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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-18
1000 SCORE
MURDER OF
SCHOOLBOY
Police Snatch Body Of
Ralph Gonzales and
Spirit 1t Away
MASS TRIAL TONIGHT
7-Year Old Girl Third
Victim of Poison Food

NEW YORK.-Over a thousand
workers came to attend the funeral
of Ralph Gonzales, 9-year-old victim
Of poisonous food given out by the
city in Public School 81. They found
the neighborhood flooded with police
and secret service men, obviously
placed there by the city officials with
orders to disorganize the funeral and
to stifle the mass protest against the
murder of the working class child
Frightened and infatuated by the ex-
posure Of the child's poisoning in the
Daily Worker, and the mass response
at the funeral, to the call of the
Young Pioneers of America and the
Unemployed Council, the police
waded into crowds of workers and
chased them, but the workers would
not dispense.
Cops Snatch Body.
The automobile in which the boys
body was placed was snatched by
the police, and they drove off to an
unknown destination. But the tao
tics calculated to hush up the child
murder failed completely. About the
same time as the funeral demonstra-
ton was taking place, news came of
another victim of poisonous food at
School No. ST. Maria Rosario Hera-
dia, z years old, of IA E. Hath ST.,
who ate the same food that killed
the Gonzales boy, was reported ill
by her parents. She vomited and
displayed the same symptoms as
Gonzales before his death. This
makes the third child victim of this
poison food.
Mass Trial Tonight.
Tonight, an open Mass Trial will
be conducted at the Spanish Work
ers' Center, "a w. 115th ST., where
the District School Superintendent
and the Principal of District School
No. 81 will be charged with respon-
sibility for the death of Gonzales
and the illness of the other two child
victims Of the rotten food handed
out to workers children. The doctor
who stated that Ralph Gonzales did
not die Of poisonous food will also
be tried. All three have ben chal-
lengeo TO attend the mass hearing
to face these charges.
Authorities Frightened.
The widespread exposures of the
rotten relief" conditions and the
mass indignation OF the workers
frightened the city officials into
forcible attempts at suppression of
the facts connected with the death
of Gonzales and the illness of the
other two children. THESE TAG
TICS MUST NOT SUCCEED The
city officials must be compelled to
provide decent food for workers chill
dren and adequate relief to adult un-
employed. Attend the mass trial
Friday night. Mobilize for the Ma
tional Hunger March to Washington
and join the national fight of the
unemployed for immediate relief.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-18
BULLETIN

WASHINGTON, d. c., Nov. II.
Washington police, under the di-
rect orders of the federal govern
ment, are much upset by the pro-
posed delegation of hundreds of
hungry children to place demands
for relief before President Hoover
here on Thanksgiving Day. A state
ment today by Superintendent of
Police Brown says that police will
mot allow demonstration of
children at the White House"
Hoover doesn't want to face his
victims, but they will find way
to place their demands.
RENO, New, Nov. I7.-National
Hunger Marchers of Col. 2, from
Central California are coming thru
Nevada, gathering new recruits on
the way A delegate from Fernley,
representing farm workers, has
just joined the column. The mayor
of Reno refused food and lodging
but the workers Of Reno are prepar-
ing these.
Local struggles in many cities along
the route of the National Hunger
march are increasing. Workers are
to fight for immediate re-
lief from the city, county and state
governments, while they back up, al
the same time, the demands Of the
CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-18
Production Declines.
Adds to Misery

NEW YORK, Nov. 17.-"So far as
news. were concerned" comments a
bourgeois financial writer, "the Sc
curities markets were fed with a
bucketful of sawdust. Figures for
production in major industries are
on the downward trend. No prospect
of Improvement in the steel industry
is in sight. according to the Iron Age,
which reports that new orders for
steel continue to decline. Carload
ings for the week ending Nov. IL
show a considerable decline and
amount to about half of what they
were at this time in 1929. Produc-
ton of electricity for the same week
also registered decline, being about
six per cent lower as compared with
the same week last year, and IL per
cent lower than in 1890.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-18
1000 I'LL. MINERS
BLOCK SCABBTNG
Police, Tear Gas Fail
to Break Ranks

SPRINGFIELD, Ill, Nov IA
mass picket line of over one thou
sand miners defeated the attempts
of the Peabody Coal Co. to open the
Cora Mine. The miners withstood
charges of the police who attacked
the pickets with tear gas bombs, and
frustrated attempts by scabs to pass
the picket line. The militant and
successful stand made by the rank
and file miners at the Cora mine
gave vivid demonstration of the de-
termination with which the miners
are fighting the IS per cent vase cut.
officials Of the Progressive Miners
Union have condoned the wage cut.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-18
DEMAND STATE
HELP MARCHERS
D e | e G. a tions Go to
Roosevelt Today

NEW YORK.-Delegations of the
starving unemployed of New York
State, heading toward Albany from
all parts of the state, will present the
demand of the unemployed that the
National Hunger March delegates be
given food and shelter on their way
to Washington, and to tell Roosevelt
that, as governor Of the state, he will
be held responsible for the safety of
the delegates.
The delegations, which will call on
Governor Roosevelt in body today,
represent the Conference of Winter
Relief and the Unemployed Councils.
TIL entire group will be headed by
Sam Weissman, district organizer of
the New York Unemployed Council.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-18
Railroads Paid by States for
Kidnapping Jobless " orkers
Worker, Arrested in Florida. Exposes Racket:
Tells of Sweatbox Torture

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Nov. ia
charge that the state of Florida has
been paying railroad companies so
much per head per day for unem-
ployed migratory workers whom COM
pany detectives have arrested and
turned over to the state authorities
was made here today to a repre-
sentative of the Daily worker by a
local worker.
This worker cited his own expert
ence in 1925 when he was arrested
by detectives of the Seaboard Limited
R.R., which then paid so cents a
day by the state for his prison labor.
The worker, whose name is being
omitted to protect him, declared that
as far as he knew, this sort of trade
is still being carried on and is not
confined to the Seaboard Company or
to the state of Florida alone.
Confirms Spivak Exposure
The story told by this worker am
ply substantiates the facts concern
ing the kidnapping of workers, espe-
cially Negroes, and their torture on
chain gangs, revealed in John L. Spi-
vak's book, Georgia Niger" which
the Daily Worker is publishing Sc
rally. The workers story is as fol-
lows:
I'm the boom year of 1925 I was
arrested for tresspassing while riding
freights in Florida. In Tallahassee
we were tried and found guilty and
sentenced to three months of hard
labor in the Leon County Jail. Later
I found out that the Seaboard Linn
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-18
Until Ave. C
Restaurant Decides
to Pay Stolen Wages

NEW YORK. Come to 7th Street
and Avenue A at 1920 a. m. next
Wednesday, to demonstrate for i'm
mediate relief, the Downtown I'm
employed Council urged today.
The Council also is forming a pick
ct line in front of q dairy restaurant
at 9th st. and Ave. C, where the
boss robbed a worker of his wages
The worker come to the council and
explained that he had been dis
charged by the boss of the restaurant,
because he had refused to work IA
hours day. A meeting of 500 heard
the demands of the Council.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-18

Capitalist wire services, the As
sociated Press and United Press espe-
cially,s are deliberately lying about
Communist election returns in an eff
fort to belittle the revolutionary
movement before the workers and
farmers. The Scripps- Howard SER
vice, the United Press, gave the Com
munist Party the ridiculous figure Of
5000. while the Associated Press said
$4,000 votes. This, in spite of the
fact that there we're more than $4,000
votes, according to the Tammany
election board figures, in New York
City alone, Chicago showed more
than 10000.
The vote in Minnesota. first an
nounced as 10000 has now increased
to more than 10000 with many pre-
cincts still missing In fact every
where there were marked increases.
For New York, Chicago and Mime
sofa alone the number Of votes so far
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-18
Chicago Shows
Ub Democratic
Hunger Program

TNSIDIOUSLY and daily the capt.
L alist press spreads propaganda to
the effect that the new deaf' that
Roosevelt has promised will be ush-
cred in with his inaugural March 4!
The forty-eight million totally I'M
employed and their dependents and
the millions of part-time workers are
told to wait patiently through this
winter for the promised dawn Of the
Democratic Party administrations
unemployment relief"
But, the wages Of workers in the
factories of Illinois were cut Sc per
cent last year as compared with the
average of 1925-27. The working
class income was cut two-thirds by
the Illinois capitalists within a few
years!
Melvin A. Taylor, president of the
Chicago First National Bank, has led
capitalist offensive against the work
ers' living standards. 1t was Taylor
who helped elect Roosevelt, who is
now mentioned for post in Roose-
velt's cabinet and who will guide
Roosevelt's Unemployment policies!
1t was under a Democratic admin
istration and a Democratic mayor,
Cermak, that the city authorities Of
Chicago sought to cut by one-half
the pittance of relief given to utterly
destitute unemployed families.
Win Only BY Fighting
Can, then. the masses of unem-
ployed and part-time workers to
whom the question of immediate re-
lief is life and death question wait
upon the coming of the Democratic
new DEAL?
No! The workers new deal" in
the form of wrenching winter relief
and unemployment insurance from
| the capitalists and their government
must come through organized, milit-
ant mass struggle. The Chicago
workers showed the way when they
forced the demagogic Democratic
mayor to rescind the so per cent re-
lief cut!
A high form of such organized,
militant mass struggle will be the
National Hunger March that will de-
mand winter relief Of $50 per family
and federal unemployment insurance
of CONGRESS on December 6.
| 1t will center, in most dramatic
and national form, the eyes of the
masses for the need to fight NOW
for winter relief and to smash the
illusion of laid" promised for the
spring.
You can do your share to fight for
winter relief and unemployment in
surance this way:
1. Organize the workers in your
block, elect block committees for
food, shelter and clothing for the
hunger marchers
2. Elect delegates from your
block, mass organization or labor
union to the National Hunger
Merch.
3. Approach new organizations
to elect de'srates.
a. S-rvcTt the rnarcbers in their
mission . demand win or relief of
SO ard unemployment insurance
by: az taking active part in the
tar days for the march, Nov. 10
and 20; b. make the mass greet
ings to the marchers in the stop
ever cities real demonstrations of
support; O. collect food packages
of -perishable food coffee, SUI
gar, etc. and pledges of perish
able food for the marchers; d. pre-
pare now for the national day of
demonstration in support of the
National Hunger March Dec 6.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-18
r. r. Workers Make
Officials Demand the
Re-Hiring of 10000

NEW YORK.-An increasing tide
of resentment among the railroad
workers against the proposed 10 to 20
per cent wage-cuts has caused the
meeting Of 81 railroad brotherhood
and railway union chiefs here to de-
clare all further negotiations ended.
They are not to resume until the
railroad companies promise to put
back to work the 10000 fired since
the 10 per cent cut in February.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-18
FIGHTING 9Th"
CALLS FOR AID
Wins AGAINST 2 More
Job Sharks

NEW YORK winning two
more. victories Wednesday against the
Sixth Avenue job sharks, the Sixth
Avenue Unemployed Council has re-
uuested all workers who can to come
to their headquarters at SO West 38th
Street (upstairs) to obtain petitions
to circulate against crooked employ
ment agencies and will ask the City
Commissioners why they give licenses
to crooked agencies.
A crowd of 500 workers, under the
leadership of THE fighting sixth"
yesterday forced the Bryant Employ
ment Agency to return $l4 of a SIS
fee, which the agency had tried to
steal from a working woman.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-18

HEARD OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES W. again
his white planters
through
system of national oppression the which
slave Above letter
Negro prisoner the McDuee County chain E. Riney
chairman of the Georgia Prison Commission describing the
ditions.
whitewash letter
the southern ruling class torture system the
those who trying whtewash the attempts legally
ScOtboro boys The ScOboro
national
chain book
today's nstalment ~
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-18
SCAN RIVER LOTION FOR FUEL
UNEMPLOYED DRIVEN INTO
ARMY

VIENNA, Nov 17-Hunger and the
terrors of the coming winter are
driving the unemployed to seek re-
fuge in the army. Although army
pay was recently reduced, and the
recruits must sign themselves away
for twelve years-there were 1900 at
the doors of the military depot at
e a m
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-18
20,OOO YEAR OLD MURDER
"UNSOLVED"

ANN ARBOR, Mich.-How a IT.
year old girl met violent death some
10000 years ago. was described by D..
A. F. Janks, University of Minnesota
anthropologist before the National
Academy of Science. The girls Skel-
eton, remarkably preserved, retains
the marks of q spear wound that
caused the girls death Great sci
entific value is attached to the find
which sheds light on the inhabitants
CT this continent of that time,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-18
SOCIALIST THANKS BOSS SHEET.

NEW YORK, Nov. IT. = The N.
Y. Times spokesman for big bankers
printed in it's columns letter from
Louis Waldman, Socialist Party can
didate for Governor of N. Y. in the
last elections, in which Mr.. Waldman
thanks the Times for flair treat
ment" accorded him and his party
during the campaign.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-18
Won Papen Resigns;
Is Reappointed
Junkers Plan TO Dis
solve Reicll8tag
RULLETIN

Il
BERLIN. Nov. I7.-The Junkcrs
executed an elaborate vancouver
today when Chancellor Won Papen
made the gesture of resigning with
his entire Cabinet. President Hin
denburg accepted the resignation,
but at once empowered Won Papen
to continue in power indefinitely.
The vancouver is believed to pres
age another forcihle dissolution of
the Reichstag and continuation of
government by decree. The new
Reichstag is scheduled to meet on
December 6. The German Com
munist Party made substantial
gains in the recent elections for the
Reichstag.
BERLIN, Nov. 17.-Rumors are
current here that the Junkers intend
to sacrifice Chancellor Won Papen in
an attempt to overcome the over
whelming popular resentment against
the dictatorship which is form of
fascism, while at the same time con-
tinui1g this rule with some SLIGHT al
terations in personnel designed to de-
ceive the German masses. The cab
met adjourned its sessions this after
noon without officially denying or
confirming these rumors.
The dictatorship which at present
has the support of only 10 per cent
of the new Reichstag is offering var
iolls concessions to both the HitleriteS
and the Social Democracy in an at
tempt to achieve the appearance of
parliamentary support. SO great,
however, is the mass hatred of Won
Papen as the symbol of the dictator
ship that neither these parties nor
the Centrist and Bavarian parties
dare to openly cooperate with Won
Papen, though they render it every
possible indirect support.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-18
POVERTY FiGuREs MOUNT

NtF1 HAVEN. OOThu NOV. IL
Figures published by the New Haven
dispensary reveal the most wide
spread poverty yet recorded in this
city. The number of those who APP
Piled for free treatment increased by
% per cent over last year. The num-
Der of treatments during the first
half of 1882 mounted to 9l,457-the
highest figure on record While one
ous of every five residents in the
city, came for free medical treatment,
it was pointed out by DR., Buck that
relief fell far behind the require
ments.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-18

Held au Open Hearing ON Hunger
in your neighborhood; invite all
jobless ard part time workers and
keep record OF their evidence
AGAINST the starvation system.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-18
ANOTHER ROUND TABLE
CONFERENCE

LONDON, Nov. 17Ramsay Mac
Donald opened a secret session of the
Third Indian Round Table Confer
ence. Here new plans will be laid
for the further enslavement of the
Indian masses.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-18
HUGE INCREASE I'M UTAH

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Nov. IT.
Unofficial figures showing the vote
is only two thirds of the precincts of
the state give Foster, Communist
candidate for president, 1900 votes.
In 1928 the vote for Foster in the
whole state Of Utah was 54.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-18
DRESSMAKERS ELECT HUNGER
MARCHERS

At meeting of over 200 workers
called by the Dressmakers' Unem-
ployed Committee held on November
is, 1882, 10 delegates were elected for
the Hunger March to Washington, 2
Of the delegates being Negro women.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-18
BOATs CRASH I'M roc

NEWCASTLE, Del, Nov. 1.-Two
freighters were badly damaged in a
collision which was caused by dense
fog over the Delaware Bay today.
The worst damage was caused to the
Alamar whose crew took to the boats
The bow Of the Makalla, the other
freighter, was badly smashed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-18
Fix Voting Machines
(By a Worker Correspondent


JOHNSTOWN, N. Y.--Reports from
several election districts in this vicin-
ity show that the voting machines
were rugged so that it was not pos
sible to work the levers that regis
tered votes for the Communist Party.
One worker, in the election booth,
worked all other levers but could not
work the Communist lever. We know
a considerable number of votes were
lost here in Fulton County on ac-
county Of this rigging of the ma
chimes.
Open Hearing On Stealing
CHICAGO, ILL.,, Nov. 17.-At a.
of section 3, at 1851 w,
frfoNrrTAyYyvYY AN nArrw r~xrr,rrN
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-18

tied R.R. paid its detectives So a head
for the prisoners. These were then
turned over to tbs state which paid
the Seaboard so cents day per man.
We received five cents a day for bru-
tai labor in quarries, clay pits, etc.
l got a couple of dollars after serving
ninety heart-breaking days.
Prisoners Strike
Conditions were bad, the food was
rotten. Finally the food became so
terrible that the 1,400 prisoners de-
cided to organize protest strike.
THE prison officials told us that
the food would remain the same.
Asey threatened us and 1000 weak
ened and went back to work. Four
hundred of us struck. We we're
thrown into sweatboxes. As they had
no room for all in the sweatboxes,
many were tied to stakes in the open.
After a while most of the men gave
in, but fifteen of us stuck-even un-
der the horrible sweatbox torture.
One fellow who weighed 40 pounds
was worn down to mere skin and
bones. The others, including myself,
suffered likewise. The doctor would
come once in while to see if we
were still alive. spent 20 days in
the hospital as a result"
Turn to page 4 of today's paper
and learn more Of the horrible con-
ditions in the slave farms and pris-
on camps of the South. Spread
this exposure among your snOp-
mateet
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-18
In the Days
NeQvS
CZECH POLICE KILL TWO

BRATISLAVIA, Czechoslovakia,
Nov. 1.-Two were killed and many
wounded when police fired into a
crowd of peasants who protested OPP
pressive taxes.
SCAN RIVER BOTTOM FOR FUEL
VANDERGRIFT, Pain painstak-
ing search for fuel the unemployed
of this city scanned the bottom OF a
river which fell to low level dur
ing a recent hot spell A vein oil
coal was discovered and is being
mined by the unemployed,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-18
INVESTIGATE HOOVER VOTE

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Nov. IT,
Elections in Pennsylvania, one of the
few states carried by Hoover, will
be investigated by Congressional
Committee. The charges are that
the presidential election was fraud
ulently conducted. Congress m n
Heartsill will head the committee.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-18
Prove That Boss Press Lies
on Communist Votes, Nov. s
Over $4,000 Officially Counted Red Votes in
New York City Alone Expose Steals

is $4,000 for Foster and Ford.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-18
FORCE LA CROSSE CITY GOVERNMENT
TO FEED NATIONAL MARCHERS; ESQ
ON STRIKE AGAINST FORCED LABOR
City and State Hunger Marches Begins to Win Local
Demands Natl Hunger March for $50 Winter Relief Insurance

Tag Day Collections Paul Defy Mayors Ect Against Them
March Delaware State Capital Natl March Columns Proceed
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-18

TROOPS TO AID MINE OWNERS
SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, Nov. 1.-THE
Peabody Coal Company again calls
for the National Guard to help break
the miners strike at the Andrew mine.
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CONTINUED ON PAGE THREEl
The Washington times., 1932-11-30
COTTON RALLY.
TURNS|NTO
BREAK

NEW YORK, Nov. 80 GN.S).
After rallying we'll above the
previous close at the opening to.
day, cotton futures again turned
reactionary and broke about 81
a bale from their morning highs
to show net losses of about so
cents a bale on the day.
Renewed Southern and spot
house selling, combined with
large amount of profit taking on
the rally, served to unsettle the
list. Contributing factors to the
decline were the weakened tones
in commodity and security mar
ketS.
After the first call, although
there was no important pressure
from selling sources, the buying
tapered off. A scarcity of offer.
ings prevailed for a time and
it required only moderate buying
to advance quotations. Price
fixing orders from the trade,
especially the Continental trade,
were combined with Wall Street
buying for q rally.
Professional shorts were cover
ing and Liverpool and Japanese
interests buying in a moderate
way. However, the advance at
tracted selling by spot houses and
the South. In addition, New Or
leans, cooperative brokers and
local traders sold in small
amounts, bringing an abrupt halt
to the upswing and a sinking
spell which carried the market
we'll below last nights close.
Schwabach & Co. estimated the
cotton crop as of November % at
12,20O, 900 bales. against the Gov
ernment's November l estimate
Of 11,947 900 bales and the final
production last season of 1906
600 bales.
Midday quotations were off 3
to 9 points, with December off 6
at 5.78, January off at 5.81,
March off 9 at $50, May off 4
at 800, July off S at 6.08, and
October off 3 at 6.26.