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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-29

gresham Mason. at the time the
original bonus bill was being discus
sed, said, II am willing to vote to
have your attorney general bring suit
against Barney Baruch, the chief
man, the closest man of the presi-
dent of the United States (Wilson)
who stole S5o,000,o00 in copper" OF
course, Baruch became embarrassed
and demanded that Mason retract.
Mason replied, according to the New
York Times of June 3, 1920, since
looking at his previous statement he
would amend it to say that you and
your associates stole $200, 900 900 in
copper alone" If these figures sound
big we must remember that billions
in war funds passed through the
hands of this leader Of forgotten
men and the appointer Of the in
dustrial recovery act administrator.
The Final Cleanup.
Baruch left Wall Street (physi-
cally) to help Wilson win the war for
democracy. But he used the inform
alton he got in Wilson's cabinet and
at Versailles, where the Colonies were
being re-shuffled and the League Of
Nations concocted, to plunge in the
stock market, perhaps as a pleasant
diversion from the more arduous la
bors of redividing the world in the
interest Of the victorious imperial
lists
Anyway, We learn that Baruch,
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mately associated with Mr.. Baruch,"
says a feature article in the New
York Times Magazine section, June
rs, 1888. He has been regarded as
head of Mr.. Baruchs research staff.
Well, may be- growls the general"
Whether Baruch stays in Wash
ington as minister without port
folio" whether he goes shopping
around Europe arranging war allan
ces, or whether he goes to his old
haunts in Wall Street, he will still
have his hands in the Roosevelt ma
chine and no little TO say through
his research man on the industrial
recovery board. Morgan and the steel
trust, the railroads, the copper trust,
the tobacco trust, need not go far
to let johnson know what they want
him to do.
Baruch, close adviser OF Woodrow
Wilson, is entering a new epoch of
inner manipulations that do not au-
CUR any good for the workers.
Aided Morgan
Let us glance into the history Of
this war finance and industry organ
izer who is now going to remember
the forgotten man. Though he HIM
self may have forgotten, the war vets
will not forget the thousands who
were manned, crippled and killed so
that, thanks to Baruch's leadership
OF the War Finance Corporation,
Morgan cleared a cool 100000 900
out OF the war
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-29
Labor Defense Plans
Drive to Free Negro
Boy in RapeFrame-Up

NOFOLK, Va, June 2s.--Grand
jury action is expected July in the
case of Russell Gordon, 13-year old
Negro boy. charged with the rape
Of a woman of SO, twice his size,
who identified" him after first stat
ing that she was attacked in pitch
dark and could not see her ''sssail-
ant"
Gordon, it was said by the Inter
national Labor Defense investigators,
was told to confess and the case
will be dismissed by 8 Norfolk
judge, when first arrested.
Ernest S. Merrill has been retained
by the LID to represent Gordon, and
Attorney Walker, a Negro, to repre-
sent the boys parents.
The International Labor Defense,
preparing a mass campaign to ex-
pose the frame-up OF Gordon as
another Scottsboro, has issued call
for wires of protest, demanding his
release. TO be sent to Governor John
c. Pollard. Richmond, Va; A. c.
Lynch, commonwealth Attorney,
Circuit Court, Norfolk County,
Portsmouth, Va, and to Judge c. w,
Coleman, Circuit Court, Portsmouth,
Va.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-29

Bernard Beruch figures large in
the news these days During Roose-
velt'S vacation and Moley's hasty
London trip, Baruch was featured as
the unofficial president" What will
interest the workers more is that
Baruch has a lot to say In the Roose-
welt regime. 1t isn't the first time
that this Morgan and Company, Wall
Street liaison officer has had a hand
in directing war preparations, strike
breaking and schemes resulting in
billions of profit for the bankers at
a cost Of lives and sacrifices by the
workers.
just how much Baruch had TO do
with the preparing OF the industrial
recovery act will long remain a Sc
cret between him and Roosevelt. But
we do know more important fact.
Baruch picked the man to run the
machinery Of the act, General Hugh
8. johnson. This master-Wall Street
gambler whose war record every
worker will want to know chose
johnson land Roosevelt confirmed
hin1) because he was at TIE head of
his research staff, and knows Just
what the Morgans (steeD, Guggen-
helms "copper", Harrimans (bank-
ers). Ryans tobacco trust), Hamleys
railroads. or their heirs will want
him to do with the workers under
the recovery act.
Baruck's Research Man.
General johnson has been init
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-29
Ohio Marchers Go
Thru States Line
of Armed Deputies
Adjutant-General of State Spent Nine Days
Raising Force to Block March of Column l
Didn't Dare to Arrest Leadership

other patriotic" citizens, TO attack
the column. Time after time the
marchers had 10 face a police terror
Of machine guns, rifles, riot guns and
bludgeons. But always the march
ers succeeded in smashing the terror
by their solidarity and fighting spirit.
Thursday morning they were met
by $50 police and deputies, who tried
in every possible way to provoke the
marchers, so that they could smash
them finally. But the marchers show
ed excellent proletarian discipline, de-
veloped into a single fighting front
during the march. BY pressure of
united mass action they secured the
release Of their leaders who had been
arrested.
Later in the day, the gunner again
sought to disrupt the marchers by
attempting to attack their leadership
and accusing them of disorganiza-
ton. They broke into the marchers'
lunch hour, and when they protested,
the attempt was made again to ar
rest the leader. But as soon as a
hand was placed on him, the march
ers surged around threateningly.
As they approached the state fair
grounds where column two of the
march had been quartered for several
days already, they sang: Hold the
fort, for we are coming" And their
comrades wer estanding at the gate,
waiting for them, their fists up, sing
ing the I1ternationale.
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because of his inside information that
peace was soon to be declared, clean
ed up at one strike S476,168.47 How
did he do thisp Bsruch, knowing
steel was being poured out on the
battle field by the millions of tons,
held steel chat is Morgan) stock.
Knowing further that the wars end
would bring a crash in steel stocks,
sold short and thereby cleaned up
both ways, coming and going.
Only A Glimpse
We have only flicked the dust from
Baruch's war finance record, but
enough to give the workers glimpse
Of the type of self sacrificing capit-
alist whose man Friday. in the per-
son Of General Johnson, is now 60
ing to see that labor and capital
get square deal"
During the great steel strike Of
1919, Wilson sent Baruch to visit
Judge Gary In order to discuss meth
eds Of crushing the strike. Wilson
finally sent troops to Gary, Indiana,
and ether steel towns to COW and
shoot the strikers back to work
The new deal In the hands of Roo
seyelt, Baruch, johnson and 90. is
besrimed with blood profits of the
last imperialist war They are now
busily engaged in the preparations
Of a new war--tllis is the purpose Of
the Industrial Recovery lslavaru,
Act
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-29

ing the streets of the city last
Saturday by an unemployed
seaman.
The Mazzas are typical of
thousands of families thrown
onto the highways by capitalism.
Mr.. Mazza told the Daily Worker of
the many families he met on the
road Those families underwent ex-
periences similar to his own. 1--WE
rode the freights over the desert for
two days and nights. All we had TO
eat was four loaves of bread and two
gallons of water" he said.
The family was put off trains by
company bulls, they ware left
stranded on deserted roads and
forced to walk weary miles.
Go Back Where You Came From,
Denied relief at Salvation Army
and relief stations throughout the
country, forced to chop wood in the
few Salvation Army stations at which
they were given something which, in
the words of Mr. Ma2za, IT wouldn't
give a dog to eat" for the baby, they
were finally told in New York to go
back where they came FRONT"
Worthless Relief Tickets
But the Salvation Army was not
alone in fulfilling the mission of the
relief agencies to grind workers to
the ground. Almost always on the
verge of starvation, the Mazzas were
sent from the Central Registration
Bureau for the Homeless at the Bat
terry with worthless tickets for relief.
The Charity (Catholic) Organize
tons Society, Spring Street and
Broadway, which receives appropria-
tons from the authorities, and is
supposed to care of out of town
workers, turned them back into the
streets.
Threaten TO Take Child
The Travellers Aid Society in New
York and its branch in Pittsburg, in
which city the family slept under
bridge for four days, threatened to
take their child from them. They
were told they could then live, sepa-
rately, in the city flop houses.
In a police station they were again
given the worthless relief tickets.
But we can't eat the tickets" said
Mazza.
Sunday, at the suggestion of the
Daily Worker, they went to the
Downtown Unemployed Council. The
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-29
Hold Conference in
LOsAngeles, July s
for JObless Relief

LOS ANGELES, Calf, June 81
A United Front Conference of IN
employed to form a program of
struggle against evictions, the shut
ting off of gas. lights and water, the
denial of milk for children and
against the refusal of relief work to
unemployed, will be held on July 8
at 1924 South Compton Ave.
The conference is called by Unit
IA Of the Unemployed Cooperative
Relief Association, the Unemployed
Council of Los Angeles, the indie
pendent Women's Council and the
Relief Workers Protective Union,
Local No. 3. All members Of unem-
ployed organizations have been. in
vited to send two delegates to dis
cuss action in forming united action
for the right Of the unemployed to
live.
One of the issues of the conference
will be the forming of united action
against the wave Of terror through
vicious court sentences on militant
workers who used gas, lights and
water in their homes after it had
been turned off by the public utili-
ties. Two militant workers, active
in the struggles of the unemployed,
have been sentenced to six months
in Jail on two counts for using the
lights and gas in their homes. Their
cases have been appealed by the
International Labor Defense through
their attorney, Al. wirin.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-29
PREPARE STRIKE
ON FORCED LABOR
IN SO. ILLINOIS

GAINESVILLE, Ill, June ga
united front conference Of Unemploy
Councils. unemployed unions, locals
Of the Progressive Miners, hodcar-
riers, Trades Councils and Women
Auxlaries, met in Macoupin. the
county seat to discuss plans for
struggle against forced labor and for
higher relief.
-Four delegates from Socialist Party
branches of the county and likewise
four delegates representing the Com
munist Party of Macoupin County
participated.
Call for Immediate Strikes
The conference adopted unanin-
ously the recommendations of the
Policy Committee, calling for an i'm
mediate strike against forced labor,
the establishment of local strike COM
mittees. and for other forms Of mass
struggle Strikes are now being car
ried on
The lawyer of the International
Labor Defense, George Scher, spoke
On the recent amendment to the
Pcupers' Act and the conference
voted to call upon the State Com
mittee Of the Unemployed Councils,
The Federation Of Unemployed
Workers Leagues Of America, and all
other groups, to call a state wide
united front conference to struggle
against the Paupers' Act.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-29

against the imprisonment of 29 mill
liant workers arrested on charges of
unlawful assembly" following an at
tempt to restore the furniture Of an
evieted family TO their home.
The demonstration has forced the
release Of eight workers, including
Harry Gordon, district organizer OF
the Communist Party.
The Workers Cooperative Associ-
alton, the Mexican Labor Center, Of
Dallas, the Seventh Ward Club Of
Fort Worth, the socialist local, the
Unemployed Workers and Farmers
League, and the LID, have rallied
to the defense of these workers. In
call issued today they asked for
sympsthisers everywhere to send tele-
grams of protest to District Attor-
ney Jesse Martin of Fort Worth,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-29
Jobless Strikers in
Ohio Shun Promises;
Wart 40 Cents Hour

COLUMBUS. O.-Three thousand
unemployed relief work strikers,
through the Franklin County Unem-
ployed Leagues central committee,
have rejected offers Of the State
Relief Commission to return TO work
pending a promised adjustment Of
the dispute. The organized mem-
ployed declared that they would go
back to the job only when their
demand for 10 cents an hour in cash
was met.
Investigation has revealed that
some Of the relief workers had not
been paid for % days before they
struck. The contractor had been
rid by the state, however.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-29
THOMAS JAILED
FOR SEX MONTHS
Refuse New Trial to
= Pittsburgh Worker

PITTSBURGH. Pa, June 2S,-B.
G (Jack) Thomas, militant unem-
ployed worker, was sentenced to SIX
months in Jail, today. following re-
fusal of Judge Gibson last week 10
grsnt him q new trial. Deportation
proceedings are being instituted
against him by Frances Perkins
New Deal immigration depart
ment, He was deprived OF his citi-
Eenship papers by the court.
The prosecution of Thomas, on
charges of falSifying his application
for citizenship papers is the first
case In a drive by Miss Perkins to
drive all militant workers organiza-
tons underground. The charge was
based on Thomas membership in the
Young Workers League at the time
OF his application for citizenship.
Protests against the conviction OF
Thomas should be sent TO Judge
Gibson, Federal Court. Pittsburgh,
Pa. demanding his immediate re-
lease, the Pittsburgh district Of the
LID announced.
A motion for new trial was also
denied yesterday in the case of Jim
Egan. rank and file leader in the
A. F, Of L.. and secretary OF the
Pittsburgh Tom Mooney action COM
mittee. He now faces long prison
term on charges OF 'incitins TO riot
in connection With demonstration.
March 4, against the Conmissary
Plan. Protests aga pSt his conviction
have been called for by the lid to
be sent to Judge Hildebrand and
District Attorney Haggerty, County
Court, Pittsburgh.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-29
Attack Kenosha Meet
Called to Report on
State Hunger March

KENOSHA, visa meeting held in
Columbus Park to report on the recent
state hunger march TO Madison was
broken up by the police. Prior to
the meeting officials refused per-
NIT for the park although many
meetings were held there previously.
Instead they suggested the use of
"lakefront," which is a polite term
for the city dump.
AS soon as the meeting started
three cops tried to break it up and
were rebuffed by the workers. When
Clark Lawrence, leader Of the Unem-
ployed Council began speaking, the
police with new reinforcements made
a second attack arresting him.
The chairman called on the work
ers to march to the police station.
A thousand participated in the
march. A committee of four was
elected to go in and make the de-
mand for Lawrence's release.
Refused Admittance
The committee was refused admit
lance and the demonstrators then
proceeded to iCty Hall, where the
Common Council was in session.
Here also they were refused hear
ing.
Instead more police came and
began clubbing. Many were seriously
hurt. P Simyon, Santo Giordano and
Dalton johnson, Communist Party
organizers were arrested. Tear gas
bombs were thrown which workers
kicked under car, and they failed
to go off.
Later in the evening the arrested
workers were released on $25 bail
each. Lawrence is charged with
speaking without a permit and the
others with disorderly conduct. Their
cases are continued until June 81.
Petitions are being circulated de-
handing the use of parks for public
meetings. Committees are visiting
Councilmen demanding that they
favor the use of the parks for such
purposes.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-29
I'D A Y B 7 I'D A T
With the ''Daily"
Use the Daily to Nail Lies
Printed in Local Boss Papers!

Here is what we meant by a tie-up
between correspondence and Daily
Worker distribution. 1t is letter
from Daily salesman in Rochester,
N. Y, Milton E. Levison:
Dear Comrades: Enclosed please
ind prosperity clipping and an
answer to it by clothing worker. I
want to use this in connection with
building up my route. SO please pub
fish it and send me rs extra copies
of the edition in which it appears.
1t is impossible to sell near the fac
tory because of the terror against the
workers by the union heads. There
fore l will canvass their homes.
Now, If you will print this on
Saturday, TIL have enough time 10
do everything, and I can be sure
of building my route. Please don't
forget.
Starting with Mondays edition,
increase my bundle to IL copies in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-29
Cheated out of Pay in
Omaha Forced Labor

OMAHA, Neb.-To show the extent
the forced labor in Douglas County,
here is a case of only one among IA
600 on the relief list.
A family living at 25th and Cum
ming SITS. is receiving the usual order
of $3.50 worth of groceries. The
father, the wife and the daughter,
all of them we're forced to do work
for the relief agencies last winter.
The father worked SO hours. At
the regular wage scale SOS per hour,
his work should be worth $48.
The wife and daughter, sewing for
the Community Chest, worked both
together IS hours. The regular wages
for such work is SOC per hour. This
will then be $3.50.
Together this family made 1880.
Yet this family received relief during
this time amounting to only between
s25 to $50.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-29
Organize Fight for
Relief in Selma, Ala.

SELMA, Ala. -In Selma one of
the major towns in the Black Belt,
a meeting Of over so Negro workers,
beth men and women, was held
which lasted from p. M, Monday
night Until a. m. Tuesday morn
ing. The purpose of the meeting was
to discuss and make concrete plans
for future struggles for unemployed
relief. The organization is only two
months old. A women's group was
set up.
The organization sold 60 copies of
the Southern Worker and 40 Labor
Defenders last week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-29

Home Relief Bureau would not as
sist them. They were not residents
of New York. They were foreign
ers" from California!
Unemployed Council Forces Relief
Monday night the family was
evicted from a furnished room rented
through contributions. They and the
baby slept on burlap bags in a hall
way. The next morning; Tuesday, a
delegate of the Downtown Unem-
ployed Council went back to the
Travellers Aid Society and forced the
latter organization to give the fam
lily a room with promise of further
relief this morning. and a definite
agreement that the child remain with
its parents.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-29
sCoTTSBoRo BENEFIT AT
MOHEGAN

MOHEGAN, N. Y--JoSeph Brod-
sky. chief counsel for the Interna-
tional Labor Defense, will speak at
Scottsboro benefit showing OF the
Soviet movie, Life Is Beautiful. :"
this Sunday, July 2, $50 p. M, at
Stetson's Lawn, Lexington Avenue.
Mohegan. N. Y, under the auspices
of the Mohegan Branch. N. Y. dist
riot, International Labor Defense.
In case of rain the event will take
place on the following day, Monday.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-29

COLUMBUS. O.-After defeating
attempts to break up column one Of
the Ohio Relief March, the officials
Of the state made point Of concer-
tration at Newark. Here q conVen-
ton of the GAR. was being held
and of course the sight of over 200
hungry workers marching for more
relief would not be a pleasant vacs-
ton for these worthless.
Mastering Forces
For nine days the Adjutant Gen
eral and his representatives had been
touring up and down the marchers'
line, mastering all forces Of city and
county police, American Legion and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-29
NEWS BRIEFS
WEST VIRGINIA VOTES WET.

CHARLESTON, w. Va, June as
Prohibitionists received one OF their
worst set-backs yesterday when West
Virginia, one of the states they had
considered safely in the dry ranks,
voted more than two TO one to repeal
the Eighteenth Amendment TO the
constitution of the United States.
Many counties hitherto dry voted wet
by big majorities. In the industrial
centers the vote. ran from to to
5 to l against prohibition, while in
the mountain counties the vote re-
manned dry. but by much smaller
majority than ever before. The vote
in California yesterday was more
than to against prohibition. These
are the 18th and 10th states to vote
on the question. All states have
voted against prohibition thus far
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-29

For many a decade past the his
tory Of industry and commerce Is
but the history Of the revolt of
modern productive forces against
modern conditions Of production.
against the property relations that
are the conditions for the existence
Of the bourgeoisie and of its
rale.-Communist Manifesto.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-29
Protest
Prevents Texas
Chain Gang Camp
Militant Fort Worth Workers Also Prevent
Ban on Unemployed Meetings

by the
leadership Defense
Sheriff R. Wright chain
and to forbid meetings lawn.
monster held
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-29
LAY OFF MEN AT READING R.R.
SHOPS

READING, Pa, June 2S.-For the
third time in a year the Reading
Railroad shops have been closed in
definitely. Many laid off at previous
indefinite" closings have not been
called back to their jobs.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-29

stead of ten, which is what am get
ting now
Workers in all cities and towns
generally spot the lies published
about their working and living con-
ditions in the local boss press. But
they know the futility of trying to
get an answer into the same paper.
That's where the Daily Worker comes
in.
Whenever a prosperity clipping"
appears in local boss paper, the
Daily Worker can be used to spot
this lie by the simple procedure o.
sending a letter in answer to the
Daily. Both the clipping and the
workers letter disproving 1t will ap-
pear In the d. w.
And then, as a necessary follow
up. the local distributor should or
der special bundle Of papers as
Comrade Levison did.
WANTS SUB BLANKS TO
BOOST DAILY" SALES
T, j. kirkpatrick, secretary OF the
Gilmore Block Unemployed Council,
Turtle Greek, Pa, writes:
Dear comrades, l have been in
structed to write you asking Tor SUBJ
scription blanks and the necessary
advertising materials. - We intend to
work hard in an effort to put the
Daily into more homes in our dis
trict.
I'VE realize that 1t is for the COM
mon good Of all Of us that more
people should read this paper, and
at the same time 1t will financially
aid our cornell, mot to mention the
educational part 1t will play for
our council"
Let's hear more from Turtle Creek
1t was this very same town which
held innumerable affairs during the
last financial drive, and did much to
make Pittsburgh district the first to
crash the 100 per cent mark In the
quota race.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-29
TETRAZZINI AND HER
MOUNTAIN.

ROME, Italy, June 2s.-Pietro Yer
Natl, 32-year old fascist who mar
ried the 6l-year old ex-opera singer,
Tetrazzini, for her money, is sueing
in court to prevent her squandering
it. Recently she bought mountain
that she believed contained gold and
is trying to buy machinery to dig it
with. Her husband is afraid she will
go broke and he will have to 90 to
work