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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-16
Big DROP OVER WEEKEND; HOLD
AFFAIRS, TURN IN COUPON BOOKS!

Workers who do mot want their
names published because of pos
stble persecution should indicate
this In sending In their contribu-
lions. Collectors should ask those
Who contribute whether they want
their names printed,
Only $So1s4 came in from pm.
Saturday to 5 pm. Monday. This is
a big drop and is due to lack of ac-
ton in the districts outside of New
York, The New York District has
already more than doubled it's quota,
but with the exception of II Dir
rrtrghar,) no other district has yet
completed Its quota. Some have a
long way to go. But the quotas
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-16
BOSS SPEED-UP
MAKES WORKERS
FIGHTING MAD
To Fight the Mad Pace
Must Organize

SPARROWS POINT, July 49,
About two weeks ago in the tin mill,
No. 9 mill crew was all dead tired
from the speed-up and heat. 1t was
the last heat of the turn. Every
body's nerve was shot as result of
complete exhaustion.
Instead of the workers getting to-
gether in grievance committee of
their own. and demanding extra re-
lief for the mill, the workers have
started bad practice that means
more money for the bosses pocket
book and shorter life for the worker.
This bad practice is where the roller
turns the screw on the break downs,
and the screw boy catches the break
downs for the catcher because the
catcher's job is so hard and hot that
it is impossible to work all operators
for the whole turn.
Workers Become Completely
Exhausted
On the last heat, the rolled was
all in, the catcher was all in. The
roller didn't want to turn the screw
for the breawk downs on account of
being exhausted and besides he would
have to roll the finish in few more
minutes. The catcher was so all In
that he couldn't catch the break
downs The breaking point was reach
ed, everything was tense on the mill.
All energy was gone, nerves shot, the
heat IN the mill was driving the work
ers to madness. Men were straining
their muscles to stand up and to keep
a firm hold on their tongs.
Slave Conditions Drive Workers Mad
The roller got sore and told the
catcher to go home. The exhausted
catcher dropped his tongs and went
home and stayed home. Instead Of
the workers organizing together and
demanding human conditions on such
work, the workers fight each other.
This is just what the bosses want.
In this period of efficiency of mod
ern machinery and plenty Of work.
ers, it is simply idiotic that work.
er's job be made so disagreeable. This
condition occurs only under a bosses
rule where the few bosses own every
thing and the majority of the work.
ing class owns nothing.
In the Soviet Union, the only
Workers and Farmers Government,
the workers own the mills. This
means with the development of new
machinery, the hours of work is re-
duced, and the wages are increased
because there is no boss to take all
the products for his own profits.
Workers. don't fight each other on
the job. Organize together and de-
mand better conditions on the job
that will not weaken your body and
force you to stay home weeks time
to regain your energy, Stop the slave
conditions!
Organize grievance committee
Demand two extra catchrs for each
motor.
Organize for struggle. Join the
Metal Workers Industrial League.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-16
Demanding Relief
She Is Arrested
Woman Resists Attack
At Hand of Cop
cBy a Worker Corrsspondentl

By a Worker Correspondent
DETROIT, Mich.--Mrs. M. Naboznik
5409 Casper Ave, was arrested here
and a charge of felonious assault
was placed against her, after she
knocked down policeman with her
mighty fist when the policeman tried
TO hit her with q club at the Warren
branch Of the Public Welfare De-
partment.
For several days Mrs. Naboznik
sought aid from the welfare depart
ment, but her case was put off from
one day to another. Last Tuesday
when she went there they sent her
to the Ford Motor Co. for her hus-
bands record of previous employ
nlent there. At Ford Motor Co. they
told her that everything is OK and
sent her to welfare department. At
welfare department they told her to
come back next Monday and when
she complained that her children
have nothing to eat for two days, the
policeman who was there on hand
put her out Of the Office and tried
to hit her with the club when she
attempted to see the welfare branch
department head. She swung her
fist at the policeman and down he
went.
If the policeman would hit the
woman with the club everything
would be all right, but since the hun
cry woman gave him his own medi-
cine, they arrested her for felonious
assault. This is only one Of many
other familiar cases. The poor peo-
pie win suffer as long as they will
read capitalist press and believe all
the lies that are written In that
press. Workers subscribe to the Daily
Worker and read as you fight for
your existence. Organize and join the
Communist Party and help to put the
end to these rotten conditions that
we are forced TO live under
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-16

YOUNGSTOWN, o., July 12-Over
400 workers attended the mass meet
ing, held here July 9, as part of the
nationwide demonstrations on that
day for the release of the nine Scots
boro boys. Eight of the boys were
sentenced to burn in the electric-c chair
on July 10, at the original trial in
early April at Scottsboro, Alabama
The case Of the ninth boy resulted
in mistrial.
The meeting here was called under
the joint auspices of the League of
Struggle for Negro Rights and the
International Labor Defense, the two
organizations charged by the parents
and their boys with their defense.
At least half the crowd were Negro
workers, in spite of the fact that most
of them had had to walk long dis
tances.
The meeting lasted for two hours
and was very enthusiastic. The sue
cess of the meeting, was largely due
to the splendid cooperation by the
organizations who we're represented
at the first United Front Scottsboro
Conference. An enlarged meeting
Of the United Front Committee, set
up by that conference, has been cal
led for Monday, July 20, at the
Workers Hall, 1874 E. Federal Street.
Resolutions were unanimously ad-
opted endorsing the Anti-War de-
monstrations on August 1, and the
struggle of the coal miners. Other
resolutions denounced the frame-up
and attempted legal lynching of the
Scottsboro boys, and the Barberton,
Ohio, police terror against the work
ers A resolution ordered sent TO the
governor of Ohio, Pennsylvania and
West Virginia, demanded the remoy-
al of the police, thugs and gunner,
from the mine strike area and I'M
mediate relief for the striking and
unemployed miners.
ST. Paul Workers Denounce Lynch
Verdict.
ST. PAUL, MINI, July 12-Seve-
raj hundred workers attended the July
9 Scottsboro protest meeting here
and cheered thunderously resolu-
ton denouncing the attempted legal
murder and demanding the uncondi-
tional release of the nine innocent
boys.
The workers nlilitantly resisted
the efforts of the police to break up
the meeting. The fear OF the bosses
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-16

We have heard very little about
them from the districts and the
Daily Worker Clubs. Sunday, July
10, Il the day of the nation Vide
Daily Worker celebrations. What
about yours: District (DetrOi)
Is not asleep in this respect. This
district has arranged a big Daily
Worker Picnic at the Workers
Camp for July 10.
District has also wired for an
increase in it's bundle order of 200
daily. Detroit has it's ears to the
ground. AS a result of the great
working-class struggles that are
the international situation (particu
larly in Germany, the demand for
the Daily Worker is increasing. Are
you sure you are meeting the de-
mand? The New York District in
forms us that during the past few
days the Red Builders have prac-
tically doubled their sales of the
Daily Worker.
Build Sustaining Fund!
Daily Worker affairs (they must
not stop with the 19th-there is the
whole summer ahead of us) are one
of the best occasions not only for
selling the Daily, but for getting
subs. And they offer wonderful
opportunity for getting contribu-
llOIlo 10 the SldlIlHS y uHus oE
the job, readers! Subs and weekly
or monthly pledges to the Sustain
ing Fund will help do away with
financial drives and bring back the
siX-page Daily.
A letter from Tacoma. Wash, tells
of an enthusiastic meeting July
at which E. Levin, manager of the
Daily Worker, spoke on the role of
the Daily in the struggles of the
workers. Space limitations prevent
US from quoting this interesting let
ter. Levin will visit many other
cities on his tour. July 81 he will
be in Kansas City; following that;
St Louis. July %; Chicago, July
90 Detroit, July "a; Cleveland, July
Is; Pittsburgh. July %; Washington,
July 81; Baltimore, July Is; Phila-
delphia, July 20.
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to allow their strikes to be
broken through this means.

broken through ChlS means.
Hence when she arrived,
with the support of the "Citi-
zens Committee" and the boss
es, she was given a cold reception
by the strikers. The capitalist press
expressed their disappointment when
after two hours of waiting Miss
Weinstock found that no representa-
tive of the strikers would meet with
her to plan sell-out.
The Strike Committee again en-
phasized that only it has authority to
settle the strike on the basis of the
workers demands and that it has the
power to negotiate with the bosses.
The strikers are standing firm re-
sisting every effort, and every Shiny
means of breaking their strike.
One striker of the General Fabrics
mill told Anna Burlak, strike leader,
I'VE would be dumb eggs if we let
the company and the police run our
strike ana then settle 1t Tor us. Well
that's what this Department Of Labor
woman from Boston wants us to do.
That's what her Citizens Committee
wants to do. They think they can
fool us back to work now that our
strike is almost won"
Latest reports to the strike COM
mittee is that in Putnam( Conn.,
there are 600 out at the Edward
Bloom Silk Co., with the plant ef-
fectively shut down. They demand
the 48-hour week without reduction
in pay.
The weybosett picket iine this
was On tho 3ob a. usual.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-16
Call Strikes on No Wage Payments;
For Free Food For JoblesS

the rising revolutionary struggles Of
The workers, particularly the call of
the Communist Party for mass
strikes against non-payment Of
wages, the Bruening government is
preparing TO declare martial law
The New York capitalist papers say
that plans for a state Of siege are
already prepared.
Not only is this evident in the
DEGREES issued for full control of the
banks, but behind the scenes the
military forces are being modified
for enforcing the dictatorship. In
the United States the capitalist press
such as the Wall Street Journal and
the Journal of Commerce, as well as
other newspapers, call on the Ger
man government TO institute more
open fascist measures in order to
get the support of the world finan-
cierS.
Socialists Help Fascism
IN this situation the Socialist par
ty Of Germany lends its full support
against the workers. A manifesto
issued by the Socialists blames the
bad bankers" for the crash and
absolves the Bruening government
and capitalism generally. This is
an effort to defect the attention of
the German workers from the COL
lapse Of the capitalist structure and
to draw them away from a fight
against the Bruening government,
which is now Transforming itself into
an open fascist dictatorship to save
capitalism.
The critical situation comes on
Thursday when wage payments are
supposed to be made. Failure Of banks
in Poland. Upper Silesia, have left
thousands of workers with the pros
pect Of no wages when pay day
comes. In Germany the workers face
not only lack Of wage payments, but
lack Of payments Of deposits, lack
of payments Of unemployment ins,r-
ance-in short, actual starvation and
misery.
The Bruening government is re-
sorting to every sort Of trick to make
semblance of payment. Some form
Of payment will be attempted, but
millions will be without pay I'M
doubtedly.
Yesterday the Hoover debt plan
went into effect. It had not the
slightest effect on alleviating the
crisis. In fact, in many ways 1t
made the crisis worse. DR.. Max
winkler, one Of tho leading finan-
cial authorities in tho United States
says that since the plan was talked
about between $500,000,0Oo and $780,
100000 was Withdrawn from Ger
many The plan itself amounted to
loan of sS5O,Ooo.OOO.
Secretary of State OF the United
States, Henry L. Stimson, arrived in
Paris after a trip to Italy. His visit
is announced officially as one to dis
cuss ornaments" In reality. he
will take up the German problem
and the question Of the coming war
against the German masses In the
event Of . revolution. a. we'll 40 war
against tbs Seytst Union
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CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE,

must be considered without further
delay"
Viewing the possibility of huge
masses of workers this winter fight
ing against capitalism and its hun
ger system. Green expressed the
fear Of the A. F. Of L. takers as
follows:
What are We going 10 do about
tt? Is there any one within the
Sound Of my voice who does not
feed apprehensive over the situa-
ton confronting us? The third
winter of unemployment is ap-
preaching and the nation has
never been put TO that test be-
fore.
His answer to the slogan Of the
Communists-"All war funds of the
capitalist government to the unem-
ployed In the form Of unemployment
insurance!" was cheap bit OF dem
agogy. He talked about billions"
being spent for war, and pleaded
that billions should be spent for
construction" to provide unemploy-
ment. This is the same Green who
is cooperating with the war depart
ment in preparing for the next rob-
Der war This is the same lying
that Hoover and Green
have been handing out for years
while millions drew closer to the
starvation level, while thousands
died Of starvation. and while thou
sands Of workers killed themselves
when faced With death BY starvs-
ton. -.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-16
Unemployed Council Forces Gyp Agency tore
turn Workers Money

The agency he said, refused to give
him the $1,000 back. The grievance
committee Immediately sent is COM
rades to collect the money. Upon
arriving at the place the committee
found out that this agency is doing
q fine business His placed was
packed. The spokesman stated our
mission and the boss quickly paid
the money 50 as not to jeoardize his
days receipts. However va warned
,lais irrespective vict&na
-Unenploysd Wor4rer
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-16
More Bank Crashes Hit Workers

half would be RENTED by draft
later
Something wrong with the banks
here in Toledo. I don't know what is
going on in the other cities with the
banks, but if it is the same all over
as it is here then the country is in
pretty bad shape,
The Libby Company here gave out
the information the other day that
they had just received a contract for
s5o0oo,0oo job. The same day they
laid off more workers who had been
working 3 and 4 days week. This
undoubtedly is part Of the 10 year
plan of Vol and Hoover.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-16
Toledo, Ohio

lUIbUOl OIIIU.
Dear Comrades:
The prosperity here in Toledo is
getting 80 good" that the banks
wouldn't give us any money. AS
somebody informed you. the Security
and Home Savings Bank failed to
open its doors on the 18th inst.
Today met a worker who saved
his money from hard labor and pri-
walton and bank-not the Security
and Home Savings, but a bank of So
called good standing-refused to give
him his money. The banker told him
if he wished to go to Europe he could
get half of his money and the other
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-16

must be reached and we must go
over the top with the drive,
District 1 (Boston) contributed
only 81; District philadelphia
did better, but not well enough, with
S2450: District (Cleveland) sent
only $50, (Detroit) only $3.50.
s (Chicago), $500 and 10 (Califor-
MAJ only SIS They'll have to do a
lot better
best showing was made by District
(Buffalo), which sent in 5000.
Workers, boost your totals by ar
ranging Daily Worker affairs! Get
subs and contributions to the Sus-
tanning Fund Turn in all coupon
books and see that they are prop
erly checked
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-16
Uy . Worker Correspondent

NEW YORK-The Madison Square
branch Of the Unemployed Council
is very busy these days handling gyp
employment cases.
Recently K. Weglass, painter
stated that he was gypped out of
$1,000 by an agency located at TIT
Sixth Avenue near 26th, Street. He
wsS sent ca Job that was supposed
TO b gsady, but "a srrixpg there
sstI he We - W ~ fsrsuaaa
thstSaaA W sr6n
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-16
A. T. of L. HELPS PUT
OVER WAGE CUTS IN
SUITCASE INDUSTRY
Osip Valinsky ManOuvers with Shop Owners to
Fire Workers and Slash Pay
Trade Union Unity League Group Calls Work
ers to Fight Fierce Conditions
(By a Worker Correspondent

NEW YORK N. Y.-The general crisis in the country
did not leave out the suitcase makers Almost half of the
workers in the trade unemployed and those who
poyed must work under terrible conditions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-16

GIVE YOUR ANSWER TO HOO
VER'S PROGRAM OF HUNGER,
WAGE CUTS AND PERSECUTION
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-16
Rhode Island Strikers Thwart
i S. Strike-Breaking Move

The mill is still closed down.
Warning the workers about at
tempts to break the strike through
so-called arbitration" the Strike
Committee issued the following state
n1ent:
THE Strike Committee has learned
through authoritative sources that
the Weybosset Mill officials are try
ing to arrange for arbitration" of
the strike through a Department OF
Labor Agent.
THE Strike Committee has at all
times been ready to meet the bosses
and negotiate for a settlement Of the
strike ON the basis Of the strike de-
mands. The Strike Committee is will
ing to go into a conference with the
bosses no matter who brings this
conference about. But it will not dis
cuss the demands with the bosses
through any third party.
"The Strike Committee is here. The
bosses wow where to find us. We
are the only body authorized to speak
for the strikers. And the strikers
themselves are the only ones who
have the power to finally settle the
strike.
"Workersl Beware Of false rumors.
Rely only upon the Strike Committee
for your information. Beware Of any
bosses agents masquerading as your
friends"
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CONTINUED FROM PAGE oNE)

president of the crashed Danat Bank,
declared: Other big banks also suf-
fered severely and their present stu
alton is unenviable. 1t is difficult
to secure assistance for big banks in
difficulties when all other banks are
weak and heavily hit"
With the exception of the Berg
werks zeitung, the entire capitalist
press is suppressing Goldschmidt's
revelation of the catastrophe situa-
ton of the German banks. Fears
are rife that the banks will be IN
able to provide sums necessary for
the payment Of wages tomorrow, al
though the government lowered the
gold backing treasury notes from 40
to 30 per cent.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-16

STRIKERS IN PENN OHIO AMI
AND WEST VA.
Help the N,M.U. and the Inter-
national Labor Defense in their
defense of striking miners. If you
know of any strikers who were ar
rested, fill out the following:
Name ....'.'.'.''''.
ADDRESS ...........'.'..
Charge '.'''''...........,
Squire NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
Result ....,......,......
Mail to:
INTERNATIONAL LABOR
DEFENSE
Gil Penn Avenue
Pittsburgh, Fa.
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Prepare Fascism

Prepare Fascism
NEW YORK.-Capitalist press re-
ports from Germany clearly show
that the Bruening government with
the full support of the Socialists is
itself putting into effect the open
fascist dictatorship. In the face of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-16
Keep Up Spirit"

TIL e National Textile Workers
Union here has received the following
telegram from the Lawrence office
Of the National Textile Workers
Union:
Strikers Keep up your good spirit
We are rushing two trTlCGloeds of
Evening star., 1931-12-01
j. S..FUNDS TO AID
NEEDY DEMANDED
Unemployment ParIey to Get
Request That President
Hear Marchers.

Funds for relief Of the jobless should
be supplied by the Federal Govern
ment, DR.. Abraham Epstein Of New
York, secretary for the American As
sociation for Old Age Security, today
told a conference of the Joint Commit
tee on Unemployment In the. Hamilton
Hotel. Similar demands were made BY
other speakers.
"These funds" DR.. Epstein declared,
should come principally from super
taxes on high incomes and inheritance
taxes. Such a tax is socially just, pro-
vides the best guarantee for the stabil-
ity Of the social order and, by making
possible increased purchasing power
through the alleviation Of poverty, also
makes possible greater and more steady
VIII Demand Protection.
Resolutions demanding police protec-
ton for the marchers now en- route to
Washington from several distant cities
will be introduced tonight ut meeting
Of the committee.
Of3cials today disclosed the resolu-
tions would urge that the marchers be
protected In their legal rights and that
they be heard by President Hoover and
congressional committees.
At the session this morning Howard
Y. Williams Of New York, secretary Of
the League for Independent Political
Action, demanded Federal appropria-
tionS to provide pensions for workers
over IS years old.
Says 100000 Over e5 Need Aid.
"Our present depression" williams
asserted, "is made more severe by the
fact that over 1000, 900 persons over
65 years Of age in this country are
wholly, or in part, dependent upon
charity. They cannot get work, stand
In our bread lines and have no pur-
chasing power. One Of the important
first steps In getting US out Of the
depression Is to pass q Federal old-age
pension law. The Federal Government
makes appropriation on the $3.50 basis
for many things which are not con-
cerned with human welfare. Human
welfare should come first"
Child labor should be eliminated,
James Myers Of New York, Industrial
secretary Of the Federal Council Of
Churches, declared.
Evening star., 1931-12-01
JOBS ARE PROVIDED
CUTTING FUEL WOOD
Hyattsville Associated Charities to
Pay Men So q Day-Timber
Donated.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

special Dispatch to The Star.
HYATTSVILLE, Md, December L.
A group Of men who have been out Of
employment today started cutting and
saving wood for fuel along the new
road through the University Of Mary
land grounds at College Park leading
to Montgomery County. The wood,
which has been donated by the con-
tractor, through the assistance Of Dis
tr1ct Engineer Z. G. Duncan Of the
State Roads Commission, was cut in
clearing the right Of way for the road.
The men viii be paid 50 o day by the
Associated Charities Of HyattSville and
vicinity.
It Is hoped soon to establish a
municipal wood yard here, at which
wood obtained from State road work
may be hauled and men employed to
prepare 1t for fuel. The plan of the
Associated Charities Is to give as many
men as possible work to enable each
man to earn $40 week as long as funds
Last.
A meeting Of representatives Of the
Associated Charities will be held to-
night at o'clock at the home Of Mrs.
ton, on Spencer street, along with
the Special Committee Of the Mayor
and Common Council in charge Of the
recent motion picture show here for
the unemployed. The woodward project
will be discussed, as will other plans
to relieve unemployment in the COM
munity.
Unemployed men who have depend
ents and are beyond recognized EN-
playable age will have preference on
the wood-cutting Jobs.
The idea Of woodpile was nrst
suggested to Mrs. Morris by Raymond
w. Bellamy, State director Of employ
nient, who discussed the matter with
District Engineer Duncan.