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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-29

Court was forced OF admit that the
trial was unfair.
A second base for the appeal will
be the Exclusion of Negroes from the
juries denied to the defendants equal
protection Of the law as provided by
the Fourteenth Amendment of the
Constitution.
While the LID. plans to carry on
the sharpest fight in the courts OF
the bosses against these murderous
lynch yerdicts, the LID. has no leg
iSlatic illusions. 1t knows that the
U. S. Supreme Court is as much an
instrument of ruling class oppression
against the toiling masses as is the
Alabama Supreme Court. The legal
fight will be supplemented by ire
mendous mass campaign throughout
the country to rally ever broader sec
tions of the working class and sym
pathetic elements for the mass fight
which alone can stop the bloody
hands Of the fascist bosses.
j. Louis Engdahl, general secre-
tary of the LID, yesterday branded
as false impressions deliberately
spread in the boss press that the
appeal would be argued either by the
NAACP or by the Civil Liberties
Union, both of which have issued
statements on the appeal of the press.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-29
SEAMEN REVOLT
AGAINST RYAN'S
SELL OUT PLAN
Plan Exposed By the
M arin e Workers
Industrial Union

BALTTMORE.-A growing wave of
rebellion is developing amongst the
rank and file of the International
Longshoremen'S Association against
the proposals of the officials to vol
unfairly accept wage-cut from the
shipowners April LIST. The sell-out
pplsns have been exposed by the
Marine Workers Industrial Union,
which has called upon the rank and
file to reject the proposals, vote
strike against the wage-cut, and to
elect rank and-file committees to
fight the wage-cut.
The latest revolt occurred in Balti-
more, where Ryans proposals for a
voluntary wage-cut we're unanimous
ly rejected by the rank-and-file of
the 1. l.. A. at a special membership
meeting, March Oath. At this meet
ing, Ryan appeared personally for
the first time in any. port, and begged
the men to accept a 10-cent hourly
reduction in pay and reduction of
compensation from $40 to $3.50.
No publicity was given for the
special meeting, but the plans of the
officials to put something over on the
rank and file were defeated by the
Marine Workers Industrial Union,
who held meeting at Locust Point,
exposing the plans of the takers and
calling upon the workers to go to
the meeting and vote strike against
the proposals.
AS the longShoremen were going to
the meeting special leaf1et was dis
tributed to them. At the meeting
Ryan launched an attack against the
reds" but the longShoremen fol-
lowed out the program of the M. w.
I. U. and defeated the proposals of
Ryan.
Last Tuesday in Philadelphia the
rank and file voted down the pro-
poSalS and over thousand long
shoremen attended an open-air meet
ing called by the M. w. I. U. Thurs
day, and when the gangsters of Polly
Baker attempted to break up the
meeting they were preYnted from
doing SO by the rank and file. This
meeting is the best one that has been
held on Delaware Avenue, and illus
trates the growing rank end file
movement and the increasing in
fiuence of the M. w. /. U.
The latest maneuvers on the part
Of the officials have given greater
emphasis to the coming world Unity
Congress, and the I. L. A. longshore-
men are discussing it and the election
Of a rank-and-file member of the
/. L. A. to represent the longshore-
men in Hamburg.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-29
HALF DOLLAR CAMPAIGN
New York and Connecticut Lead the Country
South and Far West Are on the
Tail End

pouring the countryand not
yet fast reach quotas by April fe campaign TO the
Daily Worker must drag scoupIeof weeks
This will time the instructions by mail al
representatives all for
campaign instructions be-
ginning to be felt
the Daily Worker dolar-and
branch organzatiOn-$5 more!
There complete this drive in good revolutionary rivalry
There time for all districts to reach their quotas before New
Connecticut!
WATCH REPORT!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-29
Murphy Cuts Out Relief for Children

but who discovered that a man can
live on the sum of 80 cents per week,
no one seems to know. The mayor
gives no more, that's all there is
to it.
He has TO save the bankers. To
hell with the working class-is his
motto. He will call a Child Health
Conference, and the fools will say to
themselves, as not this Murphy
great MANI"
Like hell they will say that. They
will organize, and they are doing it
right along. The workers are flock
ing into the Communist Party, the
Young Communist League, the IN
employed Councils and the Young
Pioneers. They are fools no more,
and they won't be fooled all of the
time! F. S.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-29
ANTHRACITE MINERS
URGED TO CARRY ON
RANK AND FILE FIGHT
Demand Abolition of Speed-Up and Check
Off and No Discrimination

lead them on the picket line, as a
result it is mostly a strike of the
unemployed against the unemployed.
Another trick they use to aid the
operators, is to refuse to take the
maintenance men out of the mines,
which. if done, would force the OPP
orators to settle or the mines would
be rendered useless.
One has only to look at who these
so-called leaders are and to look at
their former record to tell that they
are only looking for a soft job for
themselves. The instigator of the
movement In District l is Maloney
and his lieutenant, Shuster, who has
already misIed two strikes In Dis
trict !, and turned their grievances
over to the official Boylan machine
to be settled in favor of the opera
tors. The ringleader in getting the
movement started in District is
Dorghety who played the same game
in District9 that Maloney and Co.
did in District l.
Build Rank and File Control
The rank and file committee of
miners which is now working in all
sections of the coal fields is calling
on the miners to repudiate the fake
leaders and take the struggle in their
own hands. This can be done by
the miners in each local union of
25 members electing a committee to
lead the struggle. Each local strike
committee should at once elect a
rank and file body of to compose a
general strike committee to carry on
the struggle for the following de-
mands:
]. The equalization of work on
the basis of 4 days per week for
every miner at the union rate of
wages.
2. The reopening of all mines
closed as discrimination to force
wage-cuts and the closing Of all
waSherieS-
3. Abolition of the speed-up in
the mines.
4. Abolition of the check-off.
5. That all miners permanently
unemployed through the exhaus-
ton of their mines, be given i'm
mediate cash relief paid by the
coal operators and the state and
federal governments.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-29

tung is levying suTtaxes on salt
and coal. Chekiang Is leYying y
national emergency tax Osten-
sibly TO fortify the coast line, and
other provincial leaders similarly
are attempting to fill their de-
pleted war chests.
Instead of having made any
progress toward unificatiOn, army
bisbandment and reconstruction
since the spring of last year, (kuo-
mintangl China today Is Ia a worse
condition in all respects than IN
March of 1881 and measurahly
nearer bankruptcy, while the sF-
proach Of serious internal conyui-
sions is Fastening, due to the fact
that the greater part Of Cbinz's
100000 soldiers have beu unpaid
for longer periods than ever be
FORE
Various Kuonlintang factions are
engaged in activities tending to the
splitting up Of China ON the lines
laid down by the inperialiStS. These
factions represent the interests ot
their various imperialist masters, as
well as their own graSping for power
to further exploit the Chinese
masses. Such movements are under
way in Canton and North China, and
in Hupeh Province, Central China
In the latter province a new indie
pendent" government has Just been
established. 1t has assured the i'm
perialists of its intentions" TO wage
"a more active campaign against the
Communists" In the meantime,
strong Chinese Red Armies are
tightening the net around the seat
of the new independent" govern
ment at Hankow.
A Hankow dispatch reports that a
kidnapping note sent to Chinese
banker has ben traced to the execu
tive secretary Of the local Kuonnin-
tang party,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-29
Forced Labor for Kansas City Unemployed

of oatmeal, three slices of bread and
coffee in the morning, and soup or
stew, bread and coffee at noon and
night Every one is expected to work
for his meals and lodging.
The institute has made arrange
ments with the Kansas City Terminal
Co to cut away rock bluff and cut
the stone into ballast One hundred
workers cut this stone for 10c a box.
Ordinarily a contractor would do
this work, but it is cheaper to have
the unemployed work in the form of
meager fod and rotten lodging, which
costs much less than what is earned.
Nearly thre-fourths of the unem-
ployed workers in the institute are
less than 40 years old, one-eighth are
less than 20 years old Negroes are
segregated.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-29
tBy a Worker Correspondent

wv NOhACI AUNICoPUltucutB
KANSAS CITY, Mo.-The Helping
Hand Institute has a false reputation
OF giving adequate relief to single
unemployed workers.
1t is commercial charitable insti-
tuition.
The name, home address, occupation,
physical ability, etc., must be given
when registering. Three days is the
time limit for any one. Although it
can be arbitrarily cut down when one
fails to work.
The institution holds about 500
workers who sleep in double deck
beds. There is no place to hang the
clothes We must sleep on them.
There are rooms rented out at hotel
rates.
The food is inadequate, consisting
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-29

middle class is attempting to line up
the radical vote"
Behind cover of petit bourgeois
movement to "soak the rich by I'M
posing a series of income and estate
taxes, which the millionaires can
evade, the insurgents" in the House
are beginning their election campaign
with an eye to a demagogic appeal to
the masses and to the crisis shaken
middle class.
AT the same time that the Wall st.
government through the medium of
President Hoover issued statement
that number of economics" would
have to be made, the intensive pre-
parations for war were clearly in
Dictated.
While calling for economics"
wherever possible, Hoover maintained
that the huge sums spent every year
for the army and navy and war de-
partments would not be touched.
Every war item was excluded in the
outline of proposed economics"
I'm considering possible further
economics in expenditures. VIC must
not forget that OF this total about
$500 100000 is OF such character
that IL cannot be reduced; it is
largely an inheritance Of the great
war through increase of payment on
government obligations and tho
care Of veterans and their fsmilics
'Tn addition, our army and navy
cost, about S70O,0O0.000 We should
not further reduce the strength Of
our Acfense,'
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-29
Split in Boss Party Ranks
on Tax; Coal Tariff Passed

For the first time since the dis
custom on the sales tax was a state
ment of position issued by the various
party leaders. Following the state
ment Of President Hoover that the
defeat of the sales tax was regret
table, Shouse, chairman Of the Ma
tional Executive Committee Of the
Democratic Party in a radio address
attacked the Democrats who had
helped defeat the sales tax. He
warned them that the leadership Of
the Democratic Party was committed
to the sales tax and they would do
everything in their power to pass it
in spite of its first defeat and limited
at its possible passage leater on. He
said:
Moreover, | have faith to be-
lieve that if convinced the need can
not be supplied from other sources
they may be willing to return TO the
plan of the sales tax as last
resort"
The statement of Shouse, who is
Raskobs choice for chairman of the
coming Democratic National Conven-
ton, is seen as the beginning of a
series of maneuvres in preparation
for shc coming presidential cam
paign.
The crisis has split -. Dem2cratic
,ssrty into two camps. Ia. leao.rship
" Raskob and Smith = DEF nitcly
Gazing for support Of Hx "eonierva-
t,ge' elements, while tbs soup IN the
&sase which voted sesIrst ths sales
- sspreMnllns tbs assxu ruined.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-29
Salvation Army Supplies Scab Labor

seth st. to get something to eat with
my last five cents.
After having the coffee and stale
buns walked out of hte restaurant.
There were about twenty men stand
ing in front of the door.
A Salvation Army man came over
and asked them if they wanted to
work. They asked what kind of work
1t was. The Salvation Army man
said that it was unloading lumber.
The pay, he said, would be 20 cents
an hour
1t turned out that this job was the
hardest kind of labor that only the
most physically fit could do. The
Salvation Army got rake-off for
supplying this scab labor.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-29
Eyewitness Tells of
Brut al Attack in
Washington
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hit him over the head yelling Get
up you black bastard"
Joan Hardy, delegate to the dem
onstration from the John Reed Club
of Philadelphia, tried to come to the
rescue Of a Negro being beaten by
three cops. One of them turned on
her, and, as she shouted denuncia-
ton of police brutality, he brutally
twisted her arm in an effort to make
her shut up. Another policeman ran
up and hit her over the head. She
collapsed on the sidewalk. When the
patrol wagon arrived she revived suf-
ficiently to lead the Twenty-Five vic
TINS of police persecution in singing
the International. Many workers
among the crowd of five hundred
joined in the singing.
Marie Grossman and Dorothy Dare
we're two other young women, mem
bers OF the Friends Of the Soviet
Union, who were badly beaten.
While the police we're raining
blows on the heads of the workers,
re resentatives of the capitalist press
stood by laughing at the spectacle.
Residents of this aristocratic neigh
borhood came out of their fine
homes and cheered the police. The
Japanese ambassador came out of the
embassy and congratulated General
Glassford, Superintendent of Wash
ington Police, who had personal
supervision of the murderous attack,
on his excellent work in defending
Japanese imperialism.
Bernard AIDES, lawyer for the In
ternational Labor Defense, went to
police headquarters and demanded
the right to see those arrested. He
was informed by General GlaSsford
that the % workers would not be al
lowed to have counsel and then he
was thrown out of the building, pro-
testing that his rights as a lawyer
an dthe rights of the arrested work
ers we're being violated.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-29


The admission was made as a con-
ference called for the purpose of
surveying Chinas internal condi-
. ton" The conference was partici-
pated in by Koumintang leaders and
their imperialist masters, represented
by the diplomatic agents OF the
United States, British, French and
Japanese Imperialism. A Shanghai
dispatch to the New York Times
sadly admits that the results of the
survey arouse the gravest misgiv-
ings."
The dispatch admits that the say
age blood baths against the Chinese
masses have failed to stem the revo-
lutionary movement. which now
threatens to sweep away the special
position of the imperialist robbers
and the last vestige of influence Of
their Kuomintang tools, The dis
patch admits the complete benk-
ruptcy of the Kuomintang, its loss
Of influence over the masses, the
nation wide dissatisfaction with the
Kuomintang and its traitorous poll
cies. The Chinese Soviet. districts
are growing in spite of the joint at
tacks by Buomintang troops and i'm
perialist gunboats. The dispatch
says:
Communists in the Yangtze
Basin admittedly are gaining
strength despite regional military
reverses. The rsvages of last years
Yangtze floods have not been al
Ieviated, thedamages in many areas
have been unrepaired, while re-
newed floods are feared"
Tn edispatch admits that the Kuo-
mintang leaders not only have done
nothing to relieve the flood sufferers
but are constantly imposing heavier
taxes on the starving peasants.
Various provincial leaders are
busy in their annual spring pas
time of deyising new taxes. Shan
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-29

Ia, IN whose case a mistrial
was declared at the original
farcical trials at Scottsboro,
Alabama, and Eugene Will
liams, the only one of the eight
condemned boys whose death SEN
tence was reversed on March "a by
the Alabama Supreme Court, which
was forced to recognize the argu-
ments of the defense attorneys that
the Scottsboro court had no jurisdic-
ton over Eugene who is a Juvenile.
The international Labor Defense
attorneys are demanding immediate
new trials for both boys, with a
change of venue from the Scottsboro
court.
In its appeal to the U. S. Supreme
Court against the lynch verdicts
against the other seven boys, the
LID. will cite the facts that the
boys were tried in a lynch terror at
mosphere, were denied time to no.
tify their parents or secure attorneys
for their defense, and were rushed to
death sentences on the unsupported
word of two white prostitutes who
were coerced by the state authorities
into falsely testifying that the boys
had raped" them. Even the chief
justice of the Alabama Supreme
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-29
Detroit, Mich.

Detroit, Mich.
Dear Comrades:
While Mayor Murphy called a
Child Health Conference in continue :.
ton of President Hooyer's enterprise,
the welfare hand-out was cut twen-
ty-five per cent. This is, according
to Murphy, scientific management
of the Detroit Welfare Department.
The lunches that were given to the
school kids have been cut out entire
ly. And on top of that the school
kids will have to buy more paper
tablets, because the school authorities
must economic and have stopped the
supply Of paper which formerly was
given the kids in the schools.
Last year the City Controller,
Roosevelt, discovered that a man can
exist on sum of SIPS per week,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-29

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after an armed band travelling
in one hundred automobiles
blocked the highways, forcibIy
stopped the two buses and a
number of autos containing the
college delegation and compelled
them to cross back over the Ken
lucky Tennessee state line.
The following statement was made
by the Bell County Prosecutor, in re-
ply to demand for an explanation
Of the conduct of armed thugs and
county officials:
'If you want statement from
me, here it is. L have been kind
and patient with you and 1 have
acted for your safety, BUT 1
SHALL OFFER YOU NO FUR
Their PROTECTION. IF YOU
HAVE NO BETTER SENSE THAN
TO DELIBERATELY S OK
YOUR HEAD IN THE FIRE, YOU
WILL HAVE NOBODY TO BLAME
BUT YOURSELVES. If you refuse
my advice and spurn what at
tempts 1 have offered for your pro-
lection, then guess there is no
other remedy for fool but TO leave
III IN hA ~ H.
own folly"
To emphasize his open call to a
lynch attack upon the students,
Prosecutor Smith added that the
next time the students entered Bell
County the officials would take no
notice of their visit and leave them
to the care Of the Benin County
residents. We are doing you a ia
vor. There is no telling what might
happen then"
After remaining in Knoxville to
make sure no attempt was made
upon the committee of four students
sent to Pineville, the National Stu
dent League delegation left early
yesterday morning over Jellico Road
on their way TO Frankfort, KY,
where they intend seeing Governor
Laffoon. They will demand Of him
that he take immediate steps to
guarantee their safe tour of the Ken
lucky coal fields.
A second committee will see Gov
ernor Horton Of Tennessee, demand
ing an explanation of the co-opera-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-29
lBy a Worker Correspondentl

MINERSVILLE, Pa.-The living
conditions of the miners throughout
the anthracite regions, are growing
worse daily. At least one third Of the
miners are totally unemployed, with
most of the others working only part
time. Very few are working full time
and those that are working. are
working at starvation wages. Wage
cut after wage cut has been forced
upon them, until many of them, who
were once known as the aristocrat7
of labor, are now working for as low
as So per day, despite the fact that
they had a contract signed by the
coal operators and the UMWA Off
Gals couple of years ago that the
wages and working conditions would
not be changed for period of five
years and seven months.
Yet the burocratic officials Of the
u M, W. of A. insist that the OPP
orators have not broken the contract.
Therefore they refuse the miners the
right to strike, with the excuse that
if they strike, they, the miners will
be breaking the contract, and the
operators will use it as an excuse to
cut the wages.
Conditions Appalling
Conditions have reached such a
stage, that the capitalist press (which
in the Anthracite is the most reac-
tionary of any in the U. 81 is forced
to print accounts of miners children
dying of starvation. Now there has
arisen another variety of misleaders,
who call themselves insurgent lead
ers playing upon the misery of the
starving miners, by pretending to
lead them in a strike for equalization
of work. which they tell the miners
will divide the work equally among
the miners and relieve all their mis-
cry, but the program they offer, is
enough to prove to any worker that
they are not sincere. They say
equalization of work without Speci-
flying any cert ain amount of work
per week for each miner.
They are holding mass meetings
and telling the miners to come out
on strike, without offering them any
instructions on how to carry on the
strike. They tell the miners to go on
the picket line, but fail to go and