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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-09
Grape PickerS Held
at Gun Point After
Vigilante Attack
Renewing Efforts to
Deport California
Strike Pickets

LODI, Calf, Oct. Sat least five
hundred of 1000 grape pickers on
strike were being held here today
under the guns of vigilantes of the
Grape Pickers Association, in a city
park, after an Association thug was
shot and killed in an attack upon
pickets.
The vigi1antes are expected to at
tempt to renew their effort, foiled a
few days ago, to load the strikers into
freight cars and deport them from the
area. Militant resistance by the
strikers prevented their previous at
tempt.
Terror is raging throughout the
agricultural areas of California, with
grape and cotton pickers out on strike
in several centers, and hundreds of
gangsters under arms attempting to
drive them back to work.
Attempts are being made by the
authorities and rich ranchers, assisted
by the American Legion officials, to
provoke race riot" and incite the
white workers to massacre the Fill
pino workers on strike. So far these
efforts have failed in so far as the
rank and file of striking workers is
concerned.
Arrests occur hourly throughout the
strike areas, the International Labor
Defense reports. High bail is being
set on charges of criminal conspiracy,
vagrancy, rioting and obstructing law
enforcement.
Louise Todd, Communist candidate
for Supervisor in San Francisco, was
arrested and charged with failure to
disperse at command in Lodi. A
worker who attempted to protect her
from the police attack was also
arrested. Bail was set at $500 and
$1,000 respectively for each.
Striking workers all over the fruit
and cotton areas are being evicted
daily from their camp homes.
A delegation of the California Com
mittee for the Defense of Political
Prisoners is in the Lodi strike region
today to investigate conditions and
expose the terror.
Protests against the terror condi-
tions in California should be sent to
Governor James Rolph at Sacra-
mento, Calf, demanding recognition
of the right of workers to organize,
strike and picket. and the disarming
of the Grape Growers Associations
private army of gunner, including
deputy sheriffs.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-09
Minneapolis Negro
Faces Trial Today
for Self-Defense

MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, Oct. g.
Trial of WILDER Hardiman, 22-year-
old Negro, charged with murder IN
the second degree for defending him
self against lynch mob, opens here
Monday before Judge Paul w. Gull
ford.
Hardiman was one of four or five
Negroes who were being chased by a
lynch gang, following a friendly
wrestling match. A shot was fired
and one of the whites in the front
Of the pursuing mob was killed.
Many Negroes were attacked on the
streets that evening, and five ar
rested, but not a single white man
was arrested.
Another Negro, James Johnson, is
charged with assault In the first de-
gree. One of the arrested men was
given a 30-day work farm sentence,
and the others, vital defense wit
nesses, were chased out of town.
Protests against the action OF Judge
Guilford in refusing to give the In
ternational Labor Defense time to
properly prepare for trial, involving
murder charge, should be sent to
Judge Guilford, City Hall Building,
Minneapolis, MINI. The protests
should demand the dismissal OF the
cases against WILDER Hardiman and
James johnson.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-09
New Haven Strike
in Metal Shop Won
Co n ditions in Win
chester Arms Inhuman

NEW HAVEN, Conn.-Some local
gains have already been registered by
the workers in this city. Led by the
Steel and Metal Workers Industrial
Union, a victorious one-day strike in
the Atlas-Ansonia Metal shop raised
the workers wages about so per cent,
and time and half for overtime.
The bosses also granted recognition
of the shop committees.
The workers of the Winchester Re-
peating Arms Co. report of inhuman
conditions in the shop The poisoned
air in which the workers are COM
PEELED to work, for $40 a week and
less, develops sores on the skin and
brings great suffering to the body and
lungs.
The bosses have instituted COM
pany union. Under the threat of
being fired, the appointed committee
is compelled to vote in the bosses
favor when disputes arise. The work.
ers received with enthusiasm the shop
bulletin which the Steel and Metal
Workers issued uring the workers to
organize to improve their lot.
The most internal working condi-
lions have so far been reported by the
workers of the Goodyear Sundries
Co., where, under cover of the N. r.
A., the workers are sweated in the
hot, steam-filled atmosphere, which
is saturated with starch ammonia,
and a sickening odor. The official
Blue Eagle minimum Of $13 a week
has been clipped to $40.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-09
Hold Anti-Fascists
enLuther Speaks
In Socialist City
Judge Shocked When
Workers Demand
Right to Speak

MILWAUKEE,, Oct. 6.-District
Judge George E. Page held seven
anti-fascist workers in bail of $35
each, despite admission by Assistant
City Attorney John Magma that the
city had no case against the de-
PENDANTS, arrested when police at
tackled an anti-fascist demonstration
before the fashionable Milwaukee
Club, where DR.. Luther, fascist am
bassador, was bein banqueted by Wal
ter hasten, president of the First
Wisconsin National Bank.
The seven defendants are charged
with unlawful assemblage." In ad-
dition, three of the seven are charged
with resisting an officer" The
court room, heavily guarded by police
was thronged with workers.
Judge Page flew into a rage when
Megna indicated that the prose
cutor's office could find no basis fol-
pressing the charges
"You mean that you will move for
dismissal?" he angrily demanded,
Eyes," said Megna, "and I also
have instructions that no bail is to
be SET"
do you mean that you will move
for no bail?" Page demanded hyster-
ically. We'll, refuse to take that
recommendation. Bail will be $35
each on the disorderly conduct
charges"
The seven defendants are Fred
Bassett Blair, Ivan Koss, Harry Yaris
Lillian Husa, Conrad Augustine
Thomas Gozdamovich and John Pia-
secki, the three last also charged with
resisting an officer
While Megna announced at the
end of the hearing that he will again
move for dismissal when the cases
come up in the future, the U. S. i'm
migration authorities are taking q
hand in the effort to crush the anti
fascist protests of Milwaukee work
ers and are threatening the de-
PENDANTS with deportation. Herman
R. Landon, immigration official, has
started an inquiry into their status
as citizens"
The arrested workers were defended
by attorney Samuel Berg of the In
ternational Labor Defense.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-09
Daily Worker Man
Robbed of Films
Showing Kidnap Mob

HELPER, Utah, Oct. 8.--Just be-
fore the kidnapping of Daniel Black
from the court house steps at Paul
Crouch's hearing in Price, Utah, state
patrolmen, plain clothesmen, and
other officials surrounded the Daily
Worker moving picture photographer,
roughly handled him, and finally
confiscated his films. One PLAIN
clothasman. answering the descrip-
ton Of Gibson, was present.
The Daily Worker photographers
films were taken out of the camera
and confiscated. When he protested
to Sheriff S. M. Bliss the photo
grapher, was threatened with arrest.
The pictures had been taken outside
the courthouse showing the large
crowd Of workers present and also
the troops and police, which probably
included the actual kidnappers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-09
FarmerSCOnferenCe
to Fight Initiation;
Seek Cancellation
Of De BIT S
Alone Will Help
Small Farmers

WASHINGTON, D. c.. Oct. 6.-As
delegations of large cotton planters
and old-time farm leaders visit
Roosevelt demanding currency infla-
ton, countless meetings of small
farmers all over the country are rails
ing the slogan of Cancellation, Not
Initiation" the Farmers National
Committee here reported today.
The Committee is at work prepar-
ing for the Second National Farm
ers' Conference, to be held at Chi
cago Nov. 1913. Preliminary reports
indicate that the program Of Can
collation., Not Initiation" will be IA
vorably acted upon by the farm dele
gates who will come to Chicago from
all over the country.
At Aberdeen, South Dakota, the
first state conference of the United
Farmers League came forward Oct. 3
with a resolution demanding the can
collation. of all back taxes, mortgaged
debts, and feed and seed loans.
Alfred Tiala national secretary of
the U. F. L., has already announced
that this militant organization stands
behind the slogan Cancellation, not
initiation" and will bring this slogan
forward at the conference.
In its issue of Oct. 2, the Farmers
National Weekly, organ of the Farm
ers National Committee for Action
and some 20 militant farm organiza-
lions and local committees of action,
made a vigorous attack on initiation,
as a method Of relieving the rich at
the expense of the workers and
farmers and placed against this in
flationary program the poor farmers
program of debt cancellation.
Harry Lux, state organizer of the
Farmers Nebraska Holiday Associa-
ton, has been organizing for the con-
ference on the basis of this slogan
and has reported that it meets with
genuine popularity among the poor
est sections of the farmers. "These
are the kind of farmers that are COM
ing to the conference, and it is these
poorest farmers that are going to
fight for it," Lux stated.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-09

used by the national guardsmen here.
The kidnappers told Black they will
put an end to future trials of organ
izers and will kill them.
This outburst of lynch law by gov
eminent employees, directed by the
coal companies, is undoubtedly an
attempt to influence the trials of the
N.M.U. organizers. The hearing on
Crouch, charged with criminal syn
dicalism and melting to riot. was adj
journed until Friday, when the judge
will render a decision and the hear
ings Of Weatherbee, Guynn and
others on similar charges will begin.
Prosecutor Disappears
Many patrolmen, deputies, national
guardsnen and thugs we're imported
into the town to ensure the success
Of the kidnapping. The authorities
are apparently making every effort
to avoid prosecution of the kidnap-
pers already definitely identified.
County Prosecutor Guese has disap-
peared for the obvious purpose of
avoiding action against the lynchers.
The N.M.U. and the LID. have
already arranged protest meetings in
Salt Lake City, Helper and other
towns. They call on all organiza-
lions to rush protest kilograms and
arrange protest meetings against the
regime Of terror and lynch law and
demand the release Of the strikers.
kilograms should be rushed to at
torney general Joseph Chez. Salt
Lake City, demanding the death pen
atty for the kidnappers. Protest
against the lynch attack of the coal
mine owners.
During the Crouch hearing defense
witnesses were followed from court
and searched by orders of the as
sistant district attorney, Horseley, in
an effort to intinidate the workers
who were present.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-09
WelderS of Mack
Plant ON Strike
For Higher Wages
May Spread to 5000 as
Auto Workers Union
Is Organized

ALLENTOWN, Pa, Oct. g. A
strike began in the Mack truck plant
when IS workers in the welding de-
partment walked out making the
strike 100 per cent in the welding
department. A meeting was held Of
the day shift workers and other de-
partments, attended by 118 workers.
H. M. Wicks, of the Trade Union
Unity League spoke. The workers all
joined the Auto Workers Union and
decided to build committees in every
department to enforce the demands,
as well as a plant committee.
The Mack company already agrees
to is per cent increase, fearing spread
of the strike. Tobin, A. F. of L. Or
ganizer, and other A. F. of L. or
ganizers are trying to horn into the
situation, but were denied the floor
at the meeting. The welders voted
to stay out until their demands are
granted. The plant employs 5000
and is likely to be completely tied up.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-09
Paterson Strikers
Refuse to Accept
Silk Code Of SIS
Members of AFL Razz
Keller as Next UTW
Sellout Nears
BY MARTIN RUssAK

PATERSON, Oct. Sin the face
of the 10000 striking silk workers the
s13 silk code has been signed by
President Roosevelt in Washington.
MacMahon, Kelly, and German, the
chieftains of the u. T. w, were
closeted in Washington with White
side, N. A.sA. Administrator in charge
of the textile codes, just before the
code was signed. Press dispatches
from Washington also state that the
A. F. of L. has approved the $l3 silk
code.
Revolt is sweeping the ranks of the
Associated-U. T. w. union here. A
majority of members Of the Associated
strike committee have demanded that
its utilization with the u. t. w. be
broken off. Immediate decision on
this was only forestalled on the plea
of non action on this during the
strike. Speaking at the large daily
mass meeting of the Associated in
Roseland ballroom, Keller opposed a
demand from the workers that &C
ton be taken AGAINST the shutting
off of gas and electricity of strikers.
Keller's speech was interrupted by
protests from the entire audience.
Mother Bloor, the famous labor
leader, was given tremendous ova-
lions at two overflow mass meetings
of strikers there, one of broadsilk
strikers in the afternoon and a
second of dive strikers in the evening.
The halls were full and the streets
were blocked.
Elections of a mass delegation to
the hearing in Washington on Mon
day have taken place. Masses OF
strikers gathered at N. T. w. U. head
quarters Sunday, 10 a. m, to give a
rousing send-off to the delegation,
which will travel on buses and trucks
provided by the city, and will be
headed by John J. BALKAN, Ann
Burlak, and Moe Brown.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-09
Bathrobe Union
Elects Officers

NEW YORK.-Members of the
Bathrobe Workers Union, recently Or
gained by the Needle Trades Work
ers Industrial Union are to elect an
executive board and organizers at
elections to take place today. Cam
didates for organizers are Ben STALL
man and Montell.
The bathrobe union had led some
successful strikes and has succeeded
in improving conditions gaining in
creases of from rs to 100 per cent
and establishing the 40 hour week.
Elections take place at Union head
quarters, 131 w. 28th st.
Two strikes are beiSg conducted
by the bathrobe union at D. Brown
and Sons, 305 7th Ave-, and at the
Robecraft, 40 w. 25th st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-09
Buffalo Mayor Spurns
Demands of Jobless
for Adequate Relief

BUFFALO, N. Y-Having first
thrown a Gordon of police and detec-
tives around City Hall, Mayor Ro-
esch ignored the appeals of delega-
ton of unemployed Negro and white
workers to institute an adequate sys-
tenn Of relief for the unemployed.
He stated brazenly that there is no
hardship in Buffalo. When told of
determinations against Negroes, he
refused to even hear the complaints.
When the delegation demanded
that action should be taken on the
Relief Ordinance which had been
adopted by the Buffalo Unemployed
Federation, the mayor told them that
the city cannot embark on relief
measures and that the workers should
seek relief from the Federal govern
ment.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-09
Detroit March Is
Abandoned After
A. F. L. Treachery
Reilly Brings MIRA.
Head in Strike Meet,
Enforces Gag Rule

EDGEWATER, N. j., Oct. 8.-The
march to Detroit of the Ford strikers
here has been treacherously called
off, after the American of Fedora
ton of Labor organizers brought the
state chairman of the N r. A,
Topper, into the strike meeting and
railroaded through strikebreaking
motion against attempting to spread
the strike to Detroit. The A. F. of
L. organizers, headed by Hugh Reilly,
have betrayed the Ford strikers at
Edgewater to such an extent that
the strike is in immediate danger
of ending in defeat.
Reilly's Gag-Law
The motion to Indefinitely post
pone the march to Detroit was forced
through the strike meeting after rank
and file strikers were denied the floor
and threatened with being beaten up.
Gag law ruled at this meeting, Tep-
per, brought in by Reilly, advising
the workers they would get in bad"
if they try to spread the strike to
Detroit. Reilly spoke in the same
vein.
A rank and file committee of &C
ton is being organized to fight
against the Sitting of the rank and
file by the A. F. L. organizers and
the N. R. A. representatives. The
rank and file demands include, ID
rank and file control of the strike
through a broad elected strike COM
mittee, co mass picketing, 90 the
spreading of the strike by march
to Detroit ~
ReilIy's Rotten Record
Reilly, representing the New Jersey
state Federation of Labor, and die
tator in the strike, was formerly as
ISOLATED with the Newark Ledger, a
rabid anti-workingclass sheet, and
was editor of the Labor Messenger, y
which carries ads for the worst open
shop employers of New Jersey. He
tells the strikers every day that he
has an agreement with the police to
limit picket lines to 100, and mean
while the plant is rapidly filling with
strike breakers. PicketS are being
arrested, but Reilly tries to prevent
mass picketing. In spite of Reillys
orders, there were 800 on the picket
line Friday night, after the last
picket line over the week end, when
the factory does not work.
Where Is the $500?
A leaflet was distributed by the
Communist Party to the strikers, ex-
posing the red scare" raised by
Reilly, and Reilly's strike breaking
activity, and pledging full support of
the strike by the Communist Party.
Three hundred dollars was COL
lected from among the strikers for
the march to Detroit, and Reilly has
been postponing the march from day
to day for full week,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-09

up on a "rioting" charge, was tied
to a tree by his own high topped
shoe-laces, beaten into unconscious
ness, his ankle broken, his mouth and
jaw beaten to a pulp, and left alone,
where he lay many hours unconscious
in the desert.
Hours later, Black, after coming
to, crawled to the highway and sec
ured a ride into Price, where he
was found by the mine strikers, who
had been searching for him fruitless-
ly all night,
Death Penalty Demanded
Black identifies two of the kidnap-
pers as Gibson and Howard, both
officially connected with the Relief
and Family Service Offices of the city
government of Salt Lake City. At
torney Metos, on behalf of the In
ternational Labor Defense, filed a
complaint against the kidnappers to-
day, demanding immediate prosecu-
ton. kidnapping in Utah calls for
the death penalty.
Black, now in Helper under a doc
tors care, has been threatened with
death if he dares to tell his expert
ences. Black, was told by the kid
nappers that Charles Guynn, Wether-
bee, Crouch, and Oscar Larson, of
the National Miners Union, strike
leaders, are marked for death, that
they will be taken for a ride from
which they never will return.
Kidnapper Guardsman
Black knows the third kidnapper
by sight, although not his name. He
was wearing the special uniform
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-09
$50 Levee Workers
in Cairo, Ill. Strike
st. Louis Men Expected
to Join Walkout

CAIRO, Ill, Oct. 8.-One hundred
and fifty levee workers on the Missis-
sipp River went on strike yesterday.
Work Is completely shut down.
William Westbrooks, marine union
organizer of st. Louis, Is leading the
strike. Sixteen workers were arrested,
but strikers forced authorities to re-
lease them.
Railroad workers are refusing to
move cars on the docks in solidarity
with the men who walked out.
Levee workers in st. Louis are ex-
pected to walk out tomorrow in a
sympathy strike. They refuse to un-
load barges sent to st. Louis from
here.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-09
Detroit Welfare Acts
As Scab Agency; Call
JObless to Solidarity

DETROIT, Mich, Oct. Exposing
itself as a strikebreaking agency for
the automobile manufacturers, the
Detroit Welfare Department is trying
to send relief applicants from the
ranks OF the unemployed, to scab at
factories where workers are on strike.
Tn unemployed councils have dis
tributed leaflets in front Of the well
fare agencies, informing the workers
OF the strike conditions in the respec-
tive factories and calling upon their
solidarity with the strikers.
A number Of meetings are being
held to expose the Welfare Depart
ment as the strikebreaking agency.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-09
Denver Charity Racket
BacksDOwn ONT Charges
on Unemployed Leader

DENVER, Colo. - Dodging public
exposure Of their activity, the Denver
charities called off their charges of
disturbance and vagrancy against
Harry I. Cohen, United Front sec
rotary, and even paid costs to avoid
getting their activities into an open
court trial. Cohen had been fined
seventy-five dollars and costs on dis
turbance and vagrancy charges.
Cohen was arrested in July on or
ders from the Denver Chamber of
Commerce and Eunice Robinson, sec
Rotary of Denver's charities, and held
for three days without charges being
preferred. He was arrested by the
police at the headquarters OF the
United Front organization.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-09
Elizabeth Unemployed
Refuse Forced Labor

ELIZABETH, N. J.--When unen-
ployed workers decline to be put to
forced labor for which they receive
their wages in groceries, the relief
administrators Of Elizabeth cut of
the grocery rations.
The Unemployed Council Is plan
ming huge demonstration to pro-
test against this treatment of the
1obless by the Elizabeth Relief Ad-
ministrat
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-09
Strikers Held in
Gallup Stockade
in Terror Reign

GALLUP, N. M, Oct. S.-The
six strike leaders arrested in the
reign of terror carried on by the
national guard against the miners,
together with G. Kaplan, district
secretary of the International La
Dor Defense, have been held in a
military stockade here since last
Wednesday without any charges
being placed against them.
The six strike leaders are: Barto,
relief organizer; Cores, a Mexican
leader and NM.U. organizer; Al
lsnder, youth organizer OF the
union, and w. Mentmore, local
union president of the N.MU.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-09
T.U.U.L. Sends Protest.

NEW YORK, N. Y, Oct. S.-The
Trade Union Unity League Execu-
tive Board has sent telegram OF
protest against the martial law and
brutal terror now in force against
the fighting miners of Gallup, New
Mexico. The telegram, sent to the
Mayor of Gallup and Governor A.
w. Hochenhall of Santa Fe, New
Mexico, demands the immediate re-
lease of all arrested strike leaders,
and withdrawal of all troops.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-09

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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-09
Utah Leader Kidnapped,
Left to Die in Desert
Rush kilograms Demanding Death to Known
Lynchers and Release of Mine Strikers


Price, identified
Salt City,
the Servmens
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-09
Sidelight of the ALL. Meet
The Scabby Cancer in the Heart of the
Shrine of the Little Flower"
BY b. ID.

WASHINGTON E. COuhln Of the Shrine
the Little Flower Detroit master Of the Paust
fathers style the Jesut of high sounding
phrases radio network
of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-09
Coal andSteel Strikes
Are Tearing Away
the Illusions of MIRA
A Spirit of United Struggle Is Developing;
Press Forced to Recognize Steel Workers
Union AS Leader of Strike
By HARRY CANNES.

costing the Pittsburgh
breaking down the NR and violating
termso OF the the union agreement"
editorial the pittsburgh Press
of bullets