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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-17
Cooler and Hurst Tell Story
of Kidnapping and Rescue

bloody and bruised appearance.
1--WE intend to go back to Dallas
as soon as we have recovered strength
and carry on the struggle for uneul-
ployment insurance, and against JIM
crowism and Negro discrimination.
Neither the Ku Klux Khan, and The
capitalist government agents who
work with them, can drive us out Of
Texas.
(Signed)
LEWIS HURS; CEIAS. j. CODER."
DALLAS, Texas, March 16. - The
Dallas Dispatch Of March quotes
from the statement of Attorney Geo.
Clifton Edwards, with the comment
that this confirms their editorial al
ready printed in which 1t was de-
clared that the city authorities are
thoroughly incompetent and ought
to be replaced"
Edwards said, as quoted by the Dis
patch:
about six o'clock I reached the
city hall, went directly to see the
chief Of police. There was delay
OF 10 or Is minutes and then ne,
Chief Trammell, told me he would
phone Judge Muse (about prosecu-
tom and said I should phone him IN
half an hour.
"At seven o'clock" continues Ed
wards statement, from my home I
phoned the chief and he told me he
had decided to release the men.
about eight O'Clock I went down
town and at the desk told the Of
ficer what 1 wanted"
Then, says the Dispatch, "cornes
this very important statement (by
Edwards:
after a delay Of about IS minutes
he (this of1icer) ordered the men
down from tina Jail cells"
The Dispatch then continues:
Edwards walked out on the side
walk and the kidnapping immediate
" followed. This statement leaves no
doubt that there u the suspicion In
Edwards mind that some one from
police headquarters telephoned some
one else that the prisoners were
about to be released. Enough time
elapsed to get three or four cars
and 10 or 70 men together and get
thcm, say, from the neighborhood OF
the courthouse, Oak Cliff or West
Dallas, up to the city hail."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-17
CHICAGO CLUB
SENDS FIGURES

From the Chicago Red Builders
News Club we received the following
report from T. Lambraw, secretary:
"a total of 1900 copies were sold
during February. A. Bisbikis sold
1898; King, 9O2; McDermot. 6s4;
Dorm, 625; varvelIa, $50; De; Leon,
529; Engh, sos; Esquival, 447; VIM
sky, 407; IsmaiI, $3.50; Lambraw,
1865; SabeL 405; Adams, 800; Pap
pas, 1853; Nucleus 10, Feb. III to
Feb. 20, $50; miscellaneous, 2sl."
The Chicago Red Builders re-
Gently suffered a cut in bundles, due
to the lack of effort in drawing In
new members, and we hope that by
this time the comrades in the Club
have taken steps to popularize the
Club and invite unemployed work.
ers to their meetings to join up.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-17
AND WHITE UNEMPLOYED
MENACED BY new POLICE TERROR

10000 iobless here, and there "a sb-
solutely no charity. The unemployed
ore starving. You can't walk down
the streets without unemployed
workers begging for hand-out, for
a piece of bread.
In order to inflame prejudice
against Negroes. they are running the
anti-Negro movie now. The Birth Of
a Nation"
The grand jury is investigating the
@oJging of Coder and Hurst where
"oder and Hurst are expected to
gstify tomorrow, Tuesday. The cap
alist press tries to say they were
Hot logged. The press admits they
were kidnapped but not logged.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-17

KANSAS CITY, Mo, March 49,
Coder and Hurst have issued the fol-
lowing statement, declaring that they
are going back to Dallas to continue
the organization work, and telling
how they were kidnapped and flog-
ged, and then rescued by Negro
farmers:
ave were both arrested Wednes-
day, March 4th, and held on "suspic-
ion. That night we we're both beaten
up in the Jail cells by gangsters and
a prize fighter who were specially
sent in by the police to do this. We
we're given no medical attention altho
we were both bruised and bleeding.
Thursday night, around 8, we
were taken out of our cells, and into
the basement of the police station
by the jailor. We were told by the
desk sergeant that we were released
to our lawyer, George Clifton Ed
wards. AS we went up the stairs to
the sidewalk number of men sur
rounded us, several with pointed
guns, and we were ordered to get in
to a car, which was parked right in
front of the police station entrance
with its motor running. One of the
men who pulled gun on us had
been standing in the basement of the
police station next to the desk serge
ant when we were brought out from
our cells.
Inside the car with us there were
three men, one Of them driving and
the other two with guns pointed at
US, AS we drove along they cursed
and threatened. "You dirty Niger
lowing, they shouted, don't you
know this stuff won't 60 in Dallas?"
after we had been driven for tbout
80 minutes, and were we'll outside the
city limits, they stopped the car, and
we were told to get out. Three other
cars, full Of Ku Kluxers, stool pige-
ons, and plain clothes, policemen
which had been trailing behind US
also pulled up and the occupants piled
out. Our hands were then tied be-
hind us. Several Of the mob then
began attacking US. We were both
knocked unconscious, by the blows
from fists. When we regained con-
seriousness we were dragged into the
woods, and beaten with heavy rope
doubled up. We were then left lying
on the ground covered with blood ant
with our hands still tied behind us.
early in the morning some Negro
farmers came along and found us
They released our hands, and took us
to their shack. Here we laid about
for i've days. resting and regainine
strength. Tuesda night under cover
Of darkness, we made our way tc
Corsicana, Texas. and got on a
freight going northeast. We stayed
on this freight until we got to Tex
arakana, Texas, where we changed
for another freight to Kansas City
We did not have an opportunity to
get in touch with the district office
Of the Party or the Daily Worker
because we had been stripped Of every
cent and we did not want to venture
lantc anZ q tie citieA .hseauaa VI ON
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were told again and again there is
nothing doing now; come back later"
A guard stood at the gate leading
to the stairs Of the overhead pas
sage. Now and then, few hopefuls
would pass him, showing Ford"
badges like dog license tags.
Brief conversation followed, some
remarked that only old Ford men
would be hired. Others thought
otherwise. Someone in the back was
heard to remark Thousands waited
yesterday and only fifteen were
hired"
We all decided TO wait, neverthe-
hess, until they would start hiring.
But it was useless. Then someone
proceeded to give out Daily Workers
TO these shivering unemployed. They
grabbed the Dailies and read them.
All OF them asking for some reds"
TO come and start something.
Workers, you are the "reds." You
are those who are waiting for jobs
you probably won't get, why ask for
reds" to come. Organize these men,
establish unemployed councils. De-
mand these promised jobs! Make a
definite program Of actionl
4 a.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-17
Soviet Press Discusses Development
of Planned Economy in Soviet Union;
Is Force in Building New Society
Productive Forces of Workers Republic Being
Developed Rapidly; Unemployment Is
Now Abolished in U.S.S.R.

MOSCOWThe Soviet press devotes considerable space
the tenth anniversary of the formation of the State Planning
Commission The State Planning Commission formed
the introduction of the New Economic Policy. The "Pravda
publishes article by Corade Kubichev, the chairman of
the State Planning Commission:
After the adoption of the state eecfcaton plan Goeo
which at the initiative and with the cooperation of Lenn
the class enemy realized the significance the work which
had been undertaken and therefore the activities of the sabo
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-17
lpenver Mayor Accused of Graft; Workers Fed
\ Garbage
Denver, Colo.

Denver, Colo.
Daily Worker:
4 an dropping few lines to let
you know the conditions in Denver.
1t is getting worse and worse. We
had two OF our speakers here con-
corning demands Of workers. Some
CRATER, Stapelton, got his henchmen
to take down our speakers and had
them put in Jail. But he couldn't
get his men to speak because we had
another party speaker Of our own.
Some news concerning our Mayor.
He was accused Of graft In the New
City Hall case. He was also in
volved in the WANT Tunnel affair
and the gasoline tax affair. He is
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-17
JAILED N. Y. RED
NEWSIE MILITANT

Clarence Turner, now serving six
months, pending appeal, for selling
the Daily Worker in the New York
subways, is right up to the minute
on news of Red Builders through
out the country. He studies the
Daily Worker almost by heart.
When visited last week he ex-
pressed enthusiasm over the photos
Of Daily Worker sellers which have
been appearing and promised to dig
one up of himself, Well print it as
soon as we get it'll
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-17
FLAGRANT FAKE
in CENSUS COUNT
in CHICAGO, ILL.
Cover the Loop Flop
houses at the
Wrong Hour
tBy a Worker Correspondent

CHICAGO, ILL.,, March 16.--Unem-
ployment census supervisors in this
city lied and minimized The catas-
trophic joblesS situation in Chicago.
This I know because I was one OF
those hired to take the census and got
the instruction.
About January IA, day before the
enumeration began, Ralph Goodman,
census supervisor issued a statement
through the Daily News that unem-
ployment decreased 40 per cent since
the census Of last April. At that
time, no check-up could possibly be
made since the first figures were not
turned In before the 18th.
Fake Returns.
On the south side, Tibbets, another
supervisor, hoping to gain some pub
licity, organized a brigade" of 80
men and shot them into the loop to
enumerate the fiophouses at one shot
1t was a calculated fizzle.
The census takers were to enurn-
crate every flop house between $50
p. m. to about $50 p. m, as they
were entering the 'hoter' for the
night. But most Of the unemployed
do not get in until much later, since
they have to stay In the soup lines
or are still trying to raise the price
for a flop" on the streets. AS a re-
sult--only $50 unemployed we're listed
In the entire loop fiophouse section
in district where minimum Of five
thousand lodge every night.
One enumerator, assigned to par.
ticular hotel, disobeyed the super
visor's order and instead of enumer.
ating In the evening. came to The
dophouse at 4 o'clock in the morn.
ing. He started to list as the mer
left the hotel. He registered 400 out
Of the 600 registered for the night
A number refused to answer cues.
tons, expressing contempt for thu
government and its method of max,
ing the unemployed think something
was being done fore them by IRE,
gistering them"
$50 In One Hotel"
Compare 4So jobless in one hotel
ana not an unusually big one-and the
figure of 230 for the flop houses ii
the entire loopl or @5Sa u
Even now, before the total figure;
are issued by the U. S. Census Bur
eau. / say they are fake and mini
mizedl
BY the way. the enumerators would
like to know why it took the govern
ment over a month to pay for the
work done. Census Enumeration.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-17
CUT PAY OF DEPT.
STORE TAILORS
Slave Conditions in Big.
Dept. Store
tBy a Worker Correspondent,

NY WOEhcI SUEIcSpunueutI
CHICAGO.--One of the largest de-
partn1ent stores in the city, Carson
Prize Scott, has forced a five dollar
weekly cut in wages through the tail
oring shop. Hours are extremely long
and no overtime is paid. Three and
four times a week the workers must
slave until ten and eleven at night,
being paid only fifty cents for supper
money, and labor under a brutal
speed-up,
To fight against such slashes In
wages, vicious speed-up and killing
hours, the workers in this shop should
and must organize, not under the boss
collaborating Amalgamated union,
but under the fighting and fearless
needle Workers Industrial Union.
Tailor.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-17

mass circulation based on a special
weekly issue containing two columns
of space devoted exclusively to local
news. Since Friday is used for the
Cleveland edition, Minneapolis will
select another date. But when
enough districts order special pages
it will be possible for more than one
district t6r choose the same date
since the second page will be done
over to meet the demands.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-17
Calf OAR Organize White Guardists Here

the surprise was the report of one
Mrs. F. P. Thoms, Regent of the
California OAR. She gave a very
interesting account of the White
Russians cher own name for them)
In the region Of Pasadena and Los
Angeles. She went on to say with
much pride and naivete that the
local Daughters had organized
Russ Ukrainian Civic Center at Pa
sadena to counterfeit the influence
OF the so-called hateful "Commun-
ists.' She further stated that the
project was supported by funds of
the State OAR. "A Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-17
HUNDREDS SILVER IN
COLD AT EDGEWATER
FORD'S SEEKING WORK
A Few Former Workers Hired On Again, AS
Crowd Is Threatened By Police
Ask for "Reds" to Come and Start Something;
Organize Unemployed Councils
Daily Worker:
Elizabeth, N. J.

Daily Worker Elizabeth, N. J.
They are hiring at Fords! With this rushed
over to Edgewater early this morning And though it
quite chilly thousand workers kept vigil for block
both sides of the windy street.
Two cops every and then would chase them from
side of the street to the other very dark and together
with the codness and constant scouagg of these
by the cops tended to disrupt the hopeful workers They
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-17
Berkeley, Calf.

Daily Worker:
The Los Angeles "Times" had an
article which was very interesting.
II read that meeting was held
specially to hear an address by the
representative of the OAR, who
came all the way to California to
warn the Daughters of the menace
of Communism.
Her account of the doings Of the
Communists among school children
was bloodcurdling. There was moth
ing noticeable or unexpected in her
harangue, however. What did cause
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-17
CALF. JOBLESS
HUNGER MARCH
Jobless Meet Tomor-
row In Philadelphia
CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE,

delphia will hold mass meeting on
Thursday, March 10, at p. m. meet
ing in Russian American Citizens
Hall, 8640 Eastwick Avenue. William
Simons, district secretary of the
Trade Union Unity League, will be
the main speaker; there will also be
Russian speaker. Admission freel
This section is close to the Hog Is
land Municipal Airport, where ON Jan.
81, a meeting took place for over one
hour with 1000 workers present who
unanimously endorsed the Social In
surance Bill. AS a result of "a march
towards City Hall, Simons now faces
trial on the charge of melting to riot.
1t is expected that large numbers of
workers will come who were present
at the Hog Island meeting.
This meeting will be a step in the
campaign for the Pennsylvania State
Hunger March to Harrisburg, April
10th to 14th.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-17

just like our old Governor Adams
and the rest Of the crooked officials
in the State.
Some big preacher also stopped in
this town and asked Comrade Guynn
to bring up his mass Of workers to
his church. Guynn refused. The
cornrade told the preacher that the
workers refused to listen to his para
site talk.
AS for the food missions that these
preachers offer. they are rotten. The
workers are being served poison food
and given clothes from the garbage
cans. They are being taken into I'M
employed councils rapidly as result
Of this practice. "A Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-17
BRONX RED NEWS
CLUB ON ITS TOES

A little more than a month ago,
the Bronx, N. Y, Red Builders News
Club membership totalled two. But
that didn't discourage them. After
persistent visits to unemployed coun-
ellis and individual workers, they sue
ceeded in raising their number to 8.
From a report on its activities we
learn the following:
During the first two weeks of
February, 81 were sold. During
the last two weeks, 1919 were sold,
nearly four times as much. H.
Lipkin is the best seller. Starting
with rs, he now averages 75-l00 a
day. I. Ruderman built up his
carrier route from 26 to 50. Brett
man sells about As a day, and John
Roy, one OF the newer sellers, av-
erages 40. b. Halfin sells IS and
VIM. Levine about rs. The Club
will meet every week at the Work.
ers Center, 1400 Boston Rd., where
q program will be arranged and
prizes awarded. Three volunteers
from the Bronx Jewish Workers
Club have been recently recruited,
and the Bronx Red Builders expect
to triple their circulation"
Go to it! And send your pictures
inI
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-17
"PIE IN THE SKY,
AND POVERTY

II went to church the other night.
The preacher, after reprimanding
the capitalists, said the Communists
we're striving to bring about the
Millennium, but were wrong In that
they left God out Of it. I find out
that very few adult workers here
have over a third-grade education.
IL was financially able, I would put
the Daily Worker in every workers
home. They seem to be afraid to
spend a dime in their own interest.
Pie in the sky, so far, is rampant
here, and poverty, also.'--w. H. s.,
!. Hot I, springs n AK. sssSsss u.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-17
Crane Workers Given Wage Cuts AS Bosses
Make Profits

surplus of S24,116,521. The work
ers, realizing this, have organized
fraction of the Metal Workers
Industrial League and are doing
fine work in the shop.
All workers should join the De-
partment Committees of the Metal
Workers to fight speed-up. wage
cuts and layoffs. A WORKER
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-17
Chicago. Ill.

Chicago. Ill.
Daily Worker:
While the poor workers Of the
Crane Co. are speeded up, given
wage-cuts and are laid off, the
bosses are making considerable
profit.
The company made profit Of
$2,7S4,406 last year, and now has
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-17
CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE

boy. I would have fought them I'M
til they thought a wild cat got ohead
of them. There we're no crops here
last year. Too much draught. Here
I am working my old hands to the
bone trying to make living, and a
lot of people got so much money they
don't know wha1 to do with 1t. Is
that fair?"
Many Negroes Demonstrated.
The reason why the whole tow
s, boiling over is that two-thirds o
,la 1000 demonstrations on Feb. g
C1nanding unemployment relief were
i.2cro workers, There are at leaso
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-17
WORKER MAY LOSE EYE.

URBANA, Ohio, March 16.--Charlos
Ladder, . worker in Timkin Roller
Bearing sweat shop, Is In the hos
pital with q serious eye injury. The
extent Of tbs injury Is being con
cealed, doubtless 10 quiet indignation
of the workers at the many accidents
recently. due TO the speed-up
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-17
KEEPS TRYING
TO GET SUBS

"Please find enclosed money or
der for three months. Please note
would have renewed sooner. but I
have been trying to get subs to fill
out the blanks. Unable to get any
one, as most all slaves down in
Southern Illinois are without finance.
I'll keep trying for subs for Daily
Worker."-W. S. E., Harrisburg, Ill.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-17

This is Comrade Davis. who
started something in Baltimore,
Md, when he sold 100 Daily Work
ers the first day on the job. When
Daily Worker sales down there are
a little slow, our Special Daily
Worker physician" is sure to stroll
in, take 100 copies and sell them
all! More photos of Baltimore
Red Builders soon!) ~
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-17

Uss your Red Shock Troop List
every day on your JOB. The worker
next TO you win help save the Daily
WorkeK
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-17
Demand Food.

POMEROY, Ohio, March 16.--A
hundred residents Of Pity Me (actual
and appropriate name of mining
town near here marched on the
court house Friday and demanded of
Judge Fred Grow that they be given
aid. They stated that women and
children were starving, and were
without clothing. They charged that
the Red Cross had cut them off.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-17

Salvation Army and Red Cross are
hopelessly inadequate to relieve"
Bittner, however, remarks that he is
against any "dole."
"Tet Them Starve."
HARRISBURG, Pa, March 49,
Until we hear some real hollering
from the workers and see some real
rioting, we won't believe that there
is any amount of suffering" said AN
employer of labor, discussing with
several union representatives the
hearings at the Pennsylvania state
capitol on the 44-hour bill for women
in industry. eve won't do anything
until the people do something"
Robert Haight, highly paid lobby
ist Of the Pennsylvania Chamber of
Commerce, discussed the hearings in
the ante-room Of the House Of Rep
resentatives.
'Let the workers starve If they don't
want to work the, 81 hours" said
Haight. Haight repeated before
score of witnesses, eyes, let them
starve."
The prosperous Curtis Publishing
Co. of Philadelphia. open shop pub
fishers of the Saturday Evening Post
and The Ladies' Home Journal, sent
to the hearings woman representa-
tive who testified that rather than
reduce hours Of its women employees
from 45 to A a week, the company
would fire them all and hire men
instead.
The 81 hour week for women Is OF
course one Of the schemes to keep
the masses unemployed, and to grind
the most possible profits out Of those
on the job by threatening them with
the loss Of their jobs.
1000 Emergency Workers Fired.
NEW YORK.--The Welfare Council
of New York sends out to the press,
evidently with its endorsement, this
statement by the head Of the Fedora
ton for the Support OF Jewish Phil.
anthropic Societies, and chairman Of
fhe Executive Of the Welfare Coun-
sil's own "Coordinating Committee on
Unemployment"
The free wards Of hospitals are
badly crowded. largely with cases at
tributable to long continued unem-
ployment. Editors Note.--Trans-
lated in plain language, this means
that the jobless are starving so fast
the hospitals can no longer take care
Of those who collapse from hunger.)
The welfare" chief continues:
while no one knows how soon or
how rapidly business conditions will
improve, the experiences Of all social
agencies in this and other cities in
previous unemployment emergencies
show that the most acute distress
among the greatest numbers will be
felt long after business recovery Is
definitely in sight"
Nearly 1000 Of the $4,000 heads Of
families hired at SIS a week last
winter by the Prosser Committee,
however, were fired last week, and
-as 1&xsa ASA "a -tAs-s&AA<s.asss- -sssaAa .st
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-17

the committee announces openly that
it will fire many Of the rest in .
couple Of weeks.
Steel Merger; 100 Fired.
POTTSvILLE Pa. March 10.--
Seven hundred steel workers, laid Off
when Bethlehem Steel bought and
closed the Eastern Steel Co. plant In
Pottsville. have lost all hope Of get
ting their Jobs back. Bethlehem
Steel bought the plant to close II and
eliminate competition.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-17
n. VA. MINERS
ALSO STARVING
Hours for Women
Unless They Riot

CONTINUED FROM PAGE oNE)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-17

miners. In statement to the legis-
lature Thursday. he said that there
is widespread suffering, which the
Salvation Army and Red Cross are
hopelessly inadequate to relieve"
Bittner, however, remarks that he is
against any "dole."