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WARN HOOVER that 10000 Miners
Will DEFEAT ATTEMPT TO BREAK
STRIKE AND RE-ESTABLISH i. M. ". A.
new COAL PLAN Is
AIMED AT MINERS
Will Increase Hunger
of Miners
BY BILL DUNE

BRIDGEPORT, o.. July g. - New
evidence of the pressure of the strike
and mass unemployment demonstra-
tons upon business interests is seen
here in the publication this morn
ing of a plan for the coal industry
timed to coincide with the Washing
ton Conference.
According to sponsors who are re-
personalities of the chambers of
commerce Of Wheeling and Steuben-
vile, the plan is intended to stab
ilize the bituminous coal industry by
the formation of a new competitive
field and the establishment of non
political tribunal having semi dicta-
torial powers" The scheme is de-
signed to include Eastern Ohio
Western Pennsylvania and large
part of West Virginia in the pro-
posed new competitive field for re-
gulation of the mine fields which
produce for the great Lakes Market
It is proposed to compose the &c
tatorship of the three university pre-
sidents of the states involved, to or
ganize the coal operators into one
association under the direct control
CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE)
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300 NOW OUT in
WEYBOSSETT Mill

PROVIDENCE, R. T., July 9.-Nine
hundred strikers are now out at the
Weybosset mill, which is now COM
pletely struck. Great mass picketing
has taken place. James Conroy, m-
ion leader, was arrested this morn
ing. His arrest was followed by mass
picketing at the police station. The
Strikers Committee are now in May
nard at the mass meeting of the
American Wooden workers to vote on
the strike.
Workers of the National Provid-
ence Mill will hold meeting to-
morrow to vote on the strike.
700 workers struck at the Wey-
bosset Mill of the American Wooden
Co. here July under the leadership
Of the National Textile Workers IN
ion. The strike was against 1872
per cent wage cut.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-10
Anti-Imperialists Rally Turnout World
toFight and Free the 9 Scottsboro Boys

NEW YORK.-As part of the rap
idly growing international movement
against the Scottsboro boss court
lynch verdict against the nine Ala
barna Negro boys and the general
oppression of the Negro People of
which the lynch terror is part, the
International Youth Secretariat of
the League. Against Imperialism and
for National Independence has issued
a statement from its Berlin office
denouncing the proposed mass murder
of the nine innocent working class
boys.
The International Youth Secre-
tariat has been carrying on an ex-
tensive agitation in defense of the
Scottsboro boys and of the rights of
the Negro People and has rallied
considerable support for the struggle
to save the boys and against Negro
oppression. The statement issued by
the Secretariat declares:
'The International Youth Sec
retariat Of the League Against I'M
perialism and for National indie
pendence protests against the SEN
tence of the judges of the white
ruling class of the United States :,
which eight innocent young Negroes
in Scottsboro, Alabama, we're sem
fenced to die in the electric chair,
and one 14-year old Negro boy Is
facing re-trial on the same framed
~ charges
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-10
Young Communist
National Convention
COnveneS Tonight
Monster Mass Meet at
Central Opera House

NEW YORK. - Marcus Murphy, a
young Negro unemployed metal
worker of Birmingham, Alabama,
who arrived in Kew York yesterday
after more than SO hours Of hard
travelling in order to be at the YCL
convention, in the simple words Of a
young worker told the story of how
he was almost lynched about three
years ago,
F'Because I was out Of a job and
had only 10 Cents in my pocket ]
was forced to walk from Woodlawn,
Alabama, back home to Kingston
about 1880 at night after visiting
my uncle. On the way was halted
by a couple of cops, one of whom
was dead drunk, who began asking
me lot of questions about whether
had at 7:30 that night killed a po-
liceman. I knew nothing about this
killing and told them so. hey tried
to make, me say that had killed
them. They threatened to kill me
unless would say that I had COM
mitted the murder. But I stuck to
my story. They told me that I was
lying. I was searched for weapons
but they only got my 10 Cents. They
then took me off the road behind a
church. 1t was SO dark that it was
hard to see. The drunken cop asked
me if I was working for somebody
that was a bootlegger. They could
not prove that I had killed the cop
SO they tried to frame me up on q
liquor charge. I denied this because
it was not true, and knew that they
were trying to frame me and Their
probably lynch me-"
Tonight's monster mass meeting al
the Central Opera House on 9th st
between End and 3rd AYES, will Of
ficially open the Sixth National Con-
vention of the Young Communist
League of the United States OF
America.
William Weinstone, member of the
Central Committee of the Compmu-
mist Party of the USA and recently
returned from the Soviet Union will
speak.
Tony Minerich, just fresh from the
strike area in the soft coal fields OF
Pennsylvania and Ohio, young Goa
miner, a young Negro worker from
the Southern black belt (the first
time that the Y. C. L. has had a Ne
gro delegate from this important Sec
tor of the class struggle in the United
States will be among the list OF
| speakers.
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WASHINGTON POLICE ATTACK MINERS DELEGATION
No Disguise Is Possible

THE socialist Norman Thomas out in
polite his fellow leader
the Morris Fut and there is furry of talk in the ranks
Fqt Indeed because of this
is disagree with Hilqit
by workers alleging that the
wrongf unlawuy and by force OF arms took held
and ho oil fields of Baku
directed against American oil firms who buy
ING Soviet oil and is based upon the claim that these companies are
ceng stolen goods they
the sale of these goods to their rghfu and legal owners
the capitalists
H claims that his actions do any question
principle the suit is "of political significance
on the ground that only dispute property between
capitalists stating that should not be interpreted against
The Rev Thomas differ He
points decisions compelling American purchasers
timber oil the original private
might easily have the effect of an embargo
goes what obvious to worker; that
Eus perfect with the Hoover plan to lay an
embargo all Soviet goods and get all oh cap nstofS 70 40
embargo the next step to war No. Thomas
touch of arshne resorts to some abstract argu
about Naturalization and strongly hopes that Corade q
return will help us clear up the matter"
But where Ellquit He to the Vienna
Congress- of the called
cy to survey the parties muster
support embargo and armed war that world imperialism Is
preparing Their excuse Tor suh support Is tnat m wal oae
comes from imperialism Does the Rev
counterrevouiony hypoicy He does not
H meets in Vienna with AbramoVch leader of the nterna
socialist" party
the Russian Menshevks organized outside of the Soviet
Union into which is called the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party
platform" adopted 1924 and still unaered in words states
tboh Russian and foreign capital will inevitably
Union.
Fllouit merely helping capitalists carry
That against naturalization with the lame exception of such
industry will
liable to conduct" anything
held that industry should be
that individual freely
nationazed Soviet rueand that
that capitalism be restored again
workers Thomas repudate that
gram? He does not!
Menshev working with such since 1924 found
among workers
capitalism turned alliance with
them conquer position after
industry aid foreign
General Staff in consultation with them.
socialist" party actively led by both Hqut and
sabotagng
the ht the Moscow trials where
Menshevik potters confessed
Neither Hlqit Thomas party
separate themselves from the
the whole criminal
shaping capitalist
disguise revolutionary
workers must make clear all honest workers who attracted by the
the soed Socialist party that that stands for treason
working
all workers the call must be made that defend the Soviet Union
they the socialist" that protest against
perialst August First they the socialist
with imperialism for the Soviet Union
against the the ana
Hqds the socialist" mpeaist
Unionl Demonstrate
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NTWU Exposes Sell
Out Plans OF UTW
In Allentown, Pa.
Workers Delegation to
Go to- Paterson

ALLENTOWN, Pa, July 9.-The
plans of the United Textile Work
ers' Union for a sellout of the AL
lentown textile workers on Wednes-
day have been postponed because OF
the exposure by the National Tex
tile Workers Union. Thirty three
committees of five each went to meet
the bosses at the mills. The bosses
rejected the demands as gesture
only, since they were drawn up by
the officials of the union so as not
to give the workers anything. The
U. T. w. had set the stage for a
big open-air meeting Wednesday
night, at which McMahan would try
to play the hero act for the workers,
at the expense of the workers. Nc
Mahon would get the bosses to "ac-
cept" tke demands through his per
sonal" efforts.
AS part of the U. T. w. scheme
the bosses have issued collective
statement, in which they refuse 10
pay rates higher than those paid
prior to the strike. They further
refuse uniform rates, recognition OF
the shop committees of the U. T. w.,
anr propose to discuss the grievances
of the workers individually with
them. The bosses claim that be-
cause of the crisis they cannot give
Increased rates.
The workers, however, want to
form a united front with the Pat
erson silk and dye house workers
They are determined to send a dele
cation to the mass meeting in Pat
erson Saturday night and to the
conference on Sunday, despite the
sabotage of the U. T. w. officials.
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This sentence is carried out in
the same spirit of barbarous oppres-
sion in which dozens of Negroes are
lynched every year in the United
States.
"The Negro masses live and work
in the United States as an oppres-
sed nation under conditions
amounting to slavery. The white
landlords and capitalists resort to
Iynching and the use of the electric
chair in order to terrorize the Ne
gro masses who are awakening and
beginning to organize under revo-
Iutionary leadership in the strug-
gle against the system Of slavery.
'The League Against Imperialism
and for National Independence
calls upon all -imperialists to
organize into powerful movement
of solidarity with the Negro mas
SEES in the United States and to use
its organized power to save the nine
Negro boys from the fate Of Sac
co and Vanzetti.
"Save the lives and freedom of
the nine young Negro workers in
Alabama!
Long live the unity of the blacb
and white masses in the anti-im-
pe-ialist struggle for freedom"
Fights for National Liberation.
The League Against Imperialism
is a worldwide organization enbrac-
fry0NTTNyYRn nv PAGE T44RER1
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Especial to the Daily Worker)

WASHINGTON, D. c.. July 9. -
The delegation of striking miners
came here this morning and picketed
the White House for one hour, while
committee of five. headed by Frank
Borich entered the White House TO
see Hoover. Hoover refused to see
the delegation claiming press OF
work.
The attendants admitted Borich
and arranged for him to see Hoover's
secretary, but refused to see the
whole committee. Thereupon Borich
refused to go any further unless the
entire committee would be admitted
as a whole, which they finally
agreed to
Borich placed before the secre-
tary a copy of the statement adopt
ed by the Strike Committee of Pitts
burgh and described the starvation
and terror conditions in the mine
fields and exposed the strike-break-
ing activities of the state and fed
eral government and the UMWA and
concluded with the declaration that
the 10000 miners whom the COM
mittee represented will defeat on the
picket line any attempt to re-estab-
fish the treacherous UMWA
The delegation which left Pitts
burgh last night Travelled $50 miles
by truck. They were met at the
outskirts of the city by Washington
police who ordered them to return
Four of the trucks managed to evade
the police and came into town. Two
more were turned back and have not
yet been located The occupants of
these trucks totalled 60 who partici-
pated In the picketing delegation
cheering and shouting as they went
back and forth past the White House.
Local police and White House at
tendants attacked the pickets seiz-
ing their banners and collection box
es but did not attempt to break up
the line altogether which continued
for about forty-five minutes
a mass meeting will be held to-
y gnt an will further expose Hoov-
er's strike breaking tactics. The
members Of the delegation will be
organized into groups who will visit
neighboring cities for the purpose OF
stimulating relief activities and
gathering food A group of the del
egation will go to the West Maryland
coal fields in order to secure their
support in the relief as well as par
ticipating In the July 18th national
conference In Pittsburgh.
Baltimore and Washington work
ers have engaged in extensive activ-
tiles during the past several days as
result of which they have gathered
several truckloads OF food to be sent
back with the returning delegation
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prising more than 100 workers met
Immediately after the shops were
pulled out to work out the demands
and organize for active picketing to
close all shops tight.
Ben Gold Speaks
Ben Gold, secretary of the Needle
Trades Workers Industrial Union
outlined the methods of organization
as that of block and building COM
,,,its.as sast s,0sad eeket and keep
'eN@ = ,''cc--i te:':-,''::c:-y clear of scabs
The demands which we're unanim-
ously adopted by a show of hands
were referred to the Conference Com
mittee for elaboration. The demands
are:
No contracting work, with al in
side shops responsible for providing
work for contract workers; wage in
creases; no piece work; enforcement
of all union conditions including
time and one-half for overtime
equal pay for equal work. no dis
elimination against Negro workers
and their right to work at any OF
the crafts of the industry; wage in
creases for floorboys.
Strikebreaker VOL Again
The strikebreaking letter that
Matthew VOL had written to the
International Fur Workers Union, in
which the fascist A. F. Of L. buro-
crat injects the issue of the Soviet
Union, was read as published in the
N. Y. American.
stain and his agents here in New
York are endeavoring by deception
and force again to gain control OF
the Furriers Union and with this &C
complished the entire industry viii
be ruled from Moscow" VOL wrote
Voting to draw up a statement
condemning Vol and his actions as
that of aid to the bosses in inject
ing extraneous issues, workers from
the floor told of VOLTS role in the
strike of 1927.
"Woll brought us to this point
'It's question of our bread ano
butter demands" were among the
sentiments expressed of the workers
Election of committees then tool
place, including an Organization
Committee and the previously cleo
ted Conference and Settlement Com
mittee composed of members of the
broad strike committee.
The necessity of picketing during
Saturday and Sunday and during
the evenings, to keep a sharp look
out for weak elements or scabs wa!
stressed by several workers from the
floor.
The meeting adjourned immediate
Iy after o'clock to hasten to the
market and to lead the first pickle
demonstration of the strike.
A picket line will be thrown about
the shops tomorrow early in the
morning and all shops bottled ur
tight.
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Fratennal Groups Must Act
To Save DAILY Worker!

, And get half dollars from the
members Of your organiza-
tions! (Send either money or
stamps). Swell the ranks of
the $4,000 half-dollar contrib
utors who are going to put the
drive over the top! Speed Tag
Day Funds, every cent you can
get everywhere to the Daily
Worker, 30 E, 18th ST.. New
York Cityl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-10
Two More Mines Join
Strike When Nearly
1000 More Quit
Terminal Men to Quit
Stage Wholesale Raid
Greene County
BULLETIN

SYCAMORE, Pa, July 1.-TWO
more mines and nearly thousand
more miners went on strike this
morning July 81. These are the
New Mine" and the Ehrfield mine
located in Central Pennsylvania,
not far from Sycamore. The New
Mine" employed 500 men, and all
struck. The Ehrfield mine en-
ployed $50 men, and they all struck.
PITTSBURGH, Pa, July 9.-Near-
ly all the miners at the Pittsburgh
Terminal Coal Co. mine at Cover
dale are out on strike. It was at
the Pittsburgh Tern1icF Co mines
that the United Mine Workers, Gov
ernor Pinchot and the coal operators
made their greatest efforts to break
the strike led by the National Miners
Union. The latest action of the
miners show this effort to put over
a scab agreement is being smashed
Plans to call all the men out In
other Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Co
mines are being made.
Marching five miles, striking min
ers under the leadership of the Ma
tional Miners Union pulled out SO
men at mine at Louis, West Vir-
GINA, which the United Mine Work
ers of America claimed it had signed
up for As cents a ton. The mine
was struck completely.
Van Bittner, United Mine Workers
international representative in West
Virginia has offered the SCOTS Run
operators UMWA men as armed COM
pany gunner in the strike.
At the Burger Block Mine, near
Burgettstown, scabs attacked the
picket line. The pickets chased all
CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE)
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DEPT. OF LABOR
SCAB-HERDING
FOR BOSSES

PAWTUCKET, R. L, July 9.-In-
creased activity against the $500
Royal and General Fabrics silk strik-
ers by the U. S. Dept. Of Labor and
the local police indicates an attempt
to herd scabs into the struck mills
on July 10. T7he Strike Committees
and the National Textile Workers
Union are planning to answer this
move by organizing the biggest mass
picket line yet held in the strike,
for Monday morning.
william M. Clark, district inspec-
tor, Y. Department of Labor is
in active chals 90 the strike break
ers. Yesterday he To- I'D an alleged
subpoena of his department to Bill
Murdoch, secretary of the NT.W.U
The subpoena demanded that the
membership records and secretary's
books of the National Textile Work
ers Union" be turned over to him
These records are being safeguarded
from strike-breakers and Murdoch
didn't have any to turn over.
Workers mistaken by Terror
Dozens of workers have been wis
tied" by the police, herded into the
police station, grilled IN an effort tc
break their morale and then released
when they stood solid for the strike
Workers who but yesterday had COM
plete faith in flair Justice" now see
clearly that the government and 1t;
agencies are tools of the manufac-
turers. The workers realize that the
increased police bounding is an In
dication of the weakness Of the man.
ufactures in the strike. They are
frantically trying to open the closed
mills. Hence If the workers conso-
lidate their ranks, increase their
picket lines and spread the strike
they can bring the manufacturers
to terms. y
On Friday the secC strikers re-
lief store will be opened and this
makes It more urgent than ever that
relief funds from the New England
towns be rushed to the strikers al
$50 Main Street, Pawtucket, r. I
The first relief store is feeding the
General Fabrics strikers three times
daily. The same will be started foi
the Royal strikers on Friday
A full delegation of the strikers
will attend the National Silk Con-
ference in Paterson, N j., this SUM-
day. The delegation will come there
with concrete proposals for estab'
fishing the solidarity of all silk work
ers for their joint grievances
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Wanted: action from the fra
ternal organizations in the
Daily Worker drivel
Instead Of the $4,000 that
was set as the quota of the
fraternal organizations, they
have raised only $4,368.43-
less than half.
Here is the standing by ma
tional groups:
Lettish, $5O.92; Scandin-
avian, S96.75; Finnish, ST.
O5O.33; Ukrainian, S618.S7;
Russian, $162.5s; Esthonian.
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pfrom the international Work
ers Order, is far below the 3d.
500 quota which was assigned
to the Two.
Workers, all of you who are
members of fraternal organiza-
tions, it's up to you! See to
it that your organization sends
substantial contribution to
the Daily at once!
The workers in the various
national fraternal groups must
come to the aid of their mill
tant organl
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Quarters Needed for
7. G. L. Delegates

Over 100 delegates will take
part in the 9Th National Con
vention of the Young Commun-
ist League which is to open on
Friday night with a mass meet
ing at the Central Opera House.
Every member of the Communist
Party, the Trade Union Unity
League, and of all workers organ
izations is asked to cooperate with
The vel. in the housing of these
delegates.
If you can house any delegates
get in touch Immediately with the
District office of the YCL, 5th
floor, IS E. 18th st. Please state
what organization you are mem
Der of when you write.
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$50; International Workers
Order, $1,160.45; Lithuan-
ian, $292.90; SlOvak, $236.S3;
Roumanian, SPOTS; Jugo-
Slav, $340.22; Bulgarian,
S69.19; German, $33; Polish,
$16.56; Spanish and Latin
American, $16.05; Greek,
$11.79; Croatian, IS; Chi
nese, $3.50; Macedonian, 81.
These figures present a pic
ture of startling inactivity ever
among the best groups. The
biggest contribution, $1,160.4s
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ship of the Needle Trades
Workers Industrial Union.
Basically directed against the
vicious contracting system, low
wages and worsening condi-
tons, the strike was effective in
about go per cent of the dogskin
trade according to the admission of
the employers themselves.
A broad strike committee COM
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Nearly 1OOShots Close AS
Dogskin Furriers Strike,
5000 in Demonstration
Strike Committee of More Than 100 Workers
Work Out Demands of Strike
VOL In Strikebreaking Letter Says Stain Is
Out to Capture Fur Industry

NEW YORK.-Folowing demonstration of four to five
thousand fur workers that closed h Avenue 7h to 9Th
Avenueus at yesterday close to onehned shops
the dogskn and fur trimming section industry
shut when the fures walked out strike the leader
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-10

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

Read the Labor Defender on the
miners strike.
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Cops Tried to Keep
Miners from Entering
Washington
Workers Push Relief
Mass Meet to Expose
Strike Breaking Plan

Coal operators we're arriving in
Washington to meet with Secretary
of Commerce Lamont to plan ma
tional attack against the miners at
the time the Daily Worker went to
press.
The meeting Of the coal operators.
which is preliminary to a conference
in which the United Mine Workers
of America will be brought in to act
as the chief scab agent among the
coal miners, was called after John
L. Lewis, president Of the UNIwA
wrote to Hoover asking that the
strike of the 10000 miners in Penn
sylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia be
broken by federal interference.
Hoover answered by instructing La
mont and Secretary Of Labor Doak
to call the conferenhe for Thursday.
The National Miners Union. which
is leading the strike Of the miners
agsir-t starvation, n1obilized q dele
cation of 100 miners who are now
in Washington to expose this scab
conference.
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Lamont is very secretive about the
meeting of the coal operators, and
the only announcement officially
made thus far is that the Hoover
government will seek to plan the cut
ting down of the number Of miners
employed,