The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 4, 1931, Page 3

iL ul DROUGHT CROP FAILURE AND AGRARIAN CRISIS IS DRIVING MONTANA FARMERS TO RUIN Grain Destroyed By Heat, Frost and Storms; Cattle Drop From Lack of Pasture; Water Sells At $6 a Tank (By a Farmer’s Wife) PLENTYWOOD, Mont.—One of the most serious drouths {n the history of this section is threatening Sheridan County and its environs this summer. After practically dry weather for two years, the farmers who have been unable to pay their mortgages and taxes for several years are this year facing actual destitution with a crop failure evidently before them, and the price of grain as low as it is. Grain Destroyed. What grain has come up in this vicinity is fast being destroyed by the burning heat of ‘exceptionally warm days or the kill- ing frosts at night, or are cut off by fierce sand storms that have been raging over the bare farms. Stock of eny kind has no pasture, and much of it has been driven from farms for miles around to spots where formerly were sloughs where there still are vestiges of green grass. Many of the milk cows are almost too weak to stand for lack of pasture or feed. In parts of North Dakota, which is just across the line from here, it is reported water has been selling at $6 a tank. Driven To Highways Along the Highways are other pic- tures of depression. Men and women from all walks of life and of all ages are tramping the roads, some going east, some west, many in hope of finding even a place where they can work for 16 hours a day for board. Fifty cents and $1.00 a ay are not unusual wages in this section for able bodied men for picking rock and doing other heavy farm work. Im the stock-yards of many of the small towns one can often find five er six women or girls in search of works, huddled together around a fire to keep them warm for the night, none of them having money enough for « night’s lodging. Teachers Pay Cnt Many of the County employees af- ter last years taxes were paid were quite upset over the long list of de- linquents, wondering what would happen to their pay envelopes this coming year if there was @ crop failure. The pay of most of the teachers has been cut, as has also the pay of the postmasters and post- mistresses of the smaller towns. Many of the school teachers have had to take discounts in cashing their warrants, for the funds of the school districts have been depleted for lack of taxes coming in. In addition to the generally low economic tone of the entire country, the threatened drouth and crop fail- ure of this locality is worrying the small town bankers and financiers, who are going about publishing re- ports about the sound conditions of their banks and even having laws passed prohibiting talk of bank fail- ures and financial conditions. Some of the bankers are anxiously assur- ing their larger depositors that ev- erything is O. K. One of the Plenty- wood newspapers which is decidedly ®& Main Street organ, recently ran a news item in it concerning the numérous petty thieveries occurring thruout the County, accounting for these acts, the serious lack of money among many of the families. Local merchants are urging the cleaning up of buildings and premises and structures by locally bired men to allay the upemployment—all this in typical booster style, This Week 4 Sacramento, Cal, Dear Editor: T was tatking to a worker from the. Southern Pacific Shops who was laid off on the 28th of May along with 96 other workers. He stated that when he was fired he was informed that 100 more workers would be laid ‘Ths Western Pacific at the Jeffries Shops in Sacramento has laid most of their workers off. The only work that the W. P. is doing at this time is what they have to do on the loco- motives and loaded freight that must, be reparied before it is sent out. The only way to do away with such conditions is to join into the Railroad Workers Industrial League and force the bosses to shorten the hours with no reduction in wages and to pay unemployment insur- ance to all unemployed workers. —J. 8. United Fruit PaysNavy Men in Booze for Dirty Work in Honduras Albany. Daily Worker: We met a sailor on the train; he tioned in Honduras while the “trou- ble” arose there recently. He related how the United Fruit Co. pumps the “gobs” full of beer when they go ashore, free of charge. “Oh, they treat us swell over there.” As for the natives, why did they kill the overseers? “Oh, I dunno; they just go plumb crazy with the heat T guess.” He related how the gobs went out to get the corpses. “We got orders to také plenty of machine guns and ammunition along.” His experiences in the navy on the Pacific also were revealing. “The Navy makes lots of movies of their own, as well as some that they give to Hollywood. Boy, those camera- men sure are well treate in the Navy!” Yes, the United Fruit Co. treats the gobs swell, and the Navy treats the camera and newspaper men swell. It's a swell game. This gob, now on his way to the folks back home, will soon see the other side of this swell game. He's got a copy of the Daily and some pamphlets which will make him see sooner. Hundreds More Workers Fired in Philadelphia Philadelphia, Pa. Editor Daily Worker: 7 am a little late in writing about this. but it is news that the workers want to know or ought to know. While I was looking to see if I could find a job as a painter I saw a big crowd at the Quaker Lace Co. » At first T thought there was some ‘hiring going on, but I soon found out - ‘that they were firing. One hundred }wenty-five workers, mostly men, lost ‘cheir jobs. The plant that was work- / ing only two days at a great speed-up closed down entirely, the workers get- ting their last pay of $11. Wanamaker Fires 400 ‘The John Wanamaker Store also recently laid off 400 women workers. ‘This happened on the 18th of May. ‘The city water station down town on Twelfth St. also closed down, fir- ing everybody. These workers were already working under the stagger system. The papers state that employment is increasing. All that we workers can see is a decrease. Mass March On Library Mine Spreads Strike; Meet To Write Demands (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) building of N. M. U. locals, establish- ment of local strike committees at al striking mines, election of a bureau of the district strike commit- tee, and a program for spreading the strike. Other topics acted upon will be marches, mass meetings, house to house work, issuing of leaflets, etc. Mass hunger marches of strikers, together. with unemployed miners are being arranged, and first one to be in Washington County, the area of the strike, Demands will be made for imme- diate «relief. for unemployed and striking miners on county and local governments, ‘The, keynote of the district strike Yomunitten. session wax, “Sghbagainst | gob int the mine ___.nduadadicy’ starvation by meéans of the spread of the strike,” and “building of the National Miners’ Union.” Coos iene | Militant Picketing. The Pittsburgh papers of June 2 tell of militant picketing at the Cov- erdale mine of the Pittsburgh Ter- minal in which a scab named Joseph Hayman attacked women relatives of the strikers with his shovel, and was beaten up later for it by miners. The papers of Pittsburgh estimate 20 per cent of the mines in the dis- trict on strike June 2. Picket Kinloch. Banks Deny Credit to Share Croppers and Poor Farmers Idaho Farmers Look Toward Soviets Buhl, Idaho. Dear Comrades: I am a share cropper and I find it hard to get credit. Last week the grocery man told me that he could not give me credit any longer. I owe him a bill of $10. When I asked the banker for a loan of $150, he told me that I had no collateral. I have three horses, two cows and farm ma- chinery that cost me $400 and a crop on 40 acres of highly productive soil. This 1s no collateral in the eyes of these parasitical bankers. Bankers Help Landlords. This is not an isolated case, but most of the share croppers over the whole irrigated tract here of 200,000 acres are in the same or even worse condition, The bankers are helping the big landlords and not the real producers, The local newspapers are full of propaganda about Soviet “dumping” and “forced labor.” They lie so much that the people are beginning to say: “I don’t believe the Russians are doing all of that.” I use the Daily Worker to point out their lies and why they lie. Although the papers and Goyernor C. Ben Ross spout hypocrisy about maintaining high wages and high commodity . scales, both wages and commodity prices are being cut more and more. Farm Pay Cut. On the farms where workers were previously paid from $50 to $60 a month, $20 to $35 is now the wage scale—most of the workers getting $30 a month. I keep passing the Daily Worker around here and you would be sur- prised at the way a lot of the fel- lows have changed. They are talk- ing about the Soviet Union. We are going to try and get an organization started here soon—a branch of the United Farmers’ League. —Sympathizer. ‘Oakland Street Car Southern Pacifie to Fire 100 More Workers | Force Cut in Half OAKLAND, Cal—Extension of one man service cars in Piedmont has been carried out. Grand Avenue to be next, followed throughout the city. Also curtained form of service to be given. ‘The company has threatened to raise 10 cents fare instead of 7 cents. Last months the State Legislature has voted to abolish the paving be- tween car tracks for the company. In spite of this tremendous gift of the state, the fare is to be raised. ‘The workers ride the cars so a heavier burden will be forced upon them. Workers are running these cars and they will be forced to slave harder for their living for less*money. Workers have received wage cuts a while ago through re-shifting of jobs. Layoffs have taken place to less than half of original force. Those remain- ing on the jobs speeded beyond hu- man endurance. Issue Workers’ Bulletin. Headlight, the Key Route bulletin issued by the Communist Party nuc- lJeus was distributed to shop and barn workers and received very favorably by the workers. The next step should be for workers to write more of their grievances to the Headlight and or- ganize shop committees. Vare-Pinchot Gang Whitewash Graft On Philadelphia Relief (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) closed. A “benefit” scheduled to be held in Convention Hall on June 18 is called off, and what few dollars are actually in the treasury of the committe? are turned over to the Lloyd committee (a bankers’ organi- zation which used the jobless for “made work” at scab wages as part of a wage cutting drive). The Lloyd committee has now suspended opera- tions and fired all the men it had given work to. The net result of Philadelphia charity so far is very little for the jobless, and even that little now dis- continued, but big graft, so big that @ political squabble took place for control of it. A new fight is loom- ing over the $3,000,000 appropriated as @ result of the hunger march. The city government proposes to give it to the Lloyd committee. Jobless Demand Fund But the jobless will take a hand in the matter, The Trade Union Unity League is arranging a city- wide demonstration to demand that this money be turned over to the committee of the unemployed for distribution. At the hearings yesterday, M. H. Powers, secretary of the Philadelphia district of the Trade Union Unity League, demanded the floor to testify on the absence of relief and make the demands of the jobless them- selves known, but the council meet~ ing broke up at once. ANOTHER WAGE CUT ALBANY, N. Y.—The Hunt-Helem- Ferris Co, put over a 10 per cent ‘The Pittsburgh papers stated that 40 miners picketed the Kinloch mine of hte Valey Camp Coal Co. (Paisley interests) and that only. a few scabs wage-cut here last, week for ali steady employees. They cut the extra help from 50 to 45 cents per hour. 'This is ® national DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JUNE 4, 1931 ——————— Page Three 2nd Week of C For .$35,000. Finds 16 Districts Motionless The eleventh day of the Cam- paign for $35,000 finds practically every District in the country with the exception of New York and Chi- cago at virtual standstill. It is an interesting commentary on the ex- tent of District responsibility, to the Daily Worker, when out of a total amount raised, as of June Ist, of $5,426.02—$4,621.09 of this amount was sent in by New York and Chi- cago alone. It is necessary to report that the other 16 districts combined, subscribed $804.93, as of June Ist. What is the matter with the Dis- tricts? Aren't they sufficiently aware of the financial state of the Daily Worker, that makes immediate income of funds imperative to its survival? Must New York and Chi- cago do everything and the others nothing? The Daily Worker is ap-| parently read in every state in the union. Why should funds to sup- port the Daily, not’ be coming from every state in the union ih which there is a District or Section head- | quarters. More Life From Districts. Why is District 5, Pittsburgh, with a quota of $1,000 so silent in the campaign. _ Something must be radically wrong with a District apparatus that not only takes 11 days to raise $8, but ignores all correspondence with regard to the Drive. District 3, Philadelphia, after sending an excellent plan of work in the Campaign, has fallen down completely. When a District s populous as Philadelphia with a quota of $2,500 can only raise $177 to date, it is certain that acitvity of comrades in this district is not | what it should be. What has be- come of the planned house-to- house campaign in Philadelphia to secure donations and to draw readers into Daily Worker Clubs? The uninspiring showing of Dis- trict. 7, Detroit, is a mystery to us. For eleven days we have been wait~ ing for some signs of action from this district. The plan of action sent in was admirable, but so far this appears to be Detroit's first and last gesture. To date $83.75 has been subscribed towards its quota of $3,500, Districts 4, Buffalo; 9, Minne- apolis; 10, Kansas City; 11, N. Dakota; 12, Seattle; 13, California; 15, Connecticut; 16, N. Carolina; Vi, Alabama; 18, Butte; and 19, Denver; have done nothing in the Campaign so far, to show that they are interested in the future of the Daily Worker. News of fromation of Daily Work- ampaign Best Seller in Town This is Comrade Cliff Clausen, | Port Angeles, Wash., Daily Work- | er Agent. He is putting the Daily Worker on the map in this burgh. er Clubs is rare. T. E. C. Peters- | burg, Fla., whose letter we quote, is quick to realize its possibilities. “Have just received Bulletin on D.} W. Club,” he writes, and “think it big step in the right direction. Many people down here cannot read, espe- cially among Negroes. 9Am_ trying to organize them into D. W. Clubs| so that we can meet once or twice a week and have someone read ar- ticles from the Daily, after which we can comment on ii. This should be done in all towns and ‘i More Benefits For “Dail Women’s Council 16-20-21-7 of Brooklyn, N. Y¥., had an outing at Prospect Park Sunday, May 3ist, at which $25.50 was raised for benefit of “Daily.” “We also succeede in rawing outsiders who were around an acquainted them with our revo- lutionary press,” writes Z. G. of Women’s Council. “All women workers,” she concludes, “should join women’s councils and other mass or- ganizations and help build the movement around our revolutionary press.” Daily Worker Clubs func- tioning under leadership of Women’s Councils will build and byoaden the} movement! Workers! Organize clubs in your neighborhood! Only | D. W. Clubs of supporters will save the “Daily Workers Correspondence is the backbone of the revolutionary press. Build your press by writing for it about your day to day struggles. RECEIPTS DROP A TO SAVE THE “DAILY!” The totals for Tuesday tell why tht Daily Worker finds itself In such a critical situation. Only $306.35 for the day. is going down instead of up! The Chicago still show no life. Worker faces suspension! Only quick Tuesday’s contributions follow: DISTRICT 1 HA Battle, Orange, Mass & 1.00 Wetherell, Boston, Mass 1.00 Vietor Mi, Lieb, Boston 1.00 ©, Syria, Penacook, NH... 25 Emil Ohron, Penacook, N H.. J Berestram, Penacook, NH ‘T Peyerson, W Concord, N H B Fridtund, W Concord, ¥ Swanson, W Concord, A, Hardy, W Concord, N I, Tharburg, W Concord, N H, Casbrow, W Concord, N H Y. Rimpela, W Concord, N H B, Johnson, W Concord, N H ©, G. Rooth, W Concord, N H A Friend, W Concord, N © Johnson, W Concord, NH J Kleinold, W Concord, N H. G Carlson, W Concord, NH J Erickson, W Concord, N H © Sorenson, W Concord, N H J Salo, W Concord NH J DiPinto, W_Concord, G Anderson, W Conco Total .... Frishkoff, Brooklyn. © Osol, See 2, Unit 3... LF Hawkins, NY ©... 1.00 raga See 10, Unit 2. 18.00 ‘Weingart 1.00 Lapi Algart b3 Lieberhard 0 Horowitz ... 0 A Miller . “30 F Wertis . oO Kurtz 0 DeLew 1.00 Section 1.00 Sam Walasek, N 1.00 1 Kaplan, son Se Red Bulider 400 Section 9 Unit 3, collected at Ukrainian piente . 26.50 Zetia Kronhertz, Hoboki 1,00 A Wishnefsky, Brookl 1.00 Sam Levine, Brooklyn 1,00 Abe Rubin, Jewelry kers Unton ..- » 6.50 Y CL Branch 4 - 1.00 George Orloff, § 2.50 Morris Gallant, NY © .. 1.00 Good © 1.00 1.00 12.50 11.60 B 1.00 § Lipshits, See 3) Unit 1, cou, at Cafe Europa OOO EE |.) Grosstield, Schulte | 3,Brown’ ville 10,00 Section 3, Unit 3 . 10,00 Friedman, Section 1.50 Section 3, Unit 3 . 30, ¥ Zaichick, Brookly: 1.00 A Korulich, Brooklyn . 1,00 J Lewis, Jewish Home for tn- curables, Brooklyn, NY 3.00 M Stresow, Central Is! 5.00 1 Lippman, Irvington, a J Verba, Mineola, bt 1,00 Slovak Workers Boole Binghamton, NY 5.00 Heksville, Is at MHickavilles Lets... aki, Hicksville, Ut 25 G Oninakl, Hioksvile, 1, © ‘38 M Ki jokn re 25 3 H Feurnell, Hic! (35 S Silvertaen, Hic! 25 A Hangen, Hicksville 1 er G Larson, Hicksville, 1 1.00 M Larson, Hick: 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 25 n 3h © Johnson, Hicksvitle, chy AL © Cab, Binghamton, NV) to A Subseriher, Mt Albans, LT.) 1 “S Teta? ancora rer SETL.80 al; But no district is up to the mark. The Daily GAIN; ACT | Comrades, our campaign districts outside of New York and| action can save it! DISTRICT 3 I Isaacs, Wilkes-Barre, J Kupebinskas, Minersy B Galtauckas, St. Claire, Pa A Chaponis, Minersville, 8 Pechulis, Marin, E Stankevich, Shenandoah, Pa J Guehinskas. Shenandoah, Pa P Potos, Minersville, Pa...... M Shurmnitis’ Seltzer, Pa A Zemaitis, Retnerton, Pa.. P Valento, Shenandoah, Pa M Krikstanas, Shamokin, Pa J Paulairetus, McAdoo, Pa W Grebeine, Shenandoah, Px P Stagniunas, Shenandoah, Pa B Besky, Shenandoah, Pa Sakai teens! ERemAnaneh, Pa. K Lazuk, Shenandoah, Pa. 3. Kaminskas, Minersville, Pa ‘Total --F 16.00 45 Ukrainian SU NY RO, Endicott, 10.00 Total 8 10.45 DISTRICT 5 P Nazanewicr, Steubenville, 0. 10.00 Steubenville Young Pioneers, 0 3.00 3B Suplit, MeDonald, Pa 1.00 ‘Total 8 14.00 J Palmaquist, P Rosen, P Krillova, J Rubinoff, Cleveland, © J Bonin, Cleveland O John, Cleveland, 0 .. i Theo. Mitsos, Cleveland, 0. G Calofoutes, Cleveland, ° A Friend . M Reide, € T Ellas, Cleveland, 0. G Glavinon, Cleveland, 0 J Peters, Cleveland, 0... DISTRICT 7 » Bchattmsher, Grand Rei eae Mich, Detroit Disiriet - Total .. 18! F Panenka, Brookfield, M.. 4.00 M Hoen, West Allis, Wisc... 1.00 POOR cee 3 5.00 DISTRICT Minneapolis District ...... 2.00 DISTRICT 10 V Yacinich, Rexfield, In. .. a DISTRICT 11 W C Palmer, Saskatoon, Sask 2.00 DISTRICT 12 E A, Olympia, Wash ......+ 50 DISTRICT 138 os Angeles, Cal Francisco, Cal. San Francixeo. .. won Angeles, Lena Gord: My DISTRO 17 + Uth Oxford Mins. ..... Hano. ‘Tampa, Fila. HG . Lampa Fin mer, Tampa, Win. VOW Crawford, Tampa, Pla. DISTRICT (8 A Worker, Wallace, Tdaho Potal all Districts .. Previousiy reeetved . ° Total to | Council | their support to aid the struggle to |How Reformists Scottsboro Defense Conferences June 5. Springfield, Conn. Indianapolis, Ind.—At Odd Fel- lows Hall, 53012 Indiana Ave., at 7:30 p. m. Baltimore, Fishermen’s Hall, St., at 8 p.m. June 6 Chester, Pa. at Li:thuanian Hall, 4th and Upland Streets, New Brunswick, N. J.—At the Workers’ Home, 11 Plum St., at 2:30 p. m. Md.—At Galilean 411 W. Biddle June 7 Danbury, Conn., at 14 Ives St. Gary, Ind. at Croatian Hall, 23rd and Washington St., at 2 p.m, Kansas City—2 p.m, Hall later. Reading, Pa., at Bethlehem MLE. Church, June & Yonkers, N. ¥.—At the Workers’ Co-operative Center, 252 Warbur- ton Ave. at 8 p.m June 12 New Haven, Conn,, at, 36 Howe St June 13 San Antonia, Texas, at the Col- ored Laborers Hall, 315 Virginia Boulevard New Britain, Conn. June 14 Detroit, Mich—At 1343 E. Ferry June 15 Bridgeport, Conn., at 57 Cannon. U. 8. Holds Chong For the Hangman Arrest Leader of the Chinese Workers SAN FRANCISCO, Cal.—Arrested Jast April when he led a demonstra- tion of 600 unemployed before the Chinese consulate and the Chinese Six Company, Dea Chong, a militant worker is now held at Angel Island, awaiting deportation to the Chiang Kai-Shek hangmen. Chong was picked out because of his militancy in organizing the Chi- nese workers. He was one of the or- ganizers of the Chinese Labor League that affiliated to the Trade Union | Unity League and also an active | memmer of the Chinese Unemployed | The Chinese workers who knew in| Chong a tried leader, are rallying to his support and protesting his arrest A committee has been elected to conduct a fight for his release and all white workers are urged to lend free Comrade Crong. Treat Lynch Terror Facetious treatment of lynch mur- der by a Negro reformist press agency and the Negro reformist papers is the effort to curb the rising anger of the Negro masses against the brutal lynch terror. It is in this same treacherous spirit that the top leadership of the N. A. A. C, P. and those papers and or- ganizations under their influence are co-operating with the Southern boss lynchers in the attempt to strangle the mass united front movement in- stituted by the International Labor Defense and the League of Struggle for Negro Rights in the campaign to save the lives of the nine innocent Scottsboro Negro boys. Negro workers! Repudiate the traitors!’ Take up the fight ‘against lynching in earnest! Form a fighting alliance with the white workers to save the Scottsboro children and smash the lynching terror! 15,000 Textile Workers Back Shop Committee Fight On Wage Cut (CONTINUED PAGE ONE) tile Workers Union urges speed. ‘The National Board at its session just concluded stated: “The struggle of the 700 strikexs in the General Fabrics has great sig- nificance for the silk workers in par- ticular and for the Textile Workers of the entire New England section. These workers have been on strike for the past three weeks against the almost unbearable special speed-up methods that were introduced by the company. Every means of reducing the wages of the workers and de- creasing their skilled was made use of. Loom fixers, members of the United Textile Workers were made special victims of these efficiéncy schemes and their union instead of fighting for the needs of its mem- | the capitalist system, | collisions between fa: STEEL HELMET FASCISTS PROVOKE BLOODY FIGHT IN GERMANY; PRINCE SEES PARADE CALLING FOR NEW WAR Socialist Convention Opens in Leipzig Wit) Socialists Torn Over Question of Aid or Attack for USSR (Cable by Inprecorr BERLIN, June 3. —The Stahlhelm (Steel Helmet) Fas: cist parade at Breslau was accompanied by a large counter- demonstration. The ¢ Shootings and a bloody collision took place. rman crown prince, Generals Seeckt and Mackensen, as well as other prominent nobles and generals of the old re- gime, were present. Provocative speches were made against Poland. ‘The police attacked the counter- demonstration furiously, Over fifty workers were arrested. Many were wounded by police bullets. One fas- cist was killed, A truckload of fascists bumped into a locomotive near Breslau, re- sulting in the death of four fascists. The parade demonstrated the Stahlhelm policy of restoring the monarchy, for the establishment of a fascist dictatorship to crush the workers’ movement and for revenge on Poland, as well as for a united front against the Soviet Union. Socialists Meet. terday noon the Socialist Con- gress opened at Leipzig with a dem- onstration, Longuet. Vandervelde, Austerlitz and other European so- ists spoke. Following the greet- ings the congress adjourned. On Monday the socialist leader, Tarnoy, spoke concerning the bankruptcy of but attacked the Soviet Union. Bruening’s emer- gency decrees and the socialist sup- port of the cruiser building program as well as other measures of Brue- ning have not been mentioned yet.| Tarnovy declared that capitalism must not be forced along the path of collapse. He prophesied a new period of boom. In the discussion that followed, the left winger. Graft, Tarnoy’s anti-Soviet incitement. Cris- pien followed against attacking the Soviet Union. The next speaker, Bieleck, supported the Soviet Union, declaring that the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics was the only hope of millions of workers The discussion was continued in the afternoon sessions . . . More Fascist Clashes. BERLIN, June 3.—On Thursday ists and work- took place in Westphalia and caused two more deaths. A Commu- nist Union died in the hospital. The Communist Party has appealed to all workers to go on a one-day strike on the day of the burial. Friday evening the International Red Aid organized a mass meeting er protested against | and a member of the Christian | here. Despite the heat the meeting was overcrowded. The sentenced deputy, Comrade Remmele, spoke After the first sentence of his speech, declaring that treason was impos- sible in Germany today owing te Bruening’s abolition of the constitu- tion, @ police officer arose and de- clared the meeting dispersed. Thanks to the coolness of the marshals, col- lisions inside the hall were avoided. ‘The masses left singing the Interna- tionale. But on Sunday collisions: took place in the streets afterwards. Friday evening anti-fascist demon- } | Strations took place in various perts of Berlin against the Stahlhelm (Steel Helmet), who were entraining for the Breslau demonstrations under the slogan of “Front against, the East!” Near the Goerlitzer railway station one fascist and one police- man were killed. The police and the fascists used firearms. A number of workers, including an aged woman, were wounde. Collisions occurred in Breslau on Friday evening, when fascists made their first uniformed parade through the main streets. Police furiously beat up workers, making many ar- rests. Two Communist newspapers, Ruhr Echo and the Brestau Art terzeitung (Breslau Workers’ Times), were confiscated. The misery of the unemployed workers results frequently in des- perate actions. At the town halls of Sandersdorf, Holzweissig, Bitterfeld and other towns, the maxses raided the buildings as » protest agatnst cutting down on unemployment re- Hef. Friday = crowd of unemployed raided 2 chain food store in the north of Berlin, seizing bread. but- ter, sausages, tea and other food- stuffs. Escaping they declared the county board should pay. The police arrived too late to make any -ar- hests. the Hunger Strike In Budapest. Reports from Budapest state that the political prisoners in the central prison of Budapest, Hungary. are on a hunger strike. The strike has lasted since May 24. They demand humane treatment. Attacks On Seottsboro Defense Grew As Hearing On LL.D. Motions Nears (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) United Front Scottsboro Defense Conference, which was held here on Sunday, were elected. Mrs. Ball was one of those elected as delegates Upon her return home she was brutally attacked and terribly beaten up by her husband, Reuben Ball, who, under the influence of the lurid and vicious lies spread by the local N. A. A. C. P. leaders and preachers, be- came furious because she had allied herself with the mass movement to save the nine boys. Mrs. Ball was saved from possible murder by the intervention of Oscar McDowell, who lives next door. She was taken into the home of the McDowells and nursed by Oscar McDowell's mother. Next day, Ball's daughter had him arrested. When the case came up in court yesterday Ball told the judge that his wife was a Red. whereupon Judge Fleming congratulated the wife-beater and gave him the infa- mous advice to use a shotgun on the Reds. The judge, moreover, offered police aid the next time Ball wanted to beat his wife or attack workers supporting the defense of the Scotts- boro boys. In their desperation, in face of the growing unity of the white and Ne- gro workers in the fight to save the nine boys, the bosses and their court further followed up the action of Judge Fleming with a police raid on the home of Oscar McDowell. Police today broke into their home and ar- rested McDowell, his mother and Mrs. Ball on a trumped-up charge of disorderly conduct for attending the defense conference. McDowell and his mother were later released, to include demands for the loomfix- ers who are members of the U.T.W. and many of whom have joined the bership co-operated with the man- agement in preventing any fight. “The strike is being fought by the workers against a national silk cor- poration with subsidiaries in New Bedford. and in Pennsylvania, The strikers have raised the banner of Struggle for better conditions, and have accepted the leadership of the National Textile Workers Union in what was only one year ago a strong- hold of the United Textile Workers. Answer U. T. W. The local organizer of the United ‘Textile Workers, Powers, has issued a vicious attack on the strikers as “foreigners and Reds” hoping to pro- | vide @ means whereby the Police and Department of Justice may break the strike. National Textile Workers Union. The strikers have sent out committees to organize throughout the entire Black- stone Valley, and realizing that their struggle is a national one they have sent organizing committees into Law- rence and Paterson in order to as- sist in the work of the union there and to collect relief for their own strike. Th eGeneral Fabrics strikers are showing the way to organize. The yare running their own strike but are at the same time assisting the workers in other centers build their organizations. Every worker show@d support the General Fabrics by giving lib- erally in their collections and by sending in funds to the National Of. fice of the Union at 1755 Westmin- ‘The reply of the workers ts the development of their wirie demands! ster St. Providence, R. 1 shoud he marked ‘ pproet cn but Mrs. Ball was fined $10, evi- dently because her husband Hae beaten her. The husband was re- leased, with the congratulations of the judge. On the same day of his release Ball began to play up to the ex- pectations of the boss judge by strik- ing Mrs. McDowell on the head with @ wooden block, because she pro- tested against his tearing up a copy of The Liberator in her home. Bali also carried out the advice of the judge to use a shotgun on those supporting the fight to save the nine boys.. Oscar McDowell was in jis yard getting some salve from a yeigh- bor to use on his mother's head when Ball opened fire on him with a shot- gun. Both were arrested and held on the charge of felonious assault with intent to kill, although it was Ball who had used the shotgun. Moreover Ball was immediately ‘re- leased, while Mr. McDowell was held. in jail and only released when the I. L. D, furnished bond for him. Ball's attack on his wife and his Jater treacherous activities against those fighting the legal lynching of the nine innocent Scottsboro boys ir a direct result of the activities of the N. A. A. C. P. leaders and the lo-~ cal preachers under their influence, who, for days before the All-South- ern Defense Conference, were busy visiting churches and organizations in an attempt te terrorize the work- ers to keep them from supporting the defense of the boys. In many cases they threatened workers with arrest if they dared to support the united front fight to stop the legal lynehing of the ine boys. This latest outrage against the de- fense and the lives of the nine boys, far from scaring away the masses from the fight to save the boys, wil! only serve to further enrage the white and Negro masses and to rally sup- port for the defense. Sufferers from <epsal ncn wie Sine WALL yy