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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-12
MASS PROTEST
fri. TO HALT
Ii DEATH EXILE
Danger He Will Be
Kidnapped

NEW YORK-To prevent the kid
mapping of T. H. Lii, and exiting him
OF his death by deportation to China
into the hands of the butcher Chi
ang Kai Shek, a mass protest dem
onstration is being called by the New
York District of the International La
Dor Defense for Friday.
T. H. Ii. a Chinese student and
militant fighter against imperialism
was arrested for deportation some
time ago.
Recently the department of I'M
migration refused to permit him to
depart voluntarily and ordered his
deportation to China.
He is ordered to surrender himself
on the 18th of May and sail on the
10Th to certain execution. The i'm
migration authorities know that this
deportation is virtually a death sem
tence and they are deliberately car
rying it out.
The great danger at this time is
that Ii will be kidnapped on May
Is by the immigration authorities and
sent to China without the knowledge
of his friends, This would be done
to prevent mass protest against
this unity of Wall Street and Chang
Kai Shek in numbering militant
fighter.
Every worker and anti-imperialist
in the city G. New York, fighting
against unemployment and wage cuts,
should join in this mass demonstra-
ton to stop the kidnapping and de-
portation of r. H. Ii. Only the work
ers can stop the carrying out of this
death threat against Lii All out on
Friday. Down with Chang Kai Shek
and his Wall Street supporters!
The exact time and place where
the demonstration will be held or
Friday will be announced in the Daily
Worker tomorrow.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-12
so Delegates at Conference to
SAGE 5 Framed in Paterson

Eighty delegates, meeting Sunday
at 90 Ferry ST.. Newark, at a New
Jersey state conference called by the
international Labor Defense, mapped
out an intensive campaign to be con-
Quoted during the next few weeks to
save the five Patterson silk workers
whom the bosses are trying to rail-
road to the electric chair on framed
up murder charges. The delegates
represented 81 l. L. d. branches and
81 fraternal organizations form every
part Of New Jersey.
Plans were made and tentative
dates set for local defense confer
encos to be held in Elizabeth Perth
Amboy Trenton, Passaic. Newark.
Paterson and other cities. Commit
tees we're elected to take charge of
these conferences in each city. Hun
dreds OF mass meetings, street meet
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-12
"Disarm the Company GUNNER, Is
Slogan of Harlan Mine Strikers

HARLAN. KY, May 1.-THE strike
is spreading throughout this county,
which has 10000 coal miners in it.
The miners are meeting at dozens
OF mines, and with the cry, "Disarm
the Mine Guards" are walking out
and refusing to work with gunner
standing over them.
The strike and lockout started
some six weeks ago in the Black
Mountain Coal Co. mines, a subsi-
diary to the Peabody Coal Co. of
Illinois. The Black Mountain and
other companies then declared for
open shop and braught in more gun
men and scabs.
Two major battles and several
smaller shootings have killed five
men, four of them company thugs;
the bosses gunner have burned a
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-12

been very bad, Men who make only
two and three dollars day and get
in only one, two and three days
week, are compelled to trade at COM
pany stores on periol of losing their
jobs. And, little as these jobs are
worth, the men have nowhere else
to go. Prices in the commissarieS are
from Is to 100 per cent higher than
prices in outside stores.
The workers say that when Of
fered compensation checks for time
lost on account of injuries. they are
given the option Of cashing the
checks and losing their jobs or Of not
cashing the checks. What becomes
OF the unused compensation money is
not definitely known, but the work
ers say that compensation al some
OF the mines is a racket.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-12
BREAD STRIKE
MIDDLE VILLAGE
Women's Council Leads
in the Struggle

NEW YORK.-Encourage by the
success of the recent meat strike or
ganized and led by the United Coun-
ell of Working Glass Housewives, the
working class housewives of Middle
Village have decided to strike against
the high cost OF bread. AS soon as
the bakers heard of the impending
action, they cut prices in order to
prevent tile strike, but not To the
satisfaction of the housewives, who
consider prices still too high.
The demands for more reductions
have been made to the bakers of
Middle Village. and although the
strike is officially called for Wednes-
day morning, May 10, one of the
bakers has already made some Of
ters to settle with the Strike Com
mittee
A series of open air meetings will
be held in the afternoon to rally the
support of all working class families
III the neighborhood. A mass meet
ing 10 rthis purpose will also be held
on Thursday, May IA, at the Hebrew
Institute, Gil Human St, Middle
Village, The United Council OF
Working Women has been able TO
draw tire eother organizations into
the struggle who have heretofore
busy only with local charity. The
Council appeals TO all workers to sup
port the strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-12
DULUTH POLICE
SHIELDING SCABS
Arrest Three Strikers,
I L D Gives Bail

DULUTH, Mimi, May 1.-THE 800
longshore strikers are standing firm.
The police are taking an active part
on the side of the employers They
escort the scabs to and from work,
and uniformed police are stationtd
on the docks to guard the scabs at
work.
There is an attempt being made to
terrorize the strikers by arresting the
pickets on fake charges. Raino
Rahikainen, John Jaaski, and Daniel
Larson have been arrested on charges
of disorderly conduct, and bail set
at $25 each.
The International Labor Defense
has furnished the bail and in the
case of Jaaski got it reduced from
500 to sos.
The LID stands ready to bail out
and defend in court all arrested for
taking part in the strike 1t is the
only organization doing thi sin Du-
luth,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-12
GRAFT RAMPANT
IN CITY SCHOOLS
Walker Protects His
Grating Friends

NEW YORK-In reply to his
critics, Mayor Walker demanded, in
his speech at Central Park Mall,
on Sunday, that they leave the Board
of Education alone and direct their
criticism at me-" Walker hypocriti-
cally declared that the New York
schools are the greatest in the world.
The school board of New York is
under charges Of having got graft
out of the erection of school build
ings and the procurement of school
sites. Francis T. McEneny, chief ex-
aminer of the aIdermanic president,
declared that his position allows him
to know in advance the location of
prospective school sites" and that he
and his friends have invested in con-
siderable real estate. Walker defends
these people, because his whole ad-
ministration is under charges. In
order, however, to offset these at
tacks, he pretends that he is willing
to take the responsibility himself. In
this he is encouraged by Governor
Roosevelt's dismissal Of the charges
against him brought by Rabbi Wise
and Rev. Holmes.
The school system is in a serious
situation, as evident in the charge
of the National Republican Club, who
declare that "a large part of the
graduates of the elementary schools
cannot properly read or do arithmetic
or geography" Fox, chairman of
the particular Republican committee,
challenges Walker to produce the re-
ports of the oBard of Education for
1929.
With graft at the top and rotten
capitalist educatio nfor the 100000
children in the schools, one has to
ask whether the capitalist schools of
New York do not exist TO rthe benefit
of the grafters rather than for the
children of the workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-12
ScOttsbor0 Defense
Developments

|, Theodore Dresser and Lin
coin Steffens support campaign of
LID. to save lives of 8 Scottsboro
Negro boys.
2. United Front Scottsboro De-
Tense Conferences called in Is ci-
ties so far. Work of building block
and neighborhOod defense commit
tees being pushed. Many new or
CARNATIONS join protest.
3. N.A.A.C.P. leaders collecting
funds in name of Scottsboro boys
while continuing to sabotage their
defense.
4. Two additional Negro news
papers, the st, Louis Argus and
the Omaha Guide, rally TO united
front policy,
$. Scottsboro protest meeting in
Seattle, Wash, raidcd by immi-
grafton authorities in open co-op-
Grafton with southern boss lynch
era-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-12
Hold State Conference on Unemployment With Over 200
Delegates from All Over State; Will Demand
Insurance for the Starving
Committee from Conference Will Walk In On
Legislature This Afternoon
Mass Pressure Gets Beds and Cooked Food In Indiana
pofs Half Marchers Are Negroes; Workers and
JobIess Give Full Support

According to the latest reports, received
Sunday night the more than 200 state hunger
marchers whose various lines Of march have
united the last two lines right in Indianapolis,
were probably holding great state confer
ence unemployment yesterday They there to formulate
the demands for unemployed insurance other relief in ac
corance with the instructions given them by the great demon
situations Of empoyed and unempoYed workers MAY in all
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-12
J0bless and Women's
Councils Stop Two
EyictiOns: Cut Rent

NEW YORK.-Qnick action by the
Brownsville Council of the Unem-
ployed stopped two evictions and got
So reduction in the rent for the
whole house.
The landlords, Fisher and F'rush,
of a25 Powell st, proposed to evict
family Yesterday Of an unemployed
worker and seven children, and an
other family in which the father was
paralyzea
The Colnci! of Working Glass
Women ard the Council of the I'M
employed came down, held open air
meetings, ann found the tenants in
the building and lock ready to Or
ganize tenants league, which they
did, The Landlords not only yielded
on the mat5Gf Of evicting the two
families, but reduced the rent.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-12

ings and demonstrations will also be
held to rally the broadcast masses in
mighty campaign to smash this
outrageous frameup. The campaign
VIII reach its high point on June 18
when delegation will go to the gov
ernor demanding the release of the
live workers. On the same day an
other statewide conference of even
bigger proportions will be held in
Trenton.
Resolutions we're sent to the gov
ernor OF Alabama demanding new
trial, with a jury composed of at
least one-half Negroes, for the nine
Negro boys facing electrocution in
Scottsboro, and to the governor of
New Jersey demanding the uncon-
ditional release Of the five Paterson
workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-12
Hundreds Join Walk
out AS Militia Camp
In Battlefield

mining town, the grand jury has in
dicted 20 on murder and other
charges, and the militia have come
into the field, on a bargain between
the governor and the United Mine
Workers officials that the company
gunner were to be disarmed,
The present extension of the strike
is a protest over the breaking of this
promise by the governor.
II is surprising that the miners of
the Harlan field have endured their
serfdom as long as they have, for
conditions in some of the mines have
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-12
Scottsboro Conferences
Called in is Cities So Far;
Protest Sweeping Country
Northern Conferences to Elect Delegates tc
All-SOuthern Conference In Chattanooga
On Sunday, May 81
Work of Building Block and Neighborhood De
Tense Committees Being Pushed Many New
Organizations Send Ala Governor Protests
BULLETIN.

SEATTLE Wash May ia protest meeting
the Workers Center here
to the nine Scotsboo
grafton Sixty arrested all but 18 were
Sidney Bloomfield district organizer
arrested but released
resolution
adopted while the immigration thugs
workers the International while
The International
tonight The raid
workers.
The resentment of the entire working class continues
rise against the Scotsboro rameup and planned legal mas
of nine Negro boys and protests continuing to pou
in the governor of Alabama B. NJ Miller at Montgomer,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-12
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Workers Correspondence is the
backbone of the revolutionary press.
Build your press by writing for II
about your day TO day struggles.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-12
Is Cities Call United Front
Conferences.

United Front Scottsboro De
Tense Conferences are being
called in many cities as the
workers prepare to translate their
resentment into action through mob
llization and organization. Such
conferences have been called in le
cities so far. In all these cities every
effort is being made to line up all
workers organizations, fraternal bod
les, sports clubs, churches, etc, in
the movement to save the lives of the
nine boys
Calls for the conferences have beer
sent out jointly by the League Of
Struggle for Negro Rights and the
International Labor Defense. Speak
ers are being sent to organizations
and churches to appeal for support
OF the Scottsboro boys. Block anc
neighborhood committee are beins
organized. Every effort is being
made to mobilize the entire working
class and all sympathetic and pro-
gressive elements for the grim fight
to smash the Scottsboro frame-up.
More and More Mass Protest Meets
Mass meetings are being held here
more and more frequently. Every
where the movement to save the boys
is developing increasing tempo and
mass character, In New York, the
United Front Scottsboro Defense
Conference, which will be held or
Sunday, May IT, will be preceded by
a big parade and demonstration in
Harlem on May 16-this Saturday
The conferences in the North will
elect delegates to the ALL Southern
conference in Chattanooga on May
81
Tomorrow, Wednesday, there will
be mass protest meeting in the
Bronx, at the call of the Women's
Council No. 8, at 1922 Bathgate Ave.
a (which Mrs Ada Wright, mother
OF Andy and Roy Wright, two OF
the Scottsboro victims, will speak.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-12

GIVE YOUR ANSWER TO Hoo
VER'S PROGRAM OF HUNGER.
WAGE CUTS AND PESsEcuT1otu
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-12

Build Worcorr Group in your
shop. Write About your struggles.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-12
Southern Workers Join Protest.

CHARLOTTE, N. c., May 1.-THE
white and Negro workers of Char
lotte are aroused over the latest out
rage against the Negro masses and
are rallying, under the leadership of
the League of Struggle for Negro
Rights an dthe International Labor
Defense, to the defense of the Scots
boro victims of capitalist justice.
Many protest meetings are being held.
A united front conference has been
called for May "a This conference
will elect delegates to the All-South-
ern Conference in Chattanooga on
May 81.
California Workers Send Protest.
Los ANGELES, Calf. May 11.-A
CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE,
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Alabama.
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CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-12
Who'll Buy My Rum?

Rum according to Webster is an alcoholic liquor, prepared by fermenting molasses, mac erated sugar cane or other saccharine cane pro- duct, and dstillng Webster amplihes his definition by the information that rum is chief ly made in the West Indies. He might also have mentioned (but. of course. 1t wasn't necessary that the principal industry of the Virgin lS- lands was at one time the manufacture of St Croix rum and also bay rum. Prohibition ended all this for the natives of the Virgin Islands. It is too bad that Uncle Sam only owned them a few years prior to the advent of prohibition. They were purchased from Denmark in treaty proclaimed January 25 1917.
 Just at present delegation from the islands are in the United States with the expressed purpose of petitioning congress to allow the manufacture of St Croix and bay rum to be continued. It is the only means of livelihood on the island and when the United States ruled prohibition effective in its possessions just as much SO as in the states it destroyed native industry in which some forty factories were engaged. The Virg in Islands do not con- template the manufacture of rum for the pur- pose of sale there. but merely for exportaton. As this directly violates the 9th amendment it is doubtful if our legislators will heed the plea.
 Cane sugar is about the only crop raised on the Virgin Islands and since prohibition pre- vents utilizing this for liquor purposes the is- landcrs have been hard put to market their -rops prohtably. There is only one bank on the three islands comprising the group. Its charter expires in l934. The people are hard pressed to make a livelihood. This is glar ing example of the inconsistency of the pro- hibiton amendment. It has deprived race of people of its one means of sustenance. Pro- hibitonists probably would say the islanders should turn to a better pursuit than making St Croix rum. adjudged the finest favored in the whole world, but the Virgin Islands don't offer multitude of opportunities to the in- habtants.
 It is one thing to impose law upon man and at the same time deprive him of making an honest living The Virgin Islands. former ly the Danish West Indies. date back 10 the second voyage of Columbus in l494. There are three large ones in the group and about
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-12
Merit In Silence

Lincoln's birthday rolls around again, and according to newspaper tradition it becomes the duty of the editor to write another Lin- coin editorial If he fails in this annual task whether forgetfully or deliberately. he is sure of censure from patriotic readers. But really, what more is there to say? There are times when silence itself is eloquent Perhaps the editor will be pardoned on this occasion for printing poem written on the same theme by Ted Robinson, columnist of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, on February l3, of last year.
 One of those busy friends who love to
 coach
 And eensure, has this moment called
 to say
 You did not write of Lincoln
 yesterday
 He said it in tone of sad reproaeh. As who should hint: Your idle rhymes
 encroach
 Upon your patriotic duty - nay,
 You mock the gods obscenely, in That vermn do, you cock-eyed kitchen
 roaeh!'
 l showed him then the great pathetic
 sheaf
 Of poems sent by many yearnlng
 soul In stamme ring tribute to the honored
 Chief;
 And said (snd tore across the feeble
 serolD Some, greatness drives to doggerel. And some
 Have yet the grace to wonder and be
 dumb
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-12
Not Real Communism

One thing that might as well be recog- nized, while we are all talking about Rus sian Communism, is that it is not Commun- ism at all. The people do not share equally in property ownership and control. Things are run by little group of men. not by the people. The supreme authority is wielded by one man, Stalin, who until recently did not even hold public office. Instead of the proletariat controlling him, he controls the proletariat.
 Since the state, as represented by the governing group. holds and runs everything, it is State Socialism. This is a modified form of Socialism which combines capitalism with government. Instead of aboishing cap- ital, 1t makes capital public instead of private. The state is one great business trust. Thus the Russian experiment. as it now stands is not unique in character Russia has merely gone much farther along this line than other countries still dominated by private capital
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-12

John J. Raskob is nothing if not thorough in his management of the affairs of the national democratic party. Not content with keeping its finances on an even keel he is now ready to launch the l932 offensive. For this purpose he has called a meeting of the na- tional committee on March 5, one day follow ing the close of the last session of the 7lst congress. Of course there may be special session called by President Hoover. but ostenslbly the 7lst congress ends on March 4. The democratic national committee has not met since 1928 when it ratified Alfred E. Smlths choice of Mir Raskob as national chair man. Political writers view this unprece- dented call as promising of future events of national prominence for the party Proh- btion is mentioned quite bit. Of course MT Raskob is wet and would like to have the party adopt wet plank in l932. But 'the good old southern democracy will prob ably put its foot down and squelch this at- tempt. At least Mir Raskob is getting the jump on the field, Perhaps he and Jouett Shouse, the energetic head of the executive committee, have something in mind that will produce as good results as did the Shouse publicity campaign last year.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-12
LINCOLN AND MIR MASTERS. (New Haven Journal-CourierJ


 MT Edgar Lee Masters, a Chicago unconventional history of Abraham Lincoln. The reaction from all sources and all directions, has been strictly conventional. Mir Masters has been called a defamer. pre- varicator, a muckraker and several terms even less complimentary. His honesty has been suspected, his scholarship, even his sanity. His book appears to be endlessly offensive to great many people He has writ ten, that IS, a best-seller.
 Now we ourselves have shared in the vensration for Abraham Lincoln. The glamor of the school-book hero has been somewhat abated by later slider the author of the Gettysburgh Address ether than a great man. Perhaps a compromiser might have averted a bloody and expensive war which pc manently crippled one seg- ment of the nation, but then again perhaps ne could not. What we do feel in this instance is that the cri- tics of Mir Masters book are little afield from the teaching that one should cultivate charity toward all," malice toward none." MT Mas. ters has made careful study of all the Linco'nia available. Seen through the film of his own prejudice he has evolved an unpleasant picture. But there is no support for conclud- ing he has been insincere or merely wilfully slanderous. We have no doubt he is sincere and feels he is doing a public service. Neither have we any doubt that Lincoln will be remembered with reverence long after MT Masters and his book are forgotten. We think friends of Lin coin can afford to be calm.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-12
Help For Covered Wagons

Showing the folly of making philanthropic trust funds inflexible in their administration, the director of big foundation tells of the fund left two or three generations ago to pro- vide relief for trevelers going west in covered wagons. The trust still exists. and there are funds in the treasury, but there is no way to use them because, as the director explains, pioneers now go west in automobiles.
 The covered wagons limitation should have been omitted. Also, perhaps. the direc tion taken by the pioneers. Then the fund would have been available to help more mod ern forms of pioneering Still, couldn't lawyer make a pretty good case for touring flivver as new type of covered wagon?