The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 24, 1931, Page 3

TOSI CE SO ST } j DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, AUG UST 4, 1931 —— MUST DIG IN AND BIND OURSELVES STYS KENTUCKY MINER TOGETHER; Forces Being Reorganized in Mine Fields to) Launch Bigger and More Militant Fight Relief Drive Must Be Intensified; Two New Daily Worker Clubs Bult in Kentucky (By a Worker Correspondent) HUEYSVILLE, Ky.—There is no retreat in this great coal strike! How can starving men and women retreat. The thing was so big and spreading so rapidly it was hard to operate loosely. Therefore we ourselves in. Bind the thing together. this nation—the good tidings are being carried. must stop advancing and dig To the four corners of Into every community comrades are going—they are spreading the prin- ciples of a Communist government of the U. 8. A. ; g In the meantime it is up to the Communist Party of this country to get busy linking up these ¢ straggling units into one powerful combination to oppose the dema- gogy of this rapitalist government. This we feel assured we will do. Many spontaneous strikes flare up-even where the Communist Party and their industrial unions are un- heard of, these are ripe for the linking into our movement, as in many instances they ate winning their strike. If after winning their strike, we do not reach them they will drift back into the old rut, and that ef- fort is wasted energy as far as the advancement of labor and our cause is concerned. So get busy field work- ers put it up to your comrades every- where, Let us build opposition in every town and hamlet in this U. 8. A. When the proper proportio1 reached it can be connected nation- ally, thence we forge a mighty weap- on to force our demands upon this obligarchy of the bosses. In every town and city, in every factory or workshop, let the workers protect their brethern against the actions of the bosses. At Kona, Ky., some seven or eight were fired because I established a Daily Worker club there, immedi- ately.a meeting was held and a collection was taken up for their is only? benefit, I hope the workers of this club are doing the same thing right on and on. At Millstone, Ky.,. the same thing happened. Workers of Millstone, follow the actions of Kona, put every foot forward. Donate the limit. It is up to you workers to push this fight. In a struggle like this, leaders are only a part, the masses must be sufficiently aroused as to see their immediate danger and press forward and push their leaders to an ever increasing pace. Mobilize your factory or mine workers into the revolutionary industrial unions. Do not be fooled and misled. Does any political party (except the Com- munist) write relief into their party platforms? Does any party repre- sent the workers and the workers Ask yourselves these ques- tions, It is not a question of getting rid of such and such dirty crooks as may. now inhabit an office on your parties’ ticket. The system is dirty itself. Over the top brothers, let them fill their jails. The more persecutions, the harder your efforts—and, the greater your reward. Join the Re- volutionary movement today. Anni- hilate the capitalist system, establish your own. Mayor Admits He Represents Only Bosses (By a Worker Correspondent.) Oakland, Cal—Chamber of Com- merce and the city parasites are glad to change to city council-manager system of government, for to them it is an intéfesting and encouraging event, J. C. Struble, president of the Chamber of Commerce, told the council that the “business interests are back of you for you will do some- thing to reduce taxes.” Newly ap- pointed Mayor Morcom states, “some of the problems confronting us will be immediately to secure efficiency in all municipal departments, lessen- ing the tax burden, especially upon the business establishments. (We knew that this was aiming to relieve their friends—the business people from paying taxes, which they con- sidered too much for them. Birds of feather flock together to help each other), ‘Then further he boasts of the fine schools and churches this city has. They are much needed institutions for the boss class. Schools to poison the minds of workers’ children and make them submissive slaves and the churches to finish thé product. Of course, these 200 churches that Oak- land boasts of are not taxed a red cent. The poor workers, who still hang on to a mortgaged home (great. many already gave them up) are taxed beyond their limit. These mil- lion dollar churches are untouchable. The rich are helped by having their properties assessed at less. Workers must see through all this fakery of boss class and organize to establish different system to abolish this—establish a workers and farmers government. Workers must abolish all parasites whether they be civil or robed. B. C. Forbes, A Sour Grapes Economist _ (By a Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK, N. Y—B. ©. Forbes’ outburst in the “New York American” against the Soviet Union and the Five Year Plan is typical of all Hearst scribblers and economic “ex- perts.” Said Forbes: “Russians have de- veloped no aptitude for intricate machinery operation . . , Russian Communists are utterly hopeless when it comes to the science of management . . . Russia’s great new tractor plant has proved a fiasco,» Such malicious lies in the face of the undoubted success of the Five Year Plan and the amazing aptitude of Russia’s youth for handling ma- chinery! It’s sour grapes for this lying, red-baitng Hearst “economist.” Thank goodness Comrade Stalin and the Party see the necessity of. @ group of trained group of execu- tives who will very soon have mas- tered the science of management. One more disappointment for Yankee bosses and their lackeys like Forbes. Workers Collapse from Heat and Speed-Up in Tin Plate Mill (By @ Worker Correspondent) McKeesport, Pa.—During the sum- mer days the hot mill workers go through untold suffering. They have to stand the terrible heat that comes from the furnaces. Many workers have been carried out of the mill due to this heat, ard yet the bosses ask them to come back and finish their turn. So ly workers are getting sick now tHat the bosses are calling those just out of sick beds to the mill. If they can’t get the workers by phone they send a car after the convalescent worker. In the opening department each mill hada sticker pulled to open the stickers. Now there is one stick- er puller for every four or five mills. ‘The sticker puller must run from one mill to the other all day long. The openers used to throw stick- ers on the floor and now they~have to pile thm on buggies and the stick- er puller must do likewise when they oven the iron. In the pickling department the picklers used. to fill the boxes up with tin and put water on them with acid, Now the bosses make the work- ers put the acid on first, The work- ers’ hands are burned every day from the acid, Their hands swell up and get into a terrible condition from this work. Workers of McKeesport Tin Plate Company, the only way you can get rid of these terrible conditions is to organize into the Metal Workers In- dustrial League, 1125 Walnut St., Mc- Keesport, Pa. 100.000 Gal. of Milk Dumped In River While Children Starve (By a Worker Correspondent) OAKLAND, Cal. — One hundred thousand gallons of milk has been dumped into the Columbia River by dairymen who are fighting for a cent and a half increase from the dis- tributors. Roads leading into Port- Jand are picketed by milkmen, Sev- eral barns have been fired and the $200,000 plant of the Nestles Food Products at McMinnville, Oregon, is protected by an armed guard. Even the reactionary news agencies like the Associated Press admit that the authorities have “winked at the de- struction of milk.” Meanwhile a 2 cent increase in the retail price in the local market here in Oakland is rumored in the near future and the Oregon distrib- utors are importing milk from Wash- ington and California in an effort to break the milk “famine.” Several hundred gallons were shipped north from Oakland yesterday. Answer the murderous tactics of this corporation Nestle’s “Baby Food” which covers its rapacity with its charming pictorial advertising of chubby, cooing babies which in ac- tual life it callously dooms to starv- ation. Support the struggle of the pocr farmers and dairy workers. Or- ganize shop committees. Join the Agricultural and Cannery Workers ‘Union, (CHICAGO WORKERS CONTINUE TO FIGHT EVICTIONS CHICAGO, Aug. 23.—Six Mictions were stopped last Friday in the Chi- cago South Side by workers mob- ilized by Unemployed Council Branch 4. In one case, at 5058 S, State St., the police, arriving in several squad cars and patrol wagons, succeeded in arresting seven workers, But in all other cases the crowd, numbering from 500 to 1,000, sent by the Un- employed Branch, succeeded in pre- venting the eviction. The intensifi- cation of the struggle is not limited to the South Side. All branches of the Unemployed Council, including | several that were hardly functioning before, are getting. more active, lead- ing fights against evictions and de- manding relief. Unemployed Council 14, located at 2733 Hirsch Blvd., had a demonstra- tion Friday before the United Chari- ties office at 1630 Milwaukee Ave., in which 200 workers participated. The police came there in full force, beat up several workers, one of whom is a world war veteran who is in the hospital with six stitches in his head, and arrested four. One hundred workers came to the meeting of the Unemployed Branch the same day to join it and to discuss ‘the next steps to be taken. Unemployed Branch 17 and Unit 404 of the Communist Party, in 42nd Ward, on the North Side, arranged a demonstration against Oscar F. Nel- son, vice-president of the A. F. of L. and alderman of the ward. The dem- onstration elected a committee of 10 to see Mr. Nelson, a ranking mem- ber of the Finance Committee, and demanded’ that the unemployed in this ward are given relief. Mr. Nel- son, knowing of the demonstration, hda members ‘of the red squad in the office to protect the “labor lead- er” from the unemployed workers. This Republican politician belly- ached about the Democratic Mayor Cermak being responsible for the present situation, but when he was reminded of his record under the Republican Thompson, he got impa- tient and said: “Can’t do anything now. Come next Thursday.” The branch will see to it that this will be done next Thursday with many more workers to be called through les Flets. ‘These are some of the reports com- ing in from various parts of the city, sowing that the working class in Chicago is taking the proper steps to fight against starvation this coming winter. The September 13 Confer- ence will have the task to unify all these struggles in the various neibor- hoods, thruout the entire Cook County, and to raise them to a higher plane thru arranging a county-wide hunger march. The news about the conference are very encouraging. A. F. of L. locals among other organi- zations have been visited and several elected delegates, in spite of the fake Labor Day demonstration of the Chi- cago Federation of Labor. The Chi- cago workers are determined not to starve, in spite of the bosses’ terror! Literature That Every Worker Should READ In Connection With International Youth Day No Jobs Today. . be Youth in Industry. .10¢ Life in the U.S. EMG: vie dk nh ey 10¢ A Short History of the FiO. ok 10¢ Karl Liebknecht (Voives of Revdlt Series) -50e Subseribe to the organ of the fight- ing youth, the “YOUNG WORKER” Rates—S1.50 a ye: months; 30¢ for Order the above literature from: (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) house here in the City Hall first, and then I would stop the landlords from evicting workers, and tell the police department to lay off.” On this, Mayor Murphy said, “It cannot be done, because I am a lawyer, and know just how far we can go within the law. There is a state law where- by the landlords have the right to evict tenants for the non-payment of rent. And the police department is here to keep peace and order, and to prevent rioting. Therefore, the May- or has no authority in this line at all, although I will instruct the pol- ice to be gentle” (to use black-jacks instead of hickory sticks). In short, the whole attitude of the Mayor was an attitude of evasion and sneering at the unemployed workers. He also admitted that there (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) quartered in the Morrison Hotel, near the Stevens Hotel, where the governor’s conference met, ready to launch murderous attack on the unemployed workers. Some of the coppers openly made statements that they were brought here for this purpose and are ready to shoot “them red.” The Association of Commerce and the other capitalist agencies direct- ing the city, did not make up their mind yet as to when they should step into the scene. Some of those who learned from the militant resistance of the workers on August 3rd want to exhaust first all means of social demagogy and terror on a local scale before again using the machine gun and poison gas bombs against the workers, The others led by the McCormick Chicago Tribune gang wants to let loose bullets and gas immediately. These believe they can do in 1931 what was done in 1886, following the Haymarket massacre, In the meantime, the city coppers acting on the orders of the Negro and white landlords are beginning to use their clubs more and more vi- ciously. Workers have been clubbed and arrested in the last four days at several eviction cases that are going. on in spite of the fake promises of Mayor Cermak. Last Friday a group of 20 unem- | ployed workers led by Council No. 17 demanded more relief from the United Charities office at 1160 Mil- waukee Ave. They were attacked and viciously clubbed by policemen with one of the workers, a war veteran (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) John Brunn, Frank Farris, F. Fisher, George Pasco, Mrs. John Koskie, Leon Schey, Marko Goshen, John Koskie, Tony Allen, Wm. Morris, Adam Slaskivich, Harry Bordin and Thomas Hart. Some of them are also charged with assault and bat- tery. On Wednesday there will be tried for “conspiracy” and other charges: Stanley Maiczak, Louis Wazney and Mike Penatti. Just as news comes out that the gunman has been freed of all charges who shot young Joseph Vargo through the arm and knocked him off the fence he was sitting on, then walked up to him and shot him again through the chest as he lay on the ground near Vesta No, 4 Mine, three of Joseph's brothers are placed on trial, Wednesday, for “ag- gravated assault and battery and rioting.” They are John; Mike and Steve Vargo. With them are to be Literature Department of the YOUNG COMMUNIST LEAGUE P. O. Box 28, Station D, N. Y. C, getary crisis and to place itself in a position to compete with its im- perialists rivals in the world market, the British capitalist class with the help of the “Socialists” is carrying out a drive “to reduce the cost of production.” This will be effected, if possible, by attacking the living standards of the workers, reducing unemployment relief, and other so- cial insurances fvhich are a “burden” on the profits of the British bosses, This is part of the international drive against the working class of the world. Great Britain, under the leadership of the “Socialist” McDon- ald, is falling in line on the wage cutting front with Germany, the United States, etc. It is McDonald who is drafting a new scheme “which it is believed will meet the situation,” a scheme which will in other words stave off the col- lapse of British capitalism at the expense af the very life blood of the working masses in England. The necessity for a united front of all the capitalist parties in the attack is such that “the opposition press “will contain editorial praise In an effort to overcome the bud-* tried Mike Stastistian and Joseph Stastisian. ‘Wednesday also Paul Bobich and Pete Leske will be tried for “rioting McDonald Prepares Vicious Attack On British Workers Try To Stop Collapse Of Capitalism At Workers’ Expense eos baal 0 Fev a eetstod for the McDonald Government for what is construed as its decision to proceed with its program of eco- nomies, according to the New York Times. In ordey to aid the McDonald gov- ernment to put over its attack on the working masses, the Trades Un- ion Council has started to disagree with McDonald, The Trades Union Council is doing this in order to be able to sell out the workers at the proper time in the near future. The “friction” between McDonald and the reactionary Trades Union Coun- cil is nothing but a hypocritical play to deceive and mislead the masses, who indicate that they will not stand for the new “economy” wage-cutting scheme which McDonald hoped to put over for the bourgeoisie. The capitalist class is preparing to drop McDonald if it becomes neces- sary to substitute a conservative government under Stanley Baldwin. 4,000 Detroit Unemployed Demand that Evictions Stop was no law written in the statutes of the law books of USA, the state of Michigan or the City of Detroit, stating that the workers are com- Pelled to starve and can’t do any- thing about it. But nevertheless, thousands of workers are starving here in Detroit. When the committee came out after there was no action taken nor contemplated to be taken by the Mayor, and reported this to the 4,000 workers present, the workers booed the Mayor's actions and openly shouted out that the elections are very near, and they will not vote for Murphy as they did in the last elections, but instead will vote for John Schmies, the Communist can- didate for Mayor, and also for An- tonio Gerlach, Wm. Nowell, Joseph Billups, and Nellie Belunas for Coun- cilmen, New Police Terror Threatened Against Chicago Unemployed taken to the hospital with six stitches on the head. Millionaire Mayor Cermak and his republican allies are preparing more bullets, more masacre in Chicago. Behind the smokescreen of the miserable $8,000,000, which the Em- ergency Comimssion wishes to extort from the workers still employed, they are ready to shed more blood of unemployed workers. Governor Emerson who refused to listen to the Hunger Marchers in Springfield, has 150 state troopers and fed at the exclusive Hotel Morrison where one day’s room rent for these Cos- sacks amounts to more than the weekly relief given by the United Charities to the “lucky” unemployed families, getting any relief whatso- ever. Workers! Employed and Unem- ployed! Protest Against this Terror against the Unemployed! Demand the Immediate Stoppage of Evictions! Demand the Imme- diate Withdrawal of the 150 State Cosacks from Chicago and the Polic> Detachment from the South Side and other Working-class Sections of the City! Organize your Unemployed Branches and Block Committees everywhere. Form your defens? corps to prevent the massacre and beating up of unemployed! ‘Working-class Organizations! Senc resolutions and telegrams of pr to the Mayor and Governor! Elec! delegates to the September 13 Cool: County Conference! Unemp!oyed and Employed Workers Unite! Demand immediate relief for the Uner ployed! Fight wage cuts and t stagger plan! (One Hundred Striking Miners Indicted By Grand Jury in the Coal Fields and inciting to riot” and Charles Marefield on charges of assault. This is the list of trial for the first half of the week only. Others come on trial Thursday, Friday and Saturday, All cases are defended by the In- ternational Labor Defense, which must have the support of the whole working class. Sacco-Vanzetti meet- ings throughout the mining field Saturday and Sunday are also mass protest meetings against the rail- roading of these scores of miners to prison for activity in the strike. CLARKSBURG, West Va., Aug. 22. Hundreds attended the first meet- ing here of the National Miners’ Union Friday night. The United Mine Worker gangsters had made threats against the meeting, and pre- viously had maintained a reign of terror in the coal fields here. But the miners walked about town before the meeting, telligg all henchmen of the U. M. W. that they “dared Van Bittner’s gang to céme and start something,” and the gunmen lost their nerve, Vin that way they will have the full support of the McDonald misleader- ship of the masses, which might be Jost if the Socialist government it- self carried thru the hunger attack, in the face of mass resistance. By withdrawing MacDonald at this time, the bosses hope to be able to prevent the total dissillusionment of the masses, and to use him again per- haps in a more acute situation. ‘The three capitalist parties, con- servative, liberal and Jabor, are un- animous in their fear of an election at this time, because of its unset- tling effect on the economic situa- tion. But the British capitalists may find that it is the least “dis- turbing” and costly thing to do. The parallel between the British “Socialists” and their German col- leagues is striking, When the Ger+ man Socialists were on the verge of losing the faith of the masses, they were replaced by the Bruening gov- ernment, only to support thsi fascist government from the outside. Mc- Donald and Co. may have to follow the same course. They will continue to help the British bosses ni or out of the government. U. S. Steel. Corp: Opens Drive; Basic Industries to Follow (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) ers’ and capitalists’ profits at the expense of the working-class. The wage cuts which have taken place on a local scale are already being transformed into a national wage cutting campaign. The stock market writer of the Wall Street Journal admits this when he refers to the slump in the stock market following the news of the proposed steel slash. “Stocks today,” he writes, came under the influence of nervousness over the immediate effects of wage reductions in the steel and rail- road industries and other basic industries,” The campaign in steel will be the starting point for the campaign in the railroads and the chemical, auto- mobile, rubber, food and other in- dustries, The Evening Post states quite openly that “a reduction in wages by the steel industry will be followed by a wave of pay cuts in other industries.” Fear Resistance of Workers ‘The nervousness in the stock mar- ket resulted from the fear of the capitalists that they will not be able to put through these wages slashes without rousing the bitterest resist- ance on the part of the workers. The Wall Street Journal writes that the slash in the steel industry is “likely to accord the first test of the wage controversies.” The steel, railroad and all other workers must prepare to meet this attack on the part of the bosses, The capitalist press in announcing the wage cut campaign of the bosses, points out particularly that the crisis in the coming winter will become sharper. The sharpening of the crisis and the wage cut campaign, is a direct attack on the very lives of the workers, their wives and children. Organize and fight the hunger at- tack of the bankers and the bosses. Organize shop groups to rally the workers of your shop against this atack, Join the revolutionary unions of the Trade Union Unity League. Repel the attack of the bosses with a fighting united front of the work- ing-class, Om Te MONESSEN, Pa., August 22— Some idea of the storm brewing in the steel industry, always closely al- lied with coal in this district, can be seen from the list of wage cuts * dered by the American Sheet Tin Plate Co. here. Average ail tions per five tons of metal handled re: for cold rollers $1.35; roughers 80 cents; doublers 50 cents; pair heaters 60 cents, heaters 85 cents, heater slpers 60 cents, catchers 70 cents, gleboys 55 cents and screw boys 50 cents. |. 8. Gov’t Rushes unboats to Crush Chinese Masses, (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) investigators now in the Hankow dis- trict complete their survey.” Under the guns of the American fleet the Nationalists are going to let the Chinese masses starve by the thou- sands. The imperialists are ready to drown in blood the threatening re- volt of the Chinese masses who are not being saved from the “natural” calamity. The natural calamity is the product of the use of vast sums by the militarists and the Nanking government for war instead of for protection against such natural dis- asters. During the past years the war lords have despoiled the land, have robbed the masses in the in- terests of the capitalist powers and the Chinese bourgeoisie. It is only in the territory of the Soviets in China that the labor of the masses has been used to improve their con- ditions and not to enrich the bank- ers and factory owners. The flood- ing of the rich valley of the Yangste, the worst that has ever occurred in China, is the result of the bloody struggle for oppression and exploita- tion that the Nationalists and for- eign imperialists have carried on against the Chinese masses. And the Yankee gunboats have been rushed in to hold its Nationalist tools in power and to suppress the tens of millions who have been rushed in to hold its Nationalist tools in power and to suppress the tens of millions who have been driven even below the starvation level. SHORT TIME FOR R.R. CLERKS WASHINGTON, D. C.—Clerical staffs of the Southern Railway sys- tem will be put on short time it was announced hete Saturday. The clerks will lose one half a day each week and their wages cut cor- respondingly. Autos Needed For Trip to Conference Workers who can lend automo- | biles to take delegates to the Na- | tional Conference of the Workers’ International Relief to be held at Pittsburgh, August 29th and 30th, are requested to communicate | with the W. I. R. headquarters, Room 330, 799 Broadway. Urgent! _vage dened’, RUSH SUB RENEWA N) TODAY! DAILY WORKER CLUBS IN DENVER, COLO. ployed Counc “Just a few lines to let you know what methods are being pur- ilding up the Daily ying sued here in Worker and_ among the Ne; ready we have Week route sub: on work of the week These were by pe contacts. We h ordered 75 ex- tra copies of the Daily to ta of this work. At the rate we are going we hope to run this up to at least 200 a “What we do is, say, day’s issue in one house day's issue in the next. As the xcribers live so close to each other, they can easily exchange issues with each other, wh doing. This brings ¢ to discuss the valua Daily ts doing and gives them a chance to read four issues for the price of two.” Of course, twice are splendid as r, One of the wonkers contacted way should be urged te paper every day so they ¢ of keeping in touch with gles of the w textile mills Worker Clubs « y of the Denver Council will take the me of these ro sections he club ¢ has been coyer- Groups of Negro workers m together, reading and disc contents of the Daily V r ing suggestions for the nprovement of the paper to the Editorial Depart- ment, discu ing local proble ete., social’ life” for . The Daily Worker C! lub will bind them even closer together than they are now. . Contemplates New Club. comrade who hails from Pa., is convinced of the of Daily Worker Club th practicabi lr corades that they also start a Daily Worker Club of workers and sympathizers of the Pos- sibly the Study € part of the Club. We d | interfere wi Club had be: Daily. | | | We would like to suggest to the | b can bec: planning to do, but would rather enlarge its scope and widen its ranks. Part of the meet- ings of the club could be devoted the Daily Worker problems and part South. Slav, Orme, to the Forefront. A ¢ n 38 has just | View, me of the other frater- on® who have not yet quota the Daily 1 will follow suit their Big Demonstr ations On ‘Gis Vanzetti Day Against Terror (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONED cester. Thousands of leaflets are be- ing issued for this meeting. PITTSBURGH, Pa., Aug. 22—The Sacco-Vanzetti mass meeting in Pittsburgh took place today 22) in East Park in spite of a 30-day sentence given Borisov Chorny for | distributing handbills advertising it and ini spite of an announcement by the police department that it. would be broken up unless the meeting place was changed to West Park. “I'll do all in my power to-keep it out of East Park,” said Police In- spector Faulkner of the North Side today before the meeting. licemen in uniform, including both Negro and white police, a lieutenant and a squad of plain clothes men, were around the meeting, but did not attack it. ‘The evening papers here recount a | jurisdictional quarrel over which park the meeting should be in be- tween Superintendent of Parks Moore and the police department The declaration by the police that | the meeting place would have to be} -changed came after handbills been distributed advertising it had for East Park, which is in a much more | ” proletarian neighborhood than West | Park. The police announcement was made through the press a few hours before the meeting was to start, in n evident attempt to disrupt it. The International Labor Defense decided without waiting for the end of the arguments among the officials of the corrupt city administration here to hdld the meeting in the place originally selected. Yesterday Charnoy’s wife and nine children appeared at the police sta- | tion and demanded that all be locked up with her husband, as with Char- noy in jail they had nothing to cat The Pittsburgh meeting made a good display of placards Camp Hill Prisoner “Halt the De- portations and Prosecution of ‘For- eign Born Workers,” “Down With Lynching and Mob Violence,” “Free the Imperial Valley Prisoners.” “Re- lease the Scottsboro Nine,” “We De- | mand All Striking Miners Out of} Jail,” “We Fight for Full Equality of Negro and White Workers,” “Self- Determination for the Negro Masses in the South,” ete. The chairman was District Secre- tary Irving of the International La- bor Defense, and speakers were: Edith Briscoe, Metal Workers’ In- dustrial League; Ben Carruthers (Negro)) for the League of Struggle for Negro Rights; Paul Bohus, Na- tional Miners’ Union organizer; Fisher, of the Unemployed Councils; Liss, for the Communist Party; a Young Communist League speaker, and Richard B. Moore for the LL.D. are We! GARDNER, Mass.—About 100 workers demonstrated here today, demanding the release of all class | war prisoners, in commemoration of the death of Sacco and Vanzetti ‘The main speaker was Max Lerner. age Nate 9 DETROIT, Aug. 23.—Twenty thou- sand Negro and white workers dem- onstrated here at Grand Circuit Park on Sacco-Vanzetti and Amnesty Day in spite of police terror and ef- forts to prevent the demonstration. In addition 2,000 demonstrated in North Detroit. The mayor had de- nied a permit for a demonstration at City Hall. ‘There were also large demonstra- tions in Berkly, Lincoln and Battle Creek. . . ST. LOUIS, Aug. 23—Two hundred | and fifty workers demonstrated here on Aug. 23 for amnesty to all class war prisoners, the release of the Scottsboro boys and against boss terror. es eee BOSTON, Aug. 23—Within a stone's throw of the Massachusetts’ (Aug. | Six po-| ree the | | State capitol, where Alvin T. Fuller, | then multi-millionaire governor, sat through the night when Scco and | Vanzetti were burned alive in the | electric chair at the Charleston State | Prison, refusing to intervene in an- | swer to the protests of millions of | workers throughout the world, thou- sands of workers gathered on Satur- | day afternoon in “The Commons” un- | der the leadership of the Interna- | tional Labor Defense. Chief of Po- lice Crowley, with large numbers of uniformed and plain clothes police, were present, but did not interfere with the gathering, which was ad- | dressed by J. Louis Engdahl, general | secretary of the I. L. D.; Harry Can- ter, Boston district organizer; Sam Reed, representing the Communist | Party, Mark Lieberman, for the | Young Communist League, and A. A. | Colebrooke, for the Scottsboro United | Front Conference. Within recent months all efforts to hold demon- | strations on “The Commons” had been broken up through bloody po- lice attacks. Telegrams of protest and demand- ing the release of the prisoners in California, Alabama and Kentucky, were sent to the governors of these | States, eufiat ce NEW YORK.—Police on Saturday attacked the Sacco-Vanzetti and Am- nesty Day demonstration in Browns- ville, tearing the banners and slo- | gans from the hands of the ‘workers and clubbing several worker The attack occurred when the workers started their parade follow- ing the mass meeting at Pennsylva- nia and Sutter Aves. In spite of the attack, the workers carried out their plan of marching to Saratoga and Pitkin Aves,, where the main dem- onstration was held. The largest demonstration in the | city occurred in Madison Square, | where several thousand gathered after a march from Bryant Park In South Brooklyn a demonstra- | tion of 1,000 workers was held in | Tompkins Square. ‘The Harlem demonstration, held in | Mount Morris Park, was attended by sveral thousand Negro and white | workers. The parades converged on | the park, one starting at 100th St. and the larger parade beginning at 140th St. and Eighth Ave. and marching through the Negro section to Mount Morris Park. The demonstrations were enthusi- astic. Hundreds of banners and slo- gans denounced the boss terror against the working class, the frame- up and sentencing of Tom Mooney and Warren K. Billings, the at- tempted legal lynching of the nine | Scottsboro Negro boys, the massacre | of Camp Hill, Alabama, Negro crop- ‘| pers, by the landowners and police of Tallapoosa County, Alabama, the railroading to jail of the Imperial Valley strike leaders, the murderous terror against the striking miners | with the framing of hundreds of their leaders. The demonstrations unanimously adopted demands for amnesty to all class-war prisoners, for the release of the Scottsboro and Camp Hill vic- | tims and of the mine strikers. Reso- lutions were also adopted denouncing the bosses’ lynch terror against the Negro workers, the deportation of foreign-born Prilitants and strike leaders. NEWARK, *y. ts ‘Aug. 23.—One thousand workers demonstrated here Saturday at the Military Park, in commemoration of the murder of Sacco and Vanzetti and for the de- mand of amnesty to all class war prisoners and the release of the framed-up nine Scottsboro Negro boys. The enthusiastic workers were ad- dressed by speakers from the Inter- national Labor Defense, the League of Struggle for Negro Rights, and the Commupist Party,