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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-21

Thirty thousand Negro and
white workers of Cleveland, who
pledged themselves to carry on the
struggle for which John Rayford
and Edward Jackson died. have
called for Workers Mass Trial
TO try the City Government as re-
sponsible for the death of these two
Negro workers, killed by the police
at an eviction scene on E. 47th st.
ON the night of Oct. 81
The following have also been noti-
fled: Herman Finkle, "as the repub-
lican whip in the city council and
as one out Of whose headuarters the
policemen came on the night Of the
killings; Councilmen Payne, L.
Bundy and Claybourne George, as
Negro councilmen who failed ut
terly to raise a voice OF protest in
the city council or elsewhere against
the killing Of Rayford and jackson. .
Notice has also been sent to the
socialist party, the National Associa-
ton for the Advancement of Colored
People, the Negro churches and the
Universal Negro improvement Asso-
citation, all Of which are charged with
failure to protest the shooting Of the
unemployed Negro workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-21
Workers Industrial League.
Machine Gun Ready.

Thirty state troopers we're mob
ilized for action with a machine gun
mounted before the door Of the hall.
Police tried their utmost to break
up the throngs outside the building,
throngs who could not get in because
the hall was full. But the meeting
was so militant and the enthusiasm
so great, the cheers and applause re-
sounding down the streets, that the
police did not dare to break 1t up.
This use Of the state police against
the mass meeting of the jobless is
the practical carrying out Of the
threat made several weeks ago by
Governor Pinchot in speech to the
officers of the National Guard Of
Pennsylvania. Pinchot called on the
militia to ready to suppress disor-
ders that may arise this winter in
Western Pennsylvania.
Ben Carreathers spoke for the
Metal Workers Industrial League,
Charles Guynn for the National
Miners Union and the District Coun-
Gil Of the Unemployed, Rebecca
Grecht for the Communist Party,
and Bell for the International La
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-21
They Can't Break Us With
Their Guns Say Harlan Miners

local organizer for the National Min
ers' Union from watkins Greek.
Taken To Be Shot
And, theirs is no easy optimism,
either. Cusick, has just been released
form Harlan county Jail where he
spent months In hot, yermin-in-
tested cell on a framed charge of
murder. AS for Grace, two weeks
ago, he was taken by thugs to the
top of mountain in the middle of
the night. Here he was beaten, kicked
and pursued by hail Of bullets when
he went ripping through the noun
tainside underbrush to make his es-
cape. For almost week Harlan
miners, hearing no news from Grace,
gave him up for dead.
81 guess they're going to kill us"
said Grace to Tom Myerscough, when
the deputies stopped their car on the
top of the Black Mountain and Or
dered them out. IF they are, we're
up against it" whispered Myerscough
in reply.
Then, while several of the deputies
started hammering away at Myer-
scough, two others, with gun against
his ribs, broke Grace cheekbone and
battered his face into bloody pulp.
Myerscough leaped over an embark
ment, slid down the mountainside
amid rain of bullets and got away
in the dark. In the excitement Grace
followed his lead. His clothes we're
torn by bullets.
THE same man who locked us up
in jenkins Jail opened our cells and
turned us over to the thugs" says
Grace. ut is company Jail. Like
everything else in jenkins, 1t belongs
to the Consolidated Coal Company.
Baby Starves
Cusick, sitting beside Grace, tells
in a dispassionate voice how the
sheriff in Harlan jail refused to re-
lay to him even the news that his
baby was dying Of the hunger disease,
flux; how they, surrounded him with
armed deputies when he went to the
funeral; how the coal operators Of
fered him $375 a month to thug
against the miners" and how the
miners government in Evarts had
made 1t so hot for thugs, they did
not dare appear on the streets except
in mobs of four or five carloads, each
car mounted with machine gun.
when Carr Richmond was killed
by the thugs in the battle Of Evarts,
5000 mining folks at mans funeral.
Jim Daniels, the leading thug in Har-
Ian county, they had to hire men to
bury him. I'm telling you, buddy,
them miners can be licked BY
spring every miner in Harlan County
will belong to the union"
On Tour
Grace and another kentucky miner.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-21

we are sending out or use the blank
at the bottom of this page.
Comrade RMS. writes from m
dianapolis to describe his workers
news stand" there. The stand car
rieS the Daily Worker, the Labor De-
fender, the Pioneer, the Moscow
News, the Freiheit, and Jewish and
English Party literature. The Daily
Worker, he tells US, is suspended on
wooden pin SO it can be seen by all
workers passing by.
COmrade RMS. also writes an IN
teresting note on how a story in the
Daily Worker helped the workers.
Il note" he writes, that your pub
fishing my report on the Sears Cab
met situation brought some results
due to the fact that readers of the
Daily started firing letters Of inquiry
at Bill Sears, which got his goat 80
that the workers we're able to hold
their own against further wage cut.
Thanks for this help"
More workers and agents Of the
Daily should follow this comrades
example. Stories on local condi-
tons will not only help the work
ers in the fight against the bosses
attacks, but they will also help 10
sell the paper when the workers
realize what a powerful aid IL is TO
them in their fight. All Daily
Worker agents should follow in the
footsteps of the indianapolis COM
rade. Write reports for the Daily,
get workers in your section TO write
reports for the Daily, and make the
workers know that the Daily is
their only paper.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-21
Oakland, Cal.

Oakland, Cal.
Daily Worker:
I am a carpenter and have been
unemployed either entirely or In part
for period Of about 10 months The
other day noticed that they were
putting up speedway near San Lean
dro, gr5uro of Oakland. / applied
for job. The foreman told me !
could go to work. The wages was 81
per day, but each worker had to buy
stock for which he would have to pay
halt his wages. There could not be
any more than "a days work.
Paying for stock at the rate OF $3.50
q day would mean at the most $84.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-21
(By a Worker Correspondent

PrT-TSBUEG, Cal. - The Columbia
Steel Corporation, subsidiary Of
United States, Steel, which employs
1900 workers, In line with cthar steel
plants Throughout the country, has
cut our wages 10 per cent.
We have been working only part
tin2e. The whole plant has been
running only IS Per cent Of capacity
basis. This cut is bringing us greater
starvation than ever.
A. T. De Forest, president Of the
company, comes out with a statement
that the plant will be put now on so
per cent capacity basis and this will
offset the wage cut. How kind! We
will probably put in another half day
or day Of work, with a little change
in our pay envelope.
We workers must organize griev-
snce committees on the jobs. Or
ganize our l''"Nl Workers Industrial
League and pr1ls" -or fight against
wage cuts, as y-le workers are doing
throughout other steel plantA
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-21

by the first of the year, our Natl
onal Miners Union will be solid, bud
dy. Then, we will talk turkey to the
coal bosses. If they think they can
break the Harlan miners with ma
chine guns and thugs: well, buddy,
them coal operators just don't know
Kentucky miners, that's ALL"
These words came almost In chorus
from two Kentucky miners brought
to New York by the International
Labor Defense to help organize de-
Tense and relief for strike prisoners
and their families. They are Asa
Cusick, ex-chief Of police and miner
from Evarts, KY, and Jim Grace,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-21

adopted motion made by striker
to elect committee to go to the city
authorities and demand the use OF
Lawrence Common for strike meet
ings. SO far during the strike, the
police have permitted the U. T. w.
takers to meet on the Common, the
best meeting place, and address a
mixed assemblage OF workers and
business men and police with dema-
gogic patriotic pleas. But the meet
ings called by the National Textile
Workers Union and the United Front
Rank and File Strike Committee
have been barred.
Permit Denied
The committee Of Is, headed by
Fred sBiedenkap saw Commissioner
verhard at noon today and demanded
a permit to use the Common. Ever
hard admitted the strikers had the
same right as any one else to meet
on the Common. but said he must
consult the Citizens Committee first.
Biedenkapp informed Everhard
that the strikers committee repre-
senter working-class citizens.
ESerhard then said he would not
issue permit until he saw the city
council.
The strikers committee left in
indignation, shouting: "'We use our
Common, permit or no permit"
The strikers demand: Abolition OF
the ten per cent wage cut no arbi-
tration sell out for the strike the
right to hold meetings on Lawrence
Common or anywhere else release Of
the strikers arrested no discrimina-
ton and recognition Of the mill COM
mittees.
Jim Reed president OF the N. T.
W.; Martin Russak organizer for
Rhode Island are here and addressing
big mass meetings Of the strikers.
Harry Canter I. l.. D. organizer is In
Jail charged with contempt Of court.
Murdoch and Edith Berkman are still
held by the immigration authorities,
their bail on old charges dating from
the strike this spring having been
recalled in order to take them out OF
this strike -~~-~r----
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-21

and File Strike Committee, which is
the militant leadership Of the strike
and Is made up of workers elected
from mills and departments without
reference to whether they belong to a
union or not.
Rescue Man Arrested
The pickets cheered and sang
strike songs. No. A. F. L. leaders
we're present. Marshal O'Brien, in
charge OF police concentrated on this
particular picket line and was pre-
sent himself. The police arrested one
picket for stopping a scab and put
him behind a gate. The strikers
smashed through the gate and res
cued him. The police stood ready
with their clubs, but were afraid to
face the militancy OF the pickets.
Over a thousand picketed at the
Aver mill and booed the few scabs
who came. Two workers wearing
American Federation Of Labor signs
were told by women pickets Take
those signs off and look like us!"
A. r. L. Head Looks On
The strikers saw Robert Watt, sec
rotary OF the Central Labor Council
standing by and looking. on.
The pickets marched to the Pros
pect Hall, where a hundred are still
working. Two A. F. L. pickets left
their signs and ran to the head OF the
line while the workers laughed.
Over a thousand picketed the
washington mill. There were only
eight A. F. l.. union members there
and they stood aside.
Two thousand picketed the Airing
ton mills. 49, ..-,..~
-Four pickets were arrested today
and charged with assault and intimi-
dalton Of scabs. The immigration a'i-
thorities are investigating their cit
izenship and trying to deport them.
Build leadership
After the picket line. the Wood
Mill strikers packed into a hall and
elected Is members on a department
basis to the United Front Rank and
File Strike Committee.
The mass meeting OF all strikers
In lincoln Park yesterday afternoon
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-21
Youth VIII March.

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Oct. 20.-The
young workers of Missouri are being
rallied by the Young Communist
League especially to answer the call
Of the State Hunger March Commit
tee of the Unemployed Councils to
join the march on Jefferson City,
Oct. "a.
The Y. c. L. points out that thou
sands Of young workers in Missouri
can either go to school or get jobs
this year; they can not find work,
for there is none, and they can not
go to school, for their clothing is in
rags. Most Of these are trying first
to find work, because their fathers
are unemployed and the whole fam
lily is starving.
The garment factories in Kansas
City hire only experienced girls now,
and are laying off more of these
every day. Housework, absolute
drudgery, has a few jobs open, but
many times as many looking for it
than there are jobs.
Many factory and shop girls are
being driven by actual starvation into
prostitution-the number Of prosti-
tutes in Kansas City is amazing.
The boys are starving, too. Fac
tories and packing houses are laying
off all the time The army and navy
and marine corps recruiting offices
are plying their trade, and many are
driven by hunger to put on uniforms.
The unemployed councils are grow
ing, however, and particularly Negro
workers are rallying to the struggle
for the demands Of the hunger
march. There is certainty that
there will be many Negro workers
among the hunger marchers, and a
strong youth section.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-21
TAX COLLECTOR KIDNAPS
CHILD AS HOSTAGE FOR TAXES

BUCHAREST, Oct. 2o.-The ten
year-old son Of peasant In the vii
lage of Patrulsa, Bessarabia was kid
mapped by the tax collector of the
town and is being held until the
peasant pays his taxes.
The collector entered the peasants
house while he and his wife were
out, looking for some c3jcct o. value
to take for the taxes. But the peas
ant was SO impoverished that he could
not find anything worth taking, and
seeing the ten-year-old boy seized
him instead
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-21
HOBOKEN D. W. CLUB REPORTS
FURTHER PROGRESS; WORKERS ON
WAY TO USSR GIVE DONATIONS

The Hoboken Daily Workers Club
keeps forging ahead. We print the
minutes Of recent meeting of its
executive committee, so other Daily
Worker clubs can get ideas on how
to create a strong and active organ
ization:
Il. The secretary gave a report on
the coming dance. The hall was
rented for $50. A deposit of SIS was
paid. Tickets are printed and 100
were given out. Comrade H. volun-
teered to bring 80 tickets to the Eng
lish speaking LID. branch of Union
City. A list Of organizations with
place and dates of meeting is to be
prepared, and comrades will be as
signed to visit them with tickets.
Comrade L, M. is to order the posters.
"2. Comrade K. was asked to rent
the place at 3l9 Willow Avenue for
the Center, and will lay out the first
months rent himself.
lay out the first months rent HIM
self.
%. The executive committee re-
commended that membership meet
ings be held every second Wednesday
instead of Saturdays. At the next
meeting member of the editorial
staff of the Daily will lead a discus
sion on Current Political Events
Members will be asked to write ar
ticleS on conditions in the shops and
in the neighborhood. 1t was also de-
cided to ask the members to help the
Party by canvassing with election
platforms and with Daily Workers.
a. The financial report showed
1884 received for the month, with
1907 spent, leaving a balance of 81
cents"
What the comrades can do in
Hoboken can be done in every city
of the United States. Think what
that means to the Communist Par
ty.
Donations from workers leaving for
the Soviet Union are symbolical Of
the bond that unites the workers of
America with the workers of the US.
SIR, the workers fatherland. Three
packing house workers going to Rus
STA have just donated a total of $40
to the Daily Worker. Comrade L..
Kurmowski has donated SIS, Comrade
Egan Micklash has donated $40, and
Comrade Lawrukewich has donated
IS.
Remember Greetings
This example of solidarity be-
tween American and U. S. S. r.
workers reminds us that only a
few more days are left before the
November I edition of the Daily
will be out. Don't slacken in your
work to get greetings to the Soviet
workers, to be published in a spe-
cial page November Z, and don't
forget to send cash in advance for
the extra orders for that day.
Greetings are rs cents and up for
individuals and 81 and up for or
Plantations. Use the blank form
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-21
A Railway Worker.
NO SCHOOL FOR NEGRO CHI
DREN
Oakland Speedway a Flint lam Job

The other sixteen would have to be
paid by the worker or else he would
lose the whole share. The stock was
also assessible which might mean
more payments from the workers.
Laborers at 81 day would be even
worse off. The capitalist class is
taking every advantage of the econ
onic crisis to put over their jip plans.
1t is damn near time we got wise
and organized in the Building Trades
Industrial Union. Our craft unions
of the AFL are so damnably rotten
that they have lost their last function
as a job ticket.--A Carpenter.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-21

want and starvation in the ranks Of
the unemployed, to secure $4,000 sig
natures to the petition for a yeferen-
dunn for Unemployment Insurance,
and to participate In the National
Hunger March to reach Washington,
D. c., on December Tth.
Had To See Them.
When the County Commissioners
were first requested to meet in spe-
cial session to receive the hunger
march delegation, they fatty refused.
Later as the plans for the march
were well under way, the chief of
police stated that the commissioners
would meet but that only a COM
nnittee of five would be admitted to
the chamber. A committee from the
Unemployed Council then saw the
Commissioners and insisted that IS
delegates be admitted, one from each
branch and starting point and that
five be spokesman. Two Of the COM
missioners assented to this, but the
third. the chairman, couldn't stand to
see rs hungry men and women at
one time, so like spoiled child he
petulantly left the chamber and re-
fused to take part laaetter In the
special session.
When the Marchers reached the
Court House they found 1t manned
like an arsenal. Fifty police were
inside the building, $50 across the
street in the Annex. 20 mounted po-
lice on the street. All doors OF the
court house but one were locked and
every loose nickle had been gathered
from all departments and locked up
in the big treasury safe.
While the cold and wind and rain
outside was enough to make the
marchers shiver, the delegation found
the commissioners and the bosses
Eyes men" inside we're actually shiv-
ering more, but for another reason.
Evidently they thought that the
Hunger Marchers we're there not just
to demand relief but to take relief
The police also seemed to have
learned a lesson by the Rayford and
Jackson killing mad the mass funeral
The Unemployed Council had recog-
milton, and the police did not inter-
fere with the marchers. Orders to
the marchers were given only through
the committee in charge.
The committee Of 26 presented the
demands to the commissioners for
$3.50 cash bonus for each family SC
that it could get coal, clothing, blan-
kets and other necessities with which
to face the coming winter was the
main demand. Cash weekly relief
no evictions, and special demands f0
the youth and school children and fol
homeless men and women were made
At the conclusion the commissioners
merely announced that a steno-
graphic record had been made Of
what had been said and that the de-
mands would be considered. Wher
they were asked when an answer
would be given, they would not sci
time. The commissioners wert
then told that the Unemployed work
ers would insist on every demand
being granted and that before 1ont
they would be down again to see thai
they are.
Fight Goes On.
When the delegation reported bacl
to the marchers outside, every work
or present resolved that they woult
carry on their struggle through thu
Unemployed Councils and that the.
would be back again In greater mum
bers to enforce their demands.
The Workers International Relic
served milk and sandwiches to thu
marchers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-21
Duluth Hunger March
October 26: City Has
Huge Unemployment
CONTINUED FROM PAGE oNE)


starving massesl
Threatens Jobless.
But now, says the paper, since
these hungry men have actually be-
gun to invade public offices and de-
mand relief, they are not good citi-
5ens," and they must beware u
There is limit to the patience Of the
people, an end somewhere to patient
liberation. People look with aversion
on persons carrying banners In praise
Of violent Communism, backed up by
machine guns, who beslaver good
American institutions, symbolized
and protected by the American flag"
This reference to machine guns
comes with bad grace from a city
government that admits that it is
training machine gunners to shoot
down the hungry joblessl
DO Not Want Food"
Elsewhere in the editorial, the job
less are called, Communist outlaws
who do not want either work or
food"
Meanwhile the failing of the un-
employed continues. Friday, Nels
Vedo, secretary of the West Duluth
Unemployed Councils, was railroaded
through Judge Funck'S court and
sentenced to 800 days on the county
work farm. Vedo was arrested solely
because he persisted in coming on
committees demanding relief in
specific cases from the Poor Com
missioners office. The committees
presented actual starvation facts and
forced granting of relief several
times. and then Commissioner Cook
had Vedo arrested. The trial lasted
two days, with Vedo making a dra-
matte exposure Of starvation condi-
tons to a court room full of work
ers and unemployed workers.
The News Tribune editorial ap-
peared the next day after 1,50o had
met at the call Of the Communist
Party for the fight against wage
cuts.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-21
JOBLESS IN MISSOURI
PREPARE BIG MARCH
ON STATE CAPITOL
Workers in Benevolent Association" Give
Support to March AS Leaders Protest
Mass Pressure Forces the Release of Hunger
March Leaders
(By a Worker Correspondent

INDEPENDENCE, Mo-Several weeks ago, speakers
from the Unemployed Council of Kansas City demanded and
secured the floor at regular membership meeting of the
Labor Benevolent Labor Association of Independence Mo-
This Association rapidly degeneratg due to the bureau
cratic mseadershp of three four takers who namely
President Vice President Business Agent and Secretary of the
Organization These takers made effort to keep the
Unemployed Council speakers off the floor and two weeks
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-21
Call Western Steel Workers to Organize

Read the Daily Worker where the
program Of the steel workers is given
and learn OF the organization. Read
and support our shop paper issued
by the Communist Party NUCLEUS in
the steel plant. Let's hear from you
at the address given in the Steel
Worker bulletin.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-21

Dor Defense. Other speakers we're
Walter Yost, Communist candidate
for county commissioner, and Will
kins, Negro worker and Communist
candidate for constable.
The meeting laid plans to continue
the struggle for relief and TO mob
ilize Westmoreland County unem-
ployed and part time workers for the
march on the county seat at Green's
burg. This march will take place a
few days before Pinchot's special
legislative session ION unemploy-
ment" convenes.
Announcement of the National
Hunger March, Dec. 7, drew pro-
longed applause.
Meet Despite Burgess.
ARNOLD, Pa, Oct. 2O.-Bmgess
Hunter in this city, adjacent to New
Kensington, refuses to permit the
Communist Party election rally
scheduled for. Friday evening at 1850
Third Ave. He threatens to use po-
lice and state troopers to break up
any attempt Of the Communist Party
to hold meeting in Arnold.
The meeting will be held at the
above address, regardless of his
threats.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-21

Bill Duncan, are now touring New
York and New Jersey for the Inter-
national Labor Defense. Their sched-
ule is Albany, Oct. %; Schenectady,
Oct. 81; Troy, Oct. %, Johnstown,
October Doth.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-21
Farmers Let Food Rot
BOSSES NEED KILLERS

CHICAGO, Ill. 1t was recently
exposed that Captain Siege of the
Chicago police force served time in
New York for killing man. He was
fired. But not for long. He is back
in harness again. The business men
asked to have him returned to the
force. They need killers.