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not merely serving a defensive purpose. 1t is
designed primarily to serve a capitalist often
sive. American capitalism is at war with the
Soviet Union. Admiral Pratt, the chief of Ma
val Operations of the U. S. Navy, excused this
in Boston November ID, 1880, when he de-
cared The word in which they (the USSR)
live and the one in which we (the USA) live
are so totally different that the two cannot
exist side by ide" The world of proft-making
and exploitation cannot exist alongside world
of socialism The world of socialism would be
an eloquent invitation to the victims of CAPT.
talist profit-naking to end it,
Capitalist profit-makers never permit their
victims to escape without struggle. On the con-
trary; they not only use their power to prevent
the workers from fighting against them; they
even demand categorically of the workers to
fight for them. That is why the VOLS and
Hillquits do not content themselves with pre-
venting the workers from fighting against
their Wage-cutting capitalists and for social
ism; in addition they exert every effort to get
the workers to fight against socialism and for
their bosses. 1t was for this purpose that Mat
thew Vol raved in his news CD service that,
"The officially declared purpose of the Com
munists is to wipe out the white mans civil
ization from the face of the earth If the Reds
can carry their plans to a logical conclusion,
they will kill off the majority of the white
men in a world revolution and appropriate
white women and breed mongrel race"
To remove an obstacle in the way of the war
of American capitalism against the Soviet
Union. Morris Hillquit declared that -"The
reign of the Soviets is almost as abhorrent as
war among nations. Soviet Russia today is
guilty of acts of despotism as terrible as in
the days of the car"
This outpouring of anti-Sovet poison is
pure and simple propaganda. 1t is war propa-
ganda. The war of American capitalism
against the Soviet Union is not matter of the
future. This war is already on. Ex-Ambassa-
dor Gerard made this clear in recent speech
when he stated, eve are at war now with a
nation of murderers who have destroyed re-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-15
Wisconsin Radical" Legislators Aid
Bosses in Their Wage Cutting Drive

MILWAUKEE,, Wis.-June 8.--In
the Milwaukee Sentinel of May 81
there appeared large article giving
a report of special assembly COM
mittee on wage-cutS In this report
it was shown that some workers have
been cut from $25 week to $40 a
week. 1t was shown that annual
earnings of even the best paid work
ers are far below the standard of
$2,4O0 per year established by the
government" Then the committee
goes on to say that it will do moth
ing to help the workers: helpless
though the legislature may be in the
matter of wage reductions. :" But
this is not all. A minority report was
turned in. This first report was that
of the majority-"soc socialists" and
"progressives." The minority report
weeps as follows over the poor en-
ployers: From the standpoint of the
employees, the existing situation is no
more satisfactory than from the en-
ployers point of view. ;. The pres
ent is an exceedingly bad time for
both employers and employees.
Tot the committee it seems 1t
is far more important to consider
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what can be done to regularize and
distribute employment than to try to
place the responsibility for existing
conditions upon employers who are
doing their level best to keep at least
some of their men employed"
This is the radical Wisconsin
assembly" progressive" and social
ist." In the question Of wage-cuts,
it will do nothing to help the work.
ers; in the question of unemploy-
ment it is sorry--for the bosses!
But the Wisconsin workers, march
ing to Madison on June 1916, led
by the Unemployed Councils and the
T. IT, u. L., will demand that the
assembly appropriate money for un-
employment insurance of SIS a week
for each worker and So additional
for each dependent. These yellow
betrayers, both the socialist party
and the LaFollette progressives, are
only the faithful servants of the
Wisconsin bosses. as this incident
shows. The Communist Party is the
only political party which will actu-
ally help the workers-all the rest
are sorry for the bosses, and don't
care at all while the workers starve.
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However, this war has not yet developed
into an open military attack. The reason for
this is the unwillingness of the American
working masses to fight another imperialist
war; especially do they dislike war on the So
Wet Union. VOL and Hillquit, the New York
Evening Post and the Chicago Tribune to-
gether with all other capitalist newspapers and
agents, undertook the task of removing this
obstacle. Their anti-Soviet lies and SANDERS
are designed to create the necessary "holy
war" spirit, 1t is dirty job; but to them it is
a labor of love. Ludwell Denny says in his
book, America Conquers Britain, that when
ever government enters war the necessity
arises to create moral issue as bogy" Mr.
Denny is capitalist newspaperman; he knows
exactly what he is talking about. mo modern
civilized people, says he, will fight unless
they believe it is holy war &c. To create this
holy war myth is therefore one of the tasks
confronting the government on the eve of hos
tility."
Looking at them through the spectroscope
of this capitalist need, the mad rawlings of
Matthew VOL can be understood as the crafty
outpourings of an anti-Soviet war crusader.
The ISLANDERS of Hillquit and the lies of the
Evening Post can be recognized as those ficti-
tious war atrocities which the American cap
talists need to create the holy war myth"
There are millions of workers in America
who are and have been enjoined by capitalist
court injunctions from striking or threaten
ing to strike" against wage cuts. Capitalist
court orders prohibit American workers from
leaving or threatening to leave the employ of
plaintiff injunction granted to Lubliner and
Trints in Chicago 1881. Workers who work I'M
der the most miserable conditions are forbid
den to struggle against them; they are Or
dered to refrain from organizing; they are en-
Joined from printing, publishing, issuing, cir
cuating and distributing or otherwise eommu-
nicating directly or indirectly in writing or
verbally to any persons, associations of per-
sons or corporations or representing that there
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National Tag Days June
20, 27, Is! Districts!
Intensity Activity Noev!

criticizing, changing, helping In
every possible way, so that their
paper will live and lead the strug-
giles ahead.
Workers Societies to the Rescue,
'If every reader Of the Daily we're
to send a dollar, writes j. ", Ali
ance Ohio, "in short time the ne
cessary $4,000 would be raised. En-
closed is money order for S." Same
thought expressed by NJ. L. D. Pater-
son, N. j., who encloses 81.
From A. B., Montello, Mas, "En-
closed check for $64o. This is col
lection for DAILY" at Lithuanian
meeting at Montello, Mass. r. W.
Chicago, Ill, sends $25 part profits
Of Daily dance From Middle Bronx
Workers Club, ". Y: Enclosed $500
In next four weeks expect to raise
$50 more.
Big labor picnic scheduled sn 5nly
18th at Grabbe's Park, Sioux City,
Iowa, for Daily" benefit. There wilI
be dancing, sports, baseball raffles,
eats and good speakers. Ali workers
interested in welfare Of Daily Wsrks4
invited.
Subscriptions and renewals vii
help Daily" in crisis Ask voux
friends to subscribe!
Keep Circulation Up.
More bundle orders should be CON-
ing in. Comrades not taking full adj
vantage of crucial battles IN Scots
boro. Youngstown, Pittsburgh, Allen
town, Rockford, to spread Daily
among workers. Reading, Pa, show
ing signs of life: Increase bundle
from 200 to ESQ.," writes ]. NJ, nsw
| d. W. Agent. Going to can confer
ence of readers to raise quota, also
TO get them 10 write correspondence.
We live In a socialist town and We
have got 10 show workers here what
the socialist yarty really iS," con-
cludes this lively letter.
RUSH ORDERS FOR BEDACHT
SOVIET UNION ARTICLES
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V. FORCED LABOR.
BY MAX BEDACHT.

The propaganda of the American capitalists
about forced labor in the Soviet Union is real
tragic comedy. Imagine, if you can, an Amerl-
can capitalist after he has cut the wages IN his
establishment and after he has called upon his
pet Judge for an injunction against his work.
ers to prevent them from striking against this
wage cut, shed tears about forced labor IN the
Soviet Union.
Here, too, method is evident in the madness.
If Matthew Woll succeeds in exciting the
American workers by shouting "Sovietism is
a real issue to the American people. the
sooner this is reaized the more sure will be
victory Of freedom over tyranny" he is able
to prevent these same workers from organlz-
ing struggle against the tyranny of wage
cuts in America, from putting an end to the
tyranny of company guards and police against
the workers in America, from combating the
tyranny of frame-ups and deportations against
the workers in Capitalist America.
The propaganda about forced labor in the
Soviet Union is merely the application of the
motheaten strategy of crying, "Stop thief"
The American capitalists Systematically steal
greater and greater parts of the workers
wages through ever repeated wage cuts. At the
same time they are trying by all means to
prevent the workers from fighting against
S1ese wage cuts For this purpose the CAPT
falsts and their Wolls and Hilquits and Knick-
srbockers are frantically crying "Stop thief"
There is forced labor in Russia"
Millions of workers in capitalist America
are out of work; they are starving The CAPT
tasts categorically refuse relief. The CAPT
talst government just as categoricaly refuses
unemployment insurance. The capitalist class
and it's government exert all their power to
prevent their victims from fighting for relief
and insurance. To help the capitalists in his
endeavor the Evening Posts" and "Tribunes, "
the VOLS and Hllquits, cry Stop thief-there
is forced labor in Russia"
However, this forced labor propaganda is
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-15
SENTENCE CONN.
,JOBLESS LEADERS
FOR ACTIVITIES
Lcng Jail Terms Given
jackson, Powers and
Foster, Hartford

HARTFORD, Conn, June 14.-Jo-
seph Jackson. Fred Powers and
George Foster, who we're arrested in
New Britain, Conn, for participating
in demonstration of the unem-
ployed workers which elected dele
cation to present written demands, to
the mayor, for unemployment relief
on March IS, received a verdict of
being guilty of breach of the peace
after the jury had been out for a
half half hour.
These three workers when they
were tried in the lower court of the
city of New Britain received a fine
of $50 a piece; workers from the
start, when they announced that they
would defend themselves without the
assistance Of either a hired or public
defender invoked the wrath of the
prosecuting attorney and the Judge,
Carl Foster, who was more subtle
than the prosecutor and announced
frequently during the course of the
trial that he was being lenient.
The state during the presentation
of its case brought in about eight po-
licemen including the chief of police
as witnesses. The evidence that they
presented was of such a nature as to
make them appear as lost angels,
who would turn the other cheek
when one had been slapped. None Of
them had ever made use of black
jacks, ond only one had made use of
his fist, but that had been in self de-
Tense when Powers who had an over
coat in one hand and about rs Daily
Workers in the other hand made an
attempt to strike him. That was the
type Of evidence that led the jury to
find these three militant workers
guilty 1t was jury of whom only
capitalist just was to be expected.
For the most part it was made UP of
Connecticut Valley tobacco growers
and buyers; there we're also a few in
slirance adjusters. Several jurors
we're dismissed by the defendants be-
cause of prejudices that we're very
evident in their cross examination.
The true nature OF the. arrests was
T. f5ssSt sorss ID ascnsrk yase1
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill, June 10. -
After mass meetings of thousands
of miners at Marion. 1000 at John
son City at which the Hunger
March was endorsed, truckload OF
thirty hunger marchers was seized
by the state police. The hunger
marchers wereprevented from stop
ping in the towns scheduled in
Franklin County and others where
mass meetings were arranged, and
they we're brought at night to
Springfield and turned over to the
Springfield pslice who in turn drove
the truck away from the city and
turned them back to the state po-
Ilice, who drove the truck tens of
miles out of Springfield and left
them In Pana.
A warrant to arrest Joe fash was
issued by the Federal authorities. A
number of miners homes in Chris
topher were raided by the County
Sheriff in an attempt to stop the
expression of mass support and SOL
idarity of the miners in Franklin
County to the hunger march.
The State Committee Of the IN
employed Council succeeded in get
ting the State legislature to meet on
Monday to take up the demands of
the Unemployed Conference.
Representative of the Conference
will address the state legislature at
400 pm. A representative of the
state committee was grilled and
beaten when calling on Walter
Moody, superintendent of State
Police, protesting against the break
ing up of the delegation from the
coal fields.
President Hoover, who will visit
Springfield, for lying speech about
prosperity on Wednesday, sent ad-
vance guards of the Department Of
Justice to work jointly with the state
ind city authorities. TIE Fedora
authorities are threatening deporta-
ton of f7leign-born workers parti-
c.pating in tie march The leader
of the Chicago section Of the hunger
lmarcl1 wa arrested in Spssngaelds
tEs - ~ a-s
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National Daily Worker Tag Days
will be held June 26, n and % in
the campaign TO save the Daily
Worker, Plans must be made i'm
mediately to make these Tag Days
a success. Mass organizations and
trade unions, as we'll as the Party
membership. must be modified for
all Tag Day activities The 28th can
be set aside as Red Sunday TO peak
the activities.
Every city, small and large, must
conduct collections for the Daily
Worker on these days. When there
are conflicting dates, the Tag Days
can be advanced or delayed couple
of days. This, however, should be
done only as a last resort
Districts must realize that the Tag
Days come at the end Of the Drive,
and the bulk of the $4,000 must be
sent to the Daily Worker before these
dates. There must be no postpone
nent in the work of soliciting dona-
tons or any other vital activity to
save the Daily Worker. RFMEM-
Der THE DATES!
Fill Coupon Books and Return.
1t is evident from the very few
coupon books being returned with do
! nations that subscribers are not be-
| ing visited. This condition is re-
| sponsible for the half-hearted show
ing of districts in the middle and
far west. It is also responsible for
the slow development of Daily Work
err Clubs in the districts.
Further Iassitude In this connec-
tioa will put damper on the Daily
Worker Club idea in the beginning,
4 disastrous outlook for the Daily.
Districts. From the subscribers
cards send out, will come the men,
bership of the Daily Worker Clubs.
From meetings of D. w. Clubs will
come the mass support without
which the Daily cannot survive.
With the survival of the Daily
will come greater contact with its
readers and friends and a better
paper in every way. This cannot
be done without the Initial Step
the visiting of subscribers and
readers; circuIarizing Of working
class neighborh0ods; mass meet
ings, street, shop and factory meet
ings all for the single purpose of
creating mass reader groups: re-
voiving round the Daily, discussing.
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he told the Judge that they should re-
ceive sentences so as to prevent
these tramp agitators" from stirring
up trouble. And the judge quite in
keeping with his position and quite
contrary to the lenience to which he
had so often referred, sentenced J.
Jackson to ten months in Jail and
$3.50 fine, Fred Powers to eight
months in Jail and 5000 fine, and
George Foster to eight months in jail
and 5000 fine.
During the two days through
which the trial continued many
workers who were in the courtroom
had q chance to become acquainted
with the Justice that workers re-
ceive. When the sentence was hand
ed out out half the spectators in the
courtroom walked out in disgust
They understood that the three had
been tried not for breach OF the
peace but for demanding relief; and
they also had been convinced that If
breach Of the peace had been COM
nlitted it had been committed not by
the workers but by the guardians Of
IpsafE.ys the police. 81
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POLICE kILL4
CASSEL WORKERS
Fierce Collisions In
Germany Last Week
Gable BY Inprecorr.)

BERLIN, June 14.-Twenty thou
sand workers at the Communist mass
meeting at the Sports Palace were
addressed by Thaelmann and 9TH
ers. Prior to. the meeting Thael-
mann was arrested and taken to the
station and searched for arms.
Other leaders were similarly treated.
Following the meeting the streets
were crowded by home-going work.
ers. The police attacked, using
batons and firing with reyolvers on
the pretext that possessions are
prohibited On one street police on
balconies fired, giving street police
impression of being attacked Lively
firing ensued until police search
lights cleared UP the misunderstood
ing.
A number of food stores we're
raided yesterday in Hamburg. Yes
terday evening further demonstra-
tions and collisions took place. Po-
lice fired point blank, shooting down
six, including woman and a young
girl.
Fierce collisions took place yester-
day in Bremen between workers and
fascists and police. Three police,
many fascists and workers we're in
jnred and twenty arrested.
Police attacked a Communist DEM
onstration at Lauenburg yesterday,
firing and killing one and wounding
two. A number of the police we're
mauled by the crowd.
Demonstrations and collisions con-
tinued in Cassel yesterday. Police
kept up indiscriminate volleys
through workers streets, killing the
revolutionary Dominikovski and 90
year-old shoemaker. Many were
wounded and 81 were arrested. To-
day spots where workers we're muir
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yesterday afternoon by three state
troopers in Pana, Illinois. His where
aboutS is still unknown. Last reports
indicate that Sheriff Browning Rob-
inson of Franklin County, with an
army of his deputies, together with
the state troopers, surrounded the
truck coming from Williamson Coun-
ty and escorted it through Franklin
County, preventing the holding of
the meetings scheduled in Frank
fort, Zeigler, Benton and other
towns.
Up to now. the Committee has
not been able to locate the truck
which was sent out of Springfield
by the local police, cooperating with
the state troopers.
The East st. Louis section started
it's march with 35 delegates, and
will pick up many on the route. IT
was headed by Roy Wyckoff, who
was fined $25 and costs last Tues
day for speaking at an unemployed
demonstration.
The reign of terror is increasing
everywhere. All preparations are
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DETROIT SPJJRTS IN CAMPAIGN;
DISTS. 8, 10, u, FALLING DOWN

by
must he
aIuctky find than contr
is the which
which tied
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had
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with
his
what
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smaller MinnesoH city nhd u tse
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dered were crowded with angry peo-
pie.
There is a tense atmosphere in the
workers quarters, seething with in
dignation. All police are armed with
carbines and military ammunition.
The total Cassel dead stands at four.
Demonstrations and collisions and
erection of barbados marked the
day on Frankfort-on-Main. Com
munists addressed numerous street
meetings. Disturbances lasted till
midnight. Many were arrested.
Similar scenes were enacted yester-
day evening in Elberfeld. Street
lights were turned out and barbados
erected and many arrested.
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The history of all hitherto ex-
isting society is the history OF class
struggIe.--MAKX.
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Workers Force Cops,
Troopers, To Permit Mass Meet

made to hold huge mass meeting
Sunday at Reservoir Park and a
parade through the streets of
Springfield to the Convention Hall.
A delegation of striking Pennsyl-
vania miners will arrive at Spring
field,
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GIVE YOUR ANSWER TO HOO
vERS PROGRAM OF HUNGER,
WAGE CUTS AND PERSECUTION!
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RUSH ORDERS FOR BEDACHT
SOVIET UNION ARTICLES
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-24
PASTOR LOSES
! MORALS CASE;
WIFE WINNER
Advisory Master Decides
Woman Is Entitled
to Divorce.
ByUnited Press

~ Lnte0 PFess
CAMDEN, N. j., July 24-Resig-
nation of the Rev. Camille Estor-
nellie, accused as the father of a
choir singers love child" was eff
fectiye today and recommended
ton that Mrs. Estornelle, and not
the husband, be given divorce, was
before Chancellor Edmund Rob-
ert Walker.
: IAe decision of William 3. Knight.
advisory master, hearing the sensa-
tional divorce case, came late on
Thursday, and 1t was followed later
by formal announcement of the
resignation by Homer Letter, senior
warden of st. Johns Episcopal
church.
Estornelle had offered several
witnesses in rebuttal to charges of
love-making among members of his
congregation, paternity of the choir
singers child, and other indiscre-
tons alleged by Florence Hahn Es-
tornelle Of Ardmore, Pa, his es-
tranged wife, in his answer to his
suit for divorce.
1t had not been known until an
nouncement Of knights recommen-
dation that she had filed a cross
suit In the Camden court.
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duke Anton Of Hapsburg. chauffeur
aviator.
The wedding will be the first
royal union Of the ancient houses.
neana, modern and accomplished,
is sister of King Carol.
They will be married in the study
of the late King Ferdinand OF Ru-
mania, her father, at Sinaia, sum-
mer residence of the royal family.
in a comparatively simple cere-
mony, lacking the usual splendor of
royal marriages.
The wedding functions began to-
day with formal congratulations to
the young couple and presentation
Of wedding gifts. Saturday night,
dinner dance in the rooms of the
PaleSh castle at Sinaia is scheduled.
The bridegroom Sunday will wear
the uniform of an Austrian arch
duke, while the bride will appear
in Rumanian peasant attire. Cath
Ole Archbishop Cisar will perform
the rites.
The two plan to motor to the
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monoplane down at Floyd Bennett
field at 7:04 p. m. indianapolis
time) Thursday after clipping of
the 1,40O miles from the Cuban
capital at the rate of 81 miles every
so seconds.
The northward trip. completed IN
Z hours and 81 minutes, was the
fastest ever made between the two
cities and bettered his own previous
mark of 8 hours and IL minutes.
His southwark hop, made against
headwinds part of the way, was in
8 hours and minutes to shatter the
mark established last Saturday by
James Goodwin Hall, flying anti
prohibitionist. 1t was the first time
any one had made the round trip
in one day.