The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 8, 1931, Page 5

PAILY WORKEL, N27 405,02 North Dakota Y. C. L: Members Arrested for Protesting Frame Up of Young Negro Worker Three Workers Outrageously Sentenced to Jail As Court.Refuses Them Right of Defense LARSON, N. D.—The Young Com-~ munist League of Faxton, Columbus and Larson, North Dakota, held @ meeting in June and elected a com- mittee to prepare » leaflet of protest, also to arrange a demonstration at the county court house, to demand the release of Clarence Tucker, a young worker, said to be part col- ored, who has been held in the county jail without a trial since last Feb- ruary. The entire case is a glaring injus- tice. The young worker, Clarence Tucker, is charged with rave of a sixteen-year-old girl, when the facts show that the father of the girl is now under arrest for assaulting her, and {t is rumored many young men of prominent families are known to have had relations with the girl— one of them, a son of one who fig- ures prominently in the prosecution of Tucker. The Tucker lad seems to have been really in love with the girl and took her to Canada, where they were married. On their return, the giri was vut in the Gitl’s Reform- atory at Mandon and Tucker was thrown in jail on a charge of rape. It. is commonly known that bribes have been offered to him to plead guilty, which he has steadfastly re- fused to do. At the session of Burke County Court, where he was in jail, his case was to come up for trial—no special jury had been selected, only the county panel. When the YCL leaflet was printed, a committee of three young workers went to the County Attorney’s office and showed him the demands of the YCL. While they were there, Judge Lowe, the Dts- trict judge, overheard them, and had them arrested and put in the county Jail for “contempt of court.” ‘The young men were Ashbel Inger- son, county organizer of the UFI— who had helped the YOU members to write the leaflet-—F. Witty of Lar- son and Robert Gladnick, a boy only seventeen who had recently come to North Dakota from the East. Before the boys could get advice of counsel, young Witty pleaded guilty of distributing the leaflets and ‘was released on a suspended sentence, Ingerson and young Gladnick were held without bail. The. day of the trial the court house was packed: with their friends. The judge then pre- pared a set of questions, on paper, for them to answer. 2 He did not allow the International Labor Defense lawyer tosay one word in argument—the boys’ answered the questions in writing, the judge then glanced over them, called out~ “Guilty”"—and sentenced Ingerson ‘to 30 days, and Bob Gladnick an ad- ditional fine of $200—‘“which if not paid would make him liable to sixty days in prison.” ‘They were sentenced to the county jail, but immediately after the sen- tence, they were carted off. to Minot, ‘Ward County, a jail sixty miles away from their own county. This jail is notoriously unsanitary. They were held incommunicado, the sheriff loud ly declaring to their many friends when they asked to see the boys, that they were dangerous enemies. of the government; that Ingerson’s letters fiance and others were locked his safe—and “he would show to the federal officers,” ete., father of Ashbel Ingerson is entire state of North Dakota. He telephoned Judge Lowe July 11—from St.Paul, where he was at the time, that he was coming to North Da- kota to see his son on Sunday, and fhe would demand an explanation of the injustice done to these boys. ‘The | judge became alarmed and met Mr. he had never been arrested before,” ete; ete. Ashbel did not promise any- thing, or recant in any way, but he was forthwith released on Sun- day. Of course, he and all their friends, immediately demanded the rélease of young Robert Gladnick, who Was as innocent of the charge of “contempt of court” as Ingerson; but.so far all efforts to secure his telease have failed. On Tuesday, July 14, a mass pro- test meeting was held near the county court house at Bowbells, greeting In- gerson, who made a fine speech de- manding the release of Bob Gladnick, | saying his conduct in jail'was good and that there should be no discrim- ination between him, a boy alone in this country, and himself, who had a politically influenced father. The other speakers all stressed the fact that hundreds of farmers and work- ets everywhere would stand by young Gladnick, or any other workers, who suffered injustice at the hands of the capitalist courts. C. E. Taylor the editor of the “Pro- ducer’s News” came all the way from Plentywood, Montana, with a carload of Moritana farmers to take part in the protest. He stressed the fact that these young workers and farmers were arrested—not Yor contempt of court—but becawse they were young Communists. Andrew Ombholt, Dis- trict Organizer of the C. P. pledged the support of the Party to the young worker under fire and pointed out that workers and farmers could not receive justice under “capitalist law.” Arvo Husa spoke for the YCL. Many young farmets, both boys and grils were present. Ella Reeve Bloor, state organizer of the United Farmers League was chairman of the protest meeting. Her plea was for @ more determined organization of the farm- ers, their sons and daughters, against the rule of capitalism, which makes it, possible to jail and murder the champion of the farmers and workers everywhere. A ringing resolution demanding the release of Robert Gladnick was pass- ed unanimously, and similar resolu- tions-will be presented at all gather- ings of farmers in the near future, Mill Boss Advises Worker To Eat Grass .. (By a Worker Correspondent) CHICAGO, Il.—A worker of the International Harvester Co., a father of seven children, finding it impos- sible to support his family on ac- count of his work being reduced to Lonly two days a week, went to the superintendent of his department and explained to him the sad state of his family. /ocMr. Brading, the superintendent in question, listened to the story of the worker and replied arrogantly, Ey don't you and your family eat | grass? You can feed your family in of sterling character and much |'the same manner that the horses are |. fed.” “BOOKS LONG OVERDUE! DAILY WORKER PICNIC “AUG. 16 ATT PLEASANT BAY PARK! ‘Workers who do not want thelr marhes . published use of pos- sible persecution this In sending in t) ir tions, lectors should ask those who contribute whether they want. \' their names printed. Only $87.95 in the mail today! While this brings the tota $ i e.86, two thousand doll: still needed to reach the $40,000 mark. District 9 is responsible-1 i 4 DIST. 2 %$15.50 of the above figure, due to several spurts on the part of Units “Paiid™ Sections in the district as well ‘as contribution of $5 from Lincoln, ‘Ark., Educational Association. 15 adds $4 to its growing fig- District 1 fulfilled its quote 6 ‘anxious to see ho the next District to reach 100 er cent will be! Cleveland, Chicaro, onnecticut, Butte? Lets have a ‘lit tle race! ° Platafiel Unit 50 Pena a 'magia — 1.00] Unit Bio 1.00 § Wechsler tno | Unite 15 H Tu 50 25 Mi 25 | Sect 50 New York City ber-*4 h 50 1 Kaqlan 25 2.00 K_ Korloson 1:20 250 ta em be Soc, ILD Br 31.10 rot 2, ian ae aso DIST. 3 Punk, 50 w ‘0 § Balushik 9 5 Monnstenkt 50 M Sedop 50 Col at mect ar- - rani for Com- rede Levin \ \ Altimore 13.00 atl Total 16.00 : DIST, 7 Detroit, Mich Perey D Quimby; DIST, 12 Finnish Workt Wenen Sh pide 5.00 ‘Wentport, Conn = jorens! otal 4: Rukkila, Ebe Ly e' Par YCL, Eben Jet Prov fee” s7,083.08 Hh 2. roll EE 1.00 ‘Total 18.00 Dist. 8 ‘M Petranovich 2.00 | Brooklyn, N Y- "A We J Majnevich 1.00| Heloine Gard "50 4 h 150) 8 Hook | 1. Renlund 25 eee sexes. 1.50 i pking, Butte Mw ar 50 -motal 4.75| Mont 5.00 1 o 1.00 DIST, 5 ciesastatons od Briski -50| Wm A Staley Total 75 Ls M 1.00] Kane, Pa 2.00| rot, ait atnin S888 Total — 8.00 ‘motal 3.00 |otal to date 838,076.58 Ingerson at the train with a court) order to release Ashbel Ingerson “as | This is lives. at the Chicago Tribune calls “democracy” and “civilization” and this is what thousands of Negro and white workers are fighting against, evictions of jobless families which means that children of tender years are forced to live under the worst possible sanitary conditions that wi stunt and ruin their Above photo shows Mrs. Dorothy Lacey and her three children who was evicted from her home at 1713 West Monroe Street, Chicago, and is now forced to live in a damp, totally uhsanitary tunnel in a stone quarry at Campbell and Grand streets. . The three Negro jobless workers who were shot down in cold blood last Monday by thugs fought with all their strength against this very thing, fought to prevent’ this barbarous misery being visited upon innocent workingelass women and children, Negro and white. the Chicago police PINEVILLE, Ky., Aug. 7—If the American Civil Liberties Union is ac- tually trying to break the miners’ strike against starvation and trying to help the operators and the gov- ernment smash the organization of these miners, the National Miners’ Union, then the American Civil Lib- erties can be very proud of their re- cent statement to the press con- demning the N. M. U. because Pat Fagan of the U. M. W. and his thugs Jost the battle of Canonsburg and were run from the field by the min- ers of that community. It. has caused the operators and the press to fecognize the “C. L.” as a great institution. This statement was instantly picked. up by the newspapers of Pittsburgh and made the heart and center of a vicious publicity cam- paign to lay the basis for armed ac- tion to drive the N. M. U. under- ground or if possible to crush it alto- gether. Now, way down here’in the Ken- tucky coal fields, where miners. are literally fighting for their lives against the most extreme, open fas- cist terror that has ever existed in America, where they are dying right and left from starvation and starva- tion diseases, and still go on fight- Jing, where prices are set on the heads of their leaders of thousands of dollars for the gunman who will kill those leaders—here we find the Canonsburg statement of the Ameri- can Civil Liberties Union being used to crush this strike, to starve more Kentucky babies to death, to send them to their little graves through the foul, painful “flux” (a starvation disease), and to-givé aid and,com~ fort to the armored gunmen, with the telescopic sights on their rifles, surveying the hills for a shot at Dan Brooks, the N. M. U. organizer, You get $2,000 bonus if you can kill Dan Brooks within ten days, and leaflets flooding Harlan County quote the American Civil Liberties Union state- ment on Canonsburg as proof that the National Miners’ Union is out- Jawed, that it is “the common enemy of all mankind” and its members can be hunted over the hills and shot Dis-, from ambush like wolves or rabbits. No, the American Civil Liberties did not say that the N. M. U. was “a common enemy,” it is never as outspoken as ‘that. All it did was to make a statement attacking the N. M. U. because Canonsburg miners defendede themselves against the U. M. W. strike-breaking. But if Nunn and Roger Baldwin, college profes- sor and pfofessional liberal who signed the statement, have the slight- est political sense, they must have known the effect of such a state- ment, thrown to the rapidly fas- cizing movement against the miners, and thrown by an organization of some prominence which the oper- ators and the U. M. W. can hail as a “disinterested third party,” or even as a friend of the N. M, U. In fact the letter of the Civil Lib- erties begins with the salutation: “Friends!” Talk about a Judas kiss! ‘The Harlan County leaflets are put out by the United Mine Workers of America, signed by William Turn- blazer, president of the U. M. W., District 19. This is the man who made the bargain with Governor Sampson of Kentucky to fill Harlan County with troops to try to smash the strike which Turnblazer and In- ternational President Lewis of the U. M, W. repudiated, refused relief and lined up with the coal operators to break. ‘The leaflets are printed in red, white and blue and contain a vicious attack against the N, M. U., an ad- mission that the wages of Kentucky miners are less than those of the PICKET LINES KEEP MINES FROM OPENING; CONDEMN THE ACTION OF THE CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION convicts working in the mines of ‘Tennessee, and that these conditions drive men to revolt, wherefore thé U. M. W. should be recognized by the operators as their best means of crushing such a revolt. This is the U. M. W. policy from Alabama to the Anthracite and all in between. It is the A. F. L. policy in the textile and garment districts and in every. other industry. But the basis of the leaflet is the reprinting in full of the Pittsburgh Press editorial of July 25, entitled “A Common Enemy,” the first two paragraphs of which read as follows: ~-Tthé™ National. -Miners’ Union has become a common enemy to everyone—to coal operators, to the United Mine Workers, to the gen- eral public and even to the strikers who have followed its misguided leadership. “Eyen the Civil Liberties Union, traditional friend of oppressed minorities and stout exponent .of free speech everywhere, has found it necessary to rebuke this organ- ‘ization for the disgraceful occur- rence at Canonsburg, when mem- bers of the N. M. U. broke up by violence a United Mine Workers’ meeting and provoked a riot.” A “common enemy” in the coal gamps of Pennsylvania means some- one tobe gassed, clubbed, trampled on with horses and maybe shot by state troopers, also to be arrested and held under $10,000 bond and imprisoned. ; A “common enamy” in Kentucky means some one to be hunted through the hills with machine guns and shot to death on sight. If the American Civil Liberties Union knew this, they can be proud of the deaths that result. If they did not know this, they should stop monkeying with serious matters, in- volving the lives bf hundreds of work- ers, until’ they get th efirst elements of a political education, . WS) ein 9 JOHNSTOWN, Pa, Aug. 7—In- ternational Board Member Gazaoni of the U. M. W. collected $69 from the business men of Kittanning, Pa., “for the Sagamore and Nu-Mine strikes,” a few days ago while the United Mine Workers was &till able to make a bluff that it was leading those strikes, The strikers never got a cent of this money. Gazzoni left the field with the enemy. On April 15, the Shawmut Coal Co. cut the miners at Prandycamp from 71 cerits a ton to 50 cents. The U. M. W. held a meeting June 15, and organized them, and also in three other mines, The Shawmut men struck, 200 of tem, but the other three were not allowed to strike by the U. M. W., which had an argu- ment there. Then the Shawmut men went back and ,the company fired the local union president. Now they are out again; they struck Monday and have sent word for the National Miners’ Union to come and lead them this time. Theemert in the mines where the U. M. W. has a contract are ready to strike, too, for they are getting only 2,600 pounds of coal credited to them on big, long cars, 05 Pyne’ SLOVAN, Pa., Aug. 7—The mine here tried to reopen recently and a picket line of about 300 kept it closed. About 20 went in and that was all, In immediate retaliation, the local constables and the state polive and sheriff united in a determined at- tempt to prevent picketing on the public highway entirely and to arbi- trarily close down the Pennsylvania- Ohio-West Virginia-Kentucky Strik- ing Miners Relief kitchen. ‘The constable and police mét the | pickets and ordered them off the road, They refused to go, and the constable tried to make some arrests. He seized one woman and put her in the car, and the crowd collected around and the got away. fierce attack, clubbing and charging | with horses into the crowd, was} lounched by the police, who now} amounted to 16 siate troopers, of whom six were mounted. The picket line was broken up and three were arrested—Katherine Vysocki, Mrs.) Petra Walivick and George Pas- nickos, But an even more serious attack on the miners, striking against star- vation, came a little later. During] the attack on the picket line a con- siderable number of the pickets were driven by the police into the relief kitchen, erected near the highway, but on property leased by the Relief Committee. The sheriff came into this kitchen | and ordered it to be closed by noon, or he would have it padlocked! The International Labor Defense immediately sent a representative to Slovan to’put up a fight against this deliberate attempt to starve the miners of the Lancloth Mine back to slavery. | NEW KENSINGTON, Pa., Aug. 7. —Barking Mine of the Hillman Coal and Coke Co, tried to re-open this morning. It has been closed down by the strike and the superintendent has been making fancy promises to the men that if they would come back wages would: be higher,’ more of the coal tey mine will actually bé weighed, conditions better, etc. It was supposed to. re-open Monday, but failed. It tried this morning, with a flock of state police present. One of the promises of the super was that no deputies would be hired. | But, without telling the men what he was going to do, he substituted state cossacks. Very few went, into the mine, which had a good picket line. . * . The National Miners Union has re- peatedly requested that Governor Pinchot, withdraw the armed forces of the state from the strike area, | where théy are engaged in erroriz- ing and beating, gassing, riding down and arresting miners and members of miners’ families. Now governor Pinchot is Feported in the newspapers as threatening in a speech to the Pennsylvania Nati- onal Guard mobilized at Mt. Gretna to send the militia also into the mine strike area, and in the course of his speech he goes out of the way to make the propaganda statement—a false staemnet— that the “‘trouble” in Pennsylvania, that is, the strike, is due to “agitators from other states.” All the trouble in Pennsylvania is due to the attacks by the armed forces of the state on miners striking against starvation. We protest most emphatically against the plan of the operators’ man, Pinchot, to increase thes? armed forces by adding to them the state militia, ‘The Pennsylvania-Ohio-West Vir- ginia-Kentucky Striking Miners Re- Hef Committee recently telegraphed governor Pincht a request for the tents of the National Guard, to house eyicted miners’ families, Governor chot answered with a telegram to the Relief Committee, dated July ~7, and statinb: ““T am doing my best and hope to prvent starvation among the striking miners and especially among the chil- dren and only wish I had the power absolutely to forbid evictions. Un- fortunately I do not.” Governor Pinchot said not one word in his telegram about the re- quest of the Relief Committee for the tents of the National Guard, but now he proposes to send the National Guard itself, to dragoon the strikers, instead of sending their tents to save the lives of hungry, evicted women and babies. The state treasury department re- ported August 3, 1931, that it has a surplus of $89, 636, 426, which is more than a milion dollars in excess of the surplus six months ago, and more than $9,000,000 in excess of the balance @ year ago, While this enor- World-Wide _ ‘Then a], £ Page Five Demonstrations August 22nd | PAGR UNE) rts planning to make an ex- of them by railroading them terms or, possible death sen- on fake charges that they nspiring to murder the land- These dastardly charges to jail | tenc owners have been peddled not only by the} landowners but leaders of the N. A. A. O. P., par~ ticularly by Walter White and Wil-/} liam Pi | ational Labor Defense is | pushing the fight to} smash the frame-up against these remaining croppers. The fight must have full support of the masses | in every part of the United States and throughout the world. In the meantime the I. L. D. is} preparing its defense of 14-year-old | Roy Wright. the only one of the nine} Scottsboro boys who was fot sen-/ tenced to death in the original far- cical trial. At that trial, Stephen} Roddy, one of the present attorneys | of the N. A. A. C. P., helped the| boss court in railroading the boys | to the electric chair. Roddy has been denounced by ail nine of the| boys and their parents as “a be- trayer of their cause.” In spite, however of the protests of the boys and their parents the misleaders of | that organiaztion still continue to] collect money in the names of the| boys. On Aug. 22 the workers, Negro and | white, must pour into the streets in| tens of thousands to protest the nation-wide petsecution of Negro workers, the Scottsboro frame-up, the Camp Hill massacre, the massacre by Chicago police in which three Ne- gro workers were murdered and scores 6f white and Negro workers | wounded, thé continued imprison- | of Mooney and Billings after | has been atedly | and deportation | working-class leaders. the boss terror against ing class! Demand the of all class war prisoners! the deportation and lynch-| ing terrors! Defend the Negro and! foreign-born workers! Demonstrate | Aug. 22! Lower Anthracite Anti-War Meetings Shamokin, Pa. Police | Break Up Meetings MINERSVILLE, Pa.—Over 400 workers attended the Aug. 1 anti-war demonstration in Minersville, Pa.. A very enthusiastic meeting was held. At Pottsville, Pa., the county seat of Schuylkill County, a demonstration of over 400 workers was held;. over 100 Negro workers attended the dem- onstration. ae ae SHAMOKIN, Pa.—The police of Shamokin had refused permission to the Communist Party to hold en Aug. 1 demonstration, but a demon- stration was held, to which over 500 workers came. The police were on hand for the opening of the meet- ing, and when the speaker started to address the workers the police in- terrupted with the argument, “Where is the American flag,” and told the speaker they would give us a break, and we should go, this was refused and the speaker, Margaret Nelson arrested. The workers of Shamokin followed the police to the station and -there remained voicing thelr resentment and protest. After a private con- ference, with the officials of the town, the Burgess came out and stated, “You are fined $10, your speakers do nothing else but attack the U.M.W.A leaders, the govern- ment, and we have enough mud on our streets, we don't want you fel- lows coming around slinging more mud.” There was no heariixz. Com- rade Nelson protested against this procedure where a sentence is given without no semblance of a hearing, and together with the protest of the workers the authorities of Shamokin were forced to go through with a farcical trial, questioning the’ police, who made the arrest, but not asking the speaker even one question, then again stated a $10 fine or five days. The workers who heard this were furiou§ and the fine was paid by them. . After the release. the: crowd took the speaker back to the place where the meeting was to be and there were several hundred workers wait- ing there, told them that the meet- ing would be in the Township and these workers paraded through the town and held teir meeting. Over 500 workers were present. and Pinchot issues demagogic and purposely futile objections to the evic- tion of the miners; his real policy ap- pears in his speech at the militia camp yesterday. It's a policy of bul~ lets, clubs and bayonets, not food or tents, or insurance paid for by the state as we demand. ° This policy will find the 40,000 min- ers who strike against sarvation as determind as ever to win their strike, and it will teach them the hypocricy of the Pincht “liberalism.” Mean- while the Pennsylvania-Ohio-West Virginia-Kentucky Striking ‘Relief Committee calls on all to send don- ation of food, clothing or money to the ssiking miners. Its address is 611 Penn Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa., Room 205. FRANK BORICH Secretary National Miners Union, HAWKINS: District Chairman of the Pen- Ohio- West Virginia-Kentucky Striking Miners Relief Com- mous treasure piles up at Harrisburg, mittee, : | International Labor Defense. 170 ORGANIZATIONS FUNERAL OF CHICAGO, Aug. 7.—Within ARE BACKING 3 NEGROES TODAY one hour of the removal of the body of John O’Neil to the Odd Fellows Hall, at or 3337 South State Street, large numbers of workers were filing past the by the traitorous Hier of this victim of the police massacte of last Monday when three Negro witiam saunders, Barney Batighe- workers were murdered and |shire, Lewis Temmes and Charles scores of white and Negro| Hampton, charged with disorderly workers wounded. The workers ceme eously to pay their last respects to} their martyred dead At the same time, thousands of | workers, both white and colored, were | holding a tremendous mass demon- | stration in Washington Park in pro- test against the massacre of unem- ployed worker who were demo. at ing Monday afternoon against the jconduct and vagrancy. Boss Press Inciting Further Terror ‘The boss press continues to incite to further police terror against mili+ - The Chicago Herald in an editorial declares Before Chicago turns its serious at- tention to constructive plans for-deal- ing yith the unemployed problem during the coming winter it: will necessatily have to get rid of the meh who are preying upon the dis- eviction of an unemployed Negro] content and hardship of the unem- woman, The meeting in Washington | pioved Park was addressed by white and| nis is a direct call to deprive the Negro leaders of the Communist] working class of its militant and Party. There were also speakers from | trusted leadership by arresting the the Unemployed Council, the League | of Struggle for Negro Rights and the A col lection of thirty-six dollars wds take: up for the funeral of the murdered workers, Within 24 hours’ notice, 170 repre- | sentatives of Negro and white mass | organizations met here Thursday afternoon to work out detailed plans for the mass funeral on Saturday at 2p. m. from the Odd Fellows’ Hall. A committee of 25 was elected to handle arrangements. Faced with the growing unity of | Negro and white masses and their inereasing militancy, Mayor Cermak has called another emergency confer- ence of his cabinet to work our plans and methods of suppressing the tre- mendous mass movement now devel~ oping under the leadership of the Communist Party. Social Fascists Join Boss Alliance True to their traditional role of betraying the struggles of the masses, the yellow “socialist” party has joined forces with the Negro reformists, priests, real estate men, and Negro Republican politicians’ to set up a fake committee on unemployment and evictions in an attempt to pla- cate the masses and mislead them with false promises. Proceeding with the whitewash of the police, Judge Erickson has sen- tenced two workers, John Hunter and Joe Ellis, to three months in jail. Both were arrested before the mas- sacre. Having no evidence against them they were held on vagrancy charges because they are unemploy- ed. It is on this charge thaey were sentenced to jail. Seven other workers, most of theni Negroes, are being held for jury trial under the exhorbitant bond of $17,500. They are Joseph Gardner, Timothy Jones, Marion Watkins, charged with “inciting to riot” and with vagrancy. white and Negro Communist leaders and by an attempt to smash the Com- nunist Party. ‘This is further re- vealed by an afticle in the Chicago Tribune, under @ Washington date- |line, which complains that. “Little is being done to halt the activities of ctivities of the Communists. - De- portation is about the only United States Threat.” Workers Mobiilze to Fight Another Eviction, In the North Side territory. of the Lake St, Unemployment Branch, the workers were mobilized yesterday to | stop an eviétion. The eviction no- tice, however, was not executed, the bosses deciding that it would be too dangerous to continue throwing workers into the streets. Therefore, | for the time being, they have stopped their evictions. Sucvessful street meetings are be ing held throughout Chicago, in, ad- dition to the great demonstrations which have been taking place ip. Washington Park almost daily. Tese meetings are serving to mobilize the workers for Saturday's macs fitie- ral of the massacre victims, They. mands and struggle of the workte: on the South Side. " ‘ Another issue of 50,000 leaflets has been distributed, calling on the work- ers to attend the mass funeral @né | to defend the Negro masses. | The League of Struggle for_Ne- gto Rights has also issued 20,000 leaflets, the Unemployed Council 20,000; the I.L.D, 20,000. So far 160+ 000 leaflets have been distributed | since the massacre. : In Maywood, nin¢ workers artest- ed in the August First demonstra- tion were placed on trial todiy. "The court room was packed with workers protesting their arrest. Hundreds of ‘workers were driven out of the co’ fy the police. ; GERMAN WORKERS MOBILIZE FOR PRUSSIAN REFERENDUM SUNDAY Gov't Forces Papers to Print Manifesto De- nouncing Vote; (Cable by Inprecorr.) “BERLIN, Germany, Aug. 7.—The Commuhist Party of Ge:nany last night organized a mass meeting in the Sport Palace for the support of the referendum calling for the dis- solution of the Prussian Diet. The referendum will be held on Sunday. Comrade Ulbricht who opened the meeting informed the workers that the Prissian Government acting un- der the emergency press decree had forced the Rote Fahne to print the anti-referendum statement of the government. This caused a storm of indignation among the workers pres- ent. They rose and stood in silence to honor the memory of the two com- rades who had been killed on Au- gust First, Anti-War Day. Comrade Remmele then addressed the meeting. He was followed by} Comrade Beaugrand of the Commu- nist Party of France, who was greet- ed with tremendous enthusiasm by the workers. The participation of the Commu- nist Party in the referendum has split the Fascist ranks. Today’s Rote Fahne prints the sensational details of the meeting of Hugenberg, the Fascist leader, with President Hin- denburg. Hindenburg demanded that the Fascists withdraw from the ref- erendum in.view of the Communist support of it. Hugenberg regretted that he would pot be able to comply with this request but agreed to con- duct a lukewarm propaganda cam- paign defeat the referendum. Neither the Fascists nor the Na- tionalists are making any great ef- forts to mobilize their forces for the Teferendum. The Communists are mobilizing the factory workers. The chief factories have adopted reso- lutions supporting the referendum. at igs NEW YORK, Aug. 6—The Prus- sian Government which fears the outcome of the referendum on Sun- day has taken a vicious step to de- feat the referendum. Under the emergency decreé it is forcing all papers to print on the front page @ manifesto of the government de- nouncing the referendum. The fas- cist parties which do not want the referendum to succeed, now that the Communist Party of Germany has taken over the leadership in the struggle for it made hypocritical statements denouncing the action of the government. ‘The Socialist Party of Germany, Hears Outcome _———_+— } which is the governing party- in Prussia, is the leader in the fight against the referendum, The “Yor- waerts, central organ of the Sootal- ist Party, has devoted the whole: of its front page today to the printing of the manifesto, @ DETROIT TERROR _ ON FOREIGN-BORN City Conf. to Hit This Terror on Sept. 13 DETROT, Mich—The persecution of the foreign-born in Michigan is increasing. Homes of foreign-born workers are being raided by the city police and immigration authorities without even presenting a search war- rant. More than 170 workers have been deported in the last two weeks. The immigration authorities in De- troit openly declare that they will deport. 5,000 foreign-born workers in the next month or so, Against all this brutality by the bosses agents, the Council for the Protection of Foreign-Born is mobil- izing its forces. A call already has been sent to unions, Unemployec Councils, fraternal organizations, sick and death benefit organizations, and all language organizations, for a. city. conference which will be held Sept. 13, 1931, at 431 E. Congress, St. An- drew’s Hall. The Council for the Protection of: the Foreign Born is preparing for:a big day on August 30 at the Workerg, Camp, near Rarmingdale. There wil) be an International Picnic in which more than 100 organizations will take part. At the picnic a free round trip to the Soviet Union or $200 in cash. will be given the holder of the jucky- ticket. Workers of various organizations,. elect delegates for the City Confer~- ence, Sept. 13. > For information address: Council- for the Protection of the Foreign. Born, 4864 Woodward Ave., Room 12;~ Detroit, Mich. Soviet “Forced Labor’—Bedacht’ ~ series in pamphlet form at 10 cents _ per copy. Read it—Spread it! also serve to popularize the de-~