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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-23
Get After Those
Half Dollars

ITO fight the lies of the capitalist press Ibid
l. you notice. workers, the new barrage Of lies
from Bucharest about the Soviet Union), to rally
the workers in mighty demonstrations against
imperialist war on April to expose boss terror,
to fight wage cuts, to fight for unemployment in
surance and against the bosses new "relief"
schemes, these are some of the IMMEDIATE tasks
of the Daily Worker They are VITAL tasks. They
MUST be done by nationwide workers paper.
A half dollar from you will save the Daily
Worker for these tasks. You are one of the 10000
workers upon whom we rely for that half dollar.
We count upon your support. We count upon your
shopmate's support. We count upon your neigh
boris support.
Cut out the coupon on page three. Wrap it
up in half dollar and send it in. Or get your
shopmate to contribute half dollar and send a
dollar bill in with the coupon. And canvas as many
workers as you can to send in the half dollars.
Also get your mass organization to contribute and
to spread the drive for those 10000 half dolarsl
Get active, comrades, before you lose your
paper. Watch the table on page three for the pro-
gress of your district. Do your damndest to push
your district into filing its quota 100 per cent.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-23

This delegation is making prepara-
tons to appear before the Board Of
Aldermen on Tuesday, March 90 at
p. m.
We, therefore, ask your Honor to
make the necessary arrangements to
receive the delegation and extnd to
these Representatives of the workers
the right to present their demands
to the Board of Aldermen.
Very truly yours,
Secretary.
The Committee has thus far not re-
ceiyed reply to the above. How
ever, the delegation has been ap-
pointed by A. F. OF L. members In
their local unions, and will present
demands for immediate relief for the
unemployed Of New York City to the
Board of Aldermen THEIR meeting
on March 20 at p. m.
A mass meeting of members Of the
\. F. Of L. to spread the fight for
unemployment insurance will take
place wednesday, March %, 8 p. m,
Manhattan Lyceun1, 66 e. Fourth st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-23
Minneapolis A. F. L. Conference
Votes for JobleSS Insurance Bill

passed demanding the release of all
clasS-war prisoners.
A committee of IL was elected to
function as THE Minneapolis A. T.
of L. Trade Union Committee for
Unemployment Insurance" An
other, larger conference is called
for April rs. The attempt of one
conservative delegate to disrupt the
conference was unanimously de-
feated by the other delegates.
A representative of William
Green, president of the A. T. of L.,
arrived here and announced that
the charter of the Building Trades
Council would be revoked for par
ticipating in the movement for I'M
employment insurance.
The united front rank and file
movement against wage-cuts and
for unemployment insurance has
been initiated, defying the expul-
sion threats of Green and VOL.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-23
Mooney Halls Mothers Fight for
Scottsboro Boys, Harlan Miners

advanced by cause immeasurably.
MY profound gratitude and deep appreciation goes
out to the millions of militant workers, friends and
sympathizers who have welcomed you warmly, and
rallied behind you to demand that the reactonary
powers, who have kept entobed for sixteen years
because OF my loyalty and devotion to Labor, rein-
quish their strange hold upon me and grant an
unconditional pardon. 1t Is inspiration to me to
how the toing millions in this country, at
the end Of my sixteen years imprisonment, not
relaxing their effort my behalf The masses are
stirring and their nsstent demands for my uncon-
ditional pardon grow louder and louder and cannot
continue to 60 unheeded forever Though your body is
feeble and your voice has lost its resonance yet the
strength Of your spirit and deatless determine
ton Is sufficiently eloquent to inspire all Of those who
to see you and to hear you.
II confess, dear Mother. that miss your regular
visits to San Quentin. You know how you have al
ways inspired with your faith and devotion. How
ever, the vision Of your radiant face is impressed
delbly upon my memory. 1t is before me now and
makes more than ever determined to continue the
struggle begun more than sixteen years ago.
Tn expressing my thanks and appreciation to you
for all your splendid sacrifices and struggles I ask
you to thank in my name all Of those who light
ening your task by their militant support
AS have become the symbol of the oppressed and
down. trodden workers, you have become the symbol
Of the courageous working class mothers who unher-
aided and unsung, give their all TO the of a
better world for the toiling
with greatest admiration for you. I am,
Your Loving Son,
---xssssszsxa. TOM MOONEY-Slgz1~
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-23
Anthracite Strike
MiSleaders Prepare
to Sell Out Miners
Rank and File Comm
Warns Against Move
by Maloney- Schuster

SCRANTON, Pa, March 22--The
greatest enemy of the striking
miners Of District 1 is the great
confusion and Reorganization, for
which the MaIoney and Shuster
leadership and general grievance
bodies is responsible.
Instead Of meeting the fierce local
and state police terror that Is
breaking up picket lines and send
ing miners TO the hospitals, the
general grievance bodies decided to
send a committee to Governor Pin
chot, who himself is responsible for
the terror and strike breaking.
There is already talk in the gen
eral grievance bodies Of arbitration,
preparing for a sell out.
The police terror is the fiercest in
the upper Woodworking Valley.
where the rank and file committees
are leading the struggle.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-23
Miners of Hooking
Valley Stone Natl
Guard Officers
UNIV Tries to Betray
1000 Strikers

A railroad spur track In the Hook
ing Valley area, at the Sunday Greek
Co. Mine No. 6, where strike Is on
was blown up.
United Minte Workers officials as
sured Governor White, who is pro-
posing sending the National Guard
to break the strike Of 1000 miners,
that they will cooperate TO end
violence"
In an effort to break the strike OF
the miners In the Hooking Valley
bituminous coal fields, Governor
White is threatening to send the Ma
tional Guard to the strike area,
according to an Associated Press dis
patch from Athens, Ohio.
The miners have been conducting
mass picketing, and are In militant
mood, despite the fact that the
United Mine Workers leadership do
all they can to quiet the men down in
an effort to betray the strike.
On Monday the miners stoned an
automobile carrying ten National
Guard officers who were assigned To
help the Sunday Creek Coal Company
plan It's scab activities at Mine No. 6
Adjutant General Frank D. Hender-
son said the attitude of the miners
was "a serious problem"
About 1000 miners are out against
wage cuts. A tense situation exists
throughout this field. The miners
have been putting up heroic strug-
gle against many odds, particularly
against rotten, betraying leadership
in the U. NJ. W. A.
Governor White, though using al
sorts of phrases about the right II
strike" has the National Guard ready
TO rush into the field to help the coal
operators. Governor White insists
that the bosses can use all the scsb,
they desire in any way TO put over
the wage cut.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-23

WASHINGTON, D. C.-Es-
pecially in those states where
the governors assured Hoover
recently that there was mo
starvation" the workers face
death by hunger. The Daily
Worker has already published
official government reports, as
well as capitalist newspaper
reports smashing the lies of the
80 governors who wired Sen
ator Bingham recently that no
one was hungry.
We are Publishing informa-
ton on each state:
Ohio Governor White)
"Have no authentic record
of any present cases of starv-
alton. Believe number of un-
employed who can find no
work of any sort to be under
100000"
| Again we let capitalist re-
cords answer the governor who
thinks a mere 100000 are job
less in his state, and who says
he has mo authentic record of
starvation"
Twenty thousand coal miners
'fn dire want" in Ohio mining COM
munities are beyond the reach OF
any relief, according OF the admis-
sion of Pres John L. Lewis of the
United Mine Workers of America,
quoted by Sen. La Toilette and
printed in the Congressional Record.
Feb. 2, 1922 Here Is part of his
testimony:
They live In isolated commun-
tiles so small ordinarily that they
do not have community chest
or charitable organization, and 1t
Is impossible for them to secure any
relief from the organized charities
of the larger centers of population,
SO they have no place TO 60, because
the local charities do not have the
funds available to take care of them
under the present emergency"
page 3179).
Conveniently out Of the governor
sight, these starving miners and their
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-23
Congressional Record
Gives Some Proof
of Hunger

families. When he wants their votes
in the next election he may take a
tour of the more important mining
centers and see few of the gaunt
and hungry miners. But the starv-
ing miners and their wives and chill
dren are mostly hidden away in their
remote cabins. They bury their dead
In silence and no obituary notice
reaches the governors executive
mansion.
In the cities, Toledo, Columbus,
Cleveland and Akron, relief is at
tempted but on hopelsSly made
quate scale, according to the testi-
mony of Helen Hail. representing the
National Federation of Settlements.
After a tour Of these four cities, she
reported:
Everywhere an effort was being
made to cut relief given for food
to a point so far below the mini
mum standards that the health
of the families getting relief must
necessarily be endangered %. .Peo-
pie in distress through unemploy-
nent have not had the security of
any continuing coordinated plan of
aid" Congressional Record. 2-2-32.
page 318D.
In Youngstown, Ohio, 1000 desti-
tute families are being supported
from private and public funds, &C
cording to Chairman Hammaker of
the Community Chest Unemploy-
ment Committee. Each family is
supposed to be getting $3.50 a week
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-23

distance from the Russian border
fifty miles northeast of the uncom'
pleted branch of the railway leading
toward the Korean border"
The dispatch reports that lesser
trays occurred at The same time over
wide area. Chinese insurgents at
tackled the japanese garrison at HUI
angniho, killing two Japanese and
wounding one Another insIugant
force attacked Tatun. on the South
Manchurian Railway and destroyed
the railway tracks.
japanese sources at Hardin yester-
day sent out reports of large scale
movements of Soviet troops between
rkutsk and Chita. The Soviet Gov
eminent while making no attempt to
conceal the fact that 1t had
strengthened its frontier garrisons.
denied large scale movement of So
Wet troops
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-23
TUUL FunctiOnaries
to Meet Saturday on
Anti War Struggle

NEW YORK. - In accordance
with the decisio nof the National
Bureau of the Trade Union Unity
League, the Trade Union Unity
Council of Greater New York has
called a special functionaries meet
ing of all unions, leagues and trade
bodies for Saturday, March rs, to
take I'D the problems of struggle
against imperialist war.
All executive boards of the 7. u.
U. L. unions and leagues, trade
boards, shop groups, opposition
groups in the reformist unions and
Unemployed Councils mus be rep
resented at this important meet
ing.
The meeting will be held in the
office of the Trade Union Unity
Council, 5 E. 18th st. at 3 p, m.
Saturday.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-23

CLEVELAND, Ohio, March %
After viewing the slaughter Of
unemployed workers by Ford
Murphy gunner at the River
Rouge plant, Gustav Hanson, 8
salesman and q resident of Cleve-
land, Ohio, wrote the following
letter which was published In the
Cleveland Plain Dealer Of March
18th:
Editor Plain Dealer--Sir:
Just read your editorial In the
Plain Dealer, March 8, at
Ford's Gate In my opinion
you misjudge the Communist
leaders when you write they
wanted nothing but trouble. I
heard Foster, the Communist
leader, speak. Such real and
frsnkness I had never seen be.
fore. In fact I would give him
lot Of credit for his endcav-
ors to better the conditions Of
his so-called proIetariat, for
which he and his followers are
ready 10 stake their lives
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-23
Trotsky Does His Bit for
Japan

~ OUNTER-REVOLUTIONIST Trotsky hastens, at the
" moment when Japan is moving large armed forces to-
ward the Siberian border to the world that Japan
really has warke intentions towards the Sovets Adj
hitting such thing not altogether excluded he hasens
add that at canont be firsne plan of Japan. The
Japanese General Staff also the world to the
effect
Trosky sells his views at high price, to the imperiast
press The gentlemen who pay him evidently certain
they getting their moneys WORTH they feature the
story in big type their front pages For his services in
helping confuse the workers. and them to doubt the
mminence of the danger Trotky is highly valued by
imperialism, but this value declines this renegade
more openly reveals his counter-revolutonary role.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-23
Mass Starvation in Ohio Gives
Lie to Statement of Coz. White

for food, although it is known that
many families of four and five are
getting only 81 week to buy their
bread and beans with.
AT $1.5O a week for food for a
family of S, each person gets 4 1-3
cents day. Is that enough to keep
a child or an adult from starving?
In Cleveland, the city daily papers,
admitted in February that from 1885,
600 to 100000 persons ARE totally
unemployed" Yet only 19,05O fami-
lies were given relief in February,
according to Secretary Howard Whip
pie Green of the Cleveland Health
Council.
The Cleveland Chamber of Com
merce reports that city charities
ought to be taking care of $4,000
families 100000 persons = by next
December, 1892, but says nothing of
the 10000 or $4,000 families at pre-
sent in need Of help, but receiving
nothing at all.
Early in February, delegations from
IL cities presented facts on starvation
conditions before Gov. Whites Com
mission on Unemployment Insurance
and reported that even then charity
organizations giving unemployment
relief in Ohio we're cutting allowances
in half Thousands of the destitute
have been denied any aid whatsoever
due to lack of funds" according to
these delegates.
The Columbus Family Welfare Bur-
eau is caring for only 10000 families
this winter, admits Director Sara E.
Coates, who states:
81 am fearful that undernour-
ishment and worry will take its
toll among children and adults
during 1882 unless we can actively
combat the terrors of misfortune"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-23
Call Hanna Miners
To Strike Against
Wage Cut of 25P.C.

PITTSBURGH, Pa, March o.
The Hanna Coal Company of Ohio
today announced a rs per cent
wage cut affecting 1,5OO miners.
The National Miners Union is call
ing mass meetings at all mines to
prepare for strike against the nay
cuts.
A leahet issued by the N. NJ. U.
calls for united action of all miners
regardless of union affiliation.
Mass meetings tonight will elect
a broad delegation for mass con-
ference tomorrow in Dillonvale.
National Miners Union field or
ganizers were sent Immediately to
organize for strike.
The National Miners Union just
completed its third national con-
vention in Pittsburgh, laying the
basis for a militant struggle against
the mass starvation, unemployment,
speed-up and part time hunger
wages of the miners,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-23

MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, March ~.
A. F, of L. locals here met in con-
ference yesterday to demand a ma
tionsl' referendum be initiated
throughout the A. F. of L. for I'M
employment insurance. Thirteen To-
Gals were represented, along with
the Building Trades Council, which
has thirteen locals affiliated to 1t.
A resolution was unanimously
adopted, endorsing national ref
erendum in A. r. of L. unions in
itiated by New York A. F. of L.
trade unions.
At the invitation of the confer
ence, NJ. Karson, representative of
the Unemployed Council, addressed
the conference on the struggle for
unemployment insurance, following
which the conference went ON rec
ord for the Workers Unemploy-
ment Insurance Bill and for i'm
mediate relief. Resolutions were
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-23

, from where march will start at
$50, passing through working class
neighborhoods to Bryant Hall, at 42nd
st, and Sixth Ave, where a monster
indoor mass meeting will be held.
Herbert Benjamin, secretary of the
National Unemployed Council, and
leader of the historic Hunger March
to Washington, will speak, as will
Carl Winter, secretary Of hte Unem-
ployed Councils of Greater New York.
The motion pictures of National Hun
ger Marchers will be shown.
So stirringly does this living drama
portray the unforgetable march of
1900 workers to the nations capitol,
so completely does 1t expose the meth
DDS Of police terror used against the
workers, and so inspiringly does it
record the enthusiastic response Of
the workers in other cities to the
Hunger March, that police have tried
repeatedly to destroy the film. A
workers news reel fromtheSoviet
workers news reel from the Soviet
Union will also be shown.
Continue Canvassing
! Canyassing will continue up until
the last minute fefore the open air
meeting, Friday at p. m. Volunteers
are urgently needed, and should re-
port to the special campaign head
quarters ofg the M.T.U.C. at 418 West
53rd st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-23

Fighting between Chinese insurgents In
Manchuria and the japanese invaders yester-
day spread to within a few miles of the Soviet
frontier, bringing nearer the danger of Jap
anese attack against the Soviet Union. The
japanese reported rushing troops to the Soviet border
the preext of crushing the revolt Changchun dispatch
reports bloody battle between the Chinese Gen lannon's
Japanese brigade at Nanhuto the southern end of Lake
Bren The dispatch adds significantly This is only short
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-23
WAGE CUT TO BONE IN UNION
IRON WORKS
(By a Worker Correspondent

SPOKANE, Wash.--I am worker
in the Union Iron Works The work
here is unnecessarily heavy. The
safety appliances are insufficient and
wages have been cut to the bone. The
shop is very unsanitary.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-23

Mrs Mary Mooney,
CO. Coliseum.
Chicago, III.
My Dear Mother:
Words fail to express my thanks to you dear moth
err for the great sacrifices you making my be-
half Of the cause of Labor which I symbolic. On
top of the terrible strain of the sixteen years struggle
we have gone through together, you risked life
In crossing the continent to inspire the militant work.
ers friends and sympathzers in their fight for my
unconditional pardon. History records no greater de-
votion. You are symbol of the millions Of militant
sacrificing and oiling mothers. You like the
beautiful old mother in Gorkys novel, Mother" who.
when her son had fallen in the struggle, seized the
banner from his death-stiffened fingers and unfnch-
ngy carried 1t aloft in the procession of the heroic
workers struggling bravey against the Czarist despot
ism In old Russia.
ut gives me the greatest pride and Joy that your
motherly affections not limited to your own flesh
and blood but you demanding the liberation and
support for the embattled miners in Harlan KY. and
the Scottsboro victims of and class prejudice and
all political prisoners
"Tae word spotlight has been thrown upon you.
And how you have gladdened my heart by the grace,
dignity and poise you displayed therein. You have
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-23
Mass Meet to Climax Drive
on Tammany Block Aid Graft

NEW YORK.-Following week of intensive canvassing
in the West 42nd53rd St section the militant drive of the
Midtown Unemployed Council in exposing the Tammany Hall
Blockade extortion and blacklist scheme will reach its eli
in open air meeting at Columbus Circle Friday
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-23

Spread Daily Worker fund
drive into every working class
neighborhood TO save workers
paper.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-23

Tom Mooney wrote to his 84-year-old mother,
Mary Mooney thanking her for rskng her life in
crossing the continent on behalf Of his fight for a
pardon. Mary Mooney now touring the United States
on behalf of her sons pardon
California State Prison.
San quentin, Calf.
March 49, 1882
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-23

Set quotas, start revolution
airy competition, In fight to
save Daily Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-23
Japanese Garry
Fighting SO Miles
from Soviet Border
Use Revolt Situation in Manchuria to Mobilize
Huge Forces on Siberian Borders
Chinese Insurgents Reported Battling Japanese
Invaders and Chinese Puppets On
Wide Area
BULLETIN

Tokyo police
distributing leaflets Japanese soldiers
sailors,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-07-22

i. he had not yet emerged from the cradle. People said there wa@ & spite clause in the will.
 Cant you break that rule just once?" the young man went on pleading. "I'm not really . elfents I'm a liability. Do say yes! swear I'll be down here every morning until you agree!'
 An office boy moved through c. silently swinging door, dropped Q paper on Mona's desk and disaps peared to spread the information that Townsend, Jr, was prcposing to Miss Moran.
 Mona lifted her telehone. ~Mx Stroud. please. MT Barry Town. send calling"
 Barry lifted his hat and stick from a chair and sauntered after the office boy.
 "You're going to change your mind" he tossed over his shoul- der with the flashing smile. "Wait and see. You are going to dine with me and don't forget it!"
 "Yeah? ?" breathed Mona to her. self, smiling, too. Well. maybe--
 The Fates were laughing. For just how soon this was to come about surprised Barry even as It was shock to Mona. (To Be Continued)