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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-21
JERSEY WORKERS
TO RATIFY CP
ON JUNE 14TH
Hold Open Air Meet
at Singer

: NEWARK, N. J.-Open-air election
campaign meeting at Singer Sewing
Machine Shop was held in Elizabeth,
N. j., where over a hundred and
fifty workers gathered around the
speakers of the Communist Party
and many more listened from the
windows of the factory.
The bosses sent out a man with
a bible to drown out the words of
the Communist Speakers But these
tactics proved futile. The workers
listened and applauded the program
of the Communist Party. The meet
ing lasted three-quarters of an hour.
Singer Sewing Machine formerly
employed 10000 workers. They now
employ $500. Every week workers
are being laid off. Many are now
working part time. The Communist
Party has a nucleus in this shop,
and issued their first shop paper on
May l. Workers are looking forward
to the June issue.
On June IA, in Newark, New Jer-
sey, at Asst Springfield Ave, there
will be State Ratification Conven-
ton. 1t will be the biggest ever held
in New Jersey. Hundreds Of organ
nations are sending delegates. The
Party has candidates in seven coun-
ties, several New Jersey cities, also
a candidate for governor. Unions,
unemployed councils, fraternal or
CARNATIONS are sending delegates. A
concert will be hled day before the
convention in the same hall, as an
opening to the convention.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-21
SUPPORT Groavs for AUSouthern
Scottsboro Conference May 81

CHATTANOOGA, May 2o.-Negro
and white workers throughout the
South are feverishly working to-
gether to mobilize mass support for
the All-Soutuhern United Front
Scottsboro Conference which will be
held in this city on May 81, as part
of the nationwide fight to save the
nine innocent Scottsboro Negro boys
from the legal lynching planned by
the Alabama capitalists and land
lords.
Many organizations and churches
have already elected delegates to the
conference and pledged their whole
hearted support to the movement to
stop the mass legal lynching, Mass
meetings have been held with great
success in many cities of the South.
The work of building block and
neighborhood committees is being
pushed also with great success.
Thousands of white and Negro
workers have rallied, In fighting
alliance, to the fight to save the
boys.
The parents and other relations of
the boys, who have Just returned
from Kilby prison where they went
TO defeat the attempts of Walter
l. .
preachers and Ku Klux Khan
lawyers to betray the defense of
their children, have thrown them
selves with the utmost energy into
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-21
Starving Harlan Miners Capture Six Machine Guns from
Coal Company; Fighting Continues Death Total 81

the Harlan county strike, of whom
10 were coal miners. Among the dead
miners are three Negroes who were
shot in the back One deputy was
killed last night, and the miners fired
into troop of militia with casualties
unknown. We heard firing today
one mile from the center of Harlan.
The miners are now using six ma
chine guns they captured from a
company ammunition depot
There is a report in Harlan that
5000 more miners in Tennessee, Ken
lucky and Virvinia are out today on
sympathy strike. This in addition
to the 5000 striking now in Harlan
county against the Black Mountain
Coal Co., and other firms in the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-21
Why They Called Off
N Y Night Air
ATTACK"

ut must be admitted, says this
Red Cross report, that the pro-
lection Of civilians against gas war
fare encounters great difficulties. Let
us suppose that we wish to provide
the population of all countries with
masks; this would represent a con-
siderable expense which at any
given moment may be rendered
useless &. But let us suppose that
we provide masks and shelters, we
must realize that the civilian popu-
lation win not be completely pro-
tected . If belligerents believed
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-21
Son of Morgan g Go. Partner Heads
War MdneuVreS of 672 War Planes

ii to their interest to carry their
warfare behind the lines of battle,
the civilian population would IN
doubtedIy be attacked not only with
gas but with explosive and ineendi-
airy bombs.
Experts discovered that explosive
and incendiary bombs are capable
of producing such destruction that
If explosive bombs fell on a congest-
ed community nothing would re-
main =.
AT first we thought that inter
national law would prevent such
attacks on civilian populations, but
consultation with jurists shows that
protection of civilians through legal
prohibitions is very doubtful, and
that in time ofwar the few little
documents we have in our hands
would be likely to have small eff
feet"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-21
COLUMBIAN COFFEE WORKERS
STRIKE

BOGOTA, Columbia. Striking
against conditions in the coffee
plantations in the department of
Cundinamarca, 500 coffee harvesters
resisted the importation of strike
breakers,
The Mayor of Viota, in the depart
ment, sent detachment of national
police against the strikers.
An attempt to break the strike is
being made by the National Labor
Bureau Of Columbia, In the interest
of the planters.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-21
DENOUNCE MICHIGAN BILL
TO REGISTER FOREIGN BORN
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picked up a spectator who could
hardly speak English. Others pro-
tested that he was only listening.
NO matter" said the police agents
of the liberal Mayor Muir
ply, "he had no right to listen to
unlawful sayings"
Rosow Immediately began to speak
again pointing out the real mean
ing of capitalist police power and
using the present circumstance as
proof, and was arrested. with an
other bystander. They were all held
for from IS to 48 hours.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-21

This scrip is redeemable only at
the city store for food" One can
get no fresh fruit at this store other
than some oranges at thirty cents a
dozen, while they retail at some
stores for As to 40 cents peck.
One Day Work A Week.
We cannot get whatever we want
at the store and the amount that we
can get of anything at one time is
limited, for instance, they will not
sell any milk tickets formerly re-
dsemable at any store for one quart
of pure sweet milk. ticket worth 9
cents unless you buy $500 worth
of groceries. Most workers only
work two half days for which they
get $500 a week.
Last week they changed the milk
tickets, making them redeemable by
2 milk dealer only. The tickets are
now 10 cents each. The reason Tor
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-21
SWEDISH WORKERS CONTINUE
STRUGGLE

COPENHAGEN. The Swedish
Employers Union issued a statement
that it will press with the full
strength Of its state power the wages
and living conditions Of the workers
and will make no concessions.
In Hernosand, a strike center, the
workers have set up their own COM
mittees. maintaining order in the
town and forbidding the importation
OF strikebreakers.
At Solicited, another strike CEN
ter, the workers demand the imme-
date expulsion Of all strike break
ers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-21
EDITORS NOTE

This is the first direct news from
Harlan than we have received, eX-
cept what had already been strain
cd through capitalist press sources.
Notice that the capitalist press has
altogether concealed the extent of
the struggle. minimized the number
of deaths, and has not given the
minrs credit for the amount of
resistance they have shown.
by Special Correspondent
HARLAN, KY, May 20.-Civil war
is still raging here. Your cores
pondent has established conclusively
that BIT have been killed so far in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-21
WORLD STRIKE
STRUGGLES ON
Wage Cuts Rage in
Capitalist Lands

Forecasting a rising wave of gi-
gantic strike struggles in all parts of
the world, workers In many foreign
countries are striking against wage
cuts and drastic inroads on their
standards of life.
WARSAW-When the mine own
ers in the Dabrowa and Cracow coal
fields sought to enforce a 10 per cent
wage cut upon the Polish miners
who receive from Sc to 70 cents a
day, 10000 walked out in strike. The
miners had been working on short
time, three and four days a week.
Miners in Upper Sillesia regard
the strike sympathetically and may
join in several days.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-21

Harlan County Coal Operators AS
ISOLATION. Only very few are scab-
bling.
When the companies evicted the
miners who struck, their houses were
burned. Seventeen houses wer burnd
one night last week.
500 Militia
There are 600 militiamen in the
county, making common cause with
the mine guards, whom the coal OPP
orators sheriff makes into deputies
The miners are fighting them both.
S Wage Cuts
Although the United Mine Workers,
which called the strike presents only
the demand for the return of union
men fired, the basis of the miners
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-21
100000 FRENCH TEXTILE WORK
Frs STRIKE

PARIS.-Th textile mills OF
northeast France and Lille were
closed yesterday when more than
100000 textile workers struck against
a 3 TO 4 per cent reduction in their
wages.
Already 10000 special police and
gendarmes have been rushed into
the strike zone in an attempt to
break the strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-21

but the president and secretary Of
Evarts local lin the heart of the
fighting) have been indicted for
murder and are in Jail, as are also
the chief of police, the deputy chief,
of the police and the city clerk Of
Evarts. Evarts was the only free
town" in the surrounding country, the
rest of the land all being owned by
the coal companies. Evarts had the
only stores not owned by the COM
panies. Evicted miners came to Evarts
when they we're driven from their
homes by company gunner. Sheriff
Blair, the operators man, is a po-
liticaI enemy of the Evarts city adj
miniStration,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-21

stubborn resistance to starvation and
armed force alike is that they have
had five wage cuts in the last three
months. They earn, even when
working, only Sc weekly.
The strike was called by District
President Turnblazer, who came here
as an AFrL organizer a short time
ago. This Turnblazer was a UNIV
official four years ago, but left short
ly before the disappearance Of the
union here. He held conferences with
the governor and agreed to the send
ing in of the militia, saying to the
miners that they would disarm the
deputized mine guards.
Turnblazer has not been arrested;
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-21
Players Wanted for a
ScOttsbOro Case Play

The Workers Laboratory Theatre
is now casting for Scottsboro play.
The play must be performed as soon
as possible SO that it may serve to
rally support TO the defense of the
8 Negro boys.
If possible two casts will be formed
this week. Both colored and white
workers are required.
Come TO rehearsals on Mondays,
Tuesdays and Fridays, $3.50 p. m. at
1871 West 18th st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-21
PLAN HUGE WAGE CUTS IN
JAPAN

TOXIC, Japan.-A sweeping wage
cut, from 10 to % per cent, and es-
pecially affecting the lower categor-
les of government employees is the
scheme proposed by the Wakatsuki
government TO cover the deficit
pending this year.
100000 is thus to be loped from
government expenditures.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-21

congregation to donate instead to the
defense Of the boys. $17O0 was col
lected.
SO aroused we're the Negro worker
members of the w. Mitchell A. M. E.
and the Mt. Vernon Baptist that
they decide to hire automobile
trucks to send large delegation to
the All-Southern Conference. Many
members Of the congregations stated
they would walk all the way to
Chsttanooga, II they had TO. but
they would get there, ~
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-21
TIN MINERS CLASH

LA PAz, Bolivia. According 10
the latest capitalist news sources,
unemployed tin miners In the oruro
mining region have FLASHED on sew
eraI occasions with troops In their
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-21
BRITISH MARINE WORKERS
GET CIrT

LONDON.--A fat 10 per cent re-
duction In the wages OF all seamen
and wharf workers in its employ was
announced by the Peninsulsr Orient
Steamship Line, effective August /,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-21

attempts to procure food for them
selves.
Unemployment is growing among
the tin miners with the smaller
mines almost all completely shut
down and the larger ones on part
time.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-21
JOBLESS WORKERS IN
GRAND RAPIDS PAID
BY CITY IN SCRIPT
Forced to Work on Sewer Job in Exchange for
Rotten Food
Must Buy So Groceries at City Store Before
They Can Get Milk
Grand Rapids, Mich.


Out here unemployed worker, in order to get relief
from the city, must work job such
thing for fifty cents hour paid in scrip.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-21
WALTER WHITE
BRANDED AS A
LIAR BY PARENT
Mother of Scottsboro
Boy Scores Tactics
of NAACP Head

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-28
BY r. d. THOMAS.


~ GORGE 1semann is bowling's
greatest optimist. If he rounds
Y up las Washington teams for
the National Duckpin Bowling
Congress championships at Convention
Hall, February is to March Z, he viii
have achieved more than anybody ex-
pected of him. The congress secretary
has never set q goal that others con-
sidered reasonable.
On the other hand, Arville Ebersole,
secretary of the Washington City Duck
pin Association, usually can tell you
within a few teams or individuals what
q given tournament will draw. His poor
est guess was on the current Campbell
Sweepstakes. Said he'd get so entries,
but only Al showed.
He was the victim Of false promises.
The only kick bowling promoters
such as 1semann and Ebersole get out
Of their jobs is beating entry records.
The total entries Is the measure OF their
achievement. Their monetary reward
is small in proportion 70 effort expended.
THERE have been several enterpris-
i ing secretaries Of the washington
City Association, but none with the
get-up-and-go Of Ebersole. He Is in
exhaustible Also he IL man Of de-
termination. If he can't get around an
obstacle he'll battle. The fellow has
been very pointed at times with alley
folk, league chieftans and others who
barred his way. In the end they've been
on his side.
Ebersole has had q hand in the pro-
motion of every major duckpfn event
in Washington for several years. He
has been a real force in the games
development. II the Washington City
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-28
Ma Pinned Glad to Be Back Mh Worth Seen New Gibson 7den

then moved to the South Atlantic, and
after q brief whirl with Dallas, played
through the 1880 season with the Selma
Club of the Southeastern League. The
Selma club won the pennant in the
Southeastern, and Radcliffe led the
league in about everything but fouls.
He was the top hitter with q mark OF
.369; flrst in home runs, total bases
total hits, runs batted In, three -baggers
hslding and assists.
1t IL long jump from . class B cir
cult to the majors and not many players
have made 1t successfully in one leap
But since Radcliffe Is such clever
fielder, DOME Bush expects to assign
him to the bag, and II he can hit near
the 800 mark he will be q big asset tc
the Sox, for they have been weak de-
fensively at first base since Earl Shelly
was passed back to the minors. Rad
cliffe Is left-handed all around and Il
very shifty for q large fellow.
The SoX still may land Lew Fonseca
from Cleveland, as the deal remains on
the fire, but in that event the Cali
fornian might be used at second base
in case Radcliffe succeeds at first, Bush
would like to have an old hand on his
infleld, for should Radcliffe and Luke
Apphng make good, an experienced
player would be needed to steady them
Bush is building a young team on
Chicagos South Side and believes that
next season will find the Sox making
some slight gains in the standings.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-28
Chips From the Mapleways

Association doesn't increase his pay at
its next meeting the alley owners might
be doing themselves favor By giving
it q tilt. It's worth their while TO
keep him thoroughly interested. Some
day the promotion bug may leave his
bonnet.
war makes strange bed fellows"
but seldom does 1t bring together q
Earle Stocking and John Evans are
teamed up as captains in John Blicke
army. Stocking landed in the bowling
business through O brave struggle TO
save the Washington City Duckpin AS
ISOLATION in the duckpin political war
few years back. Evans gained dis
tinction as leader Of the faction that
fought him.
1t was bitter strife.
EVANS is now manager of the man.
Stocking Ii BlickB f1eld man. Both
are making good hand over fist, and
this isn't meant to be ambiguous.
Mrs. Margaret Miltner and w. L.
Martin shot to the front in the brother
and sister tourne ment at the Mount
Rainier pin plant with 3-gane set
OF GAS last night.
Our idea Of the strongest brother
and-sister combination in this mans
town 10 Jack Whalen and Bese Hoffman.
Bess Ackman, champion Of the wom-
ems division of The Star Yuletide
tournament, and Glenn Wolstenholme
have challenged the world in mixed
doubles.
Brad Mandley's most formidable
RI. ais in the Campbell stakes are MEM
bers OF the National Pale Dry team, all
youngsters. Ed Espey. Hokie Smith,
Paul Harrison and Jack Wolstenholme
axe within striking distance Of the
leader.
HARRISON and Wolstenholme are
i L veteran campaigners, though
barely Of voting age Espey and
Smith have just arrived, but the big
money doesn't frighten them.
Gus Chaconas OF the Ahepa League
Is q youngster of promise Recently he
shot q set Of 403 and boosted his aver
age to 10S, second high in the league.
Gus Ia member Of the Sons Of Peri
Giles, all striplings They are third.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-28
FRASER REGARDED
PROMISING HURLER
Shy Recruit Did Well With
DaIIaS-RadcIiffe Minor
FirSt-SaCk Star.
BIZ FRANCIS J. POWERS.

~ HICAGOy January 28.-At
I last Victor Frasier is going
~ to brave the dangers Of life
in Chicago. Frasier is a
talented young pitcher the Chi
cago White Sox purchased from
Dallas of the Texas League at the
conclusion of the 1929 season. But
Victor never reported for service.
To a boy brought up in Mount
Enterprise, Tex, where life is calm,
Chicago held more terrors than
ever did q Comanche raid to the
old pioneers who settled his native
State. So FraSier just refused to
leave his native plains.
DOME Bush, the kindly manager Of
the White Sox, used all Of his persuasive
wiles on the youngster, but to no result.
Frasier either would pitch in Texas or
he would not pitch at all. Consequently
he did not pitch at ALL and even in
Mount Enterprise a fellow must get
check occasionally If he wants to spark
a girl regularly.
So aft:r a year Of idleneSs and en-
couraged by the fact that Cecil Pat
Caraway. q fellow Texan with the White
Sox, did not have q single bullet wound
when he returned homs, Frasier will
join the Chicago team this Spring.
FraSisr should develop into winner
for the White Sox. In 1929 he was the
best pitcher in the Texas League and
had an earned-run average Of PSI for
AZ games. He worked 191 innings for
the Dallas STEERS and was much sought
after by big league scouts, but the White
Sox landed him. He is only ~ years of
age. so q year of idleness will not have
injured him, and Bush expects him to
develop into a regular hurler.
The White Sox also have another fine
prospect in Ray Radcliffe, first base
man. Radcliffe, who halls from Pitts
burg. Okla, has BEEN playing profess
sional ball only four years, and has
led three Of the four leagues in which
he has worked in batting.
He started in the West IN Association,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-28
BERG QUITE EAGER
TO RISK RING TITLE
Junior WeIter, Who Battles
PerIick Friday, Never
Sidesteps Bout.
! YEw YORK. january 2s.-som

n YEW YORK, January 26.-Some
M champions defend their titles
once every two or three years.
Jack kid Berg most decidedly
Is not like that. Maybe you don't know
1t, but Berg is junior welterweight
champion, having taken that trick title
away from Mushy Callahan In London
almost q year ago.
Berg's crown Is at stake almost every
time he goes to the post. He put 1t on
the line for Goldie Hess to shoot at in
Chicago last Friday night and next FRI
day evening Herman Perlick will try to
lift it in the feature Of four 10-rounders
in the Garden.
Did somebody whisper that all cham
pionship matches in this State must be
over the l5-round route? That's true,
but It 10 happens that, as far as EsA
New York Boxing Commission is con-
cerned, there is no such thing as q
Junior welterweight title. That's why
Berg and Perlick are permitted to meet
in q Hereunder.
Title Not Title IN new xOrk.
Another of those comical situations
which have heen 80 abundant IN the
local sock market Of late would result
should Perlick win. for he would nave
ACQUIRED q title in q spot where 1t does
not exist.
laurels seriously. What he really wants
above everything else is a shot ut the
lightweight championship, which fell
into the clutches CT Tony Canzoneri the
night he tipped over Al Singer.
So far Canzoneri has not evinced any
eaeerness for another match with Berg.
who gave him a lacing last Winter.
That doesn't mean that Tony, great
little Gamester, Is afraid TO get In there
with the Britisher again.
To q man up q tree 1t appears that
Canzoneri is stalling of the match in
the hope Of delaying 1t until the out
door season With no heavyweight con-
tests of Importance In sight in New
York for next Summer q Cenzoneri-
Berg brawl would At into one OF the
ball parks
Perlick No Stranger.
Herman Perlick Is no stranger to
Berg. as they have met twice. Each
time it was q stiff battle. That's one
of the reasons Berg always IL worth
watching. Sometimes q second-rAter
gives him more trouble than good
fighter.
Tony Herrera, q Texas Mexican cam
paigning out Of Chicago. Is to mix with
Sammy Dorfman in the semi-fnal.
Dorfman 10 O vastly improved fighter
but some of the gymnasium shafps tout
Herrera az the winner.
The Mexican can punch. He has nat
tened Joe Click. 0aston Charles, Tommy
Crowley and Augie Pisano. among 9th
ers, and has outpointed such boys a.
Tommy Grogan and Harry Dublinski.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-28

one Of the most scenic courses in the
Midwest, and nine holes were added to
the semi-public Dublin Road public
course.
Increase Is General.
Similar activity was noted at other
Ohio places, including Groveport, Chill
hcothe, Toledo, GAINESVILLE and Dayton.
No new courses are planned at Cleve-
land, but the links on the Rockefeller
estate, which Is being made into q coun-
try club for workingmen, is to be i'm
proved.
Everywhere there was a large in
crease in play, especially on the public
links. Detroit reported 5l5,028 rounds
played in 1880, as compared to 405, 151
in 1929, with one public course having
two 700-round days Of q theoretical
maximum of 100.
Heading the list of new courses either
planned or underway is the 10-hole
layout at the University of Illinois, paid
for from foot ball receipts. Among
other cities where projects also are
underway are Racine, Wis; Flint,
Mich; Waukegan, ILL.,; Elkhart, Ind.
Rack Island, ILL.,. where two 1S-hole
courses are planned; Escanaba, Mich !;
Grand Forks. N. OAK; Duluth, Mimi,
and WauSau, Wis.