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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-31
|Murbhy>Socialist Relief Plan in
Detroit Drives Many to Suicides

DETROIT, Aug. 30.-A wave of
suicides of unemployed workers is
sweeping Detroit, directly traceable
to the fact that Mayor Murphy, act
ing in harmony with Ford and Wall
Street bankers is rapidly cutting
down on the measly jobless relief
heretofore given. In one case a
mother with seven children on the
verge of starvation, turned down by
Murphy contemplated suicide, but
instead broke store window and
took food for her starving family.
Among the suicides reported by
the Detroit capitalist press few
are as follows: John Jubiak, "a years
old( 1888 st. Aubin Ave-, hungry,
tired, despering killed himself: The
Detroit Times of Aug. ~ dismisses
the case by saying that before dying:
"He told police that he was despond-
ent because he lost his job"
The Detroit News Of Aug. IS, de-
votes few lines to this instance Of
desperation of a worker: unable to
obtain employment, Edward Sanders,
father of four small children, shot
and killed himself in the yard Of his
home Sunday night"
On the same day the same news
paper wrote of Ottie Brewer. of Cen
ter Line, who shot himself in the
head Friday night hecause The was
respondent because he was unable
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a white man. The workers had no
sooner stepped out of the Jail than
they we're seized, thrown into auto
mobiles and whisked away. They
were shot to death by fusilade of
rifle and pistol shots. The crime
occurred Is miles south of here. No
effort was made by the capitalist
authorities to rescue them. No eff
fort is being made to punish their
lynehers.
A eoroner's investigation" held
yesterday blandly brought in the
usual verdict of death at the hands
of men unknown"
With this double lynching in Flor
ida, the brutal lynch terror of the
white ruling class has now taken 20
known victims during the past eight
months. This lynch terror is di-
rected at crushing the struggles Of
the Negro masses against starvation
and national depression. The at
tempt to legally lynch the nine in
nocent Scottsboro Negro boys, the
police terror in Birmingham. the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-31
CHILDREN NEED
BREAD AND SHOES
....... NOT TEARS
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fancy to fight for a better life!
The problem OF town life" that
Hoover says. imposes ""such problems
as milk and food supplies is nothing
compared to the problem of mass
starvation in the coal fields, a star
walton that these children's fathers
are striking against. Milk? Almost
unknown. Food suppliesP just what
the Penn Ohio West Virginia Ken
lucky Striking Miners Relief Com
mittee sends into the strike camps.
The affection with which 1--WE ap-
preach all problems of childhood"
has turned into a callous disregard
for the deepest problems OF all, the
problem of whether the children
shall have anything at all to eat,
or to wear, or whether they shall
have roof over their heads.
That is why these children and
their parents turn to you, to workers
like themselves, to help them now
W1lllC tilCy olC 4ASAlb4AtS eG9AA1oH oSNN
vation, That is why they ask you
TO send them a little food to keep
the spark Of life in their bodies
while they fight their battle through.
These children need shoes desper-
ately now that the rains are turning
the streets of mining towns into
rivers of mud, and the cold weather
Re coming upon them. They need
clothing to keep warm, to avoid get
ting sick and stop their colds from
turning into serious diseases. But
most of all they need breadl Babies
are wasting away from want of milk.
You must help! Send every penny
you can scrape together, then go out
among your friends and shopmates
to collect more money, to buy food,
and collect food and clothing, and
rush it to the Penn-Ohio- West Vir-
ginia-K Kentucky Striking Miners Re-
lief Committee, Room 205, Gil Penn
Ave, Pittsburgh, Pa.
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Militia ParadeS
You can just about imagine condi-
tions here Last week we had the
whole state militia parading our city,
but the boss papers tell us to keep
up hopes.
Thousands of workers have lost
their life savings and over 300 homes
have been confiscated to meet the
demands Of the bankers. Last week
I saw group of colored people fol-
lowing garbage wagon, trying to
see what they could salvage out of
it for food.
We were told at the Overland
Plant that we could work as long as
we wanted to, but would have to
wait until further notice for our
pay That means we are supposed
to slave for nothing
Over a hundred small concerns
have closed down, throwing few
more thousand out into the streets
without jobs; we have no means here
of helping the unemployed, not even
a welfare outfit, as all the money
went with the banks.
Raise Taxes.
Now the politicians want to raise
taxes $3.50 per $1,000 to take care
of the unemployed" Last week we
had our primary election and our
present mayor was defeated by
21Ooo votes. Now they are trying to
use all kinds of methods, bribery
and what not, to get the people to
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vote for him next fall.

vote for him next fall.
Last week, while talking to two
neighbors in the evening, a car drove
up to us and a man got out and
came over to us and asked the neigh
Dor if he. was working. He said,
mo" We'll" said the man, "if you
vote for our present mayor I'll see
that you get a basket of food every
week and three days work"
This is heard wherever you go in
the town.
The way it looks everybody will
be starving this winter. Every morn
ing one can see over a thousand men
fighting to get into the county en-
ployment bureau.
Garbage for JobIess.
The baskets of so-called food that
the city is giving away are made up
with left-overs from the grocery
stores. The bread is as hard as a
rock, the potatoes are worthless and
there is no milk and sugar in them.
They are really baskets of garbage,
all the leaving scraped out of the
cars that are shipped here. What is
not fit to put in cold storage is
given to the jobless-this they call
relief
Every day they have suicides of
workers here. Hope the workers will
get behind the Communist Party
with all their strength, so that they
will soon have a Soviet government
in America. A Worker.
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Pickets Attacked
at General Fabrics:
Burlak Is Slugged

PAWTUCKET, R. Z, Aug. 30.-The
police viciously attacked the General
Fabrics picket line on Friday, bru-
tally clubbing many workers. Anne
Burlak who was leading the picket
line, was thrown to the ground and
dubbed by group of cops and ar
rested.
The fighting between the entire
Central Falls police force and the
strikers ragged for almost an hour
around the mill. The total number Of
arrests so far known is ten, including
several women. A demonstration fol-
lowed at the police station, where
women tore the badges off the police.
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strike there of 1900 miners. Com
menting on the great need for food
and shoes in the coal field, he held
up his foot, showing the bottom of
his foot through the remnants of a
shoe and laughed, Look at my feet
but you don't see me quittin' yeti"
He pointed out that the miners in
his section, like elsewhere, are prac-
tically starving and will need relief
desperately almost Immediately after
they strike to keep alive.
From every strike field in the
country, delegates came-Allentown
Pa; Paterson, NJ from far away
Kentucky coal fields, Connecticut,
Rhode Island textile mills, as we'll
as the nearby Pennsylvania, Ohio
AMI West Virginia strike camps.
Delegate Kuffler from Allentown
SUMMED up the attitude of the
striker delegates when he said: eve
found out what w. I. r. stands for,
through experience. First thing we
knew, we got file truckloads of food
from the w. I. R. w. I. r. means
help coming from one workingman
to another working man. We have
already started a branch of the W.,
I. r. in Allentown and we hope, in
the very near future, to be able to
show our brothers, the striking min
ers, that we know what solidarity
meansl"
And from the delegates outside
the strike sectors every speech was
a pledge to intensity efforts for
miners relief a thousandfold. See
ing conditions in the strike camps,
sitting side by side with strikers, the
desperate need for relief struck
home.
The best methods for relief work
were discussed in detail. From be-
ginning to end although the hall
was overcrowded and about two
score delegates we're forced to stand
all through the proceedings that
lastee from 10 a. m. until 9:15, with
short adjornments for meals, the
delegates we're extremely attentive.
1t was an unusually spirited, colorful
convention, promising real reslS<s.
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able funds for relief. The Federal
Employment Service reporting on
Saturday stated that Operating
schedules in many manufacturing
establishments were cut still further
and the number of part-tine work
eFs increased in July In short,
more thousands were thrown out of
work, more thausonds are on part
time, with less pay, besides the mill
lions who got wage cuts.
Yet the charities which is the main
source of garbage relief that the cap
italists offer promise less food to the
increased number Of unemployed this
coming winter. Lawson Purdy, for
the past 10 years general secretary
of the Charity Organization Society
in New York, said:
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talist politicians to divide the workers
there must be set up q united front
of all workers for real, adequate un-
employment relief and social insur-
anee.
The capitalist class Is united In its
attack on the working class. The
demagogues of both parties unite in
the attempt to prevent the workers
from gaining federal relief for the
unemployed. AS soon as the BIZ was
announced the Republican leaders at
Albany stated that they we're in COM
plete accord with the Roosevelt bill
with only minor exceptions. The
Roosevelt bill is an integral part of
the Hoover Gifford-A. F. Of L. plans
on a national scale for an absolute
refusal to provide any adequate re-
lief for the jobless this coming win
ter of hunger and misery, and is, in
addition part of the general attack
on the standards of the working class
The demagogy of the Roosevelt bill
must be exposed te'the employed and
jobless workers throughout the coun-
try.
The bill itself was the result of the
militant struggle of the workers
throughout the country. Only by a
much more determined, much great
er struggle can the workers force the
capitalists to grant real concessions
of adequate relief Employed and
unemployed workers, mobilize for the
fight against hunger.
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ton of the w. I. r. contemplates:
1. Membership branches in work
ers' neighborhoods, of individual
dues paying members.
2. Workers International Relief
committees In all workers organiza-
tons.
3. Workers International Relief
committees in factories, shops, etc.
4. Sympathizers who will not join
as active relief workers, to be or
ganized in professional branches
pledged to definite donation yearly
and to work among the members OF
their own profession only.
S. Farmers branches.
This means that the Pennsylvania
Ohio-West Virginia Kentucky Strik-
ing Miners Relief Committee in the
various cities will be turned, as soon
as possible without interrupting their
work, into permanent branches of the
w. l. r..
The strike relief committees set up
by the National Miners Union and
Central Rank and File Strike Com
mittee, of course, continue their
work as before, and there is no con-
flict between their work and the w.
Il. r. with which the Penn-O Ohio is
affiliated.
Opening with greetings from the
Trade Union Unity League, through
William 2. Foster, general secretary,
the conference heard successfully
greetings from the National Miners
Union, through Frank Borieh; the
Paterson textile strikers and the Ma
tienal Textile Workers Union,
through Elias; the Kentucky strikers,
through a miner delegate from Har-
Ian County; the International Work.
ers' Order, the Ukrainian benefit Or
ganization; the Daily Worker,
through Vern Smith, and the Com
munist Party, through Carl Price
district organizer at Pittsburgh, and
from other organizations. All sounded
the keynote of "a big, permanent
Workers International Relief" as a
dues paying organization continuing
its work during and between strikes,
and preparing between strikes for
quick action in the next struggle.
Foster pointed out that the tex
tile and mine strikes are only the
first skirmishes in the great struggle
developing this fall and winter.
Borich stated that the miners know
best of all workers the tremendous
Importance Of powerful relief or
ganization, and prophesied that out
of this conference would come a
mechanism that would help make
the great mine strikes victorious.
Elias described the Paterson
strikes, the determination of the
workers and their hopes inasthe w
I. r.
The Kentucky delegate outlined the
situation in Harlan County, with the
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N. Y. GOVERNOR
ISSUES HIS FAKE
RELIEF" PLAN
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this appropriation. But Roosevelt's
estimate is shown to be lie by the
figures Of Rybiciki, the director Of
the New York City Free Employ
ment Agency, who estimates that
there are now a million unemployed
in New York city alone Rybiciki
stated that "the United States Gen.
sus Bureau has told you that there
are 254,O00 jobless in our city. 1 tell
you that the figure is nearer a mil
Iion." The appropriation of $4,000
900 will, therefore, even on the basis
of their own figures, mean practi-
cally nothing to the 100000 of job
less in the state and their wives and
children.
The workers, however, will not get
even this miserable bit The appro-
priationgis not to be given to the I'M
employed in cash. 1t is to be devot-
ed to as great an extent as possible
for the construction of public works
which means that the greater part
of it will go as graft to contractors.
The appropriation of this $4,000, 900
for relief will go primarily to the
political grsfters and to the capital
list class which is supposed to pay
for this relief. Instead of being a
"relief fund, it is therefore a shame
less graft fund.
The demagogy in the bill is car
ried also into the methods by which
the relief is to be raised. The bill
provides that the funds shall be
raised by an increase in the income
tax on the rich. That the rich who
aresupposed to pay for this relief
will hardly be hit at all in their in
comes is shown by the fact that the
greatest tax, that on incomes of over
100000, will be only slightly over
one per cent. The rich will pay Just
what the jobless will get-practiealIy
nothing. ~0i+o~-- ~~--4H ,'-'+
While the bill gives the unem-
ployed practically nothing it is in
tself a means for cutting the wages
of those workers who are still EN-
ployed. In addition to the original
bill providing the relief section, six
other bills were proposed at the
same time by the governor. These
relate mostly to the way in which
the main bill will be carried out
One of them provides for the cutting
of hours on all state public works
contracts to five day week. In pro-
posing this bill Roosevelt said:
81 recommend that for all future
contracts on public works by the
State or in municipality thereof,
TO be let between October /, 1881,
and June 80, 1882, there be inserted
a clause providing for five-day
week for all labor. In this way the
benefits of employment on public
works may be spread somewhat
more thinly, but certainly more
widely"
In this way instead of relieving
the suffering of those who are UNI
employed the governor proposes to
follow the stagger plan of Hoover
and the American Federation of La
Dor and cut wages by cutting the
working week to five days-with a
corresponding cut in wages.
In an attempt to divide the ranks
of the working class Roosevelt's bill
provides that the benefits" in the
bill are to go only to those workers
who have been living in the state for
over two years. Against this at
tempt of the bosses and the capt.
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SLASH WAGES
TO INCREASE
BOSS PROFITS


vestment as soon as confidence in
the bond market is restored"
A more braEen demand for in
Z creased profits for the bosses by
restoring confidence in the bond
market" as the cost of the workers
by cutting wages in all basic INDUS
tries has never been made.
Along with this comes pronounce
ment in the New York Evening Post
Of Saturday that wage-euts in the
steel mills are certain soon. This
Hoover-Green supporting paper says:
Reports seem 60 have substan-
tial foundation that tsteeD mills
contemplate reducing wage rates
in the not very distant future"
While this is the fact, as shown
by the New York Post, the Annalist,
and hundreds of other official ex-
pressions of the capitalists and bank
ers, William Green of the American
Federation of Labor, while voieing
lying phrases about opposing wage
cuts" in the midst of this very
process of wage slashing tells the
workers to have confidence in the
big bosses like the United States
Steel Corporation. In statement
made by Green, answering B. G..
Forbes, a financial writer who said
he knows Green is in favor of wage
cuts and has so told the leading
bosses, Green replies with his usual
phrases, at the same time protecting
the leading steel company in its
wage-cutting drive. Green says:
"If the prediction of the writer
(Forbes) that the United States
Steel Corporation Is to readjust
wages Green hates the open term
cut wages is az unfounded as is
the prediction that ] will ulti-
mately favor reductions in wages,
there will be no reductions in
wages imposed upon the employees
of the United States Steel Corpora
ton"
This is how Green and tIil
breaking leaders of the A. F.
of L. oppose wage-cuts." They try
to disarm the workers while the
gigantic corporations prepare whole
sale pay slashes.
More proof of wage-cuts comes
from the government itself. The
latest report on wage-cuts by the
department of labor-information in
no way accurate or complete-ad-
mits that at least 238 plants in As
industries cut the wages Of 1928
workers in the month ended July
IS. These reports are voluntary.
That is, boss who cuts wages does
not have to say anything about it,
and the majority of them never do
say anything. There Is little doubt,
in view of this situation, that wage
cuts undoubtedly cover over 1000
plants involving millions of workers,
and from the facts we, have given
here will soon spread to every basic
industry, leaving few untouched.
Against this united action of the
bosses and the A. F. of L. leaders,
the workers must prepare to resist
wage-cuts. Organize shop commit
tees, build the revolutionary trade
unions of the Trade Union Unity
League. Organize and strike against
wage-cutsl
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group composed of unemployed
workers who want to devote most
of their time to the selling of the
paper at factory gates, on the
street, at mines, mills, and wher-
ever workers gather. Unemployed
workers will find that they can
make some of their expenses in this
way. Also contacts. To sell a
worker a paper, or get his sub, and
then depart is not the correct pro-
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tions for the Hunger March to Pom
tiac on September 10 when demand
will be made on the county for more
relief for the unemployed.
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NCON1INOED fhOM FAOE ONE(
goes on to say that there is little
doubt the bankers are splendid be
cause it fell to me to be hourly in
touch with those splendid men who
hourly are shaping the destinies of
the nation at this juncture through
the great national institution, the
Bank of Enkland
They make no speeches and very
few of you even know their names.
They are indifferent to praise or
blame, but their object is the well
fare of their country, and they have
impressed me very deeply with the
conviction that they have no foolish
interest to serve"
So speaks Sir Donald MaeLean
and so speaks Ramsay Macdonald
and other Socialists who thus pro-
tect the profits ofthe bankers who
rule British capitalist at the ex-
pense of the British workers.
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THOUSANDS HOMELESS
IN TOLEDO FOLLOWING
MANY BANK FAILURES
Overland Plant Fails to Pay Workers: Many
Concerns Close: Thousands JObless
300 Homes Confiscated to Meet Demands of
Bankers; Workers Salvage Garbage
Toledo, Ohio.
Dear Friends:

Dear Friends:
Just few lines to let you know how Toledo is getting
along About two and half months ago a large bank with
about II branches crashed and has not opened yet the
week of Aug 16 four other larger banks with Sd branches
clos dnore
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Macdonald Govt
Prepares Fascist
Attack on Workers

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LYNCH 2 NEGRO WORKERS FOR
DEFENDING SELVES IN SLAVE CAMP

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-04
DANCING

MR. STAFFORD PEMBERTON.
All Styles Stage and Bal Room Dancing.
studio, 1924 Conn. ave. Phone North 1892.
PEYTON PENN STUDIO-BaIl room dancing.
Private or class lessons SATURDAY eve.
dance to II. l745 81. NV LIST d. Met.
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TnnAY,s ADJUSTMENTS.

-Stratford Upon Avon
PLAYERS IN "A winters Tale" at 2:10.
and King Henry the Fourth" AZ $40
pm.
BeIasco -- Franctne Larrimore IN
Brief Moment" at $50 pm.
Gayety-"sugar Babies at ais
and BIS pm.
R-K-o Keithis-"Conselatio Mar
rage" at 1889 an, 1889, 339, $50,
7;39 and 9;3s pm.
MetropoIitan-"Ma Genius" at IL
an. l2:z5, ABS, 4:2s. els, 8 and
$40 pm.
RiaIto-"Reckless Living" at Ii:47
am, 2 .o2, 1855, 5:5e, 75s and $50 m.
Palaee-"The Cuban Love Song" at
1l:40 am, 2:05. ABS, ITO and 9:40
pm Stage shows at l:2o, $50, $50
and pm.
Columbia Susan Lenox." at II am.
1885. $50, $50, Gas, $40 and lo:40
pm.
Fox-"Ambassador Bill" at lo:4a
am, IL SO. 3;O8. 5;is, sos and 1915
pm. Stage shows at 1919, 2.28, 435,
1926 and 9:36 pm.
Earle-"Girls About Town" at 1925
am, $50. AL, 1872 and g.57 pm
Stage shows at 1857, 3:49. $40 and
9:07 pm.
TivoIi-- "Five-Star Final" at 2:25,
4:l0, 6, 7:45 and 9:35 pm.
Central-"Merely Mary Ann" II
am. TO II pm.
Ambassador" Monkey Business" at
6:l5, sos and 9:55 pm.