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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1931-05-29
On This
Occasion
Just few thoughts by the Editor
on things Material and Immaterial.

DR.. Raphael Zon, director Of the
Lake States Experimental Station of
st. Paul, evidently is not enamored OF
political preferment as are several
thousand others in the state who have
their tightening rods out for oil in
spector, game warden, hotel inspector,
or inspector of this, that and the other.
Governor Olson rendered DR.. Zon an
appointment with the new conSerya-
ton commission which goes into effect
on July l, and which appointment DR..
Zon thankfully declined with the
statement that he desired TO continue
his services with the federal govern
ment which has led to his elevation
step by step TO his present research
position. The gentleman also stated
that he would be pleased to cooperate
with the commission in every way so
as to make the states program sue
ceSSful.
While the Miner would have been
pleased with DR.. Zon on the COM
mission, we nevertheless wish to honor
fusing the position rendered him We
also feel that the DR.. can be Of more
service to this end of the state, by
reason of our having the Superior Ma
tional Forest here, in the place he now
holds, than in the position offered him
He is an energetic, painstaking official
who carries unlimited weight with the
forest powers that be. He is a firm
believer in renewing our depleted re-
sources and an ardent conservationist,
not for what he can get out of it, but
for the welfare of the larger number
of people.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1931-05-29
BACCALAUREATE SERVICES
ON SUNDAY EVENING.

The annual baccalaureate services
for the graduating class Of the Ely
High school will take place at the
Washington Auditorium on Sunday
evening at o'clock Rev. Wendell
Olson of the Bethany Lutheran
church will give the sermon and use
for his text, "A Challenging Question
Where is Your Faith?" The program
as arranged is as follows:
professional, 49,. Triumphal March"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1931-05-29


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Class and Audience.
Invocation,
Rev. II. r. Browne.
song, -............."B Beautiful Savior
Mixed Chorus.
Scripture Lesson, Luke 1925
Rev. G. p Keast-
Rev. Wendell Olson.
song, ......... Now the Day Is Over
Mixed Chorus.
Hymn, -..."How Firm a Foundation"
Class and Audience
Benediction,
Rev. H r. Browne.
PROFESSIONAL, $1,000. March Mulitairer
Orchestra
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-27
BY A. ROTHSTEIN

THE report of MacDonald's commission on low
ering the government expenditures is now the
topic of the day in England.
The commission which was appointed by the
Labor" government for this purpose was pur-
posely constructed in such a manner that it
could be depended upon. AS chairman Sir
George May, the secretary of the Prudential In
surance Company, which is the richest COM
pany in England was appointed. The members
Of the commission were: Ryden, a director OF N
huge bank, one of the "big five and also d.
rector of the Cunard Line; Jenickson, the direc-
tor of the huge Vickers- Armstrong Metallurgical
and Machine Builders Company; Lathos, di-
rector of large automobile company; Lord
Plender, who Impartial Arbitrator, decided
that the wages of the coal miners should be cut;
Ashley Cooper, also director of large stock
companies and lastly, Pugh, secretary of the
Union of Metal Workers, who became famous by
breaking the general strike in 1926 and by help
ing to put through wage reduction of Is per
cent in 1880 for the workers of his union.
In such manner did the construction of the
commission completely guarantee, that "the in
terestS of the nation" and especially of its "bet
ter part" chat is, of the bourgeoisie) be assured.
The commission did not disappont the hopes
that had been placed upon it to take care of the
capitalist interests. 1t made the following pro-
posals, which speak for themselves. The COM
mission proposed to cut expenditures in the fol-
lowing manner: afstt 4
Cut the expenditures for the u Employed, a.
BY lowering relief given by 20 per cent: b. BY
raising the workers and employers contribution
to the dole fund by 300 million dollars.
Cut the expenditures for education; a. Lower
the government subsidies to the local education
committees; b Lower the government aid to the
institutes of higher education; G. cut the wages
Of the teachers by 20 per cent.
Cut the expenditures for road building by cut
ting off IS million dollars from the sum that the
government has been giving to the local munich
palities. f.
Cut the wages Of the government employees, of
the police and armed forces
Cut the expenditures for health by S million
dollars.
Cut the expenses of the special commission for
Empire trade
Cut the amount spent for mechanizing the
army'S transports
Cut the aid to the civil air-fleet
Altogether the expenses should be cut by the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-27
Evictions Again Again
Workers Put Back Furniture

Communist Party was mentioned the crowd ap-
plauded enthusiastically. The Unemployed Coun-
Gil also is cheered and applauded.
Applications Piling Up
The Unemployed Council Branch No. was
growing fast even before the police murder of
the three unemployed workers. but after that,
after the huge demonstration Of 100000 Negro
and white workers marching together applica-
tions for the Council are coming by hundreds
The Branch No. has already more than 5000
members. 1t is going to be divided in eight or
more branches as applications are still flowing
The workers in the whole city are aroused,
they especially are aroused In the South Side I
think 1t is the first time in history such militancy
has been shown by Negro workers; also white
workers
Conference for the Unemployed.
On Sunday, Aug g. at 8 pm, in Odd Eel
lows Hall 1887 So. State ST.. conference was
held for Unemployment Insurance and Relief,
also against police terror and evictions, and for
Negro rights. A call has been issued by the I'm
employed Council, South Side Branch, No. l.
with the following demands:
y Unemployment Insurance and immediate
relief: food milk clothing, soup kitchens and va
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-27
Unemployment 1870
1931-1932

In the spring of last year International Pam
phlets published Work or Wages by Grace M
Burnham fourth in its series of working class
pamphlets prepared by Labor Research Associa-
ton Work or wages was the demand in the
spring of 1890 of 100000 unemployed workers
who were already feeling the blows of the CAPT
talist crisis 1t was the demand of all workers
who were alive to the fact that the weary
months ahead, with jobs getting scarcer and
wage cuts hanging over their heads, would mean
starvation sickness and death to many thou
sands of the unemployed and their wives and
children.
A year has come and gone, and another year
is well under way. All the promises of the CAPT
talist rulers of the United States and other capt.
talist countries, have proven to be empty words.
Hooyers prosperity, which was always just
around the corner has finally vanished into thin
air. Financiers and politicians now admit that
the sufferings during the coming winter will be
even worse than the workers had to face in 1881
Unemployment has increased by at least 3,0OO-
900. And at least ten million more workers are
on part time. A wide spread wage cutting cam
paign has reduced the great majority of those
still employed to actual want.
The employing class has not yielded one inch.
Not one piece of legislation for unemployment
insurance has been passed. Only where the
workers have militantly risen in hunger marches
and demonstrations have the. frightened legis-
lators thrown out little relief. The Red Cross,
is showing its true role as strike breaker and
wage cutter. When the starving miners of Hen
ryetta, Arkansas, armed themselves and marched
on the groceries for food, the Red Cross was
called in to give an ultimatum of 81 per day for
contract labor or starvation.
The hard facts presented by the Labor Re-
search Association in Work Wages remain as
they were in 1880. Organizing employed and
unemployed to fight for unemployment insur-
anca and immediate relief, to stop ev1ctions feed
and clothe starving children, provide medical
care for the sick, remains the immediate job
of the workers in the United States. This little
pamphlet, Work Wages, will give every class
conscious worker the facts on unemployment
facts with which he can arouse his fellow
worker, facts which will show the unemployed
that their fate is no accident but inevitable I'M
der the capitalist system.
Every worker who has not yet bought this
pamphlet should send 10 cents for copy to
Workers Library Publishers, p O. Box 14S, Sta
ton D, New York City. And all unit, section and
district literature agents should order copies Tor
sale during the coming fall and winter cam
paigns for social insurance.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-27
BY V. ANDREWS

CHICAGO Ills-Only few days after the City
Administration made promise not to evict the
unemployed workers, on August II again five
eYictons took place on the South Side alone. In
all cases the unemployed workers. led by the
members of the Unemployed Council Branch
No. 4, successfully put back the furniture of the
evcted families. More than nalf dozen police
squads rushed to the spot blowing their sirens.
But the unemployed workers we're not scared.
They went on with their business"
The mass of workers gathered about those that
we're putting back the furniture AS police ran
with their sirens shrieking more people we're
attacked.
The unemployed workers were mostly young
and went about their work "business-like" as
one observer remarked. Police did not dare to
attack them, not even to modest them.
After putting back the last evicted family the
workers marched in parade to Washington Park
where open forum meetings are being held every
night. About 5000 workers gathered in the Park
cheered marching workers. The crowd around
the open forum soon swelled to about 10000 or
more.
Here, like every night, when the name Of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-27
ARetOrmist COntesses His Crimes
Against the Negro Masses

votes of Negroes has betrayed the Negro People;
I'VE have been driven from the sanctuary
of the political party we sought in gratitude
and chung to in hope.
g.. In all places meet either scorn or
liberation. The White House, in which we
found life at the point of pen, rejects
politically and abhors entire race as per-
sons or citizens or humans At the South our
hopes are false -"
Mr. Abbott admits, though not openly, the
role of the Negro reforrniSts as tools and apol-
ogists for the very system under which the Ne
gro masses are so frightfully oppressed. He
says:
what it (the Negro race) had it lost. What
1t sought to maintain was taken away from it
by the cruel, brutal relentless hand of oppres-
sion and through the stupid assininity of its
own products entrapped in the Vaccinations of
the damnable schemes of fraudulent friend
ship. Its rights gone. Its opportunities had
to go with the loss of rights Its good name
is now mud. It's children are face to face
with a bondage harder than death"
Admitting all of this, does Mr. Abbott now
call for a vigorous militant struggle for Negro
righSt; for a struggle against the capitalist OPP
pressors of the Negro masses2 He does not
All that Mr.. Abbott does is to admit the treach-
cry Of his class in the face Of the growing real
ization of the Negro masses Of that fact All
that he does is to let loose flood of social de-
magogy He speaks of seeking peace through
strike against every wrong" of resisting "the
lying, thieving ambassadors from the throne of
jim Grow as we encounter them
But Mr.. Abbott raises no demand for struggle
against lynching peonage and the starvation
program of the capitalists which affects most
deeply the Negro masses. He does not call for
struggle against the frightful legal lynching of
the nine innocent Scottsboro Negro children
planned by the Alabama bosses. He has no
word of condemnation for the massacre of Ne
gro choppers at Camp HILL Alabama. His own
paper sought to Justify the massacre of Negro
unemployed workers in Chicago on August 3. He
has no word of support for the struggle for the
land by the Negro toilers of the South or for
the right of self determination for the Negro
majorities in that section of the country.
Negro workers! Do not be deceived by the
fake struggle phrases of the reforrnists They
have betrayed your every struggle in the past!
Repudiate the traitors! Rally to the mass fight
against hunger and evictions, for unemployment
relief, and for unconditional equal rights for the
Negro People!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-27
BY CYRIL BRIGGS

THE Chicago Defender publishes in its issue OF
l August % confessional address by its pub
Usher Robert S. Abbott. The address is sup
posed to have been delivered by Mr.. Abbott
from the porch of his palatial home on South
Parkway, Chicago. Who comprised his auditors
we do not know. We do know that they were
not the Negro workers of Chicago, the murder
Gus attack on whom by the police at the orders
of white and Negro landlords meeting with re-
representatives. of the Chicago Defender and the
N A. A. C. P. his paper brazenly attempted
to justify.
Mr. Abbotts address is part of the present
frenzied campaign of the Negro reformiSts to re-
establish their traitorous leadership over the
Negro workers of Chicago. This campaign is
directed at Turing these workers away from the
mass struggle, lead by the Communist Party and
the Unemployed Council against starvation and
eyictions, and for immediate unemployment re-
lief and unconditional equal rights for the Ne
gro People 1t is directed at the magnificent
unity of Negro and white workers achieved I'M
der the leadership of the Unemployed Council
and the Communist Party. 1t aims to again
isolate the Negro workers of Chicago and leave
them defenseless before the onslauShtS OF the
capitalists It aims at betraying their fight for
existence their fight against hunger and starv-
alton.
Mr. Abbott's own paper characterizes his lad
dress" as notable and stirring" 1t is indeed
notable. notable confession of the criminal
betrayal of the struggles of the Negro masses by
the Negro petty bourgeois class to which Mr.
Abbott belongs. Mr.. Abbott admits that the
traitorous, reformist, fawning leadership with
which the Negro masses have been afflicted for
decades surrendered rights without struggle
We yielded our slef-respect at the invitation of
flattery. We rubbed out marks Of determination
and enthroned instead the grin of the inferior
grade of man on the brow and named it dip
lomacy.
We have tried the circuitous paths of
fawning. We have walked with patience all
her way. We have endured the harsh language
of courthouses organized to scandalize us.
Writers depict us in the phrase of ridicule.
Editors of great journals deny us the stature
of manhood, and preachers, who are sure of
us heavenly, doubt that we one with men
below"
He further admits that the Republican party
for which his class has always acted as pro-
curers to corral and sell for personal gains the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-27

Nice and Cheering
By JORGE

A London dispatch of August /, tells of the
perfectly lovely things awaiting you when next
the capitalists decide that war must settle the
questions of which imperialst bandits are to get
or keep colonies and markets.
1t says that scientists have developed an ex-
plosive, teaspoon of which, dropped over a city
would kill million people"
Capitalism is efficient. 1t can fix it all up
so that million people can be killed by tea
spoon of something, but it is helpless" to get
teaspoon of milk to hundreds of thousands OF
workers kids who are dying by inches in the
New York slums.
Hurrah for capitalism. Hurrah for starvation
and mass murder!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-27

the Labor representatives will revolt against the
government and vote against It's proposals. This
concerns the representatives who are directly
supported in their election expenses by the work.
ing masses"
The Daily Telegraph" soothes Macdonald and
assures him that the Conservatives will give him
their aid and will help him carry through the
lengthy plans
The Morning Post" declares: "Snowden may
be sure, that the well-thought out and decisive
plans on economy will not meet any opposition
on the part of the Conservatives in Parliament"
Callins pillar of the Conservatives, went wild
with Joy: 1T is possible that the country will
find itself in such a condition that National
government will have to be formed of the repre-
sentatives of all parties. Personally. would
welcome such a government"
In other words this means that II part OF
the Labor" fraction will not be bold enough to
carry through the economy" which Macdonald
proposes at the expense Of the working class then
the Liberals and the Conservatives stand ready
to take the place of the government. The Lib
erals and the Conservatives can be sure, how
ever that Macdonald will serve capitalism as
needs be.
1t is necessary to mention that the greatest
part of the commission which Macdonald ap-
pointed TO report on cutting the expenditures
consisted OF well known partners to all white
guardist conspiraces against the Soviet Union
during the past few years.
1t is fine collection Of the most important
pillars Of capitalism, whom Macdonald and his
leutenants serve so faithfully.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-27
This is the first of series of articles dealing
with the foreign born workers in the United
States.-Ed)
By PHILIP STERLING

States-Ed)
BY PHILIP STERLING
EARLY in the present century little jewish
Il girl irnmigrated to this country with her ia
rnily. She grew up became a social worker, and
wrote book called THE Promised Land" Am
erica. she declared in her book was the pro-
missed land of the immigrant.
But America was never anything of the kind.
Instead it has always been the land of promises
false promises.
Since European nations began to colonize this
continent, workers, farmers peasants, craftsmen
have been lured to these shores by the promise
Of a better, fuller life, with greater freedom,
peace, safety
And all through history the mass of inrni-
grants have found little in the New World save
Disappointment exploitation, hatred, poverty, OPP
preston.
When the British and the Dutch realized that
there was money to be made on the new wild
continent called America, they started colonies
wherever they could induce people to settle But
the colonists we're not the bold spirits the his
tory books tell about who came here for ad-
venture and for glory They were only workers
and farmers drivn from their homes by the
hunger. poverty, war, and disease which were
sweeping overcrowded Europe. With them came,
overseers, professional soldiers. all the hard,
bestial men who have served the ruling classes
of every age for money.
All the colonies were settled by commercial
companies which had charters from their home
governments The financial success of these set
Elements depended on their ability to get i'm
migrants to work for them
Shipping companies gave free passage to those
who wanted TO come here. In return for tor
tuous ride across the Atlantic on which many,
often more than half Of the passengers died OF
hunger and disease these immigrants agreed to
become indentured servants. That U.s. they
signed contract to work for period (gener-
ally five years. to pay for their passage
Sometimes they worked directly for the COM
pany in whose ships they came. Often, however,
the shipping master sold their contract to
r,antation-ovners in the south and middle
states. In 1872 it was possible for plantation
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-27
mot a Penny from the Bankers,
Says Macdonald

sum of about 500 million dollars.
1t is important to point out that the lowering
of the expenditures for road-building directly
affects the unemployed because tnese subsidies
were loudly proclaimed as the greatest means
to provide employment
In such manner the whole economy is being
carried out at the expense of the unemployed, OF
the government employees and at the expense OF
tn sums of money which were to be used for edu-
cational purposes. The machine for war re-
manned untouched With the exception of the
proposal to cut the wages of the police and the
soldiers.
It is interesting to note, that the government
has until recently been spending about 800 mil
lion dollars year for the unemployed. For
war purposes about the same amount is spent,
but at the time when proposals to cut the ex-
penses for the Unemployed fund to the sum OF
300 million dollars are made, those for the cut
ting of W expenditures call for only one mil
lion dolls Slice
Can Il face of the militaristic, imperialist
and exploiting government be shown more
shameleasly than is shown in these proposals?
Do the workers need better lesson Of what their
confidence in the Labor Party has brought
them?
The commission admits quite openly that eff
it were possible to have all classes suffer low
ering in their income if such is gotten either by
work or by investment then the commission
would propose this: 1t would demand that all
employees of the government and the munich
palities that all who receive pensions, including
the aged and widows of soldiers who fell in the
World War be forced to take their part of the
deductions.
This will naturally give the manufacturers the
needed excuse to proceed to new wage-cuts. On
account of this, did Pugh declare that he does
not agree with the report of the commission and
submitted his own proposals. One cannot expose
oneself so openly.
In the beginning Macdonald declared that the
would have ito study" the proposals first.
Snowden howled in Parliament that there
would be deficit of 900 million dollars. He
shouted that steps had to be taken, which will
not be pleasant for certain classes and certain
persons. True Snowden did not repeat his
phrase that he used in regards to the workers in
February that they should be ready for sharp
and unpleasant methods, but all knew whom
Snowden meant now. Snowden said: mo single
government especially such government like
ours, which hasn't majority in Parliament can
take the responsibility on itself and introduce
definite proposals about the cutting OF the
penditures The responsibility for that of any
single proposal being turned down, will rest upon
the entire parliament"
Snowden emphasized this remark three times
during his speech. The correspondent of the
Daily Telegraph interpreted this speech we'll
He said: 1.-THE condition is such that the govern
is afraid that it will not be able to carry through
the lengthy plans without the help of the oppo-
siton Chat is without the help OF the Conserva-
tives) because, there is a danger that part Of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-27


cant apartments to be opened by the city and
administered by the Unemployed Councils
% The city must pay r3-st gas and electricity
of the unemployed. No more eyictions,
81 A reduction Of rents OF so per cent. No seq
regations. Equal pay for equal work regardless
of race etc. t&
~ For solidarity of Negro and white workers.
For social, economic and political equality;
against Jim-Crowism and lynching
50 Against police terror.
81 To build Unemployed Councils in every part
of the South Side
go The Daily Increased
This section of the Communist Party OF U. S.
alone is getting now 1000 Of the Daily Worker
daily. Also the Liberator increased to 500 week
ly. The membership Of the section more than
doubly increased in few weeks. 1t expected
soon to increase both the Daily Worker and the
Liberator twice II not more