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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-09
Mrs. Wright to Be
At Jersey Meets
Mother Of 2 Scottsboro
Boys

NEWARK, N. J., May s.-Mrg. Ada
Wright, mother Of Roy and Andy
Wright two of the nine Negro bows
whom the lynch courts of scottsboro,
Ala, are trying to electrocute on
framed rape" charges, will speak at
three meetings in New Jersey tonight
Saturday and tomorrow night. Mrs.
Wright arrived from Chattanooga
Thursday.
Tonight she will speak at a mass
meeting in Newark. arranged jointly
by the New York District of the IN
ternational Labor Defense and the
League of Struggle for Negro Rights.
The meeting will be held at the Rus
sian Peoples Home, So Broom St,
at 8 o'clock. Later in the evening
she will speak at a Communist Party
election campaign meeting in Pas
sale, to be held in Kanter's Audi
torium.
tomorrow night Mrs. Wright will
speak at mass meeting in Eliza
beth at Lisbon Hall, SO S. Park st.
This meeting is also under the Joint
auspices of the New York LID. and
the L.SN.R.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-09

the electric chair, are only II years
old. Mrs. Powell's letter follows:
Atlanta, Ga, May 5, 1881.
''My dear friend, organ of the
League of Struggle for Negro Rights:
This is Axle Powells mother. / was
away from home at the time those
men was out to see me. I was out
trying to collect some money what a
man owes me to defend for my boy.
I did all could to get in touch with
them but couldn't, but begging the
whole world to help defend the nine
boys,
Almost Crazy With Worry
Prom birth I has work hard plow-
ing, farming by myself for a living
for my children. Have had no help
supporting them. So sorry, deeply
sorry to my heart that my boy was
framed up in this. am almost crazy,
can't eat, can't sleep, just want to
work all the time, so weak I don't
see how can stand much longer.
living on the will of the lord, trust
ing the lord that the nine boys will
he saved
E. Burdered Down with Trouble -.
"Azie was raised on farm, he was
born on farm, got one little girl
z years of age already has heart
trouble. Have two boys, two girls in
all with no father assisting. Poor
me, poor me, SO burdened down with
trouble, if I could only see my baby
Aze one more time. Lord have mercy
on my poor boy In Birmingham. My
boy is only IA, will be is November
10th.
Poor me, worked hard every day
OF my life, can't make living hardly
to save my life.
Closing my letter but not my
heart, for do love the nine boys that
Birmingham is holding in Jail.
From Josephine Powell, Atlanta,
Ga.
II. S.--Not knowing what TO say
o. what 10 do iQr the best. -. .-.-4s
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-09
MILITANT UNION
LEADS STRIKE
700 Fight Stretch Out
in Central Falls

PAWTUCkEr, f. T., May s.--Seven
hundred workers Of the General Fa-
brics silk Mill, Central Falls, struck
yesterday at the call Of the National
Textile Workers Union. closing the
entire mill.
They demand wage increases rang
ing up to 20 percent, and the return
to the four-1oorn system instead of
the twelve. The first shift voted
to strike at a meeting addressed by
the National Textile Workers Union
district organizer, Martin Russak,
Thursday afternoon,
Yesterday at midnight the mill
owners announced an indefinite shut
down, attacking the Communists,
The strike meeting repudiated red
batting, approving the leadership of
the National Textile Workers Union.
Thirty workers of the Lexington
Worsted Mill at Central Falls came
to the N. T. w. U. yesterday and
joined the union declaring a strike
against a ten per cent wage cut.
At midnight 500 strikers blocked
the mill gates stopping the second
and third shifts, all Of them form
ing in the march to Pawtucket head
quarters Of the n. T. w. U.
Mass picket lines were held today.
A strike committee of 80 was elected,
representing all departments. Many
workers joined the union.
The district of the N. r. w. U. is
preparing a strike at the Wayboyset
Mill of the American Wooden Co.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-09
Lower Manhattan
JoblesS Session
Conference Meets AT
Lyceum Tomorrow

NEW YCRK.--Every workers or
ganization, all sorts of groups in
breadlines and flop houses as we'll as
local unions, shop committees, etc, on
Manhattan Island south of seth st.
will have their delegates at the lower
Manhattan United Front Conference
On Unemployment, tomorrow at 10
). m, at Manhattan Lyceum, &c East
Fourth st.
This important conference will form
/ Lower Manhattan Council of the
Unemployed, OH which all the mem
,ersl1ip branches will have repre-
entation, along with representatives
II the other workers organizations.
This is the first of four sectional
unemployed councils to be created on
delegate basis, and will, like the
,thors later, be the director of the
Intensified campaign against evic-
ions, Job shark swindles, and leaders
n the fight for lower rents, for I'm
FSplpyrnent relief and insurance.
IL I~xalL &tr~.n~ .xA u.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-09
Mrs. Patterson Re>States Faith
In LID. United Front Policy

NEW YORK.-A letter was re-
ceiyed yesterday by Gertrude aaes-
sler, from Mrs. jamie Patterson,
mother of Haywood Patterson, who
has just returned to her home in
Chattanooga after a visit to the
North during which she was present
at the mighty May Day demonstra-
ton in New York City, addressed
thousands of workers at the Bronx
Coliseum the evening of May Day,
and spoke at several mass meetings
al1arged by the International Labor
Defense and the League Of Struggle
for Negro Rights. The letter follows
She "Loyes All the Reds"
Arrived home today ct 8 a. NJ. and
found all well, anG am we'll over my
trip, not SO tired, I hope all are
well there.
We'll, I sure miss you all but l was
just homesick I'm sorry | was that
way but after all love the Reds. l
can't be treated any better than the
Reds has treated me. And 1 am a
Red, too l tell the white and /
tell the black I am not getting back
of nothing else. / mean to be with
lyou all as long as live.
well am looking for you to
come to see ME like you said. You
can't realize how highly I appreciate
the kindness you all did for me.
Now be sure to answer my letter
and let me know how you all are
getting along.
Give my regards to Maude (White)
and I appreciate her kindness too,
and hope. next time / be to see
you all l win be less worried. | never
stayed away from my family that
long for / think my children don't
get along without me. Well, / haven't
seen Mary Dalto nyet. Give all the
Reds my )ove.for | love them all
!. My daughter Sybil says she thanks
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-09
Leaflets to Guards Are
Used As Pretext
for Charges

the reds in attempt to fasten the
blame for the fire on Communist
Party and Young Communist League
members Is being made. The state
nlent issued by these officers ex-
pressed considerable concern among
officers due to persistence of spread
ing literature into the hands of the
soldiers"
The entire state militia and police
department have been niobilized In
an attempt TO frame-up the Party
and the League.
The fire started in a lock basement
packed with tractors, trucks, field
guns and great store of military
and inflammable supplies.
The thousands who took part il,
the enthusiastic May Day demon
stration have been troubling the local
authorities who have been excited
since ths May Day oYtnogring. They
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-09

IN strong support of the LID.
and its defense policy, several
other Negro papers have joined
the struggle to save the boys.
The Boston Guardian carries an
ARTICLE and editorial on the case
commencing the work of the LID
A front page screamer declares:
Appeals Put off Execution of 8 boys
Reds Give Attorney"
Negro Editors Pledge support.
The editor of the Philadelphia
Spokesman, in a letter to the Daily
Workers says: eve admire the stand
you have taken on the. Scottsboro
case"
The editor of the Florida Booster
Jacksonville in letter to The Lib
orator, pledges his paper to get into
the fight with you, in rlolding SEN
timent in Florida against the whole
sale killing of the nine boys in Ala
paIlla. Line 11gnt you are making is
just wonderful"
Negro Paper Raps Roddy.
The New York News and Harlem
Home Journal carries scream head
line, with an article exposing Stephen
R. Roddy, faithless attorney who
helped railroad the boys toward the
electric chair. The headline says
- Condemned Ala. Boys and Parents
Denounce Their Former Attorney as
Traitor"
LOS ANGELES, May 8. - The Los
Angeles police, in open cooperation
with the Southern boss 1ynchers,
CONTINUED ON PAGE FIvEl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-09

|W6lL as DSCJGf TILES ana automatic
pistols. The company gunner were
licked, as Sheriff Blair admitted in
his telephone call to Governor Samp-
son for troops.
Now $50 militiamen, with artillery,
cavalry, tank and all the paraphenalia
of a world war are flocking over town.
The business men and the ~corn-
pany officials and the officials of the
U. M. w. brought out American flags
from every building, and called
meeting to welcome the state militia.
Local President w. M. Hightover If
the U. M. ". damned through a vote
to cooperate with the troops at
this meeting. Before this, Hightover
and District President Turnblazer of
the U. M. w. had assured the min
ers that the troops would "drive out
u, company thugs" They said Gov
crnor Sampson had promised this in
a conference with the U. M. w. ag-
ents. But the first thing that Col.
Dan Carroll, an artillery officer (and
he has a battery of hoWitzers with
him) said when he reached Evarts
was that no immediate plans were
made to replace the company guards,
who remain on duty as before"
Five thousand miners and their
families out of about 10000 who work
in the mines in Harlan county are
starving, according to latest count.
The others are barely existing on two
or three days work a week. The
blacklist is used ruthlessly by the
united operators, the Harlan County
Coal Operators Association, dominat-
ed by the Peabody Coal Co.. through
its subsidiary, the Black Mountain
Coal Co. The Black Mountain
started the fighting by locking out
its men and bringing in soabs, about
month ago.
The striking miners say:
''They wouldn't give US fair
weight on the coal we mined.
'"They made us trade at company
stores and charged us higher pric-
es than the independents.
They fred us if they found we
| Joined the union.
"They put guards over us. We
are free men and we don't wear
| stripes. 49,
'SThey hired gun thugs as guards
and deputies"
Sheriff Blair is praised by the
governor as fearless and fine a man
as ever lived He is the operators
man entirely, and is a reckless, two
| gun hill bad man" with a lot OF
deaths to his credit. He has gathered
around him a whole arsenal of ma
chine gunners, recruited by the coal
companies from the gang land of
Chicago and West Virginia and Pitts
burgh. They terrorized the miners
families wholesale and burned out
whole town of miners, insulted and
attacked the miners women, kicked
the children around and took pot
shots at any lone miner seen on the
hills until the miners put stop to
that with their rifles. Now the mi
litia came as reinforcements to the
sheriff's crew. 3
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-09
$50 State Gunner With HoWtzers, Machine Guns, and
All Panoply Of War Arrive to Reinforce
Guards AT Evarts, Kentucky
Governors Promise to Eject Company Guards
Spread by U NJ W, and Already Broken
5000 Starving in Harlan County; Condemn the Company
For Cheating At the Scales; Armed Thugs
Placed Over Men AT Work

EVARTS, Ky, Mays. The business men and
the United Mine Workers of America officials
loudly welcomed the state gunner, the militia,
who marched into this mining town yesterday
where company guards all deputized as part
of the he force have been burning and shooting and fight
ing battles in the field The starving miners have killed
four to of their prosecutors wherever there
fight and they did this with only their rifles while the COM
pany had machine guns hand grenades and gas
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-09
LID wins TWO IMPORTANT
POINTS IN FIGHT TO SAVE
'LlVESOF 9SCOTTSBORO BOYS
Thunder of Mass Protest Forces Change of
Venue, Right to Hearing for Motions for
New Trials for All Nine of Framed
Up Children
More Negro Papers Join United Front Defense
Campaign; Protests of Masses Continue to
Pour in From All Parts of the Country
BULLETIN.

CHATTANOOGA, Defense won
two Important points in the fight
boo Negro boys when the
trials for all of L.
hearing
not IN Scosboo but in Fort Wayne May 20
George Chamlee L. D. attorney attributes
victory protests
Stephen Roddy the attorney
their claimed leaders NJ A be
attorney in the did not
General Chamlee recognized defense.
Mass meetings
first victories fight and elected delegates Scots
boo Defense conference which takes place here May 30
NEW YORK-The united front movement to save the
lives of the nine innocent Scobor Negro boys continues
grow In spite of the desperate efforts of the NAACP leaders
to sabotage the defense of the boys.
In addition to the Chicago Defender which has come out
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-09
International Motor
Workers, Fight Wage
Cut BY Voting Red!

NEW BRUNSWICK, N. j., May 6.
"A hundred workers out of $50 ems
ployed by the International Motor
co. here heard speakers at an open
air meeting denounce the thrsatened
wage cut of Is per cent average as
The speakers pointed out that the
Communist candidates run in the
coming election under the slogan
For unemployment insurance end
against wage cutsT
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-09
NTW Inspires Fight
In Two Mil Centers
Exposes UTW Scheme
to .Betray Allentown
Silk Strikers

ALLENTOWN, Pa, May 8. -To
offset the effect Of the activities Of
the National Textile Workers Union
and the Unemployed Council among
the silk strikers, the United Textile
Workers Union officials have launch
ed a campaign OF raging SANDER and
wild charges. The N.T.W.U. and the
Unemployed Councils warned the silk
strikers that they should watch out
for and prevent the U.T.W. sell out
plans, and their arbitration schemes
which lead to a betrayal Of the
strikers.
Moser, secretary Of the Central
Trades and other U.T.W. officials
then began a TRADE against the
Communists 0by which they also
mean to include the N.T.W. and the
jobless organizations charging them
with being agents Of the bosses and
strike breaking. They do not offer
and can not give any evidence to
back their lies, and coming from
the U.T.W. as these lies do. they are
really funny.
Remember Elizabethtons
For the workers here are being
told OF the U.T.W. betrayals in Eli
zabethton rayon strike, where they
co-operated with the employers to
delay the strike action and give the
company time to prepare, where they
co-operated with the U. S. depart
ment Of labor in compromising" the
strike so that the strikers went back
with blacklist hanging over them
and no gains.
Remember Marion.
The strikers are learning Of the
Marion affair in 1929, where the U.
T.W. sent six men to their death
at the hands Of the deputy sheriffs,
by insisting that they picket with
no means OF dMSsnse, although short
ly before, the Gastonia strikers had
found it necessary to defend their
lives with guns against just such a
mill gang as was modified against
the Marion strikers.
Remember Danville!
They are told of the Danville
strike, where the U. T. w. forced
strikers to go back to work after the
strike started, and finish 100000
worth OF work for the boss, where
mass picketing was broken up by the
U.T.W., where the strike was called
off with nothing gained, on the plea
that by letting the few scabs work,
the company was proving that it
did not discriminate against union
men"
Remember The UphoIsterers!
The Allentown strikers are begin
ming to learn about the U.T.W. ex-
pelling the whole local of 1000 Phil
adelphia upholstery workers because
these men dared to strike against
II per cent wage cut.
So lying charges by the q. T, w.
that the National Textile Workers
Union is strike breaking" are rather
strange.
The UT.w. officials are already in
Allentown doing the same sort of
things to break the strike as they
did in the other cases. They are Or
dering the strikers to "be peaceful"
on the picket lines. They are con-
tinually trying to break the militant
spirit of the pickets. The socialists
are cooperating with the u. T. w.
officials.
5000 Striking.
The strike is a spontaneous affair,
forced by the rank and file in a des-
perate resistance to starvation even
on the job. All the mills are now
closed. About 5000 are out. The
employers are shipping their work to
other cities.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-09
Mother of Scottsboro Boy Says
Court Record Lies ON His Age

NEW YORK.-A letter TO the Lib
orator from Mrs. Josephine Powell,
mother of Ozzie Powell, one of the
Negro boys facing legal lynching in
Alabama, reveals that her son is only
IA years old, instead of Is as entered
in the court records. This means
that three of the nine boys, and two
of the eight condemned to burn in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-09

you all 70 rthe kindness you did for
me and she works only 2 days a
week and anything she can do on her
spare days she will be glad to do
so. Will close now.
From one of the Reds, jamie Pat
terson."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-09

The strike is a spontaneous affair,
forced by the rank and file in a des-
perate resistance to starvation even
on the job. All the mills are now
closed. About 5000 are out. The
employers are shipping their work to
other cities.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-09

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The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-07-22
SCIENCE TO STUDY ANCIENT CARVINGS
 IN DAKOTA'S HILLS

HOT SPRINGS, s. D. July 22- Rugged canyons of South Dakota s Black Hills will be laboratory this summer in which unexplained rock carvings will be studied.
 Scattered along rocky gulches of the southern Black Hills in more than score of places are strange designs, apparently records of a primative people.
 One theory holds that the mark ings may represent records of Coro- nado, early Spanish explorer. An other suggests that the Pueblo In- dians may have visited the Black Hills long before white men.
 Among scientists who may study the hieroglyphics are Warren K Morrehead, University of Illinois; Alonzo w. Pon, archeologist of Be lott college; Fay Cooper-Cole, head of the archaeological division of the University of Chicago, and M. w Stirling, chief of the bureau oi American ethnology, Smithsonian Institution.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-07-22
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 IMPROVED ROASTING
Patented Process Insures Per- feet Roast for Every Pound
 of Hills Bros. Coffee

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 Remember that Hills Bros. Coffee can't go stale. It is packed in vac uum cans. Air, which destroys the flavor of coffee, is removed and kept out of these cans. Ordinary, lair tight" cans won't keep coffee fresh. But Hills Bros. Coffee is always fresh. Order some today. Ask for it by name, and look for the Arab trade mark on the can.
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-07-22
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ADMINISTRATORS SALE OF
 REAL PROPERTY

Notice is hereby given, that pur- suant to an order of sale made and entered of record by the Probate Court of Haines Precinct, Terri tory of Alaska, on the 27th day of June, 1881, in the matter of the estate of George w. Hinchman, de- ceased, the undersigned admins trator of said estate will sell at public auction, subject to con- firmation of sale by said Probate Court, the whole of the real prop erty belonging to said estate, or so much thereof as may be neces- sary for the purpose of paying the expenses of administration, and the claims still unsatisfied against said estate.
 The said real property is de- scribed as follows: Lot four (4 in block one CD and Improvements, lots eleven CID and twelve Q2) in block three (3) and improvements, lot twenty-six (26) in block one CD, lot twelve CPD in block nine (O, situated in the Town of Haines, Alaska, and one half interest in a homestead. containing 3ls-5of1oO acres, situated about twenty miles west of Haines, Alaska.
 Terms of sale ten per cent down at time of sale, and Balance to be paid upon confirmation of sale by said court. Place of sale at the late store of George w. Hinchman deceased, in the said Town oi Haines, Alaska. Time of sale or the 7th day of August, 1881, al the hour of two o'clock in the afternoon of said day.
 Dated at Haines. Alaska, June ! 27, 1881.
 c. A. LINDHOLM,
 Administrator with the vii
 annexed.
 First publication, Jury l, 1881. Last publication, July 22, 1881.
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SYNOPSIS: Martin Bevis finds his daughter, Ann, wor- Iiod because Pierre has given his money to her husband, Bruce, for mining investment. As they and Tony, Pierre's friend, discuss him, he returns to the houge which he had left in desperate mood earlier in the evening. Ann does not ex- plain her tears upon reading a letter left by Bruce when he went eff on a business trip. Then the sheriff and president of the bank where Bevis had been working that evening en- ter and report the murder of the cashier there and the theft of S25,000. Pierre pleads, an- swering the sheriff, that he was tcO upset to know whether he had gore by the bank and, Tcny, who had seen him near it, lies to protect him.