The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 19, 1931, Page 3

a ses _D ATLY | WORKER, | NEW YORK, , WEDNESD! AY, NORTHWEST WORKERS TO RALLY IN GREAT PROTEST MEETS SAT. To Fight Deportations and Demand Repeal of Criminal Syndicalist Law To Demand the Immediate Release of All Political Prisoners :(By a Worker Correspondent) SEATTLE, Wash.—This year, the North West district of the International Labor Defense is preparing for 12 demon- strations on August 22nd, Sacco and Vanzetti Day, to be turned into general Amnesty Day or fight day against boss terror. Rallies or demonstrations are scheduled for the fol- lowing places throughout the district: Roseburg, Ore.; Port- land, Ore.; Astoria, Ore.; Hoquiem and Aberdeen, Wash., known as Grays Harbor; Tacoma, Wash.; Seattle, Wash.; Bal- lard, Wash.; Mt. Vernon, Wash.; Bellingham, Wash., (their working class activity. But the Everson, Wash. Terror in Northwest. The North West in recent months has been treated with a concentrated dose of boss terror and persecution. Each of the cities or towns listed above could cite local cases of per- secution of militant workers, charges ranging from misdemeanors to fel- onies, from blocking the sidewalk to criminal syndicalism. This district alone has had 13 cases of criminal syndicalism, two of which, the cases of Fred Walker and John Moore, haye been won while as a result of the trial of Ben Boloff, there was a - sentence of 10 years which is at pres- ent appealed to the State Supreme Court of Oregon. Decision on the case is expected daily and if there is an adverse decision, then the IL. L. D. must mobilize all forges to fight the case further in the U, S. Supreme Court. But most important will be the campaign built up around the case among the workers to protest the arrest and sentence and demand Ben Boloff’s immediate release as well as the repeal of the Oregon Criminal Syndicalist law. In fact, throughout the entire campaign that the International Labor Defense is organizing in Oregon for the repeal of the criminal syndicalist law, the Ben Boloff case is to be used as a living, concrete example of the vi- ciousness of the law, its express anti- labor character and how it is used by the bosses in an attempt to ter- sorize the workers who today are be- Yoming more and more determined b combat wage cuts, unemployment Mad starvation through actual organ- zation and struggle. Fight Deportation. In addition there are 28 workers held on charges of deportation who are being defended by the LL.D. of this district. After the order for de- portation came, the I L. D. applied for voluntary departure for those workers who are facing deportation to fascist countries where they would be persecuted still further because of and department has refused voluntary departure! In other words, the de- partment in the name of democracy, demands the lives of these workers. And according to the law, capitalist class law, deportation is not a crim- inal procedure nor is it a punish- ment! This is not all the department of labor headed by Doak undertakes in order to stem the growing working class movement. Russian aliens are to be deported to Shanghai, China, according to the local commissioner of immigration, Weedin, of Seattle, and supported by the Federal De- partment. How to deport Russian aliens is a question that causes the department a great deal of concern. It was this problem that the Fish Investigation Commission headed by Hamilton Fish, spent so much time on, Since the U. S, does not recog- nize the Soviet Union they cannot carry on any diplomatic relations and therefore cannot obtain pass- ports for the deportees. No country is supposed to accept any alien un- less he has a passport. Yet in Seat- tle workers are held at the immi- grations station who are Russians, no passports for them, they are or- dered deported via Shanghai and an attempt is made to slip them quietly onto the ship China bound. The L. L. D. is fighting desperately to stop these deportations as it means certain death or persecution for these workers. All Out August 22. The only means of combatting these attacks upon the working class is through organized mass pressure. Workers of Seattle! Show your working class solidarity! Rally on Aug. 22nd at Denny Regrade (5th & Blanchard) 3 p.m. Workers of Ta- coma! Demonstrate on August 22nd at 15th and Commerce St., 6:30 p. m. All workers out on August 22nd. Re- member Sacco and Vanzetti! De- mand amnesty (release) for all poli- tical prisoners! Threat of New Wage-Cut in Eagle Pencil (By a Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK, N. ¥.—I work in the Eagle Pencil Factory, Department F- 10. We all work piece work and the bosses have cut our prices many times. Girls are fired constantly and those remaining are forced to do the work of two. The highest a girl can make is $18 a week. Many girls get as little as $10 a week, We don’t know who may be the next to be fired. _We have learned that only com- Plaining against our starvation wages and speed-up does not help; the only way for us to get better conditions and a living wage is through organi- zation. There is also rumor that another wage cut is to be put over soon in this factory. We must stop all wage cuts immediately and without fail. We must organize ourselves against this wholesale firing, wage cutting, lengthening of the working hours, the speed-up and all the other rotten conditions in the Eagle Pencil Fac- tory. We are therefore organizing a grievance committee in every depart- ment and are building a factory com- mittee for the Eagle Pencil workers. New York Cops Club Homeless Men New York, N. Y. Daily Worker:— On Friday last two policemen en- tered an empty shed on West St. in which eighty unemployed men were eleeping, At 5 a. m. they turned their flashlights on the crowd and started working on them with their clubs. About 10 or 12 were brutally beaten while the remainder scurried away without offering resistance to this brutal and unwarranted attack. Police Commissioner Mulrooney emphatically states that prisoners are not mistreated by the police, How can prisoners expect humane treat- ment when even a poor, penniless, exhausted, unemployed workman can not lay his head down on a bare shed floor to rest without being torn to pieces by police clubs, Here’s some more material for Wickersham’s investigations. —A Sailor. “{ Am Thinking the Soviet Way,” Says Old Texas Worker Crane, Texas. Dear Friends: Hoover's prosperity is working fine here, Oil went to 10 cents a barrel just long enough for the Standard to contract for cheap crude. The price was then boosted to 25 cents. Just a handful of men are working here and they are laying off more every day. I am trying to sell my interest as heir in a 94 section claim here and hope for the day when the Commu- nists confiscate it. At any rate I am trying to get a loan on this land so I can donate the money to the struggle that you are so nobly carry- ing on. I can see that we are oper- ating on the tail-end of capitalism and if we can salvage anything from this dying system for our own use, I think we should do it. I am thinkifg and betting the Soviet way. I am pretty old and my fighting days are nearly over, but I sure love the cause that you fight fcr and I know we will win. —s. M. California Cannery Bosses Fear Strike (By a Worker Correspondent) E)ERYVILLE, Cal.—The San Jose strike has so stirred up the bosses throughout the state, that in the cannery where I am working (the ce’ ory of the same company, Cali- fc \ Packing Corp.) some 6 men m an appearance (said to have bee. strikers from San Jose) trying to get jobs, but the bosses discov~ ered they wanted to lead the work- ers out on strike. The watchman tried to stop their entrance, but he who were called out by the bosses, Many boxes of fruit were spilled and the workers denounced small wages. The men in question were “lost” in the excitement, Fc owing this the bosses had uni- formed police guarding the cannery for the rest of the day and closed the cannery that night for 2 days fearing strike fever. Workers here received the cannery leaflets explaining the San Jose strike with much eagerness and have shown interest in organizing Agricul- was pushed aside until 50 cops came} tural and Cannery Workers’ Union. “Scottish Mice Learn Faster Than The Russian,” Says Times The capitalist war mongrels and their ideologists working through the capitalist press are overdoing themselves in the desire to prepare for the coming war by infusing the minds of workers ev- erywhere with dislike for all things Russian. “Scottish Mice Learn Faster than Russian,” reads heading in recent issue of New York Times. The story con- tinues through much learned drivel to suggest that Scotch mice are more responsive than Rus- sian mice to the sound of a bell calling them to a meal, Is it possible that the spirit of Bolshevism has already penetrat- ed the Russian mice May this not be responsible for their slowness to react to the food that they KNOW they will get. Scotch mice have evidently learned from experience that they have to run for every crumb their masters be- grudge them. This is of course a far-fetched incident but it is just a part of the careful ideo- logical preparations day by day that the boss class is carrying on through its newspapers. This propaganda can best be counter- acted by the Daily Worker which is the militant organ of the American working class. Workers! Insure its publication through August and September by sending your donation, as much as you can spare today; SILK STRIKERS GET WIR RELIEF Elect for Nat’l Meet at Pittsburgh NEW YORK.—The Workers’ Inter- national Relief is able to announce gratfying progress in the relief of Allentown and Paterson strikers. A W.LR. Committee has been appoint- ed at Allentown and a store has been opened to collect and distribute food, Mass activities are spreading. The Philadelphia headquarters is sending food regularly and announces that two truckloads of provisions will be shipped shortly. Comrade Scherer, national secretary of the W.LR. will be in Allentown on Wednesday and will address a mass meeting where delegates will be elected to attend the National Conference of the W.LR. to be held in Pittsburgh, Au- gust 29 and 30. Workers in Paterson are now in the acute stage of starvation and misery. The relief kitchen serves three meals a day to striking textile workers. At noon-time an average of 350 meals are served. In addition the W.LR. and relief committee is giving aid to 33 children, four or five of whom are in bed ill from mal- nutrition. In many cases the mothers are in the hospital, broken down from overwork, worry and under- nourishment. Pathetic appeals for money are constantly being made. Workers have not paid their rent, electric light bills and gas bills for months, s@ viciously have wages been slashed. PASSAIC CALLS A RELIEF MEETING To Aid the Striking Textile Workers PASSAIC, ane J.—The National Textile Workers’ Union in Passaic sent out a call to every workers’ or- ganization in Passaic to send dele- gates to a relief conference for the textile strikers. The conference will be held Aug. 28 at 8 p.m., at 743 Main Ave., Room 3. The N. T. W U. also arranged for a tag day on Saturday, Aug. 15, for the textile strikers. The stations are at 39 Monroe St. and 743 Main Ave, Passaic workers well remember the 1926-27 strike and the relief we got from the workers all over the world. Now the Passaic workers will do everything in their power to help the textile strikers, HOLD AFFAIR FOR MINE STRIKE AID Workers Int’l Relief Picnic, Sept. 7 NEW YORK.—To collect funds to aid the starving miners in their strike against hunger, the New York branch of the Workers International Relief will give a picnic at Starlight Amuse- ment Park, 177th St. and West Farms Road, Monday, Sept. 7, so-called La- bor Day. There will be sports, games, open- air concent, and indoor dancing. The affair will begin at 11 a. m. and last until 2 a. m. At 8 o'clock there will be a mass demonstration and concert, The speakers will be William Z. Foster, ‘Wm. W. Weinstone, and Frank Bo- rich, National Secretary of ‘he Na- tional Miners Union, Motion pictures of the strike will be shown, Workers Correspondence is the backbone of the revolutionary press, Build your press by writing for ft about your day-to-day struggle. e a ROUSED BY BOSS TERROR WORKERS PREPARE DEMONSTRATIONS AUG. 22 To Protest Birmingham Werror, Massacre of Unemployed In Chicago; Demand Re- ‘lease All Class War Prisoners NEW YORK.—Throughout the country intensive preparations are under way for huge demonstrations this Saturday, Aug. 22, in commemo- ration of the martyrdom of Sacco and Vanzetti and in militant protest against the growing boss terror against Negro and white workers. The Chicago district of the Inter- national Labor Defense is prepating for demonstrations in the following cities: Milwaukee, Gary, Rock Island, Rockford, Indianapolis. Waukegan and St. Louis. In Rockford, the workers will demonstrate at Broad- way and Eighth St. at 7:30 p.m, In Chicago itself there will be two demonstrations, one on the North Side at Washington Square, Clark and Walton, the other on the South Side at 43rd and Prairie. The workers of Providence, R. I., will hold a tremendous demonstra~ tion at Market Square at 3 p.m. In Baltimore the workers will dem- onstrate at Hopkins Square, Balti- more and Liberty Sts., at 7:30 p.m. Worcester workers will demon- strate at 2 pm. at Salem Square, In the New York district, instead of one. central demonstration at Union Square, as for the past three years, there will be demonstrations in every section of New York City and in neighboring cities. The demonstrations will not only commemorate the martyrdom of Sacco and Vanzetti, but will rally the masses to the necessary struggle against boss terror, against legal and mob lynching, against the frame-up of militant workers and the deportation of foreign-born mili- tants. Workers! demand amnesty for all class war prisoners, the release of the Scottsboro and Camp Hill vic- tims! Protest the massacre of un- employed workers by the Chicago police and landlords on Aug. 3! Protest the massacre of Negro crop- pers by landowners and police in Tallpoosa County and the frame-up DEFEND PHILA. FOREIGN BORN Meetings to Prepare Conference Sept. 27 PHILADELPHIA, Pa., August 18.— In Philadelphia immigration officials are visiting shops and factories, ar- resting and deporting workers. All over, wherever strikes take place, workers are arrested on the picket line and deported. Homes are broken up, families divided and children are crying for bread while their fathers are deported to fascist countries where long jail sentences and death awaits their arrival. In Philadelphia a number of workers, among them Peltz, Lippa and Lawrenze are to be deported in the near future. The Committee for the Protection of Foreign Born calls upon all work- ers and organizations regardless of race, nationality, sex, creed or color to affiliate and participae in the struggle for the defense of the for- eign-born. For the purpose of creating a mass movement the Philadelphia District Committee has decided to call a dis- trict conference on Sunday, at 1 p. m., Sept, 27 in the Ukrainian Hall, 849 N. Pranklin St, To bring this issue before the work- ers and to prepare the conference the following open air meetings are to take place in Philadelphia on Tues- day, Aug. 25, 8 p. m.: Marshall St. and Girard Ave., 32nd and Cumberland Sts., 39th and Pop- lar Sts., McPherson Square (Kensing- ton), Seventh and Rither Sts. 13th and Reed Sts. LABOR DEFENDER CONTEST STARTS More Workers Read LL.D. Pictorial ‘With the increasing of boss terror against the working-class the atten- tion of the workers has been turned more and more to the International Labor Defense the only organization defending the workers in their strug- gle. The part the Labor Defender, the official organ of the I. L. D, Plays is becoming greater and greater, The only labor ;istorial full of timely labor pictures depicting the class struggk in all its terror and brutality is being read by an increasing num- ber of workers. At the present time the I. L. D. is carrying on a spirited contest in its branches. Each branch is assigned @ moderate quota and the branch getting the highest percentage of its quota wins a set of Lenin's Collected Works, which is a prize certanily worth going after. The contest goes further than that, the member of the winning branch selling the most La- bor Defenders gets the prize. This contest is also open to individual workers outside of the I. L. D. For further information, call at the local ofice of the I. L. D. Room 410, 80 E. 11th St on murder charges of 35 miners in Kentucky. All out on the streets on Aug: 22! Negro and white workers! Smash the boss terror! Defend your right to organize to fight against starva- tion, wage-cuts and evictions. Dem- onstrate Aug, 22! TRY JAIL MWIL ORGANIZERS IN CANONSBURG Police Try Break Pa. Steel Strike (By a Worker Correspondent) CANNONSBURG, Pa. Aug. 15.— On Friday afternoon August 14, two organizers of the Metal Workers In- dustrial League were arrested on Youngstown Ave. in Canonsburg by the chief of police. The two organ- izers were holding a quiet conver- sation with several strikers of the Budke mill of the Canonsburg Steel & Iron Co. The chief approached them in an insulting manner, asking mahy unnecessary, insolent quest- ions. When they refused to answer some impertinent question, he said, “You have to angwer any question I ask you, if you won't, let’s go.” A worker from the Budke mill asked the organizers “What are you arrested for?” and the chief imme- diately arrested him also. All were taken to the station, frisked, put through the third degree, and held incommunicado for two hours, The chief then called up the sheriff, say- ing, “I have two organizers of the National Metal Workers, what will I do with them?” After this talk with the sheriff he released and ordered them to leave town immediately. About an hour later one of the Sec- retaries of the Chartiers Valley Lodge of the Amalgamated Association of Iron Steel & Tin Workers of N. A. warned one of the organizers of the MWIL that he would “get in trouble if he would go on the picket line” as the police were planning to arrest him Esa matter of fact all the above incidents are only part .and parcel of the plans laid out at the last mect- ing of the Chartiers Valley Lodge of the A, A, at which the ‘members were instructed to report and point out to the police, state Cossacks, and deputy sheriffs all the organizers of the MWIL or any persons outside of the membership of the A.A. that would attempt to help on the picket lines in any way. All the terroristic methods of the police and stool pigeon tactics of the A. F. of L. will have no effect on the organizers of the MWIL as they intend to continue their activities and remain in Canonsburg. ILD CASES NEED PRISON COMFORTS Seattle Br. Receives Letter from Scottsboro SEATTLE, Wash.—The Belling- ham branch of the International Labor Defense of the Northwest district, named after John Lamb, one of the Centralia prisoners held in the Walla Walla penitentiary, has writ- ten to the Scottsboro boys in Kelby prison, Montgomery, Alabama. The branch has received a reply directed to John Lamb, This letter should be read carefully as in it is contained a plea for prison comfort which so many of the political prisoners throughout the country are sorely in need of. Raising of funds for prison comfort by members of the LL.D. and sympathizers has been neglected al- together too long. Approximately $1,000 is needed monthly to take care of the needs of the workers in jail and their de- pendent families, This is one of the first obligations that the LL.D. had to meet, With the tremendous num- ber of cases that the ILD. is de- fending at present, involving huge sums for legal expense, this is no small task and requires initiative and effort on the part of every branch, affiliated organization, individual member and sympathizer. Read the letter from Andy Wright and Charlie ‘Weems and get on the job. Let’s not neglect the workers in jail. They look to us to provide the few com- forts they can get while behind pri- son bars. Kilby Prison, Montgomery, Ala. Dear Mr. John:— I received your letter and was very glad to hear from you, it found me well and when these few lines reach you I truly hope you are the same. I am glad you all is fighting my case and I hope you all good luck. The N.A.A.C.P. want my case but I don’t want them to have it. I want you all the I.L.D. and not the NAACP, I don’t want them on my case at all. I am asking you for a little fawor. We are out of cigar- ettes and also stamps and aint got no money to buy more with, I would be mighty glad if you would send us 8 little money, please Sir. So I close from Charlie Weims and also Andy Wright, Answer soon, AU! GUST, 19, 1931 Page Three = ——— = | August 22, Sacco- | Vanzetti Day Demonstrations | | New York—Demonstrations in | |all sections of the city. | | Seattle, Wash.—3 p.m. in Denny | Regade District, 5th and Blan- | chard. | Ironwood, Mich.— %p.m.. North- | western Park, corner Suffolk and | Dyer St, Boston, Charles St. Mall, Boston Commons. | Worcester, Mass.—Salem Square, 2 p.m. Minneapolis, Minn., Bridge Sq., at 4:30 p.m. Cleveland, Public Sq. at 2 p.m. Indianapolis, Ind.—Military | Park at 3 p.m. Anderson, Ind.—Court House at! 3 p.m. | Terre Haute, Ind.—Court House | at 3 p.m. Detroit, Mich.—In front of City Hall at 7 p.m. Baltimore—Hopkins Square, Balti- more and Liberty Sts., at 7.30 p.m. | Providence, R. I—Market Sq.,| at 3 p.m. | Rockford, Ill, at Broadway and | Eighth Sts. at 7.30 p. m. Chicago—Washington Sq., Clark | and Walton and 3rd and Prairie. | Demonstrations also in St. Louis, | Waukegan, Rockford, Gary, Mil- waukce and Rock Island. HOLD MEETING DESPITE BAN ManyW. orkers Join the Unemployed Council MISSOURI VALLEY, Iowa, Aug. 19.—The militant workers and farm- ers of this town, under the leader- ship of the Trade Union Unity League and the Unemployed Council, won a big victory when they held their scheduled meeting despite the fact that the mayor had refused a permit and had closed the hall. The day before the meeting was to be held the mayor called the Com- munist Party on long distance phone and told them that the meeting could not be held by the Trade Union Unity League and the Unemployed Council in Missouri Valley, as he didn’t want any demands to be made on him by anyone, Upon the arrival of the local un- employed members in the evening, at 7:30, they found the hall closed, with about 500 workers waiting for the hall to be opened. Then there ar- rived 50 workers from Council Bluffs and Omaha in trucks and the meet- ing was opened on the street in front of the hall, Though the mayor deputized over 20 business men and Jegionnaires of the city, they did not bother the meeting. Exposes Mayor, Tool of R. R. ‘The meeting was opened by Com- rade Middelton of the Unemployed Council, who introduced Comrade George J. Papcun, the Communist Party organizer of Iowa and Ne- braska. Comrade Papcun spoke for about an hour, exposing the mayor and the unemployment situation, pre- senting the Party’s position on the question of unemployment and wage- cuts. Comrade Harry W. Smith, the Trade Union Unity League organ- izer, spoke on the program of the T. U. U. L. and over 300 or 400 more speakers came to the meeting as the meeting proceeded. The mayor, H. T. Faith of Mis- souri Valley, who claimed that he would stop the meeting with shot- guns, if necessary, and run the or- ganizers out of town, lost his nerve. Many workers joined the Unem- ployed Council and arrangements have already been made to establish a functioning Unemployed Council the coming Wednesday, Aug. 19. Out of a population of 4,200 about 1,000 are unemployed. Even five dep- uties, who belong to the American Legion, after the meeting expressed their sympathy and willingness to join the Trade Union Unity League. ‘This is a great victory for the work- ers of Missouri Valley in holding the meeting in spite of Mayor H. T. Faith, the tool of the Northwestern and Burlington Railroads. One worker was arrested for dis- tributing the Daily Worker and the Labor Unity, but was released be- fore anyone knew about it. Magnitorgorsk Is Rising Rapidly Soviet Steel Plant Is Largest in Europe MOSCOW.—Work on the eight huge blast furnaces of the Magni- togorsk Steel plant in the Urals is proceeding rapidly and it is expected that considerable production will commence in 1932, though the date of completion has been set for Jan- uary, 1933. Each of the eight blast furnaces will have an average daily capacity of over 1,000 tons of pig iron, very near the record for the largest blast furnaces in the world. The total yearly capacity will be 2,600,000 tons of iron. Fourteen open hearth furnaces of 150 tons capacity will be used for making steel, as also will three 25-ton Bessemer converters. Blooming mills, rail mills, billet and other types of finishing mills will be erected. Fight batteries of 69 by-product coke ovens, each with a complete by-product re- covery plant, ts also being built. Bast Te enn. Miners his Joining National Miners Union; District Conf. at Caryville Jim Grace, Kentock y De lee to Pittsburgh Conference of N v-M. . Writes of Tennessee August 10 ( AES CARYVILLE, r the farmer Ten. Mail) —Since the in Wallins Cre: Miners Union has in Tennessee on S! We held a meeting in the Caryville, a very enthu: ing. Theree locals h up with applications The meeting at Ky eral Committee of the NMU who a delegate to the Pittsburgh Conf ence. After. his talk 16 additiona membership. The Miners’ Own Union For the first time in many years| the coal miners of Tennessee have found an organization that really means something tp the miners o this coalfield, one that will functior for the benefit of the miners them. selves and that cannot be sold out| to the coal barons as has previously been done by the officials of United Mine Workers, as Lewis, blazer, Fagan and others. Farmers Help Miners The coal miners of East: Tennessee are overzealous about the NMU as well as the farmers, grocery me all small business men. They are all responsive to this great campaign that’s being put on by our great or- ganization with full realization that unless we unite and come together on a united front we can never be able to stand up against the capi- talists and their hired henchmen. The above mentioned people know quite yville was ad-| with open arms, dressed by a members of the Gen- | hospitality is unsurpassed by that of s| any | conscious members were added to the union | with seven more new applications for | the | Turn-| well that unless the wage earner can man can have future. Therefore d at the same con- for no hope we haye clusion that united we can stand and | divided we We will be downed. are glad to report that the Tennessee as well as Ken- e receiving our organization Their courtesy and other state. They are truly class +h means more for our uccess than any other factor. Attended Pittsburgh Conference The writer is the comrade who at- tended the Pittsburgh Conference and reported from Kentucky and who was forced to leave his home in Harlan County to keep from being murdered heriff Blair and his outlaw thugs nd Chicago gangsters who are paid arge sums of money by such men s Mellon, Insull, Sackett, Edison and the entire coal operators’ association of Harlan County. The thugs that are being paid by these capitalists ve lately pulled the lowest down tunt of crime yet committed in the | Harlan coalfields, the blowing up of | tk soup, kitchen in Evarts, Ky., with dynamite where the poor blacklisted miners and their thin faced wives were being fed and the poor little undernourished children are being fed in order to prevent starvation and flux. Bless the good farmers of East Tennessee and elsewhere for the continued service in giving food such as potatoes, beans, roasting ears, cab- bage, tomatoes and other vegetables to help feed the hungry in Harlan County. ~—J. M. GRACE, (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE> Deputy Sheriff Jesse Pace to death, the presiding Judge, D. C. Jones, told the jury that “Commu- nism and law and order cannot sleep in the same bed.” Judge Jones is following the line of Prosecutor Brock who said that “cold steel” was necessary to put down striking min- ers, The judge is preparing the jury's mind in the usual fashion against the “Reds” in, order to insure the death penalty for the 35 miners. The judge told the jurors “to in- vestigate the criminal syndicalism charges first.” Repeating the procedure in Sacco-Vanzetti trial when ju Thayer yelped about god and coun- try and the duty against the “red bastards,” Judge Jones in Harlan worked up a lynch spirit in the minds of the jury. The Associated Press reports him as saying “I have been taught to believe ail the NEW YORK ELECTS TO WIR NAT. CONF. Unions, Clubs and Or- ganizations Elect NEW YORK.—Trade unions and fraternal organizations of New York are one by one falling into line in answer to the call for delegates to FUNDS NEEDED NOW FOR DEFENSE; COURT IS AN ARMED CAMP my life that the people of the moun- tains of Kentucky, Tennessee, Ala- bama, Georgia, North Carolina and Virginia, all of the purest Anglo- Saxon stock and Christian people, are believers in good government. We have our sins, of course, but never until these snake doctors came here from New York and taught these doctrines have we been troubled by Communism.” In view of the widespread terror in. this part of the country, and be- cause the miners are penniless and starving and have been betrayed by the UMWA, it is extremely dif- ficult to raise funds for the de- fense of these 35 miners who face legal lynching on framed-up mur- der charges, The International La- bor Defense has hired an attorney from New Orleans, and funds are needed immediately for the defense of the Kentucky miners. The ILD organizer has been jailed, and even the Civil Liberties Union represen- tative is terrorized and jailed, mak- ing it doubly difficult to raise funds. Eyery worker must rally to the defense of their 35 brothers in Harlan, Ky. who are in the midst of the bitterest class war ever ex- perienced in these coal fields. Send your contribution now to the Inter- national Labor Defense, 799 Broad- way, New Yofk City. The court-room, the capitalist news agencies say, is like an armed camp. Deputies under Sheriff J. H. Blair. the coal company chief gunman, well armed with machine guns, rifles, tear the National Conference of the Workers’ International Relief, to be héld in Pittsburgh Aug. 29, 30. The Needle Trades Workers Ind. Union has elected two delegates, the Food Workers’ Industrial Union 1 dele- gate, as have the Working Class Housewives, the International Work- ers’ Order and the Jewish Clubs. The Finnish, Lithuanian, Hungarion and Ukrainian Clubs have all an- nounced their intention to elect dele- gates in the near future. All other organizations which have been active in the campaign for the raising of relief for the starving, striking miners are invited to elect delegates and to assist in the build- ing of the W. I. R. into a strong, mass organization for the collection and distribution of relief to workers in their struggles to better their hor- rible conditions. The Workers’ In- ternational Relief is not a charity organization, but a working-class or- ganization providing relief on the basis of class solidarity. Complete LargeBicycle Plant in Soviet Union MOSCOW.—The new large bicycle plant here was completed in July at ® post of 10,000,000 rubles and partial production will start at the end of the year. Production scheduled ten- tatively are 50,000 bicycles in 1932 and 300,000 bicycles in 1933. Bicycles will be used for both transportation and sport purposes. SALESMAN STOLE FOR HIS STARVING FAMILY CHICAGO, Ill—Earl Smith, 47, of 3821 Alta Vista, Ter., on unemployed salesman, admitted at the Town Hall police station, where he was held under arrest, that he was out to hold up the first prosperous person he met to get food for his wife and two children. This was the first time that he had ever carried a gun, but he said his family was starving and gas bombs and other weapons, are spread throughout the court-room and around the court-house. Out- side, in front of the building, is an armored car, reinforced with con- crete and steel. On Monday, company gunmen shot and wounded Boris Israel, corre- spondent for the Federated Press. Israel was standing near the court- house when Blair's gunmen came up to him and pushed him into a car, saying: “We are going to take you out for a little mountain air.” They drove him out to the city limits and then started to shoot at him, one bullet striking his leg. All persons entering the court- house were searched. Hundreds of deputies, machine guns and armored cars continue to terrorize the min- ers, and a cross has been by for two nights overlooking the town. Literature That Every Worker Should READ In Connection With International Youth Day No Jobs Today. . 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