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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-23
- Lynct,ings Of Negroes already Reported in 1884 s

private individuals or by officers OF
the law, or by less than three per-
sons acting in concert, are not
listed.
u Unidentified Negro man,
lynched near Barlow, Pa, by a
gang of white men Jan. 8 No. ex-
cuse given.
q Rex Scott, 20 years old. Negro,
shot and hanged by gang OF so men,
at Hazard, KY. on Jan. 23 Charged
with striking a white man in a
fight.
- Robert johnson. Negro, lynched
near Tampa, Fla, Jan. 80 while in
custody of Deputy Constable T. M.
Graves on charge of petty lar
ceny Partial identification" for
attack on white woman" Gun
named, was made after the lynch
ing for press purposes.
~ James Franklin, Negro yard
hand, lynched by employer, Joseph
Kopman, with assistance of two po-
licemen who held Franklin while
shot him at Bradenton,
Fla, April 3. Lynching was part of
reign of terror against or
ganizing citrus workers, but a story
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-23
Groups Stress Unity At Illinois Unemployed Conference
On the
Strike Front
Butte Miners Push
Toward General Strike

BUTTE, Mont.-The rank and file
committee of the Miners Union here
demanded that the ballots of the
10 local labor unions which have
already voted on the general strike
be opened Immediately, and is ex-
posing the betrayal of the elements
in the leadership which are holdi Ig
up the strike action.
For the first time in any strike
here against the copper trust, the
helmet men and the engineers are
out. Feeling for a general strike in
support of the miners is high. At
the meeting of the Silver Bow
Trades and Labor Assembly On July
II, a motion was made for the
calling of a mass meeting on July
% of all unions for the purpose of
voting on the general strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-23
Milkmen Win 3-Day Strike
After Militant Picketing

SOUTH BEND, Ind, July 81
Milk wagon drivers and dairy work
ers ended their hree-day strike
here by winning their major de-
mands. The workers won the mini
mum wage of 500 per week. rec
ignition of their union shop griev-
ance committees, the dairy owners
to pay all laundry bills for overalls
and to buy all equipment used on
the job.
A militant picket line was main
tanned throughout the strike, day
and night. Workers from Bendix,
Studebakers, Oliver Plow Works,
street car men as well as many of
the unemployed helped the milk
men out on the picket line.
The union has agreed however,
to submit all future controversies
to arbitration. This takes away the
workers right to strike. The Com
munist Party is issuing statement
to the Daily Worker exposing this
and calling on these workers to de-
mand the removal of this point
from the agreement and to form
rank and file committees to deal
with the bosses.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-23
Chicago Coach Workers
Strike for Recognition

CHICAGO, Ill, July 22.-Workers
of the Chicago Motor Coach Com
pany voted Thursday night for a
strike for recognition of their union
and for the reinstatement of bus
drivers fired for union activities.
The Amalgamated Association of
Street, Electric Railway and Motor
Coach Employees claims to have
the support of $40 men, half the
drivers on the bus line, already be-
hind the strike, which is called for
next Tuesday if the workers de-
mands are not granted.
The company operates a company
union, and forces the men to join
it. So fragrant was the intimida-
ton of employees and the discrimi-
nation against unionized workers by
the company that even the Ma
tional Labor Board was forced to
ask the Coach Lines to rehire those
fired for organizing.
The Board, however, has carefully
avoided doing anything to make
the company carry out this request.
Union leaders of the Amalgamated
have assisted in the blacklisting of
workers by repeatedly delaying
strike votes, and telling the workers
the Government would do some
thing.
The A. A. S. E. r. and M. C. E.
leadership has been noted in this
city for permitting their union to
degenerate into company union of
the street car system.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-23
C.P. Leaflets among Frisco
Troops Urge Aid to Strike

strikers? Why, on the contrary, does
it always ridicule and sheer at such
work as Illegal" or romantic" or
provocative? Does this not serve
to protect the strongest arm Of the
employers and their capitalist gov
eminent? Does this not actually
hurt the daily interests of the
strikers and the working CLASP
THE "Armory Bulletin" raises the
following slogans:
"Guardsmen, refuse to be strike
breakers! We did not join the Ma
tionaI Guard to be Scabherders and
strikebreakers! Patriotism does not
mean going against the interests Of
the working class. We must be
loyal, not to handful Of rich
bankers End bosses, but to the in
terests Of our own class!"
These are excellent slogans. They
raise very boldly and unequivocally
the slogan of class against class.
These slogans, therefore, represent
the best interests Of the strikers,
since they strive to arouse the class
consciousness of the armed forces
sent by the employers and the
capitalist state power against the
workers.
The "Armory Bulletin" speaks
with authority on the inner life
of the National Guard. This is in
dispensable for the effectiveness of
all work among the armed forces.
The bulletins must show the Ma
tional Guardsmen that they are be-
ing written by their own, by people
who know what they are talking
about. The more inside" stuff in
the bulletins. the better.
For example, the "Armory Bull
letin" before us gives the very re-
vealing information that it was one
called "Eaglebeak Allen" the "regi-
mental drunkard" who led the at
tack on some workers and vets
handing out the Western Worker
on the picket lines. Immediately
the National Guardsmen, who have
no respect for this "regimental
drunkard" are interested. The ar
mory Bulletin" then proceeds to
argue against all such actions,
pointing out that the Guardsmen
ought to HELP in giving these leaf
let's and papers out. 1t urges the
men to read the literature them
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-23

A remarkable, historic document
has just come to the offices of the
Daily Worker from the front battle
lines of the San Francisco strike
front.
1t is a six-page, mimeographed
bulletin issued by the Communist
Party right within the ranks of the
National Guardsmen now patrolling
the docks.
1t is called the "Armory Bulletin
issued "by and for the worker
guardsmen of San Francisco"
The Communist Party in the
tremendous class battles on the
Coast is fulfilling this most diff
cult and most decisive duty of
revolutionary working class party.
1t is doing revolutionary work
among the armed forces of the
capitalist State.
The Socialist Party New Leader
this week describes the workers and
young farm boys now doing service
in the National Guard as ''morons. "
This sound very radical"
But a Party seriously tackling the
problem of defending the best in
terests of the masses, the problem of
Selling power and establishing a
Workers and Farmers Government,
must give a serious place in its pro-
gram to agitation among the armed
forces. This a touchstone to truly
revolutionary party. A party which
neglects this work, or finds theo-
retical justification for denying the
necessity of such work, fCrfeits all
claim to being a working class party
seriously engaged in overthrowing
How can any political Party claim
to doing any serious and sir e
work to help the San Francisco and
coast strikers if it makes no efforts
to win the National Guard, the
hired troops used by the Govern
ment and employers to break the
trike?
The armed forces of the State are
recruited from the sons of the work
ing class and ruined petty bourgeois.
To a large degree they are what
Lenin called workers and peasants
in uniform"
Why does the Socialist Party, in
the present strike struggles, never
to win the Government
forces on to the side of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-23
State Officials Aided
Lynchers in Most
Cases

June s. hanged from a bridge.
Charged with assault Sheriff
and two deputies involved directly.
ID Son Griggs, 30 years old.
hanged, shot, and dragged behind
automobile by officers assisted by
mob of $50, June 81. at Kirbyville,
Tex. for associating with white
woman friend.
12) Dick Wilkerson, 35-year-old
Negro, lynched by gang which des-
troyed his home also, after alterca-
ton with while hoodlums invading
Negro dance, at Manchester, Tenn,
June "a.
49, Andre W McCloud, Negro,
charged with attempted assault"
lynched by K. K. K. gang organic
ing mob of 300 at Bastrop, La,
July 9. Throat cut, anfs. hanged.
Sheriff and Police Chief convent
emily "out of town" while he was
taken from Jail.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-23
N. Y,
JObIess, Relief Men
Form Union Of 600
Demand SIS Weekly
PAY on Relief Jobs and
Recognition

SCHENECTADY, N. Y.-Voicing
their determination to take mllltant
action. 600 unemployed and relief
workers here Numbered their ap-
prevail of the demands proposed IN
final form by the Executive Commit
tee of the Schenectady County IN
EMPLOYED and Relief Workers
Union. A mass delegation will pre-
sent the demands to the city relief
administration today.
Although only two weeks old, 900
workers have already joined, and
additional hundreds are expected to
Join in the course of the next few
weeks. The demands around which
the unemployed are uniting on a
nine-point program include:
Minimum pay o. SIS for a
24-hour week, skilled workers to
receive prevailing trade union
rates.
additional relief for families
of over three.
3-Recognition of the Science
tady County Unemployed and
Relief Workers Union by the city
and relief authorities.
4-Recognition OF grievance
committees.
5-AdditionaI relief for jobless
workers on home relief.
Full relief to all single and
young workers.
mo discrimination against
Negro and foreign born workers
or for political or fraternal af-
filiation.
8-For the Workers UnemplOy-
ment Insurance Bill.
9-For the right of any unem-
pIoyed worker to use his auto
mobile while receiving relief.
The main tasks of the union are
to carry through mass recruiting
drive and embrace the majority of
the workers in the neighborhoods
and on the projects in the fight
for adequate relief. 1t must i'm
mediately begin campaign for the
popularization of the workers de-
mands and for the reinstatement
of all laid off workers in the shops
and on the projects. 1t must win
the support of the workers in the
trade unions, fraternal, veteran,
1.
primarily get the support of the
workers in the General Electric
Company who will be a powerful
ally in the struggle for the Workers
Unemployment Insurance Bill.
While the corrupt relief machine
and its henchmen receive from $25
to $50 weekly. the relief workers are
forced to work for $12 a week and
les.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-23
Experience is that Most
Lynchings are Not
Reported by Press

NEW YORK.-Thirteen lynchings
have been reported since January
this year, according to records kept
by the International Labor Defense.
it was announced by the organi-
cation last week.
OF the 13, all were Negroes One
lynching was reported from New
York State, two from Florida, three
from Mississippi, two from Louis
lana, one each from Georgia, Ken
lucky, South Carolina, Texas, Ten
nessee.
In nearly all these cases, assist
ance If not leadership of officers of
the law in the lynching was re-
ported.
In each of these cases, at least
three men participated in an or
ganized manner in the lynching.
Many other cases in which lynch
murders were committed by single
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-23

selves and see what it is all about.
Unquestionably such work is hay-
ing it's effect in showing the Ma
tional Guardsmen that their in
terests lie with the strikers not
with the millionaire shipowners.
The "Armory Bulletin" contains
an inside detachable page, a leaf
let signed by the Communist Party,
District of California.
This is an excellent idea. 1t
permits the Ieafiet to be spread
secretly among the troops.
Here the slogans are clearly
raised: Fraternize with the strikers!
They are your brothers and rela-
tives, they are your friends!
Furthermore, the Party urges the
National Guardsmen to help the
pickets KEEP THE STRIKE
BREAKING THU GS AWAY
FROM THE LINES! This is con-
crete direction which helps drive
wedge between the despicable
thugs hired to slug and kill, and
the young workers in the National
Guard, sent to shoot their own kin,
their own class. BE loyal to your
class, do not betray your fellowmen
for Judas silver-s2 a day." Urges
the leaflet.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-23

President Tighe has assumed al
most the position of an uninterested
bystander IN regard to the attitude
of the Amalgamated top leadership
toward the locked out Warren work.
ers, announcing quite militantly
that the charges leveled by Republic
Steel upon withdrawal from wage
negotiations, are bunk" This
statement he supplemented with the
information that after the Warren
workers grievances are passed upon
by Roosevelt's steel labor board,
they are at liberty to walk out if
dissatisfied with the boards action.
From this, a Slight amount of
elementary reasoning would I'M
doubleday lead to the deduction
that the affair of the Warren men
is certainly not the concern of the
Tighe-Leonard machine.
1t is apparent, from the remarks
of steel workers in various towns,
many of them Amalgamated mem
bers, that the reaction on all sides
to the outcome of the A. AS strike
talk, is one of resentment toward
the A. F. of L. union and its poll
cies.
Coming at such time, when this
resentment has been crystallized in
many places recently through failure
of the A. A. to take any stand in
the Warren affair, the Steel and
Metal union, with its rank and file
line, and new policies which will be
evolved at its national convention,
faces the opportunity of making
large organizational gains in mem
bership throughout the industry.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-23

control OF the A. F. of L. union IN
the September elections of that
body.
Earl Forbeck, president Of the
McKeesport Tin Plate lodge of the
A. A., has filed a quarterly report
for the lodge in order to qualify as
a candidate for the presidency to
succeed Mike Tighe, who has at last
announced his intention to run.
Forbeck's candidacy was announced
today.
In the meantime VIM. Spang,
member of the Committee of Ten
from Duquesne, who was strangely
silent at the time VIM. Green put
over his impartial board" sellout
at the June convention, is making
what are supposed to be ominous
threats of strike action Tin the
columns of the capitalist papers,
if the A. AS demand for recogni-
ton is not met.
Helped Abandon Strike
At the June convention it was
Forbeck who made the statement to
this correspondence that there is
no difference between the Commit
tee of Ten and the international
officers" and this coupled with the
committees silence on the aban-
donment of the strike and all de-
velopments since then, will I'M
doubtedly furnish basis for rank
and file voting In the coming cleo
tons.
In addition to Forbeck and Tighe,
George Williams, Of Cannonsburg,
and Frank Bennett, of Granite City,
Illinois, comprise the list of candi-
dates for p-esident of the union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-23
KOhler Strike
Going Strong

BY a Worker Correspondent
KOHLER Wise, (by maiD The
Kohler strike is going strong with
about 1000 on the picket line daily.
The scabs are staying in the factory
overnight. Cots and food were
struggled in the other night. The
workers are determined to win this
strike. They ask for union recogni-
ton and an increase in wages.
American Federation of Labor mis-
leaders are going to try to sell out
this strike by arbitration"
KOHLER, Wise, July 22-Scabs
in the Kohler plumbing fixture
manufacturing company were in
hot water Friday. They couldn't
leave the plant, without passes from
the leaders of the mass picket line
which holds the company premises
in an iron grip. On the other hand,
the superintendent of the plant
forbade the scabs to accept passes
from the pickets on the grounds
that these law violators in the
picket lines have no right to grant
passes"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-23

labor system must be based on the
struggle for the substitution of the
forced labor camps with unemploy-
mem insurance and must be de-
veloped from the inside of the
camps by struggle for all the par
tial demands of the youth in them,
and from the outside Of the camps
by leading local struggles for relief
and for enactment Of H. r. 1893.
Political Demands
In addition to raising demands in
the camps Of a purely economic
character, we must develop strug-
giles for demands which represent
the needs of the youth but which
are more political in character, and
which strike more deeply at the
heart of the military forced labor
system, such as the demand for the
ousting Of army officers from the
camps.
Only by tying up the economic
struggles in the camps with strug-
giles of a more political character,
and by a policy Of consistent ex-
posture of the fascist, militariSt ma
ture of the camps win it be possible
to rally the youth for q. effec i've
struggle against the entire forced
labor system.
The broad united front organiza-
ton form through which it wiz be
possible to carry on this work on
wide scale has already been deVel-
oped in the c. c. c. Boys Protec-
tive League. Weak as yet, it gives
every possibility Of becoming the
leader of the youth in the forced
labor camps and organising them in
the struggle for their daily needs.
The building and strengthening OF
this organization is task Of the
greatest importance
Our struggle against the forced
labor system must take into &C
count its point Of departure from
normal capitalist methodS-the
complete absence of all hope for
a future for the youth under cap
italism. Well might Dante's motto
be inscribed over the entrance to
these camps; Abandon hope, all ye
who enter here!" This fact makes
it all the easier to politicize our
struggles against the forced labor
system, to point out the contrast
between military forced labor, I'M
der capitalism, and free, productive
labor in the Soviet Union; between
despairing entry into the camps as
the last resort of the youth under
capitalism and the joyful participa
ton in industry as the privilege Of
youth under socialism. Effective
exposure of the camps must neces-
sarily lead to winning the youth
for the struggle for Soviet power,
for Soviet America.
On Aug. /, the masses of young
and adult workers, Negro and white,
will demonstrate against imperialist
war. On this day, and in prepara-
ton for the demonstrations on this
day. the message of united struggle
against the military forced labor
system of the Roosevelt government
must be brought to the widest
masses of youth.
Against the fascination and mill
tarization of the youth in the c. C.
campsl Young workers and stu
dents, white and Negro, young So
cialists and Communists. unite in
struggle against fascism and i'm
perialist war, for the dictatorship
of the proletariat, for a Soviet
America!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-23
Penna. Miners
Talk Strike in
Soft Coal Area
Hit District Chic is
Action in Logans
Ferry Case

PITTSBURGH, Pa, July %. -
Strike sentiment deepened in the
Pennsylvania bituminous area with
the revocation of the Logans Ferry
UM.WA. Charter by District off,
Gals as preparations went forward
for today's mass meeting at Acme
tonia to consider the Logans Ferry
issue, and announcement Of meet
ing of delegates from Westmoreland
County locals the same day.
The latter meeting in District
No. was to be held in Westmore-
land City, for the purpose of con-
sidering action in sympathy with
Export Mine, of the Westmoreiand
Coal Co., where a strike began with
the loading of one car day in
protest over the firing of motor
man. The Pagan officials in De-
troit have been threatening Lo-
gans Ferry men with revocation for
some time in an attempt to force
them to return to work. The whole
Allegheny and Kiski Valley region
stands behind the strike of Logans
Ferry however, and resentment has
been growing against the districts
attempts to force the miners back
to work.
Bitter resentment against the U.
M. w. of A. district officials and
the coal operators there has been
growing for some time, and the
miners have been demanding &C
ton in support of the Logans Ferry
men ever since the latter walked
out about two months ago, when
the Pittsburgh Allegheny Coal
Company closed down the mine and
the $50 miners employed there re-
fused to load more than one car
day until their demands for the
removal of Superintendent c. E..
Reynolds were met. When the
mine was reopened, at first los and
finally 46 workers were still locked
out.
The 5000 miners in the other
eleven locals of U. M. w. of A. in
the Allegheny valley Immediately
demanded that the district take &C
ton in sympathy with Logans Ferry
to force a favorable settlement.
Pagan, betraying president of the
district, working with Federal Con-
ciliator Freil from Washington.
attempted to get the men to go back
to work and arbitrate the cases Of
discrimination.
The locals met early last week
to decide on a motion for the 492
men to return to work, and local
leaders to establish proof of dis
elimination with Russelton voting
100 per cent to stand behind strike
action if the majority favor this.
Such action showed the depth OF
the strike sentiment existing despite
a yeritable concentration of district
organizers in the area OF late, to-
gether with Fagan-engineered
campaign of lies carried on among
the locals which took advantage OF
the lack of up-to-the minute COM
between locals.
The firing of $50 men at Russell
ton Tuesday was also to be dealt
with at the mass meeting Sunday,
as it represents a direct move on
the part of the company to de-
prive the union theer of most Of
its leaders.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-23
ACTS TO FORCE
TOILINC YOUTH
INTO MILITARY
Roosevelt Government Builds Projects Whole
Network of Camps to Embrace All Section
of Young Workers
BY NJ. WEISS

THE Roosevelt government is stridng forward in
league boots to the achievement Of its plan for the re
menatOn of entire generation Of youth military forced
labor camps
whole network of forced labor organizations is being
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-23
$50 DELEGATES
DRAFT PROGRAM
ON JOINT WORK
Heroic Battles at Relief Stations Recounted at
Springfield Conference. United
Front Actions Cheered
lpaily Worker Midwest Bureaul

SPRINGFIELD Ill., July 22.-"Unity" That word is
used than other at the Unemployed Conference
here this weekend The $50 delegates sweating in the
blazing hot Odd Fellows Hail. are hammerng out program
of united action for better relief and for unemployment in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-23
Leaders ofAA ''Ten''
Seek Union Control
In September Voting.
Coming Convention of Steel and Metal Workers
Union Spurs Efforts of A. F. of L. Sell-out
Committee to Succeed Tighe
By TOM KEENAN,

PITTSBURGH, Pa. July 22.-With the approach of the
Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union convention here
August 3rd socaed frank and file leaders of the infamous
Committee of Ten of the Aalgamated Association of Tn
Iron and Steel Workers nensiyng their drive gain
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-23
MILWAUKEE STRIKE ARTICLE
.fe CONTINUED SOON

The continuation of Harry Yaris'
article on the Milwaukee street
car strike will appear in an early
issue of the Daily Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-23

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