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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-12
Armed Guards Over
JObless Road Workers

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. We have
forced labor here and the unemployed
men who have to dig bitches, build
roads and toll for the little slop and
meagre rations handed out by the
relief agencies say they work for the
RED Cross Construction Company.
Big city trucks pick the men up at
daylight and haul them off to their
forced labor jobs under armed guards.
The men made up song they sing
on the way to work and when the
woman in charge of the relief sta
ton heard it, she told them If they
sing it again she would cut of their
rations and kick them out. Here is
the song:
We've counted the greens; we've
counted each bean; we've counted the
white meat without any lean; we've
measured the flour: biscuits to bake;
It's been 20 years since we had any
cake"
Living conditions here are impos-
sible to describe. Thousands of
white and Negro workers are almost
naked and not slowly, but rapidly
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-12
COMMUNIST WINS IN LONDON
ELECTION

LONDON, Nov. Is. tBy MaiD AT
the municipal by-elections last night
In West Ham, working class district
OF London, the reactionary Labor
Party was handed a severe beating
by the militant workers of the
borough. Only two seats we're up for
election; in one Motsfield, the Com
munist candidate sponsored by the
National Unemployment Workers
Movement, defeated the Labor man
SIG votes to 40l. In the other ward,
the Communist candidate missed
election by only three votes, polling
400 to Labor's 493.
The cowardly policy of the British
Labor Party conniving at the Means
Test and the Macdonald govern
ment's clubbing Of unemployed DEM
onstrators is rapidly undermining the
Labor Party's influence among the
London workers. This the first cleo
ton since the great British Hunger
March, clearly shows the success Of
The March in aligning the workers
behind the revolutionary way out of
the crisis.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-12
IRISH WORKERS VOICE.
FIGHTS FOR IT'S LIFE

The organ OF the Irish Revolu-
tionary Workers Movement, the
Irish Workers Voice." is facing the
stiffeSt struggle it has ever been con-
fronted with. Its difficulties in
crease with its growth in every part
OF Ireland. No less THAN sixteen
printers have refused to print the
paper. Many that would darent do
it. Many that did have had to give
it up. Liberty of the press-but not
for the revolutionary press of the
working class
The Irish workers in the u. S. must
air their comrades in Ireland to save
their paper. Have your organization
send cables and letters Of protest
against this sitting of proletarian
opinion to the Irish Workers Voice, y
206 Pearse Street, Dublin, Ireland.
Collect funds to aid the paper in its
fight for a truly free ireland of free
workers and peasants, a united Irish
Workers and Farmers Republic!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-12
U.S.. HITS ANGLO
TRADE IN BRAZIL
Battle RACES Near
Fort Saavedra

RIO DE JANEIRO, Dec. II. - A
move for the cancellation by Brazil
and Argentine of the most favored
nation Clauses with Great Britain is
the latest step in the fierce struggle
between U. S. and British imperial
lists over markets and war debts.
Mobilize q. S. Puppets.
U. S. interests have succeeded in
mobsizing their puppet governments
in Brazil and Chile for concerted
drive to destroy British influence.
The Brazilian government is ready
to cancel its favored nation clause
with Britain. The Chilean govern
ment has protested to Argentine
against its concessions to Britain.
Argentine has no favored nation
treaty with the U. S. Chile, how
ever, has such treaty with the US.
under which recent concessions
granted by Chile to Argentine are
automatically extended to the U. S.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-12
KARL MARX ON IRELAND

England has destroyed the con-
ditions of Irish society" wrote Karl
Marx New York Tribune, July II
1889. First Of all, she has confis-
Gated the lands of the Irish; then by
parliamentary DEGREES she has sup
pressed Irish industry; finally, by
armed force she has broken the &C
tivity and energy of the Irish people
In this way England has created the
social conditions which allows q
small caste of robber landlords to
ictate to the Irish people the condi-
ions in which they are allowed to
void the land and to live on it,
"a quotation from new pamph-
fet by Ralph Fox, entitled Marx
Engels and Lenin on the Irish Re-
volution," costing threepence and
published by Sphinx Publications. zoe
Pearse Street. Dublin, Ireland. Watch
the Daily Worker for review of this
pamphlet by Brian O'Neill.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-12
Tacoma Workers Accepting
Relief Are Jailed

TACOMA, Wash.-The bosses have
launched subtle campaign against
unemployed receiving relief here. The
third arrest has recently been made
Of jobless receiving other aid beside
their County relief. They are charg-
ed with grand larceny and bail set
at $4,000.
Part time workers in the mills
earning only a few dollars month
are subject TO arrest if they do not
pay back TO the County all relief
received by them.
A few weeks ago forced labor in
the park was put onto great number
of jobless getting relief. Others have
had their warrants reduced, while
still others were cut off altogether.
' The arrests referred to are clearly
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-12
$50 Delegates, of 81 States
Score System That Lets Many
Starve While Food Is Spoiled
owe Come Ourselves, They Say, to Demand
$5OO,OOO,OOO Relief and Moratorium
Call for Reduced Prices to Consumer and
Higher Prices to Farmers; Is No Surplus
STATEMENT TO CONGRESS THE NATIONAL FARM RELIEF
CONGRESS- WASHINGTON, DEC. 7-IO

We, farmers $50 strong represent
the struggling majority Of the farm
population in 80 states. For the first
time in history, we come ourselves,
face to face with Congress without
high salaried farm leaders or Lob
byists" standing between to becloud
and divert our purpose and our pur-
pose is to demand immediate action.
We are determined to stop a ruthless
pressure from creditors who threaten
to sWep us from our land and homes.
For the last three years, a world
economic crisis has sharpened the
effect Of ten years of post war farm
depression. Our last reserves have
been taken from u.s. We are not
responsible for the Universal break
down that forced seventy millions of
Americans into distress, uncertainty
and want in the richest country in
the world
Food RIOTS Amidst Starvation
We know that the relief funds are
largely squeezed from the worried
balance of the population who are
themselves slipping toward the brink
Of joblessneSs. We know that fan
tastic costs of local, State and Federal
governments are also squeezed from
them by Sales Taxes while the big
incomes and corporations escape. We
know that actual starvation is more
and more frequently admitted in
spite Of bullying banks and store
houses of food. We have seen food
destroyed and everywhere our crops
rot on the ground in a marketless
country because hungry millions have
lost their purchasing power
In the face of this social calamity
Farm Leaders and politicians dare
to talk of Surplus: Dare to base
legislation on a theory Of reduction
Of acreage that will fit the present
starvation markets. Finally this
bankrupt leadership dares to advo-
cate the abandonment of our scien-
tific and technical advances in farm
ing and recommends that we return
to a primitive, self-sufficing form of
peasant farming.
There Is No Surplus"
We declare that this country is
in the throes of a permanent Farm
crisis which threatens us with degra-
dalton and poverty unless we enforce
abrupt changes in our economic set
ups. We declare that such an emer-
gency can be met only by putting
into effect the following demands
which must be considered as a whole.
We ask Congress to suspend its rules
and to permit the delegation from the
Farmers National Relief Conference
to read these demands on the floor
of Congress and that Congress shall
immediately proceed to the enact
ment of emergency legislation on the
basis of these demands:
Federal Cash Relief:
To raise all rural families TO
minimum health and decency
standard of living, a minimum
fund of 100000, 600 must immedi-
ately be appropriated for the re-
lief of that section of the dis
treSsed farm population in need of
immediate relief, regardless of
race, creed or color.
Federal Relief In Kind:
Food products and supplies need
ed for relief Of city unemployed
should be purchased by the Fed
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-12

eral Government directly from tbs
farmers at price which will in
sure the cost Of production plus
a decent standard of living.
The processing and transportation
Of these food products and other
relief supplies shall be regulated
by the Federal Government so as
TO prevent profits to the Food
Trusts and Transportation COM
panies during the period OF the
economic crisis.
administration of Relief for
Farmers:
Federal cash relief and relief in
kind to be administered by local
committees of farmers in each
township, precinct or other local
unit selected by a mass meeting Of
all farmers needing relief.
Achievement Price Fixing:
A price regulating mechanism,
controlled by actual consumers and
producers, must be Immediately
set up whose function shall be to
reduce prices TO consumers and
raise prices for all farm products
sold. This adjustment to be made
by deduction from the swollen
profits of the middleman.
5-The Defeat of Any Legislation
Based on the Theory of Surplus
Production:
While millions OF our population
are undernomished through loss
Of purchasing power, the accept
ance of the surplus theory is a
crime against society.
6-Credit:
The enactment of legislation which
will provide production credit for
all farm families so as to insure
a basis for national consumption
at normal levels.
The defeat of all proposals and
the repeal of all legislation now
in force which provides credit only
for well-to-do farmers and cor
porations with collateral.
Debt Holiday:
A moratorium Oh mortgages,
taxes, rents for all farmers whose
volume of production has until
recently sustained the farm fam
lily at a decent standard of living.
Cancellation of Feed and Seed
leans and debts for supplies and
furnishing for farmers whose
volume of production and econ
onic unit has always been too
small to carry the debt load and
support the family at a minimum
health standard. marginal farm
erS, share choppers and others
Cancellation of back taxes and
moratorium on future taxes dur
ing the crisis.
8-NO Evictions:
During this national crisis Con-
greSs must declare all foreclosures,
seizures of property and evctions
illigal.
We farmers have no collateral,
but we represent the majority of
the farm population. We have at
last been forced to organize and
present to this Congress our final
demands If our duly elected ma
tional representatives and senator's
fail as did the local. county and
state authorities, then we pledge
ourselves to protect our fellow
farmers from suffering and their
families from social disintegration,
by our united action.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-12
MERS DEMAND RELIEF AND MORATORIUM FROM CONGRESS
International
Notes
Bg ROBERT HAMILTON
REVOLUTIONARY UNREST IN
SPAIN

HENDAYE, France, Dec. 6.-Trust-
worthy reports reaching this border
town from Madrid indicate that a
considerable part OF the Spanish
Army is known to be in sympathy
with revolutionary ideas; this is par
ticularly true of the First and Sixth
of the Madrid Guards. These troops
are suspected Of completely in plans
for the projected general strike.
Premier Azana's government is
stationing troops armed with ma
chine guns and hand grenades in the
Central Telephone Exchange and the
other principal government buildings.
A very large concentration of troops
is being held in readiness in Madrid
to meet any situation that might
arise. Companies Of machine gun
ners and artillery batteries are sta
toned ready to attack the army units
suspected of sympathy with the united
front Of workers and peasants.
The railway workers of the coun-
try are now in convention to vote on
declaring general strike for in
creased wages. A nationwide strike
is proposed by workers organizations
to compel the government to confis-
cate the telephone companys (Am-
erican-owned) system.
Subsequent reports show the Ker-
ensky-like Spanish government again
backing down before the militancy of
U S. imperialism and consenting to
negotiate the matter of the illegal
telephone monopoly, granted by the
overthrow royal government. Com
pare this with the resoluteness of the
Bolsheviski in Russia, who stead
lastly refused to knuckle under to
the capitalists demands for the pro-
lection of foreign private property.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-12
Delegation of Is
Put Relief Demands
to Des MOines Mayor

DIES MONIES, Ia, Dec. IL. - 10
delegates of the unemployed appear
ed before the city council here. Dec.
6, and presented local and national
demands of unemployment relief
Robert zornes, of the Unemployed
Council headed the delegation and
spoke for nearly an hou The TN
employed leagues took advantage of
the situation and also brought griey-
ances and demands before the city
council.
Twenty demands were placed be-
fore the city council
Before zornes spoke Mayor Lewis
whitewashed his hands by saying
that the city council has no juris-
diction in regard to unemployment
relief. In spite Of this he answered
nearly each of the twenty demands.
Lewis gave his sympathy" to the
unemployed and hoped that the
crisis will soon end He said all re-
lief measures are temporary He
admitted the situation was bad He
did not deny any of the statements
made by Zornes. He referred all the
demands to other bodies.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-12
GREET THE DAILY W0RkEI
TO All Workers & Organizations!


SUNDAY, JAN. s, 1888, MARKS THE
NINTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE DAILY
WORKER. These were nine years of
hard struggle i'm the life OF our paper.
During these years, the Daily Worker has
made Itself indispensable In the various
struggles of the American working class.
As the central organ of the Commu-
mist Party, it has rallied the workers for
the support and defense of the Soviet
Union.
II has constantly carried on the fight
TO mobilize the workers in the struggle for
better living conditions, against wage cuts,
for unemployment insurance and for the
support of the Hunger March
II fights-against the oppression Of the
foreign born workers, against dcporta-
tiops, for equal rights Of the Negro mas
ses, and for the freedom of ali class war
prisoners-Tom Mooney and the Nine
Scottsboro Boys, etc.
This celebration is a great event for
all workers. We ask you TO express your
solidarity and support the Daily Worker
by sending Greetings to the only Revo-
Iuticnary Daily in the English language.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-12
HARLAN NEGRO
MINERS KILLED
Explosion at Yancy
Traps % Coal Diggers
CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE


fact that they were sent into the
mine filled with dust and carbon
nlonoxide after the blast shows that
there either was no shot fired. as
provided by law, or that he did not
do his job right.
A second blast followed as the men
we're approaching the working place.
ana all not Immediately killed we're
trapped underground.
Recover 10 Bodies.
Bodies of nine Negroes and four
white miners have so far been re-
covered. The state mine examiner
John F. Daniel, is present. making
excuses for the company, claiming
that Harlan mines have little gas,
and the danger could not have been
toreseen. He avoids the question of
dust. which Harlan mines have plen-
ty OF, and which, mixed with air
after blast, is itself very explosive.
The first three bodies brought up
were those Of Tom, Garrett and Esau
Messengill, sons of Tom MessingilI.
who states that three more of his
sons are still below.
Deputy sheriffs drove from the
mine entrance a crowd of several
hundred relatives of the men in this
mine.
Union Outlawed.
Safety underground is one of the
demands of the National Miners
Union, which organized and led a
strike this year in the adjoining Bell
County. and though the strike was
lost, has continued its organizing
work. The whole state power is
thrown against the N. M. U. to out
law 1t, and forbid its meetings. Nine
teen NMU. and relief and defense
organizers active in the Bell county
strike are still under Indictment for
criminal syndicalism, since their ar
rest in January of this year.
IA Killed in New Mexico.
MADRID, N. NJ, Dec. 11.-Bodies
Of IA coal miners killed last week in
the Morgan-Jones mine near here
have been raised to the surface. Over
100 were at work when the explosion
. took place. but the others escanad
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for the purpose of putting over
propaganda in the newspapers to in
cense the public mind against jobless
relief and to pave the way for the
cutting off Of all relief.
Tampa unemployed and employed
must mobilize and struggle shoulder to
shoulder to defeat this brazen, at
tempt of the bosses to beat down
their living standards TO and below
that Of Chinese coolies. e. M.
EDITORS NOTE If there is an
Unemployed Council in Tacoma,
the worker writing next time,
should mention this and give the
address for all Tacoma workers to
So
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-12

starving. Many are too weak to
walk and lay all day in filthy pile
OF rage called bed.
These people must organize and
Join the Unemployed Councils and
struggle for their very lives against
such misery. The Unemployed Coun
Gil is waging a daily fight to orga-
nize and overcome the police and K
X. K. terror here. and through these
daily struggles many are learning for
the first time that there is an or
ganization they can join right here
III Birmingham for the war against
starvation and death.--L.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-12
Take Job or Get
Out of FlOphouse
Forced Labor Jobs for
Veterans

NEW YORK CITY.-Today at the
Bear Mountain relief job for vet
Grams I overheard the foreman on
the job telling another one that the
next group that are going up to work
will be sent from the Municipal
Lodging House.
They will get paid a dollar day
or dollars day. Those who refuse
to accept this work will get beaten
up and discharged, and thrown out
OF the Lodging House, and they won't
get any eats or lodging anywhere
they go. Q
They have to bring their own lunch
up there.
Saturday afternoon there was a
fight up there in section 8 again.
State Troopers beat up worker, but
I couldn't get his name.
"A Comrade.
Editors Note: Intensive work
should be done among these tricked
and exploited relief job victims to
get them into the Workers Ex-
Servicemen's League (main Office
at ] Union Square,, and the I'm
employed organizations district Of
flee at 10 E. 18th ST..
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working on the case.
Misleader in Deal with Government.


Misleader in Deal with Government.
WASHINGTON, Dec. l1.-George
Anthony, the nisIeader of the Chi
cago unit Of tire Bonus Expedition
airy Forces, who started with lot
OF publicity, a bonus march of his
own, arrived here the other day with
total of two henchmen. They ap-
peared before the Veterans Ma
tional Rank and File Committee and
pretended to endorse the rank and
file program and to denounce the
Chicago Emergency Relief and the
Red Cross. He promised to return
later to sign an agreement on the
basis of the rank and file program,
but instead went TO see General
Frank T. Hines, administrator of
veterans affairs. A few hours later
Anthony was on a Pullman back to
Chicago. He had told Hines that he
would call off" the second bonus
march if Hines would request" aid
for his men from the Emergency Re
lief. Hines also arranged to have
Anthony broadcast his change of
heart" over the radio.
Anthony has been exposed in the
past as working hand in hand with
the Chicago police.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-12
.I2-HOUR DAY.

An employment shark had a Job
for three coal shovelers. ~ hours a
day good for three days. The wages
were $1.00 day. Paying the shark
SOC for the job, what was left?
Workers you can do nothing alone.
You must organize!-A. B.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-12
Hold Hearing On
Bonus In Capital
To Petition Congress
Wednesday
CONTINUED FROM PAGE oNE)


no cuts in disability allowances. On
Thursday a memorial will be held
in Arlington Cemetery for Hushka
and Carlson, the two vets murdered
in the attack on the first army of
bonus marchers on Bloody Thurs
day, July %.
The Veterans National Rank and
File Committee announced from its
headquarters at 905 II" St.. NV.
that before presenting the petition
to Congress the following immediate
demands are being made:
THAT police stop interfering
With bonus marchers coming into
Washington. 2.-That Congress pro-
vide a fund to secure food and hous-
ing for the veterans. 3.-That pend
ing the voting of this fund. there
should be no federal or local inter
ference with veterans securing as
Sistance from otler veterans and.
non-veteran sympathizers. 4.-That
the veterans be permitted to dis
tribute leaflets and sell literature.
5.-That there be no discrimination
against Negro vets. 33
80 Arrive from South Dakota
WASHINGTON, Dec. ia con-
tingent of 30 bonus marchers ar
rived here yesterday from South Da-
kota, arriving in battered truck.
The vets had tough trip, but are
in high spirits, determined to fight
to the last ditch for payment of the
bonus now.
Eighty-four bonus marchers who
were deported to Baltimore by the
Washington police together with the
departing hunger marchers have
sent a protest to Congress against
their torcible election. The vets are
now preparing to return to the cap
ital
The police are continuing their at
temptS to terrorize the bonus march
ers. Two members of the New York
contingent, Kolb and Wenky, we're
beaten up and arrested for trying to
sleep in an old deserted building.
Both are being held by the police.
The International Labor Defense is
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-12
CLOTHING WoRKERS sTRIKE

LOUISVILLE, KY, Dec, l1.-Six
pickets were arrested and fined s.
in the strike here against Sherman
q Sons, clothing manufacturers. The
strike continues 1t is led by. the
Local 100 Of the Amalgamated Cloth
ing Workers Union.
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