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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-17
FIGHT FOR DEMANDS AT LOCAL MINES IS
new BASIS OF STRIKE; POLICE USE TERROR
AGAINST CHILDREN COLLECTING RELIEF
Adopt New Plan In
Fight to Spread
Strike
Combat Blacklist
NMU Considers Strik-
ers Welfare First

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Aug 15.-The
special meeting Saturday of the Cen
trail Rank and File Strike Committee,
leader of the great tri-state strike
against starvation, adopted by over
whelming vote the proposal of the
strike executives of western Pennsyl-
vania and Ohio-West Virginia, and
of the district boards of the National
Miners Union in those two districts,
for the plan of changing the basis of
the strike to struggle for limited
demands in the various mines. This
means that many of the men back
at work now about rs per cent of
the 10000 who came out at the peak
of the strike, will again be involved
in struggle. 1t means that the plan
of the operators to squeeze out Of
the industry the most militant fight
ers, those who stay out on strike
longest, will be smashed. 1t means
that the union will be imbeded in
the mines, modifying all forces and
building powerful organization for
future struggle on large scale
which in view of conditions in the
mines and the spread of organization
among the miners of other districts,
can not be far away.
This plan is new in labor struggles
in America. This rank and file strike
movement Of the National Miners
Union is the first ever to consider the
safety of the men who strike under
its direction. The pin has been eX-
tensively debated and many details
worked out. The first meeting of the
Central Rank and File Strike Com
mittee which considered it Wednes-
day, did not decide but called a
special meeting Saturday. Saturdays
meeting took up the debate, and when
the vote was taken only II out of the
200 members of the committee OPP
posed the motion to adopt the plan.
The main principles of the plan
are embodied in a statement to all
miners and all workers, adopted by
the Central Rank and File Strike
Committee Saturday which we pub
lished in another part of today's
issu..
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-17
Amter To Speak at
Mass Meet in
Paterson Monday

PATERSON, N, j., Aug. l6.-Mon-
day night a rW3 mass meeting will
be held in ! IN Hall under the
auspices An rson Section of
the Com 8ii X on the role Of
the Communist Party in the textile
strike" The main speaker will be l.
Amter, district organizer of the Com
munist Party, and candidate for the
President of the Borough of Man
haitian in New York City. The meet
ing is being held for the purpose of
exposing the misleadership Of the A.
F. Of L. unions and for the purpose
Of uniting all strikers and silk work
ers as proposed by the United Front
Strike Committee and the NTWU.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-17
Paterson Strikers
In Mass Protest
Meet Thursday
Broad Committee To
Protest to Mayor

PATERSON, N. J.. Aug. 16.-A
mass meeting will be held Thursday.
Aug. 81, at 1870 p. m. at the City
Hall Plaza to protest the brutal as
sault of the uniformed thugs on de-
fenseless strikers and their families
in the parade last Thursday. The
demonstration is being arranged
under the joint auspices of the In
ternational Labor Defense and the
Defense Committee of the General
Strike Committee and will rally the
workers of the city against the bru-
tally Of the police whom the bosses
are using to try to break the mill
fancy of the strikers.
In order to protest directly to the
mayor against the clubbing of the
workers a large committee of rank
and file strikers. representatives of
fraternal organizations, and wit
nesses of the smuggling will visit him
at his office
The police are preparing to in
crease the viciousness of their at
tacks on the striking silk workers.
Chief of Police Tracey is consider
ing two proposals (of the bosseS) in
order to have more cops available
for beating down the picket lines and
other demonstrations of the strikers.
He is planning either to stop any
further vacations for the cops or to
force those on duty to work II hours
a day. The police officials are now
agitating for a larger force of cops
who will be paid for by the workers
in Paterson and used to help the
bosses in their wage cutting and
speed up drives.
The plans of the A. F. Of L.
unions-the UTW- Associated-to sell
out the strike now include the send
ing of delegations from the A. F. of
L. unions to Governor Larson and
Bill Green, president of the Amer
lean Federation of Labor. Both dele
g-t.ons are being led by Carl Holder
man. ono &C the leaders in the SELL
out officialdc:n Of the A. F. of L.
unions,
The delegation going to Governor
Larson is supposedly going to de-
mand a special session of the legis-
lature to pass bills providing better
working conditions in the silk in
dustry. They are trying to make the
workers believe that they can depend
on getting decent conditions from
the boss legislature without fighting
for them. The silk strikers know
that any improvement Of conditions
that they get will come only as
result of their militant activity on
the picket line and the organization
of the workers into rank and file
shop committees.
The other delegation is going to
the executive committee Of the A. F.
of L. which is enjoying itself at At
lantic City while millions of workers
are suffering wage cuts and over ten
million are unemployed, This com
mittee will ask the big chief of the
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-17
The Present Strike Situation
in Western Penna., Eastern
Ohio and West Virginia
Vol. VIII. No. 1877

ONCE Central Rank and File Strike Committee and the
National Miners Union has conducting the
slavery conditions in the
mining industry Beginning single spread
Wldfe until it included 10000 Western Pennsylvania
Ohio and the Panhandle of starving
nzed the
y raeo IN masses to It's strike call Only lack Of organizing forces
due to the prevented the immediate
spread of the strike include many miners
gains for the workers
First of ALL the M definitely fighting
union of the miners thousands joined
IN m present s zone ana many thousands more in Kentucky Cen
trail Pennsylvania West Virginia
the M u have been laid and everywhere the exploited starved
miners hope
and confidence the
The strike, while establishing of
fascist tool the
The u M w AS rank stkebreakng policies
Pittsburgh mines establishing
conditions
the the
the workers into the u M in spite of their resistance coupled
with its long of achery have definitely branded
gerous enemy
iy and struggles strike the history
movement has there been such firm unity between the white and
committees picketng
file control of the strike etc. all methods which
effectiveness in this struggle and acquisitions for the
operators
e we're quick to NJ union
to effectively their
the and their families starvation the
resolved to crush the strike and the union ruthess Every
used this end Starvation eons wholesale club
shooting ng of strikers nmctons deportation of for
born workers special persecution of Negro workers denial OF the
to collect relief have been applied
the states while hypocrcay protesting friend
left untned break the strike The
A strikebreakng
Farley Pnkon Fez Baldwin The
outstanding the SCOTS Run field where the u M W.
cents reduction ton
reduction the scale The socialist
ndiouy through
the strike Never coal strike sub
the government and
enemies of the workers.
the striking miners after
many under terrible conditions of starva
original 10000 to
present N. widely and firmly enough
industry Withstand the furious attack of
government operators w. A. The weak
requires tactics the
temporary preparation of early renewal
basis than The substance of this
the replacement of the general district demands by
strike committees shall determine
of the local demands the nature of the struggle in support
of which shall
relief will maintained for the baksted and the striking
will fight resouy against attempt to black
especially Negro workers Together with the
will a arrested for strike activities
will organized
call off strike but only changes its
submit starvation slavery The
drive operators against conditions
respect will fight The of
the strike present primarily
demands including mine
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-17

tries, and most of the manufactur-
ers who have not yet reduced the
scale may be expected to do so
this fall"
The article, in fact, openly de-
clares:
by October manufacturers who
: have not yet reduced their wage
rates will be rare"
That the wage cutting campaign of
the bosses which has been going on
behind the lies of Hoover and Green
that wages we're not being cut is
accompanied by frightening of the
hours of labor and harder work is
also admitted by the Herald Tribune's
financial writer:
THE companies having adopted
such a policy wage cutting) as a
rule are working on full or near
full time schedule and often work
their personal longer hours than
previously In other words,
their employees are working harder
and longer for their company. !"
Thus the workers have not only
been given wage cut, but are &C
tually forced to work harder and
longer thus giving the lie to the
hypocritical claim that wage cuts are
necessary because the workers must
help share the burden of the crisis.
The fact is that the bosses are taking
advantage of the crisis to make the
workers carry the entire burden, by
making them work harder and longer
for less wages. That wage cut have
been carried out by a majority of
manufacturers is also admitted by
the writer.
That finance capital, with it's grip
on all the industries of the country
and on the government, has ordered
the wage cutting campaign is shown
by the following statement:
Banking Influence in favor of a
lower wage level Is known to have
been exerted, and has found ex-
preston by the executives of some
of the larger metropolitan institu-
tions. Individual m,rufacturers
are reluctant to testify to any di-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-17
Especial to the Daily Worker.)

TORONTO, canada, Aug. Is (By
MaiD.- Six members of the Political
Bureau of the Communist Party
have been arrested in country wide
raids on the leadership Of the Party.
These raids, which were conducted
under the direct guidance of the fed
eral government, we're prepared by
five months of systematic work by
a corps of special agents assigned by
Attorney General Price.
The raids are part of the attempt
of the capitalists government to
stem the growing militancy of the
workers and farmers under the lead
ership Of the Communist Party and
the revolutionary mass organizations.
The following working class lead
ers in Canada have been arrested
IN Buck, secretary of the Conmu-
mist Party; Sam Carr, Malcolm
Bruce, editor of the Worker: John
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-17
Canadian Government Arrests
C.P. Leaders in Blow at Workers

Buck at the office of the Party and
Boychuck at his home. The arrests
were made by the Royal Canadian
Mounted Police federal police, pro-
vincial and city police.
Sam Carr and Malcolm Bruce were
arrested on Wednesday in Vancouver,
where they were touring on Party
work.
Hill, district organizer of Tum-
Minis and leader among Finnish
workers, WAS arrested after three
days search
In addition, Mike Golinsky, League
member, was arrested at 8 am. We'd
nesday morning, when he went up
to Tom Evans house, which was
and is heavily guarded. Two other
workers we're arrested when they
came up to the office on Wednes-
day
All of the arrests we're made on
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-17

the mountains, to collect more.
But it is the lack of bread
starches, and proteins as well, as the
doctors call necessary every day
foods, are responsible for the spread
Of the fluX. The miners talk with
glowing eyes about how the workers
up yonder' are helping them in their
struggle, by sending in "vittles." Such
solidarity from workers In every part
of the country sending help through
the central Penn Ohio West Virginia
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-17
announce Universal Wage
Cuts by October for All
Workers Still in the SHOPS
Capitalist Writer Says Bosses who Will Not Have Re-
duced Wages By October Will Be Rarity"
Admits Drive Already On
Woyh:r7, Employed and Unemployed, Unite and 0rg'n-
ze to Strike Against Wage Cuts and
For Unemployed Relief

Open admission that wage cuts have been
occurring steadily for months past and are
now the general policy Of the bosses is con-
55-.-~cj in an article on the financial page of
yesterdays Herald-Tribune The article opens
with the statement that:
"Wage rate reductions which during the latter part
of 1880 hestanty but since the beginning of 1881
readily and generally effected may be said to
have become nearly universal in the manufacturing indus
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-17
Raid Offices of
All Militant
Organizations

Boychuck and T. Hill. The main
raid took place at 7 pm. Tuesday,
August II. The police were not noti-
fled until the last moment of the
raid, for fear of letting the news
leak out
All offices of the Communist
Party, the Young Communist League,
Workers Unity League and of the
Worker" we're raided at the same
time. In addition, offices of the
Friends of the Soviet Union and the
Workers International Relief we're
ra.ded All books and other ma
to-fal were taken, only the empty
decks and chairs being left
Tim Buck and John Boychuck
we're arrested the same evening.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-17

guard was not seen the grounds at
2.4O Tuesday morning when it was
destroyed by either dynamite or a
bomb. The plate glas windows Of
nearby stores we're shattered.
Hundreds of hungry children
gathered around the wreckage the
next morning. Men and women who
are putting up heroic fight against
unbearable conditions of actual peon-
age, dressed in threadbare clothes
many without shoes, came looking
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-17
MASS MEET OPENS
NATL RAILROAD.
TUUL MEET, CHI.
1000 Workers Hear
Foster, Wangerin
and Others

CHICAGO, IIl.-Over 1000 workers
filled Chicago Coliseum last Friday
at the mass meeting called by the
Trade Union Unity League and Rail-
road Workers Industrial League, to
celebrate the opening of the Railroad
Industrial Conference and mobilize
the workers against wage cuts and
for unemployment relief William z.
Foster, general secretary of the Trade
Union Unity League was greeted by
tremendous enthusiasm by the work
ers present. Comrade Foster, linking
up the struggle of the Chicago work.
ers with the strike of the miners and
textile workers, called upon the work
ers present a good percentage Of
whom were Ner-oes to rally behind
the banner of the TUUL and Unem-
ployment Councils in the struggle
against the bosses offensive. Other
speakers were Steve Rubicki, district
secretary of the Trade Union Unity
League and Mrs Ella Bay, militant
Negro woman, leader of the unem-
ployment movement, Otto H. Wan
germ, acted as chairman.
Besides the enthusiasm of the
audience called together within a
relatively short notice, shows the
growing influence of the TUUL in
Chicago.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-17

the Harlan County jail charged with
criminal syndicalism.
The miners all through the region
are organized into relief committees
that comb the mountain sides, visiting
every farmer Potatoes, beans, corn
and other green vegetables are don
ated by the farmers, but not enough
to feed more than a fraction of the
hungry fighters. No trucks are avail
able, so they collect all, they can
carry on their backs, then return up
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-17

Kentucky Striking Miners Reid
Committee, is something new to thg
Kentucky miners. with them behind
us-weu build an organization sd
strong, that we'll get all we're fights
ing for Maybe not get it all at once
but We'll get it," one organizes
said, who alone signed up over sod
new members into the National Nina
ers Union. And We want to be abls
to help other workers when they're
putting up fight"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-17

lucky field 1t is guarded day and
night by TIE miners here. In Evarts,
center of the starvation flux epidemic
that is taking a heavy death toll, all
that is left of the second relief kit
chen that was housed in big red
brick building, is a pile of bricks.
Armed thugs imported from the
north and deputized had threatened
many times to destroy it. Because
the committee planned to move it to
other quarters the next day, the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-17
2rcy Miners Look To The Workers "Ub Yonder For Hell

for relief Women had babies in their
aims so small they looked like toys
fragile, colorless, milk-hungry babies
Many children, and grownups as well
looked wasted away by the ravages
of the flux. But from the children to
their grandparents, the resentment
against the "law" which they feel
is responsible for this new outrage,
was intense.
They want to wipe us all QUIT"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-17

HARLAN, KY, Aug. 16.-A third
elief kitchen will be opened at Har-
an on Monday, a fourth at
Elcombs on Tuesday and a fifth in
the Pansy section. If enough funds
are collected, a sixth will be opened
alter in the week in Molus.
The Wallens Greek station was the
first the Pennsylvania Ohio West
Virginia Kentucky Striking Miners
Relief Committee opened in the Ken
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-17

enough that two hundred have the
flux. Well, they've got another guess
comingl The relief is feeding today"
And not long after, almost thous-
and children, men and women were
eating sandwiches on the front lawn.
There has been no let-up in relief
distribution since then.
A Harlan miner, Mason. remarked
that there is no law in Harlan
County A stool pigeon heard him
and within an hour Mason was in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-17
10000 AMERICAN TOURISTS IN
U.S.S.R.

Arrangements for handling more
than 10000 visitors, mostly American
tourists, for the summer-autumn sea-
son have been made by the official
Soviet tourist bureau, it was recently
announced.
This would represent twice as many
American visitors as toured the So
Wet Union in 1880.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-17

Workers Correspondence Is the
backbone of the revolutionary press.
Build your press by writing for il
about your day-to- day struggle.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-17
Fight Against
Hunger!
Workers Prepare for the Coming Winter
of Hunger and Starvation!
Only Mass Movement of Struggle Can
Force Unemployment Relief From
the Capitalist Class

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Gentlemen, eve told you sol"
Wall street last week recorded the
sale of German dollar" bonds to the
extent of more than a billion dollars
in par value at discounts ranging
from 40 to SO per cent.
By any chance, does the editorial
writer who wrote in the New York
World of July 81, 1929, recall his
sighting remarks about Matthew
Woll's condemnation of loans to Ger
many?
Do those who attended the Insti-
tue of Politics recall Mr.. VOLTS
ment regarding the inadvisability of
sending good American dollars to
Europe, "never to be returned?
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suggestion that the Surplus funds"
De distributed to the farmers or the
other workers of this country?
Suppose that those three -to-five
billion dollars loaned so freely to
Germany had been spent in America
for the very same purposes for which
they were spent in Germany?
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with these billions?
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