY. fighting to build their or
ganization, the National Miners IN
ion, VII be heard today Monday
at the Solidarity Festival arranged
by the Workers International Relief
at Starlight Park, fifth st. and West
Farms Road.
The affair, which begins at IL
o'clock in the morning and contin-
ues thru the day and evening. will
mobilize relief for the striking, starv-
ing miners of Kentucky, Western
Pennsylvania and Ohio. It will at
the same time demonstrate for the
immediate release Of Tom Mooney
and all class-war prisoners, for the
liberation of the Scottsboro boys and
against the murderous boss terror in
Kentucky and other coal fields.
Direct from the Western Pennsyl-
vania battlefront, William z. Foster,
national secretary Of the Trade IN
ion Unity League, will describe the
heroic struggle Of the miners to build
thier union in the face of the most
vicious combination they have ever
encountered-the coal operators, the
coal and iron police, the United
Mine Workers Of America and the
entire capitalist press.
William w. Weinstone will speak,
telling of the tremendous signific-
ance of the most recent struggles of
the American workers, emphasizing
the need for the widest mass support
of the entire workingclaSs.
Frank Spector, just released from
San Quentin penitentiary after serv-
ing 10 months, will bring to the STAR
light Park demonstration a personal
message of greeting from Tom
Mooney, who was his neighbor in
the same cell block in the Califor-
MIA prison. At the same time other
speakers will expose certain friends
of labor" who have conspired to sup
press the Mooney section of the
report. This section
contained, it is declared, a complete
Of MONEYS innocence
and a detailed description of the
frame-up methods used to convict
and Billings.
One of the leaders of the present
strike in Harlan. KY, Bill Duncan,
is now in New York, and with Caro-
line Drew, womens field organizer
Of the NM.U. are describing the ter
ror prevailing there, the magnificent
resistance of the coal miners in the
face of the most desperate hunger
and misery.
Solidarity Festival" will be an all
day holiday. Beginning at IL o'clock
in the morning, it will be filled with
and entertainment. The
Harlan demonstration will
be held in the Coliseum, adjoining
in the Park in the evening.
The program arranged by tae
Workers International Relief is one
Of the most elaborate yet presented.
It will include sports. dramatics.
children's mandolin orchestra, and
jazz dancing. Satirical drawings by
revolutionary cartoonists
will be one Of the special features
A program of new Soviet songs
will be presented at the evening de-
at the Coliseum, a
chorus accompanied by 5o-piece
a pageant under the d.
rection of the Dramatic Bureau of
the Workers Cultural Federation,