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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-08
SPREADS
IN THE CONGO,
CENTRAL AFRICA
40 Natives Killed in
Clash With Imper-
ialist Troops

A capitalist press dispatch from
Brussels, Belgium, admits the spread
of the revolutionary movement in the
Belgian Congo, Central Africa.
Three Belgian soldiers are reported
to have been killed and several
wounded in fight with African rev.
dictionaries in the lake districts of
the Congo. The Belgians claim to
have killed 40 of the natives.
African workers and peasants In
many sections of the Belgian Congo
have been in revolt for the past eight
months or more. In spite OF the Bel
gian censorship the news of their
heroic struggles against the imper-
ialist robbers has leaked out from
time to time.
The revolt of the Congo natives is
part of the revolutionary movement
which is sweeping the colonies and
semi colonial countries and has
reached its highest expression in
China, where under the leadership of
the Chinese Communist Party the
Chinese workers an dpeasants are
carrying on a relentless struggle
against imperialism. The Japanese
action in Manchuria, supported by
the United States, French and Brit
ish imperialiSrns, is aimed at crushing
the Chinese revolution and attacking
the Soviet Union, the world citadel
of the revolutionary movement of the
colonial masses and the home work
ers in the imperialist countries.
Macdonald in the British parlia-
ment has called for war against the
colonial masses. Hoover in his Arm
istice Day speech admitted that the
tremendous ornaments of the imper-
ialist nations are aimed at the colo
NAL masses and at the Soviet Union.
Negro and white workers! Defend
the revolutionary movements in At
RIGA, in China, in India and other
colonial and semi-colonial countries!
Defend the Chinese Revolutionl De-
fend the Soviet Union! Down fifth
and its murderouS at
tackS on the colonial and home mass
es!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-08
SOVIET FAMILY
LIFE IN LECTURE
M. Scherer Lecture Is
One Of Series

For the first time in New York, the
Illustrated lecture, "24 Hours With
the Soviet Family Fillipov," will be
given by Marcel Scherer, national
secretary of the Friends of the Soviet
Union, this Thursday evening, Dec.
10. at Irving Plaza Hall, 18th st. and
Irving Place, at 8 pm.
These pictures blast the bourgeois
lies that Communism destroys the
family. The Fillipov family is an
average Soviet family in Moscow
family living under obtaining condi-
tons and shows the Socialist con-
struction of the U.S.SR. by means
of the steady improvement of the
material and cultural standards of
living for the workers and is laying
the real foundations for sound
family life.
This is the second in series of
lectures by different authorities on
THE New Culture in the Soviet
Union" given every Thursday night
at Irving Plaza Hall, under the aus
pices of the F. S. u.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-08
UMWA Sub-diStrict
Conference Backs
The Hunger March

CHICAGO, Dec. Throughout
the entire state of Illinois various
locals Of the A. F. of L., including
many belonging to the United
Mine Workers of America, have
not only endorsed the National
Hunger March, but have elected
hunger marchers and contributed
financially to the struggle for I'M
employment insurance. News has
Just arrived that at a subdistrict
conference of the U. M. w. A. held
in Collinsyille the delegates I'M
animously passed a resolution sup
porting the hunger marchers. This
is an open reputation of the
treacnerous policy of the labor
takers who, in Vancouver turned
down a proposal for unemployment
insurance.
Chicago's mass demonstration
today in support of the demands
then being made in Washington
by the National Hunger Marchers
will be at 8 p. m. at Union Park.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-08

The tobacco sales were postponed
until Monday with indications that
the farmers would keep their crops
off the market entirely since the
prices offered are insufficient even
to pay for the cost of cultivation and
haulage.
Kentucky leaf tobacco sold for Sic. 70
a hundred pounds in 1929, the highest
year and was forced down to half
that figure in 1890. In 1928 and 1891
the farmers got $3.50 and s11.27 re-
spectiVe hundred pounds on their
crop The ruinous drop in tobacco
prices as manipulated by the To-
bacco Trust shows that in one year
from 1928 to 1929 the price OF leaf
tobacco was forced down from ma
tional average of $40 in 1928 to $40
a hundred pounds in 1929. The price
this year has been cut to and &
cents q pound in Kentucky and Viz
ginia tobacco growing districts.
That this price spells actual starva-
ton and ruin for the mass Of small
tobacco growers can be seen in the
fact that the average cost Of growing
leaf Tobacco in Virginia this year was
estimated at IL cents a pound. The
production cost in Kentucky is a
slight variant at this cost.
AT the same time the huge tobacco
companies, debating The price of raw
tobacco to the farmers. are making
record profits, the following four big
profits showing the following sur
pluses after dividends depreciation
and costs were paid: American To-
bacco Co. sol 300 900; p. Lorillard Co.,
$16,O00,00C; Liggett & Myers Tobacco
Co.. S20000,00o and r. J. Reynolds,
$55,000,000. The American Tobacco
Co. alone MADE record earnings of
$43.345,370 in 1880, an increase of 40
per cent over the earnings and profits
of 1929.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-08
ANOTHER DRESS
SHOP STRIKES
Three Needle Trades
Meetings Announced

NEW YORK.-In spite of unem-
ployment, the conditions in the dress
shops are driving more and more
workers to open revolt. Those in
Smiley Dress Co. shop at 122 West
26th st. came down yesterday to the
Needle Trades Workers Industrial
Union and got help in striking and
shutting down the place Conditions
were absolutely unbearable.
The Industrial Union urges work
ers in other shops to do the same.
The struck London Dress Shop, 245
Seventh Ave. has advertised for new
workers, and the union calls all to
help picket. Strikes are going on also
at Berman & Smith, 213 West 35th
ST., and at a number Of other places.
Knitgoods Meeting at 10 am.
All unemployed knitgoods workers
are called to a meeting this morning
at 10 am, at 131 w, 18th st, The
bosses in this trade have decided to
cut wages one per cent under the
excuse of raising an unemployment
fund.
Milliners Meet At 2 pm.
The United Front Committee OF
the millinery workers calls a meet
ing Of all unemployed millinery
workers, at 2 pm today at Bryant
Hall, Al st. and Sixth Ave.
Cloakmakers Meet Tomorrow
The Left Wing Groups in Local
and Local 9 of the Internationa
Ladies Garment Workers have called
a mass meeting for Wednesday, De
cennber 9. at pm, at Cooper Union
to discuss a struggle to reestablish
conditions in the trade and make re-
commentators for the present cleo
ton campaign for officers of the
locals. All cloak finishers and oper-
ators are invited.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-08
TRY SMASH FWIU
BUTCHERS BR.
Racketeer Outfit Gets
Out An Injunction

In an attempt to smash the Or
ganization of the butchers of the
Food Workers Industrial Union, the
butchers branch of the United He
brew Trades has returned to the old
method of injunctions. For three
years, the following Brooklyn stores,
Cohen and Levine of 4002 18th Ave.
and 2259 86th St.; Mensch, 1904 18th
Ave, and Dicker, 1918 18th Ave, were
under the control of the Food Work
ers' Industrial Union. Recently the
racketeer outfit in the trade sold
some of its union signs to the bosses
of these stores and took out an in
junction banning picketing. Know
ing that this alons would not stop
the F. w. I. u, they have hired
gangsters to terrorize the men in the
shops and the pickets.
Theunion calls upon all workers in
the neighborhood to support the
strike and help drive out the thugs
and strikebreakers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-08

unemployment and inperialist
war, and because of the in
creasing danger of war against
the Soviet Union.
The workers more than ever
need a paper to expose the
bosses wage cut and starva-
ton campaign and the secret
war plots. The workers more
than ever must support the
Daily Worker through greater
efforts in the present campaign
for 5000 subscriptions. The
workers more than ever must
show their support of their
paper by coming out in mass
to the Bronx Coliseum on Jan
uary 3 to hear the results of
the subscription drive and to
greet the eighth anniversary
Of their paper.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-08
5000 Tobacco Farmers Smash
Sale in Anger at Low Prices

OWENSBORO, Ky.-Shouting their
anger at the manner in which the
greensboro Loose Leaf Tobacco Co.
YVES taking their tobacco at starva-
ton prices, three thousand embittered
farmers broke up the opening tobacco
sale of the season by hurting apples
at the auctioneers and at w. C. Crab
tree, vice president and general man
ager of the Greensboro Tobacco Co.
AS they saw the tobacco crops
snapped up by the dummy buyers of
the various Tobacco trusts at prices
almost half of what they had received
last year, the farmers interrupted the
auctioneers with shouts of you can't
take our tobacco that wayl" They
threatened to wreck the warehouses
unless the sales were stopped imme-
diak ly.
Taking advantage Of the poverty
and desperate straights of the tobacco
farmers, the buyers had squeezed the
price down to 3i.61 per 100 whereas
lass year it had been S5.47 per hun
dreA The resentment Of the farmers
YVES brought to a fighting pitch as
the prices were forced down con-
siauo 1s1y in spite Of the fact that
the manufacturers of cigars and
cigarettes had reported 1880 and the
first half Of 1881 as two Of the most
prosperous periods in the history.
Misled by government propaganda
for acreage reduction, the farmers
adopted unanimous resolution not
to raise any tobacco next year A
mass meeting at The local courthouse
also adopted a resolution TO appoint a
committee to ask James G. Stone.
chairman OF the Federal Farm Board,
for financial backing in the tobacco
pool which they ere o"gGcizirg
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-08

suspicious" manner will be arrested.
Through these means, the British
imperialists will redouble their terror
against the Indian workers and pea
SAINTS.
The new reign of terror, forecast
ing bloody drive against the In
dian masses which will put any of
the past expeditions into the shade,
comes on the heels of the breakdown
of the Indian Round Table Confer
ence in London. Gandh, who has
been pleading for a united front of
the Indian bourgeoisie and the Brit
ish imperialists against the rising
anti-imperialist revolution in India,
has failed of his task because the
British masters would not give
Gandhi sufficient concessions to be
able to fool the Indian masses.
Gandhi is now returning to India.
he now fears the mass, popular re-
volt and is coming back to India in
order to try to stem the tide of strug-
gle against British Imperialism.
Gandhi again talks of returning to
his cell, of increasing the mon
violent" opposition to British rule
all this in the face of the open ter
ror and provocation Of the British
masters, in face of the rising strug-
giles of the Indian workers and pea
SAINTS.
British imperialism is determined
to force its yoke deeper into the
necks of the Indian masses. But the
new terror laws will not stop the
anti-imperialist fight of the Indian
workers and peasants. A new stage
Of struggle is opening up against
British imperialiSt rule in India.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-08
FORCE DISMISSAL OF SOME KY.
CRIMINAL SYNDICALISN CASES
Carloads of Gunner Roam Harlan and Bell
Counties In Effort to Stop District Conven-
ton Set for Pineville. Dec IL

PINEVILLE, KY, Dec. 4.-Habeus
corpus proceedings will be held in
the cases Of National Miners Union
members, J. E. Payne and Alex
Barnett of Straight Creek, and Tom
Coyne, of Middlesboro, KY. Payne
and Coyne are both charged with
criminal syndicalism. Payne has to
furnish bond of $4,000; an oppear-
ance bond Of $4,000 and a peace bond
Of $4,000. Coyne was arrested in the
Middlesboro Court room, charged
with criminal syndicaism, where he
and five other National Miners IN
ion members went to be tried No
vember Is, before Circuit Court
Judge Baby" Jones, on the charge
of malicious shooting with intent to
KILL" a frame-up from the Premier
Coal Co. strike last May, when a
scab was shot, and slightly wounded
His bond is $4,000; appearance bond
Of $4,000, and peace bond of $1,000
Alex Barnett, active NMU member
in the recent Glendon Mine strike, at
Straight Creek, is charged with band
ing and confederating on two counts,
and has to produce an appearance
bond of $6,000
All three are in Jail; Payne and
Barnett in Pineville, and Coyne in
Middlesboro. Payne's peace bond of
$4,000 was slapped on him by Judge
Jones, without any legal hearing, but
with lecture, telling him if he
would drop the National Miners I'm
ion, he could get out of Jail. The
International Labor Defense attor-
ney, w. J, Stone of Pineville, will
demand that the peace bonds be re-
moved, and the appearance bonds be
grealy reduced, on grounds of being
excessive and illegal.
Except for tn men now being tried
for the deaths of the deputies Lee
Jones and Daniels, the three men,
Payne, Coyne and Barnett are the
only miners in jail Every single one
of the criminal syndicalism cases,
the banding and confederating cases,
possessing prohibited literature cases,
and malicious shooting with intent
to kill cases have been continued I'M
til the next term Of court Many
were dropped. This is a real victory
for the International Labor Defense
and National Miners Union. Every
case was such raw frame-up that
it would have taken an unusually
well-picked coal company jury to
convict any of the miners. The OPP
orators, with their allies, Judge D. c.
Jones, whose wife has large coal min
ing interests, and Commonwealth's
Attorney Brock, evidently didn't dare
risk the trials.
The Glendon Coal Co.. Straight
Greek, whose general manager, J. j.
Hume, was one of the witnesses be-
fore the Grand jury, in the indict-
ment against the Dresser Committee,
has just pulled one of the regular
strike breaking rabbits out of the
Coal company's silk hat, by sending
80 house notices to active members
of the National Miners Union. At
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-08
"lsSl--' Group Theatre Play


1851" will be the title Of the
second production of the Group
Theatre, a playdesing with the labor
and unemployment crisis by Claire
and Paul Sifton, which opens at the
Mansfield Theatre Thursday, Dec. 10.
Franchot Tone, Phoebe Brand, Nor
rts Cernovsky, J. Edward Bromberg,
Mary Morris and other members Of
the Group Theatre will be in the
play. The play which was formerly
called "Son of God" will be presented
under the auspices of the Theatre
Guild.
Over the Hill" with James Dunn,
sally Eilers, and Mae Marsh is the
ac.een attraction at the Hippodrome.
vaudeville acts include 1.-THE Street
ger" in person, George Beatty,
Milton Douglas. Erma Ward 81 Girls,
Donatella Brothers q Carman, -Four
Comets, the lovers, and Clemens
Belling.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-08
VETS MEET HELD
ON UNION SQUARE
Vote Support To The
Hunger Marchers

Drawing snow flurries, hundreds Of
iobless workers and ex-servicemen
assembled on Union Square yeSter-
day at pm. at a meeting called by
the Workers Ex-Servicemen's League
in support of the demands the Ma
tional Hunger Marchers made on
Congress.
When the weather worsened the
crowd marched down to the head
quarters of the Workers Ex-Service-
mems League, at 70 E. Tenth ST.,
where the hall was damned to the
doors and an indoor meeting held.
The meeting was enthusiastic
throughout, with Saunders, Burns
and W. Meltzer as the main speak
erS.
A resolution adopted at the meet
ing on Union Square was sent to
President Hoover demanding the fol-
lowing: Unemployment insurance for
all workers, immediate cash payment
of the bonus, demand private med
ical treatment for disabled veterans
at government expense, fight against
another imperialist war.
The hunger march on Boro Hall
in Brooklyn also adopted the same
resolution.
The Workers Ex-Servicemen's
League will present three-act play
dramatizing the defeat of the pay
ment of the bonus at the American
Legion Convention at their dance to
beheld Friday, Dec. II, at pm, at
theManhattan Lyceum, Sc E. Fourth
ST. The proceeds will go towards
founding national magazine for
worker eX-soldiers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-08
New Labor Unity Is
Launched: Banquet
Celebrates New Step

NEW YORK. - Several hundred
workers including delegates from
about IS organizations we're present
at the Labor Unity Banquet and En-
tertainment last Saturday night at
Manhattan Lyceum. Besides the mu-
steal numbers, Soviet movies, and
hot dinner on the program everyone
enjoyed the many interesting short
speeches made in support Of the new
monthly Labor Unity magazine, the
first number of which will be out
about December 26th.
Bill Dunno, associate editor of the
new monthly magazine and an out
standing leader in the American
Labor Movement, as POSTMASTER, led
the list of speakers which included
besides the main speaker, VIM. z.
Foster Robert Minor, Louis Engdahl,
1. Amter, Joseph lack, M. Sherer,
Mike Gold, young pioneer and Tom
Scott, Youth organizer of the Trade
Union Unity League.
" IS planned to repeat the Banquet
next year and to make it an annual
affair for Labor Unity.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-08

torney Stone is handling these cases
for the LID, "
The fact that men who went back
to work, Immediately had their evic-
ton notices dismissed, is sure proof
that these house notices are nothing
but a strike breaking trick. No one
who could help it, would live in the
shacks the men are being told to
leave. AS one of the miners said:
Sure, we have water and lights in
our house. Water, when 1t rains,
pours in. And when the sun is out,
you get plenty of light through the
cracks"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-08
Macdonald Policies
Raise Price of Milk

LONDCN.--The first fruits Of the
starvation policy Of the new National
Government headed by the socialist"
Ramsay Macdonald is to be seen in
the increase in the costs Of living,
especially food prices.
The price of milk here was raised
two cents a quart November 80. The
price rise is attributed to the in
creased cost of production Of milk
inasmuch as fodder must be pur-
chased with the deprecated pound
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-08
LAUNDRY BOSSES
STRIKEBREAKINC
Bosses Assn Head Aids
Active Shop Boss

The bosses of the Sterling and
Pretty laundries, Steinhorn and Hent-
man, president and vice president of
the bosses association are leading
other bosses in doing scab duty. Last
Thursday the Association called
special meeting to consider ways
and means of breaking the strike in
the Active Laundry. One Of the
measures taken is that all bosses
s9culd take turns in doing scab duty.
The drivers of the Bronx Home are
forced to scab in the Active by means
OF intimidation.
Another step decided on is that.
other laundiies do not take bundles
that were formerly washed in the
Active Laundry but competition
among the bosses is so keen and the
bosses ere so greedy that thy Guido
one another IN taking away Gus
toners from each other.
The bosses OF the Sterling and
Pretty laundries, Steinhorn and Hent-
man as officials of the Association
hire the gsngsters and manage the
frame-ups. They are constantly on
duty at tie Active Laundry on the
side of the bosses MIR. S5einhorn.
when the gangsters failed to break
up the meeting of Laundry Workers
Union last Wednesday pulled a gun
in order to prott ct the gangeteIs.
The Laundry Workers Union, ESQ
E, 18Th ST., calls on all wo, kers to
help the union by coming to picket
line and help in canvassing the Gus
toners to inform them Of the strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-08
800 Girls Forced To
Give One Third Pay To
Bosses Charity

Three hundred girl workers of the
National Screen Service Co., Forty
Sixth st., were informed on Thurs
day, December 3, that they would
have to sign slips authorizing the
company to deduct one third of each
weeks pay for one month for the
city unemployment fund. Some girls
refused and when they protested,
were told "either you sign or you
are discharged"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-08

The Cameo Theatre is featuring
on its screen, THE Battle of Gal
lipoli," story of Gallipoli slaughter
in the World War. Thousands of
workers lost their lives in this cam
paign. The story is taken from the
novel, Tell England by Ernest Ray
mond. Gerald Rawlinson, Fay Comp
ton and c. M. ballard are the leading
players.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-08

VIII hold a lecture by SAM Sklaroff
on "1he New Proletarian Culture" at
the Workers Center, corner Pitkin
aud Christopher AYES, Brooklyn, at
3 pm.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-08
Whats On
TUESDAY

Needle Trades worker Ind. Union
Will give a ferewcll party for tH o
comrades leaving Cor the Soviet
Union in joe Uuio Audi orium. 1Sl
w. 2Sth ST. at s YIN. III workers
invited.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-08
rrn.ncc, pnrl. mrnneh. F.s.r.

Mrs. Marguerite a stuart, just re-
tAned from The Soviet Union, WAC
t&Irht at the MOscuW Technicun1,
will apeaa Oh the Russian Revolu-
don az - Crown St, Brooklyn, at
$50 pm.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-08

a lecture WI be given az lC3 y.
14th St., at pm On tn Mauchur AT
situation and the Wer Danger. Dis
cussion Admission FEE
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-08
AkAl,lSEkAEsNHSI
EVERYBODY'S WELCOME

The new musical comedy hit. with
| FRANCES WILLIAMS.
OSCAR SHAW,
| ANN ppiNNINGTON.H ARRIhITT LAKE
SHUBERT Thea, 44tb ST.. w. of B'w'y
1 Eve. $50. Mats. Wed. Sat. ESQ
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-08

FIVE THOUSAND DAILY WORKER
l2-MONTH SUBSCRIPTIONS
BY JANUARY 8thi
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-08

Bldg. Maintenance Workers Union
VIII hold an imoortant meeting at
Krsutzer Hall, .2& =. S6th 81, tnifd
DooT. Workers are urged TO attend,
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-10-09
RISING SUN SCHOOL NEWS

Our school was visited by DR..
Cook, State Supt. of Schools,
and Mr.. Howard T. Ruhl, on
Monday afternoon. DR.. Cook
seemed very much pleased with
our new building and equip
ment, and consented to speak
at the dedication of the new
building, the time of which will
be announced in a later issue.
The Perryville High School
field ball team surprised our
girls on Friday afternoon, and
defeated the Rising Sun team
by the score of 8 to 5. Perry
vile played a splendid game
and deserved a we'll earned
victory. This was the first de-
feat suffered by our girls in an
intra-county game in two
years.
Our boys, playing a fine
brand of soccer, defeated the
Perryville boys by the score OF
4 to 2. The splendid team work
&C Rising sun resulted in our
first league victory of the
season.
Friday afternoon the North
East boys and girls will visit
our school. The games should
prove very close and interest
ing, as North East soccer and
field ball teams have won both
games played so far. Don't
forget, Friday afternoon at
three o'clock.
A great many patrons avail
ed themselves of the opportu-
nifty to see our new high school
building Thursday afternoon.
Subscribe to a magazine and
the school athletic fund. This
campaign will last until next
Wednesday.
Don't forget, we will appre-
ciate the donation of books and
magazines to our school
library.