The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 10, 1931, Page 3

fl | | = Shenae Riis acca Sc STEEL WORKERS HELP PICKET HUBBURT MINE DESPITE BOSS TERROR National Tube Workers Organizing in Metal| Workers Industrial Bosses Force Double Speed-Up, Treat Workers Like By A Steel Worker VERSAILLES, Pa.—We workers of the National Tube Co., of Versailles, Pa., use the picket/line of the Hubburt Mine be- cause we know that the miners ers’ struggle. Our bosses are beginning see how fast we are learning to¢— picket and organize. They told us that we get fired if we picket the mine. The bosses send time keepers and stool pigeons to try to stop the steel workers from picketing the mines. Double Work We steel workers are as bad off as the miners. We get two or three days work in a month. In every depart- ment we are doing the work of two or three workers. In the C. J. D. department there are nine men working. Three men put the pipés in lifts, stencil them, measure them and the tally boy takes the measure of each pipe and he has to add them up when the tally sheet is filled. The tally boy wets $5.10 a day, for ten hours work while the other two workers get $4.45. We used to have two men to brush the pipes and one to hook the lifts when they get down to the tables. ‘These two men have been eliminated and this speeds up the rest of us where we can hardly stand it. Call Workers to Resist Evictions Brooklyn, N. Y. Daily Worker: In my work as a messenger I oc- easionally work in the Bay Ridge or South Brooklyn section. Today in this section I witnessed an eviction of a family. Everything that they ‘possessed was thrown oul into the street from their apartment at 671 Third Ave., Brooklyn. There were quite a number of work- | ers standing around idle, also several defenders of the landlords, the cops, who perhaps thought that the work- ers would follow the example of the workers of Harlem, downtown New York and Brownsville by putting the furniture back into the house. When I left the workers were still in front of the furniture on the street looking at it. Fellow workers, let us dd a little reasoning. The workers built the homes, we made everything that the human race needs. But when we work we barely make enough to exist on, Then when the, bosses can’t find markets for their products they fire us to keep up their profits. Then vhen our money gives out they kick is out of our homes into the street. When we see fellow workers being SOUTHERN BOSSES (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) Americans whatsoever” who believe in Negro inferiority. One of these traitors, Lovett, has organized a spe- cial anti-Negro, anti-Red spy organ- ization to spy and make reports on militant Negro workers and make reports to the police. Another group, the Birmingham Civic and Commer- cial Association has posted a $200 reward for the arrest and convic- tion of a Negro as the robber who held up the society women. None of these Negro reformists have a word of condemnantion for the wholesale raids and arrests on Ne- gro workers who are pulled off to the police station and subjected to the most brutal third degrée tor- tures in the attempt to railroad some innocent Negro worker to the chair for the “glory” of the police départ- ment and white supremacy gener- ally. ‘The same capitalist papers which supported the outrageous lynch ver- dict against the nine innocent Scottsboro Negro boys, and hailed with glee the murderous landowners and police attack on the Camp Hill Negro croppers are today frothing at the mouth because some useless society woman was killed in a hold- up. Addressing themselves to their’ Negro toadies, the capitalist papers are demanding that “Our colored people—loyal they are, loyal they must be in this matter, as any of our, white people — should bestir themselves in this hour of tensé un- certainty and make whatever revela- tions they have to make to the sheriff's office or to the Police De- partment.” That this is an open acll upon the Uncle Toms to help frame-up militant Negro workers, is made quite clear by the dastardly attempt to link up the hold-up with the spread of Communist influence among the ‘Negro masses, Several Negro work- ers in whose home Communist lit- erature was found are being held by tae police in an attempt to con- nect them with the hold-up, Among these are Eugene Braxton and John James, two militant working-class leaders. FRAME-UP OF NEGRO WORKERS League for Strugle Dogs struggle is also the steel work- to shake with fear. when they ‘There are two men in charge of the furnace and pit. The helper has to help put the pipes into the pit,un- hook the pipes and brush both ends of the pipes, which before was a 4 man job. These two workers get 45 cents an hour, no bonus, and no double work, Treated Like Dogs While at work we are rushed, cus- sed and yelled at like dogs. Half the men are doing the same amount of work that we used to do when we worked full force. ' No one can talk to his shopmate when working. There is little time for that. For every little job in the factory there is a straw boss watch- ing us. When we ask the bosses to improve conditions théy tell us to go home if we don’t like it. Steps have beén taken to organize the workers into the Metal Workers Industrial League. Workers wishing to join the M.W.I.L., should write to the Metal Workers Industrial League, 1126 Walnut St., McKeesport, Pennsylvania, | ; thrown out of their homes it is our duty to get the neighbors together in a body and carry the furniture back into the house, policeman or no policeman. Workers have done this in other pasts of New York City. Every section of the city should or- | ganize strong Unemployed Councils to fight these evictions. oars A MESSENGER. “torial Note:—We think the worker who wrote this letter de- serves to be criticized for not speak- ing to the workers in the neigh- borhoed about organizing to resist this eviction. It is possible that he might have organized the workers on the spot to put the furniture back into the house, Revolution- ary workers must be ready to or- ganize workers for action wherever and whenever organization is needed. We must not stand idle by and watch workers being thrown from their homes and then write a letter to the Daily Worker telling how to stop evictions. We should take some immediate steps to stop the evictions. Talk to the workers. Get a group together and form a no eviction committe. Be an or- ganizer and an agita‘cr at all times. IN NEW ruling class with whom tse reform- ists are co-operating to frame up militant workers, are shooting down Negro workers in the streets of Bir- mingham. Bosses in an_automobile fired into a group of Negroes stand- ing in front of 305 Sixth Avenue, S. The police say they have no “clues” as to who did the shooting. Negro and white workers! Fight the growiry boss terror against the Negro People! Police raids and wholesale arrests of Negroes in Bir- mingham, the police murder of Chi- cago unemployed workers, the two lynchings last week, one in Alabama, oe in Louisiana, these are all parts of the same terror of the white rul- ing class which framed-up the nine innocent Scottsboro Negro children, murdered and arrested share crop- pers at Camp Hill, Tallapoosa Coun- ty, Ala. for daring to organize to resist the swindling of the land- owners. It is the same murderous white ruling class which murdered Sacco and Vanzetti four years ago} this August 22! The same murder- ous boss class which today holds in its dungeon scores of class war pris- oners. Workers! Negro and white! De- Monstrate August 22 against the murderers of Negro and white work- ers! Demand the release of the Scottsboro and Camp Hill victims, of Tom Mooney and all class war prisoners! * Doctor Tells Kansas Workers of USSR KANSAS CITY, Kansas, Aug. 6— Dr. E. A. Burkhardt, well-knowr Kansas City physician, who recently returned from a tour of the Soviet Union, spoke Tuesday, July 21, 8 Pp. m. to an audience of over 150 workers, on “What I Saw in Soviet Russia.” ‘The workers were so enthusiastic about his talk, that when asked if they would like to have him come back next Tuesday night, they voted for it unanimoiisly. On Tuesday night, July 28, he spoke ‘at the same Place, Stanley Hall, 602 Central Ave., K. C. K. His subject was “Crime in the Soviet Union.” Ree DAILY WORKER, NEW Youi hiviswair, AUGULT 12, MILL STRIKERS PLACE DEMANDS BEFORE GOV. CASE (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) set local N. T. W. U. held a meeting and reorganized its ranks. Martin Russak, James P. Reid, N. T. W. U. officials, and Nat Kap- lan addressed the mass meeting. The speeches were in line with a state- | ment adopted by the local union. ‘This satement pointed out th2 good features of the strike, the solidarity in the first two weeks, the defeat of the various strike-breaking moves of the employers’ and the government, the winning of improvements in the conditions of the American Woolen Co. workers in other towns, etc. ‘The document also pointed out the mistakes and shortcomings of the N. T. W. U. and the strike commit- tee leading to the ending of the strike last Saturday. ‘The union statement ends with the following: “SA fresh serfes of strikes are bound to develop against the star- vation policy of the American Woolen Co, The wage-cut up to 20 per cent in the Oldtown, Me., Mill of the A. W. ©. heralded the new wave of slashes being pre- pared by the big bankers control- ling the company. ‘The workers will again unite their ranks and re- sist the attack against them and their families. That is why the National Textile Workers’ Union must be maintained and strength- ened in the Weybosset Mill and in all the other mills of the Amer- fcan Woolen Co. The N. T. W. U, knows no defeat. It has unbounded faith in the masses and will never desert them. We will fight to or- ganize the textile workers and lead them to victory.” ee LAWRENCE, Mass. Aug. 9.—The most enthusiastic meeting since the strike of last February was held here Wednesday night. Anna Burlak, on tour for the Rhode Island strikers, and Edith Berkman, just released from the immigration jail on $2,000 bail, were the speakers. “Solidarity,” the song of the fight- ing textile workers, greeted the two girl N. T. W. U. organizers as they entered the union hall, 234 Essex St. The meeting was a real demon- stration that neither deportations nor other police persecutions will stop the growth of the union. The N. T. W. U. is in Lawrence to stay. Pizer was the acting local organizer. while Edith Berkman was kept in East Boston immigration station. ‘Try Start Company Union. PUTNAM, Conn., Aug. 9—That the, Joseph Tone, state capitalist tool, confmissioner of labor and A. F. of L. official, is trying to establish a com-~- pany union in the struck Bloom silk mill here was indicated in the Windham County Observer. This sheet prints the following: “The mill owner, the commissioner stated, was ready to acécpt a co-op- erative plan of manufacturing with workers appointed by each depart- ment to oversee production in the interests of all concerned.” The Ob- server, in order to more easily smash the strikers’ ranks through such a company union scheme, spreads the lie that the N. T. W. U. organizer favors the scheme. The strikers have not fallen for this arrangement. CENTRAL FALLS, R. I., Aug. 9.— The General Fabrics strikers must be on their guard against any attempt of a sell-out by a new, “impartial committee,” which has been set up here to try to secure a conference be- tween the mill and the strike com- mittee. The strikers have continuously said that they don’t care who ar- ranges the conference with the mill, but only the strike committee can negotiate for a settlement of the strike and only. the strikers them- selves can finally settle the strike. The strikers here remember that Anna Weinstock, “conciliator” of the U. S. Department of Labor, the “Citizens’ Committee” and the tear bombs and state police were allone front of the employers against the workers. NEGRO MURDERED BY ARK, DEPUTIES ' Defends Self, 1 Deputy Dyjng CONWAY, Aak., Aug. 8.—A Negro worker, Major Harrell, was murdeded by armed deputies here today. Harrell heroically defended himself with the result that one of the mur- derers, Deputy Sheriff Ed Hathaway was fatally wounded. In an attempt to justify the mur- der of the Negro workers, who was unemployed, the boss press claims that the deputies were trying to ar- rest him for stealing peaches, for the Friends of the Soviet Union @ collection of over $11 was taken; door receipts were nearly $8.00; and over a dollar's worth of literature was sold, \ We are of the opinion that from this meeting we will be able to build a regular weekly Workers’ Forum. ——__-— Soviet “Forced Labor”—Bedacht’ Pee Cop: Lotot Workers At Hoover dam, Las Vegas, Ne- vada, where the unemployed die like flies from hunger and the “lucky” workers who have jobs die from rot- ten food, 125 tunnel workers are out on strike against a wage cut of $1 a@ day. Hoover dam, which is typical of the “Hoover prosperity,” is a graveyard for hundreds of workers. Now the government is preparing to call in troops ‘to force the wage cut on these hungry men who have waited months for their job and who have to work under conditions that kill the strongest. Hoover Wage Cut ‘The strike started on Friday, with the walkout of 125 tunnel workmen when their wages were cut from $5 a day to $4. The men demanded decent drinking water because the heat is terrific and they had been deprived of water that was fit to drink. The Six Companies, Inc., which is contracting for the work for the United States government got in touch with J, H. Fulmer, [United States Marshal at Carson City. Ful- mer said he would caJl for troops from Fort Douglas, Utah, to shoot down strikers if this is the only way the strike could be broken. According to capitalist reports the strike was spontaneous, and is not (led by any organization. Recently the Daily Worker printed @ story from Hoover dam télling of unemployed workers killing mules for food to keep from starving. The capitalist papers have reported the desolation, misery and hunger suf- fered by the workers at this “great Hoover project of prosperity.” Hunger, Wage Cuts, Death Is at Hoover Dam flies. He writes: “Men are dying like flies from bad food and accidents at the Hoover, kmown as Boulder Dam. Grim-minded men say the dam will be a fitting memorial to the president who pre- fers to see men, women and children starve than break into the $38,000,- 000 ‘war reserve fund’ of the Am- erican Red ross. “The high mortality rate at Hoo- ver Dam is largely due to bad meat packed into the lunches of the men working in temperature of 120 to 140 degrees on the canyon face and in the bottom. The lunches, taken out in paper sacks or tin boxes, accord- ing to J. H. Cochran, Tacoma union man just returned from Las Vegas, become quickly decomposed and pu- trid. The men, eating this rotten meat, get sick of disentéry and other poisoning diseases. “The highest mortality for one day in the rate of accidents, according te Cochran, came from the explo- sion of a delayed shot. The men had been ordered back too soon. Eleven men died in this blast. Other accidents occurred when ropes on which men were lowered to the can- yon face parted and dropped men to the canyon floor. “Most of the deaths, however, he said, were from food poisoning. “The men are charged $1.50 for such board as they get,” said Cochran. “Ten cents for hospital per day, and a poll tax of $5 if they work ten days. With deductions of one sort or another the men knock out $2 a day provided they don’t buy anything at the com- missary. “The men are mostly paid in serip ‘The Federated Press correspondent in Tacoma, Washington, reports that Hoover dam workers are dying like good only at the company store, where prices are very high, and there are no opposition stores allowed near the dam site.” (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) nist Party, and John O'Neil and Thomas Paige, members of the Un- employed Council. Police and Ne- gro reformists had terrorized the family of Paige from taking part in the mass funeral. Marching in grim, solemn lines on State St., from 31st to 47th St., and on 47th St. to Stewart, the tens of thousands of workers who turned out to pay tribute to the murdered soldiers of the working-class, effet- tively smashed the Mason-Dixie line in Chicago. Fully 40 per cent in the March were white workers, who came from all parts of the city to ex- press their solidarity with the Negro massés. In their mutual anger against the murder of the three un- employed workers, white and Negro ‘workers, employed and unemployed, established a living, fighting united front against Jim Crow capitalism, with its starvation program for the working-class. 50,000 Cheer From Sidewalks, Roof Tops. The parade began forming with captains and banners 12:30—nearly two hours before it actually started. It was over 12 blocks long, with the first six blocks completely occupied, from one side of the street to the other with the marching workers. All traffic was stopped, while 50,000 workers cheered and applauded the militant demonstration from side- walks, roofs of houses and windows. The 60,000 workers in the parade marched in an organized manner, carrying banners with slogans calling for the unity and solidarity of Ne- gro and white workers in the struggle against starvation and evictions and for social insurance. Some of the slogai read: “Stop Evictions!” “Smash Segregation, Jim Crowism, Lynching and Police Terror!” “Build the Communist Party!” “Build the Unemployed Councils—Don’t Starve —Fight!” Other slogans denounced the city government and the Negro and white landlords and real estate agents and local N. A. A. C. P. lead- ers as responsible for the murder of the three unemployed workers. Expression of Indignation and Straggle. ‘The mass funeral was both an ex- pression of the indignation of the workers and a demonstration against starvation and the brutal ra A the government to suppress e struggles of the workers for the right to live. The 110,000 workers on the streets and sidewalks, militantly sup- ported the demands for which the thres martyred comrades died. Tens of thousands of voices thundered forth the “Internationale” and “Soli- darity.” Catching sight of Commissioner Al- in a police car, the huge mass booed and pointed to him ss one of those responsible for the massacre. Passing by the office of the Chicago Whip, the crowd booed their indig- nation against the vicious reports of this paper. They again demon- strated their anger when passing a church whose pastor has attempted to whitewash Hoes police murder of the three workers. ‘The funeral parade started from the Odd Fellows Hall, 3337 South State St., where, the bodies of two of the murdered workers had lain for three days as thousands of white Ne workers came Bi reine Ne to pay their tribute to their dead fighters. Thousands Will Take Place of Murdered Workers. ‘The hall was decorated with red and black banners bedecked with flowers. Over the bodies of the slain workers was a large picture of Lenin and another picture of two huge fists. series in pamphlet form at 10 cents At 2 p.m, sharp, Ed Williams, x Opp) i a Att dist et 60,000 March Behind Bodies in Chicago Striggle for Negro Rights, opened the meeting. In the name of the assembled tens of thousands of white and Negro workers, Williams threw the defiance of the working class at the boss-murderers and their police tools. He declared that the struggle against starvation and eviction, and for full equal rights of the Negro masses, will continue in spite of the terror. Thousands of workers, he said, will spring forward to take the place of the three victims of the mas- sacre. Williams was followed by Matheson of the Unemployed Council. The next speaker was John Williamson of the Communist Party, who declared that the Communist Party would unite the white and Negro workers for the struggle against starvation and evictions and will lead the work- ers in struggle. No power, he said, will succeed in destwoying the Com- munist Party, as it is the Party of the masses. Communist Banners Cheered By Masses. The bodies were then taken from the hall in a procession, headed by Negro and white workers carrying red banners of the District Committee of the Communist Party. Tremendous cheers greeted the banners from the tens of thousands asesmbled in front of the building. The streets were jammed for blocks. All traffic was stopped. The police did not dare to interfere with the workers, although over 500 armed policemen, under Commissioner Alcock, were on the streets. Race Hatred Receives Hard Blow. ‘The immense success of the Party in winning thousands of white work- ers for the defense of the Negro masses was splendidly demonstrated when the funeral demonstration passed out of the “Black Beit” and entered, around 47th St., a white sec- tion populated by Irish and Ameri- can workers. This was the section where the race riots of 1919 started. Now, however, the situation is changed. The white workers are no longer misled by the vicious race McINNIS—SUNDAY hatred propaganda of the bosses. They flocked into the streets to wel- come this tremendous parade into their neighborhood and in numerous ways extended the hand of working- STRIKE SHOWS NEW VIGOR; NEED | | FOR RELEIF GROWS (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) to house visiting and explanation of the reasons for .re-striking the mines, doubled the picket line with- in the last two days and drew a) corresponding number of men out of Pittsburgh Terminal Mine No. 3. | No. 3 is so hard hit now that it closed down for two days. The company tries to claim in- creased production at No. 8, at Cover- dale. But the miners have found out that the extra coal coming up the No. 8 tipple is mined in No. 3 and shipped underground through a connection that has been made be- tween No. 3 and No. 8. Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Co Mine No. 2 at Castle Shannon is ready to close down any day. The Barking mine is still trying to run, though none of the strikers have gone back to it. Friday the state police clustered around the ferry on the Springdale side and guarded a small group of imported scabs across. But meanwhile, on the company patch side of the Al- legheny river, and in spite of a crowd of deputies gathered there from other mines, the pickets stop- ped all attempts to run scabs thru their lines in cars. One car was damaged, and the others fled. The Allegheny section strikers de- clare that Mines No. 2 and No. 3) at Curtisville are ready to strike. Only the most terrific concentra- tion of deputy sheriffs at Harmar- ville has kept the mine crippling along so far. Yesterday there was one deputy to every picket. This is now “the usual thing. When the company miscalculates and gets out only 90 deputies when a hundred pickets show up, the state police commanders oblingly send ten troop- ers to even things up. But Harmar- ville can not stand the strain for- ever. All those deputies have to be paid, and they cost a lot more than miners. Vesta No. 6, which was reported closed down “for a week” is trying to run again, and is being picketed. Mert aie ATLASBURG, Pa., Aug. 9.—Sher- iff Seanun of Washington county has embarked on a crusade to starve the strikers and their children to death. On technical excuses, of taxes not paid on the property, etc., he closed down the soup kitchen of the Pennsylvania - Ohio - West-Vir- ginia-Kentucky Striking Miners Re- lief at Slovan yesterday, and or- dered the closing of the big kitchen and relief station and barracks com- bined, at Atlasburg. At Atlasburg, a miners’ family in- cluding smell children, sleéps in One room in another 26 single men who have been evicted by the com- pany, sleep, and in still another room there is a relief kitchen and supply store. The sheriff yesterday ordered this whole establishment closed, and put up eviction notices. The Relief re- fused to move out. The man who owns the property on which the kit- chen stands refused to order the Relief out. But this man and his son work in the American Zinc & Chemidal Co. plant and when the two went to work this morning, they were notified by the company that they could either order the eviction or lose their jobs. They yielded, but the Relief did not, and at last ac- counts was still holding the fort. Barbaric Terror Revealed In Gov't Deportation Report {CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) mention that the Doak attack has been used to jail for deportation such leaders of the anit-imperialist movement as Machado and Li. ‘The New York Post in its report class solidarity to the Negro workers marching in the parade, cheering the marchers and offering water. ‘At an empty lot in the vicinity of the railroad station a meeting was opened with speakers addressing the masses from six stands. Speakers also addressed some 35,000 workers who packed the streets and tmpty Jots. Here, too, the police did not dare to interfere, but kept at a dis- tance from the meetings of the angry workers. Vote With Raised Fists to Carry On Struggle. i e speakérs called upon Bhi 5 carry on the struggle for which the martyred workers died they voted, tens of thousands strong. with fists raised into the air and with cheers and enthusiasm for the unist Party. ra of 12 Negro and white workers was then elected to attend the coroner's inquest and the trial ft the workers after the peony ‘The workers’ jury will render its yerdict. | ‘After the meeting adjourned thou- sands of workers still remained on the streets discussing the huge dem- onstration. Never before had Chi- cago seen such a demonstration, * 8 BIRMINGHAM. Ala.—Four Ne- of the Wickersham Report gives openly the reasons for the inten- sification of the anti-foreign born campaign a tthis: “Since the de- pression began. it says, the Depart- ment of Labor has been especially energetic in its pursuit of persons who might be regarded as illegally in this country.” The Report itself points out that the as a result of this campaign the workers have been terrorized in part into submission to the capitalist oppression which seeks to throw the burden of the crisis on the working masses, “This sita- ation prolongs and deepens the im- migrants insecurity and delays his mental and moar! stabilization in the country which he is seeking to adopt,” the report states. Secretary Doak in answernig the report states hypocritically that these illegal deportations occurred before he came into office, in the face of the fact that it is generally known that since he has been in of- fice, the crmpaign against the for- eign born has been sharpened. He asks in addition for more funds and legislation which will help him to increase th ecampaign still further. ‘This shows that the Hoover govern- ment is determined to continue the attack on the foreign born workers. The Wickersham Commission re- veals itself as a white washing com- mittee for the anti-foreign born cam- paign by suggesting that legal means be set up; in the form of a judicial board, a Board of Alien Appeals, to C. P. Demand for Prussian Diet Dissolution Rules Berlin Furious Anti-Referendum Campaign by Social- Democrats, Bourgeois Blocs, and Police BULLETIN | Capitalist press reports from | Berlin state that police fired upon | Communist workers, hundreds of shots being exchanged. Altogether 15 Communists are reported killed, and about 9 wounded Communists were removed to hospitals, The fighting started at Below Platz, near the Communist head- quarters at 8:30 p.m., following the | reported failure of the referendum | for the dissolution of the Prussian | diet, Several hours later the fighting was growing more intense. The police raided a Communist meet- ing at a nearby music-hall, and about a thousand Communists were arrested and taken to police head- quarters where they were searched. Two police are said to have alsé been killed. A tabulation of returns by the Telegraphen-Union in districts comprising 25,552,000 voters shows 9,444,000 votes in favor of the ple- biselte. A total of 13,4449,550 votes were required to dissolve the Diet. The voting ‘was held under el- aborate police protection. Police squads guarded every polling booth in Prussia. Foot and mounted po- lice packed the Berlin streets and airplane soard over the capital. * * * (Cable By Inprecorr) BERLIN, August 9.— Communist agitation for the referendum for the dissolution of the Prussian Landtag, | controlled by the Social-Democrats dominates the streets here. Little or nothing can be seen of the fas- cists, the social-nationalists. Obvi- ously the right wing parties are sab- otaging the referendum as a result of an agreement with Nindenburg. Last night hundreds of workers were busy painting Communist slogans. Today walls and boardings thruout the city were plastered by such slogans. Police arrested over | one hundred workers during Friday and Saturday nights, Police Break Demonstrations Dozens of illegal demonstrations are occuring. Yesterday noon police fired into a demonstrationn near Communist headquarters killing one and wounding five workers. A deée- | monstration occurred in the centre of the town. Windows were smashed and autos overturned. Today the whole police force held in readiness to break up smallest groups with batons and pistols. There were frequent baton charges near Communist Party headquarters, which was richly decorated with red bunting and slogans. ‘The bourgeois parties and the so- cialists are conducting a furious an- ti-referendum campaign. Walls arid boardings are plastered with big ex- pensive posters calling for a boy- cott of the polis Reformists Attack Communists The German Trade Union Fedér- ation (reformist) issued a last mgn- ute appeal containing ineredible slanders against the Communist Party. The Vorwaerts (socialist or- gan) is conducting an unperalieled campaign of demagogic vituperation, accusing the Communist Party of treachery of the interests of the workers by “making common cause” with the fascists. Despite the tremendous campaign of hatred, slander, police terror, pro- hibitions of meetings, breaking up of demonstrations, clubbing and shootings and arrests, the Commun- ist Party is exerting its whole ener- gies to mobilize the workers. Communist leaflets were distrib- uted in large numbers. Special edi- tions of the Rote Fahne are selling very rapidly. As yet no serious col- lisions were reported today. ONLY $24.65 RECEIVED AS OF AUG. 7! AFFAIRS AND PICNICS FOR “DAILY” BENEFIT WILL HELP END CAMPAIGN! “Seeing that the Drive for $35,000 is ended, why isn’t the Daily Work- er going to six pages a day?” asks a comrade from Michigamme, Mich. In the first place we wish to inform this comrade as well as otherg who have written us on the same *ques- tion that the Drive is not yet over and will not be over until the addi- tional $5,000 needed to carry us over August and September is raised. Secondly—most of the $35,000 con- tributed by the masses of workers was used to pay off the huge: defi- eit that had been accumulating for months in the Dajly Worker. What little was left after this great ex- penditure, was absorbed by press- ing paper and office bills as well as the “Daily of the added responsibilities a textile in the mine and etc during the campaign hun- of expired subscriptions were not renewed and payments on back bills owing to the “Daily” lapsed terribly. Ax we were counting on this money fo help us out during the summer, it put na in a pretty big hole. This is the | reason why we are not putting out | a six page paper and why we were compelled to extend the drive for a few weeks, so that we could get an additional $5,000 to keep us | going. We hope this answers the | question satisfactorily. | Return All Coupon Books! | In the meantime Coupon Books| are coming in slower than the pace | of a snail! Comrades appear to be indifferent to our repeated requests for these books! If there is any earthly reason why they are not be- ing returned, should we not be in- formed about it? Certainly hundreds of books were used in canvassing neighborhoods and subscribers for funds. What has happened to them! Where are the funds collected on them? Why all the mystery? Dis- trict functionaries! Send out final appeals for Coupon Books through- out all Units and Sections and make certain this time that your requests are heard! Only three Districts have fulfilled their quotas 100 per cent to date They are District 1, Boston; District 2, New York, amd District 17, Bir- mingham. Districts 6 and 8 are in the 90 per cent class; Districts 15 and 18 in the 70 per cent column; Districts 3, 4, 5, 7, 18,19 in the 66 per cent department. District 12 has . . DIST, 2 ] HK, Newark, N J Mich DIST. 7 P Dearian, Detroit just passed the 50 per cent mark. Districts 9 10, 11, 16 are all below 40 per cent. ‘What about affairs and picnice to boost percentages in the Campaign, comrades in Minneapolis, Kansas City, North Dakota, North Carolina? Why let the campaign end with such ignominious records hanging over your District heads? Make prepara- tions for an open air pienie today and watch how quickly your pér- centages reach mercury! DAILY WORKER PICNIO IN N. Xs AUGUST 16. Hail the Grent Daily Worker Piente being held August 16 at Pleasant Bay Park Westchester, N. Make way for the gayest, the brightest, the biggest outing ever planned in the New York Di trict! Every mass organization ‘the elty will be rej ted in some way or other at this mighty affair! Every language imaginable will be spoken! Every event sched- uled will come off without Every prize announced will be giv: en! Members of the John Reed Cled will entertain all day with cartoons and drawings; every worker will have an opportunity to have bis mug caricatured in cray~ on by an artist; every worker will be expected to have the time of his life either watching or entering the field events being planned by the labor Sperts Union. Every worker will be expected to eat much Hungarian Goulash apd A: menjan Shoshlick as he can @ west! Every worker will be ex- pected to bring all his shop mates and their families with him! The price of tickets is 35 cente: but mass organizations can procure blocks of 500 tickets or less at 25 cents. Spread the news everywhere; tell everyone you meet about it; remember th date yourself, Sunday. August 16. To get to the Park take the SUbway to E. 177th St Car to Untonport. Busses will meet you there and take you to Life Stirring in “I, the undersigned, San Diego, “was sent from Los Angeles as organizer to San Diego, Cal. and found the Daily Worker in disas- trous condition.” At first the com- rade thought of cutting the bundle in half but after giving it the once over ‘decided to keep up the 60 cop- jes daily”. Good afterthought, com- rade. The section expects to hold aw affair shortly for the Daily Worker, Dk. 872, 8 White 50 Bk 573, P Rundgren 50 Total — | Total 1.00 ; Total eI piedsh 18 . San Diego, Cal Unit 3-33 apie! D Dill 1.00 Rudy Lednicky 3 Sympathi | G Goldstone we J Smith Chicago, ae © Berman BO Tag Col On books, Mil | J Crow oe H Kepler, Daston waukee, Wis. robe ee w Aggus, | i 2.50 Norwalk, Ohio Total 5.75 | Tot. alt diste. $ 34.65 —_| DIST, 9 | Prev. ree, 38,076.58 Total 14.15 | Minneapolis, Minn | Tot, to date. $38,101.58 freen For Booze to Help Hoover ! Fight Demand For Jobless Relief (CONTINUED FRUM PAGE ONED fakers that a new booze industry would provide more work for the jobless is in line with Hoover's prom- ise of more work in government building projects. Both are based on lies. Despite Hoover’s building proj- ects, the number of unemployed con- tinues to grow, as he himself is forced to admit. The present “il- legal’? booze industry employs thous- forms. They suggest that this board be chosen by Hoover who picked Doak for the job of Sectetary of Labor to carry out this part of the attack on the foreign born. Smash the deportation drive of the Doak-Hoover government. Rally to the mass protests August 26-29. Fight for the unity of the Amer- ican, white and Negro and the for- ands who would be thrown out of their work if a “legal” booze indus- try was established, which at best would not absorb 1-10 of 1 per cent of the present unemployed. It would be no solution whatever to unem- ployment, and the A. F. of L. offi- cialdom well know this, but they also know that it is a safe channel to sidetrack the workers’ into to keep them from fighting for real relief and for the only revolutionary solution of the unemployment problem. KNEE-PANTS WORKERS GIVE $5.00 TO MINERS A discussion on the miners strike in a knee pants shop at 110 Fifth Ave, netted $5 for the Pa-Ohio Striking Miners Relief Committee, The clothing workers showed great interest in the miners strike, being restive under the sell out agreement }