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country, working at such jobs as he
could find, shipped on cattleboat
plying between New Orleans and Eu
ropean ports. His first contact with
the revolutionary movement came
here, when he was "brigged" for tax
ing the part Of an English fireman
accused of Bolshevik activities. For
taking part in organizing the firemen
and coal-passers against bad food and
ill-treatment, he was jailed on a
charge of mutiny, but later released,
WILLIAM WEINSTONE
Born Dec Is, 1897 and brought UP
in the Brownsville district of Brook
lyn
At the age of sixteen, he Joined the
Socialist Party and was one of the
leftwing leaders within the Party,
fightinSg against the opportunitst
position of the Hillqit leadership on
the World War He very early joined
with the left MARKHAM groups within
the Party.
When the left wing formally broke
away from the Socialist Party. in
1919, Comrade Weinstone was one OF
the leaders of the movement, and its
first secretary, He was one of the
founders of the Communist Party
U. S. A., and has been member of
its Central Committee since 1920.
For taking part in the Michigan
convention of the Communist Party
in 1922 he was arrested and indicted
on a charge of criminal syndicalism
He was one of the founders OF the
Workers School in 1929, and has
taken part in It's activities, as teacher
and lecturer. ever since
He has long record as leader In
militant class struggle As District
Organizer of the Communist Party
New York District. he took leadinl
part In the Paterson silk Workers
strikes of 1924 and 1927 IN ths Fas
safe strike of 1925, and in the needl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-20
HAMILTON METAL WORKERS
STRIKE
(By a Worker Correspondent

HAMILTON, Ohio.-The workers
at the Herring, Hall and Marvin
Safe Co. have all gone out on strike
because Of 10 per cent wage-c cut.
There were two Is per cent cuts be-
fore this one. The workers have
elected a strike committee made up
of experienced workers. The A. F.
of L. tried TO separate the workers
on the basis of craft, but the work.
ers would not let their ranks be
divided.
The president of the company has
made several attempts to get the
strikers to go back to work On June
10 the president called the commit
tee in and made the following prop
osition' Workers getting under 35
cents per hour will get no cut, those
making more must take the 10 per
cent cut.
The workers refused to accept the
boss program Of wage-cuts and will
continue their struggle to prevent
their conditions being made still
worse than they already are.
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CAMPAIGN OPENS
in SCHENECTADY
Police Fail to Stop
Ford's Meeting

SCHENECTADY, N. Y, June 49,
-Four hundred workers of this town
of 10000 jobless heard James w.
Ford, Communist candidate for VIC
president, open the election campaign
here. Ford's speech was in prepare
ton also for the Communist state
nominating convention which viii
take place here Sunday in Albany
Theatre.
The police carried a kind of a
guerrilla warfare against Ford's meet
ing, claiming he had no right to
speak in Crescent Park, but he spoke,
anyway, without open attack on the
meeting, tho earlier in the day two
young workers were arrested for dis
tributing leaflets advertising the
speech. Both are released on $50
bonds.
Exposes Republicans
Ford shattered the illusion of Ne
gro workers that the Republican
Party is their party by telling them
of the unseating of Negro delegates
from South Carolina in favor of the
"lily-white" delegations to the Repub-
lican nominating convention, and OF
the Republican conventions JIM
Growing Of Negro delegates who we're
seated.
Ford showed the Republican prog
ram as one of imperialist war, no re-
lief even to say nothing of unemploy-
ment insurance, and of continued
lynch terror against Negro workers,
Sadie Van Veen was chairman OF
Fords meeting. 1t was the first time
the program of the Communist Party
was brought to the workers of this
city. Only 5000 now work, and those
only part time. at the Gneral electric
plants here which formerly employed
$1,000 The only other large indus
try, the Mellon owned locomotive fac
tories used to employ 5000 but now
have only 500, and will shut down
next month entirely
Relief is being cut down,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-20
5000 JObless Mill
Hands Ask for Food
in Charlotte, N. C.

CHARLOTTE, N. c., June 19.--475
families, totalling over 5000 persons,
all unemployed mil workers from
around Charlotte, have come in a
single week to the Salvation Army
asking for food. They we're becom-
ing SO resentful that mill managers
we're worried, and called in the SAL
walton Army and told 1t something
must be done. THIS Army promises
only TO try and secure flour from the
Red Cross --------.
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itol anyhow Three thousand sat ON
the Capitol steps; FIVE thousand gath
cred in the Plaza. The Texas group
marched in singing Hold the Fort.
The police having failed to halt the
march, Waters was rushed to the
scene, Senator Thomas was trotted
out Of the Senate to have his pic
ture taken and make a speech. Wat
ers pleaded with the men to be quiet,
to make no demonstration. A large
army of police was held in readiness
in the Capitol cellars.
And the Senate killed the bill.
Waters announced the defeat and
tremendous boo greeted his first re-
marks These boos forced him to
again resort to his demagogy.
U. s, Band Plays to Halt Demonstra-
ton.
ave will stay till the bonus is
paid" said Waters. This brought
forth some feeble applause and con-
siderable murnbling. Quickly the
U. S. Army band which had been
brought to the Capitol for the oc-
easion struck up America" to drawn
out the protests of the veterans.
Through the crowd there was sup
pressed murnbling Sullenly the vets
returned TO their miserable billets
TO join their fellow veterans and re-
port on the sell-out.
The Rank and File Program.
Leaflets were distributed in all the
camps Saturday morning exposing
the seu-out. The vets took them
eagerly and read them openly. Here
was their program-rank and file
committees to lead the struggle, ar
organized mass demonstration within
two days before Congress where the
demands of the vets and all unem-
ployed workers for relief against hun
ger and misery will be put forward.
Two Jailed.
The Waters gang, in an attempt to
halt the growing revolt in the ranks
sent out their police who arrested
Price and Fisher, two militant vets,
who were later released because of
the mass pressure of the vets.
The Michigan and New Jersey
group, disguised with the mud and
lack of shelter in Camp Bartlett,
marched out under the leadership of
their rank and file committees and
took over building ON "P" Street.
Great sections of vets in all camps
are raising the demand to be housed
in the city.
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burgh District of the International
Labor Defense, and will also be a pro-
test meeting against the Dies depor
tation act
Patterson, Careathers and Collin4
are Negro working class leaders The
other is white worker who took part
in the demonstration on Wylis Ave.
which resulted in their arrest.
Exposed Frame-up.
They conducted their own defense
The prosecutors evidence was
largely dependent on three stool pi-
geons. Patterson, cross examining
one of these, forced him TO admit
that the sheriff's office subpoenaed
him and his father telling them we
want you to come down and testify
against some Communists who spoke
against eyictions and Father Cox.
Patterson took the stand in his own
behalf and repeated his whole WyDe
Avenue speech in the courtroom, TO
the jury and crowded rows of work
ers, Negro and white, who thronged
the courtroom.
11,600 StarYe.
Patterson's speech cited the fact
that in Pittsburgh alone, 1l,600 work
ers families we're without anything
TO live on, and the welfare organi-
cations of the city admitted their
incapacity to take care of them. 1t
was under these conditions he said
that the capitalist government was
throwing workers out of their homes.
denying them the elementary rights
of food and shelter,
He spoke vigorously of the jim
Growing of the Negro and said that
a Negro could not get justice from a
court, the only way a Negro could be
tried by his peers, he said, was by a
jury of persons who, like him. were
denied entrance to hotels restaT-
ants and other places in this city.
Negro Barred from Jury.
"A Negro has the same rights in
this court as Andrew Mellon or any
one else" said the Prosecutor
Then why did you throw out the
only Negro on the jury list2' asked
Patterson,
II had a reason" mumbled the
prosecutor, almost inaudibly.
The prosecutor having no case to
sum up, spent his half hour talking
about God almighty and the hallowed
nature of the law.
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company started the cutting by fir
ing groups of workers and rehiring
at from S. to So week less than
they were getting before. This was
followed two weeks later by reducing
the wages of those who had not been
laid off to the level Of the rest.
This was repeated about a month
ago when other groups of workers
were laid off and taken back for less
pay, while those who had worked
steadily got their slash openly. Thus,
the wages of most of the workers
have now been reduced to soc an
hour or $22.
Starts Again Now
That this is not the last cut the
bosses intend to put over is proven
by the fact that more workers have
recently been laid off; the same game
starts all over again.
The Metal Workers Industrial Lea
que points out to these workers that
if they don't organize and get ready
to fight for the return Of their wage
cut and for improvement of their I'M
bearable conditions they will soon be
faced with starvation on the Job.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-20
Engineers Put Back
to Firemen; Firemen,
Switchmen Fired
lBy a worker CORRESPONDENT

HAMMOND, Ind. - The Indiana
Harbof Belt Railroad at Gibson, Ind.
put seven engineers back to firing
Jobs and laid off IA firemen. Twelve
sWitehmen were also laid off. These
switehmen were only working eight
days month, barely keeping alive,
now they are entirely laid off.
This shows how the ten per cent
voluntary cut put more men back to
york, as Daniel Willard, spokesman
of the Railway Executive Board at
the Palmer House conference in Feb
ruary, 1882 stated it would do Just
the opposite of what he said is true
and the workers can expect more
and more layoffs and cuts in wages
in the future.
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Prepare Attack On
Canada Defense Body

TORONTO. June 19,--Preparations
for a direct attack against the Can
adam Labor Defense League under
the vicious Section SO are indicated
in the report that Joseph Sedgewick,
of the Attorney Generals depart
ment, is taking hand in the pro-
secution of David Chalmers, who was
arrested recently while on a G. L.
D. L. tour for the defense Of the
eight workers in Montreal who are
held in Jail on frame-up charge Of
sedition.
SedgeTick. it will be remembered,
was assistant to the prosecutor, Som
naerville during the trial OF the eight
last fall
Chalmers Is held on a nominal
charge Of vagrancy. but Sedgewick's
interest indicates an attempt may be
r.ade to frame him up on the Section
Is charge Of sedition
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MORE CUTS AT
n. A. IRON co.
Reduction from $50 to
S22 and Lower

NEW YORK.-In the North Amer
lean Iron Company, in Brooklyn, the
workers have received the third pay
cut in the last eight months. The
last cut went into effect a week ago.
The workers did not know of it un-
til four days after it was enforced.
When the men we're finally told about
it a couple of days before pay day,
the foreman spread rumor that
more than half of the crew were TO
be laid off,
About eight months ago the wages
paid to finishers or gangmen, was
between $50 and 500, while helpers
were receiving as high as $40 per
week with a few laborers and ap-
prentices getting around SIS. The
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-20
BELLEvILLE PROTESTS DIES
Bill,

BELLEVILLE, Ill.-The BelleYille
Unemployed Council has sent q re-
solution of protest to the Illineis
senators and congressman against the
vicious Dies-Fish Bill,
The resolution states in part:
Whereas this bill is supported by
the politicians who always opposed
the workers interests, and the ma
iority Of workers are opposed TO its
passage, we demand that Senators do
everything in their power to prevent
its passage.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-20
Fleischman Charges
Workers Is Cents to
Look at His Mansion
lBy . WORKER correspondent. J

CINCINNATI, Ohie.-Fhe capital
list julius Fleisehman of Cincinnati,
famous yeast manufacturer, took
trip to Europe. While away he tries
to make the workers believe he is for
them. He charges % cents adnis-
sion to see his mansion and turns the
money over to the unemployed. Just
the same, he has cut the wages of his
workers.
This is another example of the
demagogy and hypocrisy Of the So
called liberal bosses" Of Cincinnati.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-20
CANADIAN MILITANT BAILrD

CALGARY, Can.-Sophy shelnin,
who was held by the immigration
authorities after serving six months
in Fort Saskatchewan Jail. has been
released on bail, pending further in
vestigation." BAH was furnished by
the Canadian Labor Defense League
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HEAD COMMUNIST
TICKET IN N. Y.
STATE ELECTION
CONTINUED FROM PAGE oNE)

police Immediately upon his release,
he resumed his revolutionary work in
the Communist Party as New York
District Organizer,
HENRY SHEPARD
Comrade Shepard, section organizer
Unemployed Councils, Harlem N, Y,
and a member OF the Central Com
mittee, Communist Party U. s. A.
Born Nov 10, 1899 in Memphis
Tenn. Comrade Shepard's father, a
Negro sha.ecropper, was born a slave,
freed after the Civil War ruined and
unable to support his growing family
as share-cropper, moved to Mem
phis, where Ire worked as teamstcr
Comrade Shspard's mother eked out
the family income by working as q
washerwoman. Very early all SIX
children went out on the streets to
help support themselves by shining
shoes and selling papers.
Comrade Shepard left his home at
the age Of IA, following violent argu-
ments with his father who insisted
that he follow him in submitting to
the influence OF the church II,
worked first as walter on the M s.
sissippi boats, but was soon fired FOL
organization work among the walters
who. besides a pay Of $3.50 a week
received frequent BRASS knuckle beat
ings from the chief steward
From the Mississippi Conrad
Shepard, after Beating about tn
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-20
Fined for Taking
Part in May Day
Meeting in Illinois
lRy : Worker CORRESPONDENT

CHICAGO, Ill.-Six workers were
found guilty and fined because they
took part in the demonstration on
May Day in Elnwood Park and which
the police broke up. Seven young
workers we're also found guilty and
fined because they posted up signs
calling on the young workers to pro-
test against imperialist war and to
take pare in the National Youth Day
demonstration.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-20
TRY TO TERRoRIzE VETS
New York,

Daily Worker.
While I was out collecting sigma
lures for the soldiers bonus, ex-ser-
vicemen of the Wilson Post told me
If they were caught signing the bal
lot they would lose their jobs. I was
stopped last night by the Commander
of the post He told me to keep off
the streets or he would have me run
A Veteran.
out of Yorkville
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-20
lBy . Worker Correspondent

cunningham, Ala.
June II, 1892.
The unemployed workers in Biz
nlinghan have to work two and
three times week for the Red Cross
when they are only giving them
forty cents a head to live on, for a
week. None of it in cash, just in
food. Sometimes a worker is with
put food two and three days and has
to carry his rations three and four
miles without any transportation
We have no coal to cook with or
other things, such as medicine or
getting a doctor into your house, If
anyone is taken sick suddenly. Where
there is not more than two in the
family the Red Cross is not helping
them At the same time many of us
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-20
MUCH RED TAPE FOR A BUM JOE
by a Worker Correspondent

CINCINNATI.-This is the red
tape man has to go through in
Cincinnati in order to push a junk
car. One worker went to the City
Welfare to secure job to pick up
waste paper. He had to go to Shoe
maker Center Negro Welfare So
ciety) and stand a bleod-test, Then
he takes his picture at his own ex-
pense, He leaves two pictures at the
welfare 50 the police can watch him
that he does not get away with any
of the paper
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-20
BIRMINGHAM, ALA, JOB
LESS GET 40 CENTS PER
FAMILY FOR 3-DAY WORK
Get Nothing in Cash; Red Cross Pays Them
Off in Cheap Groceries
No Coal for Cooking No Aid for Family Of
Two or Less; Workers Join C. P.

are forced to steal by the crime of
the bosses in refusing us any relief.
We must organize and struggle under
the leadership of the Communist
Correspondent.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-20
MARCHERs JIM-CRoWED
tBy a Worker Correspondent

Cincinnati, Ohio.
Daily Worker:
Here is another example of the
Veterans of Foreign Wars trying TO
keep the rank and file divided. Be-
tween SOC and 700 bonus marchers
stopped off in Cincinnati from Texas.
AS they marched towards the rail-
road station, where they were to get
transportation, the white workers
were in the front and the Negro
workers in the back. This is how
the workers are divided. This was
on June TO- A WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-20
RELIEF" In CINCINNATI
(By . Worker correspendentl

GINCINNATT.-There is a family
which gets only milk tickets week
and there are four children in the
family. For q dollars worth of gro
ceries they have to work day, and
q week for ton of coal.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-20
TO CELEBRATE VICTORY
IN PATTERSON CASE"
OF EVICTION FIGHTERS
Three Negro Workers Charged With melting
to Riot Put Up Working Class Defense
Before Crowded Court Room Expose Starva-
ton Regime in Pittsburgh Smash Frame-Up

PITTSBURGH.
qutal Patterson Carather
will be held 22
The
the National the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-20
June-July Issue of
The Working Woman
To Be Out June u

Due to the serious financial diff
culties of THE WORKING WOMAN,
the June edition of the paper did
not appear However. there will be
a double issue of THE WORKING
WOMAN, the June and July issue,
which will be off the press by June
81. This will be special issue Of
the paper dealing with the election
campaign. 1t will also be a birth
day issue for Mother Bloor who will
be 10 years old on July 8.
Plans for mobilization OF adequate
forces to sell the paper at shops and
at factories must be drawn up inn
mediately in order to secure the
widest possible distribution of the
special June-July number of THE
WORKING WOMAN.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-20
Cincinnati, Ohio.
Daily Worker:

Here is an example of what goes
on here. The Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad fired Negro worker who
had worked for this company 6 years
and the reason was smoking on COM
pany property" A WORKER.
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trades and cloak-workers strikes In
1927
He was the Communist Party can
didaOe for Mayor of New York City
in 1929
He is member of ths executive
committee Of the Communist Inter
national
He is at present editor OF the Daily
Worksr organ of the Communist
Party, U. S. A
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Communist Party will speak
As further expression of the pro-
found indignation aroused among
the workers Of the United States by
the adoption of the infamous F1sh-
Dies bill q. vigorous protest was
voiced by the Chicago League of
struggle for Negro Rights.
THE Dies Anti-Alien Bill passed
by the House of Representatives''-
the League Of Struggle for Negro
Rights states-"il illustrates very ef-
fectively that the capitalists are dis
carding their mask OF democracy ard
are making step towards legalizing
the brutal attacks of falling and de-
porting the militant workers who
dare to fight for bread and peace"
Pledges to Fight
"The League of Struggle for Negro
Rights in Chicago vigorously protests
against the passing of the Dies Anti
Alien Bill, which aims at subduing
the struggles of the whole working
class against starvation and oppYes-
sion
n. Y. Communist Convention Jsins
Protest.
NEW YORK, June ia strong
resolution of protest against terror
and the Ffsh-Dies Bill was unani-
nously adopted by the delegates to
the District Convention of the Com
munist Party held here.
After characterzing the bill as ths
latest outrage of the Hoover govern
ment against the entire working
class the resolution states:
we call upon the workers of New
York 10 rally in a mighty movement
to wipe out the Fish-Dies Bill, to
stop the hands of the Alabama exc
cutioners. to force the immediate
release of the Scottsboro boys, the
Tampa prisoners, Mooney, Berkraan,
the Paterson Five and all class war
prisoners"
Bill Is Hunger Weapon.
I'VE the members of the Workers
zukunft Club reads a telegram,
sent to Senator Wagner, "Denounce
and condemn as an Anti-Labor meas
urs the bill now pending in the Sen
ate, and known as the Dies Bill. This
bill, if passed, will serve as an addi-
tional weapon in the hands of the
employers for further cutting wage
rates and for imposing hunger and
misery upon the millions who are al
ready destitute as result Of mass
unemployment"
All Senators Get Protest.
A further attack on the bill Is
made in a letter just sent to all the
United States Senators by the Amer
lean Civil Liberties Union.
SAN FRANCISCO, June ls.-One
thousand workers, meeting at CIVIC
Center sent a strong telegram to SEN
ators Johnson and Shortridge pro-
testing the vicious Dies Bill
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Correspondence Briefs

The following brief notes from our
worker correspondents give an idea
of what is going on in Cincinnati,
Ohio:
THE BONUS MARCH
by Worker Correspondent
CINCINNATI The Bonus March
ers passed through Cincinnati June 10
at 4 pm, numbering 400, There
were three women and two children
in the group They came to Cincin-
natl Friday morning at 7 and they
remained on the B. & o, train, plan
ming to leave on the same train. But
the officials had decided that they
would not carry them any further
The police we're called and there
were also 70 railroad dicks to make
them move. There were more than
$50 Negroes in the march.
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TO HOLD BIG ANTI
DIES BILL R ALLY
IN PTTTSBURG, PA.
Communist Party VIII speak

CONTINUED FROM PAGE oNE)
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Bill Is Hunger Weapon
All Senators Get Protect.

A further attack on the bill Is
made in letter just sent to all the
United States Senators by the Amer
lean Civil Liberties Union.
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SAN FRANCISCO, June Is.-one
thousand workers, meeting at CIVIC
Center sent a strong telegram to SEN
stors Johnson and Shortridge pro-
testing the vicious Fish-Dies Bill.