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Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1932-07-14

Mr.. Lee Barnhart of Columbus
has been spending the week with
his parents, Mr. and Mrs j. W.
Barnhart of Malta. His father who
has been in poor health, is better.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1932-07-14

Malta Grange Program
Malta grange No. TIT will meet
at Cheneyville school house, July
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1932-07-14
Pomona Grange Notice

The Morgan County Pomona
grange will meet in the Maccabee
hall, July Is, at 10 O'Clock a. m.
After the usual business session in
the forenoon, pot luck dinner will
be served at noon. Beginning at
l:3O p. m, the county grange con-
testants will present their programs,
which will be interspersed with Sc
lections from the Juvenile members
of the Morgan and Meigs Valley
oranges. Mrs. Randolph, New Lex
ington, is expected to attend this
meeting and act as one of the
judges in the contest. You are in
vited to attend this meeting.-XX.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1932-07-14

~ at p. m., with the following
program: Roll call, quote a passage
from the ritual; group singing, all:
talk, "The Family's HEALTH" Mrs.
FRED Philips; song, "My Bonnie
Topsy Turvey quartet composed of
Fanny Finley, Pearl Richardson,
Della and Eva Clements; reading,
"The Limitations of YOUTH Har-
old Phillips; music, Malta Min
strels; slogan contest, all. Come.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1932-07-14
Advertised
Article

is one in which the mer-
chant himself has implicit
faith-else he will not ad-
vertise it. You are safe in
patronizing the mcr-
chants whose ads appear
in this paper because their
goods are up to date and
not shop worn. /: !:
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1932-07-14

When the onions have cooked
few minutes she drainsu them, adds
them to a quarter poufiid of butter
melted in a saucepan, cooks them
until lightly Drowned, and then adds
three slices of lightly cooked bacon
cut into small pieces.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1932-07-14
Mrs. Amanda r Noff

cool refreshments from near by
stand.-XX.
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-13
PAGES FROM HISTORY OF THE MOONEY CASE

Editors Socialist MAKING MANEUVERS
lain to be of
prosecutors
MARTYRS Toni ooney
headquarters
Hng
The author this o. the
the Communist personally
other Tom Mooney writes in his recent pamphlet Of hOw Minor
leadership o the
the
but
o indubtGbIy dammit hen"
From atom Mooney Betrayed Tom
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-13
BY ROBERT MINOR

BECAUSE of the demand for the release Of
- Tom Mooney and Warren Billings, and because the
ruling class has to diplomatic to pacify de-
ceive and defeat such movements-the Mooney Case
has become respectable" Some Of the most active
hangmen Of Tom Mooney in particular and of the
working class in general are now "for" Tom Mooney
AS means Of covering their anti-working- class
crimes, and as means Of retaining hold upon the
faith of the masses, and of making 1t
easier to keep Mooney and thousand other working
class fighters in prison. Even Tammany mayor,
with the blood Of dozen murdered strike pickets
dripping from his hands, made wild dash to Cali
fornia to identify himself with the Mooney case at
moment when the exposure of his crimes became
most dangerous.
But this Responsibility" of the Mooney case does
not that Mooney will be freed. On the con-
trary out of it arise of the greatest dangers
from maneuvers by respectable" supporters of capt.
talisn, to whom the carcass of dead Mooney would
be acceptable than liberated living fighter in
the revolutionary ranks of labor.
And now the socialist party is for Mooney-after
a fashion.
Let us examine this, If we are to get Tom Mooney
and Warren Billings out of prison, every turn of an
eye-lash that has any bearing upon this case must be
carefully scrutinzed and every possible support must
be welcomed consolidated and utilized, and every
of enemy repealed. Not only those who agree
upon the revolutionary attitude towards capitalist
parasitism (and who look upon the struggle for the
overthrow of capitalism and the struggle for the free
ing of Tom Mooney the framed-up Scottsboro Negro
children and other political prisoners being insep
araby bound up together and the liberation of Labors
prisoners as by-product of revolutionary struggle
but also the support of those who do not take this
view must be fully utilized to give greater volume
to the demand. Also petty-bowgeos elements, bour-
geoiS liberals and working class elements who still
think only along the lines of bourgeois liberalism
the support of all these must be sought and utilized
to give additional weight to the broadcast possible
united front of struggle for teh release of our work
ing-class fighters
So let examine the attitude of the socialist party
which is in the process Of making certain
vers in relation to the Mooney Case.
Of course the main concern and activity of the
socialist party is to fight against the fast-in-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-13

public way in the summer Of 1916, matter Of
being knocked on the head shot, jailed or indicted
on framed-up murder charges.
Where did the socialist party and its various leaders
stand on the Mooney Case then?
When the Mooney group of left wing trade union
leaders first arrested at the end of july 1916 it
became one of my duties on behalf Of the hastily
built Defense organization to write great mass Of
letters to organizations including the National Execu
tive Committee Of the socialist party and the Execu
tive Council Of the American Federation of Labor
and to all prominent leaders Of these organizations
individually to set forth the situation and to demand
that they take a stand
The answers to these letters and the failures tc
answer, constitute Illuminating chapter in the
history of the American labor movement
What was the general character of the answers?
The National Executive Committee of the socialist
party cast cold and fshy eye upon the Mooney case
To the direct official demand that they take stand
they made no reply Unoffically interviewed the
leadership of the N E. c. was unwilling to be quoted
but limited that they could not afford to have any
thing to do with it," 1t the year when the Hill
quit bureaucracy had set itself to clean the stan
Of red out of the socialist party putting up the reac
tionary, dark-minded ant-socialist Allan H. Benson
as presidential candidate Of program of capitalist
conservatism patriotism-and a thinly "pacfst" dis
guise over fundamentally militarist chauvinism
In my letters I repeatedly hammered upon the
statement that Tom Mooney was revolutionary trade
union leader in good standing as a member of the
socialist party. In fact he was. He was a member
Of Hungarian language branch of the socialist party
He had been obliged to transfer to the Hungarian
branch in San Francisco to avoid being expelled from
the Party by the California officials because of his
revolutionary views. Tom in other words was one of
the rising young Left Wing fighters in the socialist
A q I, nd wa ali dv
oughly hated by the California party bureaucracy
But press publicity and the letters that I wrote
to socialist leaders encountered bitter opposition of
an underground form
(TomOrrows instalment will tell of secret letters
sent out by the socialist party bureaucracy warning
against any defense of Mooney
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-13

to transmit protests to the Alabama
Supreme Court and the governor Oh
the grounds that the Alabama at
torney general has ruled that any
protest against the lynch verdicts Is
illegal and obscene" The attorney
general threatened to cite the tele-
graph companies fod contempt OF
court. The protest is published
however, in Russian in the lynch
bosses paper, the Jackson County
Sentinel published at scottsboro,
Ala with the cynical caption:
Parkway Russia Sends Mes
sage; Looks Like Alphabet On
Spree"
The lynch bosses paper admits,
however, that "the message is in Rus
sian but it is. easy to see by certain
words in it that it pertains to the
ScottSboro case and death sentence
of seven Negroes. If any of our read.
ers can handle Russian. send us a
translation and we'll publish it next
week.
The national office of the lid an
nounced that it has called the bluff
OF the lynch bosses and has sent them
translation.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-13

creasing revolutionary current in the working class
The socialist party is against all "subversive" move
ments The main thesis of the socialist party is for
the defense of capitalist "democracy"to protect the
capitalist state and the existing order of Jn-Crow
capitalist society-against BOshevism. 1t fights to
defeat and destroy the revolutionary trade unions
affiliated to the Trade Union Unity League to root
out expose and eXpe from the oldline trade unions
all revolutionary workers who work in the cleft wing"
minority groups to fight against the Unemployed
Councils to prevent the building of base to the
unemployed movement which is inevitably under Red
leadership, and especially to fight tooth and nail
against the organization of mass movement of
struggle for Negro rights and particularly for the
saving of the Negro boys framed up at Scottsboro,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-13

liant support for the mass fight &c
save the boys and against the ma
ttonal oppression and economic rob-
berry Of the Negro masses. The meet
ing sent the following cablegram to
the national office of the Interns-
tional Labor Defense, which is de-
Tending the boys:
I'VE protest the legal murder of
the Scottsboro young Negro work.
ers, we demand unconditional re-
lease, and freedom of Mooney, Bill
hngS and all political prisoners"
The following resolution was cabled
to the Alabama Supreme Court by
300 Soviet students:
I'VE, the students of the Tech
meal School of Highways of the
City Of CosmodsZayanisk $500 stu
dents protest against the death
sentences given the seven young
Negro workers who have been sem
fenced TO die on May 13, 1882. This
act of terror against the proletariat
will cement our determination to
struggle against our class enemies.
"Consomol Organization"
1t is not known whether the cable
gram was delivered by the telegraph
companies which have been refusing
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-13
MOONEY DENOUNCES ROLPH'S
THREAT TO DELAY RELEASE

feet of MONEYS release under
present economic conditions"
IF that is their attitude" said
Mooney, what travesty on jus
tice! Am l to be held responsible
for present economic conditions?'
According to this version-and it
is no doubt deeply rooted in the
minds of some people--the question
is not whether I am innocent or
guilty, but whether or not should
be released during an economic de-
pression!"
Where is the justice in such an
altitude? Is justice based on the
facts Of the case on the price of
wheat, or on statistics on car load
ings and bank cIearings?"
II repeat again that there is
only one question TO be decided by
the governor and his advisers: Am
guilty or am I innocent? If the
facts in my case are considered,
there can only be one conclusion:
am as innocent as a ew-born
babe Of the crime for which am
now serving my sixteenth year in
prison"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-13
ARRANGE MAY LIST
MEETS IN CLEVE.
Also Warren, O., Has
United Front May
Day Conference

CLEVELAND, April 9 (by maiD -
332 delegates representing ll8 work.
ing class organizations of this city.
we're present at an enthusiastic Uni
ted Front May First-Anti War
Scottsboro Defense Conference. held
here last night, at the initiative Of
the Ohio District, Communist Par
ty, U. S. A.
Rank and file delegates from the
bakers, carpenters, and two painters
locals Of the American Federation OF
Labor, in spite of the opposition of
the A. F. of L. leadership, which uses
the September Labor Day. to hide
the struggle against capitalist ex-
ploitation and rule which has always
characterized May Day on an inter-
national scale.
The delegates enthusiastically ap-
proved the need for making MAY
First 1882, day that would honor
the memory of Comrade Charles Z.
Ruthenberg, the first secretary Of
the Communist Party of the U. S.
A, who led a demonstration OF 40
900 Cleveland workers in Market Sq.
on May Day, 1919, against the last
imperialist war and for the better
ing CT the working and living con-
ditions Of the workers Ct this city. by
modifying even more VcIkers for the
demonstration this yeas
ALI organizations present pledged
support to the second May Day Cor
ference which will be held on April
rs at 1856 Euclid Avenue and will
take in even more working class or
CARNATIONS to prepare the greatest
May First demonstration yet held
here.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-13

which also is inevitably under the Red leadership of
the Communist Party.
And our main interest in regard to the socialist
party in its activities in the Mooney Case is with
this present position
But also let us look at its past record.
Let us look into the past record in the Mooney Case
OF the socialist party and its leading fguresback to
the beginning OF 1916 when the fight for Mooney and
Billings was in every step desperate and often bloody
battle against the police and against the trade union
officials 1t must not be forgotten that the Mooney
Case arose from and the first incident of the flood
OF terror that the ruling class inaugurated in the
summer OF 1916 in preparation for entering this coun-
try in the World War. To be for Mooney then in anv
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-13
Chi. War Vets to
Hold Huge Bonus
Parade Saturday

CHICAGO, I'LL. - Masses
of 0eterans of the last World
WGr 7UiU demonstrate and
parade IN Chicago Saturday
under the leadership of the
Workers Er-SerUiceme1'S
League to demand immedi-
ate payment Of the tomb
stone bonus.
The 1UGr UeterdnS demand
that the government pay this
money at once, not as O
charity dole, but as back pay
Which IS due them.
Today the American Le-
gion, sOhtch betrayed the
Vets at the Detroit ConUen-
ton, is lined up solid Nth
the bankers, bosses and goU-
ernment and through the
newspapers is making the
claim thGt the UetS do not
need the bonus that then do
not need relief from star
VGtjon.
The Legion through this
stand has proven that 1t
70as organized By the bosses
to stop the 0etS from fight
ing for their demands.
RepUdiate the Legion!
Demand full immediate pay
ment of the bonus! All out
to Union Park, Ogden AUe.
and Randolph st., Saturday
at $3.50 pm.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-13
HffFXNNAT 0AT -1r
t1IHlMR ssT.sssV

SAND copies of the Daily Worker to
get new readers for the workers
paper and to recruit new forces for
the increasing fight against boss ter
ror and boss war.
Send in your bundle orders, paid
for in advance. Send in your con-
tributions to your paper and be listed
In the May Day Honor Roll.
You can do it by advancing the
money yourself or by getting your
group, Red Builders or Friends of
the Daily Worker or any other work.
ers' organizations. to contribute to
the advance payment.
Get orders from your friends, from
your shopmates, from your neighbors.
Spread the Daily Worker May Day
issue.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-13
FRISCO WORKERS
DENOUNCE W AR,
LYNCH VERDICT
Demand Withdrawal
of Armed Forces from
China

The anti-War demonstration
held before the Japanese Con-
sulate in San Francisco took
place last Saturday, April 9,
not on April 6 as was erron-
eollsly reported in yesterdays Daily
Worker
Among the 1000 workers who took
part in the demonstration were
many Negro, Chinese, Filipino and
Japanese workers. The meeting in
front of the japanese Consulate
building was addressed by Japanese,
Negro, Filipino and white revolu-
tionary leaders, who were thunder
ously cheered by the demonstrators
in their exposure of the anti-working
class character of the robber war
against China and the growing war
provocations against the Soviet I'm
ion.
The speakers also exposed the
frame-up Of the Scottsboro Negro
boys, the continued imprisonment of
Mooney and Billings, the savage ter
ror in the coal fields, the falling or
deportation of militant workers as
part of the bosses war and hunger
offensive against the working class.
The police-thugs were present in
large numbers, but SO great was the
n1ilitancy Of the workers that they
did not dare to modest the demon
stration, either at the japanese Con-
sulate or along the line of march.
Banners and slogans denouncing the
robber war on China and the Scots
ooro lynch verdicts were cheered by
thousands along the line of march.
Resolutions were unanimously
adopted demanding the withdrawal
Of all imperialist armed forces from
China, and denouncing the an
bounced plans of the Japanese and
other imperialists for armed inter-
vention against the Soviet Union and
its successful Socialist construction.
A resolution demanding the imine-
date release Of the Scottsboro boys
was adopted and ordered sent to the
governor of Alabama and the Ala
barna Supreme Court.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-13
Recruit n e ~
Forces uyIth
May Day Issue

Tom Moneys life was saved by
the mass demonstrations of the
workers of Russia in 1917. Help the
Daily Worker to rally the workers of
America to mighty mass demonstra-
tons TO force the release of Tom
Mooney, to force the release of the
Scottsboro boys, to force the release
of all class-war prisoners.
Send your half dollars at once to
build a strong financial base for the
workers paper. Send your cOntribu-
tions to enable us to spread the story
Of boss terror and boss war plots to
the workers of America.
The May Day issue must this year
have specially wide circulation. We
must sell ONE HUNDRED THOU
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-13
Son Coal Miners Win
Strike; Force B o S S
to Take Back G u t

UNNIN CHAM, Pa.-Sixty
miners of the Son Mine of Cum
ningham, Pa, Of the Western
Pennsylvania district struck and
won their demands from the COM
pany.
The men struck against a %
per cent wage-cut. They also de-
manded lowering of rent in the
company houses and recognition
of mine committee. The men
got back cents on ton and
compelled the company to lover
the rent. The company was also
compelled TO deal officially with
the committee of the striking
miners,
The company gave in TO these
demands as soon as they found
out that the National Miners
Union was in the field leading the
miners in this strike. Before the
miners went back to work local
union of the N. NJ. q. was organ
lied.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-13
Frisco Bosses Plan
20 Per Cent Pay Cut
for Building Trades

SAN FRANCISCO, Apr. "a wage
cut in the building industry has been
decided upon The cut, which amo-
UNITS to 20 per cent, will reduce car
penters' pages from SO to $7.2o day
and plasterers' wages from $l1 to
$3.50 a day. Plumbers are almost
certain to be affected by the heavy
cut. About 1000 carpenters and be-
tween $50 and 500 plasterers are af-
fected in the city. A similar wage-cut
is expected also in Oakland and the
East Bay region.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-13
Brownsville Miners Break
Through Operators Terror
in Militant Anti>War Meet
Defy Thugs and Yellow Dogs; Hold Militant
Meet; Protest failing of BOrich

BROWNSVILLE Pa April 12.-For the first time in
months the workers of Brownsville Pa succeeded today
breaking through the terror of the coal operators and their
local political ackeys and holding open air anti-war
onstraton.
Despite the presence Of coal company thugs
from the mines in the vicinity Of Brownsville to spy
the meeting and report any miner working for their
panies attending the demonstration More than 100 miners
deed the yellow dogs and the coal operators and to the
demonstration listening atenvely for two hours the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-13
(MOONEY STATEMENT

II am either guilty or not guilty"
why all this controversy about
parole, Communication, ETC.? If I
were guilty of the dastardIy crime
which I was charged with commit
ing tand for which / was framed
in the foulest manner by the most
despicabIe perjuries in American
history, I should have been hung
fifteen years ago. But they did
not dare hang me, because they
feared the consequences of hang
ing an innocent man. am either
guilty or not guilty. And not
shred of evidence remains TO prove
me guilty.
Mooney then referred to the
statement appearing in San
Francisco newspaper on April 6
which read: at is no secret that
the governors advisers fear the eff
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-13

Mobilize the workers 20 fight for
unemployment insurance in con-
nection with May Day. Sell the
pamphlet Social Insurance" by
Grace Burnham. Two cents.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-13

munist League and the United Farm
ers League, Andrew Omholt spoke
for the Communist Party, Fred Dali
ziel for the Young Communist
League and r. w. Dalziel for the
United Farmers League. Bill Free
man, District Organizer for the Y.
G. L. was chairman.
SEDRO-WOODLEY, Wash, April
l2.--Over 100 workers attended the
anti-war demonstration here on APP
Ri s. Resolutions against the robber
war ON China, and against the
Scottsboro lynch verdicts were unan-
imously adopted.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-13

The Soviet Union stands foH
peace" the great speech made BY
COmrade LityinOy, representative
of the Soviet Union at Geneva,
shows the peace policy of the So
Wet Union and the war plans Of
the capitalist nations. One Cent
pamphlet.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-13
TWENTY-FIVE Delegates in Warren

WARREN, Ohio.-Twenty-five de-
'1egates representing 16 organizations
with 700 members were present at
the United Front May Day confer
ence held in Warren.
The conference, the chairman Of
which was Niemi, decided to hold a
demonstration during the day and
indoor affair at the Hippodrome Hall
in the evening.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-13

district organizer of the NMU, and
Robert Pace, organizer Of the Com
munist Party,
The workers assembled voted a
resolution of protest to the governor
of the state of Alabama, against the
vicious frame-up against the nine
Negro Scottsboro boys, demanding
their freedom and pledging active
support to the mass defense cam
paign.
A resolution Of protest was also
voted to be sent to Governor Pin
chot, Of Pennsylvania, protesting
against the arrest of Frank Borich,
national secretary of the NNIU, de-
manding his immediate release.
KANSAS CITY, April IL. - A
packed all day program of mass pro-
tests and demonstrations against I'M
peria1ist war and for the defense OF
the Chinese people and the Soviet
Union featured AntiWar Day in
Kansas City.
Starting with an early morning
demonstration of over 1000 works. at
the gates of the Ford factory, and
winding up with an indoor meeting
of over 500 workers, the Anti-War
Day activities in Kansas City in
volved at least 5000 active partici-
pants, and reached tens of thousands
of workers with propaganda
At IL o'clock about $50 workers as
sembled at 18th and Paseo for an
open meeting to start off a parade.
The parade got under way at /
o'clock and led by truck carrying
an electric chair with a Negro boy
hooded and strapped, symbolizing
the boss terror against the Scots
boro boys. Jess Hollins, wife of
franled-up Negro worker lead the
parade passed down 18th Street, the
most congested thoroughfare in the
heart Of the Negro section, then
turned on frost Avenue, another
busy street, up to 18th Street, and
then on 18th Street to 18th and Pa
SEQ. Here spirited, militant DEM
onstration of close to 1000 workers
took place from the top of and the
War Memorial Fourteen workers
signed up for the Communist Party.
The crowd was addressed by an ex-
service man, Negro workers, youth
workers, and a speaker for the Com
munist Party. The police were out
in force, but the militancy and dis
cipline of the crowd, forced them to
adopt hands off policy.