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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-15
Mass Protests Against Attack
on Canada Communist Party
Seanen, Farmers, Lumber Workers. Miners
Demonstrate Against Bennett Govt Terror

TORONTO, Canada.-Daily re-
ports come in to the National Office
of the Canadian Labor Defense
League of mass demonstrations of
protest and resolutions of protest
sent in to the encouragement of
Ontario against the attack upon the
Communist Party and its leaders.
Following the bomb outrage in
Winnipeg on Sept. 6, a huge mass
demonstration and parade took
place in that city, where the workers
showed their indignation in no I'M
certain terms and where mass pro-
test resolutions were passed against
the reign of terror on the part Of
the federal and provincial and city
governments on the Communist
Party.
So great is the indignation of the
rank and file of the organized work
ers against the boss attack that the
Trades and Labor Council of Winni-
peg at meeting held on Tuesday,
Sept. 1, broke UP in disorder because
the social-fascist leaders expressed
their approval of Benefits policies.
The rank and file decided, by a
great majority, to hold a special
meeting, where this whole matter
would be discussed. Disgust and
anger were shown by the delegates
at the actions of the reactionary
leaders.
Seamen In Protest.
The seamen and dock workers Of
Port Arthur and Fort William, at a
mass demonstration, forwarded to
the minister of justice, Ottawa, and
to the attorney general of Ontario a
strongly worded protest resolution
demanding the withdrawal of the
charges against the nine leading
comrades and that the Communist
Party, Workers Unity League and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-15
(By a Worker CORRESPONDENCE

10y d UUIhCI SOAlCoPOAhAVubsJ
HOUSTON, Texas.-In front of the
Municipal Employment Agency here
there hangs a sign: Wanted 5000
cotton pickers, 40 cents per hundred
pounds" Negro and white workers
pause and then walk away. The
average picker cannot make over so
or go cents a day.
The police come around arresting
the workers and charging them with
vagrancy. Men with families, old
men, young men-it makes no diff
ference to the police-the bosses cot
ton must be picked.
A pregnant woman, charged with
vagrancy, faints in the court and is
carried away. The vagrancy cases
(mostly Negro workers. are disposed
of in mechanical manner: charge,
vag-guilty-fine SIS" And the
worker is thrown in Jail.
Forced Labor.
A farmer comes in and pays the
workers fine, on the condition that
he works it out picking cotton. If
the worker refuses he is sent to the
city farm and is forced to pick cot
ton IA hours day, with an armed
guard keeping him speeded up.
Destroy Crops.
The large plantation owners say
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-15

all other working class organizations
be allowed to operate without inter-
ference.
Not only the workers, but masses
Of poor farmers have voiced their
protest against the action of the
authorities, In Athabaska, Alberta,
a meeting Of 1870 farmers passed a
resolution; at Nestor, Alberta, $50
farmers passed a similar resolution;
at Shepenge, Alberta, 100 farmers
passed a resolution, and in Vegrevills,
at meeting of over 200 farmers, the
same protest was voiced. Altogether
over 40 resolutions were passed by
the workers and poor farmers
throughout the Edmonton sub-dis-
trict, while a large mass meeting
took place at the market square in
Edmonton protesting against the ar
rests.
Throughout British Columbia, a
series of protests have been coming
in. In the Labor Temple, New West
minister, B. c., the workers of the
Barnett Saw Mill, a section of the
Lumber Workers Industrial Union
passed a resolution of protest.
The Lumber Workers Industrial
Union Of the Sudbury area has also
sent in resolutions of protest. These
are just few of the reports that
have come in during the past week.
The protest movement must
grow-the United Front Defense
Conferences must be built up from
coast to coast. The national dem
Onstrations on Wednesday, Sept. 80,
must embrace tens of thousands of
workers. The protest movement
must be accompanied by substan-
tial financial help. The defense
fund must he swelled! $4,000 is
needed to fight the attack!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-15
More JoblesS Suicides Pile Up
Guilt Of Mwderous Capitalist System

self Thursday morning, climaxing
months of vain hunt for work and
refusal of unemployment relief by the
bosses and their charity racketeer-
ing outfits.
TACOMA, N. H, Sept. 12.-Burt
Huntoon, out of work and denied re-
lief by the bosses, committed suicide
by shooting himself in his temple.
Near his body was found the body
Of his pet cat, shot through the head.
ST. LOUIS, Sept. l3.-The body of
Wilke Diesselhorst, unemployed
worker, was found Wednesday night
on Rock Hill Road, south Of Big
Bend, by his brother, Walter, who,
with friends, had been seeking him
several hours He is survived by his
widow and a 5-year-old daughter.
Freids said that he had been de-
spondent at having to see his wife
and child starving
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-15
PHTLA. OUTING SUCCESSFUL EXAMPLE
TO DIST'S; TAMPA CLUB MUST GROW!

Enclosed find $50 on account Of
the Labor Day outing. We have
not yet made up the full account,
but this will be done in few days.
You will then receive the full
amount.
The above comes from District 3,
Philadelphia, like a welcome shower
on sizzling day. But where are
the plans of the other districts to
hold affairs, picnics, outings and
other workers gatherings for the
Daily Worker.
Now! Today! the Daily needs
every bit of support that it can
possibly get. Affairs, picnics and
dances should be scheduled ahead
on a calendared plan Every party
unit can do something to support
the Daily Worker. Especially pre-
ceding the coming subscription
drive must everything possible be
done to break up the lulI which
has begun to set in.
There must be no question of
Daily Worker activity slowing down
during this period. The response of
workers everywhere during the last
financial drive showed that they are
ready to support their Daily Worker
all the way through to mass circu-
lation. Every Party member, every
member of mass organization and
revolutionary trade union can easily
take his share in this important ac-
tivity.
Affairs Develop Initiative.
Start something in your neighbor-
hood for the benefit of the Daily
Worker. 1t need only be an informal
affair in your home or some work
ers' center. Everybody will come
down for good time. Home talent
can be arranged for. The Women's
Council or some other comrades can
be drawn into the work Of supplying
the refreshments for this occasion.
There can be some political discus
sion of an informal nature. The
Daily Worker should always be read
and discussed at these affairs. The
sentiment for the organization of
Daily Worker Club almost arouses
itself at this type of workers gath
ering.
Enthusiasm for Work Helps.
That subs are still obtainable from
workers and contacts can be made
when we use the correct bolshevik
method of work is evidenced by the
following comrades report coming
from Lincoln, Nebraska:
Il have started hOuse-to house
route with the Daily Worker, and
on the first trip sold ten and Sc
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-15
WAGE
CUT Is URGED
BY MUSTEITES
CONTINUED FROM PAGE oNE)

NCONIlNU ED FROM PAGE UNE)
to reduce wages. The Berkshire
also knows from bitter experience
that talk of wage cutting or price
cutting automatically slows up buy
ing.
"The federation, however, takes
the position that no manufacturer
or group Of manufacturers, how
ever powerful, can promise to keep
up wages or prices under present
conditions. As the psychologists
say, such promises are wish full
fillments", and not business under
takings which can be lived up to In
the hard world of present day COM
petition.
"a manufacturer who promises
no price cuts in an OverdeveIOped
and unorganized industry is more
courageous than intelligent. Wage
cutting and price cutting will con-
tinue despite all the professions of
benevolent or boastfuI nanufactur-
ers until definite action is taken to
alter those conditions which oblige
manufacturers to engage in
struggle for business under pres
ent cut throat methods.
ut will be necessary to stand
ardize labor costs and regulate pro-
duction before hosiery prices can
be stabilized and until the Reading
manufacturers are willing to coop
crate in such a movement prices
and wages will inevitably continue
to be cut"
Nothing in the entire history Of the
labor betrayals by the A F. of L. Of
ficials equals this extraordinary spec
tacle of "non-union" bosses opposing
the $3.50 per cent wage cut propos-
ais of union" officials. The Music
hosiery nisleaders actu-
ally tell the most vicious open shop
mill in the industry, the Berkshire
Knitting Mill, at Wyomissing, Pa, to
cut wages. The opposition of the
"non-union" mills to such organized
wage cuts, of course, is based upon
the fact that the cut will enable the
union" mills to compete with them.
Already the Paterson local of the
AFFFHW has rejected the wage cut
agreement, according to the Women's
Wear Daily.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-15
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Striking Miners Relief and the
Workers International Relief in all
parts Of the country.
The plan requires organization of
workers in advance through confer
ences, ETC., SO that everything will be
ready when the actual solidarity tag
days come on September 26 and q,
Saturday and Sunday-ready to tag
everybody. Money from every worker
for the striking miners relief.
The first step in the organization
of the tag days is a meeting of the
delegate relief body in every city.
This delegate body must be made as
broad as possible to set up united
front of all workers and workers
groups interested in the relief work.
Organized work of the committees
must be backed up by the work of
individuals and by mass meetings in
every city. The T. U. U. L. will take
part in these mass meetings and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-15

lection from the rain. After the
downpour ended, policemen drove
them out into the open again, sug-
costing that they go to the Saliva
ton Army flophouse. A good many
went back into the park and slept
on the wet ground.
This veteran said to me: "I don't
know how long they'll let us keep
this stand. I dread the winter"
I talked to him about the Unem-
ployed Councils and the Communist
Party and he asked me to bring him
something to read The vets know
they have been bunked, but it is our
job to carry to them the message of
what to do.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-15
cured this sub in about two hours"

cured this sub in about two hours"
Comrade G. L. has plenty Of en-
thusiasm. Certainly he is not af-
flicted with much too common
bogy that due to hard times the work.
ers in a particular neighborhood or
factory district will not read the
Daily Worker or become subscribers
to it. 1t is exactly this attitude
which weighs down so many of the
older comrades before they even
start any activity to stimulate sales
and subscription contacts for the
Daily Worker. Other cases show that
the Daily Worker has become so $50
lated from the everyday activity Of
the Party and unit that it becomes
absolutely impossible to even ap-
proach workers to take a sub.
1t must be exactly along the lines
of our activity from day to day
that we use the Daily Worker to
strengthen our contact with work
ers we meet. The Daily Worker
must prove itself to be our great
est ally in any organization if we
prove to these workers that it is
their paper, always ready and will
ing to reflect their struggles and
their opinions in cOntradistinction
to the capitalist press.
Must Build Club.
From Tampa we hear the follow
ing: "The sales of the Daily Worker
are not going so good here. No CO.
operation from the rank and file ="
We are both sorry and surprised to
hear this, Tampa. 1t looked to us
some time ago as though Tampa
were getting hot for some real boost
on sales and subs. We gathered this
not SO much from the increases in
orders, which were welcome since
they in themselves showed signs of
awakening activity, as we did from
the organization of Daily Worker
Club. Mechanical application to-
words unwarranted bundle increases
will never establish the Daily on a
sound basis.
Neither can we sit back and ex-
pect the initiative of rank and file
workers to fall on us like Mamma
from the sky. The Daily Worker
Club must be developed for exactly
this reason. It's really quite
simple form to start if we begin
the initiative ourselves and then
give it guidance without Journalism
or intense mechanical discipline.
Try developing this form, Tampa,
and we feel sure that you will be
pleasantly shocked at the co-opera-
ton you get.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-15
PITTSBURG, KAN.
HEARS CT SOVIET
DR. Burkhardt Tells of
| Soviet Hospitals
(By a Worker Correspondent

Wy a VOhCA NOAAOopOliuCHbI
PITTSBURG, Kansas-Dr. A. E.
Burkhardt, of Kansas City, who has
just returned from trip to the U. S.
S. r. spoke to 1900 workers in Lin
coin Park Sunday, Sept. 6.
DR.. Burkhardt reported he had
made a special study of the hospitals
and the medical attention given to
the Soviet workers and farmers and
their families, laying special empha-
sis on the preventive treatment given
workers which he said was not to be
found in capitalist country. But
as he remarked if the doctors in
America prevented disease among the
workers there would be less profit for
the doctors and that we workers need
not look not only for preventives but
not even for any free treatment when
we are sick.
The workers were very enthusiastic
over the doctors talk. When Mrs.
Burkhardt talked to the women of
Soviet government she got much APP
plause.
--JJ.W.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-15
Bosses Fill Wilmington Jail with Jobless

them up" However, he states that
in spite of the crowded conditions
of the workhouse at present he will
be able to accommodate all the pris-
oness that are sent to him.
The Du Points and Bancrofts have
found good and faithful lackies in
Lynn, Black and Leach. They are
using this trio to try to break the
rising fighting spirit of the workers
in Wilmington, but in spite of this
trio and the police terror the work
ers are beginning to organize under
the banner of the Communist Party
and the Unemployed Council.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-15
Portland, Ore,

Portland, Ore.
Daily Worker:
was a long time on the beach
looking for ship. At last after
starving couple of months running
from shipping Office to shipping Of
flee I landed one. 1t turned out to
be one of those floating madhouses
which sails out of Portland and is
run by the State Steamship Co,
Here are some of the conditions
that I found on the madhouse. In
stead of carrying 8 able bodied sea-
men and ordinary seamen, they
cut down to 6 a. BIS and 2 ordinaries
and instead of increasing the wages
of the men who were forced to do
more work they cut the wages of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-15
Seamen Get Wage-Cut on West Coast Line

a. BIS from $6250 a month to $57.
The ordinaries were cut from SAT to
$40. The forecastle of this madhouse
was right next to the toilet and in
the tropics the smell IVES so bad that
the crew had to sleep on the poop
deck.
The food was so rotten that after
the trip was over nearly half of the
men had to go to the Marine Hospi-
tai to recuperate.
American seamen, how long will
you tolerate these conditions? The
ship owners are organized Why
can't we do the same thing? Let's
get into the Marine Workers Indus
trial Union and fight these wage
cuts and rotten conditions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-15
OPPOSE RELIEF
" FOR JOBLESS
Republicans Offer
Own Demagogy

The republican party in New York
has presented a corntEr proposal to
Roosevelt's bill for unemployment re-
lief in its attempt to prevent him
from reaping all Of the benefits of
the demagogic attempt to fool the
workers. While the republican pro-
Dosals are an attack on Roosevelt
they agree thoroly with him in the
refusal to give any real relief to
the unemployed.
Instead of the Roosevelt proposal
that the appropriation of $4,000, 900
should be raised by a negligible in
crease in the income tax on the rich
less than one per cent of their in
comes-the republicans suggest that
the money for relief be raised by
economies in the present budget of
the state. The hypocrisy of this is
evident from the fact that the state
will have to raise $75,O00,O0O to
$780, 100000 next year to make up for
the decline in revenues during the
present crisis. This deficit does not
even take into account a single cent
for the unemployed. The repubh-
cans, like the democrats, propose the
unemployed shall get nothing as re-
lief to maintain themselves and their
families during the coming terrible
winter Of starvation.
The republican plan provides that
the funds for relief should go
through officials at their disposal
and not appointed by Roosevelt, so
that all of the graft coming out of
the relief appropriations shall go to
republican grafters, contractors and
politicians, not to democrats.
Capitalist Parties United.
The New York Times reports that
the republican report also contained
a terSe pronouncement against pay
ment of 'doles' in accord with the
view expressed by Governor Roose-
welt" In this they are united-repub-
licans, democrats and socialists-that
the unemployed should not get any
thing approaching adequate relief.
In one other fundamental point they
are united. All three capitalist par
ties want to force the spreading Of
the Hoover stagger system, the five
day week wage cut scheme, to those
workers who are still employed so
that they, instead of the capitalist
class, will have to bear the cost of the
crisis.
The unemployed and employed
workers must rally against all three
capitalist parties in the fight against
hunger, for immediate relief and I'M
employment insurance. The workers
must vote as they fight-against the
bosses, against the parties of the
bosses, democrat, socialist and re-
publican and for the party of their
clasus, the Communist Party. Vote
Communist!
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Sept. O.
Faced with death by starvation,
Emanuel Tulkelludes, an unemployed
shoe worker attempted suicide and is
now at the point of death in a hos
pital. Tulkelludes told of hopeleSsly
hunting for a job. He said:
II came here few days ago from
New Rockland, Mass. I worked there
in a shoe factory, but it closed. There
isn't any work here, either. My fam
lily is in Spain, and I have no friends
in this country. I decided I did not
want to keep on this way"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-15
(By a Worker Correspondent

WILMINGTON, Del.-According to
Warden E. j. Leach of the New
castle County Workhouse, there are
more prisoners behind the walls of
this bastile than ever before. In
report to the board of trustees, War
den Leach admitted that over go
per cent of the prisoners were Ne
groes. He gave as the reason for the
large number of prisoners the pres
emit economic crisis and admitted
that the bosses were trying to break
up any militancy on the part of the
workers by having Judge Lynn "send
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-15
NY. LAUNDRY WORKERS
COLLAPSE FROM HEAT
AND TERRIFIC SPEED
Consolidated Laundries Slash Wages of Week
Workers from S14 to $40 A Week
Drivers Work from 72 to 90 Hours A Week;
Fined for All Lost or Stolen Bundles
(By a Worker Correspondent

NEW YORK-The Consolidated Laundries controlling
large number of plants in Brooklyn New jersey and
ever seen.
The inside workers who mostly Negroes working
under the unsantay and unhealthy conditions imagn-
able The heat is below 80 degrees and high
100 degrees in the In the summer time is
sight to who have tainted from the heat lying
about without any medical attention whatsoever.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-15
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misery, starvation and suicides in the
Los Angeles Record of Sept. II. The
story declares:
Long months Of suffering we're
climaxed abruptly today in grim
tragedy for little Los Angeles fam
lily when the husband and father
killed his wife and then committed
suicide.
Their 17-year-old daughter, Jo-
sephine, lay asleep a few feet away
in another room at lis E. s2nd st.
as the shots rang out in the night"
The boss paper then admits that
j. A. Comstock, the father, had been
unable to find work for months.
That his wife. LILLY, 48, bravely tried
to help by working in laundry. But
it was hard. She, too, was ILL.,"
OMAHA. Sept. 14.-Sibbernsen, Of
no N. 38th ST., shot and killed him.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-15

Riverside Drive is inhabited only by
second-class, millionaire sweat
shop owners, while Park Avenue has
all the higher range millionaires and
the White Guard Russian prostitute
princes and princesses Hillquit had
to be nearer his oily clients, so Park
Avenue is now his native habitat.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-15
Defense Dance for
Political Prisoners,
Union City. Sept. 10

HOBOKEN, N. 1.-THE Leonardo
Mezzina Branch of the International
Labor Defense here has arranged for
a Defense Dance, Saturday, Septem-
Der 10, at 8 p m. at Cavalotti Hall,
600 7th ST., Union City, N. ].
Proceeds of the affair will go for
the fund for defense of political
prisoners, especially those the boss
government seeks to deport to fas-
cist Italy to certain death.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-15

Ny WOihCA correspondent
CHICAGO.-The downtown bust
ness district still has many war vet
Grams trying to make living selling
apples and pears. have talked to
number Of them and they tell me
they make from SO cents to SO day.
Some of the stands are run by
two veterans, so their average earn
ings hardly keep body and soul to-
gether. Some of them sleep out in
the park.
A veteran told me that when we
had the thunderstorm last Monday
evening hundreds of homeless men
went under the link bridge for pro-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-15
DOG SHOP CHAIRMEN MEET
TUESDAY.

A meeting Of the shop chairmen
of all dog shops will take place Tues
day, right after work at the office
of the union, 131 w. 28th ST. At
this meeting the Executive Commit
tee of rs will report on the activi-
ties and will also discuss the policy
of the union toward the fake peace
maneuvers. All dog shop chairmen
and delegates are called upon to re-
port to this meeting.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-15
Soviet Forced Labor"-Bedacht'
series in pamphlet form at 10 cents
per copy. Read it-Spread 1t!

by helping carry back the furniture.
The janitor Of the house, under in
timidation of the landlord framed
up charges against two workers of
the Unemployed Council and they
were arrested charged with breaking
into private property. They are held
on $500 bail. The trial will be held
Friday, Sept II at 10 a. m, at the
54th Street Court House,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-15
Hillquit Moves Closer to Czarist Clients
New York, N. Y.

NUW 1UlK, N. 7.
Daily Worker:
In recent issue of the Daily
Worker" it was noted that Morris
Hillquit lived on Riverside Drive.
With all the money coming in from
the White Guards and Czarists and
graft from the union manipulations,
Oily Hillquit has moved near Park
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-15

One way to help the Soviet
Union Is to spread among the
workers "Soviet Forced Labor"
by Max Bedacht, 10 cents per copy.