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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-19
REUSED BY BOSS TERROR WORKERS i
PREPARE DEMONSTRATIONS AUG. 22
To Protest birmingham Terror Massacre Of
Unemployed In Chicago; Demand Re
lease All Class War Prisoners

NEW YORK.-Throughout tn e
country intensive preparations are
under way for huge demonstrations
this Saturday, Aug. %, in commemo-
ration of the martyrdom of Sacco
and Vanzetti and in militant protest
against the growing boss terror
against Negro and white workers.
The Chicago district of the Inter
national Labor Defense is preparing
for demonstrations in the following
cities; Milwaukee, Gary, Rock Island,
Rockford, Indianapolis. Waukegan
and st. Louis. In Rockford, the
workers will demonstrate at Broad
way and Eighth st. at 1880 pm
In Chicago itself there will be two
demonstrations, one on the North
Side at Washington Square, Clark
and Walton, the other on the South
Side at 43rd and Prairie.
The workers of Providence, R. L,
will hold a tremendous demonstra-
ton at Market Square at pm.
In Baltimore the workers will dem
onstrate at Hopkins Square, Balti-
more and Liberty SITS, at 7:3O pm
Worcester workers will demon
strate at 2 pm. at Salem Square.
In the New York district, instead
of one central demonstration al
Union Square, as for the past three
years, there will be demonstration
in every section of New York City
and in neighboring cities.
The demonstrations will not only
commemorate the martyrdom Of
Sacco and Vanzetti, but will rally
the masses to the necessary struggle
against boss terror, against lega,
and mob lynching, against the
frame-up of militant workers and the
deportation Of foreign-born mill
| tantS.
Workers! demand amnesty for al
class war prisoners, the release Of
the Scottsboro and Camp Hill vic
Tins! Protest the massacre of un.
employed workers by the Chicago
police and landlords on Aug. 8
Protest the massacre of Negro crop,
pers by landowners and police il
Tallpoosa County and the frame-ur
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-19
Is
Rising Rapidly
Soviet Steel Plant Is
Largest in Europe

MOSCOW.-Work on the eight
huge blast furnaces of the Magni-
togorsk Steel plant in the Urals is
proceeding rapidly and it Is expected
that considerable production will
commence in 1882, though the date
of completion has been set for jan
uary, 1888.
Each Of the eight blast furnaces
will have an average daily capacity
Of over 1000 tons OF pig iron, very
near the record for the largest blast
furnaces in the world. The total
yearly capacity will be 100000 tons
Of iron.
Fourteen open hearth furnaces of
$50 tons capacity will be used for
making steel, as also will three 25-ton
Bessemer converters. Blooming mills,
rail mills, billet and other types Of
finishing mills will be erected. Eight
batteries Of SO by-product coke ovens,
each with complete by-product re-
covery plant is also being built
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-19
HOLD AFFAIR FOR
MINE STRIKE AID
Workers Int'l Relief
Picnic, Sept. 7

NEW YORK.-To collect funds to
aid the starving miners in their strike
against hunger, the New York branch
of the Workers International Relief
will give picnic at Starlight Amuse-
ment Park, 177th st. and West Farms
Road, Monday, Sept 7, so-called La
Dor Day.
There will be sports, games, OPEN
air concent, and indoor dancing. The
affair will begin at II q. m. and last
until a. m.
At 8 o'clock there will be mass
demonstration and concert. The
speakers will be william z. Foster,
VIM. w. Weinstone, and Frank Bo-
rich, National Secretary of The Ma
tional Miners Union.
Motion pictures of the strike will
be shown.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-19
SILK STRIKERS
GET WIR RELIEF
Elect for Natl Meet at
Pittsburgh

NEW YORK.-The Workers Inter
national Relief is able to announce
gratifying progress in the relief of
Allentown and Paterson strikers. A
W.I.R. Committee has been appoint
ed at Allentown and a store has been
opened to collect and distribute food,
Mass activities are spreading. The
Philadelphia headquarters is sending
food regularly and announces that
two truckloads of provisions will be
shipped shortly. Con1rade Schereri
national secretary of the W.IR. will
be in Allentown on Wednesday and
will address mass meeting where
delegates will be elected to attend
the National Conference of the
W.IR. to be held in Pittsburgh, Au-
gust % and 30.
Workers in Paterson are now in
the acute stage of starvation anc
misery. The relief kitchen serves
three meals a day to striking textile
workers. At noon-time an average Of
$50 meals are served. In addition
the WI.R. and relief committee is
giving aid to SO children, four OF
five of whom are in bed i'll from NAL
nutrition. In many cases the mothers
are in the hospital, broken down
from overwork, worry and under
nourishment. Pathetic appeals fol
money are constantly being made
Workers have not paid their rent
electric light bills and gas bills for
months, 50 viciously have wages
been slashed
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-19
FUNDS NEEDED NOW FOR DEFENSE;
COURT IS AN ARMED CAMP

my life that the people of the noun
tains of Kentucky, Tennessee, Ala
bama, Georgia, North Carolina and
Virginia, all of the purest Anglo
Saxon stock and Christian people.
are believers in good government.
We have our sins, of course, but
never until these snake doctors came
here from New York and taught these
doctrines have we been troubled by
Communism.
In view of the widespread terror
iE this part Of the country, and be-
cause the miners are pennlless and
starving and have been betrayed
by the UhiWA, it is extremely diff
ficult to raise funds for the de-
Tense of these IS miners who face
legal lynching on framed-up muir
der charges. The International La
Dor Defense has hired an attorney
from New Orleans, and funds are
needed Immediately for the defense
of the Kentucky miners. The LID
organizer has been jailed, and even
the Civil Liberties Union represen-
tative is teTorized and jailed, max
ing it doubly difficult to raise
funds.
Every worker must rally to the
defense of their IS brothers in
Harlan, KY, who are in the midst
of the bitterest class war ever ex-
perienced in these coal fields. Send
your contribution now to the Inter-
national Labor Defense, 1893 Broad
way, New York City.
The courtroom, the capitalist new,
agencies say, is like an armed camp
Deputies under Sheriff j. H. Blair
the coal company chief gunman, vel
armed with machine guns, rifles, tear
gas bombs and other weapons, are
spread throughout the courtroom
and around the courthouse. Out
side, in front of the building, is ar
armored car, reinforced with con.
crete and steel
On Monday, company gunner
shot and wounded Boris Israel, CORE
spondent for the Federated Press
Israel was standing near the court
house when Blairs gunner came ur
to him and pushed him into a car
saying: eve are going to take you
out for a little mountain air" They
drove him out to the city limits and
then started to shoot at him, one
bullet striking his leg.
All persons entering the court
house were searched. Hundreds Of
deputies, machine guns and armored
cars continue to terrorize the min
ers' and cross has been burning
for two nights overlooking the town
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-19
DEFEND PHTLA.
FOREIGN BORN
Meetings to Prepare
Conference Sept. 81

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, August 1s.-
In Philadelphia immigration officials
are visiting shops and factories, ar
resting and deporting workers. All
over, wherever strikes take place,
workers are arrested on the picket
line and deported. Homes are broken
up, families divided and children are
crying for bread while their fathers
are deported to fascist countries
where long Jail sentences and death
awaits their arrival. In Philadelphia
a. number of workers, among them
Peltz, Lippa and Lawrence are to be
deported in the near future.
The Committee for the Protection
Of Foreign Born calls upon all work
ers and organizations regardless of
race, nationality, sex, creed or color
to affiliate and participate in the
struggle for the defense of the for
eign-born.
For the purpose of creating mass
movement the Philadelphia District
Committee has decided to call dis
trict conference on Sunday, at
p. m, Sept. 81 in the Ukrainian Hall,
849 N. Franklin st.
To bring this issue before the work.
ers and to prepare the conference
the following open air meetings are
to take place in Philadelphia on Tues
day, Aug. Is, 8 p. m:
Marshall st. and Girard Ave, 32nd
and Cumberland Sts., 39th and Pop
lar SITS, Mcpherson Square (Kensing-
toni, Seventh and Ritner Sts., 18th
and Reed SITS.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-19
Complete LargeBicycle
Plant i'm Soviet Union

MOSCOW.-The new large bicycle
plant here was completed in July at
a cost of 100000 rubles and partial
production will start at the end Of
the year. Production scheduled ten
tatively are $4,000 bicycles in 1882
and 100000 bicycles in 1888. Bicycles
will be used for both transportation
and sport purposes.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-19
East Tenn. Miners Are Joining National
Miners Union; District Conf. at Caryville
jim Grace, Kentucky Delegate to Pittsburgh
Conference of N.M.U. Writes of Tennessee

get more for his labor the farmer
and the small business man can have
no hope for the future. Therefore
we have all arrived at the same con-
clusion that united we can stand and
divided We will be downed.
We are glad to report that the
people in Tennessee as well as Ken
lucky are receiving our organization
with open arms. Their courtesy and
hospitality is unsurpassed by that of
any other state. They are truly class
conscious which means more for our
success than any other factor
Attended Pittsburgh Conference
The writer is the comrade who at
tended the Pittsburgh Conference and
reported from Kentucky and who was
forced to leave his home in Harlan
County to keep from being murdered
by Sheriff Blair and his outlaw thugs
and Chicago gangsters who are paid
large sums of money by such men
as Mellon, insult, Sackett, Edison and
the entire coal operators association
Of Harlan County. The thugs that
are being paid by these capitalists
have lately pulled the lowest down
stunt Of crime yet committed in the
Harlan coalfields, the blowing up Of
the soup, kitchen in Evarts, KY, with
dynamite where the poor blacklisted
miners and their thin faced wives
were being fed and the poor little
undernourished children are being
fed in order to prevent starvation
and fluX. Bless the good farmers of
East Tennessee and elsewhere for the
continued service in giving food such
as potatoes, beans, roasting ears, cab
bage, tomatoes and other vegetables
to help feed the hungry in Harlan
County.
j. M. GRACE.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-19
SALESMAN STOLE FOR
HIS STARVING FAMIL Y

CHICAGO, Ill-Earl Smith, AZ, of
1921 Alta Vista, Ter, on unemployed
salesman, admitted at the Town Hall
police station, where he was held
under arrest, that he was out to hold
up the first prosperous person he
met to get food for his wife and two
children. This was the first time
that he had ever carried gun, but
he said his family was starving and
he would do anything to keep his
wife and children from starvation.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-19
PASSAIC CALLS A
RELIEF MEETING
To Aid the Striking
Textile Workers

PASSAIC, N. 1.-THE National
Textile Workers Union in Passaic
sent out call to every workers Or
ganization in Passaic to send dele
gates to relief conference for the
textile strikers.
The conference will be held Aug.
% at pm, at TAB Main Ave, Room
3. The N. T. w U. also arranged
for tag day on Saturday, Aug. Is,
for the textile strikers. The stations
are at 80 Monroe st. and 743 Main
Ave.
Passaic workers well remember the
1926-27 strike and the relief we got
from the workers all over the world.
Now the Passaic workers will do
everything in their power to help
the textile strikers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-19
CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE,


Deputy Sheriff Jesse Pace to
death, the presiding Judge, D. c.
Jones, told the jury that "Conmu-
nism and law and order cannot sleep
in the same bed" Judge Jones is
following the line of Prosecutor
Brock who said that cold steep was
necessary to put down striking min
ers. The judge is preparing the jury
mind in the usual fashion against the
Reds" in, order to insure the death
penalty for the IS miners.
The judge told the jurors Ito in
vestigate the criminal syndicalsm
charges first"
Repeating the procedure in the
Sacco- Vanzetti trial when judge
Thayer yelped about god and coun-
try and the duty against the red
bastards," Judge Jones in Harlan
worked up a lynch spirit in the minds
of the jury. The Associated Press
reports him as saying:
II have been taught to believe all
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-19
New York Cops Club Homeless Men

Police Commissioner Mulrooney
emphatically states that prisoners
are not mistreated by the police. How
can prisoners expect humane treat
ment when even a poor, penniless,
exhausted, unemployed workman can
not lay his head down on bare shed
floor to rest without being torn to
pieces by police clubs.
Here's some more material for
Understands investigations.
"A Sailor.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-19
Threat of New Wage-Cut in Eagle Pencil

and living wage is through organi-
zation.
There is also runor that another
wage cut is to be put over soon in
this factory. We must stop all wage
cuts Immediately and without fail.
We must organize ourselves against
this wholesale firing, wage cutting,
lengthening of the working hours,
the speed-up and all the other rotten
conditions in the Eagle Pencil Fac
tory.
We are therefore organizing a
grievance committee in every depart
ment and are building factory COM
mittee for the Eagle Pencil workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-19

Everson, Wash.
Terror in Northwest.
The North West in recent months
has been treated with concentrated
dose of boss terror and persecution.
Each of the cities or towns listed
above could cite local cases of per-
secution of militant workers, charges
ranging from misdemeanors to fell
onies, from blocking the sidewalk to
criminal syndicalism. This district
alone has had Is cases of criminal
syndicalism, two of which, the cases
of Fred Walker and John Moore,
have been won while as result of
the trial of Ben Boloff, there was a
, sentence of 10 years which is at pres
ent appealed to the State Supreme
Court of oregon. Decision on the
case is expected daily and if there
is an adverse decision, then the I. L.
D must mobilize all forces to fight
the case further in the U. S. Supreme
Court. But most important will be
the campaign built up around the
case among the workers to protest
the arrest and sentence and demand
Ben Boloff's immediate release as
well as the repeal of the Oregon
Criminal SyndicaliSt law In fact,
throughout the entire campaign that
the International Labor Defense is
organizing in Oregon for the repeal
of the criminal syndicalist law, the
Ben Boloff case is to be used as a
living. concrete example of the vi
ciousness of the law, its express anti
labor character and how it is used
by the bosses in an attempt to ter
torize the workers who today are be-
soming more and more determined
b combat wage cuts, unemployment
md starvation through actual organ
cation and struggle.
Fight Deportation.
In addition there are % workers
held on charges of deportation who
are being defended by the LID. of
this district. After the order for de-
portation came, the L L. D. applied
for voluntary departure for those
workers who are facing deportation
to fascist countries where they would
be prosecuted still further because of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-19
California Cannery Bosses Fear Strike

who were called out by the bosses.
Many boxes Of fruit were spilled and
the workers denounced small wages.
The men in question we're "lost" in
the excitement.
FL owing this the bosses had uni
formed police guarding the cannery
for the rest of the day and closed
the cannery that night for 2 days
fearing strike fever.
Workers here received the cannery
leaflets explaining the San Jose
strike with much eagerness and have
shown interest in organizing Agricul-
tura1 and Cannery Workers Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-19
Crane, Texas.

Crane, Texas.
Dear Friends:
Hoover's prosperity is working fine
here. OIL went to 10 cents a barrel
just long enough for the Standard to
contract for cheap crude. The price
was then boosted to Is cents.
Just handful Of men are working
here and they are laying off more
every day.
I am trying to sell my interest as
heir in a "a section claim here and
hope for the day when the Commu-
nists confiscate it. AT any rate am
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-19

on murder charges of IS miners in
Kentucky.
All out on the streets on Aug. %!
Negro and white workers! Smash
the boss terror! Defend your right
to organize to fight against starva-
ton, wage-cuts and evictions. DEM
onstrate Aug. %!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-19
New York, N. Y.

TTW IUIk, ". 7.
Daily WORKER
On Friday last two policemen en-
tered an empty shed on West st. in
which eighty unemployed men were
eleeping. At S a. m. they turned
their flashlights on the crowd and
started working on them with their
clubs. About 10 or IL were brutally
beaten while the remainder scurried
away without offering resistance to
this brutal and unwarranted attack.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-19
81 Am Thinking the Soviet Way" Says Old
Texas Worker

trying to get loan on this land SO
I can donate the money to the
struggle that you are so nobly carry
ing on. I can see that we are oper-
ating on the tail-end of capitalism
and if we can salvage anything from
this dying system for our own use.
I think we should do it,
am thinking and betting the
Soviet way. am pretty old and my
fighting days are nearly over, but I
sure love the cause that you fight
fer and know we will win.
IS. M.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-19
by a Worker Correspondent

NEW YORK, N. VI work in the
Eagle Pencil Factory, Department F.
10. We all work piece work and the
bosses have cut our prices many
times. Girls are fired constantly and
those remaining are forced to do the
work Of two.
The highest girl can make is $l8
a week. Many girls get as little as
$40 a week. We don't know who may
be the next to be fired.
We have learned that only COM
planning against our starvation wages
and speed-up does not help; the only
way for us to get better conditions
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-19
(By a Worker Correspondent

EFT -ERYVILLE, Cal.-The San Jose
strike has so stirred up the bosses
throughout the state, that in the
cannery where I am working (the
CO 'ry Of the same company, Cali
fo Packing Corp) some men
m an appearance (said to have
beel strikers from San JOSEF trying
to get jobs, but the bosses discov-
cred they wanted to lead the work.
ers out on strike. The Waterman
tried TO stop their entrance. but he
was pushed aside until 30 cops came
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-19
NORTHWEST WORKERS
TO RALLY IN GREAT
PROTEST MEETS SAT.
To Fight DepOrtatiOns and Demand Repeal of
Criminal Syndicalist Law
To Demand the Immediate Release of All
Political Prisoners
.lBy a Worker Correspondent

SEATTLE Wash.-This year, the North West district of
the international Labor Defense is preparing for IL demon
stratons August 22nd Sacco and Vanzet Day. to be
turned into general Amnesty Day fight day against boss
Rallies demonstrations scheduled for the fol-
lowing places throughout the district: Roseburg Ore Port
land, Ore Astoria Ore; Hoquiem and Aberdeen, Wash,
known Grays Harbor; Tacoma, Wash; Seattle WASH Bal
lard Wash; Mt Vernon, Wash; Belingham, Wash. and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-19

Workers Correspondence is the
backbone Of the revolutionary press.
Build your press by writing for h
about your day-to- day struggle.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-19

CARYVILLE, Ten, August 10 (By
MaiD Since the district conference
in Wallins Greek, KY, the National
Miners Union has started its drive
in Tennessee on Sunday, August g.
We held a meeting in the woods near
Caryyille, a very enthusiastic gather
ing. Theree locals have been set
up with applications for charters.
The meeting at Caryyille was adj
dressed by a members Of the Gen
eral Committee Of the NNIU who was
delegate to the Pittsburgh Confer
ence. After his talk 16 additional
members were added to the union
with seven more new applications for
membership.
The Miners Own Union
For the first time in many years
the coal miners of Tennessee have
found an organization that really
means something to the miners of
this coalfield, one that will function
for the benefit of the miners them
selves and that cannot be sold out
to the coal barons as has previously
been done by the officials of the
United Mine Workers, as Lewis, Turn
blazer, Pagan and others.
Farmers Help Miners
The coal miners of East Tennessee
are overzealous about the NNIU as
well as the farmers, grocery men and
all small business men. They are
all responsive to this great campaign
that's being put on by our great Or
ganization with full realization that
unless we unite and come together
on a united front we can never be
able to stand up against the capt.
talists and their hired henchmen. The
above mentioned people know quite
well that unless the wage Garner can
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-20
SIPS, 900 ESTATE
TO BE CONTESTED
Widow of John W. Thompson Not
Able TO Make Valid Will. Grand
niece and Nephew Claim.

A contest doomed today over the $685.
900 estate of Mrs. Flora B. Thompson,
widow of John W. Thompson, former
banker and traction magnate, when
Edward C. Reid and Adele M. Bowman,
granddaughter and grahdniece of the de-
ceased, filed a caveat protesting against
the admission to probate Of the will
George w White and the National
Metropolitan Bank are named as ex-
ecutors under the will, and are directed,
after payment of specific requests to
charity and near relatives, to devote the
remaining estate to the establishment
of a memorial in this city to her hus-
band. John w. Thompson. and her
mother, Elizabeth Markward, to be
known as the Thompson-M arkward
memorial.
Through Attorney Frederick j. Rice
the contestants say their interests In
the estate will be affected adversely If
the will of July 81, 1924 is admitted to
probate. They claim that the testatrix
was not of sound mind nor capable OF
making a talid will; that the win was
not properly attested by the witnesses
and that its signing was procured by
undue influence of Mary Smith or
John Doe" or some other person I'M
known to them.