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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-19
ADDITIONAL NEWS ON PAGE 81
ONLY MASS FIGHT
CAN STOP EXILE
OF 7. Ii TO DEATH
Chinese Alliances in
Pledge Of Struggle

NEW YORK.-Hitting at the real
purpose of refusing voluntary de-
parture" to T. H. Ii, Chinese student
now on Ellis Island awaiting exile
to his death in China, the All-Amer-
lea Alliance of Chinese Anti-I mper-
ialists have issued the following
statement:
THE deportation of and the re-
fusal to grant voluntary departure to
T. H. Ii by the American government
means that the American imperialist
government, together with the Wall
Street bankers consider that those
who oppose their bloody rule of death
and starvation deserving of nothing
less than death. For Lis deporta-
ton to China means sure execution
at the hands of the tool of American
Imperialism. the Chang Kai Shek
government.
THE Al-America Alliance of
Chinese Anti-Imperialists, of which
T. H. Ii is one of the founders, calls
n all Chinese workers to unite with
the American masses in their COM
mon fight against imperialist oppres-
sion and for the support of the revo-
lutionary movement in China, and
other colonial countries.
"Only the workers can save r H.
III from deportation to his death.
Every support should be given to the
International Labor Defense in its
efforts to stop the deportation of Ii
tc China.
1.-THE Alliance pledges It's full sup
port to the Scottsboro Negro victoms
of lynch justice, the Serio and Ks-
matsu cases Of persecution of foreign
born, and to the victims of the Pater-
son five who have been framed w
for strike activities.
THE Alliance also pledges to in
tensify its activity among the Chinese
workers to participate in all the
struggles of tie American workers
for freedom"
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unreservedly endorsing the Interna-
tional Labor Defense and its defense
attorneys and denouncing the eff
forts of Walter White and others to
hamstring the defense and help rail-
road them to the electric chair.
The boys complained to their pa
rents that they we're constantly be-
ing threatened and coerced by the
prison authorities and other police
agents in the effort to force them
to turn their defense over to the
N. A. A. C. p They said that Wal
ter White and several preachers and
Ku Klux lawyers had free access to
their cells practically all the time.
This is in sharp contrast to the
efforts of the warden to prevent
their parents and their attorneys
from seeing them and clearly reveals
the anxiety of the Alabama bosses to
eliminate the !. L. D. from the de-
tense. The Alabama bosses quite
clearly realize that the l. L. D. policy
of mobilizing the white and Negro
masses in support of its legal de-
tense is making it more difficult for
them to carry through their mass
legal lynching of the nine boys.
Denounce Unauthorized Collection.
The parents and the boys signed a
joint appeal to the workers and all
sympathizers to support the defense
campaign of the l. L. D. They de-
nounced the unauthorized raising of
funds by the N, A. A. c. P. leader
ship. pointing out that not one penny
of the money so far collected by
the N. A. A. c. P. leaders has been
turned over to the I. L. D., the only
organization authorized to carry on
the defense.
Before leaving their sons the pa
rents warned them against the meth
DDS of Walter White and his preacher
and Ku Klux lawyer allies and told
them to talk to no one and to sign
no statement except for the I. L. D.
The parents returned to Chatta-
nooga last night to aid in the prep
arations for the United Front Scots
boro conference here on the 31St.
ADDITIONAL NEWS ON PAGE 81
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-19
AFL SELLS OUT
c AR STRIKERS
BY ARBITRATION
y S e S "Conciliator"
Wood; Of Shoe Fame

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, May Is. = The
street Garments union CA. F. of L.
officials are already selling out the
strike against wage cuts due tomor-
row. The membership voted over
whelmingly to strike. But the Off
Gals of the Amalgamated Assrcia-
ton of Street and Electrical Railway
Employees have accepted the offer of
Mayor Neun and U. S. Labor Dep
artment "Conciliator" Charles Wood
to leave it all oarbitration. This
Wood is the notorious government
strike breaker who ordered the New
York shoe bosses to lock out their
men and break the contract with the
Independent Shoe Workers Union.
The A. F.. of L. officials have al
ready postponed the strike itself from
tomorrow to an indefinite time, and
left final action" until May 81.
Meanwhile the arbitration" swindle
gets under way.
Nothing To Arbitrate
AT the union meeting held last
week, after the leaflet of the Trade
Union Unity League has widely dis
tributed and we'll received by the
street car men, the officials we're
forced to make a statement that
there is nothing to arbitrate, and
there could be no talk of arbitration.
After the acting mayor called the
conference, while preparing all the
forces to break the strike, they we're
overjoyed with the opportunity to ar
bitrate all questions.
The Transportation Workers In
dustrial League of the Trade Union
Unity League calls upon the street
car men not to permit their Off
Gals to sell them out, but to Or
ganize committees in the barns and
lead the workers into struggle against
the wage cut.
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CndnlleSS ana Joseph brOQSRy, L. L..
D. attorneys, did the warden permit
the parents to see their sons, al
though some of them live 500 miles
from Kilby prison and had seen their
sons only once before since their ar
rest
Although both the boys and their
parents have time and again en-
phasized their acceptance of the at
torneys of the I. L. d. and their
reputation of the Ku Klux attorneys
the N A. A. c. P. leaders and the
boss lynchers are trying to force
Upon them. the warden at first re-
fused the 1. L. D. attorneys permits
sion to see their clients. Finally
permission was given to both the I.
L. D. attorneys and the parents to
see the boys for seven minutes. in
the presence of the warden and an
armed gurd.
Boys Join Parents In Support
of j. L. d.
After a talk with their parents, the
boys countersigned the statements is
sued by the parents a few days ago
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-19
MICHIGAN UNEMPLOYED
DEMAND EXTRA SESSION
OF LEGISLATURE May 27
new FAKE RELIEF.
AS JOBS DECREASE
Surveys and Appeals
To Cover Multiply

Unemployment is increasing every
where. The Philadelphia Federal
Reserve Bank yesterday admitted
decline of fraction of l per cent
from March to April, with the
amount of work far below what it
was this time last year and still more
below what it was in 1929 in April.
The situation is SO generally bad
in New York that the Community
Councils have appealed to Hoover to
use your personal influence" to start
the $2,0O0,00O,O00 government build
ing program. with private business
still suffering under the weight OF an
economic depression, the Councils
feel that every possible effort should
be made to stimulate public enter
prise" they say. Their appeal is in
vain, as events have proved.
Another fake "relief" program,
coupled very likely with a scheme to
lie still more about the extent of the
unemployment crisis, comes from
New Haven, where private agencies
will begin a survey today. The
Survey" does not even promise any
relief, but will be the basis for rec
concentrations to the state. Only Is
field workers will be used on the
survey"
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order to ruin capitalism by unfair
competition
In view of the deliberate and lying
attacks against the Soviet Union
now being published in the New
York Evening Post, the following
points in Duranty's articles are i'm
portant and give the lie to the
Knickerbocker red horror" tales:
strange as 1t may sound, the
Kremlin. despite all the accusa-
lions Of cruelty at home and
knavish tricks abroad, is fantas-
tically idealistic in It's desire to
improve the lot Of the common man
not only in Russia but throughout
the world, and with that central
aim it prefers peace and agreement
to war, which always, everywhere
and throughout all time inflicts the
greatest suffering upon the COM
mon man." ~
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-19
W0MEN'S WAGES
ARE CUT FROM
10 TO 60 P. c.
More Answers to Lies
of Hoover

Reports of wage cuts mount up
The day after Hoover's lying state
ment about mo wage cuts" a flock
Of additional wage slashing reports
are published by the Department Of
Labor
An Associated Press dispatch from
Washington on May IS states:
"The Woman's Bureau of the
Department of Labor today madc
public report that the clerical
or white collar worker in New York
must have had to adjust her life
during the last year to a lower
standard of living in order to make
her reduced earnings cover the
necessities of life"
Wages of woman workers, the De-
partment of Labor reports, have beer
cut from 10 to go per cent, in al
lines of work.
On the same day, the World-Tele-
gram reported that unemployment
is growing worse, with wage cuts in
creasing. Commenting on a survey
made by the Girls Service Friendly
League, this capitalist sheet writes:
Employment conditions are be-
coming worse and the average in
come of wage earners, according to
new survey by Stella Minor, di-
rector of the Girls Survey Friendly
League, has dropped from IS to 81
per person week.
odd jobs have become norma
employment for girls and theil
families feel as if they we're percheo
on the top of volcano, the report
stated"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-19
Soviet Union Strives for
Peace Despite Provocations

Scouting all the lies of Soviet
dumping" and pointing ott that de-
spite repeated provocations of the
capitalist powers the Union of So
cialist Soviet Republics is straining
every effort to prevent war and to
advance the standard of living Of
the masses, Walter Duranty, New
York Times Moscow correspondent,
devotes long dispatch on Monday
to the attempts of the capitalist
states to form an economic bloc
against the Workers Republic.
Duranty common, > on the
hargcs of dumping, states:
But the Soviet Union is not so
stubborn and wicked as its dctrac-
tors assert--nor SO foolish. The
Krcmlin Soviet Government wants
to raise living standards here and
IS determined to raise them, come
what may. 1t does not want to
keep them al their present level in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-19
672 War Planes Over Dayton;
Bosses Call for War on USSR

On Monday, when the United
States War Department concentrated
672 fighting planes at Dayton, Ohio,
for the largest air war maneuvers
ever planned, the New York Times
carried report from Paris stating
that the leading imperfalists there
were preparing for a world imperial
list block for war on the Soviet Union.
The Paris dispatch stated:
I'm some quarters lin tho finan-
cial district the opinion is posi-
lively expressed that the drift of
things will make necessary union
of other European states to fight
Bolshcvism i'm every way, and dis
approve the present program of
supplying the Moscow Government
with the capital and personnel
which is utilized for organizing the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-19
Score Trick to Evade
Hunger Marchers;
Tell of Misery
State Does Nothing
Relief Cut Down In
Detroit by 100000

DETROIT Mich, May 18.-The
Detroit city welfare committee boasts
that it has cut expenses" by $780,
600. They did this by reducing the
family allowances to one-half what
they were; family of six children
now gets SIS week, In April they
stopped giving out coal. The wei
fare" claims conditions are better
now" which is statement which
flies in the face OF the facts. The
Fisher Body Plant No. 10 has re-
duced its working time from IS tc
% hours a week, and Murray Body
sends its men home at . p. m.
In reaction against this growing
starvation on and off the job, The
East Side has six new unemployed
councils, and they have packed
meetings of both Negro and white
workers.
Money has been collected for the
hunger march on Lansing, May 81,
and provisions for the marchers.
The Trade Union Unity League and
Unemployed Councils have sent an
open letter to Governor Brucker and
the state Legislature, scoring the
legislature for its plan TO shorten its
sessions so as not to be in Lansing
when the hunger marchers get there.
The open letter says:
Demand Special Session.
THE Trade Union Unity League
and the Unemployed Councils, to-
gether with all affiliated organiza-
tons in the name of the unemployed
masses of Michigan, demand that If
the state legislature is not in session
when the hunger marchers present
the demands for immediate mem,
ployment relief and unemployment
insurance on May q, that you b
charged With calling a special ses,
sion of the state legislature to dea
with no other matter than the issue
Of unemployment and relief to the
millions confronted with starvation.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-19
NEGRO PAPERS
RALLY TO UNITED
FRONT DEFENSE

CHICAGO, May 18.-With ali edi-
torial praising the work of the In
ternatienal Labor Defense in rush
ing to the defense of the nine Scots
boro Negro boys, the Chicago
World" this week joins the united
front movement to save the lives Of
the nine young victims of the fright
full frameup concocted by the mur-
derous Alabama capitalists and land
lords. The Chicago World" is ar
influential Negro paper published in
this city. In its editorial on Scotts-
boro it declares, in part:
People have said and done
many things against the Comnu-
nists in America, you may not
agree with them, but you will have
to agree that they are right In try
ing to prevent the judicial massacre
of eight youths accused Of rapinr
two white prostitutes.
ITO them alone belongs the
credit for starting the movement
to thwart the horrible murder Of
eight youngsters still in their teens
by the state Of Alabama. The gov
ernor of that state has refused to
intervene, despite the fact THAT
the boys say they are innocent, he
has washed his hands, and the
state Of Alabama intends 10 cruelty
the boys"
In its current issue the st. Louis
Argus" tSt. Louis, Mo-, continuing
its support of the International La
Dor Defense, adds its voice TO the de-
mand for united front to save the
boys.
The New York News" and "Har-
lem Home Journal continues its at
tack on the treacherou policies OF
the National Association for Ad-
vancement Of Colored People leader
ship with an editorial in its cur
rent issue, which declares, in part
"The N. A. A. c. p. has been re-
leasing statements as to its defense
of the nine doomed boys. Dean
PickenS proclaims that the I. L. d.
and It's Red associates are hand
ling that defense. Read his words,
read the records OF the association
relative to Johnson and Pickers.
The facts tell who told the great
big faIsehood."
In San Antonio, Texas, the
Register" Negro paper, has en-
dorsed the united front Scottsbcro
defense campaign and is giving it iH
w support -. -''-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-19
New Wall Street Crash

NEW YORK. - That The Crisis
grows steadily sharper was shown
again yesterday by the drop in steel
which fell to 80. At the beginning
of TINS year steel sold for $152 {
share; last year it was $242. Thic
shows a decline of about &c percent
This also means that the bosses
will take advantage of the situation
with a more vicious drive to slash
wages and pun the whole burden OF
the crisis on the backs Of the work
ing class. -
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ing release through the efforts of
the International Labor Defense.
An open air protest meeting was
held last night, to line up the whole
community of working class women
for a fight to the finish to cut the
price of bread which is higher in
this neighborhood than elsewhere.
The United Council of Working
Glass Women which is leading the
strike has issued a call to rally all
forces for demonstration.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-19
Scottsboro Boys Join Parents
In Again Endorsing the LID
Call On All to Rally i'll United Front Campaign Behind
LID Fight to Save Their Lives

CHATTANOOGA, May 18.-Kilby prison
authorities tried to deny permission to the pa
rents of the nine Scottsboro boys to see their
sons when the parents arrived with the Inter
national Labor Defense attorneys at the AL
ALBANIA prison determined to stop the betrayal of their children
engineered by Walter White national secretary of the N A. A.
c. p in cooperation with Chattanooga preachers and Ku Kux
lawyers.
Only after the most vigorous protest by George
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-19
economic campaign of Russia
against other countries"

economic campaign of Russia
against other countries"
To prepare for this war against the
Soviet Union, the American nmper-
ialists are massing their fighting
planes at Dayton, Ohio. The cost of
these few days maneuvers will be
over 00,o00-while not IS
provided for unemployn relief for
the American workers. After a few
days gyrating at Dayton, the planes
Will cover the country TO stir up war
feeling and to prepare for war.
At the same time, General Douglas
Macarthur, chief Of the general staff
of the U. S. army, reports that the
army is being mechanical for mod
ern warfare. This requires many
hundreds of millions of dollars which
the bosses readily find for their war
preparations,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-19
Who Is Behind Graft
and Gunner In u. S.?

Why did Governor Roosevelt of
New York first promise to I'm
vestigate" Tamany graft and then
quickly kill the mild charge? The
answer to this and many other
pulling questions on graft and
gangsterism in the United States
will be given fully in a pamphlet
serial to be run in the Daily Work
er beginning Monday.
Do not miss Mondays issue
which will contain the first ar
ticle on a complete epose of graft
and gangsters in the United
States, written by Harry Cannes.
Here is the story of graft and
gunner from Tammany Hail TO
the White House.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-19
BOSSES
LY NCH WOMAN
Negro Mother Denied
Them Her Daughter

FRANKFORT, w. Va, May 18.-
Because she objected to the white
bosses of this town taking her daugh-
ter for 10y rides" Mrs. Jane Wise,
50-year -old Negro woman, was bru-
tally lynched by boss mob on May g..
The bosses dragged her into the
woods and strung her up on a tree.
Her body was found Sunday morning
May 10, by a small white boy. She
had been taken from her home about
$50 p. m. while she was cooking
dinner.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-19
ScottsborO Defense
Developments

l. All nine boys join parents
in restating their endorsement Of
1, L. D. as the only organization
charged with their defense in Ala
bama courts.
2. United Front Scottsboro De-
Tense Conferences scheduled in Is
cities. Several already held.
g. More Negro papers come out
in support of united front defense
policy OF the I. L. D.
4. Committee of writer's, artists
and intellectuals join Theodore
Dresser and Lincoln Steffens in
support of l. L. d. fight to save
these boys.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-19
ARREST PICKETS
in BREAD STRIKE
Demonstrations Will
Be Held in Answer

NEW YORK. - Two strike pickets,
Mrs. Sylvia Gorelick and Mrs. Sarah
Gross were arrested yesterday in
front of the Weiss Bakery at Middle
Village, Brooklyn, at the provoca-
ton of Mrs. Weiss, wife of the own
CT. Mrs Weiss is lining up the
gangsters and the police in an at
tempt TO intimidate the women who
went out on strike one week ago
against the high price of bread
Whe nthe picket line yesterday
morning was stronger and larger
than ever, with men as well as wom-
en-, Mrs. Weiss called in the police.
The women we're held at the Long
Island CITY Jail on $500 bail await
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-19

Workers Correspondence is the
backbone of the revolutionary press.
Build your press by writing for it
about your day to day struggles.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-19
MASS PICKETING
STOPS GENERAL
FABRICS SCABS
Force Wool Trust to
General Conference

PAWTUCKET, r. /, May IS. -
A mass picket demonstration at Gen
eral Fabrics mill began at five am.
this morning and lasted three hours.
All the scabs were kept out. The
strike stands solid. The workers are
militant and determined to win.
There was an enthusiastic packed
mass meeting of workers from many
mills Sunday.
The National Textile Workers I'm
ion and the strike committee is rails
ing funds for the strike throughout
the entire Blackstone Valley by
means of daily mill gate collections.
The committee appeals to the N.
T. w. and Trade Union Unity League
districts to watch the newspapers
for ads about "weavers wanted to
leave town." and to investigate and
give local publicity.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-19
Force Conference

PROVIDENCE, r. l., May 49, =
The workers in the Weybosset mill
of the American Wooden Co., led by
the N. T. w, forced the company
Saturday into a conference between
the president and general manager
of the American Wooden Co. and de-
legates from the workers of A. w. C.
mills in Rhode Island and Massa-
chusetts that were cut twelve and a
half per cent.
A general grievance committee has
been formed by the workers led by
the N. T. w. 1t represents the May
nard Mill, Waybosset, Manton, and
Observation-Disclosures mills in Proyid-
ence.
This committee will meet the A.
w, C. officials in the Weybosset mill
tomorrow morning, and present de-
mands for restoration OF the cut, and
local grievances for each mill.
The time of the conference was set
by the workers.
There will be a general meeting
of A. w, c. workers tomorrow right
after work, in Providence, to hear the
report of the committee.
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Vol. VIII. No: 12O
A Challenge of Class Murder

IF want to make of this then we
accept challenge American cors As
sstant Prosecuting Attorney Berry Paterson Jersey.
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the woman worker will be used in
the most terrible massacre there
has ever been, which will possibly
turn out to be a crusade of the
capitalist countries against the
Soviet Union.
Will the laboring women masses
accept this without resistance =?
No! saas.
The working class solidarity of
the entire world helped the Soviet
Union in 1921, which marked the
beginning of Socialist construc-
ton, and blow against imperial
list conspiracy and starvation.
{ The Workers International Re-
lief was the result of an interna-
tional manifestation of this soli-
darity. The workers of all coun-
tries helped the Soviet Union,
through the organization of the
WIR, by sending food, clothing,
drugs, and other forms of aid to
the Soviet Union.
In this struggle as we'll as in the
subsequent strike struggles in all
countries during the postwar
period, women workers helped the
WIR.
Working women, join the strug-