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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-14
Bosses Admit He's Innocent,
But Sentence Negro to Life

MONTGOMERY. Ala, May 13-
Alabama boss justice wreaked its
vengeance yesterday on aged Tom
Robertson father of the Robertson
family, six of whose members we're
wiped out last July by a mob of rich
planters and shop keepers.
Tom Robertson was one of the two
Negroes for whom the then governor
of Alabama, Graves, offered reward
Of $500 dead or alive" as a further
incentive for mob action against the
Robertson family, members of which
had dared to defend themselves when
attacked by the white mob The
other, John Robertson, son of Tom
Robertson, has SO far managed to
escape the clutches of capitalist
Justice"
The trouble arose when a white
shop keeper tried to force Esau Rob-
ertson, another son of Tom Robert
son. TO pay twice for battery he had
bought. Young Robertson refused to
pay second time and effectively de-
Tended himself against the attacks of
the shop keeper. The latter gathered
a mob and went to the Robertson
home with the declared intention of
lynching the young worker Grover
Boyd. one OF the white mobbists. was
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-14
USE KNIFE ON
H. FEINSTEIN
Boss, AFL Gang Try to
Kill TUUL Member

NEW YORK. = Harry Feinstein,
secretary of the Window Cleaners
Protective Union, was brutally as
saulted on May II at IL a. m. at 1872
Beekman Ave, while returning to his
home from work. AS he entered the
hallway of the house where he lives,
two racketeers of the bosses window
Cleaners Assn. and the fascist A. r.
Of L. union leaders, attacked him
with knife.
This is the second time Feinstein
has been assaulted by these gangSters
On the 9th of March in the same
place the hired tools of the bosses
tried to overpower him and Fem
stein suffered badly lacerated ear.
Feinstein'S militant activity in the
union in building the Trade Union
Unity League has won the enmity OF
the bosses agents who have r. o~lv
blacklisted him but are ."
,n2se muiderous methods on him.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-14

shot during the fight which followed.
Six of the family we're lynched.
Aged Tom Robertson was tried for
the death Of Boyd, although the old
man had had no part in the fight.
Railroaded through the capitalist
court in the same manner as we're
the nine Negro boys at Scottsboro,
he was sentenced TO burn in the cleo
trio chair as an object lesson TO the
Negro masses not to defend them
selves when attacked by the white
bosses. He was to have been electro
cuted this coming Friday.
AS a result, however, of the mass
Indignation aroused throughout the
country by the Daily Worker and
the Communists against the activities
of the Alabama boss courts in legally
lynching Negro workers. the governor
and the Alabama Board of Pardons
have thought it best to commute the
death sentence to life Imprisonment.
Although admitting in his order
committing the sentence that the old
man had taken no part in the fight
and was innocent of the charges
made against him of numbering the
white mobbist. Boyd, Governor Miller
refused TO t'r kS< aFsd Negro
worker.
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pared by the Hoover administration
to back up his lying plea for "disar-
mament" made at the International
Chamber of Commerce sessions in
Washington recently. The European
capitalist representative at the In
ternational Chamber of Commerce
gathering voted for repeal of war
debts. Hooyer's answer was that with
the growing deficit in the finances
of the American government they
would not listen TO any talk of can
collation. OF war debts.
He demanded that the potential
enemies of American imperialism
cut down their war expenditure. and,
to make the argument sound logical
to the American masses, Hoover goes
through the motion of eliminating a
few decrepit army posts, while at the
same time millions are spent for the
largest airplane war maneuyers in
Dayton, Ohio,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-14

expulsion of the religious orders
from Spain; confiscation of all
church property; 6, withdrawal of
martial law.
Killings are being ordered by the
provisional Republican Socialist gov
eminent of Spain to protect the
property and huge land holdings of
the Catholic institutions of Spain.
Despite the extension of martial law,
the masses are continuing their at
tackS against the headquarters of
monarchy and feudalism in the
church centerS.
In Cordova the people attacked the
armory in order to procure arms.
When the Civil Guard attempted to
resist, two we're killed.
AS the result Of the zamora gov
ernment's order 10 kill, four have
thus far been murdered and 200
hurt. The socialists, who support the
new dictatorship of the provisional
government, enforced to protect the
property of the feudal landowners
and the king, favor the killing of
workers and peasants who seek to
stamp out the counter revolutionary
centers.
Troops were rushed to the Bank
of Spain on the fake cry that Com
munists were going to raid the bank.
The capitalist newspapers admit that
this was a pretext for throwing
heavy guard of soldiers around the
bank building, and that there was no
basis to the charge of Communist
raid
Fifty thousand monarchists and
church officials are reporting to be
fleeing.
In Cartagena martial law has been
declared The authorities express
great fear that the growing unrest
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-14
Martial Law Fails to Stop Spread
of Spanish Revolt Thru Country

OF 10000 unemployed workers in that
city will lead to trouble, as the un-
employed demand that they be fed
and that the wealth be Wrung from
the churches to buy food for the
starving.
Churches are constantly being
burned and the troops have not been
able to quell the growing revolution
airy spirit of the masses.
The burning of church institutions
/ spreading to the villages. Here
the church owns millions of acres of
land on which the peasants live like
slaves. The events in the big cities
is squirting the peasants on to sieze
the land that rightfully belongs to
them. However, the republican, So
cialist government threatens whole
sale bloodshed to protect the prop
erty Of the churches.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-14
DEMONSTRATE AT
CITY FLOP HOUSE
TODAY AT NOON
Demand Real Food and
Lodging Every Night

NEW YORK.-Led by the Madison
Square council Of the unemployed,
workers and jobless will demonstrate
today at noon before the municipal
flop house at 25th ST and First Ave
They will demand three nourishing
meals a day for those forced to sleep
there, sleeping accommodations for
all applicants every night, complete
sanitary equipment with laundry and
dryer, proper clothing, and no forced
labor, all work to be paid for
At 2 p. m. these demands will be
presented to Supt. ManniX.
Gust Sick Woman.
The issue came to q head with the
report of Mrs. Mary Thomas to the
unemployed council. Mrs. Thomas
has been in the hospital eight weeks
with pleurisy, and then being put out
with no home and no money or job,
has slept three nights at the NUM-
cipal shelter" They now notify her
llldI DIG I'd llStdy CWO l4lOIE 1nSIlIo
only. Yesterday morning for break
fast, Mrs. Thomas got only cup of
coffee and breadcrust.
The jobless at the flop house
complain that they get little besides
stew, mostly bones and potatoes.
In two militant demonstrations, the
Madison Square council forced the
flop house to raise the number of
nights lodging allowed each jobless
worker from to Is. But now Man
nix has gone back to five.
The Madison Square Council yes
terday sent a committee of 20 and
forced the Hotel Employment Agency
to give back a fee of ST taken from
Harry Smith for a countermans job,
which turned out to be work in the
kitchen for two shifts only, and a
total pay check of $42O.
The Madison Square Council of
the Unemployed is giving a dance to
raise money for organizationaI pur-
poses, Wednesday, May 81, at 3O1
West 10Th st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-14
Hoover Talks Discerning But
Pushes Biggest Air Maneuuers

WASHINGTON, May 13.-While
the navy and army departments pre-
pare the largest air war maneuvers
ever seen before, Hoover yesterday
issued an announcement calling for
economy in the army.
In Dayton, Ohio, 672 bombing and
other types of war planes are gath
ering from all parts of the country
1t will be the largest concentration
of fighting planes ever gathered at
one spot.
Hoover, who urged the passage of
the $1,000,000000 navy and army
bills, now wants the masses to be-
lieve he is taking measures TO "cut
down army expenditures. The fact
of the matter is, Hoover has ordered
the discontinuance of several old.
outworn army posts, SO that the huge
sums provided for war expenditures
can be used more efficiently.
This is propaganda being pre-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-14
FIGHT FIRST DAY
OF BREAD STRIKE
Boss Wife with Knife
Repulsed by Pickets

NE WYORK.-The first day of the
bread strike called under the leader
ship of the United Council of Work
ing Glass Women in Middle Village,
Brooklyn, resulted in clash with
the owner of the bakery at the cor
ner of Wayne & Griffith Ave. Mrs.
Weiss, wife of this bakeshop prop
ristor, attempted to assault the strike
picket captain, Sadie Lefkowitz, mem
Der of Council Il. Although this
woman picket was struck by the bak
cry proprietor and hurt, and a pas
serby was slashed over the hand with
Mrs. Weiss knife when he attempted
to intercede in behalf of Mrs. LEI
kowitz, the bakery bosses wife re-
ceived a good beating from the
woman picket.
The picket line will be stronger
today. The whole community is an
gered by this attack of the bosses and
threatens to throw any bread into
the gutter which the grocers buy
while the strike is on. A mass meet
ing will be held tonight at Gil Hin
man st. at p. m. to rally all forces
in the neighborhood for a fight to
the finish for their demands to re-
duce rolls from "a cents to Is cents
a dozen; bread from cents to 5
cents ID; white twists from 25
cents to 10 cents loaf; white loaves
from Is to 10 cents and French
loaves from 10 cents to cents. The
strike headquarters are located at the
Workers Center at the corner of Full
ton Ave, Middle Village
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-14

Preach Lansing May 81.
~ Immediate enactment
of the Workers Unemployment
Insurance Bill calling for week
ly payments of $40 for single
workers, SIS to families, with
$500 additional for each dependent:
the funds to be raised by a tax of
10 per cent on fortunes over $4,000
and on annual incomes over SIS 5000,
This fund to be managed by the work
ers themselves, employed and unem-
ployed.
p An emergency appropriation by
the State Legislature of fifty-five
million dollars from the proposed
budgeSt to be turned over to the
Unemployed Insurance Fund. and to
be paid out to the unemployed as in
dicated above.
81 Immediate cancellation of all
debts and mortgages for poor farm
ers. No taxation of poor farmers.
A. No eviction of the unemployed.
The repeal Of the State Eviction law.
No sheriff sales of workers homes or
property of poor farmers, for nom
payment of taxes or mortgages.
81 No discrimination of relief.
Equal rights for Negro workers.
g. Free gas, electricity and coal
for the unemployed and part-time
workers.
~ The right of the workers to
free speech, assembly and to strike.
The repeal of the Criminal Syndical-
list Law and granting of an amnesty
to all political prisoners. Abolition
of the injunction in strikes and the
immediate release of the organizers
in the Flint Fisher Body Strike: Phil
Up Raymond, Louise Morrison. ana
Nyria Barkin.
g. The unconditional release of
the nine young Negro boys in Scots
boro, Alabama.
Competitions
These demands will be presented
to Governor Brucker and TO the
state legislature.
The conference met in Ferry Hall.
May 10. Besides drawing up the
demands, it endorsed the tag days,
May 1917, to raise money for the
expenses of the march, and the vari-
Gus sections of the city challenged
each other to bring out the most
collectors. There will also be com
petition in electing the most dele
gates through mass meetings, unem-
ployed councils, etc.
Friday night there will be Local
parades and demonstrations all over
Detroit.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-14
PROTEST ON
FRIDAY TO
Save 7. H. Ii
Prot. Dewey Writes
ak Against
LIS Murder
All G., ct 1900 A. M.
Meet at Ellis Island
Ferry, Battery Pl.
BULLETIN.

NEW Notwithstanding PETER,
authority on China, author of
White Mans Dilema," the Col
lapse of a Civilization" and former
editor of China Press, as well as
Picking correspondent for American
newspapers, commenting on the
threatened deportation of T. II.
Ii to China stated:
Communists are in physical
danger in many portions of
China. For this reason, believe
that Tao Hsuan Lii might be
either seriously injured or killed
if the government of the United
States insisted on his deportation
10 China"
Ii has asked for voluntary dc
parture." This has been refused.
A cable from Russia granting visa
to LII has been sent to the Depart
mcnt Of Labor. The cable reads;
Visa LII entry Soviet Union await
ing in Berlin"
NEW YORK, May 10. - A mass
protest demonstration against the
deportation of T. H. Ii to Chang
Kai-shek for execution is being Or
ganized by the N. Y. District of the
International Labor Defense, Friday,
at IL am at the Ellis Island Ferry,
Battery Place.
Professor John Dewey Of Colum-
bia University has written a letter
of protest to Secretary of Labor
Doak, against the virtual death SEN
tence of T. H Lii.
Ii was ordered deported by the
Department of Labor and ordered to
surrender on Friday May Is before
noon at Ellis Island to sail on the
Is. In order to prevent the attempt
of the immigration authorities to
kidnap Comrade Ii and ship him to
the butcher Chang Kai-shek for ex-
ecution. all militant workers of New
York who are fighting against wage
cuts, unemployment and for defense
of the 9 Scottsboro Negro boys, must
come out in mass protest this Fri
day to prevent the murder of our
revolutionary comrade and fighter.
T. H. Lii was arrested last Deem
Der by immigration officials on the
lying charges brought against all re-
volutionary and militant workers by
the bosses government in its cam
paign of persecution of foreign born
Negro and white workers. The Dep
artment of Labor is determined to
hand Ii over to the firing squad and
has denied the demand for volun-
tary departure to the Soviet Union.
T. H. Ii came to this country in
1926 as Using Hue Boxer Indem-
nity) scholarship student Besides
studying he devoted his energy and
time for active propaganda against
Imperialism. He was also a leader
in the anti-imperialist movement in
China.
The LID. is doing everything in
its power to prevent this legal muir
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-14
$3.50 Steel Workers Strike
In Ohio Against Wage Cut


Metal
ports 1000 strike in
against 20 cent during the
paraded through the plant strike
taking control of the strike.
MANSFIELD, Ohio, May 13.-The latest general wage
cut of Is per cent which makes 30 per this year
the Empire Steel Corporation brought $50 uuorganized
workers out strike here today and the strike has aeady
spead to the companys mills in Miles, Ohio where 5000
have joined the struggle
The strikers Immediately began to form organization for
drawing list of demands and for leadership of the strike
The company has already brought in gunner place
around the mills.
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swer the charge of perjury" Miro's
bank accounts were all in the 116
Street and Lexington Avenue Branch
OF the U. S. Bank, but all the ac-
counts except one we're carried in
some one else's name. 1t is clear
that Tammany Republican or So
cialist party investigators, will never
expose the connections between the
racketeers, the police, the courts, the
Bank of tho United States swindlers
who are in the same game for
the same ends 10 rob the workers.
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FOR a hearing on these motions
and to concede a change of
venue. The hearing will take
place in Fort Payne, Ala, and
not in Scottsboro where the
first trial" was held in a vicious
lynching atmosphere, with an armed
mob in and around the court house.
and with eight of the boys being
railroaded to the electric chair.
Both Joseph Brodsky and General
George w. Chamlee, two of the
LID. attorneys, attribute these VIC
tories to the pressure of the masses
aroused by the Daily Worker and the
LID. to thunderous protest against
the legal lynching of these nine in
nocent children. Sham motions for
change OF venue and a new trial for
one of the boys made by Stephen
Roddy and Milo Moody, the two at
torneys who helped railroad the boys
in the first trial" had been peremp-
torily denied by the court, which fully
recognized the hypocrisy of Roddy
and Moody.
The hearing of the motions for new
trials will be held before Judge j.
a. Hawkins, the same judge who pre-
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PLAN TO BREAK STRIKE

MORGANTOWN, w. Va, May 10.
Officials of the United Mine Work
ers of America are smashing the
strike of 1000 miners at SCOTS Run
by calling in the government. The
strike was forced by the rank and
file, who refused to take a wage cut.
The UNIV. has asked for some of
the strike breaking Department of
Labor "conciliators" to come in and
settle it.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-14
EDISON PLANT
LAYS ALL OFF
Will Probably Follow
With a Wage Cut

WEST ORANGE. N j., May 49,
Edison Storage Battery Plant at West
Orange, N j., laid off the entire work
ing force in most of the departments
on the old making inventories" ex-
cuse. Vice President Eugene Reed
issued a statement TO the effect that
rather than reduce part Of the force
for an indefinite period, we are sus-
pending the work of the entire fore,
in few departments for a short
time"
Now A Wage Cut.
The next move will no doubt come
with rehiring the workers ut reduced
pay, II they get their aobs back u al
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-14
Reveal Police
Gambling Racket

Tammany racketeering, involving
the police force and courts, in gam
bling operations that piled UP a
bank account of more than 81 ,250,00O
for Henry Miro, one Of Harlems
"policy kings was revealed today in
his arrest. The Tamnany "inves-
tigator' Seabury, of the rotten Mag
istrates Courts. called Miro into an
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-14
Gable BY Inprecorr.)

MADRID, Spain, May 13.-The
revolutionary trade unions he's
demand from the government the
following:
!. Immediate release of all ar
rested union members; 2, immedi-
ate proceedings against all guilty
of excuses under the monarchist
regime; 8, dissolution of the civil
guard; 4, arming of the people; 5,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-14
Scottsboro Hearings on May 20
Hear Roar OF Protest
Labor Defense Has Won Two
Important Points in Fight So Far; Hearings
For New Trial Before Judge Hawkins

NEW YORK-The hearing the motions filed by the
attorneys of the International Labor Defense new trials
for all the nine Scottsboro Negro boys set May 90
Thus far in the the LID has won two important
victories in forcing the Alabama courts
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-14
Competition to Elect Delegates and Get Out
Tag Day Workers to Collect Funds for
March; Tag Days May 1917
BULLETIN.

Although had directly from mb
interview the
state legislature capitalist yesterday
told of the committee presenting supported
demonstration front press
give the and
unemployment
DETROIT Mich, May 13.-With large percentage of
Negro and women workers them 210 delegates IS
workers organizations Detroit and vicinity worked out
the following demands for the hunger march which will
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-14
Fear 10000 Jobless in
Cartegena; Rats
Leave

expulsion of the religious orders
from Spain; confiscation of all
church property; 6, withdrawal of
martial law.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-14
.MARCHERS ORGANIZE
TO WIN FOOD FOR
STARVING THOUSANDS
Backs Demands Presented to Governor and
Legislature by Committee of Jobless

Conference Draws Up Demands For
Hunger March On Lansing, May 27
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Births

ouNH
oren and Mabel Van Camp, 1915 North
Tacoma.
wayne and Violet Ross. SO1 West Morris.
Daniel and lila McGathy. S26 Park.
James and Sylvai Taylor. 1880 Parker.
Harry and Myrtle Hood. 1921 Eastern.
John and zettie Hammer, 240S South
John and Clara Hobbs. 45s Minerva.
Herbert and Rose Taylor, 1916 East
Lacy and Alice Wilson. 1904 Castle.
Alexander and nina Jones. 1902 RooSe-
Carl and Mary Dominick. 1872 Richwine.
Fdwmond and Rosalie Hebble, Coleman
Meredith and Ruth ridden. Coleman
Clifford and Hazel Napier, 1907 Broad
way.
Row and Thelma Gather. Gas South Mis-
Harold and Frieda Peterson, 1919 Law
Robert and Mary Gohagon. 2024 Alvord.
Paul and Rose Stuckv. GOT Lincoln.
John and Louise White, 1912 North
Donald and Laura Brown. 21Os Bluff
Francis and Dorothea Padgett. 1880 West
James and MaEgie 1914 West
Wilbur and Annetta Hensley, Coleman
james and Loretta Brown. Coleman hos
Noble and Roberta Richardson. 1885 S.
Grant.
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SHERIFF's SALE

BY virtue of a certified COPY of a decree
ana, in cause No. A-56OOo wherein Trns-
tees system Company of INDIANAPOLIS.
Plaintiff. and Walter E. Summers. ct al
Defendants. requiring me to make the
sum of Eighteen hundred fftv-six Dol
lars. n Nineteen Cents (S1.S56.19l, as
provided for in said decree. with interest
and costs. I will expose at public sale to
the highest bidder. on
SATURDAY. THE 7TH DAY OF
NOVEMBER. 1881.
between the. hours Of 10 O'Clock A. NJ.
and 4 O'Clock P. NJ. of said dav at the
door Of the Court House Of Marion Coun-
term not exceeding seven wears. Of the
following real estate in Marion County.
Lot NO. Ss in HYDE Park. an addi-
ton to the CITY Of Indianapolis. as
per plat thereof. recorded in Plat
Book 8. page ITO. in the office of the
Recorder of Marion County. Indi-
ana
If such rents and profits Will not sell
for a sufficient sum to satisfy said de-
cree with interest and costs. I will. at
the same time and place expose to pub
lie sale the fee simple of said real eS-
tate. or so much thereof as may be suhi-
cient to discharge said decree. Said sale
viii be made without relief from yalua-
ton or aDpraiSement laws.
CHARLES L. SUMNER
Sheriff of Marion County.
Oct. is. 1881. 1o-is-2s-3o
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MILLER & FILLION
sHERIFF's SALE

recorded in Plat Book 4. page PAT. in
to me directed from the Clerk of the
diana. in cause No. ABBA. wherein
Brightwood State Bank. Plaintiff. and
Charles E. Hill and Edna Hill. his wife.
Defendants. requiring me to make the
sums Of money. as provided for in said
decree. with interest and costs. 1 will
expose at public sale to the highest bid
SATURDAY. THE 7TH DAY OF
NOVEMBER, 1881,
between the hours of 10 O'Clock A. NJ
and 4 o'clock p. NJ. of said dav. at the
door OF the Court House Of Marion
COUNTY Indiana. the rents and Profits
for a term not exceeding seven years. Ct
the following real estate in Marion
County Indiana:
Lot No. sixtv-four C64l in Shoe
makers Subdivision of Blocks 3 and
4 in Parker. Hanwav and Hanna's
Second Oak Hill Addition to the CITY
Of Indianapolis, as Der plat thereof
recorded in Plat Book 4. page PAT, n
the office of the Recorder of Marion
County. Indiana.
If such rents and profits will not sell
for a sufficient sum to satisfy said de-
cree with interest and costs. l will. at
the same time and place. expose to pub
lie sale the fee simple of said real estate,
or so much thereof as NAV be sufficient
to discharge said decree. Said sale will
or appraisement laws.
CHARLES L.. SUMNER.
Sheriff of Marion County.
Oct. 16. 1891 I0-l6-23-30.