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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-14
Organize to Fight Hunger in Fargo

The unemployed workers are in a
more desperate state than they ever
were before. They are all talking
about getting together and fighting
for food. We are organizing hun
ger march Of the hungry workers and
we are sure it will be the biggest
march they ever saw in North Da-
kota. We will demand that the state
give us food and am sure all the
workers are ready to fight for it.
They are also evicting workers
from their homes for being unable
to pay rent We are organizing to
put the furniture back in the homes
when the bosses order it thrown
out. We say no rent will be paid
yptl Ys ct work. y
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-14
Harlan Go. Judge
Holds 2 Organizers
Criminal Syndicalism
Is Charge Lodged

PLNEVILLE. KY. Cby maiD.-The
case of Jessie Wakefield, LID. Or
ganizer in Kentucky, and Arnold
Johnson, active sympathizer, came
up for hearing August 10 before
Harlan County Judge Whitehead.
They we're held for the grand jury on
charges of criminal syndicalisrn In
$1,000 bail each and an additional
$1,000 peace bond for each. Both
are now held in the Harlan County
Jail.
Wakefield is charged With deliver
ing a speech urging resistance TO
constituted authority and also CALI
ing upon the workers TO commit the
seditious act of starting soup hitch
en-. Another organizer, but not Jes-
sic Wakefield, did speak at this
meeting, outlined the function Of tbs
capitalist state apparatus and show
ing that the Judge and sheriffs we're
not friends OF the workers; calling
upon the workers to organize and
finally urging them TO collect food
and berries for ssoup kitchen.
At the close Of the prosecutors
case the offer was made TO both
defendants TO leave tbs county in
return for which the charges would
be dropped. This offer was promptly
turned down.
The prosecution Is made up Of
Geor r. Pope, county attorney pro
tenn, and two special prosecutors
Irregular coal company attorneys.
Fred M. Jones and Joseph B. Snyder.
After Wakefield and johnson were
behind the bars the court freed Cable
Powers, a local miner also charged
with criminal syndicansn. after the
defense made motion 10 discharge
on the grounds that the warrant OF
arrest and the affidavit we're void.
Bill Duncan, charged with crirni-
nal cyndicalism for distributing
Daily Workers, was released on his
own bond to await action of the
grand jury. The court and sheriff
feel that now that they have Wake
field and johnson in Jail the organ
ization of the workers is completely
smashed. But the fact Is that the
reign OF terror has spurred the
workers on to renewed activity and
they are solid fce tbs National ASin-
ers Union. ~
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-14
THREATEN TO JAIL 1000 STRIKING
MINERS KIDSWHOWILL COLLECTAID

Kaplan addressed the workers Tues
day night and Wednesday morning.
angles in the case come to the front
again.
1t Is the state government of Ken
lucky, and the operators courts of
Harlan County which actually at
tempt the electrocution of over 80
miners, because Sheriff Blair's dep
utized coal company gunner lost the
battle of Black Mountain and were
not able to shoot the strike to pieces
as they expected.
But the Federal government has q
hand in this affair too. An almost
forgotten federal injunction appears
on the scene now-an injunction adj
dressed to $50 strikers, and to the
officials Of the UMWA, which then
was in nominal control of the Har-
Ian miners organization. This in
junction is the Hoover governments
blessing on whatever the gunner
may do in the way of smashing the
strike, for the single point it makes,
in the midst of the usual ocean of
words. is you and each Of you are
hereby enjoined and restrained i.
from lettering on OR NEAR (our
emphasis, Editor the property Of
complainant for the purpose of urg-
ing its employees to cease work :"
Along with this goes the usual
order not to commit or threaten any
violence, ETC., put in all anti-picket-
ing injunctions for propaganda pur-
poses, TO make the pickets appear the
aggressors and give excuses for what
ever violence the sheriff cares TO use.
But even this usual propaganda line
for all injunctions. does. in the Har-
Ian injunction have new twist. 1t
reeks with orders not to display
arms" The order not to display
arms" comes no less than five times
in Is lines of printed type in the
injunction. The reason for such court
orders as this: "You and each Of you
are hereby enjoined and restrained
from all display or use OF arms
on or near to compliments prop
erty," is to disarn the strikers, in
a country where everybody habitual-
ly uses and carries openly rifles and
shot guns-wl1ere provision Of food
in these starvation times Is partly
a question Of skill in hunting, where
the Black Mountain attack by the
deputies and many other fights show
that a mans life is not safe for a
minute from assassination by the coal
company gunner unless he is armed.
The complainant is the Black
Mountain Coal Co. The federal judge
granting the injunction is A. M
Cochran, of the u S. district court
for the Eastern District Of Kentucky
The injunction was issued April %,
1881.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-14

I will now quote from an editorial
by A. E, Cahlan appearing in the
Las Vegas Review journal:
six Companies are experiencing
all the joys that go with rapid ex-
pansion and rush construction on
their project down on the Colo
RADIO river, and men are paying
with lives and limbs at a rather
startling rate. OF course there are
bound to be many lives sacrificed
in this war against the force of
nature as tied up In the turbulent
stream and its adjacent area, for
there has never been any great
piece of construction work that did
not take this horrible toll. 1t Is
part Of the tragic side that dims'
Just bit the romance that the
majority see in such a project, and
has to be expected.
1.-THE rather sickenfng regular
ity with which these accidents
have been occurring, however, has
set hundreds to asking questions as
to why? The answer is probably,
that in the rapid expansion of the
company frcm a handful Of men
two months ago TO fifteen hundred
employees today, 1t has been neces-
sary TO take the word of several
for their proficiency along various
lines. They are found to be anna
tours only when the big blowup
comes, and perhaps they pay for
their lack of experience with their
own lives. Again, this Boulder
canyon project is the greatest bit
CT construction work ever under
taken In history. where there is so
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-14
Must Organize to Fight Hunger in Kansas

q week is the order of the day at all
large packing houses. And the pack
ing house worker is told that the
five day week is for his benefit and
was put into effect so as not to lay
off any of the workers.
Lose Homes
Housing conditions in the packing
house district are growing more acute.
Many of the houses in the district
have broken windows and are falling
into a state of bad repair; many of
the unemployed have moved in with
their relatives who are a little more
fortunate than they-if only tenn
porarily so.
The city authorities inform those
in need Of medical attention that the
fund set aside for that purpose is
exhausted and that will be neces-
sary to wait until after the taxes are
paid this winter. Not until then will
the city be able to relief of even the
most meager degree.
There can be only one conclusion:
Workers of all industries must quit
looking to petty local and state poll
ticisns; they must cease listening to
patriotic politicians who only speak
in their own interests; they must stop
believing the patriarchs who teach:
Blessed are the meek, for they shall
inherit the earth"-and turn their
eyes not on the state capitol, not
the city on the Potomac; but turn
to the militant working class organ
izaions - the Trade Union Unity
League, the Unemployed Councils,
and follow the workers vanguard: the
Communist Party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-14

little space in which to work, and
that will probably account for sew
eraI major accidents during the
construction period. Undoubtedly
the Six Companies are taking
every possible precaution. and the
government engineers are seeing
to it that they debut accidents
are bound 20 happen. The large
number to date, however, will
probably result in redoubling the
safety measures in an effort to
check it entirely, if this be possible.
THE most recent accident
brought to light an interesting
angle of the creation Of the gov
eminent reservation in the river
district. This action removed the
Nevada laws from any sort of ap-
plication to that section, which
means there is no designated coro-
ner to inquire into deaths from
other than natural causes, and
fix responsibility therefor. Just
what will be done in this regard
remains to be seen-but the way
matters stand there just isn't any.
Whether there is any authority to
so ahead with the burial of the
accident victims without some sort
of an inquest, is not quite clear"
The above part mentioning the
government reservation" where the
state laws do not apply, means very
little as the Nevada state labor laws
are as lax as its divorce laws. Mean
while the slaughter of workers viii
go on profits before lives. Only
action of the workers will change
all this. An Unemployed Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-14
Calf. Lowers Rates
to Back Wage Cuts
For Fruit Workers
lRv . Worker Correspondentl

by a Worker correspondent
BRENTWOOD, Calif.-Despite the
pious, hypocritical pronouncements
of Moover and his lackeys, the wage
cutting campaign in California is re-
ceiving the full cooperation of the
governmental agencies. Just recently
the State Division of Industrial We'll
fare published a revised" schedule
of wages to be paid in the fruit pack
ing industry. Revised downward, Of
course, so as not to curtail the prof
its of the California Packing Cor
poration Balfour Guthrie, etc.
Under the revised rates, expert
enced" women and'minors are forced
to work for 271a cents an hour and
inexperienced" for rs cents. Pack
ers of deciduous fruits may be ex-
plotted one year, according to the
law" at the inexperienced" rate.
No rates we're set for women work.
ing in orchards or drying yards, nor
for males over 18.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-14
Legion Holds Orgy While Workers Ask Food

er fascists held their meetings few
miles away, but what a contrast to
ours. 1t cost 81 to get into their
meeting where hundreds of bottles
of booze were consumed. There were
many drunken fights and plenty OF
nude women who were putting on a
show, their bodies bruised and pinch
ed by the degenerate drunks, while
deputy sheriffs and state police stood
by and smiled.
This was their way Of celebrating
the 18th anniversary of the world
war. Contrast this with our anti
war demonstration. While we we're
asking for bread the Legion gang de-
stroyed enough food at their drunk
en- orgy to feed 200 families.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-14
WORKER EXPOSES
ALFALFA BILL"
Okla. Governor Tries
to Deceive Jobless

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla, Aug. 10.
- Governor Alfalfa Bill' Murray,
Of Oklahoma, champion disher out of
capitalist demagogy, who has receiy-
ed nationwide publicity because of
his cheap antics, that of closing down
of the oil fields in Oklahoma, recent
ly tried to exploit the unemployment
issue
He called conference on this
question in Oklahoma City. In an
hour and half speech he elaborated
a reactionary Utopia OF back to feu-
dial conditions. back to the era of
handicrafts production Murray's
speech was an outstanding example
of the utter bankruptcy of capital
ism. They are absolutely bewildered
and mystified by theecononic paral-
ysis that is more and more gripping
the system
Comrade Bob Pierce, Communist
organizer of the state of Oklahoma,
got UP and exposed Murray's purpose
in calling this conference. He point
ed out that only the program of the
Communist Party and the Trade IN
ion Unity League can help the work
ing class Murray was sitting right
back Of Pierce while the latter was
speaking and even his flowing mus
tache could not hide the expression
Of hate and fear on his face Many
Of those present at the conference
crowded around Pierce and asked
him questions after the adjourn
ment Of the meeting.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-14

deceptive platforms OF the bosses
parties.
Judge Forced Release King.
The following day, when King APP
peared in court, large number Of
workers we're present, but only a few
we're permitted TO attend the trial.
Despite every effort of legal trickery
by the persecution. the mass protest
of the workers compelled the judge
to release him.
The fight qua up by the Party
won the confidence and respect Of
many more workers in New Britain.
Now the fight goes on for the freeing
OF Foster. Jackson and Powers. the
leaders Of tbs March 10 delegation
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-14
CHICAGO MASSES CROWD COURT
IN PROTEST AT FRAME-UP OF
WORKERS ON RIOT CHARGE
CONTINUED

CONTINUED az '-''..
through some other relief changed
than the halting of evictions where
no rent Is paid"
Mayor Cermak, who, directly after
the police massacre, issued a state
ment, in an effort to placate the
anger Of the masses, In which he
promised no more evictions, today
exposed his hypocrisy, declaring:
There is a large element of
deadbeats who simply make a prac-
tice of living as long as possible
at one address without paying rent.
They are able To pay if they want
to-
This is what Mayor Cermak's
promised relief" amounts to-the
SANDER of the starving unemployed
as deadbeats! The declaration that
they can pay If they want TO-"
This is quite / Mine with the prom
Use made by Mayor Cermak's repre-
sentative TO the August meeting
Of landlords. Cermak was out Of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-14
5-Day Week Plan Is Boon to Bosses, Helping
Them Refuse Unemployment Insurance and
Spreading Hunger to All Workers

for the bosses.
The A. F. of L. executive council
asks for the carrying out of the Hoo
yer "stagger system" The resolution
calls for five-day week and six
hour day-with wages slashed-so
that all the work will be divided
among the working class and so that
starvation and -nourishment
will be generally spread throughout
the entire working class. In this
way, the A. F. of L. council believes
the bosses will be aided and the
workers may be kept from acting
against human distress and human
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-14

LAS VEGAS, Nev., Aug. 13.-The
Hoover government has ordered
1,40o striking workers at the Hoover
dam off of government land and into
the desert to starve. The men are
striking against wage-cut Of 81 a
day. The Hoover government in
sisted that they take this wage-cut
or starve to death.
The land at the Hoover dam site
in Boulder City is government prop
erty, and, as the government is be-
hind the wage-cut, it is ready to
enforce it with troops and starya-
ton.
The men and their families, most
of whom suffered hunger and priva-
ton before they got the job, now
face the sitting heat Of the desert
at the orders of the capitalist gov
eminent. This is the same govern
ment which issues lying statements
to the workers about maintaining
living standards" while it actually
uses its troops to enforce starvation.
Work Closed Down.
All work at the dam is closed
down. The Hoover government is
now preparing to import scabs to
carry on the work and enforce the
wage-cut. Most of the men who are
striking had been out of work for
a long time before they got the Job
at IS a day. Then the Hoover gov
eminent ordered wages cut TO 81 a
day. Since all the men are forced
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-14

ports coming from all sides are
filled with incidents of human dis
tress and human suffering"
This information is passed on TO
the bosses, with the warning that
they must act against the rising re-
sentiment of the workers, that they
must do something to fool the work
ers or face "the development of an
irresistible demand for nemploy-
ment relief legislation" Since the
A. F. of L. officialdom, along with
the bosses, do not want any "unem-
ployment relief legislation" they Of
fer a plan that does two good deeds
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-14
(By a Worker Correspondent

(By a Worker Correspondent.)
Daily Worker:
am doing all I can TO organize
the workers to fight against starva-
ton
Here in Fargo there are 1900 men
out of work. Many have not even
homes to live in or money to buy
food. A man who has been out of
work for long time and had moth
ing for his family to eat went to the
Salvation Army and they would do
nothing for him. He then went to
the police and they told him Moth
ing tlcing.' The bosses even abol-
igh q ne breadline that they estab-
hshed here. where they gave away
q few scraps TO q few Of the unem-
phyd :
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-14
POLICE FORCED
TO FREE Killing,
JAILED AUG. LIST
Communists Demand
Right to Streets

NEW BRITAIN, Conn, Aug IL
Following a protest meeting Of New
Britain workers, R. S. King, Com
munist candidate for mayor Of New
Haven, was freed in New Britain
court Saturday morning, where he
was charged with breach of the peace
following his attempt to speak be-
fore 1000 workers at the Aug. dem
onStration.
The New Britain police, acting I'M
der the orders of the large COM
panies which control the city, Stan
ley-Corbin and Landers broke up
the demonstration.
The Communist Party and the In
ternational Labor Defense immedi-
ately took up the fight for the right
of the workers to use the streets of
New Britain for meetings. Tele-
grams Of protest we're sent to Gov
ernor Cross. An indoor mass meet
ing was arranged at the Ukrainian
Hall in New Britain. The police
made an unsuccessful attempt to
have the right to use the hall re-
voked. Despite a sweltering heat,
200 workers gathered in one of the
most enthusiastic working-class meet
ings ever held in the city.
In opening the meeting, A Tomkin,
70 rNf
that the fight Of the Communist
Party for free speech and the right
to assemble would be fully supported
by the I. l.. D. r. S. King, who was
arrested at the Aug. demonstration,
was loudly cheered as he took the
floor. He continued the anti-war
speech that the police interrupted on
Aug. l, told of his experiences in the
Soviet Union as a member of the
rank and file labor delegation. He
told the workers that in the Soviet
Union the best building in town was
made the trade union hall and that
the workers in New Britain should
start picking out their future meet
ing place.
Salzman Exposes City Govt.
The workers cheered the an
nouncement by Max Salzman, dis
trict organizer of the Party that the
Party would enter slate of candi-
dates for the municipal election in
April, 1882. He exposed the rotten
ness and corruption of the city gov
eminent, which refused 10 give help
to the unemployed except to a few
for partisan political considerations.
Over $4,000 are unemployed in this
city of $1,000. The mayor gives the
workers speeches against Commu-
nisin instead of food.
The actions of Chief Of Police
Hart in breaking up working class
demonstrations were condemned by
the speaker amid cheers from the
workers. He announced that the
Party would not only continue the
fight for free speech, but would aid
the workers in the city to fight
against unemployment and starva-
ton in the city and to build unions
to strike against wage-cuts. He an
nounced that the municipal election
platform Of the Party would be drawn
up by the Party, with the aid Of the
workers in the city. and not In secret
bshinA aoeed dpsgs liks Tho Euty,
-2k<<AAd kA<aicf< = sse-nHi g az
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-14
tBy a Worker Correspondent

by Worker Correspondent
TERRE HAUTE, 1nd.---Our August
LIST demonstration was a success in
spite of the fact that the city dads
and our county prosecutor and the
lying press tried to stop our meet
ing. Lackey Witlock, the prosecutor,
stated that there would be no Red
Talk" or parades or We would go
TO jail
Eighteen hundred workers gather
ed at the court house by ESQ to hear
our speakers who only knew how to
talk Red. The meeting went on
scheduled time at p. m. 800 parad-
ing through the down town section.
Legion Holds Orgy
The American Legion and the 9TH
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-14
ARMED THUGS INVADE
LAS VEGAS IN EFFORT
TOBREAK DAM STRIKE
Six Companies Mobilize Private Army Of Gun
men To TerrOrize Workers
Workers Slaughtered Wholesale and Buried
Without Inquest Or Investigation
(By a Worker Correspondent

LAS VEGAS Nevada.-Six Companies Inc (the biggest
and murderous company here) busy organizing its
army of under the leadership of Claude Williams
famous strkebreaker and Cossack chief In 1929 Williams
organized police force at Eureka N c. textile town of
5000 and effectively suppressed the workers and broke the
strike He also organized the police force at the Western
Electric plants at Baltimore Md and earned his reputation
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-14
SALZBERG MILL
STRIKERS HOLD
PICKET LINES
Ovation for Greegan
Just Released From
Putnam Prison

PUTNAM, Conn, Aug. IL. by
maiD. - Over five hundred silk
strikers and sympathizers picketed
the M. Salzberg mill here on Tues
day despite the vicious attacks by
the state and local police The pick
ct line paraded in regular forma-
ton two by two, in front OF the mill.
This was the answer Of the workers
to the attempt of the mill to reopen
with fifteen scabs on Monday. The
picket line was reformed and main
tanned three times before it was dis
persed.
Tear bombs were thrown regularly
into the crowds and into the ranks
of the pickets. The strikers used
wet handkerchiefs to overcome the
effects of the tear gas.
Thepolice threw a tear gas can
die in front of the blacksmith shop
of a certain Lacroix. When Eide
Lacroix, the son of the blacksmith,
rushed out with a pail Of water to
throw over the candle he was pounc-
ed upon by State Trooper Henry ".
Mayor. This cossack tool of the mill
owners then mercilessly dubbed the
young worker. Young Lacroix re-
ceived serious scalp wounds and when
he was helpless, he was arrested and
charged with assault and with at
tempt to kill"
Ovation for Greegan
A tremendous ovation greeted Bar
ney Greegan, organizer of the N. T..
w. u, when he stepped into the strik-
ers' meeting on Tuesday afternoon
after his release from Jail. The ova-
ton rang through the packed hall
for over five minutes. Greegan, Bill
Siroka, and j. j. BALKAN, representa-
tive of the Trade Union Unity Lea
que, addressed the strikers.
In the dispersal of the picket line
Monday morning, Mrs. Elaine Fog
magni, worker in the Perfect Silk
Spinning Company. was bounced on
by an officer of the state cossacks,
H. Theodore Strand, and viciously
dubbed. Shewas rushed to near
by house by strikers and doctor
Immediately summoned. After re-
ceiving medical attention she declar-
ed that the full force of Strands club
had been beaten across her throat.
1t was on this day that Greegan was
arrested by the local police and then
after being bailed out he was imme-
diately rearrested by the state troop
ers. Ten other strikers were ar
rested, including Esther Weismann,
youth organizer of the N. T. w. u.
On Tuesday Eide Lac, Il, Joseph
Lamoureux and Louis Weiss were also
added to the list of those arrested.
Town Sympathetic
During the evening picket line
on Monday and Tuesday was formed
Large numbers Of the sympathetic
working population Of the town
turned out to express their solidarity
with the strikers. On Tuesday
crowd estimated at 1000 turned out
in front of the struck mill.
The picket lines infront Of the
Bloom Silk Mill are still being main
tanned. Five hundred are on strike
in the Bloom Mill and $50 in the
Salzberg mill Both plants are SOL
idly organized in the N. T. w. U.
The strikes are now four weeks old
The strikers are maintaining relief
store in cooperation with the Work.
ers international Relief. The main
demands in both strikes are the AZ
hour week yithout reductions ~ ~,