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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-10
RAIL UNION HEADS
MEET IN CHICAGO
TO AID WAGE CUTS
Daily Worker Prints
Program of Struggle

NEW YORK.-Over 1900 general
chairmen of railroad union lodges
are now in session in Chicago con-
siderng a 10 per cent railroad wage
cut which the railroad bose sinsist
on putting over, and in which they
have the support of the foremost
leaders of the railroad brotherhoods
However, the union leaders are
finding it difficult to put the wage
cut over. They are proposing many
schemes by which they hope to fool
the rank and file.
One of the maneuvers of the union
takers is the proposal of a six-hour
day. But they say nothing about
wages. The idea is to start off with
six-hour day which would amount
to about 25 per cent wage cut and
then permit the bosses to speed up
the workers so that they do eight
hours work for six hours pay. The
demand of the National Railroad IN
dustrial League is a six-hour day
with eight-hours pay.
Not one word of struggle has been
mentioned by the $500 general chair
man who are meeting in Chicago.
Everything is being done to keep back
the fighting spirit of the men.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-10
ADMIT STRIKE OF
CIGARMAkERS TIE
UP ALL OF TAMPA
United Press Garbles
Story Of Basis Of
General Strike

NV YORK.-Taking first cogniz-
ance of the general strike in Tampa,
Fla. Of cigar makers for the release
of sixteen framed workers and for
improved conditions in the shops and
unemployment aid and insurance, the
United Press, capitalist news service,
carried garbled story of the strike
in the leading capitalist papers here.
The United Press dispatch is forced
to admit that the city is paralyzed by
the general strike of the cigar work
ers and is just as effective, to use the
UP simile, as q steel strike in Youngs-
town or in Gary.
The United Press story makes It
appear that the strike is around the
issue Of the readers tribune alone,
whereas the strike originated in the
demand of the workers for the re-
lease of sixteen of their fellow work.
ers now being held on a frame-up
charge after police fired on q Nov
7th meeting in celebration of the 14th
anniversary of the Russian Revolu
ton. The strike now is also for
struggle against wage cuts and speed
up and for immediate unemployment
relief for hundreds Of unemployed
cigarmakers.
The attempts Of the bosses to
abolish the readers tribune the work.
ers correctly, recognized as one of a
series of repressions of the workers
organizations, and an open wedge in
attacking their low wages and poor
working conditions.
Vida Obrera, Spanish organ Of the
Communist Party, in its story of the
70 hour political strike in Tampa tells
how all shops and schools were closed
through the pressure Of the workers
demanding the release of sixteen Of
their comrades framed on serious
charges by the police.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-10
NAACP INSPIRES
BOSS TERROR IN
CHATTANOOGA
Militant Workers and
Organizers Are
Arrested

CHATTANOOGA, Dec. 10.-That
the arrest of Jane Dillon, Interna-
tional Labor Defense organizer in the
South, and Dan Brooks, of the Trade
Union Unity League, may have been
instigated by the Interracial Com
mission and the NAACP, is the belief
of General George w. Chamlee Of
Chattanooga, LID attorney.
General Chanlee declares in a let
ter to the LID that the two workers
are being Jailed and prosecuted in
order to drum up a ''red-scare" as the
basis for a membership drive by the
NAACP. Trades against the ''reds"
we're flungout hot and furiously at a
meeting of the two refor1nist organ
izations in Chattanooga on Dec. 7th.
At a hearing of Dec. 8, Dan Brooks
and Jane Dillon were bound over to
the grand jury for trial in January
on charges of "vagrancy." Both have
been released under $500 bond The
arrests are part of a reign of terror
against organizers and militant work.
ers in Chattanooga.
Efforts will be made by the court
to send Brooks back to Harlan, KY,
where he is charged with criminal
Syndicalism. At Harlan, too, news
was spread that the coal operators
had set price Of $4,000 upon Dan
Brooks head--dead or alive. "In view
of the report of the Dresser commit
tee, we think we could get a fair trial
in Kentucky and for him to go back
would mean to be crucified," writes
General Chamlee.
''There is q great bitterness against
the Communists and against the LID
because of its friendship for people
who need assistance writes this
southern lawyer. 1.-THE courts and
the police here are greatly prejudiced
against the LID workers, and has a
result these two people have little
chance of acquittal, Notwithstanding
the fact that they are absolutely in
nocent Of violating the law"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-10
Fear That Sumner Was Murdered
By Kentucky Coal Company Thugs

Bell County is expected TO be repre-
scented, and already credentials from
Tennessee and Virginia are arriving.
Miners arrested, report on their re-
lease that every other miner in Jail
has been signed into the National
Miners Union. Organizers lose no
time.
Throughout the region, there is in
tense activity The Women's Aux
iliaries that are growing rapidly. will
also be represented at the conven-
ton.
Miners families, starving now on
nleager scri ay, are slowing away
buckets of lard and sacks of flour in
rearation for the coming strike. The
convention will set the strike date.
In most Of the mines hereabouts,
the oerators have discontinued Off
cial ay days and don't even issue
statements any more. What scrip
they can squeeze out of the office,
the miners get at the end of the
days work. With this scrip, miners
wives reckon carefully before choosing
in company stores where prices are
sky-high, and frequently do without
meals to save a bite ahead" for the
strike. Even the kids know that strike
isn't far off.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-10

Hunger March Committee urges all
workers; Negro and white; men, wo-
men and children to come to Ferry
Hall, near Russell, Sunday December
18th at / p m. and march, together
with the Hunger Marchers, to Dance
land Auditorium, where thousands of
workers will hear the report of the
action of the U. S. Congress and
Hunger Hoover, concerning Unem-
ployment Insurance.
This meeting will also be pro-
test against the falling of John
Schmies for sixty days, by Mayor
Murphy, for leading the Unemployed
workers in the struggle for immediate
relief. Mayor Murphy has always
paraded as liberal and leader for
"free" speech and assemblage, and
stands exposed today as an agent of
the bankers, auto manufacturers and
real estate sharks.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-10
OF 2,12O IN 'LIBERATOR' /.
CIRCULATION FOR WEEK OF DEC. 5

monstration of thousands! Rose F.
in sedalia, Mo. got 25, sold them like
hot cakes, and now gets a regular
bundle. We predict a double order
pronto.
please send me Is copies of the
LiberatOr," writes L. M, Houston,
Tex. I'VE have cOlOred members
of the /. L. ID. international Labor
Defense) here and feel sure we
can sell lis a week with a wide
spread distribution. Workers VIII
know The LiberatOr can smash the
Ku Klux Khan in Houston and
everywhere.
Akron, o. takes two bundles Of IS
and 10; Niagara Falls unit Of the
Communist Party orders 10; 2. P. Of
New Bedford and NC. of Omaha
start with each.
Push Subscription Ahead,
While bundles increases keep COM
ing in, paid-in- advance subscriptions
are the backbone Of the Liberator,
they supply the finance necessary 70
publish the paper. Subscribers have
the advantage Of receiving the paper
at home, where the whole family can
read it, and besides receive a choice
Of premiums (printed in another
section). Remember the trip to the
Soviet Union for the worker who
obtains the most subs. Keep a few
blanks in your pocket. Talk about
the Liberator to workers at meetings,
affairs, in shops and in the homes.
They'll subscribe. Write for blanks
to The Liberator, Room 20l, so Eas'
13th Street, New York
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-10
MASSES EAGER
FOR REPORTS OF
THE DELEGATES
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columns will rest overnight. The
Unemployed Councils and the local
Arrangements Committee for the
National Hunger March has put up
an incessant fight for real food and
clean lodging, not the slop and slop
house Accommodations given them on
the way to Washington.
After leaving Pittsburgh tomorrow
morning, Column four arrives in
Steubenville at II a. m. where they
hold a meeting on the courthouse
steps. The next meeting will be held
in Yorkville at 2 p. m, when the
march proceeds to Martins Ferry
where meeting will be held at p.
m. Bridgeport workers will greet the
marchers at half past three in a
meeting there, and then the March
will go across the bridge into Wheel
ing with a mass escort. The last
stop in the Ohio Valley, will be in
Bellaire, at 6 p. m.
st. Louis Workers to Greet Column a
at the City Hall Dec. is.
Column goes Northwest, towards
Youngstown, with a similar set of
meetings arranged at stops on the
way.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-10
BRAZIL ORDERS
DESTRUCTION OF
TONS OF COFFEE
Masses StarVe AS Food
Is Destroyed

The policy of destruction OF food
stuffs in the face Of mass starvation
continues with the latest move in
this direction being taken by the
Brazilian Coffee Trusts. The Ma
tional Coffee Council of Brazil, in an
effort to bolster up the falling price
Of coffee has ordered the destruc-
ton Of 100000 baks of coffee within
the next twelve months In addi-
ton an export tax has been placed on
coffee Of five shilling over and above
the present tax of ten shillings a bag.
These emergency measures have
been taken in desperate attempt to
ward off the growing bankruptcy of
the coffee markets. They are an out
come Of the secret conference held
on Dec. LIST at which delegates Of
eight coffee states met with rep
resentative of the Brazilian govern
ment.
Although the policy of restricting
the cultivation of coffee and the de-
struction Of existing supplies has been
pursued since the beginning of the
crisis, the worlds visible supply of
coffee, not taking into consideration
the coffee stored in the interior ware
houses of Brazil, has risen to 6,754,-
684 bags on Dec. / as compared with
6,374,431 bags on NovA LIST. The sup
ply of coffee on Dec. LIST last vas
5,014,312 bags.
The tremendous overproduction of
coffee has had its effect in steady
lowering of the price of coffee on the
world market. The drop in prices
continued unabated especially in
view of the prospect of a total pro-
duction of coffee this year of "a mill
lion bags which is considered very
large crop.
In fact the Brazilian government
forecast calls for combined pro-
duction of coffee in 1881 33 of 80 mil
lion bags. This amount is from ten
to twelve million bags in excess of the
usual consumption of Brazilian coffee.
The present price of coffee on the
New York market is from to 8 cents.
This is a ruinous price for the coffee
merchants and spells disaster for the
Brazilian capitalists who deal mainly
in coffee.
The crisis is sharpening in Brazil
with these developments to the point
where a commercial moratorium was
forcibly declared and a suspension OF
service payments on the foreign debt
adopted. The difficulty of obtaining
credit abroad as result Of the NOR
atorium and suspension has forced
the government to still further ex-
pand its shaky credit by permitting
banks to sell remittance abroad up tc
$4,000 day whereas they had beer
formerly permitted to sell only up
to $4,000.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-10

OF the increase OF 2,120 in this
weeks circulation tables, 1000 comes
from new orders, and 1000 from spe-
cial bundles which will be taken off
next weeks chart. This figure indi-
Gates real possibilities for mass cir
culation once The Liberator is made
known to Negro and white workers.
Detroit shows the largest gain OF
706, special orders for their first Red
Sunday last week. New York pumps
to a sound increase of 500, chiefly
from the L. S. N. r. groups doubling
orders. They are on the job to reach
their quotas, but are neglecting the
Harlem section where Negro workers
read the LiberatOr from cover to
cover. Push the paper in Harlem,
New York. Philadelphia's boost Of
514 includes new regular order Of 200,
an extra 800 provided for the Hunger
Marchers in Washington. Chicago
comes next with a basic increase of
I278, aided by orders of 215 from
Chicago and 100 from St. Louis.
Birmingham RECEIVERS from its SUM
bers with an increase of 104 thru a
bundle of 100 in Sanford, Fla. Still
too little for the South, Birmingham
Minneapolis shows a large drop Of
81 due bundle stop of 100 in Hurley,
Wis. where q comrade (un) FORUM
ately found job. Why not turn
your bundle over to some unemployed
worker (and there are plenty every
where, rather than stop Spreading
the Liberatorl
Promises-But Not Action
Why cannot Pittsburgh, which
recently waged strike struggles of
Negro and white coal miners,
double its present insignificant cir
cuIation of 200; or Connecticut the,
center of war industries where
thousands of Negro and white
workers are employed, show no
thing but single subscription?
What has happened to CALIFORNIA;
earnest promise to tighten up the
Liberator apparatus, and show re-
suits; and to the assurance of
Charlotte, N. G. that 'Liberators
were handled fairly well, with good
prospects for subscriptions" Pro-
misses without acting won't bring
mass circulation. Back them up
with figures!
Bundles Increase--Subs Lag
A bundle of rs Liberators. paid in
advance, starts the Youngstown, o.
Fred Douglas Branch of the League
of Struggle for Negro Rights. Be
sure, comrades, the Negro and white
workers of Youngstown Sheet and
Tube and Republic Iron and Steel
get their copies. E. S. L. Of Tuscon,
Ariz. sends 80 cents "for copies for
free distribution" From Washington,
D. G. came an extra order of IT'S to
supply the Hunger Marchers-a drop
in the bucket for a powerful mass de-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-10
n. Y. Hospital Denies
Medicine to JObless
New York, N. Y.

ANCW NJ Az l.
Daily Worker:
Since October 18, / have been going
to the Polytechnic Hospital every six
days for o bottle of medicine that I
paid so cents for. Yesterday morning
however, / was unable to pay so I
told the social service that I was
unemployed and requested the medi-
cine free. The woman in the social
service then put on a sour face and
went to the doctor in the laboratory
and told him to prepare the medicine.
It was prepared in twenty minutes
and when the clerk called my num-
Der, said thanks. The clerk grabbed
me by the arm and demanded the
50 cents. do not come again" he
said, unless you have the money to
pay"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-10
DEAD DEMOCRATS
VOTE in ATLANTA
Live Workers Denied
the Right
tBy a Worker Correspondent


ATLANTA, Cain a mock graft
investigation" it was found that
people who had been dead for years
we're voting regularly. In order to
vote, worker must go to the city hall
in February to sign tax statements,
then at least a week before each
election during the year he must
register at the city hall. A list of
those registering is taken to the polls
and when a worker calls out his name
and address to the agent at the polls,
the agent tells him there must be
some mistake as his name is not
there. The worker, not knowing how,
and being afraid Of losing his job, to
follow it up, usually quits trying to
vote. Anyway, the bosses count the
ballots and some are advising their
employees whom to vote for. The
voting facilities are kept open only
during "office hours" and most work.
ers cannot attend to all this. During
their short lunch periods, the places
are too crowded.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-10
Editorials See M a IS
Support for March;
"Hard to Meet
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from the sidelnes; the onlookers we're
uncomfortable, many see m d
ashamed"
The editorial asks rs it ended?'
and refers to "the remaining 100000
johless who would not march under
Communist leaders" The editorial
writer either does not know or deli
berately conceals the fact that these
1870 marchers were the elected dele
gates of the millions of jobless, speak
ing in their name. And there are
100000 jobless now, not just 5000
900.
The editorial agrees that the "Com-
munist leaders proved yesterday their
ability to organize a peaceful demon
straton"
Hard To Meet
The New York Post organ OF the
banking house of j. p Morgan, dec
1ares plaintively: Hunger marchers'
and similar demonstrations are hard
things TO meet. There is certain
amount OF justification for them, even
if it is felt that that justification is
being exploited for political ends" The
Post then goes on to insist that the
march was "premature"-in the third
year Of mass starvation! 1t then goes
on to talk against Communist lead
ership, but still again admits that at
had so much reasonableness that it
had to be met reasonably"
This too is amazing, since the
marchers were met by huge display
of military force, machine guns and
automatic rifles.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-10
Report Gain In Cases
Of tuberculosis In
Pennsylvania State

A report of the Pennsylvania State
Department of Health for October
reports an upward jump in the num-
Der of tuberculosis cases. In that
month there were 100 cases reported,
which is the highest, excepting Octo-
Der, 1928, for the past ten years.
These figures are very incomplete as
it is well known that statistics on this
disease of the working class are very
poorly gathered and reported. The
rise in these cases is due to the star
Walton existing throughout the state,
especially in the coal fields.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-10

observed by nations interested to
break them or enforced by other
parties to them the whole structure
upon which the peace of the world
rests is an illusion and we are not
only all savages but hypocriticaI
savages."
U. S Supports Japan in Pari
The cynical hypocrisy of Hoover's
and Bakers attacks on Japan is fully
exposed in the continued support
given by the United States to Japan
in the secret imperialists meetings in
Paris. A Paris dispatch to the New
York Times reports u. S. Anbas ador
Dawes approving the League Council
resolution which practically turns
Manchuria over to the japanese. The
dispatch reports Dawes in several
secret conferences with BRAND at the
French Foreign Office, and with Sir
Eric Drumlnond, secretary general of
the League of Nations. OF these con-
ferences, the dispatch say League
officials expressed satisfaction with
tie visit of the Artrican ENVY and
seemed pleased az what Mr.. Dawes
expressed Washington approval of
the resolution and preface and of the
main lines of the Councils plan of
procedure, while asking details there
on"
Council TO Adjourn to Leave Japan
Free to Carry Out Plans.
The dispatch further reports that
the League Council plans to adjourn
today, unless confronted with
japanese attack on Chinchow." It
is understood that the Council has
accepted the Japanese demand. that
Chinchow be included in the "Japa-
ne zone" in Manchuria. Adjourn
ment at this time means that the
Council will leave the field clear for
Japan to carry out her war moves
in Manchuria, If satisfied that Japan
will confine her military activities
NlOItlll bilC
A Mukden dispatch indicates that
Japan will forcibly seize Chanchow
as voluntary withdrawal of the
Chinese troops from that city by the
Marking government would face that
government with the immediate dan
ger of an overthrow. The dispatch
openly states that for Marking to
voluntarily withdraw would be al
most suicidal for the Chinese govern
ment in view of the excited popular
opinion and the student agitation"
1t ees as the "only other alternative,
having the Japanese Army forces the
Chinese armies southwark of the
Great Wall"
Japan Is New Drive Northward.
Japan is reported in new drive
into northern Manchuria. The drive
is accompanied with . renewal of the
campaign of lies and provocation
against the Soviet Union, thus clear
ly revealing its anti-Soviet signifi-
canoe. A Tokyo dispatch peddles
anew the lie that the Soviet Union
is supplying arms and munitfon to
the Chinese n1ilitarist Gen. Ma Chen
Shan. II says:
Consul General Ohashi at Hardin
reports that shipment of munitions
has arrived at Hailun from Blugo-
vestschensk and has been delivered
at the headquarters of General Ma
Chen han in $50 Chinese carts and
twelve motor trucks. He says there
were 1000 casks, each marked in Rus
sian, 1900 rounds.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-10
Worker COllapses at
Baltimore Job Agency
Baltimore, Md.

Baltimore, Md
Daily Worker:
Yesterday afternoon a young fellow
fell over in the municipal employ
ment agency while waiting for a job.
The doctor said that he tainted from
lack of food. The truth of the matter
is that a fellow, q buddy of mine
has been sleeping on the floor at the
mission and eating the slop that they
hand out there He also used to go
up to the Maryland General Hospital
where they have a soup line every
day. Eating the slop in both places
which is hardly fit for pigs, and
sleeping on the floor has made him
SO weak that he tainted in the en-
ployment office while waiting for a
job which is never to be found.
A Worker
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-10
THE ARMY OF
HUNGER is
MARCHING

The Army OF Hunger Is Marching
(Song Of the National Hunger March
We march on starvation, we march
against death;
We're ragged; we've nothing but body
and breath.
Chorus:
From North and from South,
From East and from West,
The Army of Hunger is marching!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-10
Very few districts have as

Very few districts have as
yet set definite dates for
readers conferences. These
conferences are vital If the
drive for 5000 subscriptions
to the Daily Worker is to be
successful. All districts must
report the dates for their
readers conferences. Only
a united effort on the entire
front will win the battle for
5000 12-month subs.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-10
Drive Toledo Family
Into A Vacant Lot
(By a Worker Correspondent

TOLEDO, Ohio.-We have o family
here who had all their furniture
thrown out into the street month
ago because they couldn't pay rent.
They are now living in a tent in a
vacant lot wondering what they are
going TO do when the weather gets
colder.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-10
On Boston Common.

BOSTON. Mass, Dec. 9.-All Bos-
ton workers and unemployed are
called to Boston Common, Charles
st. Mall, Sunday, Dec. 10, at 4 p. m.
to greet the returning National Hun
ger Marchers of Column /, which will
then enter Boston. The marchers
will outline the plans for a gigantic
nation wide demonstration TO back
up these demands, Feb. 4.
At 8 p. m, Dec. 10, there will be 8
Hunger March Banquet, at 81 Cham
bers Street, Boston, with speeches
and entertainment and food. The
National Hunger Marchers will be
there.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-10
Z Cleveland Meetings.

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Dec. 9.--Work-
erS in all sections of Cleveland will
have an opportunity to hear the re-
port Of the National Hunger March
ers Of Column in one of their own
neighborhood halls on Friday, Dec.
H. Seven different meetings are to
be held on that evening under the
auspices of different branches Of the
Unemployed Council.
The Hunger Marchers viii lten how
President Hoover and the rich mems
Congress in Washington turned down
the demands of representatives Of the
jobless While in Cleveland on their
way back they will be housed and fed
by the Workers International Relief
at the East Side Hungarian Hall, the
Ukrainian Labor Temple, the Work.
ers Center on Kinsman and the
Lithuanian hall on E. 10th Street.
The meetings on Friday will be held
at p. m. in the following halls:
Rayford- jackson Hall, 1904 Scovill
Avenue; Gardina Hall, Mayfield Hall
(probable but not yet certain; Col
linwood, 967 Nathaniel; Carpenters
Hall, Kinsman and E. 135th st; Pull
ask Hall, 1928 Chambers Avenue;
Finnish Hall, 1903 West 55th st.