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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-31
WORKERS MASS
AT POST OFFICE
PROTEST TODAY
Demand Mail Rights
for Worker Press

NEW YORK.-The workers of New
York will demonstrate today at the
Post Office at 9th Ave. and 33rd st.
at pm. and demand that the work
ingclass newspapers, the Young Pho
neer. Vida Obrera and the Young
Worker be given back their mailing
rights. Those workers who will be
delegates to the United Front Con-
ference of the Needle Trade Workers
Industrial Union at 2 pm, will go to
the conference directly after the de-
monstration. i
Workers of all organizations are
coming to this demonstration which
will be the first real answer to tie
demands of the Fish Committee that
all workingclass newspapers be de-
clared Illegal The International
Labor Defense in a statement issued
today says: THE Hoover government
thru its Fish Committee has started
campaign to suppress all workers
publications and to smash the mil
liant movement of the working class
The drive of terror has started. The
Young Worker, official organ of the
Young Communist League, Young
Pioneer, papers of the workers chill
dren, Vida Obrera, Spanish weekly
have been banned from the mails for
political reasons. The plans of the
bosses to do away with the organs
of defense of the working class must
be smashed! The workers of the Uni
ted States must not allow the sup
preston of their press. The workers
must demand full rights TO the
papers that fight for unemployment
insurance, against war, for the pro-
lection of the militant foreign born
workers against deportation, etc.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-31
90 Delegates Meet to Organize
Small Farmers of Michigan

MASS, Mich, Jan. 30. = Ninety
three delegates from Is different
localities representing IA different
workers and farmers organizations
met here to organize the upper pc
ninsula farmers into the United
Farmers League.
The enthusiasm of the delegates
was shown by the thunderous ap-
plause given the different represent
atives giving reports and greetings.
The delegates themselves took the
floor one after the other and brought
out the unbearable conditions of the
small farmers in Michigan. The de-
legate from Paynesville showed how
a year ago 4596 of the farmers we're
unable to pay their taxes and how
now the percentage is 60.
The delegates showed how it was
necessary for the farmers to seek
work In the lumber camps and mills
in order to get living, and at pre-
sent no work is available, so they
are simply forced to starve. Delegates
from around Mass called attention
to the fact that the government was
making huge tax refunds to the bos-
ses, how the taxes of the copper trust
hao been cut, while on the other hand
the farmers taxes remain the same
or even go up. Another pointed out
how crooked county officials en-
bezzle $4,000 from the county and
nothing is done about it and the de-
ficit is taken out of the poor farm
ers' hides by increasing their taxes
How gambling in food stuffs has sent
down the price Of butter, fat and
eggs, while still maintaining high
prices to the public. Many farmers
said they had been forced to sell
their COWS and chickens.
A committee was elected to carry
on the work of organization. The
conference decided TO distribute the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-31

ditional for each child up to a total
OF $3.50, the share troopers are made
to work at least two days a week.
Many share-croppers, particularly
the Negro share choppers, are forced
by the Red Cross to work for their
landlords for 81 week, plus 81 from
the Red Cross.
Most of the share troopers are
forced into the damp trenches scanti-
ly clad and without adequate protec-
ton against the dampness. The New
Orleans Times Picayune, in mild
report on conditions here, admit that
Some of these (share croppers) have
been reporting for work for their Red
Gross alotments with shoes worn,
through in the sole and clothed only
in shirt mad overalls."
The same paper admits that many
of the men go without their suppers
SO their families can have a little
more than the meager allowance OF
the Red Gross.
"One little tot in the soup line
at the school remarked I'm getting
so | don't mind to go without my
supper now"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-31
United Textile Chief Lauds
Co. for Its Strike Breaking

More details on the most shameless
sell out of the United Textile Work
ers long career of treachery have ar
rived from Danville. The strike which
started Sept 20, 1880, was against
ten per cent wage cut earlier in
the year, as well as against policy
the Dan River Mills had shown of
discharging unionists. The U.TW
leaders persistently opposed a strike,
and even now, Vice President Cor
man in his statement to the press
ending the struggle states that the
union officials fully realized at the
time that economic conditions exist
ing throughout the country, particu-
larly the unemployment situation,
made protest of this kind on the
part of organized labor inexpedient
and untimely."
The many-times repeated state
ments before the strike of the UT.
w. officials that their union would
never strike" showed the employers
that it was perfectly safe to rely on
German and President Mcmahon of
the U.TW as strike breakers. The
strike was forced by the rank and
file
CA history of the misleadership and
treachery of the U.TW. will appear
in Mondays Daily Worker).
There is so far no announcement
of the result of the> vote Oh going
back as individuals, defeated, which
the U.T.W. ordered taken Thursday
In any event, they count the ballots.
What Vice President German did
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-31
Sinclair Becomes
Tool of Anti-Soviet
War Ca m al gr
wireless by Inprecorr)

BERLIN. Great sensation has
been caused by "Vorwaerts" of Ber-
ling publishing a letter from Upton
Sinclair against the leader of the In
t9rnational Workers Relief, Munzen-
berg.
Sinclair protests that Munzenberg
put his (Sinclair's) name under an
appeal protesting against the war
campaign against the Soviet Union.
Sinclair at the same time alleges to
be still for Soviet Russia. 1t is a
well known fact that the Vorwaerts
is the Central Organ of the social
democratic party and is the worst
lingo paper against Soviet Russia,
not only in Germany, but in the
whole world. There are no lies
against Soviet Russia base enough
which Vorwaerts would not publish.
Even Brandler's Berlin Daily which
is noted for its campaign against the
Communist Party and especially
against Munzenberg, expresses sur
prise at Sinclair's action of using the
Vorwaerts as his mouthpiece.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-31

was to simply announce late Thurs
day that the strike was, over, that
the workers should go back as indi-
viduals and try to get their jobs if
they could, and to defend this retreat
with the most amazing claim of VIC
tory ever put forward. Several weeks
ago German announced that all the
strike was for was recognition of the
union.
And Thursday he stated in the
capitalist press:
However, during the past weeks
it has been increasingly plain, both
from press statements and from
Mr.. Fitzgerald and by the action
of the company in taking old en-
ployes back in the mills in con-
siderable numbers without rasiing
the question of union membership,
that this principle of labor is being
respected.
"With this fundamental prin-
ciple no longer questioned, those
especially charged with the inter-
ests of organized labor feel that the
necessity for this strike no longer
exists, and members of the union
are called upon to return to their
work as promptly as places may be
found for them.
The action of the company in
taking old employees back" was, OF
course, before the strike ended, and
was simply giving jobs to the several
hundred men out of 1000 on strike
who had been on strike and went
back to scab.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-31
Raid Birmingham Communist
Headquarters; Arrest FiVe

BIRMINGHAM Ala, raded headquarters the
Communist and the Unity yesterday
charges
anarchy the flag Besides
literature letters supplies
in the Office.
Police searching for other organizers the Communist
revolutionary
Negro and white workers
the this
c2gs through fascist working
the passed
cd face ja
ally the defense
International Labor Defense demanding release
workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-31
"Socialist Party Serves Bosses; Is
No Place for Honest Workers"

I know that these things are all
true because personally talked with
man that just came from Russia
and he told the same thing. 1 have
also read a letter that came direct
from Russia and it told the same
story. and on top of that you tell
us through your paper that unem-
ployment is now a thing of the past
in the USSR. that the standards of
living for the masses are being rap
idly raised and modern homes with
all conveniences for the workers are
taking the place of the wretched
novels of by-gone days; that where
eighty per cent of the population
could not read or write under capital
ism and the car, that when the five
year plan is up illiteracy will be al
most wiped out.
Is not the USSR doing all these
CONTINUED ON PAGE FIvE)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-31
PROTEST MURDER
OF WHITE YOUTH
L.S.N.R. to Hold Mass
Protest Meetings

NEW YORK-The City Commit
tee of the League of Struggle for
Negro Rights last night issued
burning protest against the lynching
by mob of rich North Dakota farm
ers of Charles Bannon, 22-year old
white youth.
The L.S.N.R. City Committee also
decided to hold series of mass
meetings in Harlem and throughout
the city to rally the Negro and white
masses in protest against this latest
outrage against the working class.
The committee will call upon other
organizations, white and Negro, to
take part in these demonstrations
against the boss lynching terror
which took over 38 victims last year
and has started the new year with
7 already for January.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-31

Daily Worker:
Dear Comrades:
Enclosed, am sending you an ex-
act copy of a letter to the "Milwau-
kee (mis) Leader" organ of the So
cialist party, which / asked them to
print in their "Open Forum" after
they had written to me and asked
me why had quit their paper.
This letter was sent to them more
than a month ago. but they did not
print it, neither did they answer the
letter. Will you please print the
copy of this letter in our Daily
Worker, and show up these takers.
"A. ii.
Unity, Wise,
Dec. 10, 1880.
The Milwaukee Leader.
Milwaukee. Wis.
To the Editor:
Having been a socialist for almost
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-31
FIGHT FOR JOBlESS INSURANCE; Bill TO
Be FORCED ON CONGRESS; FEBRUARY
25 is INTERNATIONAL FIGHTING DAY!
Red International Calls All
To Aid DressmakerS Strike
Many Organizations At Conference Today
Whose Credentials Were Delayed; G.E.B.
and Strike Comm. Take Up Problems

NEW YORK. - The International
Committee of Needle Workers of the
Red International of Labor Unions
has issued a call to all the workers
in the needle industry and all other
industries to give their wholehearted
support to the coming strike of the
dressmakers. The call of the Red In
ternational of Labor Unions pointed
out the conditions to which the dress
makers are subjected, due to the
greed Of the bosses and the greater
treachery on the part of the Schles-
niger company union.
Important Details.
Last night the General Executive
Board held a joint meeting with the
enlarged strike committee including
the entire executive committee of the
shop delegates council.
At that meeting very important
questions concerning the detailed
plans for the coming strike and the
demands for which an immediate
struggle is to be started, were dis
cussed and decided upon. A full re-
port of these decisions will be pub
lished soon in the Daily Worker.
The Needle Trades Workers IN
dustrial Union is intensifying the
drive for the $4,000 strike fund and
it is certain that the United Front
conference to be held this afternoon
will give both its sanction and slim
ulouS to the raising of this fund to
enable the union to conduct the
strike effectively.
Large Representation.
From reports received at the time
the Daily Worker goes to press, the
United Front Conference will appar-
emily have a large representation of
many workers organizations which
have not sent in their credentials but
whose delegates will bring them to
the conference. In many cases there
were no meetings held recently and
great number of organizations will
be represented by their officials. So
far the following organizations have
sent in their credentials:
International Workers Order:
Branches No. 10, 10, 20, "a, 81, 40, 56,
CONTINUED ON PAGE TwOl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-31
BUTLER is
VOICE OF
WALL ST.
His Arrest Is Stage
Play for Pressure
on Mussolini

WASHINGTON, JAN 30.-Major
General Smedley D. Butler of the
U. S. marines is the leading figure
in aestage-play arranged by the State
Department to give Mussolini FORE
taste of the greater pressure Wall
Street will bring to bear to swing
fascism into line with the leading i'm
perialist powers.
While Butler is under ARREST" and
awaiting court-martial what he said
has the full endorsement of the Hoo
yer government. Butler, in the course
of speech at the Contemporary
Club of Philadelphia on Jan. 10Th,
stated that Mussolini was mad
dog driving to war and must be
stopped.
He further recited story about
Mussolini running over a little girl
in an armored car and carelessly
fCONTINUED ON PAGE FIVEI
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-31
Detroit Partial Returns
ShoaU Communist Vote Ub

DETROIT, Jan. 30.-First partial
returns in the special election in the
Second Senatorial District in Detroit,
credit Phillip Raymond, Communist
candidate, with SAT votes, out of a
total of 9,735, little more than 6
per cent. This is more than three
times the proportion received in the
November elections, when, from
total of over $1,000 votes the Com
munist candidate received 658. Ex-
IRENE apathy among the voters
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-31
Worker, After 20 Years
in SIP. Joins the
Communists

twenty years and subscriber to
your paper the past IA or Is years
and having now quit your paper and
your party. you want to know what
is wrong. So here goes; Why do you
print long articles about Soviet Rus
STA telling of the wonderful advance
in all lines of industry, education and
the standards of living, the record
breaking speed with which the Turk
Sib railroad was completed, the al
most unbelievable speed with which
modern machinery and methods are
being cast aside, that the carrying
out of the five-year plan is now al
most sure thing and probably will
be completed in four years.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-31

U. F. L. platform and the United
Farmer among the farming terri
tories.
GEYSER, Mont, Jan. 30.-Three-
hundred farmers with their wives
and children gathered this afternoon
in the Community Hall to hear Will
lis L. Wright the District Organizer
of the Communist Party, tell the
truth about the exploiting capitalist
system and offer a program for or
ganiation and struggle of the poor
farmers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-31
"Getting So | Don't Mind to Go
Without Subbe," Says Child

MARKED THREE, Ark, Jan. 3d.
Starving share choppers being fed
charity meals by the Red Cross here
are forced to work in wet trenches
and cleaning drainage districts for
the scrimpy meal they get
To get the paltry allowance of 81
weekly per couple, plus so cents adj
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-31

the armOries opened to lodge the
jObIeSs If the mayors would request
it. The mayor declared that the
demand for the armory and the
other demands of the unemployed
council were unnecessary"
The Unemployed Councils of the
Trade Union Unity League will lead
a nationwide mass demonstration in
support of the Workers Unemploy-
ment Insurance Bill on Feb. 10, when
that bill and the great roll of sigma
lures secured on it will be forced
upon the United States Congress.
The degree of seriousness with which
congress, the executive committee of
tie whole capitalist class, is forced
to receive the demands of the bill
will depend on the amount of mass
pressure behind it. And this will de-
pend very largely on the speed and
intensity of the campaign to organ
ize Councils of the Unemployed
everywhere, on their persistent fight
against evictions and for relief, and
on the mass signature collections
! during the few days left.
International Fighting Day.
But this whole national demon
stration, following as it does count
less city demonstrations, is itself but
stage in the struggle. On Feb. 25
there will be an international fight
ing day for unemployment inSur-
ance. The Communist Parties and
the revolutionary unions of the var
ious countries have sent out the call
for this struggle. Included among
those endorsing the International
Fighting Day, Feb. Is, are the Com
munist Party of U. S. and the Trade
Union Unity League. The demands
of the national day of demonstra-
tons are for the passage of the
Workers Unemployment Insurance
Bill. and the demands of the inter-
national demonstration are for real
insurance in each country, also for
lump sum of relief, large enough
to support each jobless worker and
his family during the winter, and for
no wage cuts, no lengthening of
CONTINUED ON PAGE FIvE)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-31
Coney Island Open Forum Sunday

Coney Island Open Forum Sunday
NEW YORK.-The Gonzales branch
OF the League of Struggle for Negro
Rights, an organization of Negro
and white workers and poor farmers,
will hold its second open forum Sun
day evening. Feb. /, at 8 o'clock at
its center, 1858 w. Bird ST, fConey
Island.
Sam Nesin, secretary of the Unem-
ployed Councils of Greater New York,
will speak on unemployment
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-31
Defending and Standard Oil
Press Anh>SoViet War Plans
BULLETIN.

Wireless by Inprecorr)
BERLIN.-Welt Abend reports that Deterding is in
Berlin negotiating to the oil monopoly with Standard
Oil excluding Soviet OIL Germany offered billion
loan reward Finance Minister, Dietrich supports the
plan because the loan offers possibility of settling the budget
difficulties
Deterdng reported to have met Minister Treyranus
and Duisberg of the Dye Trust well chach Arnold
Rechberg
Weamabend demands the expulsion of the unscrpuo,s
intrguer, Deterding.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-31
Danbury Needle Workers Forum

Danbury Needle Workers Forum
DANBURY, Conn.-All fur workers
and matters are invited to attend the
Open Forum and hear the speaker
from New York City at the Needle
Trades Industrial Union headquar-
tiers, 253 Main Street, this Sunday
afternoon, February l, at pm.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-31

marked the special election. Election
officials are very slow reporting
Communist votes.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-31
Build Councils of the
Unemployed; Unions
of the Employed!
Fight All Wage Cuts!
New Orleans Latest to
Get Into Action
BULLETIN

ALBANY, N. Y, Jan. S0.-The
unemployed marched on City Hall
to demand that Mayor Thatcher
call the bluff of Governor Roose-
welt who said that he had ordered
the armories opened to lodge the
iObIess If the mayors would request
it. The mayor declared that the
demand for the armory and the
other demands of the unemployed
council were unnecessary"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-31

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CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO,
Evening star., 1931-12-20
University quartet in Recital Tuesday

r. HREE groups of songs by the University
Double Quartet, a group Of baritone
solos by Douglas A. MacKinnon, its
director, and group of violin num-
bers by G.. Harold Schmidt, will COM
prise the program on Tuesday evening of this
week at 815 o'clock in Central High Audi
torium by the popular University Double Quar-
tet of Harvard, under the management Of the
Community Institute of Washington.
The choral numbers will include Scotch, Irish,
English and italian folksongs and ballads,
Christmas carols of the olden times and love
songs and choruses Of the modern day.
The members of this quartet have been
trained under the direction of DR.. Archibald
T. Dawson Of the Harvard music department.
ana were formerly members of the Harvard
Glee Club. lt4
Evening star., 1931-12-20

Tickets for this Yuetide event of the Com
munity Institute are to be had as usual, at
the T. Arthur Smith Concert Bureau, the A.
A. A. and the Willard.
THE Entertainment Committee of the Univer-
sity Club is presenting the Tuesday Eve
ming Music Club Florence Howard, director,
and Marjorie Davis, accompanist, and Evelyn
Scott, violinist in an interesting program at
the clubhouse on Wednesday evening at $50
pm Solo parts of the ensemble numbers given
by the Tuesday Club will be sung by Cecie
Iittlefeld, soprano; Alice Sherrer, contralto;
Helen N. Perry, contralto, and Frances Tucker.
mezzo-soprano, and the club and Miss Scott
Il jD-p .' ,.. .' .'
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Evening star., 1931-12-20

which had never before been heard in Wash
ington.
Such soloists as Lucrezia Bori Sylvia Lent,
the delightful Tarwater sisters, who made such
q hit at our second children's concert; Miksa
Merson, the pianist. and others. The orchestra
has in every way been an amazing and almost
incredible success.
''The remainder Of the season promises to
be even more brilliant than the first part. It
is our hope and intention to present before
the close Of our season, in March, such soloists
as Ossip Gabrilowitsch, pianist; Percy Granger,
another great pianist; Kochanski the violinist
Frieda Hempel, the singer; Yelly d'Aranyi an
other superb artist; other symphonies, by
Haydn, Beethoven, the Second of SibeluS,
never heard here before and probably Tschai-
kowski's Fourth
Toward the end Of the season it is my hope
that we can present a choral performance If
the necessary funds available. At any rate,
propose to give Washington season of or
chestral music that will impel the music lovers
Of this Capital in so far as I am personally
able, to maintain and carry on the great work
that has already been done to give Washington
its own symphony.
"And think-and many think with me
that we have made most auspiciouS start"