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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-07
1000 PLEDGED TO
WIN BREADSTRIkE
IN C0NEY ISLAND
Send Protest Telegram
to Police Head and
DenOunce Terror

That the workers and housewives
of Coney Island are determined to
win the strike for cent bread was
proven at the big mass meeting held
Friday, December 4, when more than
200 workers pledged TO continue the
fight until the price of bread would
be reduced.
The strike committee in their re-
port pointed out that some of the
bakery owners were ready to settle
but we're forced to hold out by the
association A letter was read that
was sent by the workers of West 22ne
st. who pledged to strike on and
called upon all other workers Of
Coney Island to bake their own
bread until the strike is won.
A delegation was elected at the
meeting TO go with the demonstra-
ton on Monday to the Boro Hall and
protest against the police brutality.
The following telegram was accepted
unanimously and is to be sent to the
Police Commissioner: 1--WE, the resi-
dents of Coney Island, emphatically
protest and condemn the brutal &C
tons of your police in mishandling
and brutally beating up women who
were picketing the bakeries for the
purpose of reducing the price Of
bread. We declare that neither your
police nor the thugs of the profiteers
will stop our fight"
The strike committee at its meet
ing last night declared that they will
continue mass picketing on Monday.
All workers of Coney Island are
asked to participate in mass picket
ing all day on Monday. A demon
stration will be staged in court on
Monday morning when 10 workers
come up for trial All workers Of
Coney Island are asked to buy bread
at the settled shop at 1908 Mermaid
Ave.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-07
SECRET KESTER REPORT ON NEGROES
CALLS FOR WAR ON COMMUNISM

South and have succeeded in reaching, through
direct and indirect methods, large numbers of
them. Their activity in connection with the
Scottsboro case is well-known." "They are
winning adherents everywhere" This year
will be year of testing. 1t will test your
secretaries and our membership at large We
are faced with conflict situation the pro-
portion of which one cannot imagine without
being in it,"
An Attack on the Revolutionary Movement.
These are some of the warnings contained in
the Kester report. 1t would be incorrect to draw
from these statements the conclusion that an
discretionary situation exists in the South. The
situation has no yet reached that stage. These
warnings are exaggerated for the purpose OF ID
impressing the boss class with the danger to
their rule in the growing resistance of the Negro
masses; (2) the need of sharpening the attacks
against the only force capable of unifying the
Negro and white masses and giving them cor
rect leadership, the Communist Party 80 to Sc
cure financial support for the Fellowship in its
efforts to deceive the Negro masses and divert
their nlilitancy into reforrnist channels.
An example Of the demagogy by which the
Fellowship intends to carry out its policy of
deception Is shown in the following section of
the Kester report:
cit is apparent TO any that nothing very
much can be done until the present economic
system is drsstcally altered 1t is altogether
possible that 1t must be demolished before it
can be altered to suit our needs
So the Fellowship launches its campaign TO
convince the Negro masses of "the effectiveness
of aggressive pacfism for social and economic
revolution" The report shows clearly the trait
orous role essayed BY the Fellowship:
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-07
SPEAR UNDERW'R
WORKERS STRIKE
Need Help on Picket
Line Today

NEW YORK.-The Spear Under
wear Shop located at 1874 Spring st.
has been on strike now for almost
three weeks. This shop of about 40
young girl workers broke away from
the company union and in body
joined the Needle Trades Workers In
dustrial Union some time ago. Good
union conditions have been main
tanned in the shop in spite of the
miserable conditions prevailing in the
trade generally. This was accom-
plished by the workers in the shop
and the union carefully watching
everything that occurred in the shop
and not permitting the boss to put
through any schemes that would
harm the interest Of the workers.
Lately serious situation devel-
oped in the shop. Spear sent his work
out to contractors and laid his work.
ers off. He then hired new girls and
tried to pay them much less than the
older girls in the shop. He refused to
pay for holidays although he agreed
to do so. The girls realizing that it
was dangerous to permit such condi-
lions go on, went out on strike deter
mined to win their old conditions
back again
Picketing is going Oh every day and
the girls are militant on the picket
line, but they need assistance. The
union together with these workers,
appeal to all workers, and especially
in the morning at 1880 and evening
at $50 pm. and help win this i'm
portant strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-07

Aunt" Molly Jackson, a miners
wife, who has composed songs of the
hunger and struggle of the Kentucky
miners introduced herself with a spe-
cial song she had written for the &C.
casion. She was given a big ovation
by the audience. She told OF the
miners being blackhsted" because
they were fighting for bread,
Robert Minor, member of the Cen
trail Committee of the Communist
Party, the next speaker, greeted the
writers in their united front with the
workers in fighting Kentucky terror
and starvation. 1T is an incident of
considerable historical importance, ="
Minor stated, when American capt.
talism finds it necessary to bring in
dictments against the flower Of
American literature and art. You
will find there will be more of the
same thing in the coming months
because the American workers are
entering mightier struggles against
hunger, wage cuts and terror.
Mooney and Billings" Minor said,
"are Harlan justice personified Is
years old"
Minor told of the new reign Of ter
ror especially against the most op-
pressed section of the workers. the
Negro masses, who refuse to be
driven to lower depths OF starvation
and degradation.
1.-The miners struggle in Kentucky
is just begun" he said. "On Deem
Der 10, there will be held a district
convention of the National Miners
Union which will rally thousands in
a determined strike to end these hor-
rible conditions you have heard de-
scribed here of hundreds of children
dying of starvation, of whole popu-
lation facing death from hunger"
Eugene Gordon, Negro writer,
called on both black and white to
fight as workers against capitalist
tyranny in order to end the oppreS-
sion of the black race in the South.
The report of the Dresser Commit
tee was then read by Lester Cohen,
novelist. Resolutions demanding the
right of the Kentucky miners to Or
ganize into the National Miners
Union and to strike against hunger;
a resolution demanding immediate
freedom for Mooney and Billings;
and a resolution calling for ma
tional movement to wipe out the
criminal syndicalist laws were unani-
mously adopted. A collection of
more than $3.50 was made.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-07

MONDAY
Hungr March Mass Meet
VIII be held in Brownsville, to-
night, by the Unemployed Council at
Briston st. and Pitkin Ave. at 5 pm.
All workers are called upon to par
ticipate.
.
Food WORKER Industrial Union
Ali cafeteria members of the F. w.
I. U. are requested to attend a meet
ing to be held tonight at 5 E. 18th
st. at 8 pm.
Brownsville LID.
VIII hold an educational meeting
at 11S Briston st. at s pm. Admis-
sion free. All workers are invited.
TUESDAY
Needle Trades Workers Ind. Union
Will give a farewell party for two
comrades leaving for the Soviet
Union in the Union Auditorium, 1S1
w. 2Sth st. at 8 pm. All workers
invited.
Nisbtworkers Open Forum
A lecture will be given at los T..
l4th ST., at pm. on the Manchurian
Situation and the War Danger. Dis
cussion. Admission free.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-07
ALL COLUMNS OF HUNGER MARCH
ARRIVE AT WASHINGTON

mands for unemployment insurance
10 Congress. William Weinstone,
member of the Central Committee of
the Communist Party, spoke in the
name of the Party. William 2. Eos
ter spoke for the Trade Union Unity
League.
After conference of the National
Committee of the Hunger March, a
committee consisting OF Herbert Ben
jainin, Obermeier and Wagenknecht
talked with President Curtin
and Police Commissioner Glassford.
They were compelled to yield to the
demands of permitting a parade in
the streets with banners and pla-
cards. However, Curtis seid he re-
served the right to censor the BAN
ners.
The National Committee of the
Hunger March appointed Bill Dunno
to speak Monday over the radio about
the objects of the Hunger March.
Permission was given by the city
authorities to speak on the city radio,
over which Ham Fish spoke against
the Hunger March.
Glassford announced that the route
of the demonstration will be to start
from Johns Place, then to proceed to
G ST., along Pennsylvania Ave, down
to the north side of the capitol, and
will then go to the East End to 9Th
St., to the headquarters of the A.
F. of L.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-07
Trial Of Four Negro
Workers Up Today

Suddenly calling their trial for
Monday, Dec. instead Of Dec. IL,
as originally postponed, the General
Sessions Court will seek to quickly
railroad four Negro workers, War
field, Campbell, Williams and Brown,
on grame-up charges of robbery. The
four workers were arrested several
months ago upon the instigation of
Carney Reorganization officials, who
seek to break up the Harlem Unem-
ployed Council and general revolu-
tionary work among the Negro work.
ers of Harlem.
In proportion that mass pressure
and protest is brought to bear on
the Tammany court will these work.
ers be released, Section 4 of the Com
munist Party, Of which the four de-
PENDANTS are members, yesterday de-
clared in urging q mass turnout at
the court today at 10 am.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-07
scoNvInuEp FRosr FACE ONE,

new supply of beans after admitting
that the food was rancid.
The marchers will sleep on the
floor in both shelters. They again
and again compared the miserable
slop handed to them by the various
government officials with the hot
meals provided by the Workers In
ternational Relief in those cities
where the government did not supply
the food,
After eating, the marchers paraded
to the gigantic Washington Auditor
ium owned by the government where
they held mass meeting. The hall
is two blocks from the White House
and the singing of the Information
al must certainly have been heard
by President Herbert Hoover. -Four
thousand workers were in the hall
which holds 1000 and more were
constantly flowing in when the Daily
Worker went to press.
A tremendous ovation greeted the
Red Front Band as they entered this
hall which has never before housed
workers meeting. The workers
cheered the band for five minutes.
Hundreds of police and plain
clothesmen were in the auditorium
and on the stage.
An eight column double streamer
in special edition of the Washing
ton Herald last night read, 1900 Hun
ger Marchers Arrive. Fed and Shell
tered by Armed Capitol" The story
continues as follows: THE army has
all troops at Fort Myers including
one squadron of cavalry and a bat
talon of field artillery ready to be
moved by truck plus 1000 marines
on duty at the Marine Barrack."
Police are here from all over the
country according to this newspaper.
A particularly large delegation of po-
licemen arrived from New York. The
New York detectives have been
housed in the barracks of the goth
Marines where the marchers are also
housed
In an attempt to discredit the
Hunger March, the newspapers lead
ing story says, Probably 25 per cent
of the marchers were colored. When
questioned during a halt in the pa
rade, they all said they had been
hired to march,
On the same page another article
by William Peake who rode with the
delegation from Baltimore concludes
his feature story on the first page
with the following remark:
"The marcbers are sincere in
their motive. They demand imme-
diate relief in the sum of cash be-
quests Of $3.50 for each unemployed
man and women and unemployed
insurance from the government"
AT the mass meeting, Herbert Ben
jamin reported on the Hunger March
and its program in presenting the de-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-07
Call Needle Workers
to Midtown March
On Charity Agency

The Needle Trades Workers Indus
trial Union has issued a call to its
members and other needle trades
workers to support The midtown
hunger march which will be held to-
day at Bryant Park, 4lst st. and
Sixth Ave, at 1890 pm, for support
Of the National Hunger March and
to demand immediate relief of the
Charity Organization Societies for
desperate cases Of starvation in mid
town Manhattan.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-07
SLIPPER STRIKERS
TO PICKET TODAY
Union Calls for a Solid
Picket Line

The Shoe and Leather Workers In
dustrial Union sent out a call for
mass picketing for Monday morning,
7 a. M, at the Columbia Slipper
Shop, 686 Broadway, now on strike
for over a week.
After failing in the attempt to Sc
cure a wage reduction, the boss
locked out the workers with the OBJ
ject of forcing them to accept lower
prices. Much to the surprise of the
bosses they were Immediately con-
fronted with a picket line In the
front of the shop. The union is ready
TO take similar action against any
other firm that will attempt to throw
workers out of the shops and will do
all in its power to defend the workers.
All shoe and slipper workers-em-
ployed around that neighborhood are
called upon to picket the Columbia
Slipper Shop on Monday morning,
at 7 a. m.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-07
LEADING WRITERS CALL FOR STRUGGLE AGAINST HARLAN TERROR
Brooklyn Unemployed
Council Prepares to
r e s S t An Eviction

BROOKLYN.-Ten workers from
the Williamsburg Unemployed Coun-
Gil entered the court here on Dec. 3,
and demanded that the judge halt
the eviction of an unemployed Negro
worker. The worker was ordered to
be thrown from his home next
Wednesday. The Council is now cam
wasting the block to rally the workers
to resist the eviction next week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-07
JOBLESs RAILROAD WORKER
KILLS SELF

George Richardson, so, an mem-
ployed yard railroad worker OF Poca-
tello, Idaho committed suicide by
Shooting himself through the head
when he becomes Respondent because
of inability to get work and relief.
Richardson is survived by a widow
and three daughters.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-07
Berg & Aranoff Dress
Shop In Ninth Week

The strike conducted by the Needle
Trades Workers Industrial Union
against the firm of Berg and Aranoff,
3lS w 35th ST., is entering its ninth
week This shop was a union shop
for many years, controlled by the In
dustrial Union. Nine weeks ago the
firm locked out the workers. The
workers answered with a strike and
have been fighting every effort of
the boss to have his work made un-
der open shop conditions. The union
calls on the dressmakers, particularly
those working on 35th ST., to assist
the strikers on the picket line.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-07

port by the writers to the growing
class battles of the workers. Over
$500 workers damned into New Star
Casino to attend the mass protest
meeting called by the National Com
mtttee for the Defense of Political
Prisoners. The committee is COM
posed of a large number Of the fore
most writer's in the United States.
The purpose of the gathering was to
protest the indictment Of the Dresser
Committee for its exposure of mass
starvation in the Harlan coal fields,
and to report on the findings Of the
committee.
Among the writers VINO spoke we're
Lewis Mumford, well known critic,
who acted as chairman; John Dos
Passes, author of Manhattan Trans
fer" and The And Parallel; Eu-
gene Gordon, Negro writer of the
Boston Post editorial staff; Lester
Cohen, author OF "Sweepings' and
Adelaide Walker. Jim Grace, a Ken
lucky miner, and AUNT" Molly
jackson gave a first hand account of
the life of the Kentucky miners and
their battles
THE writers ought to stop think
ing about responsibility" said Ander-
son, after relating the battles Of the
workers against capitalism, and line
up with labor in its struggles So I
am here, I don't like to be here.
I would rather be in my quiet little
hole. But if there is any fight left
in us we must come out now and an
swer the challenge of the Kentucky
coal barons."
Arnold johnson, a member of the
Civil Liberties Union, who spent some
months in the Harlan Jail for his
activities against the coal operators
terror, told OF the coal operators use
OF the courts to smash the National
Miners Union Harlan, along with
the other centers Of strike struggle"
he said, "shoW that the law is used
by the capitalist class against the
workers"
IN a brief speech, John Dos Passos,
one OF the indicted writer's, said that
the fight against hunger and starva-
ton has just begun. 1t must be car
RED on to a successful finish.
A letter from Professor John
Dewey, urging other intellectuals to
line up against industrial feudal-
ISM such as rules in the southern
coal fields, was read.
Jim Grace, Kentucky coal miner,
who spoke next, held the audience
spellbound by his gripping descrip-
ton OF the life of the Kentucky
miners. 1.-THE only qualification a
coal miner should have" he said,
from the coal operators point OF
view is a weak mind and g, strong
back. If he knows anything, if he
knows enough to line w in the Ma
tional Miners Union to fight hunger
they would rather not have hin"
For e years I have been in the
habit Of going down into the bowels
OF the earth, earning my daily bread
by the sweat OF my brow. When 1
Joined my fellow miners to strike
against starvation, was driven from
my home, driven from my native
state where my great grandfathers
lived and died, and told to run for
my life while over so yolleys of shots
we're fired at me"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-07
SHERWOOD ANDERSON SAYS THAT
WRITER'S MUST JOIN STRUGGLE
ON SIDE OF MILITANT WORKERS
Expose Mass Starvation In Ky. Coal Fields;
Miners to Stop NM.U. Organization

NEW YORK.-"We need more criminal syndcalists among
the writer's of America if what the Dresser Committee did
be called criminal syndicasm' said Sherwood Anderson
famous novelist speaking at the New Star Casino Sunday after
Enthusiastic annause greeted this expression of
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-23
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Alabama street. attendant at Sin
clair filling station, Pratt street and
Capitol avenue, surrendered S25 to
bandit pair Thursday night, and
short time later the same gun
men took s35 from Madison Siler,
1877 North Delaware street, Sinclair
attendant at Indiana avenue and
Locke street.
W. o. Simpson, 935 East Mary
land street, hired to guard premises
of F. R. LeMasterS, els Tecumseh
place, where providers have been
seen several times, shot one in the
shoulder Friday night.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-23
POLICE BULLET
FAILS TO HALT
BANDIT GUNMAN
Radio Squad PursueS Fill
ing Station Robber, Who
Makes Escape.

In three holdups early today
bandits took s137, and following one
job the bandit escaped only after
pursuit by a police squad, during
which a shot from policeman's
gun failed to stop the fugitive.
The gunman held up Clarence
Ophey, 1854 North Gale street, at
tendant at Hoosier Pete filling
station, Twenty-second street and
Capitol avenue, and took SIT.
AS Ophey'S alarm was broadcast
over police radio, Sergeant Dan
Cummings squad was parked at
TYenty-first and Illinois streets,
where the sergeant had entered a
store to report to headquarters.
Three patrolmen in the machine
heard the description of the bandit
and saw a man a block distant, who
ran when he noticed the police car.
In the chase that followed, near
Twenty-second and Illinois streets,
Patrolman Harry O'Meara got one
Shot at the gunnan, but missed.
A bandit surprised Kenneth
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-23

siford. IS. of 9O6 villa avenue.
cashier. and Ernest Roth. 81, Of
1871 North Dearborn street, at
tendant, at a Producers oil sta
ton, Massachusetts, avenue and
Tenth street, while they were
checking the nights receipts early
this morning.
The bandit took 500 and fed
north on Cornell avenue.
A bandit followed Harry D. Wood,
1248 High street, manager, into a
Standard grocery at Belmont az
enue and Morris street this morn
ing and robbed him of $50.
Henry E. Arnold, "a, of 1915 North
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-23
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