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for any one else. Sheriff Cain and
his chief deputy and a special rep
resentative Of Governor Pinehot were
present.
PITTSBURGH, Pa July S.-Three
days in succession. Pat Pagan. dis
trict president OF the United Nine
Workers has announced through the
press, which gives him full publicity,
that he will speak in company with
Phil Murray Of the NNEw tnterna-
tional Office at Canonsburg. Each
day Saturday, Sunday and Monday,
the miners and their families
swarmed around looking for Pagan,
to give him a hot reception. Each
day Pagan stayed away. On Sunday,
a crowd of 700 cheered striker lead
ers and organizers of the Central
Rank and File Strike Committee of
the National Miners Union, with one
eye and a picket line on the place
where Pagan had announced his
meeting.
Monday the Canonsburg paper an
nounced Mr.. Pagan was sick. The
miners of Meadow land decided that
if he wasn't dead yet, he ought to be,
and they made casket for him
draped it in white, crowned it with
weeds, and later with a pigs skull
(the miners call him Piggy Fa-
gam and carried it in solemn process
sion to Canonsburg. There after a
big mass meeting, 5000 marched be-
hind it in funeral procession, amidst
the cheers of the population of Ca
nonsburg, some of whom perhaps
thought Patty really was in the cof-
fin and we're glad of it.
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double your quota by July IL,
And look at the other districts
The best of them was District
(Boston). and this contributed only
s3250 The others: SO from District
6 (Clevelaud), $3.50 from District
(Detroit), which on Friday failed o
send in a cent; s1S from District
(Chicago), nothing from District IS
California;, and so on down the
line.
The Fourth Of July was evidently
Worker. it did just what the bosses
want it to do: took the minds OF
the workers off their task Of saving
the Daily. Let's get back on the
job Turn in the Tag Day funds that
are still unsccounted for Send in
the half dollars Collect all the
money on the coupon books Full
steam ahead in the Daily Worker
drive till July 49,
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DANGEROUS DROP OVER JULY 18th
WEEKEND; MORE ACTION NEEDED =!

Workers who do not want their
names published because of pos
sible persecution should indicate
this IN sending in their cOntrfhu-
tions. Collectors should ask those
who contribute whether they want
their names printed.
DANGER For three days, Satur-
day, Sunday and Monday. only
S350.ss, This is the worst yet. We
must stop this downhill slide and
get back. At this rate the S35, 900
soal will never be reached by July
10, and where will the Daily be
then? .-
Every district without exception,
did badly. Though District 2 New
York; again contributed most of the
~ oney. this was only S22103, You'll
nave to do a lot better than that,
workers of District 2. If you are to
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CHARGE SEDITTON
AGAINST YOUTH.
COLO. CMTC CAMP

DENVER, Colo.-Mike Saant2ick
and Sol Greenberg, members Of the
Young Communist League here.
were arrested and are charged with
anarchy and section" for distribu-
ting leaflets to C.NTC students at
Fort Logan, Colo. on Tuesday, June
80. This is the first time these anti
labor laws have been invoked against
the workers since the days Of 1921
and indicates the ferocity with
which the bosses are trying to crush
work IN the armed forces.
District Attorney Joel z Stone
said that the following sentences in
the leaflets the Young Communist
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Midnight Arrests.

WAYNESBURG, Pa, July 8. -
Deputies raided the homes here of
strikers from the Hillman Coal Com
pany's Moffit mine, during the night
of July 6, and jerked from their beds
and arrested 81, women and a
young girl. The charge is not yet
known, nor the jail to which they
we're taken. The raid seems to have
been for the purpose of breaking
up a march planned on q nearby
mine at 10 a. m. today
A picket line of $50 at Midland
mine found the twelve state troopers
and many deputies had brought two
police dogs. The dogs were Kissed
onto the picket line for the purpose
of frightening the women and chill
dren.
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L.2zane Restaurant
Robs Workers of Pay
New York.


Comrade:
/ wish to inform you of the fact
than in Lazanos Restaurant, No. 2
Broadway, workers are starved by the
boss. and forced to work like hell.
When pay day comes he retains
the workers wages, and pays them
percent; and up till now he owes
money to most Of the workers.
Recently, Negro boy had an &C
cident and broke a piece of glass,
wherein the boss discounted $1,000
from his salary.
There are about 80, people working
in this place, only four ofthem are
Spanish, but it seems as they were
wiling to organize.
IF. Q.
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STRIKE AGAINST
CARD SYSTEM IN
TEXTILE PLANT
Textile Bosses Form
Fake, Company Union
By EDITH BERKMAN

LAWRENCE, Mass, July s.-Elec-
t11cians. nachinists, plumbers. etc.
the whole repair department of the
Pacific Print Works is out on strike
against the Gard System This is
one of the most important depart
ments in the mill and the workers
are paid much better than the rest
Of the workers in the mill The
Card System was to be introduced
last December, but the workers then
organized against it by joining the
National Textile Workers Union. The
mill official were then afraid Of g
real strike and gave up the scheme.
AS long as this most important
department was organized under the
National Textile Workers Union, the
mill officials did not come with any
new schemes. In fact the workers
were able to stop one i0% lay off
after the other. They forced the
mill owners to take the Fish Men"
deficiency mem out. They kept the
IL for overtime, while the rest of
the mills have taken away the extra
pay for overtime during the last
year.
The mill owners of Lawrence then
got on the job to smash the influ-
ence of the National Textile Workers
Union, the leader Of the 10000 tex
tile workers in the last Lawrence
strike against the speed-up, etc.
After the Union organizers were ar
rested they got the City Marshall on
the Job to raid the Union Hall and
hang out a sign THE N,TW.U. does
not meet here" They started to in
vestigate and question the workers
in the mills, etc. This all was done
to terrorize the Lawrence workers,
to scare them away from the Reds.
The strike breaking newspapers
came out with daily stories about
how and where the Union organizers
will be deported.
OF course the mill officials got
at once on the job and encouraged
the workers OF the Print Works to
organize a, nice union. Many of the
workers. who belong to strike-break-
er Father McDanold's church. many
of the bosses friends we're put on
the job to form a new Union and 50
the American Textile Union, Inc.
was formed A state charter was
gotten e. license that keeps all the
workers tied down to lose their say
ings in time OF strike) and now the
bosses are out to put across what
they we're afraid to do when ali the
workers were united in the fighting
Union--the NTW.U.
The workers, now on strike, talk
ing this morning TO the Union on
ganizer said: I'VE hope you know
that we all realize what the MT.
W. U. has done for the Lawrence
workers. but you see we don't care
to be called Red"
The workers of Lawrence will soon
find out that this company union,
the American Textile Union Inc. will
not lead the workers In struggle. For
the only workers Union leading
workers in struggle against the new
OF the mill owners is the
National Textile Workers Union. Any
worker that puts Up fight against
his boss is called Red"
The bosses use the word ''Red' 70
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Worker Severely Hurt
i'm Varnish Blast
by a Worker Correspondent

HONDO. Gala vat of boiling ver-
nish exploded in the warehouse Of
the Hughes Paint Company. 1858 E.
2sth St., Los Angeles, June rs. H. e.
Broigan, Of 1914 Toledo st., was boil
ing the varnish when the explosion
occurred, showering him with the
liquid. He was sent TO the hospital
in critical condition Another VIC
tim Of careless management in capt.
talist industry. Full protection for
workers lives and limbs is provided
II the FivesYear Plan of the Soviet
gZMMI 4
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Greetings to the Youth Convention
CONTINUED FROM PAGE OWE,

membership a
youth organization of
should
fighting
opening.
Idebknht in
and make this eoasentons real tuns pes tAe
'GSSt nsoWementA.
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Hold Myerscough, Strike Leader,
For Grand Jury; Nearly Murdered

PITTSBURGH Pa,, July 3. - The
ooroner's jury in the case of Peter
zigaric, the miner murdered when
deputies defending strike breaking
Injunction shot up the wildwood
picket line on June %, today held
Tom Myerscough to the grand jury
for indictment on charge Of man
slaughter.
Myerscough is section organizer in
the Allegheny section for the Central
Rank and File Strike Committee and
led the mass picket line in defiance
of the Butler Consolidated Coal Co.'S
Injunction,
Abundant evidence at the coroner's
court showed that the deputies had
orders to kill Myerscough, that it
was only an accident that spared
him. Now the coal operators using
another branch Of their apparatus,
the courts, have reached out again
to get Myerscough.
For the sake of appearances the
six professional Jurors who sat half
asleep during the taking of testi-
mony which should have hanged at
least half a dozen deputies have also
held to the grand jury on charges
of manslaughter, the Deputy Reel
Seven or eight witnesses testified
Reel picked on a woman, resident, Of
Wildwood and mother of the keeper
of the "Kusick store, tried to ar
rest her for merely watching the
picket line from her own property,
chase her when she fled from him
into the store, threw tear gas bomb
into the store, fired three shots at
her, as she ran, fired the first shots
into the crowd, after which the depu-
ties lined alongside the crowd started
shooting into the backs and sides of
the pickets.
Tries 10 Kill Myerscough.
This Reel tried to make Myers
cough turn his back ard he shot in
the back, then when Tom refused,
the deputy snapped his gun at him
at point of blank ranGe. While he
was re-loading, Myerscough reached
for rock, and the next hasty shot
went over Myerscough and dropped
Bob Young, youth organizer for the
Trade Union Unity League.
In The confusion that followed with
hundreds of shots being fired by the
deputies, Myerscougn carried Young
into the store, from which they were
later driven by the tear gas and ar
rested.
Many witnesses testified that Reel
was in kind Of blood rage, that
he stormed around, coming back to
the Cusick store again and again,
threatening that he would have to
kill every son-of- bitch here" point
ing his gun at small children in the
house and when the door was finally
locked against him, breaking his gun
Trying 70 Smash IL down.
Hairness Pretense.
Coroner McGregor made pre-
tense of fairness during the investi-
cation, clashing several times with
Attorney Robert Averbach, who re-
presented Sheriff Cain and acted as
prosecuting attorney against the min
ers through the hearings. But when
McGregor charged the jury he said.
eve have here case Of riotous, IL
legal mob, assembled in contempt Of
court. We have certain leaders of
the mob whose intellect is disordered,
addressing inflamatory remarks to
the lowest instincts of men suffering
from privation. It is your duty. if
you find that the mob whose very
pretense was in defiance of law,
brought about the condition which
led TO tine death of zigerec, to hold
then header for indictment hg tlsa
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scare the workers away from the Ma
tional Textile Workers Union. but
the workers must learn that any IN
ion that meets the approval of the
bosses is no good for the workers
it is a Company Union, like the Am
erican Textile Union Inc The only
workers Union which will fight for
the workers in Lawrence is the MT.
WI. The office Is open every day
and evening. Nom Union members
are welcome to the Union Hall.
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Deputy Sheriff Tried
to Shoot Myerscough
in the Back

grand jury on charges of manslaugh-
ter" 7ss- "7'
a When Myerseough was testifying
today to the facts as outlined above,
the coroner and Averbach savagely
assailed, him as Red, made him
prove that he was really a miner,
sneered at his lack of permanent
address, while travelling all over the
Allegheny valley organizing) repeat
edly told him that he was Grim
inal for breaking the injunction,
etc.
Both Myerscough and Bob Young,
who testified with the bandage COW
ering bullet wound still around his
head, ably defended the right of the
miners to organize, to strike and to
picket in fight against starvation.
They defended the National Miners
Union and the T. U. U. L. form of
organization, its rank and file con-
troll its militant tactics, until the
coroner arbitrarily stopped that line
of testimony.
Corroborate Murder.
Various newspaper reporters, home
owners of Wildwood who had no part
in the strike, and strikers corroborat-
ed all the facts; showing that after
Reel made his attack on the defense
less woman, the pickets, assembling
at point hundreds of feet away
rushed toward the scene of shooting,
we're met by shots into their ranks
from Reels gun, and few seconds
later we're moved down right and
left by the fire from the guns of
deputies who had formed along the
side of the road, thanking the crowd
of pickets. 1t was proved that the
shooting was so reckless that homes
some distance away we're riddled
with shots, endangering the lives of
children.
Deputy Reel himself, q fat man
with a pig like face and bullying
neck, took the stand and told con-
fused story of being fired on from
the Cusick store. and of throwing
tear gss bomb into it because,
some one pulled my hand and made
1t shp."
Reel Lies.
Reel in the face of all eMdenoe TO
the contrary, denied that he fred
any shots but into the air. A series
of deputies followed him to the
stand, all beginning their stories in
the same stsreotyped fashion: GAS
we rode up we were jeered" but
showing considerable variation after
wards. They are all portly men, Of
the city gangster type. All but one
insisted they shot only in the air.
If it were not for the testimony of
the miners and disinterested third
parties, this inquest would have left
it one of the mysteries sof the ages
how zigarec came to die, that day
in wildwood, and how IL others were
wounded. All but the deputies agreed
the strikers were entirely unarmed.
There was one exception among
the deputies. Deputy Braun, who.
admitted that he has been gunner
for the coal operators for ia years,
stated boldly that he shot right in
to the crowd. This hardened killer
knows his Pennsylvania He knows
that the courts will not convict you
for killing strikers. He was not even
held to the grand jury.
The hearings we're held in a snani
poena, With witnesses and no pleees
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Expose the Lie about tbs s.viet
Undersigned Hedacht's pampG-
let Soviet Forced Labor "-96
pages, 10 cents. Write for 1t to the
Workers Library Publishers, P: o.
Box 14S, Station D., New York City.
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One way Of defending the Soviet
Union is 70 spread among the
workers Soviet Forced Labor
BY Max Bcaacht, 10 cents per cops.
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tcoNTINUrp From PACE ONEp
sands Of organizations in the United
States and throughout the world.
In South Africa, the native and
white workers have joined, under the
leadership of the South African
Communist Party and the Interna-
tcnsl Red Aid, in vehement protest
against the attacks on the Negro
people Of the United States by the
American irnperiahsts. At a mass
meeting in johannesburg few days
ago, thousands of native and white
workers pledged their support to the
mass fight to save the boys. A Wig
orous protest was adopted and
wired to Governor Miller OF Ala
bama. The neeting was .xader the
auspices Of the South African La
Dor Defense. a section Of the Inter
national Red Aid.
In Monayideo, Uruguay, "Justicia,"
a Communist paper calls on the
workers Of Uruguay to JON the IN
transitional psoted against the
crimes OF Yankee imperialism
against the Negro minority In this
coturery. The appeal declares. In
part:
~ToU MgST SAVE YOUR
BkoTHEsSs"
"WsrkeFs: The Yankee isaperi-
aasts wish 10 commit a new
crime. Jsast as they assassinated
Sacco and Vanzetti now they
wish to burn In the electric chair
nine young Negroes who commit
ted no crime Whatever. merely to
satisfy their predoEninance as a
brutal ruling class.
You must save year hxothers!
You, Negro worker, you, white
worker, mast take your post Of
struggle to prevent the crime. Join
the Red Aid that defends these
victims! Demonstrate everywhere
against the murder that is being
prepared"
In Santo Domingo, Dominican Re-
public. white and Negro workers
have joined in the demand for the
unconditional release of the boys
and have vigorously denounced the
attempt of the U. S. imperialists to
legally lynch them.
In San Salvador, Central Amer
lea, the San Salvador section of the
International Red Aid is mobilizing
the workers to fight against this
crime. At q meeting held under the
auspices of that organisa ton, pro-
test was sent to Governor Miller,
which declared. in part;
"The proietariat of Ell Salvador.
militant in the lines of the Inter
national Red Aid, soHdly in soli-
darity with the American probe
tariat, demands the immediate re-
lease Of the nine young Negroes"
Cuban Workers in Strong Protest.
In Cuba, the Tobacco Workers
Union OF Santiago, in recent meet
ing, passed resolution derouncing
the scottsboro lynch verdict ana Or.
dering 8 copy Of it sent to the Gov
ernor Of Alabama and the United
States Consul at Santiago. The reso-
luton declares:
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HELP THE STRIKING MINERS WIN:

One of the victims Of the murderous onslaught
by deputy sheriffs against striking miners picket
ing at Wildwood, Pa June %. He is suffering
sgonizing pains from bullet in his side.
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CANONSBURG MINERS
TAKE OVER OLD UNIV
HALL FOR THE NMU
Hold Big Demonstration at Lincoln Hill
Against UNIV Takers
Miners Are Fighting Hard Against Starvation;
Must Have More Relief to Win
Pittsburgh, Pa.
Dear Comrades

Dear Comrades:
Started hitch hiking toward Canonsburg In the suburbs
of Pittsburgh into residential district Hundreds
of expensive homes going up Latest styes-Dutch English
Colonial bungalows Values up to $4,000 Thought 1
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Reed she, Esbsr Defender on We
e,.Jslst4 9<Vsx2 80
miners sSfigSe. '-- x E. '-asls- 49,. 3,
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DEMONSTRATE TODAY
FOR RELEASE OF nine
NOTTSBORO BOYS

tceNTINrrp FROM FACE ONE,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-28
JILTED n b ;
BY Margaret
Widdemer
cOpyrsht 1884, by Alliance Inc

She wondered II he really was .
good poet. If he was, OF course, all
this sort Of thing was probably worth
the bother. She also wondered II she
had better speak Of Doris. And oh,
how fundamentally she wanted to get
to bedl
She rose yawning. He was so hard
to help. And yet he had something
very sweet and innocent about him.
"Well, I think I'll go to bed now,
Ronny. I suppose I'll be up before
YOU are (Ronny was O late sleeper) and
If you like I'll speak to Nina about
your being here" AS she passed him,
where he stood, drawn to his fulI
heights. with his hair tossed and q
pride in the rights of man written all
over him, something in her aspect
struck through even his young SELF
absorption. Her brown-gold eyes were
Swallowed, and her shoulders dropped
little as she smiled at him, tlredly.
Her bright coloring was dimmed oy
fatigue. Even her dress was crumpled
where she had knelt and stopped, pre-
pairing him his midnight meal.
He threw q brotherly arm around
her.
Helen, you're a brick, he said. and
kissed her.
she kissed him back. She felt a
thousand years his senior.
That's all right" she said' "eooo
night"
They started apart, staring, at the
sound of clicking heels Nina, In the
doorway. a tall orange candleStick IN
her hand. a yellow chiffon wrap caught
around her, was staring at them.
well. said Nina. "A little on the
firtatious side, my dear!" Nina was
not shocked, She was, indeed, laugh
| ing. Then as Helen moved aside, and
she saw who it was, her expression
changed to the one Of weary annoyance
that Ronny at his worst caused her
Did you have to do all this Just
to come home and make love 70
Helen?" she demanded impatiently.
IT wasn't making love to Helen" he
answered her with the sullenness he
always evoked.
"I don't mind if Helen doesn't-and
Tommy doesn't Not my funeral. But
what is" Nina's lazy voice altered
into demanding sharpness-''is that
| had q special delivery tonight at 8, In
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forming me that you had forfeited all |
your chances of graduation, insulted a |
professor, thrown all your money away |
on nonsense and that you capped the |
climax by disappearing"
IT never thought to tell anybody. |
If they'd had any sense they'd have
known I'd go home" he growled.
They said you were broke. A friend
Of yours named Chemnitz or some such
name seems to have made his peace
with the powers by telling everything
he knew about you"
Ronny turned a tragic white.
Hes my friendl I've helped him
he couldn'tl You're making it up!"
"Of course you'd rather believe any
body than me" Ninas voice was
sharper still, but her calm was I'M
she always kept her head He never
kept his. How else do you suppose
they knew that you had spent all you
had and pawned your things?"
"Oh, Ronnyl"
II did" said Ronny still smarting
from his disillusion. I'm proud of IT,"
You're hopeless. You better go to
bed. But I'll tell you now, so as to
prevent you from worrying me tomor-
row. when have q very full day, and
need all my strength, that from now
on until you tell DR.. johnson every
thing he wants to know, and apologize
to him, I shall not give you your allow
ance"
"You are a woman entirely without
generosity or broadneSS or honor.
You
"Ronny is this going TO do any
good?" Helen asked. The thing prom
ised to continue.
Nina laughed, recalled to herself
I've said all l have TO say. Come
on, Helen. Good night, Ronny. Think
it over
She left with the honors of war.
Helen tarried a moment
"Oh, Ronny-what about Doris?"
He was past any amiability.
II shall see Doris tomorrow. For
give me for suggesting that it Is hardly
your affair"
| "Ronny, you are certainly a horrid
. little boy!" Helen was past her pa
tience
I'm sorry" he said.
She went upstairs with no more
words. Once she was tumbled into bed
in the brief moment before she dropped
: miles deep in sleep. she thought that she
: would try again tomorrow. Nina and
: Ronny were both all right, only they
: clashed as hopelessly as opposed chem
: icals. Ronny would still be here when
' she returned from Saturdays half day
AS for her, she had to be up by $3.50 al
latest. With her La scrap Of will power
. she reached out and pushed her alarm
on an hour. Shed hurry to make up
Poor Doris! go.
y Ito Be Continued.)