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

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, M 2 3, DAY, AUGUST 1931 Page ‘Three SIOUX CITY PACKERS SLASH WAGES, LAUNCH Armour, Swift and Cudahy Cut Wages of All Workers, Fire Many a eae Driven from Homes Pitch Tents Along River; Cops Drive Them On Daily Worker: Sioux City, Iowa. No doubt all are interested in what is happening in ae packing houses, Missouri River eral in Sioux City, Iowa. Armour Co., Swift Co. and Cudary Co. have all made @ wage cut. Fore- men and assistants were cut 10 per cent, which means from $5 to $8 2, week. The laborers received a 3% cents an hour cut from 42/5 cents to 39 cents. The skilled men re- ceived a 5 cent cut. Speed-up It is a terrible strain for any man to work in any of these plants, as the gangs are cut so short and the fast speed of the machines makes it almost impossible to keep up. And if a worker-does not keep up with the machines, he is fired. Hundreds of men are at each gate every morning begging for work. Maybe a couple are put on each morning to take the place of those that can’t keep up with the terrible speed-up. Along the Missouri River one could find many of the workers living in tents and low dirty shacks because they had to leave their rented homes on account of being unable to pay rent, water tax and light. The prop- erty owner complained to the police and these workers were driven off with nowhere to go with their families. What is to be done in cases of this kind? Theonly way is to organize and fight against these conditions in the shop and outside. The Missouri River Project is 150 Project and everything in gen- oo men building docks and dikes. These men work out in heat ranging from 97 to 104 degrees for a wage of 40 to 45 cents an hour. The U. S. govern- ment gave Mr. Peters the contract for this work He is a slave driver from St. Louis and brought his slave driving foremen along with him to drive the workers. Stool Pigeons All the packing houses and shops here have their stool pigeons to spy on the workers, and whenever a word about organization is spoken by a worker out he goes blackballed by the company. If a worker is injured on the job, he gets some treatment from the company and as soon as he almost well they fire him, giving the excuse that they have to cut the gangs. Men over 45 cannot get a job. High school kids on vacation are hired at a wage below that paid to the regular men workers. When the high school kids go back to school, the old workers are rehired at the same wages the kid was getting. Organize Let's get a gang of packing house workers up to the Trade Union Unity League hall at 508 5th Street and start the ball rolling for a mass union and get some things we need, not letting the boss get it all as he has been doing for years. A Packing House Worker. Lonaconing Miners Organize Relief, Prepare to Spread Strike (By a Worker Correspondent) LONACONING, Md. — In Lona- coning, a small mining town 20 miles south of Cumberland with a popula- tion of 6,000, the miners are working only one and two days a week. The rates are 56 cents a ton of coal, with no union checkweighman, and $3.60 for day laborers. | The conditions in the mines are horrible—no safety devices or any regard whatsoever for the miners lives. There is hardly any aid in the mines and it would be utterly impossible for the miners to live on the pay they get were it not for theri little farms and gardens that the miners try to keep up here. Support N. M. U. The miners long ago deserted the old United Mine Workers of America ani the Lewis machine. There is only a small inactive local of the U. M. W. A. here and the miners will have nothing to do with it. They are mosily Scotch miners down here and they are all stanch union men. They all express themselves in favor of the National Miners Union and the work of building a strong local of the union here is being carried on, Collect Relief ‘The strike in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia is heartily en- dorsed by the miners in Lonaconing and a meeting to raise funds to send relief to the strikers is being pushed. This meeting will be held within a few days. All workers for miles around are planning to come to the meeting. We miners here will sup- port the great strike and will or- ganize to spread the strike into these fields here in Maryland. Italian Workers Robbed by Prisco Bank New York, N. Y. Daily Worker: Just a few lines to expose the cap- itelist crooks. All the capitalist papers are talk- ing about the German bank crashes, but very little about the crashes of banks in the United States. Last week one of the biggest Itali- an banks in New York closed its coors, the Prisco State Bank on Mul- berry Street at which the son of the former Tammany governor, Al Smith was a director. The majority of the poorest Italian people had money in this bank. Three mont ago a friend of mine sent $29 to sick father in Tau- roso, Italy, through this bank, but no money has been received as yet. A month after the depositing of this money in the Prisco bank, my friend went to the bank to protest against the money not being forwarded. The officials of the bank told my friend that a mistake had been made, but that the money would be sent at once by telegram. Three months have passed now and no money has been received by the sick father. How many people have lost their money in the same way would be hard to say, but we can safely say that there have been many. The founder of this bank was a cheyalier of the royal crown of fas- cist Italy only a few years ago. Later when Richard E. Enright was police commissioner, the elder Prisco was an honorary police inspector. Mr. Broderick found out about the situation only three months after Bias started its crooked busi- Fall River Textile Workers Ready to Fight Wage Cuts Fall River, Mass. Daily Worker: Up here in Fall River we have the worst mill in the country for wage cuts and speed-up. The name of the mill is the American Print Com- pany. They opened up in full opera- tion after a nine and a half month lay-off with Wage cuts ranging from: 22 to 50 per cent, For instance, the batery boy ofthe Iron Mills ig $16 a week and now getting the starvation wage a week, A couple of us workers wet to the mill a few days ago to the workers. We met an Irish man worker. She told us to go he of ‘ nt hell thinking that we came from the U, T. W., but when she found out that we came from the National *.| Textile Workers Union she was glad to meet us and said she was ready to do anything to help crush the bosses. At noon we had a good shop gate meeting. There were about 300 workers there. The workers were all interested in what our speakers had to say. Comrade Borosso was speak~- ing when a cop came and arrested him and took him to jail. This will not stop our meetings, however, as the workers at the mill said they want to hear more about the National Textile Workers Union. - A WORKER, Call Minnesota Miners to Join National Miners Union — Virginia, Minn. Dear Editor: The conditions of the workers throughout the Iron Range in the Jast year have been going from bad to worse. Hundreds of miners are being laid off and mines that have usually been going full blast are be- few men at a two of four days a week basis, with wages so low that the miners just barely make ends meet. In the town of Chisholm we find workers who are on the verge of starvation and who have had no work for many months. The city council has cut off the little relief that some of the workers were get- ting before the warm weather set in. On July 25 the Communist Party of the Mesaba Range Section held a street meeting in Chisholm, in prep- aration for the August First Demon- stration, which will be held in the city of Virginia at Market Square at 2 pm. Over 100 workers, unem- ployed and employed miners, at- tended, who were very much in- terested in the facts brought out be- fore the workers by the speaker, Morris Karson, Communist organizer of the Mesaba Range. Workers of the Iron Range, only by organizing into the militant unions of the ‘T. U. L. and the National Miners’ Union will we be able to fight wage- speed-up and against cuts, the NIAGARA BOSSES International Bridge BUFFALO, July 31—Niagara Falls | authorities, with Mayor Laughlin in the lead, have taken’ unusual meas- ures to prevent expression of soli darity between American and Cana- dian workers on International Bridge on August First, international day of struggle against imperialist war. The news of the closing of the Aluminum Company plant, throwing several hundred workers on streets on eve of demonstration and fear of formation of aluminum workers committee for work and relief de- mands prompt boss authorities to enforce all special city ordinances empowering mayor with abritrary rule and forbidding banners and parade at demonstration. Close ‘The workers are determined to force demand for relief. The Buf- falo League of Struggle for Negro Rights has mobilized for August First parade to demand release of Alabama victims of capitalist justice, denounce police attacks on Negro workers and Buffalo court’s acquittal of Mrs. Minnie Siegal, white store- keeper, who shot and killed Alfred Branford, 1-year old Negro child, for demanding the nickle she promised him for running errands. Several mass mectings have been held during the week in preparation for August First. A special mass meeting will be held on Monday at 10 a. m, at 13th and East Falls Street Hall, Niagara Falls. REJECTS DOAK’S “CONCESSIONS” NEW YORK—Proposals made by the Department of Labor at Wash- ington through Secretary William N. Doak that working-class leaders facing exile agree to deportation if they are permitted to départ for the Soviet Union, were emphatically rejected in a statement issued by the International Labor Defense, which is handling the cases of the threatened deportees. “Smarting under the exposure of its savage deportation program, the Hoover administration makes these proposals in an effort to carry through these barbarous attacks on labor in secret,” declared J: Louis Engdahl, secretary, International La- bor Defense. Secretary of Labor Doak proposes, for instance, that all appeals to federal courts against outstanding administration persecu- tions be withdrawn and he will grant voluntary departure to the Soviet Union. He opposes raising in court any doubt of his authority. “We definitely reject any such tricky proposals. Such an agreement would mean completely giving up the fighf*for the right of political asylum. Such an agreement could, of course be revoked by the administration under circumstances more favorable to itself, It would be open colla- boration with the Hoover-Doak de- portation program. Instead the In- sify the struggle for the right oi political asylum and against de- portations on every front. The at- tempted pussyfooting tactics of the Hoover administration, to hide its crimes against foreign-born workers, will be fought openly through mass protest and by taking full advan- tage of ‘every opportunity offered in the federal courts.” Secretary of Labor Doak set forth the administration's policy in a letter to the American Civil Liberties Union, July 22, as follows: ’ “You request that this department agree to allow one of these cases to go into court, while the other persons ineluded in this group be permitted voluntarily to depart for Soviet Russia. “It appears to me that my con- sideration of the plan to have the members of this group of aliens under order of deportation go to Soviet Russia is a concession beyond which the department should not go . -I do not concede and in fairness to myself can enter into an agreement which commits me to a doubt of my discretion in such mat- ters. I must decline to be placed in & position of appearing to have a doubt of the power reposed in me by Congress and can enter into an agreement to make a test case of such a question.” ‘The International Labor Defense points out that numerous foreign- born workers, actives in the labor movement in this country face death in the fascist cpuntries to which Washington threatens to send them. ‘These include such cases as Guido Serio, Italian; Machado, Venezuelan; Li and Dea, Chinese; Kenmotsu and Nishamura, Japanese, and Louis Be- brit, Rumanian, The International Labor Defense charges that the immigration agents, in their attempts to smash the strike strugle of the working-class, often arrest native-born citizens, like Anna Burlak, leader in the Rhole Island textile strike, and Nat Kaplan, Bos- ton district organizer of the Com- munist Party. Edith Berkman, New England strike leader, is faced with deportation’ to Poland; although she is a citizen through her father's citizenship. The case is also cited U. Jof the Los Angeles food worker, Yohn Vilarino, who has lived 30 years in the United States, with 12 children ‘orn in this country. He is faced vith deportation on the admission bthat he isa Communists “HIT AUG. 1 MEET TERRIFIC SPEED-UP | ternational Labor Defense will inten- | Huge Anti-War Meets Throughout Country; For Defense of Soviets (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) tant fight against imperialist war. Many worker ex-servicemen were at the meetings, and dozens spoke from platforms declaring the vets would fight on the side of the working- class in the next war. Wage cuts and unemrroyment were scored by the speakers and the workers urged to a struggle against pay cuts and for unemplayment insurance, . . DETROIT, Mich., Aug. 1. — The August First demonstration in De- troit was the most enthusiastic and militant ever held here, Thirtr thousand demonstrated in Grand Circus Park, over 40 per cent being Negroes. The parade marched over three miles through the heart of the Negro proletarian neighborhood with a band and hundreds of signs and streamers denouncing imperialist wars, starvation, etc. Many negro children were in the march barefooted. The parade started with one thousand and upon reaching the park, it had five thous- and. Tens of thousands of Negro and white workers lined both sides of the streets when the parade passed, cheering. The militancy of the crowds defeated the attempts of the police to obstruct the march by letting traffic through the parade. The parade was led by ex-service- men and the Pioneers had an im- pressive column. The Communist candidates were wildly cheered and speeches were made from four stands. Resolutions against the Scottsboro-Camp Hill frame-ups and war were adopted. ee en: * Twenty-five Thousand in Chicago CHICAGO, Ill, Aug. 1—The Au- gust First demonstration held: in Union Park was the best in size, composition and spirit ever had. Twenty-five to twenty-seven thous- and demonstrated, including five thousand Negroes. The demonstration was preceded by a number of neighborhood dem- onstrations and five parades to the Park, mainly by unemployed branches. The youth parade was broken up by police and several were beaten. Four arrests were made. Over one hundred cops and mounted police were very vicious before the demonstration, taking away leaflets and preventing the workers from talking to others. One cop pulled @ gun on a Negro worker who defended a white worker resistirig the cop when he attempted to take away pamphlets from him. They tried to move the crowd to the next block; but seeing the definite resistance of the workers surround- ing them, they yielded. °There-were’ excellent banners and caricatures made by the John Reed Club of Chicago, several of them being displayed from the roofs of several houses surrounding the square. Comrade Gebert who has just re- turned from the mine strike fields brought the message of the coming struggles in Southern Illinois and the necessity of supporting their strike. ee Re Cops Beat Women in Boston BOSTON, Mass., Aug. 1. thousand demonstrated on Bosion | Common against war, wage cuts, unemployment and in defense of the Soviet Union. ‘The demonstration demanded the release of the Scoits- boro boys and strikers, Edith Berk- man, William Murdoch both active in New England textile strikes and others. During Ann Burlak’s speech work- ers raised their banners and cheered. The cops rushed in beating women and tossing children. The workers defended themselves. One woman was thrown to the ground. Many Negro workers present joined in ‘the | ®eht. Fifteen workers were arrested some prisoners later being beaten in the cells. Despite the police attack, the platform was defended and the speaking continued until schedyled time, five o'clock. . March in Philadelphia PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Aug. 1— Ten thousand workers took part in the Philadelphia August First dem- onstration. Two thousand marched from Independence Square to City Hall, with songs and music. A large percentage of the demonstration were Negro workers. * . 4,000 Minneapolis Workers Out MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Aug. 1.— Four thousand workers demonstrated here against imperialist war on Au- gust First despite the rain. There were twelve hundred in the line of march, In Cleveland Square CLEVELAND, Ohio, Aug. 1.—Eight thousand workers demonstrated on the Public Square this afternoon. The workers gathered around five plat- forms despite the rain at the start of the marches which came from three points, The largest representatives of Negro workers yet seen at a local demonstration took part, The dem- onstration was a very militant one. 6) ae oe. Paterson Strikers March PATERSON, N. J.—The August First demonstration against impe- rialist war was held here in front of the City Hall. The textile strikers, 300 strong marched from their hall with a band supplied by the National Textile Workers Union, When the workers reached the City Hall, the strets all around were jammed. The police were ready to smash the demonstration but when they saw the militant spirit of the vorkers they thought better. At the — Eight | and about 5,000 watched from i} the sides, Biedenkapp and Lena Cher- nenko of the General Strike Com- mittee were among the speakers. This demonstration was one of the biggest ever held in Paterson. Cannery Workers In California SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Aug. 1.— The cannery workers of San Jose and Frank Spector led an Anti- Imperialist war march from Embar- cadero to the city center. Four thousand workers singing the Inter- national, were in the march. Greet- ings and pledges of moral and financial support were given to the cannery strikers. Thirty-two workers joined the Comunist Party and the Young Communist League. Frank Spector nd the strikers were met with great enthusiase. Duluth ‘Workers Mititant DULUTH, Minn., Aug. 2.—Three thousand Duluth workers participat- ing in a militant demonstration at Court House Square pledged their solidarity with the Soviet Union. One thousand workers marched through the city to Camels Hall where an enthustastic meeting wae held. Fifteen applications for the TUUL,; five for the Communist Party and Young Communist League were made. ee Steel Workers, Miners Out NEW KENSINGTON, Pa., Aug. 1. —Over 3,000 striking miners and steel workers demonstrated against imperialist war and in defense of the Soviet Union. Many ‘workers joined the Communist Party. MANSFIELD, Ohio, Aug. 1—Over 500 attended a successful August First anti-war demonstration at the Public Square, under the auspices of the Young Communist League. ear Ter 2,000 in Kansas City KANSAS CITY, Mo.—A total of two thousand workers partiicpated in the two demonstrations which were held here today. In the first meeting participating were Negroes. T he fighting spirit of the workers was high and there was a big participa- tion of women in the demonstrations. Speeches by ex-servicemen in uni- form caused a sensation among the workers present. Seventy applications wer e received forthe party. ERIE, Pa. — Betwen fifteen hun- dred and two thousand Negro and white workers were present at the very enthusiastic mecting which was held to protest the imperialist war danger and to defend the Soviet Union. Seeger « SUPERIOR, Wis—Over eight hun- dred workers participated in the Au- gust First parade today and fifteen hundred participated in the demon- Stration at Ironwood, Michigan. After the meeting a very enthu- siastic organization meeting was held indoors which was attended by sev- eral hundred meta] miners. One thousand workers joined in the demonstratiqn which was pre- ceded by @ parade. In 72th the Iron- wood and the Superii: demonstra- ti large numbers of farmers par- ticipated. ek Sane | SAULT ST. MARIE, Mich—Four- | teen hundred workers demonstrated in Border City. Two hundred workers from the Citizens Military Training Camp attended. YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio.—Onethou- i sand workers participated in an enthusiastic meeting held here today. Four hundred workers demonstrated in Warren, four hundred in Camp- bell, 175 in Masury, and 125 in Newcastle, Pa. * bie 3 Demonstrations in Los Angeles LOS ANGELES, Calif.— Demon- strations were held at three points in the city. One thousand workers each participaved in the meetings at the Hammond Lumber Co. and the Good- year Rubber. The other meeting was held at the Plaza. Four workers were arrested at the Plaza, ten at the Hamond plant and sixteen at the Goodyear plant. In the afternoon there was a spontaneous demonstra- tion of three hundred workers. The speaker was arrested and later re- leased. No charges were brought against any of the arrested comrades. CINCINNATI, Ohio/— One thous- and workers demonstrated against imperialist war today. TOLEDO, Ohio.—Seven hundred workers demonstrated for the defense ofthe Soviet Union and against the imperialist war, Passaic Meet. PASSAIC, N. J.—Six hundred workers came out in a militant dem- onstration of their determination to fight bosses’ wars and to defend the Soviet Union. The workers, many of whom were textile workers, lis- tened to speakers of the Communist Party, Young Communist League, National Textile Workers’ Union and of the Unemployed Council. The meeting was ended with a march of 200 workers through town around factory areas and “through working class neighborhoods. The National Textile Workers’ Union Band played songs well known to the workers of this textile town and many joined in the songs. Despite the attempts of agents of the Passaic city government, to break up the meeting, the workers stood their ranks and kept up their militant display of their determina- tion to fight bosses’ wars and to de- fend the Soviet ‘Union. . sitemap tale 4 Mich.:—Six hundred R. L Textile Strike Delegation to Put Demands to Gov’nor (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) | | right to 1—Restoration of the picket for all strikers. 2—The right of’ the workers to be unmolested in their homes in their the workers by the state and local police and the immediate release of all strike prisoners. 4—The free use of all public places of assembling for workers, such as armories, schools, etc. 5—Turning over of all funds now being used for strike breaking pur- poses to the workers for strike and unemployment relief. 6—Adequate uneraployment insur- | ance for every unemployed worker | in Rhode Island. | Greet Murdoch The strike committee of the Wey bosset mill sent the following letter to William T. Murdoch, organizer for | the National Textile Union who is now for in the Providence County jail strike activities, facing de-| | : strikers of the American | Woolen Company, Weybosset Mill in | Olneyville, R. I., now fighting against |a 12 per cent wage-cutting greet our | Comrade and fellow-worker, W. T.| Murdoch, secretary of the National | Textile Workers Unioh. | “We realize that Murdoch was ar- | rested and framed up on a deporta- tion warrant by the U. S. Depart- ment of Labor for the purpose of helping the mill owners to break up the strikes of the textile workers. “Our strike committee has already demanded the release of Murdoch and protested against the strike breaking activities of the U. S. De- partment of Labor. “We pledge our support to the International Laber Defense in their fight for the release of Murdoch, | Berkman and other fighters in labor's | cause whose only crime is loyalty to the working-class.” Spread of Rumors During the past few days rumors were circulated in Pawtucket that) the management of the Royal Mill wished to meetthe strixe committee. These rumors were spread by the police and by the superintendent of the Royal Mill. The purpose of these rumors was to confuse these strikers and make it appear that we | were not willing to negotiate for a} settlement of the strike. Therefore, at 2 meeting of the Royal strikers on Thursday, July 30, six members of our strike committee were elected to see the management and propose a conference. On the same day these six members delivered the following letter to Mr. Frova, superintendent of the mill: “To the Royal Weaving Company: | We have received reports that you | wish to meet with the workers’ com- mittee of the Royal Weaving strikers. The workers’ strike committee stands ready to meet with you to discuss for a settlement of the strike, The committee bearing this letter represents the different nationalities and has been authorized by the strikers to set a date with you for | a conference between you and the strike committee, with no outsiders present: (Signed Royal Weaving Strike | Committee.) After reading the strike committee ietter Mr. Frova stated: “We do not yet want to meet the strikers’ com- mittee. We are not yet ready to settle the strike.” | The mill remains erfppled. The most important departments are solidly out on strike. | The Royal Weaving strikers re- main solidly united for the following demands: Withdrawal of the wage- cut; no fining system; raise of a half cent a yard for the plain loom weavers; restoration of tho last 10 per cent wage-cut for winders; no discrimination and recognition of the mill committee. meeting held here tonight. The meeting was followed by an indoor meeting at which two hundred work- ers were present. The. Pioneers’ songs lent militancy to the spirit of the meeting. . \ nee JERSEY CITY, N. J., Aug. 1-- Five hundred workers demenstrate® at Newark and Jersey Aves. against imperialist war. The White Band, an outgrowth of the K. K. K., tried to disrupt the meeting. The workers here endorsed the program of the Communist Party against war. faa ae ALLIANCE, Ohio, Aug. 1—The August First demonstration here was very successful with 300 workers demonstrating. Forty-four applica- tions for Party membership were made. Both Negro and white work- ers responded. * Sasi y 5,000 in Wheeling. WHEELING, W. Va., Aug. 1.-—Five thousand demonstrated at the Steu- benville Court House, defying the County Commissioner. One thou- sand workers demonstrated in Wheeling with many state and local police present. Striking miners and steel workers attended both demon- strations, Advertise Your Union Meetings Here. For information Write to Advertising Department The DAILY WO: 50 East 13th St. Ny a Labor Defense represen three others were 2 lan on tt ture of the State of Rhode Island hove She was released t the following demands: bail. Today a gang of m sixty c ny gunmen the t others complet Club at Wallins Creek where the house for or Sheriff Blair and the operators’ thugs are boane ae the conference will | WALLINS, Ky., July 31 lay Jesse London, the ester- onal and charg with machine destroy use of the streets and public places, | “onal ss Miners Union has _ been 3—Immediate stopping of all un- | Meeting warranted arrests and frame-ups of] The police are searching eve in 16 Meets; Steel {CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) and the @choes reverberated like thunder. A police patrol circled the meet- ing, lou ringing bel attempt to break up the demo tion, but failed. John Meldon, natio’ of the Metal Worker League, said: “We're plar struggle in the steel industry will make the 1919 strike look li rehearsal Richard B. Moore was greeted wost enthusiastically of all v told of the strikes spreading under the leadership of the Trade Union Unity League, about what the wor! ers are doing in the Soviet Union the role of the Communist Party in this country. He also heatedly de- nounced the attempt to send the Scottsboro boys to death and the | foul murder in Alabama of the Crop- per Union member. Negro Workers “I walked all teh way from Home- stead to come to this speaking,” one colored miner remarked as the meet- ing adjourned, “but what'll I have] to tell when I get home!” @The large number the meeting emphasized the solidar- ity of the Negro and white workers. Large groups marched together to} the demonstration in spite of the Police warnings. Fourteen workers were during the past two days for d tributing leaflets. enthusiastic. PITTSBURGH, Pa. Aug: 1—A tremendous denunciation ~ against war swept the Pennsylvania, ‘Ohio | and West Virginia strike zones to- day, as 17 huge demonstrations were held right in the heart of the great- | est war-materials producing center jin the country. Plans to intensify picketing and spread the strike were also highlights of the demonstrations in the strike sections. In each meet- | ing, the Communist Party represen- tative was given a great ovation. Miners Break Through Police Lines. ‘The most acute terror was seen in the steel towns, where anti-war prop- aganda is feared, just as the danger of the strikes against starvation spreading to the steel mills isa spec ter before the steel powers, son reported a pitched battle. dale broke through the police; lines and successfully held si¥ir demon- | © stration. McKeespeft’s demonstra- tion was the only demonstration that was smashed by the police. Six workers were arrested in ‘McKees- | port and four in Monesson. Pitts- burgh saw one of the most enthusi- astic demonstrations held here in years. William Z. Foster was enthusias- tically greeted by the striking min- ers of Brownsville. For the first time in the history of the town the miners, 2,000 strong, paraded all through the streets before the meet- ing began. Here the miners reported that 65 per cent of those working in Vesta No. 6 had joined the strike as @ rsult of picket activity, and Mon- day's line is expected to finish the job. This is a key mine in the region. I. Hawkins, representing the Com- munist Party, was enthusiastically applauded. Weber, Finan and Wil- liams were the other speakers here. Women and Children in Parade. Other parades were held in Coy- erdale, New Kensington and Avella. In Coverdale the deputies threatened to break up any attempt to parade. They were especially insistent that the women and children be kept out. But 900 men, women and children marched. Two banners, one calling for the defense of the Soviet Union and the other for a workers’ and farmers’ government in America, were destroyed by the police. Over 1,400 attended the meeting. Despite the impressive mobilization of police in the steel and coal cen- ter, New Kensington, 2,000 paraded of Negroes at} arrested | Mones- | ‘The | striking miners parading from Price- | Reign of Terror i in ‘Keritucky Mine Zone; Raid Hall, Homes put tothe {Judge H rants ,he Wallins Greek Squire to show search war- used to do so. Thugs elves to anything in the miners’ e on @ regular man instructions to Itor ave ioned all around high powered | field es and rifles. They are combing the c le, The des- pe of the thugs. grows each Miners’ families are have the conference. of the thugs increased mination to carry on ore k among the miners’ Striking Miners Protest War Danger Workers Take Part and Barnes, ation was held Jack Johnstone paraded from ovan into Avella n there. Over Mills, O’Brien, nd Ray Heim were tate police also mobilized in ington threatening to smash | any attempt to march on the coun- ty building. Since the building was | closed Saturday afternoon, the 1500 coal miners and steel workers de- | cided to elect a delegation to send to | the county commissioners Monday | to demand in their name the re- lease of all strikers arrested in Washington county, and not picket an empty building. The miners never announced any intention of marching on the building. Steel Workers Join Miners in Dem- onstration Again steel workers combined with coal miners presented a strong front the Steubenville demonstration. Here 5,000 workers, defying the county commissioners’ edict, demon- | strated before the courthouse in | Steubenville. John Harvey spoke for the Communist Party and Scott, | Bohus and Katy Spetleski spoke for | riking miners, a thousand miners and steel | workers participated in a spirited . nti-war demonstration and rally to spread the Triva, Miles and Frieda Truhar spoke to an extreme- ly responsive audience. Many state | and local police were present. | Try to Break Up Monesson Mecting.- In Monesson, the police met the | Pelcedale miners as they marched into that steel town’ to attend the | anti- demonstration. Agnes Ke-vl,”” | menovich, Tom Rodgers and Austin were arrested, but all the others got | through the police lines and reached the meeting at Finish Hall where }many steel worktrs had already Adam Getto opened the meeting |as police invaded the hall. Getto Jaunched into a bitter attack against the police, for their vicious charge | on the marchers. Getto was imme- diately arrested because “there was no American flag.” But when Mary | Smith who immediately took his place on the speakers stand pointed out a flag was hanging over the | platform high up. The charge was anged to “speaking against the po= lice.” | By this time the chief of police and five other officers arrived on the scene and kept interrupting with orders about what speakers could’ or could not say. Mary Smith was told to “keep quiet”, that she would be arrested if she said any more “against the po- lice”, but the militant head of the Women's Auxiliaries of the National | Miners Union, continued her speech, disregarding the interruptions and not modifying her attacks an imch. She was followed by Ben Careathers, Negro representative of the Commu- nist Party, who was given a great reception. Although the terror was sharp, the meeting proceeded to a successful finish. | 500 METAL WORKERS IN AMBRIDGE Although a permit was granted to the Ambridge Holy Rollers and an organ parked on a lot before the demonstration was to begin, when the speakers arrived the police chief told the Holy Rollers to continue, that he would “take care of the crowd”. But the preachers fearing hundred metal workers heard John | Meldon, Secretary of the Metal Workers Industrial League, and Ann Allen of the Young Communist League. Those arrested at Mones- son and McKeesport were released. Additional demonstrations at Johnstown and Bentleyville heard Bob Wood and Alfred Wagenknecht speak, “WAGES MUST COME DOWN QUICK”. {CONTINUED FROM PAGE UNE) statement to make ot on the wage cut situation.” The American Woolen Co. isn’t talking. It’s acting, slashing wages 16 1-2 per cent, At the same time, there is a drastic attack on the wages of the office workers, All workers are getting wage reductions. Referring to the wage slashes of office workers, the Now York Evening Post recently declared: “A definite movement appeared under way today to bring down the salaries of the ‘white collar’ class in the United Sta reached a maximum of 10 per cent, but in some instances have been only |5 per cont. The ‘white collar’ class, whose income has been maintained throughout the current depression, is the last to feel the effects of the slump. “Today Armour & Co., one of the “Big Four” in the packing industry, announced a salary reduction of from 5 to 10 per cent. Other big organizations which Nave or will reduc Jarics are United States Stecl, Southern Railway and Del- aware & Hudson. Many minor come jpanies also have cut their ‘white collar’ men,” * Remogsaauea there were about 5,000 | w were Bt esent at the om esate,