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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-29
Workers Mass Jury to Try
Hillquit on Intervention Charge
Tomorrow at Central Opera
Socialist" Party Challenged to Send Thomas
or Waldman to Defend Czarist Activities
of Millionaire Socialist" Leader

NEW YORK.-The three thousand
workers that are expected to jam
the Central Opera House to the
doors tomorrow evening will be the
jury to render a verdict in the case
of Morris Hillquit, oil investor, rich
corporation lawyer and leader of the
American Socialist party and of
the Second International.
Hillquite has been placed on trial
before a revolutionary mass tribunal
by the Communist Party of the
United States on a charge of plot
ting and organizing military inter-
vention against the Union of Social
ist Soviet Republics.
The basis for the charge against
the intervention socialist" is Hill
quits suit on behalf of a group Of
Czarist oil barons to establish their
illegal title" to the oil industry Of
the Soviet Union. The establishment
of this legal title" would then serve
as a illegal" and moral" basis for
a military Intervention against the
Soviet Union for the purpose of re-
storing teh capitalists and landown-
ers to their former power under the
Gar.
Comrade Max Bedacht, represent
ing the Central Committee of the
Communist Party, will be in charge
Of the prosecution. The American
Socialist" party has been challenged
in an open letter by the Communist
Party to send Norman Thomas or
Louis Waldman to defend the in
tervention activities Of Morris Hill
quit. It is almost certain that the
social-fascist leaders will not have
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-29
ALLENTOWN Mill
STRIKERS GREET
PATERSON REPS
Croll and Pace Urge
Strikers to Take the
Strike in Own Hands
Special to the Daily Worker

Especial to the Daily Worker
ALLENTOWN, Pa, July 25.-Upon
the demands of the strikers, at the
only open strikers meeting Sunday,
June Crol1 and Robert Pace, repre-
sentatives of the United Front Com
nittee of silk workers of Paterson,
were given the floor to speak. The
attempt of Case, secretary of the
shop chairmen committee of the u.
T. w, to deny the floor was booed
down.
The call for unity with Paterson
and militant mass picketing was
warmly greeted. The Paterson rep
resentatives exposed the role of the
United Textile Workers and the As
ISOLATED Silk Workers officials in
Paterson, as well as the role of
Moser of the Allentown A. F. Of L.
organization attempting individual
settlement with the Canova mill be-
hind the backs of the workers.
Call For Mass Picketing.
Croll and Pace called on the
strikers not to depend upon the 80
shop chairmen who have become the
mouthpiece of Mcdonald of the u.
T. w. but to turn the committee
into a mass committee by electing
three additional shop representatives
from each shop. They were enthus-
iastically applauded.
Kelly, vice president of the U. T.
W., was Missed and booed for at
lacking unity with the Paterson
strikers.
The Rank and File Committee Of
Strikers issued leaflet calling upon
strikers to guard against the sell-out
being carried out by officials through
the shop chairmens committee by
increasing the representatives to
three, to vote against second con-
ference with Pinchot and to conduct
mass picketing to stop scabs.
The strikers seem determined to
take things in their own hands and
to continue the strike in unity with
Paterson.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-29

WAGE CUT LIARS EXPOSED -
Here are two clippings from cap
italist newspapers that tell story
every worker should pay attention
to. Wage cuts are coming down
now fast. The capitalist press said
the Hoover government and Green
of the A. F. of L., who were work
ing together, were against wage
cuts. They said Farrell of the U.
S. Steel was against wage cuts;
Green said the same thing. Look
here. Here is the story on Moy %,
telling about Farrell of the U. st.
Steel being against wage cuts.
Next to it Is story that ap-
peared on July 25th showing up
the lie! The Daily Worker warned
the workers about this at the time.
Now II is coming! Now is the time
for action. Organize and strike
against wage cuts. All out on Au-
gust list in the anti-war demon
strations-join the protest against
the bosses war preparations ard
their moves for wage cuts.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-29
TO COLLECT FOOD
RELIEF IN BRONX
To Cover Groceries
and Workers Homes

A mass collection of food will take
place tomorrow In the Bronx under
the direction of the Pennsylvania
Ohio Striking Miners Relief Com
mittee, Room 800, 7ss Broadway.
A large truck will leave 270o Bronx
Park East at 10 am. and will tour
grocery stores and workers homes
in the district. Every worker is
urged to donate as much food as he
can to the striking miners.
Thousands Of these miners are
starving. Their wives and children
are pleading for bread and milk.
The thousands Of evcted miners need
tents almost as badly as they need
food. The mine region Is filled with
miners and their families sleeping
and living in the open.
II 1t could be realized how badly
these miners and their families need
food, relief would pour in to the
Relief Committees offices much
faster than 1t is coming In now. The
10000 miners who are fighting bit
ter fight against the coal barons and
their allies the government and the
police. are IN desperate need OF re-
heS asynsyM
~; 49, sNtl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-29
Hoover Govt For Pay
Cut in Steel, Railways
To Take $39,OOO,OOO From
Wages to Give to
Parasites
AFL PLANS RAIL PAY CUT
Workers Must Organize
Now for Strike!

NEW YORK.-Wage
cuts are flooding the
country, SIN a shi n e
down the standards of
living of the American
workers, the Department Of
Labor admits to the organ of
the big bankers, the Journal
of Commerce. Just at the mo-
nent when wage cuts crop up
for 100000 steel workers. for 200, 600
workers on the railroads, for millions
in other industries. Hoover comes
out with q declaration that the gov
eminent will help the bosses and
the American Federation Of Labor
to put over the wage cuts
A special dispatch from Washing
ton in the Journal of Commerce on
Tuesday confirms what the Daily
Worker published few days ago,
namely that Hoover fully approved
the Lamont letter stating the gov
eminent would further wage cuts to
keep up the profits of the bosses. The
Journal of Commerce says: Writ
ing apparently with the knowledge
and approval of the President, Sec
rotary Lamont's statement is con-
sidered as virtual abandonment by
the administration of further efforts
to maintain wages" The same paper
says this comes at time when
there have been numerous cuts in
many industries, officials of the La
Dor department admitting that the
pay cut movement is spreading rap
idly"
The new food of wage cutting fac
ing the entire working class comes
on the eveof the August 1st demon
Stratlon against war, against star
walton, wage cuts and unemploy-
ment which the bosses force on the
workers. The cutting of wages and
the war preparations go hand in
hand The bosses prepare for war
for new markets, new colonies,
greater profits at the expense of the
workers They cut wages for the
same purpose-t9 keep up their pro-
fits at the expense of the workers
The United States Steel Company
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Lies of CountyOf officials
and NAACP Leaders
Exposed

ask for a postponement. The at
torneys for the I. L. D. opposed the
postponement, but were overruled by
Judge j. Percy Oliver.
Defendants Declare Purpose In Court
The defendants, who have heroical-
ly withstood the tortures of the third
degree in refusing to name other
members and leaders of the Share
Choppers Union, declared in court
that the organization of the union
had been begun to secure better con-
ditions, to fight against the stoppage
of food allowances by the landown-
ers between July / and August 10,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-29
EXPOSE ALL
TAKERS IN
SILK STRIKE
More Workers Follow
United Front
Committee
Show Up AFL Call
Cops Beat Up Striker
Workers Resist

NEW YORK.-Police attacked the
picket line of hundreds of pickets of
the National Textile Workers Union,
which is leading the strike of silk
workers in Paterson, N. j., at the
Phoenix Mill on Van Houten St.,
yesterday. The workers resisted the
police, one cop getting black eye.
Three pickets were arrested for as
sault, according to capitalist news
agency. The same agency tells of
Jack Werner, 38, Paterson worker,
who was arrested and severely
beaten by the cops in the police sta
ton.
The New York Evening Post re-
port from Paterson says that the
u. T. w. and A. S. w. officials could
not estimate the number coming out
on the strike" call of those organ
izations Tuesday morning The same
capitalist source says that "a num-
Der of strikers who walk out today
will follow the leadership Of the
United Front Committee. The Post
report also says:
about 500 OF the workers at the.
meeting walked out before it adj
journed, and a number arose and
demanded why their leaders had
called a strike in the newspapers
and then convened them to ratify the
action"
PATERSON, N. IA delegation of
rs, elected by the executive commit
tee of the general strike committee,
went to the membership meeting of
the Associated and United Textile
Workers, which are now affiliated
with the A. F. of L., to propose
united fight of the silk and dye
workers of Paterson under one strike
leadership. The meeting was held at
the Carpenters Hall, with no more
than about 200 members present, this
including large number of cock
roach bosses. The entrance to the
hall was barred by guards and in
the hall were detectives to take care
of disturbances"
A large crowd of strikers, who had
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-29
Ala. Bosses, Lacking Evidence
Postpone Hearing of CHOPPERS

and for the right of the choppers to
sell their cotton where they saw fit.
The union has over eight hundred
members. While there are few
white troopers in the district where
it operates, number of white CROP
pers are in the union.
Investigation by representatives of
the I. L. D. has revealed the fact
that the body of Puddy Davis was
sunk in an artificial lake Of the
Alabama power company on July
II, the night following the murder
Gus attack by landowners and police
on meeting Of the Share Choppers
Union. Davis was one of the five
troopers whose disappearance Chief
of Wilson had cynically explained"
in the language of the fascist thugs
that "they had gone to cut stove
wood. The I. L. d. and the Share
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-29
Bring All Relief to
Penn-OhiO Miners
Relief Stations

AS a consequence of the closing
of certain Penn.-Ohio Striking Min
ers Relief Committee depots and the
opening Of many new ones, the Re-
lief Committee has issued the fol-
lowing official list of all Penn Ohio
Relief stations in New York:
Manhattan: II Clinton ST., BAT E..
71nd. $50 z. a1E AT E. 136th ST.,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-29
Brooklyn Italian Club
in Anti-War Rally

BROOKLYN, N. Y. - Wednesday,
July 90, at 8 p. m. the Italian Pro-
letarian Workers Club Of Williams
burgh, will hold an Anti-Bosses War
Rally in the Italian section of Brook
lyn at Central Avenue and Starr st.
Over 500 leaflets have already been
distributed for this rally.
Among the speakers there will be
Comrade Domenick Flaiani, section
6 organizer of the Communist Party
and candidate for the 18th assembly
district.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-29

the courage to appear before work.
ers' jury to defend the intervention
acts of one of their colleagues, and
in this case the defense will be en-
trusted to one of the workers in the
audience.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-29

women and children from the picket
line. They retired to union property
10 feet away and led in singing.
Snyder, the alleged accomplice of
Patrick Murphy of Little River, Tex,
who was shot and killed by Pat Fa-
gan, says he has a brother who is
president of the UMWA local at
Bridgeport, Ohio, and says Turnblazer
will vouch for him Pagan nov adj
nits giving Snyder money week
before. 1t now looks like a fight
among the UMwA gang over money
or booze.
The jury in the case of Mike Ear
karaskas disagreed at st. Clairsville
yesterday and the prosecutor post
poned other cases of arrests on the
Provident picket line.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-29
NEW RELIEF DEPOT.

The central depot Of the Penn Ohio
Striking Miners Relief Committee
for New York City has been changed
to 20 st. Marks Place.
A new depot has been added 10
those already IN operation. IT is
located at 10 w. i29th st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-29
10 w. 11sth st., IS w. 12sth st.

10 W. 18th 81, Is W. 126th st.
Bronx: 1910 Boston Road, $50
Prospect Ave-, 2700 Bronx Park East.
Brooklyn: 1914 Pitkin Ave.. 140
Neptune Ave, 1865 st. Marks Ave,
118 Bristol ST., 40 Bay 18th St., 248o
65th St., 81 Graham Ave-. 70 Myrtle
Ave-, 1878 43rd St, 764 40th ST., 2oo6
10th st.
Newark: 80 Ferry st.
Passaic: 80 Monroe st.
Paterson: 205 Paterson st.. New
Brunswick, II Plum ST.: Yonkers,
$50 Warblu'ton Ave.
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Miners in Central Penna.
Back United Front Program
Draw Up Demands at Conference In Prepare
ton for Strike Action

PITTSBURGH, Pa, July 28--Four hundred and fifty
striking miners picketed the Harmarve Mine this morning
and pulled out another hundred miners The few miners that
left promised to quit tomorrow Chief deputy Coffee
of Allegheny County IA deputies and II state police drove
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Workers Correspondence is the
backbone Of the revolutionary press.
Build your press by writing for h
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Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1931-07-30
Culling
Demonstration

Poultrymen of King County who
were unable to attend one of the six
demonstrations held in the county
during the past week by c. A. Svinth
assistant county extension agent, will
have a second opportunity to attend
one of the two demonstrations to be
held August Bird and 4th. A demon
stration has been scheduled for the
Kirkland community for ten a. m
Monday, August 3rd at the farm OF
Christian Jacobsen, IL mile south Of
Kirkland on the Washington Blvd. In
addition to a culling demonstration
there will be held caponizing demon
stration for those who are interested
in raising capons. On Tuesday,
August 4th at 2 p. M, culling
demonstration will be held at the farm
of j. A. Hessle, located one mile east
of Vashon.
Signs will be placed along the road
to direct poultrymen to these demon
STATIONS.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1931-07-30
New Electric Cable
Is Now In Service

Monday night the work on the in
stallation of the new electric cable
recently laid by the Puget Sound Light
81 Power Company was completed, and
the two cables are now furnishing
power to Island consumers.
Last week the local crew completed
the construction of a new cable rack
with which current can be switched
from one cable to the other without
any delay in service. They also COM
pleted q regulator rack, which in
sures constant voltage and the current
in practically all parts of the Island is
now kept at twenty-four hour uni
formity. There will be now no oc-
casion for variation of the load car
ried by the power lines, regardless of
the demand made.
Previously, when the entire current
used by the Island came on one cable
it was unavoidable that there was
variation in the current, particularly
when the gravel bunkers were in oper-
alton and using heavy voltage. With
the use of the new cable the supply
is divided, the current for the heavy
demand coming over one cable while
the other cable supplies electricity for
domestic use.
1t would be very unusual accident
that could put both cables out of COM
mission, and in case one required re-
pairs either is capable of carrying suf-
ficient load for the local demand.
Those Of us who have lived for a
number of years on the Island, recall
the instances when the Island was
without power and lights for days at
time. 1t is hard now to realize that
December Of 1922 when the one cable
was broken by the anchor of drift
ing boat, and we were without power,
lights, many without water, during an
unusually cold spell. Housewives still
recall the time that if the night
promised to be windy they would fill
all available utensils with water for
fear the power would go off during
the night. With the excellent service
we now enjoy those conditions seem
very unreal
In laying these two cables the
Puget Sound Power g. Light Company
has made good on promise made not
so long ago, and their fine service, in
addition to consistent reduction in
rates is resulting in a constant in
crease in the use of electricity locally.
More and more it is being considered
not only the cleanest fuel by far, but
decidedly economical.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1931-07-30
Preschool Association
To Be Organized

All mothers interested in forming a
preschool association on the Island are
invited to attend a meeting at Center
school, Thursday, August 6, at 200 p.
m. Those who have no means of
transportation are requested to call
Marjorie Stanley, Red 1141.
Arrangements have also been made
to care for children during the meet
ing.
The preschool associations are prov
ing popular all over the country and
mothers are deriving a great deal of
benefit, both as regards physical de-
velopment and character training of
children.
Many mothers have expressed a de-
sire for such an organization on the
Island and would like to organize at
this time while Mrs. Hagist can assist
them.
At this meeting Mrs. Hagist will also
give second demonstration on max
ing toys from scrap materials. Please
bring materials listed in last weeks
News-Record.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1931-07-30
KING COUNTY p. t. A. PICNIC.

The annual picnic of King County
Council of Parents and Teachers will
take place Wednesday, August 5, at
Woodland Park, beginning at 1000
o'clock.
Mrs. Roy A. Raymond, Jake City is
general chairman. Games will be in
charge of Mrs. Don Pence of Lake
City. Mrs. G. A. Schumacher, Maple
Leaf, is in charge of refreshments
Mrs. H. M. Stith, Angle Lake, decor
atoms, and Mrs. w. o. Peterson, New
Castle, table reservations.
The King County Council will fur
nish the coffee, sugar, and cream, and
every one attending the picnic will
bring basket lunch.
AS in the past the King County
banner will be awarded the school
having the largest attendance.
Mrs. II. E. Munday, Pub. Sec.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1931-07-30

wind up wanting to eat each other up.
They are mighty likable Boys. That
Post is just full of determination. |
would hate to tell him he couldent do
anything.
Never will there be such combina
ton again, of ideal Flyer. Navigator
and Backer. This fellow Haa Is un
Usual. Now those Wives. you Women
would sur like them. They are like
i''eir Husbands. the most modest.
quiet retiring, and both very pretty.
You know that takes lot OF nerve to
let Husband make u ut trip. They
arc mighty brave little Women. On
leaving Claremore. their husbands
took off for New York. They were In
another plane leaving for the west. ]
went to the Plane to bid the wlvep
goodbye: each had their handkerchlefs
To their eyes. They dIdent want TO let
me see EN- crying. they were rather
ashamed. But darn 1t 1t just give you
an idea what they have gone through
Women played Il part In that flight.
greater than they have got credit for.
70 1881. MeNaurh, Syndicate, Incl
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1931-07-30
MRS. n1LMER sTEEN.

Selma, wife of Hilmer Steen, died
Friday, July II, at the age of 70.
Selma Delhi was born in Norway in
1858 and grew to young womanhood
there, coming to America forty-eight
years ago at the age of twenty-five.
She was married to Hilmar Steen after
coming to this country.
In 1891 Mr.. and Mrs. Steen came
to Vashon Island and have made their
home here ever since. They acquired
large tract of land north of Vashon,
and on it Mr.. Steen built lumber
mill. They also built the home that
at one time was the finest on the Is
land. Mrs. Steen was a typically fine
mother and housewife, and their home
was the scene of happy family
gatherings of the large Steen relation
ship. A number of years ago Mrs.
Steen suffered broken hip, from
which she never recovered, and she
was never again able to leave her bed.
During her illness her husband and
daughters did all that was possible for
her comfort.
With the logging off of Island land
it was necessary for the Steen mill to
be moved nearer the water, and few
years ago 1t was taken to Ellisport. A
short time later Mr.. and Mrs. Steen
took up their residence not far from
the mill, and left the vashon home
they had occupied for so many years.
Funeral services, conducted by the
Rev. H. A. Stub, of Seattle, were held
Tuesday afternoon, July 81 from the
Presbyterian church in Vashon.
A large number of longtime friends
were present to pay last tribute to
woman whom they had known and
respected for many years. The pail
bearers were six nephews of Mr. Steen,
all Island young men. Interment was
in the Lutheran cemetery in Seattle.
In addition to a wide circle Of
friends there survive to mourn the
loss OF splendid Christian wife and
mother her husband, Hilmar Steen.
two daughters Mrs. Judith Bassi and
Mrs. Effic Carlson, both of Seattle,
five grandchildren, brother in
Alaska and n sister In Norway.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1931-07-30
Kids Karnival Is
Saturday, Aug. |

This week posters appeared in the
windows about the Island announcing
that here would be Kids Karnival in
the back yard of the G. j. Robinson
home Saturday evening, August i from
7 to 10 for the benefit of the Ortho-
pedic Hospital. Everyone, grown-ups
and children, are invited to come and
'see the Road-Hawgs and eat the
sizzling hot-dawgs!" being forwarned
that you'll struggle TO get in. you'll
pay to get out"
Vashon's business men of the flu
ture, Bopbie Beall, Billie Robinson and
Donald Urquhart are sponsoring the
Karnival Another case of how healthy,
active children are aware of the need
of other children less fortunate than
they, and are planning to do their bit
to relieve suffering.
This is the second benefit of this
nature the boys have given, although
last years did not receive the pub
licity it was entitled to, through undue
modesty on the part of the sponsors
There will be eats, drinks, sights,
sounds and fun galore, and needless to
say that many grown people will hunt
around diligently to find youngster
as an excuse for attending this affair
on Saturday.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1931-07-30
WE APOLOGIZE.

The editor Of this humble sheet (not
the humble editor) wishes to apologize
abjectly to the divers and sundry bust
ness men of vashon who so nobly
turned out to clean the streets of the
village recently. We apparently gave
H. G. Cronander, better known as
Gro undue publicity. The only way
we can account for our fatal error in
overlooking the others was that Gro"
was riding on a red wagon, and doing
o lot of roaring about not being able
to find the shut-off for the hydrant in
front of the News-Record office. This
is another instance of "it pays to ad-
vertise."