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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-23
They Did It Right

Chalk up another victory for Red Sparks.
And for the Y.CL. All because we mentioned
the mistake of the Brownsville YCL in dis
couragng non-Party workers we were visited by
the East New York Unit of the YCL, with the
following story.
The Unit had held an open air meeting for
the Scottsboro defense. and Negro worker came
up to the chairman and asked to speak.
This meeting has me all steamed up" he said,
ito see white men out agitating for the nine
Negro boys and against race discrimination.
want to help I want to get my people to fight
side by side with you"
The Y.C.L. put him on the speakers stand
and my, Q, my how he did stir things up Some
way or other this Negro worker, not member
of the Communist Party-yet, got more results
than dozen of those kind of Party members
who are afraid to admit it and who jabber al
ways about difficulties"
He knew about how the Soviet workers had
made an example Of the race prejudiced white
Americans at Stangrad and he declared the
Soviet Union is "a beacon light to all the op
pressed.
In fact he not only inspired the Negro work.
ers present so that ten came forward with offers
to help organize block committees for the
Scottsboro boys, but he and his enthusiasm gave
new life to the YCL Unit and now it is all
popped up for work Never forget, allow the ini-
tiative of the masses to express itself,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-23
nr l LOUIS ENGnAHL

nNr of the first obligations Of the working
U class is to its prisoners. This also involves
our duty to their families, left without the
breadvinner "on the outside"
This task has been too much neglected IN the
mast The International Labor Defense, which
organizes and carries through this special task
has met with considerable indifference, even
within its own ranks, in developing the rehet OF
prisoners and their dependents, in uniting the
workers on the outside with the class war pr1s-
oners through correspondence, the patronage
system. visits wherever possible. Generally the
task is to show every victim Of capitalist class
i,,s+ice enton1bed in prisons that they have not
been forgotten
Numbers of Prisoners Doubles
r1,ie whole situation is again brought sharply
,n+o the forefront by the fact that nearly one
hundred coal miners and their sympathlzers
have been tailed in the coal war that RACES
through Harlan and Bell Counties. in Kentucky.
IN one strike struggle, therefore, the number OF
class war prisoners has been doubled In a pre-
lirninary check-up of % families, the lnterna-
ticns1 Labor. Defense learns that these % pr1s-
oners have 1876 dependents.
w 3. Jones. secretary of the Miners Union
at Fvarts. Kentucky, held in the Harlan Coun-
ty Jail charged with murder, writes as 1oloWs'
Face Death By Starvation
~ am willing to help you in any way that 1
can to expose the conditions that now exist in
this part of the country. But If could get out
of Jail, I could do much better Job OF 1t.
will be glad when the books you have for me
arrive. as the time drags on slowly for me, Tor
have been active all of my life. 1 am going
to send you the names of all the people that
are in need here, and anything that you can do
for them will sure be appreciated. l assure you
that they need food and clothing. Come to their
rescue if you can, for they have starved all WIN
ter. and if there isn't relief soon, some OF them
will starve to death. So come to us everybody
and help us lest we perish. We love our wives
and little children. So help us so we can help
them and keep them from starving"
This is an appeal to the whole working class.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-23
By C, Upton,

lBOr1T the beginning of May Of this year
"A Senator Reed attacked, in speech before
some bankers. the legislators in Congress, Tor
passing the bonus loan bill Personal, political
expediency, was the charge, some sort OF I'M
patriotic motive of legislation and those who
asked for the passage of the bill. OF course the
congressman who supported the bonus bill dld
so for the same fascist purposes that are de-
sired by Senator Reed-it was only dlfference
of opinion on the tactic of paying the veterans
for strike breaking or getting them to do 1t
without cost-"For God and Country,
Wide publicity was given by the bankers to
this speech. These charges seem to have an
moved the Legion. The charges convey hnt
that the A. L. leaders may lose their great
patriotic prestige in the eyes Of the ruling class,
the bankers and Bosses by giving in to the
rank and file of the members and presenting
their demands for payment of the bonus
Strike breaking was costing too much
So the misleaders of the Legion, after these
and other charges of bankers, decided to pre-
sent various other motives, of unemployed ex-
servicemen. etc. After considerable, painful
Juggling with the spirit of pay-triotlsm' a1ter
innumerable fervent salutes to the American
flag and considerable praying at their meetings
in order to drive away the spectre OF an I'M
enployment problem of the exploited worker
members of the Legion, the fascist misleaders
finally blurted out something about needy ex-
servicemen They thought they had practically
the problem solved with donations of old pants
to their fellow citizens, and even actual money
charity alloWances-were given to the defend
ers of American democracy.
But not until May IA, 1881, do we read IN the
press that the A. L. will urge upon President
Hoover the calling of national non-political
conference to seek solution for unemployment
and depression crises" The Legion unemploy-
nent commission expressed fear that mac
ton in the face of continued widespread I'M
employment would bring dire results"
Against the supposed "inaction," the Legion
evidently proposes action" But what kind OF
action? What is proposed, is a national non
political conference" of course, conference
composed of capitalists, the reactlonary Amer
lean Federation of Labor officials and these
precious fascist leaders of the American Lee
zion themselves There could be no program
and no action" come out of such conference
but fascist program and fascist action
against the workers.
And Hoover the one who has been most reso-
Iutely against unemployment insurance, who
has BY other conferences" actually helped the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-23
Alabama Indignation

When the International Labor Defense "A
Chattanooga wired to the police of Huntsville
Ala, last Friday protesting at the reported
lynching of Negro named Thomas Jasper they
got back the following reply:
Jasper not lynched, but made getaway Po-
lice department has done everything possible to
apprehend his abductor. We believe in uphold
ing law and resent your implication Of this de-
partment's cooperation with law violators. Come
to Huntsville and make your charges in person.
and don't send us any more messages as to how
to attend to our business We swore to uphold
and defend the Constitution when we took Of
flee; can you say as much? We do not consider
it any of your business what we do at our Jail
you are not a taxpayer Of this community
H. G. Blakemore, Chief of Police"
From which we gather that Chief Blakem1s
was peeved about something. And since we krow
how sensitive souls chiefs of police have, we felt
saddened, until it occurred to us that he revealed
the cause of his indignation in his first sentence
Jasper made getaway"
And then, well, he invites q substitute 20
to come in person" Some way we still dis
trust poles. ,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-23
NAS,~*<
Congratulate EN-
BY JORGE

There is a well known saying in America, that
if awnings wrong, the first guy who opens his
mouth says: "There ought to be law" etc.
This is what is called in Communist lingo a
parliamentary illusion" That is, reliance in
legislation by a capitalist government which pre-
tends to be "above classes" but which really
represents the interests of the capitalist class.
The coal miners have suffered many injunc-
tons and a lot of hokum peddlers liberals, fake
socialists" and the A. F. of L. have been max
ing the workers believe that if only they could
get q law passed" against injunctions, then
everything would be quite all right
So the New Republic, liberal dope sheet with
a strong smell of social fascist socialist talk,
comes out in its issue for June "a, hurrahing
over the passage of two "anti-injunction' laws,
one in Pennsylvania, the other in Wisconsin.
These peddlers of parliamentary illusions go
into great detail to explain how, under the Law
passed in Pennsylvania, They can't do that"
in reference to judges issuing injunctions against
strikers.
"The rights of peaceful picketing and all or
derby and normal strike activities are defined
and assured; these cannCt be enjoined Penn
sylvania workers may indeed be congratu-
lated"
What they are to be congratulated for, Is their
determination to picket assemble or urge work
ers to strike all of which is forbidden by the
injunction issued by Judge H. H. Rowand on
petition of the Butler Consolidated Coal Com
pany, just last week
But the hokum artists of the New Republic
try to make the miners believe that they should
pat themselves on the back because there is "a
law against injunctions."
All we got to say is: THE MINERS HAVE
PASSED A LAW THAT SAYS: ITO HE'LL
WITH INJUNCT1ONS"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-23

THE first meeting of the new Executive Com
j nittee of the International Workers order
decided to call upon all branches to raise
minimum of Is cents per member to help save
the Daily Worker. This money must be raised
within the next two weeks. All funds should be
sent to the National Office 80 Union Square.
The following appeal for the Daily has been
issued by the National Executive COMMITTEE
Comrades We have just completed our first
convention In the history OF the fraternal move
ment this convention will be one OF the most
important. The convention laid down the policy
for the unification of all class-conscous frater-
nal organizations. The convention consolidated
the forces Of the International Workers Order,
which up to date has succeeded in organizing 24l
branches with a membership nearing 10000 The
eosasntiap stressed the pQspt thai ~ asdes doss
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-23
The National Executive OF |. W.. @.
Calls for Funds for daily"

not believe In declarations only, that we want TO
prove to the labor movement in deeds that we
are an important part of the class struggle in
the United States
Raise Funds for Daily.
The Daily Worker is the only proletarian or
gan in the English language which fights for the
interests of all sections of the working class.
The Order now appeals to all branches of the
International Workers Order TO raise the neces-
ssry funds to enable the Daily Worker to con-
tinue existence and to carry on the struggle of
the working class.
Our first convention stressed the Importance
% organizing English sections of the Interna-
tional Workers order The Daily Worker will
be an important instrument for the organizing
of our English sections. The Dolly Worker will
hsR The International W9TkeEs oEeex to Iasga-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-23

tain its class line and will place before the work
ing class the aims of our order.
Collect in Shops.
We ask all branches to Immediately start the
campaign to raise in the branches or at the
branch meeting All members should be mobil-
lied for actively participating in the campaign
for the Daily Worker by raising money in the
shops, from their friends and wherever else it
is possible to raise money. This will be credited
to the branches.
Comrades:-You carried on a successful CAM
paign to save the Morning Freiheit the paper
which actively participated in building our or
der Do the same now. See to it that within the
next two weeks you fulfill the quota which the
newly elected National Executive Committee
quests of you
Comradey yours.
National Executive Committee
International Workers Order
r. saltzmap, Secretary ..sgx.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-23
PRE- CONVENTION DISCUSSION


you place them before the young workers? What
criticism have you of the unit, the district meth
DDS Of work, the national methods of work?
What experiences have you in organizing and
mobilizing youth for strikes, for campaigns. Send
EN- in! Unit members especially, we want you!
The National Convention must be postponed for
short time for extremely important reasons.
Districts are receiving information, This gives
us chance to intensity and deepen our dis
cussion
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-23

Due TO lack of space, the Daily Worker has
not been able to publish sufficient pre-conven-
ton discussion articles. However, the comrades
are asked to send in articles to the &C. of the
Comrades in the units are especially asked to
write on their problems. What kind Of youth
activity is being conducted for Scottsboro-
how? How have YOU succeeded in raising youth
demands in shops, mills, mines-and how did
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-23
Revolutionary Competition
BY l. AMTER.

l.
from time to time, when campaign is
L launched by the Party the slogan of revolu-
tonary competition is brought before the mem
bership of the Party for the purpose of stimulat-
ing the campaign A challenge is issued by one
district to the other, one section to the other,
and the campaign starts In some instances
this stimulation has an effect, but in most in
stances, it remains merely slogan.
The reason is that there are no organizational
steps taken in order: y to launch and keep
alive the competition; q nothing is done to
check up either in the unit, section or district
on the work done or not done. The Districts,
sections and units trust firstly to the under
standing of the members as to carrying on their
work under the stimulation of revolutionary
competition (Which does not mean merely get
numbers Of members for the Party, TUUL, ETC.,
but building up the Party and TUUL in the
shops; and secondly do not set up the machin-
cry for controlling and checking up the work
accomplished.
Must revolutionary competition be continued
to campaigns? Or cannot rather for the regular
work of the Party, when no particular campaign
is in progress, revolutionary competition be es-
tablished between the Party units and sections,
between unions and leagues of the TUUL, bran
ches of the mass organizations, ETC.? Unquestion-
ABLY OF COnpeJlLlOu Is dTOuoSu
the membership of the Party unions and mass
organizations, if an understanding of the basic
need of building up the organization is instilled,
and particularly if the machinery is set up not
only for guiding the work generally but part1-
ticularly for checking up and giving regular pub
Iicity to the work accomplished, a hveler spirit
will be brought into the work of the Party.
Take the Daily Worker, Labor Unity and Lib
orator. for instance. Why should there not, on the
basis of the crying need Of building up the cir
culation of these three organs, be recolu-
tionary competition between the sections, units
and members of the units, between unions and
organizations, between members Of the Red
Builders Club? Why should this not become a
| regular institution in the Party and mass Or
CARNATIONS driving force in building up the
revolutionary press? Why should there not be
revolutionary competition between the various
language groups in the building up of the res
| pective language organs?
| 1t is harder to inspire the membership of the
| Party for routine work, whereas the Party men,
| bers respond to demonstrations with enthusiasm
among the reasons being the fact that there is
| nothing glamorous and noisy about the daily
work. 1t is hard plugging, making and reaching
contacts, getting subs, selling papers, ETC. Moth
ing that creates a noise. But 1t is this very
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-23

routine work that builds up the revolutionary
movement in its early stages gives us contacts
in the shops and makes possible the building OF
grievance committees, groups of the TUUL in
the shops, which leads to the Building Of strike
leadership and the organization of struggles.
There must be put into this work something
that will inspire the comrades more than the
mere knowledge Tat they are doing revolution
airy work. The coinrade who works 8 or 10
hours day and returns home tired and
hausted, needs the mental and organizational
stimulus that his work is being measured not
just by general results, but by direct comparison
with that being done by other comrades. If
revolutionary competition is instituted it will be
the spur to more action the part Of great
part OF the membership Of the Party and the
mass organizations, who are unquestonably will
ing to work.
Revolutionary competition, but 1t must be
properly organized and checked up, so that
suits will be known to the membership, short
comings and achievements be pointed out, SO
that the membership and the Party will be able
TO profit by the activity under the spur Of re-
volutionary competition.
(The next Party Life column will contain an
ARTICLE On the Pa<tys Language w<ky
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-23
Party Life

Conducted by the Org. Dept. Central Com
mittee, Communist Party, U. S. A.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-23
BY IRVING HERMAN

IN dealing with the farm youth question we
must understand that the demands that we
put forth vary in different localities lin certain
places we find tenant farming on large scale
and in others we find mortgaged farmers, in
some localities the farmers raise wheat and in
article I will attempt to deal with the question
of demands and forms of work amongst farm
youth as we have experienced it IN our district
In District No. 8 We find thai the farm
youths basic demands on the economic field
are the same as the adults The farm youth
works on the farm with his father and the rest
of the family and is affected by the high freight
rates, falling prices on products (such as butter
fats selling as low as 25c) bank interests debts
taxes mortgages, etc 1t was reported that in
Michigan the average poor farmer receives be-
tween $3.50 and $500 per week in cash This
is nowhere near enough to meet the poor
farmers needs. AS result we find that tho
the farm youth works hard and at long hours
on the farm, he seldom receives any money at
the end of the week
Life on the farm is exceedingly dull There
are, in most cases, no sort facilities or secrea-
tional facilities for the farm youth The schools
to which the children go Cnany of them don't
get any schooling) are overcrowded in many
cases, in winter they are cold and generally are
uncomfortable This in brief is the picture
The task of the Young Communist League is
to build up the United Farmers League This
organization must be broad and draw in all
sections of the poor farmers and their families
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-29
FOES OF NAVAL SLASH
PLAN CONGRESS FIGHT
Hale and Britten to Meet at
Luncheon Next Week and Vim.
son Will Be Present.

Big Navy men In Congress will meet
here next week to pool ideas for an as
sault on President Hoover's efforts 70
reduce the naval budget and to speed
up the drive to put billion dollars
worth of new naval craft on the seas.
Chairman Hale of the Senate Naval
Affairs Committee, who is drafting q
bill authorizing construction Of treaty
strength Navy, will meet at luncheon
this week with Representative Britten
Republican of Illinois, chairman of the
last House Naval Committee. Also pres
ent will be Representative Vinson, Dem
ocrat, of Georgia, who intends to inI
troduce bill identical with Hale's.
Britten and Hale agreed, before Dem
ocrats obtained a mathematical SUI
periority in the House, to work for a
treaty Navy Vinson also believes the
London treaty established the smallest
Navy the United States could have and
be able to defend itself.
The Hale bill probably will provide
for gradual construction and include
submarines, 7,500-ton cruiser aircraft
carriers and cruisers, destroyers and
other ships as well as complimentary
aircraft.
There appears unaninnity among
ranking Democrats and Republicans in
the House committee In favor Of this
program.
Vinson Is considering whether the
committee should go into the dispute
between the President and the Navy
League.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-29
MAIL PILOTS LEAP
ST|RS PITTSBURGH
Thousands See Plane Crash
Into Old Exposition
Building.

BY the Associated Press.
PITTSBURGH, November 28.-The
Caterpillar Club, reserved for aviators
who cheat death with parachutes. to-
night had new member, Airmail
Pilot Melvin G. Carlow of Suburban
Homestead Park.
Carlow, flying Pittsburgh Cleve-
land ship today, went over the side OF
his spinning craft at 400 feet and
landed virtually unhurt in his first
parachute jump. The plane sliced of
a corner of the old Exposition Build
ing, a landmark, and crashed in heap
of debris. man working on loading
platform was slightly injured when
struck by flying fragments of the ship
shoppers See Crash.
Thousands Of downtown shoppers
were treated to the spectacle. Five
mail sacks In the planes cargo were
unchanged.
Carlow said he took OF from Belts
Field, at McKeesport. with mail des-
tined from Akron and Cleveland. Ohio,
after the regular passenger service was
Cancelled because of bad weather.
I'm the middle of large bank of
clouds, my instruments showed that I
was flying over on one side. tried to
maneuver the ship onto an even keel,
but found was spinning too rapidly
and falling fast" he continued.
by this time was falling about 800
feet a minute.
when my altimeter read 400 feet, I
jumped. The ship spun rapidly out of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-29
DAWSON SETTLES
HIGH SCHOOL SITE
Acting Commissioner Orders
Purchase or Condemna.
ton Of Property.

Maj. Donald A. Dawson, Acting
Engineer Commissioner, yesterday an
nounced settlement OF the dispute be-
tween the Commissioners and the
Board of Education relating to the &C
QUESTION of site for the Reno High
School.
He said Assistant Engineer Commits
sioner H. L. Robb had been instructed
to proceed with the purchase of "site
A." bounded by Fort Drive, Nebraska
avenue and Chesapeake street. If the
property owners will not come to terms,
Mai. Robb was instructed to start con-
domination proceedings.
Maj Dawson said that it had also
been decided 10 put the elementary
school ON q site now under condem-
nation at Thirty ninth and Fessenden
streets. The two protects represent
complete victory for the Board OF Edu-
cation on all points.
The Commissioners, although they
were given the money for the purchase
Of the high school site last February.
had baked because OF opposition OF
Senator Gerald p. Nye and others to
the location Of an elementary school
on the Fessenden street site. 1t had
been planned to put the high school
there, and find some other site for the
elementary school.
The Board of Education protested
vigorously when these plans became
known, and a long series OF confer
ences between representatives of the
board and of the Commissioners have
followed.
There Is $4,000 available for the
purchase of the high school site, and
an appropriation will be asked at the
next session of Congress for money to
draw plans for the new high school,
Mai Dawson said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-29
ART ENTRY CARDS OUT
Water Color Club to Hold Exhibit
December 8 to ct,

Entry cards are out for the exhibit
ton Of the Washington Water Color
Club, to be held at Corcoran Gallery
from December 3 to 81 The exhibit
will include not only water colors. but
etchings and drawings not before pub
licly shown in washington. An extra
gallery has been assigned for the pur-
pose this year.