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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-31
WAUKEGAN. I'LL.
SPIRITS HIGH AGAIN

Heres a little picture of Wauke-
gam writes o. Salnlinen, in a de-
tailed and graphic report. "We have
three Red Builders who are deter
mined to root the Daily Worker into
the workingclass neighborhoods. ]
spent several days III Negro district
with the net result of two readers
for my route and possible RED
Builder from a Negro youth. En-
closed you will find q copy of our
first local bulletin
Conrade Salminen is in the swing
of Daily Worker activity again, and
has succeeded in getting exactly as
many readers as he gets papers, in
spite of the difficulties in organizing
their first jamboree, and in breaking
ground in the foreign language
paper-reading workers section.
Increase my Daily Worker
bundle Immediately to 80 copies
daily. he continues. "We may grow
slower but never will we cut bund-
les nor fail into the habit of let
ting payments on bundles accum-
ulate. hope other districts and
local agents will stress similar
slogans, for they are question of
life and death to our paper"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-31
ST. LOUIS REMEDIES
d. w. WEAKNESSES

"The section committee has
taken up the situation of the Daily
Worker and the way it is being
handled by the Daily Worker
agent" writes J. Lawson, section
organizer. The fact is our sale
has decreased in the last few weeks,
and the payments are not regular.
We have taken steps to remedy the
situation and have made the units
responsible for bundles out of the
section order. In order that the
papers do not remain on our hands
when a comrade assigned to them
fails to come, we have decided to
divide the bundle so that two units
receive it direct
ION April 4 we are having a Sec
ton affair for the Daily Worker a.
the Labor Lyceunl, 1913 N. Garrison
Ave"
1t is true that ST. Louis has beer
slow in activizing the comrades II
the $4,000 circulation drive, but this
report indicates that the leading
comrades in the section are taking
organizational steps necessary to put
Daily Worker activity on func-
tioning basis. We hope more regu-
lar reports will be forthcoming,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-31
Many City Governments Cut
Off Last Hunger Pittance

as a whole.
But the misery and starvation OF
the working class must be covered up
and put out of sight! A cry is on
that employment is going up and
that there is no need for relief. This
is a lie to excuse the cutting off of
relief.
Arrests ON vagrancy charges, beat
ings and persecution of the organized
workers as part of the "city sweep
ing" plan will not stop the growing
OF the Unemployed Councils nor end
the struggle.
Prifits But No Wages.
A little while ago new post office
bonds were voted and work started.
Only dozen men have been EN-
ployed ON the job so far. Hundreds
not needed stand around from day
to day, hoping to be hired. J. Ca
tusci, grading contractor, has COM
pleted work. He was getting IS cents
per yard digging, paying the workers
less and filling in with the same
load at other places. getting another
pay as per another contract Of 80
or 35 cents per yard, thus making
double profit on the same labor.
That is only part of the work on
the project. BY the time it is fin
ished many more will rake off profit
aplenty, provinding few workers
only with jobs at miserable wages.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-31
JOBLESS COUNCIL MAKES RED
CROSS, GROCER, GIVE FOOD

of the Unemployed Council, read the
demands.
Watch Red Cross.
Members of the Unemployed Coun-
Gil make it their business to sit in
the Red Cross headquarters to pro-
tect the interests of the workers
coming in for relief. The other day,
Mrs. Annie Shipnan, sole support of
three children, with no food in the
house, was turned down by the Red
Cross agent.
L. M. Jones, Unemployed Council
member, took two loaves of bread
from the shelves, gave them to Mrs.
Shipman, and told the Red Cross
agent to give her a grocery order.
She did. The Red Cross admits re-
ceiving $23,874 in the year 1880. and
admits that only 9O5 families were
given relief that year. OF the 800
families, only rs were Negro families.
1t was found out that the salaries
Red Cross functionaries got in 1880
was $6,640. Colored workers going
to the Red Cross for loans are fling
er-printed like criminals. Workers
asking for coal are told to "stay in
bed to keep warm; workers asking
for food, who have no money or tools,
are told, "You don't need food from
the Red Gross; go on the farm and
raise some"
About 10000 workers are out of
work in Greenville, and starving. The
employed workers only make IS and
81 a week. Every day, barefooted
children can be seen on the streets.
Hundreds can't go to school because
they have no clothes. Workers say
they won't stand such conditions any
longer; they are determined to get
food and clothes. They are deter
mined not to get kicked out of their
houses.
Men and women, white and colored
and l5-year-old wage earners, are
joining the Unemployed Council.
Weekly mass meetings of employed
and unemployed workers are held
each Thursday evening at the new
headquarters, liza O'Neal st. Bench
es, enough to seat 200, have just been
made by volunteer committees of
members. Workers are joining fast,
% signing up at the last meeting.
The City Executive Committee OF the
Unemployed Council, of "a. white and
Negro. OF whom are women. meets
every Monday evening aud plans the
work. e. r. Rowland, q painter, is
secretary.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-31

New York.
Iogzfy worke.::
Louis TrcJan, a member OF the
Downtown Unemployed Council and
Aenant ct vi6 e. Ninth ST. for the
! rass two years, was in arrears for
three month"; rent. Gle had been
paying SO per month"; He had been
unemployed because he met with an
automobile accident which crippled
his legs 30 that he could hardly
walk.
while he went out to the store his
Furniture was put out on the street.
when he returned he was surprised
10 ind that without his presence
the capitalist henchman, the mar
sf1al, had srewn his meager belong
ings all over the street.
The Downtown Unemployed Coun-
Gil put his furniture back into the
house. Troyan was arrested, thrown
into jail for three days. When he
was released he returned immedi-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-31
YOUNG SOCIALISTS
In GER MANY AT
ODDS ON PARTY
Riotous Scene Over Sell
Out of Party

BERLIN. -- Wild scenes occurred
at a delegate meeting Of the Ham
burg Social Democratic Party when
young socialists protested violently
against the treacherous policy OF the
social democratic leaders.
The representative of the Central
Committee Hase declared furiously
that SO percent of the members of
the Young Socialist League in Ham
burg and in the Reich were tainted
with Communism. At this there we're
cheers and laughter from the young
socialists. The member of the Y. S.
L. Samann declared that the youth
saw that the social democratic lead
erS were going away from socialism
voting for the emergency orders, for
the armored cruisers, etc. and that
therefore they protested.
Another young socialist declared
that the social democratic fraction
in the Reichstag was doing every
thing Bruening wanted. An attempt
of the social democratic officials to
throttle the discussion was received
with roars of protest.
A social democratic official Nett
mann declared in the discussion that
it was shameful to hear the young
socialists singing Communist songs at
social democratic demonstrations
The young socialists tlereupon shout
ed that the social democratic leader
Hoersing publicly sung the patriotic
Deutschland Lied. the German ma
tional anthem.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-31
Downtown Unemployed Council Aids Member

ately to find only that he had no
home. He was given summons to
re-appear Friday night, March az, at
8 O'Clock, in the saith st. Magistrates
Court on charge of disorderly con-
duct.
The International Labor Defense
provided him with a lawyer. When
his case was called the probation Of
ficer recommended that this COM
rade, an old man, be sent to city
home.
Members Of the D. q. G. were pres
ent at court and demanded his re-
lease, with the help of the !, l.. D.
lawyer. A few comrades were thrown
out because they tried to protect this
worker. The comrades won the case.
This trial proves what the bosses
are trying to do to us workers, even
to old men. Organize more Unem-
ployed Councils, to fight such cases
as these throughout the country.
r. III.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-31

council elected a committee of five
workers at the demonstration to pre-
sent their demands to the Mayors
Relief Committee.
The delegation of the unemployed
after about one-half hour of cross
examination and stalling around by
the committee, managed finally to
get into the meeting.
Mayor Was Absent
The mayor had found it more i'm
portant to stay away. Mr.McCullah
gave the report which shows that the
relief had been stopped in spite of
the fact that there still remained
over $4,000 for relief purposes. The
discussion at the meeting centered
around one question-Where to get
money If the so-calIed relief is to be
continued?
The unemployed representatives
had been denied the floor throughout
tire whole meeting and at this point
the secretary of the Unemployed
Council, spokesman of the delegation
forced the chairman to alloy him to
propose where the money for the re-
hef should be gotten.
The unemployed speaker pointed
eut--eSThat the so-called relief
given to the jobless was not enough
and that it left hundreds of fam
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-31
KEEP HEAD ABOVE
WATER" JAMESTOWN

From S. p. of Jamestown, N. r,
we received the following bit of in
formation:
"Why we did not get your answer
was because r, got drunk and he
got kicked out. No drunksI and the
mail laid in the post office, and
with all other difficulties it's been a
hell OF @ job to keep our head above
water We can't give up now.
I'VE have got to have the Daily
Worker not later than 4 O'Clock. We
want to get to the shop gates with
them Is it possible chance that
they can be delayed? Our organiza-
ton life depends on the d. w. and
the life of the d. w. depends on
us"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-31


a rank and file strike committee to
be elected by the strikers, and which
makes demands for pay for all dead
work, the delivery of supplies to the
working face, no wage cuts in any
form, no topping" of cars, abolition
of contractor system, abolition of the
check-off, etc.
The following review of conditions
in the mines will show what the min
ers have to fight about.
PITTSBURGH, Pa. (By MaiD.--
Unemployment takes a terrific toll
Of the miners" stated National Sec
rotary Borich of the National Miners
Union here. He told of actual OBJ
servations, and reports to the union
offices, which show, in districts
where there are no government fig
ures at all or any attempt made to
either count or feed the jobless. In
general, over the whole of the btu
minous mining fields, half the min
ers are unemployed altogether and
have been without work for more
than year.
OF those who still work, 90 per
cent are working only one or two
days q week, and, in very rare cases,
three days week. Less than 10 per
cent OF the soft coal miners are
working full TINS. This means that
actual starvation is prevalent in the
mining towns OF the soft coal region,
and, IN these towns, practically no
attempt even Is made at any kind
Of relief.
Some facts show how it goes. The
Consolidated Coal Co., in West Vir-
ginia, is operating 80 out OF its 30
mines. In Ohio, 235 mines are shut
down altogether and the rest are
working only part time.
In the South unemployment b
greater than in the Eastern fields. In
the Chesapeake fields only 216 Out
of 619 mines are working. These
figures came out in a fight between
the Eastern and Southern coal op-
orators.
The capitalist press states that Fl
Wastmoreland County, Pa, only 3.
out of So mines are working.
In 1891, additional thousands o
miners have been laid off. Tit
Pittsburgh Coal Co.. the largest com.
pany in Allegheny County. Pa. has
closed down some OF it's mines and
laid of from 80 to 80 per cent o.
the working forces in others.
Part Time In Anthracite.
In the Anthracite, the big Gle1
Alden co. has laid off TOO miners
Estimates of the jobless in the An.
thracite range from 10000 to $4,000
For the last three years in the An.
thractte nearly an The mines havl
Aheen vorkine On . three-isy hasln
A
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-31
Challenges Chicago in
II, 900 By May LIST" Drive;
St. Louis Strengthens Activity

The Philadelphia District is losing
no time in getting its sections pre-
pared to fulfill its quota Of 80 yearly
subscriptions or renewals in the 1000
Subs BY May Drive. M. Silver,
district Daily Worker representative
.encloses detailed and concrete plan
of work, and writes:
81 am confident that we can
carry through our quota success
fully. AS you can see by the plan
enclosed, we almost guessed what
our quota will be when we under
took TO secure subs totalling 1000
months which is a trifIe above the
80 subs set for us by the national
office. In this connection we will
take a chance and challenge the
Chicago District ON who will carry
through its quota in a shorter
period"
Comrade Silver, as q starter, sends
27 subs totalling lot months. Fol-
lowing are the number of months
set for each section in District in
getting subs: Section 1, 100; Sec
2, ITS; Sec. 3, $50; Sec. A, 80: Sec
5, IS; Sec. 6, so; Sec. 7, 200; Sec. 8
rs; Sec. 9, 1875. He continues:
"a letter is being sent to all cx-
pired subscribers, urging them to
re-subscribe and start new ac-
counts, the sections to receive lists
of these expirations for visiting
them. Sunday, April 10, to Sun
day, April 26, will be the week of
concentration, and Daily Worker
squads are to prepare the mem
bership for this mobilization week.
In addition, this week will be utiI-
lied for making it financially pos
sibIe to buy $4,000 Daily Workers
of the April 30 issue. which will be
the May Day edition. Workers
from sympathetic organizations
will be modified to participate in
the subscription drive, and the dis
trict is to keep Check-up on the
fulfiIIment of the quotas, which
will be published in the organiza-
ton letter sent to the units"
Every district should follow this
example of HOW the units are tc
be directed in carrying out Daily
Worker activity for this drive fol
1000 yearly subscriptions, and Phila-
delphia is to be commended on its
initiative in guiding the day-to-day
activity among the sections.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-31
AFTER s YRS. Mich.
CASES co ME- UP
Through Ham Fish's
Attacks
CONFINED FROM PAGE ONE,

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lle, himself, who had suggested to
the prosecution its motion.
According to the eminent Judge,
it is not the business of the court
to guard a defendant against any
infringement on the defendants con-
stitutional rights. According to
Judge Whites construction (and his
Interruptions are borne out by the
practice of all capitalist courts, the
judge and the prosecution can tear
the constitution to sllreds and throw
the pieces into the face of any de-
PENDANT. That is what the consti-
tuition is for. 1t is UP to the de-
PENDANT to protest. And when, as
in this case, the defendants do pro-
test, then the eminent judge ex-
plains that this isn't the time for a
protest.
The assistant attorney general sat
through the proceedings without
opening his mouth. The Judge
pleaded his case. The motion of the
prosecution wasn't even read. The
judge granted it without hearing it.
1t was directed against the accused
and that was sufficient ground for
granting it. All the rights Judge
White condescended to grant to the
accused was that, if they didn't like
this ruling, they can go to the Su-
preme Court and try to have it re-
versed. After this destructive per-
Torrance Of capitalist justice, Judge
White set the date for the trial Of
the accused for June /.
Among those called in for trial are
William Y. Foster, Earl Browder,
Max Bedacht, Robert Minor, William
Weinstone and other active leaders
OF the Communist Party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-31
Unions Collaborate
With Bosses; Sell
Out the Railwaymen

LONDON.--The National Union Of
Railwaymen and the Building Trades
Council OF England stopped strikes
In these two major trades. I,50o, 900
workers were involved.
The National Union Of Railwaymen
officials accepted a wage cut which
is now being enforced, and directly
sold out the workers interests. They
agreed with the employers not TO
lead the workers in strikes.
The Building Trades Council will
contiue the present day working
hours A lengthening OF hours WAS
to be enforced by the employers, bat
they were forced b grs,rs slhc same
hour Scale.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-31

Observation-Disclosures ana murder
dered 600 persons in punitive under
takings and demonstrations. Thir-
teen hundred villages have been
burned down, and over 5000 nation
al-reyolutionaries have been either
imprisoned or banished.
Because of the growing struggle
for independence of the Indo- Chinese
French imperialism has intensified
the terror against the 100000 Indo-
Chinese workers and peasants. The
number Of French troops are con-
stantly being added to. Edgar Snow
N. Y. Sun correspondent in Hanoi,
French Indo-China, in a dispatch to
his paper said:
Recently another detachment OF
the Foreign Legion arrived from Mo-
rocco, and today there are 1000 OF
that famous corps on duty in this
land, east of Mandalay and bordering
the South China Sea. In addition
France has $4,000 more regulars and
10000 native troops-in all, twice as
many armed men as she needed 8
year ago to keep the peace and pro-
mote trade of this Oriental empire
Yet despite this importation ol
troops, the struggle for independence
is growing. Snow points out thai
Executions of Communists have beer
taking place with a frequency rival
ing the procedure in parts of China.
He goes on to say that ut is obvious
from the examples of India anc
China that the day of all imperialism
in the East is waning"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-31
j. S. MAY DAY
DELEGATION TO
GO TO THE USSR
IS to Express Solid
Front On War Plots
CONTINUED FROM PAGE oNE>

Santa Rosa, Cal, Central Labor
Council; John Katanov, a steel
worker, and Frank Roy, worker in
the Baltimore and Ohio shops and
member of the International Associ-
alton of Machinists; Gonzales Soto,
a Mexican agricultural worker from
Palo Alto, Cal, elected by the Agri-
cultural Workers Union and the wi
da Obrera", Spanish language work.
ers' weekly; Charles Sumner of New
York City, member of the postal
workers union, who has been elected
by group Of New York post Office
laborers; Ivanov and Friedman,
members of the Independent Shoe
Workers Union of New York; Elem
pi, elected by the Finnish Womens
Councils of the New York District;
Matti Wick, a New York auto worker
elected by the national convention
of the Federation of Finnish Work
ers' Clubs; George Pratt, a Negro
marine fireman of New York, elected
by the League of Struggle for Negro
Rights and a New York Negro Con-
ference; Rudolph Katz, of Buffalo,
a cigarmaker, who was one of the
leaders of the famous silk strike; and
Louis Ferenczy of Ohio, a member
of the United Textile Workers Union.
In addition, twelve more workers
are being elected by various cities,
including a Gary steel worker and
two members of the Young Liberators
(Negro).
The delegation will include two
farmers, julius Meisenbrch, of Hy-
sham, Mont, elected by group of
wheat farmers, and Jessie Trask, a
woman farmer from Minnesota.
Five professionals have been elect
ed. They are Louis LozoWick and
Morris Pass, artists, both represent
ing the John Reed Club, an organi-
zation of radical writer's and artists;
Aaron Ktutz, elected by the Prolet-
pen, the organization of the YiddiSh
radical writer's; Edith Segal, director
Of the Red Dancers, and Albert Gold
man of Chicago.
This years May Day delegation
will be distinguished from all previ-
Gus workers delegations to the Sov-
let Union in a number of ways. For
the first time it will include poor
farmers, government employee, rep
reSenting the $4,000 federal wage
workers, and Latin-Anerican and
agricultural worker. The agricultural
workers are the most exploited sec
ton of the American working class,
while the 100000 Latin American
workers in this country also are the
special objects of persecution by the
American ruling class This delega-
ton also contains a greater number
of native-born A. F. of l.. members
than ever before. Women, youth and
the Negro masses will be represent
ed. The delegation will sail at mid
night April 18th on the Europa and
will spend five weeks in the Soviet
Union, travelling over 5000 miles as
the guests of the Soviet trade uni
ons. A mass send-off is being ar
ranged for them April Is at 8 p. M
in Irving Plaza, 18th ST. and Irving
Place, New York City, at which F.
L. Palmer, of the Federated Press,
will speak. John j. BALKAN, Natl
Sec'y of the Friends of the Soviet
Union will preside. Workers organi-
cations are asked to send representa-
tives.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-31
GALVESTON, TEX.
BACK ON THE JOB

Al w. Nc. Bride OF Galveston, Tex
sends a 3-month sub, writing:
This is our first paid -ad-
vance of the Daily Worker, and
it is from the most exploited of
all industries here, the fishing in
dustries. The rotten laws that are
here are all for the bosses, making
Galveston a second Miami Beach
or a rich mans playground and a
poor mans hell. Comrade CID.
is relieving me of Marine work and
I will have more time to push the
literature here in the South"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-31
Western Canadian Farmers Face Starvation

Russia and barring of free speech.
But we have succeeded in making
the capitalists fear our activities.
The farmers out in Western Can
ada are facing certain starvation.
We have 80 per cent of our millions
on soup lines, but they are rallying
to the class struggle. The workers
are organizing themselves against the
oppression of the bosses and their
government allies. "A Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-31

Daily Worker: Toronto, Canada.
I have been reading your paper
sn Toronto, regarding the horrible
mrgies that have been put into prac-
kce against the militants of revolu-
konsry labor in the United States.
We have exactly the same thing in
Eanada, police terror, despotism of
aws, priest-craft, bourgeoisie press,
countless thousands of stool
eseeons embargoes against Soviet
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-31
SHOULD PUT SOME
ONE IN HIS PLACE

J. d. of Dayton, Ohio, writes:
please stop bundle of 5 Dailies
at once, because got a job out of
town. But l think it won't last very
long, SO as soon as Tin through I
will order them again"
This conlrade makes the mistake
Of dropping five customers a day.
What he should do is to get someone
to take his place during his absence,
so that the contacts already made
are not lost.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-31
GET GREETINGS
FOR MAY DAY

Workers are urged to secure greet
ings for Csc which will be printed
III the May Day Edition, and work
ers' organizations should do likewise
Cat least 81 should be donated for
the special issue which will be sent
to the Soviet Union. 1t is under
stood, of course, that where printing
Of greetings will endanger any work
er, we will guard against this upon
notification.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-31
Pittsburgh Police Form
Radical Bomb Squad

PITTSBURGH, Pa.--I71e Pitts
burgh police force has announced
the formation OF a Bomb Squad,
similar to the infamous Bomb Squad
of New York City, which will have
Bomb Arson" and special cases
taken care Of. This bomb squad is
composed Of several dicks, who I'M
doubleday win work hord to frame
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