The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 30, 1931, Page 5

. where a fine program is being pre- a DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JULY 30, 19: ab Page wt DISTRICT 2, N. Y.-ANNUAL PICNIC AUGUST 16 AT PLEASANT BAY PARK! DISTRICTS 7, 8, 10 ‘The District 2, New York, Annual Daily Worker Picnic will ‘be helt \ugust 16 at Pleasant Bay Park and yromises to be an event of unusual ntere importance. ‘This affair a time of intense mass takes plac struggles ata time when workers in the heat of combat for life its greet and look forward to the Dal for guidance and inspiration. « Ce tral leaders of these important « struggles will speak at the picnic and explain the role of teh Daily in deepening and extending. the struggles and making them the bur- den of battle of the whole working class. In addition, this picnic right after the splendid re workers in New York. A cause of proletarian celebration and joy will be the awarding of prizes to the successful organizations wh» raised the highest amount of money in the drive. What may prove to be the most interesting feature on the prozram will take place in the sports field, es place onse of pared by the L. S. U. Included in a varied schedule of sports will b exciting track meet, which will yolve the bst teams of the metro- polis in labor sports. The winner will be awarded a beautiful silver cup. Remember the Date—August 16. With dancing and mass singing to round out the event, Au promises be a grent d proletarian festival and fun W. I. R. Chorus will sing revolu- tionary songs. A good orchestra has alrendy been arranged for dancing all day. Workers should flock to the Bay in thousands on this great day. Mass proletarian organizations, unions, ctc., must involve their entire membership. A splendid portunity is given those organizations who wish to buy blocks of tickets. ‘Tickets at the gate will be 35 cents each, but can be purchased in blocks of 250 and up at the price of 25 cénts Take quick advantage of offer. Tickets can be ob- tained only at the District Office of the Dally Worker, 35 E. 12th St. fifth floor. Don’t delay. Kansas City Forms Club. Interesting news from™ District 10; Kansas City. Comrade Levin's visit evidently stirred things up a bit in this. district, “We have begun to organize a Red Builders’ News Club and a Daily Worker Readers’ Club,” writes A. W. B., District 10 Daily Worker Agent. With regard to”car~ toon books and Red Builders’ ap- you see, FORM D. W. CLUBS! rons. District 10, as well as other districts, should note that a book will be sent free of ch any member of 2 Red Builde; who has been active for a period of two weeks Worker Apron will rade an average of the Daily However, one of be purchased for aprons ean 25 cents if desired. It is ovr suvcestion that the Daily Worker Readers’ Club be xed to inelude the Red Build- Cluby this will save the ex- Pense and trouble of running two clubs in the ne locality. Both readers and xelle=s should nttend meetings, part ef the time to be devoted t+ snlex nnd part to dis- cussion, ete, Detroit Enters the Fleld. On July 24, in the evening, meeting was held in the Work Home, Detroit, at which Comrade Levin, Business Manazer of the Daily Worker, spoke. The audience was small, composed largely of non- Party members. Comrade — Lev pointed out the purpose of his to and the necessity of popularizing the working-class press among the masses by building the Daily Worker Clubs, ‘The result of thix meeting wax the organization of a Daily Worker Club of over 25 menthers, who offered thelr support to our press and to inerense its cireulation among their friends, relatives and neighbors and to get subseriptions for the Daily. Good work, District 7. UN MAR. 6 ; THUG FOR MAYOR Detroit Workers to| Support Communists DETROIT, Mich., July 18—Unem- ployed workers’ families are being evicted in masses. On July 17, five families were evicted in one block ‘alone. July 15 to 18, workers were ar- rested and thrown into jail for mov- ing in furniture of evicted unem- ployed families. The relief has been cut off all together. The “flop” houses have been closed. Thousands of workers are sleeping in parks and abandoned houses. Police autos are cruising the streets at night and ar- resting the unemployed and home- jail holes. Because of all of this, the workers are being convinced that the city administration and the bosses are for starving out the thousands of unemployed workers and their chil- dren and they are ready to fight. All open air meetings, all demon- strations are attended by masses of workers and the spirit is a militant one and ready to fight. March 6 Police Commissioner Nominated for Mayor This militancy of the workers First Chi : Scare’ the bosses. They already an- The first meeting of the Chicago ‘ fa Daily Worker Readers’ Club was | D0UNced that they will build a Citi: held July 14, Only seven workers | Zens. Milita to break the workers were present. On Julz 24 the second meeting was held. “It is bevond any doubt,” writes B., District 8, Chicago, that “this club is going to be a great succes ‘Their member- ship has grown to 22. At the last meeting enough money was collected to order a weekly bundle of 15 Dail- ies, A committee was also appointed to ‘arrange an affair for the benefit of the Daily. The most significant thing is that only two Party mem- bers are participating, namely, the Section Daily Worker Agent and a newly enrolled Party member. “So, our club has a real mass character,” concludes the comrade in Chicago.’ “Some of the members, including the secretary of the club, never belonged to our organizations before.” Arrangements also have been made with a worker to sell 15 copies of the Daily Worker daily. Send reports regularly, Chicago. DISTRICT 1 Un, Lith, Wrks. Shriayroft 1.00 Mothers’ Lengue, Orgs., Pitts. Pa. 13.10) Levine 50 Winthrop, Mass. $5.00 —— | ©. Bertino, Walnut — ‘Total $18.10 | ‘Creek, Calif, Total 85.00 DISTRICT 6 —— ~ DISTRICT 2 S. R, Bedford, ‘Total -G. Sudentis, Bklyn $1.00 | Cleveland, Ohio 1.00 DISTRICT 15 Lv0.Br lie Bs. 200 | J.v. Ferree: Cans Southbury, Conn.: G. Kurek, Astoria, ton, Ohio 1.00 | A.L.D.L.D, 225 Br, 2.00 , 1.00 | S.E, Decker, To- J. Pakush 25 _Sympathizer, Bklyn .26| “ledoy Ohi 3.00} S. Sinkevich 35 3, Magnetta, N.Y.C. .50 | H. Kuebbales, To- S. Sinkeviel 25 Sympathizer, Bklyn 1.00| Tedoy Ohio 30} J, Tuanausi 25 Mother Jackson, ex- K, Sinkevich 2 slave, N.Y.C. 1.00 ‘Total $5.50 | J, Kaytis, Oxford, LW. School 8 1.59 DISTRICT 7 Conn, Cor ‘50 | Sympathixer, Detroit .25 | J.P. Chepulls, Sey- Seo e, Uatt 4 3.00 | B.A. Freeman, Kal- mour, Conn, 50 “A, Monaco 1.00} ‘amamoo, Mich, .50|N, Haven Nuc. 1, , 0. Shwaurts 50 ‘Conn, 2.50 sept 1.00 Yotal 5 aie Jee. 6, Unit 10 5.00 DISTRICT 8 Total 36.50 tie. 7 Unit 1 1.50 | Seandinavian Wkrs. Foreign Beneh 75 | League, Ohieazo 5.00] 1.5, Seeney, Ross- Col. by E. Koenig 3.0 C.J. Brown, Louis« Jand, B, CG. 2.00 D. Osol, N.Y.C. 10.00 ville, Ky. —_— Sec. 12, Yonkers 10.00 | I, Twin, Chicago ‘Total $2.00 Yer. 4, Unit 4 3.40 —_— Totat $6.50 | Total all dist. $ 123.16 Total 8.41 DISTRICT 9 Prev. received 37,222.51 DISTRICT 3 Tripoli, Wis. © S. Danenhower, ho -50| Total to date $37,345.67 Pleasuntville, NJ. .50| A. Halkoln +50 | Money for fol. hi J. Jelinek, Balti- M. Riihimakt 501 been ree. pr more, Ma. 25] A. Salonen 1.00/ alreadey creditedt ——— | Eveleth, Minn.t DISTRICT 4 ‘Total 75 | M.. Raal 35 | Rochester, N.Y DISTRICT 4 H, Wirtanen 50| Mf. Piectane 25 Nochester, N. Y.t W. Park 25) 5 JLevine 1.00 B. Edelson 1.00| VY. Neiminen 25) ‘Wattuck 1.00 S. Nigrellf 1.00] J, Korpela 25 | wattuck 50 B. Stagnito :50 | Duluth, Minn.: Wattuck ‘50 ©. Giovannt 50 | C, Wildman 1.00 Janmmect 50) G, Lundberg. 1.00 M. D'Onofrio 50) L, Viger 35 L, Catone = S. Maki Cad M Antonio 4 — R. Molinart 25 ‘Total 96.50 1. Talumbos 3 DISTRICT 12 Benjamini J. HJ. -Hannula, " ‘Pearson. Wash, 12.40 312.40 TT OISTRICT 18 L, Steinberg na Santa Barbara, Cal.t F, Stasel 25 J. Lebano BO). AL 25 E.C. Rodwich oo! Ga. 2 3ugo Slav Club, Venice, Cal. Ae 25 Pittsburgh 00 | A Friend ee — Col. at piente by Meyerman $5.00 STOPS EVICTION BLIND WORKER Negro, White Tenants Join n Fight HARLEM, N. Yo C—In its militant fight against the evictions of unem- ployed workers, the Harlem Unem- ployed Council succeeded in organ- izing a house committee of tenants]. “at 107 West 134th Street to fight against the eviction of Mr. and Mrs. William White, Negro workers, and their two young children, “This family is only one month in arrears. The landlord has told them he ts evicting them not so much ‘be-. cause they are in arrears, but be-) cause he does not want any Negro tenants in his house. The house is occupied by both white and Negro tenants. “The white tenants joined with the colored tenants to fight the eviction and demand reductions in rent shai break up the meeting. badly needed repairs. A meeting was held at Lenox Ave. and 134th St. Wednesday night to protest the eviction. While the meeting was in .progress, a worker Yeported another eviction at 298 *| West 147th Street. At this address, the landlord evicted without notice @ blind worker and his four children, two of them very young. One of the -}older girls had taken her father to the subway station where he makes his living by begging. She returned to find their furniture being put on the street. «The Unemployed Council at once went to the scene and in spite of the protest of the police and the janitor of the building returned the furniture to the flat. They then held a meeting in front of the house. "The police attempted to drive the workers away, but the latter mili- tantly gathered around the speakers’ stand and defied the police effort to In spite of police reinforcements which were rushed to the scene, the workers stood their ground. Mrs. Marshall, a worker with 6 baweack whose ged the Unem- OUT ON THE STREETS ON Al IGUST FIRST! demonstrations and meetings. In addition to this, they strive to put into the city offices, men who in the toward the workers. One of such henchmen is Emmons, ex-Police Comissioner who in an unheard of of barbaric way, broke the unem- ployed demonstration March 6, last year in which a hundred thousand workers participated. This bloody servant of the bosses only 12,000 are needed. Who were other of that type. ‘The workers must remember this henchman and others like him and rally around the candidates of the Communist Party, they are: John Schmies for Mayor; Antonio Ger- Jach, William Nowell, Joseph Billups The first step in this election cam- paign is to get 20,000 petition sign- atures for each of the Communist candidates. The petitions have to be fiied September 5 ‘and because of not very much time is left. We caell upon workers to take the ‘petitions and solicit signatures: The petitions can be obtained at ‘the Election Campaign Headquarters, 2419 Grand River. Call County Conf. InN. J. August 15 Ratification C.P. Coun- ty Ticket PERTH AMBOY.—Delegates. of Middlesex County, who .were dele- gates to the N. J. State Ratification Convention of the Communist Party, held a meeting Friday. evening, July 3, at the Workers’ Home, 308 Elm St., Perth Amboy, for the purpose of calling a county conference of all working class organizations in Mid- dlesex County for the ratification of the working-class country ticket and the establishment of a county com- mittee to conduct the work of the election campaign in every city of Middlesex County. J. Sepsey, manager of the State Election Campaign of the Commu- nist Party, pointed out in his report that the Communist Party is organ- izing the unemployed workers to fight for unemployment insurance, to be secured by taxing the rich; for free gas and electricity for the un- employed; for free fod and clothing for the children of the unemployed; for lower rents and against evic- tions . He reported that John J. Ballam, Communist candidate for governor of New Jersey, is scheduled to speak in Perth Amboy at 8 p.m., July 23; in New Brunswick, 5 and 8 pm., July 24; Carteret, 2 p.m., July 25; South River, 4 p.m., July 25. After enthusiastic discussion, a committee of ten was elected to make arrangements for the calling of a County Conference for 2:30 p.m., Sat- urday, August 15, at the Workers Center, 11 Plum St. New Bruns- wick, N. J. ‘ Read the Labor Defender on the miner’s strike. ployed Council stopped some months ago, was one of the speakers. She militantly denounced the Jandlord’s attack on the workers, called on the workers to organize themselves into| tenants leagues and resist evictions and fight for rent reductions. Mrs. Marshall called upon the workers to demonstrate on August} to First against imperialist war and against the bosses’ system of starva- tion, race hatred and lynching. She ‘pointed out that the bosses who were throwing the workers on the streets today would be soon calling upon them to fight their wars of plunder and conquest. less workers and throwing them into | past showed their unlimited hatred | has been already presented with 60,000 signatures for Mayor, where those signed petitions for him? Nat- | urally the bosses, petty business men, | legionnaires, K. K. K. and all the} and Nellie Belunas for Councilmen. | OF NEGRO LONGS NORFOLK, Vt., July 19—Speed-up | claimed another victim Thursday, July 9, among the Negro longshore- men unloading cargo on the motor ship “Unicoi,” lying at the army base in Norfolk, Va. The white stevedore boss was standing over the hatch, telling the longshoremen to speed up in order to get the ship out in record time. | The men were working at full speed and exerting every muscle under the | watchful eye of the boss. Only long- | shoremen who work fast can keep their job. Speed-up in the hole means also loading up the nest be- yond capacity. In No. 4 hold, a net loaded up ex- tra heavy with jute bales was going up, and, without warning, the goose- neck of the runner block attached to the end of the port boom, gave way. Overloading of the cargo slings, to- gether with defective running gear, was responsible for the accident. Hurtling down 40 feet, part of the steel block struck a Negro winch- driver on the head with such force that it crushed in the side of his head. The dead man sprawled be- tween the winches, his blood and brains spattering the deck about him. On the deck and in the hold, the workers immediately became ‘VICIOUS SPEED-UP CAUSES DEATH HOREMAN WHILE | Head Crushed in By Heavy Steel Block As Port | Boom Gives Way Under Overloading of Nets! ; Silent and unnerved. The boss immediately sensed the Situation and laid the men off at 10:20 in the morning. The accident occurred at 10:15 in the morning. would be done after all the men had figured the men would be in shape to do 100 per cent work. Only one thing could avert such conditions on ship and dock. That's organization in the Marine Workers’ Industrial Union, with ship and dock committees composed of the workers themselves that would de- mand inspection of all gear before using or at regular intervals. Ship ganized, would be able fo abolish the vicious speed-up. vicious murder be the immedia’ building of committees. Show the} bosses that they can't go ahead with more profits for them. that this worker’s family be provided for instead of trying to get charity from the welfare associations. Turn Out in Masses to (By a Worker Correspondent.) SEATTLE, Wash.—Scottsboro de- fense 1s the issue around which the workers of the North West have ral- lied in meetings throughout the Se- attle district to hear Richard Moore, well-known working-class Negro leader, touring nationally for the In- ternational Labor Defense. .One thousand .workers of Seattle demonstrated against the legal lynching of- the. nine Scottsboro working. class boys.on July 14. Moore, the ‘main speaker, dealt with the Scottsboro case, showing its connec- tion with the general intensive , at- tack being launched against. the working class. He pointed out the 4 economic basis for the persecution of: the Negroes and called upon all workers, black and white, native and foreign-born, to join the defense movement to free the Scottsboro boys and liberate all of the class war pris- oners. There is a tremendous display of interest in the Scottsboro case among the workers’ in Seattle, as proven by. the fact that despite the short time for preparation, merely one day, word was spread from work- er to worker, “Richard Moore is go- ing to speak on the Scottsboro case, be sure and come out and hear him.” And they came to hear him as well as to voice their might against this NORTHWEST WORKERS RALLY TO MASS FIGHT TO FREE THE NINE SCOTTSBORO YOUTHS Hear Richard B. Moore Expose Boss Terror Against Negro Nation bosses and demanding the immedi- ate and unconditional release of the boys. The workers all cheered the slogans of “Full equality for the Ne- groes,” “Smash the legal lynching of the nine Scottsboro youths,” “Death to lynchers,” “Negro and white work- ers, unite!” : ‘This demonstration was one of a series of meetings held in the Seattle district of ‘the International Labor Defense with Richard Moore. The first held. was in Portland where some 300 workers rallied to hear of the Scottsboro case. At-this meeting the case was linked up with the vi- cious attacks up the workers in Portland where 13 workers were ar- rested and charged with criminal syndicalism. One of these, Ben Bo- loff has been sentenced to 10 years in the Oregon penitentiary and the LL.D. is fighting for his release. It was in Seattle at the Negro Ma- sonic Hall that Moore’s mecting drew the greatest number of Negro work- ers, Out of the 250 workers present, 100 were Negroes. Mass expression was voiced by the workers present when the speaker pointed out that it is the capitalist system that exploits, starves, persecutes all workers and doubly so, the Negro workers; that the attack upon the Scottsboro boys is an attack upon the entire working class andu calls for the united action frightful crime of the Alabama of all the workers. (CONTINUED FROM PAGE NED ment of Labor and Commerce, and through the A. F. of L. leadership. Lamont's letter on wage cutting in Rhode Island said that the Hoover administration favored such wage said this meant Hoover favored wage cuts for the steel workers. The New York capitalist newspapers headlined this news as follows: “U. S. O. Kays Wage Cuts;” “Hoover favors wage slashing policy,” etc., etc. ‘That there has been an increase in wage cuts is acknowledged by the Department of Labor. The same sourse declares strikes are increas- ing. The latest report says there were 447 strikes in the first 6 months of 1931, involving over 132,000 work- ers, es against a total of 653 strikes for the entire year of 1930, involv- ing 158,000 workers. On the same day Hoover issued his denial about wage cuts, the of- ficial strike breakers of the 21 Broth- erhood railway unions met and issued a statement which was intended to be taken as against wage cuts. But this statement shows how far the railroad union officials will go to help slash wages. The statement says they favor “increasing the revenue (profits) of the railways,” and that between representatives of the em- ployers and employes and the Gov- erament of the United States not “permit” vrage cuts. In_ short, they rely on the -bosses and their government which helps cut wages and lies about it, to keep back wage {slashes in the railroad industry. ‘They do not call on the rank and file to prepare to strike in the event of wage cuts, but tie everything up Hoover Lies About Wage Slashing Aim of Wall Street Government they rely on “the solemn agreement |- no strike” agreement under which $12,000,000,000 has been cut in wages in the United States. That @ wage cut is coming in the steel industry following the dividend cut and the cut in wages of office workers, is admitted by the New York American. This paper, on its fin- ancial page, says: “The drastic reduction in steel’s dividend was unanimously determined upon by directors not alone in re- flection of earnings, but certainly with an eye toward paving the way for reduction ni wages.” In short, big wage cuts—at least around 10 per cent—are coming for the steel workers. At the same time the U. S. Steel Corporation has over $600,000,000 in profits which the boss- es can dig into, but they prefer tak- ing food out of the mouths of the steel workers’ families to pay the parasite stockholders. At the same time unemployment is increasing sharply everywhere. As the preparations for wars increase, the workers suffer more and more. The crisis of capitalish gets deeper, and the bosses look to war for a way out. For instance, the Annalist, A Wall Street mouthpiece says about in- creasing unemployment: “The employment situation took a decisive turn for the worse in June. The Annalist Index of Factory Em- ployment dropping to 76.9, a new low record for the entire post-war period.” Or for that matter, a record for any period in U. S. history. Pay- rolls dropped even more sharply, reaching the lowest levels ever known. The ten-million mark of un- employment is definitely passed. The with the Hoover fake “no wage cut, ing towards 11,000,000, in order to save money for the com- | pany, he told the men to come back | to work at 1 p.m., at which time he} \SPARTAKIADE IS Sheriff Fakes Confession. fo Railroad Mine Strikers to Pen HELD IN STETTIN 400 Meter Run BERLIN.—For the first time since the ban was placed on the Interna | tional Workers’ Athlete Meet, the] | Spartakiade, in Berlin, 300 worker | | Canada, He realized that very little work} witnessed this terrible accident, so, | and dock committees, properly or-/ Workers on ship and on the docks, | organize, let your answer to this| their speed-up plans which means | Demand | sportsmen-competed in a great meet | in the city of Stettin. Three hundred | sportsmen from England, France, | the United States, Den-| mi part in the meet. Five thousand} workers of Stettin turned out to} watch and protect the meet. “Socialist” Police Smash Other Meets After the successful meet at Stet-| | tin the international delegation of | sportsmen went to Eberswald and| Damm. But in both of these places, however, the “Socialist” police had banned the meets and had mobilized in advance to smash them. The| delegation then withdrew to Berlin, | where it was planned to have a large meet, despite the police prohibition. Athletes to Visit Soviet Union. Al selected delegation of worker | | athletes will visit the Soviet Union. Among them it is expected will be Frank Henderson, secretary of the | competing for the Union of America. | Willie Duff stood out splendidly in the meet, taking two firsts, in the {400 meter for the juniors and the | junior high jump. The results fol- | low: 100-Meter Dash—Tetard, France, 11.7; Asikainen, U.S.A., 11.8; Olsen, Norway, 11.9. 400-Meter Dash—Asikainen, U.S.A 58.9; Neumann, Germany, 13 Vigne, France, 1.3.2. 1500-Meter Run—Marthinson, Nor- Labor way, 5.2.8; Songeon, France, 5.16; Schlicht, Germany, 5.19. 100-Meter for Women—Aaseboo, Norway, 14.5; Hnasen, Norway, 14.8; Assmann, Germany, 15. High Jump—Neumann, Germany, 1.68; Lehtinen, U.S.A. 1.63; Kolemal- nen, Canada, 1.55. USA, 1.4.2, | FORCED LABOR IN ERIE, P Rubber Plants Are Preparing for War ERIE, Pa. July 17.—The actions | of the bosses of Erie, Pa., clearly show to the workers how much re-| lef they can expect. While the| 5 newspapers howl about forced labor existing in the Soviet Union, the| unemployed workers have discovered that forced labor is in -effect in Erie, Pa., because they are the vic- tims, The bosses of Erie have worked | out a plan which takes advantage of the plight of the unemployed. This is the “work ticket” plan which is really nothing but “forced labor.” or slavery. According to this plan an | unemployed worker must apply for relief directly to the Poor Director. ‘The Poor director immediately’ gives the jobless worker a note addressed to Mr. Merrick of the Consumers | Supply Co., stating that this worker will do a particular kind of job. For the time put into this work, the worker receives in return—not money but the usual inadequate supply of second rate food from the Poor ; Director. The unemployed workers are in- dignant at this outrageous treatment and are joining their naborhood unemployed branches. There the workers learn the, truth about the conditions in the Soviet Union and why the bosses are spreading lies about forced labor which is supposed to exist there. They understand that the bosses want to arouse the work- ers against the Soviet Union so that when war is declared, they shall be | ready to attack and destroy the} fatherland of the working-class. The bosses talk lots about forced labor in the Soviet Union so that the workers of America, who are working under slave conditions, will keep their minds of their own miserable lives. Prepare for War in Erie Factories The employed workers of Erie are also being prepared for war. Many are working at Continental Rubber which manufactured during the last World War gas masks and other rubber material needed, Now Con- tinental Rubber is being prepared by experts of the U. S. Army and Navy Department to be transformed into a war industry as soon as the call is sent out. ‘Those now employed by Continen- tal Rubber were there during the World War. They have learned their lesson and they, too, will be pre- pared for the coming war. The workers of Continental Rubber will pledge their solidarity with the workers of. the world on Interna- tional Red Day to fight against hoses. wars. and to defend the Soviet -Union. On Aug..1, at Perry Square, from 4p. m. to 8 p. m. the unemployed and unemployed will demonstrate against the war preparations of the number of unemployed is rapidly go-; bosses and will pledge their defense , for the SOVIET UNION! rk, Sweden and Germany took | in Labor Sports Union of America, and | te | William Duff, crack Negro athlete, Sports | eting” i | LOADING AT NORFOLK ARMY BASE) Witlie Duff Is Victor in| Mine Owners Tool Threatens to “Prohibit Pick- in Brooke County in Effort to Break Struggle of Miners WELLSBURG, W. Va., ‘The Brooke County authorities ! faked a confession on which to r: road miners to long prison tern All the newspapers in the mi! region have published g healines that Sheriff Irvin Char- nock of Brooke County has obtained a confession from Mike Mare, presi- dent of the National Miners’ Union local at McKinleyville saying that at a local meeting held the night be- fore 80 of these miners started as a fraternal delegation to Steubenville, Ohio, hunger march, they decided! and discussed methods of shooting scabs. | While the miners were on the march and near Wellsburg they were rounded up and thrown in the jail| there, on the grounds that a shoot- ing had taken place after they left McKinleyville. Everybody agrees | that the marching miners could not si have done any of the shoot- ing themselves. But the Brooke County authorities | on July 22 sent out news that Mare | signed a formal confession that; ey plotted the shooting, The au-| thorities named individuals among} whole illegal prohibition of picketing is on the decision and verba! orders alone of the county authorities eee WHEELING, West Va., July 26.— The state police are breaking-up the picket lines in Brooks and Ohio Counties today (July 25), West Vir- inia, following an order of the sheriff to prohibit picketing. The order was issued as a result of a con- ference between Easton, president of the West Virginia Féderation or |e- bor; Norrington, president of the Lo- cal Trades and Labor Assembly; coal operators, coal company lawyers, head of the state. police and chiefs of the local police and- sheriff. The district office of the Central Rank and File Strike Committee of the National Miners’ Union has sent a telegram to Governor Conley of West Virginia, protesting against the police attacks and stating that the District Office {is calling on the workers to resist all attempts to de- stroy the right to organize and strike and picket, The first step in answer to this re- newed strike-breaking is. the. distrib- ution of 10,000 leaflets in the Wheel- 400-Meter Run for Junions—Duff, | those arrested as directly implicated | ing area exposing the conspiracy to by the confession. The whole story | break the strike and the role of the was elaborate, detailed and circum-| A. F. of L. and United Mine Work- stantial. Even the remarks sup-/| ers’ officials. posed to have been made at the| A mass march of the miners of the meeting were quoted. But, strangely | Panhandle es is being prepared. | enough, the supposedly written and} | signed confession was never pro-| | duced. BRIDGEPORT, oli July 26.—A delegation of fifty. miners, their | Attorneys for the International | wives and children, is leaving early Labor Defense interviewed Mare and} Monday morning for Columbus, the the other prisoners in Wellsburg jail| state capital, to protest the starva- today, and found that the whole/ tion and terrorism in the coal fields, story is a deliberate, brazen, strike-| and to protest the murder by a coal breaking lie, issued through the| company boss of William Simon papers by the Brooke County au-| 16-year-old member of the National | thorities, of whom the sheriff seems | Miners’ Union. | to be most guilty. There never was| The delegation will picket the | any signed statement. There never| state capitol building and the gov- was any such discussion of shooting | ernor’s mansion. in the McKinleyville local. The} Paul Bohus is chairman of the meeting of the McKinleyville local| delegation. | of the N. M. U. at which the shoot- Bob Sivert and Rompa were ar- rested July 24 on the highway. Siv- place devoted its entire time to hear- | ert is charged with distributing ille- ing reports from returned delegates | gal literature and Rompa is charged to the National Miners’ Conference | with being an accomplice of Sivert. held in Pittsburgh, to discussion of] There will be no bail fixed until the “Program of Unity and Action” | Monday. a adopted there and discussion of| A deputy sheriff of Jefferson plans for putting it into effect. | County raided the house of John The 80 men arrested were crowded | Buska in Yorkville with a loquor into a hot, suffocating jail meant to| warrant. He found no liquor, but hold about 16. It was worse than | confiscated literature. Buska.is held the legendary “Black Hole of Cal-| | to appear in court in Dillonvale on a ” Men gasped for breath and | ‘Tuesday. stripped the clothes from their bod- | ‘“ “ bd cm Finally most of them were let | AVELLA, Pa. July 26.—The sec- | ing was supposed to have taken | ies, out and 18 held on the Redmans/ tion strike committee meeting here Act, a law passed in 1868 to prevent | found the strike solid. “Despite 4 lynching. The act has never been| newspaper campaign intended. t¢ used against lynchers, was a dead| stampede the workers back into At» letter until suddenly dug up, dusted | lasburg Mine, which re-opened abow. off and now utilized to send striking | a week ago, there are only 125 worke | managers of the mines around, and miners to prison for “inciting to riot,” “banding and confederating,” | etc. When the I. L. D. attorneys inter- | viewed the prosecutor, Charles Wil. kins, this fellow called in not onl; the sheriff, Charnock; the captain | of police, J. R. Brockus, but the| made it a regular conference. | “I am going to absolutely prohibit | picketing in this county,” said the sheriff. | The sheriff has actually gone| through with this threat, Yesterday | he ordered picketing stopped. Ca; ap-| tain Brockus went to 150 pickets at| McKinleyville Mine of the Standard | Mining Co. and served notice on them verbally that picketing was now | “illegal.” The sheriff's office has| stated through the Wheeling news- papers that there will not even be; & proclamation against picketing; the! situation is (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) eyes of “many rank and filers who followed him at first. The conferences at Bellville heard analyses of the situation and re- ports on the Pennsylvania-West Vir- ginia~Ohio-Kentucky strike from William Z. Foster, general secretary of the Trade Union Unity League, and others. The conference votd ap- proval of the Program of Unity and Action of the national conference, and laid out plans for mass meetings to be addressed in various southern Illinois mining towns next week by ‘Tom Myerscough, national secretary of the Miners Nation] Unity Com- mittee of Action. Meanwhile organ- izations of local united front com- mittees will be carried on, and will gain impetus from the mass meet- ings. The miners will be urged to pay dues neither to Lewis, Walker or to Edmundson. The support of the Orient. strikes and the spreading of the strike movement are central points of the program of the unity committees... Edmundson is resort- ing to al lsorts of tricks and sophist- 1 ries to posstpone any strike action until next spring, April 1, the date on which the U.M.W. contracts ex- pire, and as bad a date as possible for a strike to start. | but 17 U. ing out of the regular crew of over 400. Some of these have quit since | the meeting. The miners are charged five cents a day to pay the deputy sheriffs who herd them to work, Bertha Mine, which had 300 be- fore the strike, has a small picket line regularly and no one is working M. W. scabs. Cedar Grove Mine has 400 strik- ing and a regular picket line. . Less | than a hundred are working and lit- | tle coal is produced. At Langloth Mine none are work- ing, with 300 on strike, and the strikers go to other mines to picket. Duquesne Mine has 225 on strikeand ten scabs. Jefferson Mine has. none working. Penobscott Mine has none working. P. and W. Mine of the Pittsburgh | ‘Terminal Coal Co. is working, but, like the other Terminal mines, the situation is favorable for strike. KENTUCKY OPERATORS { UNLOOSE TERROR AGAINST THE MINERS erent Orient miners howled John L. Lewis off the platform when he tried to speak to them Sunday. - Pe ears BRIDGEPORT,’ Ohio, July -29.~ Mass picketing Monday at Piney Fork cleaned out 125 scabs:from the mine there, all there were. A mass picket line at Bradley, the place~of the greatest terror, where the com- pany had one gunman to every man in the mine, took out 40 scabs, all in the mine. These were : imported men brought in especially as strike- breakers. The strike is stronger than it was two weeks ago, PITTSBURGH, Pa., July 29.—The following telegram ‘has been recetyed by the National Miners Union from J. Reese, chairman of a mass meet- ing of six hundred workers ant? sym- pathizers in Los Angeles. “We six hundred workers and sym- pathizers assembled in mass meeting with Frank Spector as speaker, un- der the auspices of the Conferetice for the Repeal of the Criminal Syn- dicalism: Law, pledge to support -you in your struggle against inhuman conditions. We pledge to help you in your campaign to repeal the "sedition and criminal syndicalism law of Kentucky, Ohio, Pennsylvania, sed West. Virginia” JOIN THE WORLD-WIDE PROTEST OF THE WORK: ING-CLASS AGAINST IMPERIALIST W A R.