The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 21, 1931, Page 3

SOCIALIST FRIEDMAN, BROOKLYN CANDIDATE, SLUGS YOUNG PIONEEER Morris Carlo Was Brutally Attacked by Beefy Socialist for Selling “Daily Workers” Workers Rally to Childs Defense and Rout the Yellow Thugs, Take Over Meet (By a Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK, N. Y.—Friday evening. Five of us, League members, returning from an eviction: sore, embittered and disappointed. Feeling more than ever the heavy hand of op- pression of our masters, the ruling capitalist class. A worker had been evicted. Five of us heard about it. We went down, rallied some workers and returned the furni- ture. The landlord called the police, who again put the furni- ture into the street. Due to our meagre forces we were unable to stop this. We walked along discussing how we> could rally the workers and the Un- employed Council to again restore the furniture. Finally we were attracted by an open air meeting at which there seemed to be some commotion. We go nearer: a socialist meeting. A young boy whom we recognized as Morris Carlo, a Pioneer, in an alter- cation with a beefy, prosperous in- dividual. Around them stand Yip* sels and so-called socialists with smiles and smirks all over their faces. Attack Child. We do not say anything, but stand around and listen to the conversa~ tion, which is as follows: “Come on, pay me for those Daily Workers you tore up.” “Go on, you little snotnose. Beat it before I throw you out of here.” ‘first pay me for those Daily Workers.” “Well, where did you get the nerve to sell at our meeting?” “This is supposed to be a free country, ain’t it? I'll sell wherever I want to sell.” “C'mon, get out of here.” And with that the beefy one Pushed the youngster violently, who quick es a flash came back with a punch, The yellow scoundrel replied with a blow that dropped the Pioncer. At that we went into ac- tion, raging at oursclves for not svarting sooner. Socialists Routed. For fully five minutes the battle raged on. On one hand a few work- ers whose sense of justice had been outraged by the striking of a child. On the other two or three score yipsels and socialists. And finally we were rescued by a mass of workers whom Catjo had summoned from Pitkin and Hopkinson Aves., where the Friends of the Soviet Union were holding an open air meeting. With the coming of more workers the chicken-hearted socialists, seeing that their forces were about the same, retreated. Right then and there we held a short meeting, explaining what hap- pened and calling on the workers to follow us to the Friends of the So- viet Union meeting. And most of the workers did so, leaving the so- cialists to nurse their bruises. From the latest reports we learn that the cowardly cur who struck Carlo is the socialist, Friedman, can- didate for alderman in the 50th dis- trict. Vote Communist! We must intensify our work in the election campaign in this and all dis- tricts, expose the socialists as enemies of the workers, collect signatures to put Communists on the ballot and vote Communist in the coming elec- tions. Brooklyn Hospital Workers Greet Miners Brooklyn, N. Y. To the Striking Miners: We, a group of workers from the ish Hespital of Brooklyn, N. Y., realizing that you are struggling for a decent living wage, decent living conditions, the right to a comfortable home, healthy children and for the right to organize against the capital- ist system with all its misery for the workers, have pledged our solidarity with you. We regret that unfortunately we cannot be on the picket line with you, and that the nurses amongst us cannot be with you, your wives and children, giving the benefit of our knowledge to your sick and to thoze wounded on your battle front. But we are on the battle front here. We work at our first aid stations. We agitate and collect funds and supplies for militant workers who are caught in the/jaws of capitalist des- potism. We organize the workers here to understand that in your strike against the coal barons you are fight- ing in the class struggle for the work- ers here and for the workers every- where. Therefore, fellow workers, though you find great difficulties in your struggle, we bid you to keep up the good courage and organize stronger into your fighting union, the National Miners Union. The vanguard of the workers of the world is behind you. We are watching each advancing move you make, for your gain is our gain. Follow the words of Karl Marx: “Workers of the world, unite. You have nothing to lose but your chains, and a@ world to gain!” We are with you to the end. Workers of the Jewish Hospital, Brooklyn, N. ¥. Work in Pitt. Terminal Mine Without Food Avella, Pa. Dear Daily Worker: I was on the picket line this morn- ing at mine number 9 of the Pitts- burgh Terminal Coal Company. I saw 280 men go in the mine. Out of that 280 there was 100*to 125 who ent in without lunches. On Saturday seven men came from. the P. dnd W. mine to the National Miners Un:..1 Relief Store and begged for something to eat for their starv- ing families. That is what the Lewis and Fagan fakers have done for them, —A Miner. Stockton Unemployed Council Wins Relief (By a Worker Correspondent) STOCKTON, Cal.—A committee of 60 unemployed workers from the Downtown Branch of the Unem- ployed Council forced the Welfare (commonly known as farewell) De- partment to give food and shelter to a homeless family in which there was a year old baby. The worker had been locked out of his room the day before. He had visited the welfare and they told him they would look up his relatives in New York and see if they could raise enough to send his wife and baby back. In the meantime he could starve to death as far as those political jobholders were concerned. The worker came to the street meeting of the Unemployed Council and told his case. When a commit- tee was called upon to volunteer to call upon the Welfare Department. 15 volunteered. Individual workers took care of the family for the night. The following day instead of 15 workers showing up fifty appeared. When they marched up with the family those grafters got scared of the militant spirit of the workers who would not Jet the fakers bam- boozle them with hooey. The direc- tor mentioned something about hav- ing the money last night and gave the worker an order for groceries and @ room, The capitalist press, of course, gave its usual highly colored version of the affair. That night the worker came around to headquarters and said, “This newspaper guy said I was a member of the Communist Party. I’m not a member, that is to Say, I ain't got a book yet. But I notice the Communist Party is the only Party that is really interested in the unemployed. So if that re- porter guy thought he was going to make me mag by calling me a Com- another guess Sioux City Labor Faker Jails Communist (By a Worker Correspondent) rest Stalker. This he did, but not before the comrade had put up a SIOUX CITY, Iowa.—Victor Short, notorious in Sioux City, Iowa, as a labor skate and cheap politician, has once again exposed his true colors as an enemy of the workers, Last week Short was the speaker at pic- -nic held by the Dakota Farmers’ Union at Homer, Nebraska. In his talk Short woned out the usual tripe about his past activities on behalf of labor, etc. But he didn’t say a word ebout the crisis and its effect on the farmers. Comrade George Stalker of ioux City who was present at the picnic asked Short a few pointed questions. But this faker knew bet- ter than to try to answer. Instead he openly made the charge that real struggle. Hart, who is a bully- ing small town marshall type, drew @ gun on Stalker during the melee, and would surely have shot him had not a member of the crowd snatched the gun away from him, After Stalker was lodged in jail, Short came to see him and asked him to ride back to Sioux City with him. Of course the faker was told in no uncertain terms where to head in at. On Saturday, Comrade Stalker came up for trial and was fined $1 and costs for resisting an officer. As the case was closed Stalker made the statement that he was coming back to Homer to speak to the farmers in the name of the Communist Party, and that no amount of terrorism could stop him from doing so, Young Mother Forced Into Prostitution to Feed Children CHICAGO, Aug. 20—Edith Sim- mons is the mother of two young children. Her husband has deserted her and she is having a hard time trying to support herself and the children, She has been evicted twice because she could not pay rent. She cannot get a job. She has ben forced to go with men that can help pay ex- penses. One cannot blame these young girls and young men who drift to crime because they have no job, no money and no home to go to. It is very hard to get a job here unless one has some sort of “pull.” I, my- self, have only a temporary job. I can only trust and hope that I will get another when this one gives out. HUGE MASS MEET SUN. TO GREET FRANK SPECTOR Victim of Imperial Valley Jailing NEW YORK.—Frank Spector, one of the Imperial Valley, California, prisoners who was only recently re- leased from prison after'serving more than one year under the infamous Criminal Syndicalism Law, can be assured of a hearty welcome from the workers of this district. A huge mass meeting is being ar- ranged to take place on Sunday af- ternoon, August 23, at the Irving Plaza Hall, 15th St. and Irving Place, at 3 pm., at which Comrade Spector will be the chief speaker. He will tell of the struggle of the Imperial Valley agricultural workers who struck a year ago against starvatson, and of the rage of the bosses of California, who attempted to send all the leaders of the strike to jail for forty-two years. As the result of the campaign carried on by the In- ternational Labor Defense through- out the country in the past year, the sentences of others were reduced to 14 years, and Comrade Spector was released. The meeting is part of a general Amnesty Drive which will begin with the international demon- strations’ on Saturday, August 22. Admission to the meeting will be 25c, jobless free. Following the mass meeting a banquet will be held for Comrade Spector in the same hall, to which admission will be 50c. The Bill Haywood Branch of Brooklyn has arranged a banquet for Saturday evening, August 22, at 140 Neptune Ave. at 8 o'clock. The ad- mission to this banquet will be 50c, and Comrade Spector will also be present. i FORM NEW GIANT OIL COMPANY Struggle Sharpens for World Markets Five large petroleum companies are being merged into a world wide unit which, with assets of over one billion dollars, wi:l rival the largest of the petroleum companies now struggling for the world market. The companies which are to be combined are the Sinclair Consolidated Oil Corporation, the Tide Water Asso- ciated Oil Company, the Prairie Oil and Gas Company, the Prairie Pipe Line Company, and the Rio Grande Oil Company. The new giant oil cor- poration will probably be known as the Associated Petroleum Corpora- tion. e3 This unit will be complete, operat+ ing in all branches of the oil indus- try, including production, refining, marketing, and transportation. The result will be to intensify the strug- gle for the world market especially between the American and the Brit- ish companies, thus sharpening the antagonism between these two impe- rialist rivals. IMPORT MOVIE SCABS TO CHI. The misleaders of the Brotherhood of Motion Picture Employees of North America in conjunction with the operators of the 100 closed out- lying Chicago motion picture thea- tres have imported 100 motion pic- ture operators from New Cork into Chicago to scab on the operators who are out on strike. The workers in Chicago are members of the Ameri- can Federation of Labor union, the Moving Picture Machine Operators’ Union, The leader of this union in Chica- go is Tom Maloy, Together with Joe Maloy, his brother, head of the mo- tion picture lcensing bureau of the city’s electrical department, he has been using the union as a means to graft on the motion picture operat- ors. Joe Maloy used to refuse licenses to workers whom his brother at the head of the union didn’t want. The scabs who were imported by plane are to work at much lower wages than were previously paid and there will be only one man in a booth instead of the two that are required for safety. Maloy will probably try to use the importation of these scabs as an excuse to sell out the workers at the bosses’ price DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, AUGUST, 21, 1931 NEW STRIKE CERTAIN IN KENTUCKY, TENNESSEE: MINERS OUT TO W (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONED committees to the mine owners. Nc discrimination against wny miner: and particularly no discriminatior against Negro mners and “recogni- tion of the mine committees” are de- mands everywhere. Other demands vary from mine tc mine and from company to com- pany, but include such as: no push- ing of cars, no check-off for the bath house, payment for dead work, delivery of supplies to the face, etc. It was reported at the meeting that the Ohio District Convention of the National Miners Union, with 113 delegates, representing 26 mgnes, had adopted the new tactics, had elected a district board of the union of 25 members, and that Ohio-West Virginia district was energetically holding mass meetings and voting ; discussing and elaborating on on the new local demands already worked out by the strike committees. ‘The Central Strike Committee ap- proved the holding of joint meetings during the later part of this week of the strike committees in each of @ number of large companies, to. co- ordinate the action of the strikers and workers in those companies for local demands. ‘The strike committees of Carnegie Coal Co, will meet Friday. The strike committee of Pittsburgh Ter- minal Coal Co. and the companies in Ohio and West Virginia owned by the same interests (Taplan inter- ests) will meet together Sunday, on which date also will meet the strike committees of the Hillman Coal Co., which owns nine mines in the struck area. Dates are being arranged for the meeting of the strike committees of the Valley Camp and other Pais- Jey interests mines, and also of the Pittsburgh Coal Co. mines, owned by Mellon interests. The strike committee heard the re- port of Caroline Drew, just returned from organizing N. M. U. women’s auxiliaries in Kentucky. She told of the growing N. M. U. movemnt there, which has now spread well out of Harlan County into Bell County and is still spreading. She told of 14 new chartered locals of the N. M. U. functioning and seven more newly formed which will re- ceive charters this week. Women's auxiliaries and youth sections have been formed and five soup kitchens established by the Pennsylvania- Ohio-West Virginia-Kentucky Strik- ing Miners Relief. She ended with a stirring appeal for mdss demon- strations for the release of the 35 miners slated for the electric chair in Harlan, and 75 others held there for prison terms. A new strike is certain in the near future in the. Kentucky-Tennessee district. Frank Borich, secretary of the N. M. U. in his main report pointed to the new “Wheeling conference” of mayors and state governors with operators, as evidence of the con- tinued conspiracies of the operators, the government and the U. M. W. A. to trustify the coal industry at the expense of the miners, and as fur- ther proof that a great strike move- ment against the attack on the min- ers’ standard of living must come soon. “The Wheeling plan, to establish @ new competitive district in place of the old one,”, said Borich, “is an attempt to strengthen one group of operators against the others. We could have little concern with this, if it were not also true that the only way these operators propose to get the advantage over their competitors is by cutting wages, speeding up, in- creasing the amount of unpaid work, worsening living and working condi- tions—and generally making money at the expense of the miners, “Against this rationalization we must fight. The operators make these fine schemes for their profit, but they do not have the last word. ‘The miners, facing a constantly lowering standard of living, have something to say also. In these cir- cumstances, the outbreak of a great strike movement covering even much more territory than the strike of the 40,000 is only @ question of our strength. “The new tactics we have adopted will not only bring new masses into the present strike, for local de- mands,” said Borich, “but they are designed to strengthen our union to the point where it will provide the leadership for this mass strike move- ment that is coming.” Borich then went into careful de- tail on the formation of the mine committees, united frort: bodies in all mines which must be built up without regard to union member- ship, and on a basis of butt com- mittees, entry committees, mine com- mittees themselves, representing the butt and entry committees. These or- ganizations are the every-day weapon of all the miners in the mines to fight the daily grievances. They are in no way to he like the old pit com- mittees of the United Mine Work- ers. The U, M. W. A. pit commit- tees were part of the union bureau- cracy, dd not even pretend to rep- resent all the workers in the mine, and were merely grafting opportuni- ties for a few henchmen of the higher officials. They drew big fees from the union treasury, and were “grave diggers and undertakers for the grievances of the miners.” The N. M. U. mine committees will be democratic bodies, representing the masses of the miners, and active in their interests every minute, or the miners will remove them and put the functions and methods of organizing ‘ne mine committees and the local inions of the N. M. U. Reports were made by Mary Smith, “istrict secretary of the Women’s Auxiliaries of the N. M. U., and by Alfred Wagenknecht, director of the Pennsylvania-Qhio-West Virginia- Sentucky Striking Miners’ Relief. Mary Smith urged the intensified organization of the locals of the auxiliaries, and assignment of men members of the N. M. U. locals to give the meetings of the women the policies and keep them informed of the activities of the union. The Women’s Auxiliaries are about to be engaged in a terrific struggle with the local school boards for free food, clothing and shoes for the thousands of miners’ school children who are now naked and shoeless and hungry. ‘Wagenknecht, speaking for the Re- lief, urged even more extensive or- ganization of the local relief com- mittees in the strike area, and pledged the intensification of the na- tional relief campaign. A motion carried unanimously in the Central Rank and File Strike Committee to issue a statement to the press en- dorsing the Workers’ International Relief national conference in Pitts- burgh, Aug. 29, and calling for the greatest possib’g efforts to raise re- lief, food, clothing and funds for the striking miners, the blacklisted men, and for the new strike btruggles looming. ACCIDENT DEATH TOLL INCREASES Murder Workers for Capitalist Profits In July, 168 workers were killed in industrial accidents in New York state, according to a report just made public by Francis Perkins, commis- sioner of labor for the state. This was thirteen more than last month and four more than in July of last year. Despite the fact that over a million and a half fewer workers are employed than before the crisis the number of deaths is the same as for the five year period, 1927 to 1931, The increase in deaths from indus- trial accidents is a direct result of the intensified speed up that the besses have forced on the workers as the crisis has deepened. These deaths ase the toll that the capitalist class takes of workers in order to increase its profits. In 65 cases there is no informa- tion as to the dependents left be- hind. In the remaining 103 cases there were seventy-nine widows and 103 dependent children. Nine depend- ent parents also survive those mur- dered for capitalist profits. OMAHA WORKERS DEMAND RELIEF Mayor’s Committee to Investigate Jobless OMAHA, Neb, Aug. 20.—A fake committee was set up by Mayor Richard L. Metcalfe, which is called the “Unemployment Relief” Com- mittee of 15. The administration in this city has done nothing for the unemployed during the two years of unemployment and at this time they are beginning to get very much wor- ried because the unemployed are be- ginning to get desperate. According to the newspapers, it is the first of- ficial recognition of unemployment. The committee will meet today at the city council chamber at 4 p.m. It will begin an “investigation” of unemployment. The Trade Union Unity League will be right there on the job with a@ delegation from the Unemployed Council and the Communist Party in presenting the demands on the city and to expose the fake commit- tee, which is composed of the worst labor-hating industrial and business elements in Omaha. The committee includes the worst open-shoppers and wage-cutters, Al- ready the Union Pacific has cut the wages of the workers in different dee partments. So has the Building Ex- change, and, in fact, all of them, The committee actually will mean in others, But they do not take the place of the union, which is the organized force of the militant miners. Much of the time of the strike committee session was taken up in that they will establish an executive board in trying to put more and more wage-cuts on the workers, ‘The demands of the Trade Union Unity League are an appropriation by the city of a sufficient sum to main- tain the family, $5 a week for each unemployed worker, $1 for each de- pendent, 35 per cent reduction in salaries of all elected officials, $700,- 000 collected in revenues from the Douglas St. bridge each year to be turned over to the unemployed of Omaha and Council Bluffs, reduc- tion in the electric power rates, free water for all unemployed, 25 per cent reduction of taxes of all workers who own property, exemption from tax- ation of all unemployed workers, cancellation of all back taxes, free street car fare for all unemployed workers and all school children of workers, against the increase in street car fare of 20 per cent, against fastening the cost of the South Omaha bridge on the workers of Omaha and Council Bluffs. _ 7 Pape Three August 22, Sacco- | Vanzetti Day Demonstrations NEW YORK | Bronx—Parade beginning at 18th St. and Prospect Ave. at 6 pm. and ending up at Washing- ton Ave, and Claremont Parkway, with a demonstration at that point. Harlem—One parade will begin | at 100th St. and Second Ave.,| marching through a number of | working-class streets, down to} Fifth Ave. and 113th St., and then to Morris Park at East 125th St The other parade will begin with | a meeting at 140th St. and 8th! Ave. extending for 33 blocks| through working-class sections and then marching to Mount Morris} Park at East 125th St. Both pa-| rades will end up in the central—| Mount Morris Park at East 125th | St. Manhattan—In mid-town Man- hattan a parade will start with a meeting at 12:30 at Bryant Park, 40th St. and Sixth Ave, and march to 40th St. and Sixth Ave. and march to Madison Square. In downtown Manhattan a mass} meeting will be held at Seventh | St. and Ave. B at 2:30 p.m., with | @ parade of 27 blocks through the working-class sections, ending at Rutgers Square at 4 o'clock with a demonstration. Brownsville—A parade begin- ning with a meeting at Pennsyl- vania and Sutter Aves. at 2:30 p.m. and ending at Saratoga and Pitkin Aves. at 4 o'clock. South Brooklyn—A demonstra- tion will take place at Court and Carroll Sts., beginning at 2 p.m. NEW JERSEY Newark—The demonstration will take place in the Military Park at 2 p.m. Paterson—A demonstration at the City Hall at 5 o'clock. Passaic—Two demonstrations in opposite sections of the town. Trenton—Open-air demonstra- tion at City Hall Plaza at 1 p.m. Vineland—Indoor demonstration Friday, Aug. 21, at 8 p.m. Elizabeth—N, J.—At front and Livingston Sts., at 1:30 p.m. PENNSYLVANIA Philadelphia—Open-air demon- stration at the City Hall Plaza on Aug. 22 at 1 p.m. Erie—Perry Square. CONNECTICUT Hartford—Corner Windsor and Main Sts. at 7 p.m. Springfield—At Post Office; al- so indoor mass meeting at 8 p.m. at 675 Dwight St. Waterbury—Washington and Bank Sts. at 10:30 a.m. New London—Williams Memo- rial Park at 4 p.m. Saturday. New Britain—Aug. 25, corner High and Broad Sts., 7 p.m., Tues- day. New Haven—Central Green, near Band Stand at 3 p.m. Torrington—Aug. 23 at the Lithuanian Hall (indoor meeting), 180 Central Ave. MASSACHUSETTS Boston—Charles St. Mall, Bos- ton Common. Worcester, Mass.—Salem Square, 2pm. OHIO Cleveland—Public Square at 2 p. m. Akron, Ohio—Perkins Square at 2 pm Toledo—Jackson and Summit Sts. at 7 p.m. Warren—Coutr House Square. Canton—Nimisilla Park at 7:30 p.m. Other meetings at Cincinnati, Youngstown, Dennison, Alliance. MICHIGAN Tronwood—At 7 p.m. at North- western Park, corner Suffolk and Dyer St. Detroit—In front of City Hall at 7 p.m. INDIANA * Indianapolis—Military Park at 3 p.m. Anderson, Ind.—Court House at 3 p.m. Terre Haute—Court House at 3 pm. MINNESOTA Minneapolis—Bridge Square at 4:30 p.m, WASHINGTON Seattle—At 3 p.m. in Denny Regarde District, Fifth and Blan- chard. Bellingham, Wash.—At R. R. and Holly St. at 2:30 p.m. Everson, Wash.—At 8 p.m. CALIFORNIA San Francisco—Front of Ferry Building at 12:30, RHODE ISLAND Providence—Market Square on Saturday at 3 p.m. ILLINOIS Rockford, Ili., at Broadway and Eighth Sts., at 7.30 p. m. Chicago—Washington Sq., Clark and Walton and 3rd afd Prairie, Demonstrations also in St. Louis, Waukegan, Rockford, Gary, Mil- waukee and Rock Island, MARYLAND Baltimore—Hopkins Square, Balti- more and Liberty Sts., at 7.30 p.m. WISCONSIN Milwaukee—North Jefferson and East Wells Sts. at 2:30 p.m. STARVATION WAGE FOR HARVEST HANDS Grand Forks, N. D, ‘The harvest and threshing season is on out here now. They are pay- ing harvest workers $1 a day and on rare occasions $1.50 and sometimes $2. This is just enough to buy more overalls and shoes, If one neither smokes nor enews on the job he can earn just enough to go to town for one night and re- Place the clothes worn out during his stay on the average job, HARLAN JUDGE THREATS DEFENSE ATTORNEYS BECAUSE OF EXPOSURE (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) vill not cook up a story as the prose- sutor wants b mprisoned. National framed-up miner: while sitting in court with “criminal i have been several instance wile: es were jailed on these charges and were then bailed o and re-arrested. On the second ar- rest bail would be increased in order to make it impossi these witnesses to appear in court and expose the frame-up. The warrants of arrest used are printed forms, published in large quantities, made so that only names need be filled in, and they do not even make any pretense of following the court procedure in other A motion made for change of venue by the prosecution so that they can split up the defense, scatter and ter- rorize the witnesses, and increase the defense expense tremendously has been set for Monday. Because of these tactics, because of the terror against witnesses and at- torneys, because all connected with the defense have been threatened with shooting, it is extremely diffi- syndic Ses, has no- | | Pittsburgh | in whom Bro: would ce to death i id the coal miners feel condemn the miners the electric chair. Joseph B. Snyder, attorney, whose whole practice is for the local coal bosses with whom he is closely con- nected and from whom he receives has been made a special yrosecutor in the case. Hence, it is cle tt the judge and the jon are openly coal company arge fees, KLAN PARADES IN : HUNTSVILLE, ALA. Threaten Negroes and Communist Party PITTSBURGH, Courier Aug. 20.—The reports a Ku Klan parade in Huntsville, to terrorize the Negro and “to offset the alleged luence being exerted among Ne- groes by the Communists.” The Pittsburgh Courier, which is an organ of that section of the Ne- gro reformists, headed by the N. A A. C. P. misleaders, most openly in its betrayal of the struggles of the <lux Alabama, cult to raise defense funds. All work- | Neéto masses, characterizes the Klan ers are urged immediately to rush funds to the International Labor De- fense, 799 Broadway, to prevent this burning to death of 35 miners in the same manner Sacco and Vanzetti were murdered by the*Massachusetts bosses. One of the main reasons why the prosecution wants a change of venue is that it is seeking to have the cases transferred to the “blue grass” counties of Kentucky. There are no miners or factory workers in this territory, which is under the domi- nation of landowners. The jury would then be composed of rich landowners and _ petty-bourgeoisie terrorism ictusesque parade.” The Courier’s article carries a Huntsville, Ala., date-line and fur- ther states: “Reports here are to the effect that the Communists have gained many sympathizers throughout the whole section and the officials of the hooded order thought it best to let the colored citizens know that the organization was yet on its feet and ‘ready to act.” Workers Correspondence fs the backbone of the revolutionary press. Build your press by writing for it about your day-to-day struggle. STOCKTON, CAL. EXPECTS TO INCREASE SALES 50 P CIN AUG. HURLS CHALLENGE TO COUNTRY! We publish below letter, from two ¢ ton, Cal. The sugi therein should be tricts. We agree t ways to increase Daily Worker sales and build Daily Worker Clubs:is to make hvuse to house canvasses. This is one phase of the Daily Worker campaign, that was not carried out very thoroughly as can be seen by the few coupon books that have been filled and returned. est Start A Club In Your Town looking Workers are for a club NeoRe AND. WHITE WORKERS 7 Rand wets Wexroses > 2 + (2 phe Figur For We PAPER of Bosses’ ME. REVOLUTIONARY WORKERS. c FAmsria/ Boo w/ PRESS such as the D.W. Club can offer them! It is a means of providing them with an outlet for the emotiors that capitalist society has inhibited in them. Thru meeting other work- ers and sympathizers in the club they will be able to clear themselv, politically, and every, other way, Th: Daily Worker Club will fill the needs of thousands of such workers in the U. once they are reached. And can be reached and drawn into All easily. that is workingclass nefghborhoods), with this end in view. There are now thirty clubs scat- tered all over the couniry. There is no reason why we can’t have the next few weeks, So far v most of the clubs have bi without 00 in egret n formed outside help from Dis- naries. They have sprung ncatello, Idaho; Oxford, Petersburg, Fla.; Tampa, Y sington, Pa., etc, etc. bi cause the workers saw the advan- tages of the club not only to them, but to the workers in their com- munity. In som ses two or th members have succeeded in draw. dozens of ‘sympathizers into the c when otherwise it would have been impossible to hold their interest in anything. There is something about @ Daily Worker Club that attracts! Comrades! Get together on this in your Unit and build some Daily Worker Clubs, The letter follows Make House to House Canvasses “When the Daily Worker Drive began, our District attempted to increase the sale of the Daily.” In many cities the bundle orders were increased mechanically and little attention was paid to systematic- ally Increase the sales, sult while 0 our salex did noi lend to n frequent if not p: wholesale free dixtributi was not without its merits from a propaganda lewpoint, but it was not so good as to immediate or- gwanizational results, We depended mainly upon street sales and these for the most part on the rond. “While the building up of house to house routes were discussed and claborate schemes laid out for building up these sales, still they remained on paper. Likewise our factory sales. “How are we going to system- atically increase our sal We believe that one of the best ways is to sell house to house. This by no means implies that we must re- lax in our factory gate sales or our street sales. There is no need of an elwborate plan for house to house sales. “All we have to do ix to go out and do it. Ask the worker if he or whe has ever rend our paper, explain what it is, contrast it with the capitalist paper, io not be afraid to tell them that ft is the official organ of the Communist Party, Here in Stockton two of us sell about 25 a day in less than two hours work. Not only that, but we make valuable contacts, get good job news, establish per- sonal relationsh with workers, &et their reaction to our program. We find it more effective not to visit the same workers any more than twice a week un! We Iay the basis this way for the building of Daily Worker Clubs and Worcorr groups. In fact it will aid all the campaigns of the rty. It also trains us as organizers, breaks down illusions among the workers.” “Daily” Circulation at High Point “The results have been gratifying in Stockton. We are going to in- crease our bundle order because we are creating an ever increasing de- mand for the Daily. 1 at this point wish to criticize the Daily for print- ing from time to time that we must expect decreased sales in August This smacks of defeatism. Some of our comrades are apt enough on finding excuses without the Dally Suggesting them. We are going to prove you are wrong (at least as far as Stockton is concerned) by @ BUILD THE DAILY WORKER SAVE THE PAPER OF ‘THE vere WORKING-CLASS 50% increase in sales before the end of August.” As a rule the month of August fs usually marked with decreased sales of the Daily Worker. However this year due to the splendid response of the masses of workers not only in the financial campaign but also as far as ordering bundles is concern- ed, the exception disproves the rule. The circulation of the Datly today is greater than It has ever been, We on's spirited letter will e for a big increase in ru the country, D: all t $1,200 STILL NEEDED T0 END CAMPAIGN DISTRICT 2 Unit 901 35 Leo Yockw z Esther Rendlich, Orphanos Atlantico 3.00|LeRtos Rametale Lee ae $2.00) Dr. Jack Miller 1.00! Friend Pete 25 ngalow, Camp Sam. Goldb: 2.00 cage Kinderland, Hope- | Dr. Meyerson bale * ‘1 ictadetatae = we let. ww Section 2 25 $38. Ukr, Women’s Org., Dr. M. Auerb: tea sig Bs FAC ashington, 50) aes ie See. 10, Eliznheth, ——| uxr. W. TO. Br. 11.25 see. 6.'N. YC DISTRICT 6 | Jacobson, Book $220.50 See, 5, Unit 6, N.Y, 20.00 Cleveland pate a a 5, N. ¢ 48 ‘Total 823.70 pis >, PL Neketi Bronx, N. ¥. 6.25 halem, 1.08 Ukr. W.'T, 0. Br, —_— Went Side, N.Y, 14.50 ‘Total $1.00 Uke, W. 7-0. Bra | A.W. 1.00 DISTRICT 19 ayonne, N. 75 | P. Roots 5.00 | Frank Bla + S$. Pelezak, Bklyn 1.00) Unit Bt. 3is|. Rene: Say eek Sense | Unit B 1.50 — ‘otal re ‘Total $2.00 ogee TRICT 8 Grand Rapids — 2.00 —— ‘oger Kircher, ——— | Total all dist. 71.88 Rending, Pa, 1.00 Total $27.25 | Prev. recetved Philadelphint DISTRICT § —— ‘Unit 103 1.50] Moline, hi gis | Total to date $35,798.45 ¢