The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 12, 1931, Page 3

p\ DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JU Salad E 12, 1981 — FIVE YEAR PLAN POSSIBLE ONLY | BECAUSE WORKERS RULE COUNTRY (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) ference between the value of what the workers produce and the wages they receive for their labor is pocketed by the capitalists as profit. If the capitalists cannot get any profit they stop or curtail production in their factories. That is why today, in the midst of plenty, mil- lions of American workers and poor farmers are starving. Soviets Establish Socialism The Russian Revolution endeavors to replace this capitalist system with a socialist system. Under socialism all the socially necessary natural resources, factories, means of trans- portation, ete., are owned socially. They will be operated and exploited not for the profit of private owners but for the benefit of all. Under socialism, bread will be baked, clothing will be manufactured and houses will be erect- ed no longer for the enrichment of a com- paratively few capitalists but in order to supply the needs of the masses. Under socialism so- ciety does not pay any tribute to capitalists. Everyone, according to his ability, pays tribute to society in the form of useful labor. In return everyone participates in the fruits of this common endeavor. Under capitalism the development of the productive forces means more intense exploitation for the workers and greater profits for the capitalists. Under so- cialism the development of the productive forces means a reduction of the required effort for the workers aceompanied by a growing share in the social products. The first step in the change from capital- ism to socialism is not an economic but a po- litical problem. The capitalists not only own privately and individually alll the natural re- sources and factories, etc., but collectively, as a class, they also own the government. The principles of the capitalist class are also the principles of the capitalist government; they are the principles of private property. “My country was founded upon the rock (not of the rights of man, but—) of property rights and the sanctity of contracts,” declared James M. Beck, solicitor-gendral of the United States during the Harding administration. And, in- deed the powers of the American government, its laws, its courts, its police, its army, main- tain and défend only property rights. The capitalist class is the ruling class; its interests are the embodiment of “law and order.” When workers organize against these interests and for their own the capitalists charge violation of “law and order,” threaten the workers’ lead- ers with death or imprison them for life as they have done with Mooney. and. Billings. When the workers strike for better wages against the high profits of the capitalists, the sts charge them with vioating “law and order,” arrest their leaders and imprison them for life as was done to the leaders of the Im- perial Valley strike. When workers picket for decent working conditions against the profit interests of the capitalists they are restrained by capitalist court injunctions and a capitalist policeman shoots them down to protect “law and order” as was done to Steve Katovis. When the workers demonstrate for bread and against the profit interests of the bosses, they are ridden down by State Cossacks, they are club- bed, they are met with tear gas bombs and machine guns and their leaders are imprisoned for violating “law and order,” as has happened to the unemployed demonstrations throughout the. United States. The government of the United States is a capitalist dictatorship. Oniy Revolution Can Effect Change Against this capitalist government with its laws and its police and its army, no social change can be affected without a fundamental political change. The capitalist class must be removed and replaced as the ruling class by the ‘workers. The working class in alliance with the poor farmers, must build its govern- ment apparatus in place of the present capi- talist apparatus. The capitalist government apparatus is designed to carry through and defend only the interests of the capitalists against the workers. To carry through and defend the interests of the workers against the capitalists the workers must set up their own government apparatus. They must re- place the capitalist with a proletarian dicta- torship. The Soviets in Russia are the structure and spparatus of a workers’ government. When the Soviets defeated and replaced the czarist Detroit Workers To Protest Boss Terror on June 19 and the provincial governments, they replaced a dictatorship of capitalists and big landowners with a dictatorship of the working class in alliance with the masses of poor peasantry. But the taking over of power by the Russian workers did not complete the social revolution. It only gave the workers the political power to carry it through. For the Soviets therefore the main tasks of the revolution really only be-} gan after they had taken power. The first measures of the Soviet Govern- ment had to be taken in defense of its own power. Counter-revolution and military capi- talist. invasion challenged it. During this period all economic measures were taken by the Soviets with a view to weaken the enemy in the Civil War. The prohibition of all pri- vate trading and the rationing system were such measures. This period of the Russian Revolution produced the war Communism. When in the end of 1920 the Soviet Gov- ernment emerged victoriously from civil war and foreign invasion, it had to orientate its economic policies from the needs of the Civil War to the needs of socialist construction. Of course, the measures of war Gommunism were euqally necessary for the building of social- ism. They had to preserve the political power of the working class. Without that power so- cialism could never be built. But now the very building of socialism itself became the prob- lem. The NEP Was Step Toward Socialism The New Economic Policy, initiated in March 1921, inaugurated this new orientation. The NEP was a retreat from war Communism. It was an advance upon a field from which the building of socialism could be undertaken suc- cessfully. The New Economic Policy was a scheme of economic construction in which three forms! of economy were given respective tasks: state economy, cooperative economy and private economy. The admission of private economy aimed at utilizing private enterprises as long as Soviet economy ‘was insufficient to supply the econ- omic needs. Cooperative economy was fitted into the scheme of the NEP primarily as a distributing and retailing apparatus. In order to place in the sector of Soviet economy the} center of gravity, the NEP was based on the inviolable principle of nationalization of all basic industries and of all means of trans- portation, Soviet monopoly of foreign trade and nationalization of banking. The workers’ } control of the government guarded- against a} degeneration of this scheme into state capital- ism. The New Economic Policy provided for the growth of all three sectors of economy as @ means of rapid development of the productive forces of the Soviet Union. In the course of development the Soviet economy and the co operative economy were gradually to take all the wind out of the sails of private economy. The relative positions assigned to Soviet econ- omy and to cooperative economy as well as the definite stpport and preference given to these sectors from the workers’ government, were to accelerate their growth. Thereby the rel- ative position and importance of private econ- omp was progressively to be minimized to the point of its complete uselessness. lessness once established, private economy could be completely liquidated—and with it} could be liquidated the NEP-man as a social| fact and factor. With the liquidation of private econ- | omy in industry and agriculture, there would be no more capitalist class. Since as we have previously seen every government ap- paratus is primarily an instrument of one class to suppress another, the disappearance of all the elements of capitalism would liquidate the political functions of the government as far as. the inne¥ rélations of the Soviet Union are concerned. The Soviets would gradually lose their character as an instrument of clsss dic- tatorship and would become instead the admin- istrators of public economy in a classless so- ciety. This would be the accomplishment of the revolution. The fourth article in this series will appear in tomorrow’s paper. In this article Comrade Bedacht concludes his discussion of the Five Year Plan. Order your copy immediately. If you have missed the previous articles, you can order back numbers. the release of the nine Scottsboro boys facing the electric chair in Ala- bama on the usual framed-up charge of rape. It will demand the repeal of the vicious Cheenéy Bill which calls for the finger-printing. photograph- ing and registration of the foreign- This use-[ DETROIT, June 11—Several thou- sand workers were laid off yesterday at the Ford Motor Co. River Rouge plant. The management called in the police to drive the workers out of the plant when the men demanded a re- fund on the money deducted from their wages for their factory badges. The management tried to tell the men that they should keep the badges as it was “possible they might be rehired at some later time.” When the men rejected this soft-soap, the management flatly refused to return their money and called in the police. While the Ford management did not deign it necessary to make any explanation of this’ huge new lay- off of workers, the boss papers are attributing the lay-off to over-pro- duction. On June 19, the workers of Detroit _ will rally in a mighty protest against the boss camptign of wage cuts and lay-offs and the attacks on the for- _ elgn born and Negro workers with which this campaign is being accom- panied. The demonstration will be held in the Grand Circus Park. It will begin at 5 p.m. as the workers leave the factories. Well-known working-class leaders will point out the connection between the growing lay-offs and wage cutting campaign and the boss terror against the for- eign born and Negro workers. The demonstration will demand born workers as an aid to the black- listing and deportation of militant foreign-born workers. BROOKLYN JOBLESS A SUICIDE. BROOKLYN.—Jobless and unable to find any work, Monte Palmer, 40, committed suicide by jumping from the roof of the apartment house at 3152 E. 6th St. where he lived. Cut out and mail at once to the Daily Worker, 50 E. 13th St., New York SAVE THE DAILY $35,000 Save-The-Daily Worker Fund. Enclosed find . oir § GOMBIB Fics cag iesiesy cose ny cents We pledge to do all in our power to save our Daily ‘by ralsing $35,000 by July 1. NOUN seicsascsssscssecsccenevecescecesveosesscssess MAAC oes ee sec seesceeeeneeneree MUST HAVE senses OMY scceeveneseeanecsroeses $1,000 A DAY! tie, Pare Yhree — Page Three CHICAGO SPURTS IN DRIVE; DISTRICTS 3, 7, 13 FALL DOWN ‘dn vestigation’ Note:—Workers who do not want their names published because of Possible persecution should indicate this in sending in their contributions. Collectors should also ask those who | contribute whether they want thetr | names printed. ‘Tuesday's totals were the best so far, $1,345.30, an indication that the campaign to save the Datly Worker Liny D. Arononovie S. Shafran M. Tromar A worker A pal Ps ‘Total DISTRICT 3 i. Pitman Bay, Parkway, Bklyn ‘Tremont Neckwear? Shi Cosmopolitan Barware’ Co. Gabriele Unger, Carnelia St, Bonx Sco ve S ecre i CONTINUE HEARING TOMORROW ON ILD MOTIONS FOR NEW TRIALS FOR NINE SCOTTSBORO YOUTHS » of MineHunger oe 50 00 | that he had a letter from the Na- 5, i 125 PITTSBURGH, Pa., June 11.—Gov- | | ernor Pinchot announced Wedn ay | “oe | tional Miners Union charging whole- 00 | sale brutalities against the state po- | lice and other armed forces of the State of Pennsylvania and opera bea ae rriiny tags 1.50 | against the starving miners now on| Sia ‘sits ————_ | strike. He announced an investiga- Tuesday's receipts again showed a ee ‘ 2.50 | tion, later in the day, the capitalist | Liye abs St ikke alte ob. Oe eke ¥. P. Brill Williamsville, N.Y. 1.00 | Press carried news that Pinchot had! total contributions, District F. Schilling, Webster, N.Y. 2.00 | said his investigation would be in} York) contributed less th Pe CE ee 1.00 | secret. | $616.08, while District 8 (C! Rowale Keller, Webster, N.Y. 1,00 after lagging for several days, came oy Gt Paka - 400! The Pennsylvania District Rank| for ‘a with f apures donate F.E. Lapchevsky. Nia. Falls, NY. 5.00 | # | $301.62, District 6 (Cleveland) Kent | Mrs. Laswelli, Cortland, 1,00 | and File Strike Committee, then in| up its good work with $189. A, Larson Jamestown, NY 5.50] session, declared that it would give} BIGe ee te te Total | Pinchot, the press, and the thousands | ly well on ‘Tuesday, contributing | Pn OO ae kee om 1.00 | miners, and if necessary, prove by | Pe ae ne Higa | Jos. Blahoves, Dittonvate, 0. ‘z5 | tmousands of affidoviats, tt its | Most of the other diststets, how. R. Xoratic | 1.00 | charges gf starvation ond slavery | SYSE showed little activity Tuesday, RR AN hy vo | the miners were true. That was| it is evdent that the burden of the z. 5 . rs e vive 1h ath being bora hy o ict E. Drobar sk “15 | when the first announcement of the districts. What happened to District iho soo | Supposerly publis investigation was Soule oe tite sitittrred | Rosslan Motaal Aid Society, Br. “| made. Then came the declaration by down to a mere $2.50? And the little | ¢, “Gleces Pitteeeeee, Pe ey 4 Pinchot (as reported in the press) Gulitimice conde by dias ‘ cas" | that “investigators will report direc pais to Rave been tec mhth Ter 10 Total 16.45 |1y to him, the governor decla seems to have been too much for it; Tuesday $1 was all that came tn from this district, California seems determined to maintain its reputa- tion as the worst district in the country in the Daily Worker drive. District 7 (Detroit) contributed only $45, which is still much below what it should be ftom @ distrint with the third largest quota, DISTRICT 1 0, Olson, Tenants Harbor, Matne 26 | Freihelt Geeadie V. Cleveland, 0: $00 tion. The first statement of Gnat Karlson 28 arto! * - Walter Bergaton » Golibieskey “30 District Strike Committee Wedines: Sven Sjoberg 60 Green 1.00 | day is as follows: i 3 aon ‘So| ‘2. ‘The investigation of conditions . Larson a g ¢ | Albert Jakobsson 30 5. anes beg in the mine fields of Western Penn- | ae oe at Mace tant 5.09 | Sylvania, announced by Governor | Axel Lars “2s | , T. Haginis 1.00 | Pinchot in the afternoon editions of | Walter Berglund 25 | ‘mit! ‘so | the press of June 8, is the result of | - Cos. Gauss 50 : Ben y beteregs 4 K. Delwona :30|the tremendous pressure of the| ust Swanson 25 « Claus Thorvalkson 1.00 eont eek 50 | strike of 20,000 miners against star- F. Lindberg 1.00 Leon Kaehovick vation—a struggle which involves ey ph ba ete - A ice directly 75,000 men, women and chil- | a ectatcon tev dren—and of the sharp and public] EB. Caristrom oO Steve Gust 7 D pl Brie Olson 50 Bella Shilkott ca demand made by the National et de = = sents 340 | Miners’ Union in the name of this Karl Johnson 50 Momaring +10 | huge section of the working class for | G. A. Abrakamson 4 tar eae 11a) | the withdrawal of the armed forces | 0. Abeaherhion M. Gremo 1.00 | of the counties and states, authorized | S. OstL 4 a TY ry by or sent in by the Pinchot Govy- | Geka Eereon 3 Joe Didrereke ‘50 | ernment, who have attacked and are S. Carlson 50 | + oa zi Still attacking with tear gas, clubs, | mri far ee ere rd Joan Hileveky ‘25 | bachine guns, etc. the miners and} S, Larson bo Nick Melela 35 | their families with unparalleled bru- J. A, Swansos 100 Steve Medwedskr 25 talit | Gust Fredrickson ‘38 M. Stark, Chagrin Falls, 0, - .25 | tality. | Hubert Ellason ed Henry Stark 5) 2, The National Miners’ Union | youn gues 3) Tota! 18025 | and the District Rank and File Ben Berg 50 DISTRICT 7 | Strike Committee will furnish to the | Abe Banson .25 | C. 2, Detroit District 20.00 | ie Otto Anderson .98 | Radolt Small, Detroit 5.00 | investigation committee, to the press, ‘Atvid “Carlaon 25 | see tea! heelg. Bohol pga 8.00 and will continue to furnish as it is | — ae 12h | gkalem ‘Socestsia .so| doing now by mass distribution of Altria Johnedn BO Haim Boorstein sind | leaflets and other printed matter. if Alfrid Pearson Fe Pe ee snes, 4.00 | Necessary, by thousands of the min- Jee Stee # i <a0o| CTS And their families, both those | Jokn Olson 3o ‘otal we | Who are working and the thousands | DISTRICT *& . t pone mers | sonn Reea Br. 52, TWO Chicago 18.90 | of unemployed are living under. con- yal 4 et by Richardson, U. 2, W Allis 5.00 | Git) r Sins En lM ‘Melater, Milwaukee,’ Wis. 5.00 ae Pea ee ‘dada te os ‘By | A et of rattrona workers, chi. 1:00 | will prove, if necessary, by hundreds | p Peeing Ba 381 Y Epos pre og Drag Store, Chi. 5.00 | Of affidavits, that the statements Bmes Hanson ‘a3 | Julius Deler, Louisville, Ky. 5.00 | relative to the murderous character Biol Fparaen | Neciean sone re vom CICA? 45 | Of the attacks on the miners, their Benjemin Cameron 1.00 | wives and families on the picket lines | Emil Falk 35 P 378 Pp Swan Holmberg 3.00 aera rene Pare #50 | during this strike by coal and iron > Ae feraon f ¥ TWO Br. 17 10.00 | police, state troopers and deputy ‘Arthur sorguist Py) ae = “ rr sheriffs, made in our letter of June | ee fe Unit testes Dupes) O00 | Care nae 1130 | 8th to Governor Pinchot, were, if} Harry Kats, Boston 50 | Unit 305 4.75 | anything, an understatement of the Tapeh ‘30 | Nucleus 102 9.15; “The National Miners’ Union will | . Cormiolniic $e | Fations ite *.50 | prove that the mobilization and use | 33 | Section 5 b 5 31.78 | of armed forces against men, women | ‘50 A he had Coanel! (500) and children of the working class, | 3 Finnish Workers Club s.00 | Who are fighting for the elementary Sn Cent No. "Fo right to live, is the most extensive A. Siskewins 38 oe clark of which the Pennsylvania labor c. ‘H. Rosengreen, Chagrin Falis, 0 F, Baumholts Midvale, DISTRICT 4 Lits, Sandusky. 0 Ina Johnson M. Jussi Mary Stenman Matti 9. F, Platsky J. Vineevich Bishop Brown, Galion, 0. W Clark 49.) Section 6, Unit 2 DISTRICT 3 9-80 | Nucleus 307 See. 1, Unit 1 5.00 | Cxecho Slovic Fraction ougene Ciancis, Brooklyn 5.00 1, Unit 1 3.50 Poial iy . Shuster, See, 4 2.00 DISTRICT See. 1, Unit 1 3.50 | Lilllam Dix, Minneapolis Sec. 7, Unit 5 30.00 | Fred Willis, Minneapolis Sec. 7, Unit 5 2.00 | W_Johnson, Minneapolie Max Muzer, Brighton Beach 5.75 | J Block Chas. Fox, Brooklyn 1.25 | © Kanter A. D. Z. ‘00 Kats cx Hinsdale Youth Center, Brookiyn see See. 7, Unit 4 . Overbock, Minneapolia Davis, Minneapolis Jack Harris, Y.C.L., Browneaville "50 | Altagen, Minneapolis See. §, Unit 1 ao | S Stock ‘Tremont Workers Club, Bronx | H Hoffman Benes, Brookisn 2.99 | Malinsky See. 5, Unit 9 4.09 | @ Stock See. 5, Unit 23 1ep | 7 en. 1, Khop Nucleus 1 BA A svaivathlocr 96 2.00 | H. Supak, Minneapolis Women's Goes berg C Dialdownks Rochester, Minn, . Roc! i ae on tae A armpathiser, Rochester, Minn, rt, Brooklyn 3.00 Cummens, Rochester, Hinn, Women's Counet! 31, 7m 5.00 Wonien’s Council 3, Bronx 19.00 5.00 | @ Swenson, St. Paul, Total DISTRICT 10 Sioux City, Towa A 4 R Council 36, Bronx H es No, 1, Bronx *W Lapinova, Hnumeta: DISTRICT 12 sympathizer, Portia: Hiden, Carishorg, Mayo, Port Angeles ct ‘tye ‘TRICT 13 Dis’ E Franklin San Pieas © ae ble Ld tah Wash, son, Port Angeles, Wash. 1 oo | There will be no hearings. and the investigation will be conducted se cretly.” The District Strike Committee im- | mediately issued another statement | scoring the plan for secrecy and de- | manding an open, public investiga- movement has any record. The Na- tional Miners’ Union will prove that in the last two weeks, coinciding | with the strike and the increased struggles of the unemployed miners for the bare necessities of life, Greene, Allegheny, Washington, ‘Westmoreland and Fayette Counties have been occupiéd by armed forces, Police, deputies and state troopers; that regular military posts have been | established at points designated by | the coal operators as strategic and that all these armed forces are en- | tirely at the disposal of the opera- | tors. The National Miners’ Union| will prove that military terrorism } has been established in the mining | camps of these counties in order to drive the miners back to work and perpetuate slavery and starvation, “4, The N. M. U. will prove that there is in existence a conspiracy of United Mine Worker officials, coal | operators and press, working with the armed forces, having as its im- mediate object to place the blame for the attacks of these armed forces against the strikers, upon the striking miners and the National Miners’ Union, to intimidate and ter- torize starving men, women and chil- 10.00 | Danbury Uniti al B Geran. Pe ser 14 dren, to drive the men back to work Geo h Unie 8 B00 nm Vere on the terms of the operators. The L.W.0. Shule, Brighton Beach 4.00| Celebrat roviadnee and National Miners’ Union will prove see Unie'® +50] Fall River 20.00 | that in every single instance of vio- Yoeahin sate eae s lence in the strike areas has been Bronx ‘Cooperatirs (Arcogen) 108.66 ja Hilson wBivensen 19 introduced by the armed forces and ° 208 | Lawrence, Ne Orleans, La. that unarmed miners have been 1,00 New Orleans Ln. forced to defend the very lives of ei ew ottieae themselves and theix.wives and}? 2.00 * children against coal and iron policé } ban Mintdaar dome OR EH hultehele, Now Oricans 90 | deputy sheriffs, state troopers and ‘A. Wardamsky. i233 | F Katsner, New Orleans miscellaneous collections of opera- Tony Wardamaky. 310; Jack Crown, New Orleana tors’ thugs, all equipped with the bard crag tc AEM 9 P| tee pie most modern military armament, jamaroneck, N.Y. wel g hedorett, bee eet Bale: 2.60| “5 The N. M, U. will prove that Anders: 2.00 N J Spanos, Frederick, Colo. 2.00/95 per cent of the miners in the B. W. Camp Nitueaninet Hencon 2.00 Sete mania) Pe tt “3p | Strike fields of Western Pennsylvania Ay ater artekicn is @ Georneoft, pepsin ‘an | Accept the N. M. U. as their union, Dr. Solomon Jacobs noo © Pencett ‘piece 5! and the mass revolt of the miners 1. Left Brooklyn joo 4 tne ane tho | and their wives and families against See. 5, Unit 20 200 NR “So | starvation is organized and led by Donte 10 fF Geumeay reoerick 3 | the N. M, U. and its rank and file aaa 100 Vikaloth, Trederteke 9 | strike committees elected by the min- ‘Three comrades preeutes 4.00 ‘retai ~~ gro | CS themselves,” pst yi lis wits cues The second statement, issued after Pharmacy, Dhlyn 2 otal, al} dlatviets the announcement that the investi- le i oo sn Mb cand toner haat Mien gation was to be secret. is as fol- : Roeadate 140 | Total, to date “p1908.08 lows: Friedland . “At the very moment that Gov- Sinnte caoaman, Lere, m. “se The history of all hitherto ex- | ernor Pinchot announced his secret ete ide ‘Goodman sad = isting society fs the history of clase | investigation in the coal mining area, A rich guy, ‘. as strugsle.—MARX, .,/ three miners were shot in cold blood vas | investigation. | proof, that thousands of miners are | | ployment is very acute ond hundreds aters Local of the A. F, of L., the (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) the Times elaborates as follows: “It would seem that Dr. Pickens himself, quite unintentionally, of course, did a little playing Into the hands o f Communists while decry- ing their activities. After saying | that there is doubt in the minds of southern white people as to the guilt or innocent of the nine Negro youths, he added: ‘But there is no @oubt anywhere that a fair and impartial trial and a worthy determination of the ques- tion of guilt or innocence could not have been had in the hysteria | and mob atmosphere which at- tended the trial of the cases in Scottsboro in early April.” Pickens’ attack on the mass fight | to save the nine boys was timed for | the greatest possible injury to the| defense of the boys. It was made| last Sunday in the k nowledge that | the case Was coming up again this Saturday for the hearing on the mo- trust- | | class | tions filed by the I. L. D. for néw | trials. In this Pickens followed the illustrious example of the Klan at- torney, Roddy, who a few days be- fore the June 5th hearing on these | motions opened a barrage against George W. Chamleé, I. L. D. ¢hief of counsed for the defense. Just 23 Rody’s attack gave support to the | boss efforts to rush the boys to the | electric chair, so Pickens’ attack last | Sunday in Chattanooga is désigned | to serve the same purpose. But the white and Negro workers throughout tHe country are making it plainer day after day—by protest and organization—that the working- will not permit this legal Slaughter of nine innocent Negro | boys, framed up on thé lying charge of rape against two white girls. These girls, threatened with prosecution for | Prostitution were forced by the state to lie against the boys after they had first denied that the boys had mo- lested them, ILLINOIS HUNGER MARCHERS TO ARRIVE AT SPRINGFIELD SUN. 1 P.M. (CUNTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) marcherds in Rochelle and Mendota, farming towns, and preparations pro- ceeding along for a big mass meeting and demonstration in a public square between La Salle and Peru mining | and industrial towns, where unem- of workers’ families are starving. Spring Valley, Ill, home of aban- doned coal mines, has prepared a! mass nidoor meeting for Tuesday night, June 9, at which it is expected | that an unemployed council will be | organized. Delegations will be sent to various locals of the United Mine Workers of America in that tehhitory this week, Telegrams of protest aré pouring in upon Mayor Homer Ahrends of Peoria | for his stand in refusing the request of the State Commission that the | hunger marchers be housed and fed by the city nad permitted a mass meeting on public grounds. When the committee went to see the Mayor they found him “out of town,” and | were turned oyer to the chief of po- | lice, who said that the whole matter | was in his hands. With the aid of | a husky detective, who carried a card | as former president of the Team-| chief of police tried to scare the marchers out of coming through Pe- oria at all. When this failed they said, “Go to the local officers of the American Federation of Labor. See | what they'll do. They're the people | to help you.” The dicks were inform- | ed that the representative of the committee had already gotten good receptions before the, carpenters and painters locals, although official ac- tion by the locals had been blocked in both cases. A speaker is to try to get the floor on the Hunger March at the meet- ing of the Central Labor Couwietl in Peoria, tonight. In the meantime, the demands upon the local author- iteis are to be made again and again. Every unemployed worker in Pe- | Oria 10 whom representatives of the Hunger March spoke was enthusiastic about the march. Leaflets were eagerly siezed and passed out by the unemployed workers right under the noses of the Peoria police, and the officials of the Illinois Free Employ- ment Agency, in Peoria. Attempts will be made to organize a council in Peoria before the Hunger March foes through. This will be done if forces can only be spared for the work, Fif- teen thousands are unemployed in Peoria, @ city of about 100,000 popu- lation, and the workers say that whole families get only $1.35 “relief” from the Community Chest. One worker, 4 member of three different unions of the A. f. of L., can't get a job at any of the trades. He's all in favor of the hunger march, Meanwhile reports come ftom Rock Island and Moliné that their line of march is being prepared, and that the marchéts will leave Rotk tsldnd carly Saturday Morning, joining the Rockford marchers at La Salle around noon News of the hungér march spreads like - wildfire through the coustry- side. Farmers and workers éagerly demand moré information. Any workers or farmers organize- fion thet has not yet electéd déle- gates and marchers aré urgéd to do sO ab once, commuhicating with Rockford Headquarters at 1014 Broadway, Rockford. There will"be a speaker on the Hunger March at the Scottsboro defense meeting, K. M. Hall, 510 Island Ave., at which Richard D, Moore. weil known Negro labor or- banizer will be the main speaker, by the deputies at Kinlock, This proves that the operators do not fear this secret “investigation.” The Pennsylvania District Rank and File | Strike Committee demands an open “The striking miners will fight se- crecy in the investigation! We want the evidence made public. We want everybody to know that this is a strike against starvation. We want notice taken of the pay checks show- ing that the miners credited with $8 and $10 a week (or in many cases much less) a week with which they have to support their families, do not | seea cent of money, all of their wages | being taken away by company | | charges. “We want an investigation, but | public, of the thousands of workers whose families have been without milk or butter for their children and have been living for months on in- sufficient quantities of bread and beans and practically nothing else. “We will submit proof, but public cheated by short-weight on coal, and by the very high prices at the com- pany stores; that they lose their jobs if they do not trade at the company stores. “We will prove, but in public, the brutal practice of the companies and of the state’s police, deputies, and coal and iron police as charged by us in our letter to Governor Pinchot of June 8th.” M’DONALD EXECUTES 12 MORE. Twelve Burmese peasants were sentenced to death and 26. others im- prisohied Béehusé' or their part In the struggle against British rule in the Tharawaddy district. Workers Correspondence is the backbone of the revolutionary press. Build your press by writing for it about your day to day struggles. ATTENTION PITTSBURGH! The T.U.UL, | dune 13 affair Saturday, has been changed from a dance to a banquet since police have refused a license for a dance. A mock trial will be held of the Coal and Iron Police. | because GARY SCOTTSBORO CONF. A SUCCESS Moore Speaks At Mass Meeting GARY, Ind., June 11.—About 200 enthusiastic workers attended the mass meeting here at which Richard B. Moore, national Negro work di- rector of the Internationa! Labor Dee fense spoke for the Scottsboro de- | fense Moore was heartily applauded throughout his speéch. The workers, white and colored, pledgéd thetr sol- idarity in the mass fight to save the nine boys. Other speakers were Donald Burk, of the Communist Party, Wenzel Stocker for the local LL.D, Sar Langford, a Negro worker, acted as chairman. The next day a Section Wide Unit- ed Front Scottsboro Defens¢ Confer- ence was held at the Croation Hall, with 150 workers presént. Of these 69 were delegates representing 35 or- ganizations and churches. A com- mittee of 21 was elected as the Ex- ecutive Committee of this conference to continue the work of mobilizing the masses for the defense of the boys. TammanyVotes $25,000 for July 4; Nothing for Unemployment Relief NEW YORK.— While the Unem- Ployed Council delegates were call- ing the bluff of the Tammany. Com- missioner of Welfare for his refusal to grant the demands for Relief of the 1,000,000 Unemployed and starv. ing workers of New York, and home. less, unemployed workers were burt ed to death at Pier 9, South Ferry, the grafters of Tammany | Hall closed down the municipal flop- house, the committee of the Board of Estimate voted $25,000 to celebrate the Fourth of July. Band concerts, and any other in- cidental expenses needed by thé Gur~ rupt politicians of thé Democratic and Republican parties to put on Come and bring your fellow- workers.