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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-15
50 WORKERS IN
MINE AREA JOIN
PARTY IN W EE X
Election Camp a ig n
Rallies Hundreds
to Meetings

ARNOLD, Pa, Sept. 12.-The Com
munist Party in the Allegheny VAL
ley, which takes in the entire West
moreland County and part of the
Allegheny County, is growing stead
lily in numbers and in political
strength. Large numbers of work
ers, miners and steel workers, are
joining every day. Last week we re-
cruited 30 new members.
The Communist Party in West
moreland County is taking part in
the election campaign with county
and local candidates. The candi-
dates for the county are: Walter H.
YoSt, miner, for county commits
sioner; Gabriel Williams, also a
miner, for commissioner; Mako
Arizona, for sheriff, and Ray Buck
man, miner, for county treasurer.
John Wilkens, a Negro building
trades worker, is the candidate for
constable in Ward l, New Kensing-
ton. John Sahra and Leo Gaibrich
are the candidates for council in the
Borough Of Arnold.
Hundreds of workers are attending
the election campaign rallies and lis
tening to the Communist speakers
and candidates who call upon the
workers to organize and fight against
starvation and for unemployment re-
lief. A big election campaign rally
of the Communist Party will take
place next Wednesday night in Ar
mold, where the borough and county
candidates of the Party will present
to the workers the fighting program
of the Party against wage-cuts and
starvation, for unemployment relief
by the borough and the county,
pending the passage of state unem-
ployment insurance bill.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-15
PIEDMONT PLUSH
ONE-DAY STRIKE
Compromise at Is PC.
Cut in Wages

GREENVILLE, s. C.-Workers OF
the Piedmont Plush Mill here won
a partial victory in a one-day strike
The $50 workers of the mill all quit
work when the manager told them
OF wage-cut of approximately 80
per cent. The workers quit in a
body and went and sat down on the
grass outside the mill. They refused
to accept the bosses suggestion that
they go back to work and talk things
over after they were at work. IN
stead they elected a committee of
five, which met with the manage
ment, and compromise was reached,
the workers, however, agreeing to go
back with is per cent cut.
This was spontaneous strike on
the part Of the workers A complete
victory could have probably been
won If the workers had insisted and
continued the strike for no wage-cut
at all. The Piedmont Plush is one
of the Greenville mills getting leaf
lets put out by the National Textile
Workers Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-15
BRONX SECTION
HOLDS RALLY
Party on Ballot in
Worker Districts

For the first time in the history of
the Party there will be candidates in
the coming November elections in
every working class district in the
Bronx, Out of the eight assembly dis
tricts the Party will run candidates
in seven.
A mass rally and ratification ban
quet will be held on Saturday, Sep
TENDER 10, at 500 Prospect Ave, to
celebrate the placing of fourteen
candidates of the Communist Party
on the ballot.
One of the outstanding events of
this banquet will be the chorus of
the Prospect Workers Club. The
members of this club collected nearly
1000 signatures during the campaign.
Valuable books will be given to
those comrades who collected the
largest amount of signatures in the
units.
All workers are invited to attend
the ratification banquet on Saturday
night.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-15
NTW U Protests Attack on
Holden; Hits Lies of Sheriff

GREENVILLE, S. c., Sept. IA
The National Textile Workers Union
in telegram to Governor Blackwood
of South Carolina vigorously protests
the kidnapping and beating of Clara
Holden, Greenville organizer of the
union. The telegram challenged the
governors request to Sheriff Bran
lett to report on the outrage, declar-
ing that Sheriff Bramlett's report
will be prejudiced, adverse and not
based on the investigation. Bramlett
has already made such statements
to the press. Our union holds you
responsible for the future safety of
union organizers"
The workers Of Greenville have
been so stirred up by the kidnapping
and flogging of Conrade Holden that
the bosses and even their tools in the
reactionary A. F. of L. bureaucracy
deem it necessary to make a gesture
Of condemnation of the attack on
the union organizer.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-15
RATIFICATION CONGRESS WILL
RALLY WORKERS FOR CAMPAIGN

ganization and struggle. The Com
mu1ist Party is organizing the work
ers for this struggle and will fully
expose the Vaccinations of the gov
eminent and its departments, as
clearly controlled and owned by the
Rockefellers, Morgans and the Wall
Street pirates"
The Communist Party is mobiliz-
ing a delegation Of small consumers
OF gas and electricity to appear be-
fore the Public Service Commission
on Friday, September ID, at 2:30 pm,
and will demand in the name of the
workers of New York, together with
the representatives of the Unem-
ployed Council and Tenants Leagues,
the right to present the situation at
the same length at which the talka-
tive attorney for the Washington
Heights Taxpayers Association was
allowed to present mo issue"
The Communist Party calls upon
the workers and small consumers of
gas and electricity to sign the petit
tons that are being circulated by the
Unemployed Council and Tenants
League. 1t also calls upon the house
holders to appear at the open hear
ing on the question at the office of
the Public Service Commission at 80
Center St., Room $50, on Friday
September 1S, at 2;30 pm.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-15
EUGENE O'NEILL'S TRILOGY
MOURNING BECOMES ELEC-
TRAn NOW IN REHEARSAL


The Theatre Guild announces that
Philip Moeller is staging Eugene
O'Neills trilogy Mourning Becomes
Electra. The play opens at the
Guild Theatre shortly.
Social Register, the new John
Emerson-Anita Loos play in which
Erlanger Productions, will present
Lenore Uric this season, will open in
Pittsburgh on September %, coming
to Broadway later.
Alex. A. Aarons and Vinton Freed
ley announce their first production
of the season, "Singin' the Blues, a
colored musical drama which will
open at the Liberty Theatre Septem-
Der 16.
Maurice Schwartz begins his sea-
son in English at the Ambassador
Theater Wednesday evening, Sep
TENDER %. 1t is his plan to present
three plays during the year. He will
open with IF I We're You" by Sho-
lem Aleichem. His supporting cast
follows: Fernando Eliscu, Harry Mer-
Wis, Edward Letter, Natalie Browning,
George Nash and Harry Worth. This
play will be followed by "The Seven
Who Were Hanged, by Leonid An
dreyev adapted by Herman Bern
stein, and "The Man With the Port
folio" by Carl Fake, one Of the best
known Soviet writer's.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-15
.LSNR ORGANIZERS
TO 7 O U R N. ].
Drive Begins Today
in South River

PERTH AMBOY.-Three organ
izers of the League of Struggle for
Negro Rights will start tomorrow on
tour of New Jersey towns to build
the L.S.NR. and its organ, the Lib
orator.
The three organizers are v Davis,
secretary of the County Committee
of the L,S,N.R., t. Taylor chairman
of the County Committee, L.S.NR.
and F. E. A. Welsh, field organizer
of the L.S,NR. They will cover the
following towns
South River, Sept. 16; Perth AM
boy, Sept IT; Woodbridge, Sept. 18;
Carteret, Sept. 10; Plainfield, Sept.
20; New Brunswick, Sept. 81; Red
Bank, Sept. %; Long Branch, Sept.
%; Freehold, Sept. "a; Toms River,
Sept. 25.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-15
Judge Powell Gives
Eviction Orders to
FOrty-twOWOrkerS
Denied Right of Work
ers to Defend Them
selves in Court

BROOKLYN, N. Y. - Forty-two
workers families were ordered evict-
ed within one week by Judge Powell
from the Lee Ave. court this morn
ing Monday. Judge Powell denied
any rights Of the workers to defend
themselves in the court but made a
gesture that he would refer their
cases to "the Mayors Committee"
Domenick Flaiani, Communist can
didate for Assemblyman in the 18th
Assembly District, appeared in court
to defend Ida Fostoff, mother of
6 children, who, being unemployed,
has not piece of bread at home
and ordered evicted by the judge and
the landlord.
Flaiani pointed out in the court
room that this worker has no bread
to feed her children. She is denied
a job. The cour has no right to
evict her from her home"
However, before Flaiani could go
further the Judge interrupted and
asked, "Are you a member of the
Bar?" Flaiani answered that while
he was not a member of the Bar he
had the right to defend the workers
rights in the court, and went on in
addressing the court, saying, "By
evicting this working woman you are
denying the very right of happiness
that is supposed to be guaranteed by
the Constitution of the U. S."
The Judge would not allow Flaiani
to go further with his defense, and
trying to be polite, states, eff I al
low you to defend this woman in this
court, being not "a member of the
Bar I would be violating the law and
committing misdemeanor together
with you and liable to imprison-
ment."
Then turning toward the woman,
he said, It give you one weeks time
to move and I will see the Mayors
Committee about your case" Thus
ordering Flaiani to leave the court.
Tostoff with five of her children
will partake in the delegation which
will demand free food and clothing
to President Hesterberg of the Bor-
ough of Brooklyn Friday, Sept. 18th,
when demonstration will be held
at IL o'clock noon at Borough Hall
Plaza, Court and Fulton Sts., under
the auspices of the Young Pioneers
of America, the Unemployed Coun-
Gil and the Parents League of
Brooklyn.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-15
BOSSES, AFLN
PLOT TO CRUSH
UPHOLSTERERS
Plan Build Local rs AS
Company Union to
Hit FWIU

NEW YORK.-Fearing the growth
OF the strike movement in the up-
holstery trade under the leadership
of the Furniture Workers Industrial
Union, the leading upholstery en-
ployers have launched a campaign to
build Local rs. UpholSterers, an
American Federation of Labor organ
ization, to head off the unionization
of the trade.
This move was taken at a secret
conference of leading upholstery
bosses on September 9th where Mad
Ter, foreman of the Rockford shop,
acted as the unofficial representative
of Local 76, of which he is a leading
member. The employers policy calls
for active participation in rebuilding
Local rs to resist Jmionization by the
Furniture Workers Industrial Union.
Shops called on strike by the Furni-
ttlre Workers Industrial Union are
to Immediately sign up with Local
rs and the workers forced into the
A. F. of L. organization. Through
their control of the company union
lied Local rs, the bosses could fight
the demands of the upholsterers for
week work instead of piece work,
40 hour week, 81 minimum hourly
wage and sanitary conditions.
Call a Mass Meet.
The Furniture Workers Industrial
Union is calling mass meeting,
Thursday, September IT, at Manhat-
tan Lyceum, sc E. 4th ST., of up
holsterers, strikers and those still
working and other furniture workers
to expose the latest move Of the A.
F. of L. and the bosses to crush the
strike movement.
At mass picketing demonstration
before the Blumenthal and Marion
(Eagle) shops yesterday morning at
Grand & briggs Sts., Brooklyn, four
workers were dubbed down by the
police, and one arrested.
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For instance L. E. Brookshire, pres
ident of the South Carolina FEEDER
alton of Labor declared it was a
sad state of affairs in any commu-
nifty when five men can take a
woman out and whip her as much as
they please"
He made this comment only after
being shown an editorial from a
Columbia boss newspaper, in which
even that boss paper questioned the
silence of the A. F. of L. misleaders.
At the same time, Brookshire at
tempted to play on local boss-inspired
prejudice against so-called "outsid-
ers," declaring that the NTWU has
been bringing mostly outside organ
izers in here" He attempted to COW
er up the fact that hundreds Of tex
tile workers have been condemned to
starvation even while on the job,
merely declaring that the bosses do
not pay enough 'for them (the work
ers) to live comfortably"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-15
DANCE RECITAL COURSE FOR
WORKERS AND STUDENTS

Students dance recitals announce
a course Of six dance recitals to take
place Saturday evenings: October 81,
November IA, December 10, January
2, February 20 and March 26, at the
Washington Irving High School. This
organization was formed last season
to bring the best modern dancing to
students and workers, etc, at mini
mum prices. Subscription for the six
dance recitals will be 50. Tickets are
obtainable at the Students Dance Re-
citals office, 80 Union So
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-15
WORKERS VETS TO
OPEN FALL TALKS
"EX-Servicenen a n d
the Bonus" Topic

NEW YORK.-The Workers Ex-
Servicemen's League will inaugurate
a series of fall and winter lectures
at an Open Forum. The first forum
meeting will be held Sunday, Sep
TENDER 20, 2 p. M, at the WESL
headquarters, 70 East 10th st. The
topic will be "The Ex-Servicemen
and the Bonus" with E. Levin, chair
man of the Executive Committee, as
the main speaker.
Further topics and speakers cover
ing the Ex-Seryicemen's connection
with world events and the working
class struggles will be announced in
the near future.
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CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE)
failed to find any evidence, when
all Of a sudden after consultation
between Lane and the sheriff, the
sheriff carried out fourth raid and
was able to go directly to the spot
where the former membership list OF
the I. w. w. was hidden under the
floor. Most of the workers have
since turned in their cards to the
I. w. w. and are members of the
National Miners Union.
LEXINGTON, KY, Sept, 14-One
hundred and twenty-five miners
delegates from Southeastern Ken
lucky. Tennessee and Virginia were
present today at the District Confer
ence of the National Miners Union.
The delegates all laid great stress
on the need of organization and
qualification of the union, with its
entry into new sections and for the
mass defense of the Harlan miners
facing the threat of death sentences
in punishment for their nliltancy in
the strike.
Following discussion Of the strike
situation and the murderous attacks
on the strikers by the thugs Of the
coal operators, the conference decided
on a joint petition of the National
Miners Union and the International
Labor Defense for a rank and file
delegation to take to Governor Samp-
son demanding the right Of the min
ers to organize into the N. M. u,
cessation of the terror against the
miners, the murder Of strikers, raid
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-15

: ing of homes, arrests by gunner en-
ployed by Sheriff Blain and other
county officials acting under orders
Of the coal operators, and demand
ing the use of the Sheriff's Gunner
Funds for unemployment relief to be
administered by workers and farm
ers. The petition will also demand
the right of the workers and farmers
of Harlan County to bear arms and
to defend themselves, and the repeal
Of the banding and confederating law
and the Criminal Syndicalism law.
PITTSBURGH, Pa, Sept. 14.-Joe
Moore and Julius Baldwin, shot in
the back and murdered by Harlan
County thugs, were buried in Jellico
Tennessee, it was learned here to-
day. Sheriff John Henry Blair re-
fused to allow the families of the
murdered striking miners the $50
usually given by the county for burial
purposes. He had rough boards
nailed together, and threw the bodies
Of the two boys into these boxes
Prisoners in the Jail were to be the
pallbearers.
AT the last moment, while miners
from everywhere prepared to come
into Harlan to insist upon seeing
their comrade to his last resting
place, Baldwin's sister arrived in
Harlan. Determined to avoid the
hurried funeral Sheriff Blair was ar
ranging, she asked a sympathizer te
help her carry the bodies away from
the undertakes over the border and
into Tennessee. In Jellico, the rail-
road workers, at the miners request
held special meeting at which they
offered to defray the expenses of the
funeral.
Meanwhile, great numbers of min.
ers arrived in Harlan. Here every
penny in U. S. coin, company scrip
even postage stamps we're collected
and all converted into gas and oil
enough for eight cars. Into these
cars dozens of miners crowded. They
arrived in Jellico in time to see theil
comrade buried in Perkins Grove.
Both Moore and Baldwin WERE
guarding the relief kitchen estab-
ished by the Penn. -Ohio-W. Va.-Ky
Striking Miners Relief Committee
The armed thugs, travelling dressed
in arnlor plate in automobiles with
machine guns mounted on swive,
over the rumble seat, roam up ano
down the Kentucky hills and raid
the home of every miner suspected
of being union member. These
raids are carried out without any
pretense Of a warrant. The bullet
holes in the walls of the relief
kitchen tell the story of how Baldwin
and Moore met their death. SO dc
the bullets in their backs.
The thugs have been making a
special attack upon the relief kitch-
ems. They know how terrific the
need for food is-how flux is raging
through the coal cabins taking a
heavy toll. Meanwhile the miners
and their families look to the work
ers up yonder" to support them in
their fight-to send them bread tc
ward off the dreaded flux.
Funds are needed for a shipment
of food-send all you can to the
Penn Ohio-W, Va.-Kentucky Strik-
ing Miners Relief Committee, Room
205, Gil Penn Ave, Pittsburgh, Pa.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-15
Son g S! More of
Them!

Many workers, both young and
old, have sent in songs, but many
more are needed for the new song
book that is now being prepared
Let us hear from the workers in
the South, particularly the Negro
workers who are struggling for
Negro rights. What song have you
to offer? Send it in Immediately
to the Workers Library Publish
ers, Pc. Box 148, Station D, New
York City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-15
BEDENkAPP AT
SHOE MASS MEET

Preparing for an organization in
the shoe trade, the Shoe Workers In
dustrial Union has called a mass
meeting of shoe and slipper workers,
today at 8 p, m. at Lorraine Hall, 100
Broadway, Brooklyn.
Fred Biedenkapp, who was jailed
in Paterson during the last meeting,
will be present at this meeting with
out fail, it was announced A. Lippa,
union organizer in Philadelphia will
report on the situation in that city.
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the rates of gas and electricity for
small consumers to the original rate.
"2) No shutting of the meters till
such reduction is instituted.
49, The Public Service Commission
Immediately to take steps to reduce
further the price for gas and cleo
tricity 20 per cent for worker con-
suners. in accordance with the re-
duced incomes of the workers.
"The Communist Party does not
expect that the Public Service Com
mission, which is a public service
commission in name, will do any
thing to help the workers. On the
contrary, the Communist Party tells
the workers openly that they will get
relief from such oppressive measures
and DEGREES as are made by ten cap
italist government, only through Or
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-15
N Y CONFERENCE OCT. 5 TO
INTENSITY SCOTTSBORO CAMPAIGN

NEW YORK.-With the southern
lynch courts adopting the tactic of
dragging out the Scottsboro case in
the hope that the workers of this
country will relax their activity, the
Scottsboro United Front Defense
Committee has decided to take steps
to intensity the efforts to save the
nine Negro boys. Gu Monday even
ing, Oct, 5, an enlarged defense con-
ference will be held for this purpose,
to which every working class and
sympathetic organization in New
York and vicinity should send dele
gates. The conference will be held
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-15
Hold 7 Ship Workers
for Membership in
Marine Workers Union

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Sept. 13-
Seven Portuguese workers, two of
them Swift workers, were picked up
while working aboard a ship at Sac
ramento. They are held for deporta-
ton, the charges being members of
the Marine Workers Union. A mass
protest meeting was held.
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at 8 p. m. in the Finnish Workers
Hall, Is w. 126th Street.
This conference will also have as
one of its tasks the linking up of the
Scottsboro campaign with the cam
paign to free Mooney and Billings
and the 1875 workers who are in
volved in the Harlan case. The Oct.
5 conference will put new life into
the Scottsboro campain and seek to
enlist lynch plans of the southern
ruling class. All organizations should
send credentials to the Scottsboro
United Front Defense Committee, 799
Broadway, Room 410, New York City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-15
What's On
TUESDAY

TUESDAY
l. ID, Nat Turner Branch
VIII hold an open air meeting at
135th st. and Lenox Ave. September
/ g at pm.
Talk On War at the Spartacus Club
Youth and War-Preparations will
be the subject of discussion to be
led by a Young Communist League
member at a meeting tonight at 1873
Carol Street, Brooklyn, under the
auspices of the S. c. c.
WEDNESDAY
Steve KatOvis LID
An open air meeting will be held
at 18th ST and B. at pm, Sept. Is
under the auspices of the Interna-
tional Labor Defense.
The same niht an indoor meeting
will be held at PSI E. 10th ST., at
pm. Comrade Taub will speak.
Nat Turner LID
VIII hold its regular membership
meeting at 149 West 136th St., at
s pm. September 16.
PLUMBERS HELPERS BALL
Young and Adult Workers Attention!
Are you out for a swell time?
Are you interested on seeing the
First American Youth Union grow
ana SuCceeQs
Come to the Plum bers Helpers Ball
to be held Saturday night, Septem-
Der 10, at Hoffmans Mansion, 142
Watkins St, Brooklyn. Phil Conn
and his famous Variety Club Or
chestra will entertain with some
snappy music. There will be dane
ing and all The rest. Attend and
YOU will not forget it.
Building Maintenance Workers.
will hold its regular membership
meeting Sept. 18th, s p. m at 22s e,
S6th Street, Srd floor,
Friends of the Soviet Union,
brownsville Br.
will hold its regular membership
meeting at 1874 Pitkin Ave, p. m.
Lecture and discussion will follow.
All workers are invited.
Sheet Metal workers
will hold a meeting at E. 18th
Street to discuss the building up of
the Metal workers Industrial
League. All members must attend.
East Bronx Branch, FSU q.
Pauline Rogers, recently returned
from the Soviet Union, will speak at
the East Bronx Branch of the
Friends of the Soviet Union, 1910
Boston Road, at p. ma on The
American Crisis and the Soviet I'm
ion. All invited.
THURSDAY
Metal MOulders
will hold an important member
ship meeting at Z. 10th ST., as part
Of the drive to build up the MWIL,
International Labor Defense
Brownsville Br.
Will hold an open-air meeting at
oswin ST. and Dumont Ave. at pm
International Workers Order, Br. 500
viii hold a regular meeting Sep
TENDER nth, 8 p. m. at 35 e. 18th St.
There will be discussion on the
authorization of the American Youth.
All are invited.
Printing Workers Industrial League
The regular membership meeting
of the PWIL will take place Septem-
Der nth at p. m. at e. 10Th ST..
All members are urged TO attend.
PLUMBERS HELPERS BALL
Young and Adult Workers Attention!
Are you out for a swell time?
Are you interested in seeing the
First American Youth Union grow
and succeed?
Come to the Plumbers Helpers Ball
to be held Saturday night, Septem-
Der 10, at Hoffman's Mansion, 142
watkins St, Brooklyn. Phil Conn
and his famous Variety Club Or
chestra will entertain with some
snappy music. There will be dane
ing and all the rest. Attend and
you will not forget It.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-15

One way to help the Soviet
Union is to spread among the
workers Soviet Forced Labor"
by Max Bedacht, 10 cents per copy.