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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-08
ANOTHER NEGRO
ON DELEGATION
TO SOVIET UNION
Big Mass Send-Off in
Cooper Union Oct. IL

NEW YORK.-The election of A. L.
Lewis, a 2S-year old Negro steel work
err Of Youngstown, Ohio, on the Am
erican Workers Delegation to the
Soviet Union, makes the fourth Ne
gro worker to be chosen on the Am
erican Workers Delegation The
other three are Morris Wikman,
New York marine worker; J. W.
Jones, a coal striker from the Upper
Monongahela bituminous district in
Pennsylvania, and Gary, Ind. steel
worker whose name is not yet known.
The delegation, which is being or
ganized by the Friends of the Soviet
Union, 80 E. IL ST., New York City,
will consist of IA workers from tire
three basic industries, metal, marine
and mining, and five fraternal dele
gates from workers mass organiza-
tons. The delegates will sail Oc-
tober IA on the Aquitania to attend
the 14th anniversary Of the Russian
Revolution, and will spend about five
weeks as the guests of the Soviet
Trade Unions. studying every phase
Of the Ffve-Year Plan and bringing
back a report to the American
workers.
A mass sendoff will be given thl
delegates Monday. october u, az
pm, in Cooper Union, 9th st. anG
Fourth Ave. In addition to the dele
gates, speakers will include Ben GOLD
secretary Of the Needle Trades Work
ers Industrial Union; William W
Weinstone, of the Central Committee
Of the Communist Party, who recent
ly returned from the USSR; and
Joshua Kunitz. noted writer, also re-
Gently returned from Soviet Russia.
An excellent entertainment program
is being arranged, including a Soviet
movie and music by the Red Front
Fighters Band.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-08
Mooney Will Be Freed by the
Working Class, Not by the
Friends of His JailOrs

THE the release the working class fighters who are
capitalist class
of the bone and tissue
the great working its most basic necessities
the elements who drawn into such
of the working class This is shown
in the meeting demand the release of Mooney
In San Francisco october 18th.
bera editor of of the Hearst newspapers
ong the world leading
mart on the platform that Older pleaded
with preceding pardon Mooney
few days All who
shared the beathesy for word from Governor
Rolfe
What would Governor Role do in the Mooney case?
appointed Charles M Fker the corrupt
uord
v subed deliberately obtain
most insisting since upon MONEYS death in
prson-to a public oficel
that Roles appointment
Of Fickert attorney the Board Medical
dmonsate act OF parsans in the
fight that raging question MONEYS release
What Older the liberal speaker who will
11t toward this demon
act appointing fat office the woudbe
IS, CONTINUED
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-08
OPPOSE CUT IN
CRUCIBLE STEEL
Jersey Plant Workers
Meet, Make Demands

NEWARK, N. j., Oct Late this
afternoon arrangements for meet
ing today of the workers of the Cru
chile Steel of America were being
rushed. The meeting will hear the
report of committee elected by a
meeting of 100 of the $50 workers
in this shop on their demand that
the wage cut which went into effect
Monday be rescinded, and other de-
marids be granted.
The cut in some instances was from
As cents to 81 cents per hour.
The men discussed it in groups
Monday and Tuesday, then at the
call of the Metal Workers Industrial
League, met Tuesday evening in the
Hungarian Workers Home, SO Mallory
Street, heard the program of the
League from Organizer Penn and
Trade Union Unity League, New Jer-
sey District Organizer, Kasper. Some
20 spoke in favor of struggle against
the wage cut, demands were drawn
up, and committee headed by
Kasper tried in vain all day today
to hold a conference with Gross,
manager of the company. The men
agreed to bring everybody to the
meeting today.
Wages were down to S12 and S14
week before the cut. Demands
include: No wage cuts, seven-hou
DAY, five-day week without cuts,
time and a half for overtime, aboli-
ton of the so cent monthly tax for
doctor, ten minute for washing be-
fore the whistle blows, towels, soap
and sanitary conditions, recognition
of shop committee, no discrimination.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-08
D 900 IN LAWRENCE GENERAL STRIKE FIGHT PAY CUTS!
America Is Not Exempt

,nrR the false headlines the capitalist press picture
the secret conference Of capitalists at washington as planning 1
prevent further wornng OF the CRISIS; ta m
economic crisis is not improving drifting along the
same level but is rapidly spreading the
capitalism, the banking system becomes coggeo WIN inc ~
frozen assets" of bankruptcy
Importance workers. especially in the coming WINTER
Indeed it already deep importance 1t represents stage
of the capitalist erce attack the workers When the
gained s2ooooooooo Now when Hoover ms
gained in one day on the
Five billion dollars cut out Of the bodies OF the
Of capitalist press space given TO the secret con
ference understand the demagoc lie OF pro
posed recovery but at least three other outstanding facts
l. That America exempt extremes Of crs'and
represented gripping capitalist Europe only
capitalists to meet the crisis by unloading Its
upon tong moving rapidly toward fascist dc
tatorship
souo-whle really the economic crisis more
than ontary appear the general systematic decay by tenn
rorary tonic which win actually further solution"
only capitalists and is attack the workers. who to defend
themselves must fight back and seek the way out " w
The mass suffering of the what
plotted against the with the shakeabe U financial
structure admittedly undermined"
top cuts already made and to be made in
direct wage through by initiation The Daily Worker
made when England suspended gold payments that
will sweep the appn America revealed already
partly the volume currency OF over
But this modest initiation approved socialist
party ncng indirect cut on the workers by main
tanning and even increasing prices not enough
their banking structure from obvious
insolvency.
proposed that the frozen assets Of real estate MORTGAGES
paper been printed at the whm OF private
now forbidden And the law be
by Congress- new Board is proposed 1naeal oc
tatorship supplement Initiation the Federal Reserve
securities" against the issue of paper money
ANYTHING initiation consequent
nnous indire
AS in england and Germany
these attacks carried by decree In
Macdonald
by dcoial asking ee hand in the
America the bankers for
tom taking orders
national unity all capitalist
the the socialist party has al
included
capitalist parties although the Socialists not in
o secret conference
with their
middle farmers destitute not
business recovery but after
ordering that unemployment shall
exagal
intensified of starvation Of the
~
against tong Aside from the
slaughter
provides virtual dictatorship
TO capitalist by direct and in
direct the starving obess
solution American
but seek the only
solution revolution But today and in answer
this attack, they but
Organize cuts for INCREASED
unemployment entire cost of the capitalists
of $3.50 to obess
destitute both and impoverished
FARM
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-08
AXel Bros. Jewelry
Workers Win Strike
And Settle With Boss

NEW YORK.-In the third day of
their strike, jewelry workers of the
Axel Bros. shop at 81 w. 4eth st. won
increased wages and union conditions
under the leadership of the Jewelry
Workers Industrial Union.
Other shops are preparing to place
their demands to the bosses for more
wages, no piece work and union rec
ignition.
The jewelry workers will have a
special booth at the Daily Worker
Freiheit Bazaar. All militants are
urged to report at the union office
for union activity and work at the
bazaar
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-08

the county jail, Dent Williams, the
brother of one of the dead women,
together with other members of her
family, we're permitted to be present
at the hearing. The officers are sup
posed to have searched them for arms
before permitting them to enter the
prison. How sincere was that seach
is shown by the fact that Dent Will
liams was able to pull a gun on the
defenseless Negro worker
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-08
$4,000 Glen Alden Strikers
Block Maloney Sell Out Plan

wILKES-BARRE, Pa, Oct. THE
$4,000 Glen Alden Coal Co. strikers
are still standing fact, the exposure
of the Maloney gang by the Unity
Committees of Action making the
sell-out difficult. The Unity Com
nittees are issuing a call for gen.
eral strike in the anthracite and are
holding mass meetings everywhere
with good response from the miners.
The chief strike breaking experts
Of the United Mine Workers of Amer
lea are here, including international
Vice President Phil Murray, Interna-
tional Secretary Lewis Kennedy and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-08

In order to prevent the small de.
positors from organizing for their
deposits and to keep the real situ-
alton hidden from them, % of the
worst wage cutters and misleaders
of the workers in Philadelphia
came out with statement urging
the small depositors to have conf
dence"l in the rotten banking stu
alton in that city where three banks
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-08
Gable BY Inprecorr.)

BERLIN, Oct. THE Bruening
emergency decree was published to-
day. The most important provision
does away with the paragraphs OF
the constitution guaranteeing, the
inviolability of personal freedom, the
home, postal secrecy, the right to
express ones opinion by word, writ
ing, printing or in picture. the right
to meet peacefully without previous
permission, the right to form organ
izations without previous permission,
etc. The police receive unlimited
powers to arrest and search. The
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-08
Introduce Fascist DEGREES to-
Crush German Communists

preventive arrest" measure of the
Kaiser Wilhelm period is reintro-
duced. During the war Luxembourg
and Liebknecht were held for years
without trial under this provision.
The measures against the Commu-
mist press are intensified. The police
also receive the right to close public
premises which are being used for
meetings by anti-state groups, in
other words, workers meeting places.
The decree also brings increased tax
alton of articles of mass consump-
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-08
RESISTANCE
TO PAY CUTS
IS GROWING
Chicago Workers Win
Withdrawal When
They Strike
TugbOat Men Fighting

CHICAGO, Ill, Oct. 7.-One hun
dred and fifty workers of the Amer
lean Wood Carving Co., at 1887
Greenwich Ave-, half of whom are
young workers, struck against a 10
per cent wage cut and succeeded in
making the bosses swallow the wage
cut. This was their fifth cut in the
last year, making total cut Of over
so per cent.
When the word came around in the
morning that the wages we're cut,
everybody in the plant walked out
and pulled out the other plant too.
The whole apparatus Of the company
was tied up.
The company. refused to listen to
the demands of the workers to take
back the wage cut - at first. But,
when an organizer for the Trade I'm
ion Unity League called the men to-
gether outside of the plant and told
them what TO do in order to win,
the company, seeing the militant res
ponse of the workers, Immediately an
nonnced that they would take the
wage cut back.
The workers are going back, but
they are going to organize under the
leadership of the T.U.UL and pre-
vent any more. wage cuts.
Tugboat Men Strike
NEW YORK. Strikes are breaking
out sporadically among 5000 scoW
and tugboat men against wage cut
of 10 per cent, which the bosses are
attempting to put over with the help
Of the Associated Marine Workers,
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workers are not yet known.
CLEVELAND, o., Oct. 1.-Two I'M
employed Negro workers we're bru-
tally murdered last night by Cleve-
land police who fired point blank
into crowd of white and Negro
workers demonstrating against the
eviction of an unemployed Negro
worker. Four Negro and white work
ers were seriously wounded. Several
policemen were also injured as the
workers heroically defended them
slves. One of the injured policemen
was wounded by shots fired by his
fellow thugs during the barrage OF
wild shooting by the police.
Scores of workers, including H.
Larkin, organizational. secretary of
the Communist Party, were arrested
and are being held in Jail ipcom-
municado. The fighting occurred
around 47th ST. and Woodland Ave.
Drunken Cops Attack.
At the time of the eviction dem
onstration, the Republican Party was
holding a rally in the block with. a
number of drunken policemen pres
ent. These drunken policemen took
part in the attack on the unemployed
workers, who were lead by the Un-
employed Council.
This murder of unemployed work.
ers follows closely the attack the
night before on 1000 unemployed
workers who had marched to City
Hall to present their demands to the
city government, when police riot
squads we're called out to slug the
starving workers. 1t follows the muir
der by Warren policeman of an I'M
employed Negro worker, who was
shot down a few days ago while
handcuffed and helpless. Two Negro
workers we're also killed during Sep
TENDER by Youngstown police.
The Cleveland massacre of unem-
p1oyed workers duplicates the police
massacre of unemployed in Chicago
on August 8, when three Negro work
ers were killed and scores of Negro
and white workers wounded.
A mass funeral will be held for the
two murdered Negro workers. The
Communist Party, the Unemployed
Council. the League of Struggle for
Negro Rights and the International
Labor Defense, together with other
workers organizations are modifying
the workers of Cleveland, white and
Negro, for a tremendous demonstra-
tion-and mass funeral against this
wanton massacre of the unemployed
workers and their right to live. Mass
meetings will be held all week to pre-
pare the mass funeral, the date Of
which will be announced later.
Workers and their organizations in
all other cities must support the
workers of Cleveland in their fight
against the boss terror. Send tele-
grams of protest to Mayor Marshall
Of Cleveland and to Governor White
at Columbus, o. Protest against the
murder of unemployed workers De-
mand the immediate and uncondi-
tional release of the Jailed workers.
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In an attempt to force confession
out of Peterson and so build up a
fake justification for the attack, So
licitor Bales visited the death bed
TO the wounded worker. Peterson was
told he was dying and asked If he
did not wish to confess" to the
crime. Petersons reply was that he
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Pat Pagan, district president of Dis
trict 5. This is District of the
UMWA, Pagan is evidently brought
in because of his strike breaking ex-
perience in the strike of the 10000 in
Western Pennsylvania.
Block SelIout
The influence of the National Min
ers Union and the rank and file
Unity Committee Of Action are so
great that the Msloney controlled
General G-'HT....ce Committee for the
Glen E--en mines refused at its last
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JEER TAKERS
WHOATTEMPT
BETRAYALS
Natl Textile Workers
Union Initiated
Fight on Cuts
AFL and Bosses United

LAWRENCE, Mass, Oct. Thou
sands upon thousands OF textile
strikers were on the picket lines this
morning. Three thousand massed on
City Common early Wednesday
morning and conducted a meeting
without a permit. The United Tex
tile Workers strike breaking Off
Gals were prevented from speaking
by mass protest and jeers. The po-
lice, seeing their supporters rejected,
attacked the meeting 20 minutes la
ter. Seven workers, including Edith
Berkman, organizer for the National
Textile Workers Union, we're arrested.
Federal Judge Cowell issued war
rant for Berkman.
Twenty-Five thousand are now out
on strike. Nine hundred walked out
this morning from the Pacific Cot
ton Mill The workers jeered the
U. T. w. officials and cheered the
National Textile Workers Union at
the City Common meet.
The United Front Conference will
be held on Saturday and on Thurs
day there will be an International
Labor Defense demonstration at the
court house, to demand the release
of the arrested strikers and 70 ex-
pose the brutality of the cops and
their strike-breaking activities.
GENERAL STRIKE
LAWRENCE, Mass, Oct. IA
general strike of $4,000 textile work
ers here against a general wage-cut
in the largest textile center of the
United States has shut down the in
dustry and has sharpened the
struggles of the workers against hun
ger.
Just now the Citizens Commit
tee," the American Federation OF
Labor, the United Textile Workers,
as well as the other company or
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Negro Worker Shot Down by
Birmingham Boss Near Death
Grand Jury Rushing Through Frame-Up Against Dying
Worker; Hat Sole "IndentficatiOn"

BIRMINGHAM, Oct. 7.-Willie Peterson,
the unemployed Negro worker who was wan
tonly shot down in cold blood in the county
jail here by Dent Williams white lawyer, is
at the point Of death at the Hillman Hospital
where he is held under police guard
Peterson the latest victim of the vicious police terror
which using the murder of two society last Aug
to frame militant Negro workers. received three bullets
in his body last Friday while being questioned by officers in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-08
Crisis Sharpens As More Banks
Close Throughout Entire Country

tbs Publishing Company.
Leasing J. Rosenwald, vice-chair-
man of the board of directors, Sears,
Roebuck & Company.
J. w. Van Dyke, chairman of the
board, Atlantic Refining Company.
Samuel S. Fels, president, Fels g.
Company.
william H. Taylor, president,
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MASSACRE
WORKERS AT
EVICTION
Fire Point Blank AS
Workers Resist
Eviction
Jobless Fight Back

CLEVELAND, Oct. 1.-THE names
of the two murdered Negro work
ers are John Crawford and Ed
ward Jackson. The names of the
four wounded white and Negro
workers are not yet known.
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Tugboat Men Strike

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-11
STATE POLICEMEN
 OUT OF OFFICE
Will Have to Try Their Hand at Some Other
 Calling

State Police Commissioner An thony Sunderland has received the resignation of Harold F. Richter of West Haven, second of two for mer state policemen found guilty of charges arising from the death of Mrs Viola Walker, Bridgeport Negress as court trial in Wa terbury. The resignation of George W. Herr, the other policemen in- volved in the case was accepted several days ago. The two mon have been under suspension for some time.
 Mrs Walker was shot in South bury on March 18th when the car in which she was riding, failed to stop at the command of Officers Richeter and Herr who were doing patrol duty that night. They were brought to trial in superior court at Waterbury and found guilty of charges arising out of the case. Herr was charged with manslaugb- ter but was not found guilty on that count. Both were found on charges of assault with danger OuS weapon.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-11
ALFALFA BILL" IS GAINING VERY
 MANY RECRUITS
They Flock to His Stand ard on Oil Demand Two Other States May Follow Oklahoma

Oklahoma City, Aug 11.-OUP) Recruits from all over the south western oil lands fiocked to-day under the banner of Governor Will liam A. (Alfalfa BilD Murray in his war to boost the price of crude oil.
 Although no other state actually had followed Murray's example in closing down wells under martial law to stop production and send up prices, such action actually was threatened in Kansas and Texas.
 In both those states and Wyom- ing many new supporters fell in behind the Murray drive.
 Governor Ross Sterling of Texas, who previously had wired Murray his congratulations, threatened to follow the fiery Oklahoman's ex- ample and call out troops to close TexaH wells, including those in the east Texas field. largely responsi- ble for the present situation. glutted market.
 In Kansas, Thurman Hill, chair man of the public service commis- sion, openly threatened to close all wells "unless the purchasers of Si daC oii thAo VCCh OASShu " pac- ducers the same consideration they are granting to producers of Texas crude"
 Shutdown orders also were con- sidered in Wyoming, but that state faced an additional problem in that 1t has no control over government oil lands within its borders. The department of interior yesterday denied the request of Acting Gov ernor A. M. Clark that a minimum price of $l barrel to set on gov ernment royalty crude oil from Wyoming fields. With this refusal, forced closing of Wyoming's wells would result in the oil being drain ed by the government wells.
 In Oklahoma. Governor Murray gave no indication of allowing the flush fields to reopen. He kept his soldiers in the fields. Strippcr wells, which would be destroyed if shut in, were allowed to operate.
 Despite all this activity, prices stood at 52 cents, an advance of only 2 cents since Governor Mur- ray issued his ultimatum that the price must go to $1 barrel.
 Production throughout the coun- try also increased, according to the oil and Gas Journal. The daily average for the week ending
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-11
CUMMINGS ON
 DANGER LIST Gives Details of Shooting at Gas Station at New
 town Sunday A. M. SEVERAL SHOTS FIRED

Edgard A. Cummings, 47. of Newton, formerly of Waterbury, victim of bandits bullets at his gas station early Sunday morning, was reported as still being on the danger list at the Danbury hos pital to-day. The trio arrested for the attempted holdup and shooting are held under $10,O00 bail in the Torrington jail awaiting the out come of Cummings injuries
 Cummings was able to give a first hand story of the affair to authorities last night. He said hey came to the station first to buy cigarettes and then left. Later he said two of them came to the sta ton and pointed guns at him. When he made an effort to get his own gun they fired at him, wound ing him. He was able to return several shots, two of which mark ed the fleeing car. The trio under arrest are Frederick Root, 30, James Peters, 24, and Delphis Young, 21, all of Torrington.
 Cummings has been In NewtOwn five months. He previously lived in Waterbury and was employed by the Connecticut company. He Is the father of two children who live with their mother at 116 Cherry street.