The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 29, 1931, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, JUNE 29, 1931 Seaduad Page ‘Three ~ TARVATION SWEEPS ACROSS NORTH-WEST; STRIKE AGAINST IT! Vages at Starvation Level: Mills Closing Daily _ National Lumber Workers Union Calls On Workers to Organize (By, a Worker Correspondent) EVERETT, Washington.—The miners march! The min- es, resolving to suffer no more without a fight, strike! The miners, cartying on revolutionary traditions that make them beloved to all American workers blaze the path against wage cuts and starvation. they too, march and fight. The women and children of the miners, Hunger must go and while he stays, he will meet the organized resistance of the miners. “Strike, Don’t Starve!” That is not only a slogan for miners, we tod, can use that, out here in the lumber country. Is there starvation in the Starvation An employed worker in the Robin- son mills at Everett, Wash., comes to work with @ dinner pail full of fried potatoe peelings. His wife and kids eat the “spuds.” Another pass< €s out on the job in the same town, from starvation, according to the company doctor, who examined him. Wages go down to as low as $1.80 in this town alone. All the mills closed on the 20th of June for an “inde- finite period.” Only about half of the mill workers have been working since last year, anyway. Of the job, on the job, in Everett, it is starvation. Two mills are running in Belling- ham, Wash. They are going to shut down soon. Wages in there are at starvation levels. Unemployed who have been getting a few dollats a Week on reoad work, get a two day lay-off of a five day week or a 40 percent wage cut from $10.00 to $6.00. ‘The local papers say that the unem- ployed have been making a perma- neht good thing out of the relief Work instead of looking for work.” Three wage-cuts in one month at Clear Lake, make half of the work- ets walk out in a spontaneous strike ast week. Walk-outs are occuring all over the northwest. Sixty percent Of the lumber workers are unemploy- ed. Instances can be sited all over the northwest. There IS starvation in this country. Pellagra, never heard of until 1930 in this section, now has @ regular death toll among the masses. Charity agencies, state that they northwest? ¢ will be unable to cope with the situ- ation this winter. The A. F. of L. tries fo organize fake United Timber Worker unions. They see the dan- ger of the old militant spirit of the lumber workers reviving. They, pro- | tecting the bosses interest, try to stem off the tide that will bring back the days of the Seattle general strike, that will carry vengeance for the victims of Everett massacre, that will steel the lumber workers to re- sist the war attack on the Soviet Union. So they try to work but fail. Three hundred unemployed in Everett, ask the city for work. They ask for “citi- zens” only and*the governor of Washington rules that aliens cannot be employed on road work, and so hundreds will lose their jobs. The mass know however, that foreign born and native-born must fight to- gether. What will solve our problem? That’s the question on every worker's lips. Who is leading the miners? The militant union of the Trade Union Unity Leage, the National Miners’ Union. The National Lum- ber Workers Union, has the fighting programme that will lead the work- ers to victory. Every lumber worker must became a union organizer, off the job and on the job. Write to the National Lumber Workers Union at Howard building, 613 1st Ave., Seat- tle, Wash. Your families are starving. The boss is preparing for war. Ans- wer him. Against starvation—Strike. 60 a Menth an‘ Stale Food for Empire State Building Food Workers (By a Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK.—The dishwashers in the kitchen of the Empire State Building Club receive $60.00 a month and two meals a day. These work- ers work 8% to 9 hours a day, six days a week and are forced to eat the cheapest and poorest kind of foot Breakfast is stale rolls and weak cOdffee. Dinner is either spa~ ghetti, macaroni or rice with never any fruit and seldom any vegetables, ) while plenty of food is served to the ‘club members. ‘The dishwashers, who slave under ‘e autocratic, domineering and ty- Yannical chef, are fed on scrape from the tables of the idiers. If Mr. Al Smith is going to do so mueh for the workers, then he.can Start at the Empire State Building of which he is the president. Editorial Note — The workers must not expect Al Smith to do anything for them. They will only get better conditions by organizing and fighting for them. The food workers at the Empire State Build- ing should get in touch with the Food Workers Industrial Union, 16 West 21 Street, who will give them leadership in their struggle for better food and pay. 3,000 PROTEST SCOTTSBORO 1\CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) told of the efforts of the white and Négro uplifters to betray the mass fight to save the boys. She sharply exposed the treacherous activities of the leaders of the NAACP. She branded Walter White and William Pickens of the NAACP. as lars and traitors to the Negro people. She told how, allied with Stephen R. Roddy, the Klan attorney, they have ‘ried to smash the defense of the .oys at every step; how co-operating ith the Warden et Kilby Prison, Montgomery, White and Pickens have flooded the Negro press with liés and collected funds in the name of the boys and have refused to turn these funds over to the defense, while at the same time doing every- thing possible to prevent Negro or- ganizations and others from sending money to the International Labor Defense. Shé made an earnest plea to the workers to support the Inter national Lebor Defense and the League of Struggle for Negro Rights as the only two organizations de+ fending the boys. She bitterly ac- cused the NAACP. leaders of Charles Alexancer, Negro working class leader, called upon the workers to support the mass fight to save the lynching, Jim- unconditional it. He called upon them to op- the imperialist war the bosses te now hatching, pointing out how egro workers hac been sent to white officers, how they were sent into action untrained and without equipment and then accused of cow- ardice because the inevitable had happened. He called upon them to refuse to fight for the interests of the imperialists, but for all workers, white and Negro, turn the guns given them In the next war against their owh oppressors here at home. He called on the workers to demon- strate against the war being pre- pared by the bosses, by coming out in masses on August Ist. He was loudly cheered, Many Organizations Out. Other speakers included Cecil Hope, June Croll, organizer of the Needle Trades “Industrial Union, Alfred Williams, Paul Beaverholdt, Bill Siroka of the Young Communist League, Sam Nessin, of the Unem- ployed Councils of Greater New York and Taft. Maiiy organizations participated with their banners in the demon- stration, including the International Labor Defense, the League of Strug- gle for Negro Rights, the Needle Trades Workers Industrial, the In- ternational Workers Order, the Wor- kers International Relief; the John Reed Club; the Anti-Fascist Alli- ance; ¢he United Council of Working Women; the Young Communist League and the Young Pioneers were both out in force, Serious Shortcomings. One serious weakness of the dem- onstration was the failure suffi- ciently to mobilize the Negro workers for the protest against the Scotts- boro outrage. Of the 5,000 who marched, only 89 were Negroes. That this was not because of any lack of interest in the fight on the part of the Negto masses of Harlem was demonstrated by the enthusiastic cheers and applause given the pa- rade from the sidewalks and the windows and roofs of many houses. At 146th Street and Lenox Avenue, where many Negro workers joined the demonstration, the most militant expressions of indignation against ‘| vance in the last war in Jim Crow ye \ the frame-up, and of readiness to | | { } | i | heated harangue, in Jewish, in | which Alleman FRAME-UP IN HARLEM MARCH: MRS. WRIGHT DENOUNCES N A ACP Here are members of the picket line near Wildwood, Pa. w! who killed one and seriously wounded 13. GUNMEN KILL PICKET; JAIL STRIKERS n A gunman in the rear is shown herding the prisoners toward the jail. A newspaperman who saw the attack put the blame on Deputy Herbert Reel. These men are made to hold their hands in the air as though they were gangsters, but only two penknives were found ia was attacked by deputy sheriffs, PITTSBURGH, Pa. June 28—One more striker shot! Perhaps fatally: Joseph Thornton, a striker of West Virginia, who was in Greene County working with the strike committees there, using his car to transport or= Ganizers and literature. is the latest victim in an organized campaign of assassination instigated by the coal operators. Friday Thornton was driving his car alone on the Clarks- ville road near the Chartiers mine. Two men in another auto blocked his way. and when he stopped they rushed him, dragged him from his machine, and one of them black- jacked him. Thornton broke away and started to run. When he had got about 40 feet from the two men, one of them simply shot him in the back. The bullet tore clear through his body and came out his chest in front. BAKERS PLEDGE MINERS’ RELIEF. Hear Avella Miner and Vote $100 NEW YORK.—At a meeting of the Baker’s Local No. 599, Clyde Al- leman, an Avella miner, appealed for aid for the Miners Strike. One hun- dred dollars was voted immediately | and a fifty cent tax assessment pas- sed, which will mean nearly another | hundred dollars. The vote was tak- | en not until the socvial-fascists re- ceived a bitter defeat at the hands | of the rank and file membership of the union. When Comrade Alleman finished making his appeal, two yellow-social- ists asked him whether he spoke Jewish or German. He saidno. Then they took the floor, and launched recognized such words as “Socialist Party,” “Faker Reds,” etc. The workers, in bitter indignation at this treacherous at- tack, shouted the Socialist down and would not let him finish. A baker protested against the Socialist lies, | and made a motion that every mem- ber of the local pay fifty cents for miners relief. This motion was watm- ly applauded and an additional hun- dred dollars was pledged. One work- er said, “The miners are fighting for the right to live, and every worker must help them.” So these two yel- low social-fascists, who approve the murder-and-starvation program of the coal barons, and tried to deny the miners the help whic hthey need desperately, learned their lesson. The bakers quickly recognized, in the sly tricksters, vicious enemies of the working-class and denounced them. At the Protest Demonstration held in Union Square Thursday, to pro- test the slaying of two miners and wounding of many others by the Coal and Iron police and ‘state troopers, workers showered bills on Comrade Amter’s platform, and $139.79 was raised for miners’ relief. Workers! Give your answer to the yellow socialists, to the murderous Coal and Iron Police of the Goal Barons! Come to the mass meeting called by the Pennsylvania and Ohio Striking Miners Relief Com- mittee on July 2, 1931, at Webster Hall. Fellow Workers! Show your sol- idarity with the forty thousand who are striking against starvation! Agi- tate in your shop, in your neighbor- hood, tm: your clubs, unions, frater- nal organizations, for miner's rélief. Send food and clothing to the de- pot nearest your home, whith is an- nounced in another part of this paper. Rush funds to: District Penn. and Ohio Striking Miners Relief Com- mittee, 799 Broadway, New York, Room 614. support the mass fight were heard from scores of colored men and wo- men workers. Saturday's experience against, brings sharply before Dist- niet Two and the Harlem seétion the ONE MORE MINER SHOT ON PENNSYLVANIA PICKET LINE, The gunmen then drove away. Thornton, in spite of his terrible wound, managed t0 rise, stagger unaided to his car. and drive into Store of Hupp & Son. Just before he fainted he said. “Only a deputy sheriff would do that!” His condi- tion is extremely serious. The Pitts- burgh papers pay little attention to the case, and publish garbled ac- counts, saying “an unidentifed man was picked up in a ditch With a bullet wound,” etc. No one has been arrested for the shooting. Joseph Vargo, 16-year-old boy shot near Crescent Friday, 1s still alive, but is reported sinking. Further facts have come out about his shoot- ing, showing that it was a more at- trocious crime than even first ac- counts indicated. When the scab, Clyde (“Woodrow”) Wilson, descend- ed from his car to open fire on the group of boys picketing on Malden Hills, Vargo was seated on a fence. The first shot that hit him from the seab’s fevolver struck him in the arm and knocked him over by the foree of impact of the heavy bullet. Then while Vargo lay on the ground, Wilson walked up to him, and delib- erately shot him through the chest. The scab was finally arrested, hours later. though his whereabouts in the Vesta mine where he was Strike breaking were known at all times. But no charge has been placed against him. me COVERDALE, Pa., June 28.—The greatest efforts are being made here to work up a framed case against National Miners Union leaders and strikers over what is claimed to have been a bomb explosion in the house of one of the U. M. W. petty Officials, @ man named Victor Gazoni. The Teactionary Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, only morning paper in that city, calls editorially today for hiring of a crowd of detectives, and tracing down of all implicated. There is no assurance that there was any bomb. A harmless charge of some explosive, making a noise and smoke but doing no damage, explodéd in the porch of the scab official's house. Let the striker, Joe Doliner. of the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Co. Mine No. 8, here tell the rest of the story. He and his wife were the only victims—so far—unti! Clarksville, where he collapsed at the | window and said, “What's the mat- ter?” (Loliner and Gazoni live near each other). “Then Frank Metz, a scab for the United Mine Workers, yelled: ‘Joe Doliner done it!’ Then the other scabs began to say the same thing. ‘Then Victor Gazoni hollered: ‘I’m | going to get you—going to get you) right in your house!’ | “Then a gang, of scabs came to- wards the house. I went out on the road, they saw me and began to run after me. “Then Meta shot me in the face with a shot gun, and my wife was was shot too. “State police were called. They asked what union I belonged to. I told them the National Miners’ Union. The state police got mad. County detectives took me to the Al- legheny county jail, where I was re- leased on $1,000 bonds. They did not arrest the scab who shot me in the face. “Some people say that Victor bombed his own house in order to blame the National Miners’ Union that he was paid by the company to do it and blame the strikers. Be- cause aS soon as the explosion hap- pened at 11:30 in the night, all of Victor's gang of scabs came running up and picked on me, as if the whole thing was made up beforehand what to do.” Wickersham Hides the Evidence of Frame-Up bf Mooney and Billings WASHINGTON, D. C.—A sec- tion of the Wickersham report dealing with the imprisonment of Mooney and Billings and headed “the lawlessness of the law” will not be made public according to George W. Wickersham and Dean ‘Roscoe Pound, members of Hoov- er’s “crime” commission. A min- ority of the commission is in favor of having it published. The report has already been printed. That the Wickersham Commis- sion has evidence of the frame-up of Mooney and Billings is evident from the sub-heading it gave to that part of the report, “The Lawlessness of the Law.” Fear has been expressed that the frame-up system, more and more used against the workers, will be exposed sufficiently for the masses to realize why Mooney an dBillings were framed up and Jailed. the frame-up gets going. Doliner says: “I went to bed at 11 o‘clock Thursday night. I heard the explosion. and looked out the GIVE YOUR ANSWER TO HOO- VER'S PROGRAM OF HUNGER, ‘MUST ANSWER | of the newspapers, the Navy Depart- |the government’s efforts to fool the | workers as to its secret plans for an WAR MOVE ON AUGUST FIRST, (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONED the case of manganese, wood pulp, etc. At present the Treasury De- partment is holding up a shipment of pulpwood from the Soviet Union under the same hypocritical charge. The U. P. report further states that even before the complete embargo of goods from the Soviet Union is put into effect, there will be am embargo on Soviet Oil. This embargo on Sov- iet Oil is the preliminary step to put across the complete embargo next January 1 In order to keep the actual war preparations as much as possible out ment last week ordered complete se- crecy on all war information by all navy officers. This is in line with attack against the workers’ Soviet Republic while at the same time justifying its huge expenditures for armaments. The government desires secrecy at this stage as to its real purposes in order better to be able to put over and hide the purpose of its deportation and anti-working class laws as well as to keep the workers from demanding the war funds to relieve the terrific unem- ployment burden by means of unem- ployment insurance. The capitalist press is becoming more open as to the nearness of war, particularly in connection with the Hoover reparations moratorium scheme. A New York “Times” cor- respondent in Geneva, commenting on June 25 on the importance of the settlement of the reparations ques- tion at once compares the present situation in Europe with that in July, 1914, after the assasination at |Saravejo which was the first step in the declaration of war in the follow- ing August. The capitalist press ad- mits that the war is as close as in July, 1914. The Wall St. govern- ment is completing the preparations for the attack on the Soviet Union and the most important barrier in its way as far as the united capitalist front is concerned is the antagon- isms among the imperialists them- selves. The U.S. is trying to force the united capitalist front under its own leadership and is taking its own steps in the attack by the embargo on products from the Soviet Union. At, Philadelphia navy yard Saturday the keel was laid for the cruiser Minneapolis which is the fifteenth to be built under the terms of the London Naval Treaty. The capi- talist class is trying to fool the American working class as to the war preparations by broadcasting the fact that 1,800 men will be employed in the construction of this cruiser. They are trying to fool the ten mil- lion unemployed into believing that the solution for the unemployment of ten millions is the construction of battleships. On August 1 the working class will demonstrate that it knows the rea- sons for the war preparations and that it will fight against the imper- {alist War and for the defense of the Soviet Union. The working class will raise a mighty storm of protest against the construction of arma- ments and will demand that all funds for armaments be given to the unemployed for unemployment re- lief. The workers know that the construction of cruisers will not mean even the slightest relief for the starving millions but that the con- struction of additional cruisers and other armaments is part of the | bosses’ attack on the Soviet Union,| WAGE CUTS AND PERSECUTION! the workers’ fatherland. (Special to the Daily Worker) Protesting against relief cuts, and demanding sufficient relief to feed their starving families, who have been cut in relief from 4 to 1 and three quarter cents per meal, by the Macomb County Board of Super- visors, the Warren Township Unem- ployed Coun¢il lead a ‘hunger march’ on the Township Supervisor office in Centerline, Speeches in front of the Centerline Board of Commerce, after a delega+ tion had been refused a crendential from them, so that one thousand starving children might get milk, exposed them openly as murdprers of these unemployed workers chil- dren. Police were called to halt the “march” at this point, but it con- tinued in a military fashion, until the Township Supervisors office was reached. Supervisor Trembies Again a delegation was sent in to see Supervisor Frank Licht, who was tremers, flanked on both sides by police. He said: “He could do no- thing” nor would he sign a creden- tial so the starving children could get milk. The delegation than re- ported to the crowd of unemployed workers, which had now grown to about 500, that the County officials intended to starve the workers with- out any further consideration. In the meantime a riot call was sent out over the telephone and radio’ by the yellow Officials, for Governor Brucker's cossacks, police from Det- absolute necessity of building block and neighborhood committees in Harlem and of intensifying the ac- tivities of the Party in that section, roit, and Mt. Clemens, with their teat gas, machine guns etc. This was their answer to the demands for bread and milk Warren, Mich. Jobless March o Supervisor’s Office; Demand Relief & \ Police of Other Towns Slug Workers Demand- ing Food for Children As catload after ¢arload of police arrived, disguised as workets, the militant demonstration continued, but they found the workers growing hostile, and the speeches went on, Finally they decided to send in a stool to start hurling insults at the workers. That was the signal for a general assault by the army of police, it was a most cowardly and brutal attack, black jacks flew right and left, guns were drawn on defendless workers, women were mauled, and children pushed and knocked around. Nine unemployed workers including women were brutaly beaten and dragged to jail. One an invalid ex- service man, Henry J. Salzman, was Knocked into insensibility by Cheif Theut of Centerline, Dove Provost and Toothless Thornton deputies of Sheriff Wilkensons office, in Mt. Clemens. He was kicked and beaten by them after he was unconcious. He was then dragged to the hospital and is perhaps fatally injured. Plan Frame-up Militants A ftame-up is being planned against the militant workers, who take part each week in demonstra- tions. They were taken to Mt. Cle+ mens under heavy guard of state cossacks, Ps But the following day the unem- ployed were again on the march te n miles away, to demand these workers be released. After seeing the determination and militant spirit of the unemployed workers could not be easily broken, and that a frame-up would be quite difficult, owing to the aroused sen- timent against the coward brutality of the police, the prosetution after @ all day conference ordered all re- leased. They do not wish to have court trials as it might expose the terrible misery and stafvation the workers are forced to undergo and the open brutality of the police, After the release of the workers, a large protest mass meeting was called by the Warren Township Un- employed Council, to meet at the police station at Nitie Mile Road and Van Dyke Avenue. Cossacks and Police were there, but the meeting took place as scheduled. Workers’ Demands A resolution was adopted by the crowd of 500 workers, demanding the dismissal of those responsible for the attack and those participating in the attack, cancellation of relief cuts, that a credential be issued to the Warren Township Unemployed by Supervisor Licht, that the invest- igator Leo Jean, be discharged, and that the Board of Supervisors im- mediately demand that Governor Brucker call a special sessidn of the legislature to take up the workers Unemployment Insurance Bill. These attacks will be followed by more organization more determina- tion, and @ large and more militant 'WEDNESDAY TOTA FULFILL QUOTA A new series on war preparations against the Soviet Union, by Bittleman, started yesterday in Daily Worker. ntinuation of these articles is dependent, of course, on the success of the Tag Days. Pres sure of campaign business is respon- sible for the late ann this series. Complete precede each article. Districts! Involve the Bitfleman series In all mass street, shop and neighborhood meetings! Wire ex- tra orders to the National office immediately! leaf- lets announcing o Mimeograph series at Send out appeals to all sections, units asking them to order extra also. This new series be allowed to interfere paign activites. On the contrary, it is important to inten- sify the $35,000 Drive for funds to include thix new development. Prepare for International Red Das, August Ist, by propazandizing the Rittleman series on War Prepara- tions among the masses! Wire or- ders now! A Daily Worker formed $1 Oxford, Club has } Miss., with members, While ‘no committee h been appointed, all the members are nd fully readers of the Datly a the importance of keeping 1 f the workers The me fighting or uninterrupte bers have p 25 cents a month port of the paper, aliz urgent need of quick financi Workers who do not want their names published because of pos- sible persecution should Indicate this in sending in their contribu- tions, Colleetors should ask those Who contribate whether they want their names printed. Ces See The totals Wednesday went up to $638.06—better than the day before, but far from what they should be, The New York District again showed the way with 0. Next came District 7 (Detroit), which showed some real action and contributed S STILL OFF; S THRU TAG DAYS! port they nonths ded to pay four h. They also t to keep this can spare the f other “Daily” established! Pi Twenty-five dollars of this was turned over by # Mens Clothing Section of the N. T. W. I. U. which completes quote assigned to the Mens Clothing Sec- tion of the Union, The Union, ole, has pledged to raise $100. n by the Bronx to Comrade for the U. § 1 was made rker and from a ranch or the Daily ll erowd can have no t to than the here’s another ed from DISTRICT 1 T. Radav SO Maynard, Mass.: N. N. =F 1.00 A. Sinhkonen Conncant, Ohto A. Sjoblen I. Barsky 2 2.00 A. Antio | S.H, Babeock 24 Me ih Geman Total 57.60 v 1,00 | DISTRICT T M. Davidow, i} Detroit: Brooklyn 1.00) 8, Jaffe + Narjamako | M. Padilla, Bkiyn 1.00| J. Legalskey S. Mitwha at party Unit W. Nausbaum BK, Erickson See. 5 23,10) Unit A-14 i, Hatakiren Sec, 6, Unit 4, Roumanian Edue. J. Johnson comrades leaving | Club F. Mark for U.S.S.R.: Unit A-G S. Tahliner Unit B-2 I. Koskela Unit B-10 Kujala | Unit B-6 e AL Kauppi Sec. B, piente 122.05 Jac — J. Taskevich . Verma Total 3164.45 H. Hakkinen . Marinovich hi DISTRICTS J. §. 8 » Bartdona Chicago: A canes + Cowlski LW.0. hn Reed ; Nazarowich Br. 52 30.00 Dorok A. Worker 3.00 Vraidok Guttman 10.00 Mansu West Fraukfort: Maustonen A See. l, Unitd J. Fioechi 1.00 T. Hirnela LW.0, Br. 54 10.00 | A, Stoyanoff 1.00 Johnson —— |v. Marcovich 1.00 Konah $295.30 | ©. Cacci 1,00 Sandet F | Nucleus 1, Wau- Hadjobow 5) kegan, HL 5.00 Friend 50 5 A Friend, Bloom- G, Kempi 50 00 ington 2.00 Ashley, Moass.: Frank deYaeger, H. Wusen 2.00| Moline, Til. 2.00 S. Leppa Col. at Hungarian S. Nisule Total 74.00 I. L. D. Ptente, A. Yhdiston DISTRICT 4 | Cudahy, Wise. 14.50 V. Suila A. Larson, James- Milwaukee, Wise.: Vv. Shappa town, N. Y. Lee Talton 50 M. Jsalo Buffalo, N.Y.: District 3.00 E. Flinkston | James L. 1. Fella Agostino D. Total $74.00 1, Hjelm Louis M. DISTRICT 9 Kiiskila F. Guiseppe Owen, Wise.: Sima Hjelm Louis B. c. K, Koni Andy ac, Unit 5,00 L. Hagelberg Joseph K. Nalsjaosto 2.00 Charley tkman | Party Unit 75 Total Barry Co-operative Group, " Louls Cloquet, Minn. 2.00 pistitter 2 Julio asueees Sec. 1, Unit 2 $2.00 | Oltek Total gas Hether Rendlich 1.00 ,_Reinacher DISTRICT 13 4 Friend 1.00 | Buffalo District Wm. Urdang, Los A Few Friends 2.59 | Unit 2 Angeles Gottlien DISTRICT 18 See. 1, Unit 2 See. 4, Unit 5 1.008 See. 9, Unit 1 SS. Washing- ay une ton, Pa. rd Jn W. Smorag. ® Anna Charad, Avelln Ba. canna neeten : Pittsburgh, Pa. | ‘Tetar e200 Pieced, N.Y. 1.00 | Miss Summers 1.00 | DISTRICT 19 q 1.00 |S. Kreisburg, |, Denver: 20,00) Carnegie 1.00 | Ladies’ Edue. Club 10.00 10.00 | B, Makadas 5.00 | Freiheit Dra. Club 16.00 ee. 3 64.35 | J. Zilie 50 | Collected 1.04 Dr. R. Kats, Bx 2.00 Bh. Makadas 125 | age Vera Beck, Bx 5.00 | M. Spolyaree 1.00 Total $21.08 See. 5, Unit 13 4.85 | J.” Dyarabieh 1.00 | Miscellaneous ; Unit 5 6.00 | A Worker 5.08 aie 6 3.00 Total B1A.75 | — See. 7, Unit 4 16,85 DISTRICT 6 | votal all ais. $ 638.00 Sec. 10, Unit $19.50 | Ras. Mut. Ald Soc., Prey, received 21,636.32 See. 1 Unit 6 14.50) Br. 20, Canton, 0. 2.19 | —. Union City Unit 1.00 Neffs, Ohio: | Total to date $22,274.33 enReasa, See eee $164.45. District $8 (Chicago) im- proved by contributing $74, but this district has been doing such poor work lately that it will have to im prove a great deal more if it is to eatch up. Only $%.69 from District 6 (Cleve- land) and $3 from District 3 (Phila- delphia)—worse than poor. District 10 (Kansas City) again dropped out after managing to send in $1 the day before, while District 15 (Con- necticut), which has been among the better districts, was also not heard from. 9,000 STRIKERS MASS AT FUNERAL OF FILIPOVICH Sunmen Who Murdered | Him Released on | Small Bail | ARNOLD CITY, Pa., June 27.—Five | thousand striking miners massed at the funeral Friday, here, of Mike Fili- povich, the head of the relief commit- tee, who was deliberately assassinated by deputies of the Pittsburgh Coal Co. while the deputies were shooting up | the picket line Tuesday. Adam Getto and Haywood, organizers of the Na- tional Miners’ Union, spoke to the great crowd of both Negro and white Strikers. Haywood is a Negro sec- tion organizer of the N.M.U, The demonstrators showed the most intense indignation at the campaign of murder which is the operators’ and the state’s attempt to smash them back into starvation. News that the deputized company gunmen, who killed Filijovich and wounded four others last ‘Tuesday in Arnold City, have been released on only $5,000 bail was received as the funeral was going on. A hot resolution was adopted against the mass murder of strikers and de- manding the extreme penalty for the murderers. The resolution states: Resolution Adopted at Arnold City Funeral, To the Governor: We miners, together with our determined struggle against slarva- tion, are assembled here in miass, numbering thousands, at the funeral of our belived friend, Michael Fili- jovieh. ‘This last Tuesday, company paid \the County seat at Mt. Clemens, 20 ‘ Mareh sangre " on the County seot, ARS Arenson g sail ts * friends who are helping us tn our! our struggle for better working con- ditions and living conditions that was committed in Wildwood only a day before. On Tuesday morning, at the order of the superintendent, the deputies deliberately and without cause, be~ gan firing at our peaceful and un- armed striking comrades. When Comrade Michael Filipovich heard the firing he ran out and be- seeched the deputies to cease the murderous firing which which was, also endangering his wife and babi in his home, No sooner had he spoke a tf words when he was struck by f bullets, deliberately aimed at by the deputies, and killed. today as Wwe mourn at the graveof our friend and fear for the lives of our wounded striking comrades who are in a critical condition in the hos- pital, we learn that the company’s killers have been released from jail, We protest most emphatically at |this action. We demand that the coal company be held responsible for |murdered victim and for the sup- |port of the wounded and their fam- ilies, We demand punishment of the company superintendent who di- rected the massacre. We demand the immediate removal of all com- pany deputies and their government police, the state police, from the strike area, Strikers and sympathizers at the funeral of Mike Filipovich at Gelle Vernon Cemetery, A terrific rainstorm broke loose as the funeral was being conducted. Im | Spite of this, thousands marched t@ |the cemetery, including a group of 200 striking miners’ children carry- jing a big sign: “We will carry on the | fight where our brother left off.” Expose the lie about the Svviet Union—Spread Redacht’s pampe- let “Soviet ‘Forced Labor’ "6 pages, 5 cents. Write for it to the killers, deputized by the government, repeated the muredrous attack on Workers Library Publishers, P. 0. Box 148, Station D, New Fook Oty, | the support of the family of theirs —