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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-29
S Kentucky Strike
Leaders Are
Released on Bail

PINEVTLLE, KY, March 2S.-
Six Of those in Jail here since
January 4th because OF their &C
tivity in leading the Kentucky
Tennessee coal strike were re-
leased on bond today. They are
Margaret Fontaine, Mrs. Dorothy
Weber, John Harvey, Julia Parker,
Norma Martin and Ann Barton.
Vern Smith and Doris Parks are
still held in the Harlan County
Jail. A large group of strike lead
ers and striking miners are still
held in the Pineville, Middlesboro
and Harlan jails in Kentucky, and
in the Hazelton, Tenn, county
Jail on various charges.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-29

arranged in scores Of cities Tor April
6. These demonstrations will all
raise the demand for the release of
the ScotUsboro boys with demands
against the imperialist war prepara-
tons, against the robber war on
China, for defense of the Chinese
masses and for the Soviet Union.
Protests against the lynch decision
continued yesterday to pour in on
the Alabama boss court lynchers.
TheCanadian Labor Defense League
sent the following telegram from
its headquarters at Hamilton, Onta-
rio, Canada:
1--WE, of the Canadian Labor De-
tense League, protest against the
decision of the Supreme Court Of
your state, in that they upheld the
decision of your courts to execute
seven innocent Negro boys on the
decision of Your lower courts to
execute seven innocent Negro boys
on the flimsiest evidence.
THAT seven workers can be ex-
ecuted on such evidence fills US
with anger and disgust. We Wig
OrOusly protest these lynch yer-
diets. We pledge our energetic
support to the Negro and white
workers of the United States carry
ing on fight against this attempt
to murder seven innocent working
class youths"
The Negro and white workers in
the Hill Branch of the Workers In
ternational Relief in Pittsburgh sent
the following protest to Governor B.
M. Miller at Montgomery, Ala:
workers International Relief in
meeting today condemn the at
tempt to legally murder seven Of
the ScottsbOro boys. We demand
a new trial for all Of the boys,
with Negro and white workers on
the jury, and unconditional release
for these victims of class justice"
Similar protest already have been
received from workers in the Soviet
Union, in Germany and other dis
tant countries.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-29
CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE
BY 1. AMTER

One of the most shameful acts of deceing the work
ers and the people in the neignborhoods is being put
across in New York City, Although the one hand
Roosevelt denies that there is any starvation in the
state Of New York. the statistics and capitalist papers
record cases daily of starvation suicide, crime ETC.,
caused by hunger and starvation.
j. p Morgan knows that the situation Is desperate
or he said in his only" radio talk 1--WE have reached
point where the aid Of governments the gifts of
individuals no matter how generous insufficient to
meet the conditions which have upon us. So we
must all do bit" So Morgan tries to escape the
obliration that he his fellow capitalists have to
maintain the unemployed in the country, and working
hand in hand with the other takers liars grafers and
racketeers OF the Emergency Relief Committee, he pro-
proposes to shift the burden to the backs Of the
workers in the neghborhoods. This is to be done by
means of theblot k-aid scheme
Hijackng Backmailing Is the Method.
The committee composed of such leading lights as
George F. Baker, Cornelius N. Bliss, H. p DAWSON DR..
Fosdick General Harbord E. r. Hartman, Robert A.
Lovett Elhu Root, Jr Myron C.. Taylor Colonel Arthur
Woods-bankers army officers and skypilots-and Of
louise Harvey D. Gibson and Wilton Lloyd-Smith--
proposes 10 hghack the workers In the neighborhoods
IN nidate them ana threaten them with discredt If
they do not contribute TO the relief fund That they
will find out where employed worker works and
have the firm exert pressure. TO The point Of
Shrsatcnins 70 fire him 70 obvious. Tbs volunteers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-29
BRONX ANTI-WAR
MEETS THURSDAY
AND FRIDAY MITE
T repares for Huge
Demonstration On
April End

Under the leadership Of the United
Front Anti-War Committee of the
Bronx to mobilize the workers of the
Bronx, three indoor mass meetings
will be held Thursday and Friday,
March 81, and April LIST, for big
open air demonstration and parade
on April End. against imperlalist war
ard for the defense Of the Soyi--
Union.
The meeting on Thursday, win b
held at 1910 Boston Road. On Friday,
at 1882 Third Ave. and at 200 Brong
Park East. All meetings ltNxt ss
% pm.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-29

The judge was openly hostile
and vicious to the workers.
The court also tried to frame
Up William Dorsey, Negro
worker, on a vagrancy charge.
Joan Hardy, young worker
Of Baltimore, who was beaten
unconscious by the police and
kicked as she lay on the pave
ment, defended the right of the
workers to demonstrate and
exposed American imperialism
in its support of the Japanese
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-29

and Kennedy. They are held
on $500 bail. Ivan Kastrow, the
fourth worker, was unable to
appear because ofinjuries re-
ceived as a result Of the muir
derous police attack on the
demonstrators.
In addition to these four, ten
other workers were arraigned
today on charges of disorderly
conduct and parading without
a permit. The trial will con-
tinue tomorrow {. Tuesday }
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-29

WASHIN G TON, D. c.,
March 28-Hearing on the
case of four workers arrested
in Saturdays demonstration
andcharged with assault. took
place today, with one of the
workers still in the hospital.
The three workers who were
able to appear in court pleaded
not guilty and demanded a
jury trial which has been set
for April 6-Anti-War Day.
The threeare Hardy, Siskind
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-29

butchery of the Chinese mass
es.
So openly brutal was the po-
lice attack on the demonstra-
ton, that even some of the To-
cal bourgeois press have been
forced to make 2 gesture of
condemning the police.
A mass protest meeting has
been called for Friday night,
April l, at Musicians Hall,
1905 East St., NV, Washing
ton.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-29

Wall Street Forced the us. Into
Last War on April 9Th.
Make This a Day of
Struggle A gainst
Imperialist War
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-29

!SepsElsvED ON FACE TWO
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-04-29
COOPERATION NEED or OUR TIME

Every phase truth
industry right ITSELF function
smoothly enlarging of
operation the
with unoganized
and larger
role the industrial world before industry feel that its feet are
firmly implanted o. track.
Every well
about industry through development machinery
between all of the divisions
human effort involved
rand labor has extended it's character and career as mere cham
rights that of the textile indus
the primary rights yet be established the role OF labor
grown where organization has not yet been
outside of textiles such industries steel and automobiles
when achieve organization Will be plunged at ne very ou
of the negotiation
pay will be then fundamentals
with the
pattern of
hut there history of the If
1.-THE present depression has single
cause that cause
shall have form OF IN nto OIL
We shall have to and accept some
participation thus ability
producing Whether accept responsibility
participation choice Before long, time
goes will upon industrial world acting out realza
ton that onegged industry handicapped onegged
Cooperation developed the Ba
far beyond what have long known as
collective bargaining accord with trade union principles
theory practice principles and shall stick to
sound practice-and $ what will forward
be prepared to accept
the responsibility called forth by democracy
from the possibility assuming
of
specie socialism This epugnant beyond bearing
whatever development
ahead Among the Sherman law and
the legislation This ancient
sweeps be danger to the whole industrial
safe navigation
nations inevitably to fall That
decades from the height of its
glory forward for only the senle go backward
another Danvil We
stand must its responsibilities
-Engraver
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-04-29
Endorsed by the Trades and Labsr
Council Of Hamilton. Ohio
Endorsed by the Middletswn Trades
and Labor Council Of Mi1dletswn. @.
FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 1882
THE ONE QUESTION

Irreconcilable drys are loud, and
bluntly frank, in warning and threat
against members of congress who
even are suspected of favoring re-
submission vote involving the eigh-
teenth amendment. All such members
are told that they will be classed as
favoring repeal of the amendment.
The view expressed by Representa-
tive James M. Beck, in a recent speech
upon the Beck -Linthicum resolution
before the house, to the reasoning
unprecedented mind would seem to be
the sounder, safer conclusion.
Mr.. Beck argued that the question
does not involve the merits or de-
merits of the eighteenth amendment
but only the right of the American
people, if they so desire, to determine
their own destinies. He insisted that
those who were opposing the reso-
luton must be doing so on the theory
that this provision of the constitution
is a finality for all time. Said he.
those who favor such resubmission
believe that the American people
have an invincible and ever-continuing
right to determine from generation
to generation the nature of their
government and the character of
their laws, for, if this be not so, then
democracy is fraud and delusion.
The drys in this instance demon
strate their reliance to be upon puni-
tive applications rather than upon
moral force and influence. If they
reasonably are convinced that the
sentiment of the country favors re-
tention of the eighteenth amendment.
why their intensive resistance to re-
SUBMISSION OF the question? 1t, how
ever, they fear that public sentiment
is opposed to the amendment, what
right have they in democracy to
insist that law is of higher estate and
Importance than custom, the express
ed and determined desire of major
ity of the people?
Considered from any angle, resub-
mission should seem to be a reason
able and fair procedure to adopt in
the effort to learn present-day SEN
timent and thus settle the vexatious
problem of prohibition and deliver the
country from insistent and obtrustive
discussion at the expense of so many
grave and disturbing public problems.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-04-29
LABOR MUST SAVE DEMOCRACY

Every examination of facts and
figures brings forth one main point:
Wealth is being concentrated in
fewer hands.
There is growing number of bill
lionaires and millionaires and growth
of the fortunes of those who are now
billionaires and millionaires.
There is growth in the wealth con-
trolled by small group Of giant
corporations-some 200 Of them. The
rise in the status Of the worker does
not nearly keep pace with the growth
of concentrated wealth. The average
wage of workers is but little over
81 300 per year.
An astounding number of persons
making income tax returns have no
tax to pay. Buying power-which is
living power--is not being distributed
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-04-29
ONLY LIVE UNIONS CAN
FUNCTION

Are you a useless and inactive
member of your local union, who
never attends a meeting and seldom
takes enough interest to even inquire
into what is taking place or what the
members who are active are trying
to accomplish through your organiza-
ton? If you are one of these dead
ones let us talk turkey to you for
about one minute.
The failure of yourself and fellow
members just like you to do your bit
is the chief weakness of your union.
You are the cause of nearly every
failure that has contributed to retard
the growth of your union. The fail
ure of yourself and others like you
to be at your post of duty when a
storm was brewing has led to many
a shipwreck that could have been
averted had you been on deck when
your presence was sorely needed.
Can't you get it into your head
that union is like an army? 1t can
not hope to win victories with most
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-04-29
WELL, WHAT is LEFT?

after the wage cuts, what's left
to spend ?" pertinently asks The Busi-
ness Week in an article on the extent
of wage cuts in American industry.
Wage cutters don't like to be asked
this question, because they have no
answer to it. 1t embarrasses them
greatly and hurts their feelings. But
it is a question that should be asked
the length and breath of the land,
at every available opportunity. If it
is asked often enough, perhaps it will
get under the hides of the wage cut
ters and compel them to do some
real thinking. If they are forced to
think, they may see the folly of wage
cutting and cast about for some bet
ter means to cope with the depres-
sion.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-04-29

dustry throughout the nation-a wave
that will further depress commodity
prices and bring more unemployment,
bankruptcy, unrest, misery and
death.
1t is not too much to say that sue
cess of the movement for slashing
federal wages is likely to bring revo-
luton. Let advocates of federal pay
cuts remember that.
The words of President William
Green, in protesting against federal
wage cuts, deserve to be emblazoned
where all may read. He sets before
congress an ideal of progress, not
retrogression. He bids congress look
upward to higher standards, not down
to lower standards.
Congress" says Mr.. Green, should
strive to build mass morale, inspire
hope, stimulate buying power, restore
prosperity and increase spiritual
values.
Congress can do this by annOunc-
ing to the world that the American
standard of living, prevailing among
the employees of the government of
the United States, will not be lowered
through the imposition of a reduction
of wages"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-04-29

of the members sleeping or loafing in
the background at the very time the
tide of battle is being determined
Don't you realize that the main rea-
son your union goes ahead so slowly
and the members who constitute the
live part of it hesitate about trying
to make a forward move is that there
are so many slackers who will not
not lend a helping hand to achieve
success?
Paying your dues regularly may
help supply the life-blood to your To-
cal, but don't you understand that
blood cannot circulate in dead body,
and that union with only a few
members present at the meeting is
just the same as dead?
The only thing under the sun that
can possibly put life and vigor into
your local union is the actual pres
ence of large enough percentage of
the membership to speak the will and
best judgment of the entire group
that makes up your local union. In
other words, the percentage of active
members you have in the union deter.
mines how much vitality and strength
it will have. Do you get it, brother !
Union Labor News.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-04-29
WHAT NEXT?

Discovery of new source of rayon,
in bagasse, the refuse from cane
sugar production, was recently an
nounced by the department of agri-
culture. Department chemists used
cheap nitric acid in developing the
process, according to the announce
ment, and it is regarded as CONNER
cially feasible in view of low acid
costs. There has been increasing need
for new source of raw material for
rayon, the department said, and the
process provides a large new source
available every year.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-04-29
among those whose work creates com

among those whose work creates COM
modities.
Progress toward decent wages and
proper working hours is too slow for
the progress being made in produc-
ton.
Change will not come by voluntary
action of those who hold the bulk OF
wealth and power.
Change will come by and through
the ability of the workers to bring il
about. Organization is the need OF
the hour. More and stronger unions!
This, plus an understanding of the
facts by every member.
The salvation of democracy is .
task for labor!
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-04-29
UNION LABOR LIFE
VOTES DIVIDENDS

Baltimore, Md. (ILNS)-At the
annual stockholders meeting of the
Union Labor Life Insurance Com
pany here, it was voted to declare
an initial dividend on policies and All
initial dividend of per cent on stock.
The company now has in force $751;
100000 worth of insurance. Declara-
tion of dividends, coming at time
when most businesses are omitting or
reducing dividend disbursements, is
regarded as an indication Of the re-
markable progress of the company
All officers, headed by President
Matthew Woll, were reelected.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-04-29
BOYS IN INDUSTRY

Out of $500 boys under 18 who
worked last year in the coal mines
of Pennsylvania, 739, or one out of
every seven, were injured in acci-
dents, the state department of labor
and industry reports. Five were killed
and IL permanently crippled. Most of
the injured were between 16 and IL,
while six were under 16.
With millions of men walking the
streets in search of employment, why
are boys, with their greater suscep-
tibility to accident because of mex
periene and immaturity, kept at
work in such hazardous employment
as coal mining? Let the masters of
industry answer.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-04-29
Los Angeles Labor Leader
Goes to Civil Service Board

The city council of Los Angeles,
Calf, confirmed the appointment of
A. w. Hoch as a member of the
municipal civil service commission.
Mr.. Hoch has been active in the labor
movement of Los Angeles and Cali
fornia for number of years. In 1880
he was elected president of the Cali
fornia State Federation of Labor and
reelected in 1881. He is also business
representatives of the Los Angeles
local of the international Association
of Machinists.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-04-29
Cooks and Walters
Unions Reject Third
Wage Reduction

The Cooks and Walters Union of
San Francisco, Calf, unanimously re-
jected proposals for a third wage cut
varying from 121s to 33 per cent
coming from practically all of the
large hotels and restaurants. Union
officials said that, having already
taken two wage reductions, the time
had come to stop the stampede to-
ard lower living standards sought by
the employers. 1t was stated that
the present wage is equivalent to that
paid in 1907, while living costs are
materially higher than in the pre-war
days. Moreover, most of the union
members are now on part-time basis.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-04-29
JObless Insurance
Amendment for Cali
fOrnia Constitution

The socialist party of California
began the circulation of initiative pc
titions calling for an amendment to
the state constitution to authorize the
establishment of system of unem-
ployment insurance which will pay
$40 week to single men and women
and heads of families, with an addi-
tional So week for each dependent.
The petitions will need about 205,00O
signatures to put the amendment on
the ballot, while only a majority vote
is required to adopt it.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-04-29
heCherry
/" Where with ear
We tell the truth
about many things. Sometimes pre-
feundly, sometimes 1ippantly,
ssmetimes recklessly.

William J. Burns has passed on to
whatever reward there is for detec-
tives.
Labor will remember William j.
Burns long time, and there may
have been times when William J..
Burns wished his conduct toward la
Dor might have been otherwise.
For Burns made of himself by
totally unnecessary tactics one of la
boris best hated enemies.
More than once has labor excoriat-
ed Burns. More than once did Burns
tell the world what he thought about
labor, meaning union labor.
And now William J. Burns will not
ever again thrust lance at labor, nor
labor at him.
William j. Burns lis finished with
this life and the labor movement goes
on to meet higher destiny.
Burns undoubtedly had sense of
the dramatic. That he was a great
detective is open to doubt. What he
did have was an organization.
With an organization it is not diff
cult to produce results. 1t can be
done even with an organization of
such flat-footed gentry as make up
the usual run of private detective
forces.
Any person who knows anything
about the average pussyfoot, or any
person who has read the daily report
of the average member of the tribe
comes quickly to have no respect for
their intelligence.
But nobody can overlook the fact
that an organization, even of the
dumbest, must sooner or later STUN
BILE on some results.
1t was probably not brilliance with
Burns. 1t was organization.
And, as we pass, let that b. les
son to us.
Great numbers, united and working
to a purpose, are likely to arrive.
Burns was the Nemesis of the Nc
Namaras. Burns great moment
was when he clamped down on the
McNamaras and the others who went
with them. He had no other very
high moment.
Aside from that one high moment
Burns ran a commercial organization
He organized a great force Of mer
for purpose His name is on bank
floors everywhere. He has been called
in to help solve some of the nation
great mysteries. Fewer were solveC
| than remained unsolved.
With Harry Daugherty, Burns
came to the department of justice.
But the record is empty of an.
great achievement in that post.
The truth seems to be that Burn.
was more tradition than fact, NOR,
shadow than substance.
Burns had no social outlook. H,
made pompous statements when HI
joined the department of justice
They had no depth and no sense.
And now Burns is gone.
So passes the individual, in ever.
field.
Institutions often live. Truth al
ways lives. 1t is better, in this life
to give adherence to something tina
lives, so that at least an impulse will
go on, down through the corridors O
time, when the flesh of the individual
shall have gone back to impalpabl
nature.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-04-29
PLAYING WITH FIRE

Advocates of cutting federal EN-.
ployes' pay are going about their
campaign with seeming disregard of
the terrible consequences that are
sure to follow such cuts.
Reducing the pay of federal en-
ployes is bound to bring disastrous
wave of wage cutting in private in
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-04-29
LABOR TEMPLE FINANCED

The labor temple of Portland, Ore,
was re-financed by the sale of $65, 900
two-year, per cent bonds. The new
issue retired the 7 per cent bonds
for like amount issued in 1880. The
bonds were sold to local unions and
individual members.