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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-24
Mayor Admits He Represents Only Bosses

Than further he boasts of the fine
schools and churches this city has
They are much needed institutions
for the boss class. Schools to poison
the minds of workers children and
make them submissive slaves and the
churches to finish the product. OF
course, these 200 churches that Oak
land boasts of are not taxed a red
cent. The poor workers, who still
hang on to mortgaged home (great
many already gave them up) are
taxed beyond their limit. These mil
lion dollar churches are untouchable,
The rich are helped by having their
properties assessed at less.
Workers must see through all this
fakery of boss class and organize to
establish different system to abolish
this-establish workers and farmers
government. Workers must abolish
all parasites whether they be civil
or robed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-24
CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE


John Brunn, Frank Farris, F. Fisher,
George Pasco, Mrs. John Koskie,
Leon Schey, Mako Goshen, John
Koskie, Tony Allen, VIM. Morris,
Adam Slaskivich, Harry Bordin and
Thomas Hart. Some of them are
also charged with assault and bat
terry.
On Wednesday there will be tried
for conspiracy" and other charges:
Stanley Maiczak, Louis Wazney and
Mike Penatti.
Just as news comes out that the
gunman has been freed of all charges
who shot young Joseph Vargo
through the arm and knocked him
off the fence he was sitting on, then
walked up to him and shot him
again through the chest as he lay
on the ground near Vesta No. 4
Mine, three of Joseph's brothers are
placed on trial, Wednesday, for "ag-
gravated assault and battery and
rioting." They are John, Mike and
Steve Vargo. With them are to be
tried Mike Stastistian and Joseph
Stastisian.
Wednesday also Paul Bobich and
Pete Leske will be tried for "rioting
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-24
Mcdonald Prepares Vicious
Attack On British Workers


In an effort to overcome the bud
getary crisis and to place itself in
a position to compete with its i'm
perialists rivals in the world market,
the British capitalist class with the
help Of the Socialists" is carrying
out a drive ito reduce the cost of
production" This will be effected,
if possible, by attacking the living
standards of the workers, reducing
unemployment relief, and other So
cial assurances which are a burden"
on the profits of the British bosses.
This is part of the international
drive against the working class OF
the world. Great Britain, under the
leadership of the Socialist" McDon-
aid is falling in line on the wage
cutting front with Germany, the
United States, etc.
1t is Mcdonald who is drafting
new scheme (which it is believed will
meet the situation a scheme which
will in other words stave off the col
lapse of British capitalism at the
expense of the very life blood Of
the working masses in England
The necessity for a united front
of all the capitalist parties in the
attack is such that "the opposition
press will contain editorial praise
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-24
RUSH Sub RENEWALS TODAYDAMY
WORKER CLUBS IN DENVER, COLO.

We quote below from an interest
Ing letter received from the new sec
rotary Of the Denver, Colo, Unem-
ployed Council.
Gust n few lines to let you
know what methods are being pur-
sued here in building up the Daily
Worker and carrying ON work
among the NegS0 sections. Al
ready we have 100 new twice-a-
week route subs-One in the middle
of the week and one on Sunday.
These were secured by personal
contacts. We have ordered rs cx-
ira copies of the Daily to take care
of this work. At the rate we are
going we hope to run this up to
at least 200 and probably 400"
"Whut we do il, say, leave Mon
days issue in one house and Tues
days issue in the next. As the sub
scribers live so close to each other,
they can easily exchange issues
with each other, which they nre
doing. This brings them together
to discuss the valuable work the
Daily is doing and gives them
chance to read four issues for the
price of two"
OF course, twice-a-week route subs
are splendid as a starter but every
one of the workers contacted in this
way should be urged to take the
paper every day so they can be sure
of keeping in touch with the strug-
giles of the workers in the mines,
textile mills, and then, when they
are through with the paper, pass it
on to the other fellow-workers who
are not subscribers. This can best
be done by the formation of Daily
Worker Clubs and we hope the sec
rotary of the Denver Unemployed
Council will take the initiative in
building some of these clubs in the
Negro sections he has been cover
ing.
Groups of Negro workers meeting
together, reading and discussing the
contents of the Daily Worker, send
ing suggestions for the Improvement
of the paper to the Editorial Depart
ment. discussing local problems, etc,
with entertainment. musicals, re-
freshments, etc, will provide some
real social life for the workers of
Denver The Daily Worker Club will
bind them even closer together than
they are now.
PhiIa. COntempIates New Club.
A Negro comrade who halls from
Philadelphia, Pa, is convinced of the
practicability of Daily Worker Clubs
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-24

CHARTERED in the Morrison Hotel,
near the Stevens Hotel, where the
governors conference met, ready to
launch murderous attack on the
unemployed workers. Some of the
coppers openly made statements
that they were brought here for this
purpose and are ready to shoot
them red"
The Association of Commerce and
the other capitalist agencies direct
ing the city, did not make up their
mind yet as to when they should step
into the scene. Some of those who
learned from the militant resistance
of the workers on August Bird want
to exhaust first all means Of social
demagogy and terror on local scale
before again using the machine gun
and poison gas bombs against the
workers. The others led by the
Mccormick Chicago Tribune gang
wants to let loose bullets and gas
Immediately. These believe they can
do in 1881 what was done in 1886,
following the Haymarket massacre.
In the meantime, the city coppers
acting on the orders of the Negro
and white landlords are beginning to
use their clubs more and more vi
ciously. Workers have been dubbed
and arrested in the last four days at
several eviction cases that are going
on in spite of the fake promises of
Mayor Cermak.
Last Friday group of 20 unem-
ployed workers led by Council No. IT
demanded more relief from the
United Charities office at 1160 Mil
waukee Ave. They were attacked and
viciously dubbed by policemen with
one of the workers, a war veteran
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-24
Workers Collapse from Heat and Speed-Up i'm
Tin Plate Mill

The openers used to throw stick
ers on the floor and now they have
to pile tim on buggies and the stick
er puller must do likewise when they
open the iron.
In the picking department the
picklers used. to fill the boxes up
with tin and put water on them with
acid. Now the bosses make the work
ers put the acid on first. The work
ers' hands are burned every day from
the acid. Their hands swell up and
get into a terrible condition from
this work.
Workers of McKeesport Tin Plate
Company, the only way you can get
rid of these terrible conditions is to
organize into the Metal Workers In
dustrial League, 1925 Walnut ST., Nc
Keesport, Pa.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-24

taken to the hospital with six stitches
on the head
Millionaire Mayor Cermak and his
republican allies are preparing more
bullets, more massacre in Chicago.
Behind the smokescreen of the
miserable 100000, which the En-
Urgency Commission wishes to extort
from the workers still employed,
they are ready to shed more blood
of unemployed workers. Governor
Emerson who refused to listen to
the Hunger Marchers in Springfield,
has $50 state troopers and fed at
the exclusive Hotel Morrison where
one days room rent for these Cos
sacks amounts to more than the
weekly relief given by the United
Charities to the lucky" unemployed
families, getting any relief whatso-
ever.
Workers! Employed and Unem-
ployed! Protest Against this Terror
against the Unemployed!
Demand the Immediate Stoppage
Of Evictionsl Demand the Imme-
date Withdrawal of the $50 State
Cosacks from Chicago and the Police
Detachment from the South Side
and other Working class Sections of
the Cityi
Organize your Unempioy d
Branches and Block Committees
everywhere. Form your defense
corps to prevent the massacre anG
beating up Of unemployed
Working class Organizations! Send
resolutions and kilograms of pro5es.
to the Mayor and Governor! Elac.
delegates to the September 10 Cool,
County Conference! Unemployed and
Employed Workers Unite! Demand
immediate relief for the Unem-
ployed Fight wage cuts and the
stagger plan!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-24

and is trying to organize one in his
netghborhoOd. Every home among
the working class" he writes,
Should have the Daily Worker and
ize Daily Worker Club of readers"
Let's hear from other Negro works
ersl
A Marx and Lenin Study Club has
been organized by a Chicago Unit
and the comrades have decided 10
order fifteen more copies Of the
Daily Worker every day. They also
hope to triple this number in very
short while.
We would like to suggest to the
cOrades that they also start
Daily Worker Club of workers and
sympathizers of the Daily. Pos
sibly the Study Club can become a
part of the broader Daily Worker
Club. We don't think this would
interfere with the work the Study
Club had been planning 10 do, but
would rather enlarge it's scope and
widen it's ranks. Part of the meet
ings of the club could be devoted
to discussion of the Daily Worker
and other local problems and part
to study. We would like to hear
from Chicago ON this point.
Daily Worker Picnic Mt Lynn, Mass.
The annual Daily Worker Picnic
Of the Lynn, Mass, Unit will be held
TINS year on sunday, Aug. 80, all day,
at Paul Lebel Grove, $50 Andover St.,
Danvers, Mass. Haverhln, Lowell
and Lawrence Units will cooperate
to make it a success and insure q
large fund for the Daily Worker. All
Massachusetts workers are cordially
invited.
South. SIav Orgs. to the Forefront.
A check for $50.33 has just been
received as a donation from various
South Slav organizations to the Daily
Worker Sustaining Fund: Local PSI,
c. F. u, of of Amer, Duluth, Mimi,
$3.50; Local 512, C, F. u. of Amer,
Niagara Falls, NY, rs cents; Rad
mix Club Of Oakland, Calf, $11; Mt.
View, Calf. collection and income
from Radnik and Daily Worker af-
fair, $12.2S; Club Milan Glumac, Chi
cago, Ill, income from picnic held
for Radnik and Daily Worker. $145O;
Croatian Beneficial and Educational
Society, 'Sloga," Monessen, Pa, $40.
Total, $5O33.
We hope some of the other frater-
nal organizations who have not yet
fulfilled their quotas in the Daily
Worker campaign will follow suit
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-24
Try To Stop Collapse
Of Capitalism At
Workers Expense

for the Mcdonald Government for
what is construed as its decision to
proceed with its program of eco
Monies, according to the New York
Times.
In order to aid the Mcdonald gov
eminent to put over its attack on
the working masses, the Trades I'm
ion Council has started to disagree
with Mcdonald The Trades Union
Council is doing this in order to be
able to sell out the workers at the
proper time in the near future. The
friction" between Mcdonald and
the reactionary Trades Union Coun-
Gil is nothing but hypocritical play
to deceive and mislead the masses
who indicate that they will not stand
for the new economy" wage cutting
scheme which Mcdonald hoped to
put over for the bourgeoisie.
The capitalist class is preparing to
drop Mcdonald If it becomes neces-
sary to substitute a conservative
government under Stanley Baldwin.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-24
fBy a Worker Correspondent

ny q FOIAcE SUIIcSpOuucut.b
Oakland, Cal-Chamber of Com
merce and the city parasites are glad
to change to city council-manager
system of government, for to them
it is an interesting and encouraging
event.
j. G. Struble, president of the
Chamber Of Commerce, told the
council that the business interests
are back of you for you will do some
thing to reduce taxes" Newly ap-
pointed Mayor Morcom states, some
of the problems confronting us will
be Immediately to secure efficiency
in all municipal departments, lessen
ing the tax burden, especially upon
the business establishments. eve
knew that this was aiming to relieve
their friends-the business people
from paying taxes, which they con-
sidered too much for them. Birds
of feather flock together to help each
other).
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-24

benefit. I hope the workers of this
club are doing the same thing right
on and on. At Milestone, KY, the
same thing happened. Workers of
Milestone, follow the actions of Kona,
put every foot forward. Donate the
limit. 1t is up to you workers to
push this fight. In struggle like
this, leaders are only part, the
masses must be sufficiently aroused
as to see their immediate danger and
press forward and push their leaders
to an ever increasing pace. Mobilize
your factory or mine workers into
the revolutionary industrial unions.
Do not be fooled and misled Does
any political party Except the Com
munist) write relief into their party
platforms? Does any party repre-
sent the workers and the workers
only? Ask yourselves these ques-
tions. 1t is not question of getting
rid of such and such dirty crooks as
may now inhabit an office on your
parties ticket. The system is dirty
itself.
Over the top brothers, let them fill
their jails. The more prosecutions,
the harder your efforts-and, the
greater your reward. Join the Re-
yolutionarv movement TODAY Ami
hilate the capitalist system, establish
your own.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-24
B. C. Forbes. A Sour Grapes Economist

new tractor plant has proved a
fiasco.''
Such malicious lies in the face of
the undoubted success of the Five
Year Plan and the amazing aptitude
of Russia's youth for handling ma
chinery! It's sour grapes for this
lying, red-baitng Hearst economist. .
Thank goodness Cofnrade Stain
and the Party see the necessity Of
group of trained group of execu-
tives who will very soon have mas
tered the science of management.
One more disappointment for Yankee
bosses and their lackeys like Forbes
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-24
CHICAGO WORKERS
CON TINUE TO
FIGHT EVICTIONS

CHICAGO, Aug. 23.-Six eVictions
were stopped last Friday in the Chi
cago South Side by workers mob
ilized by Unemployed Council Branch
A. In one case, at 5o5s S. State ST.,
the police, arriving in several squad
cars and patrol wagons, succeeded in
arresting seven workers. But in all
other cases the crowd, numbering
from 500 to 1000. sent by the IN
employed Branch, succeeded in pre-
venting the eviction. The intensifi-
cation of the struggle is not limited
to the South Side. All branches of
the Unemployed Council, including
several that were hardly functioning
before, are getting more active, lead
ing fights against evictions and de-
handing relief.
Unemployed Council IA, located at
2733 Hirsch Blvd, had a demonstra-
ton Friday before the United Chart
ties office at 1880 Milwaukee Ave, in
which 200 workers participated. The
police came there in full force, beat
up several workers, one Of whom is
a world war veteran who is in the
hospital with six stitches in his head,
and arrested four. One hundred
workers came to the meeting of the
Unemployed Branch the same day
to join it and to discuss the next
steps to be taken.
Unemployed Branch II and Unit
404 of the Communist Party, in And
Ward, on the North Side, arranged a
demonstration against oscar F. Nell
son, vice-president of the A. F. of L..
and alderman of the ward. The dem
onstration elected committee of 10
to see Mr.. Nelson, a ranking mem
Der of the Finance Committee, and
demanded that the unemployed in
this ward are given relief. Mr.. Mel
son, knowing of the demonstration,
hda members of the red squad in
the office to protect the labor lead
er" from the unemployed workers.
This Republican. politician belly
ached about the Democratic Mayor
Cermak being responsible for the
present situation, but when he was
reminded Of his record under the
Republican Thompson, he got impa-
tent and said: Cant do anything
now. Come next Thursday" The
branch will see to it that this will
be done next Thursday with many
more workers to be called through
le~ Flets.
These are some of the reports COM
ing in from various parts Of the city,
sowing that the working class in
Chicago is taking the proper steps to
fight against starvation this coming
winter. The September 10 Confer
ence will have the task to unity all
these struggles in the various neibor-
hoods, thruout the entire Cook
County, and to raise them to a higher
plane thru arranging county wide
hunger march. The news about the
conference are very encouraging. A.
F. of L. locals among other organi-
cations have been visited and several
elected delegates, in spite of the fake
Labor Day demonstration of the Chi
cago Federation of Labor. The Chi
cago workers are determined not to
starve, in spite of the bosses terror!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-24
CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONED

house here in the City Hall first,
and then I would stop the landlords
from evicting workers, and tell the
police department to lay Off" On
this, Mayor Murphy said, ut cannot
be done, because I am a lawyer, and
know just how far we can go within
the law. There is a state law where
by the landlords have the right to
evict tenants for the non-payment of
rent. And the police department is
here to keep peace and order, and to
prevent rioting. Therefore, the May
or has no authority in this line at
all, although I will instruct the pol
ice to be gentle" Ito use black jacks
instead of hickory sticks).
In short, the whole attitude Of the
Mayor was an attitude of evasion
and sneering at the unemployed
workers. He also admitted that there
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-24
(By a Worker Correspondent

(By a Worker Correspondent
NEW YORK, N. Y-B. g. Forbes
outburst in the New York American"
against the Soviet Union and the
Five Year Plan is typical of all
Hearst scribblers and economic lex
perts"
Said Forbes: Russians have de-
veloped no aptitude for intricate
machinery operation Russian
Communists are utterly hopeless
when it comes to the science of
management Russias great
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-24

ers' and capitalists profits at the
expense of the wordng-class.
The wage cuts which have taken
place on local scale are already
being transformed into a national
wage cutting campaign.
The stock market writer Of the
Wall Street Journal admits this
when he refers to the slump in the
stock market following the news of
the proposed steel slash.
"Stocks today" he writes, came
under the influence Of nervousness
over the immediate effects of wage
reductions in the steel and rail-
road industries and other basic
industries"
The campaign in steel will be the
starting point for the campaign in
the railroads and the chemical, auto
mobile, rubber, food and other in
duStries. The Evening Post states
quite openly that ga reduction in
wages by the steel industry will be
followed by wave of pay cuts in
other industries"
Fear Resistance of Workers
The nervousness in the stock mar
ket resulted from the fear of the
capitalists that they will not be able
to put through these wages slashes
without rousing the bitterest resist
ance on the part of the workers. The
Wall Street Journal writes that the
slash in the steel industry is '1ikeIy
to accord the first test of the wage
controversies"
The steel, railroad and all other
workers must prepare to meet this
attack on the part of the bosses. The
capitalist press in announcing the
wage cut campaign Of the bosses,
points out particularly that the crisis
in the coming winter will become
sharper. The sharpening of the
crisis and the wage cut campaign, is
a direct attack on the very lives of
the workers, their wives and children.
Organize and fight the hunger at
tack Of the bankers and the bosses.
Organize shop groups to rally the
workers of your shop against this
attack. Join the revolutionary unions
Of the Trade Union Unity League.
Repel the attack of the bosses with
a fighting united front of the work
ing-claSs.
MONESSEN, Pa, August o.
Some idea of the storm brewing in
the steel industry, always closely al
lied with coal in this district, can be
seen from the list of wage cuts or
dered by the American Sheet &
Tin Plate Co. here. Average reduc-
tons per five tons OF metal handled
ere: for cold rollers $1.35; roughers 80
cents; doublers so cents; pair heaters
60 cents. heaters IS cents, heater
aelpers 60 cents, catchers 10 cents,
s;ngleboyS SIS cents and screw boys
so cents.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-24
100000 Gal. of Milk Dumped In River While
Children Starye

here in Oakland is rumored in the
near future and the Oregon distrib-
utors are importing milk from Wash
ington and California in an effort
to break the milk famine" Several
hundred gallons were shipped north
from Oakland yesterday.
Answer the murderous tactics of
this corporation Nestle's Baby Food
which covers it's rapacity with it's
charming pictorial advertising of
chubby, cooling babies which in &C
tual life it callously dooms to starv-
alton. Support the struggle of the
poor farmers and dairy workers. Or
ganize shop committees Join the
Agricultural and Cannery Workers
Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-24
(By a Worker Correspondent


McKeesport, Pa.-During the sum-
mer days the hot mill workers go
through untold suffering. They have
to stand the terrible heat that comes
from the furnaces. Many workers
have been carried out of the mill
due to this heat, and yet the bosses
ask them to come back and finish
their turn. So many workers are
getting sick now that the bosses are
calling those just out of sick beds
to the mill If they can't get the
workers by phone they send a car
after the convalescent worker.
In the opening department each
mill had "a sticker pulled to open
the stickers. Now there is one stick
er puller for every four or five mills.
The sticker puller must run from
one mill to the other all day long.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-24

investigators now in the Hankow dis
trict complete their survey" Under
the guns of the American fleet the
Nationalist are going to let the
Chinese masses starve by the thou
sands.
The imperialists are ready to
drown in blood the Threatening re-
volt of the Chinese masses who are
not being saved from the natural"
calamity. The natural calamity is
the product of the use of vast sums
by the militarists and the Marking
government for war instead of for
protection against such natural dis
asters. During the past years the
war lords have despoiled the land,
have robbed the masses in the in
terestS of the capitalist powers and
the Chinese bourgeoisie. 1t is only
in the territory of the Soyiets in
China that the labor of the masses
has been used to improve their con-
ditions and not to enrich the bank
ers and factory owners. The flood
ing of the rich valley of the Yangste,
the worst that has ever occurred in
China, is the result of the bloody
struggle for oppression and exploita-
ton that the Nationalist and for
eign imperialists have carried on
against the Chinese masses. And
the Yankee gunboats have been
rushed in to hold its Nationalist
tools in power and to suppress the
tens of millions who have been
rushed in to hold its Nationalist tools
in power and to suppress the tens
of millions who have been driven
even below the starvation level.