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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-11
Portland Labor Jury
DenOunces Effort to
Illegalize Com. Party

PORTLAND, April ga statement
was issued today by the Labor Jury
elected by mass meeting of workers
at Alazar Hall to attend the trial OF
Comrade Fred Walker. charged by
the state with having feloniously
Joined the Communist Party for the
purpose Of advocating the doctrine of
Criminal Syndicalism.
The statement points out that the
Communist Party does not base its
teaching upon the doctrine of Syn
dicalism as charged by the state
sabotage, individual acts of force and
violence, ETC., and denounces the use
by the bosses of the Criminal Syndi-
calist law against working class lead
ers who lead the struggle against
starvation, wage cuts, persecution of
the workers, imperialist war and for
a socialist society that will function
in the interests Of the producers and
not, as does capitalism, in the inte-
rests OF the parasites.
The Labor Jury demanded the abo-
lition Of the Criminal Syndicalist law
and amnesty to all class war prison.
erS.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-11
Pravda On AuStrO-
German Treaty
Workers Can Smash
Versailles Treaty

MOSCOW.-The "Pravda" writes
concerning the Austro- German Gus
toms Union, that French imperialism
opposes an AuStro- German An
schluss" with all possible means. The
allies and vassals of France had
shown repeatedly that they were pre-
pared to go to any length in order
to prevent an Austro- German Union.
Italy had also opposed the "An-
Schluss" for long time. The sepa-
ration of Austria and Germany was
always an important factor of the
imperialist robber system.
The Customs Union was by no
means the "Anschluss," but the
French press was doing it's utmost to
prove that it was synonymous with
the "Anschluss," and that the Ver-
sailles Treaty and the Treaty of st.
German had been violated and the
whole Versailles system called into
question. The Versailles powers were
unpleasantly surprised by the fact
that the German and Austrian gov
ernments termed their agreement
"the first step to European co-opera-
ton" There was a certain humor in
this. The revolutionary workers of
Austria and Germany could not be
satisfied with this half-measure. They
would continue their struggle against
the whole Versailles system and
against the frontier which severed the
body of the German people. The
complaints of the imperialist powers
at the drive against the Versailles
treaties would be met with contempt
by the toilers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-11
GERMAN BUILDERS
STRIKE SPREADS
10 Communists Jailed
in Berlin
Gable Ry Inprecorrl

BERLIN, April 1o.-The builders
strike is extending. Practically all
building construction Is paralyzed.
The reformist leaders yesterday &C
cepted the wage cut arbitration de-
cisien. The master builders will de-
mand the same be made binding
when the reformists will openly call
for a resumption of work and pro-
coed to break the strike. Nineteen
Communists were arrested In connec-
ton with the collisions at Ebers-
waldo on the 18th of March when
nine police were injured.
The strike Is extending in the fol-
lowing provinces; Halle, Chemnitz,
Dresden, WupperthaI, Dortmund, Of
fenbach, zwickau. The building
strikers are proceeding mainly un-
der revolutionary leadership.
The crisis in the fascist party is
still proceeding. Over one thousand
expulsions have taken place in Berlin.
Goebhels and HITLER now pretend
that their friendship is unbroken and
have held joint meetings In Mulch.
Goebbeis adherents in Berlin demand
his return to purge the part of STEM
nes' followers. Hitler forbids his re-
turn as he mistrusts Goebbels. STEM
mes continues his declarations of
starting libel action. Hundreds of
members are leaving the National So
cialist (Fascist) Party.
The British invitation to Curtius,
foreign minister, and Bruening. chan
cellor, for consultation in London has
aroused a sensation in Germany. Bri-
and, prime minister of France, will
attend the conference, The object
of the invitation is doubtless to force
Germany into the anti Soviet front
more selidly. The consultation prob
ably will take place at the end of
May, after the League of Nations
sessions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-11
KASSAY FRAMEUP
ROUSES WORKERS
Many Join LID in Fife
W On Terror

AKRON, Ohio, April l0-John
Sassay. q shop worker of this city,
has never belonged to any working
CLAIR organization. All these years
THAT lie has been in this country he
has been busy working, and, with
difficulty, helping support the FAM
lily. Long hours of work, with con-
slant worry how to keep the family
going, and keep them away from
starvation, he has never joined a
working class organization.
Now that his brother Paul has
been arrested and charged with
criminal syndicalisnl, and is facing
10 to Is years Imprisonment, John
began to tiiink-he now realizes the
Importance Of belonging to a work.
ing-class organization. And so John
joined the I. L. D. Ee has pledged
himself to work for the repeal of the
criminal syndicalist law, and to help
free all class-war prisoners.
Since the Paul Kassay case, many
workers in the Ohio district have
Joined the International Labor De-
Tense.
The bosses do not scare the work.
ers with their methods of frame-ups,
deportation. lynchings and jail. This
makes them only more class-con-
scious and determined to fight this
miserable system that is ruled by
idlers and grafters.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-11

Disdain for the Daily Worker and
a naughty disregard for the Red
Builders News Club idea is revealed
in the Detroit Party membership.
Sarah Victor, D. w. rep says, "They
would rather do anything else than
become newsboys." Result: No club,
poor sales, few contacts Newsboys
are workers. The Communist Party
is no place for person who consid-
ers himself too good to be a worker.
con Detroit having page, the Dis
trict Bureau decided that two weeks
ago, but the Party has not been
modified behind it yet" Comrade
Victor is not responsible. The Dis
trict Bureau, the Party membership
must end such criminal indifference.
Daily Worker Week in PhiIly
Philadelphia, hustling to reach its
quota of 80 yearly subs by May /,
sends %, totaling 1853 months. In
tends ordering $4,000 to $4,000 May
Day issues Ca big bite, Philly). April
1926 is named Daily Worker week,
when Party members who are sup
posed to work for the d. w. every
week, will ease their conscience.
Trenton section will use a big part
Of PHILIPS district page of May for
citl elections, ordereing 5000 extra CO.
pies. Philadelphia activity is good
although the payment Of bills might
be held in somewhat higher repute.
Wisconsin Section vitality: West
Allis began with 25, increased to rs.
eve want 100 daily and 1875 Friday"
writes Neil O'Brien, D. w. rep. Com
rade Parkovich is the driving force.
Increase is due to his initiative, &C
tivity" South Side Unit, Milwaukee
adds IS.
An Apple Tree Dance in New
Bedford, Mass, netted $37.22, with
500 workers present. A Neves
writes:
eve had large tree in the center,
decorated with lights, fruit,candy,
toys, etc. The fun started when
the workers began to steal things
from the tree. and were promptly
arrested We made appeals
to get the Daily regularly. Re-
Spouse good"
Credit New Bedford with making
ARRESTS" pleasant and profitable.
Re finance: Daily Worker circula-
ton depends upon bundles being paid
for. Yet some districts and Uneni-
ployed Councils seem to think they
are doing the Daily Worker a favor
by distributing and selling Dailies
and not paying for them. Printing
costs have jumped with press run
figures. We cannot extend credit
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-11
Southern Worker" Calls for
Organization Of Choppers Revolt
In Growing Numbers Negro and White Crop
" opers Are Fighting Back, Says Com
... munist Newspaper in South

Carrying into the farthest corner of
Tho South the revolutionary struggle
81 the working class against the bos-
SEES system Of hunger, wage cuts, i'm
periahst war, race hatred and lynch
ing Of Negroes, the Southern Worker,
Southern Communist organ, continues
to demonstrate its value as agitator
and organizer of the southern white
and Negro masses for joint struggle
against the imperialist bosses.
The April 4 issue. in addition to the
many news articles exposing the bos-
ses' starvation program and terror
against the workers, acrries an edi-
torta1 on the growing revolt of the
share troopers which we reproduce
here.
The last week has seen four land
lords killed by the individual CROP
pers who shaved for them, following
attempts of the landlords to cheat
the choppers out of even their mis-
erably small share 70 the crop.
These acts Of individual terror, IN
spired by the desperatio nof hunger,
show two things. It shows first that
the Southern choppers, both Negro
and white, are ready to fight. No
longer will they sit tanely by and
watch the landlords take the food
out OF their children's mouth. In
growing numbers the troopers are
fighting back.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-11
Is GUIANA REBELS
FACING D Z AT H

Taken in chains to Nantes, France,
Is leaders of the recent uprising of
workers and peasants in the colony of
French Guiana are facing the brutal
vengeance of the French imperialists.
The uprising grew directly out of
the murder of Jean Galmot, a labor
leader, who was poisoned by his house
maid at the suggestion of the mayor
Of Cayenne, the capitol of the solony.
The angry masses chased the may
or out of the city, and in the fight
ing that resulted killed six imperial
ist officials, including the attorney
general Of the colony, and destroyed
the homes of many of their OPP
pressors.
In presenting the case, the pros
ecuting attorney attempted to brand
the population of Cayenne as GRIM
inals in an effort to cover up the
working class nature of the rebellion,
which was revolt against the hor-
rible exploitation of the colonial
masses of French Guiana and fight
against starvation. Of the Is lead
ers of the rebellion all but one are
coiored. Among the defendants are
two women.
The Negro reformist press in this
country in reporting the case peddles
all the poisonous lies of the French
imperialists against the defendants,
and has not a single word to say of
the terrible conditions which evoked
the revolt.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-11
Wall Street Orders
More Cuba Terror
Patches Up "Truce" to
Attack Workers

A truce between the various bour-
geois groups in Cuba is being patched
up under the careful guidance OF
Wall Street, through the personal
supervision of the U. s. Ambassador
Guggenheim. Out of this truce will
grow a severer fascist dictatorship
against the workers under the lead
ership of the butcher president Ma
chado.
The capitalist newspapers in the
United States are trying to make the
truce appear as an amicable settle
ment of "all problems" 1t is moth
ing Of the kir1 Just few of the
bourgeois opposition leaders are re-
leased from prison, such as Mr.. Tom
as Guatimon Menocal, a brother OF
former President Menocal, and a
number of students The revolution
airy workers are not released.
On the basis of mutual concessions,
the various bourgeois sections will
unite on stronger fascist program
against the revolutionary workers and
peasants.
When the truce was first talked
about, the capitalist newspapers were
very careful to point out that AM
bassador Guggenheim had nothing
at all to do with it. Now they can
not hide his leading role The New
York Times says good deal now
about this Wall Street bankers parts
THE ambassador" says their lat
est dispatch from Havana, SIS said
to have urged on General Menocal
the significance of today's goodwill
steps for the country's stability and
the ultimcte restoration of normality
among Cubans."
BY which they mean of course, that
the bourgeoisie must unite to be pre-
pared against the growing revolu-
tionary struggles of the workers. The
failure of the Chadbourne Plan to
regulate sugar production is evident
now, and as result there will be
greater terror against the workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-11
TOO PROUD TO SELL
DAHZES" IS ATTITUDE
OF DETROIT MEMBERS

on bundle orders not paid for. All
D. w. reps, Unemployed Councils,
ETC., should remit at once and ensure
continuation of their bundles.
Here's Story of r. Jones
Adventure History of Roy Jones,
Springfield, Ill. Distributed 200
DailieS in Negro section. Started SELL
ing SO on Monday, got rid of first
bundle of Is Tuesday, went back, got
second bundle, started again, and
was arrested. Cop said the big
storekeepers made holler about me
selling the Red paper. If I can
keep out Of Jail, I will have my or
der increased to about 10O." They're
making test case. Predict Jones
will "holler" his bundle up to 100
yet!
Junking and Junking
H. H. Harvey, Dayton, O., found
himself minus his D. W-selling room
mate and some clothes, but with total
bundle of $50 to handle alone, since
w. H. Kepler, agent, is in the work
house. Decided to tackle 40. was
junking part of the time before, but
decided to devote all my time to the
D. w. as can make just as much
money on them as junking." Now
he's spending full time junking the
capitalist system. Round up more
jobless to join you, Jones.
'The silver lining is the Daily
Worker. 1t fearlessly unmasks the
lying, robbing, gambling bankers and
politicians" c. Peterson, PhiIadeI-
phia, PAM. NJ, Nucleus 2o5, Chicago,
new financial secretary cuts bundle
of so daily, 100 district issue in half,
because "the unit is almost 100 per
cent unemployed, and almost all
papers remain in headquarters un-
disturbed" With Wailies around, I'M
employed Party members should
never be unemployed, Get busy sell
ing, meanwhile earning expenses.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-11
JOBLESS INCREASE
IN 1T Ally
More Than 1882
Are Registered

RCME.-The Italian National So
cial Insurance institution publishes
the following figures concerning I'M
employment in Italy. On the 31st of
January there were 722,612 unem-
ployed workers. BY the 18th of Feb
ruary the number had increased to
765, 325. Only 100000 of these work
ers received any unemployment sup
port, The detailed figures show that
female labor suffers comparatively
little from unemployment. and that
the increases are almost exclusively
from the ranks of the male workers.
This is owing to the fascist employ
ment OF cheap female labor power
in preference to male labor power.
Further, the official figures are un-
debutedly far below the real figures.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-11
RefOrmists Betray
French Mine Strike:
Pay Cuts In Textile
Gable BY Inprecorr)

PARIS, April 8.--Reformist ma
neuvers and oppressive measures of
the authorities have caused the ces-
sation of the mine strike in the Nord
department. The strike was called
off after strikers meeting in Donai.
The reformist treachery took place
at the moment the strike was extend
ed by the Gard miners.
The textile and metal bosses in
Auze have resolved on a six to eight
per cent wage cut, affecting $4,000
workers. The reformist trade union
is apathetic.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-11

the conclusion of the Rapallo Treaty
and declared that the Russian gov
eminent had utilized the time since
1922. 1t was necessary to recognize
this without hesitation. The Rus
sian government had already sue
ceeded in carrying out very con-
siderable part of the gigantic plan
for the industrialization Of the coun-
try. The work already performed
justified great hopes for the future.
Up till few months ago the world
had done its best to ignore thefacts.
He, Sachsenberg, was of the opinion
that the time had come to give up
this ostrich policy. 1t was time to
admit honestly that the expecta-
tions that the Five Year Plan would
be failure, had not beer. justified.
1t was necessary to draw Conclu-
sions soberly and coolly from this
fact He did not think that the
German Communist Party would be
at all assisted if German public
opinion were to realize the real truth
of the situation in the Soviet. Union.
One might maintain critical atti-
tude towards what was going on in
Russia, but it could not be denied
that the leaders of Russia had sue
ceeded in winning considerable, Sec
tons of the 160,00O,O0o population
for a fanatical cooperation in the
carrying out of the Five-Year Plan.
In conclusion, Sachsenberg; was
compelled to destroy the hopes of
those who were prepared to admit
that the Soviet Union might be able
to build new factories, etc, but
would not be able to keep such a
complicated economic organism 60
ing. II personally am of the opin-
ion that the Russian workers and
the Russian economic leaders will be
quite able to keep going complicated
technical undertakings when they
are once built up"
The sober remarks Of this Ger
man Reichstag deputy and economic
expert made deep impression on
the Reichstag, all the more so as
Sachsenberg made no bones about
his anti-Communist attitude.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-11
COMMUNISTS ASK
REICHSTAG OPEN
Socialists B a C k Up
Defeat Of Motion
Gable BY Inprecorrl

BERLIN, April 8.-The Reichstag
sainorial committee met today to dis
cuss the Communist motion for the
immediate convocation of the Reich
stag. The National Socialist (Fas-
cist and the German National par
ties subsequently entered the same
motion, but sent only one represen-
tative each.
Comrade Stoecker showed the ne
cessity for the conVocation. The New
dictatorial emergency enactment at
tacks workers and Communists, and
he demanded its annulment. The
Social Democrats SOCIALISTS and the
Catholics and Peoples parties partici-
pated in the discussion. The Econ
omic Party said its party was silent
on the matter. Finally, Loebe states
that there was no majority for the
Communist motion and there would
be no convocation of the Reichstag.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-11

Second, it shows that the troopers
are, as yet, fighting incorrectly. The
killing Of an individual landlord, pro-
viding it is not done in self defense,
does nothing to solve the problem.
The brutal oppression of other land
lords, of the big landlords as class
continues. At the same time this
whole system of oppression is main
tanned through the support given it
by the government, be it county,
state or national, which is controlled
by this same class Of exploiters to
which the big Landlords belong.
1t is the job of the more conscious
and revolutionary choppers and poor
farmers, aided by the revolutionary
city workers and their organizations,
to organize this growing spirit of
desperate revolt and to direct it
against the big landlords as a class
and against their government which
maintains them in power. The rising
fighting spirit of the choppers must
find expression in a mass movement
of the country toilers which will
sweep the whole South and will
launch a powerful attack against
this seni-slave system of oppression
which grinds hundreds of thousands
of Southern troopers deeper and
deeper into poverty and hunger each
year.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-11
State Murder Of Eight Negro Youths
Set for July 10; Protests Are Growing

electric chair by the bosses govern
ment of your state.
1--WE hold the frame-up as most
dastardly crime against the whole
working class for which you are dir
ectly responsible. We categorically
demand that this outrage be stopped. u
Protest kilograms were also sent the
governor by the League of struggle
for Negro Rights, and the Anti I'M
perialist League of the United States,
Communist Party Denounces Trial"
The Communist Party issued a
statement last night denomcing the
"trial" as an outrage against the
working class and calling upon all the
workers, Negro and white, native born
and foreign born, to register their
indignant protest in kilograms to the
governor, in resolutions in their or
CARNATIONS denouncing this crime,
and in "a united front of all working
and farming masses of this country
to stop the legal lynching at Scots
boro."
The League of Struggle for Negro
Rights is initiating a nation wide
campaign to stop the legal lynching
of these nina boys. Large mass meet
ings of Negro and white workers will
be held in every section of the coun-
try to mobilize working class protest.
The l.. S. N. r. is issuing a call to
all working class organizations for a
united front against the Alabama
landlords and capitalists.
The frame-up of these young Negro
workers on fake charge of rape,
with two notorious white prostitutes
brought by the bosses to testify
against them, their trial and sentence
within 48 hours as an additional thrill
for a fair now going on in Scots
boro, will be given mighty answer
in the May Day demonstrations in
every part of the country and
throughout the world.
Negro and white workers. Smash
this murderous frame-up Hold pro-
test meetings! Wire protests to the
governor of Alabamal Demonstrate
May Day against lynching whether
by boss mob or by the bosses state.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-11
CONTINUED FROM PAGE oNE>

tersoi1, II. of Chattanooga. Patter-
son was the third to be condemned
The defense" counsel asks for new
trial in his case on the grounds that
the jury. was in an adjoining room
and was influenced by the demon
stration which greeted announcement
of the first jury's verdict of death
penalty for Charlie Weens, 20 of At
lanta, and Clarence Norris, IS, OF
Chattanooga, That this is just an
empty gesture, on the part of a hostile
defense" counsel is seen in the fact
that they have not made similar de-
mands. in the case of the other four
who were convicted few hours after
Patterson. This fake gesture serves,
however. to further expose the nature
of the legal lynching and the tense
lynch atmosphere in which the trial
of all nine youths was conducted.
I. L. ID. Must Have Funds!
The International Labor Defense
has sent an attorney to Scottsboro
and has demanded the right to in
teryiew the nine Negro youths. The
/. L. .. is also trying to secure an
other attorney for this case. and must
have funds Immediately. The I. l.. D.
is calling upon the workers to rush
funds at once to help in smashing
this rnurderous frame-up by the boss
class against nine young workers.
Funds should be rushed at once to
the national ONCE Of the I. L. D., at
100 Broadway. In the meantime all
working class organizations should
Immediately wire their protests to
Governor B. M. Miller, Montgomery,
Alabama.
T. U. U. L. Wires Sharp Protest
Last night telegram of protest was
sent the governor by the Trade Union
Unity League, declaring:
National Executive Board of Trade
Union Unity League, in name of
hundreds of thousands of militant
white and Negro workers emphatically
protests against deliberate and brazen
frane-up of the nine young Negro
workers in their railroading to the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-11
Hoover Unemployment
Finds 700 Back atWOrk
and All Looks Rosy

WASHINGTON, d. c., April g.
Colonel Arthur Woods, chairman of
the Hoover Emergency Unemploy-
ment Committee" issued his usual
weekly bluff yesterday about "em-
ployment increasing" He reports
that 700 men have been put on in
group of lao factories reporting,
that when navigation opens ON the
Lakes, 5000 will be hired, and tina,
steel production is increasing due to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-11
WAGE CUTS IN CLAY BANKS

KEASBEY, N. j. (By MaiD In the
McHose Clay Bank, Raritan Hollow
Tile Corporation, and the National
Fireproofing Company Clay Banks,
wages have ben repeatedly cut since
1929. They used to pay from forty
five to fifty cents an hour. Now the
workers get as low as twenty-five,
thirty and forty cents an hour and
work nine hours day
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-11
orders for pipe lines.

orders for pipe lines.
BY thus ignoring all reports to lay
off, and mentioning a few hundreds
or thousands being put on, without
mentioning that they go back with
a wage cut, Woods makes out his
statistics"
Even Woods, however, has to adj
nit in his report: There is but little
Improvement generally"