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The Washington times., 1931-08-28
GUARDS
!. SEE CONVICT
TRIO DIE
Two Men Held CaptiVes While
Gun Battle RACES; 3 Smile,
Lift Pistols, Dispatch Selves

fCopyright by the International News
Service and the Detroit Times, 19SD
MARQUETTE, Mich. Aug. "a
T.N,S1 1.-TWO guards at the Mar
uuette state Penitentiary here to-
day owe their lives to their repu'
tation as right guys" This was
the highlight of the prison up.
rising in which five men died and
three others were wounded.
The guards are Charles Alv0rd
and Charles ArenE, who were cap
tured by Martin Duver, Charles
ROsbury, and Andrew GermanO in
their futile break for freedom
yesterday, when they committed
suicide rather than face capture.
Didn't Get the Key
Alvord, a wirY, gray-haired man
of 40, sat in his modest home and
told the International News Ser.
vice the story of how he was held
at pistols point during the two
hour gun battle between guards
and the trio of desperadoes. He
said:
The first 1 knew of any
trouble was when the three
prisoners came running up to
the dormitOry after they shot
and killed DR.. A. w. HOrnbOgen.
I was standing there peace
fully, with about 30 men in the
room, when il happened.
"GermanO stuck a gun in my
ribs and asked me for the key
to the door that leads to the
roof. I didn't have the key and
told him so. He was mad and
tore out the telephone wires.
Shot at the Guards
"They made Charley Arenz
and myself stand right by the
door while they grabbed some
beds and tables and stacked
them around.
"Then they made the inmates
in the room sit on bed near
the door. Every once in a while
one of the men would shoot at
o guard through the window.
"Then they made Arenz write
the latter asking Warden James
p. COrgan to drive his car up
and take them out of prison.
"They made one of the in
mates throw the letter out of
the window after waving white
towel. Suddenly, a burst Of
shot came into the building.
"Then the gas began to come
In and it was very uncOmfOrt-
able standing up there with all
the bullets whizZing by and the
gas coming in.
Sees Three Kill Selves
"The south end of the dOrmi.
tory hadn't been hit by the gas
yet, SO they told us to crawl
down there. We started to, but
. bomb lit just in front of us.
FINALLY, Duver said: IT'S
all up. I'm going to kill myself
before 1 am captured. But,
Germano, promise to finish the
job if 1 don't make it COM
plete.'
"He sat on the floor and put
the gun to his temple. He
pulled the trigger and the bullet
came out Of the other side Of
his head.
"GermanO stuck the gun to
his head and blew his brains
out. He tOppled over on the
floor.
Then ROsbury looked at me
and smiled. 'GoOd-by, Charley
he said as he put the gun to
his head. He pulled the trigger,
but it only clicked. He pointed
1t at GermanO and shot. 1t
worked. Then he reloaded the
gun and smiled again. This
time the gun went off and he
was dead"
The Washington times., 1931-08-28
5 State Societies
PL1nninQ Excursion

The Massachusetts,, Iowa, Ala
bama, Maryland and Missouri
State Societies have chartered
the steamer City of Washington
for a joint excursion down the
Potomac River Monday evening,
August 81. The boat will leave
promptly at 8 p. m. from the
Seventh Street wharf.
The Washington times., 1931-08-28

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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-22
PATERSON SILK, DYE WORKERS GENERAL STRIKE TODAY
The German Crisis and Its
''SaviOurs''

THREE ago Hoover Germany Only now
however
Hoover for this salvation"
Then with Rechsbank Luther
Settlements Germany going
SOO00000O recently salvation followed
collapse of panic
the Y. squeeze
hopeful headline plan"
began by sayngThe day
by which Genany unconditional Plan annuity
to the bank monthly instalments will
tomorrow,
tomorrow" Basic dispatch
saying:
that nothing the
appeared
payments Germany pay
100000 instructed
of the payments Germany
This and roaning of that international
bookkeeping after
the would be "fina step" Saving" Germany
Wednesday the 18th Germany did until
after ngh and after tremendous lot of international
phong during which the bankers putting the boots
continued thus:
prevailed regarding payments
points existed The first the Interpretation that
the Hoover plan all payments today The
held by the possibly supported that must
and the would be Immediately reoaned to her"
The Unconditional finally backjacked Germany
sad"sett1ed
continuity of the Plan desired also
whether the whole Plan should be
strapped the Hoover Plan having failed stop a payments it
supposed
Plan all capitalist
diplomats quarreng
gone deeper catastrophe
supposed this muddle asked to believe
conference of experts to be followed by joint
the diplomats will really solve something
they should have bankers
experts" "dpomatsn the leaders of the whole world capitalist
brought this ungody confusion and disaster
expect peaceful and orderly
these thieves and parasites to figure out something
n robbery and deceit
Not the bankers
with the before their of victorious socialist
unemployment rising the sevenhour day and
under leadership
Communist Party Germany settle accounts once for
all with the mighty blow Of revolulon
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-22
ANTI-WAR MARCH
in BRONX SAT.
Step in Preparation
For Aug. | Meet

Thousands of workers will demon
strate on Saturday, July 25, at pm
at l3Sth st. and Brook Ave. against
imperialist war preparations and for
the defense of the Soviet Union.
This demonstration is prepared and
organized under the leadership of
the Communist Party, by a United
Front Anti-War Committee elected
at United Front Anti-War Confer
ence held on July IT, where IS or
carnations we're represented by rs
delegates.
The Negro and white workers who
will participate in this demonstra-
ton will demand that, all war APP
preparations shall be turned over for
the immediate aid of the unem-
ployed.
The police department of New
York did not answer as yet the re-
quest Of the Anti-War United Front
Committee requesting a permit for a
demonstration and parade. This in
dicates that they will refuse a per-
NIT and try to make it impossible
for the workers to stage demon
stration.
Permit or no permit the Bronx
workers will demonstrate on July rs
at 3 pm. at 18th st. and Brook Ave.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-22
Strikers Babies Are
Without Milk
Starving!

dairy farmers found. How will the
other babies live?
The Womens Auxiliaries of the
National Miners Union, which are
being rapidly organized, are giving
attention to the strike problems as
we'll as relief problems
Today phone call from a camp
notified the central relief commit
tee that serious case Of child birth
had to have hospital attention at
once. Problems like this pile up
every hour during the day. We call
upon you to help settle them to aid
these starving men, women and chill
dren who are fighting tht murderous
coal operators who are starving them
to death. There must be organized
in all the cities, industrial centers,
towns, relief committees affiliated
with the Pennsylvania Ohio Strik-
ing Miners Relief Committee. These
women's relief committees, composed
of wives of workers. farmers, women
in industry will readily understand
what problems these fighting miners
face in their homes. For this gigan-
tic strike tens Of thousands OF
women can be modified as relief col
lectors, going out day after day into
workers and farmers homes, solicit
ing small storekeepers, ETC., storing
up pounds of food, cans of milk, and
shipping tons of food to Pittsburgh.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-22
Tag Days July Is, 26
To Aid the Miners
Stations in New York,
B'klyn., Elsewhere

Forty thousand striking miners
and their families are looking to the
workers of New York to stand by
them in their fight against starva-
ton. 1.-THE children are actually
starving" one telegram from the
strike region reads.
The Penn-Ohio Striking Miners
Relief Committee calls upon every
worker to help answer the pleas Of
these starving miners by participant
ing in the tag days for miners re-
lief next Saturday and Sunday.
Call at the following depots for
collection boxes for the tag days.
All out next Saturday and Sunday
to collect funds for fighting miners
and their families:
New York-799 Broadway, 16 w.
21st st, 131 w. 18th st, 1876 E. Broad
way, 143 e. 103rd St. IL Clinton ST.,
$50 E. 81st ST., 3ol w. 29th St., ITO
w. 116th St., Is w. 126th St., 1853
Lenox Ave
Bronx-7S5 Westchester Ave, $50
Westminster Ave, 2109 Arthur Ave,
14O0 Boston Road, 2700 Bronx Park
East.
Brooklyn-962 Suffer Ave, 81 Ora
ham Ave, 127 Osborn ST., 1874 Pit
kin Ave, 1873 43rd ST., 14o Neptune
Ave, 48 Bay 18th st.
Astoria, L. I.-23-78 Steinway Ave.
Newark-90 Ferry st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-22
What the Paterson
Silk Workers Are .
Striking for Today

PATERSON, n. j., July 81
The following are the strike de-
mandS adopted by the Pater-
son workers. The thousands of
workers who will come out We'd
nesday in answer to the call for
a general strike here here in the
silk industry will fight for these
demands:
S-hour day and more pay!
Living wage!
Abolition of the fine system!
Against the speed-up system.
For unemployment relief and
insurance at the exense Of the
bosses and their government!
Equal pay for equal work for
men, women, negroes, and young
workers,
No discrimination against strik-
ing workers and union members!
Recognition of the mill COM
mittees and the Union!
Union Price list for all crafts
will be published.
Smash all tricks and promises
of the strikebreaking leaders of
the Associated and u. t. w.
Strike!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-22
WILLIAM SIMON,
16-YR. OLD MINER
KILLED BY SCAB

PITTSBURGH. Pa, July I'll
William Simon. sixteen years old
member of the National Miners
Union was shot and killed late yes
terday at the Gaylord mine near
Martins Ferry when three scabs in
a machine opened fire while passing
through the picket line. Joe Peter
lin, the murderer, was arrested in
order to keep him safe from the
wrath of the miners.
Hundreds Of miners demonstrated
at the Yorkville Jail. The Belmont
County prosecutor justifies the MUIR
der and is all set to release the
murderer. The youth committee is
mobililng youth protest meetings
calling all young miners to reply with
a stronger participation in the picket
lines and a harder struggle against
the UNIV and operators for their
demands.
A mass funeral for Simon is now
being prepared.
At the Graveside Mass committee
meeting fifty miners and women are
to be elected to picket the Columbus
statehouse. and the Governors man
sion demanding removal Of all armed
forces. and cessation OF increasing
terrorism.
Two miners we're killed and three
seriously wounded in the last two
days by the bosses mine guards. The
entire fraternal delegation OF IS
miners from Wellsburg. West Va. to
we're arrested by state
police.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-22

PITTSBURGH, Pa, July 21.-Pay
slips and pay envelopes are piling
up in the Pittsburgh relief office
filled with the coal OPERATORS goose
eggs and kisses. Goose eggs and
kisses are what the miners call the
900 and which appear at the bottom
Of the pay slips. Go into any min
ing camp and dozens of miners ap-
proach you, pull their pay slips out
Of their pockets, as if proof is needed
that for months and years they have
almost never seen any of the al
mighty dollars coined in the U.S.A.
These pay slips are the symbols
in this strikt. They Enthusiastically
prove this to be strike against
starvation. Actually it is not neces-
sary t Dread these pay slips. Go
into any mining camp. look at the
children, look at the miners wives,
at the miners themselves; go into
any miners home and in hundreds
of instances you will not find a
pinch Of salt Sit in at discussion
with any of the dozens of relief COM
mittees that pour into Pittsburgh
from the mining camps and hear
their tales about the suffering babies
in the camps and hear them plead
for any kind of canned milk, eagle
brand preferred,
In one strike section the relief
committee was fortunate enough to
develop a milk route among the
farmers and Is gallons come in every
few days for the babies. But only
in one or two farming sections are
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-22
$500 TAKE PART
IN MASS MEETING
First of It's Kind In
Steubenville

BRIDGEPORT, Ohio, July 81
Fifteen hundred striking miners,
their wives and children marched
on Steubenville this morning to
Courthouse Square. Joined by 5000
Steubenville workers, meeting was
held and a committee elected who
County Commissioners, all in face
of the ultimatium of Mayor Con-
lev that the march and meeting
would be broken up by all forces al
the disposal of the city and county.
This first meeting is the first OF
its kind in the history of Steuoen-
vile, a stronghold Of the Wheeling
steel Corporation. where not even
during the steel strike was it possible
to hold mass meeting.
The hunger marchers paraded
through the steel workers section IN
an impressive demonstration with
workers on foot from 5 a. m, many
munching dry bread as they walked.
The County Commissioners reiter-
ated their proposal TO the hungry
workers to send their children to the
poorhouse and referred them back
to the State government. One COM
missioner asked permission to speak
at the meeting. This he was re-
fused. He was told by Bill Calvert,
chairman of the COMMITTEE. This
is not our policy If you want to
make a speech, organize meeting
yourself
The speakers we're sivert' Bohus,
Calvert. Carr of the National Miners
Union and Trivia of the Trade Union
Unity League, Truhar of the Wo-
mems Auxiliary, Jones, a Negro
woman, and Harvey for the Com
munist Party.
The demands for immediate re-
lief of $40 weekly for five depend
ents, unemployment insurance, de-
tense of the Soviet Unon, release OF
all class war prisoners, Mooney ana
Billings and others, protest against
the massacre of Alabama Negro share
choppers, against the legal lynching
of the Scottsboro boys were unal-
mously adopted at the meeting.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-22
KEEP Mill
CLOSED in
RI. STRIKE
Vote to Stay Out On
Strike; Reject
Fake Vote
Police Attack Pickets
Strike Solid; Very Few
Return to Work
BULLETIN.

PROVIDENCE, R. l., July 21.--The
Weybosset Mill was kept closed de-
spite the company announcement
that it would reopen today, on the
basis of a fake vote that only four
teen decided to stay out. The real
workers vote showed 469 for strike
and 40 against until noon yesterday
Mass picketing was broken today
by a huge police line. Forty who
went in will be taken out by the
noon picketing The strike is stand
ing solid.
PROVIDENCE, R. l., July 2o.-On
Sunday the workers of the Weybosset
Mill overwhelmingly defeated the at
tempt to sell out their strike. The
Olneyville Businessmen's Assoc. and
a political tool of the American
Wooden Co., Alderman Duffy, led the
move to sell out the 800 strikers.
These reactionaries announced that
they would take vote on returning
to work Monday, "at the request of
a committee representing the non
union element of the strikers" The
press announced that petty Off
Gals of the Weybosset Mill would
be in the polling place to see to it
that the workers had "a fair vote"
The Strike Committee in its meet
ing on Saturday Immediately saw
that this was a fake vote which
would be taken and counted by the
company. They decided to defeat
the company move by taking a real
workers controlled vote on Sunday
on the question of standing solid in
the strike for the return of the 1917
per cent wage cut. On this basis the
following statement was issued by
the Strike Committee:
Smash the bosses fake vote! Stop
the sell out! Stand firm for the
1872 per cent wage cut return; for
no discrimination and for the recog-
milton of the Mill Committee!
Fellow workers of the Weybosset
Mill:
1--WE, the Weybosset Mill workers,
CONTINUED ON PAGE FIvE)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-22
RUSH THOSE HALF
DOLLARS TODAILY
Need $4,000 to Go Over
the Top

What will be your answer to the
New York Daily News?
This gutter-sheet, owned by the
powerful Mccormick interests ir
Chicago, in an editorial in Sundays
issue, calls in unmistakable terms
for a war against Soviet Russia.
The Daily Worker on Monday ex-
posed this editorial which was print
ed on the very day that Premier
Laval of France and Chancellor
Bruening of Germany came to
an understanding" an under
standing that means slavery for the
German masses and war against the
Soviet Union.
Workers, you have shown what the
Daily means to you during this, the
worst financial crisis in our history.
Don't let the Daily slide back again!
A flood of half dollars, plus Tag
Day and coupon book money that's
still outstanding, will raise the $500
that will keep the Daily going
through these tough summer months.
Answer the Daily News TODAY!
Answer with half dollars to the Daily
Worker, so E. 18th St., New York
City. Strengthen the fight for the
defense of Workers Rusisal Every
half dollar is blow at the imperial
ist ar-makers, blow at Fish, Vol,
Hillquit and the entire anti-Soviet
crew. Demonstrate August 1! DEM
onstrate now with half dollars to
the Daily.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-22
"Goose Egg Pay Checks" Shoav Fight
On Hunger; Miners Need Relief Noav

Funds must also be collected. Every
penny, dime and dollar counts very
big at this time in this big strike.
The Womens Auxiliaries of the
National Miners Union calls upon all
working women and womens organ
izations to organize the most thor
ough strike relief collections that
this country has ever seen. In every
few blocks, in every city and neigh
borhood, relief headquarters must
be established, where food can be
stored when collected, and all the
women in the neighborhood must be
organized to make collections day
after day.
A total Of 10000 miners, miners
wives and children are now involved
in this strike. You can clearly see
the gigantic task before us. In the
name of all dependents Of the strik-
ing miners and the women's auxil-
iaries we earnestly call you to &C
ton. You can effectively help to
silence the guns of the blood-thirsty
coal and iron police. deputies and
thugs, you can help to stop the muir
dering and wounding of striking
miners as occurred in Wildwood and
Arnold City few days ago by gath
ering tons upon tons Of food. and
many dollars, and send them to the
Pennsylvania Ohio Striking Miners
Relief Committee, Gil Penn Ave,
Pittsburgh, Pa. These collections
will feed the strikers and their FAM
lies and thereby strengthen their
picket lines and help to win the
strike. Do your partl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-22
j, 500 Miners March on Stenbenville for Relief
5000 Back Up Demands
OF Miners; United Front
Meets Push Action Program
To Hold United Front
Conference in South
Illinois, Sunday

PITTSBURGH, Pa. July 2l.-The
National Miners Committee Of Nor
them West Virginia has ordered
1000 National Miners Union appli-
cation blanks and thousands Of
copies of strike literature for the
Pursglove mines which are owned
by the Taplin interests, who are
also the owners of the Pittsburgh
Terminal Coal Co. mines here.
The United Mine Workers of Am
erica made a scab agreement at the
Pursglove Terminal mines near
Pittsburgh. The UNfWA scale in the
Pursglove mines is 80 cents ton.
The Pursglove miners are joining the
National Miners Union as result OF
the National United Front Con-
ference.
Next Sunday the Southern Illinois
united front district conference will
take place at Bellville. Ill, or st.
Louis. william z. Foster will be a
speaker. Mass meetings will be held
throughout the district. Tom Myer-
scough will follow speaking in the
name of the Miners National Unity
Committee of Action.
The seventeenth warrant has been
issued in Canonsburg as the result
OF the breaking up Of the scab meet
Of the UMWA at which Pagan
Murray and other scab officials of
the UMWA were to speak. Thomp-
son of the National Miners Union
is among those for whom warrants
have been issued.
additional News on Page 81
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-22

of TaIlapoosa County authorities
to break up the share troopers
Union were in. jail today on the
charges ranging from conspiracy to
murder to carrying concealed wea-
pons while the International La
Dor Defense and Police Chief j.
NJ. Wilson of Camp Hill engaged in
a duel of statements"
AS a result OF this brazen terrori-
zing of workers who dare to organ
ize to resist the robbery of the rich
landowners, one Negro cropper Is
dead, murdered in his bed by the
police, five we're wounded, four are
missing and are believed to have
been lynched by the landowners and
their police agents, and scores OF
troopers are being railroaded to jail
and possible death sentences on the
most vicious frame-up charges.
Preliminary Hearing Monday!
The arrested troopers are to have
a preliminary hearing next Monday
in the Camp Hill, Ala, boss courts.
The International Labor Defense and
the League of Struggle for Negro
Rights are defending the choppers
and are sending counsel to Camp
Hill for the hearing. These are the
same organizations that are defend
ing the nine innocent Scottsboro
boys.
World Wide Demonstrations August
First.
In the meantime, protests from
workers and their organizations
throughout the country are pour
ing in to Chief of Police Wilson
of Camp Hill, Ala, and to Governor
Miller at Montgomery, Ala. The
workers of the whole world stirred
to burning mass indignation by the
hideous boss terror against the
Negro people are preparing for
CONTINUED ON PAGE F1vE)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-22
Brownsville Anti
War Conference

The Brownsville United Front
Anti-War Committee has called a
conference of all working class or
CARNATIONS Of Brownsville Thurs
day, July %, at 1874 Pitkin Ave, at
p. m. The conference will lay the
plans for mobilizing the workers of
Brownsville for mighty demonstra-
ton against war and for the defense
of the Soviet Union The demon
stration is planned for Thursday
July 30.
Organizations that have not
elected delegates, are asked to do SO
Immediately. Individual workers
should come and help plan the mob
ilisation Of the workers IN their
house and vicinity. :,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-22
Boss NeaVs Agency Admits
Attack on CHOPPERS Aimed
To Smash Their Union
Worldwide Demonstrations August First to Protest
Murder Of Choppers and Frame-Up Of Scots
boro Negro Boys

NEW YORK-Open admission that the muir
derous police terror against the Negro choppers
around Camp HILL Alabama, who dared to pro-
test against the Scottsboro legal lynching, was
aimed at smashing the union of the troopers
and crushing their resistance against the robbery of the big
landowners and torekeepes is contained in Associated
Press dispatch from Camp Hill The dispatch, which was
published in yesterdays New York Evening Post declares
hirty-four Negroes arrested in connection with efforts
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-22

when they go on strike today:
Section 1-Elhston, Van Houten,
Mill. Ryle Ave, Cliff St., and VI
cinity-Turn Hall. Ellison and Cross
st.
Section 2-Railrod Ave, Dale Ave,
Bond, Essex. Straight-Un'"n Hall,
205 Paterson st.
Section 3-Market, Broadway Full
ton, Putnam. Warren-Workers Cen
Ter, Governor St; Lithuanian Hall,
81 Lafayette st.
Section 4-Rivesside. Friarlawn,
9Th Ave, LIST Ave- Third Ave,
Section 5-E1Sth. E.1sth. Madison
Ave. Eastside, Dundee Lake--3s9
Madison Ave
Iowa. Clay, Bond-Columbis Circle,
1o3 State st
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-22
Relief Stations To
Be Open to 10 P. M.

The following stations of the
Penn-Ohi Striking Miners Relief
Committee will be open until 10 p.
m. every night except Sunday for
the collection of food, money, shoes
and trousers for the striking miners.
Central Station: $40 e. 9th st.
other Stations: $50 Westchester
Ave, 237 East 1o6th st., II Clinton
st., 140 Neptune Ave, 81 Graham
Ave, 1874 Pitkin Ave, 4s Bay 2Sth
st.