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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-20

after receiving 81 for two weeks
work, The conditions causing the
suicide of this miner are the same
that caused the Glen Alden miners
to go out on strike only to be sold
out by the agents Of the coal opera
tors running the U. M. w. A.
The local press daily publishes
numerous suicides, accidents and
others killed in the mines as the re-
suit of the speed-up methods being
applied in all the mines.
Talk New Strike.
The conditions precipitating the
recent strike have not been solved,
but, on the contrary. are worse. The
entire field is seething with discon-
tent and runors of another walkout
in various mines.
In the No. 20 Mine Of the Glen
Alden Co. the miners are talking Of
striking again, because no extra time
is given to harness and unharness
the mules, This was the grievance
which precipitated the recent strike.
The Rank and File Committee are
demanding the replacement Of all Of
the grievance committee with mill
tant rank and filters.
Militant Program.
Resolutions which the local rank
and file committee are adopting and
proposing to the locals point out the
justification of the strike even IN
der the Boylan-Lewis agreement, for
the company itself broke the con-
tract, They score International Presi-
dent Lewis, District President Boy
Ian and the local fake opposition,
Fomicheck, Maloney and Davis and
others, for turning what could have
been a successful strike into a ter
rible defeat They say: "We know
the Cancellation board, before which
our grievances go, too well as a
graveyard in which they will be
buried" They demand removal Of
every faker in the coming elections
and fight for the following demands;
1.-Uniform scale throughout the
anthracite.
PAY for all dead work
3.-No topping of cars.
4.-No contract work.
5.-Delivery and unloading Of all
supplies at face by the company.
6.-No check-off.
mo discrimination against mill
tant miners.
Reconsideration wage where and
when miner fails to make shift
through no fault Of his own.
9.--Immediate settlement OF all
grievances by the mine committee.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-20
Editor, Daily Worker:

Editor, Daily Worker:
The city of Rockford, ILL.,, has
been employing few of the city's
unemployed workers in some kind
of sewer job, and for very low
pay. Last week 35 men were re-
placed by machinery, and probably
more will follow.
The WinnebagO County also has
road construction job going on.
A month ago about 200 were en-
pIOyed there. Forty cents an hour
is all the workers there get paid.
The working day is 8 hours, and
days a week. Twenty cents day is
deducted for transportation Some
weeks we were only about to work
one or two days, but just the same
we we're expected to buy food, cloth
ing, coal and pay rent out of this
money. Some of the workers have
family of s and 8.
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10 H'r~ ~er Marchers
Leave Pittsburgh On
Way to Harrisburg
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through working class sections, stop
ping traffic, following an open-air
meeting at West Park, N. S. They
had taken part Friday night in the
mass meeting attended by many
hundreds of workers who filled the
Irene Kaufman Auditorium. The
Pittsburgh workers, giving a rousing
send-off to the hunger nlarchers, en-
Enthusiastically applauded the de-
mands outlined by the speakers for
the passage by the state legislature
Of the unemployment insurance bill
and the immediate appropriation of
$42,000,000 for unemployment relief.
All speakers denounced the jim
Grow methods used by the employers
of Western Pennsylvania and eX-
posed the frame-up of the nine
Scottsboro, Ala, Negro young work.
ers. The hunger marchers carried
dozens of placards with slogans de-
manding unemployment relief and
urging organization into the Ma
tional Miners Union and the Metal
Workers Industrial League.
Fatal Eviction.
While the hunger marchers were
preparing to leave for Harrisburg,
Andy Susko, a jobless steel worker
Of 50 Main St, Fair Oaks, Pa, who
lost one leg in the steel mill, was
forced to stand by and see his wife
and seven children dispossessed from
their home. AS the last Of their fur
niture was taken out Of the house,
Susko's starving wife drank disin-
fectant and is now lying seriously i'll
in Sewickley Valley Hospital. Susko
went to the office Of the McClintic
Marshall Co. plant in Leetsdale and
demanded immediate employment or
food for his family. He was told to
get out and detectives were immedi-
ately put on his trail. The police
claim that SuSko drew a revolver,
whereupon they threw tear gas
bombs at him, overpowGed him and
dragged him to Jail in handouts,
where he is now.
M. Stern, district secretary of the
International Labor Defense, is now
in Ambridge, investigating the case
and preparing to take over the de-
Tense Of Susko. The Unemployed
Council Of Ambridge, together with
the Metal Workers Industrial League,
is mobilizing the workers for pro-
test against the failing of Susko, and
is securing relief for his family. The
hunger marchers, at the open air
meeting ON Saturday, protested
against this outrage against the job
less workers.
Defend Jobless Leader.
The I. L. D. is also preparing I'M
mediately to fight the frame-ul
which has been placed on Eddie
Sheradowsky, along with ten more
steel workers preparing to come tc
Pittsburgh from Ambridge to take
part in the hunger march, was ar
rested at the railroad station anc
accused Of having broken into a
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-20
Factories Challenge
Each Other in USSR
for May Day Showing

MOCOW.-The workers of plant
No. in Tula have addressed an APP
peal to the Soviet proletariat to call
upon the works and factories Of the
whole union to organize roll-call on
the Five-Year Plan. This appeal has
awakened wide echoes among the
workers. Tn many works and fac
tories inprovised meetings have been
held, at which the appeal Of the Tula
workers has been discussed.
The workers initiative in lula is
welcomed everywhere, especially the
appeal directed to the Donet5 basin
to promise to respond to the roll call
at once. The workers of many I'M
dertakings have chosen April as a
month Of proletarian preparations in
the masses for the second anniversary
of the socialist competitions and for
the May First celebrations.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-20
PENNA. MINERS STRIKE
GROWS; GLEN ALDEN MEN
REVOLVING AT SELLOUT
One Betrayed Miner Starving, Kills Himself;
Conditions Not Improved, Growing Worse
Whole Town of Buttonwood Turns Out to Hear
NMU Speakers; Vote for Struggle

SHALOKIN, Pa, April 19.-The
capitalist press reports the strike in
District 9 of the United Mine Work
ers here as having grown to about
1000 men. District President Mar
tin Brennan made still another at
tempt to drive the men back to
work, but they would not listen to
him. The strikers demand equaliza-
ton of the work. The National Min
ers' Union urges fight for the six
hour day, no wage-cuts, unemploy-
ment insurance and that the miners
elect rank and file committee in
each local, federate the committees
and conduct the strike themselves,
with a watchful eye for such local
takers as those who betrayed the
Glen Alden strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-20
Albers Flour Co. Shuts Down Plant Completely

OAKLAND, Calif.-AIbers Flour
Co. recently laid off all men, shut
ting down the plant completely.
Now they have opened it up with
a limited force of workers and cut
our pay of so cents per day, re-
CARELESS of what we were getting
before OH our different jobs.
How long will we workers stand
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for this? Wages are so low we can
only keep the spark of life within
the body. Our vitality is being
snapped gradually and we will be
on the scrap heap shortly.
Let's fight wage-cuts! Organ
ize! Get in touch with the Trade
Union Unity League at 1853 Ninth
st. WAGE SLAVE.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-20
Protests Against Legal Lynching of9
in Alabama Grows In Last 2 DAYS

During the past two days the fol-
lowing additional working class Or
CARNATIONS added their protests to
the growing wave of working class
indignation:
Negro Workers Raise Protest in
Churches
The Workers Ex-Servicemen's
League, Branch No. l, New York
City, the Greater Boston May Day
Conference representing % organi-
cations and embracing thousands of
workers; the Youth Section of the
Needle Trades Workers Industrial
Union; the Philadelphia Polish Sec
ton of the International Labor De-
Tense, and mass meeting Of several
hundred colored and white workers
in the Hippodrome Hall, Buafflo,
New York.
In the Detroit district where the
campaign to save the nine youths
had apparently reacher higher
form than in any other district to
date, the following organizations
have sent protests:
Detroit Rallies Tremendous Protest
=. Movement
The congregation Of the First Bap-
list Church of Detroit (Negro) sent
resolution and telegram, with $l.10
donation to defense; First Baptist
Church Of Hamtramck (Negro) re-
solution and telegram with 1910 do
nation; the students of the Auto
Mechanical Schools, resolution and
$4.20 donation; Detroit Working
mems Cooperative Restaurant, reso-
luton and $50 donation; Workers
Camp Conference, representing AZ
workers organizations, resolution and
1852 donation;i Workers Camp of
Detroit, resolution and $500 dona-
ton; South Slavic Ruthenberg
Branch I. L. D., resolution; Mass
Protest Meeting of 500 white and
Negro workers, in Hamtramck, Mich,
resolution and telegram; Mt. Carmel
Baptist Church( Negro resolution;
The Jewish Dramatic Studio of De-
troit, resolution, telegram and $l0o
donation; Russi nWomen's Progress
sive Club, resolution, telegram and
$500 donation; Macedonian Baptist
Church, resolution; Unit No. 6, Com
munist Party, resolution and $1.05
donation; Bulgarian Macedonian
Working Women's Krupskaya group,
resolution and telegram; Young
Communist League Once of 400 young
Negro and white workers, resolu-
ton; young Worker" Conference,
representing Z youth organizations
resolution.
Hunger Marchers Voice Resentment.
The Pennsylvania Hunger Mar
cheers also sent their protest and are
supporting the campaign of the lid
oAAN AAO4Nhn AOA q llldoo pAOJCoO lllttt-
ing, Wednesday evening, April %, at
the Pythian Temple, 2008 Wylie Ave.
Pittsburgh.
Following the uncovering Of mass
of evidence clerly proving the frame
up nature of the case against the
nine youths, the following telegram
was sent to the governor of Alabama
by a mass meeting in Chattanooga
Gov. b. NJ. Miller,
state Capitol;
Montgomery, Ala.
We, $50 Negro workers assembled
here, protest rsil-roding eight
young Negro workers TO electric
chair In lynch court at Scottsboro.
Demand immediate release all
nine. New trial with Negroes on
jury"
I. L. ID. Take Steps For New Trial.
The International Labor Defense
lawyers are taking immediate steps
for new trial in spite Of the fact
that the boss defense" appointed By
Scottsboro lynch court lready made
such motions with deliberate intent
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glad to read it. But now want to
sell it here" He's getting S a day,
and also wants to sell literature to
Portuguese, Italian and Spanish
workers. Good opportunity to pro-
mote feeling of unity between ma
tive and foreign-born workers!
Donations Help Too
Donations now and then help us
fill the holes in our financial ap-
paratus. j. Doroff, Syracuse, N. Y,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-20
CHILD LABoRERs LEAVE SCHOOL

Washington reports from the De-
partment of Deportation, sometimes
called the Department Of Labor, has
a "childrens' bureau" which admits
that boys and girls who leave school
in the lower grades go into factory
work, while those whose parents can
afford to keep them in school longer
tend toward craftsmanship, clerical po-
sitions and skilled trades. 1t is very
careful not to say anything definite
regarding wages and hours of these
child workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-20
.FURNESS PRINCE LINE
FORCES STEWARDS TO
DO STEVEDORE WORK
Get Paid S1.5O Day and Three Skinny Meals:
Load Supplies and Chandlery
Conditions Aboard British Boss Owned Ships
Bad All Around
(By a Worker CORRESPONDENT

Instead of hiring ongshoremen the Funess Prince Line
at 34th ST. and 18th Ave- at Pier a. North River forcing
the stewards the M S. western Prince to do much of the
stevedore work in loading supplies.
The stewards paid $15O day and get three scmpy
meals and must work from till in the evening loading coke,
heavy TOOLS soap and other such supplies They also
forced to load 100 ID. sacks of flour.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-20
Glen Alden Men Rebellious.

WILKES BARRE, Pa, April 10
With clenched fists the miners of
the Glen Alden Co. Buttonwood Col
liery heard speakers Of the National
Miners Union score the treacherous
sell-out of the strike by Lewis, Boy
Ian and the General Grievance Com
mittee gang, and voted to continue
the battle for the rights they have
won in previous combat.
1t appeared as though the whole
town of Buttonwood, men, women
and children, had turned out at the
meeting. The speakers were M. zal-
dokas, Joe Weber and Tom Myers
cough of the N. M. U.
Miner a Suicide.
Frank Kzonzek, working in the
Maxwell No. 20 Colliery of the Glen
Alden Coal Corp, committed suicide
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-20

wired $50 on March 26, $40 q day
later, collected through the efforts
of local unit Of the Communist Party,
$3.50 Of which came from Ukrairian
Toilers Alliance Then came con-
tributions from the Brooklyn Prolet-
cult group of 1876 E. 93rd st. who
sent So ito pay for extra bundles sent
to anthracite miners" during the re-
cent strike. We appreciate both con-
tributions, and hope other workers
organizations will continue to send
their little bit toward a better, more
widely circulated revolutionary daily.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-20

"Force is the midwife OF every old
society pregnant with new one. II
is itself an economic power."-Marx:
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-20
REFORMISTS
AID LYNCHERS
Support Court Room
Lynching of 9
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the last two days. Under the leader
ship of the League of Struggle for
Negro Rights and the international
Labor Defense, a Provisional Scots
boro Defense Committee has been
formed in Chattanooga, and a con-
ference called for May in that city.
Break Thru nIegalism To Protest
In Birmingham, Ala, despite police
prosecutions and boss laws illegaliz-
ing the Communist Party and the
Young Communist League, the two
lead a militant protest demonstra-
ton yesterday in East Birmingham,
against the shooting down of Babe
Dawes, Negro worker, by police last
week, and the Scottsboro legal lynch
ing. A telegram was sent Governor
Miller Of Alabama demanding imme-
date release Of the nine boys and
pledging the masses to militant
campaign to stop their murder.
Negro Reformists Support Boss
Lynchers
NEW YORK. - In the meantime,
the Negro reforlnists and their press
continue their open cooperation with
the southern boss lynchers, in spite
of unanswerable proof that the boys
are innocent of any crime, that they
are not even the ones who had a
fight with the six or seven white
men on the freight train, in whose
company the two prostitutes who are
supposed to have been raped" were
travelling. The attitude of the Ne
gro reformist press is clearly express
Sed in an editorial in the current
issue of the Chicago Defender which
quotes with commentator the praise
of It. II, Alexander, southern boss
editor, for the court room lynching
at Scottsboro. The, Negro World,
the Amsterdam News, the Pittsburgh
Courier, the Afro-American and
others continue to report the case
from the viewpoint of the southern
landlord and capitalist lynchers. The
National Association for the Advan-
cement of Colored People, the Ma
tional Urban League, the Universal
Negro improvement Association
(Garvey Movement) continue their
silence and acquiescence in the
legal lynching.
Reformist To Support Lily White
House
In Washington, this coming We'd
nesday, DR.. Motion of Tuskegee In
stitute, T. Arnold Hill, of the Urban
League, will confer with President
Hoover in a move to boost Hoover's
presidential campaign for 1882. None
Of these reformists will raise their
voice against the thirteen lynchings
which have occurred SO far this year,
or against the Scottsboro court room
lynching.
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Wall st. Prepares War
on Nicaraguan People;
Rush Army

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-17
DYNAMITERS IN POLICE LINEUP
 AMAZED FORCE
They Told How They Had Secured the Explosive to Blow Up New York Shipping

New York, Nov 17.-UP)- Two alleged communists, to-day beneath the eyes of scores of de- tectives at the police lineup told calmly of how they had spent weeks studying books on explo- siyes as Q preliminary to making bombs to blow up shipping. The men, Thomas Bunker and William Hoyle, had been taken with three others who disclaimed complicity after a coal barge had been dam aged by a bomb. As the men re- lated their story they said their work had been inspired by the idea that public rather than pri- vate. ownership of shipping was right.
 Hoyle explained he had gathered dynamite from 0 supply at Wap- pingers Falls near Poughkeepsie, N. Y, and had brought it here to cache in a locker in the I. R. T. subway station at Union Square and at I. W. w. headquarters. Tho detectives claimed the supply was large enough to blow up numerous buildings if let off in the heart of the city. Meantime, Bunker. ac- cording to the story, haunted the public library in the quest of books on explosives.
 A third prisoner, William Ira ger said the group were Industrial Workers of the World, not com munists, explaining: "Communists believe in political action. The l. w. w. in direct action" Joseph Soderberg, according to the police. admitted some interest in the al- legged plot but Joseph Reilly, the last prisoner denied any part in the alleged conspiracy or member ship in either the communist or the I. W. W. party.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-17
FORMER SENATOR
 DENEEN TO AID
 IN BANK MIDDLE
To Search for Assets of Twelve Banks Built Up
 By John Bain in Chicago

Chicago, Nov 17-(UP)-Former Senator Charles s. Deneen was called to-day to aid the search for assets of the 12 banks built up by John Bain which failed for $13.- 100000 last spring. Deneen was as- sociated in business deals with the banker, who was called for ques- tioning by Judge Michael Feinberg in seeking hidden assets of the de- funct banking institutions.
 The Bain banks were neighbor- hood banks. supported largely by small merchants and business men. Depositors were mostly persons of small or moderate means. The failure left many in distrses.
 The appearance of Edward Spike" O'Donnell. public enemy, failed to aid the grand jury inves- tigation because O'Donnell said I'm no chump" and refused to sign an immunity waiver.
 The jury wished to ask O'Don- nell whether he had, as was report ed, forced Bain to give him a s20,00O deposit despite required 6O-day notice by threats of yio- lence.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-17
BUCKINGHAM IS
 AFTER WEATHER
 MAN ON REPORTS
State Agricultural Com- missioner s. Mclean Buckingham Want s Something Done For It

Hartford, Conn, Nov 17-(UP) -"Everybody talks about the weather but nobody ever does any, thing about it." remarked Mark Twain, once a resident of Hartford, many years ago.
 , To-day another Connecticut res- ident, State Agricultural Commis- sioner s. Mclean Buckingham, be- came the first to "do something about it." Commissioner Bucking- ham, at Kansas City for the nation al convention of agricultural com missioners, was to seek an inter- view with U. S. Secretary of Agri- culture Arthur M. Hyde. who has charge of weather bureaus, to urge changes in distribution of weather data to help many farmers and tradespeople of Connecticut. Con- missioner Buckingham believes use of the official government weather map should be taught in schools and wishes the regular daily map to be mailed out of New Haven so as to reach all parts of the state early in the day,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-17
WIDELY KNOWN STORY WRITER
 SERIOUSLY ILL
Man Believed to Be Charles Garland Givens Picked Up in Phil. in DeliriOuS Condition

Philadelphia, Nov 17.-(UP)- A man whom police believe is Charles Garland Givens, widely known short story writer. was seri- ously i'll in the Hahnemann hospi- tai to-day and physicians said he was suffering from an overdose of a sedative. He writes under the name of Colonel Givens." He was found unconscious in the train shed of the Pennsylvania railroad Broad street station last night. He had not regained conscious ness after 12 hours in the hospi- tai Cards in his pocket bore the name of Mrs Charles Garland Givens. Easton avenue. Highland Park. Mich.
 He carried copy of q popular magaizne which contained the story "Tiny--the story of Gang ster's Joke" And . photograph and a biographical sketch relating that Colonel Givens" was born in Tennessee. was Q machine gunner in the World war and had been q newspaperman for a number of years.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-17
MRS SHEPARD D..,.... AND DAUGHTER
 ARE THREATENED
Former Helen Gould Has Been Speaking Against Communists and Home Is Under Guard

New York, Nov 17-(UP)-Mrs Finley J. Shepard, who inherited much of the $S5,O00,000 estate of her father, the late Jay Gould, and her adopted daughter, Mrs John Read Burr, were guarded carefully to-day after they received series of threatening messages.
 Police declined to speculate on the source of the messages but said they threatened bodily harm.
 Mrs Shepard, who is a national vice president of the Daughters of the American Revolution has made a number of anti-communis- tic address throughout the state. She cancelled an engagement to speak in Albany yesterday. Visitors to her Roxbury, N. Y., home are carefully scrutinized. Mrs Burr, the former Margaret Olivia Shepard. has closed her home in Bronxville, N. Y., and with her husband, has gone to live at hotel.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-17
MORE TESTIMONY GIVEN AGAINST
 THE PRINCIPAL
"Peep Hole" Stories Told of Scenes Witnessed in the West Virginia High School

Morgantown, W. Va. Nov IT. (UP)-More ''peep hole" testimony from witnesses to alleged scenes in the office of Dr John Thomas West Morgantown high school principal, charged with meeting clandestine- ly with two women teachers. con- tinued in the trial here to-day.
 Percy N. Smith, third of the jan itor trio, who allegedly spied upon the teachers and the principal through a hole drilled through the ceiling, was called to testify.
 Jess H. May and O. D. Harris, the other janitors. already have testified to seeing Dr West on divan with Miss Esther Williams, and on another occasion with Miss Blanche Garfield. Harris said Miss Williams and Dr West were partly disrobed.
 A political hint was cast into the trial on the opening day when Su- perintendent Charles E. McCorkle denied intimations he was motivat- ed to spy upon Dr West because he feared the latter was about to sue ceed him.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-17
SLAYER OF DRY AGENT GUILTY OF
 MANSLAUCHTER
He Claimed That He Did Not Fire Until Shots Were Hurled at Him

Fort Wayne. Ind, Nov 17-(UP) George Adams. charged with the murder of John Wilson. federal prohibition agent, was found gull ty of voluntary manslaughter to- day. The penalty is from two to 2i years in prison. Adams made no comment.
 Adams was accused of shooting Wilson to death, and also fatally wounding Walter Gilbert. another prohibition agent. near the Sell horn bridge. Adams testified he had driven to the bridge after be. ilquor and that he did not shoot ing asked to deliver a cargo of until after a volley was hred at him. One bullet struck him In the neck. His testimony that "every. thing went black" after he reached for his automatic pistol was at. tackled by the state. which contend cd he had admitted firing in "all directions" Adams pleaded sell defense.