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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-28
PRISON WORK TIRES NUN
Mother Conception Seeks to Spend
Rest of 2O-Year Term in Cell.

NEST OF NU- ear IeTHI IN OeII'
MEXICO CITY, February % R.-
Counsel for Mother Conception Acevedo
de la Llata announced today that they
would seek to have her transferred here
from the Tres Marias Prison colony,
where she is serving a 20-year sentence
after conviction as the moral author OF
the assassination Of Gen. Obregon.
H,r attorney said that she was being
forced TO work as q waitress at the
prison colony. She has served two years
there. but rather than continue she
would prefer, he said, to spend the rest
Of her days In q cell.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-28
SOVIET WHEAT IN MEXICO
5000 Tons Being Unloaded at Tam
pico, Paper States.

MEXICO CITY. February % Up
Excelsior said today that a shipment
OF 1900 tons of Russian wheat arrived
yesterday at Tampico aboard the Nor
wegian freighter Steinstad.
The papers Tampico correspondent
said that although the vessel came from
Canadian port It's cargo was known
TO be Of Russian origin. Tn. wheat Is
being un.oaded and shipped by railroad
for distribution in Central Mexico
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-28
FOOD REPORT EXPECTED
Capper subcommittee Probably to
Make Findings Public Monday.

The Capper Subcommittee OF the
Senate on food prices probably will be
ready Monday to make public a report
on the hearings 1t conducted 10 days
ago.
The subcommittee inquired into
wholesale and retail prices of bread,
milk and meats and also gathered some
data on sugar prices.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-28
WEATHER.

Increasing cloudiness followed by rain
late tonight and tomorrow: slightly
warmer tonight: minimum temperature
about 81 degrees Temperatures-High-
est, So, at 4:3O pm. yesterday; lowest, 80,
at 4:30 am. today. Full report on page l6.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-13
Fighting For Relief

An example of the carrying fight
IA poymen relief End and Rox
bury Branch of the Unemployed Council of Boston
This Unemployed Branch in eafe neghbor
hood explains the results getting exposes the
starvation policy of the municipal demagoge
Mayor Cle The difference
practices reiro 80 rouor w
that:
Boston has the best relief system in the country
Against this the committee from the Unem-
poyed Branch which approached
partment Miss Shay with specific
81 don't if they starvng!"
With this hypocrisy capitalist relief agencies bring
ing home the lesson Unemployed
Branch committees neghborhod to obtain food
Tor the starving families which the capitalist
Naturally this work the whole
both the existence of of actual
and cruelty to the workers of the The eaet
put out by the branch enumeate
cumsances OF the families it had
But matters not left there fight immediate re-
e the Branch rallies the neghborhood
et rene Tor the whole hundred thousand
Boston, and all obess neghorhood invited to on
the Branch which planning larger committee
to both the City Council the demand ~
lar relief and unemployment insurance
But while we observe tnis
Branch of Boston, instance in New York Cv
winch olcates policy OF inactivity
concrete tasks. ~ 49, -
had only ten weeks work in two wears and
whose vile and two children
Ies by the Police Departmentno Unemployed Council
This 1obess worker had capitalist solutions He had
500 apples He had been relieved
been to the Salvation pevousyand in oct
1000 from the Police Department and two little
children were starving
because policeman had been attracted
an le taking oil the whole family capitalist newspapers
spasm OF hypocrltca sympathy that
arc Taxing care OF the ase-he New York
Gil fails to see necessity with the family or
us neghoors with view to exposing nadeqIacies of the present
DO peins equal 10 tha received in the
Neghborood and others in the same
hood which would certainly rayng support to this
particular family e 'Npp0'O " Wis
In the first example how to carry on v sr,or
e IN the latter have how to do
nothing nothing but obstuct carrying out of work among the
unemployed 1e VIZ
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-13
MRS. WRIGHT AT 4
MEETINGS IN CITY

NEW YORK. - In the campaign
to rally all possible support for the
light to smash the frameup of the
nine Negro boys in Scottsboro, Ala,
whom the lynch-courts are trying to
burn in the electric chair, Mrs. Ada
Wright, mother of two of the boys,
will speak at four big mass meetings
this week, the Scottsboro United
Front Defense Committee announces.
Tonight "wednesday Mrs. Wright
will address mass meeting at 8 p.
m. at 1922 Bathgate Ave, the Bronx.
called by Women's Council No. 8.
Tomorrow Thursday she speaks at
a protest mass meeting at the Negro
Baptist church at Crescent st. and
Harris Ave. Long Island City. The
congregation and pastor of this
church have shown their solidarity
with the efforts to save the nine boys
by donating their church free for the
meeting. Friday night Mrs. Wright
will speak at an affair for the bene-
fit of the Trade Union Unity League
that has been arranged at New Star
Casino, 10th st. and Park Avenue.
Saturday night she will address
mass protest meeting in Yonkers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-13
The ''Socialists'' in Action

THE New York in moment of editorial frankness
Spain explains quite
recy the OF the revolutionary oubrst
follows:
first of revolution government
allowed the storing of and other subversve activities
er-revouionary position
regarding promi-
cnurchmen TO undermine the republic 1t postponed
damental land reform the breaking
guns on union o. viii il the
revolution"
which the o. party
little
perhaps soicude Norman Thomas whom
champoned the election
of its socialist" coumni, Mr.. Haywood
The World ucdy analysis
careful that Spanish
and the many and buwk of fascist reaction and coneevou
ton opposed to the Spanish
This which
because of its ocfascs connections the
York Times dispense with
Tuesday quite gleefuy announcing that the
an effort 10 AID government and the story goes to recte the details
of socialists" in action against the revolutionary
While bands of extremists speeding factory
factory proong the meeting
socialist militia attempting
workers and coming to blows with
party issuing appeals
to the workers strike the socialists participating
capitalist governmenthe which Telegram
ecy describes backward
ouon-Wee using appeals of quite another character
appealing rather
to shoot down the workers. They vocerousy
aist devout Catholic dictator
hand" against the the
This of nothing Bar
con Emile Vanderved head of the
capitalist gov
Catalonia by his finding necessary between
workers who were demonstrating
the streetsl
The similar American Socialist
party cannot be concealed by the tacf Y
Of the Soviet Five Year Plan and their collaboration with
as be denied But it re-
mains the duty of revolutionary
70 the awakening masses for what they demagogues
of fascism and capitalism
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-13
Extravagant Banquet Given President of Hold
Carriers; Hundreds of Plates for Miseaders;
Industry 60 Percent Idle

most notorious graft regime ever
seen, and fresh from sending the po-
lice to break the skulls of the Job
less; Robert Wagner of the fake en-
ployment bills; John Halkett, head of
the New York Building Trades Coun-
Gil who was instrumental in getting
% locals of the carpenters expelled
because they showed some militancy.
Fascists and Takers.
Among the hierarchy of notables
in the graft and exploitation system
seated on an Upper Dias" we're two
Italian military officers: Comm. Gaze
tano Clemente and Comm. Emanuel
Grazzi With them we're Frank Nor
rison, secretary of the A. F. of L.:
John F.. Curry, Walkers boss and
head of the Tammany machine to
which so many of the building trades
chiefs belong; John Sullivan of the
State Federation of Labor-he who
united at the last session of the leg
islature with the manufacturers as
ISOLATION to oppose even the vestigc
of dole system that was proposed
there; Joseph Ryan, president of the
New York Central Trades and Labor
Council who recently advised the
use of militia against the unem-
ployed; and Edward Riegelmann, n
Tammany leader and office holder.
On the Lower Dias," they put City
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-13
SPAIN GOVT
aids CHURCH.
LANDOWNERS
Masses Rise to Crush
F'eudal Stronghold
In Churches
'1artial Law Declared
Counter Revolution Is
Backed by Socialists

Taking matters into their own
hands, the masses of Spain during
the past two days attacked the main
stay of reaction, the Catholic church.
leading landowner, exploiter and bull
wark of the old monarchy. The
Catholic church, behind whose clood-
clothed gates, the counter revolution
airy forces we're preparing a return
of the monarchy, was the object of
the revolutionary force of the en-
ragged population.
The provisional government, backed
by socialists and republicans, had
been extremely lenient with the
church, nurturing it as a counter
revolutionary force against the revo-
lutionary demands of the workers and
peasants. Emboldened by the con-
ciliatory attitude of the provisional
government, the church authorities
were already taking steps to bring
back the old regime whose roots had
been left intact by the socialists and
republicans.
While the American capitalist press
tries to make it appear that the de-
struction of 81 of the leading Cath
clio institutions in Spain is the work
Of a handful Of Communists" no
amount of lying can hide the fact
tina 1.-THE burning of the churches
wa sthe work of the great majority
CONTINUED ON PAGE THREEI
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-13
Mass Support for
Saturday Parade
To Protest Scottsboro
Frame-Up

NEW YORK.-The mass demon
ctration scheduled for Harlem on
Saturday, May Is at 128th ST. and
LenoX Ave, is called to organize the
indignation of the masse sof Negro
and white workers of New York
against the ruthless terror of the
capitalist class, and its latest lynch
ing campaign which threatens to
snuff out the lives Of nine young
Negro workers in Scottsboro, Ala.
Workers from every section of New
York City, the Bronx, Harlem, Brook
Ign, and greater New York and all
working elias organizations, unions
and fraternal bodies are rallying
their forces for united front of
working class solidarity this Satur-
day, to defeat the lynch lay cam
Diagn of the ruling class and re-
lease the Scottsbcro boys from the
clutches Of the Southern bosses who
will leave no stone unturned to lynch
them legally or otherwise.
The mass demonstration on Sat
urday, May Is will be held at . p M
On Sunday, May II, at II a. M
at Finnish Hall, is West 126th St.
a United Front Conference will take
place to formulate a plan of action
for the unity of Negro and white
workers in Defense of the Scots
boro campaign. Every class conscious
worker and workers organization, is
called on to spread word of the
demonstration and the United Front
meeting the following day, and to
give the maximum attention to prep
aration for these meetings during the
remaining time. The Scottsboro boys
must not diei
News has just reached the Daily
Worker that street meeting of 200
Negro workers held for the first time
at Asbury Park, was broken up by
the police. 1. Amter, District Org.
Of the Communist Party, District 2,
will speak there this Sunday evening.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-13
OHIO MARCHERS IN
CONFERENCE DRAW
UP RELIEF DEMAND
Central Falls Strikers
NJ ass Picketing at Mill
u T w Tries to Split Ranks by Attack On
FOreign-Born; Strikers Mass Meeting
Denounces It; Pledges to Stand Fast
BULLETIN.

CENTRAL FALLS r. L. l2The strikers
picketng today tonight
from other mills pckn
the
The National Textile planning to spread
strike through the Blackstone Valley.
CENTRAL FALLS r. l., May r. The strike of zoe
workers of the General Fabrics Mill which started Thursday
under the leadership Of the National Textile Workers Union
going strong and gaining the support of all the workers in
Blackstone Valley Three hundred textile workers in this
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-13
Wages Cut Nearly 3
Percent i'm New York
in Month of A Drill

NEW YORK.-Unemployment still
Increases in New York State, but ac-
cording t othe figures released by the
State Industrial Commissioner wages
are falling off still more rapidly than
Jobs
The state office declares that there
we're nine-tenths Of one per cent de-
crease in jobs in April, lower than
March, an dhails this as "only the
usual seasonal decline, about the
same as in former years. But with
out any particular comment, the same
office also publishes that the en-
ploymcnt index Cthe percentage OF
normally was TIL in April of this
rasA whereas ii was $40 IN April
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-13
AT. Of Chiefs Saviu $40 Meal With Fascists,
Tammany Heads, Bosses, AS Members Starue

While many more than half of the
bod carriers and other building
trades workers in New York are UNI
employed, and the rest are mostly
working at something like half of
the union scale of wages, their lead
ers gathered with priests, labor hat
ing employers, Russian white guards,
Italian fascists and the heads of the
Tammany administration TO guzzle a
dinner at the Hotel Commodore at
$40 a plate. the evening Of May 9.
They met in the joint, favored by
the murderous Noske from Berlin and
many another native and foreign
butcher of the workers. to do honor
to Joseph v. Moreschi, who is going
to Europe to attend the British Labor
Congress.
Moreschi is general president of
the International Hold Carriers and
Common Laborers' Union of Amer
lea CA. F. L.. He was the most out
spoken defender of the proposal of
Norman, head of the employers as
ISOLATION in the building trades, to
reduce the wages of all building
workers, back in 1929
Blessed BY Priest.
The banquet of racketeers, mil
lionaire graftcrs who pose as labor
leaders, plain gangstcrs and big
Bosses opened with prayer by the
priest, Joseph Congcdo. Among the
speakers who gave their best wishes
to Moreschi at this official Bon
Voyage Dinner-Dance,' we're listed
President william Green of the A. F.
L. Mayor Walker. the chief OF the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-13

of the International Union of Oper-
ating Engineers, whose ''Superin-
tendents" also had a full table to
themselves on the main floor.
This Huddell has a trick of knock
ing out of office any local officials
who do not do just as he says and
putting over the locals a "superin-
tendent,' who makes all contracts
and votes the local as unit on in
ternal union Questions. Huddell car
ries with him blank suspension cards,
and when offended by member Of
the union, simply fills in his name
and throws him out of the union and
out of his job.
: On the Lower Dias" also appears
the name of Hugh Frayne, interna-
tional organizer of the A. F. Of L.,
and expert in driving workers into
imperialist war Frayne, while serv-
ing on the War Industries Board in
the last big slaughter earned whole
hearted praise in the official report
of the boards chairman, Barney Bar
UGH, for his strikebreaking and mill
tarism
On this dias too, was Lawrence p.
Lindelof, general president of the
Painters Union, who won his office
by bullets, not by ballots. He is
Chicago gangster and racketeer OF
prominence and immense wealth. and
tied up also with criminal gangs in
New York.
On the main floor, one whole table
was taken up by the officials OF the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-13
As KILLED ON
EMPIRE BUILDING
Workers Tell OF How
Bldg. Men Died
BY FRANCINE sCHNEEBERG.

NEW YORK.-Capitalist "protec-
ton of workers on construction jobs
is becoming more and more treaCh-
erous. Recently we had occasion to
visit the Empire State building. We
asked the workers still on construc-
ton to tell us the story of the work
err who had committed suicide sew
eral weeks ago. We we're told that
he had been fired and came back
two weeks later, respondent, and
asked the foreman to give him back
his former job. Needless to say he
was refused. Poverty and despair
overwhelming him, he jumped from
the seventy-3econd floor of the build
ing under construction and went
through a one inch tile on the sixth
floor roof.
The workers told us of this tragedy
with clenched fists, and added that
this was not all. The suicide of the
miserable worker received a tiny no
tice in the capitalist press, but no
mention was made of forty eight
other workers who were killed due to
faulty construction. This of course
would be kept from the dear public.
The Empire State workers are sullen
and morose because of the secrecy
which has accompanied the murder
of their comrades. Al Smith and
other Tammany grafters reap for
tunes out of these murders of work
ers on the Empire State.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-13

Of yea rago. About the only ray
OF hope the industrial commissioner
really has, is to say that thinks we're
even worse last January--in the
heart of winter!
Meanwhile, there is no doubt that
while jobs were falling off about one
per cent in April of this year, wages
we're falling off 81 per cent. The
heaviest cuts both of working staffs
and pay rolls was in the grament
and metal trades.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-13
ScOttsborO Defense
Developments

l. Two of Cleveland's largest
Negro churches join united front
defense campaign to save the nine
Scottsboro children.
2. Mothers League Of Boston
sends vigorous protest TO governor
Of Alabama against murderous
frame-up of boys.
3. $500 Seattle workers demon
strate in protest against SCOTS
boro legal lynching and attempts
of U. S. immigration officials to
stifie protests of working class
against railroading of boys to cleo
trio chair by Alabama bosses.
4, Another Negro paper dencun-
ccs N.AA.C.P. leadership for sab
otaging Scottsboro defense. Wash
ington World calls them hypo-
critics,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-13
Force Legislature to Agree
to See Them; Two
Days Meals
Demand Return Fares
at Expense of State.
Plan 0rganizational Steps
In Continued State
Wide Struggle

COLUMBUS. OlllO.,
May ia hundred
and ninety two dele
gates of the unem-
ployed, from over a
. score of cities and
towns in Ohio met in
the state fair grounds
coliseum here yesterday in a
5plendidly organized and dis
ciplined conference. They for
mulated the demands on the
state for relief. and the pro-
gram of struggle for unemployment
insurance and relief, and farmers re-
lief and insurance.
Dozens of delegates in remarkable
speeches discussed and reported on
the miserable conditions prevailing
in all parts of the state They voiced
their determination to fight for the
program adopted.
The attempts of the state legisla-
ture to dodge the delegation were
frustrated when the conference cleo
ted delegation to sec it last night
instead of today.
Thereupon the legislature sent for
the conference committee and ar
ranged for the delegation to appear
before it today at ten a. m. and to
see the governor at II; AS.
Fifteen spokesman were elected to
present the demands to the legis-
iature and governor.
Demands Return Fare.
This delegation will demand trans
portation at the expense of the state
for the marchers TO return to the To-
calities from which they came as well
as putting forth the demands for in
Surance, etc.
Under pressure of the masses, which
are whole heartedly supporting the
demands of the jobless delegates, the
state has been compelled to serve
cooked meals during the stay here of
the delegation.
The conference will adjourn after
a session tonight on organizational
problems.
Columbus Meeting.
The Ohio hunger march, in many
ways the best organized, best sup
ported and spectacular OF the state
marches so far, has forced its way
into the capitalist press The Colum-
bus, Ohio, Dispatch of May II gives
an account of the union of the mar
cheers Sunday at the capitol steps,
and of the meeting that followed.
Two Arrested.
The same paper gives the informs-
ton that the food furnished the
marchers by the state is from the
Kitchens of the penitentiary, and con-
SistS of a quart of coffee, a quart of
beef stew, and six slices of bread per
man, twice day.
The Columbia Dispatch also states
that two members of the council Of
the unemployed of Columbus, Mar
Gus Cohen and Roscoe Vandeventer,
were arrested for collecting for the
hunger march, and charged with
begging" Their trial is set for May
10.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-13
Wage Cuts, Lay Offs.
in Perth AmbOy Works

PERTH AMBOY, N. j., May S.--As
the Communist Party warned in leaf
lets distributed to workers in the
Underground Gable Co.. lay-off OF
a hundred, from both day and night
shifts took place right after May
Day,
The National Lead Co has cut
wages without notice, April 30 of
from 10 to Is per cent.
II is evident that the managers of
the Raritan Copper Works are pre-
pairing either severe lay-off or clos
ing down of the works altogether
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-13
TO DISCUSS LESSONS OF GREEN.
POINT STRIKE.

NEW YORK.-The Youth Section
Of the Metal Workers League, that
was recently formed will meet this
Friday, May 18th, 8 p. m, at 16 w.
21st st. The main point on the
agenda will be a report on the Green
point Metallic Bed Strike. All young
metal workers are welcome.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-13

to cooperate with the organi-
cations of Negro and white
workers in fighting the Scots
boro frame-up and legal lynch
ing, the Washington, Cd. c.
World declares in an editorial cap
toned "Pickens and the Communists. -
1T behooves all organizations,
whether they be black, white, or
red, to join hands and fight for the
right
Praises Pickcns' Support of LID.
The editorial praises Mr. Pic&ens'
prompt support of the fight of the
International Labor Defense to save
the boys:
Recent events involving William
Pickens, field secretary for the Ma
tiOnal Association for the Advance
ment of CoIored People, the Inter
national Labor Defense League, and
the directors of the N.A.C.P. seem
TO have left Dean Pickens in a po-
Sition of coura geous honor and the
ether leaders of the N.A.A.C.P. in
position bordering on hypocrisy.
Recognized LID. First in Field.
THE facts seem to be that Will
liam Pickens wrote a letter to
Communistic organization COM
mending it on the fine work it had
Gone in going into the field first 10
protest against the unfair conviction
of eight boys at Scottsboro, Ala,
and that the usually militant Ma.
A.C.P. resented the sending of this
letter and took extraordinary pains
TO djsavow any sort of cooperation
with the so-calIed Reds. Rumor
that Pickens was to be oustcd
brought such prompt denial from
the Offices of the N.A.A.C.P. that,
coupled with its Unnecessary protes-
tation against any belief that they
we're working with the Reds" it is
fair to assume that the smoke must
indicate some bit of fire.
CLEVELAND, O., May 12.-The
United Front against the Alabama
boss lynchers and for the release of
the nine innocent Negro boys was
further strengthened with the draw
ing in of two of the largest Negro
churches in Cleveland into the fight
to save the lives of the boys. The
two latest churches to join the move
ment are the freed Store Baptist
Church, with congregation of 1900
and the Zion Hill Baptist Church with
$1,000
Aid Defense.
At their services on Sunday, May
10, both churches welcomed speakers
from the International Labor Defense
and the League of Struggle for Negro
Rights, and unanimously adopted a
resolution to be sent to Governor B.
M. Miller of Alabama denouncing the
Scottsboro boss court lynch verdict
and demanding a new trial for the
boys.