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Nogales international. [volume] (Nogales, Ariz.) 1926-1979, 1931-11-21
B. s. p. w. CLUB

Mrs. L. r. Gambee was hostess
Wednesday to the Business & Pro-
fessional Women's Club.
The evening was spent sewing for
the Arizona Children's Home.
Among those present were Mrs.
Ada Jones, Mrs. A. M. Marleau, Mrs.
H. j. Patterson, Mrs. George Janue1,
Mrs. Ellis Stoltz, Mrs. Andrew Bet
twy, Mrs Fay Perkins, Miss Pearl
Marleau, Miss Eta Mae Lewis, Miss
Marcella Arballo, Miss Edith Ward.
Mrs. Faith, Miss Clara Morris and
Miss Esther Hawks.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-20
WHEN WAR COMES

and all setbacks suffered by their Gown" inpe-
rialists, the position Of the ruling classes be-
coming especially precarious. Hence, during "a
reactionary war, the revolutionary class cannot
but see that all military defeats contributing
towards the overthrow OF the rulers. The only
policy Of rupturing the civil peace" not in word
but in deed, and of recognizing the implications
of the class war is the policy whereby the pro-
etsiat will utilize the difficulties OF It's Govern
n1ent and its own bourgeoisie to overthrow them.
This cannot be achieved, and indeed cannot be
our aim If we fail to desire the defeat OF our
own Government, If we do not do our best to
bring about such defeat. or il we do not ia
cilitate the break I'D Of our own great" innperi-
alist power.
The instability Of capitalism described above
with the hopeless suffering and distress of the
masses of toers and soldiers (Which will be-
come intensified especially after a defeat will
create the psychological prerequisites for the
rise of these aspirations. AS Lenin wrote: war
cannot release in the masses those vehement
feelings and passions violating their usual state
of torpid somnolence, and Gas result Of their
misery and DESPERATION hatred OF their govern
ment and of their bourgeoisie."
Rebel Or Die
Every soldier at the front is faced with the
practical question: Either die fighting in a war
between GlS SldVe-OWIcIo, d DllAlO llC1P-
less slave, or die for attempting to get the slaves
to fraternize to overthrow the system OF slavery.
Such, too, is how the question confronts the
working masses. war breeds blind hatred OF the
enemy, for the bourgeoisie does its utmost to
direct all the dissatisfaction of the people along
these channels, thus diverting their attention
from the chief enemy, namely the Government
and the capitalist class of their own country.
But the war which saddles the workers with
poverty, horror and endless suffering, smultane-
ously enlightens and trains the finest represent
atives of the working class. If we must die, then
we shall die fighting for our own cause, for the
workers cause for the social revolution, but not
to defend the interests of the capitalists, the
landowners and the tzars-that is the way every
class conscious worker sees the situation and
feels In spite of the difficulties of revolution
airy activities today, they are nevertheless pos
sble They are forging ahead in every part OF
the world They are our only salvation"
Ito be continued)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-20

imperialism and defend the Soviet Union.
the company, Mr.. Pagan said to me: Yes. Mr..
Pursglove realize that you need wage CUT
1 agree that you ought to have and am
willing to help you all can. But you must
know one thing, Mr. PursgIOve. You must know
that there is the National Miners Union. If
cut the wages of your miners the Nationa,
Miners Union will strike your mines and put
out of business The miners do not believe
in the United Mine Workers; all of them are
with the National Miners Union, whose leaders
will get busy and cause us lots of trouble.
However, If you are willing to take chance
the United Mine Workers of America will do
its utmost to help you We did try to cut
the wages and you gentlemen know the re-
suit"
Mr. Pursglove made quite frank admission that
the National Miners Union prevented the intend
ed wage cut of his company in spite of frantic
efforts of the U. M w. A. to help cut the wages
OF the miners. This is known to the miners thru
out Western Pennsylvania and especially to the
miners of the Pittsburgh Terminal Company.
Why did Mr.. Pursgove want to have confer
ence with the representatives of the N. M u.
although he hates the N. M. U. and its leaders
from the bottom of his heart?
Pagan for the Cut
About month ago the Pittsburgh Terminal
Coal Co. decided to cut the wages of its miners
Is per cent. The u. M W. A. was to convince
the miners of the necessity of the wage cut The
u M w. A. called mass conference of the
Pittsburgh Terminal miners to consider the ques-
ton OF wage cut. Mr., Pursglove himself spoke
at the conference. He brought with him all the
records of the company, trying to prove that the
company is losing money and cannot operate it's
mines on the basis of the present wage SCALE He
made frantic appeal to the miners to accept
is per cent wage cut. He also made threat that
all OF the mines OF the company will be shut
down If the miners do not accept the cut Mr.
Pagan, with convincing voice, followed the talk
of MIR. Pursglove. He appealed to the miners, in
the name OF god and the devil to save the
Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Company from bank
ruptcy by accepting the proposed wage cut.
However the National Miners Union under
took to fight against the wage cut Prior to the
PursgoveFagan conference, the N M u called
a mass United Front Conference and adopted
policy OF struggle against the wage cut Many
delegates that were to attend the Pursgore -Fa-
gan conference were present at TIC United Front
Conference. AS result, the miners at the Purs-
glove-Fagan conference almost unanimously yot-
ed against the proposed wage cut
u. M. ". A. Meetings Revolt
But the Pursglove- Pagan machine did not give
up the idea of wage cut. They decided to call
a special meeting of the U. M. W. A. locals The
A. was modified to prepare for the meeting. Ev-
erything was prepared in advance to put the
wage cut through The N M U. followed its
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-20
Free" Forced Labor

A relief" plan for the Iobless Of Jamestown,
Pa, highly reminiscent OF Mark TwaAns
"Huckleberry Finn" was revealed through the
Harrisburg, Pa, newspapers recently.
Jamestown, it seems, is in need of a new city
water reservoir. On the site OF the proposed
reservoir stands a forest which must be cleared
before the reservoir can be constructed. To
spend money for clearing this forest away means
to reduce the amount of potential graft for the
politicians of this burg. a-,s---
Hence "Huckleberrian" tactics, such as that
famous character of Mark Twain used TO get q
fence wi1itewashed, are resorted to. Statewide
announcement is made that here Is an oppor-
tunity for the iobless to secure fuel for tbs
taking"
To make the offer more alurdng, 1t Is an
nounced that only those who get permits through
the Red Double) Cross will be permitted to
take" the wood, that is, to clear the land Dust
as Huckleberry Finn would only permit" the
boy who gave him "a dead rat and string TO
swing it by to whitewash his fence-Jorge)
Here however, the analogy with "Huckleberry
Finn ends. If enough voluntary" workers will
not be secured by these tactics, then the Red
Cross will assign" those on It's rolls to clear that
forest on the penalty Of disseminating their re-
lief" if they disobey.-H.H.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-20
Make No Mistake

America is "civiiized." There's no doubt about
i'll
One evidence is the regret, expressed by an
expert on the Wickersham Crime Commission
appointed by Hoover, that twelve-year-old boy.
a bright faced little shaver who, out in a small
town in the state Of Washington, was sentenced
to life Imprisonment for killing sheriff who
came upon him robbing store-was NOT PUT
TO DEATH! We've mislaid the clipping, but re-
call the thing distinctly.
Another nice piece of evidence In Portland,
Oregon where we got our eye teeth cut on the
class struggle 15-year old girl, Helen Hanna.
had little sister who stole some trfle. Helen
was accused of getting her to do it,
So a capitalist scientist" gets hold OF Helen
and gives her a "test" in psychiatry (Which is
a So word for mental power) lot of ques-
tons: who is the mayor" etc. she answered.
But she couldn't tell How many years is the
life span of horse?" or why does the heart
beat?" So the psychiatrist declared that Helen
was mentally off, and ordered that she be oper-
ated on so she could never have any babies!
She was rescued just in time. But there you
have 1t! Civilized Americal" The Boston
Traveller" correctly suggests that the operation
be performed on the scientist" We think 1t
ought to be carried out on the whole darned
capitalist "civilization."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-20
Article s.

Article 8.
This is the eighth of a series Of articles
(car,piled by the Social and Economic Depart
gnent of the Red International of Labor I'm
ions) which give in clear outline, the forecast
of what war will bring the conditions that will
eraue and the historic Developments that will
mark the Transformation Of the capitalist war
into civil war DEVELOPMENTS IN which every
worker will find It necessary 80 act as an agent
of that Transformation Let all understand,
then, that the Developments which are today
but forecasts will tomorrow be grim realities
.---g,ich must he faced. Answer the war
makers Nov. 21,--Editcr.
A. the foregoing has made clear all these con-
ntons will become far more apparent more far
.eac1ing i'll their effects during future wars than
was the case during the last
] The changing fortunes of war and the in
stability of each capitalist government will be-
come more and more manifest and more and
more glaring The new military technology Will
call I'D a thousand and one unforeseen contin~
gencies: unexpected attacks air raids on the
great industrial centers the constant uncertain
ty and dread OF the morrow, Instead OF, or rsther
besides the front lines, lying inactive perhaps
months and years, there will be sharp dispersed
movements, numerous partial, but severe, defeats,
cracks will appear every day.
3 Poverty and distress will become general;
the exploitation of the masses will be increased
many times over, will reach the limit of human
endurance will exhaust all further desire to
make any more sacrifices.
g. Universal mobilization, the close connection
between the rear and the front (the uninter-
rupted operation of the war machine being de-
pendent upon the agreement and obedience of
the tong Masses. the far-reaching effects on
the psychology of the masses of all the horrors,
privation and nervous tension of wartime will
prompt the masses to take up action, which will
be instrumental in rapidly weakening the hold
OF their own imperlalist group.
Clearly, "one cannot expect the rise of a reYo-
lutionary situation exclusively with the declara-
ton of war
War Develops Weakness In Ruling Class
Only as the contradictions of war develop are
Sle foregoing factors brought into play, becom-
ing especially manifest during defeats, retreats
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-20
A White Guardist Murder Plot
Exposed By "Rote Fahne"

BERLIN, Oct. 3l.--Todays "Rote Fahne" con-
tinues its revelations concerning the activities
and plans of the white guardist murder bands. 1t
declares that the former Czarist General Turkul
is organizing special murder bands in Bulgaria
and YugoslaUa. Whilst his colleague, General
IIcrshewski, plans to carry out his outrages in
the Soviet Union, Turkul plans to perpetrate
outrages in Europe Both Comrades Cork and
Litvinoy were chosen as victims Comrade
Cork in Italy, where he is now staying for the
benefit Of his health, and Comrade Litvinov on
his arrival in Berlin.
Captain Fors was in charge OF the white guard
est training school in Sofia where prospective
Essassns were taught the art of pistol and rifle
shooting and of bomb-throVtng A white-guard-
ig6 murder organization also existed in Poland
where it was furthered and directed by the GEN
81 staff of the Polish army.
Last year the murderers made an attempt on
TIC life Of the Soviet ambassador to France
T, -n:ade Dovgsleyski The attempt was pre-
snted by the watchfulness of those entrusted
tn the care Of Comrade Dovgalevsh's life,
whereby the satrsps of Monsieur Chiappe are not
meant.
The "Rote Fahne' points out that the bollr-
r-ois and social democratic press, which Is buoy
conducting furious campaign OF Indictment in
co1nection with nom existing Communist terror
Z eurs, shows no interest whatever for the real
terrorist and murderers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-20

Daughters of Darkness
By yoRaR

A con1rade recently sent us a clipping hcesa
Virginia papers that told of some organization
OF patriotic old hens CThe Daughters OF the
Confederacy"-if We recall Alright, since views
nislaid the clipping which is building recnu-
ment at Harper's Ferry
You might think that monument ut Har~
pers Ferry would be one to John Erown4
Nothing doing John Brown Is unznenttone6se
in respectable bourgeois circles, North as WEI IS
South And he has no monument at Harpere
Ferry, as we were told by Ryan Walker, who was
down there recently John Browns body" was
sufficiently used for captansm's purpose by
serving as the hbertarian slogan to get North
ern wage slaves to fight Southern chatteI saawewy.
Then wage slavery had no interest in keeping tt1e
John Brown tradition alive, but every interest IN
NOT building monuments to him
No, the monument these Daughters are
building is to "the loyal slaves who loved their
slavery and would not fight for freedom! There
we're plenty who did fight, we must remind yea.
But the loyal" ones get the monument Of this
capitalist civilization
Another clipping recalled that first one me
second tells us that at Alexandria, Virginia, the
Daughters of America" have demanded that the
Bible be read daily in the public schools"
Daughters Of darkness Some day your
and the toilers of this country will erect 1T
ting tribute to the numberless forgotten" brave
rebel slaves like Nat Turner, and to John Brown,
whose tradition belongs today completely to those
who follow the banner of Communism
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-20
BY N. L.

! BY NJ. L.
TrHE Polish Rumanian military alliance signed
4 in 1926 provided that lin the event of the
contracting states becoming involved in war with
Soviet Russia the other party pledges itself to
come Immediately to the assistance OF the other
with all its fighting forces and if the war is
carried on against Russia alone, not less than
nine-tenths of the fighting forces of both states
must be thrown against the Russian armies"
(P R. Dietrich) This treaty was renewed this
year and sit will be a purely defensive alliance
against Russia" IN. Y. Times, Jan. 8, 1880.
Senator Wheeler, who just returned from Eu-
roDa, remarked that cit is an armed camp" He
said that recently Rumania agreed that in the
event of war involving both Rumania and Pc
land General Pilsudsd automatically would head
the Rumanian army as well as his own" IN. Y.
Times Nov. D. This is the result of Pilsudsks
recent trip to Rumania where he went to dis
Cuss questions arising from military political
Rumano- Polish alliance directed in spirit if not
in letter against the Russian danger" IN. Y.
Times, Oct. 49,. Both Poland and Rumana are
military satellites of France. Earlier this year
France loaned Poland about 100000 arranged
by the Schneider Creuzot group--the Banque
de Pays du Nord 1.-THE Polish loan has a
strategic as well as economic Importance the
money will be used chiefly for the completion
OF railway line from upper Sllesla TO the new
port Of Gdynia. A glance at the map shows the
potential military value of such line. :" Gar
isle Macdonald N Y. Times, Nov. 14).
This is in accordance with the plans Of the
French general staff for Intervention against the
Soviet Union 1t will serve the purpose of trans
Knitting munitions through Poland and Rumania
and will supply rail and water connections be-
tween France, England, Poland and Rumania
The Schneider Creuzot munition works, which
controls the French steel industry, has invested
heavily in developing the war industry of Czecho-
Slovakia (Skoda Works. through the Banc de
LUnion Emopenne and Banc de LUnion Pari-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-20
They Find Out

Up in Utica N Y worker who joined the
Communist Party recently informs us that, as
long as he remained with the so-called Social
list" party his boss didn't mind at all. But when
he decided that his place worker was IN the
Communist Party, the boss fired him! This
proves" he says, that the only Party OF the
workers is the Communist Party"
Over in Brooklyn, in the recent election,
socialist" candidate who spoke at the meeting
was introduced by the chairman, by saying:
This fellow is all right. / know, because I'm
his boss!'
We have received also copy of some edifyng
letters that passed between conlrade named
Lafayette Boal, of Long Island and James
Oneal editor of the New Leader, wherein Boal
states tina the is leaving the so-called socialist
party because "there are many inconsistencies
between theoretical socialists and socialists II,
power who repudiate their principles and ideals
they formerly advocated" and who wound I'D b.
saying:
only Communists advocate and adhere to va,
materialistic MARKHAM philosophy Only COIN
munsts are class conscious social rebels and
revolutionaries." Y
Oneals answer was merely stream ct BIZ
lingsgate which would jar some of the thin
skinned who imagine that Communists have a
monopoly on name calling This General But
Ter OF the SOCIALIST ends by urging Boal to send
his letter TO the Daily Worker, and we are thus
obliged to Onea for this added evidence Of his
fascist backguardisn1.
Further, we learn that the branch OF the
Proletaran Party in Cleveland unable longer ia
tolerate that Party's opportunist sectarianisrn
that flies in the face OF the Maszsm It peotesses
has resolved to join the Communist Party.
Day by day ~ every ysgE'theg IND ertt syefa
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-20
DISTRICT. SECTION AND UNIT
LITERATURE AGENTS

Tor All Anti-War Activities
War In the Far East, by Henry Hall ... II
Chemical Warfare, by Donald A. Cameron II
The War Of Intervention Against the Soviet
Union and the Second International,
by p. r. Dietrich Observation-Disclosures. IL
War Preparations Against the Soviet Union,
by Marcel Cachin. .................. n
Revolutionary Struggle Against War VS..
PaSf!sr, by Alex Bittelman. ........:..
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-20
BY r. BORrCH
Secretary National Miners Union

CAMUEL PURSGLOVE president of the Pitts
burgh Terminal Co. invited Comrade Kemen-
ovich, District Secretary Of the National Miners
Union, and myself to his office to discuss What
can be done to help the starving miners in tent
colonies" who were evicted from the company's
houses by Mr.. Pursglove for their refusal to work
and starve. The invitation was accepted and on
November 18th we visited Mr.. Pursglove Two
other officials of the company were present, pre-
surnably body guards of Pursglove.
AS was expected, Pursglove did not even raise
the question of the suffering of the blacklisted
miners. He had something else in mind. He
tried mighty hard to convince us that his COM
pauy cannot operate its mines because of high
wages paid to the miners" He gave us one
hour lecture" using every conceivable means to
prove that his company will go bankrupt unless
the miners accept the wage cut. After stating
all the difficulties of the company" and the me
cessity of wage cuts" Pursglove made the follow
ing statement:
Il have told the same story to Mr.. P. 7. Fa-
gam president of the United Mine Workers.
time and again. Knowing the difficulties of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-20


alliance go along with It," From Otto Lehmann-
Russbuldt in War for Profits" p. 1918. Russ
buldt says that "Rechberg's article was confirmed
later by report, issued in Oct. 1929 dealing
with the conversations that took place between
the German nationalist member of the Reich
stag, Kloenne, and the French deputy Reynand,
in which it was revealed that such an alliance
would be directed against the Soviet Republic"
In accordance with the war plans of the i'm
perialists against the Soviet Union, theological
preparation goes with it. The capitalist press
is preparing public opinion" The poisonous
venom of that press is projected and shot into
the minds of the workers to make them more
pliable cannon fodder. The fasehoods spread
about the U.S.S.R.-forced labor, dumping, the
menace OF Russian armed forces, Russia blocks
disarmament, etc.-are all part and parcel of war
preparations.
Let's quote from an American paper, the
star" Washington, D. C.. Oct Is ut is idle,
almost, to talk OF arms reductions to France
and to the nations of Central Europe when Rus
STA, for example, stands at their doors with an
army estimated at 100000 men. 1t is obvious
that no agreement can be made which does not
take into consideration the Russian army and
the clear implication Of the Soviet governments
demands for an overthrow OF all capitalistic
forms of government and reversion to the Soviet
type OF rule"
In the same vein the Evening Union OF Spring
field, Mass, Oct. %, writes
yet France and Central Europe face the spec
TIRE OF Russian army Of 100000 well-equipped
men pledged to overthrow capitalism. The 5000
miles OF water that separate us from that men
ace explain our Impotence with Europes reluc-
lance to disarrn, but Europe cannot forget the
lessons and experiences of the past thousands
Of years OF strike and conquest"
These cursory quotations from the American
press are just an example This is the kind OF
dope fed to the workers all over. in Germany
France, England, etc. They can be multiplied
many times. They serve the same purpose-the
main theme of capitalist-mperialism war
against the workers republic, the US.SR
What can stop the war preparations peace
pacts treaties. public opinion" socialists, paci-
fiste?-no, only the revolutionary workers led by
the Communist Party. We must answer-smash
the feverish war preparations, the war plans OF
tnesEassaz. sna dssspd the Soviet Union.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-02
ARGUMENTS HEARD
AT Staying TRIAL
Mrs. Jones Stays on Stand
for Five Hours Denying
Sons Testimony.
Nv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
AMELIA COURT HOUSE. Va. Sep
TENDER 2.-Five hours were allotted for
argument today before an Amelia
County jury received the case Of Mrs.
Jeston Allen Jones, mother OF eight,
charged with the murder OF her hus-
band, ]. Will Jones.
The widow spent five hours on the
stand proclaiming her innocence ana
denying the testimony Of her son Rob-
ert. who appeared as a court witness
to charge his mother with conSpiring
with a colored farm hand in the crime
and with urging him to kill his father:
She termed untrue the testimony OF
Robert and the farm hand. Richard Lee.
now serving 20 years for the murder,
and asserted that Robert promised to
STAY cut of the case" If his demands
for money were met.
The strange case found three daugh-
ters and two sons arrayed in defense
of Mrs. Jones and denying the testi-
mony of Robert, who volunteered as
a State witness. oscar Jones, jointly
indicted with his mother. waived i'm
munity to take the stand in her de-
Tense.
J. Will Jones, a prominent dairynan,
was slain January at his farm home
near Amelia, the charge from shot
gun entering his head as he lay asleep
in bed. Mrs. Jones testified that she
did not know of the death until the
following morning. when her son, oscar
sent to awaken their father, informed
her.
Lee was arrested and convicted Of
the murder He confessed and repudi-
ated the confession twice, and testified
he had been offered $25 to commit the
crime by both Mrs. Jones and Oscar
Jones. They we're indicted Immediately
after his trial.