The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 14, 1931, Page 3

2: 2 if | y Me 28 SATLY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, AUGUST 1 1931 “~~ Page Three SD ARMED THUGS INVADE LAS VEGAS IN EFFORT TO BREAK DAM STRIKE Six Companies Mobilize Private Army Of Gun- men To Terrorize Workers Workers Slaughtered Wholesale and Buried Without Inquest Or Investigation (By a Worker Correspondent) LAS VEGAS, Nevada.—Six Companies, Inc. (the biggest and most murderous company here) is busy organizing its pri- vate army of Sunmen under the famous strikebreaker and Cossack chief. leadership of Claude Williams, In 1929 Williams organized a police force at Eureka, N. C., a textile town of 5,000 and effectively suppressed the workers and broke the strike. He also organized the police force at the Western Electric plants at Baltimore, Md., and earned his reputation there by his murderous clubbing of the workers (1930). I will now quote from an editorial¢- by A. E. Cahlan appearing in the Las Vegas Review Journal: “Six Companies are experiencing all the joys that go with rapid ex- pansion and rush construction on their project down on the Colo- rado river, and men are paying with lives and limbs at a rather startling rate. Of course there are bound to be many lives sacrificed in this war against the force of nature as tied up in the turbulent stream and its adjacent area, for there has never been any great piece of construction work that did not take this horrible toll. It is part of the tragic side that dims. , just a bit the romance that the majority see in such a project, and has to be expected. “The rather sickening regular- ity with which these accidents have been occurring, however, has set hundreds to asking questions as to why? The answer is probably, that in the rapid expansion of the company from a handful of men two months ago to fifteen hundred employees today, it has been neces- sary to take the word of several for their proficiency along various lines. They are found to be ama- feurs onty when the big blowup comes, and perhaps they pay for their lack of experience with their own lives. Again, this Boulder canyon project is the greatest bit cf construction work ever under- taken in history, where there is so little space in which to work, and that will probably account for sev- eral major accidents during the construction period. Undoubtedly the Six .Companies are taking every possible precaution, and the government engineers are seeing to it that they do—but accidents are bound to happen. The large number to date, however, will Probably result in redpubling the safety measures in an effort to check it entirely, if this be possible. “The most recent accident brought to light an interesting angle of the creation of the gov- ernment reservation in the river district. This action removed the Nevada laws from any sort of ap- plication to that section, which means there is no designated coro- ner to inquire into deaths from other than natural causes, and fix ‘responsibility therefor. Just what will be done in this regard remains to be seen—but the way matters stand there just isn’t any. Whether there is any authority to go ahead with the burial of the accident victims without some sort of an inquest, is not quite clear.” The above part mentioning the “government reservation” where the state laws do not apply, means very little as the Nevada state labor laws are as lax as its divorce laws. Mean- while the slaughter of workers will go on (profits before lives), Only action.of the workers. will change all this, —An Unemployed Worker. Wm. Green ATLANTIC CITY, Aug. 13.—A means whereby the bosses in this country can further cut wages, as well as place the entire burden of unemployment on the backs of the working class, was worked out in a resolution passed by the Executive Council of the American Federation of Labor meeting here. Every step of this meeting has been to aid the bosses strengthen their attack against the harrassed working class and to safeguard the profits of the exploit- ers at the expense of the toilers. ‘The present resolution on “unem- ployment” logically follows the other ,action which directly fovors wage slashing. The resolution sponsored by Green and Woll admits that “unemploy- ment increased to an astonishing degree,” and states further that re- and Matthew Woll Favor Stagger Plan to Make the Workers Pay for the Crisis 5-Day Week Plan Is Boon to Bosses, Helping Them Refuse Unemployment Insurance and Spreading Hunger to All Workers “filled with incidents of human dis- tress and human suffering.” ‘This information is passed on to the bosses, with the warning that they must act against the rising re- sentment of the workers, that they must do something to fool the work- ers or face “the development of gn irresistible demand for unemploy- ment relief legislation.” Since the A. F. of L. officialdom, along with the bosses, do not want any “unem- Pployment relief legislation” they of- fer a plan that does two good deeds ports coming from all sides are} for the bosses. The A. F. of L, executive council asks for the carrying out of the Hoo- ver “stagger system.” The resolution calls for a five-day week and six- hour day—with wages slashed—so that all the work. will be divided among the working class and so that starvation and under-nourishment will be generally spread throughout the entire working class. In this way, the A. F. of L. council believes the bosses will be aided and the workers may be kept from acting against “human distress and human | Department of Labor announced un~ suffering” widening the ‘irresistible demand for unemployment relief legislation.” On the same, the New York State employment was growing. They re- ported that for July payrolls and employment both dropped 2 per cent. “The extent of the fall in indus- trial activity over the past two years appears from the fact that this July recorded 14 per cent fewer factory workers than a year ago and 26 per cent fewer than July two years ago,” the statement read. Payrolls totaled 20 per cent less than July, 1930, and 35 per cent less than July, 1929. Forces were cut in the metal and machinery industries; decreases of from 6 to 13 per cent were noted iv the silverware manufacture and jew- elry line. Calif. Lowers Rates to Back Wage Cuts For Fruit Workers (By a Worker Correspondent) BRENTWOOD, Calif.—Despite the pious, hypocritical pronouncements of Moover and his lackeys, the wage- cutting campaign in California is re- ceiving the full co-operation of the governmental agencies. Just recently the State Division of Industrial Wel- fare published a “revised” schedule of wages to be paid in the fruit pack- ing industry. Revised downward, of course, so as not to curtail the prof- its of the California Packing Cor- poration, Balfour Guthrie, etc. Under the revised rates, “experi- enced” women and’minors are forced to work for 2742 cents an hour and “inexperienced” for 25 cents. Pack~- ers of deciduous fruits may be ex- ploited one year, “according to the law,” at the “inexperienced” rate. No rates were set for women work- ing in orchards or drying yards, nor for males over 18. SALZBERG MILL STRIKERS HOLD PICKET LINES Ovation for Greegan Just Released From Putnam Prison Must Organize to Fight Hunger in Kansas Kansas City, Mo. Daily Worker: Armourdale, a suburb—or rather a section—of Greater Kansas City, is known chiefly for its railroads, pack- ing houses, soap factories, mills, and grain elevators. Armourdale has about 12,000 population, the most of whom owe their existence to their ability to sell their labor power to the corporations that might hire them. But this ability has sharply decreased, or, in fact nearly ceased to +e altogether during the jast year and a half. Mills Close J.umber mills have completely shut down. and empicy only a watchman tc look after their welfare. Eox fac- “tories have cut their wages until 20 cents an hour ir considered by the ms”agement ty be a maximum price. Tels, however, is only part time work end those w2:éag in thes» factories eaco hardly enough to exist. Pecking hovs-s have greatiy de- exssed their forces, although they ori tinually mv» statements to the eo.wary, Every morning finds eager fares by the 2 eds at their gates .:!ang that mere chance they will gain employment. But by now the hope is turning to despair and even the most optimistic are beginning to become doubtful of geting a mere subsistence. The packing house boss- es have increased the speed of the workers so that they can accomplish six days work in five. So five days .|a@ week is the order of the day at all ‘| large packing: houses. .And the pack- ing house worker is told that the five day week is for his benefit and was put into effect so as not to lay off any of the workers. Lose Homes Housing conditions in the packing house district are growing more acute. Many of the houses in the district have broken windows and are falling into a state of bad repair; many of the unemployed have moved in with their relatives who are a little more fortunate than they—if ofly tem- porarily so. The city authorities inform those in need of medical attention that the fund set aside for that purpose is exhausted and that will be neces- sary to wait until after the taxes are paid this winter. Not until then will the city be able to relief of even the most meager degree. There can be only one conclusion: Workers of all industries must quit looking to petty local and state poli- ticians; they must cease listening to partiotic politicians who only speak in their own interests; they must stop believing the patriarchs who teach: PUTNAM, Conn., Aug. 12. (By mail). — Over five. hundred silk strikers and sympathizers. picketed the M. Salzberg mill here on Tues- day despite the vicious attacks by the state and local police. The pick- et line paraded in regular forma- tion two by two, in front of the mill. This was the answer of the workers to the attempt of the mill to reopen with fifteen scabs on Monday. The picket line weS reformed and main- tained three times before it was dis- persed. Tear bombs were thrown regularly into the crowds and into the ranks of the pickets. The strikers uséd wet handkerchiefs to overcome the effects of the tear gas. ‘Thepolice threw a tear gas can- dle in front of the blacksmith shop of a certain Lacroix. When Elide Lacroix, the son of the blacksmith, rushed out with a pail of water to throw over the cahdle he was pounc- ed upon by State Trooper Henry V. Mayor. This cossack tool of the mill owners then mercilessly clubbed the young worker. Young Lacroix re- ceived serious scalp wounds and when he was helpless, he was arrested and charged with “assault and with at- “Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth’—and turn their eyes not on the state capitol, not the city on the Potomac; but turn to the militant working class organ- izaions—the Trade Union Unity League, the Unemployed Councils, and follow the workers’ vanguard: the Communist Party. tempt to kill.” Ovation for Greegan A tremendous ovation greeted Bar- ney Greegan, organizer of the N. T. W. U., when he stepped into the strik- ers’ meeting on Tuesday afternoon after his release from jail. The ova- tion rang through the packed hall for over five minutes. Greegan, Bill Siroka, and J. J. Ballam, representa- Legion Holds Orgy While Workers Ask Food (By a Worker it) TERRE HAUTE, Ind.—Our August 1st demonstration was a success in spite of the fact that the city dads and our county prosecutor and the lying press tried to stop our meet- ing. Lackey Witlock, the prosecutor, stated that there would be no “Red Talk” or parades or we would go to jail. Eighteen hundred workers gather- ed at the court house by 2.30 to hear our speakers who only knew how to talk Red. The meeting went on scheduled time at 4 p- m., 300 parad- ing through the down town section. Legion Holds Orgy The American Legion and the oth- er fascists held their meetings a few miles away, but what a contrast to ours. It cost $1 to get into their meeting where hundreds of bottles of booze were consumed. There were many drunken fights and plenty of nude women who were putting on a show, their bodies bruised and pinch- ed by the degenerate drunks, while deputy sheriffs and state police stood by and smiled. This was their way of celebrating the 17th anniversary of the world war. Contrast this with our anti- war demonstration. While we were asking for bread the Legion gang de- stroyed enough food at their drunk- en orgy to feed 200 families: Organize to Fight (By a Worker Correspondent.) , Daily Worker: T am doing all I can to organize the workers to fight against starva- tion, Here in Fargo there are 9,000 men out of work. Many have not even homes to live in or money to buy food. A man who has been out of work for a long time and had noth- ing for his family to eat went to the Salvation Army and they would do nothing for him, He then went to the police and they told him-“Noth- ing doing.” The bosses even abol- ivhcc (ae breadline that they estab- lished here, where they gave away & few scraps to 8 fem of the unen | Hunger in Fargo ‘The unemployed workers are in a more desperate state than they ever were before. They are all talking about getting together and fighting for food. We are organizing a hun- ger march of the hungry workers and we are sure it will be the biggest |: march they ever saw in North Da- kota, We will demand that the state give us food and I am sure all the workers are ready to fight for it, They are also evicting workers from their homes for being unable to pay rent. We are organizing to put the furniture back in the homes when the bosses order it thrown out, We say no rent will be pald ROB Agu vO EBON raceme tive of the Trade Union Unity Lea- gue, addressed the strikers. In the dispersal of the picket line Monday morning, Mrs. Elaine Zog- magni, a worker in the Perfect Silk Spinning Company, was pounced on by an officer of the state cossacks, H, Theodore Strand, and viciously clubbed. Shewas rushed to a near- by house by strikers and a doctor immediately summoned. After re- ceiving medical attention she declar- ed that the full force of Strand’s club had been beaten across her throat. It was on this day that Greegan was arrested by the local police and then after being bailed out he was imme- diately rearrested by the state troop- ers. Ten other strikers were ar- rested, including Esther Weismann, youth organizer of the N. T. W. U. On Tuesday Elide Lac:/:, Joseph Lamoureux and Louis Weiss were also added to the list of those arrested, Town Sympathetic During the evening a picket line on Monday and Tuesday was formed. Large numbers of the sympathetic workking population of the town turned out to express their solidarity with the strikers. On Tuesday a crowd estimated at 2,000 turned out in front of the struck mill. The picket lines infront of the Bloom Silk Mill are still ‘being main- tained. | Five hundred are on strike in the Bloom Mill and 350 in the Salzberg mill. Both plants are sol- idly organized in the N. T. W. U. ‘The strikes are now four weeks old. The strikers are maintaining a relief store in cooperation with the Work- ers International Relief. The main demands in both strikes are the 48- LAS VEGAS, Nev., Aug. 13.—The Hoover government has ordered 1,400 striking workers at the Hoover dam off of government land and into the desert to starve. The men are Striking against 2 wage-cut of $1 a day. The Hoover government in- sisted that they take this wage-cut or starve to death. The land at the Hoover dam site in Boulder City is government prop- erty, and, as the government is be- hind the wage-cut, it is ready to enforce it with troops and starva- tion. ‘The men and their families, most of whom suffered hunger and priva- tion before they got the job, now face the stifling heat of the desert at the orders of the capitalist gov- ernment. This is the same govern- ment which issues lying statements to the workers about “maintaining living standards,” while it actually uses its troops to enforce starvation. ‘Work Closed Down. All work.at the dam is closed down, The Hoover government is now preparing to import scabs to carry on the work and enforce the wage-cut. Most of the men who are striking had been out of work for a long time before they got the job at $5 a day. Then the Hoover gov- ernment ordered wages cut to $4 a day. Since all the men are forced Gov’t Orders Hoover Dam Strikers to Starve in Desert Insist on Enforcing Wage Cut of $1 a Day,| With Troops if Necessary; 1,400 Men and Families Face Horrible Death to buy goods at the company store they found they could not live. Many men died on the job of un- dernourishment and heat, as well as lack of water. The strikers are de- manding withdrawal of the wage-cut and supplies of decent drinking water. ‘The construction camp here is a miserable place, dirty, unsanitary, giving the appearance of acute want, Now the men who suffered for months until they got a job are faced with the entire government trying to put over a wage-cut. ‘The local authorities at Las Vegas, Ney., declared that when the strik- ers’ funds ran out they would be faced with starvation and that the city authorities will be unable to feed the men and their families. This is what Hoover is waiting for so that he can lash the men back to work at the cut wages with the whip of starvation. If this fajls the sheriff here has declared he has been promised troops to smash down the resistance of thé strikers and get them to agreé to wage-cuts, ‘The American Federation of Labor Officials, meeting in Atlantic City, have not said one word against the Hoover policy of wage-cutting at the Hoover dam. . (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) COVERDALE, Pa., August 13—A baseball game between the National Miners Union youth organizations took place at Hackett, with Fred Si- ders, section organizer as umpire. Despite the fact that many runs were scored on account of there being only six gloves to go around, the game was @ good one. A collection was taken up for relief. * * HARLAN, Ky., August 13.--As the period of the trial of the Black Moun- tain cases, approaches, the attempt to kill by legal means and in the electric chair all the miners who dared to lead a strike against the Black Mountain Coal Co,—some old no discrimination, and the recogni- tion of the workers’ mill committees. During negotiations in the past week Salzberg had already offered to settle the strikes on the basis of the workers’ demands. Bloom prevailed upon him not to settle and to try to smash the strike by force through the capitalist government. The use of force has not broken the strikers’ ranks, The evasion which the strik- ers’ committee demanding their rights received from Mayor Charles A, Richards and the sending in of the police by the state government is opening the eyes of the strikers. . Sentence Royal Silk Strikers PAWTUCKET, R. I., Aug. 12.—Sen- tences of three months in jail were handed out by Judge Ralph ©. Es- tes, in Attleboro, on Tuesday, to three strikers of the Royal Silk Mill, They are Samuel Eajjou, Ben Herniz, and John Anter. They were framed up on a charge of attacking a scab by the name of Otto Hess. All three appealed and a bail of $500 each was imposed upon them. The strike of the forty workers in the Taylor Silk Mill here was still going strong on Wednesday. The con- ference @ith the boss came to naught when he refused to grant the work- ers their demands. He tried to di- vide the workers by proposing to give the night shift workers the jobs of the day shift. The workers turned this down and stood by their demands for .an increase in wages on crepe work, the 50 hour, instead of the 55 hour week, with no discrimination. Organize in Woonsocket WOONSOCKET, R. I, Aug. 12.— Both the day and night shifts of the Woonsocket Fall Mill here laid plans to solidly organize the weavers and other ts, a8 preparations for a strike that will defeat the two loom system, discrimination and the other grievances. Both Martin Rus- nok, H.W, ogc, ang, Mas Rela 3? ora ge sa: THREATEN TO JAIL 1,000 STRIKING MINERS’ KIDS WHO WILL COLLECT AID Kaplan addressed the workers Tues- day night and Wednesday morning, angles in the case come to the front again. It is the state government of Ken- tucky, and the operators’ courts of Harlan County which actually at- tempt the electrocution of over 30 miners, because Sheriff Blair's dep- utized coal company gunmen lost the battle of Black Mountain and were not able to shoot the strike to pieces as they expected. But the Federal government has a hand in this affair too. An almost forgotten federal injunction appears on the scene now—an injunction ad- dressed to 250 strikers, and to the officials of the UMWA, which then was in nominal control of the Har- Jan miners’ organization. This in- Junction is the Hoover government's blessing on whatever the gunmen may do in the way of smashing the strike, for the single point it makes, in the mist of the usual ocean of words, is “You and each of you are hereby enjoined and restrained . . . from loitering on OR NEAR (our emphasis, Editor) the property of complainant for the purpose of urg- ing its employees to cease work .. .” Along with this goes the usual order not to commit or threaten any violence, etc., put in all anti-picket- ing injunctions for propaganda pur- poses, to make the pickets appear the aggressors and give excuses for what- ever violence the sheriff cares to use. Negro, White Workers Join Ranks in South in Anti-War Meeting KANSAS CITY, Aug.’ 13.—For the first time in the history of our Party an anti-war demonstration was held in Wichita Falls, Texas on August i. Several hundred participated in the demonstration and a hundred took part in the marching. In the Jim Crow South where the Negro work- ers are kept segregated we succeeded for the first time in having a mixed crowd, whites and Negroes. The Scottsboro issue was very conspicu- ously displayed and banners such as “Free the Scottsboro Boys,” “Down with Discrimination Against Negroes,” etc., were carried. The chief of police unsuccessfully tried to stop the pa- rade, for the spirit and resistance of the workers was too great. Hun- dreds of workers, practically the whole town followed on the sidewalks trying to get a glimpse of the signs. The Party prestige has been raised tremendously and the demonstration is the talk of the whole town. The leader of the demonstration, Comrade Gillentine, was called to the Grand Jury and tried. Since no charge could be put against him, he was let loose. This was a tre- mendous achievement for the Party and the Unemployed Council. POLICE FORCED TO FREE KLING, JAILED AUG. Ist Communists Demand Right to Streets NEW SBRITARN, Conn., Aug. 11.— Following a protest meeting of New Britain workers, R. S. Kling, Com- munist candidate for mayor of New Haven, was freed in New Britain court Saturday morning, where he was charged with breach of the peace following his attempt to speak be- fore 2,000 workers at the Aug. 1 dem- onstration. ‘The New Britain police, acting un- der the orders of the large com- panies which control the city, Stan- ley—Corbin and Landers broke up the demonstration, ‘The Communist Party and the In- ternational Labor Defense immedi- ately took up the fight for the right of the workers to use the streets of New Britain for meetings. Tele- grams of protest were sent to Gov- ernor Cross. An indoor mass meet- ing was arranged at the Ukrainian Hall in New Britain. The police made an unsuccessful attempt to have the right to use the hall re- voked. Despite a sweltering heat, 200 workers gathered in one of the most enthusiastic working-class meet- ings ever held in the city. In opening the meeting, A Tomkin, secretary of the I. L. D., announced that the fight of the Communist Party for free speech and the right to assemble would be fully supported by the I. L. D. R. S. Kling, who was arrested at the Aug. 1 demonstration, was loudly cheered as he took the floor. He continued the anti-war speech that the police interrupted on Aug. 1, told of his experiences in the Soviet Union as a member of the rank and file labor delegation. He told the workers that in the Soviet But even this usual propaganda line for all injunctions, does, in the Har- lan injunction have a new twist. It reeks with orders not to “display arms.” The order not to “display arms” comes no less than five times in 16 lines of printed type in the injunction. The reason for such court orders as this: “You and each of you are hereby enjoined and restrained . .. from all display or use of arms on or near to complainant's prop- erty,” is to disarm the strikers, in @ country where everybody habitual- ly uses and carries openly rifles and Union the best building in town was made the-trade union hall and that the workers in New Britain should start picking out their future meet- ing place. Salzman Exposes City Gov't. ‘The® workers cheered the an- nouncement by Max Salzman, dis- trict organizer of the Party, that the Party would enter a slate of candi- dates for the municipal election in April, 1932. He exposed the rotten- ness and corruption of the city gov- ernment, which refused to give help to the unemployed except to a few shot guns—where provision of food in these starvation times is partly @ question of skill in hunting, where the Black Mountain attack by the deputies and many other fights show that a man’s life is not safe for a minute from assassination by the coal company gunmen unless he is armed. The complainant is the Black Mountain Coal Co. The federal judge granting the injunction is A. M. Cochran, of the U. S. district court for the Eastern District of Kentucky. The injunction was issued April 22, 1931, One way to help the Soviet Union is to spread. among the workers “Soviet ‘Forced Labor,’” for partisan political considerations, Over 12,000 are unemployed in this city of 68,000. The mayor gives the workers speeches against Commu- nism instead of food. The actions of Chief of Police Hart in breaking up working-class demonstrations were condemned by the speaker amid cheers from the workers. He announced that the Party would not only continue the fight for free speech, but would aid the workers in the city to fight against unemployment and starva- tion in the city and to build unions to strike against wage-cuts. He an- nounced that the municipal election platform of the Party would be drawn up by the Party, with the aid of the workers in the city, and not in secret CHICAGO MASSES CROWD COURT » IN PROTEST AT FRAME-UP OF WORKERS ON “RIOT” CHARGE (CONTINUED Bf ss ' through some other relief chanzel | ; than the halting of evictions where no rent is paid.” Mayor Cermak. who, directly after | the police massacre, issued a state-| ment, in an effort to placate the | anger of the masses, in which he} promised no more evictions, today | exposed his hypocrisy, declaring | “There is a large element of | deadbeats who simply make a prac- | tice of living as long as possible | at one address without paying rent. | | They are able to pay if they want to.” This what Mayor Cermak’s| promised “relief” amounts to—the| slander of the starving unemployed | as deadbeats! The declaration that| they can “pay if they want to.” is This is quite i nline with the prom- | ise made by Mayor Cermak'’s repre-| sentative to the August 6 meeting of landlords. Cermak was out of} town on that date, but had delegated sistant Corporation Counsel Jo- seph F. Grossman to represent him. At that meeting Grossman gave the landlords assurance that Mayor Cere mak was not opposed to evictions. Negro and white workers! On with the fight against evictions and starvation! Build the Unem- ployed Council! Build and defend the Communist Party! Build a fighting alliance of Negro and white workers! Defend the Negro masses! Demand equal rights for the Negro people, including the right of self-determination for the Negro majorities in the South!. Mobilize your forces to resist the boss program of starvation and evictions! Out on the streets on Aug. 22 in militant protest against boss terrorism, against the murder and frame-up of workers, for the release of the Scottsboro and Camp Hill victims, for the release of Tom Mooney and all class war prisen- ers! N.Y. DAILY WORKER PICNIC THIS SUNDAY AT PLEASANT BAY PARK! SAN FRANCISCO CLUB IN TROUBLE We quote below minutes of last meeting of Yonkers, N. Y., Daily Worker Club. The Yonkers Club made an excellent move when it de- cided to order 60 copies of the Daily Worker every Saturday for distri- bution among various news stands in District. As suggested, addresses of all news stands where copies of the Daily can be procured will be published in the Daily Worker every Saturday hereafter. What about a committee on Workers Correspond- ence, comrades, and a little divertise- ment after meeting? All members of the club who work in shops, facto- ries, etc, should be urged to write about conditions, for publication in the Daily. ‘This is an“extremely im- portant function of the Daily Work- er Club and should be exercised to the utmost capacity. Entertainment will sort of add the right touch be- fore adjournment. Minutes follow “Report on last Daily Worker Clab meeting. Committee that was appointed to visit news stands re- ported they secured four new stands which carry about 14 cop- ies daily. It was reported that the sum of $1.36 was collected for the Daily Worker the Scottsboro and Paterson affair. It was decided to hold next out- ing Aug. 30. Comrades were ap- pointed as delegates to the Miners Relief Committee. After lengthy discussion it was moved and sxec- onded that the club order 50 copies of the Daily Worker every Satar- day and distribute them i tricts whe: there is a new: Als the Ciub get the Worker to put in a notlee-on the day that Dailies are sent giving the address of all newsstands in Yonkers. Meeting adjourned at 10 p.m.” ‘What about discussion of contents of the Daily Worker? Workers should be given the floor as much as possible to say what they think about the Daily and reports should be sent to Editorial Dept. This is an important point! San Francisco Club to the Fore. Red Builders News Club of San Francisco held interesting meeting August 8, minutes of which are giv- en below. The sjx points mentioned cover practically everything. Dis- cussions of Daily Worker as well as other problems of day should take place. “Comrade ——— acted as chairman and Ss secretary. Six points discussed as sfollows: 1) New forces 2) New ways and means of selling: 3) Shortcomings and criticism; 4) Constructive advice; 5) New corners; 6) New business “General discussion on how draw in new forces. Comrade to call on Unemployed Council tor another news boy. News boy to be fourth member of commune. ~Sec: onded and passed. The new. Dally Worker salesman to be located at Mission and Embarcadero Sts. Red Builders Club agreed to hold two open air meetings each week for building up sales and obtaining new forces. Also agreed that Red Build- ers Club hold an affair. Proceeds to be split two Daily Worker and local hall, etc. Average Street sales per 4d: 104; average house, unit, etc. sales per day—40; total, 144." Two Letters‘trom Workers. An eighty-year-old worker, from Massachusetis, writes to the=Daily “Iam try to get in before the to 5 close of the ‘Save the Daily Worker Campaign,’ but when one has passed 80 years and is dependent on the la- bor of his own hands, its not eaay Nevertheless I enclose 25 cents.” Younger workers, please note! An 86-year-old Negro worker born in Norfolk, Va, writes a5 in follows: “I would like to act as an agent for your esteemed paper. If you will accept my services send ms 25 or 30 copies which I will sell and send you the money.” With the greatest of pleasure, comrade! Pa- pers on the way now! Negro work ers! The Daily Worker is fighting your battles on both Scottsboro and Chicago fronts! Spread the ‘Daily’ in working class sections and among your friends! Build the central organ of the working class! Build thsLib- erator and the League of Struggle for Negro Rights! Pienic in New York, Aug. 16. Only two more days to the New York Daily Worker Picnic! To get to Pleasant Bay Park, take the subway to EB, 177th St; then car to Union port; from here, busses will take you direct to grounds. Program for the day will include Labor Sports, W.LR. | Chorus, Red_ Front Band, Ryan Walker, Jacob Burck, Labora tory Theatre, prominent speakers, Pittsburgh Miners, awarding of tro- phy and banners,\dancing, refresh- ments etc., etc WORKER EXPOSES “ALFALFA. BILL” Okla. Governor Tries to Deceive Jobless OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., Aug. 13. — Governor “Alfalfa Bill” Murray, of Oklahoma, champion disher out of capitalist demagogy, who has receiv- ed nationwide publicity because of his cheap antics, that of closing down of the oil fields in Oklahoma, recent- ly tried to exploit the unemployment issue. He called a conference on this question in Oklahoma City. In an hour and a half speech he elaborated @ reactionary Utopia of back to feu- dal conditions, back to the era of handicrafts production. Murray's speech was an outstanding example of the utter bankruptcy of capital- ism. They are absolutely bewildered and mystified by theeconomic paral- ysis that is more and more gripping the system. Comrade Bob Pierce, Communist organizer of the state of Oklahoma, got up and exposed Murray's purpose in calling this conference. He point- ed out that only the program of the Communist Party and the Trade Un- jon Unity League can help the work- ing class. Murray was sitting right back of Pierce while the latter was speaking and even his flowing mus- tache could not hide the expression of hate and fear on his face. Many of those present at the conference crowded around Pierce and asked him questions after the adjourn- ment of the meeting. Aeceptive platforms of the bosses’ parties, Judge Forced Release Kling. The following day, when Kling ap- peared in court, a large number of workers were present, but only a few were permitted to attend the trial. Despite every effort of legal trickery by the persecution, the mags protest of the workers compelled the judge to release him, ‘The fight pua up by the Party won the confidence and respect of many more workers in New Britain. Now the fight goes on for the freeing of Foster, Jackson and Powers, the Harlan Co. Judge Holds 2 Organizers Criminal Syndicalism Is Charge Lodged PINEVILLE, Ky. (by mail).—The case of Jessie Wakefield, 1.L.D. or- ganizer in Kentucky, and Arnold Johnson, active sympathizer, came up for hearing August 10 before Harlan County Judge Whitehead. ‘They were held for the grand jury on charges of criminal syndicalism in $5,000 bail each and an additional $5,000 peace bond for each. Both are now held in the Harlan County jail. Wakefield is charged with deliver- ing a speech urging resistance to constituted authority and also call- ing upon the workers to commit the seditious act of starting a soup kiteh- en. Another organizer, but not Jes- sie Wakefield, did speak at this meeting, outlined the function of the capitalist state apparatus and show- ing that the judge and sheriffs were not friends of the workers; calling upon the workers to organize and finally urging them to collect: food and berries for 2 ssoup Kitchen, At the close of the prosecutor's case the offer was made to Both defendants to leave the county in return for which the charges would be dropped. This offer was promptly turned down. “The prosecution is made up of Geor R. Pope, county attorney pro tem, and two special prosecutors (regular coal company attorneys), Fred M. Jones and Joseph B. Snyder. After Wakefield and Johnson were behind the bars the court freed Calbe Powers, @ local miner also charged with criminal syndicalism, after the defense made a motion to discharge on the grounds that the warrant of arrest and the affidavit were ‘void. Bill Duncan, charged with ‘crimi~ nal cyndicalism for distribtiting Daily Workers, was released on his own bond to await action ‘of the grand jury. The court and sheriff feel that now that they have Wake- field and Johnson in jail the organ- ization of the workers is completely smashed. But the fact is that the reign of terror has spurred. the workers on to renewed activity and they are solid for the Netonal Min-