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' ee ir DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1931 - Page Three STRIKE AGAINST WAGE CUTS SPREADING THRU WASH. SHINGLE MILLS Pheonix Mill Shut Down Completely; Cedar Mill Joins Strike Against 15 per Cent Cut Relief Committee Organized; Wives and Daughters Of Strikers Picket Mills (By a Worker Correspondent) SEATTLE, Wash.—On Monday, August 3rd, over forty workers from the Seattle Cedar Shingle Mill struck against a 15 per cent cut. At noon they pulled out about the same number in the Phoenix Shingle Mill. This made the Phoenix a complete shut-down but left over a hundred workers in the other departments of the Cedar Mill. The strikers sent downtown for an organizer of the Na- tional Lumber Workers Union and the Communist Party. The union immediately issued a leaflet for the spreadin® of the strike. The next morning (Tuesday) a speaker for the TUUL spoke to the men still in and the: leaflets were distributed to alt of this doesn’t stop the strike. The them. At> noon, Sidney Bloomfield, dis- trict organizer of the Communist , Party, spoke and asked those who were coming out to step over the tracks and join the pickets. About 37 mey came over. The strikers im- mediately added five of them to the joint rank and file strike committee and also six women. Pickets were on duty at quitting time and a few more men came out. Wives and daughters of some of the strikers were on the line, talking “and per- suading those still in to come out. Build Auxiliary Wednesday night the strikers held a meeting and registered over 72 men. Some women, not in the strike but sympathetic to the fight of the work- ers volunteered. on the auxiliary. A hall committee was selected by the strike committee and Thursday pro- cured a store from one of the small business men. A mass meeting was held there in the afternoon and the velief committee and youth committee were elected from the strikers and sympathizers. The boss shut down the mill but Houston Jobless (By a Worker Correspondent) HOUSTON, Texas—A few days ago when I wes going out on a small paint jeb I saw part! of Hoover's prosperity. T came up Alabama Street in Hou- ston and caw three Negro workers looking over the gatbage that was awaiting the collectors. They were picking out all the old foodstuff that Bosses Rob Cigar ‘Tampa, Fla. Daily Worker: ‘These are several thousand women working here in the cigar industry, and the bosses in the factory use them as they see fit; a young women getting a job in the cigar industry must sell her body to the bosses be- fore she can hold her job in the factory. With the men the shop foreman have another graft. When the work- Relief Supervisor Adm strikers will keep a strong picket line on duty all the time. They are send- ing a picket over to Stimson’s Mill, another large mill, and are calling upon the workers there to spread the strike. The relief committee is out getting supplies and registration of the workers most in need. The busi- ness men of the district, known as Ballard, seem to realize that they de- pend upon the workers for their bills and several of them have told the workers “to go the limit.” Vemand Cut Return The strikers demand the last cut to be taken back and no discrimina- tion against the strike committee members. They are meeting to de- termine if they wish to enlarge the demands. Total cuts for all of them this year come to between 30 and 50 per cent, the latter having been received by the Cedar Shingle men. We call upon the workers to spread the strike through the northwest. Strike is on now at Clear Lake and Seattle , Cedar and Phoenix Shingle Mill. Build the National Lumber Workers Union. Eat Garbage they could find. One of the Negroes said that he hac to go to the garbage in order to keep his wife and children from starving. It seems that our present American prosperity has put plenty of poor people on their feet. Many workers down here are going without shoes. Workers of Wages ers pay off on Saturday afternoon, they have to leave a dollar under the rolling board at their tables for the foreman or not to show up for the job on Monday. There afte many workers that can’t afford to pay graft to these parasites, but have to do it on the meager pay they get. The children of the cigar workers are bare footed on the account of the foreman grafting on the earners of the families. its Workers Must Fight for What They Get (By a Worker Correspondent) SPRING VALLEY, Ill.—The sup- ervisor of relief in Bureau County, Mr, Teckher, admitted to me last Saturday that ‘the only way the workers in Spring Valley can get relief is to do like the miners of Henryetta, Oklahoma, did—that is, to organize and march into the town and threaten to raid the stores if they are not given relief. I went. to see Teckner about the wife of a worker who lives in a two room shanty and has five children. ‘This worker makes $1.50 a day work- ing for a farmer and has little mon- ey. I asked that this worker's wife ‘be sent to a hospital, as she is about to have a@ child and it would be very dangerous to have a child in ber circumstances. Teckner said that he had no money, that the county was broke. The best thing he could do was to send for the County doctor, and for this the worker was to pay eight dollars. “If you are sending the County doctor, why is there a charge?” T asked, Teckner said that the Coum- ty doctor was not the County doctor any longer. It sounds like graft to me. ‘Then I asked him what the county expected to do about workers who will need relief this winter and the many who are in desperate circum- stances now. “I don't know,” he answered. “You don’t think that the workers in Spring Valley will stand by and starve,” I asked him. “I never heard of them getting anything except in Henryetia, Ok- Jahoma,” he said. ‘ It is plain, fellow workers, that the bosses and their officials all re- member Henryetta, Okla, and Eng- Jand, Ark. The way for us workers to get relief is to organize and force them to give it to us. Mr. Teckner says so himself. Now let's show the bosses here that the workers in Spring Valley hére just as much guts as the miners in Oklahoma. Join the unemployed council. Get in the fight for immediate relief. Demand unemployment insurarice, $15 a week and $5 for each child. Demand $5 a week and $1 for each dependent from the County as a minimum re- lief until the bill is passed, Organize to Fight Starvation in Troy, Ohio ‘Troy, Ohio. Daily Worker: In this small city of Troy, unem- ployment is on the increase as else- where and those out of work are barely existing, Many of the jobless have built shacks out on the road- side because they have no money to pay rent. Many farmers that have lest their fatms are doing the same thing. Most of the jobless do not receive any rélief and they live on greens or anything they can get. But the workers here are’ getting to realize the importance of organ- izing and fighting against starvation. We have a branch of 23 in our un- employed council so far and we are gaining rapidly. ‘The workers must organize together in the Unemployed Councils and fight for Unemploy- ment Insurance; against evictions and the turfiing off of gas and elec- trie, etc. Only by organizing will the workers gain anything. Putnam Strikers Stand Solid For Demands (BY & Worker Correspondent) PUTNAM, Conn.—The strike of| relief has been the Fldom end Salburg workers is| Haven. standing solid. Conferences between the Bloom] mit for t A relief store has been opened and here from New Strikers were sent to differ- ent cities around Putnam for a per- days which were refused. workers and Mr. Bloom and also be-| House to house collections, however, tween the Zalburg workers and Mr.|have been arranged and the strikers Zalburg have been held. ‘The work-|aré getting some reliéf in this way. ers on the committee made it plain|'The strikers appreciate the coopera. io these.two bosses that they refuse tion of the workers from the other to go back {0 work until the strike demands are conceded lg cities and hope they will continue to relied asa at Sad aa et ht aseaouaii a U.S.Is Waging War || Against USSR, Ex- || Governor Declares | | “The United States today is at war with the social, political and economic forces and doctrines of the Communists and the outcome is still in doubt,” said former | Governor Percival P. Baxter, speaking before business men at Portland, Maine. Baxter, who ex- presses the view of his class, called American engineers in the Soviet Union disloyal to American imperialism. “The training of Russian armies by American instructors would be no more disloyal and no more harmful to the United States than what is being done now by American business men and en- gineers, “The training of Russian work- men and the equipping of Rus- sian factories, power plants and giant farms is aiding and abetting our country’s most dangerous en- emy.” ‘The former governor urged the capitalists to boycott commerce with the Soviet Union. NEW PARACHUTE IS INVENTED BY SOVIET EXPERT Can Land Eggs With- out Breaking A new parachute invention of the greatest significance has been pro- duced in the Soviet Union, accord- ing to latest cable reports. Walter Duranty, writing in the New York ‘Times, describes this new device, and the history of its invention, as fol- lows: “A new parachute invented by the Soviet acronautic expert, Grodhof- sky, proved a remarkable success- in recent experiments at the Moscow airfield, falling at the low speed of five meters (about 16.4 feet) a sec- ond, which permitted. an undam- aged landing for a chicken and a dozen of eggs in a basket, released from a height of 1,000 meters (about 3,280 feet). “At present the apparatus is de- signed for weights up to thirty-five pounds, but its inventor expects soon to extend this to man’s weight. “The invention was prompted by demand of the newspaper Pravda for @ surer method of parachuting the matrix now delivered by air from Moscow at Leningrad, Kharkov. Tif- lis and Novosibirsk for its special edition’ published locally, because the paper shortage and the weight of the newspapers from Moscow hampered the delivery of printed cepies, and it was found. that the matrix often broke with the ordinary parachute. “The apparatus consists of an in- expensive linen parachute attached to @ long basket which has a rubber yhood. The latter, automatically ex- panding in the air, greatly reduces the velocity. “It is asserted that the parachute will facilitate the delivery of parcel Bost, perishable objects and supplies to castaways or a beleaguered force, and in this connection it is recalled that three years ago, when General Nobile’s airship Italia crashed in the Arctic, food and medical supplies dropped from a plane were ruined by contact with the ice. “The device is also important for urgent delivery of machine parts or models to construction camps or state farms in outlying areas not provided with an airfield.” CLAIM REVOLT IN CUBA SPREADING. Machado “Clamps On Heavy Censorship WASHINGTON, Aug. 11—Cuban Nationalist leaders here claim the revolt in Cuba is more widespread than Bloody Machado, president of Cuba, admits. The Nationalists here state that the entire Cuban navy has gone over to the insurgent forces. No news is allowed out of Cuba about the progress of the armed up- rising. Martial law has been strengthened here by order of Ma- chado. In an effort to end the re- volt, Machado has offered “im- munity” to all rebels who give up now. None have taken his offer. ‘The fighting in Cuba started a few days ago in several provinces, when the Nationalist leaders observed the growing militancy of the workers as shown in the Havana street car ficials are attempting to bludgeon the men into accepting this cut is to deprive all but members of the B. of R. T. of their seniority rights and establish a “closed shop” in train and yard service. Grand Lodge-Company Union Front. The intent and purpose of this move should be clear to every train and yardman. It is a united front between the grand lodge officials and the railroad companies to jam their Wage-cut program down the throats of the workers and make them like it. If the above actions of the Hous- ton convention go into effect, the Job of no train and yardman-in the country will be secure. Non-mem- bership in the B. of R. T. will mean being denied the right to work for @ railroad. The companies will be- come the organizers and maintain- ers of the B. of R. T. and compel the men to belong to Whitney’s wage- cutting company union or be dis- missed from service, Join the New Industrial Union. Like the B. of R. T., all of the old-line railroad organizations—the B. of L. E, B. of L. F. & E, O. R. C., Switchmen’s Union and A. F. of L. railway organizations have all been degenerated into wage-cutting company unions and sell the workers out at every chance they get. The only salvation of railroad labor is to unite its forces and build a new in- R.R. UNION OFFICIALS HELP BOSS WAGE CUTTING SCHEMES (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) | | | workers in the industry, regardless of trade, race, creed or color, where the interests of one will be the con- cern of all. Such an organization, where all railroad trades will be united into one great body is more necessary now than ever. It is the only possible means by which we can successfully fight against wage-cuts and get the 6-hour day with 8-hours’ pay, which will put thousands of men back to work. Hear Foster Friday. On Friday evening, Aug. 14, the rialroad workers in Chicago wil? meet at the Coliseum, 1513 So. Wa- bash Ave., to hear William Z. Foster, general secretary of the Trade Union Unity League, speak on “A United Front Against Wage-Cuts and for the 6-Hour Day With 8 Hours’ Pay.” This promises to be the largest rail- road mass meeting held in Chicago for many years. Not only railroad men, but all workers in Chicago are invited to the Coliseum meeting. National Conference Saturday and Sunday. On, the following days, Saturday | and Sunday, Aug. 15 and 16, the Na-} tional Railroad United Front Con- ference will take place at Walters | Hall, 5212 So. Halsted St., beginning at 10 a.m, Delegates will be present | from most of the larger railroad cen- | ters throughout the country. | Local lodges and groups of work- | ers in the yards and ‘shops support- ing this program are entitled to elect | dustrial organization to take in all] and send delegates. The Business of Cops Is to Commit Crimes For Capitalist Dictatorship (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) and the atrocities that may be necessary to accomplish this reactionary purpose. Does anyone doubt it? Is anyone fool enough to think be- cause of Hoover's Commission's “discoveries” of these brutalities of Hoover, that Hoover is going to cease to violate and torture the working class with threats and acts of deportation—or that he will cease even to send foreign born workers back to the Fascist hangmen, Chiang Kai- Shek, Mussolini, Pilsudski, ete. to be murdered? Of course not. | . . . The main task, the reason for the existence of the police and other armed forces of the capitalist government, is to maintain the class rule of the capitalist class and landlords, But incidentally (and it is a big incident!) the police are, of course, just as corrupt as the system they represent and the class of parasites they defend. In every city the police business is framing up women, feeding on the proceeds of prostitutes, sharing in the profits of hired murder— in addition to “regular” business of protecting the towering pinacle of + legal racketeers, the capitalist class, from-the masses whom they exploit and who must be shot down in strikes, in protesting at evictions and starvation, ete. Judges who pose in the newspapers as “shocked” by the Wicker- sham report send thousands of men and women to prison for the purpose of making them pay to get out. Policemen arrest, and judges pass sen- tence upodn the lower ranks of professional criminals to hold them for ransom. Judges pay habitually the well-known price of one year’s salary for their jobs, as a matter of course having the understanding with the mayors who appoint them that this price is to be re-collected in bribes from corporations and professional criminals. If a pocket is picked of $7 in the streets of New York or Chicago at least $3.50 on the average will find its way to the pockets of the judges and highest office holders. This is the inseparable filth that clings to the skirts of the pros- titute Capitalism. It can be categorically stated that the Wickersham report, like the Seabury inquiry in New York, is itself helping this same crime system by “exposing” the smaller and non-essential things while most carefully concealing not only the specific crimes of particular individuals higher up in the oligarchy—but concealing the basic nature of the crimes with which they deal. . . . _ What can and should we, the working class, do in connection with this “exposure” of the crimes of capitalist government by capitalist government? There is only one answer: We must expose what the Wickershams and the Seaburys are not exposing—what they are protecting; and we must utilize such facts for the building up of the organized strength of the class which will destroy the rotten system of organized capitalist crime—the capitalist system of slavery. We must build up the revolutionary unions of the working class | to fight day-by-day against the fiendish horde of police brutes—brothers | to the underworld of professional criminals—whose clubs and guns and “third degree” methods are directed in the first place against the work- ing class; and we must build up the revolutionary Communist Party bbe is the only force that can lead the struggle out of capitalist slavery. : 4 The business of capitalist police is never to be “honest” and “gentle,” but to commit crimes of violence against the working class for the pro- tection of the legalized criminal class that rules us and is responsible for the police. Wide August 22nd Demonstrations (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONT This conference will draw in dele- gates from Massachusetis, Rhode Island and New Hampshire. Sacto-Vanzetti Day in Connecticut will be followed immediately on Sun- day, August 23, with an Amnesty Conference to be held at Hartford. 27 Albany Avenue, when a demand will be made upon Governor Gross for the release of unemployed work- érs now setving long prison terms. strike, Workers Correspondence fs the backbone of the revolutionary press. Build your press by writing for iv about your day-to-day struggle. eae a ee PO Hts Hiled Monty, taken to save it, the capitalist sys- tem throughout the civilized world will be wrecked within a year. I should like this prediction to be iled for future reference.” —Montague Collett Norman, | Governor of the Bank of England Soviet “Forced Labor”—Bedacht’ series in pomphiet form at 10 cents ber copy, Read itmSpread itt ~~ | gtates of 4 United Front Conferences for the Sacco-Vanzetti Day are reported be- ing arranged in 20 cities in the Min- nesota District, which also includes the northern sections of Wisconsin and Michigan. The Cleveland District is arrang- ing demonstrations throughout the District, the largest to be held in the Public Square in Cleveland. An enthusiastic conference was held in Philadelphia with plans for dem- onstrations there and in all other leading cities of the District, such as Trenton, Chester, Baltimore and Washington, with demonstrations also planned for the anthracite fields. Pittsburgh is combining Sacco-Van- zetti day with a special struggle against persecutions in the coal strike, with plans for delegations to be sent to the gove August 15, demanding the release of all arrested coal mine strikers. Lillian Goodman, ILD organizer of San Francisco, is touring the dis- trict arranging for the Sacco-Van- zett! meetings. Despite the savage attacks on the militant working class movement in the Los Angeles dis- trict, Sacco-Vanzetti day will be fit- tingly remembered. T both San Francisco and Los Angeles distticts, Sacco-Vanzetti Day will be a day of struggle against the criminal syndicalist law. Throughout the country and the entire world, the working class on August 22 will thunder its demands for, the release of all class war pris-| oners in the capitalist prisons, for the release of the nine Scottsboro Ne- gto boys, the Camp Hill Negro crop- pers, the militant Negro workers be- ing framed in Birmingham, the Ne- gro and white militant workers ar- résted in Chicago in an attempt by the bosses to justify the massacre of unemployed workers in that city on August 3, for the release of Moo- ney and Billings, of the Imperial Val- ley prisoners, McNamara and Schmidt —for the release of the hundreds of militant coal mine and_ textile [Belgian Convicts Work to Enrich American Bosses | | | BALTIMORE, Md, Aug. 11—| American importers bring in pris- on-made goods from Belgium on |which they make a lot of profit. |'This was revealed here recently |when James M. Hepbron, director of the Criminal Justice Commis- sion, arrived from a trip to Bel-| gium. | Ham Fish, Mathew Woll, and/ other enemies of the Soviet, Union who spread the fake cry of “forced | and prison labor” in the Soviet} Union have been very quiet about this open admission of prison- made goods coming in freely from Belgium. In fact, Mr. Hepbron praised | the idea. He said he saw piles of goods stored up in the Belgium| prisons for export to the United States. The Belgian forced prison |Jabor is used mainly in manufac- turing door mats, pearl buttons} and other such articles for the | American market. | COTTON PRICES | CRASH: LOWEST IN 25 YEARS Misery of. Farmers, Croppers Worsened NEW YORK, August 11.—As a re- sult of the government's estimate of {the large amount of cotton which will come into the market at the close lof the present season the price of cotton fell yesterday to 6.70 cents a pound, the lowest price in over twenty five years, or since aJnuary, 1905. The decline in price yesterday which has amounted to 17 per cennt was one of the most drastic in the history of the cotton market. Since the end of June cotton prices have dropped about 40 per cent. In the past year cotton prices have dropped fifty per cent. This drop in the price of cotton means that the misery of the poor and middle farmers and croppers of the South will be sharpened greatly. ‘The farmers and croppers who are now in the debt of the bankers and fertilizer and food merchants will be driven further into bankruptcy. The fall of the price of cotton has greatly shaken the economic position of Egypt which depends to a great extent on the production of cotton. ‘The Egyptian government will not sell any more cotton at the present time, except to the Soviet Union, in order to try to prevent the further crash of the market. The Egyptian govern- ment knows that sales in the capital- ist market are not for cotton to be used in production but to speculators who will try to make profits by push- ling the market down even further. Cotton which is sold to the Soviet Union will be used for increasing the amount of goods for the workers and ' farmers of the country. ‘The fall of cotton prices at this time is not only an indication of the deepening of the crisis but will itself sharpen the crisis further. LSU ATHLETES WIN VICTORIES \Worker Sportsmen In USSR For Meets BERLIN.—As part of the Sparta- kiade (the International Workers’ ‘Athletic Meet) in Germany the Weissensee Athletic Club held a propaganda track and field meet, to- gether with the clubs of the 18th District, Berlin, before a crowd of 2,000 spectators at the Rennbahn sport field in Weissensee. ‘The great- est interest was aroused by the American worker athletes. ‘The American atheletes were victorious in many events. The following are the results: “ : 100 meter dash (senior), Asikal~ nen (U.S.A.), 12; Steele (Fichte 22), 12-1; Lehtinen (US.), 11.5. 100 meter dash (junior): Pietila (U.S.A), 12; Duff (USA), 122; Kleine (Weissensee) 12.2. 75 meter dash (women): Bormann (Weissensee) 11; Bogal (Weissensee) 11; Geppert (Weissensee), 11.2. Broad jump (women): Geppert (Weissensee), 4.15; Manste (Weissensee), ard Ki- sela (Weigsensee), 3.75. Broad jump perdi te cece (U.S.A.), 6.155 Bedert (Weissensee), 5.78; Steele (Fichte 22), 5.48. Broad jump (wo- men): Pietila (U.S.A), 5.30. Shot put (senior): Konrenburn § (Fichte 22), 10.72; Lehtinen (U.S.A.), 10.57; Bhiller (Weissensee), 10.35. Shot put Gunior): Kruger (Weissnesee), 10.89; Kleine (Weissensee), 10.62; Bedert (Weissensee), 9.95. High jump (senior): Rogasti (Pichte 22), 1.47. | High jump Gunior): Duff (U.S.A), 1.67, Javelin (women): Bormann (Weissensee), 24.10; Lemhann (Fichte 22), 24.10, : ‘A few days after the meet the American worker athletes departed for the Soviet Union, where they were to take part in a number of thetic meets. ———— gles of the workers against starv tion and wage cuts. ‘All out August 22! Demonstrate against poss terror and for the free- dom of all class war prisoners. ‘The International Labor Defense calls upon all workers to help it in its tremendous burdens of defending these cases and asks that funds be rushed to the National Office, 89 E. strikers held in jail or for deporta- tion in the effort of the bosses and Eleventh St, Room 430, New ¥ abit bie (OONTI.ULD FROM PAGE ONE) | ‘anizer and section committes | | Central City seems to be the prob-| orm center now. There are] ral hundred new members of the | NMU there, and one of the ten companies has announced that it 1 discharge all union membr does, the Central Pennsylvania will very likely start right then There are a number of poor farm- | ers in Central Pennsylvania who have | been used to working in the mines | in winter. It is significnat 6f the] dread the coal companies have of the | r6. strike developing that they have or-| dered all these farmers to drop their farm work and be prepared to enter | the mines now, otherwise they will| be blacklisted this winter. | Sa eae 5 | SCOTTS RUN, West Virginia, Aug. | 11.—Twenty-four delegates represent- ing 13 mines and 6,000 miners in this field where the UMW has signed wage HOLD CONFERENCES TO BUILD « STRIKE FRONT: CALL NMU TO LEAD | ence sponded enthusiastically to a call to build organization both among the employed and unemployed, Fayette county has many jobless miners, whole strings of the coke coal mines being closed down. ‘The Frick com- pany closed seven since the strike started, in the hopes of driving the men to scab in the struck field. Other speakers at the mass meeting were Joe Finn, Walker, Kockle and Mrs, Niagra Twelve mines, three of them work- ing, were represented at the confer- The confererice took up plans for a hunger march on the county | Seat at Uniontown, at a date to be announced in the near future, and arranged for a series of mass meet- ings throughout the county, and espe- cially in the towns or near the towns where they are “closed” of the Prick mines e) -e COVERDALE, Pa, August 11.— Armed deputies with state police to cutting contracts with the bosses,| Protect them seized active members met in conference here Sunday and Hid the National ‘Miners Union on the made plans to strike this whole field. | shway near here and beat up Youth Conditions are extremely bad. Not | only is there the usual short weight on the scales (with a UMWA check- | weighman), and the usual no for dead work, etc., but the UMW/ has looted $7,000 in check-off from the miners who are so poverty strick- en that many come to work barefoot- ed. The UMW district and interna- tional office are continually levying more assessments on these men. The} contract made by Van Bittner, U.M. WA. district president, cut the wages from 38 cents a ton to 30 cents a ton, and now the companies are put- ting over another wage cut, under the UMWA contract, of eight to nine cents a ton, Down mine cut 8 cents last week There is a savage terror by armed deputies and state police. Those who show the least resistance are on the lacklist. Some of the coal companies have entirely abandoned the use of U.S. money, and pay, when they pay any- thing, only in scrip—brass money of their own coinage and good in their own double priced stores only. ae ae MASONTOWN, Pa., August 11.— Here in the coke coal region, hitherto untouched by the strike, a very sig- nificant mass meeting and conference took place Sunday. Three hundred miners assembled to hear William Z. Foster, of the Trade Union Unity League, and re- (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONED raids on Negro“workers andisearches of their homes for Communist liter- ature. Scores of Negroes have been arrested “on suspicion,” among them three militant working-class leaders: Eugene Braxton, David James and John James. Any Negro worker walking in the streets with a package is stopped and searched for Communist literature. All Negro workers on outgoing and incoming freights are taken off and locked up. Wholesale beatings and shooting of Negro workers haye occurred on the South Side. So widespread is the terror that complaints have been made by white employers that their servants are taken out of their homes and beaten up. Since this interferes with the comfort of the bosses, the ~ DAILY WOR The West Side Daily Worker Read- ers Club of New York City held a so- cial and miners relief affair at 417 ‘W. 58rd St. last Thursday. An ex- cellent program and the whole hearted support and cooperation of the members and their friends made the evening an unqualified success. From the start at nine o'clock to the finish at eleven there was not a dull moment in the entire program. Comrade Fieldberg acted as chairman, Comrade Staten as Sec- retary and Comrade Firmanas, chief auctioneer of the evening.. - While the atmosphere of the oc- casion was one of extreme galety and sj tanelty, nevertheless the had its serious moments as well, When Helen Stomsky, the miner’s daughter and John Pankie, the miner, brought us face to face with the actual conditions in the mines, one could feel the tenseness of the listeners and when they had finished speaking there Was no doubt in the minds of any- present that the miner® would receive our whole hearted support “Daily” Club Creative As Well A® Reereative Comrade Quirt with his funny car- toons brought down the house! Com. rades Modell and Firman put on @ splendid exhibition dance. Comrade Towney was master of refreshments and certainly made a good job of it. Comrade Stevens won the prize basket of groceries and asked for suggestions as to how to dispose of it. Comrades McDonald and Staten solved the problem by reporting a case of destitution close by, so the basket was carried to this family and@ given to them.« McDonald and Staten reported on their return that the family was just preparing their evening meal of Stale bread and weak tea which was all they had in the house, The proceeds amount- ed to $18.37, all of which was do- nated to the Miners Relief Fund. The program was concluded by the singing of the International, Comrades of other Daily Work- Hold more social ge 1 You wilt overrun with the meetings in} ocension than a po- Hitieal one in the beginn you ean work up to the latter. At the last meeting of the Lin- den, N. J. Daily Worker Club it was decided that workers in sh were to be ned to write corr pondence. For this work it w moved that a Workers Correspon- dence Group be appointed from the mombership of the club with a Pre Be ry in ee 1h was also 4 ONE KILLED, SEVERAL DYING © AS BOSS TERROR CONTINUES Organizer Fisher. The other three arrested were Walter Brown, and his two sons. The reason for the arrest was that the four were suspected of leading the singing on the Picket line. The cops here have a fanatical hatred for the “Parley Vous” song | directed against them While making the arrest, the dep- uties used indescribably vile language in their denunciation of. several young | girls whom they were looking for as song leaders also, but did not find. | The arrest of the four boys and men tock place on the state highway about a: mile from Pittsburgh Terminal Mine No. 8. All were rleased later. Deputies told the storekeeper at Coverdale that if he did not keep | the strikers off his porch, “a bomb will come through your window.” swe | BRIDGEVILLE, Pa, August 11.— | Eleven hundred miners and their |families met here in the midst of ja rain so heavy that it flooded the car of speakers coming to address them and delayed them for hours. The crowd refused to go away, and, broken up several times by the storm, re-assembled to listen to local speak- ers each time. While the meeting was going on, a fortified truck, with high side boards Pierced with loopholes circled around the crowd, and the miners refused to be overawed by the menacing “tank.” Gs police have taken steps to put a siop to this phase of the terror. A vicious incitement campaign against Négro Communists is being carried on in the boss press. This campaign is being supported by the belly-crawling Negro reform- ists who have come out with offers to act as stool pigeons against the Negro workers. These fakers, silent on the Scottsboro and Camp Hill outrages and on the nrurder of un- employed Negro workers in Chicago are “hanging their heads in shame” because a Negro bandit is alleged to have killed a useless society woman and wounded two others. The Communist Party. and the Young Communist League have is- sued 10,000 leaflets denouncing the terror against the Negro workers and the lies of the capitalist press and police. SUNDAY AUGUST 16th GALA DAY OF KER PICNIC! ployed and unemployed be organized to sell the Daily Worker from house to house. This group is to meet with the Daily Worker Agent of Linden and Roselle, N.J., once a wéek to check up on work and make plans for the development of group. ‘The next meeting to be held August 29 will include a Social and Motion Pictures! Gala Day August 16 Next Sunday, August 16 Is the date of the Annual Pienic of the Daily Worker! What a day this will be! All events will take place as sched- uled! These include the W.LR, Chor- us; Workers Laboratory Theatre; John Reed Club artists; Datty Work- er Staff; Labor Sports Unon! Field Meet; prominent speakers; Dance Orchestra; Refreshments and Food; and countless other divertissements! Remember the place—Pleasant Bay Park, Westchester, N. Y.. Take Sub- way to East 177 Street then car to mionport, N. Y,. At this point usses will meet you and take you t othe grounds. If you haven't got- ten your tickets yet, come up to the 5th floor, Dally Worker Slice 60 E. 18th Street, N.¥.C. No Pige nie in New York has ever be planned as carefully as this opel Nothing has been overlooked to ma! this the greatest event of the sea- son! Every worker-and sympathiser of the “Daily” ts cordially invited to attend. Don’t let anything inter- fere with your presence atsPleasant Bay Park next Sunday, Bring éve- rybody or soul you know with you. Subscribers and Sellers of “Datly"— Wanteat Writes a miner from Denbo, Pa. “We ate in bad shape now, There were two girls and a man arrested the other day for distributing lea- flets. ‘This imine is still scabbing. 1 am glad that the Daily Worker is helping me out & lot’ It ip the only way I have to make some mio- ney for my family.” Stick to it com- rade! Other unemploy: wrokers: should take note! For bundle o1 of any size at 1 cent a Sony to be sold at 3 cents—Write to the Cir- culation Dept. Daily Worker, 50 B. 1$th St, New York City, “The Daily Worker,” writes a worker from Corona, N. ¥., “is the only paper worth reading and a copy of it ought to be In every working- man’s home. Here's the paper that tell the truth and talks about the business of the workingelass. I wish the Daily Worker ever bigger suc- cess.” Workers? Monthly subserip« tions at 50 cents will enable you ta follow the Te hes vue class in Pittebur, cage So ge, Se sae ie