The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 21, 1931, Page 3

| DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JU LY 21, 1931 Page Three _ Three NEWARK DAILY WORKER CLUB TO HAVE EACH MEMBER ORGANIZE HIS FRIENDS; FOLLOW THIS EXAMPLE! Boy. that Newark Daily Worker Club is hitting a fast pace! The elub’s executive committee met the other @ay and made a number of proposals that are corkers. In fact, they should be followed, by every other-“Daily- Worker Clubs = Here is one td ¥s simp! but how it will build.the Dally properly cnrried out! The execu- tive committee proposed that each member of the Newark Club range ® social gathering of sym- pathixers and friends in his own neighborhood and explain to them the role of the Daily Worker. In other” words, each member be- comes the organizer of another Daily Worker Club! *Will Visit Organizations. And Were is another idea: A com- mittee is to be appointed to go to organizations and speak to them about the Daily Worker. Each or- ganization is*to-be asked to elect a representative to keep in close touch with the activities of the Newark Daily Worker Club. Revolutionary competition in the gathering of subs for the Daily-is to be started among the various organizations, with three Rane to be given to the winners. he Daily Worker Club is also to participate in this competition, And_still another idea: The estab- lishment of a workers’ correspon- dence group-as. part of the Daily Worker Club to supply the Daily with material about the conditions of the workers in Newark. _-Now let’s see whether the Newark Club “will actually put these propo- sals into effect. “And let's see how many other clubs will take them up. Hspecially important is the idea of Having each member become the Nucleus of another club. A social fathering, with refreshments and entertainment, at which a talk can be given on the Daily, followed by fi , is the best’ method; and Underestimation of “Da’ But not all workers realix importance o and the outstanding role it is play- ing In the struggles of the work- ers, This ix especially true of many comrades who have been in the movement for some time, in- cluding leading functionaries. This question was brought up at a re- cent Daily Worker banquet in New Haven, Conn, The district organ- izer of the International Labor De~ fense, spenking at the banquet, anid that the committee that ar- ranged the affair hadn't taken the trouble to notify the New Haven Local of the: LL.D. which met the day before that the banquet wax going to be held. The district D. W. agent reported that nearly everybody, including the respon- sible committee, failed to particl- pate in the house-to-house collec- tlons for the Daily. the This attitude is not peculiar to New Haven. It can be found lover the country. ‘the rank file workers, the. thousan: of unem- ployed, those who are fighting on the picket lines, are willing to do anything for the Daily, but many of those who care supposed to be the vanguard of the working class and to provide leadership find time for everythings except activity for the Daily Worker. ‘This situation must be changed at on Party members must take the initiative in collecting funds, in securing subs, in organ- izing Dally Worker Clubs, in spread- Ing and building the Daily tn every way! Only in this way will the Daily become in truth the voice and or- ganiser of the great working class battles that are looming. CARPENTERS AND MINERS LEAVING FOR SOVIET UNION AID THE “DAILY” Workers who do not want their names published because of pos- sible persecution should indicate this in sending In their contribu- tions. Collectors should ask those 4tho contribute whether they want their names printed. “ * 8 Friday's totais went up to $491.29 This shows that there is still a good fieal of life in ithe Dally Worker drive. We must keep it up until the extra $5,000 is raised. te a number of the districts] be kept lying in somebody's pockets. Which had been down in the rut| Every effort should be made during spurted for. the y. District 1] the next few days to raise the ex- (Boston) sent in $42.95, District 5] tra $5,000 that the Daily needs so (Pittsburgh). $87: District 7 (De-| badly. Every district, every tree iroit), $54.60; District 9 (Minneapo-| ternal organization must complete lis), $17.66, and District 15 (Cone! its quota. . . * DISTRICT t Shenandoah, Pa., S. Zollinger, Cht. 1,00 7 on way to USSR 16.00 | P. Yost, Chicago — 2.00 &P. Gavinn, Brew- Milwaukee Dist. ster, Mass. 81.00 ; ~" Boston, Mase: bail DISTRICT 4 Total 1. Beny 50} Three Sympathizers DISTRICT 9 — | FOL Stoter 30 Ashland, Wis.: dy Fertel +50 1.50 | ©. Johnson BO Carpenter 50 L. Fantoma 25 self Ed ‘Total 50 | BE. Maatoo 50 Schnef ol DISTRICT 5 L. E, Saari 15 J. Walia 50 | Priend, Pitts. Pa. 1.00 | 0. Somppi 10 | J. Zebrowski, Man- A. Seliz, Wilkins- |B. Juom 09 chester, N.H. 501 “nurs, Pa: 1.00 |G. Davidson 235 _ Slenmere, Me Cals iekax, Whit- E. Kosh 12 *y, _ ve y af be * eee ite We V: 1,00 | B. Ackerson, Littie ay yong Cove, Me: s. O W. Mikkela, Lowell, Whitmans, W. Va: “¥ Swanson 50 ee 30) A. Friend Mra. F. Seabio, 00 | x, Brownsville, Pa. HLA. Leeds, Me- Mechen, W. Va. necticut), $26.59. Two groups of workers leaving permanently for the Soviet Union did not forget their fighting Daily—a group of carpenters contributed $100 and a group of miners $16. Coupon books are not coming in the way they should, All district, section and unit Daily Worker agents must see to it that the books they have given out are turned in at once, whether filled or not Money collected on them must not 50} M. ‘Trausky 25 Mass. 1.00) 3,L. Labish, Me- EB. W. Kanel 50 “Boston, Mans: Kees Rock, Pa, 3.00 | E. Cavanaugh, Min- Malden Unit P. Kosko, Por- neapolis, Minn. — .50 S. Boston See. tage, Pa. 50 | Minneapolis, Minn.: Peabody Unit F. Gantry Hunt- J. Schram 23] Lanesville Unit ington, W. Va. 50! J. Kurth 110 Pienic at Powhat- Vv. Raymond 50 ‘Total tan Pt. Ohio 20.00/ J. F. Friend 1.00 | Ste n . Garlick 4.00 DISTRICT 2 bie he 8 ae cacy | Sean, PORES League, | A, Demovich 1.00 Total | & 5.00) R) Pronko 2.00 | DISTRICT 10 ay “Hlcen, Hemp- Say Poplawskt .50 | Kansas City, Mo.: 3 oO 50 2.00 50 ‘Total $6.75 J. Pishntk DISTRICT 12 | gen, N. J. R. Yahkewich ‘25! G.Ikunnap, Ana- . Riverside Felt Slip- cortex, Wash, 1.00 + per Co, Bronx 3.25 ‘Total 7.00 { A, Luch, N.Y.C. 1.50 DISTRICT 6 Total 00 *. Fea. cry C. Pubal, Fair- DISTRICT 18 Stern, a point, Ohio 1.00 | Mase meet. in San M. Tarabiio, Bx. 1.00] ¢ USts\’sandwsky 0, 25 | Francisco 9.50 Bi Landy, N.Y.C. 1.00 Mt ion, Ohfo: E.M. Knowles, Cal. 50 ‘ Lehenberger, Dun- P. stevens .25 | W.N. Norman, | ellen N. J. 1,00, ‘sn ey, Cale 0 MH. Rapp, Long Ps A paskett 2 } Branch, N. J. 6.00) nin 25 ‘Total $12.30 i Comet ae ae 7.09 | Worker 25 DISTRICT 15 | 1h 5 ante, a | Fy Ln Mishott -25 | Springfield, Mass. Ae eee ene oo | TAS Day.Cleve~ Nucleus 8.50 pine fe See. 1 land, Ohio: 57 | Springfield, M: SDR Rec. 10+ | Tag Day, Ak-. ‘Nucleus B44 Unit 1 4.00) ron, 0. \ 12.32 | Plainfield, Conn., “unit 2.28 | Cleveland, Ohio: Nucleus 8.25 Unit 6 2.62) J. Starvis 1.00 | Norwich, Conn., We, Not 2.29] J. Darrow 75 | Nucleus 7.10 - Unit 8 G. Norwich, Conn., See. 5 Nucleus 8.40 x See. 8 L. Lashnitz, Wat- | z YX. '. erbury, Conn. — 1.00 a ‘Total $26.69 si DISTRICT 18 Se Spilerman . A, Hellsten, Poea- ~ H. Myron G. Sehlinka, Ak- | tello, Tdaho 1.00 “2 HL Pollack ron, Ohio 2.00) Mrs. LA. Monson, A 1, i. te Total 330.08 shiand, Mont. DistRION ‘Total $3.00 ; DISTRICT 19 1,00 | Daily Worker Pic- i nie, Pr » Col. 10 we ‘so | | Me Pueblo, Col. 8, ‘penters leay Total $3.10 ld la U.S.8.R. 100.00 2.00 Miscellaneous He it AK 1610 | J..Sileoft, Mon- ikinin, NVC. Lit, AIDO Chor. 50.00/"“treal, Canada —_—_‘1,00. ; Leakowrits, NYO 1.00 aia Fea00 | PM; Sinclair, West i a Vane ver, Can, 00 = qotat saiaot |p. Rosie, Onicne CS ‘ ‘ota’ r . Rozich, Chicago 1.00 2 | DISTRICTS * peer sib | i waa beni i c ‘otal all dist, 1.20 IP, M popie leaghn at J.H. Crown, Daven~ ‘Prev, deceived ¥ 54,040.00 5 \ Port, Iowa 1,00 pesca Miners’ Group of S. Kurs, Chicago 1.00 Total to date $35,431.04 Lenclose a 50 cent piece to bulla the D. W. Sustaining Fund «sees ADDRESS City Send me information on Daily Worker Clubs .... (Put cross here) or monthly sum of 9 the Daily Worker Sustaining Fund. State : Call Kono, Ky,, Miners to Join Strike, Kona, Ky. dratted to the company. When pay day comesaround the miners have nothing left to buy a few clothes that they are so bad- ly in need of. We will have to get busy and organize into the real workingman’s union, the National Miners Union, and go out on strike like the Pennsylvania miners are doing. That's the enly way we will defeat this starvation in the mine fields, —A Daily, Worker Reader, MOBILIZE MASS PICKETING IN Anti-War Meet Aug. 1 NEW YORK.—Capitalist press re- ports from Rhode Isiand tell of the mobilization of the workers for mass picketing at the mills on strike, and the attempts of the police through a massing of armed force to stop the picketing. ‘The “Women’s Wear Daily,” or- gan of thetextile and garment bos- ses tells of attempts by business men in the mill cities to put over a fake vote to haye the men return to work without insisting on their strike de- mands. The businessmen, with the help of the police and the mill own- ers, opened a hall in which they in- vited the strikers to vote to return | to work. PROVIDENCE, R. I, July 20.—A United Anti-War Conference held here Friday night made plans for the preparations for August ist, in- ternational day of fight against im- perialist war. Delegates representing eight or- ganizations, including strikers from the Weybosset (American Woolen Co.) local of the National Texxtile | Workers’ Union, participated in the | discussion, giving practical sugges- tions as to how to invoive the mem- bership of their organization in the work for August 1, in order to make | this day a real day of protest against imperialist war and for the defense of the Soviet Union. Each organization will participate in the distribution of the August 1 leaflets, which takes up the war danger and calls upon all workers of Providence to participate in the August 1 anti-war demonstration on Memorial (Market) Sq. at 3 p.m. Stickers were also taken by the delé- gates to be posted in workers’ neigh- borhoods and in front of the shops and milis. The conference also decided to line open-air meetings in front of the U. S. Rubber Plant. The first meeting will be held next Wednes- day at 12 noon. A committee was | elected in charge of this meeting. A special leaflet, dealing with the con- ditions of the workers in this plant and calling upon the workers of the U. 8. Rubber Co. to participate in | the August 1 demonstration, will be issued by the conference. It was decided that this confer- ence meets twice before August 1 to lay further plans and checq up on work done so far. All organiza~- tions have pledged to have their membership turn out en masse on August 1 at 3 p.m. at Memorial (Market) Sq., Providence. TO BUILD ‘DAILY’ CLUB IN ST. LOUIS Manager Levin Speaks There July 22 ST. LOUIS, Mo—On July 22, work- ers of St. Louis, Mo., will greet Com- rade Levin, general manager of the Daily Worker at a Daily Worker Club meeting. He will report on the cam- paign activities and the plans for a wide campaign to increase the number of readers of the Daily Work- er. He speaks on the topic “Role of the Press in the Daily Struggle of the Workers.” The Daily Worker needs the sup- port of all the workers and there- fore we call you to a meeting of all friends and readers of the Daily Worker to discuss ways and means of building and spreading it and bringing its message to the workers of St. Louis as well as to the workers in the whole U.S. All of us, by pull- ing together can make the Daily Worker a stronger and more effective weapon in our fight against the dead- ly capitalist press and its lies. Come and help give the Daily Worker a solid foundation so that we can end all talk of suspension and deficit! Turn out in full force to greet Com- rade Levin! Come and build a Daily Worker Club and show that the Daily Worker has the support of masses behind it. Agency Forced to Return Money to -Gypped Workers A workers delegation elected from a meeting of 500 unemployed work- ers called by the Downtown Unem- ployed Council forced a gyp employ- ment agency to return $12.25 cents to a worker whom they had sent out on a fake job, This worker, Tom Ba- lesky of 370 Grand St., had paid the | | | R.L. MILL STRIKE iArrange Providence (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) dictions would be gravely comprom- ised.” This recalls the admission made by David Lloyd George, leading British capitalist politician, in which he said war ts driving nearer. Several weeks ago, Lloyd George declared: “In the last war you had a hor- rible time. The next war is incon- ceivable, yet the world is going on steadily, horribly, stupidly march- ing on the next war, singing songs of peace and preparing for war!” More evidence of the sharpening conflicts at Paris between all ghe imperialist powers as to who is. to save Germany from Bolshevism and which power is to make the greatest profit in the undertaking is con- tained in a special dispatch from respondent for the New York Sun, Bird cables: “The mystsery of what happened the private conferences of the two government heads here over the week end has deepened, and this correspondent was informed today that even Secretary Stimson of the American state department and Secretary of the Treasury Mellon re- ceived no inkling of what occured.” He goes on to say that “France was adopting a ‘go it alone’ policy and had more or less plainly intimated that American and British assistance was not needed. “This attitude has created a feel- Paris by William Bird, special cor-} between the French and Germans in! Meet of Imperialists on German Crisis Drives to War! Give Your Answer Aug. 1 feeling that Secretary Stimson and Secretary Mellon left Paris Sunday night for London.” ‘The London conference has opened in this piling up of sharper antag- onism of all the imperialist powers. In Germany, the fascist decre are being manipulated against the workers. The J. F. Schoeder Bank of Bre- men, with $3,500,000 involved crashed on Monday. This is the most im- portant bank in this seaport city. The so-called emergency decrees for the re-opening of banking opera- tions are not working at all. The banks are not open, but merély go through the paces rekuired. of them by the Bruening government. A New York Evening Post cable from Berlin says: “As a matter of fact, the new rules provide for no resumption (of banking business) and only give an opportunity for the with- drawal of the mi: um sums ne- cessary to satisfy the necessities of life.” The same correspondent says if the situation continues much lon- ger hundreds of factories will close ahd the unemployed ranks will be increased by the millions. On August Ist throughout the world the revolutionary workers will mass to demonstrate against the war preparations of the imper- falist powers. Every worker should join in, Smash the war moves! De- mand all war funds be turned over to the unemployed for jobless re- ing of distrust, and it was with this Kief! All out August Ist! (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) America would speak at Currayfield, “All loyal United Mine Workers should be there.” Gunmen Fail ‘There being no loyal United Mine Workers in the coal fields, except those bought and paid for, Fagan mobilized from all over, with hired trucks, by threats and by bribery, contingents from especially the Pitts- burgh Terminal Mines. Members of Fagan’s crowd who were brought in trucks admitted to your reporters that they had been paid $10 each to come. Fagan invited all business men. Burgess (Mayor) Cook of Canonsburg acted as chairman at his meeting. All in all, business men, paid henchmen, bribed and conscript- ed miners—Fagan and Murray had about 400 present at their meeting. Fagan was just exalting over his con- spiracy with the coal companies, say- ing over his six trumpet loud speaker: “If you want a settlement, you must join the UMW whether you like it or not! when the head of the pro- cession of 1,500 to 2,000 miners from the National Miners Union meeting marched into Fagan’s meeting, and right up to the platform. Fagan’s conscripts melted away, ran back to their trucks and di noth- ing. Fagan’s personal guard, mostly young fascist elements, full of UMW moonshine and with their pockets stuffed with coal operators’ money crowded around the platform, and as many got on it as could stand there. The platform was the broad top of a big truck, gorgeously decorated with bunting, full of chairs on which the corpulent fakers had been resting while waiting their turn to speak. Fagan Howls in Vain Fagan tried to howl his bunk through the loud speaker, but the jeering roar of the crowd drowned out his words. The miners’ wives settled effectively with two or three of the UMW women. The women and children, wh ohad Jed the singing on the way down, jammed closer, show- ering the UMW fakers with denuncia- tion. Somebody on the platform threw a chair at them, and a con- certed rush of miners, Negro and Louis Employment Agency $5 for a job and had paid $7.25 morg for car fare to go to the job which was in the country. When he got there, there was no job for him. He went to the agency and demanded that his money be returned. The agency re- fused to give him his money but when the committee showed up the agency agent changed his mind and returned the money. The committee reported this to the workers at the meeting and many of those present said that they would join the Council. Another worker at the meeting, Mike Somick, reported after the com- mittee had come back that the same agency had gyped him of $3.50. Im- mediately another committee went in to the agency and this money was also seuurged white, swept over the truck. Fagan- ites clubbed with chairs, had them taken away and were clubbed in re- turn. Some of the UMW henchmen wielded broken glass’ and several miners were badly cut. Fagan him- self tried to run, but a piece of slate about the size of two fists caught him alongside the head as he went over the side of the truck. Someone snatched at him, and he wriggled away, leaving a big piece of cloth from his suit in the mines'r hands. He tripped and got a couple of kicks while fleeing across the field. Fagan’s ten dollar straw hat with his initials stamped in it was handed around later, among the miners at their second mass meeting. How They Filed In two minutes the whole UMW crew was in flight, and roosting like pigeons on the hillside, off the grounds. The miners shouted, “may- be now you'll think twice before you scab an take away our bread and butter.” A considerable section of the crowd at the U.M.W. meeting joined the N.MLU., as Leo Thompsdén mounted the truck for a brief ad- dress to the miners, and then led the triumphant march back to the N.M. U. meeting grounts. As they march- ed, waving small pieces of the de- molished U.M.W. furniture, singing @d cheering, one miner said: “Guess we took away the U.M.W.’s charter and they can’t hold a meeting any more! This was picked up by other miners, with much laughter and en- thusiasm. Ten minutes after the miners cleared the field, fifteen state troop- ers charged in led Fagan and a few other fakers back to the dismantled truck, @ few laggards were driven Repudiate UMW; Plan Strike Action; Smash Fagan Scab Meeting up to the platform, and Fagan went through the formality of “continu- ing his speech,” saying: “I'm sorry for the interruption of our meeting by the Reds who were led here by the police to break up our meet- ing...” He spoke with a big bandage around his head. The little crowd, with Pagan’s prestige lower than ever, laughed and jeered. The U.M.W. meeting was soon adjourned. The conscripts had really adjourned it already, by load- ing into their trucks and leaving, as fast as they could get away. All the U.M.W. signs had been torn from the trucks. A short meeting was held at the N.M.U. grounds, principally to take a look at Fagan’s hat and part of the pants of one of the fakers, and to announce picnics in the vicinity and picketing tomorrow morning at Westland mine. Arrest Six After the troopers arrived, it is reported, there were six arrests, and it is also reported that “The lead- ers are being hunted.” They are charged with “inciting to riot.” The smashing of the strike-breaking U.M. W. meeting, however, was not a ques- tion of leaders. It is the natural reaction of the. masses of striking miners, fighting for their lives against starvation, and hating a gang of strike breakers, whether labeled “U. M.W.” or not. It proves conclusively, if that could have been in doubt, that the miners hate the U.M.W. from the bottom of their hearts. Many other mass meetings and pic- nics for relief were held throughout the coal fields today, and picketing goes ahead tomorrow. The mass meetings adopted resolutions support- ing the program of the United Front National Miners Conference held last week in Pittsburgh, resolutions de- nouncing the massacre of workers in Alabama, and demanding release of the Scottsboro Negro boys. The miners’ meeting at Cannon- sburg was addressed by Editor Amis, of the Liberator, by Borich, Wills, Mrs. Harkoff, of the Women’s Aux- iliaries, Thompson, and others. OrP”’"callIl. oe BTAODY NU NUN CANONSBURGH, By July 20.— Admitting that despite the mobil- ization of the police force, the mayor (Burgess Harry L. Cook), and the flood of advertising afford the Uni- ted Mine Workers, that the miners around Canonsburgh refused to listen to the strike-breaking officials of the United Mine Workers, “The Daily Notes,” a local capitalist sheet here tells how the 2,000 miners under the banner of the National Miners Un- ion after being insulted and threat- ened by Patrick Fagan, district pres- ident of the U M W, smashed the meeting of the strike-breakers. Fagan Threats Following hjs never-to-be-forgot- ten experience, Fagan, safely hiding in his hotel room told capitalist re~ porters of his murderous intentions against the N.M.U. members. “If I could just turn loose on the skunks,” he said, “I would make quick work of some of them.” Another official who was on the platform when Fagan “Fled,” Timo- thy O'Leary, brandished a knife and also threatened the striking miners. “The Daily Notes,” also tells of the precipitous flight of all the gun- men of the United Mine Workers, and the order march to and from the meeting of the National Miners Union. After Fagan and his hench- men fled, and the miners were ad~ dressed by leaders of the National Miners Union dispersed, the “Daily Notes” reports what happened as fol- lows: “The National Miners Union fol- lowers paraded up street to Beck's field where they held a short trium- phal meeting and sang the song of their cause, ‘Join the National Min- ers Union’, “Within = short time they dis- MINERS RELIEF HITS ATTEMPTS | TO HALT HELP. Pittsburgh Magistrate Statement Worst Kind of Strikebreaking PITTSBURGH, Pa.—Replying to Magistrate Leo Rothenberg’s state- ments that “this collection is a rack- et” and that “none of the mon goes to the striking miners,” in con- nection with the dismissal of 18 min- ers who were arrested for partici- pating in the tag day for miners’ relief, the Pennsylvania-Ohio-West Virginia Striking Miners Relief Com- mittee, 611 Penn Ave. denounced them as “the most contemptible form of strike breaking—an attempt to prevent the feeding of the hun- gry miners, their wives and children.” All boxes issued to the collectors in Pittsburgh, with the exception of those taken by the police, were turned in in a regular fashion to the Pennsylvania-Ohio- West Virginia Striking Miners Relief Committee, and all the funds are used to buy food for the starving miners, “This rumor about a ‘Big Mike’ who is said to have disappeared with more than $1,000 is absolutely un- true. Nobody has disappeared. All the collection boxes are accounted for but the money in the boxes of the prisoners arrested is not accounted for. The story of the police that this money in the arrested miners’ boxes at the Central Police Station was used to buy the prisoners food, is untrue. The prisoners got no food except sandwiches and coffee sent in to them by and at the expense of the Pennsylvania-Ohio-West Vir- ginia Striking Miners Relief Com- mittee. “The collection was conducted by the local relief committee, affiliated to the Pennsylvania-Ohio-West Vir- ginia Striking Miners Relief Com- mittee. All the that @ permit had been refused on three different occasions by the City Welfare Department. There was never any question of paying the collectors, as the police charge. All worked in the collection on a purely voluntary basis, and gladly, because they knew, as striking min- ers themselves, that all the funds collected would be used for the striking miners, distributed and ad- ministered by committees of miners. The only form in which “pay” en- tered, is that the collectors get, on the day of the collection, 25 cents to buy sandwiches and coffee, and a meal was served late in the after- noon when the collection was fin- ished, and when the boxes were turned in, to the relief. “Reports thus far as to money taken from the boxes of arrested prisoners while in the police station by the police, show: William Sichy, from Fairhope, had $4 stolen. Frank Shewshuk from Cokeburg Junction, had $6 taken from him.. Others include George E. Stern, of West Brownsville, missed 60 cents; Victor Kukler of Belle Vernon, mis- sed 40 cents; Andrew Pancek of Daiseytown missed 40 cents.” HEAT KILLS FORD WORKER Daily Worker: I work at Ford's three days a week. July first we got sent home—the bosses said it was too hot to work. ‘What does the boss care if the men fall from the heat, if they have the stock piled up. There were 150 men in the Ford hospital from the heat. One man died on the way to the hospital. They have a lot of stock piled up, that is why they sent the men home. persed, their work for the day being done and crowned by success. They left for their homes in trucks, auto- mobiles and by foot. Women and Children “In the throng there were hun- dreds of women and children and it seems that the incentive to riot and assault, came largely from the wo- men as they danced about, yelled, urged and proded their men folk to attack the speakers.” Indignant, abashed and defeated, Philip Murray, international vice- president, and one of the chief scab- bers of the U. M. W., and Frank Fagan, lamented woefully to capital- ist newspaper reporters. Murray wailed about being defeated despite the fact that “We had taken every precaution to prevent trouble,” which meant they thought they had suf- ficient gunmen to handle the situ- ation. Fagan excused himself, but said he “had to flee from the plat- form.” Indicative of rank and file revolt against the Lewis bureaucracy in the United Mine Workers is a United Press dispatch from Scranton, tell- ing of a fight precipitated by Boy- lan’s plan to railroad the District 1 convention: “The District 1 convention of the United Mine Workers broke up in a riot ‘this afternoon, when insurgents made a personal attack on President John Boylan, Several were injured. “Boylan had called the convention together after a forced adjournment earlier in the afternoon and sought to continue the proceedings, “When the report of the Creden- tials Committee was presented Boy- lan ruled that the convention had voted favorably on its acceptance. Immediate disorder followed. “Fights broke out around the hall and a crowd of insurgents rushed to the stage where Boylan was presid- ing and attacked him. State chia Lactic the con- ventiom collectors knew | LAYS OFF, WORKERS Fire Workers 60 workers were thrown out ¢ The company does not want work. ers over 35 because only the very young one can stand the terrible speed-up. Some of the workers are actually fainting on the job, In} many cases where girls broke down under the strain, the foreman told them that they would have to quit because they cannot produce enough work, Starvation Wage The working hours are from 7:30 in the morning until 4:30 in the evening with a half hour for lunch. The wages are most miserable—really a starvation wage ranging from $7 to $16, only the formean and me- chanics getting $35 a week If a worker takes sick for two or three days it is just too bad for him, as the worker will not get any pay for these days. There is a company doctor, but he works in the interest of the company and not the work- ers. In case of an accident the com- pany insurance doctor pays a visit to the injured worker and after a so-called examination, tells (By a Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK, N. Employment Agency, 1127 makes easy money out of and unemployment of the workers. This agency is run by a faker by the name of Baxter, whose chief activity is to’send waiters out to jobs which pay no salary They are forced to exist on the tips they may get. These waiters must also pay a dolalr a day out of their tips for bus boys’ wages. At the end of the week the boss makes the waiters sign a receipt for the $6 as wages in order to protect himself The houses that make practice of this form of slavery are: The Joe Sixth Ave. (By a Worker Correspondent) INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.—A commit- tee from the Unemployed Council recently went before the charities of this city t oget more and better re- lief for a family whose name is Fire- stone. This family consists of 10 at present to have to live on a basket of groceries which the city gives the husband in return for 2 days of forced labor on the charity chain gang of the city. Mrs. Firestone lost a small child last winter through pneumonia and starvation. Even the capitalist press admitted this. At the time of death of the child Mrs. Firestone was in a Over 35 Collapse Under Strain : the| Waiters Forced to Pay Bus Boy: Y—The Griffin] the misery | an ex-waiter | BEACON NAT. BISCUIT SPEEDS UP AT LOW PAY “Years Old; Many Never Had A Union, But Want to Organize to Better Conditions (By a Worker Correspondent) BEACON, N Y.—The National Biscuit Company is one of the worst speed up places there is. in Beacon week Or while the packing de- of work, partment was shut down entirely. The workers that were fired were < Wo! 1 | with him b at back to work en this boss tool of a doctor intimidates the workers by | warning them that if they stay away from work long tk will los their j However, if the worker is seri ed he r lay in |bed two and three weeks before he |e the mi compensation” jof $2 a week No Compensation. | A worker was hurt while on ee very ble job and lost ost a week's pr because she was unable to work. To take the det case to court. | which is also under the control of the company, would mean the loss | of the job and she would not get any compensation anyway. So she did {not do any thing about it The workers here feel the oppres- sion and speed-up and although we never had a union here, we would be glad to be organized and hope that someone from your Trade Union Unity League will come out here and help us. —A Worker, ’ Wages | Spaghetti House and the Rubin D. icatessen Stores | That cockroach Baxter charg workers for these lousy jobs and in ‘eges the bosses to fire fatten his own rk | addition enco | workers so that the expense of the w bank roll at | ers. | Baxter and the bosses know that sands of waiters out taking this lousy toll n and splitting it 50-50. these lice who are preying there are thor jof wor! rom thi Smash |on the working class. Organize in the | Food Workers Industrial Union, 16 | West 2ist Street, New York City, and exterminate these Baxters and other fakers who live on your labor. Unemployed Demand Relief for Family of 10 hospital due to burns on her hands caused by using pure lye because she couldn't get soap to wash with. The case was callde to the attention of the charities at that time. We are going back in a couple of days with a larger committee force the charities to give a real relief to this family. We are also getting ready for a big unemployment dem- onstration to be held here against war. Anyone who thinks just a lit-~ tle bit will agree that the war debts will mever be paid and thaf it wont be long before the capitalist govern- ments will call on the workers to shoulder guns and go uot and col- lect the debts for the bosses (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONED ternational Labor Defense is defend- ing the 60 Negro croppers who were arrested and are being framed up by the landowners and their police and county tools. Charges of assault with intent to murder have been pre- ferred against five of these workers. Twenty have been charged with con- spiring to commit a felony, seven with carrying concealed weapons Similar lying charges will no doubt | be placed against the others. They are to have a preliminary hearing Monday. The following statement was issued today by the Southern District ILD: ILD Denounces Police Murderers “The murder of Ralph Gray by Sheriff J. Kyle Young and deputies, and the probable lynching of four other Negro share croppers at Camp Hill, Alabama, by police and land owners, is an effort to drown in blood the struggle of the croppers against starvation,” declared Lowell Wake- field, secretary of the Southern dis- trict. “These croppers, organizing to obtain the bare necessities of life, were protesting the attempted legal lynching of the nine Negro boys at Scottsboro, Alabama, whose death sentences they rightly denounced. “Every attempt on the part of Ne- gro and white workers and poor farmers to organize against starva- tion or against the bosses’ terror is met with rope, fagot and shot. These Negro share croppers were organized against the plan put through on July 1 by the landowners and Tallapoosa County Chamber of Commerce to cut off food allgwances to the share croppers and tenants, leaving them to starve to death. The Croppers Union during the past few months, has been organizing in this territory for the following demands: DEMANDS OF UNION “That food advances continue until settlement time, settlement to be made in full by cash, giving the croppers and tenants the right to sell crops where they see fit; the right of the garden for home use; ® three-hour midday rest period. The International Labor Defense MASS INDIGNATION ROUSED BY ALABAMA MASSACRE ) Will mobilize the Negro and white workers all over the country in pro- test against this massacre of Negro share croppers in Alabama, and de- mands the right of Negro and white croppers, tenants and poor farmers to organize meet and defend them- selves against lynch mobs. The In- ternational Labor Defense will un- dertake the defense of those in jail, and its attorneys are leaving imme- | diately for Dadeville for a prelim- inary hearing which takes place Mon- day, July 2 | Workers Stirred to Depths By Outrage | Negro and white workers through- jout the country are stirred to their depths by the Camp’ Hill massacre. Scores of meetings are being called | to protest this latest. outrage against the oppressed Negro people. Pro- test telegrams have been sent to the Governor of Alabama and Chief of Police Wilson from several meetings held within the past two days, At these meetings the workers furiously denounced the bloody terror of the Alabama bosses and the traitorous support of that terror by the NAACP misleaders who rushed into print in Sunday’s boss papers not to condemn the attack on the share croppers but to attack the Communist Party for supporting the struggles of the share croppers against the starvation con- ditions imposed by the landowners, Demonstrate Against Boss War and Terror August First ‘The working class protests against the horrible persecutions and bloody terror against the Negro people will take on new force and emphasis on August First when millions of work- ers in the United States, in Europe, in China, South Africa, etc., will take the streets in militant support of the struggles of the Negro masses, and in |stern resistance to the war prepara- tions of the imperialist bosses and their plans for intervention against the Soviet Union. Negro workers, white and black of the United States! Demonstrate on August First against the capitalist system of unemployment, starvation, wage cuts, race hatred, lynching and