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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-07
MCMAHON ORDERS
STRIKE SMASHED
UTW Will Expel 1000
Unless They Yield

PHILADELPHIA. Pa, March6.-
Open, fragrant and official strike
breaking and wage cutting was re-
sorted to by the officials of the United
Textile Workers Union to smash the
strike of 1000 upholstery workers in
% mills here.
Yesterday. President Nc Malion
president of the United Textile Work
ers issued a fiat ultimatum that if the
1000 weavers do not go back to work
and swallow their wage cut, he will
swash the organization there, revoke
the charter, and form a new local that
will "obey arbitration wards" The
strikers meet tomorrow to decide.
The strike started Feb. 2 by rnan-
imous vote of the weavers, against a
fake arbitration which gave the work.
ers cut of wages of over IA per cent.
The U.TW. chiefs, including McNa-
hon, urged the upholstery weavers not
to strike, but were voted down by
overwhelming majority. The strike
started, and by its success, precipi-
tated or at least inspired strikes in
other branches of the textile industry
here.
But Mahon has been continually
pressing to call off the upholstery
strike which has got out of his hands,
and is a militant struggle.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-07
LABOR" GOVT
HOLDS UP $500

NEW YORK, March 6.-The Mac
Donald government in India has con-
fiscated the sum of $500 sent over
by the workers of the United States
through the International Labor De-
Tense for the support of the, victims
Of British imperialism who have been
massacred at the. behest of the Ga
Dor" government.
The money forwarded by the lid
to the Meerut Workers Defense
committee was sent last June and
when confiscated by the imperialist
labor government was kept secret un-
til strenuous demands were made by
the defense organization here. The
post master general in Bombay re-
piled to the Washington authorities.
The letter follows:
II have the honor to return here
with your reclamation No. 832826
dated the 28th of August 1880. issued
in search of registered letter No.
663083 at Station d New York on
18th June, 1880 and addressed to
Meerut Workers Defense Committee,
Indian Trade Union Congress, Boni-
bay and to say that the registered
cover and its contents were withheld
under the orders of the Government
Of India who have the power, under
the law, to pass such orders"
The International Labor Defense is
vigorously protesting the action OF
the imperialist English government
in withholding the funds from the
militant workers Of India
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-07

asylum, has been inaugurated by the
International Labor Defense. Petit
tons are being circulated by the
hundreds of thousands throughout
the United States and will be pre-
sented to President Hoover by a
delegation of workers about June %,
the end of the amnesty drive, and
coinciding with the sixth anniver-
sary of the l. L. D., organized in Chi
cago in 1925.
The petition demanding Hoover to
act points out that 1t was protests
in 1917 that forced President Wilson
to demand of the Governor of Cali
fornia that he commute the death
sentence against Tom Mooney to life
Imprisonment. Mass protest must
now force President Hoover to call
for the release of all political pris-
oners."
There are tpresent almost loo
political prisoners in the United
States serving sentences from six
months to life. Eight Imperial VAL
ley organizers are serving sentences
of up to % and AZ years for organ
izing agricultural workers in Cali
fcrnia. Mcnamara has been in San
Quentin since 1912. Tom Mooney
and Billings are imprisoned for life
and are now doing their fifteenth
year. The Centralia prisoners in
Walla Walla have been incarcarated
for their working-class activities
since 1919. Three workers are doing
time at Blwanox in Pennsylvania I'M
der the Flynn anti-sedition act, hun
dreds of workers are being deported
and some, like Guido Serio. will be
put to death by the fascist govern
ments of their respective countries.
The national office at 80 E. 18th ST.,
Room 430, New York City, asks all
sympathizers to write or call ~
kSssVsvAASs .ssu~>Lx~~. -. -
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-07
SOCIALISTS IN.
GERMANY AID
WAR ON USSR
Abramowitch's Cohorts
Repudiate All His
Vicious Lies
Especial cable to the Daily worker

Especial Gable to the Daily Worker)
MOSCOW, March 6.-Towards the
close of the evening session in the
trial of the IA Menshevik, self CON
fessed counter-revolutionists, the So
Wet prosecutor, Krylenko, announced
that he had received Geographically
two Berlin statements published in
the socialist newspaper 'Vorwarts" by
Abramowitch and Kurk Gross. Alb
ramowitch published a sworn affi-
davit denying that he visited Moscow
in 1928, stating he was in Mecklen-
burg resort. Gross states that he
heard from the Menshevik Schwartz
that in the summer of 1928 Abram-
owitch was there. Schwartz met
Abramowitch daily.
Krylenko stressed the fact that
Abramowitch's and CROSS state
mentS were juridically unimportant,
but that he wished the defendants
to make statements whether the evil
dence given by Abromowitch regard
ing his visit was true. Groman an
swered that he personally saw and
spoke to Abramowitch regarding the
fundamental questions of the Union
Bureau of the Mensheviks and their
CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVEl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-07

diately into factories for the manu-
facutre Of equipment and supplies for
war. The Detroit News Of Tuesday,
February II, 1881. states:
"In the event of another war, the
United States government would
turn out at once nearly 100000, 900
worth Of aircraft equipment with
a good profit to the bosses)--
half Of this to be planes and one
quarter to be engines"
All the leading bosses present at a
dinner of Detroit industrials on Mon
day at the Hotel Statler, called by
Maj. William H. Crom. chief Of the
industrial war plans section Of the
materials division of the Army Air
Corps, pledged their full cooperation.
Among them are the most vicious
enemies of the Soviet Union and the
American workers demanding unem-
ployment relief. Throughout the
country the war mobilization schemes
are going on at fast pace. Capt.
talIsm is rushing TO Wal, .,....,..
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-07
Dressmakers in Mass Picketing
Demonstration Mon; All Out!

strikers and the winning of improved
conditions by almost 1000 of them is
beginning to gall the needle trade
employers and their aides, the I. L.
G. w. and the police, Joseph Schnei-
der, an organizer of the N.T.WIU..
who was arrested recently on a
framed up charge and held in $1,000
bail, was rearrested yesterday when
he came up for trial in Jefferson
Market Court and held in $4,000 bail.
Children CT all the striking dress
makers in New York will be given a
dinner today at in the Harlem
strike headquarters, coll Third Ave-,
by the Workers International Relief.
The w. I. R. scouts will provide an
entertainment that will include sing
ing, dancing, sport contests and the
staging of play.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-07
FOSTER SPEAKS TO
STUDENTS TONITE

NEW YORK.-Comrade Foster will
address the students of the National
Training School at the banquet and
dance tonight at 8 o'clock at the
Workers Center, Is E. 18th st. This
banquet is being arranged by the
students of the Workers School to
welcome the students of the National
Training School. Many of the stu
dents have arrived from various
parts of the country for their three
month intensive and extensive train
ing.
The Food Workers Industrial
Union will prepare food for the ban
quet. Good music will be furnished
for the dance following the banquet
1t is going to be rare occasion. All
workers in New York should attend
the banquet and give the comrades
from other fronts of our battlefield
a monstrous reception.
Tickets for the banquet and dance
are limited in number.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-07

The first one took place three
weeks ago when the metal pol
ishers received a cut from 40
cents a piece to Is cents, a 37Ha
per cent cut. A portion of the
men working in this department
walked out. The bosses then in
creased the price per piece to 81
cents, but still IL cents less than the
previous price.
But the seeing that the men still
able to stand on their legs decided
that it is time for some more cutting
so here it goes, another IL cent
slice. This time somewhat over 4O
percent. The total cut to-date, within
three weeks, is about 60 percent.
Twenty-Five men immediately
walked out, of a total of 80 men in
this department. Those who re-
NAMED are imagination, and it is very
likely they will decide to make it
100 percent walkout.
The significance of this cut is that
it is only the first step that the Fisher
body slave drivers have taken in a
general wage-cutting campaign. The
workers from the other departments
know that they come next; it is only
a question of time. The workers OF
the Fisher Body must realize that
there is only one way of stopping
the mad rush of the company = to
organize and strike against wage
cuts and speed-up.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-07

poses the role of the United States
government as the chief prosecutor OF
the Negro masses.
The arrest of Yokinen is an attack
on the Negro toilers and the working
class as a whole. M
Race prejudice white chauvinism)
is a weapon OF, the bosses to split up
and divide the workers to keep them
from joint struggle against unem-
ployment, starvation, lynching, and
oppression.
The Negro misleaders of the type
of Motion. DePriest, Carney, Dubois,
etc., actively support the white ruling
class by their vicious attack upon the
foreign born workers and the revolu-
tionary labor movement
Against these splitting tactics of
the bosses, the "A. F. of L., the So
cialists and the Negro reformists, the
League of Struggle for Negro Rights
calls upon the masses of Negro and
white workers to raise a mighty pro-
test in joint struggle against dis
elimination and lynching of the Ne
groes, against the attacks upon the
foreign born workers, and against
capitalist oppression in general.
We call upon all League OF Strug-
gle for Negro Rights groups and af-
filiated organizations, and especially
Negro workers organizations to rally
to the support and active participa-
ton in the preparations for the ma
tion-wide Solidarity Day being held
on March % under the Joint aus
pieces of the League Of Struggle for
Negro Rights, the International Labor
Defense, and the Council for the Pro-
lection of the Foreign Born.
Demand the unconditional release
of Yokinen!
Smash all deportation and race dis
elimination laws!
Fight for full equality Tor the Ne.
groes and the right of self -detel nina
ton in the Black Belt!
Down with the vicious splitting tao
tics of the bosses!
Long live the solidarity Of Negro
and white and Of native and foreign,
born workers!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-07

NEW YORK. The interest of
workers in the strike of the New
York and Philadelphia dressmakers is
approaching something in the nature
of a mass movement. Workers or
CARNATIONS in New York, Chicago,
Los Angeles, Boston-all over the
country in fact-are sending in a
steady stream of contributions to the
$4,000 Dress Strike Fund.
None of the contributions are very
large, except, perhaps, those of the
international Workers Order, but the
solidarity that they indicate, especial
ly those byAA F. of L. locals and $50
cialist"- controlled fraternal organiza-
tions, are worth more than the sums
contributed.
Picketing has been intensified in
the last few days with the result that
clashes with scabs have been fire.
quent occurrence. There will be an
other mass picketing demonstration
on Monday. All unemployed workers
and all employed who find it posi-
BILE, are urged to meet in Bryant Hall
Sixth Ave. near And ST., on Monday
morning at a. M, from where they
will march to the picket line.
Hundreds Joined Union Yesterday.
Hundreds of unemployed dressmak-
ers joined the Needle Trades Work
ers' Industrial Union yesterday at the
conclusion OF meeting Of unem-
ployed dressmakers held in Bryant
Hall. The initiation fee for unem-
ployed dressmekers has been reduced
to IS cents Louis Lyman. chairman
of the rank and file strike commit
tee, addressed the meeting.
The continued mintancy Of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-07
OF
ALABAMA PLANS
TO GUST PARTY
Anarchy" Law Called
mot Severe Enough; )"

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, March Cit
is announced here today that tomor-
row the Alabama state legislature will
pass bill aimed at the Communists
to supplement the present Criminal
Anarchy" law. The hackers of the
new law term the present law mot
severe enough for the situation"
The new law will be modelled on
the Michigan criminal syndicalism
law, under which the famous Bridge
man raid and trials of Ruthenberg
and Foster we're conducted.
The employers and landlords OF
Alabama hope to smash the Commu-
mist Party and keep it from organic
ing Negro choppers in the Black Belt
The law is intended to be used against
organization of Negro tenants and to
smash the growing struggle of the
poor farmers throughout the state.
The farmers, under the leadership
of the Communist Party, are prepar-
ing to fight back.
Tom johnson, district organizer OF
the Communist Party, Jackson and
Burns are on trial here today.
johnson, Jackson and Burns were
arrested June %, 1880, in Birming-
ham, and charged with ''vagrancy,'
ridiculous frame-up. "Vagrancy" ir
Alabama will get sentence of a year
on the chain gang, 1t is the regular
scheme by which Negroes are en-
shaved.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-07
FORCE SHARKS TO
REFUND WORKER

NEW YORK-Wnen jobless
worker was gypped by shark agency
at 1929 Sixth Avenue he appealed to
the Unemployed Council nearby and
the Council members after short
sortie forced the job shark to give the
worker back his fee plus ST extra.
The worker had paid 81 for a job
as restaurant helper and was fired
after hours. He went to the agency
and demanded his money and in their
usual manner the sharks refused.
When the Unemployed Council
members trooped into the agency the
boss and two clerks repeated their in
solent refusal to refund the workers.
The unemployed workers got into ac-
ton and trimmed the three buzzards
in good working class fashion. At the
conclusion of which the chief shark
was only too glad to give the worker
IS. The worker donated the 81 to
the Daily Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-07
800 Noqv On Strike at Shelton
and Bridgeport Textile Mills
Women Walk Out Too;
i, Shelton Loom Fixers
Join the Weavers

BRIDGEPORT, Conn, March L.
On Wednesday night the night-shift
of weavers in the South shed of the
Saltex Mill walked out on -trike in
support of the 400 weavers in the
North shed who are on strike and
in sympathy with the Shelton weav-
ers strike at the Blumenthal mill.
The SalteX is also owned by Blum
enthal. Yesterday morning the day
shift followed suit in the south shed
of the SalteX mill, so that at present
the entire weaving department in
Bridgeport as well as in Shelton is
shut down tight.
Floor men and Wrappers also went
out in Bridgeport, and the loom-fix-
ers are out in Shelton. For the first
time, women weavers joined the
strike yesterday. The strike COM
mittee for both cities has been en-
larged to 30. The total number of
strikers has increased to nearly 300.
Will Spread.
1t was decided to send commit
tee to place the weavers' demands
before the mill management onSatur-
day, and if the demands were re-
fused, the strike is to be extended to
the other departments. An attempt
will be made to call out the entire
force in both mills, and to appeal
to the workers in the Blumenthal
mills at South River, N. j., and Un-
casyille. Conn. The help of tt : Ma
tional Textile Workers Union was
asked in this task. as well as in D.
ganizing a. relief campaign for the
strikers. .,..
Although the Blumenthal mills
claim they are running at loss,
the Saltex Looms. Inc. of Bridgeport
reported net profit of $26,33200.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-07

,he had died as result of a saw
age blow inflicted upon him by
a state trooper at the demon
stration at the state capitol in
Albany reached the office of
the Daily Worker through what was
considered authentic channels, con-
firmed by publication of the same
news in an Albany paper dated
March 4th. S!&s
Subsequent. inquiries have proven
that although Heit received a blow
that caused conclusion of the brain
and that he became delirious, he has
been arrested by the police of
Schenectady. and is now in Jail
charged with vagrancy. The first in
formation also misstated some fur
ther facts. Hsit is an ex-serviceman
and was shell-shocked during the
world war. as stated yesterday. How
ever, he is not married but resides
with his family in Poughkeepsie.
At the time of this writing it can
not be stated whether Heit will re-
cover from the blow or not.
The responsibility for his condition
rests entirely upon the state legisIa-
ture at whose orders the state troop
ers made vicious attack upon the
hunger marchers who went to AL
bany from all parts of the state to
demand unemployment insurance and
instead of being allowed to present
their. demands. were. dubbed and
slugged by the state troopers.
The Daily Worker will furnish its
readers with all information. A
lawyer Of the International Labor
Defense is taking UP the case of Heit
which will be fought~t to a finish. -
Intent to Murder
Though the Daily Worker regrets
| having printed misinformation about
Eeit's death. and is happy to an
nounce that this worker has at least
not yet paid the extreme penalty
which a capitalist government visits
upon those who defend the cause of
labor, it is necessary. to point out
that the intention to murder the
hunger marchers was shown not only
by state police by also by the legis-
lators. The legislators. shouted, "l-ill
CONTINUED ON PAGE FIvE)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-07
Workers to Defend Yokinen
March Is Solidarity Dag

NEW YORK. - In a manifesto
issued last night. the League of
Struggle for Negro Rights calls upon
the Negro and white workers to rally
to the defense Of August Yokinen and
other foreign born militants sche-
duled for deportation by the boss gov
eminent and names March % as Ma
tional Solidarity Day, day of strug-
gle against the persecution of the
foreign born and Negro workers:
The National Committee of the
League of Struggle for Negro Rights
fully endorses the uncompromising
stand of the Communist Party in
fighting against discrimination and
race prejudice as shown at the mass
trial of August Yokinen. We en-
phaticelly declare that August Yoki-
men, the defendant in this trial. was
arrested and held for deportation by
the U. S. government and immigra-
ton authorities precisely because he
had admitted his error in harboring
prejudices against Negroes and
pledged himself to correct error by
participating in the front ranks of
the struggles for Negro rights. Had
Yo'Sinen denounced the revolutionary
movement, had he failed to admit his
guilt, had he attacked the oppressed
Negro masses, the government author
tiles would have never arrested him.
The government knew OF the ap-
preaching trial, it knew of the
charges against Yokinen, but it took
no steps against him until he unre-
servedly denounced his previous posi-
ton and pledged to fight all forms of
race discrimination. This clearly ex-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-07
484 Detroit Factories
Ready to Produce
War Planes

will not only be showed to war, but
those in industry will have their
wages regulated"
How widespread are these definite
war preparations can be seen from
the fact that all the capitalists who
made fortunes out of the last war
are being called in by Hurley to give
undergraduates for the mobilization
for the next war. Among these are
Bernard Baruch, Wall Street banker,
who made millions through the last
slaughter and was head of the War
Industries Board, and Newton d.
Baker. Secretary of War under
Wilson.
From Detroit comes the news that
484 factories in the Detyoit area have
been mobili7sd 70 be turned iMms.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-07
.HEIT Is STILL ALIVE,
BADLY HURT; BRUTAL
ATTACK AROUSES JOBLESS
Legislatures Gloating Over Attack On the
Jobless Shows Willingness to Kill Them
Ex-Serviceman First Reported Dead, Found in
Jail; Has Been Delirious; Condition Is
Uncertain; LID. Works On Case -,
BULLETIN.

SCHENECTADY. Y, 6-Latest information
spelng)
puport-
to
promising
robbing o.
Knickebocker
possible
poccmans
Charles Heit who reported killed by the state troopers
Albany is still alive. He is confined in the county Jail
Schenectady derous condition. according to the
recent report.
The information in the Daily Worker to the effect tina
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-07
Labor Defense Opens Nation
Wide Campaign for Amnesty

NEW YORK.-A nationwide cam
paign for the immediate release of
all political prisoners, the. repeal of
the criminal sedition laws now ex-
istant in IS states and utilized for
the suppression of working-class ac-
tivities and the release of all for
eign-born workers held for deporta-
ton because of their militant activi-
ties as well as the right of political
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-07
Mooney Serial
Begins Monday

Read how Paul Scharrenberg
ordered the A. F. L. local uni
ons in California not to donate
any money to the Tom Mooney
Defense. Tom Mooney in his
book Labor Leaders Betray
Tom Mooney" tells how Schar-
renberg. political supporter Of
Gov. Young Of California, de-
featcd every attack on Young
In every A. +. L. Central Body
meeting, selling Tom Mooney
for state positions for himself
rrd others. Order extra bund-
l7s for this serial which begins
Monday.
100000 circulation news on
page 81
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-07
10000 Marking
Troops Revolt at
Sinyang. Join Reds

NEW YORK. - An Associated
Press dispatch received in New
York yesterday reports that 10000
Chinese soldiers of the bloody Ku-
omintang have mutinied at Sin
yang, 100 miles north of Hankow,
and joined forces with the RED
Army.
The soldiers tore up tracks of
the Peiping- Hankow Railway and
cut telegraph wires.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-07
SHOE WORKERS FORUM.

An open forum arranged by the
Open Forum Committee Of the Shoe
and Leather Workers Industrial
Union will be held Sunday, March 8,
1891 II a. m. at 100 Osborn Street,
Brooklyn, NJ
The crisis and the shoe workers will
be the subject Good speakers, all
are welcome; bring your shop mates.
free admission, .s ~. a
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-07
Fisher Body of Cleveland Cuts
Wages Of Workers Again 1910

CLEVELAND, Ohio, March 6.-The shrout metal finish
ers working the third floor in the Fisher Body plant this
city, section of the General Motors Co., suffered another 40
per wage cut Wednesday, This is the second wage
within brief period of three weeks.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-07
All Needle Workers
Attention!

There will be a general fraction
meeting Of all needle workers on
Saturday at . p. m. at Irving
Plaza. All Needle workers must
attend and bring along your Party
membership card.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-07

CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE,
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