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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-20
Build WIR to Give
Relief i'm Miners
and Other Strikes

AS part Of the great campaign
OF the Pennsylvania Ohio Relief
Committees throughout the district.
| the local Workers International Re-
lief has arranged a membership re-
cruiting meeting and an affair for
Monday, July 20, at 7.30 pm, to be
held at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 East
4th Street.
The huge task of forming a per-
manent district WIZ apparatus TO
provide relief for the great mine
strike of today and of others to come
such as the textile strikes that are
already with us and the steel strikes
that are imminent, make it most
imperative that the district WIR re-
lief machine be built Immediately.
Camp Nitgedaiget, in cooperation
with the local WIR has prepared an
extensive program for the present
week as part of the campaign TO
build the W1R. The program in
cludes, among other things; We'd
nesday, showing of q movie; Friday,
a miner will tell the campers Of life
in the mining area On Saturday,
the Workers Laboratory Theatre will
perform play called "It's funny as
He'll" and on Sunday there will be
talk on the role of the WIR In
the class struggle by capable speak
err and dance will be held. ..
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-20
VETS RESIST
POLICE ATTACK
ON THEIR MEET
Bosses Thugs Worsted
Try Break in Centre
and Wreck Building

NEW YORK. - Repeatedly inter-
rupting meeting held Saturday eve
ming at 18th Street and University
Place by the Workers Ex-Service-
mems League, police were worsted
by the ex-servicemen when they at
tempted to break it up.
The meeting had proceeded in an
orderly fashion with big crowd
listening to the worker veterans tell
of the war veterans tell of the war
plots of the imperialist powers. Po-
lice, not liking the size Of the crowd
constantly interrupted and finally
ordered the meeting to dispense on
the pretext that no permit was given.
The workers. anxious for the meet
ing to go on, jeered the police and
demanded the meeting to continue.
The police, more than dozen in
number then commenced to attack
the crowd. The workers put up such
a stiff resistance that one policeman
was reported as hospital casualty.
Calling reserves, the police, now in
a savage reVengeful mood descended
upon the Workers Center, IS East 18th
Street and smashing the door panes,
broke into the building.
The intentions of the uniformed
thugs to smash the offices of the
Workers Center was frustrated by
the barred doors
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-20
Big Pioneer Program
This Week at the
Ca mp Kinderland

NEW YORK. week of July
20 to q will be set aside at Camp
Kinderland as Pioneer Week. Dur
ing this week workers visiting this
camp will show their appreciation Of
the existence of a Revolutionary
Childrens Magazine the New Pion-
eer as an organizer of the workers
children into the Young Pioneers.
At the time when the children of
the striking coal miners are taking
a leading part in the picket line and
the general fight against starvation,
the Importance of organizing the
workers children with the help of
the New Pioneer can readily be seen
This week at the camp will be de-
voted to special affairs. lectures and
other activities on the Young Pion-
GERS Of America Leading comrades
of the Communist Party, Young
Communist League and other COM
rades involved in the childrens
movement will address the campers
on the need for building broad
mass revolutionary movement Of the
workers In the USA. Special en-
phasis will be made on the support
OF the only magazine for the work.
ers and farmers children, the New
Pioneer.
All workers are urged to support
this magazine so that it may reach
many thousands of children
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-20

In a statement to The Times, Wal
ter White attempts to justify the
boss terror and to bolster up then
lies that the millions of workers who
have protested the lynch verdict
against the nine Scottsboro boys
were threatening" the life of Gov
ernor Miller of Alabama because
they dared demand the release of the
boys and hold him responsible for
their safety. White said:
We have feared trouDls because
of the manner in which the Com
munists have made bombastic and
empty threats in the Scottsboro
cases.
William PickenS, too, came to the
defense of the Alabama bosses. de-
claring that the outbreak" was "a
Communist matter pure and simple. "
In the meantime. giving the lie
to the pretenses of these misleaders
that have been interested in the
fight to save the Scottsboro boys. a
letter received by the Southern dis.
trict of the 1. L. D. from Eugene
Williams, one of the boys was trans
mitted to the national office of the
LID The letter halls the activi-
ties Of the LID. in the mass fight
to free the boys, and declares:
1.-THE Scottsboro boys are joyous
at execution stay. ] am thankful
to be living today. You was right,
for if you all had not taken part
in our case. we would be in worst
he'll today, and l sure am glad that
you all appeal our case for l am
innocent and / don't want to die
for nothing and l want you all to
take the case and strut your stuff
with it,"
Leroy Patterson. another of the
boys, added a postscript to the let
ter that u would have been wash
ing roots by now if not for you"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-20
CUT BUILDING
TRADES WAGES
Jersey Bosses Seek
Further Slashes

NEW YORK.-Wage in the build
ing trades were cut more in May
than in any month since 1922, ac-
cordlng to The General Building
Contractor, a magazine for the bosses
in the building trades. Thirty-seven
wage-cuts were reported in seven
cities. But these are only the cuts
IN the wage rates. In addition to
these the building trades workers are
being forced when they do work to
work at under the scale rates.
Paying Under the Scale Rates.
The report states that "a surplus
OF building labor exists in all cities.
The result is that under the sc&le
wages are being paid in many local.
ties, particularly on small Jobs. This
will undoubtedly continue until the
volume of construction reaches a
point nearer normal"
The bosses in the building, to-
gether with the labor takers in the
ISaoerShlp OF the reactiOnary build
ing trades unions are attempting to
follow up the actual under the scale
wages by putting these cut rates into
the agreements. w. L. Dill, man
aging director of the Associated Con-
tractors of New Jersey. sent a letter
on July l to all of the reactionary
building trades unions in New Jer-
sey urging them to put through a
voluntary" wage reduction. The
bosses are trying to fool the workers
into believing that if only they will
take a cut in wages much more
building will be started. The build
ing trades workers in New Jersey
must put up militant struggle in
their local unions to prevent the
Wage-cut that the bosses are plan
ming to put through with the aid of
the labor faker business agents and
other officials Of these. unions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-20
Bankers Paytriotic,
Wars Mean Profits

Sentiment among the bankers
is patriotic and it is buIIish. To
many persons long on stocks, war
apparently merely spells another
long period of abnormal profits
for our COrporations-The big
men hold stocks."-N.Y. Sun, APP
riI 8, 1917.
Bankers are patriotic. Workers
\are patriotic. The bankers land
is the land of profits and exploit
tatiOn. Our land is the land where
the workers are building socialism.
Defend the workers fatherland.
Smash the war plots of the i'm
periaiists. Join the mighty inter
national demonstration against
imperialist war on August First!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-20
W.I.R, Inaugurates MIX
Fund for Mine Children

! weslthiest exploiters in the state OF
Pennsylvania, refuses to have one
penny of the states money go for
food for these starving children.
The Red Cross, with millions upon
millions in its treasury, declares it
cannot supply food to the miners
children, because the mine bosses,
and not god" have brought about
their condition of starvation.
These children have joined their
parents in the struggle against star
walton. They know now that their
misery is caused by the coal barons,
by the state and federal govern
ments. These children are appeal
ing to the Workers International
Relief for food, for milk.
The w. I. r. is now supplying milk
to many of these children. 1t must
supply milk to many thousands more
in the strike area. To do this the
w. I. R. is inaugurating Milk Fund
for Strikers Children. Every worker
must be drawn into the campaign to
collect funds for this campaign
Let us build this movement of soil
darity. While we feed the children
we strengthen the fight of the min
ers; we encourage them to fight
against the bloody terror of the coal
bosses and the Pennsylvania police
The miners children shall not
starve! Show your solidarity. Sup
port the w. T. r. Milk Fund Cam
paign Send contributions to Room
800, 799 Broadway.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-20

murderous police attack on the share
troopers union at Camp Hill, Ala
bama. As in the Scottsboro case,
their attack is directed not at the
boss murederers, but at the Com
munist Party and the Negro and
white workers supporting it. They
refer to the attack on the troopers
as an outbreak" thus supporting the
police lie that the troopers fired
first, instead of in self-defense.
These misIeaders are qouted by the
New York Tribune Of accusing the
Communists Of having stirred up
the outbreak in a desperate and vain
effort to win the so-called Negro
proletsriat to the Communist Party"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-20
Benefit Affair For
Striking Miners Wed.
Night i'm Boro Park

BROOKLYN. - The Boro Park
Workers Club, 1873 43rd Street. has
issued challenge to the Coney Is
land Workers Club to engage in
revolutionary competition in the col
lection for funds for the $4,000 strik-
ing miners. The Coney Island Work
ers Club held an affair last week for
the Penn-Ohio Striking Miners Re-
lief Committee at which good sum
was collected.
The Boro Park Workers Club will
hold an affair next Wednesday, July
22nd, for the benefit of the striking
miners at which it will try to collect
more than the Coney Island Workers
Club collected.
Well-Known working class speak
ers will address the meeting.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-20
Textile Wages Are
Down to 10c A Hour

NEW YORK-Reporting that
wages are being cut drastically in
all industries, william Russell White,
financial editor of the New York
Evening Post, in last Saturdays edi-
ton says that in the textile indus
tries wages have been cut down to
ten cents an hour.
Textile mills obtain workers at
10 cents an hour" he writes He
also points out that all textile work.
ers have had their wages Gust, most
at least so per cent.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-20
SHARP DECLINE
IN N. Y. WAGES
Farm Wages in u. S.
Also Drop Sharply

Between May and June there was
sharp increase IN Unemployment
and a sharp decrease in wages, ac-
cording to figures made public yes
terday by Francis Perkins, Indus
trial Commissioner of New York
State. The number of workers en-
ployed decreased by three per cent.
Factory payrols decreased So per
cent faster than the number work
ers employed, indicating that many
thousands more workers are now
working on part time in addition to
those completely unemployed. The
average weekly wages of those work
ers who still have a job amounted
in June to 1854 or 81 cents less
than in May. The statistics of the
State itself shows that there are now
IS per cent less workers employed
than year ago and 25 per cent less
than two years ago. Wages have de-
clined even more. Payrolls for June
of this year were % per cent less
than June 1890 and 35 per cent less
than two years ago.
Farm Wages Still Lower.
Farm wages on July l, were lowest
IN fifteen years according to figures
published by the Department Of Ag-
riculture. On July l the average
farm wages per month with board
were 1888 as compared with s3347
a year ago. or a decline of twenty
five per cent in a year. Farm wages
are as low as $3.50 a month in
Georgia and South Carolina, accord
ing to the Department of Agricul-
ture. During the past three months
there has been a drop in wages in
stead Of an increase that usually
takes place in the spring and early
summer. 1t is therefore likely that
in the coming months there will be
an even sharper decline in wages.
The farm workers must organize
to fight against these miserable
wages and to combat further wage
cuts. They must join the city work
ers in a united struggle against the
bankers who exploit both the city and
the farm workers and the poor farm
ers in addition. Demonstrate against
the war that these capitalists are
preparing against the Soviet Union.
Join the mighty mass protest on
August First International Red Day.
Defend the Soviet Union!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-20
List of Miners
Relief Stations

Six main relief stations in New
York have been established for the
collection of food for the striking
miners. A horse and wagon at each
station will call for any food which
is contributed.
The depots are located at the fol-
lowing addresses.
Brooklyn; 1874 Pitkin Ave, 81 Ora
ham Ave, l40 Neptun Ave
Bronx: $50 Westchester Ave, l400
Boston Road.
Harlem: 237 East 106th ST.
Central Depot: $40 East Ninth ST.,
Manhattan
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-20
BY MARCEL SCHERER
National Secretary of the Workers
International Relief.

Forty thousand miners are now on
strike in the coal regions of Pennsyl-
vania, Ohio and West Virginia.
Forty thousand miners and their
wives and children are now fighting
heroic battle against the murder
Gus coal barons.
During this tremendous struggle,
hunger is the chief weapon the
coal bosses are using to break the
strike. The starvation of the miners
children has forced even Governor
Pinchot to make fake gesture of
relief He hypocritically calls atten-
ton to the fact that the children
are going without food, yet he, as
the direct representative of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-20
What's On -

MONDAY
Workers Ex-SerYicemen'E League
WIN hold joint opeu-air meetings
of Downtown and Harlem Branches
at lGlst ST. and Prospect Ave. at
$50 pm. There will he good speak
ers,
TUESDAY
Dress and Cloak Cutters
There Will be an open forum of
the dress and cloal: cutters July 81
In the Memorial HAM, 344 w 3fth
81. LYMAN viii speak on the PRES
ant situation in the neddle trades
and a program of action for the
somins season.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-20
n. A. A. c. p. Leaders Back
MurderOuS Attack on Crobblrs
Support Lies of Alabama Police of "Outbreak"
and of Threats Against Alabama Governor

NEW YORK.-True to their role of hangmen of the
Negro and betrayes of their struggles the n A
P mseaders yesterday rushed to the support of the South
landowners In statement issued to the boss press
thew have not word of condemnation for the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-20

W. T., l.. Br.
VIII have open air meetings:
one at tl0th Street and 18th Ave. at
pm, and another at 125th street
on 5th Avenue at pm.
Notice
An outing and beach party has
been arranged for Tuesday, July q,
TO Coney Island by the Women's
Councils 7-16-20. All members and
friends are asked to be at the still
well Avenue station, Coney Island,
at II am. sharp From there we
will go to the beach All proceeds
viii go for Miners relief. A good
time 10 assured.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-20

One way of defending the Soviet
Union is to spread among the
workers Soviet Forced Labor"
by Max Bedacl1t, 10 cents per copy.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-20

GIVE YOUR ANSWER TO HOG
VERS PROGRAM OF HUNGER,
WAGE CUTS AND PERSECUTION
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-20

The war drums beat, by Joseph
North in the July Labor Defender.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-20

Soviet Forced Labor"--Bedaoht
series in pamphlet form at 10 cents
per copy. Read it-Spresd IT,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-20
| MORE JOIN R. |.
TEXTILE WALkOUT
1000 at Mass Meet In
PaWtucket

PUTNAM, Conn. July 49, - The
workers of the Salzburg Silk Mill
walked out Thursday 300 strong. The
walk -out was precipiated by the
firing of a member ofthe N. T. w. U.
on the grounds that there ereflaws
in his work. The mill committee
after investigating the charge found
it to be false, tried to get the mill
management to change its decision
and when this was refused called for
the walk-out.
Thursday night the workers of the
mill met, elected the strike commit
tee, formulated their strike demands
and were prepared to send their
strike committee in for conference
with an official of the mill from
Central Falls. R. L, at 10 p. N. The
results of the conference were not
yet known. The mill is solidly or
ganized in the N. T. w. U.
BOSTON, Mass, July ia del
egation of Central Falls strikers who
came to the East Boston immigration
Station to visit their fellow strikers,
Casnir Chorzempny. John Iberian
and Bernard Rozanski, and their
strike leader, Anna Burlak reported
that over 1000 strikers and SYM
pathizers attended Thursday nights
meeting in Pawtucket. This was q
fitting answer to the small handful
of scabs that entered the Royal mill
under the protection of police who
have orders ito shoot strikers"
PROVIDENCE, r. l., July 19,-The
Weybosset american Wooden Coz
Strike Committee warned the work
erS not to believe or spread company
rumors. During payroll in the mill
yesterday petty company bosses
started spreading the false rumor
-that the workers had never voted to
strike and that hundreds of workers
had declared that they would go
back to work Monday. This is an
old company game The strike COM
mittee pointed out that the anxiety
of the company to reopen on Mon
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-15
MOTHERS

AND THETR CHILDREN.

A little action game which we often
play makes lazy little minds work and
rests tired little bodies. We call 1t
Ducks Fly" and It may be played by
any number Of children. A circle is
formed and the leader stands in the
center. When he says Ducks Fly" he
raises his arms in a flying motion, and
the children initiate him. The catch
comes when the leader names an ami
NAL that does not fy-as, Horses
F1y''-waving his arms as usual. II any
child moves his arms at such q COM
mand, he must drop out Of the game.
When the commands are given rather
rapidly. it keeps all the children on the
alert and makes z game which Is lots
of fun.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-15
Everyday Psychology
~ On. JESSE W. sPRowLs.

An extravert, briefly speaking, Il one
who goes in for taking his outside
world seriously and judiciously. That's
why men who hold executive positions,
such as Senators, Governors and Of
ficials generally, belong to the ex-
travert class. The word extravert
means "to turn outward" The worlds
great statesmen, politicians and manip-
ulators of public opinion have in all
but a few notable cases been extraverts.
But how do extraverts become ex-
travertS2 The central idea is COM
promise. The truly successful extravert
Is one who learns early In life that q
fight is loss to him, no matter who
wins the battle. That Is, it pays to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-15
Care of Beds and Pillows
BIZ LYDIA LIE BARON WALKER.

slept and reveled In luxurious comfort,
when visiting, Is equipped with springs
and q variety Of mattresses identical
with your own at home and that the
pillows are Of q similar quality Of
Feathers. The care differed.
Mattresses should be turned fire.
quently. At one time turn them over
sideways, and at another, lengthwise.
Never allow more than a week to in
mattress Is turned in one or the other
OF these ways. Each morning turn back
the mattress as nearly from head to foot
as you can. It does not have to be
lifted, Just raised from the springs SUI
ficiently for 1t to rest on the springs at
q slightly different position. Springs
will lndent the mattress, il ever so
slightly, each night. BY altering the
position mere trifle, the pressure does
not come In identical spots long.
Pillows require more than lifting on
the bed, smoothing and returning to
their positions after the bed has been
shaken vigorously each day, and 1t is
advisable TO punch them deftly. This
permits the fronds Of the feathers to
fiuff out 1t prevents them from mat
ting and felting together. Be sure that
no feathers cling to the corners Of the
cases. Unless the pillows are thor
oughly beaten up and shaken about
wats of feathers lodge in the corners
and feel hard. At the same time the
centers of the pillows are depleted Of
their downy fronds. Pillow ticking
should be woven closely enough 50 that
the tiny tips Of the feathers ends can
not work through and prickle the skin.
Both mattresses and pillows should
be aired occasionally and have sun
baths. Any moisture that accumulates
has a chance to evaporate, and the
heated air, filing each t'niest crevice,
makes the mattress and the pillows
softer and more luxurious.
(CopyriRht, 1D3l)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-15

compromise. That one who declared
that he would rather b right than
be President" didn't become President.
This outside world Of ours Is o
strange one. In order TO get along
with It we all need to learn the art Of
compromising. It all comes about this
way: The outside world, so far as
we can personally evsluate it. is the
only real world we know anything
about. If we happen TO fall into the
habit of thinking that we are all-im-
portant creatures on earth we are not
taking our outside world seriously. we
mistake our opinions for facts. We
take ourselves too seriously. We have
overevaluated our inside world of ideas
and they are all too often errors in
judgment.
Social psychologists are beginning to
say that modern society demands the
extravert. The next step in the con-
quest of nature Is an understanding
Of human surroundings.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-15
Winter Garden.

To make an attractive window gar.
den, 1T several large sweet potatoes
into colored flower bowls and keep the
bowls about two-thirds full Of water,
keeping them in cool, dark place for
the first two or three weeks until they
start growing, then bring them to the
light. They will be pretty and cheer
full. Also, old beets from which all the
leaves except the young ones have been
pulled of can be put into rich garden
soil, in empty flower pots, and they will
make q nice show of color later on.
These would be attractive for the
kitchen window.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-15
CRuMB PUDDING.

Two eggs, beaten, one cup
bread crumbs, two cups milk, one
cup cooked apricots, mashed,
oae-hAlf cup apricot juice, one
half cup sugar, one teaspoon
vanilla, or1e-uuarter teaspoon
lemon extract, o1e-quarter tea
spoon salt, two tablespoons butter,
melted.
Beat eggs and add crumbs and
milk. Let soak 5 minutes. Add
other ingredients and pour into
q buttered baking dish. Bake 20
minutes in a slow oven. Remove
and add meringue.
Mefingue.-Two egg whites,
Stif1y bsaten, four tablespoons
sugar. one-quarter teaspoon bak-
ing powder.
Beat egg whites until stiff, add
sugar and beat until creamy. Add
baking powder and roughly pile
on top the pudding and bake IS
minutes in q very slow oven.
Vanilla Sauce.-Two- thirds cup
sugar, one tablespoon -four, one
eighth teaspoon salt, one and one
half cups water, one egg yolk, two
tablespoons butter, one teaspoon
vanilla.