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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-11
NEGRO PARENTS
OF GARY REBEL
Committee Dem a n DIS
Free School Books

GARY, Ind, Dec. 10.--On Dec. l,
a committee of parents was elected
at meeting Of parents of children
in the jim Grow Roosevelt School
here. The next day they went to the
principal of the school to demand
no rent charges on children's text
books, and for real food and clothing
for children. The charges amount
from $500 to $500 child, and the
unemployed cannot pay this. Chill
dren are sent back home every day
for not bringing the money. There
is great starvation and suffering from
cold.
The committee found $50 women
waiting at the school for the SKINNED
milk which is occasionally distributed
to mothers of school children. These
women enthusiastically joined the
committee in its demands.
The principal is a fat Negro re-
formist, who endorses jim Growing of
the children of Negro workers. He
threw fit when the demands were
presented to him. He tried to scare
the committee and the women with
threats Of arrest, ETC., and then made
a direct attack on the two white
white workers who were on the COM
mittee. The principal tried his best
to start race antagonism, and con-
vince the Negro workers that only
Negroes could help Negroes, but with
out success. Finally the principal fled
from his office.
The committee and the women
walked out in an organized manner,
and the women promised to be at
the next meeting of the Unemployed
Council, where further plans to win
the demands will be considered.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-11
SENTENCE JONES,
KENTUCKY MINER,
TO LIFE IN JAIL
Part of Boss Terror to
Crush Fight Of the
Kentucky Miners

W. 3. Jones, Harlan County, Ken
lucky miner who was arrested and
held on charges of conspiring to
murder" after miners had defended
themselves against company gunner
at EvartS, KY, last year, was sem
fenced to life imprisonment after one
of the most brutal frame-up trials
conducted by the Kentucky coal OPP
orators.
In passing such q sentence upon
Jones the judge made clear that it
was the threat the Kentucky coal
owners now hold over the heads of all
miners who defend their lives against
the murderous activities of the com
pany gun thugs.
Scoring the extreme sentence as
part Of the attempt of the Kentucky
coal operators to crush the organiza-
ton OF the miners, the International
Labor Defense, which has offered
to place all It's legal and mass re-
sources at the disposal Of Jones and
fight for an appeal, issued a state
ment yesterday, saying:
Stool Pigeons State Witnesses
"The trial Of Jones in the Mt
Sterling court was characterized by
every trick, falsehood, and frame-up
device commonly used in strikes to
get strike leaders"
1.-THE original charge against Jones
was murder. Then it was changed
to conspiracy to murder" to make
sure that none of the men who cha1-
lenged the feudal despotism of the
coal operators would escape"
"Chief testimony against Jones
came from a group of stool pigeons
and spies. They are openly charged
with being bribed.
'"1he International Labor Defense
now offers all its legal resources to
W. B. Jones for an appeal to higher
court. 1t will also mobilize hundreds
of thousands of workers throughout
the county in mass protest against
this example of coal operator justice. -
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-11

| Red Army. DR.. G. G. WI, Eugene
Chen, DR. Sun Fo and Ii Wen-far
have left for Shanghai to resume
negotiations with the Marking lead
ers A British inspired dispatch from
Hongkong to the New York Times
states that Canton opinion, how
ever, is pessimistic about the out
come because Of the persistence of
irtrigues among cliques,"
League LegaIises seizure
of Manchuria
With the secret participation of the
United States, the League of Nations
Council yesterday ''legalized" the
Japanese seizure of Manchuria. A
Toxic dispatch to the New York
World Telegram is significantly
headed Council Appeases Japan by
Deleting Objectionable Features OF
Plan" The League Councils Reso-
luton, in its final draft, sets no date
for the withdrawal of japanese
troops from Manchuria. It denies
that the Japanese seizure of Man
churia is war, declaring:
g. the Council decides to APP
point commission Of five mem
bers to study ON the spot and to
report TO the Council any circurn-
stances which, affecting interna-
tional relations, threatens to dis
turb peace between China and
Japan or the good understanding
between them on which peace de-
ponds"
on the pretext that the Chinese
militarist General Ma Chen-shan is
menacing japanese interests" in
Northern Manchuria, Japanese rein
forcernents are being rushed to Tsit~
sihar and plans are announced for
the seizure of the city of Hailur.
In the meantime, completely ex-
posing the Japanese lies of Soviet aid
to General Ma, a dispatch from Muk-
den admits that General Ma Chen
shan is a Japanese agent. This has
been pointed out from the very first
by the Daily Worker. The MukdeE
dispatch pretends a recent agreement
between General Ma and his Japa-
nese masters, ignoring the admissions
of the capitalist news agencies a few
weeks ago that Ma was getting his
arms from the Japanese. The dis
patch says:
"After a two-hour conference at
Hailun with two of General Hon.
jos enaissaries from Mukden, Cen
eral Ma Chen-shan announced he
would operate hereafter under the
protection Of the Japanese
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present.
These are dismal days for capital.
let party denlagog,ies. They have
been thrown og their stride by the
rapidly deepening crisis and the ris-
ing class struggle. They do not sleep
well, these not too clever hangers-on
Of imperialism. In the home dis
tricts Of each one are thousands of
unemployed workers who know about
the Hunger March and who support
Its demands.
These workers know, and congress
knows, that the Workers Unemploy-
ment Insurance Bill of the Unem-
ployed Councils was presented 10
Congress--and Hoover.
"The House was in an uproar." IL
Is Just too bad for Hoover. He does
not like disorder.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-11
ANGRY FARMERS
CLOSE TOBACCO
SALES IN kENT'Y
Price Offered by Trust
Is Below Cost of
Production

LEXINGTON, Ky.-An Associated
Press dispatch from this city, reports
that 1900 infuriated tobacco farmers
halted the opening burely tobacco
sales Of four warehouses on Dec. It'll,
This action was caused by the dummy
buyers of the Tobacco Trust forcing
the price paid to the farmers down
to almost half OF that Of last year
and below the cost Of raising the
tobacco.
The farmers marched from one
warehouse to another, and by mile
tant mass action forced the manag-
ers to stop the sales. Their leader,
George Weiner, Of Georgetown, was
twice arrested by police thugs called
out by the Tobacco Trust, but the
farmers both times tore him away.
So great was the militant pressure
Of the farmers that the police were
utterly unprepared, and indeed, at
one warehouse two policemen we're
elected by the farmers.
This mass action at Lexington
warehouses follows similar demon
STATIONS in other parts of Kentucky
recently. On Dec. LIST, in Owensboro,
5000 farmers, made nearly desperate
by the ridiculously low price offered
them for their tobacco, forced the
closing down Of the warehouses. On
Dec. 2, at Henderson and on Dec. 3,
at Scottsville. the same thing hap
pened. The action of the greensboro
farmers forced the warehouses to
open week later with slight in
crease in prices.
The farmers must learn, however,
that any small concessions wrtlng out
of the Tobacco Trust cannot be in
creased, or even maintained, unless
they organize themselves into Com
mittees of Action, representing all
the small and middle farmers, for
organized, solid resistance to the rob-
berry of the Tobacco Trust. For more
information write to the United
Farmers League, Box ga, Superior,
Wisconsin. Read the Producers
News, official organ Of the United
Farmers League.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-11
GOVERNMENT In
ATTACK ON THE
MINERS UNION
Directed Especially at
|Foreign-Born Workers
in Left Wing Union

PITTSBURGH, Pa.-That the mine
bosses are intent upon driving the Ma
tional Miners Union underground has
been conclusively proved by the at
titude of the immigration office here
on the Steve Perfich case, according
to a statement issued by the Inter-
national Labor Defense Dec. 8.
The representatives of the I. L. D.
were reminded Of the previous de-
cision of the court that every men,
Der Of the Communist Party believes
in overthrowing the government by
force and violence and therefore is
subject to deportation. The inimi-
grafton officials maintain that, al
though steve Perlicb was not men,
Der of the Communist Party, he is q
member of the National Miners Union
and to them there is no difference.
They explain it this way-the Ma
tional Miners Union is affiliated to
the Trade Union Unity League, which
is affiliated to the Red International
Of Labor Unions, This, in turn is
affiliated to the Communist Interna-
tional Therefore, every member of
left wing union Is affiliated to the
Communist International and is a
Communist, according to the imrni-
grafton officel
On this slight of hand excuse the
bosses are trying to railroad Steve
Perlich to Jugo-Slavia, along with
Mike Budich and vasa Popovich, and
to send Philip Giambstista to Italy.
Perlich's "crime" was merely the dis
tribution of leaflets for the union.
For this, they would deport him to a
country where he is sure to meet
death.
Govt Attacks Foreign Born
II this opinion Of the immigration
Office here should become decision,
it would mean that the entire left
wing trade union movement would be
declared Illegal and that any foreign
born member of the unions would be
jubject to deportation. The worker;
# this country must protect ugor-
ously against all suos1 opinions, and
organize on q still more firm basis
TO force the iails open for the release
Of their leaders.
These workers are being held in
Jail with bail of $1,000, and $1,000 for
Gambatista. For all Of these cases
cash bail must be had. Any worker
or workers organizations who could
put up bail for these cases, should
get in touch with the Pittsburgh I. L..
D. at once so that we can get them
out Of jail pending the DECISIONS.
Money for ther defense should also
be raised, as the bosses courts do
everything in their power to make
their defense difficult.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-11
CLUB JOBLESS
IN STOCKTON
Police Attack 500 in
Parade for Relief

STOCKTON, Cal, Dec. "a parade
of 500 workers and jobless workers to
the Welfare Department here Dec. 4,
was first charged by the fire wagon
and then by the police. The police
dubbed those nearest them, while q
speaker began to address the crowd.
The intention had been TO present to
the Welfare Council three cases Of
families actually starving to death
and to demand relief.
The speaker was dragged down by
police. One little Negro boy was
knocked down by q policeman and
then the cop trampled on him.
Three workers we're arrested at the
demonstration, though one was only
a bystander. Later another was ar
rested on the street because he was
thought to have been in the march.
Still later a Mexican workers leader
was dragged out of his home, under
arrest, without q warrant. His name
is Martinez, and he has III children.
All five we're arranged Tor dis
turbing the peace except one who is
charged with not moving on when
ordered. Trials are set for dates bet
ween Dec. 81 and Jan. 20. The work
ers demand jury trials.
on the same night the demonstra-
ton was broken up. a large protest
meeting was held in the open air.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-11
Shanghai Workers and Students Storm
kuomintang Offices, Disarm Officers
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toeHTlNU FROM PAGE oNE)
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Chi tsang, chief Of police; dis
armed policemen and troops.
smashed the Kuomintang party
headquarters and interfered with
railroad service.
Five thousand of the students,
forming fifteen groups, overcame
the armed guards OF the municipal
headquarters building. Then, In
complete control. they presented
series of demands 10 General
Chang Chun, mayor of the Chinese
city section of Shanghai.
Kourintang Official Flees 10
tmperisiists
'ene workers and students hunted
throughout the Chinese city for Pac
Tell cl1uang, q leader of the kuo-
miitang party, but lin anticipation
Of the students wrath Mr.. Pae has
gone into hiding Like other be-
tfayers of the Chinese masses, Pao
has sought refuge in the foreign iin-
perialist concessions
In reporting the destruction of the
Kuofnintang headquarters, the Times
dispatch says:
at 1880 tonight about 100 stu.
dents from Futan University
storrned the Kuoinintang head
quarters building and after gaining
entrance they smashed furniture
and windows and tore down pic
lures of DR.. Sun Yat-sen, called
the father Of republican China"
The Times dispatch admits that
the demonstrations are continuing il
Shanghai, and that similar anti
Marking, anti-imperialist demonstra-
tions are taking place in Marking it.
self, where, it says, "the foreign Of
flee has been deserted for the last
three days. Rowing bands of stu
dents yesterday caught the guards
unaWsres and stoned the building
breaking windows
Most of the business of the gov
erAment is being conducted in Sc
.cluded parts of the city"
Marking. Canton, Uniting
Against Masses.
Under the pressure Of United States
and Japanese imperialists, the Nam
king and Canton wings Of the Kuo-
mintang are making another attempt
to subordinate their differences
(which are mainly reflection of the
conflict. OF interests between Amer
lean, Japanese and British imperial
isms) to the major task of uniting
for the fight on the Chinese Revolu-
ton and the Chinese Soviets and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-11
Collect Food rerre Haute
CroatianS Declare
For Soviet Defense

PITTSBURGH, Pa.--The Confer
ence Of the Left Wing Of the Croatian
Fraternal Union, Western Pennsyl-
vania, held here November 20,
adopted resolution for struggle
against imperialist war and defense
Of the Soviet Union.
The resolution contrasts the con-
ditiors Of the workers In capitalist
lands with It's huge Unemployment
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-11

Sin one word, you reproach US
with intending TO do away with
your property. Precisely so, that is
Just what we iptend."--Marx.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-11

Huild a workers correspondence
group in your factory, shop or
neighborhood. Send regular letters
TO the Daily Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-11

will not provide sufficient relief and
that its aim is to drop q crumb now
and then only to keep the unern-
ployed quiet, and asa result of ef-
forts of the organizational commit
tee from the Staunton Unemployed
Council, which outlined a plan OF
struggle for immediate relief, the
unemployed miners of Livingston have
organized a branch Of the Unem-
ployed Council.
A. number of young miners at
tending the second meeting took the
lead in discussion and urged the old
der miners to get move'n.' The youth
showed a fine example by volunteer
ing to act on a committee to be the
leading body of the unemployed
branch, ten y Dung miners are on
this committee.
A mass meeting is being organized
to take place on Dec. 81, to hear the
report of the Hunger Marchers. The
young miners say that the whole
town got turnout for this meeting"
To make this so, they are going to go
from house to house two days before
the mass meeting and wake up the
town"
The Youth is having a special
meeting on the sixteenth to organize
their plan Of action. They say It
would be a good idea to march
through town after the mass meeting
A series Of mass meetings will be
organized in the Illinois coal fields to
hear the report of the National Hun
ger March.
Jersey City Meeting
JERSEY CITY, N. j., Dec. 10.
Albert Covington, one of the delegates
chosen at the Labor Conference to
represent the thousands Of Jersey
City unemployed in the National
Hunger March which has just con-
cluded, stated on arrival here:
Hoover refused TO listen to our de-
mands, but the Government at
washington was forced to feed and
shelter us. Race discrimination was
smashed. Only the organized force Of
workers will drive the government to
give unemployment insurance"
,Covington will give a complete re-
port at mass meeting to be held at
800 Henderson st., on Sunday. Dec.
-, at q p. m.
-
Collect Food Terre Haute
TERRg HAUTE, ind, Dec. TO-
When the National Hunger Marchers
Of Column come back through here
Dec. IA, they will find a mass greet
ing awaiting them, and preparations
made to feed and house them. Food
IL being collected. One farmer dom
ated ten chickens. The collection of
a million pennies continues.
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and wage cuts, and the rising living
standards of the Soviet masses.
Foreign born workersl The Soviet
Union belongs TO every one Of YOU.
1t is your only hope. You must stand
behind it, and prevent the bosses
from destroying It," the resolution
says In part.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-11

"Ths labor movement viii gain the
upper hand and show the way to
peace and socialism LENIN.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-11
Parade Through Detroit

DETROIT, Mich, Dec l0.--A huge
meeting to welcome the National
Hunger Marchers OF Column 3 when
they arrive to stop over here Sunday
night, has been arranged for Dance
land Auditorium at $50 .. m. sunday.
ft VI under Joint auspices Of the Un-
employed Councils, Communist Party,
international Labor Defense, and
workers fraternal organizations.
This mass meeting will demand the
unconditional release OF John schmies
Communist Party candidate for
Mayer and secretary Of the Trade
Union Unity League, who was sem
fenced to a eo-day jail sentence for
leading the Nov. 25th demonstration
which was brutally attacked by
Murphy's thugs.
The meeting, in addition, will be a
mass protest against the police ter
ror which the Murphy administration
is directing against the starving
masses.
Murphy hopes by such brutal at
tAcks to prevent them from con-
tinuins the struggle for immediate
relief and unemployment insurance.
A huge parade Of working class Or
ganisations will leave Ferry Hall, 1913
Bast Ferry, at $50 p. m, sharp for
the Danceland Auditorium.
Jobless Miners Organize
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-11

The following are the names
Of workers who have sent their
greetings to the Russian work.
ers on the anniversary of the
Russian Revolution.
printing delayed because OF late ar
rivaD
HICKSvILLE, L. 7.
3. Malins, r. rayelka. cunnsr
Bjornson. t'rrr--,,--~
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demonstrations, with great enthu-
siasm and with multitudes coming to
hear the story of the historic march
on Washington and the plans for the
continued struggle. Other cities
should notify the Daily Worker of
their arrangements at once.
CLEVELAND, Ohio, Dec. 10.--The
National Hunger Marchers Of Column
will be here tomorrow, and addi-
tional meetings to welcome them,
have been announced by the Unem-
ployed Council.
The number of meetings on Fri
day, Dec. IL, has now been increased
10 eight. The two latest to be ar
ranged are to be held at the Lith-
uanan workers Hall, $40 East 10th
st., and at the Hungarian Workers
Home, 1l123 Buckeye Road.
Other meetings for Friday are at
Rayford-Jackson Hall, 1904 Scovill
Ave; 9s7 Nathaniel, Collinswood !;
Carpenters Hall, Kinsman g. E. 135th
ST.; Pulaski Hall, 1928 Chambers Ave-;
Finnish Hall, 1903 W. 5Sth ST.; and a
meeting viii be held in the Mayfield
section. The meeting announced for
Grdina Hall has been cancelled.
All meetings will begin at p. m.
and every Cleveland worker. employed
or unemployed, should turn out to the
hall in his neighborhood to hear the
report Of the National Hunger
Marchers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-11
INTENSITY THE
STRUGGLES OF
THE UNEMPLOYED

,eoN11suED FROM PAGE ONE,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-11
yoblsss Miners Organize

yObI6sS Miners Organize
LIVINGSTON, H., Dec. TO- Spur
red to action BY the realization that
VIE loeel Citiasnb Relief Committee
The Washington times., 1931-07-22
Summer Plans of Folk
Well Known in Civ

Mrs. Edward R. Stettinius
will sail tonight on the Europa
for France to remain several
weeks.
Miss Edith Wetmore, for
merly of Washington, who has
been visiting at Colorado
Springs since early in the
month, Is expected shortly at
Newport.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. Edward Man.
vile will spend the weekend in
Newport, returning from Can
ada on their yacht, Hi-ESmaro.
\ *x
Mr.. and Mrs. Louis H. .Quinter
entertained at a dinner dance
on the Shoreham Terrace last
evening, the party marking
their first wedding anniversary.
Their guests included Mr..
and Mrs. Everett Phelps, Mr..
and Mrs. Arthur Lord, Mr.. and
Mrs. William Simmons, Miss
Jean Wolfe, Miss Louise Moore,
Mr.. Harry Proctor, and Mr..
Larry Auth.
The Washington times., 1931-07-22
Guest Departs

The United States AmoaS-
sador to Great Britain, Mr.
Charles G. Dawes, who has
been the guest of the Presldent
at the White House since Mon
day, left today, preparatory 10
sailing for his post, where ne
will take part in the 1nterna-
tional conference on German
finances. Senator Dwight w.
Morrow, who also came TO
washington Monday, is still at
the White House with the
President.
Mrs. Hoover did not return
from the presidential camp on
the Rapidan River the early
part of the week, as is her
usual custom, but remained on
there for a rest and to escape
the heat.
The Washington times., 1931-07-22
Ambassador
To Honor, ,
Students

The Ambassador of Great
Britain, Sir Ronald Lindsay,
will sail July 30 for a leave Of
absence which he will spend at
his home in England.
This afternoon the Ambas-
sador will give a reception at
the embassy for the group of
young British students, who
under the auspices of the
Carnegie Endowment For In
ternational Peace have been
making a tour Of the United
States.
In the morning the young
men will take a trip through
residential Washington, stopping
at the Cathedral of st. Peter
and st. Paul, the Shrine of the
Immaculate Conception and the
Franciscan Monastery.
Later in the day, following
the reception at the embassy,
they will have tea at Miss
Madeira's School and then will
60 to the country home of the
school, Greenway, in Fairfax
county, Virginia, for a swim
and supper.
They will be in the city until
Friday and many interesting
parties are planned for their
entertainment.
The Washington times., 1931-07-22
Mrs. SchoeIkopF
Returns From
Spain

Mrs. Walter Schoelkopf ar
rived in New York yesterday
from Spain and came directly
to Washington to join Mr..
. Schoelkopf. who has been here
for several weeks. Mr.. School
kopf is now on duty at the
State Department following SER
vice at the United States EN-
bassy at Madrid as first
secretary.
Mr.. and Mrs. Schoelkopf are
occupying for the first time
their home on Macomb Street
in Cleveland Park, which they
purchased some time ago. Their
property was one known as the
Duehay estate.
Their son, Mr.. Walter School
kopf, jr., accompanied his
mother to Spain early in the
season and is now the guest of
the Ambassador and Mrs. Irwin
B. Laughlin at San Sebastian.
He will return late in August
and in the fall will take up his
studies at Yale.