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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-22

others could follow with advan-
tage. The Communist press" he
writes, sis the strongest weapon in
the hands Of the workers today. A
paper like the Daily Worker con-
soIidates and clarifies the struggle
so that every worker knows how to
attack the capitalist system.
ITO increase the circulation Of the
Daily, would suggest that at every
street corner meeting Of the Cons
munist Party or affiliated groups one
speaker should point out the fol-
lowing:
Capitalist papers are mostly adj
vertising sheets and not newspapers.
THE policy Of capitalist news
papers is to confuse and mislead the
workers, especially in attacks against
the Soviet Union.
Scandals, murders, society pages
are contained in capitalist papers
and no workers news at all.
workers will remain weak and
disorganized if they read this capi-
talist trash.
Daily Workers should be sold at
every meeting. Every paper sold is a
worker won. Papers should be pushed
at every election meeting"
Hurry Up!
The comrade mentioned the cap
italist newspapers attacks against
the Soviet Union. This reminds us
again of the Nov. Z special edition
of the Daily Worker. We still await
your greetings to be published In a
special page Of that edition, and
the advance cash for advance or
ders of this edition Of Nov. that
will celebrate the 14th anniversary
of the Bolshevik revolution Use
the blanks below. Only about 10
days are left. as the special page
must be ready by Oct. IL. All read
ers and agents of the Daily, get
busy and act at once.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-22
UNEMPLOYED WORKERS ANSWER
STARVATION DRIVE BY SENDING
SUBSCRIPTIONS FOR DAILY WORKER

No job and only 500 left to support
six people for the winter, and yet
Comrade JIG, of Momence, Ill, has
So to send for a four months sub
scription to the Daily Worker. II
cannot send Sc" writes Comrade
J. c., because Hoover's prosperity
has got me on the rocks at last. I
have about $40 on which six of us
must live all winter. The farmers
here are almost penniless. This is
my first year on the farm. 1 spent
all the money had to put in a crop.
Il am going back to the city from
which came to join the Unemployed
Council and put in the winter fight
ing. I haven't been out of the city
long enough to lose my residence
privilege" Ito starve), so perhaps
the charities will take us into their
gentle arms If they don't, 1t won't
be because I didn't raise plenty of
hell"
Fighting Spirit Spreading.
Comrades, remember there are
workers like that all through the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-22
PITTSBURGH DISTRICT STEEL
CONFERENCE PLANS STRUGGLE

10 members was elected, which will
meet each week.
Pete Chappa, who was recently ar
rested in Monesson for his activities,
was elected district organizer, and
Edith Briscoe was elected youth Or
ganizer. The next day following the
conference Edith Briscoe was ar
rested in New Kensington for lead
ing march of steel workers from
Verona to demand relief and was
sentenced to 80 days in Jail without a
trial.
The conference decided that steps
must be take nto establish city locals
in Steubenville, McKeesport, New
Kensington and Pittsburgh. Addi-
tional city locals are to be set up as
soon as the mill branch bases are
laid. Each city local will have its
unemployed branch. The conference
stressed the necessity Of activizing
all locals in the sub-distriets within
the next month to special specific
tasks.
McKeesport will carry on a mass
free speech campaign which will draw
in the blacklisted miners. Ohio VAL
ley sub-distriet will mobilize the
workers for huge demonstrations
against unemployment and wage
cuts. The Pittsburgh sub-district
will be the base for the state hun
ger march, which will take place the
third week in November, and also
the Western Pennsylvania base for
the National Hunger March to Wash
ington Dec. 7.
The conference reflected a grow
ing strike sentiment among the steel
workers and increased discomfort
over the mass misery caused by I'M
Day by day the readi-
ness to fight is increasing and this
conference has given the workers an
basis for their strug-
giles.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-22
BAY STATE SILK
WORKERS STOP A
NEW WAGE CUT

Last April the National Textile
Workers Union led and won q strike
in the Bay State Silk Mill in Central
Falls, r. I. However the local had not
been meeting regularly for the last
four months or SO and we we're put
ting in overtime work trying to get
the mill local to function continu
ously. The boss must have gotten
little notice of this, and put out the
feeler Of how the workers would re
spond to the wage cut. He found
out mighty quick.
A rumor of a cut was spread among
the workers-the Shop COMMITTEES
imediatelly called meeting OF the
day shift and decided to send In a
committee to see the boss. The boss
refused TO see the committee. In
mediately the day and the night
shifts held a meeting where action
was prepared. A decided was made TO
send in Joint Committee of day and
night shift workers on Monday eve
ming at $50. This Committee marched
into the office at the scheduled time
and demanded definite answer from
the boss.
Meanwhile both the day and the
night workers waited for the COM
nittee outside. The committee came
but Of the office at minutes to 6,
and called upon the worker to march
to the Pulaski Hall to hear the re-
port. The night shift worker mott
fled the boss that they we're going TO
the meeting despite the fact that they
were too start work at O'Clock. The
boss threatened to close the mill II
they we're not back in ten minutes,
However the meeting was held, the
report of the Committee was heard
and the night workers went back TO
start the mill up at 6.l5 p. m The
workers responded very militantly at
the meeting the Committee re-
ported that the boss statement was
II shall not cut wages but I shall
have to close the mill IN couple Of
weeks because cannot get orders on
such prices. The workers answer was
Shut your mill down, but We refuse
TO work under wage cut"
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ScOttsbOrO Parents
Again DenOunce
NAACP Leaders
CONTINUED FROM PAGE oNE)

CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE)
entirely ethical and legitimate and
he entered the case at our request
in April of this year and has been
in its ever since and our boys have
on many occasions ratified his en-
pioyment and they are minors and
under the law incapable of making
contracts or employing attorneys
under the Alabama laws"
The statement, which is an answer
to the lies Of the N. A. A. G. P. lead
ers that they were In the case, is
signed by Mr.. Claude Patterson, Mrs.
jamie Patterson. Mrs. Viola Mont
gomery; Mrs. Josephine Powell, Mrs.
Lulu B. Jackson, Mr.. L. M. Cox and
Mrs. Mamie Williams.
A similar statement is signed by
Mrs Ada Wright, and Mrs. Ida Nor
ris, two of the mothers at present
on tour under the auspices of the I.
L. D.
Recognizing the falsity of the N. A.
A. @. P. claims to be in the case, the
firm of Fort, Beddow and Ray, pre-
Wously hired by the N. A. A. C. P.
has, withdrawn from the case Cen
eral Chamlee today reported:
Fort, Beddow and Ray, attor-
neys for the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored
People, have filed a letter in the
office of the clerk of the Circuit
Court of Jackson County, Ala,
stating that they withdraw from
the case and requesting that their
names be marked off of all papers
in the case. II any newspapers
want to know whether or not Bed
dow has quit the case, challenge
them to wire C. A. Wann, clerk of
the Circuit Court at Scottsbor0, for
a notification of this letter.
"All the boys say they want us
to go ahead with their case and we
have a contract signed by all the
boys and all the parents or next of
kin and acknowledged before a
notary public at Kilby Prison,
Montgomery, Alabama"
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United States, in Unemployed
Councils, in Daily Worker Clubs,
in Party units. A strong fighting
spirit is spreading among the
workers of America, and we must
push our fight forward to spread
the Daily Worker, knowing that
there are so many comrades who
will fight by our side.
For instance, out, in San Francisco
Cemrade w. S. has been out of work
for nine months, but he sends So to
renew his subscription for six months.
The bosses starvation campaign has
not killed his spirit. He writes that
he has no work in sight, and yet he
does not forget that the only real
way to fight against hunger, for him
self and for all workers, is to unite
with the workers in an organized
fight against the bosses and to sup
port the workers only paper.
Unemployment conditions fin d
Comrade w. H. of Robbins, Ill, a
little discouraged, however. The
Daily Worker Club idea is a good
plan, he thinks, but what holds them
back in that district is unemploy-
ment and lack of funds to subscribe
for the paper. OF course, that makes
the task harder, but not impossible.
Remember that unemployment is a
concrete example to workers OF the
evils of the capitalist system, and
that now is the time to push forward
the fight against the capitalist enemy
with all the energy available. Com
rade w. H, we know. is still fighting
on, for he asksus to send him work
ers' songs and other material, so per-
haps he may start Daily Worker
Club after all.
Bronx Club Starts.
The Bronx Daily Worker Club re-
ports that at recent meeting u
were signed up for membership and
a collection of $500 was taken to de-
fray the first expenses. The club
held a showing Of a Russian movie
recently, 1.-The Village of SIM" which
was attended by over 100 At this
gathering two members of the club
spoke on the role of the Daily Worker
and appealed for membership.
We are glad to see the Bronx Club
starting off with such activity. We
expect to see the membership grow
as the club expands its activities to
include a greater variety of appeals,
w. III. Of Brooklyn sends Us his
approximations OF the Daily and
some suggestions on selling meth
DDS, which are pretty good and
which the Brooklyn comrade and
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right to organize, picket and strike.
The release Of Rerkman and Muir
doch and all strike prisoners"
Organize Strike Relief.
The Workers International Relief
ms carried its offer of solidarity and
aid to the Lawrence strikers. Alfred
Wagenknecht, national secretary of
this organization, spoke at mass
meetings of the strikers Sunday and
Monday. At the last meeting Of the
strike committee q relief committee
OF fifteen was elected to begin the
campaign for the collection OF funds
and food throughout the New Eng
land states.
Halls and storerooms are being
rented by the strikers in the neigh
borhood OF the various mills. Here
the w. I. r. will establish coffee and
bread kitchens for the picket lines.
A relief store has been secured from
which these strikers families In dis
tress will be given food. as,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-22


the newly created world peace ma
ctinery designed to protect the mil
itarily weak against the strong.
IS. The creation of a horrible
example" which may prove fatal to
the coming world disarmament
conference at Geneva"
In these five points there are two
main results. The first is the estab-
lishment OF Manchuria as an area for
attack against the Soviet Union and
the admission by the capitalist class
that the Kellogg pact, which Slim
son still invokes, was only a cloak
to hide the military aggression of
the strong against the weak"-the
imperialist attack In Manchuria.
In Mukden and Kirin the Japanese
have already set up their own pup
pet municipal governments for the
exploitation of the working masses.
The independence" movement in
Manchuria of General Ling In-ching
is part of the Japanese imperialist
invasion. The Marking government
under orders from It's Wall Street
masters is expected to reach an
agreement with Japan for the sepa-
ration of Manchuria from the rest Of
China.
While this treachery against the
Chinese masses for the imperialists is
being carried through by the Marking
government the masses are protesting
in militant demonstrations against
the inperisllst attack. Twenty thou
sand students of rs schools and COL
leges protested in a mass demonstra.
ton in Marking against the treach-
cry of the Chang Kai-shek govern
ment and against the imperialist at
tacks. A resolution of the students to
Chang Kai-shek included the follow
ing seven demands.
1.-THE reservation of cordial diplo-
matte relations between Marking
and Soviet Russia, the immediate
furnishing of arms and munitions
TO student volunteers, the Fastening
of political unification, the increas-
ing of China's military prepara-
tions, the opposing of direct nego-
tiations between Japan and China,
the punishment of national traitors
Of all classes and the restoration of
the rights Of mass movements to
the general populace." Sss.sas5s..
- !. !.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-22
Cal. Governor Makes Hypocritical Gesture

the hypocritical gesture of relieving"
the unemployed by handing out $500
jobs, which will really be used to fur
Their the political ambitions of Rolph
and the mayors who are allied with
him. This is brazen. downright
mockery to the half-starved jobless
In this country.
Workers! Join the Unemployed
Councils and fight for immediate and
adequate relief! Demand unemploy-
ment insurance! Prepare for the
giant hunger march to Washington
Force the rich bosses to fed the
starving unemployed!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-22
Foster to Speak
AT Red Rally Friday
In Youngstown, Ohio

YOUNGSTOWN, O.. Oct. 2l.-The
Duca Degli Abruzd Hall at 346 Sum
init Ave, youngstown, o., has been
secured for the Communist Election
Rally and Mass Meeting for Friday,
october %, at 7:30 pm, where Will
liam 2. Foster the leader of the
great 1919 steel strike, and general
secretary Of the Trade Union Unity
League will speak about the program
of the Communist Party in this cleo
ton campaign.
Other speakers will be Donate
Piergioyanni for Mayor, john Turek,
candidate for End Ward Councilman,
Dave Dixon, Councilman for Bird
Ward, and Hannah r. Blumenthal
for 5th Ward councilman.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-22
CITY OF BALTIMORE
HELPS RAILWAY co.
SLASH WORKERS PAY
United Railways Use Park Tax Issue to Put
Over Cut: Workers Aroused
Communist Party Calls on Workers to Builc
Carbarn Committees to Fight Slash

BALTIMORE Md.-On Monday October r. the local
boss newspapers and editorial about number of letters
received by the councmen calling upon them against
the park tax These letters termed by the papers here
powerful lobby against the park tax nsgated by the
United Railways The truth of the matter is that the United
Railways trying to give the workers wage cut
but in view of the fact that they have basis for they
are trying to use this Park Tax issue
Sneedun
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-22
Workers With Jobs Go Hungry in Chicago

Six weeks ago the workers on two
floors walked out. But where the
workers are unorganized one can tell
the results beforehand. The COM
pany got the workers back with
good" promises and good" talks
and SO far that is all they got.
There used to be $500 workers In
this plant. But now that the speed
up has been increased 1000 workers
are walking the street. The only
way we can get anywhere In this fac
tory is by organizing into the tn
UL, every man and woman. to fight
the terrible conditions and the wage
cuts
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-22
Jobless Father Kills Self i'm Milwaukee

all the jobless workers are taken care
Of. there are thousands of workers In
the same fix that Cibik was In.
We are organizing a strong Unem-
ployed Council to force the city 10
give real relief to the jobless work.
ers. We are beginning to prepart for
the big Hunger March to Washing
ton. The socialists here stand ex-
posed before all the working class as
enemies of the workers and friends of
the bosses.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-22
iBy a Worker Correspondent

eoP0 1''e1re7
SAN DIEGO, Gait was an
nounced in the newspapers the other
day that governor Rolph is to give
$500 men work ON public roads.
Mayor Austen of this city was asked
by Rolph to select go men, who must
be able bodied men, heads Of fami-
lies, citizens Of the United States
and who have been residents of Call
forria at least one year. These men
wit be worked In three day shifts
and VIII be paid 81 day
I4ere are over 10000 unenployed
n this city alone and over 100000
ID the entire state and Rolph makes
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-22
Correspondence Briefs
LUDLOW ASSASSIN CAUGHT
GRATING

DENVER, ColL-Pat Hanreck. war
den of the Denver Jail, failed to split
up the graft to suit the politicians
and hogged all for himself J He got
fired. He is the one who led the
massacre of the women and children
in Ludlow, Ohio. He was assistant
warden of the Colorado State Prison
and also head of the State Industrial
Commission several years ago. Watch
him fall into another soft job. The
bosses take care of their hired as
sassins
"A Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-22
FLIMFLAM JOURNALISM

SEATTLE, Wash.-Some time ago
an Eastern publicity and newspaper
man, Deweese by name, at meeting
of his craft said:
THE readers of newspapers must
be flimflammed with the idea that
the publisher is really publishing
the newspapers and magazines for
him."
Leave it to publicity man to get
the correct word; "Flimflam." This
applies to the stories they are writing
about the Soviet Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-22
WORKERS PAY LOOTED IN
BIRMINGHAM

BIRMINGHAM, Ala.-The dirty
bosses are trying to hide their greed
by taking workers wages in the name
of the Community Chest and giving
them a pin to wear on their coal
lapels. The pin, say the bosses, rep
resents loyal service rendered. At
the same time these workers are con-
tributing to the chest they are also
getting their wages slashed in the
mills. Let's organize and strike!
r.. M.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-22
TEXTILE WORKERS
WIN CONCESSIONS
FROM N. c. BOSSES
1900 Workers in Mass
Meeting Keep Police
And Fakers Away

CHARLOTTE, N. c., Oct. 19-As
a result of the militancy of the Bur-
lington, N. c., mill workers, the Holt,
Smith and Love mills have been
forced to grant some concessions to
the workers. Rent in the company
houses has been reduced 10 per cent.
Notices have been put up in the six
mills stating: although we are
obliged to reduce wages 10 per cent,
we are at the same time reducing
house rent 10 per cent. Also no
docking has taken place since the
mass meeting of 1900 workers on
Sunday, called by the National Tex
tile Workers Union. Workers had
previously been locked daily, some
times their low wages being cut in
this way SO and 81 a week.
To protest this, the high rent and
especially the 10 per cent wage-cut,
the third in six months, 1900 work.
ers attended an open-air meeting and
listened enthusiastically for two
hours to speakers from the T.U.U.L.
and N.TW.U. They shouted down
and ran off the lot company petty
BOSNIAN, a preacher and a booster
for the A. F. Of L., who attempted
to speak. The company BOSNIAN
was later beaten up by a group of
angry workers. Police who openly
stated they had come to arrest the
speakers and break up the meeting
did not dare to do so. In spite of
the presence of the cops and mill
deputies many workers spoke, de-
nouncing the wage-cut and their
other grievances. Many also Joined
the union.
Mill Bosses Scared.
The mill owners we're so scared OF
a strike that they called over the
Danville, Va, chief Of police and
some Danville cops, who had had ex-
perience in beating up pickets. They
paraded around all day in front of
the mills with two machine guns in
their car. Because OF lack of or
ganization inside the mills, attempts
to call strike failed. However, the
workers are now organizing into the
National Textile Workers Union
with mill committees and locals of
the N.T.W.U. inside the mills. the
workers will be able to force a lot
more concessions from the mill own
ers. And it won't be long, either!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-22
(By a Worker Correspondent,

MILWAUKEE. Vision October 8
Vincent Cibik, father of five small
children, hanged himself In q garage
behind his house because he was I'M
able to find job and had no money
to buy food for his starving family.
The father had Just given the chill
dren the last three cents he had.
In the socialist city of Milwaukee,
where the socialist mayor boasts that
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-22
tfsy a Worker Correspondent

tBy a worker COrreSpOndent)
CHICAGO, Hive have sure got
forced labor in the Guldbrauser Co.
located here in Chicago, III. Four
teen hours day is nothing unusual.
We work every day in the week in
Guiding Sunday. Every day workers
faint by the benches and machines
half dead from overwork and starv-
alton.
Some may ask, how is 1t possible
to starve when you have job? Well
II is possible when you work in Guild
b.alser's. We get starvation wages
lind have TO work 90 TO 100 hours
week to get that. -
l&@-t
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-22
FREE FOOD AND CLOTHES IN
SOVIET SCHOOLS

KHARKOV.-Our children receive
free schooling, something We never
had before. At the present time our
children are obliged to go through
at least seven years schooling. In
school they get hot breakfasts as we'll
as shoes and clothing, all of which
is provided by the government. Froin
a letter from a group of housing
workers at Kharkov.)