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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-30
BOSS COURTCOMES
TO MINE THUGSAID
Nine Murderers &c t
New Trial

UNIONTOWN, Pa.-The Arnold
City mine riot case" of June %, in
which an aged storekeeper and SYM
pathi2er of striking miners was
killed by deputies and armed COM
pany thugs, is just about to close
with the usual wl1itewashing of the
murderers by the boss courts.
The nine murderers, who on June
%, fired point blank into group of
MIXERS assembled at the victims
store. and who shot Philipoyich. the
storekeeper, through the heart as he
stood at the doorway in his stocking
feet, were originally convicted on
manslaughter charges. The sentences
are already a mere subterfuge for
punishment, But they are coming UP
before Judge Henderson on motion
for new trial
Describes Case
Telling of the entire case as it has
developed up to the present time, a
miner correspondent writes as fol-
lows:
Eight deputies and the superin-
tendent we're placed in Jail after the
shooting. They were given the wo-
mems quarters of the Fayette Coun-
ty jail at UniontoTn until the trial
came up.
"They we're fed by the Fayette
Drug Co., one Of the largest drug
stores in the state, and the financing
of their meals was underWritten by
the Pittsburgh Coal Co., Mellon
organization. So the eight uniformed
thugs and their superintendent who
figured out the shooting before it
took place, lounged in the womens
quarters several days. stuffing them
selves like pigs with five to nine
course meals, some of them gaining
10 TO so pounds.
Released on Bond
"After the trial they were put out
on bond OF $4,000 each, furnished
by the Mellon outfit, although during
the trial it was plainly shown by wit
nesses that the shooting was planned
the day previous to the killing.
Now comes the disposal of the
case by the corporations tool. Judge
D. w. Henderson, Who asked these
poor little innocents to pay S. a
month and stay on a three year pa
role, such terrible sentence.
1.-THE papers carried screaming
headlines saying Mine Riot Defend
ants Sent to the Penitentiary,' but
if you read a little further you will
find that only one got penitentiary
sentence. j. B. Yader, the man who
took deliberate aim at the poor old
storekeeper's heart. The papers also
forgot to mention that two other
men we're shot in that affray, One of
these has been crippled for life and
the other is in the insane asylum
and will never come out through
those doors alive"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-30

FISHERMEN ORGANIZE:
WIN THEIR DEMANDS

PORT ANGELES, Wash. - The
Devil (octopusl fishermen of this
place, who catch and sell these fish
to the japanese fish buyers in Seattle
have been in the same fix as the
workers and poor farmers. The prices
kept going down right along until
they were receiving less than two
cents a pound with limit by one
company to 100 lbs. week to each
man, which would not buy food, let
alone replace their gear when it wore
out for this kind OF fishing. Strange
as it may seem to those workers that
say the workers won't stick together,
those fishermen got together, sent
word to the fish buyers that here
after their price of devil fish would
be five cents a pound, the buyer To
pay the freight and state tax in
stead of deducting it out of the
fishermens checks. Of course it took
little time to get results, but when
they all stuck together, letters be-
gam to arrive for them to send fish
at their association prices.
Now this goes to show that II eight
or ten fishermen can force their de-
mands, that there Is no good reason
why the halibut fishermen and the
salmon fishermen on this coast
should sell their fish for as low q
price as cents and 2 cents pound
as they did at times in the last sea-
SON, Let lis hope that the halibut and
salmon fishermen may see this letter
and take a lesson from what q few
fishermen can do by showing the
bosses 100 per cent solidarity and get
something for their product instead
of having to stand off some oil COM
pany for enough gas to go home OH
when the season is over.
This county has always been back
ward in organizing In any way lex
cept the bosses, they are well or
ganized. But in the last month oil
so there has been al Unemployed
Council organized. But we will leave
it to the Council to tell the Daily
Worker what they have accomplished
A Friend of the D. w.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-30

PHILADELPHIA, Pa.-The Phila-
delphia District of the Communist
Party has issued stirring plea for
action in the campaign to raise $685.
600 to save the Daily Worker from
suspension. The quota for the Phila-
delpflia district is $2500 and so far
1t has raised less than per cent OF
this. The appeal reads:
I'm the past year our district has
witnessed many struggles OF great
importance.
we remember May /, when in
Philadelphia the police attacked the
workers who attempted to demon
strate, clubbing and blackjaclEing the
women and children.
do you remember the Orphan
Jones frame-up in Baltimore and our
own Willie Brown case in Philadel-
phia?
Attacks on Hunger March.
"There is still a vivid recollection
in your minds of the events that took
place recently in Wilmington and
Washington in connection with the
National Hunger March.
Police clubs and Jail sentences
are the answer to the demands OF
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-30
MishaWaka Hunger March Delegate
Blocks Plot to Stifle Struggle
Workers Spurn Boss Leader and Turn to
Newly Formed Unemployed Council

Councils in Seattle, and explained
that he wished to start one in Mish-
awake. AS to who was back of it, 1t
wasn't hard to find out, Township
Trustee Ebcrhart, in charge of poor
relief, sat in the very front row.
The speaker admitted that they
would have the backing of large con-
ems as the ones in South Bend, had.
They would. he said, have free milk
and groceries in their Self-help COM
nlissaries, free gasoline for their
trucks, to-. free dental and medical
and medical work, etc. He boosted
that this would all be paid for by
large concerns who were sympathetic
with their ideals.
Begging Committees
Then Knudson OF the South Bend
W.R.A. spoke and gave the rules,
begging committees (Which he tried
to gloss over no free speech, no po-
litical views, no plots against the
government" no woman officers (but
women could work on begging COM
mitteesl, etc,
Then SWeeny of the ALL. iauded
the plan. Then he introduced an Off
cial OF the International Hodcarriers
Union from Chicago who gave q
demagogic tGlk that I'VE must Or
ganize for better conditions .
we must protest our flag and coun-
try" etc. Duriny this talk, nc was
constantly interrupted by angry
workers who wanted to know If this
would be a begging outfit.
After he had finished the speech,
John King arose and began to speak,
II am the only official delegate frem
Mishawaka to the National Hunger
March to Washington, he began,
and have here a certificate GER
tifying this fact, which gives me the
right TO organize unemployed work
ers in my vicinity. want the floor
for 10 minutes, can 7 have it?"
The chairman began, You must
ask the Board of Officers in advance
if you wish to speak" At this, work
ers all over began to shout, Let him
speak"
Then John King arose and walked
over to the platform, took off his
coat, and began, I'VE are forming an
unemployed Council All of you who
believe in fighting instead Of beg
ging from each other are invited to
attend!"
Then he stepped off and the chair
man who was by now panic stricken,
hastily adjourned the meeting, With
no motion made, seconded, or voted
for adjourning. Although he had
urged them to sign UP, no one did.
Many workers said they would at
tend the Unemployed Council meet
ing, and the meeting broke up with
the workers jeering and laughing at
the way John King had made NOM
key OF the Mutual Aid Council"
their hackers, and their carefully laid
plans So bewildered was the chair
man, that he even forgot to take up
the Collection which was previously
anno1hcee
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-30
ASKS MILITIA TO HELP
ROB PENN. FARMERS

legal precedent for the interference
Of the state militia in the future
stoppages of forced sales which the
Pennsylvania Farmers Protective
Association will surly carry through.
Gwinner has filed charges of
"duress, coercion, intimidation and
threats of bodily harm" made on him
during the sale. A Philadelphia paper
carries the following report of the
sale:
Three hundred men answered
the call and decided that all bid
ding would be left in the hands Of
a committee of three. When Achey
tried to bid, the irate farmers
jostled the sheriff and his party,
took command of the sale, and
forced the sheriff to dispose of
HanzeFs goods TO the bidding COM
mittee. Horses and cows sold for
a nickel each, all of the property
bringing SI.ls.
"The sheriff was paid, a receipt
demanded, and Immediately the
goods returned to Hanzel under a
SO year lease for a consideration
of 81.
The matter will shortly come up
before Judge Keller who has already
shown his class leanings by refusing
Lem Harris, one of the organizers OF
the Pennsylvania association and ma
tional secretary OF the Farmers Re-
lief Conference which took place in
Washington last month, the right to
argue for the farmers. Harris stated
that Attorney Levinson of the Inter-
national Labor Defense Of Philadel-
phia will defend the farmers. He
also said that at future sales the
farmers would continue the organized
militant tactics which they demon
strated at the Hanzel sale.
Sheriff Gwinner has indicated that
he will ask Governor Pinchot, the
arch enemy of the workers who has
used his militia to murder striking
miners, to send as many state troop
ers into the county as necessary to
prevent F. REPETITION Of the Hanzel
affair.
More and more the struggles on
the countryside are proving to the
farmers that the common enemies of
the workers and farmers are the big
bankers and their servants, the courts
and the armed forces of the cap
italiSt state.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-30
DEMAND RELIEF
IN KANSAS CITY
Jobless Delegates Free
by Mass Pressure

KANSAS CITY, Mo, Jan. 27.--A
delegation of six unemployed work
ers were arrested here today for lead
ing demonstration for coal and gro
eeries for the unemployed in front
of the Provident Association.
The workers were dismissed after
they exposed the Provident Assoeia-
ton in a court room crowded with
workers. The workers In the court
room applauded the speeches of the
arrested workers so enthusiastically
that the judge was forced to free
them.
Three fourths OF the workers in
the court room escorted the freed
delegation cut Of the building after
the trial ended, Many workers
joined the Unemployed Council as
the result of the struggle against and
exposure of the Prevident Associa-
ton,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-30
is X. C. THE BRIGHTEST
SPOT IN THE u. S. A.?

KANSAS CITY, Mo,-Hello, conf
rades everywhere. This is from the
brightest spot in the U. S. A. So say
the placards on the street railway
cars here.
With from 10 to Is thousand fami-
lies depending on the Provident AS
sociation. on an average of to the
family, and believe me it is slim
depending, as they feed us hog jowls,
split beans, and dried skin wrapped
around a bone. This was supposed
to be ham hooks. And they send US
the same old thing every week. They
imagine they are feeding bunch of
horses or some other kind OF stock,
I suppose.
The hog jowls they send out, cost
them from 6 to 7 cents per pound,
and when the big shots of the Prcf-
dence check the price out of the bank,
they charge from II TO ~ cents per
pound. And the same thing applies
to other groceries as we'll.
Signing Off for this time.
A Worker,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-30
Gets 10 Subs in .
Hours in City of
by, MINI.

Matt Tonayanovich finds that get
ting subscriptions to the Daily Work
er In Crosby, MINI, the only city in
the y. s. where Communist is
mayor, is an easy proposition. He
points out that with concentrated eff
fort, subs can be gotten. Part of his
letter follows;
II saw In the Daily Worker in the
Workers Correspondence page how
some workers say 1t is so hard to get
subs because the Daily Worker uses
big words and that some people can't
understand the Daily Worker. We
know that the Daily Worker uses diff
ferent words than the capitalist press.
That's what we call Bolshevism.
There have to be new words because
capitalism and boishevism are two
different things.
1T is not hard to get new subs if
the Party members educated them
selves and knew how to approach the
workers and to explain what the
Daily Worker is. 1t is not only a
newspaper-but is to educate the
workers.
II gave a worker copy about a
month ago and when he saw me
next time, said he saw more educa-
ton in the four pages of the Daily
Worker than he saw in the last
thirty years in the capitalist press.
Then he gave me a dollar and said
he wanted to subscribe for the
weekly issue.
ITO get ten subs, it took me two
hours Of active work, II every Party
member did this active work of a
bolsheVik, it would take us about two
hours to get $4,000 subscriptions"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-30
Ten HObOken Workers
Victimized ThrOug h
Police Terror Drive

HOBOKEN, N. Furniture, needle
and young workers have been hit by
boss-police terror drive here in the
effort TO extend their wage-cutting
campaign.
-Four furniture workers who took
nart in the recent Hoboken strike, are
now facing long terms in jail for re-
fusing to starve. The danger they
are faced with is indicated by the
conviction of two young workers who
have been picked up ON a trumped-up
charge of "disorderly conduct" to 80
days in jail.
-Four other young workers were
given 20 days in Jail each, for no
other Grimes" but distribution of
leaflets.
The workers here call for the sup
port of all working class organiZa-
items in the fight to defeat the boss
terror and establish strong, militant
unions that would defend the inter
ests Of the workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-30
SHOE WORKERS OF
MASS. IN MOTION
Militant Union Leads
Actions in Key Shops

BOSTON, MasS-With successful
actions already taken in a number of
key shops around the partial demands
of the workers, the Shoe and Leather
Workers Industrial Union with Of
fees at 995 Washington Street, Bos-
ton, and IS Monroe Street, Lynn, is
making further preparations to rally
the shoe workers in struggle for i'm
porved conditions NOW.
Shop groups, meeting regularly,
have been established in seven shops.
Hundreds Of workers throughout the
state have already responded to mass
mting in Bottom, Chiaeeeetaosho
meeting in Bottom, Chelsea. Lynn,
Hayerhill and Brooklyn.
Fight Obstruction
Sabetagiag the efforts OF the
workers to fight for immediate inn
proyenlent in conditions, the National
Shoe Workers Association and the
Shoe Workers Protective Union, who
are talking amalgamation, are pro-
posing to wait" until the laundry is
100 per cent organized before be-
ginning any action.
The Shoe Workers Industrial Union
which is an organization of the rank
and-file workers, is answering these
treacherous tactics by developing inn
mediate struggles, and broadening
these into an effective fight for
higher wages and improved condi-
tons.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-30

The N. j. r. P. A. is now engaged
in a camaign to organize the tomato
growers against the canneries. The
main demand is for collective con-
tracts. At the first meeting OF the
campaign, over 100 farmers attended,
and s new members signed up at 81
a year dues, The total membership
Is ow 81
Figures we're presented showing
that the average cost Of producing
ton of tomatoes is s24, but the aver
age price received is SIT.
No Real Surplus
Among the expressions used at the
meeting were "Carnpbeil's say they
got their warehouses full OF canned
tomatoes they can't sell, They call II
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-30

a surplus and use 1t as an excuse to
rob us OF our works. There is no real
surplus. They ought to give the TO-
matoes in storage to the hungry un-
employed. Canipbell's has made more
tina nenougf profit"
THE Russian workers and farmers
showed us what you can do by Or
ganising. They are building and
going forward, while We 60 backward"
The last quotation came from a
conservative" Anglo Saxon farmer,
who, though still full Of illusions. In
stinetiveiy turns to the Soviet Union
for way out.
These are some indications that
the Southern New jersey farmers are
preparing to swing into mass action.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-30

sum,
District Z Detroit. More action
Thousands of auto workers in your
district are now on strike. The Daily
is actively pushing these struggles,
aiding in the uniting OF forces TO
smash wage cuts. organizing, leading
and guiding. Save the Daily to
help you win the strikes.
District (Chicago) has actually
doubled its totals, but since it has
previously contributed only s43l, 1t
didn't take much to double this fig
ure-only $3.50 This district. with
the second largest quota. is still very
dead and is one of those chiefly re-
sponsible for holding the drive back.
District II North and South Caro-
lina). Large territory, but small re-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-30
Chicago Workers Join
i'm Fight on Jim-Crow
Police Terror Drive

CHICAGO, Tl.--Around $50 Negro
and white workers attended the
meeting at 526 w. Division Street
under auspices of the International
Labor Defense and the League OF
Struggle for Negro Rights to protest
the jim-croW terror directed against
the solidarity of Negro and white
workers, IN the And ward.
Detective squads and police are at
tempting to terForize these workers,
seen walking together ON the street,
stopping them for questioning and
abusing them with vile Language.
The speech OF Wills, Negro workers
candidate Of the 42pd ward, was fol-
lowed by discussion during which the
workers told of the brutality and
abuse heaped upon them by the
police.
Two protest kilograms we're than
unanimously adopted and sent to the
local police officials. A delegation
of six workers was elected to sec
Alderman Crovedeman and to de-
mand that the terror be discon-
tinued.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-30
Frisco Workers Fight
Attacks on Jobless;
Win Eviction c a G s

SAN FRANCISCO. Cal, Jan. 49,
The Blank eviction case was termin-
ated this week with a complete VIC
tory for the International Labor De-
Tense. All the remaining cases were
dismissed,
Feingold was the only one who had
been tried and the I. l.. d, is now
appealing the 100 days sentence
handed to him by Judge Fritz,
Jack Robinson is the defendant in
the Charities trial, is going TO appear
before the courts on February End
at 2 p. M, Judge Fritz's department.
All workers are requested to fill the
courtroom and emphasize the de-
uand OF the unemployed workers of
San Francisco against further rail-
reading Of their fellow workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-30
Santa Monica S. P.
Branch Hears Talk
on Workers Defense

SANTA MONICA, Calif.-On the
initiative of members In the Socialist
Party branch here, Leo Gallagher,
attorney for the International Labor
Defense in Los Angeles and Helmer
Bergman, representing the National
Committee for the Defense of Polit-
ical Prisoners, were invited to address
a meeting held under the S. P. aus
piceS.
Despite threatening letters from
Los Angeles legionairres, including
the Los Angeles School Board, the
$50 workers assembled decided to go
through with the meeting. No in
reference was attempted and the
speakers were heard as scheduled,
Gallagher spoke on White Terror and
Bergman on the International Red
Aid.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-30
Less Than $4,000 Received
in Daily Campaign in First
Tevo Weeks; Speed Up Drive!

turns. The Daily" is needed to fight
the land sharks and banks, to expose
the fake farm relief bills and organize
the struggle for real relief and against
forced sales Farmers. show that you
are determined not to do without the
paper that fights for you'll
District Is California;. California
has thus far been asleep to the real
ization that the Daily Worker Is in
danger. Tom Mooney, Imperial VAL
ley, the fight against the criminal
syndicalism laws. Need we say moreP
And what about District II (Ala-
bama), where SO many great strug-
giles are taking place (Scottsboro, the
share-eroppers)--struggles that need
the Daily Worker! Not a cent from
this district. Nor from District 19
(DenYer).
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-30

kulak attacks and organized the New
Jersey Farmers Protective Associa-
ton, with demands for no gas tax,
no sheriff sales, and moratorium on
farm debts until the end of the
depression"
A resolution was passed that no
enc could hold office in the organi-
sation who did not receive his entire
income from the farm. This was
fought by the kulaks, but reyerthe-
less ent thru, with class lines
sharply drawn,
A small farmer, former railroad
shopman, who had been blacklitsed
by the Pennsylvania Railroad, was
eletceG president OF the association.
The N. J. Y. p. A, voted support OF
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-30

the program Of the Farmers National
Relief Conference and was repre-
sented at the conference by three
delegates.
An attempt to organize the Italian
farmers In the nearby villages OF
RosenbyI faler because of the mis-
take by the organizing committee in
dealing with the village leaders"
who turned out TO be rich farmers,
and who took advantages of the Ian
guage difficulty to sabotage the
meeting. The farmers of the N. j..
F. p. A. plan to go back TO Rosen-
byn and make another attempt, with
italian workers from vineland as
their main link with the Italian
farmers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-30
Report U.s.s.R. Achievements
"a eapaeity crowd atten

A capacity crowd attended
MUSHROOM HEIGHTS, Mich.
the Lenin Memorial and anti-war
meeting at the Ukranian Hall here.
The meeting was under, the joint
auspices of the Communist units Of
Muskegon and Muskegon Heights
and the Unemployed Councils. The
main speaker was William Novel; of
Detroit who has recently returned
from the Soviet Union and gave a
graphic report on the achievements
in socialist construction. The Ukrar
MAN Chorus rendered several revo-
lutionary numbers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-30

The drive must be speeded upl All
districts are falling down badly in
their collections. Only $l97.23 came
in Friday. The total for the IA days
is 81 1882. At this time the success
full 1881 campaign about $4,000 had
been received.
District New York. has contrib
uted approximately two-thirds Of this
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-30
SUPERIOR OPEN FORUMS BEGIN

SUPERIOR, Wis.-The Open For
UNI is now to be held regularly every
Sunday, p. m. at the Workers Gen.
ter, 1908 North 5th st. The first COM
munist mayor, Nygard of Crosby,
MINI, ard Harold Olmstead are some
of the speakers scheduled for the
forum.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-30
BY J. LANKY

Some months ago the small and
middle farmers living near the vii
lage Of Norma, N. j.. decided that the
time had come 70 ra new form of
farm organization, The prices Of veg
etables. eggs and fruit did not even
cover the cost Of production, because
of the robbery of the commission
merchants.
At the first meeting, struggle
arose between the kulak element
(Yich fa1ners), who we're accustomed
to run every farm organization in the
past, and the small and middle sarm-
ers, who we're disguised with the class
collaborating. yaclliating old leader
ship. These later fought of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-30
CLOSE THREE KANSAS RANKS

KANSAS CITY. Jan. 26.-The 81
year old Pioneer Trust Company Of
Kansas City, and two outlying sub
salaries closed doors yesterday when
the affairs of the Pioneer Trust were
placed in the hands of the State
Banking Department. The three
banks carried deposits ranging over
S2,500,000.