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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-08
MID. MINERS GET To-
p. c. WAGE SLASH


FROSTBURG, Md.-Notice that a
wage-cut Of 8 to 10 per cent, effec-
tive Immediately, had been ordered
by the Consolidation Coal Co., was
delivered April 80 to mass meeting
Of its coal miners 900 of whom are
employed III the Frostburg mines.
F. A. Craft, director of industrial
relations, who came from headquar-
tiers at Fairmont, w. Va, TO break
the news, claimed that the company
was losing money.
Due TO lack Of organization among
the miners and the terrorization of
the company, there was no inlmeei-
Gts MQya "a ftght she slash ~.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-08
MAY support
FOR DOCK STRIKE,

DULUTH, MINI, May THE May
First demonstration here gave sup
port to the dock workers strike.
There were $500 in the demonstra-
ton and 500 paraded through the
streets. Twenty joined the Commu-
mist Party at the organizational
meeting afterWard
The leader of the longshoremen's
strike spoke at the demonstration
and at the meeting.
The workers on strike have re-
iected the offer of the bosses to split
their ranks by guaranteeing steady
employment for part of them at
cut wages, They demand no wage
cut and recognition of the dock COM
mittees. Their ranks are solid and
militant picketing continues.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-08
CALL SCOTTSBORO.
CONF. IN BUFFALO


BUFFALO, N. Y, May T.--seversl
hundred workers, the majority of
them colored, turned out to the
Seottsboro Defense mass meeting
called by the League of struggle for
Negro Fights and the International
Labor Defense and held in Liberty
Hall last night
The workers ttunderously accepted
q resolution denouncing the murder
Gus frame-up and planned legal mas
sacre of the nine eolored boys in
Alabama, and ordered a copy of it
sent to Governor B. M Miller, Mont
gomery, Alabama
Other kilograms of protest have
been sent by a mass meeting OF the
workers. mostly Hungarian and Po-
lish, in the Black Rock section of
Buffalo, and by the Russian Ukrain-
ian Dramatic Circle. the Interna-
tional Workers Order. the Buffalo
United Front May Day Conference
and the Finnish Valy Club. The
United Negro Churches and the Ur-
ban League of Buffalo also sent
strong protest kilograms.
The lid and the LSNR are making
Il
Scottsboro Defense Conference on
May % at the Michigan Avenue Y M
G A. AT this conference hundreds
Of delegates from white and Negro
organizations in Buffalo will be rep
resented Every effort is being made
to draw all forces opposed to the
legal murder Of thsff boys into the
sanlszspss ~"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-08
Wage Cuts for Fruit Workers in California

this season by apricot growers of this
county, it was revealed here today by
George Nelson. q director of the
newly-created California Apricot Cam
ners' League.
"A reduction well below last years
wage of 40 cents an hour will be
sought when apricot growers of the
county hold a mass meeting here next
Monday evening at the Chamber of
Commerce rooms
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-08
Oakland Department Store Lengthens Hours
Blacklist Workers

ems eight hour day we're fined (tho
this happens occasionally and to
those suppose who do not divide
profits. L. Bruner rug house was
fined. Others VIII owere called to
account were Foreman and Clark, the
tailors and the Women's City Club
of Berkeley Something should be
done about this place also.
When the girls are kicked out for
their standing up to their rights, they
are blacklisted in the city and no
more clerk jobs are open for her. This
shows plainly how the bosses pull to-
gether. That is what the workers
ought to learn-and learn quick.
Store Clerk.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-08

almost solid in Warsaw on May .Da~
About 10000 participated in the
Communist demonstrations. The pc
lice broke up the demonstrations,
which quickly reformed. Demon
strators and passers were bruAlly
beaten UP. Bloody collisions took,
place during the demonstrations in
the Dombrovo coal basin. Poiics
fired on the demonstration at Kutncs
killing a woman.
Fine Communist May Day aens-
onstrations occurred in Latvia and
Esthonia.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-08
MAY DAY GREETINGS TO THE
DAILY WORKER
CHICAGO. Ill.

CHICAGO, ILL.
Joseph SegalI Clara Larfinkel
A. Salow B. RabinOvitz
NJ. Shatsky Max Levine
Meyer Frank Bessie Grenader
Bessie Gates A Friend
Boris Shnay f. Hogan
Anna GrOssman e. Hogan
Celia Gibbs Rose Liph
Ruth Wilson A. Gordon
Jack Rooseland M. Gordon
l.. Sassebin DIR. T.. T. Bash
G.. Duncovich Mrs. Mill
A. Popraykin NJ. Baunerstein
$. Potapoff ;. Baumstein
r.. Robins Gertrude Comay
Anna Yessne 3. Bronstein
AdeIa Kowalski W. r. Mailman
George Rossos ID. kreipp
a. Fzepoffs C. Gerthsr
John Crib 2. RahinoyitE
!. Silva J. klebanoff
George Sole NJ CURSOR
Baehouak Nora Weiner
BiI CorIey Dora Weiner
doc Kurtz Mathew Proven
+. ID. MARY spector
Joe Bevn +. f. Cerk
A. Pezezokowstd C. w. NELSON
d. Witurck Il. Bront
s. Sobiski l.. A. Carter
n. Brown w. e. Weiteman
MI. B,attner II. 7. Lindel
John Herzog " II. ness
gena Rosen G. It. Costello
EVELYN Walm;nskv f. w. GRADER
Frieda Young esther L. Ness
Pauline MesbaI J. Montgomery
Lillian Weiss reter Jensen
Tania SauI ii. Clausen
Rose Rable G. A. Miannik
Lillian Kaplan ,. Leikahd
Sonia Dautzker M. Raymond
Lillian Sharper NISs Llnu'ey
Sarah Mor;tz t. V. Ribnick
Mrs. A. SOkOIoff 'ohn mochihg
Mary Rabinovitz p. Rammun
Frieda Hankin ANTON >. Neutou
r. Rabinovitz S. Maskas
Rose kinsker " oarkiunas
Ida Gallant v. Ramman
p. cu X. Matukoitis
I. Wallace
. NoVak Hxel Larson
H. sucanjck A. Holt
Z. = "a. !. ..
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-08

NOrfoIk, Va.
Daily Worker,
Things here are rotten, have been
here for seven weeks, where the Jesus
screamers at the mission give out
bowl of soup and a stale hunk of
bread once day. If you want flop
you have to be in by 7:3o to listen
to bunch of sewer rats who were
never hungry in their lives, tell you
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-08

Sunf1ySlde, Canf.
Daily Worker:
l am sending in clipping from a
capitalist sheet (San Jose Herald;
and want every worker to note in
this that the Chamber of Commerce
as usual is doing its part to cut our
wages even below starvation. It says.
"A comparatively low wage for
fruit workers will be put in effect
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-08
Oakland, Cal.

Oakland, Cal.
Daily Worker:
I do not know whether everywhere
else is the same, but we the clerks
working in Withorne and Swan de-
partnent store find our working con-
ditions growing worse and worse. We
have to be in earlier in the morn
ing and are forced to do more
Strengthening out and checking up at
night. This brings our working time
eight and one-quarter to eight and
three-quarter hours daily for the
same pay. When we complain they
tell us to watch out as plenty are
waiting for your job"
read how some violators of Wom-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-08
Force Seamen to Pray for Rotten Bowl of Soup

how much Jesus has done for you,
and they make you pray for about an
hour songs of praise" and if you
don't bow your head in worship you
get the buns rush.
The Seaman Bethel is just as bad.
The manager, a mission stiff named
Gould, runs around with a blackja jack
in his pocket and police badge on
his shirt.
F. II.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-08
MAY | IN JAPAN
DESPITE POLICE
Gable BY Inprccorr.)

TOXIC, Japan, May Although
police arrested several thousand
members of the Ieft-wing Union
Federation in Japan, nevertheless
May Day demonstrations we're held
in the industrial quarters. Street
demonstrations were held in Toxic,
Osaka. Nagiya, Kobe, Yokohama, etc,
Five hundred and fifty arrests were
made.
STRIKE IN WARSAW MAY DAY
WARSAW, May THE strike was
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-08

of electric power stations over the
Soviet Union is to be completed by
1887. The whole of industry, trans
port, including the railways, and az
riculture, are to be provided With
cheap power, High tension current
up to 100000 volts is to be carried TO
a distance of 1000 kilometers. In
1881 the capacity of the Soviet elecr
tr4cal power stations will be ten mil
lion kilowatts. In 1897 the capacity
will be from 40 to so million kiio-
watts.
The plan provides for a great de-
velopment of hydraulic energy. By
1887 this. hydraulic generation vii
account for from 20 to 2S per- cent
of tire total electrical energy of the
Soviet Union. The plan provides for
the acceleration of the building OF
power stations on the. 'Angara, the
Volga and the Yenissei Petroleum.
is to be excluded from the power
stations as fuel, and is TO be replaced
by less valuable forms Of fuel
The $4,000 workers of the Moseow
ElektrosaVod have published q de
tailed proposal in the eEkone1tlt
cheskaya zhiSn" for the. working out
of a general plan of identification By
the masses of the workers They
point out that the original plan was
worked out by the collectives of 900
specialists and demand that the new
plan should be the collective. work of
millions: The State Planning Cont
mission has already adopted this pro-
posal and agreed to the setting up
of special groups in the factories ana
the collective and Soviet farms ali
over the Soviet Union for the work
ing out of the new plan.
The association OF electro techm-
cal trades has set as its aim the com
pletion of the Five Year Plan in three
years. or in other words by the Ttis
of November, 1881. The production
of this industry for the final year
of the Five-Year Plan was fixed at
1876 million roubles, The first two
years of the plan were considerably
exceeded and last year the annual
production was 1874 million rubles,
The production for this year is OF
be one thousand million roubles or
fifteen times the production of the
electro-technicaI trades in Gzarist
Russia. and 70 per cent more than in
1880. For the final year Of the Fiys-
Year Plan the aim is now q pro-
duction valued at four thousand mill
lion roubles. -
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-08
Clerk Finds Wage-Cuts Are Not A Myth

partment stores called Lit Brothers.
Last Saturday thi scompany put
across another wage cut. This pa
triot" now had to admit that she
now gets SO less per week. This is
the second wage cut in the last ten
months of SO per week. The girls
earn from s11 to $40.
"A Philadelphia WOrcorr.N
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-08
FIRES so WOMEN; NOW
INDIANAPOLIS BAG co.
PLANS 20 PC. WAGE CUT
Bosses Turn Off Heat to Increase Profits;
Women Must Work at Neck-Breaking Speed
Indianapolis, Ind.
Daily Worker:

Daily Worker:
a worker at the Deubner Shopping Bag Co. in In
danapos This company employs 100 workers when working
full mebut has recently ayed off all but so workers. We
mostly women workers
There of a wage cut 20 per cent wage cut
and don't what they will be paying if get any
cuts We receive 25 cent for srngng 100 bagand
this is specaour usual price 6A cents for 1OO-and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-08
Waue of Frame>Ubs, Legal Lynchings is South.
Bosses Answer to Struggles of Negro and White.

, site for a proposed home for aged
Negroes.
Framed, Faces Legal LynChing.
CHATTANOOGA, May Ed Rob-
inson, a Negro farm laborer, was
taken out of bed at midnight April
% by Charlotte rural police and
thrown into the NIeeklenberg County
Jail on the usual fake charge Of at
lacking" a white woman
Representatives of the Interna-
tional Labor Defense and the Trade
Union Unity League yesterday in
vestigated the case and found the
following;
NeighbOrs Defend Robinson.
Practically aft the farmers and
Practically all the farmers and
share troopers, both white and Ne
gro, know Ed Robinson and are con-
WINGED of the frame-up nature of
the charges. Several Of them saw
Robinson at the very time the at
tack" is supposed to have taken
place. White farmers living next
door to the women supposed to have
been attacked saw nothing sus-
picious, heard no cutlery and are sure
that there was no attack.
T.U.U.L. and LID. Organizing
Defense.
The white neighbors know the
house of the woman to be boot
logging joint and the woman, who
has been sick in bed for the last six
months, to be a crank and degen-
crate.
This frame-up is planned by the
landlords and police as an answer to
the success of the T. U. U, L. in
starting to organize the farm la
borers and share troopers to fight
for their demands and against the
terrible conditions under which they
are now existing. 1t is an answer to
the growing unity of Negro and white
workers under the revolutionary lead
ership of the T. U. U. L,
The workers organizations are on
the job to defend this framed-up
worker, and will report further de-
velopments.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-08
Philadelphia, Pa

IIIIlUCIpIHdl %
Daily Worker:
I showed q patriot" an article
yonne time back in the Daily Worker
about a wage cut and involuntary
contributions for relief work for the
jobless. She called me Red, and
then said it was only a myth.
She works in one of these big de-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-08

NEW YORK.-Two Negro workers,
Paul Richardson and Emmett Gale,
have been railroaded to the electric
chair in Henry County, Mississippi,
after trial. attended by an armed
mob of 1000 with ropes in their
hands demanding a lynching.
The boys were defended by the
N. A. A. C. P. They were denied
the right to see their attorney until
20 minutes before the trial" Mo-
ton for a change Of venue was
promptly denied. Confessions" were
forced from the boys by torture and
brutal beatings. Although denouncing
the trial" as unfair, the N. A. A.
C. P. leaders have made no efforts
to bring the case to the attention of
the masses and to arouse them to
protest against this outrageous ex-
ample of class justice. The N. A. A,
c. P. leaders, by failing to bring the
case squarely before the masses, are
helping in the railroading Of these
two boys to the electric chair.
This policy of cooperating with the
Southern bosses to secure mice,
quiet, dignified" legal Iynchings is
the policy of the N. A. A. c. P. lead
ers would apply in the Scottsboro
case, as against the policy of the In
ternational Labor Defense of mob
ilizing the white and Negro masses
behind its legal defense. This is the
united front defense policy the bosses
fear. This is the united front de-
Tense policy the N. A. A. G. P, leaders
are frantically trying their best to
hamstring, in spite of the demands
of their membership that they join
with the hundreds Of other organiza-
tons in the fight to save the lives of
the nine Scottsboro children.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-08
EXTEND LENLNS ELECTRIFICATION i
PLANSFOR SOVIET UNION; PROVIDE
FOR GREAT Observation-Disclosures
$4,000 Workers Publish Detailed Proposals for
Working Out General Plan of Electrified
ton by Masses Of the Workers 3

M0SCOW-The recently formed committee for the draw
ing of identification plan has practically conleea
its draft The plan the continuation of LeniHs pan
adopted ten which has since been practically
peted According to the plan the building of network
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-08
Legal Lynching for Three.

ELIZABETH, KY, May Three
colored farm laborers are being rail-
roaded to the electric chair in an
other court room lynching here. Tho
men are accused Of killing a white
farmer following quarrel over their
wages. They are being tried in
lynching atmosphere as tense as that
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-08

one Of the usual devices used by the
plantation owners and bankers of the
South against Negro workers who
revolt against the conditions of
forced labor and share cropper sla-
very on the plantations. Demands
of Negro workers for their wages are
usually met with the rape charge and
lynching mob.
16-Year Youth Condemned to Burn.
ASHBURN, Ca. May ABLY Sec
onding the boss-incited mob lynch
ings, the local boss court has SEN
fenced l6-year-old Burwen Yancey to
burn in the electric chair on June
IL. The youth was railroaded
through to court room Iynching on
the usual fake charge of rape" So
hrazen is the frame-up that even the
liberals here are making a mild pro-
test over it and have appealed to
the governor to commute the SEN
tence from death in the electric chair
to living death 0ife sentence) in
the bosses prison dungeons.
Legal Lynching In Newark.
NEWARK, N. r., May Court
room lynchings are not confined to
the South, as every worker knows.
In this city, a Negro worker, Ray
mond George, has been sentenced to
die in the electric chair the week of
June, 2 for killing, in self defense,
when yiciously attacked by a motor
cycle policeman,
Khan Busy In Canada.
ANCASTER, Ont, Canada, May Z.
Workers in Ancaster, a little noun
tain hamlet, were awakened last
night by the glare of fiery cross
burning on a tract chosen for the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-08

of the ScottSboro trial." where eight
of nine innocent children were SEN
fenced to die in the electric chair.
Counsel Beaten Up by Mob.
One of the workers, Walter Dew
berry, has already been convicted and
sentenced to burn. He was tried
practically without counsel C. Eu-
bank Tucker, Louisville attorney,
who came here to defend him, was
set upon by a mob as he walked
across the courthouse yard Tuesday
noon and beaten so severely that he
had to be carried to a doctors Of
flee for treatment. Like the Scots
boro bosses, the local bosses grew in
dignant when their right to railroad
Negroes through their courts to the
electric chair was challenged.
Two white attorneys, appointed by
the trial judge to defend the three
workers. withdrew from the case.
The workers are Dewberry already
condemned; Charles Rogers and wal
ter Holmes.
Automobile Lynch Mob Busy.
WATER VALLEY. Miss, May l.
Following a lying statement by the
sheriff that Sam Green, 19-year-old
youth, arrested last night, had con-
fessed to the Staying Of w. B. Wag-
ner, white banker, a mob of bank
ers and merchants started out in IL
automobiles to take Green out of
jail and lynch him.
Arrested on Fake Charge, Faces
Lynching.
MERIDIAN, Miss, May Josh
Pringle, 27-year- old Negro farm la
borer, was locked up yesterday on a
fake charge of attacking the daugh-
ter of his plantation boss. This is
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-08

Two Mississippi Boys Victims of Boss Frame
Up and Quiet Tactics of NAACP Leaders;
Kentucky Bosses Beat Up Lawyer of 3
Framed Workers; 16-Year Old Boy
to Burn; Frame Chat. Worker
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-08

o site for a proposed home for aged
s. Negroes.
The Washington times., 1931-06-20
GRINSF FIELDER
WINS TOURNEY

H. j. Grinsfelder of The Hecht
Company, Washington, won the
handicap golf tournament, which
was a part of the entertainment
given by Moses S. Hecht. presi-
dent of the Hecht stores. to the
executives and merchandise mana
gers of the Hecht organization, at
the Woodholme Country Club in
Baltimore. His card read 101.
Handicap of six gave him a win
ming net of 95.
There was a triple tie for sec
ond place among Malcolm Hecht
and Jeff Miller of Hecht Brothers
Baltimore, and Charles B. Dulcan,
of The Hecht Company, Washing
ton. Harold Levi, of Washington,
was officially designated "beSt-
worst" golfer when he posted a
score of 201.
The prize was a silver loving
cup. Among those from Washing
ton were Charles B. Dulcan,
Harold H. Levi. H. J. Grinsfelder,
James Rotto, Harry Ullman. Harry
Davidow, Alfred Schleissner.
The Washington times., 1931-06-20
|Pickups and
Putouts

BY GEORGE A. SIMPSON
Walter Beall is hurting for a
semiprO team in Scranton, Pa.
=. where there's plenty of good
beer Johnny Priest, who had
a trial with the New York
Yankees then Highlanders), 20
years ago, wants to join the
local umpires association. :.
Bottle Cox says Art Ludlow. OF
the St. Mary's CelticS, is the
best SandlOt hitter in this
vicinity. Lefty Mcintyre, who
will twirl for the CelticS against
the Washington Terminal in
the game tomorrow on Bag.
gett's Field in Alexandria, de-
clareS that Russell Kidwell, of
the CelticS, is the best catcher
who has ever handled his stuff
Dan O'Leary, the veteran
walker, now 80, asserts he will
live to 13O. he's some OptimiSt
Marty Brill, the former
NOtre Dame fOOtbalIer, is train
ing to become a fighter. Buzz
ArIett smashed his finger trying
to steal second base. there are
no stars on the local SandlOtS
comparable to those of 10
years ago. the kids today get
their names and pictures in the
papers and their heads swell
bigger than a blimp. then
they're ruined.
The Washington times., 1931-06-20
Gordon Is Outrider.
For BOLUie Meeting

BALTIMORE, June 20.-Roy c
CHappy) Gordon has been named
outrider for the fall Bowie meet
ing, and the former jockey now
controls the fields going to the
posts on all eight of Maryland's
tracks. Gordon succeeds Red
Coat" Murray at Bowie, Murray
leading the parades on the New
York tracks.
Following his appointment at
Bowie, Gordon was also named
outrider at Arlington Park, Chi
cago, for the summer meeting
there. He will take Up his duties
in the West shortly and will re-
turn to open the Maryland fall
season at the Cumberland track
on August 25. After Cumber-
land. he will work at Marlboro,
Timonium. HagerstoWn. Havre de
Grace, Laurel, Pimlico and Bowie.
The Washington times., 1931-06-20
BOWMAN
FACES RA|NV|LLE

CHICAGO, June 20.-Marcel
Rainvllle, Montreal, and Herbert
Bowman, New York, will drive
tennis balls at one another today
in the big battle of the Western
net tournament. In the other
semi-final, Harris Coggeshall, de-
Tending champion, meets George
Jennings, national public parks
title holder.
The play in the doubles cham
pionship occupied yesterday with
Luke Williams, one-time national
intercollegiate champion, and
Louis Thalheimer reaching the
finals over George Jennings and
Gordon Braudt, IS, 2-6. 6-2.
Rainville and Bowman seeded
Number One in this event, were
upset by the Lejeck brothers,
Charles and Leo. in straight sets.
The Washington times., 1931-06-20

With Gerald CaSSedy, whose
ancestors likely spelled it with
an "T," six feet and 180 pounds
of man, whipping the stroke oar
through the water as though it
was light shillelah; a Harvard
racing shell that was little short
of a power boat, took the meas
ure of a grand Yale crew in one
of the most thrilling eight-oared
races ever rowed on any water. 70
Thus does the flaming Crimson
wave today over the only unde-
feated varsity crew in these
United States. England may still
rule the waves, but don't try to
tell it to a Harvard man this
day. He won't believe you.
King Watches
With King Prajadhipok and
his attractive young Queen
among the 10000 who looked
on from four miles of yachts,
speed cruisers, observation trains
and both banks of the dark blue
Thames, the big boat from the
Charles came back after a lapse
of three years to score it's thirty
second triumph over Yale in 50