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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-15

it claims 100000 members, it actu-
ally allowed 1000 strikers in Danyille
to be literally starved, and then
wound up by betraying them with
one Of the most shameful gentle
mems agreements in the history OF
the American labor movement. Such
leadership, whose real role is to
break the resistance of the workers
to capitalist exploitation, will lead
no sti1k struggle against wage cuts.
except to betray it.
The T. U. U. l.. calls upon the
workers to rupediate the trescher-
GUS leadership of the A. Il. of l.. and
to unite under the banner of the
revolutionary unions for a real strug-
gle against wage-cuts. 1t calls upon
the workers to prepare for the deep
ening wage-cuts by establishing local
branches Of the revolutionary union
and to set up united front shop COM
mittees of organized and unorganized
workers. 1t urges the workers to
meet the initiation of wage-cuts by
a posse of militant strikes. The
workers must prepare for broad
strike movements against the intoler-
able worsening of conditions. The
t. U. U. L. slogan is Organize and
Strike Against Wage Cuts"
1.-THE r. U. U. L. calls upon en-
ployed and unemployed workers to
stand shoulder TO shoulder in com
mon fight against the employers.
Defeat The starvation plan of the
bosses and the capitalist government
by a militant struggle against wage
cuts, against the speed up. for I'M
employment insurance and immedi-
ate unemployment relief, FOR The re-
lease of the Scottsboro prisoners aril
other class war prisoners. Workers,
refuse to be driven into poverty and
starvation Fight for yourselves and
your fannlliesls ''---4A -'.--'.--'-<
r. -
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-15
ScOttsbOrO Defense
Conferences

May II.
New York City, IL a. m, at Fin
dish Workers Hall, IS West 126th
Street.
New Orleans. La. Hall 10 be
announced.
May %.
Erie, Pa.-Hall to be announced.
May 20.
Buffalo, N. Y, at the Michigan
Avenue ~"
May "a.
Chicago-Forum Hall, 323 e.
43rd st.
New Orleans, La.-Hall to be
announced.
Charlotte, N. c. Hall to be an
nounced.
May 25.
Philadelphia, Pa. At the knights
of Pythias Hall, 18th and Lom-
bard SITS.
May rs.
Washington, D. c. Hall to be
announced. \
May p.
Pittsburg, pat the Pythian
Temple, 2O11 Center Ave.
May IS
Minneapolis, MINI. Hall to be
announced.
Boston, Mass Hall to be an
bounced.
May 20.
Cleveland, Ohio, at Spiro Hall,
1904 Scoville Ave.
st. Paul, MINI. Hall to be an
nounced.
Duluth Superior, MINI. Hall to
be announced.
May 81.
Chattanooga, Tenn.-Hall to be
announced.
Newark-At 30 Ferry St., at 2:3O
p. m.
Elizabeth, N. j. Hall to be an
nounced.
June 5.
indianapolis, Ind-At 536 ID
Indiana Ave,
Baltimore, Md.-At Galilean
Fishermens Hall, All w. Biddle
ST., at 8 p. m.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-15

and the Whatcon1 County for
any further reduction in wages
at this time, and how to help
bring prosperity back what
ever that isl.
The Central Labor Council pre-
tended to call this meeting on ac-
count of the recent wage reduction of
! 10 per cent by the Bloedel Donavan
Lumber Mill, which was followed up
by another 10 per cent wage cut at
the Whatcom Falls Mill Ito meet the
low wage scale Of the Whatcom
County Relief jobs So a day.. How
ever at the meeting they never men
toned anything about wage-cuts Of
the unorganized Saw Mill workers,
but instead talked about a threat
ened wage-cut of the carpenters and
highly paid skilled craftsmen Of the
A, F. of L. who have as yet received
no wage cut except when they cut
their selves running hog Wild to bid
on small jobs
Many class conscious workers at
tended this meeting TO obtain the
floor and expose these Labor Takers.
However, we decided to listen for a
while. We wanted to hear what the
Labor Takers were going to say. Butt
Lo and behold! The chairman called
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-15
New Haven Workers Told They're Too Old for
Jobs
Jobs

New Haven, Conn.
Daily Worker:
There was once a man by the name
OF Ponce De Leon who was anxious
to discover the fountain of youth.
According to historical documents he
and his soldiers Travelled over thou
sand miles only to be disappointed,
but the unemployed here in New
Haven don't have to travel, they
have discovered it already. Any
worker can observe it in the employ
. ment offices. 1t is the most pitiful
sight to behold.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-15

or otherwise for IS hours, the bosses
paid these workers off with $3.50 a
man.
Arrest 6 Militant Workers.
A month or so ago, the workers
tried to call a strike against this
system of working all hours on the
banana ships. The petty bosses called
the police and had six of the most
militant workers arrested and charged
them with disturbing the peace of the
bosses.
Bosses Pay IS Cents an Hour.
The longsliorcmen in the port have
no union, and the bosses taking ad-
vantage OF this pay them from IS
cents to 40 cents an hour.
Longshofemen must organize into
the Marine Workers Industrial Union,
Read the Daily Worker.
al Mcbride
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-15
Denver Unemployed Council Reaches 1000
Mark
Mark

Denver, Colo.
Daily Worker:
The conditions here in Denver are
getting worse. All the government
does is to holler about silver ques-
| tons, which is the bunk, but they
never say anything about the thou
sands of starving workers.
Unemployed; Commit Suicide.
Three workers killed themselves
because of being unemployed, a
young woman worker took poison for
the same reason, but she hasn't died
yet. Then, at the county farm, the
rstions are only bread and milk"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-15
IWW Tries to Fool Class Conscious Workers
Into Buying Buttons

looked phony to met, but a friend of
mine explained that those are from
the 1. w. W. I asked him about Gre
dentials from the party but he did
not have any. wanted him to ex-
plain why instead of picketing the
factories he goes around our demon
stration to sell his fake stuff.
Workers Fooled by Fake Button.
I have seen many of our comrades
wear this button and they are fooled
by it, 1 myself almost got fooled Why
hasn't the party been warned about
this. Why don't they explain the
difference between the Union of the
Unemployed and the Unemployed
Council?
wore ORR.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-15

NCON At4N u cD thOm GAOE ONED
ride the wave of this movement, so
he and his fellow misleaders may be
in the better position TO betray the
struggle.
How the A. r. Of L. fights wage
cuts is exemplified by their shame
full betrayal of the workers in the
South. These workers, facing actual
starvation conditions, and being
forced even lower developed a splen-
did offensive against the bosses.
But the A. r. Of L. broke this by
its shameless sellouts. in Elizabeth
ton, Danville, etc, with the help OF
the so-called progressives OF the
Music group. The A. F. OF l.. con-
vention refused TO assess itself even
a miserable one cent per member to
organize the South, although it is
paying capitalist-sized salaries to
thousands of labor takers. Although
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-15
BIG SCOTTSBORO
CAMPAIGN in CHI.
United Front Defense
Conf. May "a

CHICAGO, Ill, May ia number
of organizations, white and Negro,
have already elected delegates to the
United Front Scottsboro Defense con-
ference which will be held May "a
at Forum Hall, 322 E. 43rd st.
At mass meeting at the Pilgrim
Baptist Church attended by over 500
people, Rev. j. c. Austin made a
powerful appeal for the united front
defense campaign. He was followed
by William Browder, local secretary
of the LID. A substantial collection
was taken up for the defense and
the conference endorsed by the con-
gregation. Similar actio nwas taken
by the New Mt. Zion Baptist Church,
with 600 members, and the Friend
ship Baptist Church, with IS mem
bers.
Over 800 delegates and visitors at
the Shareholders Conference of the
Wins, Lithuanian Daily, after hear
ing Ed. Williams. local secretary of
the League of Struggle for Negro
Rights, endorsed the defense cam
paign and gave a collection Of 5000
for the defense A telegram of pro-
test was sent to Governor B. M. Mil
Ter Of Alabama, at Montgomery, Ala.
The Amnesty Campaign Conference
called by the LID last Sunday, and
attended by ITS delegates from 40
organizations, also endorsed the
United Front Scottsboro Conference,
electing 7 delegates, besides calling
on all organizations represented to
send delegates themselvs.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-15
700 In Victoria
Canada, May First
Workers Pledge to
Fight Capitalism
CBy a Worker Correspondent

VICTORIA, B. C-May Day III
Victoria was celebrated by meeting
of 700 workers, marvellous turnout
for this conservative burg.
After a number of interesting
speeches, lasting for two hours, the
meeting ended with the singing of
the Red Flag"
Resolutions we're adopted sending
greetings to the Soviet workers, con-
demning the slave labor" and
dumping" lies, condemning the gov
ernment's refusal to have a con-
tributory state unemployment i'll
surance fund and condemning the
fake relief measures adopted by both
the government and the Victoria
city council.
The workers resolved to fight cap
italism to the bitter end and ex-
pressed a determination to establish
world Communism
We have militant feeling at last
and mean to keep it up to fever heat.
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CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE

tween Seventh and Fifth AYES. The
parade itself will start at o'clock
from 128th st. and Lenox Ave-, near
the headquarters of Section of the
New York District of the Communist
Party, which is supporting the dem
onstration. From 128th ST. the work.
ers will march up Lenox Ave. to 145th
ST., through 145th st. to Seventh
Ave, down Seventh Ave. to 116th
ST., through 116th st. to Fifth Ave,
and down Fifth Ave. to 10th ST.,
where a demonstration will be held
with nationally known speakers, in
Guiding Mrs. Ada Wright, the mother
of two f the Scottsboro boys.
United Front Conference Sunday.
Saturdays parade and demonstra-
ton is a continuation of the nation
wide fight to save the nine youths
and Of the huge demonstration of
100000 white and Negro revolution
airy workers in New York on May Day
against the Scottsboro legal lynch
ing, against starvation, for unemploy-
ment relief and insurance. 1t is also
a prelude to the City United Front
Scottsboro Defense Conference which
will be held on Sunday, May II, at
the Finnish Workers Hall, IS w.
127th St, beginning at Ii o'clock.
Delegates will be present at this con-
ference from scores of Negro and
white organizations which have been
visited by I. L. D. and l.. S. N. r.
speakers during the past weeks. Mrs.
Ada Wright, mother of two of the
boys, has spoken at several of the
membership meetings of these organ
izations and won them completely
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-15

Just think of it, workers over the
required age, standing in line, with
their hair and eyebrows all covered
with dye, men whose hair was gray,
now stand in line with dark hair,
trying to fool the employment agents.
There is no history giving such rec
ords where humans had to resort to
such tactics in order to live. Yes,
right here in capitalist America, land
of money and honey, with the Fish
committee, shylocks and sky-pilots
trying to bolster up decayed sys-
TEN. WIN. L.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-15

What became of all the money that
was given over for the sick. They
are not using it for this hell-hole
And they talk about starving" in
Russia,
Our unemployed council has
doubled in the last two weeks, lots
of them are on the road, but we have
1000. At each street meeting we
have very good workers speaking
We've got a good hall. There are
some of our comrades in jail Lots
of the boys thought they would cele-
brate and marched into jail.
"A Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-15

production OF this factory in the final
year of the plan was to have been %
million rubles, During the last six
months, however the factory produ-
ced goods to the value of 80 million
rublesl
The productive costs we're to have
been reduced by los million rubles in
the plan period, but already the work
ers have reduced productive costs by
l1,540,000, despite the fact that wages
have been steadily rising.
In Kiev the cake and biscuit fac
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-15

tory, Karl Marx has also carried
out its Swear Plan in 2 years and 6
months
1t was to have produced to the vsl-
ue of 10 million rubles in the final
year of the plan, but in 1880 1t pro-
duced to the value of 16,479,0OO rubles.
In 1881 its production will be three
times greater than . the production
originally fixed for the last year Of
the plan.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-15
Unemployed Workers
Brutally Attacked In
Palo Alto, Cal.
Palo Alto. Calf

ThiU flbUy SHUl.
Palo Alto Police Chief link and
his aides swooped down upon the
unemployed colony here and brutally
ousted some SO or more men.
These men have no homes and
building shacks from dump material
lived here along San Mateo- Santa
Clara County line dumps.
Palo Alto is home town OF our
rich President Hoover. Here his
beautiful mansion and spacious gar
dens are located nestled in the side
or hill.
Agricultural workers around this
town are suffering this year more
than ever. Field work Is scarce and
The pay Is cut SO cents per day.
--~---~->- Unemployed Worker
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-15
Chicago, Ill.

Chicago, Ill.
Daily Worker:
l don't know when, but to the cock
eyed mother, the /. w. w. a new
child was born. She gave it a swell
name. Union of the Unemployed. Ac-
cording to her former policies, she
started to collect money in the name
of her newborn.
!. w. w. Sell Fake Buttons.
In Chicago, on May First, a bunch
of /, w. w. came around the place of
demonstration and started selling but
tons to the unemployed. 1 asked the
salesman where he got the things.
He said that he got them from the
office and that every member was
supposed to sell so Of them. This
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-15
.LongshoremenWork
For Is Cents Per Hr.
Conditions Worse on
Florida Seaboard
Tampa, Florida

tampa, FLORIDA
Daily WORKER
We have been here in Tampa, the
peak of low wages here in the South.
Workers unloading bananas are paid
Is cents an hour, with several bullies
hollering at them to hurry, day and
night the same way.
: The motor ship, Louis Garcia re-
ported at a. m, tuesday morning.
The workers were called and they
came to the docks. However. the ship
did not pier until p. m. in the even
ing. The workers waited II hours
for this ship without pay.
$3.50 FOR rs Hours.
These workers were promised 95
cents All hour II they worked fast,
and The bullies certainly spoeded the
half-starvcd workers. After working
and going without any rest for meals
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-15
FIGHTING STARTS
IN EGYPT VOTING
Police Machinegunners
Kill 30 Workers
Gable BY Inprecorr)

LONDON, May f4.-Reports Of
heavy fighting reach here from Cairo,
Egypt Egyptian elections have opens
eel Police used machine guns against
demonstration in front Of rail-
way workshop. Thirty were killed
and many wounded. Three English
pol9e we're killed. Striking students
at The Bulak technical school we're
Joined by arsenal and railway work
ers Strikes and demonstrations are
reported throughout The interior Of
Egypt. ---------------
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-15

ELWOOD, Indiana. - No doubt the
readers of our local papers will recall
the incident of the owner of the Sell
lars Kitchen Cabinet plant OF this
place being called to Washington City
last winter as one OF MIR. Hoover's
special committee to suggest ways
and means to bring prosperity back.
This plan was put into execution just
recently by discharging one third Of
the employees and giving others 10
per cent cut in wages, then speeding
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-15


vile, small mining town Just out
side of Wilkes Barre in the Anthra-
cite section Of Pennsylvania, on sat
urday night, May 9. Two hundred
and fifty workers attended an
open-sir meeting at which Joe
Weber. organizer for the National
Miners Union, and Jack Rose. secre-
tary of Philadelphia, were speaking
This meeting was broken up and the
two organizers were arrested and la
ter driven out of town.
II is only through the mass pro
tests OF the working class OF Penn
sylvania that this bigh.handed
method Of attempting to curb free
speech and assemblage for the work
ing class can be done away with.
Anthracite Conference.
on May 10 a conference was called
in the Wilkes Barre of 81 workers
organizations in the Anthracite to
protest against and demand the re-
| peal "a tilG rlylu SSuIGlOll Law
The conference was we'll attended.
A resolution was passed against the
Flynn Sedition Law and sent to
Pinchot Many amnesty petitions
were taken out by organizations for
the purpose Of collecting signatures
against the Flynn Sedition Law and
to be taken by the delegation 10
Harrisburg this June
All workers in Philadelphia or
vicinity arc expected to attend the
meeting at the Gsrrick Hall Oh
Thursday and voice a mighty protest
against police terror and the tyran-
ncsl Flynn Sediuon Law
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-15
Hoover Committee Member Cuts Wages and
Fires Workers
IBN q Worker CORRESPONDENCE

up the work SO that the remaining
two thirds, produce the same output
as the former force did.
The American Sheet and Tin-plate
Company went on a schedule of three
days per week, which does not look
very encouraging TO the workers since
they received 10 percent cut in
wages about a year ago. Forty-two
Of the employees we've discharged the
first Of the month on account OF be-
ing past the age limit.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-15
Gable BY InprecOrr.)

PARIS, May l4-The French Ma
tional Assembly, representing joint
plensry session of the chamber and
senate, opened yesterday. The Com
munist parliamentary fraction DEM
onstrated against suppression in the
French colony of Indo-Chins, be-
cause the president of the senate,
Doumer, now candidate for presi-
dent of France, was governor OF
Indo- China
Shouts of Long Live Indo-C China,
"Long Live the Revolutionary Masses
of Indo-China," Down With Imper-
ialism," rang through the legislative
halls. Great tumult ensued.
Comrade Duclos read the Commu-
mist declaration A fight occurred
between the socialist and Communist
deputies. During the naming of the
leading imperialist candidates the
Communist deputies booed Comrade
Martyrs name was cheered together
with the revolutionary Black sea
sailors. The Communists voted for
Cachin as president Of France.
BERLIN, May lf--Berlin police
under the emergency law, dissolved
two revolutionary mass meetings., be-
cause speakers denounced the shame
full anti-civil measures Of the Bruc-
ming government.
Collisions occurred yesterday eve
ming before the town hall of Hager
between fsscists and Reichsbsnnef
Republican army whereby two
Reichsbanner were seriously stabbed,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-15
MORE FACTORIES IN SOVIET UNION
FINISH F1VE-YEAR PLAN IN Is
YEARS; REDUCE COSTS OF OUTPUT
Clothing Factory and Bakery Among Those
Which Exceed Plan; Plan Bigger
Production in 1881

MOSCOW-MOre and more factories joining the ranks
of those which have carried out their FveYear Plan two
years and six months
Amongst the latest factories the clothing works Vo-
lodarsky in Lenngrad which employs 5000 workers The
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-15
Duluth and Superior :.
Bakers Strike Over.
Wage-Cut, Picketing

DULUTH, MINI, May 14-In ad-
dition to the strike of 600 longshore-
men still going on here, there are
two more strikes. The bakers Of
Duluth and Superior Wise, have
gone out against a wage cut. They
are picketing the shops where scabs
have been brought inf rom st. Paul
and Minneapolis.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-15

Only the organized power 81 shs
working class can says tia poNAeel
prisonersl -'-'----A-----~
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-15
Drive On Penna.
SeditiOn Laws
Phila. Mass Meeting
Thursday, May IA

PHILADELPHIA, PA m S S
meeting to demand the repeal of the
Flynn Sedition Law of Pennsylvania
and to protest against the vicious
sentence handed out to Bill Law
renee of the Communist Party and
the conviction of Tess Ryder and
Anna Lynn of the Young Communist
League will be held at the Garrick
Hall, at 507 S. Eighth ST., on Thurs
day, May ID, at p. m.
The meeting is called under the
auspices OF the l. L. D., Communist
Party and the Young Communist
League Of Philadelphia. Speakers
will be Tess Ryder, Bill Lawrance
Jack Rose and a member of the Ma
tional Committee of the l, l.. D.
Under the Sedition Act of Penn
sylvania, workers are Jailed almost
every week in an intensive drive by
the police in an attempt to stop the
distribution of any kind Of working
class literature. Within the last two
months ten workers have been ar
rested under this law, eight in Phila-
delphia and two in Bethlehem, ano
it was only through the determined
fight of the /. L. D. that these work
ers were released.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-15
BELLINGHAM A. F. L.
ASK WORKERS TO
ACCEPT WAGE CUTS
Pretended to Call Protest Meeting Against
Lumber 10 Per Cent Cuts: Threaten
New Cuts Instead
Refuse to Allow Workers to Have Floor; Put
Up Senators and Mill Owners
Bellingham, Wash.
Daily Worker:

Daily worker:
Through the local capitalist press, meeting called
by the Central Labor Council to discuss the question as
whether not would be to the best interest Bngham
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-15
Break Up Meetings.

In the Anthracite section of Penn
sylvania, every attempt to hold a
meeting is broken up either whether
it be outside or indoor Permits are
refused and chiefs of police in diff
ferent towns brazenly tell the work
ers that there will be no meetings
Of any kind The breaking up of
these meetings always is accompanied
by the arrest of the speakers. and, if
The least show OF resistance is. made
the workers are dubbed and beaten
as well as jailed.
The latest OF these hlsh-handed
methods Of the police in breaking up
meetings was carried out In Swoyers-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-15
Score Green's Fake Attack On Wage
Cuts! Show A. I. of |. Role in Drive

CONTINUED FROM PAGE oNE)
Imperial Valley press., 1931-06-25
LOCAL INVENTOR
MADE DEFENDANT
In STOCK SUIT

Frank A. Van Bezel and his re-
Gently incorporated Dual Aircraft
Motors, Inc, Ltd, company, togeth-
er with A other defendants, were
named yesterday in a suit brought
by sc stockholders in the company
headed by w. H. Cornelison.
Difficulty rising over the dis
tribution of stock after the corpor
alton was formed caused the suit,
in which the plaintiffs asked that
the court declare Van Bezel en-
titled to no more stock for his in
vestment than are others who hold
an interest in the corporation.
The complaint also asked that
Van Bezel be ordered to make an
accounting of all money received
by him since organization of the
corporation.
Before the corporation was formed
a number of Imperial Valley peo-
pie subscribed to units" of interest
in Van Bezel's airplane motor in
vention. Later, when Van BeZel
needed more to carry on work in
connection with the motor, some
of the subscribers loaned him their
units to resell. said the complaint.
After organization of the corpor-
alton stock was apportioned among
the subscribers according to the
complaint, was given more stock
than others.