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The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1933-05-18
Lewistown, Mont.

Mrs. Birdie Brown of Gilt
Edge, Montana, died Saturday
morning at st. Joseph Hospital
from burns received from a gaso-
line explosion on her ranch. Mrs.
Brown lived in the vicinity of
Gilt Edge for nearly thirty years
and was a native of Missouri.
The funeral was held Monday
from George Creel Undertaking
ParlOr.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-22
No Sacrifice for Bosses

WORKERS might
Sydney man other beayers labor helping
the employers and the put the Industrial
Save Act should carefully consider the words Sam
president of the big department. H
the labor expoters employing
starvation Yet Mr. Strauss speaking the forum"
the National Retail Association yesterday
sacrificed nothing agreeing
hours and minimum wages"
the statement
the talk others
ton compelling the sacrifices o
recovery"
the hasten
the that details
twisting
the the Industries
head off strikes against
noteworthy the Straus
"A to boost high
people could not buy at such
for months will continue with initiation with policy
the Roosevelt administration
dumping
which Wall Street carrying against powers
Stratus warning not to raise high
rapidly falling
attempt of capitalist
out of the crisis only makes matters
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-22
Dear Comrades:

Dear Comrades:
editorial operation making Daily
/" Worker better and bigger
confident that will
already decided Of the Daily.
Beginning August 18th with
daily with
August 18th will have eight instead Of
We reader glad this forward
made by the times
world the brink Of Var, which
permitted will the millions
farmers The Daily Worker these preparations must
rally the for the struggle against To do this effectively
rades, needed space.
Roosevelt with soled
living toing
relief forced labor persecution Of Negroes veh military
ons with the most demagogc propaganda about returning
per the New Da for the forgotten
peace.
The Daily Worker must show the hypocri
ob and the small farmers force the
This task also confronted with the need
and paper.
The trade union bureauca OF the
Coz and the leaders the Socialist Party (qu
and Coz increasing their activity MANIFOLD
queny critics Of Roosevels program
their ss-couaboratio poiceshe policy Of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-22
MACHADO HANGS
2CUBAN WORKERS
All Out in Protest In
Union Square
Today at 2

NEW YORK.-On the eve Of the
New York workers demonstration
against the bloody reign of Wall
Street and its agent Machado in
Cuba, in Union Square at Q p. m. to-
Gay, the International Labor Defense
received word Of the murder Of two
workers on Machado's own estate In
Oriente Province, Cuba.
The International Red Aid of Cuba
sent word that Machado has organ
lied fake instruction Of workers on
his plantation, using 1t as a pretext
TO hang two Of his employees without
trial. They had been active in or
ganizing real revolutionary struggles
against the big landowners Of Oriente
Province.
While Sumner Wells, American
ambassador to Cuba, announced that
there were only Is political prisoners
IN Cuban jails, the lid reported that
1t knows Of at least 125 workers
The Anti-Imperialist- League will
hold an outdoor rally Saturday, July
% at Union Square, 7:30 p. m. This
meeting is being held in support Of
the Cuban masses and is port Of the
Cuban campaign week. Among the
speakers will be James Ford, member
Of the Executive Committee Of the
international League Against Imper-
ialism. Fred Biedenkamp, Secretary
of the Shoe and Leather Workers
Union, William Simon, National Sec
Rotary Of the Anti-Imperialist League
Of the United States.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-22
DEEPENING CRISIS.
SYMPTOMS SHOWN.
IN STOCK CRASH.
Virtual Panic as Big
Banks Tighten Credit
In Initiation Boom

NEW YORK.--Two days Of terrific
crashes in the stock market jolted
the Roosevelt inflated gambling boom
that has already put millions into the
pockets Of the stock gamblers.
On Friday, after the cracks in the
market had equalled the 1929 debacle,
the signal for the starting of the
crisis after production had been slow
ing UP, the board of governors of the
New York Ctock Exchange met to
consider the advisabi1ity of closing
the market for Saturday. This is
done only in cases of extreme panic
on the market.
Over 100000 shares were dumped
on the market in order to cash in be-
fore the drop continued further.
The drop in the stock market is
connected with the slowing up of pro-
duction in basic industries like steel
and automobile.
The market rise was due to the
first dose Of imitation injected by
Roosevelt and has now run its course,
opening the way for further initiation.
to fill the pockets Of the parasites
and increase prices of food for the
workers while lowering their wages.
Because OF the heavy dip in grain
prices, the grain markets were closed
Friday.
Prices dropped from 5 to so points
since Friday. The stock gamblers who
were borrowing heavily from the
banks we're straining the credit situa-
ton Of the banks by the increase of
$500, 100000 in brokers loans.
Seeing the crash coming, the big
banks who had cleaned up theirs on
the market, frightened UP on loans,
and the market took another dive.
Bonds also dropped along with
stocks,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-22
$500 WORKERS
AT SCOTSBORO
DEMONSTRATION
Hear Ruby Bates and
Robert Minor Bare
Frame-Up

4. NEW YORK.-Three thousand five
Aundred Negro and white workers,
|hany coming from Harlem by sub
Day and truck, demanded the i'm
mediate release Of the nine Scots
boro boys in a demonstration on
Union Square under the auspices Of
the International Labor Defense yes
terday evening.
Ruby Bates, star witness for the
defense in the recent trial Of Hay
wood Patterson in Decatur, Alabama,
drew tremendous applause from the
workers when she said, referring to
her testimony exposing this frame
up:
II told the truth then, and will
go back to the same place and say
the same thing now.
RI Join hands with both black and
white workers" Then she concluded
by calling for the freedom of all class
war prisoners.
An unexpected worker at the dem
|pnstration was Michael Palunbo,
whose release on bail was won by
the I. L. D. yesterday after his ar
rest on the frame-up charge of stab
bling Khaki Shirt member in As
toria last week.
Other speakers included. Robert
Minor of the Communist Party,
ff1f9NTTNrJEn or pAcaR TwN-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-22
Widow Pays Tribute
to Role of ''Daily"
i'm POtamkin's Work

NEW YORK.-A tribute to the
role of the revolutionary press in
the work of proletarian writer's Is
made by Elizabeth Potamkin, wild
dow of Harry Alan Potamkin,
MARKHAM writer and critic who
died last Wednesday, in the fol-
lowing letter to the Daily Worker:
Dear Comrades:
Enclosed please find check for
sS5 to be used as you see fit for
the Daily Worker.
GAS you probably know, Harry
A. Potamkin drew a great deal of
his inspiration for poetry from
the correspondence of workers ap-
pearing in the Daily.
II hope this will serve as an
indication as to how the Daily can
be used by young poets and crit
les in the future"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-22
Letter from the Editor the Readers of the "Day Worker

Filthy paper
does cont particularly conveying
minds Of the workers those questions which
Il
especially
workers the unemployed organizations
We only edit the WE'LL only the
your paper, if we have daily cooperation.
With readers, bigger
after August 14th will have better
We also Introduce
pictures,
also want suggestions
ask contributions not then
should write.
build solid lasting Of
in the ONCE and comrades
that will help
Finally comrades with bigger andw1th
to aid enlarging the
Read the yourself and then
Dor Follow this by asking for his
to sell in factory
need for such the Daily"
paper.
COMRADES with such cooperation from every
will rapidly improve and 1t will
for interests and for the interests
Send letter telling help over the
and eight Daily" larger
Worker to be like y
oomssdeH yours,
q A. HArHAWAK HNtea
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-22
Soviet Trade and the War
Danger

THE Socialist Republics colossal Power
the and having banhed uempoy
men economic policy
construction certain concessions capitalist
world that is gaspng in
DUT recognition
United States of sxyear
purchases fevered activities
concerning trade agreements should
illusions the workers
its
great growth not be
whole imminent
the Union Certainly the series Of
the policy of the Soviet
which conducts policy.
the midst Of CAPT.
increasing
imperialt
THE capitalist the
possible accepted
deepening economic crisis.
systems
Socialism these the sharper
the growing
Socialism crisis Capitalism The working
Intervention against the declining
Roosevelt of mediation military
Soviet Union in the hope of weakening both)
that the mpelis
Workers
class struggle is not set aside by treaties
THE conspiracy
revolutionary
Union!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-22


ranks The socialist leaders, especially they insist that
workers rely bourgeois democracy and their theory of peaceful
transition
for socialism they promise but bloody fasc
Daily the Socialist
theories the actions the socialist and
Of L. leaders actions which help only the
THESE Of the major larger
daily paper Saturdays
But comrades, need hep
enough make the DAILY" must
better Negro workers
by small farmers, by agricultural laborers.
We want help in improving the want help
extending the circulation Of the Daily.
now help paper2 many
writing crcizng every you
disagree understand.
Secondly by sending interest
which factory union workers organization
y sending these items quickly making
accurate and endeavong ful-hough
you describe
Thirdly by sending facua
factre Of munitions the factories munitions
OF L. and socialist leaders at the time that all
OF the active and mitants STRUGGLES Of the socialist and
workers for improved conditions
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-22
Workers and Artists Pay
Last Respects to POtamkin
relicc disE -. t:.e

NEW YORK-Hundreds of work.
ers, artists and writers attended the
red funeral of Harry Allan Potam-
kin, noted revolutionary critic and
poet, who died Wednesday at the
age of SO after three years of illness,
in the Workers Center at so E. 18th
ST. yesterday afternoon. His body
was cremated.
Though he was not member of
the Communist Party, Potamkin was
accorded red funeral because of
his revolutionary activity in the
workers struggles since 1927.
All during the morning hundreds
of workers and artists walked by the
plain pine box in which the writer
reposed in state A red flag draped
in black covered the coffin. On either
side stood guard of three working
class children, members of the
Young Pioneers Of America, to which
organization Potamkin devoted ar
dent work
Alexander Trachtenberg, represent
ing the Communist Party; A. Wa
genecht of the Workers Interna-
tional Relief and the Film Photo
League; Joseph Freeman, of the
John Reed Club; Martha Millet, of
the Young Pioneers, and Bill Crop
per, representing the artists of the
John Reed Club, paid the last re-
spects of their organizations at the
bier.
A red banner reading, "Art Is a
Weapon in the Glass Struggle" hung
across the. wall Of the hall over ban
ners Of the John Reed Club, the
Workers Film and Photo League, the
Pioneers, the Marine Workers Indus
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-22

adult, to all workers mass organiza-
tons and especially to the members
of the Socialist Party and the Amer
lean Federation of Labor Unions, is
declared that "only the organized,
united might and power of the work.
ers can defeat the imperialist war
plans and win the masses struggle
for unemployment and social insur-
ance and against capitalist oppres-
SION"
The District urged all its sections
to intensity with the greatest energy
their work in preparation for Aug. l.;
to increase their work among the
masses in the shops and factories,
in the neighborhoods and blocks, in
the stores and offices.
The manifesto outlines the intense
preparations for war by the capitalist
governments, under cover of peace
talk" While Roosevelt speaks about
peace American capitalism pushes
the perfection of its huge war ma
chinery," through the National Re-
covery Act, the militarising of 100000
young men in forced labor camps, the
development of Muscle Shoals, and in
many other ways, while the sharpest
economic conflict is going on among
the imperialiSt powers. It adds:
'Fascism Brings War Nearer
THE advent of the Fascist dictator
ship to power in Germany. and the
demand of German capitalism for re-
vision of the Versailles Treaty has
further sharpened the conflict be-
tween Germany and France, and
Italy and Germany and has brought
the danger Of war ever nearer.
Especially is the danger of i'm
perialist armed Intervention against
the Soviet Union imminent. This is
seen in the increased provocations of
Japanese imperialism supported by
other capitalist powers against the
U. S. S. R., as we'll as the recent sign
ing of the -Four Power Pact between
England. France, Germany and Italy,
which is directed in the main against
the Workers Fatherland.
I'm the face of this growing danger
of war the New York District of the
Communist Party calls upon the toll
ers to muster on August First, Inter-
national Day Of Stsuggle against I'M
perialist War, in the most determined
and militant demonstration ever held
in New York City. The Communist
Party points out that the imperialist
war mongers who are spending bill
lions for war preparations are the
same ones who have refused adequate
relief and Unemployment and Social
Insurance to the over 100000 I'M
employed toilers OF this country,
threatening to close down the relief
apparatus in New York City, drastic
ally destroying the masses living
standards by one wage cut after an
other, and conduct the sharpest ter
ror against the masses, Negro and
white, in their struggle for the right
to live"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-22
Wall St. White Collar
w ork ers Revolt at
Long Hours, No Pay

NEW YORK. -Roosevelt's Recovery
Slavery program has affected clerks
on the stock exchange who revolted
today against the long hours they
are being compelled to work without
pay in order to pile up profits for the
spectators who are cashing in on the
Roosevelt ination program.
Thirteen white collars workers
walked out Of the purchasing sales
department Of the Harris Upham Co.,
investment brokers, in protest against
having to work overtime without any
extra pay except supper money.
Clerks in other brokerage houses are
said to be grumbling also A COM
pany official denied that there had
been a walk out although more than
800 stock runners were tied up.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-22
Tavo Workers Shot AS Hosiery
Strikers Battle COPS and Scabs
La ale Workers
Fight for Pay
Increases
BY Herman Nicholson.

BY Herman Nicholson.
Daily Worker Special Correspondent,
LANSDALE, Pa, July 20.
Tear gas bombs having failed
to shake the fighting spirit of
the LOO hosiery strikers here,
the Dexdale min tried bullets
today.
For two hours West Main
Street, in front of the plant,
was a battlefield. More than
a thousand of the strikers,
with several thousand sympathetic
townsfolk looking on and newsreel :
and press cameras trained on the
scene, marched and conference.-the
through choking clouds of gas.
Strikebreakers' cars were stoned and
the police, mounted and on foot,
gave up all hope of preventing the
enraged strikers from throwing the
fear of God into the scabs as they
SnedKeQ OUT OF Cne plant.
Gunfire FelIs Fur Workers,
The shooting was an almost I'M
exampled case of deliberate terror
ism, raised to the highest dramatic
pitch by the setting. An imported
sharpshooter, whose identity is care
fully guarded, stood up on the roof
of the mill, In full view of the thou
sands in the street below, and care
fully selected his victims. Several
times he aimed, then shook his head
and lowered the rifle. Finally he
aimed at young worker-the strik-
ers, boys and girls, are for the
greater part in their late teens, and
almost without exception native
born. While the crowd screamed in
horror and rage, he fired, and Wilmer
Kriebel, 10, got a bullet in the leg.
Again the sharpshooter-a thousand
Lansdale strikers are looking for
hin1-took careful aim, and brought
down Claude Seller, 81, also shot in
the leg.
Yesterday the use of tear gas
bombs began.
The strike has been going on for
three weeks, with unbroken ranks.
Two or three years ago an attempt
was made to organize, but the police
succeeded in breaking it up, obeying
the order of the mill owners, who
had Of course the united backing of
the towns business men. No meet
ings were permitted, wholesale ar
rests broke up the movement. Since
then the stretch-out system has
gained Roadway, and knitters were
forced to tend two of the huge ma
chimes instead Of one, making 40
stockings an hour. A high" wage
would be s18 or $40 week. With
time lost by breakdowns Of the ma
chines-the shop has to be kept at
around 80 degrees or the metal con-
tracts and the thread breaks-pay
envelopes Of So and SO for five 10
hour shifts are the rule. Pay checks
of less than a dollar have been
handed out also
Strike-A Rank and File Movement.
Thus knitter producing so dozen
pairs of stockings in day might get
So for his work, and the mill gets as
high as IS a dozen-$300, with the
enormous spread of $297 for material,
CONTINUED ON PAGE THREsp
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-22

trial Union and many other organiza-
tons.
Three members Of the John Reed
Club and three members of the Film
and Photo League acted as honorary
pallbearers. The body was taken to a
crematory.
There were no tears at the funeral,
but a gritting of teeth and a deter
mination to carry on where death
force1 Harry Alan Potamkin to
stop.
The ceremony was concluded with
the singing of the International.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-22
Seven Aug. | Meets
In Steel District

YOUNGSTOWN, O., July 21.-The
Communist Party announces that
preparations are under way for seven
August First Anti-War demonstra-
tions in the Steel Center of Youngs-
town Section. Youngstown demon
stration will take place at Watt and
Federal Sts., at 4 p. m.
Demonstrations will also take place
in Warren, Newton Falls, Masury,
Salem, New Castle and Campbell.
The Youngstown demonstration has
already received endorsement Of sew
eral working class organizations,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-22
BULLETS, TEAR GAS FAIL TO BREAK HOSIERY STRIKE
Special Strike News Monday

The second story Of the series by
Herman Nicholson, special Daily
Worker correspondent covering
Pennsylvania strike struggles, will
appear Monday. Watch for 1T.
Send for your bundle orders inn
nlediately. Arrange wide distribu-
ton Of the Daily Worker especially
In Pennsylvania and other Eastern
States.
Mondays stories will deal with
the struggles In Lansdale and Phil
adelphia.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-22
MOCK AIR RAID
ON TOXIC OPENS
WARFUND DRIVE
Billion Yen to Speed
War in Far East;
Attack on USSR

TOXIC, July 21.-With a terrifying
air commandment maneuvre over
Toxic, the Araki militarist govern
ment of Japan yesterday opened up
its campaign for increased war ex-
penditures. -
Though the greater proportion Of
the government expenditures are 60
ing out for war in Manchukuo and
preparations for war against the So
Wet Union, the Aaki government is
asking for an increased war budget to
total around 1,ooO,ooo,ooo yen $780,
100000 at par).
Besides the increased government
expenditures, individual capitalists
have contributed over $5,O00,00O in
machine guns and other war sup
plies.
The biggest increase will go to the
navy, which is preparing for a battle
to dominate the Pacific and the Chi
nese markets.
This is in line with Wall Streets,
move towards the same end seen in
the expenditure of $238,O0O,O0O out
OF the public works funds for battle
ship building.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-22
"Rauy Against War
August 1st!" Urges
c. p, N. Y. District
Manifesto Calls for Intensified Work in Fac
tories, Blocks, Offices, for
Mighty Demonstration

NEW YORk-Th New York District
aooeo call
organizations
workers Negro and white younr and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-22
Dynamite, Bombs for China
By a Worker Correspondent

SAN PEDRO, Calif.-The Norwe-
gian motorship ''Tai Shan" arrived in
this port from the East Coast Sunday,
July 10th. 1t had aboard a cargo of
5000 airplane bombs and an unknown
quantity of dynamite. 1t was con-
signed to the National Government,
Shanghai, China. No doubt this goes
to the Marking clique to start an
other drive against the Chinese So
YietS.
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Subscribers Should Be Visited
by Specially Selected Workers
to See If Their Service Is
Satisfactory!
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1933-12-14
Lyceum Program

Monday morning the Junior and
Senior assemblies were entertain
ed in the Senior assembly by
Madame D. Beyea who talked
about the interesting country of
Russia.
She said that she had lived with
the Gar for a few weeks and
found that he was a fine father and
husband, but not a good ruler. She
talked about the great Russian
writer, Tolstoy, who writes facts
concerning the government of his
country.
She described the homes of the
middle class people and the peas.
ants of old Russia, which were the
homes of love, loyalty and pri-
vacy. In new Russia the home has
a lack of harmony, no privacy, I'm.
sanitary conditions, and starvation.
Today under the Soviet govern
ment the prices are very high, but
the Soviet cares for the children
everything is done for youth. The
women of Russia are bound to dc
the very same work as the men. AS
a whole, Russia is in a terrible
condition.
Madame Beyea is the daughter
of a wealthy British sugar planter
She had a teacher in her private
home from whom she received her
education. She had very little fun
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1933-12-14
Miscellaneous News

The honor roll for the past six
weeks has been posted on the bull
letin board in the Senior high as
sembly. II per cent of the Sophie
mores, IA per cent Of the Juniors,
and 10 per cent of the Seniors are
on this time.
Men of the faculty will entertain
the School Mems Club of district
%, Thursday evening. There will be
a dinner hour, business meeting,
and social hour to follow.
Friday we were entertained by an
interesting and comical program
given by the Juniors. This coming
Friday pep session will be held
to get ready for the first home bas-
ketball game.
Friday, Dec. %, the Seniors will
give their program.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1933-12-14
Senior Glass News

The Senior Class is going to pre-
sent program Friday, Dec. % in
the afternoon. Won't the Juniors
and Sophomores' eyes pop out when
they see what is going to happen?
Everything is planned to be a
great big surprise"
Mr. Kohl gave a very interesting
talk to the Social Problems classes
Friday. He spoke mainly on the
way Germany, Russia, and Italy
are succeeding under their present
regimes. In relation to the U. S.
he stated his ideas of prohibition
and especially the way it pertained
to the younger generation.