davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-20
Recent Strike Struggles Show Need OF Daily
IN Organizing Fight Against Wage Cuts

TABLES last week showed total circulation
of sos and net circulation of 1187 after
special orders of 316 we're taken Off This weeks
tables show total circulation of 81 288 which
with temporary orders of 213 deducted, leaves
solid circulation of 31,075 or net decrease from
last weeks figures of 112. Fewer special orders
this week helped bring loss to 215 as against
the total gain of 81 last week.
Outstanding Gain in Boston
District l. Boston, has the most prominent
gain of $50 for the week due to a special order
of $50 from Pawtucket, r. I. for the duration
of the textile strike there. District g. Cleve-
land is next with an increase of 80 covered by
additional orders for rs from Cleveland and so
for the Mansfield steel strike. District TO- Kansas
City, shows gain of 40 following increases of IS
each in Sioux City and Council Bluffs
CONSISTENT LOSSES IN CHICAGO
For the third time in row, the biggest loss
comes from District s, Chicago. While last
weeks figures show loss of u.s. this weeks
table indicates decrease of 3OI. almost thrice
that Of the previous week. This is due prin-
cipally to loss of 236 from Chicago and a de-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-20
FORCE FREEDOM
OF Y. STROMBERG
Supr. Court Changes
Cal, Court Decision

. WASHINGTON, D. C.-Due to the
intensive campaign waged by the
International Labor Defense, and
mass support given it, the Supreme
Court of the United States reversed
decision of the District Court of APP
peals Of California convicting Yetta
Stromberg, 19year-old member of
the Young Communist League, for
flying the red flag at childrens
camp
The decision as handed down by
Chief Justice Hughes makes it a
matter of technical Interpretation of
the California red flag law.
In the best sanctimonious and
hypocritical manner of the chief
judicial organ of the capitalist class
the decision says in part in COM
menting on the California red flag"
law:
eve have no reason to doubt the
validity of the second and third
clauses of the statute as construed
by the sttae court to relate to such
indictments to violence.
THE question is thus narrowed TO
that of the validity of the first
clause, that is, with respect to the
display of the flag as a sign, SYM
Dol, or emblem of opposition to Or
ganized government. The State
court recognized the indefiniteness
and ambiguity of the clause. The
court considered that 1t might be
construed as embracing conduct
which the state could not constitu-
tionally prohibit"
The clause was "repugnant to the
guarantee OF liberty contained in
the Fourteenth Amendment.
1.-THE first clause of the statute,
being invalid upon its face, the con-
viction of the appellant, which so
far as the record discloses may have
rested upon that clause exclusively
must be set aside
The State statute makes It a
felony TO display any red flag or
other device in any public place or
from any building as sign, symbol
or emblem Of opposition to organized
government or as an invitation or
stimulus to anarchistic action, or as
an aid to propaganda that is of Sc
Lduous character, 49, ~~s4---~
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-20
ScottsbOrO Defense
Conferences

May %.
Erie, Pa.-Hall to be announced.
May 20.
Buffalo, N. Y, at the Michigan
Avenue "Y."
May "a.
Chicago-Forum Hall, 1923 Z.
43rd st.
New Orleans, La.--At Marine
Workers Hall, 308 Charles st.
Charlotte, N C. Hall to be an
nounced,
Rockford, I'll. Hall to be an
nounced.
Youngstown, O., at 1874 E. Fed
eral ST., at $50 p. m,
Rockford. ILL.,. at Viking Hall.
704-7th st at 2 p. m.
Milwaukee-At Labor Temple,
800 Walnut St, at 2:30 p, m.
May rs.
Philadelphia, Pa. At the Knights
of Pythias Hall, 10Th and Lom-
bard SITS.
May 26.
Washington. D. c., Galilean
Fisherrnens Hall, 800 P. St., S.
w. at $3.50 p. m,
Mag 81.
Pittsburg, Pa.-At the Pythian
Temple, coll Center Ave.
May 20
Minneapolis, MINI. Hall TO be
announced.
Boston, Mass. Hall to be an
bounced.
May 20.
Cleveland, Ohio, at Spiro Hall,
1904 Scoville Ave.
st, Paul, MINI, Hall to be an
nounced.
Duluth-superior, MINI. Hall to
be announced.
May 81.
Chattanooga. Tenn.-Hall to be
announced.
Newark-At 80 Ferry St., 1880
p. m.
Elizabeth, N j. Hall to be an
nounced.
st Louis, Mo, at Hibernian Hall,
1919 Finney Ave, at p. m.
June S.
New Brunswick, N. J.-At the
Workers Home, II Plum St., at
2:30 p. m.
Indianapolis, Ind.-At Odd Fell
lows Hall, 5000 Indiana Ave, at
7:3o p. m.
Baltimore. Md.-At Galilean
Fishermen's Hall, All w. Biddle
ST., at 8 p. m.
Gary, Ind.-At pm. Hall to be
announced.
June s
Chester, Pa, at Lithuanian
Hall, 4th and Upland Streets.
June II
Gary, Ind.-At Croatian Hall.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-20
Labor" ALL. Sheet Slabs
Harlan, KY. Miners in Back

ing Of endless discomfort and ha-
tired. Gnawing hunger adds to the
gravity of the situation. National
Guard troops are patrOling the
area and martial law has been de-
clarcd."
But not one word about the A. F.
of L. and United Mine Workers Of
f1cials calling in these National
Guard troops to shoot down miners
who refuse to die of hunger.
Now the mine bosses, through
Judge A, M. j, Cochran, have OBJ
tanned an injunction against strik-
ing miners. The permanent injunc-
ton was handed out in London, KY,
by the Federal Court to the P. V. and
K Coal Co. and to the Black Noun
tain Coal Co. The judge ruled that
the operators had the right to force
the men to sign yellow-dog contracts
whenever the bosses so desired.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-20
Gable BY Inprecorr)


BERLIN, May 13.-The Interna-
tional Trade Union Committee of
Negro Workers has issued an appeal
to the workers of the whole world to
rally to the fight TO smash the Scots
boro frame-up and save the lives of
the nine innocent Negro children,
eight of whom have been condemned
by the Alabama boss courts to burn
in the electric chair on July 10, The
appeal declares, in part:
Eight Negro boys have been
framed-up on the charge of two mo-
torious white prostitutes and SEN
fenced to die by electrocution on July
10 by a farcical speedy trial of ca
pitalist Justice in the State of Ala
bama, u. S. A.
The frame-up to burn these eight
young Negro workers in Alabama La
but a link in the chain of imperial
ist terror against the Negro workers
in order to stop their growing mill
fancy. The frame-up to legally lynch
these boys by the steel barons and
landlords of Alabama is an attempt
to destroy and outlaw the Comn1un-
list Party and the revolutionary trade
unions and their growing influence
among the Negro workers. This is a
crime against the working class.
'These eight workers are sentenced
to die on July 10. The international
Trade Union Committee of Negro
Workers calls upon the international
working class to rally to the support
OF our class brothers Only the firm
hand of the International working
class can stop this execution. Only
mass protest and action of the inter
national working class can stop the
bloody fascist hands of the capitalist
bosses of the State of Alabama"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-20

WASHINGTON, May 19.-"Labor,"
one of the yellowest sheets published
by the A. F. of L. takers, while adj
hitting that 5000 miners, their wives
and children are starving TO death
in the Harlan, Kentucky, coal fields,
tries to make the miners believe that
their plight is due to the fact that
they did not continue to let the
United Mine Workers officials con-
tinue to mislead them.
Labor" of course, does not mem
ton a word about the A. F. of L,
officials calling in state troops to
help the company gunner terrorize
workers. Yet Labor admits gun
men run riot in Harlan.
"Armed guards-'gun thugs, the
workers call them-swarm through
out the region and are dealing
roughly with those who incur their
enmity or anger. There is a seeth-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-20

crease of $50 following increase of 20 from In
dianapolis. Chicago should put a brake on its
descent by developing steady sales on the
strength of its excellent District page and by
remedying the organzational weaknesses Of the
Red Builders News Clubs.
District 8. Philadelphia, dropped 200, result
ing from loss of $50 from Philadelphia and 100
from Baltimore. District IL, Seattle, lost 81
on cut of SO from Everett, Wash.
334 New Subs and Renewals for Week
One hundred sixty-nine new subs and 1855 re-
newals we're received during the last week This
makes it IS drops from the subscription list
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-20
REGISTER NOW
FOR THE SCHOOL
Summer School to Give
Basic Subjects

With the opening of the summer
term of the Workers School drawing
near, many workers have registered
for the important courses offered
Heavy registrations are especially re-
corded in such courses as Funda-
mentals Of Communism, Political
Economy and Leninism. Two classes
in Fundamentals of Communism are
to be conducted by Comrades M.
James and v. Jerome on Monday
and Thursday evenings respectively
Political Economy and Leninism are
to be taught by Comrade A. Markoff
on Wednesday and Thursday eve
nings. Two classes in Russian, ele-
mentary and intermediate, and one
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-20

ASpN AAN " ELI - AAO1A 4 - ~ IL '@T1N'
workers we're arrested. Eight Of these
were women workers.
The Collinsville Herald On Friday
reported that nearly % thousand
persons gathered at the factory to
prevent the girls who had been work
ing for the past two weeks from
getting into the building,
Besides, an injunction has been
gotten out by the bosses. The u. S.
marshal has been called to help
break the strike, and the union Off
Gals of the International Ladies
Garment Union are trying to keep
back the militancy Of the workers,
thereby playing the role of strike
breakers,
The supposed-to-be leaders Of the
strike. Gilbert of the International
Ladies Garment Workers Union and
Jester of the Trades Council, were
against picketing and we're con-
stantly instructing the strikers not
to go in front of the factory, AL
though they knew very well that the
only way TO keep out the scabs was
by picketing, But the workers re-
allied that they will lose the strike
unless they have mass picketing in
front of the factory.
Thursday night there was supposed
to be a strike meeting, but when the
strikers and miners came TO the
meeting place at the Miners Temple
they found neither Jester nor Gill
bert, but we're told to go home by
one of the officials OF the Temple.
While on Wednesday night. when a
meeting was held, Ben Gilbert was
seen at a show in st. Louis and Jes-
ter was telling the workers not to
go on the picket line and not TO get
into trouble. He was soaring the
workers with arrest if they go on the
picket line
The strikers are beginning TO re-
alize that the International Ladies
Garment Workers is leading them 10
defeat. But still they allowed them
selves to be misled, not to go on
picket Friday, the result of which
was that 40 scabs went to work
The strike can still be won, if the
workers stop following the Gilberts
and testers. The strikers and min
ers must organize big picket lines
every morning and keep the scabs
out, the way they did last week. Jes-
ter and Gilbert must be told that the
strikers and miners can win the strike
without their leadership. The strik-
ers must elect a committee of their
own ranks to lead the strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-20

Bartering the bread of starving and
mi-starving workers, women and
children for a few paltry dollars.
Workers Ready to Fight.
AS result of the company policy,
however, conditions have brought the
workers to the place where they are
ripe for revolt. All that is required
for the workers to seek to remedy
conditions is for someone to start it,
If responsible and capable organ
izers who are not affiliated with the
A. F. of L. unions, were TO go to
Yorkville, Ohio-now, they would
find plenty of assistance from I'M
expected sources.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-20

class in Spanish are also to be given.
The present headquarters of the
Workers School is located at so E.
18th St., second floor. The summer
term which will start on May 25, will
be conducted on the third flood, the
permanent headquarters of the Work
ers School, which has been COM
pleted with an entirely new floor.
airy, cool, sound-proof rooms and
many other facilities.
Workers are urged TO register for
the courses as soon a spossible as
only few days are left for registra-
ton and as the number of students
in each class will be limited.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-20
Daily" Apparatus Must Be frightened


The circulation of the Daily Worker is a fair
barometer to the rise and fall of activity with
the Daily" on the part of comrades in the field
The summary of this weeks tables shows that
they are not taking advantage of opportunities
for spreading the Daily in strike regions and as
result the circulation of the Daily is not keep
ing step with the pace of events. Workers
everywhere are striking against wage cuts. Most
of these strikes are being organized, led and
won by our revolutionary trade unions, and yet
the Daily Worker, the only English Daily sup
porting the strikers, is not reaching the masses
of workers
Why are Districts 16 and IL backward in or
dering bundles for the South TO keep the mass
es in these districts informed as to the progress
of events in Scottsboro and Harlan? Why only
an increase Of II from Pittsburgh In view of
the coal strikes in the region of District S?
Why are Chicago, Philadelphia. and Minnea-
polls not taking advantage of their District
page to spread the Daily in sections covered
by the weekly issue? More action with Daily
in strike centers will arouse interest and boost
circulation of Daily.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-20
Boise JobIess Forced TO Sleep on River Banks

Some are working on Dairy Farms
for the measly sum Of $40 month
These workers begin at $3.50 a. m.
and work until pm. have seen at
least 100 of these jobless workers
asleep on the river banks, these go
without any food sometimes for
three days. Then there is the lookup
of the First National Bank, of about
$2o00O,0O0 of gold coin and yet the
bankers are still trying to squeeze
the last cent from the farmers.
A Comrade.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-20

New machinery and efficiency
methods are also strong contributing
factors to the workers deplorable
condition.
Improved Methods.
Mr.. 1.-The efficiency expert. who
holds the position Of assistant sup
erintendent, has reduced the working
force all along the line, by using
improved methods" Thereby caus-
ing untold suffering for the worker
and his family.
It Is presumed that he is working
on a contract basis That is, he re-
ceives a stipulated sum, providing he
reduces costs to a certain point.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-20
Two Chicago Banks Crash On Jubilee Week"

bolt State and the Albany State
Bank: closed their doors. All the
savings of the workers were lost. This
was a jubilee for the bosses, you bet
but hell for the workers who lost
their money.
We should organize Workers De
positors Association and demand that
the fat bankers pay the workers back
in full at once. We can force them
to do it If we organize strong enough
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-20
Baltimore, Md.

Baltimore, Md
Daily Worker
On March 5, shipped on the SIS.
Governor Lind. 1t is owned and OPP
Grated by the Bull Insular Line.
will try to explain some of the
miserable conditions the crew was
forced to suffer from. The stables
hich answered as crews quarters
5ere cold and chilly due to an i'm
poverished heating system. The mess
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-20
German Communists
Gain in City Vote:
Fascists in Clash
Gable BY Inprecorr.)

BERLIN, May 14.-Municipsl cleo
tons in Kalkberg gave the Commu-
mist Party five seats as against four
for the socialists, four for the bour-
geois parties, four for the fascists
and one for the centrists.
Yesterday evening a fierce COLI
sion occurred in Friedrich Strasse
between the Hitler and Stennes fac
ton of the fascists at a meeting. Po-
lice interviewed, conducting the STEM
mes fascists from the hall
In Coblenze. the police have pro-
hibited the holding of a Whitsun-
tide meeting of the Communist Party
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-20
Seamen Forced to Slave Ii Hours a Day for
Thirty-Fiye Dollars Month

boy was forced to attend TO three
mess-room besides assisting the
cook. This kept him busy for more
than 10 hours a day. For this slavery
he received the pitiful sum of $35
a month, Water leaked always into
the mess rooms.
We must organize and fight against
these conditios.
A Seafaring Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-20
By a Worker Correspondent

CHICAGO. IlL.-Recently there
was considerable noise made by the
Tribune and other papers about So
called Jubilee Week." which was or
ganized TO pep up business for the
big grafters. store keepers and other
big bellies and to humbug the work
ers who still have few pennies left
into spending them.
1t was indeed a jubilee week. Two
northside banks: the Second Hum
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-20
Texas Oil Workers Must Work II Hours Daily;
Get Is Cents Pay Cut

ses have suspended the vacation and
5 days without pay each month is
Topped off the pay check.
Then the workers from the Texas
Oil Co are forced to purchase stock
from the Co. The last issue cost
the workers 40; the price is now 20.
The company even wrote a letter to
employees advocating loyalty to the
Co., in the matter of keeping stock
and paying it out.
r II t.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-20
Boise, Idaho.

Boise, Idaho.
Daily Worker:
I am writing you to let you know
that conditions are getting worse
here every day. The streets are lined
with jobless workers and 80 per cent
of them are begging for food. LOO of
these jobless workers have demanded
from the mayor that he give them
Jobs. But of course they we're re-
fused
Many good workers are forced to
slave on farms just for their board
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-20
Breckinbridge, Texas.

Brecklnbridge, Texas.
Daily Worker:
The bumpers In this oil field work
a 12-hour tower. They work from
noon to midnight. The bumpers had
formally received $525 per day, out
of which they were forced to furnish
their own gasoline and lubrucating
oil Their average mileage per tower
is IS miles. Now the bosses have
forced ge-cut on the oil workers,
taking 25 cents off per day. The bos-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-20

observe that vast numbers of OBJ
scure working people, both Negro and
white, are stirring to protest this L.
gal crime"
The Committee supports the In
ternational Labor Defense it its
united front campaign to save the
boys.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-20
Negro Workers Toll Under Fierce Conditions
i'm Washington Hotel
Washington, T

Washington, d. C.
Daily Worker:
l am working at Woodland 81 Lith-
rop In this hotel many Negro por-
tiers and maids are subject to bad
working conditions. The dining room
is always piled up with garbage and
dirty dishes, and water is all over
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-20
CONTINUED FROM PAGE oNEp

CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONEI
the bosses the false impression that
the Negro masses are not united in
the defense of the boys, and that the
protests against their legal lynch
ing come only from "a small bunch
of Communists, as the Pittsburgh
Courier, the Negro World and the
N. A. A. G. P. leadership have shame
lessly stated.
Mass Protests Continue.
In the meantime, the mass pro-
test against this outrage continues
with unabating thunder as addi-
tional masses and organizations are
drawn into the struggle TO save the
boys. Last night, a telegram of pro-
test was sent the governor of Ala
bama and Judge j. A. Hawkins from
a membership meeting of the Office
Workers Union in New York City.
The telegram pledged the office
workers of New York to support the
fight until the boys are freed.
Mass Support for Baltimore Scots
bor0 Conference.
BALTIMORE, May 19-The Scots
boro frame-up has aroused the work
ers of Baltimore and many organiza-
tionr ore 20 1lyir,u IN the Tinted
Front Scottsboro Defense Conference
to be held in this city on June 5 at
the Galillean Fishermen's Hall, All
w. Biddle st. The members of the
Perkins Square Baptist Church, the
Leedenhall Baptist Church and a
Baptist Church in Colgate, Md, have
greeted enthusiastically the speakers
from the League of Struggle for Ne
gro Rights and the international La
Dor Defense, the two organizations
leading the fight to save the boys,
The Knights of Pythias have prom
ised support and delegates to the
conference. A number of fraternal
organizations have already elected
delegates.
The L. S. N. r. is actively organ
izing neighborhood committees for
Scottsboro defense. One such COM
mittee was organized in Welcome AL
ley. Two big open-air meetings will
be held on Saturday, May %, at Lau-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-20

the floor.
No porter earns more than $l6 a
week The head porter is a tool OF
the bosses however He sees to it
that all the porters who are sup
posed to get their vacation pay, are
fired.
"A WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-20

without advancing any reason.
Bruening, German Chancellor, de-
livered a speech yesterday an
nouncing further unpopular mea-
sJres" in the matter of state finances.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-20

Use your Red Shock Troop List
every day ON your job. The worker
next to you will help save the Daily
Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-20
YORKVILLE MILL co.
CRIES "WAGE CUTS
ARE A NECESSITY"
new Machinery Installed to Replace Workers;
Force Reduced All Along the Line
Workers in Desperate Position; Look to
T y y L for Leadership
(By A Former Yorkville Mill Slave)

YORKVILLE, Ohio--"Wage-cutti necessity This
has been the cry of the Wheeling Steel Corp particularly at
Yoe Ohio for several They have reduced wages to
such point that starvation just around the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-20
Campaign On to Save Daily

The financial campaign for $4,000 to save the
DAILY" begins today, Every worker is expected
to throw his entire energy into making this drive
a success. Bundles of the Daily should be or
dered in large amounts to acquaint the masses
with the purpose and plans Of the drive. Hun
dreds of Dailies should always be on hand at the
mass meetings, Street meetings should be inn
mediately followed up with street sales of the
DAILY We depend upon every worker in shop,
factory and mass organization TO mobilize as
they did on May Day, to come to the aid of the
Daily Worker and pledge themselves to carry
on the will of the workers to organize and strug-
gle against the bosses.
The Daily Worker must be savedl DO YOUR
share to keep it from suSpensioni ----4is~|
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-20
MASS PICKETIIVG
IN COLLINSVILLE
GARMENT STRIKE
Misleaders Help to
Break Strike

CONTINUED FROM PAGE oNEl