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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-16
Jobless Council Forces Welfare to Give Relief
to Starving Family

well that when the Unemployed
Council gets hold of it the well
fare will be forced to give relief.
These people went to the welfare
at first as individuals. They were
fatty refused food and shelter. In
stead they promised them five gal
Ions of gas so they could get out OF
town.
The Unemployed Council did get
hold of this case and formed a COM
mittee of forty workers and marched
up to the welfare department and
demanded relief for these workers
families. When the spokesman OF
the committee started to explain the
case, the parasite in charge said that
he could not do anything, but he soon
changed his mind when he saw the
determination on the workers faces,
so he came across with relief for
these workers families.
Fellow workers, let's not stop at
this. Let's fight for real relief. Fight
for social insurance. A Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-16
Terrible Conditions
on Boulder Dam; AFL
Makes Only Gesture

VANCOUVER, Canada, Oct. 49,
The brutal exploitation and terrible
conditions Of the workers on the
Boulder Dam by the Big Six Com
panies, Inc. was told here by COM
mittee from the A. F. of L. They
gave report which told of wage
cuts, fearful" conditions and lack of
consideration for ex-servicemen.
But this is as far as the A. F.. of
L. will go. 1t is their common game
of making reports and noise and then
cooperating with the employer in
retaining the conditions. This is
clearly shown by the fact that they
have asked the Federal government
to investigate conditions. The Fed
eral government is we'll aware of con-
ditions on the Boulder Dam, they are
directly cooperating with the Big Six
Companies, Inc. in maintaining the
conditions and putting through wage
cuts.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-16
Green Supports Stagger System in Butte

the part-time stagger system Of the
bosses. He also assured the workers
of Butte that his clique voted in IA
vor Of beer long before the American
Legion arrived at their mature con-
clusion.
A number of enthusiastic boosters
and hangers-on from the local A. F.
of L. cheered him feebly. He failed,
however, to fool any of the miners
in Butte. A small boy, who was
there asked his youthful comrade
who the high mucky muck was. His
conrad ereplied: "Oh, that's the guy
who kids the working stiff" So ap-
parently the Butte workers are next
to Green and his docile bull.
Mr.. Tobin of the teamsters union
also appeared with Mr.. Green. Tobin
cavorted on the platform like young
colt. His dythrambs were superb
comedy. A Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-16
Savings Lost, Jobless
Aged Canton Worker
Shoots Self in Alley

CANTON, Ohio.-On october 8, at
7:30, Mr.. Hunt, so years old, Of 1913
Third ST., NE, shot himself to death
in the alley back of his home. Ill
health was the cause given for his
action, but if it was ill-health surely
the $1,000 which he lost with the
closing of the Dime Savings Bank of
Canton on Monday was the motiva-
ting factor.
Fellow workers, one of the plankS
of the Canton section of the Com
munist Party is that the city shall
guarantee the deposits Of Canton's
workers which are deposited in Can
ton banks" Let's all rally behind
the Communist Party and workers
platform. Vote Communist next
month and show our solidarity!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-16

body full of lead.
This morning Joseph Benz, the
father of three children, while going
to work and waiting for the street
car to come at Trombly and Mt.
Eliot Sts., was attacked without any
provocation on his part by one Of
the same brand of thugs, shot
through the abdomen, and his re-
covery is doubtful.
Workers, please open your eyes.
Don't you see that men with bloody
hands are pleading humanity? Who
is responsible for these two shoot
ings? The capitalists, the man who
controls your police department.
Yes-we can have humanity, but
we'll have to take the guns away
from these thugs. We must organize
into strong workers defense corps
to fight this terror. F. S.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-16

of the children and adults alike now
and they are all preparing for strug-
gle, knowing that their only hope is to
strike, they have prepared for defense.
They have sent out the cry to their
fellow workers to stand by and share
whatever they can.
Already the first chilly days have
struck the miners. Their blood is so
thin that they are not able to meet
the cold with resistance. Thin little
children, blue with the cold, greet one
the minute he enters the coal fields
of Kentucky. 1t is because of this
that these 100 per cent American
workers, descendants of native hill
folks, are determined to strike and
fight to the last ditch.
Operators Control All
Even the things that are owned by
the coal companies are controlled by
them. Here is an example of how this
is done. One of the blacklisted miners
who had bought furniture and cook
stove from one of the largest houses
in the South was unable to meet the
payments and although he had been
one of their steady customers for
over fifteen years and had always
been honest, the coal company found
out that he owed the money and
came one day and took the furniture
and cook stove away. This miner
and his wife told me that this only
made them more determined to fight.
"A Worker Correspondent.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-16
FINANCE WAR
WITH FRANCE
IS SHARPENED
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States is becoming steadily worse, as
the result of the continued with
drawal of gold, which has increased
in tempo. On Tuesday and WedneS-
day of this week, the first two days
the banks were open, almost $780,
100000 of gold was withdrawn from
the United atates. This brought the
total Withdrawals since the suspen-
sion of the British pound on Septem-
Der 90 period of three and a half
weeks, to the enormous total of
$3.50, 224,700 The larger part of the
Withdrawals of gold are for French
bankers. In addition the French
franc is still quoted higher than the
dollar, indicating that the export of
gold will continue.
The bankers of Wall Street are in
daily conference in order to try to
stave off the continuance Of the
shipment of gold and its very sharp
effects in making the financial crisis
in the United States more acute.
The Journal of Commerce reports the
conference of the leading bankers as
follows:
'The Federal Reserve authorities,
it was learned, are keeping in close
touch with the foreign exchange
field and partly to accomplish this
purpose are holding conferences
each day with the heads of the
large downtown banks. Yesterday
commercial bankers were cellad in
groups and throughout the after
noon held a series of sessions with
George L. Harrison, Governor of
the New York Reserve Bank"
The United States bankers realize
that the withdrawal of gold from the
United States and the "rumors" about
the stability of the dollar that have
been spread have direct connection
with the French government.
The Journal of Commerce writes
the following concerning the attack
on the dollar by the bankers of
France.
"While not concerned over the
effect of these attacks upon the
American dollar, the administra-
ton would like to learn of their
origin and purpose"
They know both the origin and
the purpose" of these attacks. What
they want is to be able to pin it on
the French bankers openly and use
this as a weapon in the financial war
with France
Despite the fact that these two
imperialists now hold about two
thirds of the worlds gold they are
both in very acute financial difficult
ties. The worsening Of the economic
situation through the deepening Of
the crisis has been so severe as to
undermine the financial stability of
both. AS a result of this weakening
of their financial stability the strug-
gle between them is becoming more
and more intense.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-16

illIJecS, oil VI WllIOll wall nave W
broaden out.
Our committees were only in OPP
Grafton in the mine that struck about
two weeks. The only think that we
will possibly be weak in is relief and
from the following you will recognize
the Importance of building an ade-
quate relief apparatus.
Paid In Scrip
In almost all the camps there are
company stores And this mean scrip.
Scrip is used on the following basis
If a miner draws $1.80 day he is
allowed to draw 60 cents worth of
scrip a day; if he makes less than
S1.80 he is allowed only 80 cents. At
the end of days work it looks like
run on bank, with the miners
and their wives lined up at the COM
pany offices to wait for their so or
80 cents, while those who have not
made enough for either allowance to
allow them something, just anything,
to stop the children from crying.
After everyone has received their
allowance the neighbors start out to
find some one who got meal for their
scrip because they were only able
to get lard. Some of the less FORUM
ate, because they were only able to
buy salt and baking powder, lend their
neighbors these because none are able
TO buy everything at one time.
Children Starving
Starvation is written on the faces
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-16
Overland Auto Men
Average S. Weekly
AS Boss Press Lies

TOLEDO, Ohio.-Workers in the
Overland auto plant are told through
the boss press that they will have
steady employment during winter
months. The truth is they are hay
ing a steady job now trying to live
on the IS week they get. Over
land workers are working one day a
week 8l2 hours a day at piece-work.
The bosses are trying to fool the
workers and keep them satisfied by
making such promises to them. But
promises don't fill an empty stom-
ach, and when the workers find
themselves starving in the winter just
like they did the rest of the year they
will see how much these promises
mean.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-16
Detroit, Mich.

Detroit, Mich.
Daily Worker:
It seems to mo that the terror OF
tbs white bosses Of ten South has
moved to the North against the white
workers as well. Mayor Murphy
pleads humanity In government while
his thugs in the last week attacked
two workers with guns.
Only a week ago young worker
came to Detroit from Port Huron
looking for work. This worker, be-
ing unable to find employment, went
to an alley at Rioppelle st. and hap
pened to bump into well-guarded
spot. Behind a blind pig he opened
a garbage can to find something to
eat. No sooner did he open that
can than four Of Murphys thugs,
who were guarding that particular
blind pig, fired at this young worker,
whose name Is Sorehsen, plugging his
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-16

BALTIMORE, Oct. 15.-In their eff
forts to rush through the frame-up
and legal lynching of Orphan Jones,
60-year old farm hand, the boss au-
thorities are denying the arrested
worker the right to see the attorney
engaged for him by the international
Labor Defnse Jones is being held
incommunicado in the Baltimore City
Jail to which he had been removed
following his arrest in Ocean City,
Md, on framedup charge Of MUIR
dering a rich farmer, who discharged
him when he demanded his wages,
and the farmers wife and two
daughters.
That Jones was terribly beaten up
in an effort to extort confession
from him was confirmed today when
a deputy warden who told the lid
attorney that Jones was being patch
ed up" as he had been busted up"
yesterday and that the attorney could
not see him until 3 o'clock. This af-
ternoon when the attorney returned
to interview Jones, he was again de-
MED permission to see Jones The
attorney was told by Warden Mar
tin that he could not permit Jones
to see lawyer without the consent
Of Sheriff Purnell or States Attor-
ney Child of Worcester county. The
attorny then telphoned Sheriff Pur-
nell who refused outright to permit
the lawyer to see Jones. The sheriff
refused even to discuss the matter
and left the court house at Snow
Hill so that he would not again be
annoyed" by any demand for the
supposed constitutional rights Of the
arrested Negro worker. States At
torney Child had evidently antici-
pated such a demand and could not
be reached.
Several employees at the Baltimore
city Jail have stated that Jones is
suffering from scars on his shins and
clearly sustained during the brutal
abrasions on his head. These were
third degree to which Jones was sub
jected in order that the state might
extort a confession out OF him.
The International Labor Defense is
preparing to take out a writ of ha-
beas corpus If the state authorities
continue to deny this worker his
right to consult with an attorney in
order to arrange his defense against
the attempt to legally lynch him. Fol-
lowing the extortion Of "confes-
sion" after whole night of third
degree torture, States Attorney Child
has already announced his intention
to rush through the indictment of
Jones within a week.
The I. L. D. has sent kilograms to
Governor Ritchie Of Maryland, at
Annapolis, to Sheriff Purnen and
States Attorney Child, at Snow Hill
protesting against the third degree
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-16
New York.

New YORK.
Daily Worker:
recently left the coal mining area
in West Virginia. In the Elk River
Coal and Lumber Co. coal mine 10
Gated at Widen, w. Va, the miners
load coal for so cents car which
holds 100 bushels level full and the
bosses compel the miners to load the
cars over their capacity.
The company drills and shoots the
coal ard they pay no yardage and
nothing for dead work. Neither do
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-16
Elk River Miners Ready for Struggle

they pay for rack which runs up IL
inches thick.
These mines run from one to three
days week and the company forces
the miners to pay SIT for rent. The
electric, doctor, coal and other bills
are deducted from the pay which
leaves very little money for the
miners.
The miners here have very little
contact with the National Miners
Union. We should get some organ
izers down into this field because the
miners are ready for struggle.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-16
State Refuses Framed Negro
Right to Legal Defense

torture of Jones and the States de-
NAL of his right to consult with his
attorney. The LID. demands that
Governor Ritchie state his position
as the chief executive of the State OF
Maryland.
All workers and their organizations
throughout the country are urged to
at once rush protest kilograms to
Governor Ritchie, Sheriff Purnell
and States Attorney Child, protest.
ing this hideous frame-up of a Negro
worker and the denial of his right
to consult with his attorney.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-16

ternoon, Oct. II, 3 pm. in the same
place. The committee is putting out
leaflets advertising the mass meeting
and has also started registering the
unemployed of Steubenville, prelim-
mary to placing the demands Of the
unemployed before the city council in
the course of big mass meeting and
demonstration Tuesday night, Oct. II.
Wheeling Steel Company has shrut
down its open hearth furnaces here.
Tube mill men who have been get
ting i, and days a week, or less,
will probably be completely out OF
work.
Meanwhile both the local steel
companies are bearing down harder
and harder on the men. They are
determined to break down completely
the standar dof living of the steel
workers and their families. One
worker received a pay check Of eight
cents from Wheeling Steel this last
pay. He got four hours work and
the company deducted $3.50 for the
compulsory insurance. How much
real insurance" the men get is shown
in the case Of one tube mill worker
who got hit by a pipe Sept. 16, was
off three weeks, then was able to
work two days, and now Is fired. His
total "ins,Irancet YIpder thu croOkefl
state compensation law amounted to
1925, and now he has a sore back
and no Job. The appalling extent of
accidents in the mills, despite all the
company's safety talk, is seen by
the number on his compensation Ger
tificate which was over $4,000.
The workers laid off by Wheeling
Steel are organizing and they will
put up real fight for real relief
this winter.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-16
MINERS LAUNCH NEW
DRIVE AGAINST PAY
CUTS NEAR HARLAN
Strike Against Per Cent Cut Spreads to Five
Mines in Straight Creek District
Ferment Increases Among Miners AS Cold
Wave and Starvation Sweeps Coal Fields
Harlan, KY
Daily Worker:

Daily Worker:
Things began to the week before last Bell County
In section called Straight Creek two mines went strike
against cent wage cut and while there only 200
miners working in these two mines there other mines the
Greek that expected to strike Sinc this
written three more mines came out on srike-Edor).
We have local unions in all these Mines there
mittees of action in most of them well small relief
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-16
GREET 18th ANNIVERSARY OF
BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION THROUGH
SPECIAL EDITIONS OF DAILY NOV. 7

An open letter TO all Daily Worker
agents and readers of the Daily.
Comrades:
For a long time we have been
printing in this column letters you
have written Us about how you are
getting along in your work to spread
the Daily among the workers. Now
we are writing you letter to tell you
about big event in the life of the
Daily.
The big event is the November
special edition of the Daily, which
will celebrate the 14th anniversary
of the Bolsheyik revolution. On
November the Daily Worker Will
contain an extra page which will
contain articles by workers of the
Soviet Union, telling about their
conditions and the progress they
have made in the Five-Ye Plan.
This page will also contain greet
ings from workers and workers or
CARNATIONS in the United States TO
the 14th anniversary of the Boil
shevik revolution.
Contributions by the Russian
workers will be sent to us through
Trud, which is the central Soviet
trade union organ.
The greetings by American work
ers to the workers of the U.S.SR.,
which will be published in the special
edition November Z of the Daily
Worker, will be as follows:
1--WE, the undersigned, through
the 14th anniversary edition of the
Daily Worker, greet the workers
and farmers of the U.S.S.R. on the
I4th anniversary of the BoIshevik
revolution.
"The success of the Five Year
Plan and the advances in the
economic and cultural fields have
strengthened our determination to
advance our own struggles against
the growing attacks of the boss
class.
|. Our revolutionary trade unions
In the mines of Kentucky, Penn
sylvania and West Virginia, in the
textile mills of New Jersey and
Rhode Island and in the shops
and factories throughout the
United States, are carrying on
fight which will spread through
out the whole country"
THE COMING WAR.
This greeting is especially sig
nificant now in view of the pres
ent war menace looming up in
Manchuria. We are under no il
fusion that Japan's invasion of
Manchuria and the entrance of the
United States government and the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-16

attended your meetings but my job is
not worth a damn and we might just
as we'll be fired" said one worker who
is building a committee OF action in
his department.
Men on the cold rolls have been
cut so much that many don't want
to work at all. Men with big fam
lilies get days a week at sec an
hour.
Anyone who thinks the steel work
ers won't fight against these econdi-
lions, is crazy. An now the organi-
cation of the unemployed workers in
these parts is removing one big worry
of the men that are working. The
assurance that growing number of
unemployed will fight on the picket
lines instead of scabbing is pushing
the organization ahead.
The new union is intrenching It
self in these mills here, and 1t won't
be long before the big action starts
West Va. Steel Meet
BENWOOD, West Va, Oct. 15.-A
joint mass meeting of employed and
unemployed steel workers has been
called by the Metal Workers Indus
trial League for Friday night, Oct. Is
at River Front Park here. The meet
ing will mobilize employed and un-
employed for the fight against the
recent and coming wage cuts and for
immediate relief. 1.-THE fellows just
can't stand the cut" said one steel
worker who is active in building the
MWIL here, and in spite of the fact
that they cant stand it," the COM
pany is planning new cut either
now or the end Of the month.
BRIDGEPORT, Ohio, Oct. IS
Steel workers from Martins Ferry
have been called to mass meeting
in Bridgeport at Monument Square
Thursday night at 7 p. m. A repre-
sentative of the National Committee
for the Building Of the Steel Workers
Industrial Union will address the
meeting, in addition to the working
class candidates in the "non-par-
tisan" elections of Peace Township.
How Steel Cuts Work
STEUBENVILLE, Ohio, Oct. a.
The first turn Of the week in the tin
mill here lasts from 1890 at night
until 8 in the morning. The last
turn, going In at 11.30. had to work
until 1918 a. m. Thursday. The cuts
have been so bad that working the
No. % gauge last night doubler on
a crew putting out over $50 pairs only
made about IS, whereas a year and
half ago he would have received
about SO for the same work. Open
ers were cut % per cent Oct. l. They
are making from $12-$l5 in four
turns. All extra pay for oversize
orders has been cut off. The men
are preparing for strike.
STEUBENVILLE, Ohio, Oct. 49,
The Metal Workers Industrial Lea
que is now organizing the unem-
ployed workers of Steubenville. At a
mass meeting on the river bank Mon
day afternoon committee was elect
ed from the crowd, and another mass
meeting scheduled for Saturday af-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-16

League Of Nations into the situs-
ton is Just local episode. We.
will fight against any attempt Of
American Imperialism TO send
workers i'm China and Japan TO be
slaughtered in battle for marxets.
This greeting, signed by the work
ers and farmers of the United
States. will show that the masses
are behind us in our stand.
That is why this greeting is Of the
most vital significance. That is why
all readers Of the Daily Worker are
called on TO act at once and get
workers to sign these greetings
In another part of this paper you
will find blank form that you can
use in getting workers to sign this
greeting. Cut out the form, paste it
at the top Of a blank sheet Of paper,
Then go to your friends or to those
who buy the Daily from you, or to
any worker, and ask them to send q
greeting to be published in the special
edition Of the Daily Worker Novem-
Der 7. Tell them they have a fine
chance now to show their solidarity
with the workers of the U.S.S.R. and
to help the Daily. Each greeting
costs 25 cents and up for the indi-
vidual worker. If you can approach
and organization that you think
would send a greeting from the group
as a whole you can tell them that
a greeting for an organization costs
81 and up.
Printed forms, one form for in
dividuals and one for organizations,
will be out in a day or so, which will
make it unnecessary for you to use
your simple blank sheet Of paper.
But we can't wait until we get the
forms to you. Work on the greet
ings must begin at once. We have
no time to lose. Start at once, COM
rades, and send in the money and
the names as soon as possible.
And also intensity your drive to
tell the wc1ld about the November 7
issue and to get orders for this special
edition. We must know as soon as
possible how many copies we are go
ing to need. We don't want to make
too few copies. But we can't print
enough copies for the big demand
unless we have the cash from you for
the extra orders in early. For
bundles of this special edition the
Daily costs one cent each copy and
So thousand, payable in advance.
No orders will be filled unless they
are accompanied by cash remittances.
ORDER NOW.
Below is an order blank you can
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Weirton Steel Mills
Keep Up the Wage
Cutting Attacks

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