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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-22
Chats avith Our
WOrcOrrS

The number OF worker correspond
ents Of the Daily Worker is con-
stantly increasing. The workers have
realized that literary talent is not
the condition for becoming a CORES
pondent. Rather it is a workers con-
nection with the struggles of the
working class.
Every class conscious working man
or woman in a shop, in mass Or
ganization, or in working class
neighborhood is involved in the
struggles of that particular section Of
the working class, and is therefore
equipped to be a worker correspond
ent.
BY reporting to the Daily Worker
his experiences in connection with
these struggles, he contributes great
deal to the collective experience Of
the workers. Especially If he reports
the methods Of struggle and organ
ization, can workers elsewhere learn
a great deal from his correspondence.
Thus mistakes can be avoided, and
achievements can be repeated, and
working class solidarity is developed.
Become a worker correspondent
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-22
S1.5O A WEEK
IN KENT, OHIO
Delegate of March
Writes on Conditions

KENT, O.-Since I returned from
that prison in Washington which
Mr.. Hoover had so carefully planned
for the starving workers and after
suffering for a drink Of water and
having to sleep in those unsanitary
surroundings, after housing had
been secured, after all the terrorism
Of those thugs and plug uglies that
we're hired by the Hoover hunger gov
eminent, I am ready to carry on the
struggle Of the workers with more
determination than ever.
Several hundred families are on
relief throughout this county and
five delegates were elected to march
to Washington. They have re-
turned now and will tell he workers
and farmers of this section their ex-
periences while on the march and in
Washington.
A dress factory in Kent, employ
ing mostly women and girls, is work
ing three to four days per week, pay
ing starvation wages, O. speed-up
system is in force, the highest paid
worker or skilled worker receives six
to eight dollars per week, whilst the
unskilled worker receives on an aver
age of Csc per day for 9 hours work.
Loeblein, Inc, furniture factory,
located in Kent, Ohio, employing
about 80 workers part time, operated
by piece work system also a few
day laborers, these day laborers re-
ceive 121ac per hour
On piece work cutter for Mus
lin, Cambria, or Burlap receives 33c
for a job which last year paid SOC.
One worker received $3.50 on pay
day for two weeks piece work.
Conditions are growing steadily
worse and the workers are awaken
ing to the need of organizing to de-
mand their rights.
In Rayenna the county seat. a
family receives only $3.50 per week
regardless Of the number in the
family.
They are also Disseminated against
and can only get certain items on
their grocery list.
Farmers are pouring milk to their
hogs but the starving children must
live ON canned milk.
So, as you see, the march to Wash
ington doesn't mean that we will re-
lax in our efforts to secure better
conditions in the factories and more
and better relief for the starving
workers and farmers of this country.
M, n. c..
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-22
Contrasts in d. C.
Written by a Bonus
Marcher to "DaiIy"

WASHINGTON, D. CT arrived
here with the Hunger Marchers.
Thanks to timely traffic signal and
a convenient alley our driver sue
ceeded in eluding the police escort.
am still in Washington, this time
with the hungry veterans.
AS far westerner, I find many
strange things here. find the vets
in Washington, the men who fought
to make the world safe for demo-
cracy," housed in miserable billet
over on st. N. w.
I find the men who are fighting to
make the country safe for plutocracy
housed in a large magnificent gran
lite building on F st. N. W.. On one
of the grand staircaseS is a sign
Tariff Commission"
A casual observer would thing that
the I St. N. w. building was sub
treasury building, Judging by the po-
lice squad that is being furnished it.
Three of us went with letters to
present to our representatives in
congress. Messengers are more
plentiful than stamps around OH
headquarters). We got as far as the
door Of the house and were met by
five burly cops. They informed us
the letters would have to be sent by
mail if the post-office would accept
them.
I hope they we're mistaken about
that. How would the postmaster
know that they didn't contain sales
talks of Sam insult or some other
banker.
We held a mass meeting on @ st.
N. w. The hall was filled and many
vets had to stand. They didn't seem
to mind this because standing was
probably less painful than sitting
after Jogging across the country in
box cars for several days. At the
meeting we were told that the
only thing that will hasten granting
of our demands and that is the whole
hearted cooperation OF every group
directly concerned. These talks are
interesting and heartening.
AS an afterthought I suggest a
sequel to that pre-war song, II didn't
raise my boy to be soldier" 1t
should be, 81 don't want my boy to
be an ex-soldier always kept on the
run" Vet.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-22
Another Town Learned
from the Marchers of
w ork ers' P o w er

LANCASTER, Pa.--One of our To-
cal delegates returned from the capt.
tai seriously i'll, with a high fever
running, and was forced to go to the
hospital as a result of the treatment
dealt the Hunger Marchers by the
brutal Washington police. Notwith-
standing the hardships endured he
came back confirmed Red, having
seen with his own eyes how the right
of petition is denied the workers In
this glorious democracy"
When Column Seven passed thru
Lancaster they held a demonstration
on the courthouse steps, although the
authorities had refused to grant a
permit. Hundreds of workers waited
for hours to see the marchers, and
a dense crowd srged abou tthe court
house when the caravan at last came
through.
Speakers addressed the gathering
and a good sum was collected for
the march. Local workers provided
sandwiches and coffee, besides ar
ranging for a hot meal which was
served at the Water Street Mission.
Newsreels of the Hunger Marchers
are being shown here, with accom-
panying flippant comment by the
boss-controlled announcer. T e
marchers are seen (barely seenD
parading the streets of the capital,
surrounded by hundreds OF police
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-22
MARCHERS MAKE
CITY GIVE GAS
West'n Columns Reach
Kansas City; Intact

KANSAS CITY, Mo, Dec. 81 -
Columns 2, 3 and 5, now only rs
delegates OF the National Hunger
March, reached here Monday night.
For the first time in weeks they slept
in beds provided by local workers.
They reported they had forced the
city authorities of Columbia, Mo-, to
provide their trucks with gasoline.
owen w Penney, leader Of the
combined columns, was the candi-
date for governor of Missouri on the
Communist ticket in the last cleo
ton. He told how the bulk Of the
1900 delegates who reached Wash
ingnton in these columns had al
ready arrived at their homes, drop
ping out of the columns in each city
they passed, and rousing the work.
ers there to new struggles for relief
with their reports Of the march.
All Enthusiastic.
Penney declared this national
march, "an epic in the history of the
class struggle"
Irene Robinson, worker from San
Francisco, said, 1.-THE march is do
ing a lot Of good. It will bring a lot
of good results in propaganda, edu-
cation, etc. Some business men
stated they would join us on the next
march. One California woman worker
was left in ST. Louis i'll. Many Of
the marchers still have colds but
they are improving and the spirit is
fine. I am anxious to get back to
the workers who sent us, to report,
We have decided to go by way Of
Denver and expect to be home in
the first part Of January"
Joe Salazar, worker from Denver,
said there were now ten marchers
from his section, including one from
Wyoming and one from Nevada.
There were. 26 in all from Colorado,
must of them travelling by other
routes I'm going over to Washing
tom, he said, "the reception by the
workers on the way was excellent.
The march was a success viewed
from the working class standpoint.
At Vincennes, Indiana, We were met
by 200 Legionnaires who tried to in
tinlidate us but they didn't scare US.
This march has given the workers a
broader view Of our demands, to see
them more clearly from the work
ing class point Of view"
Learned About the Government.
Gladys Brown from Pittsburg, Kan
sas, interviewed by the Daily Worker
representative, made the following
statement;
"The Hunger March went over big
and it will be historical, We didn't
exactly expect $50 relief Immediately
but we sure found out what kind OF
government we have. I have not
known of the movement long. am
new in it. but would go on a march
again. Wonderful discipline was
shown by the marchers and the
young people displayed lots OF cou-
rage"
None of these workers showed any
signs of fatigue but were in good hui
NOR and ready for other tests OF
endurance.
If the police and the capitalist
authorities think they have cowed
and discouraged these fine working
class elements, they are much mis-
taken. The experience has only
steeled them all the more in the
struggles for the rights of their
class.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-22
UNEMPLOYED STORM
COAL FIELD

BERLIN, (By MaiD 200 to 300
workers broke through the fence
surrounding the coal piles OF the
Schlaegel- Essen coal mine in Scher-
lebeck, taking away coal that lay
weathering on the pile.
Police reserves were called, but
could do nothing about it. Again
and again the masses returned with
sacks and carts and took away coal.
When the night Waterman drew
his revolver to drive away the crowd
they called out, go ahead and
shootr' face to face with this reso-
lutte determination, he pocketed his
gun and left them alone.
This act of desperation illustrates
the starvation and misery OF the
German working class as nothing
else can. Resolute mass action can
and does overrun all opposition. Uni
ted revolutionary action Of the work
err Is the only way out Of the crisis.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-22

shoremen's Association" "a. F. Of u
have Of late made marked turn
towards the militant leadership OF
the M.WI.U.
National Committee Members 10
Work AS Ship Delegates
To strengthen the work aboard
ship and to develop flnctioning chip
committees, it was decided that seine
Of the most active and capable NAM
bers of the National Committee
should ship out and build the union
aboard ships.
Fifteen members of the Natiogal
Committee were selected for this
work
LW.W. Attempts to Disrupt Meeting
A committee from the IWW head
ed by the renegade, JohannSsn ap-
peared during the second session IN
an. attempt to disrupt the neetine.
Failing in their attempt, they re-
treated to their unemployed union"
and held conference attended By II
delegates where after much spittoon
philosophy, they adopted resolution
condemning unemployment insur'
ance.
AdjOurns by Singing International
r. B. Hudson, national secretary
of the MWIU. made the opening
report and closing summary Of the
meeting. The report on the war daH-
ger was made by George Mink, press
report by Jones, editor of the Marine
Workers Voice; and Unemployment
report by McCuistion. In addition to
the Point Gorda report by Clark.
there were reports from other ships
and locals. Comrades Stachel and
Ford reported for the T.U.UL. and
summarized the meeting as Visible
evidence Of growth and progress"
The meeting adjourned with the
singing of the International.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-22
SCOTTSBORO AIDS.
THE DOWNER CASE
Precedent Gets New
Trial for Negro

MACON, Ga, Dec. 21.-The direct
connection between the granting of
a new trial to John DoWner, Negro
worker framed on rape charges in
Georgia, this week, and the decision
wrung out of the U. S. Supreme
Court by the workers Of the world
and the International Labor Defense,
is clearly brought out in the text
of the decision in the Downer case,
now published.
"In view Of all the facts, the de-
cision says, considered in the light
of the decision of the circuit court
of appeals in this case, Downer VS..
Dunaway, 50 F. End, 586, and one
of the decisions of the Supreme
Court of the United States in the
case Of Moore VS.. Dempsey, 261 US.
86, and the cases of Ozie Powell ct
al VS.. State of Alabama, Haywood
Patterson v. State of Alabama, and
Charley Weems ct al v. State of Ala
barna, consolidated and decided as
one case by the court on Nov, z,
1882 (not yet published. there can
scarcely be any doubt that the petit
toner was denied due process of law
in violation of the fourteenth amend
ment of the constitution"
In May, 1881, six Negro workers
were arrested, charged with the rape
of a white woman, in Elberton, Ga
Mohs gathered around the Jail, but
were dispersed by the National
Guard officials had promised an i'm
mediate trial and a lynch verdict
Downer, one Of those arrested, was
indicted on May 25 On May 26, he
was called to trial, in a courtroom
surrounded and lined with national
guardsnler1. The court appointed a
lawyer who did not even take the
trouble to talk with Downer. No
effort to defend him was made by
this lawyer, nor any attempt to OBJ
tain a new trial. Downer was tried
convicted and sentenced to death in
q few hours
A. T. Walden, a Negro attorney of
Atlanta, was the first lawyer to take
up Dowper'S case. He presented a
petition for q writ of habeas corpus
to the federal district court on the
ground that Downer was deprived
Of the right OF counsel, two days be-
fore the date set for the execution,
June 10, 1881.
This decision, forced from the Fed
eral Judge Bascom S. Beaver by the
Scottsboro decision Of the U. S. SUI
prene Court, is the first on record
when a state sentence has been set
aside by U. S. District Court, The
decision set December % as the date
for signing a discharge Of the sem
tence against Downer.
But Solicitor General A. S. Skel-
ton, of the Elberton Superior Court,
has announced that he has prepared
a warrant for the re-arrest Of Dow
ner, and will set an early date for
second trial, in which the inStruc-
lions of the U. S. Supreme Court on
how to legally lynch Negroes with
out interference from higher courts
will be followed out.
Workers and workers ,organiza-
lions, Negro and white, throughout
the country, are urged by the 1. L.
D. to Immediately wire Shelton, at
Elberton, Ca, demanding immediate
unconditional release for Downer,
pointing out the almost exact SINH
larity between this and the Scots
boro case.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-22

The following letters from Negro
and white share troopers in the
South show the economic condi-
tions which the white ruling class
landlords are trying to enforce In
their present murderous attack on
the share troopers union In ITALIA
poosa County in Alabama. These
letters were published last year in
the Southern Worker, most Of
which are from the very place
where the landlords are conducting
their murderous campaign. They
are now reprinted to show what the
conditions were at that time. The
reader can understand that after
one more year of the crisis the con-
ditions have grown worse.
LANDLORD TAKES EVERYTHING
(By Farmer Correspondent
CAMP HILL. Ala am writing
to you all for advice what to do.
Harper, the landlord, took everything
we have made this year. Me and my
family we work hard to make living
but the landlord he takes all the
corn, all the fodder. all the cotton
only leaves one load Of corn.
We got nothing to eat, no clothes,
only rags. I have my wife and eight
children, and now he says he put us
out Jan. !. We got TO do something.
FORCED LABOR IN CAMP HILL
(By q Farmer Correspondent
TALLAPOOSA COUNTY, Ala
The white landlords in Camp Hill,
Ala, are working men for the state.
They didn't have no Job or nothing
to eat so they ere making them work
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-22
International
Notes
SPANISH SOCIALISTS VOTE FOR
ARNIAMENTS

MADRID (By Mail. - Defending
the huge expenditures planned or al
ready made by his department. Navy
Minister Jose Giral declared in the
Cortes 1.-THE Spanish Congress) today
that Spain needed a powerful navy
due to its geographical situation and
for that reason it had been neceS-
sary to increase the naval construc-
ton budget considerably over the
previous year.
The Socialist deputies in he COrtes
stated that they felt it ought to sup
port the increased budget. They feel
THAT 1T WOULD BE IMPRUD-
ENT TO REDUCE THE ARMY OR
NAVY FORCES IN THE PRESENT
CIRCUMSTANCES"
The present circumstances" refer
red to, mean, of course, the general
strike of revolutionary nature called
by the United Front of Communist
and Syndicalist workers, which
threatens to overthrow the present
Socialist bourgeois coalition govern
ment of Spain. Naturally the So
ciaIist leaders refuse to take part in
the strike, although their rank and
file supporters are deserving them by
tens of thousands. Their support Of
the increased armament budget
clearly shows that they are merely
the tools of the militarist- capitalist
regime in Spain. For that matter,
where have Socialists voted against
armament increases in any country
since the World War, in spite OF
their perpetual talk about "paci-
fism"?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-22

LID, where he has been active
since he came to the USA in the
fall of 1881.
He has been expelled from the
Communist Party and from the LID.
on receipt Of information from Dan
mark (and admitted by hiTnsslD thai
in December, 1929, he was expelled
from the c. P of Denmark and pub
licly exposed as a stool pigeon, who
stole Party documents and ~tfp
later, openly associated himself with
police agents.
His protestation Of innocence ars
contradicted by the fact that he
concealed his record from the Party
when making out his membership
application, as also by descriptive atts
and conduct when he learned that
the Party had received his recos6
and was taking steps to elimineak
him from all work Of any responss\
bility.
Description: Age, SO ysaxA:
Height, about $50 pounds; Ha6.
blond; Eyes, blue; Compacxien,
fair. Photo published above.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-22
Sham Debts Dispute
Between Hoover and
Roosevelt Continues

WASHINGTON, Dec. 21.--T he
sham dispute between President
Hoover and President-elect Roo6e~
welt over the exact method Of start.
ing denomination of the European
war debts continued today. Hoover
having proposed that joint repus,-
hcan- democratic commission be sp-
pointed for this purpose, Rocssyet
of course disagreed. Latest repoets
today are that the president win ~
ahead with the ppointment Of his
commission despite Roosevelt's So
called objections.
Roosevelt has, however, made IL SUI
ficiently clear that he is Just as much
in favor as Hoover is Of matntsiF-
ing the crushing burden OF war deNts
which is borne for the most part W.
the working masses OF Europe. Tn
Communist Parties throuehnQt ~
world are demanding the 6r@reS(e
nsnceIlsttor o. She desyt& $3.50
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-22
PROGRESS OF THE SPANISH
GENERAL STRIKE

MADRID - The great general
strike continued to spread through
out Spain according to recent re-
ports, despite reign of terror by
the local police, the Civil Guard,
the Assault Guard, and the army.
In Gijon all industry and tran
sportation is at a standstill.
In Oviedo commerce and industry
is completely paralyzed, although the
strike is not yet 100 per cent effec-
tive there. The governor of the pro-
vince Of Oviedo has closed the head
quarters Of the Communist and other
labor organizations, arresting all
known leaders of the strike without
succeeding in breaking the workers
spirit. There have been several
clashes between the troops and the
strikers and numerous casualties are
reported.
In Sauna the Assault Guard is try
ing to suppress the strike by use
of military force many strikers be-
ing shot and dubbed.
At Huesca, a group of workers
succeeded in capturing the central
electric power station but were forced
to retire after a two-hour battle
with several thousand Assault Guard
troops. Many we're killed or wounded.
The governor of the province OF
Salamanca admitted today that the
strike was almost 100 per cent effec-
tive in Salamanca itself and in some
zoo towns throughout the province.
Forty thousand workers are now out
on general strike in the Salamanca
area.
In a clash between strikers and
the Civil Guard in the city of Ubeda
worker, Antonio Fernandez, was
killed.
AS usual, the Socialist leaders, az
ter trying to prevent the strike, and
witnessing thousands Of their work
er-followeTs Joining he united front
of Communists and ether labor Or
ganizations, are now claiming credit
for the strike. Their efforts at
breaking the strike are too vivid in
the workers minds, however, for this
naneuver to succeed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-22
"THE LANDLORD TOOK EVERYTHING WE
MADE HISYEARw~SAYS SHARE CHOPPER

stretches of land after being deprived
of his share of the crop, and must
do these tasks in order to obtain food
for himself and family. This food he
receives from the landowner, who is
sues food to the cropper little by
little and at cost.
The conditions of the white tenants
are also terrible. They are the VIC
tins of debt slavery like the Negro
choppers and tenants. The landown-
ers always see to it that the tenants
and troopers are in debt to them,
and their debts to the landowners
are in the form of back rents, ra-
tons, high interest on a little money
borrowed during the farming season,
and so on.
The troopers are at no time able
to pay these debts. They are then
thrown out of the houses when they
are unable to pay the rent right
away. Their stocks are taken from
them and farm tools are taken by the
landowners. Then the troopers can't
pay for feed, seed and medicine bills
and are faced with back notes )stock
or crop notes land other debts which
makes it possible for the landowner
to take the crops or the stock.
Both the white and the Negro ten
ants and share troopers are denied
the right to vote. Only the landown-
ers vote and when one wants to be
elected for some position they want
the white and Negro troopers TO en-
dorse them but not TO cast their
votes. They say: vote for Mr..
So-and- so and thsp he will help the
po~ Serrnsfs.i
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-22
WHERE DID NATIONAL SECUR-
ITY" ORIGINATE?

The dominant role played by the
French armament trust, Schneider
CreusOt, in French foreign politics is
disclosed in a series of articles in the
Italian paper "Stampa".
The paper claims that the French
motto National Security before Dis
armament" was coined by this giant
firm. which in 1880 bought up the
two Paris papers "Echo de Paris
and journal des Debats" as chan
neIs for its militaristic propaganda
("Per.inax," the foreign expert of the
echo de Paris" has for years been
known as the most yirulent lingo in
French iournaiism.)
The Schneider Creusot group, says
"Stampa,. has been particularly ac-
tive in the anti-Soviet campaign.
Frances sympathy for Japan In the
Sino- Japanese conflict In Manchuria
lis explained by the fact, according
Ito "Stampa," that the Japanese arm
lament firm of Mitsui, which handles
nearly all Japan's munitions orders,
is controlled, or at least closely con-
nccted with the Frsnco-Japanese
Bank controlled by Schneider Creu-
sot.
Moreover. Schneider Creusot Is
closely connected with the Czecho-
slovakian munitions firm Of Skoda,
which built the Big Berthas that
sheIIed Paris In the World War, and
with the British armament firm Of
yickers- Armstrong.
"When thieves fall out, the truth
will out" The grave Italian
French rivalry Is stimulating the
Italian press to tell ALL" confirming
our charges of the BLACKBOARD cor
ruption and hypocrisy Of the bourge-
DIS French press, which is the
mouthpiece for all anti-Soviet agit-
cttcy, fhrouphOut Europe.