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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-23
400 Chicago Workers
Prevent Eviction Of
Family of Unemployed

CHICAGO, Ill, Aug. 10 (By MaiD
-Four hundred workers at an anti
eviction demonstration here last
night and this morning forestalled
the eviction of a jobless worker
family at 653 E. 43rd st.
Lambert, the landlord who evicted
the worker, is a precinct captain for
DePriest, the Negro capitalist poll
tician.
A committee chosen by the workers
at the demonstration forced the
charities to provide moving van as
well as money to pay the rent
Speakers at the demonstration were
Herbert Newton, Communist candi-
date for Congress in De Priests dis
trict; Joe Jackson, Communist can
didate for Assemblyman, and Kari
Lochner, Communist Party organizer
Twenty armed Garveyites and
hordes of police, including the Red
Squad, failed to prevent the success
full work of the Unemployed Council
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-23
Japan Crisis Grows
Sharper as War
Plans Are Pushed

Japan's desperate drive to plunge
the whole world into war as capt.
talist "way OUT of the crisis was in
tensified following the sensational
break of yen exchange to new low
of 22.74 cents.
The Japanese Finance Minister
Takahashi, admitted that the Japa-
nese government had no funds
abroad available to support the yen
exchange and could make no effort
to prevent further drop. He could
offer no explanation of the sensa-
tional break in the exchange except
to say that it represented "a tenn
porary insane price, The present
price of the yen is 55 per cent below
the normal exchange rate of 4985
cents. The rapid deterioration of
yen exchange reflects the terrific
deepening in Japan of the catas-
trophic world crisis of capitalism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-23
Pioneer Camp Repells
Attack by Ku Kluxers

VAN ETTEN, N. Y, Aug. 22-The
Pioneer Camp, held here this year
with workers kids from Elmira and
vicinity attending, succeeded in re-
polling attacks of the Ku Klux Khan,
who tried to break it up. Members
Of the Khan came out and tried to
determine the number of kids at
tending the camp. Then posters were
put up in Elmira, melting lynch
spirit against the campers. A cara
van of cars came to the camp, but
were driven off by the militancy Of
the Pioneers, who armed themselves
with sticks and stones.
An investigator of the Department
of Justice or Immigration Bureau
tried to arrest the leader as for
signer and left with threats of franz
ing him. A state trooper came to
the camp and asked If they had been
bothered by the Khan. He told the
leader that good enough, you god
damned Bolsheviks ought to be run
out of the country"
The camp will open again next
summer. 1t was held for two weeks.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-23
Picketing Stops
All At BranfOrd
Ben Gold and T.U.U.L.
Leaders Rally Forces

CRAWFORD, Conn, Aug 22.-Ben
Gold, General Secretary Treasurer
Of the Needle Trades Workers Indus
trial Union; Chas. Nemeroff, Assis-
tant Secretary; Betty Klein, a union
organizer, and John Weber, District
Secretary of the Trade Union Unity
League, addressed a packed hall of
workers and townspeople of Branford
at a Support the Strike" Mass
Meeting held Sunday night at Svea
Hall in Branford. Rose Ifkovic and
Stasia Pudis, both strikers, we're
chairman and first speaker at the
meeting.
Tremendous enthusiasm marked the
applause greeting the pledge of sup
port given by Ben Gold, who told
of the recent victorious struggle of
the furriers in New York. The mass
meeting was part of the preparation
to prevent the shop from opening
this morning, as threatened by run1ors
coming from Popkin, the boss. Dur
ing the week. Popkin's agents had
been busy trying to Sign up" strikers
to go back to work. but this scheme
failed miserably. This morning the
mass picket-line was the longest and
most spirited line of the entire strike,
starting extra early at 6 am, and
concluding with just as militant spirit
at $50 am.
The shop still remains closed. Betty
Klein was on the picket line with the
strikers, as also John Weber, who is
giving the strike daily attention.
The strikers are planning another
big dance, this time a Balloon Dance.
to be held Saturday, September 3, at
8 pm. at Svea Hall. Admission is
only rs cents, which goes for strike
relief.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-23
''RUEGG SENTENCE
IS SAVAGE ONE"
Prof. Shefan Calls for
Increased Protest
BY MYRA PAGE.
European Correspondent of the
Daily Worker

Daily Worker
MOSCOW, Aug. 22.--The Soviet
press today published an interview
with Professor Shefan, member of
the American Rights Of Man Defense
League who is now visiting the So
Wet Union.
Commenting sharply on the verdict
Of the Marking court sentencing Paul
and Gertrude Rueggs to life impris-
onment. Prof. Shefan states:
"The Ruegg sentence is monstrously
cruel and cynical, taking us back to
the savage days of mediavalism. 1t
must undoubtedly arouse the power
full and furious ire Of the toilers of
the whole world, and particularly of
the progressive intelligentzia Of West
ern Europe and America.
1.-THE Ruegg case is woven COM
pletely Of provocations and filthy in
formation by police spies. The Kuo-
mintang disdained absolutely no
means to secure the conviction which
actually was pre-arranged. The best
minds of the working intelligentzia
of Western Europe and America who
have already expressed their resolute
protest against the trial itself must
now insist even more determinedly
than ever and before the whole world
upon the demand for an immediate
revision in the case and the release
of the Rueggs. This applies pri-
marily to the Rights OF Man Defense
League in America and Europe.
cit is difficult to witness calmly
the tragedy staged in Shanghai
Everything possible must be done to
wrest the Rueggs from the paws of
the Chinese executioners."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-23
Ohio Meetings Build
Workers Delegation
to the Soviet Union

NEW YORK.-Th Friends of the
Soviet Union are making preparations
for a delegation to visit the Soviet
Union on the 18th anniversary of
the Bolshevik Revolution.
Marcel Sherer, National Organizer
of the Friends Of the Soviet Union,
is on tour in Ohio and will speak
in Cleveland at mass meeting in
Carpenters Hall, 1860 Kinsman Rd.,
August rs at p. m. He will also
be at the membership meeting of
the F.S.U., Aug. 81, at p. m, at
the TWO Hall, 926 East 105th st.,
second floor
The other dates of his tour are:
Akron, 29th; Canton, Goth; Ravenna,
S0th; Mansfield, 31st; Columbus,
Sept LIST; Dayton, Sept. End; Gin
cinnati, Sept. 3, 4. These meetings
should result in sending many dele
gates from the Ohio territory.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-23
Metal Workers Tell How They
Deal With "Snitch Babies"

gates between sessions Of the con-
vention. The companies which have
group insurance, and that means all
Of the big steel companies, follow a
policy of working as many men as
possible at least one day at pay. The
premium for the group insurance is
deducted from the pay, leaving the
man often nothing at all in money.
Dividends on the insurance are, of
course, controlled by the company.
The effect Of the staggeT system
is to prevent men from getting relief,
since a man who has any work at all
is turned down by the public authori-
ties as a rule. Some companies use
the fact that they give a couple Of
dollars a week to the unemployed
workers who still carry their checks,
as an excuse for not contributing
more literally to the Community
Chests, it was said.
The License SwindIe.
A delegate from Canton told how
the public officials urged the $50 in
habitants of Shanty Town, near the
city, to get licenses for their old
cars, and then took up the licenses
before they would grant them road
work, since the licenses showed the
men were not completely destitute.
Companies refuse to give relief to
employees who still own stock in the
company. This means that stock
which was bought from the company
itsoelf for as high as $3.50 per share
must be sold for what it will bring,
the worker taking losses up to $125
a share.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-23
BAKERS NAIL LIE
in FORWARD
Committee Calls for
Mass Unity

NEW YORK-Branding the social
ist Forward" is a lying sheet and
disrupter in the struggle for unity
among the bakers in the A. r. of L.
Locals 507 and 1854, the united front
committee of both locals issued the
following statement calling on the
bakers to unite against the bosses
to maintain union conditions in the
shops and to organize the morgan
lied:
ut has been called to our attention
that on Aug, 1892 a statement ap-
reared in the Jewish Forward claim
ing that the stopping of the fight
between locals 507 and 1874 was not
due to the efforts of the Bakers
United Front Committee and the
Conference held April %, "a, and 25.
I'VE want to brand this statement
as untrue, and as aimed against the
work of the Conference and United
Front Committee in unifying the
bakery workers. The facts of the
meeting will prove this.
"For a long period of time, strug-
gle had been going on between both
unions This struggle took the form
of picketing the shops. and even went
SO far as applying for iniunctions
preventing each other from picketing
In December, 1881, committee of
our Union appeared before the Ex-
ecutive Committee of Local 507 re-
questing that we stop the fight of
one union against the other. and try
to work out means and ways on how
to conduct joint campaign to main
tain conditions in the union shops,
as well as organize the morgan
lied
"The Executive Committee of Local
507 listened to our request pronis-
ing that they would take uo the
matter and inform us of their de-
cision. Months passed and no deci-
sion was made by Local 507. On the
contrary, the fight was intensified
and additional picket lines and in
functions applied.
ut was only at the conference held
April %. "a and 25,where both locals
were officially represented and where
the fight in the Bronx was thorough
ly distressed and a committee of 1864
and 507 was elected together with
representatives of the United Front
Committee, that an agreement was
made that the fight stop at once.
1--WE feel it is our duty at. the
present time when the forces of local
507. who were and are still against
any unity of the bakery workers. and
who succeeded by all kinds of trick
cry to get majority Of the local to
vote to withdraw from the United
Front Committee, that it is now
necessary to make clear to the mem
bership of our union as we'll as the
membership of the AFL that the
work of the United Front Committee
established the condition in the
Bronx where the picket lines have
stopped, and where both unions can
at the present time, talk and work
together.
eve call upon all the workers to
rally in support Of the United Front
Committee and its activities, and
only through the. United Front Com
mittee, which is composed of all the
Unions in the trade will we be able
to march forward in uniting the
bakery workers in fight against the
bosses for maintaining real union
conditions in our organized shops as
well as the unorganized. We will be
able to march on until one union of
all the bakery workers will be estab-
lished in the city.
Signed
AUGUST MERICHNIK
OTTO FISCHER
MARCUS WIENER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-23
URGES SUPPORT
OF INT. RED AID
WORLD CONGRESS
Sees Negro Masses
Rallying to Fight
On Oppressors

BERLIN, Aug. %. - Mrs. Ada
Wright, mother Of two of the Scots
boro victims of capitalist Justice, has
issued an appeal to the toiling masses
of the world to rally to the fight to
free Paul and Gertrude Ruegg from
the Marking hangmen. and for mass
support for the coming World Con-
gress of the International Red Aid
Mrs. Wright now touring Europe
in connection with the Scottsboro
Defense. The statement, which was
issued in connection with Sacco and
Vanzetti Dayy, declares, in part:
II have just learned that Freedom
for the Scottsboro Boys is to be the
central slogan for Sacco-Vanzetti
Day, August %.
zone year ago had never heard
how these two Italian workers, Nicola
Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, a
shoemaker and a fish peddler, had
been burned alive in the electric chair
at Boston, Massachusetts,, August %,
1927.
81 know more today. see that
II Is not our boys alone who are
prosecuted. The electric chair has
been used before, I have learned,
against the working class. 1 know
that this new knowledge also ex-
tends to my own people, not only
the fifteen millions of Negroes in
the United States, but in the West
Indies, in South America, in Africa.
81 did not know there was SO much
persecution of the workers in the
world. One year ago thought that
we ScottSboro mothers were alone in
our misery. Now I see that the work
ers everywhere, except in the Soviet
Union, are facing oppression in many
forms. But I also see very clearly
that the workers everywhere are
uniting against their oppressors. This
gives me hope. My heart bleeds for
my boys, and fer the other Scots
boro boys in prison, facing the cleo
trio chair. But in these three months
that I have travelled through thirteen
countries in Europe, I have found
that my cause is the cause of workers
in all lands, and this gives me cour-
age to struggle.
81 have heard of the execution
of our comrades in Hungary; /
have heard of the tortures of our
comrades, Paul and Gertrude Ruegg,
in China; daily / hear of the at
tacks by the fascists in Germany.
like the lynch mobs in the United
States, upon the workers.
"I have also heard that the Inter
national Red Aid is working very
hard preparing for its World Con-
gress to be held in Moscow, in Nover1-
Der. This World Congress, am sure,
will strengthen our working class
unity, build our struggles. We must
let the workers everywhere know
about this World Congress on Sacco-
Vanzetti Day. They must under
stand its purpose, its tasks, and thus
be better able to carry out its pro-
gram of resistance to all prosecutions
of the working class.
with this appeal also for the
World Congress of the international
Red Aid that brought hope to me in
the PARKWAY Southland of misery for
the Negro masses in the United
States, I urge the greatest possible
mass support for the Fifth Sacco-
Vanzetti Anniversary Demonstrations,
August %, 1892"
NEW YORK.-The above appeal
of the Scottsboro mother, which has
just reached <the United States, was
published extensively in the revolu-
tionary press Of the European coun-
tries.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-23
Students Collecting
Strike Relief; Mass
Meets Protest Bar

CHICAGO, Ill, Aug. 22.-The re-
cent barring of the Midwest college
Delegation, from the coal fields of
Southern Illinois, where they ex-
pected to investigate conditions and
distribute truck full of food, is be-
ing protested through various mass
meetings to be held under the aus
pices Of the committee itself and the
various supporting organizations. The
National Student League, Chicago
District, calls its first protest meet
ing on Wednesday, Aug. "a, at pm.
at the Peoples Auditorium, 2457 w
Chicago Ave.
Coming out with the statement
that "the barring was merely one
way out by which the mine owners
sheriffs and deputies were attempting
to hide the terror, misery and star
walton now existing in the Southern
Illinois coal fields the National
Student League is rallying to the
support of these protest meetings the
workers and students throughout the
Middle West.
The National Student League will
intensity its efforts in support of
the Middle Western College Commit
tee. The relief which the committee
has gathered will be increased by the
relief to be gathered by the various
organizations, such as the National
Student League, which has pledged
it's fullest support. The National
Student League intends to further an
investigation Of the mines despite the
fact that Moody, state superinten-
dent of police, has stated that this is
not the time to investigate conditions
in the mine.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-23
100000 Peasants In
Soviet Ukraine Form
Harvest Shock Troops

MOSCOW, Aug. 49, - Answering
Pravda's call for more speed in COM
plotting the harvest, 100000 Ukrai-
MAN peasants organized into shock
brigades and began race with the
weather, which is getting cooler and
threatens to jeopardize the harvest.
Leading those who answered the
call are village newspaper correspon-
dents who not only appeal to the
peasants for more speed but set
themselves the pace of vigorous
drive for 100 per cent harvest.
The drive is having favorable re-
suits, according to dispatches from
Kharkov, and on the basis Of these
partial results it is anticipated that
the harvest will soon be completed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-23
JAPAN MADE UP IT'S MIND WAR
WITH U.S.S.R. INEVITABLE"

A Hardin dispatch from the New
York Times correspondent states:
1.-THE sudden Japanese interest in
airport development, coupled with
the recent importation into Man
churia of large numbers of Japa-
nese airplanes, has given rise to
reports that Japan has made up its
mind that war with Russia was
inevitable and was openly prepar-
ing for such conflict. In some
quarters the Japanese aerial ac-
tivities were even interpreted as an
attempt by the Japanese military
element to provoke war"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-23

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Aug. 22.-At
the convention Of 1855 delegates from
all important steel and metal manu-
featuring centers, which formed the
Steel and Metal Workers Industrial
Union here, Aug. 1915, many re-
ports we're given on conditions and
tactics.
There were reports from West AL
lis, Wisconsin, where an unemployed
branch of 300 has been organized
and 80 contacts, mostly among
former members Of A. F. of L. unions,
has been established in the Allis-
Chalmers plant, and from eastern
Ohio, where the steel workers have
been learning organization from the
miners. The Ohio delegate described
how a meeting of the Amalgamated
Association of Iron, Steel and Tin
Workers closed with prayer for all
public officials, from President Hoo
yer down, but without mentioning
the workers.
Dealing With Snitchers.
A machinist delegate from Mime
sofa told how "sntch- babies" and
stool-pigeons in the shop may be
ostracized and forced to lose Their
jobs by the joint action of the union
men in the shop. He also urged
bringing mass pressure to bear on
certain key individuals by repeated
visits from different union members
to get them to join the union.
Tricks to Bar Relief.
Methods by which the company
extracts money from the unemployed,
and from the part-tirne workers who
are getting one or two days work
a week, were described by the dele
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-23
Anthracite Mine
Owners Reap Big
Profit; Cut Pay

WILKES BARRE, Pa, Aug. 22.-
While operators and United Mine
Workers leaders are moving for a
20 per cent wage-cut in the An
thracite, the companies pile up
profits even at present wages.
Labor Research Association in
New York reports that Glen Alden
Coal Co.,. with mines near here,
paid S2,O4O,0O0 on bonds this year,
and paid a dividend last year in
December.
The Lehigh and Wilkes Barre
Corporation has paid 81 share
on its stock so far in 1882.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-23
MOTHER OF KILLS SELF.
lRY A Worker Cnrresn0ndentl

TOLEDO, o. - Mrs. Estelle Glass,
So, of 754 Deal street, committed
suicide recently. She was the mother
of five children, and the dread of
bringing a sixth child into family
already suffering from starvation
caused her to kill herself. Her hus-
band, a war veteran, is painting
contractor who had found no work
for long time.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-23
PROGRESS OF SOVIET AVIATION
WORMY FLOUR
(By q Worker Correspondent

BERKELEY, Mich.-You can't get
a job here even at cents an hour.
and the Welfare gives you some food
for two days and let's you starve the
other five days. The wheat given to
be turned into Red Cross flour is
another way the bosses ara making
money. The changed new wheat for
old wheat, and so the flour they are
giving us here is wormy.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-23
Declare Martial Law
In Haitian Cities

PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, Aug. %.
Martial law was proclaimed in this
and other cities of Haiti as part of
a campaign launched by the govern
ment to silence the opposition news
papers.
Since the proclamation five news
papers were suppressed and two edi-
tors arrested, one of them being a
prominent radical.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-23
Magazine Says Is
Million Will Need
Relief Next Winter

WASHINGTON, Aug. 22.-Accord-
ing to the magazine Fortune, pub
lished for big business, 25,000,o 900 per-
sons will be without any means of
living this coming winter. This is
based on an estimate of 100000
unemployed. But already the I'M
employed reach close to 100000
making Fortunes figures an under
estimation.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-23

highly unpleasant conclusions. The
private and official relief and unem-
ployment figures cannot be made to
square with our findings, and we are
forced to, conclude either that they
are wide of the mark, or that the
Negro is being Disseminated against.
Perhaps both"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-23
oLGIN ADDRESSES BOSTON
CONFERENCE

BOSTON, Mass.--More than 100
delegates from workers organizations.
including trade unions, fraternal or
ders and the Communist Party, at
tended an Emergency Daily Worker
Conference held here the other day.
M. Olgin, editor of the Freiheit adj
dressed the Conference on the
urgency of the Daily Workers appeal
for funds.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-23
WITH THE DAILY WORKER CAMPAIGN

The danger of suspension is always
there.
Start the Red Penny Fund. Flood
the country with small pocket-boxes.
Aim at million pennies a week.
You can get them. 1t can be donei
Yours,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-23
CORRECTION

BY a misprint, the headline in
Yesterdays paper said the miners
were ready to march Unto" Indiana.
What was meant was that in Indiana
miners we're ready to march on un-
struck mines.-Editor.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-23
DEMAND RELEASE OF HUN
GARIAN COMMUNIST

BERL1N.-The Central Committee
Of the Socialist Workers Party of
Germany has sent a strongly worded
telegram to the Hungarian Govern
ment protesting against the barbar-
Gus execution Of Sallai and Fuerst,
and in particular against the at
tempt to execute the communist
Karikas.
Karikas is now on trial for the
same offense, namely the propaganda
of the ideas of communism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-23
FROM BUTTE, MONTANA

Dear COmraueS.
have not paid cent to the elec-
trio power gang of robbers for the
last five months. I have to pay at
least one-half of the bill within the
week or my light will be shut off. In
spite of this, however, you can de-
pend on my renewing my Daily sub.
Fraternally yours,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-23
International
Notes
MASS ARRESTS AND TORTURES
IN RJVGARIA

SOFIA. - The arrests throughout
Bulgaria in connection with the Anti
War Day are continuing. 1t is be-
lieved that the authorities want to
stage mass trials of anti-war dem
onstrators.
Comrades Kunin and Staikoff,
members of the Central Committee
of the Workers Party, are among
those arrested. They have been sub
jected to severe tortures.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-23

VOTE COMMUNIST FOR
Unemployment and Social In
surance at the expense of the state
and employers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-23
CONFERENCE AUG. "a

CHICAGO.--A city-wide conference
to mobilize Chicago workers for both
the Subscription and Emergency
Drives of the Daily Worker will be
held on Wednesday evening, Aug. "a.
AL active workers are urged to at
tend