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days of the strike.
IT was against this attempt by
mass arrests to break the strike, that
the thousand demonstrated in La
Junta. The anger and determine
ton OF the strikers was SO high that
the police feared to attack the meet
ing.
The strikers on trial inside the
court room defended themselves, or
we're defended by strike leaders. The
five hour trial became almost entirely
a sharp debate between the district
attorney for the sugar companies and
beet growers, on one side, and on the
ether side, Pat Toohey, representing
the United Front Strike Committee,
the Agricultural Workers Industrial
Union, and the masses of strikers.
The court room w"s packed, and
all the time outside. the thousand
strikers, shouted for release of their
Jailed fellow workers. and demanded
that the terror be brought to an end.
The court took the case under adj
visement, which means that they
hesitate to convict the strikers with
the workers so much aroused.
Growers Ask Negotiations.
At Brush, Colo, the growers have
asked for negotiations with the
strikers. At Las Animas, the grow
ers also asked Friday for meeting
with the representatives Of the strik-
ers. The strikers have assigned ne
gotiation committees to see these
growers.
The strike is complete in Otera,
Pueblo and Huerfano counties. The
authorities admit it is complete and
standing solid In the southern fields.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-23
REVOLUTION IN
GREECE SPREADS;
IT IS REPORTED
General Strike Looms;
Venizelos Resigns

An armed insurrection is reported
to be spreading throughout Greece
causing serious disturbances" in
Greek Thrace and Macedonia
The revolutionary struggle is said
to be fiercer in the tobacco regions
OF Kuinkoi, Gumuldzhina and Xanthi
where troops and warships are rushed
to restore quiet"
Meanwhile the post office, telegraph
and telephone services are discon-
tinued as a consequence of a strike.
for higher wages and better working
conditions. The strike is now in its
fourth day and is rapidly spreading
to other governmental services.
A general strike is looming as the
General Federation of Trade Unions
decided to support the struggle for
better wages being carried on by in
dividual unions.
Premier Venizelos resigned last
Saturday in the face Of the strong
mass opposition to his proposed legis-
lation intended to throw the burden
Of the economic crisis on the Shout
ders of the working masses.
The economic crisis in Greece is
continuously deepening. Greece al
ready abandoned the gold standard,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-23

"gyp' agencies, They charged Tor eX-'
ample, one worker, $18 for a SIS
month Job this past week.
The Academy agency, another to
Gail the police to try and drive the
DAILY Worker sellers away, was forced
Ito return a worker his fee this week.
SThey had charged him So for job.
He worked two days. He recovered
his fee, 60 cents carfare and SO cents
for a meal that he had spent going
out for job. A woman worker has
been sent TO several false addresses
by this agency
Must Organize
Every worker looking for jobs in
these Sixth Ave. agencies must Or
ganize into the Unemployed Council
snd if he is a food worker, Gestau
rant, bakery, hotel, etc) into the
Food Workers Industrial Union at
B East 18th ST,
You are entitled to jobs at 10 per
gent, no more, OF the salary promised.
THE agencies cannot deduct a COM
mission for room and board as
equivalent TO so much salary.
The agencies read the want-adS in
the morning papers. Then they call
up the employees and tell him that
they can supply experienced help in
his line at no expense to him." Re
suit, when workers apply for the job,
they cannot get an audience.
These sharks work in many ways.
They pay small yearly license fee
snd make it many times over.
Workers, who are their victims, should
Immediately report to the Unem-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-23

against the wage-cut enforced on
May 18th in the steel mills as well as
in the coal mines. The district dem
onstration, scheduled to take place
in Charleroi, will be held in McKees-
port. The Cherleroi City Council re-
fused a permit for the demonstra-
ton. A protest demonstration will
be held there soon.
Young Workers Preparing In
Youngstown.
Intensive preparations are going on
for National Youth Day in YoungS-
town. The city officials were forced
to grant a permit for the parade on
May goth and for the use of the
HARRISON Sports Field on the 29th
and s0th, after having refused it for
three weeks. The permit was granted
after many organizations had sent in
resolutions demanding that a permit
be granted and after delegation
visited the City Council.
Open-air meetings are being held
to prepare for National Youth Day.
A successful meeting was held at
Truscon Stel on May 18th, which was
attended by 20 0workers. The work
ers in this plant have just received a
Is per cent wage-cut. Many young
workers who are employed there are
being laid off if they are unmarried.
Flying meetings were also held. A
truck covered with National Youth
signs was used to go through town
and call on the young workers to
demonstrate on National Youth Day.
Another Scottsboro open-air meeting
will be held tonight at Gibson and
Poland Ave in preparation for May
2sth and 30th.
The program for National Youth
Day is as follows: May 29th (Sun-
day, parade at pm, beginning at
Harrison Field and proceeding to
Federal and Basin Sts., where at
o'clock there will be a big demon
stration. Sunday evening, at 7 pm,
there will be program Of plays,
songs, etc, at the Qkrainian Hall,
525 w. Rayen Ave. May 3oth Mon
day. will be the Counter Olympic
sport meet at Harrison Field, North
Walnut and Court SITS, beginning at
9 am.
All out for National Youth Day.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-23
Physician Reports Edith
Berkman Has tuberculosis
Judge Morton Who Denied Her Freedom Is
Mill Owner New Move Made to Have Bail Set

of the firm of Shea & Wise of Bos-
ton, to handle Edith Berkman's case
locally under Iserman's direction.
The application for bail which was
made yesterday is based not only on
Edith Berkman's condition but on the
fact that the revocation of bail by
Judge Lowell (who, by the way, is a
member Of the Boston Lowells, the
same clan to which belongs to Presi-
dent Lowell of Harvard, who helped
railroad Sacco and Vanzeti to DEATH
is illegal. The reason, it is illegal, is
because the case had already been
appealed to the Federal Circuit Court
of Appeals on october LIST, and Judge
Lowell revoked bail on october 9th.
Now it happens that Judge Lowell
even though he belongs to the Lowell
family-is only judge of the Fed
eral District Court. Since the case
was already appealed to higher
court, the Circuit Court of Appeals,
Judge Lowell no longer had jurisdic-
ton over the case, and no longer had
the right to revoke bail.
Mill Owner Judge.
Furthermore, class conscious work
ers will be interested to know that
Judge James M. Morton of the Cir
cult Court of Appeals, who handed
down the decision again denying
freedom to Edith Berkman, is presi-
dent of the Sycamore Mill Corpora
ton of Fall River, Massachusetts,,
which corporation has a direct in
terest in suppressing all organization
of workers, and particularly in sup
pressing and imprisoning such mill
tant leaders as Edith Berkman.
Workers have a special interest in
defending Edith Berkman. They
should mobilize in thousands to back
the I. L. D. in demand for Edith
Berkman's release.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-23

high pressure at hard manual labor
in certain kinds of industrialized ag-
riculture.
Thousands Of children are in the
sugarb eet fields at labor which
stunts growth, physical and mental
and makes real education impossible
1T is the old sweatshop system of
family contract labor adapted to ag-
ricultlre.
"The wages are pitiably small, In
one group of $40 workers-men. wo-
men and children--the average wage
per worker was SOB per year.
80 per cent of these children are
10 years old or less.
1.-THE bean and beet workers arc
in state of industrial slavery, which
is worse than the old chattel slavery.
because the owner of the chattel
slave saw to it that his property was
properly fed and clothed"
Demand S23 Per Acre.
The United Front Committee has
made the following demands:
IA return to the 1880 wage
scale of $23 an acre (the present
contracts offer IS to SIS and in some
cases as low as 81 and So.
IA guarantee of wages from the
sugar company to prevent the &C.
curence. frequent last year, of every
thing the farmer got for his beets
going to the banks and the grower
being left with nothing for his sea-
sons work.
3.--Advances to be paid in cash
instead of credit (often the store
keeper and the big owner of sugar
company representative split the OK
cess graft made by charging exhorbi-
tsnt prices at the store where credit
is adyanced)
4.-Recognition Of the United
Front Committee OF beet workers,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-23
By DOUGLAS MACDONALD

BOSTON, Mass May 21.-A definite
tubercular condition exists in Edith
Berkman's right lung decided DR..
James Hitchcock, Boston physician
retained by the International Labor
Defense, when he examined Edith
Berkman at the Central New England
Sanitorium in Rutland, Massachu-
sets where she is confined a few
days ago.
This finding, together with the
transference of Edith Berkman by
the migration authorities to sani-
tarium exclusively for the treatment
of tubercular patients, proves what
the LID has contended all along,
despite the denials of the officials,
that this Working-class strike leader
contracted tuberculosis during her
month incarceration in the i'm
migration detention barracks" in
Boston. She had been arrested while
leading a strike last fall, and at first
bail had been granted, but later, on
October 9th, this bail was revoked by
Judge James A. Lowell of the Dis
trict Court. 1t was the resulting,
continuous confinement of this girl
which caused her tubercular condi-
ton.
Now Move for Bail
The immediate need, now, the In
ternational Labor Defense contends,
to secure bail for her SO that, with
the comparative peace of mind and
freedom from worry which release
from Imprisonment (eyen hospital
imprisonment would give, it would
be possible to treat her illness sue
cessfully. The I. L. D. lawyers, with
A. j. Iserman of New York in charge,
are now pressing anew for the grant
ing OF bail. The I. L. D. has ar
ranged for Henry Wise, an attorney
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-23
Tom Mooney Assails VIM. Green
for Fighting JobleSS Insurance

going through the files Of the Amer
lean Federationist," al least since
1916 up to the present. would never
know that such an individual as Tom
Mooney existed
I'm view of these facts. readily
understand the attitude OF Mr..
Green and his colleagues in attack
ing your organization, It is in line
with the attempt to destroy any real
militant effort of the workers on
their own behalf.
so build your organization, con-
solidste your ranks, and continue
the fight against starvation, unem-
ployment and for the right of the
workers to live like human beings.
You must also continue the fight
for my freedom, as we'll as that of
all political prisoners.
Fraternally yours,
TOM MOONEY
1884,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-23

Thousands of leaflets are being 1S-I
sued in which the meaning of the
National Youth Day is illustrated in
the light of the events daily taking
place all over the world at time
when all the efforts of the imperial
list bandits are bent upon encouraging
Japan to provoke the Socialist Father
land
Preparations In New England.
In New England the District
Board of the Labor Sports Union
called upon all its affiliated clubs to
send their delegates to the National
Youth Day Committees in charge of
the preparations for May 30th dem
onstration against hunger and war.
The National Youth Day celebra-
ton will be held in Lawrence on
May 18th and 30th, when the Coun-
ter olympic Trial Meet will also take
place in preparation for the district
elimination meets. This trial will
take place on the Goth at the Hay
dan-Shetleld Fairgrounds.
The permit for the National Youth
Day demonstration, previ ously
granted, was revoked upon request OF
Alderman Thomas F. Calvin, Direc-
tor of the Department Of Public
Safety. The Provisional Committee
for the preparation of the demon
stration sent strong protest against
this anti working class act and mott
fled the City Council that the work
ers of Lawrence intent to use the
permit.
win Hold Demonstration In Reading.
The Executive Committee of the
Communist Party in District No. 3
issued statement urging all workers
to support National Youth Day and
to participate in the huge mass dem
onStration (which will take place in
Reading. Pa, on May 10Th and 30th.
All workers having cars are invited
to volunteer the same to transport
young workers to Reading.
Mobilize Miners and Steel Workers.
National Youth Day in the Pitts
burgh District will be celebrated on
May 2stfl and 3oth with q mass dem
onstration in which thousands OF
workers are urged to participate. The
demonstration will serve to arouse
the coal miners and steel workers
against the immediate danger of an
attack upon the Soviet Union and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-23

NEW YORK. - The New
York A, r. of l., Trade Union
Committee for Unemployment
Insurance and Relief received
a letter from Tom Mooney
from San Quentin prison wishing
success to the Committee in the
struggle for unemployment insurance
and immediate relief. This letter
was read at a conference held May
10 at Labor Temple to delegates rep
resenting SO A. F, Of L. local I'M
ions. 1t was unanimously decided to
send Tom MONEYS letter for publ
cation to all newspapers. The letter
follows:
California State Prison
San quentin, Cal.
5-13-32.
Via San Francisco
IL. Weinstock, Secretary
New York A. F. of L. Trade Union
Committee for Unemployment Inv
Surance and Relief,
"799 Broadway, Room 1886
New York City
Dear Sir and Brother
Received your communication Of
April Z. Because of the fact that that
prison regulations limit my cores
pondence. was unable TO reply sooner,
ut gives me great pleasure to learn
of the struggle your organization is
conducting for unemployment insur-
ance and relief.
with millions Of workers and their
families starving at this time, during
an unprecedented crisis, l heartily
and unqualidedly endorse your fight
for relief and insurance SO vitality
necessary for the lives of the Ameri-
can workers.
Scores Green.
MY attention has been recently
called to a warning" issued by Pres
ident william Green Of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor. which is
being sent to all City Central bodies,
local unions of the A. F. of L., at
lacking your organization
1.-THE action of Mr.. Green and the
reactionary leadership Of the A. F.,
of L. in this connection, is similar to
their action in trying to sabotage my
defense and to ham-string my De-
Tense Committee by warning unions
affiliated with the American Fedora
ton of Labor to withhold financial
support from my Committee, of
which I am the director, and which
has for Is years been conducting the
fight for my freedom.
Green Sabotages Mooney.
"If any organization affiliated with
the American Federation OF Labor
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-23

Chicago. Harlan, etc
Hillquit made a demand for rszsL
err participation in the Wall Ssuseh
government, in foreign affairs ans
League of Nations, but said not orss
word about the imperialist war and
murdefous attack on the Chinese
people and the impending war on
the Soviet Union.
Hillquiets keynote was character
lied by many radical phrases against
capitalism, but refrained from deal
ing clearly and definitely with the
burning issues before the masses now,
such as hunger, terror and war.
People For U.S.S.R.
The Socialist inner party dispute
on the attitude towards the Soviet
Union has been the central question.
The basis for the dispute was brought
timore. In polemizing against the
diehard opponents of the Soviet IN
ion. he declared: ~
"You know what your papers say:
I know what the people say. I have
spoken at two hundred meetings IN
Baltimore. have talked to the.
people before and after these meet
ings They have only praise for the
Soviet Union
SO on this, as on all other cues
lions, the shop-keepcrs won. ALI
right, if people are for the Soviet
Union; if we want votes, we have TO
be for it also" this vas Gss al
titude
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-23
A Letter from the Tampa Jail

days Of sailing ships. We workers
here in the Tampa County Jail can't
expect to get any fresh green's or
fruit as the bosses would rather let
it rot in the fields.
The sheriff here is now on the
stump for reelection and is letting
the county Jail be run by group Of
KKK's. Workers of Tampa will have
to elect Communist sheriff.
Comradely, AL. W. MCBRIDE.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-23
BELL COUNTY, KY,
CO NJ NJ i MS 7
CONFERENC HELD
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called a Communist Election Cam
paign conference for all of Bell
County, KY, to meet here, May 81,
and elect delegates to the National
Nominating Convention in Chicago.
This assures representation Of the
fighting Kentucky miners and poor
farmers at the Chicago convention,
and assures a Communist campaign
in Kentucky against the coal COM
pany starvation and reign of terror
in the region Of the strike led by the
National Miners Union. which began
January /, this year,
The calling of this convention is
itself a defiance of the terror, because
County Attorney Walter B. Smith,
Sheriff Broughton, and the mayor of
Pineville have repeatedly issued pub
lie statements declaring the Commu-
mist Party, and even the National
Miners Union and Workers Interna-
tional Relief to be outlawed, all
members subject to arrest for Grim
inal syndicalism and all meetings to
be broken up.
Terror
The leaflet calling the Bell County
convention is addressed to "All Work
ers and Poor Farmers, Negro and
White, and to All Miners, Employed,
Unemployed and Blacklisted." The
leaflet points out:
"In the mining district where
starving miners went on strike to
better their conditions, the Repub-
lican Party governor, Elem Sampson,
sent in troops to break the strike.
The Democratic Party governor, Ruby
Laffoon, follows the same policy
Walter B. Smith, the Democratic
Party county attorney Of Bell County,
rules as the direct agent of the coal
operators. The demands of the
starving hungry miners we're met
with bullets and clubs in the hands
Of the Republican and Democratic
police. Now the Socialist and Social
Reformists, who openly support the
fake United Mine Workers of AM
erica sell out bunch, are Matching up
all kinds of fake schemes to fool us
workers and get our votes"
The leaflet then analyses the crisis,
the mass misery, and the war plans
against the Chinese people and
against the Soviet Union, and calls
for opposition to this war program.
The leaflet quotes the six planks of
the Communist Election Platform, and
calls on all workers organizations to
send delegates to the county con-
Yention.
Editors Note.--At this time no
report has been received of the
events at the Bell County conference.
TerOrr conditions make for slow re-
porting. News will be published as
soon as it arrives.)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-23
Compliments the New
Movement Inside
the A. F. of J..

waited for the approval Of the exec
utive council of the A. Fof L. before
contributing to my defense, there
would be no support forthcoming. AS
proof Of this fact, may state that
the central organizations of the A.
F. of L. has never contributed a
single penny to my defense. Not only
that, but the official organ of the
A. F., OIL, the American Federation
ist, has never, in 16 years, mentioned
the Mooney case. In spite of the
fact I was framed up because of my
activity in behalf of labor, and have
been for 80 years a member in good
standing in the International Mol
ders Union, future labor historians in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-23
Needle Workers of
Chicago Hear Report
on GEB Plans, Tues.

CHICAGO, Ill, May 22.-Chicago
Needle Trades Workers here will
hear the report of proceedings at
the recent full session C'plenumD
Of the General Executive Board of
the Needle Trades Workers Indus
trial Union. The report will be
made by H. SAFER. representative
of the National Bureau of the
N. T, w. I. u, and by e. B. Gersl1,
Chicago district organizer of the
union, at an open meeting held
right after work, Tuesday, May "a,
at 80 North Wells Street, Chicago.
All Needle Trades Workers invited
Discussion will follow the reports.
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Socialist Convention Shows Up
ShOpkeeperS Hunting for Votes

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question showed only 1862 Workers
from shops are almost totally abb
sent. Not more than five per cent
of the delegates are young people be-
low thirty-fiye, and not one Negro
delegate is present.
Left Denagogy
This reminds one of a convention
of petty shopkeepers haggling over
trade. But precisely because Of this
political unprincipledness and wide
use Of left demagogy, the conven-
ton shows the Socialist party as the
most dangerous factor in this years
election.
Morris Hillquit in his opening
speech declared:
1--WE hereby declare war against
the two old parties and the cruel out
worn capitalist system they stand
for. This will be war without COM
promise and carried on by our party
to a finish"
Nothing Against Massacre
But this militant beginning did not
last He failed completely TO follow
the war declaration with an indict-
ment OF the capitalist system and
capitalist dictatorship. He made a
radical attack on Hoover and Roosc-
welt, but said not a single word on
the persecution and lynching OF the
Negro masses, not a word on the
massacre Of workers In Dearborn,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-23

OF four army classes tos
manouvers, and the fabrication b.
the Transocean Telegraph Agency a
a speech never made by the Chief
Of the General Staff Of The Red
Army. The alleged speech ia pur-
ported to have been in connection
with the assassination by japanese
fascists Of the japanese Premier
Inuaki. Both of these lying reports
are emphatically denied by the Tass
News Agency as absolutely ground.
less and provocative The denisls
follow:
/. "Tass is authorized TO state that
the report carried by the New York
Times of May 10 alleging that four
army classes have been modified
for manOuvers is absolutely nm
founded and constitutes an anti
Soviet provocative fabrication
2. The TransOcean Agency re-
ports an alleged radio speech By
the Chief of the Red Army General
Staff concerning Inuaki's assaSSina-
ton. lass is authorized 10 state
that neither the chief Of the Gen
cral Staff nor any ono else delivered
any such speech that the Trans
ocean Agency report represents q
fabrication from beginning to end
NEW YORK.-The Berlin Socialist
paper .Vorwarts' which originally
spread the lying report of a Soviet
mobilization persists in its lie in the
face of the denial by the Soviet press,
a denial fully supported by foreign
diplomats and correspondents in the
Soviet Union. The social democrats
again expose themselves as the adj
vance guard of the impcrialists in
the war moves against the Soviet
Union. In an effort to cover up their
role Of war proyocateurs against the
Soviet Union, the "VoWarts", per-
sisting in its lie that a mobilization
call was sent out by the Soviet Gov
eminent, hypocritically declares
I'VE have no doubt at all that the
Soviet Government is eager to pre-
serve peace and avoid war, but there
is no contradiction in preparing to
ward off a seriously feared attack