The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 11, 1931, Page 3

| wards was killed immediately. potnentinpet wii, Abuind it i DAILY Wokbiat, ied Lust, | KANSAS BOSSES OIL WAR MACHINETRAIN | THOUSANDS FOR WAR All Army Units Filled to Quota; the Military $ Leaders Gloat Over Jobless Union Pacific Railroad Finances and Equips » Dear Comrades: Infantry Company Omaha, Nebraska. The imperialist war machine is on in full blast out here. Major-General Johnson Hagood, comniander of the Seventh Corps Area, Colonel Amos Thomas, commander of the 184th Infantry (National Guard), other lesser military lights are gloat- ing over the condition that unem- ployment has filled the ranks of the Regular Army, the National Guard, and the C.M.T. camps up to their peace time quotas. Es The Adjutant-general recently had made this statement: “The economic situation has caused hundreds of men to join the summer training camps _in order to rest and relax from the work and uncertainty of civil life. We not only have every unit recruit- ed up to peace time strength, but we have large waiting lists.” Imagine that! It is an open con- fession of how these war lords ex- pect to get large armies for another war. Railroad Supports Guard More glaring yet is the case of Com-, and® pany K, of the 134th Infantry. This National Guard Company is com- monly known as the Union Pacific Unit. It boasts of being the best equipped infantry company in the United States, Why? simply be- cause it receives, besides its army al- Jowances, financial support from the Union Pacific Railroad Co, This unit's tents are all stamped with! the Union Pacific emblem. From this corporation Company K received ex- fra fine uniforms, extra rations and a great amount of recreational equip- ment. How is that for capitalist dom- ination of the military machine? Workers! Don't be wheedled into the capitalist army! Don’t defend the parasites who suck your life blood! A Worker Correspondent. ‘A. F. of L. Expels Worker for Supporting the “Morning Freiheit” By A Worker Correspondent A few months ago the jewish paper hangers local 306, of Philadelphia, decided at a regular meeting of the local to donate $2.50 for the Freihcit. ‘The district council, of course, didn’t like this idea and at the next meet- ing of the council preferred charges against the chairman of the local 306 for “violation of section 88 of the constitution” which reads, “that a member of the Communist organiza- .tion shall be authomatically expeiled from the union.” < ’ ‘The district council fearing the re- yolt of the workérs decided not to take any action but to consult the chief fakers what to do in this situ- ation, The reply of the General Ex- ecutive Board, was that this matter will be taken up at a session of the general board, which took place in July, and then inform the district about the decision. The general ex- écutive board met as expected, and decided that to support the Com- munist Press is equally to member- ship in the Communist Party and therefore any body supporting the Communists stands authomatically expelled from the Brotherhood. This action is in accord with all the re- actionary policies of the Brotherhood who are trying to eliminate all mili- tant workers from the ranks of the Brotherhood, who dare to fight against the treacherous policies of these politicians, and who dare to come out with a program of class struggle as the solution of the work- ers im the present crisis. ‘Tras act of the general executive of ithe Brotherhood, must arouse every class conscious worker and all workers of the Brotherhood must protest against thjs decision, which aims to stamp out every radical move and eliminate the militant workers from the ranks of the Brotherhood. Miners Answer Strikebreaking Burgess with ‘ Strong Picket Line By A Worker Correspondent CHARLEROI, Pa.—A sttong picket line continues here despite the order of the state troopers and deputies and local force(the later under the dictatorship of the Burgess, Steve Woodward) that tere shall be no picketing. Strikebreaking Burgess The Burgess here claims to be a friend of the miners, but in reality he is an agent of the Yoghiogheny and Ohio Coal Company. In fact the other day wher the local mine announced the resumption of work under the same conditions that the miners had before the strike, the Burgess told the crowd of miners, members of the. National Miners Union, that if anybody wanted a job in the mine to come to him and he would fix it.. Brave friend of Labor this fellow! Now fellow miners, don’t let your spirit be weakened by these fakers and stool pigeons. We know they are using every kind of tactic to break the strike. The Burgess re- fused on several occasions to grant us a permit for outdoor meetings. Even now at election times they are trying to pass an.ordinance to stop all kinds of assemblage without a permit. ; 200 Picket The general situation looks good. Over 200 miners were on the picket line this morning, and a good num- ber at the Gibson works of the Hil- man Coal and Coke Company. Fellow workers, keep up the fight in order to win better times in the coal fields. Down with the UMWA and their strikebreaking policy. Down with the Y and O Coal Co., that is tryingn to control our town with the Burgess, their agent. NEGRO MURDERED, 3 WOUNDED IN BIRMINGHAM POLICE TERROR; WORKERS! PROTEST AUGUST 21! (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) of the working class here. Two of the three wounded workers were taken out of their beds by the police and taken a short distance from their homes and shot. The two are Charles Horton, 3116 Twenty- Seventh Ave. N., who was shot in the neck; and James Jennett, Route 1, Bessemer, who has three wounds, two of them in the abdomen. Police claimed to have found Communist jiterature in the home of Horton. The other two workers were,shot as they dropped off a freight train. Ed ie cousin, Will Edwards, was wounded in the leg. \ ‘The terror against Birmingham Negro workers is directly cted up with the lynching of three Negro workers ~within the past week—one in Alabama, one in Louisiana, and a third in Arkansas—and with the police massacre of Chicago unem- ployed workers in which four Negro “workers were murdered and scores of white and Negro workers wounded by police fire from’ machine guns and riot guns. ‘These attacks are part of the same boss campaign of terror which resul- ted in the framing up of the nine innocent Scottsboro Negro children and the murderous attacks by by the landowners and their police on the Camp Hill Negro croppers. This “campaign of terror is directed at sup- It is part of the general terror against the working class, part of the general attempt of the bosses to force starvation, wage cuts and a lower standard of living upon the toiling masses, white and Negro. Connected with it are the whole- sale raids and deportation of mil- itant foreign born workers, the de- portation and jailing of strike lead- ers—Ann Burlak, an American born worker was held three days for de-~ portation by the nited States ‘Labor’ Department! Against this boss terror and per- secution of Negro and foreign born workers, and of native white work- ers, the Intenational Labo Defense is oganizing nation-wide demonsta- tions on August 22. The workers of the whole world will demonstrate on August 22. They will demand the unconditional re- lease of the Scottsboro and Camp, Hill victims, of Tom Mooney and the scores of other class-war pris- oners held in the dungeons ef Am- erican capitalism, of the class prisoners of European capil is tt the Kuomintang terror against the Chinese workers and peasants. ( Negro and white workers! Prepare gigantic demonstrations for August 22! Commemorate the martyrdom of Sacco and Vanzetti! Fight against the system which murdered them! Fight for the release of the Scotts- boro-Camp Hill victims, for the re~ lease of all class war prisoners! De~- x Qu How A Worker Rai $15 For Mine Relief New York, N. Y¥. Daily Worker: When I came home from work on Thursday night, my Wife was very excited. She told me she had an argument with a neighbor. of taking this case to a capitalist court, Fdecided to haye a proletarian trial, composed of the workers in the house. A judge and jury were se- lected and their decision was final. Phe trial lasted about two hours. The jury was out five minutes. They brought back the verdict “guilty.” Also they fined the worker fifteen dollars. Some members of the jury suggested that I bring the money to the Hias, Hebrew Igmigrant Shelter- ing Society. Instead I donated the money to the striking’ miners who need it badly, to help them carry on their struggles for better condi- tions. IB. MARTIAL LAW IN UBA: FIGHTING Jov't Active In Effort To Smash Strike several parts of Cuba, according to cables by capitalist news agencies in Havana. Bloody Machado, Wall Street president of Cuba, tool of the National City Bank and the Wash- ington government, has decreed mar+ tial law. This permits Machado to shoot down any worker, student or member of the Nationalist opposi- tion, There is no detailed news of the attempted revi‘, as Machado, to cover up his deeds, has ordered a strict censorship. In this he is ably assisted by U. S. Ambassador Harry F. Guggenheim, of the Guggenheim copper and nitrate trust, Ambassa- dor Guggenheim refused to say any- thing about the revolt. \ Fighting took place in Pinar Del Rio, Camaguey and Santa Clara provinces. Many were killed when the police and soldiers opened fire with machine gun and rifles against suspected houses. Machado has at his command the largest army in the world, in proportion to the popula- tion; well armed and well paid mer- cenaries who live off the fat of the land while the masses starve. The reyolt, the capitalist news agencies say, was led by ex-president Menocal, who is one of the leaders of the Nationalists. There is no doubt that the Nationalists, viewing the militancy of the worlers as ex- pressed in the street car strike in Havana, as well as in the general strike, attempted to take leadership of the growing struggle against Ma- chado and his Wall Street backers by half+heartedly starting an armed insurrection in a few provinces. In Luyano, a suburb of Havafia, three were killed when soldiers at- tacked two factories. Machado, as is his usual trick, de- clares “everything is quiet.” But the New York Times’ wireless from Havana states that there is a revo- lJutionary _ excite! throughout Cuba that_even Machado’s martial law cannot stifle. By PEDRO MORALES HAVANA, Cuba, Aug. 2 (by mail), —This morning, the Havana Electric Railway Co. began to run street cars, manned by inspectors and of- fiée employees. The company claim- ed to have running 80 cars by eleven o'clock this morning. ‘There are @ large number of cars running the streets, but the public does not ride on the cars. The public use the bus- ses. Each car has several uniformed police, and several plain clothes cops.. The Company attempted to recruit strike-breakers among the unemployed Spaniards housed in the flop house “La Purisima,” but these refused. None of the strikers are scabbing. By noon, in four differ- ent sections of the city, street cars were stoned by workers, the crowd shouting “Down with the strike- breakers (rompe-huelgas).” Numer- ous arrests were made of strikers and sympathizers. Twenty-six people were arrested today, in connection with an alleged plot to set fire to a street car. Five conductors and motormen were arrested, charged with conspiracy and carrying arms, four of them, Spaniards placed ‘at the dsiposal of the Secretary of the Interior, for possible deportation; and the fifth, a Cuban, at the dis- position of the Military Judge. ‘The spirit of the strikers is mil- itant. The opinion of the strikers was expressed by one of them as follows: “I have eight children. Be- tween working for a starvation wage and starving while not workinng, I prefer the latter.” The constant stream of organizations supporting the Carmen Strike and the 24-hour political strike has served to en- courage, the strikers greatly. ‘The strikers have consistently re- fused to see the Secretary of the In- terior, and the National Chief of Po- lice, since this will result in the ar- rest of the leaders. A struggle of the masses is the line followed, with- out government arbitration, An ap- peal to the solidarity and strength of the masses of workers, ‘The tational Workers Confeder- ation is working in close connection with the Strect Carme Strike Com- mittee, having a representative with them constantly. Soviet “Forced Labor”—Bedacht’ series in pamphlet form at 10 cents per Jopy, Read it—Spread itt ‘ Instead | BREAKS OUT) Severe fighting has broken out in’ (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) sands of hungry workers, for free up- employment insurance. “For the defense of the hundreds of jailed workers, Negro and white, to force their release, to save them from the gallows and the electric chair, this district convention of the NMU calls upon all workers to strengthen their organizations, to join and actively support the Inter- national Labor Defense and all its campaigns. We call upon all local unions of the NMU upon all rank and file members of the UMWA, to be- gin at once throughout the coal in- dustry a militant mass campaign for the defense and release of our 40 Kentucky brothers, “We call for the most rapid mobil- zation of the forces of the miners save the lives of our heroic Ken- tucky brothers. We pledge to them, on trial for their lives in the South, seat of the most vicious section of American capitalism, to the farm workers of Alabama, to the Negro boys in Scottsboro, that we will leave nothing undone to release them and restore them to the fighting ranks of the working class. “We pledge our full support to the TLD. This district convention au- thorizes the incoming executive com- mittee to wire the militant protest of this convention to the governors of Kentucky and Alabama and to con- vey to our Kentucky and Alabama brothers the assurance of our utmost support directly and through the TLD. “Smash the murder drive of the Kentucky coal barons and the Ala- bama bosses against our fighting comrades!” The convention also read and adopted for sending telegrams of pro- test against the murder of unem- ployed workers in Chicago. These telegrams are to the governor of Il- linois and the mayor of Chicago. A telegram pledging support was sent to the Unemployed Council of Chi- cago. esr Re HARLAN, Kentucky, August 10.— “The comrades understand the work goes on no matter who is arrested or what happens,” said one organ- izer of the National Miners Union here, reporting to the National office of the union. The local unions and women’s auxiliaries met and func- tioned this week, in spite of the ter- ror which is still at a high’ point. Two more miners have been arrest- ed, and are held on $5,000 bail each. The army of thugs is still coursing around the country, hunting for and destroying everything in the miners’ houses which they might use in self defense if the coal operators decide to have some more of them assassin- ated. Even twenty and thirty-year- old barrel shotguns are seized and smashed—without any pretense that this destruction of property is legal. ‘The executive of the central strike committee in Kentucky has met since the district conference and divided Harlan County into six sub-sections, and has placed an organizer and committee in charge of each. The executive has perfected plans to send organizers into sections outside of Harlan, County, and into ‘Tennessee, Virginia and Maryland. The gen- eral strike committee and its execu- tive committee continue regular meetings, in spite of the terror. Groups are being organized rapidly among men still at work in the mines. A group of miners at Middlesboro has been under the influence of the UMWA. District President Turn- blazer has been telling them terrible stories against the National Miners Union. They have been on strike for some time. Last week they had a meeting with Turnblazer, who fail- ed to give them any relief, through they are starving. He did not even give them a cup of coffee, and then left the meeting and went to a good hotel and gorged himself on an ex- pensive dimer. They began to see through the UMWA, and decided to send a committee to Wallins Creek, where there is a Pennsylvania-Ohio- West Virginia-Kentucky Relief Com- mittee kitchen and where they would talk with members of the NMU. As a result of this visit, the committee asked for a speaker of the NMU to be sent to address them. - ‘Additional applications to join the union pour. in every day, most of them. written on blank note paper, as the supply of application cards has again run out. ¢ hime * WEST FRANKFORT, Il, August 10.—The United Mine Workers has posted notices at Orient No. 1 and No. 2 mines here of the ePabody Coal Co., where 2,200 men are strik- ing against starvation. ‘The notices read: * “all who wish to retain their mem- bership in the UMWA must go back to work.” ‘The following reply to the United Mine Workers, the operators and the government on the question of gov- ernment control of the coal mines was adopted by the Western Penn- sylvania District Convention of the National Miners’ Union, held Aug. 8 in Pythian Hall, 2011 Center Ave., and attended by 201 delegates from 73 local unions of the N. M. U. and by 55 women delegates from 22 lo- cals of the Women’s Auxiliaries of the N. M. U. <Ad6ption was by unanimous vote. Resolution On Proposals for Gov- ernment Control of the Coal Mines. ‘The meaning of the coal operators’ proposals for government control of the coal industry is: (1) An attempt to carry through the trustification of the industry with the direct aid of the government, (2) a plan to force hundreds of thousands of additional miners into unemployment and star- vation, (3) to strengthen the forces PA. MINERS ACT FOR DEFENSE AND _ SUPPORT OF HARLAN STRIKERS’ of the coal capitalists for an inten- | sification of the bosses’ policy of still further cutting the wages of| the workers and introduction of more speed-up methods. Of course the U. M. W. A. offi- cials are loud in their praise of this new proposal of the bosses. This is because they are simply a part of the operators’ organization for ex-| ploiting the miners. These betray- ers are working day and night to break the present strike; they are signing agreements for wage-cuts and wage scales far below those even in open-shop mines. These rabid opponents of unemployment insur- ance (like the operators and John | L. Lewis) propose that 250,000 more | miners be driven from the industr The U. M. W. leaders are fully in| step with every proposal of the} bosses for’ the enslavement of the| miners. : | The proposed scheme of \govern- | ment control is an attempt to turn | the whole coal industry over to a few | big companies and to give a govern- ment guarantee of their profits at the expense of the workers. The} operators and U. M. W. A. official although viciously opposing unem- ployment insurance and all forms of immediate relief for the strikers and unemployed, are dividing $27,000,000 from the government for this pur- pose, If put through it will mean not only the driving of fresh masses of miners into actual starvation, but even more aggressive suppression by the government of every attempt of the miners to improve their condi- tions. Not content with the present government assistance in the shape of state police, injunctions, deputy sheriffs, etc, the operators and their fascist U. M. W. A. tools are maneuvering so that every struggle of the miners for improved condi- tions can be treated only as treason- able, and is to be repressed by the full force of direct government pressure, The Natinal Miners’ Union warns the miners against this new attempt to perpetuate and extend starvation. and slavery in the coal indussry. The N. M, U. calls upon the miners to place their reliance in their union, the N. M. U., and to carry forward the struggle unitedly for its demands. This convention erxiorses the de- mands of the present strike in West- ern Pennsylvania, Ohio and North- ern West Virginia for 55 cents a ton, union checkweighmen, payment. for dead work, recognition of the union, equal rights for Negroes, youth, women and unemployed min- ers, abolition of the government ter- rorism, etc. We also endorse the general demands of the National Miners’ Conference for the 6-hour day, unemployment insurance, aboli- tion of company stores and com- pany towns, abolition of the speed- up, abolition of the check-off, etc. The National Miners’ Union and the Central fank and File Strike Committee have repeatedly offered to confer with the operators on the basis of the present strike demands. It is the bosses who have refused to confer, not us. Rumors and state- ments to the contrary, are lies, and are designed to confuse the work- ers. It is in the fight for such de- mands and not in schemes of trusti- fication, nationalization and govern- ment control, that the miners will find relief now, and in the abolition of capitalism by the working class that final freedom will be won from capitalist exploitation and slavery. ‘We endorse the program of the Na- tional Miners’ Conference, which states; “We can and must compel the op- erators to grant the immediate de- mands of the miners. Our answer to the bosses’ plea of the crisis in the coal industry is the organization of the struggle of the miners, to- gether with all workers, towards the breaking of the rule of the capital- ist class, the confiscation of the coal mines and all factories, the abolition of exploitation, which can only be achieved through the establishment. of the ru’ of the workers, along the path of the workers in the Soviet Union.” Miners, fight on! Stand together in unbreakable solidarity. Hold solid and strengthen the strike! Spread the strike and win! TERROR RAGES IN HARLAN COUNTY Even Boss Lawyers Fear for Lives (By a Worker Correspondent) PINEVILLE, Ky., Aug. 8. (By Mail) —No doubt the International Labor’ Defense has given material about the Kentucky situation. But TI might stress a couple of points to show the reign of terror that has been created in Harlan. An editor from Norton, Virginia, Bruce Crawford, who came to in- vestigate, was shot at. A justice of the peace in Wallens Creek, who re~ fused to go the entire savage limit in terrorizing the workers, had his | Poor Mont. Farmers own house invaded and his twoshot- guns broken by the company thugs. A county judge, as, bad as any, how- ever, did rebuke a deputy for man- handling a worker in open court and insisting that “order” should be maintained in court. The following day the sheriff brazenly “advised” that judge to take his hat and go out of town for a while. Even Lawyers Threatened. The U. M. W. A. officials don't even dare enter Harlan. It is openly asserted that ou» lawyer, Ben G, Page lhree Organize To Fight Raymond, Mont. D Worker: > are facing starvation in this of the country. The farmers id workers are wondering what they will do this winter. We are not very well organized pa but we ‘are trying to get together to | teach Daily ,Worker. We are also start- ing to organize the farmers into the | United Farmers League. They are beginning to come in our direction rather fast and I am thinking t you will be hearing some good new: rom us soon. I have been giving my Daily Work er to the farmers here and they all seem to like it. FOSTER SPEAKS TO R.R. WORKERS | CHICAGO, AUG. 14 ‘Iational United Front | Conference Opens CHICAGO, Aug. 10.—Present, in- | dications are that the North Hall of the Chicago Coliseum will be jarhmed to the doors when William Z. Fos- ter, general secretary of the Trade Union Untiy League, speaks. here on | Friday evening, Aug. 14. Foster-will have as his subject, “A United Front | Against Wage Cuts and for the Six- Hour Day With Eight Hours’ Pay.” The Foster meeting will welcome the delegates to the National United Front Conference of the National Railroad Industrial League, which opens in Chicago at Walter's Hall, 5212 South Halstead St. Saturday, Aug. 15. Coming directly from the Penn- vania coal fields, where he is lead- ing the strike of the coal miners, Foster will tell about the struggle of these workers against starvation and the necessity for the railroad men to support them. He led the great steel strike of 1919 and many of the bigger labor battles in this country. National Conference Aug. 15-16, The United Front Conference of the National Railroad Industrial League will draw delegates from nearly every railroad town and city in America. Already hundreds of credentials have been received: at the national offices here and the dele- gates are expected to arrive in plenty of time for the big Foster meeting in the Chicago Coliseum, Friday night. Thousands of leaflets, plug- gers and programs have been dis- tributed to railroad workers at yards, shops ands roundhouses and the response and enthusiasm dis- played is greater than at any time since the crisis began. The conditions of the railroad workers have been growing steadily worse each day, while the bosses have put into effect the most ter- rific speed-up system in the history of the railroad industry. On nearly every road in the country long lay- offs have taken place frequently and the “Hoover Stagger System” of wage-cutting installed when the workers went back to the job. In this program of the bosses the fak- ers of the Railroad Men’s Depart- ment of the American Federation of Labor have given their support and co-operation. The double-dealing and _ sell-outs of this slimy crew has been enough to convince the vast majority of railroad workers that their craft or- ganizations ae but “company unions,” utilized by the parasite ratiroad bosses to slash wages, tear down working conditions and force the workers to accept, only what the companies condescend to give them. Program for All Railroad Workers. The National United Front Con- ference of the National Railroad In- dustrial League will have as its main task the organization of~a defense against the onslaught of the railroad bosses and their lackeys—the A. F. of L. fakers. The National Railroad Industrial League proposes a na- tion-wide united front of all work- ers in the industry for the following program: 1. Organize and strike wage-cuts. 2. The establishment of the six- hour day with eight hours’ pay. 3. Thirty days’ pay for the 26-day month, 4. Unemployment insurance and immediate relief for the men laid off. 5. Abolition of the speed-up, en- forcement of recognized working rules and improvement of condi- tions on the job. against ALL NEW YORK WORKERS, TAKE NOTICE The New York Trade Union Unity Council and all its affiliated unions have moved to 5 E, 19th St. Golden, former prosecutor for six years, as well-as the attorney for the U. M. W. A, former U. S. Sen- ator John M. Robinson, are in im- mediate danger of bodily violence when they step Into court in Har- Usually coal operators only insist upon 100 per cent loyalty to their side. But in Kentucky they demand about 110 per cent. ‘They don't even set up any of the false gallantries ‘concerning the women. Jessie Wakefield, LL.D. or- ganizer, has been dragged into jail twice within one week on charges of criminal syndicalism, bail in the first case $2,000 and $5,000 in the second case, - the farmes the value of the | | use = = COPS USE MURDEROUS TORTURE AGAINST WORKERS, REPORT SHOWS (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) the bloody method igs in unife > obtain “ rd degree methods authori- tatively reported to us as recently employed including: Punching in | the face, especially a hard slap on the jaw; hitting with a billy; whip- ping with a rubber hose; kicking in the abdomen; tightening the necktie almost to the choking point; squeezing the testicles. The police of the different cities their own particular brand of} barbarism against the working class. | The Wickersham report outlines these methods as f Ws: | Different cities have different methods, In Boston prisoners are made to run up and down iron | stairs in their bare feet. In New- ark the “hard and soft” system is { popular — one officer threatening bodily harm and a second pretend- ing to defend and feed the prisoner in an effort to work on his soft side, In Philadelphia they place | them incommunicado in what is called “cold storage.” In Cleveland prisoners are forced to stand against a wall without | food or drink for hours while be- ing questioned, and if they fall as- | leep on their feet they are awak- ened by hard slaps on the face. In | Detroit they shoot a suspect | “around the loop’—that is, they bundle him from station to sta- tion at late hours so that freinds and attorneys cannot find them. In Chicago they beat up pris- | oners with a rubber hose or club, kick them in the shins and stom- ach and slap them on the side of, the head with the telephone book, which is exceptionally heavy. i Mild Methods of Barbarism. | “Milder Methods” are coming into | use by the police. ‘These methods | are such as to try to break down the mental stability of the prisoner, to drive him crazy if possible, so that a “confession” can be obtained from him. According to the inves- tigation, this method is now the fav- orite one used by the police in New York. This does not mean that the physically brutal methods have been abolished. The actual method in use ts a combination of both methods— mental and physical torture. ‘The investigators give the follow- ing sketch of the “mild methods” | ing masses believe hat tt used: A milder method, coming as we have been told, into increasing use, is to exhaust the prisoner by keep: ing him awake or constantly awak- ening him after a brief sleep. Or a man may be éxhausted by long delays of questioning. Sometimes the questioning tasks place in the Presence of several burly officers, who rap the tables sharply wtih their night sticks to terrorize the suspect. Deprivation of food is also practiced.” The reason for the use of the “milder methods” is not because the bosses police have suddenly become any less brutal but because these new methods do not leave “visible marks” | of the torture, and the same results can be obtained by their use. Legalizing Class Justice The report of the Commission as usual gives a number of recommen- dations to make the attack on the working class quite “legal.” The workers know that such re | commendatigns on the part of inves- tigators are but a means of “critic- izing” the capitalist legal system and its brutality to try to make he work- can ex- pect something else under the “jus- tice” of the bosses. This brutality is a part of the bos- ses system. The bosses are tighten- ing upon their police oppression because they think that in this way they will be able to crush the mil- itancy of the working masses, They are using this brutality as a means to put across wage cuts, and speec up, as @ means for th eoppression of the Negro and foreign born, as a means for breaking the strikes of the militant workers. In commenting on the Wicker- sham Report on the third degree methods used in New York Acting District Attorney Kane brazenly ad- mitted the comple! truth of the charges. He states “It's absurd, what are we to do, give our baby Killers ice cream cones?” While making this admission he tries to deceive the workers into believing that these methods are used against criminals. Thruout the country these methods are used not against the underworld criminals with whom the capitalist political machines are al- lied, but against the militant work- ing class. Kane admits that in this persecution third degree methods of the most grucsome kind are used. Berlin Police, Under Socialist Chief Shoot Down Worke (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) | | Socialist police chief, Grzesinski, c dered the closing down and sea of Liebknecht House till Aug. 20,) meaning the practical prohibition of | the Berlin organization of the Com- munist Party. | Eighteen persons were arpested on | the premises and hundreds in nearby | streets. In the plebiscite 9,793,603 favored the dissolution of the The Communist press service poi out that this is practically half t total poll of the last diet election. Despite terrific terror on the part of the police, the Red mobilization of the workers under Communist | leadership was a great success. In| Berlin and in all other industrial | centers the referendum was com-| pletely under the leadership of the | Communist Party. The referendum | is the beginning of mass action’ voters et rs; 2 Captains Killed against the Bruening and Sereving system of fascism and starvation. Minor collisions took place in vari- ous parts of Prussia on voting day. but apart from Berlin there were no serious incidents: NEW YORK.—A eable dispatch to the New York Evening Post by its Berlin correspondent. Knickerbocker, says that the Prussian government. headed by socialists, is seeking to | outlaw the Communist Party. Knick- erbocker writes. “It has new become evident that the Prussian government, encour- aged by its formal victory over the radicals, intends to proceed more sharply than’ ‘ever against ex- tremists. “The Communist Party now stands in some danger of being suppressed and at any rate its or- gans from now on. will be subject to more rigid police control than ever.” MONSTER DAILY WORKER PICNIC THIS SUNDAY, AUGUST 16 AT PLEASANT BAY PARK! SPREAD NEWS EVERYWHERE At meeting of Manhattan Daily Vorker Club held Saturday July 24, Comrade Erenberg was elected chairman with Comrade Plotkin as temporary secretary. After a short talk by the chairma on importance of increasing bundle orders as well as advantages of holding open air meetings, members of club discussed various problems connected with the Daily Worker. Comrade Tiloby explained the importance of having articles writ- ten by workers themselves which are simple and interesting to other workers He suggested that com- rades take more interest in the Daily Worker and that a Worker Correspondence Committee should be appointed to meet every few days to collect, correct and discuss arti- cles before sending them in to the Daily Worker. Motion was also made that a committee be appointed to look after the diséribution , of copies of the daily im certain terri- tory. Complete copy of minutes turned over to Editorial Department for answer on points relating to edi- torlals, news, etc. ANNUAL DAILY WORKER PIONIC Tickets for the annual Daily Worker Pienie to be held next Sunday August 16, can be procured at the office of the Daily Worker, fifth floor, 50 E, 18th St, Direc- tions for getting to Pleasant Bay Park, Westchester, N. Ys age ax follows: Subway to EB. 177th SE; car to Unionport, At Unionport busses will meet you and take you to the wrounds, Only a few days left In which to xend your entry in for the Labor on Field Meet and Nov- w. Workers! Make this t plenic in the history of the enter! Daily Workers! Come prepared to have the time of your life and bring your friends with yout Silk banners will he given to the most successful sections and mass organizations in the Finance Drive. Prizes will be given to the victors in the field contests, with the Daily Worker Cup to the highest score Prominent speakers will address a diences on the progress of the Pitts- burgh strike, the Scottsboro Case, the Chicago struggles, etc. An ex~ cellent dance orchestra has begn en: faged-to play all day. Also perform- ances by the Workers Laboratory Theatre, songs by the W.I.R. Chorus cartoons by members of the John Reed Club and Daily Worker edi torial staff, and refreshments and food aplenty! Daily Worker Club News All letters bearing bearing on Daily Worker Clubs should be ad- dressed to the Daily Worker Club Department, 50 E. 13th St. New York City, to make sure that they will be received without delay. Reports of meetings of clubs are very slow coming in! What, for in stance, has happened to the club in Kensington, Pa. We have heard nothing from this city for-several weeks! Tampa and St. Petersburg are also strangely silent! Is it pos sible that the hot weather has put a temporary quietus on activities? If true, what about holding open air meetings where they can be heard by everyone? Meetings should be open to all workers who wish to attend. regardless of sex, race, opinion, and reports sent to the Daily Worker Club Department for publication*in the Daily. NEW CLUB IN CLINTON, IND: “I am an old man, 74 years old.” writes a comrade from C' fon, Ind. “T am doing my best to build up ‘the movement. Many of the subscribers and some of them Party members are way behind paying for the paper here in ton, but we are building a» vt er Club now Keep by continually increasing member- ship and you will find a strong movement growing up in your sec~ Interest in Daily Worker in Davenport, ‘Increat order to 10 copies a day,” writes J. P. “We had a meeting las Wednesday night. I told the audi- ence about the Daily Worker and we sold quite a few. Demand is getting bigger." More open-air meetings vill increase sales of Daily, com- rades' ‘Workers are ready to read the paper. Talk to them about st! Watch how quickly they respond! Keep good supply on hand for emere gencios! ey