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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-20
Give Aid to the Harlan Front

YNcH justice gone against strikers
County, Kentucky.
workers.
Bameo Vaned went trial for their lives before the infamous
Webster Dedam
capitalist class justice turned
sive scale.
Within this judicial stronghold
interested coal
starvation living conditions constitute
nent" who not Justice the
declares
the backs of the criminal element of this county"
the judicial
interests County
Teller Consolidation Coal the United States Steel Corporation
controlled United
the Commonwealth Edison and other insult interests
Behind their these judicial 1ackey betay their
fears labor before the militant
County plan the trials other
devoid mitany discomfort
and their sympahz through
the fostering ne of the Harlan Jail the
lynchng the Rockeeller the Morgan
They carry
their individually,
Massachusetts, the killings
tnchng
the the mountain
wounded the daylight
the the editor of the Crawfords Weekly
thrown into jail soealed criminal syndcaism
front bazes today of the
the whole working the
struggle workers.
with the foreignb raises the right to organize strike
defense ynchng the right
asmbage Victory crucial to labors
of the with
the leading demands saccoVnzet
this struggle the courts relief for the prisoners
dependents children
outside the mountains death
needle in the struggle desperately needed They must
Let the flood of donations Mail
tribuion the National Office International
80 18th st, City Help the struggle the Harlan front
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-20
ACW Fake StOppage
In Boston To Levy
New Assessment
NTWIU Issues Leaflet
Proposing Real Action
for Concrete Demands

BOSTON, Mass, August 19.-The
Amalgamated Clothing Workers, with
the consent of the bosses, called a
fake stoppage this morning. The OBJ
ject of the stoppage is to levy a
new assessment on the workers. No
demands to the bosses were present.
ed, although reductions are made
daily.
At a mass meeting this morning,
Schlossberg acted as a preacher and
told the workers to be loyal and pay
the taxes. The workers know the
main object of the fake stoppage and
are disguised with the Amalgamated
maneuvtr.
The Needle Trades Workers In
dustrial Union issued a leaflet this
morning telling the workers the true
purpose of the fake stoppage, pro-
posing concrete program of action.
A rank and file committee has been
organized to carry on the work
among the members of the Anal
gamated.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-20
Paterson Strikers Protest
Police Brutality Aug. p

PATERSON, N. j., Aug. 19.-The
workers and strikers of Paterson will
demonstrate Saturday, August %,
against the brutal police attack on
the strikers in the parade last
Thursday and, in solidarity with the
workers throughout the world, for
the release of all political prisoners.
The demonstration will take place at
the City Hall Plaza and is being con-
Quoted under the joint leadership of
the international Labor Defense and
the United Front General Strike
Committee and the National Textile
Workers Union.
At the meeting of the Taxpayers
League last night motion was
adopted censuring traffic officer
Peterson for having caused the at
tack on the workers at the parade.
This motion was made by Charles
Silverman, counsel for the League,
who complained that as a result of
the display of news reel pictures of
the vicious attack Paterson was re-
ceiving a great deal of unfavorable
publicity throughout the country.
The Taxpayers League while trying
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-20
Scottsboro 9 Again Defeat NAACP
Treachery>>>Workers Protest Aug. p

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, Aug. 49,
Clar5e Patterson and Mrs. Mamie
Williams, parents of two of the
Scottsboro boys on their return yes
terday from visit to the eight
boys in Kilby 2rison, Montgomery,
denounced Walter White, of the N.
A. A. c. P. for his persistent attempts
to coerce the boys into ignoring the
wishes of their parents. The boys
reported that White had again visit
ed them last week on two separate
occasions. I'VE told him that we
want the International Labor De-
Tense to defend u.s. the boys told
Mr.. Patterson and Mrs. Williams.
1t has been definitely established
that the firm of Fort, Beddow and
Ray dropped out Of the case follow
in the failure of the efforts of White
to have the boys sign retainers. With
RoGdy going violently insane, the N.
A. A. C. P. misleaders are not only
without c] ents but without attorneys
in the case. Roddy was taken by his
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-20
NEEDLE WORKERS
ENDORSE PARTY
ELECTION DRIVE
To Mobilize Needle
Workers For the
Elections

NEW YORK. - The Needle Trade
Workers Industrial Union has an
swered the call of the Communist
Party and endorsed the Communist
Party Election Campaign platform at
the last meeting of the Executive
Committee. The Needle Trade Work
ers Industrial Union now issues the
call to all members in the shops to
attend the Election Campaign Con-
ference called by Section this Fri
day, August 81, at pm. at 3o1 W.
29th ST., and requests all union and
all open shops to send delegates to
the conference.
The Needle Trades Workers In
dustrial Union will shortly announce
the general mobilization day for the
entire industry to collect signatures
to enable the Communist Party can
didates to get on the ballot. Under
the slogan of 1.-TWO signatures a day
for all workers" the members of all
revolutionary unions must guarantee
thelr part IN TINS drive not only TO
get Communist Party candidates on
the ballot but to elect Communist
leaders in the coming elections in all
boroughs.
In order to make sure that all
workers of the Food Workers Union
are modified in the shops, the date
of the Food Workers Election Cam
paign Mass Meeting has been
changed to Thursday, August 81
Comrade I. Amter will speak. Work
ers are asked to call at the Food
Workers Industrial Union headquar-
ters, E. 10th st, for the special
Election Campaign leaflet issued by
the Union to be distributed in all
shops and among the workers gener-
ally in the industry.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-20
POSTPONE TRIAL OF IS
KY. MINERS; DEFENSE
FUNDS URGENT NOW
Communism Spreads
throughout Europe,
Says Hearst Editor

NEW YORK.-"The German
/ a m g ainst Bolshevism is
broken" Thus begins the start
ling story cabled from London on
Tuesday to the international
News Service by Otto B. ToIschus
European director. The Interna-
tional News Service is Hearst
organization.
Tolischus, sensing the collapse
of capitalism, is attempting to
arouse the capitalists to immedi-
ate war against the Soviet Union.
He says;
Broad streams OF aed ideol-
ogy pouring through huge gaps
and winding through the mani
fold phases of German life are
beginning to lap the shores of
England.
This is the appalling but
rld-historic truth dawning
upon Europe and the world.
This is the reason that the
British government has pro-
claimed a national emergency
and called statesmen of all par
ties to help ramify the bulwarks
and erect a new line of defense
against the Red tide by stabil-
izing finances through common
sacrifices as in time of war"
Commenting on the breakdown
of capitalism, Tolischus writes:
"The revolution initiated by
the challenge of BoIshevism to
capitalism or what Count Key
serling calls 'Privatism,' is in
tensified by the breakdown of
capitalism, which must face the
charge of millions of hungry
amid the greatest abundance OF
goods in The worlds history"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-20

of the South to put to death a Ne
gro. A new era has arrived In the
lives of the Negro and white work
ers who realize that only militant
mass protest, backing legal defense,
can ever stay the bloody hands of
the murderous white ruling class"
Again on August 22--this Satur-
day-the international working class
will take the streets in militant de-
mand for the unconditional release
OF the Scottsboro boys, for the re-
lease of Tom Mooney and all class
war prisoners and in protest against
the growing boss terror against the
working class, against the murder of
strikers in the mine fields. the mas
sacre of Chicago unemployed workers
on August 3, and the massacre of
the Camp Hill Negro troopers.
Negro and white workers! All out
on the streets August 22I Demon
strate against boss terroS.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-20
NY. WORKERS
TOPROTEST IN
STREETS, SAT.
To Hold S e p a r a t e
Demonstrations
Turnout City

NEW ORK.-This Saturday,
August 22-Sacco Vanzetti DAYS.
a day of world wide mobilization of
the toiling masses to demonstrate
against boss terror and for amnesty
to all class war prisoners and the
release of the Scottsboro Negro boys
In New York City there will be
demonstrations in every section of
the city. The hour and place of
these demonstrations are given be-
low. All workers, Negro and white,
youth and adult and women are
urged to turn out in masses in sup
port of the demands of the demon
strations and in the fight against
boss terror.
Workers! Defend your right to or
ganize to fight against starvation
and evictions! Smash the boss ter
ror against the working class! De-
mand the release of Tom Mooney
and all class war prisoners! Demand
the release of the Scottsboro and
Camp Hill Negro victims of Jim
Grow capitalism! Defend the unity
of the Negro and white workers!
Support the struggle of the Negro
masses! Demonstrate Saturday!
See page for the points of dem
onstration.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-20
Chief of Army Staff Says War
Must Come Soon for Profits

NEW YORK-Capitalisrn inev-
itably drives to war, is the admission
made here over the nationwide
radio hookup of WABC Tuesday by
Colonel William K. Naylor, chief of
staff, Second Corps Area. eve must
not forget" said the colonel pre-
pairing his hearers for the coming
war, chat wars are caused by COM
mercial rivalry generally, by hope OF
financial gain, or by fear of finan-
ciaI loss" This is an open admission
that wars are made by capitalists in
their fight for profits and that the
talk about defense of the father
land" is only hypocritical carnou-
flage.
American imperialism, said Nay
lor, needs a bigger army and navy,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-20
TO HIT MACHADO
TERROR IN CUBA
LNPROTEST TODAY
New York Workers To
Pledge Solidarity With
Cuban Workers

NEW YORK. - Section l of the
Communist Party and the Marine
Workers Industrial Union calls on
all the workers of downtown New
York to rally at noon today in mass
demonstration in front of the Cuban
Consulate at West Street and Bat
terry Place to protest against the
murder and falling of militant Cuban
wo-,.e-s by the bloody Machado gov
eminent.
During the recent strikes and the
present widespread revolutionary up
heaval in Cuba, thousands of Cuban
workers, including many Commun-
lists, have been jailed, murdered and
subjected to the most brutal torture
by the Machado ruling class. Air
planes carrying bombs and high ex-
plosives have been sent by the Fed
eral government against the workers
to spread death and destruction
where workers live. All the instrum-
entS of force and violence Of the
Cuban ruling class have been mobil-
lied against the Cuban workers to
make them submit to the starvation
program of the sugar barons and the
Wall Street bankers.
Under the banners of the Com
munist Party of Cuba and the revo-
lutionary trade union movement, the
Cuban workingclass are rising up
against all the capitalist parties who
are fighting for the control of the
government and the privilege to fur
Their exploit and starve the workers
The struggle of the Cuban work.
ingclass is also the struggle Of the
American workers. We must show
our SOLITARY n the workers OF
Cuba by C )ut in great num-
bers todas IN in front of the
Cuban Consulate.
Demand the release of all working
class fightersl Protest against the
murder of our Cuban comrades!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-20

to avoid the bad publicity from
beating up of workers has put the
blame on Peterson, single cop,
when it is known that the attack
was planned one on the part of
the police force under the direction
of the silk bosses.
Thirty-six workers in the National
Silk Throwing Co. plant on Dale A9e.
went out on strike today A couple
of weeks before the strike started the
boss laid off all the workers. He
called them back to work with 25
per cent wage cut, which meant down
to So a week. The workers refused
and came to the NTWU for leader
ship. A meeting of the shop was
organized and thirteen workers
joined the union. They drew up
their demands and refuse to go back
to work without the recognition of
the NTWU.
Holdeman Wants Peace"
According to this mornings press
Holderman of the UTW-Associated
made the following bid for peace
with the bosses, that is sell out:
I'VE want peace not now, but for
ever. But we want peace with honor.
We all know that strikes have been
too many in the past and I am sure
we all hope to find some way to cur
tail them in the future for the city
at large"
The A. F. of L. unions want peace
roG on the workers demands but
with honor" that is, on tho bosses
wage cutting and speed-up terms.
There have been too many strikes
in the past" The workers have
struck for their demands against
such agents of the bosses as Holder
man, Dudenz and Co. Holderman
openly admits that they want to find
some way besides the strike. He is
trying to prepare the strikers for an
arbitration scheme.
At the beginning of the strike the
UTW- Associated misleaders we're
ready to use the arbitration scheme
with Mayor Hinchcliffe but the mill
fancy of the workers on the picket
lines prevented them from proceed
ing with that plan of open sell-out.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-20
5 COMFY ISLAND
FAMILIES THROWN
IN THE STREETS
Gas Co. Agents Routed
BY Aroused Tenants;
Worker Is Suicide

Five Coney Island families were
evicted yesterday on 10Th st. between
Railroad Ave. and Mermaid Ave. The
furniture of these unemployed work
ers who could not pay rent was
thrown into the streets and families
grouped around it, helpless and look
ing on in despair
A gas company agent was set upon
by residents of tenement on Mer-
maid Avenue near the movie house
when he was about to shut off the
gas of one tenant. He was chased
from the building.
The same evening an unemployed
worker, name unknown, committed
suicide in a house on Mermaid Ave.
He was respondent because he could
not secure work.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-20
Demand Release Boys
and All Class War
Prisoners

father to an insane asylum in Mis-
souri, following his attempt to kill
his wife.
The National office of the LID de-
clared yesterday:
"The Scottsboro case is now def
initcly established on a world wide
scale as an issue of the utmost i'm
portance. Millions of workers and
their sympathizers are protesting
this attempt to legally lynch nine
Negro children on the usual frame
up charge of rape. Thousands of
Negroes have been legally lynched
by due process of law since the
Civil War. Legalism has never
saved single life when 1t was to
the benefit Of the white ruling class
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-20
My Babies Need Milk
So Badly" Pleads
Miners Wife
Relief Need Urgent
Strikers Ask Workers
Solidarity

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Aug. 19.-"I
expect my baby to be born in three
weeks, and I don't have a shirt or a
diaper for it." a miners wife who
has been one of the most active rank
and file organizers since the strikes
beginning, writes to Mary Smith,
woman's organizer, who turned it
over to the Penn Ohio-W. AIKEN
lucky Striking Miners Relief Com
mittee. my shoes and my husbands
shoes and all of our clothes are so
threadworn.
What shall we do? I can't even
come to Pittsburgh for meetings any
more, because have nothing but
an old Bingham apron I got from
my mother-in-law, the only thing
that will fit me at present.
Dear comrade, I make my plea to
you because we both work for the
same cause, to help me in my dill
emma now Git must be Immediately
so that may force my ordeal with
less worry on my head and more
strength in my body.
my children won't be able to go
to school this fall, because they have
no clothes and shoes, and they are
losing weight all the time and losing
strength and mentality. Since the
beginning of the strike we all have
been very active members of the
union and done our best. My hus-
band and I go on the picket line
every day. I do my best with the
auxiliaries, but picketing and going
from one striking camp to another
wore out all the things I got.
1--WE don't know what it is to have
some soup or coffee with milk in it
for our three little children, all I'M
der six years. My babies need milk
so badly, and bread, too. And we
need clothes so badly. My size is AZ
now, and shoes 51a; my husband, 40
shirt, trousers ST. shoes 81a; Walter,
age 5, size suit, shoes IL; Tommy,
age 4, size 5, shoes II; junior, age
8, size 5, shoes land some sort Of
layette for the baby.
This letter has been so terrible to
write, because I have been trying to
keep quiet about my trouble because
the fight is too important to talk
about such small things. But with
my baby coming so soon I can't help
it. Writing this leaves me pretty
we'll exhausted and spent. I am sure
that this is the longest thing I ever
wrote in all my life and this life
of mine has been pretty active all
the time.
"As soon as I hear from you and
CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-20
Bruening to Cut Pay
of Civil Employees
Gable by Inprecorr)

BERLIN, Aug. 19.-The reduction
of Berlin civil service employees SAL
aries by fifteen per cent has been
fixed for october /. There is great
indignation amongst the lower Off
cials and employees affected by this
reduction. The highest salaried Of
ficials, magistrates and directors are
not effected by this cut.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-20

threatened to leave her, and she shot
and wounded him.
At first the capitalist news papers
began to print few of the facts in
their stories. Several of them repro
duced checks from the commission to
study pensions and relief dependency
made payable to r. N. Cranmer One
check was for 1919. How many thou
sands of dollars Yates spent from
the so-called pension and relief"
fund for orgies, dinners and clothes
for his mistress and for other things
will never be known because the cap
itaist papers are acting in unison to
kill this damning news.
Yates has made many statements
in the capitalist press against the
Reds" as home destroyers," and as
violent leaders of the unemployed"
Whenever the Communists of New
Jersey led demonstrations of the IN
employed demanding relief, Yates
was among the loudest ordering that
they be beaten and jailed. All the
while, Yates was having official
checks made out, depicting the So
called relief fund, so that his mis-
tress could squander thousands.
The capitalists do not want the TO-
100000 unemployed to know the facts
that the capitalist politicians do
not only graft out of so-called "regu-
lar" government funds, bot take all
they can get from the measly "dona-
tons made to pension and relief.
A careful which, Of
course, will never be made-would
undoubtedly show that in New Jer-
sey, and in every other state in the
United States, the capitalist politi-
clans who rant against the militant
leaders of the unemployed, who or
GCONTINtTED on PAGE TEREEl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-20
SHOE WORKERS
DEFEAT PAY CUT
AT GIANTEL CO.
Boss Forced to Recog-
nize Shop Committee

NEW YORK. boss was forced
to withdraw fifteen per cent wage
cut and recognize the shop COMMIT
tee with whom he is to settle all
shop grievances and disputes about
prices at the Giant Shoe Co.
The firm is also obligated to rec
ognize the right of the workers to
belong to the Shoe and Leather
Workers Industrial Union under
whose leadership the strike was con-
Quoted.
The boss tried all methods to break
the strike, from hiring scabs to max
ing frame-ups on the strike COM
mittees, but he failed. The shop
stood solid behind the Union and
the Committee
The strike lasted for about weeks
and now the workers are returning
to work as good and proud Union
men.
The strike at the Glenmore is now
going on the sixth week. The at
ternpts of the boss to break the re 1ll;s
of the strikeM with underworld tao
tics and strike breakers w1s me-
without success. The injunction hear
ing was at an end last Monday and
a Court decision is Forthcoming. Re-
gardless of the decision the fight will
go on.
The Shoe and Leather Workers
Industrial Union is now circulating a
call to all shoe workers to come on
the picket line at the Glenmore.
The Union also urges the workers
to respond to The call for strike
,af
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-20
Republican Senator Yates of
NJ. Robbed Old Age Pension
and Jobless Funds for Orgies
Model Law" Was Easy Pickings for the Capitalist
Politicians While Many Thousands Of
Aged Workers Starved

Funds which were supposed to 60 to the
unemployed of New Jersey as well as to the
Cd i c.-- workers thousands of whom are
on the verge of starvation and have been re-
fused any relief whatever by the New Jersey
capitalist poicians-were spent freely in providing luxurious
apartments flowers candy ewey for the mistress of State
Senator Roy F. Yates, New Jersey Republican leader.
is only by accident that these facts revealed
Yates and his mistress Ruth Jayne Crammr got drunk he
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-20
LYNCH MOB OUT
IN LOUISIANA
Negro Framed-up On
Rape" Charge

BATON ROUGE, La, Aug 49, =
A sheriff's posse has ordered all Ne
groes to leave the town of Denham
Springs, La, under threat of whole
sale massacre.
Theo rider follows an alleged at
tack by a Negro ON white woman.
Ellis Smith, 25-year old Negro work
or has been arrested an a "confes-
sion' extorted from him by third
degree methods. IIe is being held in
TIE East Eaton Rouge Jail where last
night o crowd Of leading citizens
gathered to demand his l-co. Tire Is
of lynching were freely expressed by
the crowd
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-20

and is building it, and all the talk
of the pacifists is lot of bunk be-
cause, he adds, they overlook the
basic causes which drive to war.
Colonel Naylor stated these causes
could not be wiped out.
The colonel is frank in admitting
that the American workers will soon
be plunged into another world
slaughter for Commercial rivalry
and financial gain"-that is, to help
enrich the capitalists of the United
States.
This means that only with the
overthrow of capitalism will the
basis for wars, as admitted by the
colonel, be destroyed, and not until
then.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-20
TUUCMeeting Hears
Mine Strike Report

A very important meeting of
the TUUC will take place this
evening at 1880 p. m. Comrade
tombstone. who has just returned
from the mine fields, will report
on the mine strike. Many other
important questions are on the
agenda for the meeting.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-20
JOBLESS WORKER COMMITS
SUICIDE

SPRINGFIELD, Mass, Aug. 10. -
Richard Nardi, an unemployed tailor
committed suicide by jumping into
the Connecticut River from the
Hamden County Memorial Bridge.
He was about forty years of age.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-20

Workers Correspondence is the
backbone of The revolutionary press
Build your press by writing for 1t
about your day-to-day struggle.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-20

MOSCOTT.-The Third and De-
cisive Yea" Loan was oyersubscribed
in short time and now totals one
billion, six hundred million rubles.