The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 1, 1931, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, WHAT ABOUT AFFAIRS FOR “ BENEFIT? UNITS! AILY” HELP COMPLETE DRIVE! LEVIN IS IN NEW YORK NOW “Enclosed find check for §25 as @gnation to the Drive,” writes EB District 3 Daily Worker Rep. qrive in Philadelphia is not over ie as today we begin to collect our t] ledges that various organizations ve made and are bringing in after @ money was raised through af- tairs.” District 3 has attained 65 <a cent of its quota to date. But iladelphia is emerging out of its Stupor very fast and is doing sur- prisingly well, both in circulation | and donations, for a change. Many | of the smaller districts retuse to be/ Broused. District 11, North Dakota, gave up the battle early in the cam- Paign and is stilt slumbering along ith 19 per cent of its quota ful-| filled. District 16, North Carolina, iso has followed the campaign with | ope eye, having raised $34 on a qu f $100. District 9 has shown ¢ ring them that they will receive back numbers of the Daily Worker to help them in route building and getting | subs; also sending them subscribers’ | lists ‘and expirations for them to fol | low up, and asking them to let us know haw many Tag Day boxes they want for the August 23-23 Daily Worker Tag Day in District 17.” “We will also inform them,’? con- tinues the D, W. Rep, “that they ean offer Southern Cotton Mills and Labor with every monthly sub, but have been requested by the Commit- tee to ask whether it would be pos- sible to get a supply of these valu- able pamphlets down here so that the comrades going after subs and | building routes will be able to show the pamphlet to the prospect.” Quite possible, comrade, A supply of 200 ean be gotten direct from the Work- ers-Library Publish District 17) Alexander Tells of Brutal Beating by Barberton Cons ting at him. ‘The next day Alexander returned to Barberton and informed the Un-} employed Council, of which he was a member, of the police attack. The matter was brouht to the attention of the International Labor Detense | and a vigorous protest made to the | mayor of Barberton. That same night | police again picked un Alexander, took him to jail and there brutally | | beat him up. After holding,him in | jail for several hours he was taken by two uniformed policemen and a STRIKERS SCORE AID OF CIVIL LIBERTIES TO COAL OPERATORS Central Rank and File Committee Demands} CLU Reverse Its Attitude Towards Miners | | ' Miners’ July 30, 1931. | American Civil Liberties Union, 100 Fifth Ave., New York, N. ¥. Gentlemen: We have received your letter of July 23, which we note has | already been given to the press, and on the basis of which newspapers of Pittsburgh are conducting a vicious campaign for the suppression of the National Miners’ Union. We call your attention especially to the edi- torial in the Pittsburgh Press of July 25, which says, under the title, “A Common Enemy,” “The National Union has become a com- ry to Frace 11 | (CUNTINUED FROM | Silk mill and charged with “reveling | end shouting scab.” check-off, and are in revolt against| J¢ 1s clear that all these workers | the U. M. W. in every coal field in | are being framed by the capita the country. | authorities because of their strik When the leaders of this slavers’| activities. The International Labor j@ang openly appear at a public meeting to further thelr srikebreak- | Defense is defending these cases ing plans, and invite the miners to| come, where is there any interfer- | ence with civil liberties if the miners MAYNARD, Mass., July 31.—The paign of the N.T.W.U. to secure R. 1. Mill Strikers 40 Unemployed Negro | Freight Train by do come, and voice their condemna- support of the Assabett mill tion? What else can they do? | workers (A.W.C.) here for the We call your attention to the fact, |! the 600 workers in the Weybosset in answer to your statement that} Mill of the company in Olneyyille, you have befriended the miners in| 2 J. is still under way. the past, that on every important Agents of the U. S. Dept.of Labor | jand shot in Alabama as if it w jin the mountains. |\freight train east of Mo |carried about 150 workers, abo workers. We were all riding an oil@ e, On my way to New NEGRO WORKERS ‘SHOT AND BEATEN BY TRAIN CONDUCTOR IN SOUTH Workers Driven from Armed Conductor White and Negro Workers Must Unite to Smash Racial Discrimination (By a Worker Correspondent) CINCINNATI, Ohio.—Negro workers are being hunted as hunting season for rabbits York, I jumped a Alabama. This freight train t forty of them were Negro Surprises since the start of the Drive: | ean certainly depend upon the eo- | Plainclothesmen to the railroad track ceeasion in this strike your actions | Went house to house today and in| car and on each elde of the oil car, 3 told to stay. off the to date Minneapolis has achieved | operation of the tional Office in | where he was beaten with whips and|mon enemy to everyone... . Even srorigiti " rs hey ra: ecause sometht { ys nly 35 per cent of its $1,500 quota. | every possible way. Will be glad to| (4.264 qown the tracks. the Civil. tabarties, Unions has| have been of objective assistance to| the mill terrorizing the workers. They | box car was attached n because something might hap: has | send ss many sample copies, ete. as | “a | mt sees used this scheme to break up the pen to me. So I stayed off and istrict 10, on the other hand, the coal operators, not to the min | found it necessary to rebuke this or- accomplished much; less, with 23 per| needed. Other Districts, please note.| The mass protests started by the be oh . [vabs elon “He sner wins planes, to | Fires at Negroes- + the next train at midnight. CORE, wish to emphasize In these col-| Districts’ “sections! Unita! Or. (ILD and participated in by thou-|ganizaion for-the disgraceful oceur- aa Beda a eene a | take in support of the Weybosset| On one of the box cars a con-|on arriving in Graces, Alabama, the umns that the Drive for funds will] ganisations! Don't forget to hold | sands of workers have forced the au-| rence at Canonsburg, when mem-|NURD Who Signs the letter to us, went | : |ductor appeared and separated the four special dicks, Rot be terminated until every Dis-| affairs and benefits for the Daily | thorities to make a pretense of in-|bers of the N. M. U. broke up by| through the coal fields “and were | TaEIAvueel ECAR ee le aT SrerAl Meee wake CGHLRE Teese hes achieved 100 per cent of its | Wormer: Substantial eumy oan Ne | vestigation. violence a United Mine Workers| quoted in the newspapers without} ‘The reactionary Gorman of the| 1. white workers to get up on top several Negroes quota. So far only about six dis-| raised im this way and enable you . ; : rp ieiastionséo: feet adi otee keris) UiW. is/-trautioally trying to\ are. | oo. get up on top that train and received a heavy tricts have completed or are on the| to fill your quota as well as pay When the County Prosecuting At-| meeting and provoked a riot ( n on y af cae and told them to| pea Weooh tha Te Wek: AG up your back bills on basis of 50 vent the united Verge of completing their full quo- per cent of proceeds on ench. their part, as advocating m s tas: Districts 1, 2, 6, & 17 and 18, Pi if more state | torney, Mr. Isham, returned from the} You address us in your letter as | watch the fun, that he was goittg to man was molested except that Coupon Books are coming in ex-| Remember the Daily Worker Pic: | go, % ate the| “Friends” but it is surely an un-| Police be sent into the strike are: shoot the black bastards off. As we Fe ; . asperatingly slow! Hundreds of(nic belie. held by District 9, New South supposedly bes investigate the friendly act on your part to. thus| They did this although the state po- epiinets ie a ed : st ; of ey ‘ old us to stay off the grounds. these books are still outstanding in| York, at Pleasant Bay Park, ‘West: | Alexander case, he was compelled to} au a ‘a ibe. oni nitinerouis: opgenione hati 1 tha UTW had a meeting were crossing the Alabama River he is is the way, comrades, that = field together with hundreds of| chester, * a on Aes RUE ahs 48 admit that his investigation showed | Provide with ammunition of however areca ith the dep! hae Hs ae “4 pritett seats th pulled out a thirty-eight automatic! the posses treat the Negro workers. lollara collected on them. The Cam-|going to be a gala day in New Yor | infer i f with the deputies in break- y in protest a t the | - | A or Daign cannot possibly” end” until | invite everybody you know. ‘Blocks | that Alexander was brutally attacked, Inferior a quality those seeking in} io) Nes our GiDKSE UbAE A Beaune: 19 | attempt of the colipany’ to: put in| St Deees shooting the Negro| The bosses show the white workers every one of these books are turned| of tickets can be procured at the|at the same time there was not/|¢€very way to smash our organiza- ‘ ? . | 26 seiphe temcnan fen ieee workers on the oil tanker. One of|, jittle consideration in order to in to the office and checked off by| District Office, Sth floor, Daily | ouch “evidence to order a grand| tion and to crush deeper into starva- and arresting the striking miners,| 10 more frames for them. The vice- the Negro workers was ready to| h Seles that: Whey aah umber on our books. What about| Worker, at 25 cents, to be sold at 8) nM en RS % triking | An instance is the smashing of the| president of the spinners tried to| y jmake them believe tha ey a ais comrades in the field! 35 cents. Organizations should take | jury investigation.” Mr. Lancaster,| tion the 40,000 miners now striking Walnut Hill picket 1 cot ang jump off when the conductor shot} petter than the Negroes and so keep District 17 to the Fore. advantage of this opportunity 8nd / oe the NAACP came out with a state- | against starvation. falnut Picket line the first) a motion for a strike |iim The others began jumping into] poth divided District 17—the oniy District in| get their tickets at once. Only two The fact that you take this action | Week in July by state troopers who morning. But the reac- “ho j th divide s. ment agreeing with he county pros- e fact that you take this action mys | 7 the river, but the conductor kept; The railroad owners don’t want ey kounity, SE. tiple (ice, Guote. in.) tages: pels i oe | wi clubbed mercilessly and rode down| man policy won out: the F e oO ¢ Campaign for Funds—is now on| The Perth Amboy Unit will hold/eouting attorney. Just as in the| Without consulting us as to what ss de down | mi t: the | shooting at them while they were in| Negro and white to unite because the circulation war path. “We had| its first annual picnic at Felman’s| really happenei at Canonsburg is a| Women .and children. Afterwards | to see the management . ft gees a thel; 3 i & meeting of the Daily Worker Com-| Pond on Florida Grove Road, Sun- | Scottsboro case, so in the Alexander pp g the state troopers partietpated in the | day and that the UTW send | ‘2® water. After we crossed ©/then the bosses sure would be mittee yesterday,” writes B. day, Aug. 2. The affair will last|¢ase the NAACP worked overtime | further disgrace to you. 2 i : ‘3 “Oy | first tressle the train started to slow! ticked. But what they do is to put M., Bilttant D. W. Rep. tor this district, id decided upon Pine following: To Nénd letters to all sections inform- from 10 a. m. through the whole day. There will amusements. be refreshments and All workers invited. COMRAGE COLLECT FUNDS BUI LB DISTRICT 2 J, Shefnman DISTRICT $ Day: J. Smokler Unemployed Trio, Sec. 8, Unit 3 gi.07| L. Tatfer Livingston, Hl, — 3.00 "On Le 44) M. Walker } Sec. 5, Unit 3 2051 | Atamanuck ‘Total $3.00 Sec. 7, Unit 1 452 re fhe sie DISTRICT 10 Union City Unit 50 | fh: cpstein Vuiemp. Council, Pledged by employ- i Keegan Coun, Bluff, Ia, "2.00 ees and worl Lh ef Shop Wocolona M, Neuen Total $2.00 20 pic. of wages L. Objuller DISTRICT 13 yr ailbeicl EM ecardero Oakland Section, oes 2 asec Menting- . TT. - 5 ~ Ct aaa 750| Sitrat ton, Park, Calif. 1.00 2.62| A. ‘Trfebash & "cate 1.00 | G. Walsh Total $3.00 Mo Nance Bde Foe) Total nll dist. § 118.02 3 me ee See. 7 Unit 8 Prev. received 7,542.20 B. Smith Total $110.02 | Total to date $37,660.31 Allentown Silk Strikers Again Defeat Sell-out Attempts of UTW Misleaders Moser of the CLU Tries to Negotiate With the Bosses Without Permission ALLENTOWN, Pa., July 31. (By Mail).—Striking silk workers pick- eted the meeting of their shop chair- ,men, today. The picketing was in demonstration against the attempted ousting from the committee of the few remaining workers on the com- mittee that the UTW-AF of L-SP machine, in the leadership of the strike, have not been able to corrupt with their cheap lies and demagogy. During the demonstration one of the corrupted shop chairmen called the police to disperse the strikers. The machine’s frantic efforts to have these workers ousted from the shop chairmen’s committce, is due to the fact that they exposed, fought and defeated the brass faced attempt of the machine to stampede the work- ers back into the mills—at the bos- ses terms—last week. Cognizant thet /the workers are Yearning fast of their treacherous role, the UTW-AF of L-SP machine cooked up a well laid plan, by which they though they could serve the’ bosses—well. On Thursday, of last week, Mr. Moser, local CLU secretary and a Mr. Kutz, reported to be a state mediator, took it upon them- selves to go to the bosses of one of the struck mills—without the knowl- edge or authority of either the work- ers nor their Shop Chairmen and agreed to settle the strike in that mill at the terms offered by the owners—terms that gave the work- ers ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. The machine had set the stage for the sell-out, almost perfectly. At the Shop Chairmen’s meeting that day, Mr. McDonell, UTW organizer, lead- 8 omega the strike, laid the foundation. for his being retained in the lead- ership—in case the planned sell-out did not succeed, by giving the com- mittee a tirade of blabber to stick fighting for their just demands—be- fore Mr. Moser and Mr. Kutz, en- tered the scene. Shortly after Mr. McDonell, got through “fixing” him- self with the Shop Chairmen, in walked Mr. Moser and Mr. Kutz, who both took the floor one after the other and with slimy lies and much beating of their chests, expounded the fairness of the agreed-upon set+ tlement and highmindedness of the bosses, because of their offer to give the workers better prices and conditions—-WHEN THINGS GOT BETTER. Mr. Moser went so far as to say that the bosses promised one year’s steady work. But, as in all well laid plans, the wires got crossed and Mr. Kutz only promised three months’ steady work—at the terms of the bosses. Those workers on the committee who are fighting tooth and nail to win the strike, saw the sell-out as ‘plain as daylight and exposed and fought it bitterly and succeeded in having the sell-out defeated. Rev. Webber, a fig leaf of the S, P., took the floor ho Jess than three times to attempt to terrorize the Shop Chair- men into accepting the sell-out. ‘Through all this Mr. McDonell, the leader of the strike, saved his face for future service to the bosses, by a SILENT APPROVAL OF THE SELL-OUT. Enraged because of its being de- feated, the machine is leaving no stone unturned in its attempts to have those who led the fight against with the authorities to whitewash the terror of the master class against the Negro masses. ‘Mr. Lancaster of the Akron Chap-} ter of the NAACP has upon the re-j| turn of Alexander made a pretense | of defending him in order to attack the ILD, which carried on the fight and has become very popular among st white and Negro workers in Bar- berton and Akron. In the following statement Alexander answers the charges made by Mr. Lancaster: “Mr. Lancaster, attorney for the Akron Chapter of the National As- sociation for the Advancement of Colored People, as reported in the Plain Dealer, July 30, stated that I, Louis Alexander, ‘Will never have anything more to do with the Com~- munist Party.” While I am not a member of the Communist Party at present, nevertheless I made no such statement. “Lancaster said that I, Louis Alex- ander, found the International Labor Defense to be an ‘unpopular organ- ization.’ I wish to state that the In- ternational Labor Defense is the only organization which fought hard in my defense. It was through the ef- fort of the atorney of the Interna- tional Labor Defense, Mrs. Yetta Land, that warrants for the arrest, on the charge of abduction, were riven out on three Barberton police- men, “It was only mass protest which brought about the investigation. I ask all workers, both white and col- ored to rally behind the International Labor Defense to fight for the release of the nine Scottsboro boys convict- ed on a frame-up charge. Pickets Camp On Line Until Mine Is Out HOUSTON, Pa., July 30.—Pickets who marched recently on Westland mine of the Pittsburgh Coal Com- pany have camped down on a farm nearby, set, up @ relief kitchen, and swear they will never go home until every man is out of the mine. There will be heavy picket lines at West- land mine every day from now on. Inside the mine the super made a pid to the scabs by declaring the six hour day. But as he expects them to do as much work in the six hours as they did before in eight, there is much dissatisfaction. Workers Correspondence is the backbone of the revolutionary press. Build your press by writing for it | |the killing of George Moran, The facts about the Canonsburg meeting are as follows: Murray, Fagan, Damich, O'Leary, and other officials of the U. M. W. held a fake mass meeting in Curry Field, July 19. To this meeting they brought truckloads of their gangsters, pro- fessional scabs, bootleggers, county employes, and business men enlisted on their side. The only miners they had were a few individuals from Pittsburgh Terminal Mines who had been forced back to work by terror, evictions, and violence, under the U. M. W. strikebreaking and wage cut- ting contract in these mines. These men were told they would be fined $1 each if they refused to come. For | chairman of th: meeting, Fagan and Murray secured Burgess Cook of Canonsburg, who arrests those col- lecting food for the striking miners. Pat Fagan’s last words, just before the miners in his audience drowned out his voice by angry jeers and de- | nunciations were: “You'll have to join the U. M. W. whether you like it or not!” Two thousand miners Canons- burs and vicinity, meeting in Beck's field, roused by the treachery of the U. M. W. officials and by the U. M. W. conspiracy to starve miners and their families, voted to picket and demonstrate against Fagan- Murray meeting. The miners marched'in disciplined fashion through the streets of Can- onsburg, cheered by the townspeople on the way, and entered Curry field, where some 400 persons were assem- bled. The miners denounced Fagan and Murray as agents of the coal operators, and were thereupon at- tacked by the U. M. W. hired thugs. The miners retaliated with vigor and the U. M. W. gangsters fled in dis- order. Such miners as were brought by Fagan to his meeting refused to assist his thugs and immediately withdrew and left the field as soon as their trucks could be moved. /As you say yourselves, the U. M. W. has many times attacked our meetings, not merely through an un- the armed protest as the miners of Can-| onsburg approached Fagan’s meet- ing, but with clubs and guns. The U. M. W. gunmen havé murdered many of our members, notably in dele- gate from Bentleyville to the 1928 convention in Pittsburgh. The U. M. W. Lewis-Cappelini regime in the | Anthracite has a long list of murders to its credit, including the deliberate assassination of Campbell and Riley with machine guns. The U. M.’ W. is not an organization of miners, and those miners nominally members are forced members, compelled to pay dues involuntarily through the arrest of nearly the whole town on such flimsy charges that most of those arrested have had to be re- leased even by the prejudiced courts of Pennsylvania. Another instance is the smashing by state troopers of the march of miners to Westland mine on June 7. Here state police tear gassed, clubbed, rode down men, women and children. The state po- lice gouged out the eyes of miners, and broke their bones. They threw small children out of trucks onto the concrete road. They shot William | Slovane in the back, and Mike Skiar- ski through the arm. Your endorse- | someone to confer with the company. The committee on Tuesday received no satisfaction from the compa‘ The company put across a 25 pel cent increase in the speed of the} magazine looms to make up for the} $4.00 raise given these weavers for a three month period. . PROVIDENCE, R. I, July 31—Al- derman Duffy, democrat, and tool of the A.C.W, is resorting to cheap mud | slinging now, since his fake vote in Library Hall was defeated. In this | week's issue of the Olneyville News | Herald, Duffy issues a statement un- | down and the Negroes started to | jump off who still remained on the tanker, One of the Negroes when [he jumped off fell into he bushes |and the conductor kept shooting at| | him. | After we arrived in Flomaton,| hate between white and Negroes. The white workers must unite with their colored brothers and fight with them. Only then will we be able ta fight our real enemy, the boss, and once and for all do away with race hatred. OF PAPER E THUGS SHOOT EDITOR FAVORING STRIKE ment of these murderous state po- |Crawford Finds Harlan Coal Fields Under the lice has been much used by the coal | der a flaring six column heading | where among other garbage he says CDSE S. | the following: Even your mass meeting in Pitts- | burgh, supposedly in protest. against | the attacks on miners in the strike| funds to help keep the ‘red flame’ area, was of service to the enemies | flaming and for new red dresses,” of the miners, because by turning} ‘This is a vicious attempt by the this meeting over to Norman Thomas | sirjkepreaking forces to prevent the and by making it a socialist party | collection of relief for the strikers rally, you supported the socialist party whose administration in Read- ing jailed those collecting relief for the starving miners, and whose mayor made abusive remarks about | them, We do not observe any protest from you against this flagrant viola- tion of civil rights by the socialist party administration in Reading, nor any real campaign to win the rights of miners to collect relief in Pitts- burgh and the steel towns which to the effect that can be starved back to the mills and in meek submission. Every honest | worker in New England should an- | swer this attack by rushing funds to the NIT'WU, 1755 Westminsier St., Providence, R. I. tributions were $50.00 from | Mass. and $16.75 from the Italian Tripoli Club of Lawrence, Mass. The Weybosset ke committee is | Planning increased activity among | “The last reports are | the ‘red flame’ | is on tour of New England to collect | | who are in dire need so that they | e latest con-| “the | NORTON, Virginia, July 31— Bruce Crawford, editor of Crawford's Weekly of this town was ambushed and shot several days ago while in the Harlan mine fields, by the thugs hired by the coal bosses. Crawford | is hated by the coal operators be- cause his paper has editorially sup- | ported the struggle of the miners in | Harlan. ‘The mine operators were | therefore determined to get him. In the following statement Craw- | ford tells his own story of the at- tempt of the coal bosses to murder him, Tyranny of Company Gunmen own recognizance, leave town. ‘The minute we landed in Harlan, the county sheriff, J. H. Blair, spot- ted us from his office window. Soon @ number of newly imported thugs began to follow us about town. They wrote down our licensé ‘humber and kept their eyes on us wherever we went. “Sheriff Blair had recently threat- ened to sue my weekly newspaper for libel in connection with an article that described foul treatment of a labor attorney, who had been es- and warned to Franco-Belgian Club in Lawrence, | | corted to the state line and told not to return. We were not surprised, of course, that his deputies were at our heels— “After talking with a worker in | “I have just returned from the | Harlan coal field, where I was am- | bushed by boss thugs, receiving a shot in the leg. almost all now prohibit such col-) lections. 3 ‘We do not see any protest on your part against the arrest of those who demonstrated at Canonsburg and defended themselves against attacks by Fagan’s gangsters. Instead, your | defense of the Lewis-Fagan ma-| chine which has had them arrested | is being used not only to convict these men, but im an attempt to smash and suppress their organiza- | tion. In view of these facts, we suggest | that if you really intend to defend | civil liberties, you alter your present | policies considerably, and particu- | liarly that you reverse entirely the attitude expressed in your letter to} us of July 23, as far as it refers to/ the Canonsburg affair. This is the decision of the Execu- | tive Committee of the Central Rank| and File Strike Committee which {had your letter before it at its full | meeting, July 24, and ordered this answer to be written. VINCENT KEMENOVICH, Secretary Central Rank and File Strike Committee. FRANK BORICH, Secretary, National Miners’ Union, | the sell-out, ousted from the Shop Chairmen’s Committee; but the workers of the mills represented by these workers have answered the fakers very definitely, by reaffirm- ing their election as their Shop Chairmen, by an overwhelming ma- jority, and by picketing the meeting of the Shop Chairmen, demonstrat- ing their solidarity with the honest, uncorrupted Shop Chairmen, and their defiance to the UTW-AFL-SP machine of contemptible labor fak- ers. The fakers did not dare go through with their plans to oust the militant workers from the commit- tee—who are determined to expose and fight each and every move the fakers make against the interests of the workers—THEY ARE BEING KEPT VERY BUSY EVERY DAY, Tonight, fully 400 silk strikers at- tended a meeting called by the T.U. UL, at which Fred Biedenkapp, leader of the thousands of Paterson silk and dye house workers striking under the leadership of the United Front Strike Committee and the Na- tional Textile Workers Union, spoke. exposing the treacherous role of the A. F. of L. and its affiliate, the U. T. W. who organizes workers and leads workers’ struggles only to be- tray and sell them out to the bosses. 250 Fired On “Relief” Job At Bellingham, Wash.; Plan Hunger March (By a Worker Correspondent) BELLINGHAM, Wash.—Two hun- dred and fifty men working on the county relief job were laid off (fired). Watcom County is going broke, they say—bankrupt—like Ger- many, Detroit and many other cities and countries, ‘These 250 men, all of them mar- ried and with families, were get- ting the small sum of $2 a day and only worked three days a week. When they\were fired they were told that the farmers were kicking be- cause they couldn’t get help to pick the berries and that they (farmers) were paying the taxes to keep the men working on the county roads, and that the berry picking jobs had been offered to the men on the so- called relief job and they refused to take them. Several of these men came to the hall of the Trade Union Uuity Council looking for some kind of ac- tion, They were asked several ques- tions; “How many of you men can support yourself and family for @ period of 90 days without depending on charity?” answered with laugh- ter). “For thirty days?” (no ee OUT ON THE STREETS ON AUGUST FIRST! “For two weeks?” (one or two). “For one week?” The reply was quite general—“If we go easy enough.” We then asked about the berry-picking. One worker stated that he picked berries and earned 21 cents. One worker said that rasp- berry pickers averaged about 60 cents | a day. Several workers (men) said | that they tried to get jobs in the fields, but the farmers wanted wo- men and young girls. Another meet- | ing will be held soon to lay plans for a big hunger march, where we will demand relief for the starving) families. All workers and farmers are urged to attend. German Communist Papers Suppressed | (Cable by Inprecorr) BERLIN, July 31—The Com- munist daily, “Echo Des Ostens” of Koenigsberg, was suppressed for four weeks under the press decree, All) the remaining copies of yesterday's issue were confiscated. | plant enthusiastically greeted | pay cuts. for office workers; the women and young workers. * CENTRAL FALLS, R. I., July 31.— The strikers of the General Fabrics the plans of the NTWU and various strike committees to send a mass delegation to Governor Case on Fri- day, August 7th to demand rights for | the strikers and to protest police brutality. Martin Russak, District Organizer of N.T.W.U., will now devote most of his attention to the Royal Silk strike. GIVE YOUR ANSWER TO HOC- | VER’S PROGRAM OF HUNGER, WAGE CUTS AND PERSECUTION! “I had gone to Harlan last Mon- | day, together with E. S. Fraley, a| Norton merchant interested in the| class struggle, to visit a young man| held in jail on a false charge of “4ntimidating witnesses.” The young man, Allen Keady, was pastor of a/ church in Evarts, center of the mine war. His arrest was instigated by | well-to-do members of church. | “Keady had been in jail nine days | when he received a letter from him asking us to come over. He was re- leased the day we arrived, on his Read the Labor Defender on the miner’s strike. ‘RALLY TO DEFENSE OF THE SOVIET UNION AS SOCIALISTS AID WAR {CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONED through them to the armed forces of the U. S.,, to teke the oil lands from the Russian workers and turn |them over to the czarist exploiters. | The socialist international now meet- ing in Vienna has declared that the) socialist reppesentatives in the capi- talist governments may again vote for war credits as they did in the last war when they helped drive 10,- 000,000 workers to their deaths. Wage Cuts, Unemployment This August 1st sees wage cuts be- ginning for 250,000 workers in the U. 8S. Steel Corporation; wage cuts for 1,200,000 railroad workers; unem- Ployment for 75,000 Ford workers, | and loss of jobs for hundreds of thou- | sands of other workers. The August issue of Scribners Mag- | azine carries an article telling of the rapid preparation for war aided by the officers of the American Legion. The article, written by Marcus Duf- field, an authority on the war prep- aration work of the American Legion, Says: The Legion for Arming “The American Legion has con- stituted itself a gigantic war depart- ment of 800,000 members, which carries on throughout the country a campaign for big army, big navy, and the strongest air force in the world. “The American Legion feels that the United States must reconcile it~ | self to the fact that the world has only ‘signed an armistice,’ as one of And the American Legion believes | this country should take advantage | of the present international lull in| |fighting to build up its martial | forces, “The American Legion, freed of | | matters of more immediate concern | to itself, has now set itself definitely | to the task of making America ready for the next war. The Legion is pursuing the matter of prepared- | ness with a comprehensive efficiency as remarkable as its driving force.” Duffield says that the Legion of- ficers have just launched a new) drive for intensive speed-up of war | armaments, the spending of more/ millions as war is drawing rapidly | near. The imperialists find millions for | their war preparations, but they re- | fuse to give one cent to the unem-| ployed for unemployment relief. Demand Unemployment Insurance. | The hundreds of thousands who will take part in the August Ist dem- onstrations in the United States, | Mobilizing and rallying the workers | against war will demand that all war funds be turned over to the un-| employed for unemployment relief. | ‘They will demand that war prepara- tions cease. They will expose the Socialist traitors’ activity in helping | to prepare war on the Soviet: Union. They will demonstrate for the de- |fense of the Soviet Union, pledging to carry on the fight against the war preparations continuously, urg- |ing the workers to turn the imper- jalist war into a civil war of work- ers against their exploiters, the capi- | | Tespondent, | thugs have been imported. the National Miners. Union, which we learned was making great head- way in the Harlan field, we went | across a swinging foot bridge to the home of Tess Huff, newspaper cor- in another part-of town. When we arrived there we, were told that deputies had loaded up guns in an automobile and were driving about town. We were. warned not to come back across the byidge that night. “Next morning, about nine o'clock, Fraley and I left Huff's house and were about midway of the bridge when the firing began, aimed from an ivy thicket about 300 yards up the river. We mistook the first two shots for the backfire of a car. The third shot struck my leg above: the ankle, inflicting oy a deep flesh | wound. Fra vho. was. walking in front, turned back, when I an- nounced I was hit. Another bullet hit the floor of the bridge. We broke into a run, and had to go a distance of 400 feet before we were out of range. About ten shots were fired in all. “While the city police looked the situation over, no clues were found other than the bullets in the bridge and evidences that the firing had | come from the ivy thicket. The Sher- iff made no attempt to investigate, nor did the commonwealth’s attor- ney. “While no one will be arrested in connection with the shooting, all say they know who was responsible. Since the removal of national guardsmen last week, about thirty Many Harlan citizens, including the local police who are antagonistic to the Sheriff, admit helplessness. The | terrorism of the bosses has supplan- ted whatever law there“ever was. “I have been. to Harlan three times in recent months, finding out what I could about the situation. I do not believe I have seen, in any situation, 2 more complete tyranny. Everything is organized against the workers. There is no relief to be had from the Red Cross, the chur- ches, or any other “benevolent” agency of capitalism. The main reason for the arrest of Keady at Evarts was that he had been obtain- ing relief for the miners and indi- cating his sympathy. “I am not surprised at being shot, for I have long been familiar with mine guard tactics. What impressed me most on this trip to Harlan was the tenseness of things, the immin- ence of greater terrorism, now that its commanders publicly declared. | talists, in the event war breaks out. more gunmen have been brought on. JOIN THE WORLD-WIDE PROTEST OF THE WORK- ING-CLASS AGAINST IMPERIALIST W A R. aaermssite?