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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-03
Vel ISSUES CALL
TOR 6THNATIONAL
cow FI0N
Wide Discussion In
Ranks to Precede

Pointing out the worsening condi-
tions of the young workers in the
United States, as the economic cri-
sis grows sharper, as the ranks OF the
unemployed increase, the Young
Communist League has issued a call
for it's Sixth National Convention.
Especially stressing the growing wal
danger, the call puts forward the
main tasks that face the Young Com
munist League in the present stIng-
Giles. The call, III full, is as follows:
To All Members of the Young Com
munist League:
Dear Comrades:
Nearly two years have passed since
our Fifth National Convention held
in May. 1929 During these two years,
many important events, effecting the
work of our League have taSen place,
The general crisis of capitalism has
especially hit the United States. In
this country there are 100000 I'M
employed, of whom 100000 are
young workers. Another 100000
are working part time. Wage-cuts
and speed-up are increasing every
day. Even capitalist politicians adj
NIT that thosuand people die from
hunger daily in the United States.
The capitalist powers are fighting
tol the markets of the world They
are preparing a new war. The i'm
perialists are especially preparing for
war against the Soviet Union. They
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-03
Negro and White Workers! Fight Starvation
and Persecution! Demonstrate May Day!

est disproportionate figures are found
in Northern industrial centers where
the Negro is limited to unskilled &C.
equations, and is in truth he mar
ginal worker. This is not to be taken,
however, to mean that the dispro-
portion does not appear also in
Southern communities where the per-
cent of cases handled by relief agen-
cies is also in excess Of the percent
Negroes form of the total popula-
ton These figures clearly do not
take into consideration the tens Of
thousands of Negro workers and
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The miners fought back,
throwing stones which slightly
injured several policemen. Sew
eral miners were arrested.
AS a result of the attack, the
last three mines of the Glen Alden
Co. at Scranton have not yet been
pulled out on strike.
The Grievance Committee, in
which a majority is controlled by
the local Pomicheck.
Maloney, Davis and others-prom-
iSed at the time it wired Interna-
tional President Lewis of the United
Mine Workers Of America to call a
meeting whenever he answered their
wire, or Saturday if he did not an
swer.
Lewis-Strike Breaker.
Lewis answered with a wire full
of strike-breaking propaganda and
insults to those who dared to strike
against the wage-cuts and lengthen-
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MEANWHILE They CUT OFF EVEN LITTLE
RELIEF THAT WAS GIVEN TO JOBLESS;
MOBILIZE MAY DAY TO FIGHT HUNGER !
NeUs Briefs

Thousands of Jewish workers are
starving in Warsaw, Poland. Efforts
to make it appear that they merely
want Matzoths are exposed by the
admission that they are starving. Il
cannot see my child starve before
my eyes" was note pinned to one
of many abandoned Jewish babies.
Tow Shaw, labor minister of war
in the Macdonald government, re-
fused to accept an amendment to
the army and air force bill which
would forbid soldiers from being
used as strike breakers. The maker
of the amendment, however, was a
left faker who thought it was alright
if the king would declare state of
emergency"
Five hundred workers have been
arrested in Japan, the government
admits, and seventy-one are held for
trial (the rest are held without any
triad, charged with Communism.
Of course, Moscow and not starva-
ton wages is blamed. The U. s. state
department is making expensive
preparations to receive the japanese
crown prince &c to arrive in Amer
lea soon.
: Washington reports claiming that
naval maneuvers in the Caribbean
showed that bib battleShips are
necessary for defense" in addition
to airplanes and cruisers, is govern
ment propaganda for the big ship
building companies and armor plate
interests, whose robbery in the past
war was to outrageous that the gov
eminent is now going through the
pretense of suing four companies in
the Philadelphia federal courts to
collect $11 100000 excess profits.
The "go-slow strike" of freight
handlers in the London station has
been "snuffed out" by the union
leaders. The workers did not walk
off the job, but simply obeyed all
rues, which is enough to tie up any
railroad company in the world. The
union leaders have forced $4,000
men to accept wagecuts from IL
to 5 per cent. Resentment is rife.
The whole pacifist picture OF naval
agreement has been upset by the
French demand for more warShlps
than Italy agreed to. Reports prove
that Communists were correct in rid
iculing the whole thing. Reports
admitting now that there was as
much secret skepticism as public OPP
timism among the French and Italian
negotiators themselves" 1t is said
to be "a tragic situation for the
socialist" Foreign Minister of British
Imperialism. Arthur Henderson,
whose scheme for the Geneva Con-
ference next year is seriously upset.
He was trying to get an advantage
for Italy, Britain's ally. He was not
trying to get peace.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-03
By CYRIL BRIGGS.

NEW YORK. After severely apol-
ogizing to the bosses for bringing up
the "distasteful question" Of unem-
ployment, the National Urban
League, in a pamphlet just published
on How Unemployment Affects Ne
groes," admits thai "the conditions of
employment among Negroes are not
improving. and in some sections of
the country are apparently becoming
worse"
"In only few cases arc condi-
tons improrip~ for Negro work
crs. In most instances conditions
have either grown verse or con-
tinuei unsatisfa Glory during the
past fou- months"
Characserizing the situation Of the
Negro workers as tragic, the pamph-
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let points out that he percentage
of Negro unemployment is in every
case far higher than among other
workers:
Percentage of Unemployed Higher.
I'm every instance where figures
arc available, the percentage of Ne
groes among the unemploye dis high
cs than their population percentage
warrants, sometimes running as high
as four times the proportionatc
amount. and in some instances, five
and six times as high. 1t is of par
ticular significance that the high
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-03
April Dividend Distribution Expected to Reach the Sum
Of $75OOOOOOO; Grinding Workers and Starry
ing JObess Makes Big Loot
Pittsburgh Unemployed to Start March On
Harrisburgh, State Capitol, April Is
Steel City Rulers Refuses All Aid; Uses Melons "Ptts
burgh Plan" to Fire Workers to Rehire On Lower Pay

Five hundred million dollars in dividends.
the profits Wrung in the midst Of the crisis
from fearfully exploited and wage cut workers
were distributed Wednesday, The New York
dividend and interest payments in April will more than
$75OOOOooO IAN impressive total when business
prosperous"
This the loot of those capitalists who put through
the biggest wage cutting campaign in history who have con-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-03
THREE MONTHS FOR SEVEN
CENT CAR RIDE

CHICAGO. Ill.-Worn out from
tramping the streets, hunting work,
five jobless boys hoped street
car and tried to ride on it for Moth
ing They we're jailed The judge
sentenced them to three months in
the house of correction. then reversed
his sentence to six months proba-
ton, and threatened them with jail
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-03
YOnkers Workers in
Farewell to WEIGH,
Delegate to USSR

YONKERS.-The Workers Cooper
alive Hall was filled to the doors with
militant workers last night to bid
farewell to Comrade Milton WEIGH,
organizer of the Unemployed Council
of Yonkers, before he leaves with the
Trade Union May Day Delegation to
the Soviet Union.
WEIGH, prominent in the struggles
of the unemployed in Yonkers, has
beo2 selected by the Trade Union
Unity League as one of the delega-
ton of American workers who will
icin the Russian workers and peas
ants in their giant May Day demon
STATIONS,
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SlSJeuUly refused 10 allow any Out Jle
most trivial relief for the 100000
jobless, who have doubled up and
speeded up their employees still at
work in the cruelest fashion.
More Wage Cuts.
Most of the corporations listed as
big dividend payers are railroad
companies, and these companies are
even now, acting under the advice Of
Wall Street as expressed through the
Financial and Commercial Chronicle
of March Il, starting the achinery
to work to bring a flat wage cut for
railroad workers. Already they have.
as the Pennsylvania News, organ Of
the Pennsylvania r. R states, e.,
tracted bigger profits with less tota'
income for the road, by saving on
expense. And they admit that this
saving on expense is done by firing
workers and making those still left
on the job do the extra labor.
Among the firms other than rail-
roads who are recorded as giving big
dividend payments to their stock
holders, are many which have been
in the lead in wage cutting and
speed-up. Among them are: Youngs-
town Sheet and Tube, Goodyear Tire
and Rubber, Hudson Motor Car,
Phelps Dodge Corporation, General
Electric. International Harvester, and
Johns Manville.
Organize!
These dividends tell the story.
Starvation of the jobless, wage cuts
and speed-up, have made huge profits
for the employers, with the working
class standing the burden OF the
crisis Only through organization,
building up the unions of the Trade
Union Unity League and the Councils
of the Unemployed. can part of this
huge sum now going as profits be de-
Elected to the hungry masses who
made the profits for their employers.
Make May l day of mass protest
against starvation!
Meanwhile the policy of the en-
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WILKES BARRE, Pa. April 2.-After police clubs had
failed to dsperse the picket line the Dodge Coery
the Glen Alden Coal Co., in whose mines 10000 are striking
the fremen called and joining forces with the police
a brutal attack made the strikers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-03

Against evictions, for rent reduc-
tons!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-03
Grievance Comm. Delays Meet
As Lewis Orders Strike Broken;
Miners Indignant at Treacheries
Local Takers Fear to Debate National Miners
Union; Rank and File Opposition Meets
Militants Adopt Demands, Pick Candidates to
Oppose Traitors, Plan to Organize Further
BULLETIN.

The capitalist state that
the attack the pkets
at Scranton that superintendent
employ snextti time
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For the Workers Unemployment In :
surance Bill!
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if they participate in working-clasa
activities.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-13

razor in his vest pocket. He drove the wolves
away and cut some OF the meat up to eat
His knees and elbows had now becoms bare
With strips of rags that still chung about him
with pieces of hide from the buffalo calf he
patched a covering for his elbows and
knees and feet-and crawled on.
He crawled close to 100 miles 1t took
him more than 40 days to cover the dis
lance At length he came to a village which
the Arikara Indians had deserted. Here he
found few Indian dogs prcwlng among the
ruins. He spent two days in tanning of
these dogs sufficiently to allow him to APP
proach it, Then he killed the dog with his
razor and for several days subsisted upon its
flesh
Glass crawled on down the Missouri River.
Some of his wounds healing, some
not. He not walking skeleton; he was
a crawling skeleton. Then he was discovered
by small hunting party of Sioux Indians.
They gave him food they applied healing
juices from weeds to his wounds. He recov-
cred. He wandered on to find the trappers
who had betrayed him.
After going hundreds of miles, during which
he escaped Indians and met few white
traders, he found the camp of Maj HenryS
trappers on the Yellowstone River One of
the first trappers to spy him was Jim Bridger.
Whatever the intentions of Hugh Glass toward
Bridge rhad been, when he saw him he for
gave him. He was welcomed one recovered
from the dead
IT was natural that against such background
of fact highly fanciful yarns with the bear
for hero should grow up. There was The
Big Bear Of Arkansas"-"a regular creation
bear and If it had lived in Samson's time
and had met him in a fair fight it would
have licked him in three shakes of a dead
sleeps tail" Around the campfire at night
hunters would exchange tales about the perils
they had gone through while hunting bear
and about the intelligence of the creature.
Then some fellow almost to tell
about the bear that put him up tree
II left my gun on the ground he would
say and when that bar saw it he picked 1t
right up, aimed it at me and pulled the
trigger. The only reason he didn't kill me
was because the thing warn't loaded. Well,
sir, that bar 50 disguised he threw the
gun down and Stalked off snorting loud
that the tree 1 was in trembled. stayed up
there until 1 heard him breaking down trees
about a mile away
And there is the story still told among the
Mexican Vaqueros of the border country
long time ago certain bear that had been
offended by vaquero caught him and while
chewing on him tasted his blood. 1t tasted
so good to him that he ate the vaquero up.
After that he lay in wait for men, Frequently
he was shot at but no bullet seemed to
harm him. He bore a charmed life.
This bear had a white spot his breast
that looked like a star, and they called him
Star Breast. He haunted a thicket where two
roads, or trails crossed, and where travellers
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-13

- VERY year, three or four hundred
thousand Americans rush aboard
- steamships and put to sea and at least
60 per cent of them would like to sit
at the captains table and be important.
This is amiable failing peculiar to
our republican form of government We have
no dukes, counts, earls, princes or maharajas,
but if we had, you would be surprised at the
number of honest Americans who would like to
sit beside them at dinner. However, we have
captains, and a captain in his handsome uni
form is slightly like duke.
have been knocking around on steamers for
many years and always thought would love to
sit with the distinguished group beside the
skipper. Usually, the steward shoves me over
at a side table, under ventilator, but ar
ranged it the last voyage so that 1 should sit
prominently up with the cream Of the ships
company, and now know that If there Is one
place ON a ship sane travelling American
should avoid it is the captains table. 1t will
he better to go down into the bowels of the
ship and eat your meals a tin bucket with
the stokers, for you will thereby encounter less
grief
There is always something the matter mem
tally with people who sit at a captains table
on shipboard and the mere fact that they are
there proves it. If they were sound, sensible
people, they would be off at one side, sitting
by themselves and enjoying the trip. And
once you are invited to eat with the COM
mander you are fixed for the voyage and no
~N~----O~
move away. You cannot leave the captain, as
that would be insult
At the ordinary ships table, If you do not
fancy your companions, you can either
move or ignore the conversation, but once you
sit down with the commanding officer your
goose is cooked. Dinner is served at ON ships
and you get there at 7, on the stroke, whether
you feel like eating or not. If you come in
late. nine people stare at you with disdain and
make humorous remarks Of irritating ma
ture and the chief officer gives you cold, of
fetal look. Furthermore. you come to dinner
in your evening clothes, whether you want to
or not And you get into plenty Of trouble
unless you are strong character.
A friend Of mine crossed from Liverpool two
years ago and was doing nicely at small
table under the caves, when the head steward
approached him and said the captain would
be pleased to have him sit at his table. Hav-
ing no will power at all, the young man con-
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4 WELL known New Yorker accompanied
by his wife, boarded liner at Cherbourg
recently and met an acquaintance in the first
10 minutes, and, as the man seemed to be
civilized, the New Yorker suggested they have
a table together.
"Oh. no. said the other. It am to sit at
the captains table"
1t was the way he said it that ANNOYED the
New York traveller, and six hours later while
they happened to be in the lounge a steward
came with similar invitation for the New
Yorker and his wife.
Tell him no." said the man. Il have met
enough captains m my life. Captains make
me sick. I wouldn't eat at the captains table
If had TO cross in the Storage. And, besides,
I've already got q table,
Some of the captains I have met were not
intellectual giants, but one Of them would pass
anywhere One year ago he took a steamer
out Of San Francisco and found two pretty
girls on the passenger list. 1t was rumored that
they had money, or ut least one of them had
it, and was paying expenses of the other. The
captain invited them to his table and sat them
down, one upon his right and upon his
left. In three days Of idle conversation he dis
covered which one had the spending money.
It was the one on his right. He devoted him.
self to this young lady, married her in Shang-
hal, bought himself o chateau in Southern
France with part Of the two million and now
lives in great comfort about 40 miles from
Monte Carlo, where he wooes Lady Luck be-
times. He is done with the sea and the people
who sit at captains tables. He was the Smartest
skipper it has ever been my luck to meet.
Some passengers, discovering they are firmly
at the head table and finding they cannot
cape, take refuge in strong drink, which is a
pretty fair idea. During our last voyage We had
such man, a Pete Smith, in the Seattle lum-
Der trade, and being extremely bored with
everybody at the table, he set about plotting
the whole scene from his perceptions. After
the second meal he came to dinner unable to
talk, hear, see, feel or smell and never bored
again. being safely intrenched behind an alco-
holic barrage. True, he Knocked soup on ladies
and made social errors, but the rest of his trip
was painless.
(Copyright 1891. By Prank condon)
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sometimes camped for at this place was the
only spring Of water In the country and
1t was good grass Finally the place became so
well known on account of the number of peo-
pie whom Star Breast had made away with
that 1t was avoided by all travellers
Now, there was one vaquero in the country
who was very brave and very DESTROYS of win
ming fame. His name was Pablo Romero. One
day while Pablo Romero and another vaquero
were hunting horses on the prairie In the re-
gicn of the cross trails. they saw the tracks OF
Star Breast. Those tracks were so enormous
that one could mistake them for the tracks
of another bear.
Listen" said Pablo Romero, II am going
to kill Star Breast. / know that 1t Is useless
to try to shoot him and we have no guns any
how. But shall rope him and choke him to
death the way rope Indians and choke them.
l am riding the best roping horse that reata
(rope) was ever thrown from. He has the
strength of 10 bulls in him. This rawhide
reata is new. 1t would hold an elephant"
Pablo Romeros companion halted aghaSt at
such proposal. He pleaded with his fellow
not to think of such a foolhardy undertaking.
why, don't you know" he said, that if Star
Breast is proof against bullets he will be proof
against rawhide? daresay he is in the thicket
listening to and preparing to come
after us. Instead of riding farther toward
him. we must turn and go the other way"
NO" replied Pablo Romero lin this country
lead is not superior to rawhide. A good roper,
good roplng horse and good rope can con-
quer anything that breathes."
DABLO ROMERO would not be turned. His
companion all but left him, but finally
consented to stay and watch the roping from
distance. They rode on toward the thicket,
and, sure enough, as they were approaching 1t,
they Star Breast emerge. He stood on his
hind legs, waved his great hairy arms, rum
bled a great roar, and then came The
horses ridden by the vaqueros beside
themselves with fright but Pablo Romero by
untying his reata from the horn of the saddle
and playing out" loop, persuaded his horse
to keep going. A good roping horse can hard
~ be stopped when he realizes that the rope is
being prepared for action. The other vaquero
halted to watch
He saw Pablo Romero fasten one end Of the
reata to his saddle. He him with swinging
loop dash toward Star Breast, who had halted
and was again reared on his hind legs Then
he the loop fall over Star Breasts head,
while man and rider dashed on When the
end Of the rope was reached, the horse was
jerked back and the bear was jerked down.
The loop had caught him under one arm and
around the neck. Instantly almost the horse
whirled so that he could get better pull and
at the same time the bear recovered his up
right position.
And now came desperate maneuver between
. gigantic, fierce powerful and cunning bear
ut one end Of the rope and expert horse
ridden by an expert rider at the other end.