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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-15
Prepare for Scottsboro
Day on October 8th

ONLY &c days by Supreme
o
Scottsboro Negro boys
Negro fighting these
framedp working children struggle
the the mperast ynche
Wright mother of the
peated their defense of
boo Defense by the building of huge defense
Worngclass this their
European class brothers
the fight scotboro
illusions the fairness importantly"
Supreme Court AS the hearing such illusions being ancay
peddled within the wokngcass the socialists
itself TWO questions at the present Tune what IS the role OF the u S.
Supreme Court by whom is controlled? the the
socialists and the Negro reosts in the Scottsboro Case?
THE Supreme by muderous capital
in the first by the mpeist bandits which subjects the
oppression
berry 1t alers
Van The Supreme Court is the judicial prop OF the same capitalist
whose the
role of the Court eetuate the nsvement of the tong
masses and the frghtful national oppression OF the Negroes
THE socialists nsts consistently betrayed
fight to free the Scoboro They directed their attacks
vuonay workers rang in their millions in all countries for the
fight and free the boys The leaders of the National Association
with the
white prostitutes When the of their rank and file members
they tried the defense it, famous
toney" Clarence the NAACP defender of
the white
superiority and the alleged tendency Of darkknnd white
the iperaiss
aceys the the Scottsboro
of capitalist justice Prepare the worldwide october protest demon
capitalist
Demand the unconditional release of the nine scooro bo
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-15
International United
Front Against Wage Cuts

THREE strikes against wage cuts in major industries
being carried three European countries In Lanca
shire, England there 100000 cotton mill out
against Is per cent cut and 100000 spnners in
the same region taking strike vote against Is per
cent cut.
In Holland there is general strike of and har
Dor workers. which has tied up since August 81 practically
shipping struggling against 80 cent
cut
The leaders the Socialist Party
still going
all their
power In
betray through
agreement with the Macdonald national government
strike
individuals
They
left Communist leadership has the
front The capitalist aart of whole locals
Communists at the head of their strike
In Holland, the opposition the old unions these
refused Holland
the strike committee This international solidarity of
the
solidarity full
Enheitszeband" Unity Organaon) in the free city Danzg
AMERICAN
notice particularly
the strike committee of
foreign ports Dutch ships Stop
these ships! Picket them No scabbng the Dutch eamen!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-15

IN line with a recent analysis by
the Red international of Labor
Unions of Labor Unity, official
monthly magazine of the Trade
Union Unity League, the Septem-
Der issue of the magazine has be-
gun a new policy of presenting and
interpreting the important recent
struggles and problems of the
workers, in popularity written
manner.
There is an article by Jack
Stachel, assistant secretary of the
TUUL, on "The new Steel and
Metal Union" 1t tells of the great
enthusiasm of the worker-dele-
gates, representing 100000 steel
and metal workers, who helped
form the new union at its recent
convention. Already, less than
month after the formation of the
new fighting union, it. has led a
successful strike of the Warren
steel workers. Stacheps article
tells of the spirit of the workers
at the convention, how they went
about discussing the problems of
the workers in the industry; how
they mapped out plans for such
struggles as the victorious Warren
strike.
pECENTLY the hosiery workers }
IL of High Point, N. c., determined
that they had had enough of wage
cuts and starvation. They struck
The unemployed joined them in
their fight. With lightning rapid
ity, the strike spread to every hos
iery mill in High Point. Soon all
the furniture factories we're out
Like wildfire the strike spread
through the Piedmont area, involv-
ing $4,000 workers. The story of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-15
Recent Strike Struggles
Featured in Labor Unity

that strike is told in "Storm Over
Carolina" w. G.. Binkley's article
in the September Labor Unity.
Its lessons too are told.
The bosses are ballyhooing Roose-
welt, democratic presidential cam
didate, as the "friend of labor"
Grace Hutchins tells what kind of
a friend of labor Roosevelt is, in
her article, Roosevelt and Labor"
She exposes his whole rotten re-
cord in strikebreaking and fighting
against real unemployment relief.
One of the slickest schemes
evolved by the A. F. of L. mislead-
ers is the one which keeps the
workers of the Pequot Mills in Sal
EN-, Mass, hog-tied. 1t is the
Union Management plan, under
which the textile workers are made
to speed-up beyond human endT-
ance, with the United Textile
Workers Union officials holding the
whip. How this scheme has driven
the workers conditions down is
described in an article by a Salem
worker, Michael Petcavetch.
OTHER important features in the.
v September Labor Unity are the
Life of the Revolutionary Unions"
the "Voice of the Workers." a new
department in which the workers
eyrrecc thar onipions m, all class.
struggle questions: articles on the
Latin American Workers in the
U. S.; 1.-THE New Steel Union and
War; and First Place in Europe
which tells how the Soviet work.
ers and peasants have outstripped
all European capitalist nations in
steel and oil production and are
rapidly approaching American CO.
pacity.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-15
Workers School, 1OYears!

THE rapidly growing struggles of the workers place before
the revolutionary workers organizations the important
problem of developing trained fighters and organizers well
extending the knowledge of MarxsL ennism to hum
eds and thousands who still outside of these ogani
nations
School during
efficient instrument the of these 1t has
comparatively insignificant institution 1923 of
educational institutions
growth accompanied by qualitative cu
methods Of teaching material used in the etc The
School, under the guidance of the Communist Party served
forth the Importance of the theory Of
the nsparaby revolutionary theory
Committee of
America the Workers School the
its activity and calls the Party units and all
militant workers organizations to their full support to the School,
to
the
creasing its working class base will be continued
which held high
period
the revolutionary invaluable
trsMndng of workers for the class struggle
COMMITTEE
UNITED STATES AMERICA ~ ~
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-15
Neev international" Pamphlets

A new revised up-to-date edition
of "War in the Far East, by Henry
Hall, is just off the press. 1t ex-
plains the forces behind the strug-
gle in Manchuria-the irnperialist
powers, semi-colonial China, and
the Soviet Union. Closely connected
with this new edition, are, the two
other pamphlets on China, "War in
China" by Ray Stewart, and $50
Wet China" by M. James and r.
Doonping.
All of these pamphlets are 10
cents and can be obtained from
Workers Library PublisherA g r
18th St. New York City
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-15
The Neev Illinois Mine Unior,>>
Direction Is 1t Going?

and file leadership in it is what
we want, buddy" the miners say.
Whether they will get it under
Ansbury and the present guiding
spirits is another question.
SPREAD THE STRIKE
The second topic miners are talk
ing about-the spread of the strike
into Franklin County-was finally
met in this way at the Gillespie
conference: delegation of five was
chosen to go to the Illinois legis-
lature, meeting in extraordinary
session this week (to study unem-
ployment and save the 100000 who
face starvation in Illinois this win =
terri. This delegation of which
Gerry Allard is the leading light,
will petition the coal operators in
legislature s. to give them the right
to peacefully proceed into Franklin
County.
Already the present leadership
shows signs of ultra-1 egalism to
ham-string the idea of militant
strike and picketing. It is already
known to the readers of the Daily
Worker how Ansbury opened fire
on the mass-pressure policies of
the LID, and the "Reds." The
threadbare slogans he raised were
those that could be expected of
backwoods demagogue: mo out
siders, we can handle this our
selves" -and of Matthew Wolf
1--WE don't want to be associated
with the Reds" He forced the
tabling of resolutions of greetings
from the st. Louis Unemployed
Councils. despite his vigorously
pushed idea, 1--WE want a six-hour
day. it will bring the unemployed
closer to us"
The new union-in opposition to
the UMWA-is gaining ground
swiftly among the miners. They
hope they have put the death sign
on the Lewis and Walker regime
of deSpotism. But what their new
leaders Ansbury and Co. have to
offer in the way Of leadership is
still to be seen. The rank and file
opposition delegates at the Gillespie
conference stood flatfooted for the
election of rank and file strike
committees in all locals, federated
on a sub-district and district basis,
with leadership entirely in the
hands of the rank and file, and
the district committee alone to ne
gotiate with the Bosses
ONLY RANK AND FILE
CAN WIN
But yesterday the scale commit
tee of the new union announced
publicly 1--WE are prepared to meet
all operators in the spirit of CO.
operation. =
The rank and file opposition at
the Gillespie conference drummed
away on the plan to win the strike
by spreading it through new mass
descent on Franklin County. But
outside of highly secret mummery
(Ansbury's talk of an underground
Committee Of Six to plan how to
pull Franklin County on strike)
nothing is being done.
The Rank and File opposition
warned against legalistic illusions
which will tone down the fighting
spirit of the miners. But COM
mittee of five was chosen to dick
er with the, Illinois legislature, to
try to win the right of a peaceful
march on Franklin County.
The fighting miners of Southern
Illinois hope they have scuttled the
Lewis Walker ship for good: but
what will happen with their new
vessel remains to be seen. Only
strongest Of rank and file leader
ship will steer it through the ra-
pidly approaching reefs,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-15

BESIDES the pamphlet Can You
Hear Their VoiceS?", by Whit
aker Chambers, which ran serially
in the Daily Worker recently, IN
ternational Pamphlets has also is
sued some other new significant
pamphlets. women Who Work.,
by Grace Hutchins, analyses the
life and struggles of the working
woman. ITO American InteIlectu-
ais, is an open letter by Maxim
Gorky, explaining the place occu-
pied by intellectuals in the strug-
gle of the working class, and the
potential revolutionary force they
Irepresent- -
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-15

Their epochal march on this
county--in an amazing caravan Of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-15
NEW UNION
AND THE STRIKE


All throughout this country the
talk revolves around two topics to-
day: the new union and the strike.
The new union formed at Gillepsie
the last three days of the past week
was sired by the bursting rebelli-
BUSINESS of the Southern Illinois
miners, betrayed innumerable times
by the Lewis Walker oligarchy: be-
trayed so many times that split
away from the U.MW.A. presented
the only course out. The new union,
named the Progressive Miners of
America, was voted for by 272 del
egates, said to represent $4,000
miners. Fraternal delegates hitch
hiked and freighted it in from In
diana and Kentucky. The coal OPP
orators dream to chisel the wage
scale in this area to the flux and
pellagra levels of Kentucky is well
understood by the coal diggers here,
principally interested in holding
back the contemplated wage cut
from the 500 a day level~to the
SIS scale.
But Pat Ansbury, local leader Of
the rank and file miners went hay
wire at the conference with his
slogan, mot wages, conditions" (by
which he abandons the fight
against the ten per cent wage cut
in favor of vague demands about
working conditions in the mines
Ed. Note). Observers present re-
marked on an outburst of indigna-
ton from many parts of the hall:
What the hell does he mean, not
wages :" But more about this
later.
The policy committees choice Of
individual settlement with the coal
operators at once, was a dubious
move. 1t flies in the face of the
other big topic in the Southern Il
linois fields-today: That is, the
spread of the strike into Franklin
County. The miners understand
that the tremendous rationaliza-
ton and high-scale production of
this county can well throw
monkey wrench into their fight;
that even if all the rest of the
mines in the area are shut down
tight, this county can pour forth
thousands of tons of rich bitumin-
Gus daily, filling great portion of
the Illinois coal demand. And the
rank and filters want Franklin
County tied up.
$4,000 MARCHED
Their epochal march on this
county--in an amazing caravan Of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-15
BY FRED GILLETTE

CPRINGFIELD, Ill. (By MaiD -
- Four hours out of Chicago in a
southernly Decline lies the crescent
of coal mines stretching across the
flatlands from Springfield to the
southwestern tip of the state: an
area of great riches in coal and
one in which up to a few years ago
10000 miners earned living. To-
day less than $4,000 miners hope to
make living expenses out of the
mines, in view Of the crisis and
the highly mechanical state of the
pits here-particularly in Franklin
County, the heaviest coal producing
area in the State. Here the IA
nous Orient No. 1 and Orient No.
2 mines, said to be the largest in
the world, operate with the most
advanced machinery known. And
here, in direct ratio to the produc-
tiveness of the mines, flourishes the
terror of the imported plug-uglies:
gun-toting gangsters from Chicago,
many with Harlan County exper-
ence, most of them with more than
one notch on the handle of their
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-15
PARIS CONTRASTS
"Red" City Governments; "HOOvervilles" Ii
France; Lessons for u. S. Workers

but not sufficiently to enable the
worker to enjoy anything like a
minimum comfort. Rent generally
consumes one-fourth of the work.
ers' full time pay. Food is about
20 per cent cheaper than in New
York, but not clothing. In the
workers quarters you will seldom
find a worker with decent suit
of clothes on.
The Communist municipalities
are not allowed to establish higher
standards of unemployment insur-
ar1ce and relief. The maximum of
10 francs a day is mandatory The
municipality contributes the larger
portion of the fund The foreign
born cannot be supported out of
the official unemployment fund.
They cannot as much as be fed by
the soup Kitchen, for without an
unemployment certificate a worker
cannot get his portion of soup. The
certificate is stamped every day,
as a measure of protection against
"repeaters."
In Paris you can find the equiva-
lent of the starvation wage-rates
that prevail in the American tex
tile mills. "A recent strike in fac
tory manufacturing electrical sup
plies disclosed the fact that some
of the girls 600 women are en-
,oJo,,oJ l., that fooforxr ~ n total
of 5000 were earning as little as
two and a half dollars a week.
One of the strikers demands was
a minimum of 314 francs per hour
d3 cents. The strike Of the
"ItaltAn" kind, the workers report
ing to their machines and bench
es but refraining from work.
TYPICAL
METROPOLIS.
For all its peculiarities and ma
tional" characteristic Paris is
typical capitalist metropolis. You
can find homeless men and women
fin the hundreds sleeping under the
numerous bridges vita luxurious
limousines rolling overhead. You
can find exquisiteIy furnished cafes
and restaurants a block away from
a breadline. You can find crowded
eabarets where the cover charge
alone would be sufficient to pay the
food bill of workers family for a
"noie uay: lou can n,.u nooe.,
slies WILL" 10 S d.
rom sne lines oqua,e u az,
away rom 'ie oui1 n y.u w"
ilnu "o.Ae 80 III a. -.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-15
Who Are Its Leaders?
Some Questions
Considered

trucks and cars As miles long, bear
ing between $4,000 and $4,000 min
ers was ambushed at Muddy Creek.
Nobody will even count up how
many were killed by the deputies
here; but miners were seen to fall
like flies in the hail of machine
gun bullets. More than one hun
dred and fifty were wounded: some
say 10 or Is killed. All know that
the fore of the caravan was put
on the spot pointblank.
But does that mean the miners
are finished with the idea of pulling
Franklin County on strike. Not
bit of it. They understand they
were an unorganized army; a gil
gantic but loose assemblage COM
pletely devoid of leadership. They
made their descent on Franklin
County in high spirits: the first car
led by a miner playing on an &C
Gordon: songs rose over the farm
side from the 45-mile- long picket
line. But generalship was lacking.
In fact many miners today ask
where was Ansbury? The reply is
that the latter was up in an air
plane with Gerry Allard, expelled
Communist member and now
Trotskyite, dropping leaflets over
Franklin County, hoping to have
the miners there drop tools and
ocme to meet the caravan" But
the ground work that would pos
sibly make this wish come true was
lacking. No great attempt had been
made to pave the way for such
response.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-15
EDMUNDSON--
A LEWIS MAN

1t is a known fact that the min
ers of Franklin County are fight
ing lot: that they want to come
out on strike. But the muzzles of
Edmundson's gun thugs stare them
In the face: the virus of foreigner
hatred has been injected in the
county, in some spots splitting the
unity of the native and foreign
born. But the majority are for
strike in this county. Remember
that the miners of Orient No. 1
and No. back in 1929 collected
$500 which they. sent for the de-
Tense of the striking Gastonia tex
tile workers: these are men who
understand working class solidar-
ity). But the odds at this moment
are too great. They are looking
over the county horizon for sup
port from the rest of the state.
Will the newly formed union sup
ply that support? That is a ques-
ton the answer of which was left
open, in fact-almost completely
ignored, at the Gillespie conference
Wnere the new union was born.
AS this was being written on the
night of September 6, six operators
at Belleville sat at the table with
representatives of the new union
and signed up at the $6.10 rate
that is, settled at the old scale.
At the same time Stuyvesant Pea
body, president of the Peabody
mines, and the coal operators as
ISOLATION reiterates their faith, in
the present contract with the UNI.
WA" and their determination mot
to deal with the new union" But
the men will not dig coal under
Lewis: that's becoming clear to
everybody. The idea of the new
union ID being seized with enthusi-
ams everywhera ..I0te sofsyank.and-
r. .aJtt
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-15
NATHANIEL BUCHWALD
Concluded From Yesterday

Concluded From Yesterday
In Paris alone L'Humanite has
over one hundred Thousand daily
circulation. The French worker
find in L'Humanite things. that
are of interest, to him. The ac-
counts of strikes and mass cam
paigns predominant both in point
of space and display, but social
ed human interest" news is not
neglected, and yesterdays events
are recorded in today's issue of
L'Humanite and not in the issue
a week from today. The same as
a rule, is true of the articles
which are generally short and
bear on the happenings of the
day. Our proIetarian athletes in
the United States may be inter-
eSted to know that a Monday
morning L'Humanite had de-
tailed account of workers swim
ming meet that had taken place
the afternoon before.
You are, no doubt, familiar by
now with the recent figures por-
traying the extent of the crisis in
France in terms of falling imports
and exports and unfavorable bal
ance of trade. In terms Of human
misery, the crisis is seen and felt
everywhere in workers quarters.
The system of unemployment insur-
ance is designed along the familiar
capitalist models of chronic star
walton. The maximum payment to
"a jobless worker is 10 francs (about
40 cents day with additional 20
cents or so for every dependent.
Recently the municipalities and
city districts passed measures to
pay the rent of the unemployed for
the duration of unemployment. In
addition, there are soup kitchens
where the unemployed can get
pail of lunch for something like
half cent.
TYPICAL U. S. GAME
But not all unemployed come I'M
der the provisions of the unem-
ployment insurance system. The
foreign-born are practically out of
it. They have, for the most part,
neither employment nor insurance.
Without work licenses they cannot
get any jobs, and not having any
jobs they cannot present any GER
tificates of unemployment. Dur
ing the prosperous years the for
eign-born could obtain employ
ment, but as the crisis developed
the privilege of keeping body and
soul together has been denied them
as measure of protecting the in
terests'' of the native workers. 1t
is the same game as in the United
States, with additional French
bourgeois cruelty and cynicism.
The standards of living Of the
employed are also calculated to
keep the workers on the raw end
of the subsistence line. On public
works the government pays five
francs GO centS) an hour, which
is about the prevailing wage for
semi skilled labor. Skilled workers,
when fully employed, earn about
$50 francs Gen dollars per week.
In the needle trades where occupa-
ton is seasonal and lasts only about
four to five months year workers
earn as much as 400 francs Q6 dol
lars) week, but this requires long
hours of overtime.
COMPARISON WITH
NEW YORK
The cost of living in Paris Is
somewhat lower than in New York
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Brooklyn, N. Y.

BrOUKIyl, N. 7.
Dear Comrades:
We workers Of the Bleyer Shop
who gave S. to the Daily Worker
the first week of its Emergency
Drive, are now sending another $40
to help keep our four-page Daily.
We call upon the militant work
ers Of other shops to do likewise,
and to make it possible for the
workers Of the United States to
preserve their only English daily
paper~-the Daily Worker.
!. n WORKERS Of Bleyer Shop.
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NeUer Misses

Although he is Is, John Hoover,
2528 West Sixteenth street, has re-
ceived a two-year button signifying
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Partisan girls are sporting two
tone lips. One is painted a vivid
red and the other a different color.
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ne has sud- Itu
on his third year

of attendance, determined to keep
his so far perfect record intact.