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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-08
By ROBEET w. DUNN.

Amnesty for every class war pris-
oner in the country is the aim of
the militant working class move
ment. Every worker should Join in
the campaign to make Aug. %, the
anniversary of the murder of Sacco
and -Vanzetti, a day of effective pro-
test and demand for the freeing of
the prisoners-every one of them
from Tom Mooney to the most I'M
heard Of strike picket in the cells
Of Pennsylvania, Pawtucket or Pat
erson.
But no matter how loud our pro-
test against the Imprisonment of our
fellow fighters, it is clear that we
will not get them all out at once. or
on Aug. %, 1881. The fact is that
we Will still have several score in
prison after Amnesty Day and the
problem Of freeing them will still be
our steady au-the-year- round job.
Faced with the men in prison
what can we personally do about it,
in addition to bending our energies
to freeing them2 We can make
prison life a shade more bearable for
them by sending them money with
which to buy books, papers, fruit
candy and other things. And we can
help to take care of their needy
mothers, wives and children. If We
don't, nobody will. The class war
prisoners, incidentally, are not living
like kings in prison-like Maurice
Connolly, Harry Sinclair, Albert Fall,
Al Capone and the other rich racke-
teers occasionally sacrificed for a
few months of idIeness in order to
save the face of capitalist Justice.
AS individuals we on the outside
don't know the names and addresses
Of most Of the political prisoners.
That is why we have to do this job
in an organized way-Why we send
out money to the Prisoners Relief
Fund, organized under the AUSPICES
Of the International Labor Defense. !
This fund is made up of some so |
writers, artists teachers and other
sympathizers who are not just let
terhead. They actually give gener-
ously themselves to help the I. L. D. |
cover all the ''overhead''-cost of
crcularization, etc.-so that every |
penny that comes in for the pris-
oners and dependents goes to them.
This policy has met with a warm
response among many folks who
heretofore have taken little interest
In prisoners relief.
These contributions and pledges by
individuals are over and above the
direct and substantial help of the
I. L. D. branches, some of whom give
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-08
DON'T FORGET THE PRISONERS!

I as high as $50 a month for this
necessary relief. Were it not for
the work of these branches the re-
lief to prisoners would be impossible.
They are the backbone of the work
(and any I. L. D. branch not al
ready pledged to certain amount
should make this the first point on
the order Of business for the next
meeting).
But these monthly branch pledges
Of the I. L. D. branches do not meet
the $500 to 5000 which the I. L. D.
National Office tries to send to pris-
oners and dependents each month.
So, individuals-yOu who read this
must contribute to the fund, not
only contribute once, but pledge
certain amount each month just as
you pay your dues to union or fra
ternal organizations.
That the SIS monthly checks sent
to prisoners and $40 checks to de-
pendents are appreciated is clear
from the many letters that come
into the I L. D. office-from
MONEYS mother, from the wives of
several Of the Imperial Valley pris-
oners, from the Scottsboro children,
from the men in the Pennsylvania
prisons under the Sedition Act. A
few Of these warm notes of thanks
are printed from time to time in
the Labor Defender, organ of the
LID.
If you have ever been in jail-or
even in the hospital-you know what
it means to receive even a postal
card from a friend on the outside.
And how much a visit means to you
then! Most of US can't visit the
prisoners in person or even write to
many Of them. But we can all help
to make them hear the voice of the
L L. D. through the monthly check.
That is the least we can do as in
dividuals.
As every one knows, this is not |
charity" 1t is working class relief |
to comrades who, at the moment, |
happen to be where they particu-
larry need our support and encour-
agement. The jailers of capitalism
DO everything they can to make life
difficult for class war prisoners. Let
US show these jailers that the boys
in prison have plenty of friends on
the outside who not only struggle to
get them out, but remember them
concretely while they are in.
If you want to help this vital work
let us hear from you before Aug. %.
Begin this month to give something
regularly to the Prisoners Relief
Fund, addressing your contribution
to Grace Hutchins, Treasurer, Room
$50, 80 E. 18th ST., New York City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-08

This is how the Russian workers
are trying to find the form of or
sanization to increase production, to
establish their life on a higher cul-
tural level. In their Red Corner
they will gather together for their
meetings, for their cultural eve
nings. There they will sing their
songs Of freedom. They are the
builders Of SOCIALISM.
Compare this with the conditions
Of the workers In the United States
OF America. With the starving min
ers in Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Ohio.
etc. Or take the workers in any
state or city. Take the millions Of
unemployed left without any means
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-08
The Prelude to the selI-out.

Many wrong steps not in accordance with the
militant policy of the N. r. w. u before and
during the strike laid the basis for the later
sell-out. ID Dansereau and company fought
against the formulation of demands for the un-
skilled crafts and departments, thus narrow
ing the struggle az women and youth work
was neglected by the N. T. w. u and the strike
committee. Hence these workers broke ranks
first and returned to work (3) No real at
tempt was made to develop mass picketing.
Legal1st ideas In the strikers ranks were not
eradicated. (D Dansereau spread the idea
that the whole hope Of the strike rested on the
vague promise of the loomfixers of the National
Providence Mil (2nd A. W. G. Mill In Olney-
ville) to join the strike and not on the fighting
ability OF the Weybosset workers This was
tolerated by the union. (5) The N T. WI
committed serious error in not preparing for
simultaneous strike action in a number Of A. "
c. mills before the Weybosset strike broke.
The Party takes responsibility for HyM,
failed in its efforts to overcome these u,sssahs;
and shortcomings through the Party fraction; >;
the union xr~
New Struggles Ahead.
The company feels strengthened through the
defeat OF the Weybosset strike. It will hasten
Its fresh wage-cutting and speed-up policy. The
workers will again unite their ranks and answer
with strike struggles. Neither the Communist
Party nor the National Textile Workers Union
which 1t supports knows defeat. The Party and
the Union must be maintained and strengthened
IN all the mills OF the A. w. G. In preparation
Tor the coming battles against the Wall Street
bankers controlling the company.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-08

jump. Many of the members Of the
Commune needed extra money for
special purposes, as, for instance.
specialists, foremen, etc., who needed
special books on technique, and SO
on. This 100 per cent specialization
of the wages meant the equalization
Of wages. regardless Of qualifica-
tons, and this, according to the line
Of the Party, is not a correct policy
in the present stage of socialist de-
velopment. The Commune was,
therefore, reorganized on new basis.
Instead Of 100 per cent socializa-
ton, 1t is now based on go per cent
Of Specialization as a temporary form
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-08

and political classes. The conditions
for becoming member Of the Com.
mune is that the applicant works in
the same department, so that 1t will
be possible to check up his role In
production. At present s5 per cent
OF the members are either Party or
Y. G. L. members. The Commune
also include married workers with
children. To lead the work a coun-
Gil OF five is elected. including
president. treasurer. productional or
ganizer and cultural organizer. The
days off from the factory are usu-,
ally spent. either in the countryside
or by excursions on the famous Volea
River.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-08

until 100 per cent can be realized.
These so per cent are used for food
rooms, education, cultural needs, etc.
The other 40 per cent are kept by
the Garner and he disposes of them
in the way he pleases.
At the present the living quarters
Of the Commune are being reorgan-
lied. After this is finished the
Commune will have its own Red Cor
ner, library, reading room and room
for technical studies, etc. The mem
bers Of the Commune are now study
ing In the factory circles, but as soon
as the reorganization is finished the
Commune will have its own technical
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-08
SACCO-V ANZETTI.DAY WORLD WIDE
DEMAND AMNESTY AUGUST %.

f other strikes, wholesale deportations,
printing of the foreign-born,
lynching, race discrimination, all
present-day tyrannies.
In memory international labor
Joins the traditions Of the Haymar-
ket, Ludlow. Homestead, McKees
Rocks, Joe Hill, Frank Little, Ella
May with Sacco- Vanzetti Day. Thus
August 22nd becomes a concentration
pfoproletarian rage against boss class
bloodshed and misery inflicted upon
labor through many years. '-i
-
But Sacco-Vanzetti Day has even
deeper roots in other lands. Over
the whole of Latin America the work.
ers will link the double-murder OF
Sacco and Vanzetti with the thou
sands slain under Wall Streets ban
ners from the Rio Grande to the
southermost tips OF Chile and the
Argentine.
!. The assassination of Julio Mella
in the streets of Mexico City; the
massacre Of the Colunia banana
workers, the wholesale prosecutions
in Cuba and Porto Rico; the mass
slaughters in Haiti and Nicaragua,
are outstanding examples of the
fiendish class rule of the American
dollar through which profits are har-
vested from invested billions in Cen
trail and South America.
South Africa, Negro and white,
joins in protset against Scottsboro.
Not only in Johannesburg, however,
but north into the streets of the
population centers of Ekypt and Nor
Deco, a whole continent will join in
exposing the social system of Wall
Street that spawned the slavery Of
the Firestone Rubber Company.
The Dawes Plan, the Young Plan,
the so-called moratorium, have all
brought home directly to European
labor the sinister purposes Of the
Hoover Mellon Stimson- Morgan gov
eminent. Sacco-Vanzetti Day in 1881
will thus help open the eyes of Eu-
ropean labor more than ever to Wall
Street recruiting of imperialist pow
ers for war against the Soviet Union,
Workers and peasants in the Soviet
Union, in China, in India and other
nations of the Orient will this year
register new high-leve1 OF wrath
against the dominant imperialism
that took the lives of Sacco and Van
zetti,
At the same time workers every
where will also direct their attack
against the reaction in their own
countries.
Sacco- Vanzetti Day for the Lib
eration of All Glass War Prisoners
has a significance for workers in all
countries when it is remembered that
every capitalist nation joins in build
ing the monstrous total Of 10000
working class prisoners in the dun
geons of capitalist oppression. From
the. year 1929 to 1880 the number OF
working class revolutionaries SEN
fenced to death by capitalist class
Justice has increased from 14,625 to
90,854.
Sacco-Vanzetti Day, August ~,
1881, thus rings the world with its
laundering appeal for the mass pro-
test of labor against the persecution
of the masses by the international
boss class reaction.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-08


the true statistics.
Danger of Intervention
The danger of intervention against the Soviet
Union has tremendously increased during the
past few years. Proof is glance at the war
charts OF the various imperialist countries The
graph of expenditures on ornaments rises to
unapproached peaks. The swarm of anti-Soviet
campaigns and provoCations-the Popes crusade,
dumping" forced labor, and the provocations
of the neighboring lands about the Soviet Union
the Gordon sanitaire"-is added proof.
The fight against the menacing war danger
has become central task OF the LID today
Preparation for August First was a prin-
cipal point in the activities of the organization
from coast to coast and is interlocked with the
fight for Amnesty for the Scottsboro Negro
boys, the Alabama share-croppers, the striking
miners, etc. the Chicago unemployed
Labor Defender Reaches 10000
Representatives of the lid have been active
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-08
BY J. LOUIS ENGnAHL.

~ u AOCA0 GNHOAk1Ls a
Sacco-Vanzetti Day, August 22nd
has become an international day Of
mobilization for labor.
It is rapidly taking its place. with
Increasing importance, among the
other days" Of world labor.
The Bolshevik Revolution gave Ne
vember Seventh to the workers Of
the world and developed the signi-
ficance of International MAY Dav
May First.
The anniversaries OF the death OF
Lenin, and of the martyrdom of Lieb-
knecht and Luxembourg, are remem-
bered everywhere. .f'
August First in the crash of fever
ish preparations for a new war, is the
Red Day of Labor's International
Struggle Against Imperialist Slaught-
er. The growing unemployment es-
tablished March 6, in 1890, and Feb
ruary Is, in 1881, as international
days of struggle against starvation.
When the millionaire governor Of
Massachusetts,, Alvin T. Fuller, gave
the signal to turn on the electric
switch and burn out the lives of
Sacco and Vanzetti, in 1927, this ex-
ecutioner of workers serving the IN
terests of the New England coupon
clippers and industrial overlords es-
tablished new date on which world
labor is making history.
Sacco and Vanzetti were done to
death in 1927, when American i'm
perialism was enjoying comparative
prosperity" following the political
and economic storms of 1920-21, when
the two italian workers we're arrest
ed and faced with judicial 1ynching.
The first, second, and third ami
versaries of their murder have wit
messed the development of ever
greater difficulties for the boss class
that feared them alive, but that now
trembles and frantically calls for its
police in many nations in the effort
to blot. out observance of their MEM
DRY, Of their service to the whole
working class.
This fourth anniversary, August o.
1881, will establish new milestone
in international labor's struggle
against ruling class oppression the
world over. ~
Sacco-Vanzetti Day is becoming
definitely the Day of Struggle for
the Liberation of AL the Class War
Prisoners, one of the two anniver-
saries of the International Red Aid,
the other being the anniversary of
the Paris Commune, March 49,
1t is the International Red Aid,
of which the International Labor De-
Tense is the American Section, that
has sent out the call to mobilize to
workers the world over; the IRA that
made the long fight to save Sacco-
Vanzetti, that carried through on a
world scale the Gastonia protest and
that now orgarizes the mobilization
against the burning of the nine
Scottsboro Negro boys, and the per-
secution of the Camp Hill, Alabams
share choppers.
Before the workers of the world
Sacco-Vanzetti Day cannot be sep
arated from Scottsboro, Camp Hill,
Mooney and Billings, Imperial Val
ley, Centralia, Woodlawn, Atlanta,
persecution in the coal, textile and
'.,t.-s
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-08

OF subsistence. Liberty under capi-
talism means the right for a few to.
exploit the masses to Cypress them
with police clubs, machine guns, tears
gas bombs, prison and chain gang
sentences, the electris chair, The
workers Of the United States must
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-08

rally under the banner of the Com
nunist Party for the successful de-.
feat of American capitalism. Under
the leadership Of the Communist
Party the American working class
will eventually build SOCIALISM in
the United States of America,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-08

Deportatlons in America have gone into I'M
told thousands as Secretary of Labor Doak hides
the true statistics.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-14

revealed ir 1856. Davis. then secre. tary of war. imported 73 camels Into Texss for use in transporting cargo ovci the lonely wastes of the west.
 Only lvwly burros were used as beasts of burden in the desert and 1t appeared that the camel. which is a much faster animal. would solve the problem.
 The cainels did - during the rainy seast n. But after several weeks of work during the arid summer weather the cameis, their feet torn to shreds by the small flint rocks. fell to their knees.
 These sinall rocks, 1t seems. were peculiar to American deserts. As the came.r could not be shod they were use!6ss.
 The entire consignment was pen- stoned on a grassy reserve in Ari- zona. but 1t was believed most of them we~: killed by Indians who were frightened at the numbering animals as they raced about.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-14

state had tried to prove, except that he put upon his own recital the interpretation of self defense.
 Dirty" politics, centering on his own candidacy for municipal judge--a contest he lost by only l3.000 votes although on election day he was in jail charged with two murders-brought on the gum play, Clark contended.
 Crawford and Spencer, both pow CTS in locaf politics. asked him to help frame his friend. Chief of Police Roy steckel, the defendant said.
 "I called Crawford a dirty. low down skunk for asking me to do such a thing" Clark told the jury.
 T told nim was going out and build my campaign speeches around his filthy suggestion. told him ! was going to broadcast over the radio everything that happened in his office that afternoon.
 Crawford told me that no---- ever talked to him like that before and with that he reached to the side of his belt and drew a revolver. (The state has contended that Crawford had no revolver).
 'I grabbed his gun hand and held 1t tight, with the gun parallel ed between us. He put his other hand to my throat and yelled to Spencer: Get him. Herb
 T had my gun out by that time"
 What happened them?" droned the voice of w. 1. Gilbert, defense attorney.
 q shot Crawford!"
 What happened next?"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-14

of the National shawmut Bank of Boston, is chairman. The 37 Communities which either are maintaining, or have informed the council that they are estab- fishing. community employment ifl- dices, are as follows:
 Maine. Auburn, Bangor, Lewis ton, Portland.
 New Ha psh ire: Concord, Franklin, Manchester, Rochester, Whitefield. Wilton.
 Vermont Brattleboro, Burling- ton, NortLheld. Rutland, St Aibans.
 Massachusetts: Attleboro, Metro politan Boston. Brockton, Fall Riv- CT, Gardner. Holyoke. Lawrence, Leominstef, Lowell, Southbridge, Springfield. Taunton, Worcester.
 Rhode Icland: Covered by Brown Business bureau.
 Connecticut: Bridgeport, Derby, Hartford, Meriden, Middletown, New Britain, Stamford. Williman- tic.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-14
IN. E. Council Checks
 Up On Unemployment
Thirty-seven Communities to Establish lason With
 Chamber of Commerce or Other Organizations

of the coLLcil's committee on com munity development. which devised the plan tor community indices and secured its adoption in numer- ous communities.
 MT Tinsley, who is vice-president and genera! manager of the Cromp- ton and Knowles Loom Works here. pralSed the cooperative spirit displayed by New England bankers in helpinA to make these indices possible ih 37 cities. The bankers cooperated. he pointed out by agreeing 70 make available regular ly to the local organization com piling the index, figures for total payrolls handled by the banks. Payrolls, Mir Tinsley said, form the best basis for an employment in- dex.
 Aid of the bankers was secured through action of the councils CO., operating tankers' committee, of which Waiter S. Bucklin, president
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-14
ATTORNEY CLARK
 TELLS HIS STORY FOR FIRST TIME
Former Deputy District Attorney Saved Himself From Death By Killing Two ASSailantS
BY GEORGE H. BEALE United Press Staff Correspondent

tShhtNo hC1o Dhuhh &ohANohsOhssShtV
 Los Angeles, Aug 14-David H. Clark, former deputy district at- torney, faced bruelling vross ex- animation today on his contention that he killed Herbert Spencer, political magazine editor, and Charles Crawford, veteran poli- tician, in self defense.
 The fury of the fire he faced was indicated by the manner in which Special Prosecutor Joseph Ford tried to break down Clark's contention that he would not have shot Spencer and Crawford if he had not feared for his own life.
 Accused only of the murder of Spencer, the immaculate Clark poised and calm as ever, admitted on the witness stand everything the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-14
GIROS IN RACES

Cleveland.-A feature of the Ma tional Air Races in Cleveland this year will be 12 autogiros. These planes will perform some novel air stunts rarely seen by air race fol- lowers. The freak formations in- clude Ferris wheel" "merry-go- round" and others. The planes in- tend doing leap-frog and freak turns. The giros are scheduled to perform every day of the races.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-14
UNSHOD CAMELS
 FAILED IN TEXAS

San Antonio, Tex.-Because camels could not be shod a grand idea of Jefferson Davis to solve the transportation problem across the vast deserts of Texas, Arizona and New Mexico failed.
 Old documents unearthed here
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-14

T turned toward Spencer and saw him advancing, his arm swinging towards his belt"
 Then what?"
 ''I shot Spencer!"
 Since the double shooting in Crawford's office on May 20 and his own arrest shortly after. Clark did not speak one word in his own defense until he went on the stand yesterday in crowded courtroom.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-14

Worcester, Aug 14.-Thirty-sev- en commodities, comprising half the population of the six New Eng land states will soon have local employment thermometers" main- tained rently by the chambers of commerce or other local busi- ness organizations, as a result of the New England Councils cam paign to secure establishment of employment tndices.
 This WAS made known here to- day by John F. Tinsley, chairman
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-14
Road Conditions
 In Connecticut
Weekly Report of State Highway Dept Finds Many
 Roads Under Repair and Detours in Use

Ridgefeld. Mulberry street and Silver Spring road. steam shovel grading. No detours.
 Roxbury. Painter Hill road and Botsford Hill road. Steam shovel grading. No detours.
 Terryville. North Main street under construction. Passable.
 Trumbull. Huntington road is under construction. No delay to traffic. 'o
 Trumbul1. Daniels Farms road is under construction. No delay to traffic. 'o
 Waterford. The Cohanzie road is under construction. Traffic can pass. Grading is being done.
 DUCK PATCHED CHICKS.
 El Reno-Okla-Tire of coax- ing hen to sit na matching of 15 eggs. s. H. Bell put the eggs under a duck. All the eggs hatcii- ed and all the chickens lived.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-14

SEARS will comfortably SAVE MONEY both initial and fuel used Cold air taken from the heated and circulated
 possible fuel fully utilized This special includes delivery home installation and usual work connected with will be much higher later the son-ACT
Evening star., 1931-12-06
THE OLDER PACKARDs,

Quite frequently we receive
cars that owners have used
three, four or five years.
Usually they have had the best
of care. A few now on our
floor at an average price of
$500 offer the best, most dur
able and low cost transporta-
tion ever available at such a
price. The tires and finish are
very good. They made twelve
miles and better to a gallon of
gas. They seldom require
service. They are the best in
vestment in low cost transpor-
tation that we have ever Of
fered.