The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 22, 1931, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JULY 22, 1931 ONLY TWO DISTRICTS HAVE REACHED QUOTAS; DISTRICTS 3, 7, 13 ARE STILL FAR BEHIND ‘The Daily Worker drive went over ye top during the past week and stands at 102 per cent, a gain ,5 per cent over the previous week. Is, despite the fact that only two df the 18 districts have fulfilled their uotas. But these two, District 2 (New York) and District 17 Bie Mingham). have surpassed thelr © drive has gone over the top. strict 2 has raised more than half the total contributions. The biggest percentage gain for the week was made, surprisingly ough, by one of the worst dis- tricts—9 (Minneapolis); which in- Prgased its totals 9 per vent. Can @ go so far as to interpret this Bs an indication that this district has Rt last come to life? But 83 per Beant is still a long way off from Bs. quota of $1,500 that District 9 as, though, with proper energy, it Yan be reached in a short time. District 6 (Cleveland) maintains Waird place in regard to percentage Ret by such a wide margin that Reflected in the figures for this week’s circulation can be seen an fmcrease in bundles sales In dis- trict 2 which shows that the Red Builders in New York have taken advantage of the startling ex- Powures’ in thin week's Daily Worker on the maneuverings of the imperialist war |mongers in Germany the coming war. New York starts the list of in- creases this woek with an increase of 202, mostly due to the splendid way ip which the Red Builders have been selling the paper on the street, All districts should en- courage street sales of the Daily. Especially |now that workers everywhere are beginning to turn to the Daily for the truth about the coming war, must new slogans be devised to catch the ear of the Basserby, be shouted from every worker's neighborhood street cor- ner and the paper sold to thou- sands of new reade The other increases are District 5. with an increase of 700, covering R drop in the previous week's fig- ures in the strike area, with a con- equent gain, du eto the strong de- mand for the Daily Worker in the mining region. Then there are Den- ver, with an increase of 61 in bundle siroulation, and Detroit, with an in- crease of 100, due to a new order of 0 copjes, On the negative side of ¢ chart we find Birmingham, wita ® drop of 107, due to the drop of 100 tm Memphis, mentioned in last Wed- nesday’s. report. and {s now within 9 per cent of its quota. District 1 (Boston) is in fourth place, with 89 per cent, and 8 (Chicago) !s fifth, with sé per cent. Districts 3 (Philadelphia), 7 (De- troit) and 13 (California), which are among the largest districts, are still far behind their quotas. They ought to be showing more action than they displayed during the past week. District 10 (Kansas City is still plodding along in the rut. It raised its totais only 2 per cent during the week and now has 22 per cent. Can’t the workers in this district do some- thing about it? Every district should be bending all efforts to reaching its quota. The additional money is badly needed by the Daily Worker, as this is the most difficult summer in its his- tory. Workers, get your half dol- lars and other contributions into ac- tion the coming week more than ever! . some of the weaker districts. It xeems as though someone has poised the circulation in mid-air with 2 press run of about 40,000 and de- creed that it should not be moved akywards. It is high time that we had some revolutionary aviation and took the circulation of the Dail Worker for one of its old joy rid upward and kept going up. vT financial drive must not be a pau ing period on the road to m: culation; if anything it must be an added stimulant to the comrades tn the districts to keep fighting all the way for thousands of new readers, subscribers and friends for the Daily ‘Worker. The Cleveland meeting for Com- rade Levine will be at the Stlo- venian Workers’ Home Hall No. 1. 6417 St. Clair Ave., on Saturday, July 25. Cleveland has made some splendid preparations for its nie and the celebration as a whole in Cleveland seems to be going over the top. All workers in Cleveland, wheth they are readers of the Da Worker or any other section of th revolutionary press, are urged to attend the meeting at which Com- rade Levine will lecture on the Capitalist vs. Revolutionary Press as well as introduce the new Organ- izational form of Daily Worker Clubs. Comrade Levine is the Business Manarer of the Daily Worker and well equipped to liver a living and vital discourse on a topic so close to all renders The circulation of the Daily| of the Dally Worker. Come your- orker through the last four weeks self, bring your huxband, wife or has been keeping up fairly consis-| sweetheart. If you haven’s any, tently, with sporadic gains making | get someone else's, but, by all up for whatever losses crépyéd up in! means, come! FENANCIAL—CIRCULATION } “ges “pees aman ks. - eae ig aN = is ge = $s gb & i HREEPRE Ri: %. Bostos 409 608 «410 «589 1012 999 —13 aN. 7 1300 @588 1308 6782 7&SS S00 202 & O77 2308 1001 230% 3280 3204 24 & 173 G31 173 676 804 S48 45 8 835 7707 341 8401 8042 8742 700 6 Cleveland 804 1744 S11 1721 2548 2532 —16 ‘T\Detzctt 881 2011 934 2118 2942 3047 105 ®Chicage 1360° 4475 1350 4453 5835 5812 —23 498 614 401 538 1107 1029 —7! 266 786 «64259 «768 1027-25 42 62 «41a 108 — 1 268 «731 «276 «791 07 —2 699 1747 «686 (1742 2428 —11 214 «421 «211 430 64 6 “4% 45 Oh 18 4 317 «50200 280 —107 33 35 38 35 18 5 127° «175 «(128-285 363061 108 «68 «108 68 176 S675 31042 STI 31920 39717 40620 922 RECEIPTS BROP AGAIN; TURN IN COUPON BOOKS, GET HALF DOLLARS! ‘Workers, who do not ent their a es I ed beca: pos- Sintec, persecution ‘mhoula indicate tne in sending in their contribu- % ora should ask thi contribute whether they want thelr names printed. | Saturay’s totals went down again to $356.94. District 2 (New York) again was in first place, contribut- ing $143.32. The other districts seem to be having their ups and downs. but they'll have to make it UP regularly if they intend to reach their qrotas. The second highest tota] for the (Philadelphia), $1.50 from 6 (Cleve- land), $8.97 from 9 (Minneapolis), $11 from 18 (California)—those should be a lot better. District 11 (Agricultural) has at last broken its long -silence—but only with a whisper, 50 cents. Where are the farmers? The Daily Worker is their paper, too. Final efforts in the Daily Drive should be real efforts, not just go- ing through the motions, More haif dollars will raise the needed $5,000 in short time, Coupon books aren’t coming in as fast as they should. Turn them in immediately, filled or unfilled! Get pledges to the Daily day was from District § (Chicago)— | Worker Sustaining Fund! Prod the $78.15. But some districts did very | fraternal organizations! Put more poorly. Only $6.25 from District 3! steam in the drive! yay ae) DISTRICT 1 DISTRICT 4 W. Lindell 35 Friends of Daily, n Uuno Borath 25 | Manchester, NH 83.50 A. Makai OF Lynn, Mass.: 0. Salmi 10 | CN, Andraasina 30| Soc, Syracase 19.35| E, Kempainen 25 M. Vartanian 1.00| B. Schultz, Buffalo 1.01 W. Teppo 105; D. A, Axaranisa 2.00 Angora, Minn.: — Total $24.35 | C. Koski 30 37.00 JI. Momakt oat Pater d DISTRICT 5 T. Hilburn 3 Tag Daz, Sec. 0 Ukr, Un. Tellers, Weaken 4 mit ‘W. Heimlich, Elizabeth, N.J. 5.00 BLK., Newark, NJ. 25) J, Walchek Ukr. Women Wkrs, WwW. Krapey } goes Hicksville, R. Lytwak eS ae eet to ‘Total Total $8.97 DISTRICT|11 i'd eee aat ad K.P. Loesch, Mont- Clevelan peller, N.D. “30 Ge 1 : Total 50 DISTRICT 12 ‘Total B. Pederson, Port- by 4 DISTRICT? bid See. 1, Unit 4 115) Uke, Un. Toilers, Wash. . ‘Women’s Counce! , 1.35 ing, Mich, 6.50| | Seattle, Wash.: Book Shop 9.98) Detroit: Lena 1.90 E. Randlich, N.Y.C. 1.00/ Unit B-9 1.73 | District 8.90 Scandinavian Wkrs. Unit B-5 2.50] Col. by Bonner = 6.75 Cl. Bk! 2. Unit B-1 tas c. 128 ish ‘a Unit B- 125) Unit B-1 Unit A-18 4. DISTRICT|13 Lox Angeles, Calif.: Total G. Holmes 5.00 DISTRICT 8 M.L. Vawter Ex L. Bonham A. Vawter 25] “Women's Clubs 1 too Total 3 1490] sringtield, 111. 4.00 ae Holger, B’ki 2.00 P GeLindgust, Wklyn 205 bac lihy $78.15 | Hartford, Conn, 5.00 See. 14 205 pisvarcTs J. Botynis, Nauga- ‘M. Gallent a8 tuck, Conn. Mass, Mic! Total 143.3 \ Tota ‘$6.00 DISTRICT 3 DISTRICT 17 J. Jelinek, Balti- Port Myers, Fia.: more, F, Lehtt F, J. Culler ‘0 Total $1.00 — Total all dist. § (356.94 Prev, recelved 35,431.04 UNITY ACTION PROGRAM PUSHED IN MINE MEETS To Hold United Front Conference JOHNSTOWN, Pa., July 20.—Or- Banization for a strike movement in Central Pennsylvania, the old “Dis- trict 2” of the United Mine Workers is racing forward. The first of the series of district conferences provided for by the National United Front Conference held July 15-16 in Pitts- | burgh has taken place. It was Sun- day (July 19) in Hager’s Hall, 630 Maple Ave., Woodvale, a suburb of Johnstown, Pa. Three hundred and fifty delegates from 16 mines re- presenting 6,000 miners gathered there. Among them were delegates from the struck Sagamore mine and two other nearby struck mines. The United Mine Workers claims to be leading these strikes, but the del- egates from the strikers declared that the miners themselves accept the Program of Action of the Na- tional United Front Confefnce and they will be in the united froné or- ganization built up in Central Penn- sylvania, striking under the leader- ship of the National Miners’ Union. The conference voted complete support of the Program of Action. Miners told of the horrible condi- tions of starvation—the same that are driving miners to revolt every- where. The conference decided to hold mass meetings this week and local conferences to reach every mine in Central Pennsylvania, to organize locals of the National Min- ers’ Union and united front com- mittees, to prepare for strike in every Central Pennsylvania mine, and to hold anothe® conference next, Sunday at the same hall, in which all’ shall be represented, and in which the district strike demands will be formulated. An executive committee, provi- sional, was elected which met im- mediately and began at once to work out the organization to reach every mine. Speakers at the conference were William Z. Foster, Carl Price and Mills. The prestige of the National Miners Union is very great in Cen- tral Pennsylvania, because of its leadership of the Western Pennsy- Ivania-Ohio-West Virginia strike. The National United Front Con- ference has made a tremendous im- pression on the miners. A large number of applications’ blanks. for joining the N. M. U. was requested by the conference executive. Thous- ands of leaflets are being distributed, calling the conference next Sunday. Organizers are being sent into Cen- tral Pennsylvania by the strike headquarters in Pittsburgh. Frank Borich, secretary of the National Miners Union, will be a main speaker at next Sunday's session, ogre aaa STEUBENVILLE, Ohio, July 21.— Steubenville authorities are prepar- ing an armed attack on the hunger march of unemployed, and striking miners in Jefferson county. The march is to arvive at 10 a. m. today from Adena, Piney Fork, Dillonvale, Bradley, Smithfield. Yourkville, Til- tonville, Rayland, Brilliant and Mingo Junction. It centers on Steubenville where it is planned to hold a meeting from the courthouse Steps. Mayor Conley of Steubenville to- day interviewed the Hunger March Committee, regarding a permit for the march, and not only refused the permit, but declared war on the hunger marchers. He stated: “No God damned marches or meetings will be held in this town. I run this town, and no constitutional rights go. If you march in here tomorrow morning, we are prepared, and we will give you all we've got.” The committee informed him that the march would be held according to schedule. Previously the county commissioner had told the committee that no foreigners or even citizens who are not residents of the county, would not be allowed in the march, Pe eae BRIDGEPORT, Ohio, July 20.—At Tiltonvale this morning, deputies at- tacked and tear gassed the picket line of 200. Three women were severly clubbed, and a number of the pickets were arrested during the fight with the deputies. The local Women’s auxiliary is or- ganizing a march by women on the jail to demand the release of the Tiltonville miners, and to protest the brutal beatings. The march will take place today. Following a picket line of 300 at the Blaine mine” this morning, the sheriff was engaged in recruiting deputies on the streets of Bridge- port. Eighteen pickets, including five’ women, were arrested following a battle with police and deputies at Warwood, West Virginia on Friday. ‘They are now charged with viola- tion of the Redman act (“inciting to riot”), and with “banding and confederating,’” and are “held on $5,000 bail, with a possible penalty if convicted, of ten years in prison, Beginning ... NAME nnn ancl The whole she vexstaesd must be| cost of production. —A Worker. T enclose a 50 cent piece to build the D. W. Sustaining Fund I pledge myself to] WR" P ME UP AND SEND send a weekly sum] TO DAILY WORKER 50. E. 13th St N.Y. C. Eee EEE Send me information on Daily Worker. Clubs teeta ever aeaeeneeeresenees Boss News Agency Admits Attack On Croppers Aimed to Smash Their Union (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) world-wide demonstrations of pro- test on August First. These dem- onstrations will serve to rally the masses of the entire world against the capitalist system which mur- ders Negro workers for daring to organize against racial and eco- nomic oppression, which deports foreign born workers to their death in fascist countries, which seeks to divide colored and white workers into hostile camps by spreading vicious poison of race hatred, and which is to day preparing a war of intervention against the Soviet Union, where the workers rule ar@ have abolished race hatred and national oppression. Mass Protest Force Police Retreat. In the face of the rising storm of working class indignation, Chief of Police Wilson, of Camp Hill, has been forced to retreat from his former cynical position in regard to the four missing croppers who are though to have been lynched by the police. At first telling the capitalist press that “they went out to get stove wood and haven't returned yet,” this police murderer of Negro workers has been forced to resort to a lying “denial” that the four workers have been lynched. But if they have not lynched, what has become of them? The working class will continue to thunder this question at the police and landowners of Tallapoosa Coun- ty, Alabama! The colored and white workers of the United States forging a fighting alliance against the white ruling class, will also raise the demand for the unconditional release of the ar- rested croppers as well as of the Scottsboro boys. They will demand that if croppers are brought to trial they be tried before a jury of work- ers, at least half of whom shall be Negroes. And in face of this fresh terror and bloody persecution of the Negro workers, the-working class will support more militantly than ever the demand of ,the Negro majorities of the “Black Belt” for the right of self-determination, the right to form and control their own government, the right of State unity in the “Black Belt,” the right to bear arms, the right to form defense corps, the right, in brief, to defend themselves and to abolish the murderous rule of the landowners and their police and court agencies. Workers Will Defend Themselves! The colored and white workers of Alabama will defend themselves against racial and ecqnomic oppres- sion in spite of the terror of the landowners and their agents, and in spite of the traitorous activities of the NAACP. leaders and other Uncle Tom reformists. In his state- ments to betray the struggles of the Negro Peple, William Pickens has gone so far that some sections of the boss press finds it difficult to agree with him, as is to be noted in Mon- day’s editorial in the so-called “lib- eral” New York Evening Telegram. This editorial sharply criticizes those who “raise the ever-ready cry of Communism” to justify the police at- tacks on the croppers. Pickens and Walter White, in statements to the boss press on Sunday both attempted to justify the police attacks by say- ing that the Communists had been agitating the croppers. The Tele- gram says of Pickens’ treacherous at- tacks: “We wish we could go all the way with William Pickens, field secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, when he says: “It must have been the aim of the Communist agitators to deliberately muddle the matter and stir up trouble. It is a desperate and vain effort to win the so-called ‘Negro proletariat’ to the Communist Party. They mis- understand the situation and the pschychology of the American Negro and of the South.” If “Liberals Can’t Stomach Pickens’ Treachery Who in the Hell Can. If even the faking ‘liberal’ section of the boss press cannot swallow the stinking treachery of William Pick- ens, how does this Uncle Tom traitor who attempts to depict the Negro masses as habitually servile, as pos- sessed of a slave psychology, expect the Negro People to tolerate him? Negro and white workers! On with the struggle to save the nine Scottsboro boys and to smash the latest teror against the Negro masses of Alabama. Rush protests to the governor of Alabama, and to the chief of police of Camp Hill, Ala- bama! Demand the right of trial by a@ jury of workers, at least half of them Negroes for the arrested share croppers! Demonstrate on August First against the murderous capital- ist system! rallied to demand their release. Section conferences are now being held throughout the Eastern Ohio and. West Virginia fields, which are electing united front committees and officers and preparing to carry out the Program of Action of the Na- tional United. Front Conference of Miners in, Pittsburgh last week. A total of 25,000 leaflets are being issued in Eastern Ohio and West Virginia coal fields by the Commu- nist Party, the National Miners’ Union and the Metal Workers Indus- trial League‘ calling for Anti-Impe- rialist War demonstrations on Aug. 1. ‘The two main demonstrations cen- ters will be Wheeling and Steuben- ville. The miners knew that the war plans against the Soviet Union are inspired by the fact that the workers, including the miners, in the U. S. S. R. have smashed the capitalist exploitation system which is starving American miners to death. CASTLE SHANNON, Pa., July 21. —Twenty men on the night shift of the Pittsburgh Terminal No. 2 mine here walked out Saturday night, when the company removed the “snappers.” The “snappers” are the men who drag the ropes and couple them to pull out the cars. The company now proposes that the miners shall do all this extra labor without pay. COVERDALE, *Pa.,” July 20. — Further proof that the Fagan-Mur- ray meeting which was smashed yesterday in Canonsburg was a fake meeting is evident here. The an- nouncement of the U. M. W. meeting was posted on the lamp house, which is company property of course, and where all the miners have to go. In addition, the local U. M. W. of- ficials notified those who were to ride in the trucks to Canonsburg that if they didn’t go, they would be fined $1 each. These officials are rather sorry now they conscripted so many, because some of the men thus forced to attend the Fagan-Murray meeting joined with the miners of Canonsburg in smashing chairs over the heads of the U. M. W. officials. MONTANA FARMERS TALK COMMUNISM Monroe. Mich. Dear Comrades: I came one month ago from Mon- tana. All over that part of the coun- try the people are talking about Communism. Although the harvest is expected to be a big one this year, the farmers doubt whether they will take it all in as they will have to sell their crops this year below the (Put cross here) or monthly sum of tse Dally Worker Sustaining Fund. NORTHERN WAR LORDS MOVE IN POWERS RIVALRY But Chief Worry of Nanking Is Success of Lung’s Red Army NEW YORK, July 19.—The Japan- ese-dominated Chinese northern war lords have commenced ‘the long im- pending attack upon the Nanking government, according to a cable re- port in the New York Times. The northern war lords are moving some 110,000 troops against the Nan- king troops in Honan province. ‘That the chief worry of the Chiang- Kai-Shek hangmen does not lie in the attack of the northern warlords so much as the successful movement of the Red Army under the command of Ho Lung, is indicated in the dis- patch to the Times: “The only disturbing phases of. the military situation in this area is the recent success of the Com- munist bandit leader, Ho Lung, in Northern Hupeh, west of the Pei- ping-Hankow Railway. Should Ho Lung capture Siancyang-fu he could threaten to cut the Peiping- Hankow Railway and isolate the government troops in the Hsuchow- Chengchow-Kaifeng zone. ¥ The growing antoganism between Japanese and American and British imperialism is reflected not only in the military manouver of the north- ern warlords but in the proposed boycott of Japanese goods. “A nationwide boycott against Japan continues to appear inevi- table, though the movement is not favored by the more conservative government officials. In this con- nection interesting reports record the arrival at General Shih Yu- san’s headquarters of many Japan- ese military advisers,” the New York Times report says. ... . Poyntz Lectures in Cleveland July 21 City State CLEVELAND, Ohio, July 19. — As German capitalism totters on the verge of collapse and the danger of war with the Soviet Union draws closer Cleveland workers will find a special significance in the mass meet- ing to be addressed by Juliet Stuart Poyntz on Tuesday, July 21, at 8 p. m., in the Slovenian Auditorium, 6417 St. Clair Ave. She has recently re- turned from a two year visit to both Germany and the Soviet Union, and will be able to draw sharp contrasts between capitalist misery and decline in Germany and the up-building of Socialism in the Soviet Union. Com. Poyntz is vice-chairman of the women’s section of the Red Interna- tional of Labor Unions. ‘The subject of Poyntz talk Is “A New World in the Making”, and the meeting -will be under the auspices of the Friends of the Soviet Union. Keep Mill Cased POOR FARMERS MUST - ORGANIZE AND FIGHT FOR TAX MORATORIUM | Banks Own Land; Foreclosures Force Families the bosses | InR.f Strike (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ON®) voted to strike for the above de- mands. “Inside of two weeks already feel the effects of the strike. They are frantically trying to get the workers back to the mill to fill their orders, “Don't be fooled back to work by | a fake ballot, taken and counted by the bosses ! “Repudiate this strikebreaking scheme of the Olneyville Business- men’s Assoc., and Alderman Duffy. “The Rank and File Strike Com- mittee which you elected will give every striker of the Weybosset Mill an opportunity to vote on the qyes- tion of continuing the strike which is already on the verge of victory! “The workers’ ballot will be taken in the workers’ own hall; 1755 West- minster Street, this Sunday, July 19, between the hours of 6 p. m. and 10 p.m. Spread the word for every striker to be here. “Stay away from the bosses’ fake balloting! Smash this strikebreak- ing scheme! Vote for the victorious conclusion of the strike on the work~- ers’ own ballot! “Ignore all fake reports in the bosses’ press on the vote! Watch for the announcement of your own vote which will be issued by the strike committee. “(Signed) Committee.” Weybosset Mill Strike Sunday after the Weybosset strik- | ers’ mass meeting the workers kept streaming into the hall of the Na- tional Textile Workers’ Union to par- ticipate in the workers’ vote. Dur- ing the voting the strikers were reg- istered and those not yet in the union were signed up. On the basis of this vote the Strike Committee issued the following statement: “Statement on the vote of the} American Woolen Company strikers in Olneyville. (By the Weybosset Strike Committee) July 20, 1931. ‘The Weybosset workers’ own vote yesterday conclusively proved that the mill is standing solid for the re- turn of the 12% per cent wage cut, no discrimination and recognition of the mill committee. Despite the fact that the workers’ vote was called on one day’s notice, that the bosses’ press practically gave no publicity to the fact that the vote. would be taken, that the vote was taken on a Sunday when the decisive strata of the strikers who are standing solid in the fight were out of town (we know of over 80 union members coming under this heading) the vote results was | extremely favorable for the struggle. 336 Weybosset workers cast their ballots, 302 voted to stand solid in the strike for the strike demands under the leadership of the strike committee and the N. T. W. U. Only 34 voted against the struggle. And this small handful of negative votes were not from the decisive depart- ments of the mill. It is clear that this is the deter- mined expression of the Weybosset workers. All other workers, includ- ing the 34 negative votes must abide by the decision of the over- whelming majority. All of us now go forward 100 per cent solid in the strike. The work- ers have again repeated that they have absolute confidence in their strike committee and that it is the only authorized body that can nego- tiate for them. The workers recog- nize that only their vote, taken by their strike committee, can settle the strike. ‘The workers’ vote yesterday cate- gorically defeated the strikebreaking scheme of the Olneyville Business- men's Assoc. and Alderman Duffy. The workers showed that they would have nothing to do with “Citizen's Committees” and “arbitration” sell- outs, The workers are fighting until they win their demands! ‘The strike committee calls upon every Weybosset worker to do the following: Keep away from the bosses’ fake vote! Stand solid with your fellow work- ers for a real victory! All out on the picket line!” PAWTUCKET, R. I, July 20.— About 1500 Royal and General Fa- brics silk strikers and sympathizers gathered on the lot corner Woodbine and Fountaine Streets, last Sunday, where the regular evening meetings of the strikers are being held. Amidst thunderous applause the workers decided to mass on the picket line in front of the Royal Mill this Monday morning despite the police ban. Besides strikers from both mills, Perry, Harfield, Reid, Russak and Praeger of the I. L, D. spoke. ———— COUNCIL BLUFFS ANTI-WAR DAY Unemployment Grows —More Wage Cutting COUNCIL BLUFFS, Ia., July 21.— ‘The Communist Party,,the Unem- ployed Council of this city and the Trade Union Unity League are or- ganizing a demonstration on Aug. 1, the International Red Day. The meeting will be held in the main park of the city, Balyiss Park, start- ing at 7:30 in the evening, Saturday, Aug. 1. While it will be a demon- stration against war, deamnds will be made for the relief of the unem- ployed by the city and county. It | From (By a Worker Correspondent) SEATTLE, Wash.—Here are a few Washington that if read with under- standing by farmers in the state will wake them up to the need of organ- izing. Over in the Yakima Valley of this state, there is what is known as the ington, watered by the government's vast reclamation, irrigation projects’ (Valley chamber of commerce’s usual |line). There is in the heart Project. This is one of the oldest in the state and one of the first that the government ever undertook. During the last session of congress. @ petition was drawn up by some of the Tieton farmers. This cited the following: This area (Tieton) contains some 32,000 acres and over 1,300 families. Land is admirably adapted for the production of some of the finest fruits. This land must be opened by the raising of alfalfa, clover, etc. This takes time and money. This is neces- sary to open the land for orchard pursuit. Present return on common farm products is about $25 an acre, Of this $3 goes for water, $5 for taxes charges (on the building of the irri- gation ditches, dams, etc.). A total of $13. Families Leave Land A careful survey was made of 100 families. Of these one-fourth were leaving the land “under pressure” (presumably bank foreclosures, etc.). ‘That the average income on which a family must be raised and the gen- eral expenses of the farm be paid comes to about $500 which is not suf- ficient. The petition asked for a tw thirds reduction in the construction | charges for ten years. It pointed ot that the future prosperity of the or- chard land was assured (Not seeing that this was the reason for the “pressure” of the banks who want to facts from the agricultural areas of | “richest agricultural area in Wash-| |area a project known as the Tieton | petition | and $5 additional for construction | 4 Farms | Cut Off School Busses; Children Must Walk 20 Miles to School meant nothing) and were trying to “good schooling ‘tizenship.” The pre- give their children a to prepare them for senator e (Jones |sented a bill leaving it to the “ | cretion of e secretary of agricul- | ture’ t jum. Then | the secretary S not to grant left 2 land, also under “pressure. Banks Own Iand In Yakima there is only one bank | discretion w it and more families have not making depo a 60 or 90 day notice on of funds, In another part o a farm- er cannot borrow o rom the local bank without getting an OK from the center bank at Spokane the Federal and the p own the land alread in the valle: an election to v 1 increase on school tax. This was defeated and the school board retrenched. They |cut off the school busses and farm- | ers’ children will have to walk much ext winter 20 as order to get a “free American edu- cation These few facts come to | | the “rich rea in W: make one wonder what of poor farmers are really | the rest of the state | the valley will find that by organizing into organization that they run them- | selves and fight in as a whole, that they will be able to get this govern- |ment to grant them a full morator- ium on and a full release on construction payments which they |have made several times over if th ike The farmers of Wd find the real figures for th work. The United Farmers League, Box 94, Superior, Wis., is such an organ- ization. Farm women will find that by fighting and only by fighting will they be able to get back the school busses which are vital parts of what little education their children get. Organization and use of it is the only weapon that can whip the banks own the land when it is in such con- dition); that most of them were Americans (they found out this —robbers of the farmers’ toil. Join the United Farmers League, Box, Superior, Wisconsin. wage cuts in the factories and on/ the railroads of Council Bluffs. | Many small factories have been closed down in the last week in Council Bluffs. For instance, Grif- fin Wheel Works shut down, laying off 75 workers. A. L. Root & Co., a honey factory, has laid off over two thirds of their workers Wednesday and in a few days expect to shut down the factory completely. The workers that are still working, are/ working from 5 to 7 hours a day with wage cuts corresponding with the reduction of hours. The eight railroads that concentrate in this region and make this a railroad town have been laying off workers every week, speeding the ones on the job and in some cases cutting their wages through inidividual wage cuts and cutting wages on a de- partment scale. When the workers of Council Bluffs demonstrate on August First against the attack on the Soviet Union, they will at the same time demonstrate against these wage cuts and lay-offs and against the speed- up that the bosses are pushing main- | tain their profits. DOAK BOASTS OF TERROR SCHEME Machado Gets Stay as I. L. D. Appeals ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Speaking be- fore the local business men in the Kiwanis Club here, Secretary of La- bor Doak told of his plan for a con- tinued drive against militant work- ers, especially those who dare strike against bad conditions. Doak boasted that he would deport 20,000 foreign- born workers during 1931. Especially vicious was Doak’s at~- tack upon such organizations of de- fense as the International Labor De- fense which fights the deportation of workers and demand voluntary leave in case of deportation. “The Department of Labor & try- ing to do its work under the law”, Doak said in referring to his savage drive against foreign-born workers and his murderous intention of send- ing workers to death to fascist coun- tries by refusing them voluntary leave. The deportation of Eduardo Macha- do, militant fighter against Ameri- can imperialism, to Venezuela was automatically stayed yesterday (Fri- day) when the writ of habeas corpus, filed by Isaac Shorr, attorney for the New oYrk District of the Interna- tional Labor Defense, was signed by a judge in the U. S, District Court. The hearing on the habeas corpus will take place Tuesday, at which time Shorr will attempt to secure Machado’s release on bail. Machado is now in Ellis Island where he pre- sented himself for deportation yester- day afternoon. The halting of the deportation of Machado was due to the mass move- TRY 10 QUASH INVESTIGATION Gov. Refuses See ILD Barberton Committee CLEVELAND, Ohio, July 20—The International Labor Defense has serf a letter of protest to Governor Whité protesting the long -drawn out de- lay that has already.occurred in the “investigation” of the Barberton ter- ror and demanding that he see a committee from the ILD in connec- tion with the case. The “investigation” of the Barber- ton case has been going on for the last two weeks and as-yet the ques- tion of the abduction of C. Louis Alexander by the Barberton police has not been answered. Governor's “Investigator” Refuses to See Committee When Tangeman, the representa- tive of the governor in the case, was in Akron in connection with the case, he conferred with the Chamber of Commerce—the parties actually re- sponsible for the terror prevailing against the workers. In spite of the numerous attempts that the commit- tee of the ILD has made to see Tan- geman, it has been unable to do so. Break Up ILD Meeting in New Philadelphia In New Philadelphia, Ohio. as a re- sult of the wage cuts that are con- tinually taking place and the general attack upon the standard of living of the workers, the civil rights of the workers are also being interfered with. For example, at a recent meet- ing called by the ILD the city offi- cials refused permisson for same, de- spite repeated efforts on the part of the committee of the ILD. The sheriff of Tuscawara County, Harry C. Smith, broke up the meet- ing by arresting the speaker on the flimsy charge of “resisting an officer.” The sheriff also kicked a worker in the stomach and this worker has since been confined to bed. The first committee tried to see Governor White on July 8 but he cancelled the appointment. The ILD is determined that the governor shall hear the committee in regard to the Barberton terror and will send the committee to him on July: 22. Soviet “Forced Labor”—Bedacht’ series in pamphlet form at 10 cents per copy. Read it—Spread it! involving militant foreign-born work~ ers. The I. L. D. is fighting to secure the right of voluntary departure to Soviet Russia for all these workers as they would be certain to be put to death if returned to the terror governments of their native coun~ tries. No race hatred in worker's Rus- sia by Patterson, tn July Labor Defender. ment of protest organized by the I. The steel barons shoot children will also be @ mobilization against ' LD, in the Serio, Li and other cases ' in the sale Labor Defender.