The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 20, 1931, Page 3

v DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MC DAY, JULY 20, 1931 . See Page ‘Three ' SS The Daily veloping! had 200 meeting, Present at 25 additional copies of of charge. to get subscriptions, Idea! Raymowd, new reporters for meeting,” Fieldberg. for the Daily The discussion was the most interesting part of the meet- ing, writes Harry Fieldbers, sec- retary of the club, and many sug- gestions were made on how to improve the Daily ‘Worker. “Many the Worker should result from this according to Comrade A collertion wax taken the Worker Clubs are de- A new one has just been vrganized in Linden, N. J and ir they first e club in Perth Amboy, N. J., at its second meeting decided to order the Daily. The members plan to canvass certain territories and. to leave the Daily ut workers’ homes for one week free At the end of the week they will call at the homes and try An excellent The Perth Amboy Club also Mans to sell the Daily at fi ‘The West Side Readers New York held its thid Vhurday night judging from the minutes forwarded to the Daily office, it was full of life. of the Daily Worker staff, gave a talk om the role of t pitalist press and the work- ‘ollowed by spirited di ecting: Harry Daily meeting: ended with the serving of lemon- ade and cake. The West Side Readers’ Club meets every Thurs- day at 8 p,m, at 417 W. Bird St. Let’s hear from more of the Daily Worker Clubs! What About ‘Dally’ Affairs? Are you arranging affairs for the W. CLUBS ARE GROWING; SEND ORDERS FOR SPECIAL AUG. 1 ISSUE! BIG ‘DAILY’ PICNIC IN N Y AUG. 16 Daily? District 2 (Ni organizing a big Dai ing in Pleasant Bay Park on Sun- day, Aug. 16. There will be a lively entertainment program, with n Walker and members of the n Reed Club doing their stu umes, sports and refreshments of a nds and whatnot, And believe it or not —all for 35 cents. Every district, every city shoi arrange picnics for the Daily! Turn ld in your coupon books and all funds collected! Push the drive for 10,000 more half dollars to raise the extra $5,000 needed to pull us through the summer months! every fraternal organization throw itself into the job of reaching its quota. Send Orders for Aug, 1 Iss Again let us remind you t your bundle orders for the First’ edition right 1 be a splendid s a smashing blow at the t war plans, In order that this number may be used to mobiliz ands of workers for the Aug ust First demonstrations it is bein printed in advance. The Californi and Far West edition will he out July 22; for Chicago, the Mid-West and parts of the South, on Jt for the Hastern Di 4 and for District 2 July 30. Hi. Levin, busines Daily, will be in I 21; St. Louis, July 22; 23; Detroit, July 24; 6 Pittsburgh, Jul July 27; Baltir Philadelphia, Keep Up Drive for Extra $5, 000! Every District Must Fill Quota! Thursday's contributions of $283.- 36 brought the totals to within $460 of the $35000 goal. Now we must keep on till we raise the extra $5,000 that is essential if the Daily is to (Philadelphia) ‘Thursd and the hold up during the tough summer contributions from D: icts 6 (Cle- months. ‘Ten thousand more halt| veland), 7 (Detroit) and 13) (C: dollars will do the trick. And prob-| fornia)’ were far below what. they ably a good start of the extra $5,000] should be. And ts it imposgtble. to is Iving around in collection boxes wake up Distcicts 9 (Minneapolis) or in other places when it should be and 10 (Kansas City), which are so turned in to the Daily at once. | far benind thelr quates? Some of the districts are far behind | their quotas, others have almost| Have you turned in all your cou- eached them. Every district must q£ not, you'd better do tomplete tx quot And what about affairs ON York) is still for the Daily— one of the best ways it urned in the biggest con- | Of raising money? tribution on Thursday—$135.24. Dis Let's go, com A little more | trict 8 (Chicago) made a spurt and] effort from ey and the extr tontributed the second largest! $5,000 will be raised! ae DISTRICT 1 Camp Nitgedaiget Unit Farosoff, Mliw n. Hopkin 9. W. 0. Br, 150 1.20 Cambria . Unit 10 4.00 S Wome Council, | a warts Provide la. nee, Re I. 50 | M, Kernen — Prorressive ¥ ‘Tota! $2.00 ‘Total 8135.2) Isenosha, Wis, DISTRICT 2 pis" PET 4 Chicago, MM. H. Warhamaky, Rock- | Rochester, N. M. Siegel 2.00 away. N. ¥. 301 Col by J. mika tents Polish Prae. 10.90 White Plains, N. Y¥.: UB ieley kK. Unit 50 3.60 White Pinins, N. \- jtsky ey Unit 505 6.85 E. Wetley INA Naneke 230 | nit Sod 4.65 T. Bisgold +50 | Litowieh Unit 503 9.90 asanes 50 | Sherepko Radosovich 5.00 robinoft 25|P. Debelly J. Rybout 1.00 J. MeNulty P. Mazurojtes Unit 401 5.75 1. Gonzales ©. Poanick Unit 404 75 Bungalow 5, Camp Kin-| P, Steinert Haitowich Farewell derland 50 | 1, Melnek Party 1 M. Stresow. Centraj Is- | P. Wikul n. slip. N.Y. 1.00 |G. Livuzer Tag Daw Collectio Jd. Niek, N.Y. ©, 1.00) G. Lompkin Sympathizer, Paterson.|G, Lompkin ae N. 50 Rochester, N. N.Y. Coll. on books oll. by P. Pafundi:|G. Avazy |5. Kovachey P. Pafundi 1,00 |. MihUkiwits Bratkovich 0 irieco 4,00 |. Shiwk . Tarasoft rt) P. Pafundi 50] J. Rigas 1,00 DISTRICT 9 P. Pafundi 25 —— |. Barc P, Pafundi 35 Total 17.70 | 1. Pellinov J. Zampini 2 DISTRICT 5 ©. Laakso 2. Hyman 1.00 | 4. Killanski, Mona, W.| H. Jokela M, Levine 1.00 | “yor 3.25 | HO Rajala apko, Hoosick Beles hast A. Jakinen Bo stieeees, Uniow city. | 4. cigs + Hannah, Bem Bere: 5.00 |e, Mozzo Minn. Coll. by Novy Mir—| 4" Ciorts Derevenua 1.55 |S) Ciortt Total Tag Day Donations DISTRICT. 10 Sec, 2 Unit 1 1.02 Total Habodnik, Kansas Sec. 4: DISTRICT 6 City, Kan. 1.00 Unit 4 a Glavelans;. 6.2 C. Dean, Muscatine, Unit 3 ” A. Agapetus, Colum- Unie 234 ‘Onto 00 $200 Unit 2 2.861). Hanes DISTRICT 12 Unit 11 48 “atinee W. Lapinoja, Enum- Sec. 5, Unit 1 50 |i, Abrams ‘ash. 1,00 Unit 10 17315. Garolides pees Unit 2 3.56 |. Witliams Total 81.00 Women’s Council 2.70 |p. Mitsox DISTRICT 13 ¥. C. L. Bronx 2.25) 5. Vasilindes Lox Angeles, Cal.: HF. Litkin, Bklym 1,00] Unie 2-2 Maseante ©. Nedess, Bklyn 1.00 G. Golland he Bt Unit 14 — Total $13.04 im Feanciaco, Cal. jarren L. C. True 1.00 Sec. 1. Unit 1 x09 ao wk. Friend and Sympathi- Coll. from a Group of| . ak) ner Friends by Kaplan, A pee “i Sittenint Brooklyn 4 + Total $3.00 | a Lave siden <4 Creek, Mich.: DISTRICT 16 ‘3 V. Galekovie 50 Carnegie, Pa.: J. Dobrinee “50 | J, Gataventos ao V. Dobrinee 50) M, Plotkin 1.00 H, Buckalter, Detroit | J. Zikowsk! | 30 2,00 | 'T, R, Morrison Jeters- Eatens of Sov es ville, Va. 1.00 |, Unit 3 1.80 Total ™: ——— ics oh DISTRICT & Total $3.00 Unit 1,00 Milwaukee, Win.: DISTRICT 17 Unit 6 5.15 | P. Zarenzo +50 | Total all dist, $288. Unit 9 :25 | D, Komhyr :50| Prev, received 34,65) ‘Unit 1 5.00|H. Smith, Deetnaur. pebiocannhiis seert, Unit t 6.501 TH. Total to date $34,040.65 amount, $88.83. This district is nearing {ts quota and a little more energy will put it over the top. Nothing was heard from District 3 FOUR MORE BELIEVED DEAD: 60 HELD IN JAIL ARE BEING FRAMED; 4 (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) that if the Sheriff and his deputies | Governor free the Scottsboro group,” BLOODHOUNDS HUNT LEADER manding $2 a day for work,” that they were “demanding that the had not exchanged shots with the | and that “speeches advocating social picket they would have been mur- dered on arrival at the church.” ‘That the violence came from the deputies is shown by the fact that other meetings of the union had been previously broken up by the police, that the police had threatened the croppers with violence if they per- sisted in their efforts or organize and if they dared to continue their pro- tests against the Scottsboro outrage, Chief of Police Wilson gives as his reasons for attacking the meetings of the croppers, that they were de- of. NAME LT enclose a 50 cent piece to build the D. W. Sustaining Fund ............. 1 pledge myself to] WR\P ME UP AND SEND | send a weekly sum} TO DAILY WORKER 50 E. 13th St. N, ¥. ©. | Beginning ............ see eeseeeseeeneeeeereensss ADDRESS \ Send me information on Daily Worker Clubs and politica] equality were delivered.” ‘The Share Croppers Union was or- ganized a few months ago, It has grown steadily in strangth as the croppers rallied to the fight against the starvation program of the land- owners. On Wednesday night the share croppers met to formulate their demands and protest the Scotts- boro frame-up, The plantation owners had an- nounced that they would cut off all food advances, giving a smal] num- ber of share croppers the alterna- (Put cross here) or monthly sum of ) (so Daily Worker Sustaining Fund, City: State ‘52 | committee; Special Six-Page Issue to Rally the. Workers for Aug. 1 The special six-page August First Edition of the Daily Worker will be a smashing attack on the imperialist war plans. All sorts of interesting articles showing | concretely how the bosses are preparing war on Workers’ Rus- sia will be included in these edi- tion, The August First number is being printed in advance for various sections of the country! so that it can be used in rallying the workers for the nation-wide August First demonstrations. For California and the Far West (Districts 12, 13, 18, 19), in- cluding Washington, Oregon, Ca- lifornia, Idaho, Utah, Arizona, Ne- vada, Montana, Wyoming, Colo- rado and New Mexico, the August | First edition will be printed July 122; for Chicago, the Mid-West and parts of the South Districts 7, 8, % 10, 11, 17), including North | and South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Min- nesota, Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, Wisconsin, Hlinois, Michigan, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and Florida. on July 4; for the Eastern District (Dis- tricts 1, 3, 4, 5, 6 15, 16), includ- ing Maine, New Hampshire, Ver- mont, Massachusetts, Rhode Is- land, Connecticut, all of New York and New Jersey not in Dis- | trict 2, Pennsylvania, Delaware, | | Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, North and South Carolina and Ohio, on July 28; for District 2 || (New York and vicinity), on July | | 30. Send in your bundle orders NOW and rally the workers for August First! MORE JOIN | RL TEXTILE | WALK - OUT (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONED day was a clear sign the strike was being won. . . PAWTUCKET, R. I. July 19.\—| Police terror against textile strikers is still raging in Pawtucket. Eight strikers were arrested Thursday night. Yesterday pickets on the streets were sted and charged with suspicion and loitering. A mass meeting was held Thursday which was addressed by Martin Rus- sak, district organizer of the Na- tional Textile Workers’ Union; James Conroy, chairman of the joint relief Praeger of the Interna- tional Labor Defense; Francisco, & . ‘2.19 {Striker from the General Fabrics Mill . | who was just released from the East Boston penitentiary. The General Fabrics Co. manage- ment issued a statement refusing to meet the workers’ strike committee because “it is connected with the Communist Notional Textile Workers’ Union.” The strikers have declared theif complete adhcrence to the National Workers Union and their determina- tion to fight for their demands and for their union. Yesterday the American Woolen Co. attempted to stampede the Weybos- oo | set strikers to vote to return to work at the mill office. The workers an- swered with mass picketing declaring that any strike vote will be taken by the Strike Committee on the basis of the strikers’ demands. Three relief stations are now open in Rhode Island. Three hundred workers of the Salzberg Silk Mill at Putnam, Conn. struck yesterday against the firing of a member of the National Textile Workers Union. The mill has been completely closed by the strike. The Bosses Wars for Profits “Wall Street has accepted “the arming of ships and the special session of Congress as the second step along the road that leads to theory has bought stocks—Stocks have been purchased on the theory that war means a boom for a time—Wall Street is proceeding on the assumption that war is inevitable.” — N. Y. American, March 12, 1917. Wall Street fears for its system. Wall -Street plans to smash the system the workers and farmers of the Soviet Union are building, The building of socialism in the Soviet Union is our system. Do not let the bosses smash it. Defend the Soviet Union. On the streets August First. cereveentwerrerase-reatapiemne=——aetdoei es tive of working in the fields or saw- mills at wages of sixty to ninety cents a day. The share croppers’ de- mands as formulated up to the time of the police attack were; 1, Food advances to continue un- til settlement time: 2. Setlement to be made in full by cash payment; 3, The share croppers to have the right to sell their crops where they see fit; 4. To have the right of a garden for their home use; 5. To have a 3-hour mid day rest. The International Labor Defense and the League of Struggle for Ne- gro Rights are preparing defense for the arrested croppers. Negro and white workers through- out the country are rallying to their defense. Hundreds of protest’ meet- ings are being arranged. On August First, demonstrations throughout the world will protest this vicious terror and demand the freedom of the croppers and Be Scottsboro boys as well as 1 st the war preparations of the bosses. 6 (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONED tear gas and menaced the strikers with drawn guns. The mass picket line was not demoralized by these tactics. Instead, the pickets were so infuriated that they charged on the police to rescue six who were ar- rested. The state police were called out, and the arrested miners taken to Ohio county jail. District Attor- ney A. ©. Schiffler says he will charge them under the Redman Act (Inciting to Riot”), “Those arrested are: Vasos Orneros, John Pindobos. James Arthur (Negro miner), John Zone, George Courdozley and Stan- ley Barus. A fight is on against evictions at the Warwood mine. When constables evicted one family at the point of a gun, the miners massed and forced @ constable to carry the furniture back in the house himself. The Warwood mine belongs to the Costanza Coal Co. The United Mine Workers at one time had some or- ganization here, but now its broken ranks are joining the National Min- ers’ Unio! Mass pickets at the Benwood mine turned the scabs back. One picket was errested. A mass rally at York- eeted Mrs. Patterson, mother of one of the nine Negro boys framed for the electric chair at Scottsboro, Ala. A defense conference is being held today which will take up Scottsboro and the arrests of miners. ‘There are seven mass meetings Sunday in the Ohio-West Virgina district to hear reports of returned delegates to the United Front Na- tional Conference of Miners held in Pittsburgh July 15-16. * PITTSBURGH, July 19.—Greetings sent by wires to the national miners conference here by United Front Conferences on Anti-Imperialist’ War August First Demonstration held in Youngstown and -other places while the miners were meeting, were not only cheered by the miners con- ference, but being made public thru the mine fields, are receiving to rally big mass demonstrations. The min- ers here see in the conditions won in the Soviet Union an example for miners everywhere, and realize why the injunctioneering and _strike- breaking governments want war on the Soviet Union. . CREIGHTON, Pa., July 17. — Five state troopers and a whole crowd of deputies attacked the picket line of 200 here this morning (July 17) and simply drove 15 miners out of the line. One they blackjacked severely, with the casual explanation: “You never worked in this mine.” Miners see a new Pinchot strike-breaking idea here, an attempt to permit picketing only to the actual strikers in any one mine. 38 Psat ane WAYNESBURG Pa., July 17.—All but four of the Moffat-Sterling strik- ers, of whom 57 were arrested in raids from house to house last week, have been released, with cases dismissed. The four who are held charged with rioting, are Ed Cunningham, his brother John Cunningham, John German, and Joe Ronvich. These are out on bail: $1,000 each for the first three and $300 for the last. Ed Cunningham was the man who carried the flag at the head of the picket line. He was blackjacked when deputies and state police attacked the line to drive the women from it. Five stitches were taken in his head. This attack was lead by Sheriff White of Greene county in person, and in person, he got a rock along- side his head which knocked him out of the fight. Two state troopers got knocked over also, though the picket line was finally smashed. In revenge, state police and depu- ties tried to arrest the whole town a few days later, going from house to house at night and dragging min- ers and their families from bed. These tactics have so far failed to dampen the spirit of the miners that a daily picket line of a minimum of 450 is maintained on the Hillman Coal Company's Walnut Hill mine near Moffit. "ewis henchmen are trying to nego- tiate a fake Seroniens Here, CANONSBURG, Pa, aly 17, There is likely to be a head on col- ision between the striking miners of Canonsburg section and the gun- men and guards of Pat (‘Piggy’) Fagan and Phil Murray, here Sunday. During the last two weeks, Fagan president of District 5 of the United Mine Workers of America, has an- nounced several meetings in Canons- burg, but in each case got cold feet and backed out. Now, it seems, with Murray, international vice-president of the U. M. W. to back him up, and undoubtedly with state troopers and gangsters in plenty, he will try again. As it happens, the National Miners Union edd the Central Rank and File Strike Committee have also called a central mass meeting for Canons- burg section, in Canonsburg, at noon, at the old baseball fleld near the Pennsylvania station. Speakers at the N. M. U. meeting will include Leo Thompson, Stella Rasofski, John Wills, and Frank Borich. Fagan’s meeting is at 2 p. m. 28. 8 PITTSBURGH, Pa., July 17.—Five more of the Wildwood prisoners were released today on $1,000 bonds each, from Allegheny county jail, where they have been for 26 days, There is now only one man left in, and the authorities are hanging onto him through a faked charge that he is a “fugitive from justice”, His name 1s Charles Demich oF RALLY MINERS FOR BIG MASS DEMONSTRATIONS ON AUGUST 1; MASS PICKETING ON TODAY Those out today are Joe Chuplis, Marco Kasunich, Dan Evanish, Phi- up Bionias, and Joe Bianco, The released men reported to the National Miners Union office that they were kept on a severe monoton- ous discipline; up at 6:30, walk in the “range” which is a block of cells housing from 11 to 20 men) until muddy coffee and three slices of bread are given them for breakfast; walk again until bad soup and three more slices of bread come for dinner; tramp the range again until three slices of bread and sometimes but not always, a little hamburger are given at night. Then they are locked, each man alone, in a tiny cell at 4.20. Twice a week they can send out for cigarettes, but nobody can bring them tobacco. They can buy at near- ly double price the lying capitalist press, but working class papers are barred. The men had only frag- mentary news of the great United Front National Conference, but were intensely interested, “Even at that, it’s better in jail than working for the coal company for nothing,” they said. ate oy MOLLENAUER, Pa., July 17.—Here is a sample of “justice” as it operates in a coal company squire’s office. Mrs. Alex Gatalsky was summoned before Squire J. M. O'Rourke, charged with throwing stones at the automobile of two of Fagan’s henchmen, the broth- ers John J, Dugan and James Du- gan. The auto was stoned by min- ers’ children on a day when Fagan had announced @ meeting, but got cold feet and vanished with his squad of gunmen when he saw the hatred of the miners, Now, James Dugan is a former U. M. W. checkweighman, with a soft county park job—in his spare time he peddles Faganism to the miners. John Dugan is a salesman of lottery tickets, mainly, but in his spare time he also sells Faganism. Squire O'- Rourke is famous as a drunkard, and is a former clerk for the Pittsburgh Terminal, whose Mine No. 3 is at Mollenauer. The Dugans and the squire held a long conference before the “trial”. Previously the Dugans had told Mrs. Gatalsky’s husband that he would join the U. M. W. and go scabbing, the case would be dropped. During the course of the case, the squire showed the International Labor | Defense Attorney a warrant already made out against Mrs. Gatalsky, charging her with rioting which he said he would have her arrested un- der if he ever heard of her being militantly active in the strike again. But as for this case of throwing stones at the Dugan car—the squire thought, after listening to the vigor- ous defense of the National Miners Union and exposure of the U. M. W. by both lawyer and defendant, that he would need more time to decide. ates eae BLAWNOX, Pa., July 17. — The Blawnox Steel Co. recently gave “yel- low slips” to 42 workers, laying them off and telling them, “there’s no more work for you.” This lay-off followed the spreading through the plant of leaflets of the Metal Workers Indus- trial League, calling the workers to unite and struggle against the 12,5 per cent wage cut in some depart- ments, and the proposed general 15 per cent cut. Organization into the League and building of grievance committees did not stop because of the lay-offs. Then Raleigh, the vice president of the company, began to call workers at random into his office and threaten them about the leaflet. It happened that none of those so called were ac- tually the ones who distributed it. This not working, a further terror- ristic attempt was resorted to by the company. Fifteen workers, agai uone of those involved in the organi zation attempt but just picked by the company at random, were notified they were to be evicted from com- pany houses, which Blawnox Steel owns through its subsidiary, the “Ho- boken Land Company”. No reason was given for the evictions. It is evident that all this is to cow the men and try to prevent any re- sistance to the 15 per cent cut when it is announced. Steel bosses are vending millions and making mil- lions on war preparations, but give nothing for the unemployed. The Metal Workers Industrial League, 611 Penn Ave., calls on steel workers to build relief committees for the strik- ing miners. It calls on steel workers of Blawnox to line up with the rest of the working class on August 1 and demonstrate against the plans for imperialist war. MANY TAG DAYS FOR MINERS AID PHILADELPHIA, Pa., July 19.— Mass tag days for miners’ relief will be held in Philadelphia Saturday and Sunday, the 25th and 26th of July. A wide participation is ex- pected, Michael Burd, local secretary of the Pennsylvania-Ohio Striking Miners Relief Committee, reports. Hundreds of collection boxes have been forwarded from the Pittsburgh headquarters. A preparatory conference will be held Monday evening,July 20, at 929 Arch Street, All workers’ organiza- tions are asked to send delegates. wire PITTSBURGH, Pa., July 19.—The first tents arrived here today and already there are hundreds of re- quests for them. Detroit sent three PLAN CAMPAIGN IN CANADA FOR Engdahl “Reports for World Plenum of Red Aid TORONTO, Canada, July 17.—In- tensification of the campaigh thru- out Canada for the freedom of the nine Negro boys facing death in Alabama was voted with enthusiasm by the national conference of the Canadian Defense League meeting here. An increasing number of de- monstrations before American con- sulates will be organized thruout Canada,» while special literature will be issued to mobilize the Can- adian masses for defense of their Negro class-brothers in the Uni- ted States. A special edition of the Canadian Labor Defender is being arranged. August 22 been designated as Sacco-Vanzet- ti and Scottsboro Day, and huge- demonstrations will be held thru- out Canada on that day. The August First demonstrations against imperialist war prepara- tions will also voice the demand for the unconditional release of the nine innocent boys. J, Louis Engdahl, General Secret- ary of the International Labor De- fense of the U. S. A, brought greet- ings to the conference from the workers of the United States, Eng- dahl also made the report on the Third Plenum of the Executive Com- mittee of the International Red Aid, recently held in Moscow. The Canadian Labor Defense Pledged itself to carry out energet- ically all the decisions of the world plenum. It sent greetings through the International Red Aid to the Mopr, organization in the Soviet Union, pledging itself to struggle against the war danger and for the defense of the Soviet Union, It also pledged every possible aid to the German organization in the present crisis. The Canadian organization is gaining in membership and rapidly developing as an independent, mil- itant mass organization of struggle of the Canadian workers and farm- ers against the numerous forms of boss persecution. Under the increasing fascization of the Canadian Government it has become mutiny in the armed forces, punishable with life imprisonment, to protest the use of the military against workers’ demonstrations. Workers self-defense in the courts is being developed in face of the wholesale arrests and terror. INTL MINERS: GREET STRIKERS IN U. S. MINES Promise Solidarity In Fight on Hunger PITTSBURGH, Pa., July 17.—De- claring its full support With the strik- ing miners in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia, the International Miners Committee, with offices in Berlin, sent greetings to the striking miners in the United States and de- clared it would call on miners in all countries to back the fight of the American miners. The appeal sent to the National Miners Union reads: “The International Miners Com- mittee is closely observing the heroic struggle which you, the miners of Pennsylvania, Ohio and Kentucky, are carrying on against your op- pressors. Your struggle shows the miners of the whole world that in America the miners are being ex- ploited under the same conditions as the miners in the European and oth- er capitalist countries. Therefore, the miners of all countries regard your struggle as their struggle and feel themselves at one with you. “The need and impoverishment of the miners in all capitalist countries iis very great. 600,000 miners in the European capitalist countries alone are condemned to semi-starvation. Hundreds of thousands of others have had their wages cut in half by short time and laying off. “Whilst the miners are suffering semi-starvation, need and impover- ishment, the mine owners are rap- idly increasing their profits. With the profits squeezed from the bodies of the miners armored cruisers and other murder instruments are being constructed in preparation for the imperialist war of intervention against the Soviet Union, the one country in the world in which unem- ployment does not exist and in which the miners enjoy the six-hour day. “Comrades, Fellow Miners of America! Just as you are conducting your struggle against the mine own- ers under the leadership of the revo- lutionary union on the basis of a broad united front and elected strike committees, so are the miners of the capitalist countries organizing their struggle against their oppressors. “Everywhere the miners are fight- ing for wage increases and for the improvement of working conditions not only against the mine owners, large ones, Philadelphia ten, and Akron one large tent, According to reports received here, tag days will take place this week- end in Syracuse, N. Y., and Pitts- burgh, Next weekend, tag days will be held in Cleveland, New York City and Philadelphia, has | | | | | | tries in the United States, Meet Called to Revive UMWA Worwood, W. Va. Dear Editor:— The Sheriff of Ohio County called @ meeting under the auspices of the strikebreaking U.M.W.A. to try to call the strike off in Worwood. But of course we had our pickets there too and when Sheriff Hebig ked the miners to return to work on the present scale and only have a che weighman, the men were not sati: fied. We all knew that the Sheriff is payed by the mine owners to break the strike. We demanded a National Miners Union settlement or none and the recognition of all our demands. They then asked what the de- mands were, but the U.M.W.A. were without any demands. So the mem bers of the National Miners Union rose up and put in our demands, the first of wh [Results in Gain for N. M. U. SCOTTSBORO 9, to remove the the mine zone, bh was armed forces from They then forced us to sit down but the men present force Sher iff to let us present our demands, and this sure ht Sheriff much. The majorit in the ha greed mands and when it the of th to return to work on i UM.WA le nobody would raise their Nobody wanted to work to scab offic: 0 are backed he armed deputies—the same dep who shot and killed our fellow workers. We are all solid for the National Miners Unio this town the scab U.M.W.A. hasn't got a sho We appeal to the workers every- where to send f. This is all we need to win this —A Miner, Farmer Tells How Capitalism Works Zamborta, Minn, Dear Comrades T live in one of the best dairy coun- but the crisis is sure getting the best of the people out here. Eggs are 10 cents a dozen and butter has dropped from 50 cents per pound to 23 cents and is still going down. I am past 47 years old; the first vote I ever cast was for Debs but I have given up all hopes of changing the system by vote. The capitalists would use force against the workers | if we did win. Cause of Crisis ‘The capitalist system has developed to the point where the working peo- ple can only buy back a very small portion of what they produce, and the capitalists can’t use the surplus —they can’t find a markef for the goods the workers have produced. This all reminds me of a story of an unemployed man who was walking through the country one day. He came to a well and as he was very dry, started to pump self. He pumped a at last a stream of wa about ze of a needle. When he got his dr: he was just as th as he was before. Then the farm came out of the house and the man told him that the pump was the worst one he had ever seen. But the farm- er replied that it was the best pump he ever had on place, “You see,” said the farmer, “I have an underground pipe connected with that well and every time you pump a drink for yourself you pump ten ‘barrels of water into my cistern That's the way I get all the water pumped for my farm, by the ones who stop here for a drink.” The workers are rapidly finding out about the underground pipe. Old man capitalism is getting old and weak, He has served his time and is even helping to dig his own grave. We must organize now and bury cap- italism forever. A Farmer, Girls’ Health Undermined in Tobacco Factory Binghamton, N. Y. Daily Worker: “No men wanted!” “Hello, are you looking for work here? Gee, it’s terrible, girls always quitting. They can’t stand it after @ week or two! “Don't get into the stripping room or the packing room—you won't last very long.” A woman walked into the employ- ment office where we were standing. “T’ve been sick, I want my job back.” “What department did you work in?” “The stripping room.” Her face was sallow, here eyes sunken a shab- by dress hung over her bony frame. She had been working in the strip- ping room, These were the things that greet- ed us as we waited for jobs at the General Cigar Factory in Bingham- ton, N. Y. Of course they don't want family {men since you girl's labor is much cheaper. So many girls had been leaving that they took on twelve that morning and we were amongst them. They sent us to the auto room—the roar of the machines—the odor. “You'll get used to it after a while,” the nurse s iy remarked. | No windows opened in the auto jroom. No ventilation—bad for the tobacco leaves. Young girls at most of the machines working on piece work at terrific speed-up. We were told to be careful of our hands—but there is a nurse in the factory and @ medical aid room. They certainly need one. The girls are dissatisfied at the cigar factory. Am enclosing check for a day's work of 912 hours. Use it to help the striking miners. All success to the miners in the struggle. GERMAN “AID” PARLEY CHARGED WITH WAR; DEMONSTRATE AUG. 1! (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) mands such as dropping of relations| with the Soviet Union; end of the Austro-German customs union; the stoppage of work on the German cruiser; more direct supervision of French imperialism of German fin- ances. While the other imperialist pow- ers are also bringing pressure to bear against Germany, they do not want to give French imperialism the upper hand as it will strengthen its power in Europe against Wall Street and British imperialism. In Germany more fascist decrees have been put into effect. plete censorship of the press has been established. ‘All Communist newspapers have been outlawed. ‘The fascist press has just been partially affected. On Saturday the government broadcast a speech proclaiming its latest fascist measures. It warned against ‘bloodshed,” and told the mases “to keep their nerves and re- main quiet.” President von Hindenburg also is- sued more stringent financial de- crees. Passport fees have been raised to $25 each. All foreign cur- rency is subject to confiscation by the government. The Bruening govern- ment is strengthening the grip of A com- |} the big bankers and industrialists on | the masses. In the United States, ex-Senator James A. Reed made a speech ad- |mitting that the Hoover govern- ment’s action is rapidly swinging the United States into the coming war. Reed said Hoover’s moratorium ac- tion, involving Wall Street, is the | first step to actual war. The capitalist press is hiding the danger of war in connection with the meeting of the imperialist rep- resentative in Paris. They do not mention the Soviet Union, against which the imperialists are preparing |@ war front. While Hoover strives to save Ger- man capitalism from collapse, in the United States the crisis grows worse. More hundreds of thousands are thrown out of work. In the farm districts the farmers are suffering worse than ever before. Hoover finds millions for war pre- parations. But the capitalist gov- ernment cannot find one cent for the starving unemployed. Against their war preparations organize the might of the working class! Join in the August Ist, anti-war demonstrations that will take place throughout the world! Demand the war funds be turned over to the unemployed in the form of unemployment insurance! but also agains: the treacherous re- formist trade union bureaucracy in the individual countries, and against the Amsterdan Miners International, which is everywhere organizing and actively carrying out scabbing. “The only leadership which can’ guarantee victory to the miners in their struggle against the mine own- ers, is the revolutionary trade union movement, the Red International of Labour Unions. The revolutionary miners of all countries have organ- ized themselves in the International Miners Committee in order to con- duct their special struggles and to found a firm international alliance of fighting revolutionary miners. “This International Miners Com- mittee has already issued an appeal t. the miners of all countries to ex- ercise solidarity with you in your heroic struggle, to organize mass meetings and to collect funds in your support. The International Miners Committee sends you its fraternal greetings and assures you of its fra- ternal solidarity in your struggles. “Long live the struggle of the min- ers of all countries! i “Long live Anternational solidarity!’ POYNTZ LECTURES IN INDIANA, DESCRIBING BUILDING OF USSR INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., July 15— The workers of Southern Indiana will soon have the occasion to hear an intimate report on the great pro- gress in the Soviet Union. Comrade Juliet Stuart Poyntz, who has spent over a year in the Workers Republic, will speak on the subject “A New World in the-Making” under the aus- pices of the Friends of the Soviet Union. These meetings will not only popu- larize the splendid achievements of the Russian workers and farmers but will also mobilize the masses for mighty demonstrations on the inter- national day of struggle against im- Perialist war, August 1. The meetings are scheduled as fol- lows: Wed., July 8 p.m., Red Men's Hall, 12th snd Mulberry, Terre Haute; Thtrs., July 23, 8 p.m., Work- ers Center, 93212 S, Meridian St., In- didnapolis; Fri, July 24, 7 p.m. On vacant lot across from police head- quarters, Bicknell, 22, ,