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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-05
Mckee Economies"

MAYOR MCKEE of New York is making big offensive
~ against living standards of the workers In the
of economy this lackey of graftridden Tammany Hail. is
not only pushing thru wage but is scing the relief of
the unemployed workers who already down to starvation
ratons Cut cut unemployment relief but keep up
interest payments to the bankers and protect the profits
of the big shars This the banner under which
Mayor Mckee is working And for this he has been
acclaimed by the prostitute capitalist press.
All of this is being done amidst demagogic gestures.
CITY automobiles are being crapped to make it appear that
sacrifice But the city officials will be
provided with automobile services while the unemployed will be denied
Mcees program the program Tammany
ense Of the Door It is only Struggle as to which the best method
to carry through the program Of the wall street bankers
situation the unemployed and city More sub
will fight the bankers This is known to Mckee
economy brutal
force against the starving millions the richest city in the world Id m
Police Academy in BROOKLYN At these exercises real zeup Of the
happy have had the privilege in witnessing this splendid dmnsra
which machine rifles and bayonets
ug murder p Which thrilled the mVoT All the instruments Of
modern warfare brought into play Against whom For what
Not speaking New Yorks finest" declared:
that in time Qng and great disorder you represent the
bread
hungry
which the main line Of defense in washington and with bayo
federal Republican administration and the Democratic city
instruments of force to keep the workers in repression And in this
c as in other ways the Socialist administration Of Milwaukee does not
the pOncemens club piles riot guns to the
movement of the unemployed
increasing police regular
the millions
ent the broadcast united front of the to against the
bent carrying thru its starvation The workers must unite
capitalists have their
nes and in the m @ ref cuts Rsnb
ocatc and Socialist Parties tools of the capitalists the
Ford which They
te 9ss for adayor 'S vote '0F "i'nl L. Fat
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-05
81, p. Betrays jamestown
Workers; Says "Don't Strike''

Workers and its fake misIeaderS have
absolutely refused to back up the
striking pressmen, and that is not
surprising, seeing as how Smith, the
president of the union, has just pur-
chased a new car which smells sus-
piciously like a gift from the local
chamber of commerce.
The workers are learning that the
United Workers leaders and union
officers are paid tools of the bosses,
and they are learning that the only
union is a union affiliated to the
TUUL.
The Jamestown Worsted Mills have
been cut three times. If a worker
works full time weaving all week, in
Guiding Saturday every day till five
o'clock, he will only make $12 piece
work. The bosses also insist that the
day workers work until 10 p. m. for
nearly the same amount.
The workers in Tollitsons factory
are earning as low as ten cents an
hour.
The bosses say no strike. The
United Mine Union says no strike, so
what is the difference between the
two?
Girls that work all day ten and IL
hours a day in the local restaurants,
only average about 81 a week, out of
which they must pay their laundry,
uniforms, rent and the necessities of
life.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-05
By JOHN VAN.

JAMESTOWN, N. Y.-The workers
in the Art Metal Factory here are
being robbed not only by wage cuts,
but now the bosses have come for
ward with a new scheme. They have
devised a contract system, which
means that worker is allowed so
much time to finish a job, and if he
cannot finish it in the allotted time,
he must finish it on his own time for
nothing.
A worker got a job that allowed Is
hours contract by the bosses. 1t was
impossible to finish it in IS hours,
as it took him two weeks to finish
it. Yet the bosses only paid him for
the is hours. He received $1.80, for
two weeks work.
The Art Metal has been cutting the
wages nearly every week. The work.
ers are becoming fed up with this
system of peonage, and few men
from the press room have struck and
gone home.
In order to curb the rising mill
fancy of the workers a few SIP.
niSleaders have formed a union call
ed the United Workers of America
and their main slogan is NO
STRIKE. They tell the workers that
capitalism will die Of itself, but ne
giect to tell them what the workers
are to eat while capitalism decides
to commute suicide. The United
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-05
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as in the kidnapping and whipping
of seven unemployed council men,
bers by band of 40 masked might
riders" at Pontiac, Mich, last year.
A similarly hooded band" in
April, 1892, raided the headquarters
of the Workers International Re-
lief in Knoxville, Tenn, destroying
all the property they found. Ac-
cording to the League of Struggle
for Negro Rights, 70 Negroes were
legally" or Illegally" lynched in
1881. Had it not been for the pro-
tests of the workers, the nine
Scottsboro boys would have been
added to this number.
Assisting these mobs and the
police is a yeritable army of spies
and provocateurs of all types, pri-
vate, local, state, and federal. The
detective agencies hire out trained
dicks to harry the workers and build
up blacklists. The local industrial
squads and Red Squads" func-
ton as part of the local police sys-
tenn. On a national scale there is
the Bureau of Investigation of the
Department of Justice and the
Secret Service of the Treasury De-
partment protecting" the interest
of Millionaire Hoover and his class
from bonus marchers and national
hunger marchers.
These spies, as we'll as the police,
frequently participate In framing
up militant workers and radicals.
The most famous frame-up in re-
cent history is that of Mooney and
Billings; scores of less well-knoWn
cases of frame-up are part of the
record of the labor struggle in this
country. (See Vern Smiths PAM
phlet, (The FrameUp System.)
HAND in hand with spies and
ii police go the courts, one of the
most powerful instruments of re-
preston which the employers use
against the working class. Among
their chief anti-labor weapons are
injunctions and yellow dog con-
tracts. Injunctions were used in
recent strikes, such as the 1. Miller
shoe strike in Long Island City, in
spite OF the federal anti-injunction
law OF 1882, hailed by "progressives"
and A. F. of L. officials as great
victory. BY the. use of many other
capitalist laws, such as vagrancy
laws and sedition and criminal syn
dicalism laws, passed to protect
property rights the courts play
strategic part in the capitalist ter
ror machine. (See the pamphlets
on The Yellow Dog and The In
junction Menace in International
Pamphlet series)
Various federal departments are
also employed againsc the workers,
especially in recent years. The
Cancellation Service of the u S.
Department of Labor has become
a literal strikebreaking agency with
such creatures as Charles G. Wood
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-05

when workers engage in strikes OIL
demonstrations involving national
interest" Helping all these forces
of capitalist offense are the pro-
fessional patriots and fascists Of
various types, for example in the
National Civic Federation of which
Matthew VOL is president, the AM
erican Vigilant Intelligence Fedora
ton, the American Alliance, and
dozens of other such bodies, fl
nanced by the employing class.
Plank 5 in the election platform
of the Communist Party definitely
declares against capitalist terror;
against all forms of suppression of
the political rights of the workers"
A vote for Foster and Ford,
Standard bearers of the CommuniS
Party, will be smashing blow
against the terror Of the capitalists
and their agentsl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-05

attempting to break strikes of shoe,
textile and hosiery workers. Closely
related is the immigration Bureau
of the Department of Labor, which
deports all n-naturalized foreign
born workers who show any mill
fancy in strikes or desire to better
their conditions by collective action.
The deportations of Murdoch and
Devine, and the attempted deporta-
ton of Burlak and Berkman are
four specific deportation cases di-
rected at the leaders of but single
militant organization-the National
Textile Workers Union. In 1881,
over $4,000 foreign born workers
we're deported. The Dies bill at
tempts to greatly increase this
number.
In addition, the War Department
itself is called upon in "emergen-
cies' to assist the local authorities
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-05
'Even the Garbage Cans Feel Crisis

fore / witnessed these miserable
conditions Gin the richest country
in the world did believe it.
But on'y today as I was walking
along the lower East Side, Lud-
low Street, to be more exact, | saw
an old man not badly dressed, APP
proach a garbage can and actually
picked up the cover of the unsani-
tary and filthy can and started to
pick out various things. / remained
there for while and watched to
see what he was going to do. A
piece of stale bread and a piece Of
filthy chicken was all he could find
to eat. Nowadays even the gar
bage cans are suffering crisis.
Jack Richman.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-05
\ Valuable Handbook
for Election Fight

GOVERNMENT AND POLITICAL
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-05
MCKEE SCHOOL "RELIEF"

NEW YORK.-At the kindergarten
in Public School 174, which is To-
Gated on Dumont and Alabama AYES,
the children are asked to bring 20
cents every Friday, for which they
get a glass Of milk and one cracker
a day.
One child, whose father is unem-
ployed, did not have the 20 cents,
and when he came to school the fol-
lowing Monday he got no milk, only
a cracker. The next day he did not
even get the lousy cracker, but the
teacher told the child to get the
mother to buy box of crackers and
he would get cracker every day.
"A. s.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-05
An Interview with Angelo
Herndon in Atlanta Jail

THE masses understood these slo-
gans Particularly the Negro
masses, robbed of the land, their
national heritage, denied all eco
nomic, political and social rights
accorded others, these masses rail-
lied to the struggle.
The first demonstration Herndon
led demanding relief he was ar
rested No charge was placed
against his name. Then after
search of his room he was charged
with "inciting to instruction.
They allege his demand for bread
for starving workers constitutes an
attempt to overthrow the govern
ment Of Georgia. This is to say
that to grant relief to starving uns
employed workers would be to de-
stroy the government. Are workers
then to do without bread2
HERNDON'S Ai2F
MESSAGE.
In the county Jail Herndon said
W UllGt WI1UGI IEll JllG WOIh6Ia
to broaden the mass organizations.
Build the unemployed councils.
Only mass pressure will secure res
lief. Only mass pressure will fres
the Scottsboro boys, Tom Mooney,
me and the other class war pris.
oners.
IF you cannot gev bail for me I
can stay here a little longer. M
spirit grows stronger every day.
The future belongs to us, the toll
ing masses"
Only the might of united fight
ing working class can free Angelo
Herndon and the other prisoners of
the class struggle, The cry rally
to the defense of Herndon" must
be raised. Build the International
Labor Defe,.se, defender of An
gelo Herndon, into mass defense
organization.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-05
Editor, Daily Worker,
naa. Go,.,,ola

Editor, Daily Worker,
Dear Comrade:
have been constant reader of
the Daily Worker ever since 1 en-
tered college. Your cartoons and
editorials impressed me most, but
some of your news made me think
that you exaggerate little, espe-
cially when you write how some of
the unfortunate unemployed eat
out of garbage cans, pick up what
ever they possibly can in the streets
and eat fish around the East River
which has been dumped due either
to price war or poisoning. thought
you exaggerated when saying that.
However, I believe in the saying
Seeing is believing, and not be-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-05

has made new men of us all. This
is true equally of high and low,
rich and poor, Solidarity and mu-
tual assistance in bitter and unde-
served distress, the principle of &C
ton which we have always ham,
mered into the working masses and
so often demanded without success
from the rich, has become the COM
mon principle Of a great and cap
able people overnight. Socialism
wherever we lookl"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-05
Habeas Corpus for
All But One Jailed
South River Strikers

SOUTH RIVER. N. j.. Oct. 3.-All
arrested South River strikers and re-
lief workers and union organizers,
with one exception, have been taken
out of Jail on writs of habeaus cor
pus obtained by the Needle Trades
Workers Industrial Union and the
International Labor Defense. L. Sui
Ivan, an active worker in the strike,
is still held. Active preparations are
being made for defense.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-05
Hoav the Socialists Supported
Imberialist War of 1014>18
Socialism Wherever We Look"

IN previous issues we published
] excerpts from the writings and
speeches of leaders of the Second
(SociaIist) International, in sup
port OF the imperaIist war of
Ig14-1S. The following is from
the "Metallarbeiter- Zeitung," the
organ of the German Metal
Workers Union, controlled by the
social democrats. 1t appeared in
its issue OF November 7, 1914.
A NEW age has opened up In
a ssekost space Of time the war
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-05
i. S. Cabitalism>>A
Record of Terror
Workers>~Fight for Your Rights by Backing
Communist Party in Elections!

tom Mooney m prison for 16
years, the execution of SaccO and
Vanzetti, the Scottsboro boys
frame-up, the murder of a child
and three ex-servicemen in
Washington by President HoOver's
gunner, are only few Of the
outstanding acts of terror carried
on by the ruling class against
militant workers and oppressed
people in general. Suppression of
free speech, the killing, falling,
and depOrting of workers during
strikes and demonstrations, the
lynching of Negroes, are almost
daily occurances in the United
States. The Communist Party
platform, Plank 5, definitely dec
lares against capitalist ter-or;
against all forms of suppression
of the political rights of the
workers.)
By Labor Research Association
WHEN almost every branch of the
W U. S. Army was ordered by
Hoover to stab, beat, gas, and burn
the bonus marchers and their
families out of their shacks in
Washington on July %, tens of
thousands of friends and relatives
of the marchers, as we'll as the ave-
rage reader even of the capitalist
press, got perhaps first glimpse OF
the capitalist white terror.
POLICE ATTACK
WORKERS
Take first the usual operations"
of local police, the most common
of the governmental forces used
against the workinug- class and its
organizations. The Ford massacre,
March Z, 1882, when four workers
were killed and two score wounded,
was typical of the more recent local
police attack upon unarmed workers
demanding jobs and unemployment
relief. Closely following this came
the Melrose Park, ILL.,, attack in
which workers were sprayed by
police with sub-machine gun bull
lets, wounding eight. Then there
was the assault with tear-gas bombs
by Detroit police on the Briggs
hunger march. Remember, also, in
recent months the brutal police at
tacks on workers and students, in
Washington and Chicago, who were
demonstrating against Japanese
and war; and the re-
cent police attacks on unemploy-
ment demonstrations in st. Louis,
when four were shot, and in Kansa
City.
THESE are only samples of open
terror. Scores of meetings, some
not even mentioned in the press,
are broken up every week by local
police. Even the Communist can
didate, William z. Foster, is ar
rested, dubbed and fingerprinted
by the police Of Los Angeles.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-05

Besides local police we find the
employers using county sheriffs
and their deputies against strikers
as, for example, in the Pennsyl-
vania-O Ohio and the Kentucky coal
strikes within the last IL months.
1t was the sheriff of Washington
County, Pennsylvania, who in the
1881 coal strike, gave the strikers
48 hours to remove their relief
kitchen. Deputy sheriffs and their
posses are used to enforce the peon-
age system against both Negro and
white farm workers in the south.
Terror against the black and white
sharecroppers, to keep them in
slavery, is especially bloody.
STATE AND PRIVATE POLICE
ATTACK STRIKERS
The state police come next with
a long record of ruthlessness, es-
pecially in coal strikes in Pennsyl-
vania and New Jersey textile
strikes. Almost every state now has
some sort of state cossacks, under
the control of the governor. Just
as in the 1927 miners strike, Gov
ernor Adams of Colorado recently
sent in state troops to break the
strike of beet workers. CThe Labor
Fact Book gives many other in
stances of this sort of local and
state police violence against
workers.
Standing by the public police are
the private police, the whole army
of regular and special thugs hired
directly by companies to intimidate
workers and break strikes. In the
recent Kentucky coal strike, dozens
of workers were wounded and some,
such as Harry Simms, National
Miners Union Youth organizer,
were murdered by these hired kill
ers. These hirelings cooperated
with local sheriffs and their dep
uties in terrorizing delegations of
relief workers, writer's, and students
trying to enter Kentucky to help
the miners. Although the so-called
S0"A oAiN AiO4i POilSC WClC sup
posedly banned by law in Penn
sylvania, the armed guards of the
coal and steeel companies still carry
on their murderous work whenever
the workers show signs of revolving
against starvation.
HOODED BANDS ARM
OF RULING CLASS
When the public and private
police for one reason or another
are not available to do the dirty
work of the capitalist class, mob
of volunteer sadists is often as
sembled to carry out the job. The
United States is notorious for this
form OF violence especially since the
World war. These mobs are used
not only as part of the lynch ter
ror against Negro workers and
share-croppers in the south. They
are also used against white workers