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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-26
NEEDLE UNION TO
RATFY PROGRAM
OF COMMUNISTS
r e d Candidates to
Address Mass Meet
Today After Work

IS, right after work, all needle trades
workers are called upon to come to
mass meeting in Webster Hall to dis
cuss the election campaign and to
ratify the candidates and the cleo
ton program of the Communist Par
ty which has been endorsed by the
shop delegate council of the union.
The needle trades workers who
have been In the front ranks of the
struggle, fighting against the bosses,
the capitalist courts and judges,
against the yellow socialist bureau
Gratis who have sold out the condi-
tons Of the workers to the bosses,
realize that the struggle of the work
ers cannot be limited to the economic
field alone, but must also find ex-
preston on the political field by the
support of the Communist Party, the
only party of the working class.
Role of the Party.
In the present struggles conducted
by the Industrial Union against wage
cuts, speed up, unemployment, the
workers have found the Communist
Party and its press championing the
interests of the workers. The revolt
Of ten needle trades workers against
the miserable conditions must find
its expression on the political field.
All needle trades workers are called
upon to come to the ratification
meeting and show their enthusiastic
support Of the Communist Party. A
vote for the Communist Party is
vote against injunctions, against mass
unemployment, against speed-up
wage cuts, it is vote for militant
unionisn and for a party that fights
for the interests Of the working class.
Workers are called upon to come
from their shops in organized bodies.
Ben Gold, Joseph Boruchowitz, and
other leaders of the Industrial Union
as well as Amter and other leading
candidates of the Communist Party
will address the meeting.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-26
Farewell Banquet to
Mrs. Wright, Nc taer
of ScOttsborO BOYS

The City Committee of the League
OF Struggle for Negro Rights, together
with the Finnish Womens Club, has
organized farewell banquet for Mrs
Ada Wright, mother of two of the
Scottsboro boys, before her return to
the South, and August Yokinen, bat
tier for Negro rights, who has re-
Gently been released on bond from
Ellis Island.
The banquet will be held at the
Finnish Workers Hail. is w. 125th
st., on Thursday evening, at 8 o'clock,
October %.
An excellent program has been ar
ranged. and all workers are urged
to attend. Organizations are asked
to elect delegates to this banquet.
The admission is only Is cents.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-26
lid NEEDS FUNDS
TOSAVE NEGROES.
FOREIGN BORN
Fighting Many De-
portation and Frame
Up Cases

Deportation and 1ynching, by mob
or by lawl
These are the weapons brought to
bear by federal, city, and county Of
ficials everywhere against the spread
ing anger Of the Negro and white
workers, too long ground down I'M
der wage cuts, unemployment, evic-
tons, soup lines, so-called "unem-
ployment relief by individual mi
tiative." Negro and foreign-born
workers, the most exploited of all
American labor, stand the first brunt
Of these attacks.
Between all militant workers and
the strong-arm of the bosses govern
ment stands the International Labor
Defense, organizing under its BAN
ner tens Of thousands of workers for
relief and defense of class-war pris-
oners and their families. The Inter-
national Labor Defense, backed by
the masses, stands between Secretary
of Labor Doak and the deportation
OF Edith Berkman, National Textile
Workers Union leader, to fascist Po-
land, where she would be imprisoned
or killed. 1t saved Guido Serio from
being deported to Italy, where fascist
forces would torture him to death. 1t
is fighting for hundreds of other for
eign-born workers, threatened with
being shipped off like cattle to
Greece, Rumania, go-Slavia, China
and other lands where white terror
reigns. 1t has stood between the
nine Scottsboro boys and the death
chair in Kilby Prison, Montgomery,
Ala. Now it Is mastering It's mass
force to rescue the innocent Willie
Peterson, tubercular miner, framed
for murder in Birmingham; the Ne
gro and white miners terrorized and
framed for murder in Harlan, KY;
to save from third degree torture
and lynch law the Cougar old Ne
gro farm hand, Orphan Jones, held
for days in Maryland jails without
the right to have a lawyer, beaten
up, forced to sign confessions he
could not read.
without funds the International
Labor Defense cannot save these
workers. 1t needs money for the
necessary legal defense, for briefs, for
court, expenses, for bail, for organ
izing meetings, for leaflets. Imme-
diately the LID. needs funds to aid
prisoners rotting in cells and their
families hungering outside.
The International Labor Defense Is
a workers mass defense. Workers
must support 1t! Send contributions
NOW to Room 430, 30 East 18th St.,
New York City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-26

Negro workers and their children.
They have held many mass meet
ings TO protest the hideous attempt
by the American bosses to legally
lynch the nine Scottsboro children.
The letter relates the activities of
the Soviet children in defense of
the young Scottsboro lads, and h
here printed in full:
Dear Comrade Ella Lucille Wrixfts
Il have received your letter the
other day and was very happy to
hear from you. Your letter I have
given over to the Pioneers Of the
Soviet Union. We have read your
letter over and over. All of us are
very much enthused by your letter,
We all congratulate you on your nnis
Infancy In defense of your two
brothers and the other boys as ven.
Our comrades like the letter OF yours
especially in so far that you, as
young as you are, show already that
you know the meaning Of class So
lidarity when you ask our Russian
Pioneers to write to you and when
you say that, I'm not only helping to
free Roy and Andy but the other
seven boys also.
1.-THE Pioneers here in the Soviet
Union have from the very beginning
been fighting against this frame-up.
In fact, our Pioneers were the first
here to speak about the Scottsboro
boys. AS early as last May 2, the
Pioneers of the Soviet Union had
mass protests and resolutions adopt
ed over a mass radio hook up reach
ing to all ends of the Soviet Union.
After that, the Pioneer press carried
on campaign for the boys freedom.
There isn't working class child in
the Soviet Union that doesn't know
about the vicious frame-up.
Yesterday I spoke to a Pioneer
group about your letter and the
children decided to write to you and
your brothers Immediately. A group
Of children were chosen to write the
letters which they'll send to the
Pioneer Truth, a Pioneer paper
which will forward you all the letters
they receive.
"All, write to us some more, we
would like to hear from you. Our
Pioneers want to know about yours
and your brothers lives; write to us.
We will always answer you.
Keep up your spirit, young COM
rade, and together with you we will
keep up our fight for the freedom of
the 9 Scottsboro boys as we'll as of
all class-war prisoners. The Ala
bama Ku Kluxers will never dare
roast our boys in the chair If we
raise mighty protest that will swing
their prison door open.
Your Comrade,
HARRY EISMAN
Harry Eisrnan Is an American
Pioneer who is now in the Soviet
Union.)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-26
NAACP Looks Tor Scottsboro
Control Through Boss Court

NEW YORK,-The traitorouS ALI
ance of the N. A A. C. p, With the
Alabama boss lynchers who are trying
to burn the ScottSboro children was
again clearly exposed recently when
William Picknes let the cat out Of the
bag that the N. A. A. c. p, was de-
pending upon the Alabama boss court
to vancouver the N. A. A. C.. P. into
control Of the defense in defiance of
the wishes of the boys and their par
ents.
Pickens, who spoke at the church
of the Bronx Free Fellowship, dec
Jared that in the final anlysis the
courts would decide which organic
alton It would recognize This is quite
in line with the brazen attempt Of
Pickens and Walter White to deny the
Scottsboro boys and their parents the
right to decide on the defense poll
cies. The parents and all the boys
have repeatedly decided in favor of
GA4S A4141ld4lG pO44Cy VI VIC I'LL III
backing up its legal fight with mass
pressure on the hostile boss courts.
This policy scareS the Southern boss
and they are anxious to eliminate the
LID from the case. They have cordi-
ally welcomed the traitorous actiyi-
ties of the N. A. A. c. P in attempt
ing to smash the mass defense move
ment initiated by the LID.
In his speech Pickens condemned
the mass defense movement, which
alone can free the boys, declaring
that the sending of protest kilograms
BY hundreds of organizations to the
governor of Alabama was the best
method of 'inciting" the oppressors
OF The Negro masses and getting the
boys executed. He ignored the fact
that the boys had already been rail-
roaded and condemned to burn in
the electric chair when the white and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-26
AlabamaSh Sheriff in MurderOus
Attack on Young Negro Girl

CHATTANOOGA, Oct. Is. --Estelle
Miner, young daughter of Negro
share cropper in Camp Hill, Ala
bama, was brutally attacked and
beaten up by Sheriff Young in a
flare-up of the landowners terror
against the Negro choppers, which
has already resulted in the murder
of one cropper, the disappearance Of
four and the falling of "a choppers
on framed-up charges.
The girl was punmelled and
kicked by the sheriff who invaded
her home. Her spine has suffered
serious injury and she is in a critical
condition. This brutal attack fol-
lowed the receipt by the young girl
of letter from New York through
the mails. Sheriff Young, like all
Southern sheriffs, makes it prac-
tice to censor the mail of Negro
workers, in order to keep them iso-
lated from the outside world. When
he learned that the young worker
had received letter by mail. Sher-
iff Young flew into violent rage
and the outrageous attack on the
girl followed.
Directly upon learning, from one
of its representatives, of the attack,
the Southern District of the Inter
national Labor Defense sent a pro-
test telegram to the sheriff, declar-
ing. in part:
Tn the name Of hundreds Of
thousands of workers in our ranks,
we protest against this brutal vio-
lation of the most elementary
rights of the troopers of Camp
Hill. We pledge our continued
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-26
Pressers to Hold a
Forum Today at | pm.

Open forum of cloak and dress
pressers will be held on Monday, !
o'clock, at Memorial Hall, 344 West
36th st. At this open forum there
will be a discussion on the situation
in the trade, the conditions Of the
pressers and the plan for uniting all
the pressers, regardless of their union
affiliations, for united front struggle
to improve the conditions. All press
ers of the cloak and dress trade are
called upon to come to this forum.
Leaders of the Industrial Union will
open the discussion. Rank and file
members are called upon to come and
voice their opinions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-26
Workers! Onto the Streets
Against Imberialist War!
Protest the War Against the Chinese People!
Protest the Bloody Invasion of Manchuria!

Smash American Japanese and League of Nations plots
for world war! Smash mpeast intervention plot against
Soviet Unon Support Chinese revoIuton Demand hands
off Chinese Sovets Join the demonstration your section
l. Amter District Organizer of the New York District
of the Communist Party will speak open air meeting
at Columbus Circle, Monday, Oct. rs, at p
Tom Johnson member of the Central Committee of the
Communist Party will speak at Pitkn and Stone Ave-,
Brooklyn, Oct. %, at go p. m.
Bill Dunno, editor of the Daily Worker, will speak at
Prospect and Longwood Ave-. Bronx, Saturday, Oct 81
at p.
South Brooklyn:-Thursday, October 20, at p. H.
50th St. and 5th Ave. Main speaker Carl Brodsky.
Newark, N. J:-Thursday October 49, at p. Mill
itary Park. Main speaker Juliet Stuart Poyntz.
Meeting places in other sections of the city will be
announced
Rally in large masses Bring your shopmates, and
members of your organization.
Defend the Soviet Union! Down with the bloody Kuo-
mntang Government, agent of Yankee imperialism Show
your solidarity with Chinese and Japanese tong
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-26
Call Williamsburgh
Restaurant Work er s
To a Meeting Monday

Restaurant and cafeteria workers
Of Williamsburgh have been called
to a meeting at 795 Flushing Ave.
(near Broadway, Brooklyn, Monday,
October rs at p. m, in leaflet
distributed by the Food Workers In
dustrial Union, restaurant section.
Pointing out the increasing bad
conditions in the restaurants and
cafeterias and the need for unioni-
cation Of the Williamsburgl1 food
houses, the leaflet calls on the work.
ers to join the Food Workers Indus
trial Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-26
ATTENTION NEEDLE TRADES
WORKERS.

A very important meeting of the
needle trades general fraction will be
held on Wednesday. October 18th. at
Z p. m. sharp. at the workers Gen.
ter, End floor, to take UP the imme-
date tasks Of the Needle Trades
Union. The meeting will begin on
time. Therefore all comrades are
requested to be on time so as not to
disturb the meeting. Bring along
your Party membership book.
Communist Party, Dist. 4,
District Secretariat.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-26
US. Bank Depositors
Put Up E | e tiOn
Demands to Parties

The United Depositors Committee
of the Bank of the United States de-
positors has issued a statement to
the effect that it would mobilize its
members in the elections to strength
then its fight for the follwing de-
mands
u The State shall guarantee pay
ment in full to all depositors, espe-
cially to workers and small deposit
tors.
D Assessment Of all directors and
big stockholders.
81 Immediate prosecution of all
the responsible heads of the bank
ing department, as well as all the
directors.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-26
Jewelry Strike Now In
Its S e c O n d Week

The jewelry strikers of Fabricant
shop at l25 Canal st. have been
out two weeks and jewelry workers
are urged to show their solidarity on
the picket line all day from a. m.
to 5 p. m.
All militant jewelry workers are
called to the Office of the Jevelry
Workers Industrial Union, East
10th st., this evening at s p. m. to
taqe up special matters on blk shop
ready for cation.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-26

support TO them In their efforts TO
organize against starvation and in
their fight against the reign Of
terror carried on against them by
you, your deputies and the land
owners and TO continue to expose
your murderous terrorism to the
rest of the world"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-26

Negro workers raised their protests,
and that it was only this stormy pro-
test Of the workers that have saved
the boys so far, that forced their re-
moyal from Scottsboro to Kilby Pri-
son.
Several Negro and white workers
in the audience challenged Pickens
from the floor, asking him to explain
why the NAACP had denied the floor
to mothers of the boys on several oc-
casions. Pickens tried to laugh away
this question with the usual buffoon-
cry. The workers then took the floor
and thoroughly exposed Pickens and
the rest Of the reforInist leadership
of the NAACP.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-26
Unemployed Council
of Dressmakers to
Meet at the Union

A meeting Of the dressmakers' I'm
employed Council, consisting of those
who have filled out applications, will
be held on Monday, 2 o'clock, at the
office of the union, 1911 West 28th
st. At this meeting definite steps
will be taken to organize the council
on functioning basis, with planned
work and definite tasks assigned to
the various members, for the coming
week.
The Council will meet regularly
every Monday. All dressmakers who
have filled out applications, as well
as those who want to become men,
bers of the Council, are called upon
to come to this meeting.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-26
One way to help the Soviet Union
Is TO spread among the workers
Soviet Forced Labor" by Max
Bedacht, 10 cents per copy.
ATTENTIONS!

Mass pageant of 100 to be held
in N. Y. Coliseum Nov. 7 in cele-
bration Of 14th Anniversary OF
U. S. S. r. is only half filled.
More comrades are needed to par
ticipate. Workers Theatrical
Groups, Workers Clubs, Fraternal
Organizations, and individuals are
asked TO help make this revo-
lutionary success and attend re-
hearsal in the Workers Center, 35
E. 18th St., Monday at o'clock.
Workers Cultural Federation.
Drama Bureau,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-26
PAINTERS MASS MEETING

NEW Notwithstanding the fierce
assault upon the wages of the pain
ters and the worsening conditions in
the trade, the Trade Union Unity
Leakue group of painters has called
a mass meeting for Monday, October
2e at 1910 Boston Road, p. m.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-26
CHINA EXPRESS" TO BE SHOWN
AT N.T.W.JU, MONDAY,

China Express will be shown at
the office fthe Needle Trades Work
ers' Industrial Union, l31 W. 28th ST.,
Monday, Oct. Goth, p. m.
This moving picture show will mark
the beginning Of the cultural actiH-
ties undertaken by the Negro Depart
ment OF the Industrial Union.
Ben Gold, secretary OF the union,
will speak.
Come and bring your family and
friends along
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-26
What's On
MONDAY

MONDAY
Rehenrsals for the Nov. 18th Pageant
will be held at the Workers Gen.
ter, IS E. 18th st, tonight. at 8 pm.
More comrades needed.
workers Ex-servicemen's League
Branch No. 2.
will hold an open-air meeting at
9TH Ave. and 125th St, 5 p. m. Speak
ers requested to come early.
Join the wiIIiamsburgh Vote Com
80. 80. munist CIub.
All workers of WILLIAMSBURG are
called UP on to take part in the first
organizational meeting of the Com
munist Club, tonight at 11S Crook
street, p. m.
will hold it's next class on Legal
Defense with Comrade Taub in room
'os, so e. 15th St, 1880 p. m.
Class In Dancing
Will be conducted by Edith Segai
at the Workers Cooperative House,
e7oO Bronx Park East at S:45 p. m,
under the auspices of the W1R Gull
tural Department. Bring bathing
suits.
TUESDAY
Drug workers Attention
All unemployed drug store clerks,
pharmaceutical factory workers, etc.
are called to a special meeting to be
held by thte Medical Workers l. l..
tomorrow afternoon, at los u. 14th
St., room 2o2, p. m.
WEDNESDAY
Medical Workers industrial League.
will hold a membership meeting at
T.. 18th St. at $3.50 p. m. Members
are urged to attend. Very important!
NEW JERSEY
Union City.
IptcrnntT Labor Defense, Eng. Br.
will hold a membership drive meet,
tonight, at 4344, Hudson Blv'1. All
workers are invited.
BRoNN RED WEEK
will be held Oct. 20 for the last
week OF the Election Campaign IN
the end and 4th Ass. Dists. Unit
No. of the Young Communist
League and Nos. II, is, 49, G. P. will
hold open-air meeting, p. m. as fol-
lows.
Monday Oct. 2G.--i7Oth st. and
vaiton Ave, Wednesday. Oct. 2S on
ane place, MS well as Claremont
arkway and washington Ave. Fur
sr date6 will be announced in this
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-26

Give your answer to Hoover's
program Of hunger, wage cuts and
persecution.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-26
Trade Union Unity
Council Affiliates to
Foreign Born Rody

NEW YORK, Oct. 22-An affilia-
ton check and letter signed by j.
Steuben of the Trade Union Unity
Council, was received today by the
District Committee for the Protec-
ton of the Foreign Born informing
that this organization has decided to
affiliate and give its full support to
the Committee.
The affiliation of the Trade Union
Unity Council comes as result of
the practical work which the COM
mittee is carrying out in leading the
struggle for defense and giving legal
aid to the foreign born workers.
All workers organizations should
follow the Trade Union Council and
affiliate with the Committee for the
Protection OF the Foreign Born, 80
Union So, Room sos, New York City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-26
Your Conrade,
HARRY EISMAN

Harry Eisnan Is an American
Pioneer who is now in the Soviet
Uniorl)
Imperial Valley press., 1931-11-24
TWO SENATORS
MADE GAINS IN
SUGAR STOCKS
Davis And Watson Fail
To Explain Transac-
tiOns.

WASHINGTON, Nov. "a. U.P)-
Two Republican senators who bought
stock in sugar company with un-
secured personal notes and made a
paper profit on their stock were
offered a chance today TO explain
their transaction to the senate lob
by committee.
The two senators are James j.
Davis of Pennsylvania who was
secretary of labor at the time of
the sugar stock deal, and James E.
Watson Of Indiana, senate floor
leader who later voted for higher
sugar tariffs.
There were no indications they
desired to appear. 1t was possible
the case may be dropped, temper
arily at least, after the committee
investigator, John Holland, has
been heard further. The stock now
held by the senators is worthless
and Davis appears to have lost some
Of his own money in the deals.
Holland, who was an aide to
Walsh in the Teapot Dome oil
scandal inquiry, has obtained EVIL
dence indicating Watson received a
fee from the Dahlberg Sugar Com
panies of Chicago for attempting
to settle a railroad claims case.
It is this phase of the inquiry
with which Hollands further test
imony will deal
Commenting on this transaction,
Watson said in a statement;
Early in 1928 gave my note for
stock in one of Dahlberg's compan-
les. The stock is of no account, or
worth nothing, and neither is my
note. Therefore the score is moth
ing to nothing in this game. This
was purely private business trans
action ard had no relation to legis-
lation, past, present or future"
There were also records of sale to
other prominent men, including
John j. Raskob, chairman of the
Democratic national committee.
Alfred E. Smith, 1923 Democratic
presidential candidate, and Senator
George Moses of New Hampshire.
These purchases were for s250,000;
$4,000 and $4,000, respectively, but
we're all paid for in cash.
Davis invested S95,755 of his own
money in the Dahlberg Celotex
company. Although Davis got a
100 per cent stock dividend from
the company, the stock now is SELL
ing for only 81 a share and his loss
is at least 100000.