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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-02
BY JOHN LITTLE.

TIE United States government has decreed
that the official organ of the Young Commu-
mist League, the young Worker" is "unmail
able" This attack against the Young Worker"
is based upon the contents Of the May LIST, May
10th and the June End Issues Although the
Young Worker" has been IN existence since
1922 this is the first attempt of the government
by the postal department we're especially devoted
against the present preparation for imperialist
war and against the further worsenng of the
living conditions of the working class.
The United States Government is preparing to
attack the Soviet Union. The success Of the
Five Year Plan ON Che one hand, and the deep
ening economic crisis Of capitalism on the other
is forcing the capitalist class to seek way out
OF its difficulties. In order for the capitalist
class to attack the Soviet Union and place the
burden of the economic crisis upon the backs OF
the workers it seeks to drive into illegality the
militant class-conscious section OF the working
class which is leading the tight OF the workers.
The suppression Of the Young Worker" IS part
of this attack against the working class. With
increasing unemployment and ever frightening
bread lines the government finds it necessary
to bar the Young WORKER because it gives
leadership to and rallies the young workers for
the fight against imperiaEst war and because 1t
leads the stauggle for better living conditions.
Wherever struggles for the young workers have
taken place the young worker" has been in
the forefront giving; guidance and leadership for
their immediate economic demands. The Young
Worker has exposed to the masses of toiling
youth the present preparations for war against
the Soviet Union The young Worker" has been
the only you'll, organ that has carried on a re-
lentless struggle against the lynching and jim
crow policy of the bosses and has rallied the
working youth Of all races to struggle against
the system Of oppression that breeds it. 1t has
defended the interest Of the. mass Of exploited
1cultural youth and child labor. It has been
'.iA-oFEantxtpg tha. young workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-02
The Flve-Year Plan Conquers
the Dniepr
BY BURCK

an iron and steel mill with a capacity of from
$4,000 to IL million tons of pig iron a year, a
plant for the production Of ferrous alloys alu-
minum plants chemical worKs, a tractor plant
with an annuol capacity Of 10000 units, etc. This
truly immense and impressive electro chemical
and metallurgcal combine at times conceals from
the public eye the transportation problem which
is being solved in the process of the Dniepros-
troy construction, almost as an incident OF it.
Yet, by the time that the hydro-electric sta
ton and industrial plants are completed, an eX-
celent system of triple locks Will connect the up
per and lower Dnieper, and will concert tie City
of zaporozhiye into a kind or Soviet Hamburg
for seagoing vessels viii be able to reach the port
Of Zaporozhiye by way Of the lower DnIepcr.
The traffic of lumber, animal products grain and
manufactures from White Russia and Northern
Ukraine viii find direct passage from the north
ito the SOUTH cargoes of coal, crude Gil, metals,
etc. will flow along this greet waterway from
the south to the north. 1t is quite apparent that
the time is not far off when, as result of the
reconstruction of the Berezina system Of water
ways the Dnieper will be firmly linked to the
Western Dvina and Berezina Rivers, and conse-
quently with the northern seas. The legendary
route from the Varyag to the Greeks" is con-
verted into reality in the course of the So
cialst industrialization OF the Soviet Union
From The Five Year Plan of the Soviet
Union, by G. L. Grinko, one of the original
collabOrators on the Five Year Plan of So
cialist industrialization, a complete account
of the Plan, containing the first two years
of its operation and political estimate of
its place in world economy
BY special arrangement with Interna-
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-02
Workers! Join the Party of
Your Class!

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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-29
lid DEFENDING
INDIANA NEGRO
Gary Meeting to Pro
test Frame-up

GARY, Ind, July %. - A fight to
smash the attempts of Indiana boS-
SEES to legally lynch Negro worker
Ulysses Mack, has been started by
the International Labor Defense.
This is the same organization of Ne
gro and white workers, whose mil
liant mass defense of the nine inno-
cent Scottsboro boys has focused the
attention of the international work.
ing-class on the brutal oppression of
the Negro people in this country.
Ulysses Mack was sentenced to die
on a false charge of murder. After
careful investigation of the facts
in the case, the I. L. D. is convinced
that the conviction was based on
false evidence-principally confess
sion obtained by brutal third de-
gree methods. "E7very fact, says
a statement issued by the I. L, D.,
shows that an innocent worker is
being railroaded to the electric chair.
The I. L. D. has called a protest
meeting this Wednesday evening at
Turner Hall, 14th and Washington
Streets. Mrs Montgomery, mother
of one OF the Scottsboro victims,
will be among the speakers. other
speakers are: Jack Tilford, former
editor of the Gary Sun and a mem
Der Of the district committee of the
League of Struggle for Negro Rights.
William Browder, district secretary
of the T. L. D., and Mrs. Rena Nc
Nezzer, the mother of Ulysses Mack.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-29
ACW General Stobbage Plan
Strengthens Company Union
Turn Sham StOppage Into a Genuine Strike,
Rank and File Committee Calls

one channel, that of the company
union. and not be split by diverse
racketeering offsprings of the A. c.
w.
To Build Company Union.
Hillman summed up the main pur-
pose of the stoppage in the following
words
while settling with manufac-
turers who intend to keep their
work in union shops, we propose
TO keep up the fight for six
months, or a year, if necessary, to
show the others that they cannot
operate without a union agree
ment."
Hillman also mentioned that the
A, c. W would easily conclude an
agreement with the Manufacturers
Exchange on a basis acceptable to
the bosses. This would include the
privilege Of changing to cheaper
lines, a direct wage cutting scheme,
points of principle" another name
for speed-up concessions and prepar-
ing the way for reorganization.
In the meantime the Amalgamated
Rank and File Committee is rally
ing workers in thS shops to turn the
sham stoppage intended to strength
en- Hillman, into a genuine strike
against the ever worsening condi-
lions and miseries in the industry.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-29

NEW YORK. 49, ReasSuing his
hearers that they would be at work
n few days, Hillman led his clique
steamrol.er to effect a general stop
page in the mems clothing industry
to extend the stranglehold Of the
company union on the clothing
workers, at q meeting of Amalga-
mated Clothing Workers shop chair
men and executive board members,
yesterday at Webster Hall
The purpose of the stoppage as
explained by the Hillman bureau
Gratis is to extend the control of the
A. c. w. to force the small bosses
into line with the big ones. to re-
habihtate the company union treas
ury and to consolidate the grip of
The company union upon the
workers.
Grievances Not Mentioned
The question OF the intolerable
speed-up in the shops, Of the steady
toll of reorganization, of the threat
ened wage cuts. Of the thousands Of
unemployed and impoverished tailorS
was not mentioned
The main emphasis Of the Hlllman
clique was that the company union
extend its control. that the A. C. w.
set q complete monopoly of the labor
market in the trade; that all graft
and blackman revenue so through
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-29

were armed.
The postponement of the hearing
for a month is to allow the land
owners and their agents to perfect
their frame-up against these Negro
troopers whose only crime was in
organizing to resist the robberies of
landowners. to fight against starva-
ton, and the additional crime in the
eyes of the landowners and the N.
A A c. P. leaders, of daring to
raise their voices in protest against
the frightful attempt of Alabama
bosses to legally murder the nine in
nocent Scottsboro Negro children.
Nine of the arrested troopers are
also miners. one of them only IA
years osd
Workers Must Defeat Boss Frame
Up,
The workers must defeat this at
tempt of the Alabama landowners
and their courts to railroad these
SLOHpC4o W AOlI5 VI AoO4l GCIAi4o VI
possible death sentences. Only an
ever growing mass movement, unit
ing white and colored workers and
all sympathetic elements willing to
fight for Negro rights, san stop the
murderous frame-ups against these
Negro workers.
All Out On Street August First!
Negro and white workers! Out on
the streets on Saturday, August
in militant demonstrations against
the Seottsboro legal lynching, against
the Camp Hill horror, against the
whole system of capitalist race hat
red and terror against the capitalist
program of starvation for the mas
Ses, against the growing wave of
wage cuts, against boss war prepara-
lions and for the defense Of The Sow
let Union, the only fatherland Of
the oppressed nationalities and the
working class. Demonstrate on Au-
gust First!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-29
What's On

WEDNESDAY
L.S.R. and LID. Branches in Harlem
VIII hold a mass meeting at 18TH
st. and Sth Ave. at 1880 pm. and an
indoor meeting at the Tabernacle
Meeting House, II W. 132nd st. All
workers, Negro and white, are called
to be present and protest the brutal
beating Of the Negro share troopers
in Dadville Jail, Alabama.
Medical Workers
A very important special August
LIST meeting will be held by the Med
teal Workers Industrial League at
lO8 e. 14th ST., Room 202, on July
~ at pm. Medical workers are
asked to be present.
Y.C.L., YOrkviIIe Unit
WI have an open night July %
at 800 E. Sist St. at pm. There
VIII be short play and entertain
ment Good time assured all.
Steve katovis Branch LID,
- VIII have an open-air meeting on
seventh St and Ave. B this July 90
at 8 pm.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-29
UNITED FRONT is TOPIC AT FORUM; COMPANY
UNION ASSESSES FOR The CLIQUE

Brown Dress Co, 1918 Belmont Ave,
and the Grace Dress Co., 696 18th
St. decided to organize their ranks
and spread the strike to every Bronx
shop that is working for the same
jobber
A meeting of Bronx dressmakers
has been arranged for Thursday
right after work at Belmont Hall, 500
E, 184th St., where plans for an or
ganization drive. to unionize the
dressmakers in the Bronx will be
considered and the machinery for
the drive will be organized.
A leaflet was issued by the Indus
trial Union today speaking about the
conditions of the workers and ask
ing the dressmakers of the open
shops to follow the example of the
workers of the Brown Dress Co., and
the Grace Dress Co.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-29

NEW YORK.-How can the dress
makers build a unittd front to strtg-
gle for union conditions in the
shops? This will be the topic for
discussion at the open forum ar
ranged by the Industrial Union this
afternoon at 1 o'clock at Memorial
Hall 344 w. Seth st.
Weissberg, an organizer of the In
dustrial Union, will lead the discus
sion. Dressmakers, registered and
non-registered; dressmakers of open
shops, workers of all tendencies, are
called upon to come to this meet
ing and to take part in the discus
sion and help formulate plans for a
drive TO secure better conditions in
the dress industry through the united
efforts of all dressmakers.
BRONX.-The strikers of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-29
TO sum Up DOG
WORKERS STRIKE
Company Union Tries
to Mislead Furriers

NEW YORK.-A meeting of the
dogskin strike committee will be held
Wednesday night in the office of the
union, 131 w 18th ST. A complete
report will be given on the accom-
plishmentS of the strike-the num-
Der of shops that have settled, the
number Of workers involved and the
amount of increases secured for all
these workers.
Plans will also be considered as to
how the dogskin workers that are al
ready enjoying improved conditions
can assist the workers in the other
branches of the trade for similar &C
ton.
In order to mislead the workers
and give the impression that they,
too, are fighting for July raises, the
company union is making all sorts of
deals with the bosses against the
workers In the shop of Frank and
Gentill, 100 w, Both St., which the
Industrial Union was preparing to
declare on strike, the boss attempted
to bride the workers by giving them
an increase of SO to 81. Later the
company union declared the shop on
strike and agreed with the boss that
he give an additional So so that they
can proclaim this as victory, but
at the same time half of the work
ers are to be discharged.
These are the treacherous activi-
ties carried on by the Kaufman
Stetsky clique which are being
boosted Of in the Forward as VIC
tories of the fur workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-29
ALA. BOSSES, LACKING EVIDENCE
POSTPONE HEARING OF CHOPPERS
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Choppers Union have accused the
police Of lynching these five troopers
as well as numbering Ralph Gray
while he lay wounded in his bed.
Landowner Beat Chopper On Head
It has been revealed that the land
owner Burke Brown beat Tommy
Fitch a cropper, on his head with
his pistol butt for emitting the word
''sir" in answering him when land
owners and the police invaded the
troopers meeting on July 16
Ralph Gray, the cropper murdered
in his Der, was heroic to the last,
lorely wounded and receiving medi-
,aI aid in bed, Gray got ready to
safend himself when the posse of
:eputized landowners invaded his
some after discovering that he had
rot been killed by their first at
,empt to murder him. Gray was
prevented from shooting it out with
his murderers by his women folk.
After numbering him, the landown-
ers brutally beat up his wife, daugh-
ter, sister and nephews and jailed
them. The women were later re-
leased.
Gray's house was spattered with
blood from the murderous attack by
the posse No shots were fired at
this posse at all There was no
battle in Gray's hor7a as reported
by theboss press. Gray was still
alive when taken off to jail but died
on the way, evidently from another
voiler.
Sheriff Young, who vas hardly
hurt in the fight that followed the
police Landowners attack on the
troopers meeting, has been out Of
the hospital since Friday. The wounds
Of one Of his deputies were also
slight While the troopers bravely
defended their meeting, few of them
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-29

One way TO help the Soviet
Union is to spread among the
workers Soviet Forced Labor"
by Max Bedacht, 10 cents per copy.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-29
Knitgoods Workers to
Hold Membership Meet

A membership meeting of knit
goods workers will be held at the
office Of the union, 131 w. 18th St,
on Thursday, O'Clock At this
meeting the organizer will report on
the various strike activities and the
plans for extending the drive to
other unorganized shops. Knitgoods
workers, members of the union as
well as those who have not as YET
joined the union. are called upon tc
| attend this meeting.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-01-29

when good times come again
those who carry on now will be at
the first table, and some Of the
cutters may never reach any ta-
ble," said Henry M. Robinson,
chairman Of the board of directors,
Security-First National Bank, In
his annual address to company
stockholders.
LAS in other like periods" de-
clared the internationally known
economist and banker, "the cour-
ageous will carry on and the quit
ters quit. Ours is country of great
resources and ordinarily Of courage
in things economic. and it would
appear that there can be no ques-
ton that the return of this coun-
try to .prosperity-probably in ad-
vance of the rest of the worlds
only a matter of time. and that not
very long time. We can shorten
that time by taking heart and
making the best of things
Current clamor for war debt re-
duction to relieve the depression re-
ceived special comment in Robin
sons address. II have never been
able to find any satisfactory rea-
soning as to just how forgiveness
of these debts should prove benefi-
cial to us. or necessarily to the
world generally, except in certain
instances where it would result for
the time being in somewhat
lessened tax burden for the Euro
pean people; but with an added tax
burden for our own," he said.
"It isn't very plain that the pay
ments now being made directly to
us by any of the European coun-
tries, with the possible exception of
Great Britain. could be considered
an undue burden, as amounts being
paid us by France and Italy are in
both instances less than dollar
per inhabitant of the respective
countries per year. Great Britain's
payment was based on a proposal
made by that country itself, and it
is said we made in part to maintain
that country's dominant position
in international affairs.
while the mere statement Of the
benefits we would receive if we for
Imperial Valley press., 1931-01-29

Press Classified Ads Bring Results
Imperial Valley press., 1931-01-29
BRIEF NEWS FROM MELOLAND
Peterson. and Miss Imogene Peter

Peterson, and Miss Imogene Peter
son.
Mrs. George Lindsay is spending
the week in Brawley visiting with
her brother and family, Mr. and
Mrs. Walter Havekorst, and two
children.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dan Scott are en-
tertaining Mr.. Scott's father and
two brothers from Los Angeles.
They are Roderick Scott. Harry
Scott. and Dams twin brother,
Ewing Scott.
Mrs. A. Carpenter and baby son,
Ralph Lewis, are guests of her sis
ter, Miss Lucille Wells, and Miss
Amy Griset, at the teacherage. Mrs.
Carpenter will be remembered by
many as a former Meloland teacher.
She and her husband and baby
make their home in La Mesa now.
Miss Wells motored over to La Mesa
last weekend to get her sister and
baby, and plans to take them back
this weekend.
There will be a meeting of the
Farm Center at the Meloland
schoolhouse Friday evening at 1880,
to which everyone is invited to
come. There will be interesting
speakers present. and music by the
Holtville high school glee club.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-01-29
LOCAL FRICDAIRE
statesmen WILL
VISIT FACTORY

l.. l. DUNCAN and A. Roach, men,
bers of the local Frigidaire sales or
ganization, will attend a business
conference of Frigidaire executives
and star statesmen of this General
Motors subsidiary at Dayton, Ohio,
February 9 and 10, 1t is announced.
Sales plans and policies for the
spring and summer business CAM
paign will be discussed by the exc
cutives and members of the selling
organization who have made out
standing records during 1890. these
leading statesmen of the local or
ganization were informed.
Last year. these Frigidaire repre-
sentatives reported, was a very Suc-
cessful one for the electrical re-
frigeration industry, sales exceeding
those of 1929 by a comfortable mar
gin. The industry, they said, antici-
pates an equally large gain this year
and bases its belief on the fact that
the public is more electric refrigcr-
ator conscious today than ever be-
fore, and especially interested in
the economy of this product.
The electric light and power in
dustry. the Frigidaire men pointed
out. soon will launch a $1,000.D00 ad-
vertising campaign to sell one mil
lion electric refrigerators. The
slogan to be used will be IAN Elec-
trio Refrigerator Pays For Itself"
Imperial Valley press., 1931-01-29
BY MRS. WARD McGREW
Press Staff Correspondent

Mrs. Dan Scott was hostess to the
members of the Meloland Com
munity Bridge club and few
friends, on Tuesday. A delicious
luncheon was a special feature of
this meeting. Luncheon was served
at long banquet table centered
with narcissus. After luncheon,
bridge was enjoyed throughout the
afternoon, with prizes being won by
Mrs. John Zenos. who held high
score for guests, and by Mrs. w. A.
Swerdfeger, high for members, and
Mrs. Ward McGrew, second.
Special guests were Mesdames
Sam Webb, Milo Busenberg and
John Zenos, all of Holtville.
Members present were Mesdames
w. w. Weeth. G.. c. Richards.
Ralph Engebretson. Arthur Farley,
w. A. Swerdfeger. r. Neifert, Laur-
ence Richards, Ward McGrew, and
the hostess.
The next meeting will be in two
weeks at the home of Mrs. w. A.
Swerdfeger.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Farley en-
tertained at dinner Sunday. having
as their guests Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred
Imperial Valley press., 1931-01-29
FERTILIZER EXPERT
TALKS TO CLASSES

George A. Wells, salesman for the
Inland Fertilizer Company of Los
Angeles recently gave a very inter
esting and instructive talk before
the combined agriculture classes of
the Central Union High school.
Wells has had considerable expert
ence in the fertilizer business in
the citrus section of Southern CAL
ifornia and in Florida and expects
to spend considerable of his time in
the near future in the Imperial
Valley. He gave some very inter-
esting facts to the boys concerning
the manufacture and use of CON-
mercial fertilizers. With special
emphasis on the use of such fertil-
Imperial Valley press., 1931-01-29
CHAPEL PART OF LIBRARY

OMAHA, (U.n) = The students
chapel, where for the past so years
Creighton University students have
worshipped and which did not fit in
with the universitys remodeling
expansion program, has gone the
way of other landmarks. 1t is
now a part of the university library
which has been enlarged to twice
its size. The main library now
contains $4,000 volumes. The law
college library contains $4,000 VOL
umes and the medical library 5000
volumes.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-01-29
ROBINSON PREDICTS BRIGHT
FUTURE FOR COURAGEOUS ONES

gave the debts sounds good to the
man who is in difficulty. proof that
this would be true may not be en-
tirely clear"
Reviewing the more popular
theories of causes and possible
cures for l930's worldwide financial
ills, Robinson advocated no single
one of them, but stated that 'as to
most Of the factors, there is little,
if any thing, to be done other than
to allow the natural operation Of
economic laws to work out the prob
lem.
Most of us nave seen several de-.
pressed periods and will remember
that they have many features in
common and in each instance the
world has recovered. again passing
into better times. We have been
passing through the painful pro-
cesses of readjustment. Unwise
spending has been followed by un-
wise stinting. Fear takes the place
of a normal attitude It is in the
midst of these circumstances that
recovery in all previous cycles has
begun. When the times comes, we
probably shall pass out of this de-
preston as suddenly as We did from
that of the 'nineties.'"
AS a conclusion, it was to the in
dividual citizen. working hopefully
and courageously to improve his
condition" that Robinson pointed
rather than to any serious modifi-
cation of fundamentals, rs the
agency that will bring about re-
adjustment and lift business out of
the slough of despond"
Imperial Valley press., 1931-01-29

An extension school on soils will
be held at Brawley, Imperial Coun-
iy, January 27-28.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-01-29

night in Fresno, according to word
received by the police department
here today.
The burglar who took the truck
escaped with a number of gasoline
buckets and other equipment from
the transfer company
The truck will be returned to Ell
Centre by the insurance company
which covered it. stated police to-
day,