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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-15
Now SIS, 900 Is Needed
for ScOttsbOrO-Hern-
don Appeal Expense

used to reach new masses of work
ers and sympathizers.
The Observation-Disclosures petition
and collection lists must be put into
the hands of the members of the
I. L. D. and of the mass organiza-
tons, and especially of the trade
unions. A thorough and constant
check-up must be made on these
lists, and the lists themselves as
well as the money collected on them
sent to the National Office without
any delay.
Plans should begin to be laid now
in the various districts for the
Herndon tour, which should help
crystalline tremendous movement
over the entire country for the
fight against terror and fascism
for the defense of the Scottsboro
boys and of Herndon himself. of
Tom Mooney and the 500 West
Coast prisoners.
In all of these activities steps
must be taken to recruit members
into the I. L. D., to strengthen it
orgsnizationally, and to build the
circulation of the Labor Defender.
official organ of the I. L. D. and
the only working class pictorial in
America.
Only Mass Pressure
The workers have saved Angelo
Herndon from the chain gang.
But Angelo Herndon is not free vet.
The nine innocent Scottsboro Ne
gro boys are still in prison, still I'M
der the shadow of the lynchers'
electric chair. While the sentence
against him-18 to 20 years on the
chain gang-is being appealed, An
gelo Herndon is at liberty. But if
the U. S. Supreme Court decides
against him, he must go back into
the hands of the Georgia lynch Of
ficials.
The Supreme Court can be forced
to give a decision in Herndon's
favor, can be forced to reverse the
monstrous lynch decision against
the Scottsboro boys only by mass
pressure.
1t is this pressure that we must
now organize, on far broader scale
than ever before. We must collect,
with the same speed, at the same
tempo, that we collected the Hern-
don BAIL the $12,673 still needed
toward appealing these cases.
The fight to free Angelo Hern-
don, the Scottsboro boys, Ernst
Thaelmann and the victims of the
terror on the West Coast, is the
fight against the growing menace
of fascism in this country. What
is at stake in the Herndon case is
the right of workers to organize, to
strike, to read workers literature,
to belong to the Party of the work
ing class. What is at stake is the
right Of two oppressed groups of
workers, white and black, to organ
ize together to fight for their
rights.
What is at stake in the Herndon
and Scottsboro cases is the rights
of a nation of 100000 Negroes,
and of the millions of white work
ers, poor farmers and impoverished
middle class people over the whole
country.
The victory achieved in raising
the Herndon bail fund, in forcing
the release of Herndon on bail,
must be made complete victory
the complete freedom of Herndon
and the Scottsboro boys.
Forward in the fight to secure
the freedom of Herndon, the Scots
horo boys, Ernst Thaelmann, the
prisoners arrested on the West
Coast and all class-war prisoners!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-15
Parade Against War
and Fascism Set for
NJ a ard Mass.

MAYNARD, Mass, Aug. a. = A
united front parade and demonstra-
ton against war and fascism and
Roosevelt's hunger progam will be
staged here tomorrow in conjunc-
ton with festival of the Boston
section of the Finnish Workers
Club.
Invitations have been sent to all
Maynard workers groups, Commu-
mist and Socialist Party locals and
pacifist organizations to join in the
demonstration against imperialist
war. The local parade will be part
of the worldwide movement in pro-
test of war and fascism. The COM
mittee conducting the demonstra-
ton has appealed to Daily Worker
readers in Maynard to mobilize
their friends in support Of the af-
fair.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-15

town in Ontario, Canada.
The simple facts of the bail fund
campaign are tremendously signifi-
cant for the broad working class
defense movement led by the In
ternational Labor Defense, indicat-
ing in broad strokes the tremen-
dous, untouched reserves of mill
tant class solidarity which the I.
L. D. must, dropping the last yes
tiges of sectarianism behind, reach
out and grasp:
Seven hundred and ninety-seven
separate loans from individuals and
organizations went to make up the
fund.
Fifteen national mass organiza-
lions, with a total membership
reaching into the hundreds of thou
sands, participated.
Approximately 5000 workers and
sympathizers were drawn into ac-
tive participation in the campaign.
Ten I. L. D. districts raised
S4,29350 of the total. OF these the
New York District, though slow in
getting started, made the best
showing, raising a total Of $2,222 so
in bail fund loans.
Two hundred and fifty-fiye in
dividuals loaned from 81 to SIS; 202
individuals loaned from SIS to $40;
142 individuals loaned from $40 to
$25; 70 individuals loaned from S25
to $50; so individuals loaned from
$50 to $1O0; SIS individuals loaned
500 or more.
Loans came came from % States,
including California, where the
fiercest vigilante fascist terror ragged
throughout the period Of the drive,
and from Canada.
The campaign gained momentum
slowly, but in the last few days
funds poured in as fast as they
could be entered in the books. The
first Herndon bail loan came on
July 9. BY July rs, only $2,865 sc
had been collected-15 days had
gone by, only seven days we're left,
and only one-seventh of the total
amount had been collected. On
that day the Daily Worker began
to print totals collected every day.
On July IS, the figure jumped to
a total of more than $1,000. On
the 27th, with five more days to go,
the halfway mark was passed. On
Monday, the Goth, with only three
days more to go, only $8,627 had
been sent in. In two days $4,000
more came in.
BY the last day little over $4,000
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-15
Union Forces Relief
Heads to Reconsider
Discharge of Teacher

NEW YORK. Decision to recon
slider the case of Sylvia Ettinger,
relief teacher discharged for hav-
ing fed hungry children who had
no food tickets, was forced at a
hearing yesterday before Arthur
Schoellkopf, Chairman of the State
TERRA, Frederick L. Daniels, Di-
rector of the TERRA, and Henry
Epstein, State Solicitor General, by
the Associated Office and Profess
sional Emergency Employees.
The A.OP.E.E. charges that Sylvia
Ettinger was fired because she is
an active member of the organi-
cation. A complete report of the
case will be made by the A.O.PEE.
Reconsideration had been previously
refused by Robert Dixon, of the
City Works Division, who discharged
the teacher.
The A.OP.E.E. also forced the
relief officials to investigate the dis
charging of nine City College relief
workers and the case of discrimi-
nation against Negro relief worker
on the Stun Clearance project 80.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-15
9 Victimized
Workers
Refused Jobs
Workers Who Exposed
Graft by the Foreman
Are Not Reinstated

NEW YORK.-Despite the fact
that George Walker, C.W.A. fore
man, has been arrested on a charge
Of extorting money from workers
on his project, nine discharged
workers who were victimized and
who exposed Walker, have not
been reinstated to their jobs.
An assistant Of Oscar Miller, head
of C.W.A park projects, had
promised the workers That if the
accusations were justified, the work
erS would be reinstated. When the
men call for their jobs, however,
they are told to wait. One of the
more persistent was offered a job
if he would keep silent, but he re-
fused to be bought off saying that
he represented the other fired work.
ers as well as himself.
While Walker was arrested, four
other foremen whom the workers
had charged were demanding five
dollars a week from the workers as
bride to hold their jobs were not
arrested.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-15
Shoe Workers
Approve New
WageDenands

NEW YORK. "A shop delegates
conference held last Saturday at
the headquarters of the United
Shoe and Leather Workers Union
unanimously approved the recon-
mendations and demands Of the
price committee elected at meet
ing of all crafts in the slipper in
dustry four weeks ago. These de-
mands include the following:
ID All skilled workers to receive
81 per hour as piece-work rate;
90 All workers who are classed
btween semi skilled and skilled, to
receive rs cents per hour on piece
work basis;
go All semi-skilled, so cents per
hour on a piece-work rate;
"a All unskilled young workers to
get SIS per week. Beginners to re-
ceive $13 per week for the first six
weeks.
These demands are to be pre-
sented to the manufacturers before
Sept. /, when the present union
agreements expire. After Saturdays
meeting, where these demands were
discussed in full and endorsed, the
shop committees, together with the
general shop chairman, were in
structed to arrange Immediately for
conferences with the manufacturers
to enter into negotiations on these
demands and renewal of all agree
ments.
Delegates at the conference were
firm in the opinino that if the man
ufacturers should try to evade or
refused to meet with the workers
demands, they we're prepared to
answer with strike that would
embrace every slipper shop in the
city.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-15
Hundreds of S all
Sums Made Up $l8, 724
Bail Total
By ANNA DAMON

The International Labor Defense
can record great victory.
Angelo Herndon has been wrested
temporarily from the hands of the
Georgia iynchers by the determine
ton of thousands of workers and
sympathizers; a determination
which hurled its defiance at the
fascist vigilante terror sweeping
across the country; a determina-
ton which shouted from coast to
coast, above the clamor Of the
lynchers; angelo Herndon shall
not go to the chain gang"
Angelo Herndon has become a
symbol of working class heroism. of
the new spirit of the American
youth, Negro and white.
His release on bail was made pos
sible by the self-sacrificing devotion
of thousands of workers and SYM
pathizers, who, in % short DAYS.
raised penny by penny and dollar
by dollar, the sum of $18,723.85, in
loans toward the oversubscribed bail
fund Of $4,000. The enthusiastic
support given to this campaign by
the Daily Worker was one of the
most important contributions to its
success.
1t would take pages to convey
real idea of the intensity and en-
thusiasm of the response expressed
in the hundreds of letters which
accompanied the loans and the con-
tributions to the Scottsboro- Hern-
don defense fund.
What Workers Wrote
Here are a few extracts from
these letters:
Il am 10 years old. Have been
out Of work for six months. This
$40 is my first pay. May it help
free Angelo Herndon." From a girl
worker in Allentown, Pa
st collected tonight so cents from
L. for Herndon defense or bail
fund and then I can't give more
than SO cents myself, but I'll try
to raise another dollar or so and
send it in next Monday. He got to
be free.
"P. S. This is a donation to the
case, so it does not have to be paid
back" Moline, Ill)
1--WE are enclosing $40. May we
hope that the whole sum will be
raised SO he will be free" Karl
Liebknecht Branch I. w. O., Phila-
delphia)
II am enclosing a money order
for SIS contributed by few teach
ers studying at the Cornell summer
session, as one drop in the bucket
for the 5000 bail for Angelo
Herndon." ithaca, N. "
81 am just terribly sorry I can't
give or lend thousand. This 81
looks too trivial to send. But may
it be multiplied a thousand fold by
some miracle" West Grove, Pa
IT am sending herewith enclosed
US. bonds in amount of $500 to get
our Angelo Herndon off the chain
gang. Enuf said. Yours for the
revolution" (Granada, Colo)
Good people: Thirty cents in
stamps, best I can do. Sorry" New
York City)
Enclosed find 81 for the Scots
boro- Herndon fund. wish could
give more, but am subject OF
charity myself. If it were not for
my children I don't know how I
could live. I am only an old farmer,
n years old" (Howell, Mich)
And among the very first con-
tributions was one of $40 attached
to a bail loan blank clipped from
the Daily Worker, from a small
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-15
Furniture Men Strike
in Los Angeles Shops

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 14.-Furni-
ture workers in two shops, the
Gillespie plant at BOIL E. Pico st.
and the Martin Young shop at 1923
E. 18th ST., are on strike here.
Workers at the small Martin
Young shop are holding fast after
five days Of militant picketing I'M
der the leadership of the Furniture
Workers Industrial Union. No scabs
are working although one was sent
to the shop by Thomas Mayhem,
business agent of Local Is, Uphol-
sterers Union, American Federation
of Labor.
The Gillespie workers, under the
non militant leadership of the In
dependent Furniture Workers
Union, have not succeeded in keep
ing scabs out.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-15
ScOttsbOrO-HerndOn
New York Tag Days
Planned Aug. l8 TO p

NEW YORK-A special drive
to raise large portion of New
York's quota for the $4,000
Scottsboro-H erndon defense fund
is being conducted by the district
Of the I. L. D. here, which will
hold tag-day August 10 to %.
The N. Y. district Of the I. L.
D. has called on all working
class organizations to lend their
fullest support and take an ac-
tive part in these tag-days-vital
to the defense of Herndon and
the Scottsboro boys. All material
for the tag-days is ready now,
it was announced, and should be
called for at the District I. L. D.
office. $40 Broadway, at once, by
all those who will take part IN
the collections.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-15
Boot and Shoe Union
Plays Strikebreaking
Role i'm N. Y. Strike

NEW YORK. When the strike
Committee together with a repre-
sentative of the United Shoe and
Leather Workers Industrial Union
went to negotiate with the B. J..
Feifer Slipper Co., 81 E. 18th St.,
Monday, they were tod that the
boss had already signed an agree
ment with the Boot and Shoe
Union. All workers on strike are
members of the U. S. L. w. U.
1t was learned that the Boot and
Shoe business agent had visited the
homes of strikes in an attempt to
induce them to switch their union
affiliations.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-15
Y. C. L. Shapes Plans
for Los Angeles Rally

LOS ANGELES, Aug. ia rally
in preparation for the International
Youth Day demonstration will be
held by the Young Communist
League Saturday, Aug. %, at 7:30
pm, at Twenty Street and
Central Avenue.
Youth speakers will analyze the
significance to youth of the C.C.C.
program, the vast army of unem-
ployed, the rise of fascism and the
danger of war.
The International Youth Day
demonstration at the Plaza is sched-
uled for Sept. l, anniversary of the
founding of the Young Communist
International
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-15
Detroit Functionaries
To Get Election Plans
at Meeting Tomorrow

DETROIT, Mich, Aug. IA. = All
Communist Party functionaries in
this city will attend special meet
ing tomorrow night at 8 o'clock in
Finnish Hall to lay initial plans for
the local election campaign and
the Daily Worker drive.
Reports will be made by represen-
tatives of the District COMMITTEES
and George Wishnak. business
manager of the Daily Worker, will
discuss new plans for building the
circulation and finances OF the
psper. All functionaries, Red
Builders and sympathizers who
were invited to attend the special
meeting on the election picnic will
attend this meeting instead.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-15
Meeting Sets Morgan aide Called for Jury
Daily Quotas To Try Chase Brass Strikers

vent you from judging this case
fairly?'
The prospective juror refused to
answer this question directly and
under further questioning it was
bought out that he has a financial
interest in Chase Company.
Davis asked him whether he
thought a worker, his wife and
children could exist on $16 a week.
Van Sweringen replied, Il don't
know anything about this"
Judge Charles r. Ely, who is also
Mayor of Euclid, came to the rescue
and excused Van Sweringen from
jury service. The court room was
filed with workers of the COM
any.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-15

CLEVELAND, Ohio-M. ]. Van
Sweringen, the railroad magnate
and ]. P. Morgan associate, was
called as a panelman in the trial
of Leonard Barton and Frank
Zoalar, arrested in the strike of the
Chase Brass and Copper Company.
In the preliminary questioning of
jurors Van Sweringen stated that
his occupation was that of rail
road man" N. D. Davis of the In
ternationaI Labor Defense, repre-
senting the strikers, challenged this
statement, saying, In language or
dinarily used are what is known as
a capitalist, banker, a man who
employs workers. Will the fact that
this case arises from a strike pre-,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-15

perseverance and
S elf sacrificing
efforts of a rela-
lively small num-
Der of Red Build
ers and Daily
sellers. There is 2
crying n e e d for
spre a d i n g the
Daily" a m on g
the auto workers
and counteracting
the poison of the
capitalist pres s
which is keeping
the truth from
The WnrkerS a n 4
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-15
Vigilantes Assail 2
of San Pedro LID.
Who Help Workers

LOS ANGELES Cal, Aug. 13-
Annie Jamison and Grover john
son of the San Pedro International
Labor Defense were brutally beat
en- Saturday by two carloads of
armed vigilantes who forced them
at points of guns from the Ava
lon Blvd.
johnson had been securing wit
nesses fer Melvin Doughty,
framed on q kidnenDing charge
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-15
Bathrobe Strike Nears
AS Labor Board Meets

NEW YORK. The Bathrobe
Workers Union will continue its
preparations for general strike in
the industry, despite the conference
called for today by the Regional
Labor Board, according to state
ment issued by the union yesterday
The statement declares that it was
the recent union membership meet
ing at which the general strike was
enthusiastically received by the
workers that caused the industry's
bosses to seek the intervention of
the Regional Labor Board. The
board meeting has invited many
large manufacturers and contrac
tors associations to meet with 1t.
Unemployed? Join the Red
Builders!
Earn Expenses Selling the DAILY"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-15
FESTIVAL SET FOR SUNDAY

NEW YORK Workers who
planned to attend the open-air
dance and festival held by the
Brooklyn section of the Associated
Workers Clubs, which was post
poned on Sunday because of rain,
will attend, instead, a similar en-
tertainment on Sunday at Frank S
Inn, 1907 E. 92nd St., Canarsie. The
Same program will be provided.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-15
during the general strike.

during the general strike.
The LID. is organizing mass
potests, and calls on all workers
and intellectuals to ficod police
here with kilograms of protest.
Johnson, critically injured with a
deep cut under one eye and bruises
all over his body, yesterday urged
all workers to the Gallagher meet
ing here on FRIDAY,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-15
soo STRIKE IN MILWAUKEE

MILWAUKEE, Wis, Aug IA
More than 900 workers at the
Geuder, Paeschke & Frey Company,
manufacturers of kitchenwsre, went
on strike yesterday.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-15
Hundreds Are.
Thrown Off.
Relief Job S.
Lynn Workers Discuss
Strike When Cut to
TwO-Day Week

BOSTON, Aug. 14.-DemandS that
the mass layoffs of relief workers
on E. r. A. jobs in South Boston,
Charlestown and other projects be
matted Immediately were made here
Yesterday to Mayor Mansfield by del
egations representing hundreds Of
workers on relief projects.
} Vavers, bricklayers and Iaborers on
istreet work are already laid of until
September l, at the earliest. Since
The men have no other means of
suppot, this lsyoff will force them
on the welfare rolls and on Sep
TENDER l they will be refused their
jobs on the E. R. A., under the city
welfare" policy.
The workers, most of whom have
large families, are organizing to re-
sist the layoffs. They are deter
mined to keep their jobs and not be
shifted back to the miserable well
fare dole.
The delegation from the South
Boston Committee was yesterday
headed by G.. Adams. The Charles
town workers are demanding that
the "week-on, week-off" stagger sys-
tenn be abolished and the full week
givn to all workers.
A delegate from the Unemployment
Council, IL Hayward Place, is work.
ing with the relief workers COM
mittees.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-15
Lynn JobIess Plan Strike


LYNN, Mass, Aug. 14-Faced with
cut to two days work a week
instead of three, ordered by the
E. R. A. administrator here, relief
workers took steps to prepare for
strike action following a mass meet
ing held last night.
At last nights meeting the work
ers passed resolution demanding
the right to organize, no discrimina-
ton for organizational and strike
activity, the immediate resembling
OF the cut in wages ordered by
the E. R. A. administrator.
The cut from three to two days a
week work means a cut of 80 per
cent in the already meagre level of
wages.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-15
Speed Urged
In Daily Drive
By WeinstOne
Cooperation of Party
Members Is Stressed
in Detroit Area
By WILLIAM WEINSTONE
Organizer Of Communist Party
Detroit District

The small increase in circulation
of the Daily Worker in the Detroit
District has been due solely to the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-15

Earn Expenses Selling the Daily
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-15

100000 New Readers BY Sent.
The Nespelem tribune. [volume] (Nespelem, Wash.) 1934-1936, 1934-11-28
Cattle Are Sent
From Drought Area
Shipment Arrives At Colville
Agency; Distribution Among
Qualified Indians

The second shipment of cattle
from drought areas in the Middle
West arrived at the Colville Indian
agency last week for distribution
among Indians of the reservation
The cattle were distributed under
the direction of G. A. Newell, super
visor Of the agricultural extension
service on the reservation.
Some of the cattle of the ship
mont, which included ,l20 head, are
being held at the agency fo1
slaughter, agency officials said yes
terday Most of them, however,
have been issued to Indians whose
applications, showing ability to care
for the stock during the winter
months, have been approved.
A previous shipment already has
been received at the branch agency
in Omak.
The Nespelem tribune. [volume] (Nespelem, Wash.) 1934-1936, 1934-11-28
TAX PAYMENT
DEADLINE NEAR:
BENEFITS END
Must Pay 1881 And Prior Years
Assessments Friday To Save
Interest
Easy Pay Plan Ends
Twenty Installment System Will
Not Be Offered After Nov.
80, Treasurer Explains

Tax collections at the office of
M. E. Tonseth, county treasurer,
are mounting rapidly as the final
day of receiving interest cancella-
ton benefits authorized by the
state legislature approaches, Mr..
Tonseth states.
After November 80, interest on
1881 and prior years taxes will be
restored to the original date Of de-
linquency, removing the benefits
now in effect. Interest on 1881 and
prior years taxes paid on or before
November 80 will be charged only
from May 81, 1884. The time for
payment of delinquent taxes by the
2O-installment plan also will expire
Friday. More than SO of the con-
tracts already have been signed,
Mr.. Tonseth Said.
After November 80 the last half
of the 1888 taxes will become de-
linquent and bear interest from that
date, Mr.. Tonseth explained.