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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-12
DEMAND WORKERS
BE PAID FIRST
IN BANK OF US.
to Mass At
City Hall Sat.

NEW YORK.-Declaring that il is
rallying thousands Of sn1ah depositors
of the Bank of United States who
have been robbed of their money, the
United Depositors Committee has is
sued a statement calling on all such
depositors to come to the mass DEM
onstration in front of City Hall on
Saturday at 1890 pm. when the
committee will present demands to
Broderick, state superintendent of
banks.
The demands the United Deposit
ors Committee will present, and for
which it calls on the 100000 small
depositors to come and demonstrate
Saturday, are as follows
u Workers and small depositors
should be paid out first and in full.
p The prosecution of the guilty Of
ficials of the state banking depart
ment. 81 The state department
should guarantee all the deposits of
the small depositors. A. Prosecution
and immediate arrest of the entire
Board of Directors of the defunct
bank. 81 To assess the board of di-
rectors with the full losses of the de-
positors, and to assess the stock hold
ers with the par value of their shares.
A statement issued by the commit
tee stys;
I'VE appeal to you to participate in
our demonstration, as the fight that
we are leading against the bankers
and capitalists politicians, is not an
isolated struggle, for it is but a link
in the chain Of the great class strug-
gle that the entire working class pop
ulace is leading against the capital
lists of this country"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-12
SPEEDSIGNATURE
DRIVE FOR NEW
YORKELECTIONS

NEW YORK.-The campaign 10
collect thirty-five thousand sigma
lures required for placing the Com
munist candidates on the ballot is
winning the support of workers in
the trade unions and mass organiza :
tons but not at speed that is fast
enough to bring in the signatures
within the required time.
The sections Of the Party must
also speed UP and begin organizing
shock troops to assist sections where
the forces are too weak to handle the
task alone The Communist Party
District 2, therefore, sends forth this
appeal to all sympathizers and work
ers in shops and factories, mass Or
carnations and unions to appoint
election campaign committees OF 2
workers to mobilize all the forces in
the shops and organizations for sup
port in this drive, which IS the most
important campaign before the Party.
The United States Bank depositors
committee which is organizing for
the demonstration on August 18th.
the Unemployed Councils. the League
of Struggle for Negro Rights and
similar organizations which well un-
derstand that the Communist Party
is the only party which supports
their struggles and all struggles OF
the working class should take spe-
cial steps TO enlist the support Of the
for the first fight In the
election campaign to insure having
the Communist Party candidates on
the ticket.
All organizations are also urged 10
begin preparations for
the Ratification meeting which will
take place Friday, Sept. 18th. and
for the Election Tag Days which fol-
low Immediately after. Sept 18th
and goth
The reactionary parties are begin
ling to work overtime TO capitalize
the elections this year SO that the
pockets OF the gangsters and rack
steers may be filled to Overlooking
with graft and good jobs, while
munger and misery spread deeper
INTO the ranks Of the working class
which faces the 3rd year u crisis
his winter-the worst in the history
,f tbs country
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-12

one Negro worker and wound
ed another while Getting off a
freight train. Two Negro workers
we're taken out of bed and carried
a short distance from their homes
and shot down. They are in the
hospital and are not expected to re-
cover. A Negro cafe in Woodlawn
has been bombed A group of Ne
groes standing in front of their home
was fired into by whites in pass
ing automobile. A t6-year old Ne
gro boy has been lynched in Hey
nesville, Southern Alabama.
This is part Of the wave of vio-
lence launched by the bosses who
are using the hold-up and shooting
Of the society women as a pretext
to further terrorize the Negro mas
ses.
In their efforts to crush the grow
ing militancy Of the Negro workers
in. the fight against starvation, the
bosses are carrying out wholesale
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-12

worked for the Pittsburgh Terminal
Coal Co. for many years. The sight
of Mrs. Neutrality-suspicious. and veins
covered with skin, or her children,
PALE anaemie, fleshless-tells why
Jim Mccullough went on strike.
Even the baby of the family Mabel,
tells the other children in the chill
dren's ward at the County Hospital
that her dad is striking against star
walton and that the whole family
is in the fight. The relief commit
tee sent Mabel to the hospital be-
cause she took fits" AS soon as
she began eating three meals a day
at the hospital they stopped.
In the meantime, Mabers sisters
and brothers and parents marched on
the picket lines. And the lines at
the Coverdale Mine grew and grew
and more men came out of the mine
every day. The strikers grew more
determined than ever to close down
the mine. From all the Terminal
mines around, men, women and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-12
Miners ACT TO SPREAD STRIKE THROUGH CENTRAL PA
H1CAGO UNEMPLOYED MAKE DEMANDS AUG IT
The Business of Cops Is to
Commit Crimes for Cap
italist Dictatorship


caused the capitalist shocked"
But the new thing not the welnOwn that the
the American cities
that Commission representing the interests
direct in general the criminal actions the pohebng
sensational exposure the o police.
is this action puzzhngP 1t is intended to puzzle.
This working of
America plunged into the depths starvation through
and wage cuts and the of farmers suddenly transformed
starving peasants of feen questioning the social
order and
eafae poon IL no secret to hastarVed miner on the picket
line Pennsylvania, Ohio Kentucky police
officers of the will Negroes
of Chicago the black
accumuaes power
finance capitalists who this country accumulates other
representing
ogarchy permitted expose
fcrmentng the masses The
peculiar that judges prosecuting
neys officers and others who themselves direct part of the
tenn Of police crime and will continue to live
criminal activities against the police this
Why this2
The to this very
that the exposure of police crimes horrible and brutal the details
are do not go into the really basic things
The exposures not showbut intended
htv If aone, nocnen or. indges gentle @dson roIo
of the capitalist short picture
the working farming by the underbund
trust magnets
intended report ruling
and its government is
gularies" and unauthorized vOences" of the police
the policemans business commit crime The the
necessary pu
pose OF preserving the property privileges OF the ruling During the
economic crisis the of violence greater than ordinary
mese police shooting coal miners in Pennsylvania
Kentucky than usual shooting workers Chicago
Negro sharecroppes Alabama numbering pkets New
o.
ultimate control Of the
Commission to expose" of the obvious crimes
police being Unauthorized" shocking"
The Commission points out of the CHASTITY cueles
the immigration officers under the direction the
the
working
porting joining
political opinions brutality cruelty
,oo,T,xrrn o1 r.cr rH,rr,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-12
Call COME rences to
Prepare Nation Wide
Aug. p Demonstrations
Protest Murder of Workers! Demand Release
Scottsboro, Camp Hill Victims, Mooney
and All Class War Prisoners!
BULLETIN,

CHATTANOOGA, Ma
statement withdrawing
to
into repudang the
through
the world behind that defense
attorney from Camp
reports of troopers in
bond Charges against
following failure
setf
of the NAACP
ute failure with only Is
On the a NEE
Ham, Mrs Wakefield.
NEW YORK-ore than 100 delegates representing tens
of thousands workers met in this city the call the New
York District of the International Labor Defense to make
itial plans for Sacco- Vanzetti Day, August %.
New York City has each year increasing outpour-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-12

children came to picket the Cover
dale Mine. Concentration" the Ma
tional Miners Union calls it-first
pulling one mine, then going on to
the next one.
The Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Co.
brought in more gunner, who ter
rorized the patch "Back to work
or out of the company houseSl" came
the next order. For week after the
McCulloughs were evicted, they lived
in the open, with rags strung from
tree to tree for roof.
I'm in this fight to the finish!"
Jim Mccullough said I've never
been a scab yet, and don't expect
to be one now!"
"No man of mine would ever
scab" Myrtle Mccullough said.
We've starved long enough with
him working so hard he could only
fall into bed at night, and not enough
to eat in the house to feed half of
the children. Not one OF us has had
three meals in one day so long back
we hardly remember when. We're
counting on the National Miners
Union-we've got to have a strong
union and beat the operators. Other
wise we go back to the same star
wing living. The unions all we got
to look to. We've got to fight like
anything for it! Just look at me.
You wouldn't think I was still young
in years, me with my gray hairs.
And look at my children. Not one
Of them has any flesh on. I don't
want them TO grow up into the life
I've hadI"
All of the children have matwed,
determined faces. And why not?
They are so much factor in the
strike that the yellow dogs try to
chase the children off the picket
lines first.
Don't work for an empty dinner
bucket" the kids shout. Come out
on strike, join our line!" And they
sing and they cheer about the union,
about bread. about union conditions.
They boo the police. Dolls, kites,
toys of any sort are very rarely seen
in the coal towns.
Men, women and children are all
in the fight, And men. women and
children need some food to keep.
them going while they are fighting
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-12
HOLD CONFERENCES TO
BUILD STRIKE FRONT,
CALL NM.U. TO LEAD
Delegates From 10 New Locals Of NMU and 6 Rank and
File Groups Map Demands Sunday
"a Delegates Representing 5000 Miners Sold Out By
UM}TA, Plan To Strike AT SCOTS Run, W. Va
YOUNGSTOWN, Pa, August 1.-THE situa

JOHNSTOWN, Pa, August 1.-THE situa-
ton here in Central Pennsylvania continues to
grow more critical, with strikes likely to start
at any time and spread over the district. Du-
bols mine is already out again after an exper-
fence with the UNIV betrayers Some 800 men in this mine
struck couple of weeks ago under the nominal leadership
of UNIV international Board Member Chizzoni They were
preparing to march the neghborng mines bring them
out when discovered that the great leader Chzzon had
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-12

fled the field. The strike broke down
the men went back, and are nov
coming out, and sending word to th1
National Miners Union TO lead them
this time.
Delegates of ten new local unioni
of the NMU. with other delegates
from six rank and file groups, newly
organized, and a delegation from thq
women's auMharies and Unemployed
Councils, met here Sunday in Har-
gars Hall Woodvale, and adopted
the demands worked out by their
scale committee elected at confer
ence Of delegates from mines not at
that time organized, two weeks ase
The demands follow the line of the
Western Pennsylvania demands but
add many items Of local Importance
and call for higher tonnage rates
because of the low coal in Centrel
Pennsylvania.
The conference Sunday divided
Central Pennsylvania irto sections;
Windber, Johnstown. Portage, Cen
trail City, etc, and established a sec
CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-12

The outdoor dining room is along
side their tent in she union colony
at CoYerdale. Dandelion greens and
food brought in by the Pennsylvania
Ohio-West Virginia Kentucky Strik-
ing Miners Relief Committee keep
the miners alive while they are
fighting their determined battle for
union conditions and against starva-
ton More tents are needed! More
families are hungry! Help the
miners fight! Send your contribu-
ton today to Room 2O5, GIL Penn
Ave, Pittsburgh, Pa
The McCulloughs are one of many
families living in the tented city that
has sprung up in Coverdale. Scores
of families were evicted from COM
pany houses when they refused to
go back to work under the scab
agreement signed by the United Mine
Workers of America
Myrtle McCullough's man, Jim,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-12

their battle through Tents are
needed for hundreds of evicted FAM
lilies. The Pennsylvania Ohio West
Virginia. Kentucky Striking Miners
Relief Committee calls upon you to
do your share in this job-help the
miners win their battle against star
vation Send all you can to the re-
lief headquarters, Room $50, 1893
New York.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-12
r. r. Union Officials Help
Boss Wage Cutting Schemes
Railroad Workers Meet in United Front
Conference: Foster to Speak

CHICAGO, Ill, Aug. 11.--As in
other industries, the railroad workers
are being attacked on all sides by
the various wage cutting schemes of
the companies and the reactionary
grand lodge officials in control of
the old unions. A typical example
(many others could be mentioned
of how the union bureaucrats are
putting over the railroad companies
wage-cuttipg program is the "26-day
month and mileage limitation" rail-
roaded through the recent Houston
convention of the Brotherhood Of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-12
Govt Spends S65S,OO a
Year for War; Double 1913
Professor Says New War Is Coming in Five
Years

talist countries are spending millions
for the coming war. Professor Bruins
forgets to add that over 3o,o0Oo0o
unemployed starve in the meanwhile
Europe, he potts out, is spending
about $500, 100000 for war prepara-
tons. nearly $5OO0OOOoo more than
in 1913. The United States is no ex-
ception and 1t, too. has increased
tremendously expenditures for arma-
ments, he asserts In 1918 this coun-
try spent about s3l6,Ooo,Ooo and to-
day spends s65s,ooOooo q year In
preparations for war
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-12

NEW YORK.-Tl1at hundreds of
millions of dollars are being spent
for a war by the inperialist nations,
which. he predicts, is to come within
five years, is the declaration made
by Professor G. Delisle Burns OF
Glasgow University in q book Just
published entitled Modern Civiliza-
ton On Trial
Professor Burns tries to sbsolve the
capitalists of the blame for war,
claiming it is just part OF the
march Of civilization" However, he
reveals that every one Of the capt.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-12
TOHOLD MEET.
ON AUG. l6 TO.
PLAN ACTION.
Unemployed Coun ell
Issues Call to All
Workers. Bodies

CHICAGO, Aug. 1.-THE trial of
six Negro workers and one white
worker, arrested on Aug. 3, is sched-
uled to open today. The workers
were arrested in an effort of the po-
lice and city government to justify
the police massacre of unemployed
workers on Aug. 8. The arrested
workers are being charged with Gin
citing to riot" They are being de-
Tended by the International Labor
Defense.
In an attempt to silence the pro-
tests of the workers against unem-
ployment, starvation, eVictions and
the police terror, the police are de-
handing of the hall owners that
they do not rent their halls to mill
tant working-cla organizations.
Hall owners are instructed to fur
nish the police with the names of
organizations renting their halls for
meetings.
AS a result of the widespread in
dignation of the workers, Negro and
white, against the police massacre
of unemployed workers, in which
four Negro workers were killed and
scores of white and Negro workers
wounded, the Emmerson Committee
has called fake unemployment con-
ference for Aug. II at the Stevens
Hotel
The Chicago Unemployed Council
has issued call for an Emergency
Conference to elect mass delega-
ton to present the demands of the
unemployed to the Emerson Com
mittee conference.
The conference called by the IN
employed Council will be held Aug.
is at 10 am, the day before the
fake conference called by the Elmer
son Committee. All trade unions, all
working class organizations, branches
of the Unemployed Council and
workers, organized and unorganized,
in the shops are urged to elect dele
gates to the Aug. Is conference,
where the demands to be made on
the Emerson Committee will be dis
cussed and adopted.
The bosses and their Negro re-
formist tools are trying desperately
to betray the struggles of the Negro
masses and to win them away from
Communist leadership. That they
have failed so far they themselves
admit. Landlords in attendance at
the meeting of the Chicago Real
Estate Board on Aug. were forced
to admit that there is no racial fac
tor involved" in the fight against
evictions.
In a statement made public
few days ago by John Mckinley,
city editor of the Whip, and Bry-
ant Hammond, Negro democrat,
open admission is made that the
Negro masses are no longer follow
ing the traitorous leadership of the
refornliSts. The statement declared
1t advisable that next time con-
ference with Negro citizens is
called persons who have the con-
fidence of the disconnected masses
be invited rather than business
and clerical leaders regarded as
hostile, and that the mayor call
into conference spokesman of the
Communists and those who are
demonstrating"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-12

ing Of workers for the Sacco-'
Vanzetti anniversary. The
demonstration this year prom
ises to be Greater than ever
with the linking up of the
Sscco-V anzetti Memorial with the
growing prosecutions OF workers
Scottsboro, Camp Hill, Birmingham,
the Chicago eviction massacre, the
savage attacks on the coal mine and
tSxtile strikers and the growing use
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-12

Of deportations as a weapon against
the struggles of the masses against
starvation.
The Boston District is completing
plans for Sacco- Vanzetti Day at the
Amnesty Conference being held on
Sunday, August Is, at 1890 a. M at
Ambassador Palace, 20 Berkeley st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-12

Railroad Trainnen
This is the most brazen sell-out Of
the train and yardmen in the his
tory of this strike breaking organ
ization. 1t not only means is per
cent reduction in average earning
power of these workers, but it
threatens to completely destroy the
basic wage standards and working
conditions in train and yard service.
The means by which the union Of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-12
One Killed, Several Dying
AS Boss Terror Continues
To Hit Birmingham Negroes
Scores Arrested, Militant Workers Are Being
Framed on Charge of Numbering Society
Woman; C. P. in Vigorous Protest
BULLETIN

CHATTANOOGA, August Warants have been issued for
organized
driving out" o.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. August 11-Snce last Thursday night
when it is alleged Negro hodup killed society woman
and wounded two others in Shades Valley this city,
steady campaign of murder and terror against the Negro work
has been full blast with the active aid and direction
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-12

lie birmingham police uepdTC-
nent.
Railroad, dicks have killed
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A NEGRO Soy AGED 10 war
-, AZ AkfNeSWue ALA-I.LAr
uti9 70 kTQeE ARD HlJ Rot,/
way RhOLko Witt 81 BuLItTf
Ile.clI IfstlN Y
The Washington times., 1931-09-28

NTEVER before offered in sufficient
! quantity by any table~food-this
scarcest Of the health~guarding elements,
vitamtn~D, can now be had at everybody's
table-in Bond Bread.
All the other vitamtns are plentiful In
almost any wel~balanced meal
But until now, enough sunshine vftarnin>D'
could be obtained only from direct sunshine,
from sun~lamps and from medicines
EVERYBoDY-EsPEQ CHILDREN
Everyone is better off with steady and
ample supply of sunshine vitaminl~D every
day. This is particularly true of children-to
maintain hea1th, nrom0+e nroner orou+h
The Washington times., 1931-09-28

cioes, favorfte Bond Bread has been chosen
exclusively to offer this priceless Improvement
Just one to two slices each meal Will give
youal the exnasrmshinevitamin>D youneed
SAME DELICIOUS FLAVOR
Your grocer has vitamin~D Bond Bread
the same delicious flavor, the same finn,
home>liloe texture that ~Flavor>Peak" Ris>
ing insures- bread that more than a
million housewives buy every day, And
even with this priceless Improvement, it
costs you no more than you formerly paid
The Washington times., 1931-09-28

VITAL to sound even teeth,
straight strong bones, and
HAPPIER HEALTH
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-14
JAPANESE FLYERS
PLANE is DAMAGED
Seiji Yoshihara Drifts Four Hours
Of Coast of Shimushiru
Island.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
TOXIC, Japan, May 1.-THE pro-
jected transpacific flight CT Seiji Yo-
shihara received a setback today when
his plane was damaged after drifting
four hours of the coast of Shimushiru
Island, to which he had flown from
Shana.
Ycshihara, undertaking another leg
of his flight from Japan to the United
States, left Shana, Iturup Island, in
the Kuriles, early today for 280-mile
fight to Muroton Bay. Shimushiru Is
land. He ran into q fog bank and
landed on the coast.
After drifting four hours. Yoshihara
and his seaplane were picked UP by
the steamer Hakuho Maru. 1t was dis
covered then that the plane had been
damaged
The flyer then arranged to return to
Nemuro, q matter of back tracking
some 400 miles, for repairs. 1t was said
that II repairs we're not available at
Nemuro, he might find it necessary to
come back to Toxic, from which he
started May e..
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-14
OPPOSE PAY CUTS
LABOR CALL URGES
A. F. of L. Demands Indus
triaIiSts to Keep Faith
With Hoover.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Seeking to forestall what it said
would mean continuous, permanent
unemployment" the American Fedora
ton of Labor's Executive Council is ask
ing workers to resist wage reductions
TO the fullest extent"
In a study of joblessness. the council
announced, it found IAN attempt which
apparently certain banking interests
and certain employers are making to
bring about q general reduction in
wages"
LAS usual" said the ORGANIZATIONS
formal statement yesterday, labor must
be depended upon to save the situation
and prevent the further imposition Of
injustice. For this reason, the Execu-
tive Council calls upon labor, organized
and unorganized. TO resist wage reduce
tons
"The Executive Council proposes to
appeal to the workers to stand firmly
in opposition to wage reductions. The
council will urge working men and
women, both organized and nnorganized,
to resist TO the fullest extent any
and all attempts TO reduce wages
and lower American living standards.
The council is inspired by q firm con-
viction that 1t is only step from re-
auctions in wages to continuous, per-
manent unemployment"
Cut Violates Agreement.
A wage-cutting policy. the council
held, constitutes a public violation Of
the understanding reached" in a con-
ference Of industrial and labor leaders
with President Hoover. After such a
conference in 1929, it was announced
the industrialists had pledged them
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