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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-23
MRS. WRIGHT HITS
LIES OFTHE NAACP
Says Walter w hit e
Tries Confuse Boys

NEW YORK.-When Mrs. Ada
Wright, mother of Roy and Andy,
two of the boys involved in the
Scottsboro frame-up heard Of the
latest rurnors spread by the leaders
of the NAACP and printed in the
Pittsburgh Courier to the effect that
the boys had asked the NAACP and
other Khan lawyer, Roddy, to defend
them, she issued the following state
ment.
my children and the rest Of the
innocent boys framed up IN Ala
bama have not asked the EAACP
and Steve Roddy to defend them.
I have Just received a letter from
the boys in which they tell me that
the NAACP lawyers have again
been trying TO confuse them with
lies and promises. The boys told
them that they want Chamlce and
Brodsky, the attorneys OF the In
ternational Labor Defense, TO de-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-23
Rally Steel Workers to Aid Miners
Win Strike Against Starvation

rejoined that hereafter he will charge
assault and battery, etc.
PITTSBURGH, Pa, June 20. 49,
Fifty delegates from steel mills in
the Allegheny and Monongahela
valleys and some from as far away
as Wheeling, West Va, assembled in
Workers Center Hall today and made
decisions that will involve the whole
steel town population in the western
Pennsylvania area in the campaign
for striking miners relief, all nearby
mills in the June 80 hunger march
on Pittsburgh and all mill workers
in the campaign to build the Metal
Workers industrial League of the
Trade Union Unity League.
The conference today was called by
the Central Rank and File Strike
Committee of the N. M. U. The del
egates pledged to return each to his
own town, gather a group around
INN, oil dIlSC IOllACICllCo Oll a
united front basis for mine strikers
relief, arrange a mass meeting tboth
conference and mass meeting to be
this week. prepare the steel town
population, suffering from wage cuts
and part time, unemployment and
the stagger system, for the June sc
hunger march, and from this broader
base, send delegates to very large
steel conference to be held in Pitts
burgh, June q.
In each steel town this week there
will be opened a relief station for
the striking miners and collections
will be started.
simultaneously the organization Of
the steel workers will go forward.
The steel-miner conferences today
applauded the appearance of del.
egatiorr of stoggie strikers from
Wheeling. West Va. Six hundred
hand stoggie makers are on strike
there, and the International Cigal
Makers Union is trying to break tn,
strike.
A couple of days ago a rank anc
file member of the former local O
the International got out warran
|. for the arrest of Charles Duke. In
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shot in the left side. The bullet has
not been extracted yet.
None of the pickets were on COM
psny property. The deputies
drenched the road with gas and
fired many volleys. Over 200 shots
we're fred. Pickets, lodging bullets
through the gas barrsse, answered
the shots with hail Of stones and
stood their ground for fifteen min
utes. They we're then broken up and
pursued by thte thugs VINO fired at
the strikers.
Forty-one miners were arrested,
including Tom Myerscough, Section
Organizer Of the National Miners
Union. Many Of the arrested we're
wounded. One woman picket Is
known to have been wounded BY
bullets. The whole countryside was
endangered. The pickets were dri+
ven from the wounded whom the de-
puties left lying for twenty minutes
on the ground bleeding. The re-
ceived no attention. FINALLY, the
strikers trucks were allowed TO ap-
preach and carry them away.
A mass protest meeting has been
arranged for Pittsburgh on Friday.
The papers here say the miners star.
ted the fight, and that Foster led
the attack on the line. oBth state
rnents are false.
The hospital has confirmed the
death OF zigAric.
This morning 1900 marched on the
vest mine No. 5 where 1900 were At
work. HALF OF them Joined the pick
cts. The same lire then marched to
Fredericktown and closed the Clyde
mine No. OF the Rainey Goal Go.
one was arrested. The miners forced
his release, or declared 1--WE will tear
down the JAIL
At the Penobscott Mine at Penowa
100 men Joined the strike. The Pitts
burgh and West Virginia Mine NO. 5,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-23
LY SOVIET UNION FREES WEAKER PEOPLES

them to fight against the mythical cruclflxlon
of mythical god supposed to have happened
two thousand years ago.
The Russian pogroms against the Jews were
such black spots on the rusty armor of the
ruling classes of the world, that even the
American lynchers thought justified to belittle
their own dastardly murder Of Negroes by
murmured .censures against the dastardly
murders of Jews on the part of the ruling
class of Russia. The need for pogroms led
Czarism into the horrible monstrosity of the
Kev ritual murder trial which is still fresh in
the memory Of millions.
The proletarian revolution in Russia put an
end to the CHASTITY pogroms. 1t put an end to
them by ending the rule of the pogromlsts;
this was the only effective method. The only
effective method Of ending lynchings in Amer
lea is to end the rule of the lynchers.
The Soviets Immediately after their taking
over of power, ended all legal and social re-
strictions against the Jews as we'll as against
all other formerly oppressed national minori-
ties. But the workers knew only too we'll that
declarations and DEGREES about equality are of
no value without the conditions to make this
equality reality. Therefore they also created
the necessary conditions. The political condi-
tons for equal rights of the Jews and all ma
tional minorities were guaranteed by the rule
of the working class. This rule denies special
racial or national interests and unites the
workers as a class.
The economic equality of the Jews and other
national minorities are being created in the
Soviet Union through the building Of socialism
The Five Year Plan provides for the construc-
ton of factories and for industrial and agri
cultural development in such territories that
will enable the national minorities to develop
an equal economic basis Of existence with
other groups and sections.
The final basis for equal rights for the ma
tional n7inorities was created by the Soviets
through the right of elf-determination. Or
the basis of this right the Tartars organized q
Soviet Republic in the krin1ea; German col
onists organized a Soviet Republic on tbs
Nolga the Armenians established proletarlar
self-government through a Soviet Republic OF
Armenia; the Jews united in the establish
ment of Soviet of Biro-Bidjan.
The Soviets freed the national n1inorities
from national and economic oppression. The
Soviet Government was q necessary prerequi.
site for this freedom. The overthrow Of capl-
talist rule in America is a necessary prerequi-
site for the freeing Of the Negroes from
lynching.
The existence Of Soviets bases itself on the
rule of the whole working class irrespective OF
racial or national subdivisions. The existence
of capitalist rule on the other hand bases it.
self on the exploitation and oppression of the
masses of the workers and is maintained by
keeping the workers divided in national ant
racial groups The rule of the workers in the
Soviet Union is based upon the freedom Of the
masses; the rule Of the capitalists in Amer
lea is based upon the enslavement Of the
masses.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-23
Organize Tag Days
In Detroit For
Miners and Daily

The Trade Union Unity League
and the Workers International Re
lief of Detroit and vicinity will hold
a tag day on Friday, Saturday and
Sunday, June IS, u and 20, for the
support of the striking miners, to
help send several hundred children
of unemployed workers to camp, and
to help the Daily Worker In It's cam
paign for the sustaining fund. Ali
workers are called upon to demon
strate their solidarity in action BY
reporting to the workers halls fer
active participation in the tag days.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-23
By MAX BEDACHT.
Z. Only Soviets Solve Problem of Nations
Minorities.

K. Only S0vletS Solve fr0Dlem OF NdtlOndl
Minorities.
Capitalist rule is based on and serves the
purpose of political oppression and economic
exploitation Of the masses. The exploitation,
the making Of profits out Of the masses, is the
purpose of capitalist society; political oppres-
sion is the method by which the exploited is
prevented from rebelling against the misery
caused him by the profit-makers. The most
bloody of all methods of capitalist profit
making is colonial exploitation and oppression
The imperialist rape, slavery and murder I'M
posed by the capitalists upon the colonial
peoples is called by the ravagers the process
of development of backward races. These
backward peoples, the capitalists maintain,
must be won for the blessings of civilization.
Like the Inquistor General Of old, who told
Don Carlos when he ordered him executed, 81
kill thee for thine own good" so the imperial
lists of today tell their victims that they are
raped enslaved and murdered for their own
good. Under such phrases the imperlallsts
cover up the process of Transformation OF
their mission of civilization into fat profits in
their pockets. Under such phrases the irper-
ia1ists hide the fact that these profits are the
sole source and the sole aim of their anxiety
TO spread civilization. Such phrases must veil
the fact that murderous profit making and
capitalist civilization are identical.
As exploiters and oppressors the capitalists
must forever anew solve the ever present and
the evsr-newly developing problem of keeping
down the oppressed and exploited. Since the
sxploitArs are few and the exploited are many,
this is not always an easy job. The exploiters
Of course, have the government machinery
with its legislatures, its laws, its police, its
army. The hands Of these defenders Of CAPT
talist exploitation are strengthened in1measur-
ably by monopoly on arms. Possession OF
arms on the part Of the exploited is a crime
Even these measures, however, are not suf-
ficient protection for the exploiters The
armed defenders Of the capitalist state are
themselves recruited out Of the masses Of the
exploited. In critical periods Of their own
class, it happens that the armed defenders of
the capitalist state follow their own class ties
and forget their oath Of allegiance to the ex.
ploiters.
TO anticipate such emergencies the capital
ist rulers inject many forms Of paralyzine
poison into the minds Of the masses of then
victims. This poison is bourgeois theology
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-23

fend them.
"Why does the NAACP 30 70 the
prison to our bewilderedt chldrenT
Why don't they come 70 US? We
told them repeatedly u they wish
to help let them cooperate with the
lid and the League Of Struggle
for Negro Rights
Mrs. Wright is now on tour IN tbs
North in connection with the mass
campaign Of the LID and the LsNR
to save and free the boys.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-23

PITTSBURGH, Pa, June 2o.--A
new phase of the terror against Penn
sylvania miners striking against
starvation has been opened. The
basis is been laid for frame up
charges.
Pittsburgh newspapers Old ay
tJune 2O) are playing UP charges
that g. bomb was thrown into the
vesta No. 4 stockade last night and
another thrown along the road near
California, Pa. The VeSta COM
panys coal and iron police admit
no damage was done, but are shout
ing loud and long anyway, that the
strikers did IT," trying to murder"
the scabs. Miners do not believe
there was any bomb, but that a coal
and iron cop set off stick of
powder.
Today also, the Duduesene Coal
and Coke Co. broke into the news
with a claim that strikers set fire
to our mine at Avella. There is
actually considerable mine fire
burning in an old unworked part Of
the mine, two miles from the en-
trance, and the cause is that the
company has been trying to work It's
fire bosses as scsbs, and let the blaze
(they are always starting from spon-
taneous combustion) get headway.
Today, again Sheriff Cain brought
up for deportation his first case OF
foreign born miner arrested on the
picket line. This is in line with
Gains previous threats to deport all
foreign born strikers. The first case
was that of Ivan S. Mortich, Jailed
while leading the picket line at War
den mine. immigration officials
ruled that this was not sufficient
charge to get deportation, but Cain
|
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-23

near Golfers, West Virginia. COM
pletely struck, with $50 men. The
Arnold mine In West Virginia also
struck with $50 men. The miners
are marching to McKinleyville to
close three mines there.
Yesterday Pagan and four state
troopers together with twelve gun
men were stoned out Of Mollenauer
by thousands. He was also preven-
ted from entering Coverdale 10
speak.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-23

and st. Clairsville, met with enthu-
siastic response. Every day sees the
class lines more clearly drawn here.
Speakers at the mass meetings were
Bob Sivert, Paul Bofus, Tom John,
Bill Dunno, Joe Garland, those are
members Of the Strike Executive
Committee who are still out of jail
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-23

(By a Worker Correspondent

SAN FRANCISCO, cal.--The Mar
ket Street Railway Co., a local street
car syndicate, laid off ITO men, pass
ing the buck to the Board of City
Supervisors, who the street car
company accused Of delaying a per-
nit to extend the line over new
streets.
Nogales international., 1931-06-27
California Aids
In Tariff Fight

PHOENIX, Ariz., June 26 (U.P0
California has come to the aid
of Arizona in the fight for a tariff
on copper produced in foreign coun-
tries.
Governor James Rolph, Jr., in a
letter to Governor George w. P.
Hunt declared he believed a tariff
should be levied on all foreign cop
per coming into the United States.
IT hasten to concur with you in
the statement that there should be
a tariff levied on all foreign copper
coming into the United States, y
Governor Rolph told Arizonas ex-
ecutive.
He suggested that all states
copper producing states especially
join the fight to ''the end that ev-
cry state may protect it's invest
ments.''
IF you will map out a plan of ac-
ton, I shall be happy to cooperate"
Three other western states gov
ernors-New Mexico, Nevada and
Utah-have informed Governor
Hunt they will join with him in the
campaign for tariff.
Nogales international., 1931-06-27

"If every i1illah was fixed so he
couldn't shoot a gun, theah wouldn't be
nc noah killing, Babe"
I'D rather be dead than have my
hands smashed the way you smashed
Jess Markets. So would any man that
was a man"
81 said killahs, Babe
Babe shivered as if cold wind had
struck his bare flesh, but he didn't say
again that he would rather be dead
than crippled The kid knew he thought
it, though. The kids eyebrows came
together in a puzzled frown while he
studied Babe at the window, peerlng
out into the faint moonlight.
The kid had counted on Babes
friendship and on his. being square SO
fellow could trust him. But if Babe
Nogales international., 1931-06-27

That's what killah always aims
to d." the kid observed dri1y. "A1-
ways aims to down man at his own
doah."
Whether Babe caught the signiG
canoe of that remark or not, he made
no answer to it.
The kettle was boiling on the stove
and the kid brought basin and clean
dish towels and a bottle of carbolic
acid and set them on a box beside
the bunk He pulled off Babes shirt
and studied the round, purplish hole
on Babes right side just under the
curve of his ribs.
Babe tainted, which left the kid free
and unhampered i'll his crude surgery
"T taken out the bullet, Babe" he
said calmly, wfe;: Babe came back to
consciousness. Wasn't moah'n two
three inches deep. KANT figure it,
lessen it come from, ovah across the
field. Nevah did come from the berry
bushes, or it's gone avn through. Two
men out theah, reckon"
1.-TWO, yuh say?"
"Two and likely noah"
"And me down. They'll git us,
Tiger Eye"
"Insa pigs eye"
cit my rife and-help me on my
feet"
"Yo'all lay quiet. taken charge to-
day, Babe The kid was loading
Babes rife,' and now he placed it OH
the table.
He turned his rifle upon the clump
Of bushes over by the corral.
Three shots carefully spaced brought
spiteful volley in reply:
"Peah's like the nestahs are aiming
to take theah revenge fob ole Pappy
Murray" he remarked, as steady
stream of bullets came spattlng VI
ciously into the cabin. It worried Babe,
who was beginning to talk feverishly.
"Shoot to kill when yuh start il"
Babe urged. "Ain't goin' to try Dustin,
l<nucl1lcs now, hope
KANT see any l1n'lckles to- bust;
Babe"
The kids face clouded as he, pushed
his rifle barrel through the hole be-
tween two logs, but his yellow right
eye was as unblinl<ing as tigers when
it looked down along the sights He
caught glimpse of gray hat crown.
among the bushes beyond the spring..
He didn't want to kill Hat crown.
head, shoulders below-The kid'couidnt
see the man he swiftly visioned,. but
he aimed where a shoulder should be.
and pulled the trigger. There was
sudden and violent agitation OF the
bushes and a man went streaking it back
toward his more discreet companions.
The kids fingers bent again deliber-
Iately and the mans swinging right arm
jerked upward and went lingp'at his side
| The kid made sure Of that before he
withdrew the rifle from the hole and
crossed the room to another.
! Cit anybody"
The kid did not answer at once;
"Taken the shoot outa one, Babe,
he said at last.
"J kill imp"
Reckon not. Shot his ahm down.
peahs like"
"Shoot t kill. why don't yuh ?''
Babes voice was high and querulous.
When he turned strained look upon
the kid, his eyes were CLASSY and had
an anxious stare, wholly unlike Babe
Garner. Damn their arms and shoul-
ders! You can kill if you want to
anybody that can whirl and bust
snucleles the way you busted Jess
Markets can put bullet through a
mans heart, if ne wants to-"
Continued Next Week
Nogales international., 1931-06-27

Babe he muttered, in tone that
would not carry beyond the woodpile.
Babe did rot answer except with an
other groan but he pressed one hand
hard en- the ground and pushed back
ward when the kid pulled again, Sc the
kid knew Babe heard and understood
all right. The kid hurried alter that.
He wanted his body all inside the door
as soon as possible, and with a last
wriggle his tousled damp hair went in
past the door jamb. Like cat he was
on his feet then and had Babe inside
with one great yank and slammed the
door shut.
Then he turned, picked Babe up in
his arms and laid hi mon the bed.
Damn, coyotes-got me when l
stepped outside" Babe gasped.
Nogales international., 1931-06-27
CONVICT PLUNGES TO DEATH

ATaupun, Wis.-Earold Freeman,
%. a prisoner at the state peniten-
tiary, committed suicide recently by
Ieaping over a rail and plunging
four floors. He was sentenced to
from one to thirty years for as
sault with intent to rob.
Nogales international., 1931-06-27
Nogales 7 axes
Globe Series

The Nogales baseball team OF the
Arizona Texas league took two cut
of three games of the series played
with Globe at Brewery Park Tues.
day, wednesday and Thursday.
Nogales won the first two games
and Globe the final one Thursday.
Nogales international., 1931-06-27
ROB AUTO BUS

Shamrock, Tex.-A' 'westnouId bus
near here was halted by modern
stage coach robbers and eighteen
passengers were robbed Of $668
ana jewelry valued at $273.
Nogales international., 1931-06-27

Flagstaff = Annual meeting of
western Association of Game and
Fish Commissioners to be held here
August 3-5.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-02-26
SANDSTONE

The sub-district defamation con-
test was held at the Sandstone hlgh
school Wednesday evening OF last
week. Eileen Barstow won first IN
the dramatic, her subject being Dad
dy Doc: Harland Johnson won first
in the humorous. his subject being,
His Pa Goes Skating; Ernest Lar
son won second in the oratorical, Il
am Innocent of This Blood The dis
trict contest VIII be held Thursday
(tonight)- in the high school audi
torium.
Friday night. S. G. Skaaland, repre-
sentative of the Pine County Debating
teams, presented the cup to the Sand
stone debating team, and then Betty
Hawley and Florence Peterson pre-
scented it to the high school.
Tuesday evening Miss Sarah T..
O'Meara gave free lecture on art
and accompanied it with slides at the
school house.
The Sandstone Study club had a
Valentine party at the Madison Hotel
Feb IS Mrs. E. NJ. Deming and Mrs.
George Lang won prizes.
Mrs. c. w. Colby has returned from
the Twin Cities after having spent a
few days there.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-02-26
BRUNO
Oscar Eklund of Willow River, spent

Oscar Eklund of Willow River, spent
Sunday at DIR. F. w. Greene's.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Starch went to
Nerstrand Saturday to attend the gol-
den wedding of his uncle and wife.
They will spend the week at Kenyon,
Zumbrota, and West Concord with rel
atives.
Presbyterian Notes-Sunday school
at 10 o'clock. Church services at II
o'clock. C. E. at O'Clock Bible
study Tuesday evening at Mrs. Jacob
Smiths at o'clock. The following
officers of the Ladies' Aid were
elected at the last meeting held
at the home of Mrs. John Stat
ford: Mrs. ]. H. Lingren, presi-
dent; Mrs. L. M. Darling, vice presi-
dent; Mrs. w. A. Englund, secretary;
and Mrs. Charles Sprague, Treasurer.
Walter Bartels drove here from
Morris, ILL.,, and Mr.. and Mrs. Charlie
Bartels, who have spent some time
with Mrs. Babe, left for their home
Monday. Mrs. Mike Plaisted accom-
panied them to Long Prairie, where
she will visit her people.
Mr.. and Mrs. Englund and Warren
spent Sunday afternoon with Mr.. Eng
lund's cousin and family, Mr.. and Mrs.
Anderson at Hinckley.
Mrs. Jack Edwards was given very
pleasant surprise Friday evening,
when her friends walked into her
home with well-flled baskets of good
things to eat and informed Mrs. Ed
wards they had come to help cele-
brate her birthday.
Mrs. Adams spent last week in
Sandstone.
| Gladys Johnson, Waneta Anderson,
and Harold Plaisted received highest
marks at the declamatory contest here
and went to Sandstone Wednesday eve
ming to speak. The Rev. johnson and
Vivian, H. M. Shawl, the Misses
Howey and Cas-, Mr.. and Mrs. Mel
Plaisted, Mrs. Stafford and Carlton,
Mary Rose and Mrs. Francis Pearson
attended the contest at Sandstone.
| H. M. Shawl went to Pine City Fri
day evening, and returned Saturday
evening. Mrs. Shawl returned home
with him.
Miss Della Greene of Aitkin, spent
the weekend with her parents, DR..
and Mrs. F. w. Greene.
A. M. Dougan returned from Mason
City, Iowa, Saturday evening.
Mrs. Guy Dunning and baby, Mavis
May, returned from Renshall Satur-
day.
Mrs. Dunning of Webster, Iowa, is
visiting at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Guy Dunning.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. NJ. Dougan and
| Mr.. and Mrs. Thompson spent Tues
day in Duluth.
The poultry project group of Nor
man township met Wednesday after
noon of last week at the home of Mrs.
Harold Elwell. The subject was PRO
ducing healthy chicks" 1t was a very
interesting meeting and nice lunch
was enjoyed by all. The following
officers were elected: Mrs. Harold Ell
well, chairman; Mrs. r. Klingbeil, sec
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-02-26
LUTHERAN CHURCH NOTICES
Emanuel Lutheran Church. Bruno.

Those wishing to join the confirma-
ton class will please meet at the
church Saturday, Feb. %, at 9 a. m.
Services Sunday, March 1, at 1890
a. m.
All interested in Luther League will
please meet at the church Thursday,
March 5, at p. m.
Vilstad Lutheran Church.
English services Sunday, March 1,
at p. m.
Confirmation class meets at the
church Saturday, Feb. % at 2 p. m.
Oak Lake Lutheran Church.
The Luther League meets at the
church Friday, Feb. 81, at s p. m.
NickersOn manuel Church.
The L. L. meets at the church, Fri
day, March 6, at 8 p. m.
Park Center.
Services next Sunday, March 1, at
2:30 p. m.
Confirmation class meets Saturday,
Feb. %, at 10 a. m.
CHARLES S. RYDELL, Pastor.