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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-09
Finland Signs Pact
of Non-Aggression
With Soviet Union

HELSINGFORS, Finland, July T.
Finland entered a non-aggression pact
with the Soviet Union when Presi-
dent Svinhufuvd signed the treaty
yesterday.
The pact was negotiated in April,
but its formal signing was postponed
until similar treaty with the Soviet
Union would be concluded by other
Baltic nations.
Despite Rumanias refusal to enter
a non-aggression treaty with the So
cialist Fatherland, Finland decided to
conclude the pact in order to i'm
prove its economic relations with the
USSR. 1t is stated that President
Svinhufvud is negotiating CONNER
cial treaty as supplement to the
non-aggression pact.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-09

on August 10th Following the ex-
posture Of the graft ridden Mayor
Kline administration is the news Of
the half million in graft taken by the
county commissioners. Clouding most
Of The dirty deals, the new county
commission is forced to admit, that
the county commissioners have. used
unemployed workers as forced labor
ers to repair their mansions and build
new homes for themsslYs.
Workers Hearings win Expose Graft
To expose this condition and organ
iae the voorhees, in the fight against
hunger, open hearings will be held in
all cities in Allegheny County between
July 18th and 22nd. At each one OF
the hearings the workers, besides ex-
posing this graft will elect two dele
gates TO the Workers Grand Jury
which viii meet in Pittsburgh on July
% Already a number of meetings
have been prepared in the mining and
steel towns around Pittsburgh.
Workers Grand Jury TO Meet July %
The workers grand jury elected in
many cities in Allegheny County rep
resenting tens of thousands of unem-
ployed and part time workers will
meet in Pittsburgh on July %. Thou
sands of workers are expected to be
present at this gathering.
John Harvey, secretary Of the I'm
employed Councils announces, that
the committee is making all arrange
ments to get West Park Band Stand,
which holds thousands for the meet
ing" 1t is expected that this will be
one of the largest outdoor meeting
held in recent months. The workers
grand jury is calling to this hearing
all those responsible for this graft
and the starvation of thousands of
men, women and children to appear
and defend themselves.
The meeting on July % viii be only
preliminary to the hunger march or
ganized for August 10th in Pittsburgh.
AS a result OF all tne open hearings
and intense activity including a num-
Der of demonstrations at many steel
plants. the workers from all parts of
Allegheny County, which includes
many mining and steel towns with
Pittsburgh as the county seat, thou
sands of men, women and children
will march on the county seat.
The Unemployed Councils are cali
ing in the workers to come with their
whole families to Pittsburgh on Aug
ust 10th and remain here until i'm
mediate relief is supplied. Like the
ex-servicemen now in Washington,
the unemployed will camp in the city
and remain until definite relief is
given to assure their existence for the
coming winter.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-09
Mexican Workers
Defeat Attempt to
Break Rail Strike

The Mexican Government has fall
ed in its Attempts to break the strike
Of the workers On the Southern Pa
cific Railway of Mexico. General
Abelardo Rodriguez, Minister OF In
dustry and Commerce, who denounced
the struggle Of the workers against
starvation wages as "unpatriotic" Is
trying to fool the men into returning
to work and submitting to arbitration.
e. B. Sloan, manager Of the Amer
ican-controlled road. issued synical
statement yesterday in answer to the
workers demands for better pay, in
which he declared that the company
has nothing more to give away He
argued that the road was not likely
to suffer much as freight, its revenue
would be increased from the fast ac-
cumulating freight. He declared that
the company would not consider any
raise in wages.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-09
FARMERS TO HOLD MASS
MARCH FOR JOBS IN PIKE
TOWNSHIP, MINNESOTA
$4,000 Poor Farmers Denied Relief In Duluth;
Prepare Mass Struggle
United Farmers League Rouses Masses of
Farmers Throughout State

VIRGINIA, Mimi, July 8.-Follow-
ing the rejection Of the demands OF
the l,500 farmers of st. Louis County
who marcher. TO. Duluth June 81, the
United Farmers League is actively
preparing local struggles to continue
the fight for immediate relief, and to
put into action the resolution adopted
for the Farmers Hunger Marchers to
call a tax strike and refuse to pay
taxes. "N"nQ' 'r
Already the United Farmers
League is getting ready to organize
farmers march on the county road
job in Pike township and demand
work, and also the recognition of the
Farmers Grievance Committee. A
mass meeting of log farmers from
that locality was, held, and all but 2
voted for the march. A committee
has been elected to. work out the de-
mands and draW up. a leaflet calling
on all the farmers in that township to
the march; the, demands are to be
49, 49,
presented to the county foreman.
Resolutions have. been sent to Com
missioner Dan, Mckenzie in the 9Th
District containing the farmers de-
mands, which include the endorse
nlent of unemployment and social in
surance at the expense of the state
and the employers.
During the first six months of 1892,
the United Farmers League has taken
in over 400 new members, and or
ganized large, number of new locals
and committees of action.
The United Farmers League in Bel
trami and Clearwater County are also
preparing for a Hunger March.
Twenty-six UFL meetings have been
arranged in that territory, where
Comrades Baumann, Murtland, and
others vii lspeak. On July II, there
will be joint two-county picnic,
where John Lindmap,,- Communist
candidate for Lieutenant Governor,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-09
Shirts" are acting as an extra ap.
paratus for the police.

Shirts" are acting as an extra ap-
paratus for the police.
Foster in Western Cities
KANSAS CITY, Mo, July 8.-Wn-
liam 2. Foster, Communist candidate
for president, speaks here this Sum-
day. With thousands of workers IN
employed, capacity audience is ex-
pected to listen to Foster.
From Kansas City, Foster goes to
Oklahoma City, where he speaks on
July IL; Fort Worth, Tex, July ~;
Terre Haute, Ind, July IA; Indian
apolis, July II; Cincinnati, July 18.
NEWARK, N. J., July 8.-Eagerly
awaiting the arrival of James w.
Ford, Negro worker and Communist
Party vice presidential candidate,
crowds of workers mad poor farmers,
Negro and white, are making prepar-
atoms to receive his message in seven
different localities in New Jersey.
Ford will visit this state of huge
trusts and war industries at time
when the city and state officials are
perfecting a system of "slave-labor"
to be introduced in all cities, thru
out the state by which unemployed
workers are to be forced to work for
the slop they get in the form of ere
lief" There is a growing army of
unemployed reaching a million in the
state, with hundreds of thousands liv-
ing in hunger and destination.
The newly formed District IA of
the Communist Party, in an effort to
reach many tens of thousands Of Ne
gro and white workers to have them
hear Ford, has issued thousands of
leaflets, declaring that two ways are
proposed out of the present crisis:
the bosses way, as represented by the
three capitalist parties is the way of
hunger, war and greater unemploy-
ment and wage cuts; the workers
way, as represented by the Communist
Party and its candidates, is through
struggle for unemployment relief and
insurance, at the expense of the state
and the employers and the wage cut
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-09

ting policy Of the BOSSES"
Ford's Jersey meetings follow:
Sunday, 7:30 pm. at the w. w. A.
Hall, 1853 Heck St., Neptune, N. j.
Monday, pm. at the Ukrainian
Hall, 1856 Mercer ST., Jersey City, NJ.
Tuesday, pm. at Turn Hall, TBS
High ST., Elizabeth, N. j.
Wednesday, pm, at Kantor's Au-
ditorium, 259 Monroe, Passaic, NJ.
Thursday, 8 pm. at the Kreugers
Auditorium, rs Belmont Ave-, Newark,
N. j.
On the following week:
Monday, July 18th, at pm. (place
to be announced later, Atlantic City,
N. j.
Tuesday, July 10Th, at pm. (place
to be announced later, Trenton, Nj
Misleaders Suit Them
CLEVELAND, O., July 8.-Complete
support for the program OF the So
cialist Party and it's candidate, Nor
man Thomas, will be given by the
League for Independent Political Ac-
tion," one of its leaders, Emanuel d.
who're, announced today.
Theoutfit originally planned tc
form a third party" but evidently
became convinced that their aims
could be merged with the already
existing third party of the bosses.
Penn. Meet Sat-, Sun.
READING, Pa, July S.-More than
300 delegates, representing mining,
textile, steel and other industries are
expected at the Pennsylvania state
nominating convention to be held
here Saturday and Sunday. Nearly
1900 workers from every part of the
state are expected to attend the con-
vention as visitors.
James Maurer, candidate for vice
president on the socialist ticket, has
been challenged to appear at the con-
vention to defend the program and
platform adopted ythe SIP. at the
Milwaukee convention.
Lucille Wright, sister of one of the
Scottsboro boys, will be at the con-
vention and appeal to the workers
to aid in freeing the framed-up Ne
gro boys.
After ratifying the six main planks
adopted by the National Nominating
Convention in Chicago, the Pennsyl-
vania meet will formulate state and
local demands, including program
demanding immediate relief at the
expense of the bosses; abolition of
forced labor; exemption of taxes on
homes of the unemployed; abolition
of liens and sheriffs' sales on belong
ings of jobless workers.
Defy Boston Police
BOSTON, July 8.--Breaking thru
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-09
Shall Edith
Berkman Die
A Prisoner?

The very life Of the beloved leader
of the textile workers-Edith Berk-
MANS in danger. She is now held
by the U. S. immigration authorities
as prisoner in the Central New
England Sanatariun, where she can
not get much care for her tubercular
condition as she should. Her physical
condition is not getting better, but
instead, even worse.
The chief physician of the Rutland
Sanatorium examined her on July S,
and admitted she is mot doing as
well as he hoped" In other words,
this careful statement from the doc
tor means that the physical condi-
ton of Edith Berkman is not getting
any better. Why?
Everyone knows that any person,
who is suffering from tuberculosis,
needs good care, physically and men
tally. We also know that when a
person is being held as a prisoner,
she can not have such a mental relax
alton as would be absolutely necessary
for complete recuperation from tu-
bercular condition.
Comrade Berkman's condition Is
much worse than prisoner. She is
continuously under the brutal de-
portation terror of the us. Immigra-
ton authorities. District Commits
sioner Anna c. M. Tillinghast as a
right hand of the deportation" sec
rotary, VIM. N. Doak, is working I'M
dercover very fast, for trying to de-
port Edith Berkman to fascist Poland.
Struggle Necessary
We must bring the struggle for
Comrade Berkman's release in the
forefront of our activity. Especially
in the New England district where
comrade Berkman is well known to
large masses of workers and sym
pathizers, we must intensity our
fight. Mass demonstrations must be
organized in every city and town as
soon as possible. These meetings
must be closely connected with the
struggle against the Dies-Fish de-
portation bill. Every honest worker,
native and foreign born should feel
deeply indignant against the discrim-
nation and deportation of foreign
born workers.
The International Labor Defense
have already taken steps to appeal
the Berkman case into U. S. Supreme
Court and also are demanding her
release on bail, pending final and
complete release. But we must not
have such illusions that the legal
proceedings alone will save Comrade
Berkman for the working-class The
Supreme Court is the highest ex-
preston of class justice of the ruling
class.
Fight Dies Bill
The fight for the release of Edith
Berkman is the fight against the
Dies-F'ish deportation bill. 1t is a
joint fight Of native and foreign born,
Negro and white workers, and all who
are sympathetic to our struggles.
Organize mass demonstrations, send
protest resolutions to Secretary of
Labor Doak, Vice. President Curtis,
U. S. Senators of your state, and U. S.
Supreme Court Judges, demanding
immediate. release of Edith Berkman,
protest against her illegal detention
for the last nine months, protest
against the Dies deportation bill.
A broad mass activity is needed
NOW. Do not delay even one day.
DOWN WITH THE DEPORTATION
POLICY OF THE DOAK- HOOVER
GOVERNMENT.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-09

BLAINE, Ohio, July s.-Local Off
Gals of the United Mine Workers OF
America continued their strikebreak-
ing activities here today Heads of
the u1fpn led $50 miners back to
work in the struck. mine.
A uli1,er named Crawford, an old
hsrdsh.il U. M. w. A. member, de-
clsred tpday that he would throw his
lot with the National Miners Union.
EFT tile National pulls this mine,"
he said, Il will see to 1t that every
Blaine miner Joins and wins the
strike After five years I can see
that the policy of the National Is
the correct one The National wants
victory for the miners The u. M.
w. A. does n6t'
The National Miners Union had
500 pickets on; the line this morning
and is calling for greater mobiliza-
ton tomorrow to halt the organized
scabbing. - .----
Would Dodge Debate.
The U. M. Wa leader Pacifico at
tempted today TO dodge a challenge
to debate with Bonus, leader of the
National Miners Union at the Dill
lonville Bohemian Hall, Sunday af-
ternoon Five hundred miners at the
U. M. w. A.. hall demanded that Pa
cifico appear
Six miners are now in jail and
warrants have been issued for the
arrest of Is more charged with beat
ing a scab Militia and riot squads
are posted in the vicinity of the mine
property. no'
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-09
OPEN HEARINGS
TOSHOW GRAFT
IN PITTSBURGH
Workers Grand Jury VIII Hear Evidence On
Graft and Starvation July ~
Plan Big Allegheny County Hunger March
In Pittsburgh August 10

PITTSBURGH, July 8. Against
the city and county government which
is squand sring tens OF thousands of
dollars in graft, the Unemployed
Councils are organizing the Allegheny
County Hunger March in Pittsburgh
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-09

will speak. On Tuesday, August 2, a
farmers and workers hunger march
vii takel place at Bemidji, to present
demands for relief for the unem-
ployed workers and poor farmers of
Beltrami County.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-09

police barriers which have existed for
years, the South Boston unit of the
Communist Party has succeeded in
holding an election rally in the
stronghold of the Curley- Foley gang.
Three hundred meetings attended
the meeting, and Attempts of the po-
lice to stop the rally on the pretense
that the speakers had failed to get a
permit Topped when the cops saw
the evident sympathy of the workers.
Fifty copies of the Communist plat
form were sold, and number of
workers expressed their eagarness to
participate actively in the campaign
Meet in Anthracite
WILKES BARRE, Pa, July g.
Workers Of the anthracite district will
nominate candidates for all legisla-
tive officers and ratify the state cleo
ton program of the Communist Party
when they met at nominating con-
vention to be held at the italian
Ruinite Hall, 206 Oliver ST., Luzerne
on Monday, July 18, at 1880.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-09

Russia is inevitable" declares the
newspaper "Bussio Simpo." 1t fur
ther states the sooner it begins the
better for. Japan: at would be better
not to leave the question of who is
the stronger unanswered until after
the completion of the Five Year
Plan" Similar statements have been
made by high Japanese officials.
Look for War Pretext.
"Bussio Simpo" says that it should
not be difficult to find some pretext
for starting war against the Soviet
Union. 1t admits that Japan has
supported the Russian white guard
lists, both morally and materially, and
declares that in return their job
would be to make the war a fact In
other words, provocation.
The Japanese newspaper "Asahi"
yesterday published an anti-soviet
provocative article alleging the arrest
by Soviet authorities on Puchichi
Island of 400 japanese fishermen
employed at Soviet crab-canning
plant Puchichi is off the west coast
Of Kamchatka, northeastern Siberia.
"Asahi" declared that the Japanese
Government had ordered the patrol
boat "Shinkotsu Maru" to effect
their release" Similar provocative
lies have been published in the Jap
anese press following the opening of
the fishing season. The Japanese
rnilltarists have also tried to utilize
the annual negotiations over Jap
anese fishing rights in Soviet waters
as a pretext for war on the Soviet
Union.
Japan Takes Over Hardin Cops.
Hardin dispatches report that the
police force in northern Manchuria
is being .reorganized along Japanese
lines, All important posts are being
occupied by japanese officials. Tsar-
LIST white guardists are being drawn
into the police force in large num-
bers. The newspaper "Harbinskoya
Vremia" predicts an increase of po-
lice activity against dangerous
| IDEAS"
Raid Aug. LIST Preparatory Meet.
TOXIC. Japan (By MaiD "A
meeting of Japanese students to con-
slider the question of support for the
August First anti-war demonstrations
was raided by Toxic police. Everyone
| present was arrested. This is part of
! the savage drive of the Japanese rul-
ing circles to break up all anti-im-
perialist and working-clas organi-
cations.
Forward to Anti-War Congress.
BERLIN (By MaiD On June 80,
the association of German authors
fSchuetzverband Deutscher Schrits-
teller) held a meeting against inn
perialist war The subject discussed
was "The Writer and War"
Among the speakers We're the we'll
! known ASIAN expert OTTO Corbach,
Or. Erich Franzen, the novelist Ar
mold Zweig, and the Journalist Peter
Flamm.
K. A. Wittfogel also addressed the
meeting and put forward the stand
point of the Communist writer tow
ards war as compared with the inef-
fectual wishy-w ashy attitude of the
pacif1sts ard semi-pacifists who con-
tent themselves with fine sounding
phrases but in fact do nothing
against war He received consider
able applause.
The meeting also discussed the anti
war congress to be held at Geneva
in August on the call of Roman Rol-
land and other World-famous writers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-09

Towards Soviet America" by
VIM. q. Foster--S1.25--an eIabora-
ton of the platform of the Com
munist Party i'll its election cam
paign.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-09
Farmers Defy
Frenzied Mob
in Ray, N. ID.

Mother" Bloor, veteran labor
fighter, vas 10 years old only July
s. She is at present state organ
izer of the United Farmers League
of North Dakota.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-09
BY ELLA REEVE BLoOR.


RAY, North Dakota (By MaiD.-
Thir gs are certainly breaking loose
here under the expert tuition of the
American Legion. Last night we bat
tied with them for many hours here.
Although everything was organized
against us from getting hall in
town, we held a mass meeting at
night which was attacked by an or
ganised mob of hoodlums--yelling
and screaming for three hours.
Hold Fight
Our forces stood pat, however, and
the speakers kept on despite giant
firscrackers being flung in our faces.
One of the Legionnaires put about
ten of these firecrackers under large
kettle, where they Of course exploded.
The kettle came down with a bang
almost hitting farmers son.
Men, women and children came
from far and near to attend the meet
ing. BY striking me, the drunken
leader of the mob, Frank Snyder, a
Justice of the Peace" thought he
would provoke the comrades to free
for ALL" I said to the comrades who
rushed to protect me. "I'll take care
of this bird" and 1 did,
The hoodluns also tried to attack
the other comrades, later throwing
firecrackers, rotten fruit and fresh
eggs. Eggs are so cheap--three cents
dozenD
Hold Meeting, Defy Attackers
At the evening meeting where /
spoke, the organizer of the United
Farmers League of Williams County
introduced a resolution calling upon
all the nearly Township Committees
of the League to boycott the town OF
Ray, refusing to patronize the stores
oil stations, farm machinery and
hardware men, and the doctor. (The
town doctor was one of the leaders
in melting the attack against u.s. The
resolution was unanimously adopted
After the meeting while the organ
lied hoodlums were still screeching
their insults, some of the women of
the town came and apologized for the
mob action, and said it was a "black
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spot on the map or North Dakota"
VIII Continue Fight
We shall continue holding meetings
in Ray until we have the farmers
100 per cent organized in the United
Farmers League.
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MINERS MASS TO
HALT. SCABBING
A. F. Of: L. Herding
Strike Breakers
BULLETIN.

GREENSBURG, Pa, July B.
miners were killed and four in
jured when caught beneath a fall
of slate in the Edna No. mine of
the John Carr Coal Co. here yes
terday.
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TRY JAPAN ARMY
MIJTINEERS
Aug. LIST Preparations
Grow In u. S.

CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE
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COX BLUE SEiIRT'
GANG REFUSED
IN PITTSBURGH
Ford to Speak in NJ.
Cities

CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE
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BOSTON, July 8.-Breaking thru
Evening star., 1932-09-19

Tiller. Mrs. Ray Thornley, and Mrs.
Henri Charles.
Among the guests were Miss Ethel
Mac Frame, Miss Hilda James, Miss
Margaret McReynolds, Miss Sara Thorn
ley, Miss Romaine Stevens. Miss Dor
othy Schultz, Miss Mary Dunlap, Miss
Dorothy Dunlap. Miss Dorothy Clum,
Miss Erna Fieldman, Miss Theresa
Fieldman, Miss Evelyn Broak, Miss Dor
othy Pepper, Miss Wilma Dahn, Mr.
Owen Davis, jr.; Mr.. Theodore Tiller,
I'd; Mr.. Frank Westbrook, Mr.. Emmert
Wiseman, Mr.. Carl Carlson, Mr.. Ru-
dolph Rauber, Mr. Jack Browne, Mr..
Jack Simonton, Mr.. Norris Reid, Mr..
Eugene Kressin, Mr. Sam Torbert,
Mr.. Frank Leach and Mr.. Harold Smith.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Penrose Hook
enberry of 1903 A street southeast an
nounce the marriage of their daughter
Iva Elsierena to Mr.. Malcolm P. Toone
Of Concord, N. H., August %, at Fred
ericksburg, Va.
Mr.. Toone, formerly Of Gourock
Scotland, is graduate of the Univer
sity of New Hampshire and both he and
Mrs. Toone are we'll known in Wash
ington musical circles. Mrs. Toone
studied at the Panama Conservatory of
Music, Republic of Panama, and under
Prof. E. Holyrod of the Cincinnati
Conservatory of Music They plan to
reside in Washington for the present.
Mrs. Neva NJ Scheer of sos Randolph
street has returned home, after spend
ing the Summer with her sister, Mrs.
w. H. Robertson, at Industry, Pa. She
was accompanied to Washington by her