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to Cooperate with the I. L. d. in the
fight to save her boy and the other
seven. 1t will also welcome Mrs.
jamie Paterson, mother of Haywood
Patterson, who has just returned from
New York, after having addressed
several large Scottsboro defense meet
ings in that city.
Mrs. Patterson is back from the
North greatly enthused and comfort
ed over the tremendous fight being
made to save the boys by hundreds
of thousands of white and Negro
workers. She was present at the
demonstration of 100000 workers at
Union Square, New York City, May
Day, and spoke in the evening at
the great mass meeting at the Bronx
Coliseum in that city.
Mrs. Mamie Williams, mother of
Eugene Williams, another of the con-
demned youths, left today for Georg-
la where she will visit the parents
and relatives of five of the boys from
that state to tell them of the fight
the I. l.. D., backed by the mass pro-
test of hundreds of thousands of
white and Negro workers, is making
to stop the legal massacre and free
the nine boys.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-05
Student Muzzled: Wants to Join YCL

did not seem to please her patriotic
spirit and duty to her country.
Please, can you inform me as te
how to 60 about joining the Young
Communist League?
Editorial Note--Young workers
4who wish to Join the Young Com
munist League should write or get
In touch with the headquarters Of
the Y.C.L.. IS e. 18th ST., New
York, N. Y. There are units of the
Y. G. L. organized in practically
every industrial city or town in the
u. S. A. The New York hesdquar-
tiers Of the Y. C. L. will tell any
young class conscious worker how
to go about joining the youth revo-
lutionary movement in his or her
city or town. Write at once. Don't
delay. Join the Young Communist
League.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-05
PUSH ANTI-USSR
DRIVE in GERMAN
CAPITALIST PRESS
Berliner Tageblatt Is
Doubtful, However

BERLIN.-The press campaign
against the Communist Party and
against the Soviet Union in connec.
ton with alleged economic espion-
age" is being continued. The man
agement of the Ludwigshafen works
of the l. G. Farben chemical concern
issued a declaration according to
which the Communist Party and the
revolutionary trade union opposition
maintain network of espionage all
over Germany in the interests OF the
Soviet Union. The arrested Cornf1iur1-
list leader Erich Steffen is accused Of
having maintained relations with the
Soviet Trade Mission in Berlin in Or
der to forward the results of the es-
pionage. The proof offered is that
Steffens wife is an employee Of the
Trade Mission.
The Soviet Trade Mission in Berlin
has issued a categoric denial of the
allegation Of completely and declares
that the person named in connection
with the affair have no relation with
the Mission where they are absolutely
unknown. No connections either dir
ect or indirect were maintained with
any suchseconomic espionage" organ
ization.
The central committee of the re-
volutionary trade union opposition
has issued declaration to the press
according to which the whole cam
paign is the invention of police spies
and agents-provocateurs. The whole
affair was intended as a stumbling
block for the Soviet German trade
negotiations, whilst at the same time
attacking the revolutionary trade
union movement in Germany.
The bourgeois "Berliner Tageblatt"
is the first newspaper to express its
doubts. 1t writes: 1.-THE charges made
do not appear very convincing in all
particulars, and particularly not the
charges concerning the Soviet Trade
Mission"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-05
Report Pickens Asked to Resign
Because Of Aid to Nine Negro Boys
NAACP National Office Openly Attempting
to Hamstring Fight to Save Lives of
Alabama Boss Court Victims

the consistent policy of hamstringing
the Scottsboro defense which has
marked the attitude of the N. A. A.
G. P. leadership towards the fight to
save the lives Of these boys.
The policy Of the top leadership Of
the N. A. A. G. p. has been "a of
definitely sabotaging before the fight
to save the lives Of these boys; (2)
Of not making any noise in the case
for fear Of offending the white I'M
perialists in the organization; 49, Of
supporting stephen r. Roddy who
shamelessly co-operated with the
prosecution in the Scottsboro trial
and was denounced by all nine boys
as traitor to their cause.
NAACP Membership in Protest.
The membership Of the NAA.CP.
are in revolt against this treacherous
policy which is helping to send the
boys to the electric chair, but the ma
tional office policy controlled by
Miss White and Major Spingarr, the
white president and Jim Grow advo-
cate of the organization, has resisted
the pressure Of the membership and
is still persisting in its attempts to
break up the united front policy
which is rallying hundreds Of thou
sands of white and Negro workers to
the fight to save the lives of the
boys. This leadership is saying that
they will have nothing to do with
the hundreds Of working class or
CARNATIONS fighting against the legal
lynching or with the International
Labor Defense which rushed to the
defeSe of the boys which the N. A.
A. G. P. leadership was eongratulat-
ing itself that at least the boys had
had "triaI."
Pickens Supporting Defense.
Mr.. Pickens joined the united front
struggle to save these boys and as a
result the leaders are reported to
have demanded his resignation,
rather than have the N. A. A. G. P.
pledged to a united front and the
mass movement which alone can
stop the massacre of these innocent
colored children. Thye have falsely
claimed that Stephen r. Roddy, the
faithless lawyer who helped in rail-
reading the boys, is the attorney for
the boys, and have maintained this
pretence in the face of the repeated
reputation of this claim by both the
boys and their parents.
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workers into mass political Commu-
mist Party without which they cannot
win their immediate demands. Labor
Unity is a weekly. The Daily Worker
is a daily, and must therefore be
utilized in organizing workers in their
dsy-to-day struggles against hunger
and every other form of boss ex-
ploitation.
Daily" Started in Anthracite
Tom M. orders two bundles, IS each
to Kulpnont and Mt. Carmel, Pa,
Ito start carrier routes as means
of establishing some circulation for
the D. w. in the Anthracite. Will
also help in building National Miners
Union" National Textile Workers
Union, Pawtucket, r. L, orders five
a day as starter.
R. S., Bridgeport, Ohio wants is
more. please rush this so we can
start up our route here"
Sorry to say I had the bundle
cut to 10 a day recently as it was
a mistake" writes Paul w. H., Tren-
ton, NJ. J. Bundle should be in
creased to so a day, as comrade SELL
ing the bundle had a run-in about
something 7 could not get clear"
Davie M. of East Chicago, Ind, wants
to sell Dailies. "Don't know Of any,
one who sells the paper in our town.
says he, ordering 10 to start with
In Danville, H., 20 workers will re-
ceive the Daily for 10 days, due to
efforts OF Oscar S., who promises
another order in about two weeks
idea Of endless chain" is apparent
when Fred W. S., Akron, o., wrote
ten letters to zen of my friends, en-
closing copy of Daily Worker, ask
ing them to read the paper and il
they liked 1t to subscribe. and write
five of their friends, asking them
to subscribe, and write TO five of their
friends, . and so on. Good meth
cd of letting workers know the Daily
Worker exists.
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NEW YORK.--A statement that
William Pickens, field secretary of the
National Association for the Advance
ment Of Colored People, has been
asked by the national leadership of
that organization to resign as a re-
suit of his support to the United
Front Scottsboro Defense to save the
lives of the nine innocent Negro boys
condemned by an Alabama boss
court to burn in the electric chair on
July 10 appears in the current issue
of the New York News and Harlem
Home journal, a. Negro newspaper
published in New York City.
White Bourgeois Women Leads
Attack on Pickens.
The statement declares that Miss
Mary ovingtot1 White, white bour-
geois woman who for many years has
dictated the refornaist policies of the
N. A. A. G. P. was the prime mover
of the demand for Mr.. Picken's re-.
signation. Miss White, who is chair
man Of the N. A. A. G. r. board, was
supported in her move against Pick
ems, who is absent in the field, by
nine other members of the board. She
was opposed by only one member.
This member warned the board that
its action against Pickens would cause
nationwide resentment among the
rank and file membership of the N.
A. A. C. p, and the Negro masses
generally.
That the support given by Pickens
to the International Labor Defense
in it slight to save the lives of the
boys was the direct cause of the at
tack by Miss White on Pickens, is
categoricslly stated by the New York
News and Harlem Home Journal:
Action Based On PickenS Support
of Defense.
"The cause of the furOre was the
praise and check which Pickens
sent to the Red Workers Organize
ton for their efforts to save the
nine colored boys doomed to death
in Alabama for an alleged attack
upon two admittedly dissoIute
white women. The praise was
called a direct reflection upon the
work of his own organization"
The paper vouches for its informa-
ton, and infers that the action viii
cause great resentment among the
membership of the N. A. A. C. P.
Such action would be in line with
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-05
DEATH TOLL IN
W. PENNA. MINES
MOUNTS HIGHER
Two Killed In Roof
Fall at Portage,
Pa, Mine
Especial to the Daily worker.)


PITTSBURGH, Pa.---Alex Valeslak,
a. and John Halucka, "a, were in
stantly killed and Walter Ritchey, IS,
barely escaped the same fate when
caught under heavy fall Of rock in
the Seminar Shaft Coal Co, near
Portage on May /.
SO states the latest news. In the
last six months of 1880 there we're 500
fatal and 1884 non-fatal accidents
in the Pennsylvania mines alone.
There were major disasters In this
period. However, there we're major
disasters in other states. Eighty min
ers we're killed and scores injured
in the Sunday Greek Mine No. 6 ex-
plosion Thirteen miners were killed
and several hurt in the Haily-Oakla
mine No. s. At the same time eight
miners we're murdered and a dozen
injured in Glen Rogers mine in West
Virginia. Over 500 we're killed last
year in the anthracite, 80 killed and
many injured in the explosion of the
Little Betty Mine, Indiana. An aver
age Of 48 miners are being killed ev-
cry week in the mines Of the United
States.
Recently 235 miners we're killed
and 29l injured in the Aachen Mine,
Germany. Three thousand were
killed in Russian Province, China
Twenty eight we're killed in the Haig
Mine, England; IS in the EsWeiller
Mine, Germany. In all of these ex-
plosions thousands we're injured
These are only partial figures gath
cred in the last few months.
Due to Bosses Greed.
At the bottom of these slaughters
of miners lies wage cuts, part-tirne
employment, murderous speed-up,
lack of safety measures, greed of the
coal operators for ever higher profits
The bosses, their government and
their agents of the UM.WA., both
the Lewis and Howat cliques, are
continually talking of safety de-
vices" But while the miners are
fighting wage-cuts, speed-up and for
real safety measures, this holy trim
ity'' is doing everything in its power
to smash the struggles of the min
ers. This was so clearly demon
strated in the Glen Alden and the
Shamokin strikes in the Anthracite
N. NJ. u. Leads Fight.
The National Miners Union, the
only leader Of the miners in all of
their struggles, is carrying on an I'M
compromising struggle against wage
cuts, speed-up, for genuine safety
measures to be controlled and ap-
piled by the miners themselves, thru
their Mine Committees, having the
right to strike the mine at any time.
Only in this way can the safety of
the miners lives be insured.
The District Conventions Of the
N.M.U., Ohio, May IT, and Pennsyl-
vania, May 1924, will strengthen
the Union in its struggle against the
mass slaughtering of miners.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-05

NJ L. "
Daily Worker
I bought the Daily Worker yester-
day for the first time. / enjoyed it.
This purchase OF mine was the cul-
nninstion Of a long series Of events
dating back to a certain incident at
Morris High School. Your cartoon by
Ryan Walker, Pioneers at School,
prompted me to write you about it.
Miss Hall is our elocution teacher
at Morris. Her classes were to pre-
pare four minute original orations---
each graduating student to write
speech suitable-as she sees it-for
the occasion. was fool enough, 70
think that / could get away with the
expression of any original idea what
soever. Miss Hall is 100 per cent
citizenness, so of course she refused
% hear my speech, which apparently
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-05
WEAVERS WIN
DUNDEE STRIKE
Stop Wage Cut and
Speed Up Scheme

PASSAIC, Nj. May 4.-The strike
OF the 10 weavers in the Dundee Tex
tile Co., a silk mill, has been won
The strike started in the last week
In April against a wage-cut on the
night shift Of from $2.2s per thou
sand pick to Sits and had demanded
that the workers take care of six
looms instead Of four.
Besides this the employer had be.
gun to cub wages and introducing the
same speed-up on the day shift.
The strike cut short the wage cut
ting and speed-up and forced the
boss to take the workers back on the
old conditions
!. The National Textile workers
Union eo-opasted to the fullest &.
tent with s1es stsske , evHfnafi;fi aSb o.
Mr.. -,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-05
Republic Steel Cuts Pay Times In Year

either on a departmental or individ-
ual scale. The big shots go in groups
to the different departments to speak
to us and cry about losing money
and then cut US. They cut lis at diff
ferent times in order to weaken our
resistance and divide us. For in
stance, IN the Canton plant, the mill
inspector got a 21z per cent cut.
Some workers who recently made 81
a day now make $500. Clippers got
a soc cut.
ORGANIZED
Fellow workers of the Republic
Steel-Organise against these wage
cuts. The bosses weaken our resist
ance by cutting each department
separately. But we must show them
that we know what to do to. Organ
ize grievance committees in each de-
partrr1ent. All departments have your
committee and connect up with the
Metal Workers Industrial Union.
r. C..
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-05
Scottsboro Correction

In the statement of General
Chandlee, published in the Daily
Worker of May l, where the state
Ifnent reads MIR. Roddy was very
legitimateIy in the case as an APP
pointee Of the court" it should
have read MIR. Moody was very
legitimately in the case as an APP
pointee of the court.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-05
by a Worker Correspondent

Wy NVIhGE NUfEccpbilueHhJ
CANTON, Ohio.-,In Republic steel
there are still wage cuts, just as in
every other factory. The Red Billet,
published by the Communist Party
Nucleus in that shop writes the fol-
lowing in their last issue:
Four Cuts in Year.
For the fourth time since 1880
(June) Our wages are cut. On June
16, 1880, there was a 4 per cent cut.
On October is, 1880, Az per cent
wage cut, on January Is, 1881, a Q
per cent wage cut. This month an
other The company reduced the
crews from nine to six and those six
are receiving less than the former
nine. Workers are not allowed to
stop to cool off or wipe the perspira-,
ton off their face.
One worker collapsed and was tax
en- TO the hospital where he died
from oyerwork and exhaustion!
Every day wages are being cut
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The men refused Then they tried to
poke them off with sticks. but the
hungry men started throwing the
garbage at them and kicking them
off the truck About five more hun
CRY came and Joined in the search
of bits of food at the same time
keeping garbage men at bay. This
went on for about 20 minutes until
the garbage men went in to phone
the police. The hungry workers then
ran off carrying their loot Of food.
Employed and unemployed, organ
ize and fight for your livcsl
Unemployed Worker.
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after which the plant would reopen
for four days every other week, and
with a 10 per cent per day wage
cut. The workers will get about So
pay every two weeks or A week
This scale OF wages was really set by
the W1lAtcom County commission
ers on their relief work.
Bloedell Donovan is cutting wages
in all its mills now II controls Tie
kaIIl1 nr,~>. ru,i1u AH6ax ~ -- & 4
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-05
Cal. Lumber Mill to Close Down May Is
been working four days Der week.

been working four days per week.
On about the 18th OF May it is
due to shut down tight. Some have
worked here for many years and are
very conservative, 100 per centers. 1t
was very hard to approach them at
first with any Red" stuff as they
called it. Now they are seeing red,
when the slack skin of their CUTS
strikes 8 bells against the backbone
to remind them that they are sup
posed to eat
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-05
LSNR WINS PRAISE
OF BOSTON MASSES
Negro Clubs, Papers,
Hail Militants

BOSTON, Mass, May 4.--The Ne
gro masses of Boston have been
reused by the militant and success
full struggle carried on here by the
colored and white members of the
League Of Struggle for Negro Rights
against the attempt of the officials
of the Girls High School of Boston
to bar colored students from their
recent Prom. -.
The Challengers' Club, with offices
at II Braddock Park, has sent the
following letter to the L. S. N. r.:
April 81, 1881.
League Of Struggle for Negro Rights,
544 Shswmutt Ave,
Boston. Mass
Dear Sirs:
The Challengers Club officially
thanks the League of Struggle for
Negro Rights for the courageous
stand taken by its organization in the
matter of the segregation policy in
stituted by, the Longwood Towers at
the Prom given by the Girls High
School of Boston, and extols the sac
rifice made by Miss Anna Block.
This was so voted at our regular
meeting held Tuesday. April "a, 1891.
Very truly yours,
The Chsllengers Club.
The L. s. N. r. had pieksted the
hotel and denounced the jim Grow
tactics of the hotel owners and off.
Gals Of the school. When the po.
lice attacked the pickets, the work.
ers militantly resisted. Anna Block,
a white worker, was arrested. In the
bosses court next day she was sem
fenced to three days in Jail.
The Boston Chronicle, a Negro
paper, printed in full the story of the
picketing and the Illustration of the
attempted barring of the colored
students. The Boston Guardian, an
other colored paper of this city, car
ried q commendatory editorial on the
struggle of the members OF the
League Of Struggle and the Young
Liberators, wit hparticular praise for
Anna Block. The Guardian also
called upon the Negro masses to sup
port ths campaign OF the 1rterna-
tional Labor Defense to save the
lives of the nine innocent Negro
youths in Alshsma
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-05

ole on July III, is a member OF
this church.
The walls Of the church
shook with thunderous denunci-
alton of the national leadership
OF the N. A. A. c. P. and certain
local Negro ministers who with
Stephen r. Roddy, the faithless at
torney who at the ScottSboro "trial'
helped railroad the boys TO the elec-
tfic chair, are continuing their url-
derhand attempts to hannString the
defense.
Tells of Trickery.
Cries Of "Shan1el Shame!" resound-
ed throughout the church as the dis
trict organizer of the International
Labor Defense told how the boys had
been tricked by Roddy together with
two ministers and James, a police
agent, into signing statement which
they repudiated the next day when
their alarmed parents rushed to Bir-
mingham Jail to stop the betrayal.
The entire membership of the
church pledged a fight to the finish
behind the united front defense pol
icy of the I. L. d. to save the lives
of the youths.
Another mass meeting in Negro
Baptist church tonight will further
mobilize the workers for a fight for
the boys and against the open alli-
ance of the N. A. A. G. P. leadership
with the Ku Klux Klan and other boss
forces shouting for the blood of these
innocent children.
This meeting will also give a mass
farewell to Mrs. Ada Wright, mother
of Andy and Roy Wright, who is
leaving tomorrow for New York City
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-05
Hungry Workers Riot Over Garbage

OAKLAND, CaI-The corner of
Tenth and Clay SITS. was a scene of
near riot on Monday when garbage
wagon stopped to pick up garbage
from Tenth Street Market. The
scavaneer men brought out boxes of
half rotten oranges, lettuce leaves,
rotten squash and other vegetables
and dumped them into the wagon.
Several men jumped up and began to
salvage better bits by stuffing their
pockets and packing them into folded
newspapers. Garbage collectors did
not relish the idea Of distributing
their durnpinss and ordered them off.
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HUNGER MARCHES
GROW AS THEY GO
Thousands Greet the
Marchers
CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE,

Columbus arrived at the square as
scheduled, at 5 p. m. They came
through two different sections of the
town.
After the open-air meeting the
lf1archers were fed by local workers,
the feeding committees being organ
lied by railroad worker, Shrock.
Then, at p. M, a mass meeting
was held in the city hall. The hall
was packed to capacity by 1000.
among them many Negroes. The
speakers were we'll received and there
was enthusiastic endorsement of the
demands for social insurance, in
Guiding demands for relief to the
poor farmers.
The meeting unanimously en-
dorsed the sending of a telegram to
the governor Of Alabama, demand
ing the release of the Negro boys
framed up in Scottsboro.
The marchers slept last night in
the city hall, then, joined by four
delegates from Massillon and two
from New Philadelphia, they started
this morning to Wooster. They will
arrive in Ashland tomorrow
Toledo Group Starts.
The Toledo section of the state
hunger march started today and will
meet the n1arehers who came
through Msssillon on May 8, proba-
bly, at Marion.
The Cincinnati group starts tomor-
row, and proceeds directly to Column
bus.
The group from the mining fields
started yesterday and will go directly
to Columbus.
War Mongers Fear Them.
The marchers from Cleveland ar
rived in Akron on May 2, at p M,
and 500 attended a meeting held in
the Workers Center to greet them.
Fifteen delegates from Akron joined
the march. The marchers then
went on to Barberton. where the
city authorities called out the whole
police force and fire department and
swore in the American Legion as
deputies TO prevent any meeting be-
ing held. The authorities arc des-
perately afraid the wags-cut and
part-tiflie workers on the Jobs here
and the swarris Of unemployed Will
get together and organize Never
theless, the tnsrchers passed through
town with hundreds lined along the
way and cheering them and their
demands. Barbertorl is a chemical
war industry center.
There is a good spirit amongst the
marchers, and discipline and organ
ization are improving steadily. There
is not enough determination with the
workers and poor farmers along the
route. These are all eager for in
formation and for literature.
Prevent Jim Growing.
There is a large Negro delegation
from youngstown and complete fra
ternity between white and colored
delegates IN the line Of march. At
Massillon, where the narchers were
fed, there was a sign up: Tables
for Colored." The man in charge
refused to take it down, but the
n1archers did, and colored and white
marchers ate at the same tables.
Meetings we're held in Canton and
Clinton.
There are In the march nov; Al
delegates from Cleveland. 10 from
Akron, ! from Barberton, from
Canton; A from Massilion; 4 from
New Philadelphia, 2 from Alliance,
9 i Saas East East i L 4 olls 4 2pM ;Gamp.