The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 14, 1931, Page 3

NATLY WORKER EW YORK, THURSDAY JOBLESS GIRL WORKER United Front Movement to Save 9 TELLS OF F AKE AID OF CINCINNATTI CHARITIES Member of a Family of Father Out of Work 7, Income $2.50 a Week, More Than 6 Months 3 Sisters Layed Off by Kroger Store; Refuse to Face Starvation, Join Y CL Daily Worker: T am an unemployed girl the Kroger Store with my two worse for us girls. We made work that now when we are starve along with our families. Father Out of Work Six Months My father was laid off at the gas company six months ago. There are seven of us in my family, three girls and two boys. Our whole family is faced with starvation. Income $2.56 a Week. About six months ago, we applied at the charities for relief, after taking a long time to investigate our con- ditions, Then they sent us to a catholic priest, Father Summer. He gives us $2.50 a week for supplies. All the children must suffer because our fathers are thrown out of a job. We do not want to go to the cath- olic priest. We do not want to de- pend on the charities, because they Cincinnati, Ohio. worker. Formerly I worked in sisters. Conditions are getting such little wages when we did out of a job we are forced to promised to pay the rent and never paid it. Joins Y.C.L. I joined the Young Communist League because I know that it fights against all this. —A Young Worker. EDITORIAL NOTE: The Young Worker who sent in the foregoing letter should report the case of this fake charity association to the Cincinnati Unemployed Council at once, which will take immediate action to secure real relief for this family. The father of this family should join the Unemployed Coun- cil. Albany ‘Better Business’ Representative Urges 5 Concerns To Force Wage-Cuts; They Agree Albany, N. Y. Daily Worker: - In Albany there is a young lady who is calling on wholesale concerns, warehouses and small manufacturers asking them to pay a standard wage to unskilled laborers of thirty cents per hour. When she was asked by Mr. O'Brien of the Interstate Wholesale Plumbing Co., 736 Broadway, who she represented, she answered that she represented an organization known as the Better Business of Albany and that the membership fee was $10 a year. This young lady’s plan was en- dorsed so far by five cheat concerns since it meant the reducing of wages of workers. Here are the names of the following companies: W. T. Raw- ligh Co. of Freeport, Ill.; W. M. Dey- ermond Paint Co., Albany: Whole- sale Grocery Co., Liffy McNeul Co. Sears Roebuck Head Says ‘Better Times Here’; Forces 20% Wage Cut Philadelphia, Pa. Daily Worker ;— Some few weeks ago, the head of Sears Roebuck announced that the depression had been “halted” and to prove it, some departments had to take a 20 per cent wage cut. On Saturday, the 9th, the Suburban Title and Trust Company closed its doors, since their assets were frozen. It is also worth ‘mentioning that the President resigned five weeks before the crash. All of the directors are on the Social Calendar, but you can bet your red union card that these crooks will not lose their homes or polo po- nies and the unemployed councils will not have to be on the job to prevent. these blue blooded suckers from being evicted, and to cap it all the Oldsmo- bile Sales Agency at 56 and Walnut advertised for a man to grease cars, must look respectable, about 100 an- swered. Fellow workers this is how prosperity is returning. We must organize against these fake labor misleaders and join militant trade unions affil- iated with the T.U.ULL. —A Worker. Workers of Marmon Auto Co. Almost Killed By Auto Indianapolis, Ind, Daily Worker: ~~ Workers of Marmon Motor Com- pany were almost killed by a falling auto body. The workers on the fourth floor work on a bonus system. The work is carried along by chains, at some places the chains carry the bodies over the heads of the workers. ‘These bodies fall off these hooks on chains and smash to the floor. This Body Fall time it happened that the workers were out of the way of this falling auto body. 5 The workers of Marmon continually have to endanger their lives because of the failure of the bosses to install g00d hooks to hold these auto bodies. The Marmon workers should organ- ize into the Metal Workers Industrial League which fights in the interests of the workers. —A Worker, Ore. Spends Funds for Police, While Thousands Are Jobless (By a Worker Correspondent) Portland, Oregon Daily Worker Julius Meier, new and so-called liberal governor of Oregon, has in- vited General Smedley Butler, to come out here and organize a state police lke those of New York and Pennsylvania, Butler is that famous marine officer known to millions of workers and peasants. He accepted and will spend a few weeks in Oregon helping to organize the newly created Police body. Thousands are unemployed thruout the state and there is no funds for their relief but the state can spend money for creating a cossack division to oppress them further. Every class conscious worker knows the role that is played by the police. The state police funds for the star- ving! Join the Unemployed Council. Two Jailed in Chicago Eviction Fight (By a Worker Correspondent) o OHICAGO, Ill—Yesterday a worker who was in the hunger march was thrown out of his home because he was unable to pay rent. The unem- ployed council went on the job mas- sing 500 workers. J, Bertiaux, a leader of the council, spoke to the workers for about 5 minutes and 5 squads of police came and placed him under arrest. Another worker who went to protest the arrest ‘was also jailed. The International Labor Defense put up a bond of $1,000 for the two workers. The judge in talking to the work- ers in court, called one of them a rat and said that it is impolite to put furniture back into a house when once the bosses have thrown it out. The unemployed council, however, will continue to put evicted workers’ furniture back into the houses. —T. L. “ALL FOREIGN BORN MEETING ?lan to Reorganize Movement There According to Secretary of Labor Doak, discrimination against foreign born, persecution and deportation are only beginning. By these meth- ods, the ruling class is trying to divide the working class of this coun- try, in order to defeat them sepa- rately. It is clear that foreign-born workers must organize a movement for their own protection. Native- born worker must organize a move- ment for their own protection. Na- tive-born workers and Negroes must also join this movement. As the movement for the protec- tion of the foreign born is still very weak organizationally, the National Committee has decided to call a con- ' ference consisting of all its members, representatives from mass organiza- tions and trade unions and secre- taries of existing districts’ and cities’ committees for the Protection of the Foreign Born, This plenum, which will take place May 17 at 10 o'clock in Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. 4 St., N.Y.C. will review the entire activity of the moyement, and will make organizational changes if necessary, The questions of a legal department, language conferences and city conventions will be dis- cussed. A detafled plan of action will be worked out. Smash Frame-Ups! Demand Amnesty ! Fight lynching. Fight deporta- tion of foreign born. Elect dele- gates to your city conference for Protection of foreign born, ¢ The campaign to rouse the masses for defense of the nine boys is as- suming mass proportions. In New York City this Saturday afternoon there will be a huge protest parade and demonstration. This will be followed by a United Front Scotts- boro Conference on Sunday, to which many Negro and white or- ganizations have already elected dele- gates and pledged their full sup- port, The parade will begin to mob- ilize at 2 o'clock in Harlem. The conference will be held Sunday at 11 o'clock in Finnish Workers’ Hall, 15 W. 126th St. Mrs, Ada Wright, the mother of two of the boys, will be present at the conference. fa Big Response to Defense Conferences. BALTIMORE, Md., May 13.—The response to the defense of the Scotts- boro boys is growing from day to day. Churches and lodges and other organizations are making demands on the International Labor Defense and the League of Struggle for Negro Rights for speakers. Among the or- ganizations which have decided to send delegates to the United Front Scottsboro Defense Conference in this city on June 5 is the South Bal- timore division of the Garvey move- ment. The conference will be held at 8 p. m. at the Galilean Fisher- men’s Hall, 411 W. Biddle St. * Newark Conference May 31. NEWARK, N. J., May 13—The work of preparing the United Front Scottsboro Conference in this city is going ahead apace. The conference will be held May 31 at 2:30 p. m., at Boys Takes on M Many Organizations, Churches Endorse Conferences 90 Ferry St. Many organizations and churches. are being visited. So far four mass meetings have been held in the following cities: Newark, Eliza- beth and Linden. . Mrs, Wright to Speak in Pittsburgh. PITTSBURGH, Pa., May 13.—Mrs. Ada Wright, mother of two of the Scottsboro boys, will speak at a mass meeting in this city on May 21 at Pythian Temple, 2011 Center Ave. A tag day for Scottsboro defense will be conducted on Sunday, May 24. A United Front Conference will be held on May 27 at the Pythian Temple. . N.M.U. Local Sends Protest. STUDA, Pa., May 13.—Local Union 108 of the National Miners’ Union has unanimously adopted a resolu- tion demanding a new trial for the nine Scottsboro boys. The local in- cludes many Negro and white work- ers in its ranks. Pee Big Meetings In Ohio. STEUBENVILLE, Ohio, May 13.— Two big Scottsboro protest meetings were held here under the auspices of the I. L. D. and the L. S. N. R. The first meeting, at Toronto, Ohio, @ small stel town, was at- tended by over 500 white and Negro workers. The second meeting was held in Steubenville proper, and at- ass Character ® tended by 200 Negro and white work- |ers. Both meetings sent protest telegrams to the Alabama. vigorous overnor of ates ole | Mass Protest In Hedewisch. HEDEWISCH, Ill, May 13 Branch 43 of the Russian Mutual Aid Society of America held a mass meeting at its headquarters in pro- test against the Scottsboro frame-up | A protest telegram was sent to the governor of Alabama. , Buffalo Conference Prospects Good. BUFFALO, May 13.—The reports coming in from the comrades vis- iting the organizations indicate that the United Front Scottsboro Defense Conference 0 nMay 23 at the Michi- gan Ave. “Y” will be one of the best ever held in this city. Many new organizations and churches are re- sponding to the call and electing delegates. Among the organizations Supporting the conference are Elks, Michigan Ave, Baptist Ch (colored), the Urban League, tral Presbyterian Church (white) Several big meetings are being ranged for Comrade Moore in } tour of the district | the Toledo Churches In Protest. TOLEDO, Ohio, May 13.—Two ad- ditional Negro churches in this city joined the united front movement to Save the lives of the nine Scottsboro boys. The Warren A. M. E. Church. with 500 members, and the Mount Zion Baptist Church, with 350 me bers, both sent protest telegrams to Governor Miller of Alabama. Both pledged their full supporiy to the united front struggle to free the boys. GERMAN BOSSES GIVE PRAISE TO SOCIALIST PARTY Say It Is Largest Bourgeois Party BERLIN.—The daily newspaper of the German People’s Party (heavy industry) the “Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung” publishes a leading article entitled, “Prussia’s Spring.” The ar- ticle characterises the role of the Social Democratic Party as follows: “We do not deny the steady devel- opment of the S.D.P. into the largest bourgeois party, on the contrary, we recognize and approve of it. This development deserves every encour- agement. But this is no reason why we should not draw the necessary conclusions from the failure of our co-operation with the S.D.P. in the Reich and in Prussia. Those who declare that we should protect the SDP against the Communists, forget that the S. D. P. has much better chances of maintaining itself in the opposition than in the government.” In other words, the Social Demo- cratic Party must now be sent out of the government of Prussia into the opposition in order better to fight the Communist Party in the interests of the bourgeoisie. INDICT ENGD AHL, CANADA TOILERS Charge “Sedition for Protest of Terror NEW YORK, May 13.—Indictments charging sedition and unlawful as- sembly were returned today at Mon- treal, Canada, by the grand jury against J. Louis Engdahl, general secretary of the International Labor Defense who has just returned from the Soviet Union where he attended a plenum of MOPR, and Bella Gor- don of the Canadian Labor Defense League as well as seven other work- ers who were indicted with them. The nine militant defendants re- fused to plead to the indictments on the ground that the indictments did not cite any specific offense, merely charging that seditious utterances had been made at meetings held last January. The attorney for the Canadian Labor Defense League, Michael Gar- ber, announced that written motions demurring against the indictments would be filed and argued imme- diately. Arrested Last January, Engdahl, Gordon and the other seven indicted militants were arrested last January as the result of a storm of protest aroused locally over the Police attacks, first against the un- employed meeting in the Labor Tem- ple, then against the Lenin Mem- orial Meeting of the Communist Party and finally against the Defense League protest. Those arrested at the Lenin Memorial meeting were Phillip Halpern and Leslie Morris; at the unemployed meeting, Phillip Richard, Tom Miller, Dave Kashtan, Dave Chalmers and Fred Rose. And finally at a meeting organized by the Canadian Labor Defense League to protest these arrests, J. Louis Eng- dahl and Bella Gordon were arrested. In a statement issued by the Cana- dian Labor Defense League it said in part: “The quick return of the in- dictments, following the convening of the grand jury, shows that the ut- most efforts will be made by the prosecution to railroad the defend- ants to long terms in prison. Any illusions that the grand jury would fail to return indictments have been Imperial Valley Prisoners Appeal to Workers to Save Scottsboro Nine. LOS ANGELES, Cal., May 10.— Themselves the victims of capitalist class justice, the Imperial Valley prisoners today issued an appeal to the working-class to rally to the fight to save the lives of the nine Scottsboro Negro boys and smash the vicious frame-up by which these boys are being railroaded to the electric chair, The appeal declares: “With deep indignation we heard about the savage convictions of the eight Negro young workers and their sentence to the electric chair. The ninth, a boy of fourteen, barely es- caped the same fate—the majority of the jury voting for the death pen- alty. “The trial was rushed through in such a manner, the sentences im- Posed so savage and brutal as to leave no doubt about the real pur- pose behind the trial. “At this time, while millions of toilers, both black and white, are feeling the pinch of hunger, it is not stranga to see such savage acts of class and race suppression as has been carried out in this case by the Alabama courts. “Their purpose is two-fold: first, to fire the flames of race hatred, to sharpen the division between the black and white workers in the effort to turn their attention from the real cause of their misery—which is the capitalist system. Second, in order to terrorize the starving and discon- tented Negro population which is the hardest hit by these hard times “The real ‘crime’ of these working class youths consists of being home- Jess and propertyless, and in addi- tion belonging to a race which has been and is—doubly exploited and oppressed. These are the reasons why the lynching spirit has been worked up, why these children of the working class have been condemned to die! The official charges made against them must be branded as a lie! “This savage act of capitalist ‘jus- tice’ must be met with a united miass protest of the workers of every coun- try. Let the defense of these Negro working class youths serve as a bond of solidarity between the workers of every race, color and nationality. The ruling class must be told clearly and forcefully that a legal or a mob lynching must not take place. That the nine young Negro workers must be set free. That this attempt to di- vide and terrorize the workers will fall through. That the day is fast approaching when the millions of unemployed, together with the em- ployed workers and the millions of| dispossessed farmers, will join to- gether without distinction as to race, color or nationality—for the over- throw of the capitalist system.” Hearing On May 20. Must Hear Mighty Demand to Free 9 (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) sided at the court room lynching in Scottsboro, All workers and sympa- thetic organizations are urged to rush telegrams to Judge J. A. Hawkins, Fort Wayne, Alabama, denouncing this murderous frame-up and de- manding new trials for these inno- cent boys before a jury of workers, at least half of whom shall be Ne- groes. The LL.D. victory in securing a change of venue is made all the more important because of the fact that while in Scottsboro the entire white population has been inflamed by the boss press and Ku Klux Klan against the boys, in De Kalb County, where Fort Payne is located, there are some slight signs of proletarian organiza- tion and anti-ruling class sentiment. ‘Live on Hay, You'll Eat 200 Years Later,” Says Mayor of Boston BOSTON, Mass., May 10.—Mayor Curley, who has demonstrations of the starving unemployed smashed by his police, now comes forward him-~ self with a solytion of the problem, All the jobless man has to do is to live on charity soup for the next 200 years, and, if nothing happens, and the ruling class of that day haven't cashed in already, Mayor Curley’s $102,285 worth of insurance policies will total $45,548,527 and the interest on this money will be distributed to the poor. It will provide $20 a week for 1,700 jobless workers. Curley calls on the rest of the cap- italists to chip in a few dollars for the slaves of capitalism of 200 years from now. The jobless, who want their eats now, will just have to wait. Unless they take over the whole system without waiting a couple of centuries for it. dissipated by the return of the charges, flimsy though they be. Only through mass protest of thé whole working class, especially the great masses of unemployed, can defeat the efforts of boss class justice to bury alive leaders of the working class.” ; O'GARA MINERS PARTIAL VICTORY Fought Against Firing of All Old Men ELDORADO, Ill, May 13—The O'Gara miners who have been on strike for a month against the com- pany's proposal to replace all the old men with machines and keep the young ones who could stand speed-up, have partial victory. The company agrees to rotate the jobs, and grants other demands. Two demands, for two men on machines and motors, are being arbitrated, at the insistance of the United Mine Workers Union officials. The strike was won by the men, without help from the officials, who were against it from the first. Find Police Captain Banked Big Money from Chicago Rackets CHICAGO, HL—The Grand Jury investigating corruption in the Po- lice Department bas brovght out a number of interesting facts, in spite of their efforts to whitewash the police, whose cooperation with the gangsters is a well-known fact. The most interesting revelation was one about Ctpt. John Ptacek of the Lawndale, Police Station, who de- posited within five years %227,000 in various banks. Another captain had $160,000 in the bank. Captain Ptacek, who by the way is a staunch Cermak supporter, when asked how he could save $277,00 in five years out of a yearly salary of $4,000 an- swered that he made all this money through “honest business, i.c., spec- ulation in real estate. He stated that he is getting money from a number of mortgages, among them $270 a year from N. Mangano, a lieutenant of Al Capone. the apparently won a The history of all hitherto ex- isting society is the history of class » MAY 14, 1931 ypen, bp Oe — Conferences May 17. New York City, 11 a. m,, at Fin- nish Workers Hall, 15 West 126th Street New Orleans, announced. La. Hall to be May —Hall to be announced ie, Pa May 23. Buffalo, N. Y., at the Michigan Avenue 24, Hall, May Forum 323 E, Orleans, La.—Hall be announced Charlotte, nounced, to N.C. Hall to be an- May 25. jelphia, Pa. At the Knights Hall, 19th and Lom- Phil of Py bard May Washington, D. announced. C. Hall to be May 27. burg, Pa.—At the 2011 Center Ave. May 28 Minneapolis, Minn. announced Boston, Mas 10unced, Pitt Templh Pythian Hall to be S. Hal! to be an May Cleveland, Ohio, 3804 Scoville Ave. St. Paul, Minn. nounced. Duluth-Superior be announced, May 31. Tenn, 29. at Spiro Hall Hall to be an- Minn. Hall’ to Chattanoog: nounced. wark—At 90 Ferry St., at 2:30 Hall to be p.m Elizabeth, nounced. N. J. Hall to be an- June 5. Indianapolis, Ind. Indiana Ave. Baltimore, Md.—At Galilean Fishermen’s Hall, 411 W. Biddle St. at 8 p.m. U.S. Atrocities Forced Nicaragua Masses to Reply Yankee in Nicaragua Shows Few Facts At 536 1-2 A letter to the New York Times from Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua, by an American, gives some information about the struggle against Yankee imperialism that is not usually ob- tained from the usual Wall Street news sources. The correspondent, Roy Kerr, in his letter to the New York Times sa: that the execution of the nine Ameri- cans of the Bragmans Bluff Lumber Company on April 11th was due to “a hatred bred into the minds and feelings of these bandits as vengeance for some of the atrocities committed against the Nicaraguans.” The Bragmans Bluff Lumber Com- pany which exploits Nicaraguan workers, was used as a U. S. marine center for massacres of Nicaraguan people, men, women and: children. The U. S. marines systematically car- ried out atrocities against the Nic- araguans, and Roy Kerr, “deplores” the fact that this led to the justifi- able execution of the nine American murderers. He points out also that “Nicaragua is still in a very unsettled condition.” He says that the number of “bandits,” an imperialist name for anti-imper- ialists, is increasing. Finally he pleads that Wall Street, which for 20 years has ruled Nicaragua by force of arms, withdraw and stop committing so many blunders. The only way Yankee imperialism can be made to withdraw is by the united strength of the workers and peasants of Latin America together with the help of the American work- ers now suffering hunger, starvation and wage cuts at the hand of this same imperialism. INSULL SON HEADS CHICAGO CHARITY Fund Was to Be Used On Gas Electric Bills CHICAGO, IIl., May 7.—Hooveristic “rugged individualism as an ap- proach to relief of starvation reached a new height in Chicago with the election of a new president of the United Charities. The new president is none other than Samuel Insull Jr., son of the middle west’s power trust chief. His election to direct Chicago's charity revives a story that went the rouunds when the govern commission on unemployment relief was conducting its funds campaign Insull had his workers con- tribute $1,000,000. The story, un- confirmed of course, was that Insull decided that the most charitable manner to administer the $1,000,000 would be to use the money to pay the gas and light bills of the un- employed, He sends out the bills. The plan was rejected as a bit too rugged. Between October and April 1, the number of families facing starvation more than quadrupled, reports the outgoing president. “We know,” he said, “that only a small proportion of the thousands! of alive can be returned to productive labor and self-support before the fall struggle, —MARX, months, if even then," % { workers Scotisboro Defense | FOREIGN WORKERS IN SOVIET UNION MARVEL AT ADVANCE (Cable By Inprecorr) STALINGRAD, USSR working in Stalingrad plants at the May Day dem atior made an appeal to all foreign workers and specialists in the Union | st Soviet Republ | Foreign S, and a ers’ delegations visiting the Union. The appeal reads We have worked in the USSR several months, some have worked here for years. During this time, with] our own eyes we have seen the mighty} construction work now proceeding in| the USSR j “We ourselves worked on the ne Wy gigantic socialist industry and the enormous extent of constr and work, C it underta are growing like mushrooms and hun- | dreds of new planis ‘An energetic everywhere. We frequer count cultura such enormous construction idly new ngs | are cor spriny encir up | k our-| fe i é backward | can develop | so Y 32 technically 2 HOLDS DAILY WORKER BANQUET ON SATURDAY lained by the correct! The New York Red Build Club is arran, Daily Wo | banquet on Saturday May 16, at their headquarters, 887 E. Tenth St at 8 p. m. Daily Worker reps of | the units, sections and Daily Worker committees are invited. “If you know an unemployed worker whom you can interest in selling the Daily Worker in your section, bring the comrade along.” A leading comrade from the district is expected to be there, and a movie shown, too. “Be- sides having good food,” the leaflet announces, “there will be an ex- change of ideas on how best to build | the Central Organ of the Party.” | Delegates of the Unemployed Coun-| cils and of the Workers’ Ex-Service- | men’s League (who, by the way, get 100 a day) will also be present E. H. of Bessemer, Mich., an- nounces an affair for the Daily Worker, and orders 100 copies “for distribution on May 16.” Responds to “5-a-Day” Appeal. M. Purkin, Bronx, N. Y., quick to answer our suggestion to individual | readers to get 5 copies for le | among shopmates, friends, neigh- | bors, fraternal members and wherever workers gather,” orders | five a day for two woeks as a | starter. Frank L. of Fort Myers, Fla., also orders the same amount for 40 days. Burke F. Morgan Park, Chi- cago, gets 25 of next Tuesday's, Thursday's and Saturday's issue. “I am trying to build up a circulation for the paper. Please get them in on time.” We will, comrade! From policy of the Soviet government and the outburst of creative energy and jasm t cl foreign and can wa have merged family of workers the socialist con- ract us, into and partic the struc ring the USSR the fatherland of all worke and there- fore and de- j fend The capitalist world rages against the USSR. We firmly state that all am ns against the USSR are based on absolute lies, and are formed to intervention plans and to cru R “Here ree labor, unexampled in talist country. Labor in the hi s become a matter of glory for the working m CLUB le, Pa., Joe C. say blished@ an unempl and have decided to Worker. So send 25 daily of Mansfield, Ohio, has a bone—and a big one—to pick with us for not getting his bundle regularly. “You want a foothold in Mansfield, Ohio, but I cannot do a thing the way I am getting my Daily Workers,” says he. “This may make you think I mean business. JT d We've made certain you're on the list, W. W. Ad- vise ting us of any further trouble in get- your 50 a day Decreases, Cuts, Too. T. of Bicknell, Ind., informs us all he can handle at present Charlotte, slices bundle in half, now gets until I can get a comrade le the literature and establish ‘oper sale of it,” the new Dis- ct Organizer there assures us. Two bundles discontinued in Michigan. J. P., Royal Oak. cuts out 15, and 40 is we've cut down from 60. N. C., Sophie P., 25, “My customers are quitting because they are ail out of work and cannot pay.” Might Propose they put their time into sell- ing the Daily, Comrade Sophie. Jobless—But There's An Old Car. “I and another comrade who is out of work but got an old car are going to small farm towns and see what we can do with the D: Worker when we get that bundi writes Karl J. M., Moline, UI. meaning 100 copies. Walter S. Sioux City, Towa, wires: “Increase (from 25) to 50 copies a day at once.” TORTURE, JAIL 35 REDS IN POLAND | Police Manufactured | “Evidence” (Cable by Inprecorr.) WARSAW, Poland, May 17.—The trial of thirty-five workers in Kovel } has ended. The were charged with membership in the Communist Party of West Ukraine. Five were sentenced to six years hard labor; four were tenced to five years hard labor each. and six sentenced to four years hard labor each; the rest received shorter prison terms. | ‘The indictment was based on police “evidence” plus the statements extorted from the prisoner's under torture. The accused named the po- lice responsible for the tortur The chief torturer is the notorious Tkat- chuk, already known in connection with the Luck prison atrocities. The Polish press reports that all Officials concerned with the Luck prison horrors have since been pro- moted. accused workers se} Oklahoma Governor Worried by Communist May First _ Statement OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. May 11.—The Communist Party Central Committee May Day manifesto was distributed in thousands of copies to the Oklahoma City workers and sur- rounding oil fields, It met with great sympathy from amongst the toilers and snarls of hostility from the bosses and their press. The local newspapers describe the circulars as containing a vicious attack on cap- italism. The social fascists, whose chief store-in-trade is demagogy, rushed to the front with a two-headed declara- tion, One was to call out the Na- tional Guard, and the other was to express sympathy with the starving masses in Henryetta and Okmulgee County. Governor Murray pulled one of his usual cheap publicity stunts in issuing the following state- ment: “Under the law there is no state fund that can be assigned to them. The best I can do is to make an appeal and to add to it my per- sonal contribution.” men whose families we are keeping| ment with a weak imitation of Hoo- “Alfalfa Bill” concluded his state- verism by predicting that with the coming of spring conditions would be alleviated. GERMAN PEASANT Incident at Sale Shows Temper BERLIN.—In Unnau in Wester- wald two peasant farms were to be put up for ‘auction recently in or- der to secure the payment of over- due taxes. Shortly before the auc- tion fire broke out in the buildings. The peasants refused to assist in quelling the fires and the author- ities had to send tor motor pumps from the nearby town. In the mean- time the peasants of the whole neighborhood had collected and pre- vented the firemen from putting out the fires. The police were called in and collisions occurred during which a police captain was seriously injured and five peasants were arrested. The threatened buildings were completely gutted and everything in them de- stroyed. A peasant demonstration took place yesterday in Breslau in con- nection with the trial of a peasant charged with having resisted the po- lice in the execution of their duty. The peasant had resisted the auc- tioning of his cattle by the author- ities in order to secure the payment of overdue taxes. Over 200 peasants forced their way into the court de- monstrating and protesting loudly against the intolerable burdens placed on the poorer population of the ag- rarian districts. A large force of police was necessary in order to clear the court Commenting on “Rote Fahne” writes ‘The flames of peasant revolt are springing up in all the provinces of Germany. There are already signs that the revolt a the agrarian popuiation is going ie yond that stage in which they per- mitted themselves to be misled hy fascist demagogy these incidents Dangerous to Neglect Pains in Bladder and Kidneys Heed the warning of burning and night rising due to bladder and kid- ney weakness. Doctors warn against neglect and advise action to prevents serious trouble. For rapid selief, as your druggist for the remedy used for sed Ry, nearly a century by doc- ee tors thronghout the world. Santa Mlidy, bd