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f i i ] “the size of the crowd of the local Ui 118, 1931 Rage Ubree on STRIKEBREAKING ROLE OF PITTSBURGH PRESS GETS FAGAN’S PRAISE ‘All Pittsburgh Papers Carry On Vicious Cam- paign Against Striking Miners Pat Fagan Lauds Yellow Journalism’s Attack On Workers In Letter to Press Daily Worker: The three local capitalist Pittsburgh, Pa. newspapers, “The Pittsburgh Press,” “Sun Télegraph” and “Post Gazette” are carrying on a real vicious strikebreaking campaign a8ainst the miners and their fighting union, the National Miners’ Union. They are trying to force the miners to go back into the mines and scab under the United Mine Workers scab scale. “Press” Lies. The “Press,” which masquerades as a liberal, has cast aside its cloak of doing everything in the power of yellow capitalist journalism to de- feat the miners’ fight against starva- tion. The “Press” gave a fine example of deceptive reporting in announcing August 1 demonstration against war. They said that “more than a thou- sand were there.” Now 1,001 would be more than a thousand; also 3,000 (which was near the correct amount) would be considerably more than a thousand. The “Post Gazette” also used the “more than” ruse to avoid giving the correct estimate. Greatest Fight in History. The miners are putting up one of the greatest fights in the history of the American labor movement and they deserve the wholehearted sup- port of every worker. Pat Fagan praises the strikebreaking policy of the capitalist press. Fagan Praises “Press.” I quote in full a letter of praise to the Pittsburgh Press written by strikebreaking Fagan: “Editor, the Pittsburgh Press: Through the bitter years of 1927 and 1928 and now again in 1931 the newspapers of Pittsburgh have as part of their mission the dis- semination of news about the coal miners of this district. At is particularly gratifying to read the accounts of the various happenings in the mining com- munities in The Press because of liberality and is the fact that your newspaper is fully cognizant of the distress of the miners and their families. During the past week especially has The Press looked with a dis- cerning eye upon the happenings in the coal fields. I, of course, am thinking particularly of the dis- turbance at Canonsburg last Sun- day. The Press has not failed to bear in mind that the actions of the National Miners’ Union are directed toward but one end, and that is the Red world revolution. On the other hand the United Mine Workers of America has for its goal the rehabilitation of the American coal miner, and of this fact, too, has The Press been well aware. I am writing to you in this vein because of my sincere apprecia- tion of the clear-cut, de-bunked news stories which have appeared in The Press about the coal miners. May I hope with you that their lot will be soon a hap- pier one? P. T. FAGAN, President, United Mine Workers of America, Pittsburgh District.” The workers should answer Fagan and the lying boss owned papers by rushing more funds than ever before to the Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Vir- ginia, Kentucky Miners Relief, 611 Penn Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa. —A WORKER. Eagle Pencil Workers Building Factory Committee (By a Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK, N. Y.—I am a work- er in the Eagle Pencil Factory. in New. York City. The entire factory is absolutely filthy, with very bad sanitary conditions, but B-9, the de- . partment in which I work, is by no means the cleanest. By the time we finish work in the evening, after a nine-hour day, we are covered with dirt, and the five minutes we have to wash and dress is far from suf- ficient. The workers in the factory have been grumbling ever since the bosses stole ten minutes of our wash- ing time. In fact, the bosses of the Eagle are so strict about washing eup that if a man is caught a min- ute before the regulation washing time without his shirt on (that is, preparing to wash) he is immediate- ly fired. Slavedriving Foreman. Our foreman in B-9, Joe Hartman, is known all through the plant as the worst slave driver in the place. When a girl stops to speak to an- other he yells at her, when a pencil gets a mark on it that it shouldn't have, he yells. Everyone hates hjm. We have to stand at our work all ‘ay. ‘Yes, there are chairs in the department to put baskets of pencils on, but a pencil is worth more than a girl in the eyes of the owners of the Eagle. And after we get through work for the day it is just about all we can do to get home, eat supper and crawl into bed. We are too ex- hausted for anything else. Girls grow old quickly in the Eagle. With all this, with a speed-up that has kept on increasing until many of the workers who used to work on one machine now work on two or three, with a consistent policy by the bosses to lay off workers and increase the speed-up on the work- ers who are left, we do well if we make $17 or $18 a week. Not a very big price to pay for a girl’s youth and health, but it is the most we can make. Many girls make even as Jow as ten or twelve dollars a week. We are building our factory com- mittee. Last December, after a ten per cent wage cut, the workers of the Eagle went out on strike. The strike failed, because we were inex- perienced and did not know how to fight properly, how to picket mili- tantly, etc. But our next strike will not fail. Bank Crashes; Pipe Line Strikers Win (By 8 Worker Correspondent) HUEYSVILLE, Ky.—The Bank of Wayland crashed the other day. Small depositors face ruin. Small merchants and small business men also face bankruptcy. How long will the small merchants and small businessmen permit this system to rob them and the workers for the benefit of the large capitalists? Merchants! Small businessmen! You are facing ruination—why not side with the workingclass and overthrow such rotten one sided system. Soci- alism is your salvation, and the soon- er you see it, the better for you. The Boldman strikers of the Co- lumbia Gas System won their strike of $3 per day for 8 hours. Workers everywhere should strike against wage cuts. Strike for more pay. Now is the time, You can win a strike Now! All you need is the guts to put it over. Lets go, call a meeting, elect your strike committee, and get down to business. Call mass meetings. Demonstrate. Protest the difference between the cost of production and consumption, Socialism removes the speculator and the hijacker, and puts them to work or chases them out of the country. Join the Communist organizations and let’s go over the top. - Kentucky Workers Désperate, Talk Revolt Martin, Ky. Daily Worker: Via Bus, Freight and the highway over 5 Counties: Found men going and coming in droves hunting work, and could not find one job. All talk was more revolutionary than the patriots of the American Revo- tution, Met a General Mine fore- man from the Tug River field of W. Va. He prayed for the Communists and their revolutionary unions to come; offered financial aid, or to help raise it. In the center of the Big Sandy Coal fields met other under boss who wanted literature and offered his aid in organizing this field. They are being forced under slavery con- ditions as well as the working man, and they are waking up. Lets go, lead these men to victory, we know you can do it. Nowhere have I found even an outpost of the United Mine Workers organization, The people have broadened their demands and beliefs; they are rebelling against this crooked minority govern- ment as well as against their em- ployers. A Worker * Hungry Worker Asks to Be Sent to Jail (By a Worker Correspondent) LOS ANGELES, Cal.—‘Send me ‘vack to prison. At least I will have a place to sleep and something to eat.” This was the plea made the other day by John Snare, starving odd- job Los Angeles worker, who begged to be returned to Anamosa, Iowa, to complete a ten years prison term, ! Inspector Slaten, however, refused to send him back. So, as far as I know the worker may be dead from starvation by this time, According to a survey of prisoners recently taken in an El Paso, Tex., jail, the majority expressed the de- sire to be in jail all the time rather than outside—because they didn’t like August 22, Sacco- Vanzetti Day Demonstrations New York—Union Square, Seattle, Wash.—3 p.m. in Denny Regade District, 5th and Blan- chard, Ironwood, Mich.— 7p.m. North- western Park, corner Suffolk and Dyer St. Boston, Charles St. Mall, Boston Commons. Minneapolis, Minn., Bridge Sq., at 4:30 pm. Cleveland, Public Sq. Read the story on Page 5. Cleveland, Public Sq. at 2 p.m. Indianapolis, Ind.—Military Park at 3 p.m. Anderson, Ind.—Court House at 3 pm, Terre Haute, Ind.—Court House at 3 pm. Detroit, Mich.—In front of City Hall at 7 p.m, Anti-Deportation Week Declared for August 23-30 Incl, Wickersham. Report joes Not Recognize Right of Asylum NEW YORK. — Describing the report of the Wickersham Commis- sion on deportations as inadequate and unsatisfactory, M. T. Nastas, sec- retary of the National Committee for the Protection of the Foreign Born, today announced that his or- ganization will sponsor a National Anti-Deportation Week, from August 23 to 30, The purpose of this spe- cial week will be to draw more wide- spread attention to the deportation abuses by the Department of Labor which are disclosed in the Wicker- sham Commission report. Nastas pointed out that although the Wickersham Commission report takes cognizance of malpractices that have long been known to foreign born residents, it ignores the basic principle of the right of asylum for political refugees in this country. He cited the cases of Guido Serio, T. I. Lee, Edith Berckman and Eduardo Machado, now facing deportation. These aliens are faced with almost certain death for political offenses if they are returned to their native countries. Nastas said: “We are not satisfied merely with constitutional guaran- tees for those who face deportation, we are opposed to all deportations in principle. Especially are we op- posed to deportations of foreign born workers for political or labor activi- ties in this country.” Nastas also announced the forma- tion of an advisory bureau to help the foreign born residents to deter- mine their legal standing in this country. The bureau will also give information on naturalization proce- dure. “All requests for help will be in the strictest confidence,”®Nastas declared, to prevent the foreign born of doubtful standing from becoming involved in the espionage dragnet of the Department of Labor. HANDBOOK FOR ELECTIONS READY NEW YORK. ve always voted Democrat. But I’d like to vote Com- munist now—I would.” A worker in Union Sq., during the August 1 demonstration, thus ex- pressed to another worker beside him what he was thinking, and asked where he could find the Brownsville division of workers. His friends in the Brownsville section would tell him more about the Communist Party, he said. If any such worker who has “al- ways voted Democrat” or Republican or Socialist, still has even a hair’s- breadth of trust left in any one of the three old capitalist parties, take out your copy of the Labor Fact Book and turn to page 188, Here are 17 pages of information about the par- ties of capitalism, and about the Communist Party as the only party of the working class. Recent political “scandals” of the old capitalist parties are summarized. Business connections of Hoover and his millionaire cabinet are set forth. The socialist party, the third party of capitalism, is shown up as a use- ful political barrier used by the cap!- talists against Communism, “Despite its platform declarations the socialist party in fact encourages discrimination against Negroes,” ex- plains the Fact Book. During the 1980 election campaign “A. F. Van Blon, socialist party candidate for governor of Texas, wrote against nominating Negroes for public office on the ground that the South would not ‘for at least 50 years—tolerate voting for a colored man,’” This chapter on Government and Political Parties is only one of 10 chapters on different subjects in the Labor Fact Book. As the election campaign progresses and the Com- munist Party goes on the ballot in more and more states, the candidates for election and other speakers at meetings and all workers in the cam- paign need more and more facts on every subject of interest to the work- ing class. Here in this 224-page book, selling for only 85 cents, are the an- swers to the questions that workers ask. Get your copy, if you haven’t al- ready, at the Workers’ Book Shop in your city or order from Interna- ‘ional Publishers, 381 Fourth Ave., New York City. (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) tremendous gains in National Miners’ Union membership all through the region. The Southern miners are deter- mined to build a strong union that will wipe out starvation conditions and make a flux plague, such as they are suffering now, impossible to rav- age the coal fields. And, to support them in this intense struggle, the Pennsylvania-Ohio-West Virginia- Kentucky Striking Miners’ Relief Committee calls upon workers every- where to send every penny they can to buy food to rush into these camps, to Room 205, 611 Penn Ave., Pitts- burgh, Pa, Oi ete BROWNSVILLE, Pa., August 17.— Saturday morning’s picket line at Moffitt-Sterling was attacked un- successfully by four state police. The outrageous resistance of the picket captain brought an attempt to bully the pickets off the public highway to a dramatic end. While the pickets were marching down the road, one of the squad of state troopers called the picket cap- tain to come over and “let me tell you something.” ‘The picket answer- ed that he was busy picketing and didn’t have time for conversation. The cop then grabbed the picket by the arm and the picket grabbed the cop by the neck and threw him into the ditch. The cop came swarming up and struck three times with his club, the club being caught each time and held by the picket—between his arm and his body. Both the cop and the picket were grappling with each other, The cop looked around for the other troopers to open fire, but these were overawed by the fact that every man in the picket line had picked up a big rock. So stalemate resulted. Finally the cop said, “Let me go,” and the picket responded, “You let me go.” Both finally let loose, and the pickets proceeded about their duty, with the state troopers follow~ ing along and watching. ‘The picket captain reports he felt armor under the uniform of the Pin- chot man. Cay Wa, | COVERDALE, Pa., August 17.— Seventeen state troopers guarded the last meeting of the United Mine Workers local in Pittsburgh Coal Company’s Mine No. 8 here. They met on company property, with the company. officials present. When two miners appeared with a griev- ance against the company, the Fagan man who, is, placed in the local to run things, yelled, “Get out, you Reds!” ‘The miners present, conscripted into the UMW through the wage-cutting agreement the Fagan-Lewis clique made with the Terminal Comyanw, raised a row. So the UMWA local president approached the two men and promised to get the grievance redressed next day. Thirty-five men, a whole ‘section in the mine, walked out Friday and joined’ the strike because lumber for limbering their working places was delivered just inside the entrance to the mine, and they were instructed to drag it from there all the way to their working places. When they took up this grievance with the boss, he threatened to discharge their spokes- man, whereupon all struck. The spokesman had been paid $1.90 for four day’s work with a sledge. A group of the Coverdale miners arranged a secret meeting and sent for a National Miners Union repré- sentative to come and confer with them. They put the question frankly to the NMU organizer: “What shall we do?’ The UMWA will do nothing for us. Conditions are steadily get- ting worse. What 1s the attitude of the NMU to the men who went back to work in the mine?” ‘These men were elated over the new policy of the NMU when it was explained to them, and pledged to tush organization work inside the mine. Cee een) AVELLA, Pa., Aug. 16—The “P & ‘W” mine of the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Co. here is feeling the resent- ment of the miners against having dues checked off their pay slips for the United Mine Workers District 5 officials. The men know that they get no benefit from these dues, that the U. M. W. A. is merely part of the bosses’ machinery to keep them in slavery, and that the money fs split between Pat Fagan and the coal company, ‘The company fs trying a maneuver. It has switched the superintendents around, between P & W and other Pittsburgh Terminal mines, so as to KY. STATE PROSECUTOR CALLS FOR DEATH OF 32 IMPRISONED MINER give the miners a new face or two, and has promised in this mine not to check off dues for the hated U. MW. A. However, it hag at the same time announced a new series of fines “for dirty coal.” A dolllar will be charged for the first car, then 50 cents for the next, and if anybody really loads dirty coal, the company will fire him. The first dollar and @ half is collected whether there is any dirt in the coal or not. One and one half dollar is exactly the United Mine Workers dues. Ce ae MOLLENHAUER, Pa., Aug. 16.—A meeting of the workers in this mine, held as a United Mine Workers local meeting overrode the Fagan hench- men and served notice on the super- intendent that they would either get pay for dead work and abolish dis- crimination in favor of the pets of the bosses, or they would all be out on the picket line. The meeting was attended, as usual with U. M. W. A. local meetings, by the mine super- intendent,the mine foremen and the pit boss. The friends of the bosses are working every day, and the ordin- ary miners get two days’ work a week. PITTSBURGH, Pa. Aug. 16.— “Tents and relief will pull out every miner in Brook County, West Vir- ginia,” declared a member of the Ohio-Panhandle Rank and File Strike Committee here Friday at the joint meeting of the strike committees of Ohio-West Virginia and Western Pennsylvania with the district boards of the National Miners Union from the same two districts, “Tents for 65 families and we strike Colliers No. 2 mine,” announced a Negro member from the Panhandle. “We have built a bridge already between the men on strike and the men forced back through evictions and terror to the mine. Just give us 65 tents, and the night truck rolls in with them, the next morning you will see these families on the picket line and more besides! We're sticking! But we need the men on strike inside. They will come out for local demands—if we can give them at least some hope hope of a place for their babies to sleep when they are evicted! “We can’t win a strike by talking! We don’t need meetings on policy! We're Way past that stage. We have an understanding. But we can't come to these men at work with nothing but promises. We haven’t the tents themselves, Now is the time for the workers of the rest of the coun- try to show whether they are back of this fight of the miners, which has jolted the whole wage cutting scheme of the bosses everywhere. Our big- gest problem is going to be relief, let's have some, and we will fight!” “Well, we didn’t have a chance to build our union before the strike started, let’s build it now!” is the. opinion of men outside and inside of the mines in East Ohio, stated an- other delegate. The delegates told of conditions that assure a great strike movement among those now at work as soon as the proper organization and the proper relief is in sight. At McKinleyvilie the superintendent tells them bluntly. “When you pay your back rent, you can have scrip for the company store. Until then, eat what you can get, but you won't get it from the company.” At Piney Fork they used to load 10 cars for 4; now they have to load 12. The Federal “conciliator,” one of Mr. Doak’s strike breakers, is hover- ing around Elm Grove and Wheeling, having come in from Columbus, Ohio, to see what he could do for the coal companies. The Pennsylvania- Ohio-West Virginia-Kentucky Strik- ing Miners Relief Committee urges workers everywhere to help buy tents by sending all they can to 611 Penn Ave., Pittsburgh, Room 205. PITTSBURGH, Pa. Aug. 16.— “They hoist coal on the shaft for 35 cents per hundred ‘agons at the Allison Mine of the dirty Rainey Coal Co.”, writes a man who signs himself “ex-miner, merchant and huckster,” to the National Miners Union. Alli- son mine is near Brownsville, Pa. “They come out to work at 3 o‘clock and work until 9 a. m. every working day and then go home with 5 hours’ pay; drivers go in at 5 a. m. and have to stay till 7 and 8 pulling loads and they don’t get no overtime. If they kick, over the hill they go. They only pay 25 cents for timber and nothing for slate.” It is conditions such as these that will unite the men in the mines with the strikers, and bring new strikes. “We Will Win,“ Says 64-Year-Old Miner Maidsville, W. Va. Dear Comrades: I am an old miner, 64 years old and have worked in the mines since I was ten years old, having first star- ted to work in the mines in 1878. I saw these one man unions come and go since 1882 and hope to see a union like the National Miners Union firmly established. ‘THis is what I have been looking forward all these years —the establishment of a real work- ingman’s union that will fight for the workers. UMWA Scab Scale Before we miners struck on May, 15th, we were getting 27 cents a ton and had to pay $850 for house rent. And, now, under the United we get 30 cents a ton and have to pay $12 for house rent; (a house not to fit to live in), with the win- dows and doors and floors badly in need of repair. I have been working in the mines 54 years—that is a long time, com- rades. I have always had shoes on my feet and a few clothes on my back, but today I can buy neither shoes nor clothes, I am almost bare- footed. ‘Things look pretty good in North- ern West Virginia around Maidsville Scotes Run and Morgantown. The National Miners’ Union is being built here and we will carry the strike on to victory. We have a long, hard fight against us, but we will win. From a old miner and a Communist ' the fight for the open shop, | 4 "ang | Funds Still Needed in “Daily” Office “Enclosed find two dollar bill collected from sympathizer of Daily Worker,” writes G. D., Sun- |nyvale, Cal. “I can assure you that I am out to do all I possibly can to increase the circulation of the Daily Worker, the only Eng- lish daily fighting for the inter- | ests of us workers and wish e ery worker would do the same.” Workers! The Daily Worker is not yet out of danger! While the campaign was extended to en- able us to get an additional $5,000 yet very little money has been coming in during the past two weeks! The two Western workers quoted above realize the impor- tance of the Daily Worker to the cause of the working class and have responded in proportion to their means. What about you fel- low worker? Have you sent in the limit of your pocketbook? Dig down deep again and air mail your donation to the Daily Work- er, 50 E. 13th St., New York City. [t's for a good cause! Also urge your friends to do likewise! Bad Conditions at Cook CityInfirmary Laid to Cermak Undermanned Staff, No Attention Given to Sick Patients CHICAGO, Ill.— The conditions existing at the Cook County Oak- Forest Infirmary are so critical due to gross neglect and graft that emer- gency measures must be adopted. This report was made by investiga- tors to Mayor Cermak, in his other job as chairman of the Board of County Commissioners, which, by the way, he greedily holds on to re- gardless of his pledge to voters he would resign. Cermak is duly re- sponsible for the misery imposed upon‘the four thousand inmates, as he has been fully aware of the shameful state of affairs during his seven years as head of county insti- tutions. But Few Doctors. The report reveals that where at least twenty doctors should be in the hospital staff, there are only six. Twelve wards containing twenty- seven patients each are cared for by six nurses—three hundred and twen- ty-five patients with only six nurses! Sych criminal neglect speaks for it- f. The institute is over thirty per cent overcrowded. Uniform meals are prepared for the four thousand inmates regardless of their special dietary requirements. The food purchased is of low grade and is slovenly and indifferently pre- pared—despite the fact that tuber- cular, diebetic and other sick per- sons are inmates there, there is not one dietician on the staff. The cler- ical staff is woefully under-staffed and with resultant neglect of keep- ing records of patient’s progress. ‘The report was sent in to Cermak on the day he was departing to see a prize fight in New York. Receiv- ing scant attention from his “excel- lency” the mayor, it is doubtful very much if there will be any, if small, improvement in the rotten conditions at Oak-Forest County Poor House— old home and tubercular home com- bined, CALL N. J. NEGRO RIGHTS MEETING To Build Up Organiza- tion Aug. 20th At present the League of Struggle for Negro Rights has issued a call to all workers’ and sympathetic organ- izations to elect delegates to its or- ganizational conference which will take place at Colard Elks Home, New Brunswick, N. J., on Thursday, August 20th, commencing at 6:30 sharp. F In many cities such as New Brunswick, Elizabeth, Perth Amboy, Toms River, Asbury Park, where segregation and jim-crowism is at its greatest height, the bosses are using many of the so-called Negro leaders as a smoke screen to mis- lead the Negro workers that they may have faith in the same people that are doing all they can to keep the Negro down and looked upon as an inferior class. The main program of the confer- ence will be: 1. Organization. 2. Edu- cation. 3. Scottsboro. 4. Miners and Textile. 5. Unemployment. The LSNR asks all organizations to take part in this conference. The delegates should come prepared to discuss the five points, also submit recommendations to this conference. All rank and file of the workers’ or- ganizations are asked ‘to elect dele- gates to the 3-County Conference of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights. LOCKOUT MOVIE OPERATORS CHICAGO, Ill—One hundred and seven movie houses called a lockout. against the movie operators, de- manding that they be allowed to break their contract with the union and employ only one operator where two have been working up to now. vuilzng the public resentment against the gangster-ridden, rack- eteering leadership of the Operators Union, there is no question that the owners are making the first move in HUGE REWARD INCITES TERROR AGAINST BIRMINGHAM NEGROES; WORKERS T0 PROTEST AUGUST 22 (CONTINURD FROM PAGE ONE) The terror campaign of the Bir- mingham bosses and against the Negro masses is ; the nation-wide terror ni against the entire working class. It is aimed at smashing the growir unity between Negro and white wo. ers, and at crushing the st the working class against sta and evictions. It is part of the eral campaign directed by the Wall Street government and its agents to- ward the worsening of the conditions | of ‘the working class by wage cuts, denial of unemployment relief, the lengthening of hours of labor, etc. their ruggles of Part and parcel of this campaign | is the wide-spread terror against the | mine strikers in Pennsylvania, Ohio, | West Virginia and Kentucky, the| massacre of Negro croppers at Camp| Hill, Alabama, the massacre of un- employed workers in Chicago on Aug. | 3, the deportation drive against mil- itant foreign-born workers. | | ney | men! spreading boss the m: Negro and white, employed and mployed, must raise derous protest on Aug. 22. Rally to the fight against Work n | Jim Crow and capitalist and its mur- derous attacks on the working class! Demonstrate August 22 for the re- lease of the Scottsboro and Camp Hill victims, for the release of Tom Moo- nd all class-war prisoners! De- mand the immediate release of the m than 100 miners held in Ken- tucky on a framed-up charge of mur- dering one of the mine owners’ gun- Demand the release of the strike leaders in other mine fields, in the textile strike, etc. Smash the terror of the bosses against the work- ing class! Defend the right to or- ganize, the right to fight against starvation and evictions! Defend the Negro people against lynching and national oppression. Fight for equa! rights for the Negro people! Down with boss terr Demonstrate or Aug. 22! TIMKEN WORKERS “VACATION” EXTENDED UNTIL SEPTEMBER 2 CANTON, Ohio, Aug. 11—The workers in Timkens Roller Bearing “sweatshop” reported for work on Monday, Aug. 3, following their an- nual vacation (I don’t know what they called previous lay-offs this | year). A few went to work and the} rest -were told to report Sept. 2 Those working are promised only 10| days this month. In the lying Repository of today there is a lot of hooey regarding) Timkens, It says they have an or-| der for $400,000 in bearings for the] Pennsylvania R. R., to be used on} their N.Y.-Washington electrification | project. With the speed-up and modern machinery this order (if they got it and if it is not cancelled) will soon be finished and we work- ers must remember that nine-tenths of this amount goes into the bosses’ pockets. The yellow sheet goes on with a sob story about the net earnings for the first half of 1931, which were $2,462,14.71, far below 1930. This they attribute to the economic de- pression. What profound reasoning! | I was afraid it would be blamed on the Communists. | Lie About Wage-Cuts. They say they have affected many economies in overhead expenses, but have not cut wages. Oh, what liars! I wonder if these workers sent back home Monday see a smaller income. Department after department here has taken wage-cut after wage-cut and it is soon time that we answer JOLIET SHAKEUP A WHITEWASH CHICAGO, Ill—Rumors of a shake-up in the executive personnel of Joliet Penitentiary are current in. Springfield. But we hear that only subordinates and not Warden Hill, who “is responsible for innumerable atrocities at the penitentiary, are to be dismissed. The Director of Pub- lic Welfare, in a statement admits that the population of the prison is so large as to create a dangerous Situation, but little can be expected in the way of real reform from the gang now in control. MONTHLY SUBS AT as the coal miners are doing. We'h have to organize shop committees and get connected with the Metal Workers’ Industrial League. Yesterday, at the Municipal Court, the clerk called the workhouse and asked for a place to put a mother with a month's old baby. She had been arrested.on a liquor charge and fined $100 and costs and lodged in the city jail, but the prisoners raised hell and they put this mother and babe in the workhouse. ESSEX COUNTY ™ ELECTION CONF. To Ratify Communist Party Candidates NEWARK, N. J.—The Essex County Provisional Election Campaign Com- mittee of the Communist Party is sending out calls to all organizations for a county conference to be held Sunday, August 23rd at 5 Belmont Ave., Newark, at 10.30 a. m. This conference will ratify the Communist Party candidates for Gen- eral Assembly and for Board of Freeholders and John J. Bellam for Governor. Every workers’ organization, and workers from the shops are request- ed to send two delegates to this con- ference. There are 15 Communist candidates in Essex County alone. Union County, which has Elizabeth and Linden, will have their ratifica- tion convention delegates’ meeting on Thursday, July 30 when they will decide on a county conference. Hudson County, which has Jersey City, Bayonne, Hoboken, is also ar- ranging for a delegates’ meeting. The main task of the county elec- tion campaign committees of the Communist Party is the building up of Vote Communist Clubs. 30 CENTS WINTHIN REACH OF WORKERS! BUNDLES CAN BE ORDERED AT RATE OF 1 CENT A COPY! A Daily Worker Club is in process, of formation in Pittsburgh Cal “Please inform me where I can sec- ure a number of membership cards as I would like to organize a club here.” writes a worker in above town ‘There are no membership ecards in the Daily Worker Club. Nor nre there dues, All work is of a voluntary nature and no laries are paid to officials, The has no formal constitution or by-laws, just common sense, The workers themselves decide the character of the club and make pl cordance with their needs, first meeting of the Pittsburgh, Cal. will enable the comrades to tell just how the club is to pro- © An outline on how best to duct meetings is being sent th Pittsburgh comrades. This out explains In detail the nature, tles and possibilities of the Daily Worker club and will be sent to everyone desirous of t organizing 50 BH, 18th St, New Start A Clu y In the meantime suggest that Pittsburgh, Cal. do everything pos- sible to prepare for initial meet- ing. A leaflet should be mimeo- graphed and widely spread all over town announcing formation of club inviting all workers and sym- s of the Daily Worker to at- ide a jittle entertainment: I let the workers have the floor to express themselves as much the comrades in charge act as guide. Min- ng to be taken down ry and forwarded to Daily ub Dept. New York. Com- of two or three also to be ete. No mittee appointed to make plans, other officials necessary. Above all emphasize the importance of urging workers to write about conditions in their factory, shop or mill, for pw! lication he Daily Worker. Cri icisms ions for impro’ ing Dail hould also be i cluded in Minutes The Daily Worker Club is a great step ards making the Dajly Worker a real paper of and for the workers of the U.S. It is the sharp- est instrument for bringing the mas- ses of workers into closer touch with the central office of the Daily Work- er. Why not start a club in your neighborhood today! Order a Bundle of Dailies Bundles of the Daily Worker, in any amount, will be sent to a dress in the United States rate of 1 cent a copy, paper sold at 3 cents; this includes postage. Remittances to be made at the end of each week after papers are sold. No copies are returnable at ab However on returnable basi nts is.the rate on each paper. We hope this answers letter of S.B. K., disabled world war veteran, El- gin, Ill, who writes as follows: “Tam a Communist and have put of my 13 year old money for the much postage, 1 and wounded soldier the World War, I knew before ¥ got back from France that I was fighting for Wall Street, But the next time I do fight—It will be to defend Soviet Russia and her prin- ciples.” Well spoken com: Don’t let your subscription expt: without renewing at least for month! Monthly subscriptions ai only 50 cents and within reach every class-conscious worker! Solicit your friends subs too! Comrade J.J. D., Ladonia, Tex. has the right {de: “Am sending you the measly sum of 50 cents for a monthly subserip- tion to your good paper. ‘Times ai hardy money ts scarce; but am got to try to get some readers around here; the farmers are beginning to realize helt plight and ate going to be bound to the struggle.” Talk monthly subs to every worker you mee’