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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-27

Over 200 ranches have been al
ready foreclosed by the banks
around MERGED alone Many more
are threatened Other small ranch
ers are being reduced to pauperism,
through swind1e of water companies
and "Hoove Farmer Relief"
scheme which relieves the farmers of
all they possess. Many ranchers are
committing suicide. Rancher Jones,
near MERGED committed suicide leav-
ing a note saying he has no assets
left except his five minor children,
but he could not use them as secur-
tiles, for the bank would not accept
them
Farmers must be organized. That
the capitalist system is exploiting
them through many schemes must be
pointed out to them Organize Uni
ted Farmers League branches and
fight these conditions in an organ
lied manner. "A. .
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-27

on a world wide scale for May 2.
international Scottsboro Day.
Mrs Wright and Engdah1 will tour
not only Germany, but Switzerland,
France, Czechoslovakia, Austria and
other European countries. A tres
mendous Scottsboro defense move
ment is already in existence In most
Of the European countries. It's eff
fects have been felt by the ruling
class lynchers Of this country as
evidenced in the request OF the o. s.
State Department TO Gov 3. M. Mil
Ter of Alabama for information" on
the Scott5boro Case The action of
the State Department followed re-
ports from its consular agents in
many European cities of protest DEM
onstrations of workers and students
in front Of the consulates. The DEM
onstrators denounced the Scottsboro
lynch yerdicts and demanded the re-
lease Of the innocent Scottsboro boys.
In many cases, the windows of the
U. s. Consulate buildings were
smashed by the indignant workers in
protest against the persecution of the
Negro masses by American imperial
ism. Similar demonstrations have
occurred in many cities in Latin
America and in South Africa, China.
etc.
A powerful Scottsboro defense
movement exists in the Soviet IN
ion where millions of workers have
voiced their indignation against the
recent action of the Alabama Sup
RENE Court upholding the lynch
verdicts against seven OF the eight
boys who we're sentenced to burn
in the electric chair at the original
mock trial at Scottsboro.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-27
Wilmington Workers Open
Fight on Hunger May First

'''''' Chamber of Commerce SAYS:
Keep Faith With Wilmington" ALI
over the city, on street cars, on bill
boards, in store windows, wherever
one goes, the signs cry Keep Faith
With Wilmington, as though by the
very repetition of this slogan, the
workers might forget their hunger.
But no matter how many times or
how often the bosses of Wilmington
find it necessary to beg the workers
to Keep Faith With Wilmington"
the hungry people, facing misery,
starvation, and evictions, will never
have faith with Wilmington or the
United States and its government,
which allows such suffering while the
duPonts, the Warmers, and the rest
of the rich, wallow in their luxurious
homes.
Three Cents a Day Relief
There are many workers receiving
not one penny from the Mayors I'm
employment and Relief Committee.
There are some receiving THREE
CENTS A DAY in relief Many work
ers' children have no clothes in which
to 90 to school, many babies are
without milk. Many workers are told
by the relief investigators that they
do not need relief. just because they
happen to work a day in a, month
or so. Hundreds of workers are
forced to move from their homes
One old couple after living in a
house for 20 years, and paying rent
all these years, we're forced to va
cate their home for payment of
rent. Many workers live on the dumps
over Market Street Bridge, and eat
from the garbage pals. Two workers
in Wilmington committed suicide
about week ago because they could
find no jobs. The Mayors Unem-
ployment and Relief Committee says
it must cut down on expenses, so it
cuts down on the three days a day
given to the unemployed. Not by
any chance would it cut down on
the salaries paid to the ward heelers
and their hangers-on who hold "po-
sitions" with the Relief Committee.
Workers are forced to move from
their poor homes TO still poorer
homes. One family in a room, two
families in a room, three and four
families in a small house, often with
out food and fuel this is how the
workers of Wilmington are forced to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-27
Govt and Private
Bolstering Fails to
Save Boston Bank

BOSTON.-The Exchange Trust
Company Of this city, with de-
posts of over $11,000,0oO, was
taken over by the state. Since
last winter the federal govern
ment, the state government, the
city government and Boston
banks had been trying to pump
artificial life into the bankrupt
concern. Hoover's National Credit
Corporation which was to stop
bank failures together with these
agencies have thrown $2,6O0,00O
into the Exchange Trust. And all
savings depositors we're refused the
right of Withdrawing their money
since last Dec. II.
The bank was a member of the
Federal Reserve System and is
connected with the huge New
York Guaranty Trust and the
Chase National Banks.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-27
First City of First State

live.
First City of First State
This is a picture of the First City
of the First State" as Wilmington
proudly proclaims itself! This is a
picture of the high standard of living
of the American workers, which Hoo
yer boasts about. And the Chamber
of Commerce tells Gus KEEP FAITH
WITH WILMINGTON Keep faith
with what? With the misery, star
walton and oppression suffered by the
workers? What has Wilmington and
its bosses done for the workers that
they should keep faith and continue
TO swallow the rotten lies handed out
by the bosses and their newspapers?
The workers will keep faith with
themselves and their organizations
May First is celebrated throughout
the world by the workers as day
of struggle. On this day, workers of
the entire world demonstrate their
solidarity against war, hunger, and
race oppression. Throughout the
world. the Communist Party is lead
ing the workers in demonstrations
against the governments which OPP
pose them.
Only in one country, the Soviet
Union, does May First hail a victory
for the working class. Only IN So
Wet Russia do the workers live Like
human beings; there everyone has
job, wages are being increased and
hours of work shortened; there the
workers enjoy every advantage hith-
erto enjoyed by the class which OPP
pressed them. In the Soviet Union,
under the leadership of the Commu-
mist Party, the workers overthrow
the system which oppressed them,
and are now building a socialist So
ciety. They own and produce every
thing and run industry for their own
benefit, while the rest of the world
suffers a breakdown in industry, one
bank failure after another, and
complete collapse of the entire capt
talist system.
Wilmington Workers Celebrate
May First at the John Reed Club
headquarters, 301 w. Sixth st. ZEN
transe on Tatnall St., second floor
on Sunday, May First at p. m. A
prominent speaker will speak on May
First and what it means 10 the
workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-27
CHINA RED ARMY
ADVANCING IN
KIANGSI AREA
Canton Militarists
Fear Uprising in
City

Despite frantic appeals from the
defeated Kuomintang militarists in
Fukien Province for military aid
against the victorious Chinese Red
Army operating in that province and
the insiStence Of the United States
government that Canton send troops
against the Red Army, it is not likely
that the Canton authorities will dare
TO withdraw any large number of
troops from the city of Canton. The
Canton wing Of the Kuomintang is
living in daily fear of an uprising
by the revolutionary workers of the
Canton area in support of the Chi
nese Red Army and for the, over
throw of the Kuomintang tools Of the
imperialists. A Shanghai dispatch to
the New York Times reports grow
ing unrest" among the Canton work
ers. In addition, the Crinese Red
Armies in Kiangsi Province are ex-
erting increasing pressure against
the Canton Red Suppression" troops.
The dispatch says:
"Large-scale Communist opera
tons have already been reported
along the Kiangsi-Fukien border as
well as in Fukien, and Canton is
finding its hands tied through the
fear that lawless elements in Cam
ton might exploit the opportunity
and seize the city if the Kuomin-
tang armies were transferred from
the East River TO the harrassed
Fukienese."
An Annoy dispatch TO the New
York Times reports that "a foreign
imperiaIst warships are in that port.
Annoy is only a few miles from
Changchow, an important industrial
city with one million population,
which was captured last week by the
victorious Chinese Red Army under
General Sun. Martial law has been
declared in Annoy. The imperialist
warships have their guns trained on
the city, in an effort to intimidate
the revolutionary workers and to
prevent the capture of Annoy by the
Chinese Red Army, The United
States hunger government has three
warships at Annoy. Four U. S. de-
stroyers and a submarine mother
ship are being rushed to Annoy from
Chefoo, North China. The Japanese
and British are reported to be also
rushing additional warships.
The United States government has
ordered the Kuonintang betrayers Of
China to speed troops to Annoy to
prevent the capture of the port by
The Chinese Red Army should it try
10 do So The American and other
imperialist warstips are there for
direct armed Intervention against the
revolutionary worker-peasant masses
in the event that the Kuomintang
authorities are unable TO held the
city by themselves.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-27
(By a Worker Correspondent


POTTSTOWN, Pa.-Old man de
preston" is dead. Yes, he's gone.
How do I know2 Why, our leading
and distinguished citizens of Potts
town, along with the Chamber of
Commerce, said so. Indeed, they held
his funeral on April 6.
Sure. the whole shebang turned
out. There was Schultz, the baker,
with his fleet of trucks. He is the
leading socialist" in the town. There
were preachers there, American
Legion officials and scores and
scores of business men. What an
elaborate send-off
Now that depression" is gone we
are supposed to spend our money in
the stores that advertised his burial.
With every purchase we make we get
a coupon which entities us to a pos
sibihty of winning Rockne Six and
other prizes,
But, damn it, where will we get
the dollars TO spend and to run the
car in case we win.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-27
Ford Tells Hoover of Scheme
to Feed Jobless on Garlic

Sh h h---Henry Ford is working
on new scheme. No, not to kill
the unemployed but to make tulip
and garlic enthusiasts out of them.
The idea is so huge that he had
to pay q private visit to President
Hoover and spill it. Newspaper
men surprised him in the act Of
splitting it. In case you don't be-
lieve 1t, bloody Henry already guar
antees every pobless man $500 a
year side money If he'd turn TO gar
dening, growing vegetables. The
plan is being worked out In detail
and has been since last year
with Ford workers as the victims.
We can't reveal the full details be-
cause Ford is keeping them Sc
cret. Most likely he went to Wash
ington to patch the scheme.
Ford also announced that 81 told
the President, that we're selling all
the motor cars we can make and
we're getting lots of caSh-much of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-27
Workers Assail Birmingham Boss Press

even see it. You wanted to keep
the Negroes ignorant Of the fact
that white people can sink so low.
You helped the white boss press
cover this up and tried to do as
you always do-cover up the fact
of terrible Negro victimization at
the hands of the white ruling class.
But when, on August 4, 1881,
the Shades Mountain affair that
later developed into the Peterson
frame-up occurred, you came forth
with the story that the suspect was
a Negro-a huge headline started
the frame-up story. You helped
the bosses frame an innocent, sick,
shell-shocked, tubercular war vet
eran.
"Is your interest in the Negro
child, Maggie Lee Carter, and the
white women identical? No! You
are bunch of cowardly, yellow
rats and we denounce you as a
supporter of white supremacy, a
carrier Of white boss press lies and
Islander against our race brothers of
the working and farming class.
eve denounce the Birmingham
World as an anti-working class
paper that helps keep alive the
lynch terror here by fighting
against the only power capable of
stopping it.
against you and your class we
will continue to fight to stop lynch
ing, Jim Crcwism and demand the
safe and unconditional freedom for
the Scottsboro boys, while Peter
son and all other class war prison.
crs. We will never stop this fight
until we have workers and farm
crs' government established like 1t
is in the Soviet Union. Then you
will stop printing lies or you won't
get to print anything.
"tSigned) LID. and L.S.N.R.,
Birmingham Section"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-27
MASS
MEET TONIGHT
INSCHENECTADY
Workers to Push Fight
for Scottsboro Boys
and Tom Mooney

SCHENECTADY.-This evening at
Crecent Park, State and Lafayette
SITS. workers of Schenectady, N. Y,
the town which is owned and con-
trolled by the General Electric Cor
poration will have ma opportunity to
hear Carl Hacker, district organizer
of the I. L. D. speak on the growing
prosecutions of the American workers.
The conditions of the workers in
Schenectady are going from bad to
worse daily. The General Electric
plan which in normal times employed
10000 workers, today has its payroll
only nine thousand. OF these re-
naming 5000, three thousand will be
fired by May LIST. And judging from
information received only recently
the next few months will see the
continuous cutting down to about two
thousand workers.
The meeting on Wednesday night
will be q protest meeting against the
decision of Governor Rolph and a
demand for the release of the 8
Negro Scottsboro boys, whm the Al
bama Supreme Court has decided
must die in the electric chair on
June "a.
Workers of Schenectady are urged
to come to this meeting and bring
their friends.
This meeting will be the beginning
of an organization campaign of the
International Labor Defense to build
a powerful mass defense organization
in this city.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-27
AFL Blind to Slavery in st. Louis Plant

So far as any good to the workers
is concerned, these unions are dead,
and a real live militant organization
could do world of good for the
workers here. We need assistance
badly and the workers are so cowed
that they fear to make the first move
toward different system. I believe
that militant organization could
make great Roadway here and look
forward to the day the Metal Work
ers' Industrial League comes into
Louisville. We have been sold out
long enough by the misleaders of the
A. F. of L.
Yours for real conditions,
j. WI,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-27
Communist Gets 11%
of Votes in California
Standard Oil Town
NV mail tn Daily Workerl

by mail TO Daily Worker)
RICHMOND, Cal. - Elections
held here March rs for the board
Of education, resulted as follows:
of the 2,S19 votes cast, bosses
candidate, banker, received $500
votes, and the Communist Party
candidate, worker, mother Of
two children, Florence Crooks, re-
ceived 80 votes.
This is the first time a workers
candidate was on the ballot In this
oil town. Receiving IL per cent Of
votes is of great significance, es-
pecial in the face of campaign
conducted by the bosses.
Standard Oil Company officials
kept the workers, day before the
elections, half an hour after work,
talking to them and telling them
not to dare vote for a Communist,
as they will lose their jobs.
The votes according to sections
were, that in North Richmond,
Negro territory, of 100 votes cast
IS were for Communist Party;
Sd and 5th ST, territory, majority
(55 votes for G. p; territory
around Pullman shops also ma
jority for G. P.
Richmond workers are now
working to secure signatures to
help put the Communist Party on
the ballot in California.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-27
(By a Worker Correspondent

BIRMINGHAM, Ala.-The Biz
nlingham World, Negro boss paper
here, delights in attacking our class
organizations that fight against the
lynch policy of the white bosses here.
1t used to say that the ScottSboro
boys would certainly be electrocuted
because the International Labor De-
Tense, by organizing a mass struggle
to defend them, had sent insulting
letters to the lawyers, the judges and
the governor Now it has to sing
another song since they have twice
been saved from legal lynching.
The bosses know that if we keep
up the fight they will be free, so
ten Negro capitalist press has to be-
yin a new flood of lies to try to stop
CUR movement.
We got tired of saying nothing
about this paper, SO at meeting of
members of the International Labor
Defense and the League of Struggle
for Negro Rights we adopted and
sent the Birmingham World the fol-
lowing:
I'VE call your attention TO re-
cent editorials in your paper, the
Birmingham World, ridiculing the
International Labor Defense in
connection with the Scottsboro
case and its fight to free all class
war prisoners, white and black,
from the iron grip of capitalist
lynch justice.
I'VE call your attention TO an
incident which occurred on No
vember 4, 1881. On that date Mag
gle Lee Carter, 9-year-old Negro
Fairfield girl, was kidnapped and
raped by two white men, who after
ward ripped open her abdomen
with razor and left the child In
a terrible condition. You hid the
story of this awful affair in the
middle Of your paper in small type.
Only . very observant reader would
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-27

joaquin River Water Storage district
in 1929, after the ranehers defaulted
tax payments Of IS cents per acre.
The rich company has swindled
these lands away from the ranchers,
because they could not meet their
water assessments
Sacramento and San Joaquin VAL
lays, which some years back, were
fruit growing centers are becoming
deserts. There has been no normal
rains for some time and ranchers
are unable to secure water from the
rich companies, so everything is dry
ing up.
Fresno and Tulare Counties, whole
flocks of chickens we're wiped out,
and many ranchers lost considerably.
Red spiders, vine hoppers and pests
suck the sap from the leaves, thus
the treets are dying out. Ranches
that sold for $4,000 per acre are now
selling for $50 and no one buys them.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-27
Louisville, Ky.

Louisville, Ky.
Daily Worker:
In your issue of Saturday, April 16,
you carried a story about the plant
of the Standard Sanitary Mfg. Co.,
located at Baltimore, Md, but here
in Louisville the employees of the same
company are worse off than those in
Baltimore. We workers in the metal
line are supposed to be protected by
the A. F. of L. unions of the Metal
Polishers and Buffers and the Brass
Workers, but we we're forced to take
from a 20 to 40 per cent wage-cut
the first of the year, and the men
do not like this, but the heads of the
union say that this is the btst that
could be done.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-27

it in big bills. l mean by that old
style, large size bills that might
have been hidden for some time"
IF the people who quit business TO
go into gambling several years ago
would quit that and go back to work
at producing something they could
sell all they produce" Apparently
this is why there we're 10000 I'M
employed Ford workers who were
met with machine gun bullets in
the recent Dearborn Hunger March.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-27

German Red Aid She will be &C
companied by J, Louis Ensdahl. ma
tional secretary Of the International
Labor Defense.
They will arrive in Hamburg. Ger
man, in time for the big May It'll
demonstrations against the Scots
boro lynch verdicts and the infamous
decision Of Gov Rolph Of California
denying Tom Mooney a pardon
These demonstrations have been
called by the International Red Aid
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-27

recognize revolutionary junta in
South America two or three days aft
er it has won an uprising
Yes they do. But these juntas are
usually organized by American imper-
ialism, while the Russian Revolution
was against Imperialism and capital
ism
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-27
Last Call FOR.
MayDay'Dai1y'

Every day the Daily Worker rallies the workers of the
starvation and The demonstrations led by the Unem
national Labor Defense release of class war prisoners
cuts have been intellectually backed by the workers paper
the Daily Worker.
On May Day the Daily Worker plays particularly i'm
portant part the Oorker struggles The ghty Mon Day
demonstrations against mperiGst butchery for the defense
of the Soviet Uon and for the release of Scotsboro
of Tom Mooney and of all class prisoners
panied By another mighty demonstration the demonstration
the WorkerS solidarity shoW their efforts to spread
throughout the land than ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND
copies of the eight-page May Day Daily Worker
May Day will register big gains the revolutionary strug
gle These gains will be formed into solid mass base for f
ture struggles through the distribution of the May Day
Daily Worker The slogans that you shout in the May Day
demonstrations the slogans that you on your banners
these slogans spread most effectively through the Daily
Worker.
Send your bundle orders. pair ADVANCE once for
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Day contribution at that print enough copies to
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May Day special demonstration of aoorkers SOL
tdor5ty.
Fight boss war; Fight boss terror Fight the boss hun
ger program Support the May Day Daily Worker Spread
the May Day Daily Worker!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-27
CAL. RANCHERS FACE
OUSTING; ALMOST 200
RANCHES FORECLOSED
Farmers Reduced to Pauperism Through
Water Company SwindIe
Hoovers Farm Relief" Relieves Farmers
Of All They Possess.
(By a Worker Correspondent

MERGED Cal-Over 200 ranches in MERGED, Stansaus
and Fresno Counties face evctons from their ranch lands
valued $5OOO0 by SH Securities Company of San Francisco
who claim they did not pay taxes.
The land been in dispute since dissolution of San
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-27

On May LIST the Rus
sian workers will cele-
brate the triumph of
Socialism. Demonstrate
against the bosses who
are preparing war on
Socialism!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-27
Mrs. Wright and Engdahl to
Sail for Europe on Wed. for
World Scottsboro Campaign
Invited by European Workers They Will Tour
Germany, France, Switzerland, Austria
and Other Countries d

NEW YORK.-Mrs Ada Wright, mother Of Andy and
Roy, two Of the framed-up Scotsboro Negro boys will sail
at midnight Wednesday, April 27 the S. Hamburg for
tour of Europe in connection with the worldwide fight
for the Soosboo boys Mrs Wright has been invited 70 the
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-04-21

The new airport at Galveston. Tex, was recently dedicated on the twentieth anniversary of the first air mall light in the south.