The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 25, 1931, Page 3

ee —— DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, AUGUST 25, 1931 # WORKERS MUST DEMAND BANK IN CANTON, THE RELEASE OF THE OHIO, CLOSED UP 32 KENTUCKY MINERS) ccsox. cis aue sme Indignation Grows Troustout Eastern Ken- tucky Over Attempt to Railroad Miners Native Born Americans Fast Learning that Communist Way Is Only Way Out (By a Worker Correspondent) * HUEYSVILLE, Ky.—The eyes of Eastern Kentucky is focused on the trial of 32 miners at Harlan, Ky. It is being carefully watched by the workers and the small sympathetic business men. show Judge Jones just who he rep- resents. That is the sentiment of the workers and not just. some imag- ination, It is becoming customary im order to keep sympathetic men and women aligned behind this tottering capi- talistic system, to make a pretense that every man fighting for his rights is a red. We wish Judge Jones to know, and all other judges, that the trouble started in Harlan Coun- ty by men that were born and raised there, men who have been brought up in this country and can trace their ancestry as far back as any judgg. Full blooded Americans will not starve in a land of plenty. They are learning that the Communist way is the only way. Such tools as Judge Jones, who aligns himself on the side of the Morgans, the Insulls, and the Mel- jons in fostering slavery on the backs of Americans will soon learn that they cannot keep the workers en- chained forever, Such men as that undoubtedly have forgotten their history if they ever knew any. Five hundred thousand pounds of coffee dumped into the ocean in order to bolster up the price in the specula- tors’ market. Thousands of peach trees uprooted in California in order to bolster up the standard price. Ferm and other products lying rot- ting at the source of production, when at the retailing end the prices are being maintained by the destruc- tion of the surplus, Peaches and apples 10 and 15 cents per bushel in the Western States, $1 to $1.50 per If those miners are railroaded to death or long prison sentences, then labor will® bushel in E. Ky Too many stock- holders to pay dividends to between the producer and consumer. Too much watered stock in the railroads, they, must necessarily make about 10 per cent on their real investments in order to cover their watered stock which the big insurance companies have invested billions in. A ton*of coal is mined for 27 and 30 cents per ton, is hauled by the railroads at a cost of approximately $2 per ton, is turned over to a retail coal company by a selling agent, to be sold to the consumer ‘at from $5 to $7 per ton. Ain't the land of speculation grand? In the Soviet Union a ton of coal can be mined at 50 cents a ton, hauled on government controlled railroads at a minimum of cost, laid down at any port in the world at one-half the cost of the same grade of coal from this coun- try. Why? Simple. There is no ele- ment of speculation, And further, the watered stock is not there; a dozen sets of companies is not be- tween the mines and the consumer. Workers, awake to the greed and the graft, the speculation and the in- security in your system. Let’s go. Abolish it for a more Cleaner, a moré secure life. A life depending on the welfare of the whole instead of the few. Get behind the Communist Party and push forward to the front. Protest for the rele@&$e of your front line fighters now in prison all over the United States, send letters of protest to all governors, all senators. Protest to that Mellon crowd at Washington. egro and White Workers Unite in Relief Fight in Sutreviile, Cal. (By a Worker Correspondent.) SUTROVILLE, Cal.—Sutroville is a suburb of Stockton, aptly, termed Hungerville. It has a predominately American born population, many of them of southern extractions, some of whom have been poisoned for gen- erations by the virus of race preju- dice instilled by the bosses. The work of the Sutroville branch of the Un- employed Council and the pressure of the crises has dispelled this and all workers, Negro and white here now realize that they have but one common fight, one common enemy, the boss class and are uniting to fight that fight. There are but a few colored families in Sutroville. But when the attention of the council was called to the fact that there was a Negro family in need of food, a committee of eight was formed consisting of all white members to go to the welfare department and to demand food for their colored fellow worker. When they went to the politican that ran the welfare department, he tried to separate the Negro from the white workers by telling him that they were “a gang of thieves” and that he should not be with them. The Negro worker refused to be fooled and told. the faker that they were his fellow workers and were ready to fight for him and that he would be damned if he would separate from them but would continue to fight side by side with tHem in all their fights. The solidarity of these work- ers forced the faker to give some immediate relief. » The workers are not harboring any belief about this’ miserable relief being any permanent solution. Their main fight is for unemployment in- surance. In the meantime they will continue to make these fakers give back to workers some of the booty they have stolen from them and will fight side by side workers of every race and creed. Must Build Mass Unemployed Councils (By a Worker Correspondent) CHICAGO, Ill,—A splendid ex- ample of justice as handed out by the capitalist courts was the eviction of Mrs. Diana Gross, 72 years old, colored, in Chicago on August 3. After the Unemployed Branch had put her furniture back into the house, the police killed three of the unem- ployed and wounded many others who believed that it is not justice to throw an old woman out of her home. We workers of the world must understand that when we are unem- ployed and penniless there is no law for us under capitalism! If we cannot pay our rent, we are violating eapitalist law by remaining in an apartment after the court orders us to get out. If we leave our furniture on the ‘sidewalk, we are violating capitalist law by occupying city property with- out a permit. If we walk the streets without a home, without money, and without a job, we are violating the capitalist law of vagrancy. Under capitalist law, the moneyless unemployed have no right to live) Fight these heartless evictions without letup! Organize more and larger branches of the Unemployed Councils. Answer every eviction by an increase of membership in the branches. Force the bosses to rec- ognize human rights before property rights. A terrible winter awaits the work- ing class. A great test awaits us. ‘Let us prepare to meet the test by creating mass organizations of aroused and fighting workers! Worker Drops from (By a Worker Correspondent) PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—In the city of Philadelphia we have today an unemployed army of 200,000 workers, In this city some of the workers thought they could still get work, but with the deepening of the crisis, the workers of this city as well as throughout the country are realizing that no more work can be gotten. ‘The little relief that was given them by the city was cut off entirely, though $3,000,000 was collected for un- employed relief for this city alone. This money was missued by the city acketeers. There is a city employment agency Starvation in Phila. at 12th and Filbert where hundreds of workers gather each day with the hope of getting a job, Last Tuesday at noon, a worker waiting all day for @ job, hungry and tired fell to the ground from exhaustion and starva- tion. It was then only that relief came taking him to the hospital. What we say to the workers of Philadelphia is, the only way to fight conditions that drive to starvation is by joining the Unemployed Coun- cils and the Trade Union Unity League. Throughout an organized manner only can we force the bosses to give us Unemployment Insurance Relief. Don’t Starve—Fight! Petroleum Navigation Co. Brutalizes and: Starves Crews (By a Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK, N. Y.—On the S. S. Pueblo. of the Petroleum Navigation Co., the officers brutalize the men and c ‘I them all kinds of vile and obscc. > names. ‘The first assistant engineer has a habit of demoting oilers to firemen after then stand one watch. Then after they stand one watch as fire- men because he would not pay off after being demoted to a lower crews of their ships and will not listen to the pleas of the men for better and more food. The men can- not do their work properly on the food the company allows and when the work is not properly done the men are fired for not performing their duties. ‘We co or’; fight these conditions when we are c.lanized, We must build ship commiticts on the ships and join the Marine Workers’ In- dustrial Union, which is leading the >| fight against these conditions, i. é American Exchange Bank, resources of $1,200,000, failed to open its doors on August 21—The usual bunk is be- ing handed to the workers. Accord- ing to the Repository, the bank’s di- rectors requested the state banking department to take the bank in hand to “preserve” the assets for deposit- ors. They claim that each depositor will receive their money in full. These are the same tactics used several months ago when the Can- ton Bank & Trust’ Co. closed its doors. Since that time several state- ments have been issued, promising Payments in full or with small loss. But no small depositor has as yet received anything. This morning several hundred workers gathered at the Exchange Bank and many mothers and wives, with this additional worry placed upon them, pounded on the bank doors, Tears were seen in the eyes of many. CHICAGO WORKERS FOR SEPT. 13 (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) more than 3,000 members of the South Side Unemployed Council branch within two weeks. The conference discussed the ex- Periences in the fight against evic- tions and for relief, in the buil of the block committees and the fight for Negro rights. Tesolutions with demands invol- ving Negro rights were adopted and sent tO Mayor Cermak, demanding the stopping of evictions and the Police terror and the withdrawal of state troops. ‘Tens of thousands of copies of the Call for the Sept. 13 Cook County Conference are being distributed. The Call urges the election of dele- gates to the conference by all trade unions, shop organiaztions, branches of the unemployed, fraternal and other working-class organizations in the city of Chicago and Cook County. The Call points out that the bosses BROOK COUNTY, W. MARCH SMASHED BY TROOPERS & VA., HUNGER (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE tors, at which the decision was ar- rived at to aid the U. M. W. A. and smash the N. M. U. at every oppor- tunity, this permit was revoked, without even the formality of noti- fying the organizers of the march. The fact was merely announced through the newspapers of Wheel- ing. Sentiment in Wellsburg itself, among the glass workers who form the main industry in the town, was very good. Workers sat around on the sidewalks in large numbers, hop- ing for the marchers to break through the police cordon and come on into town, and denouncing the state police, . WHEELING, W. Va., Aug. 23.—In- formation of what really went on in the closed meeting of the mayors and operators here several days ago is Jeaking out. This meeting announced that it had decided to work for a new “competitive district” to include parts of the three states, and on a limitation program to be adminis- tered by heads of state universities, etc, The National Miners’ Union at the time declared this to be just an- other of the schemes, like those of the conferences proposed by Hoover and his secretaries, Doak and La- mont, to trustify the industry at the expense of the miners, to start a new regime of wage-cuts and starvation with increased unemployment. Now it seems that the conference in Wheeling, attended by about 50 mayors from the three states, Penn- sylvania, Ohio and West Virginia, went much more explicitly into the tactics of strike-breaking than was admitted by the published statements it gave out. The slogan of the conference was: “Drive every Red out of the Ohio Valley.” The decisions, arrived at after Jong discussion of the problem, were: 1. To give all possible help to the United Mine Workers of America. One of the main speakers at the con- ference was President Cinque of the U. M. W. A. Sub-District 5. 2. To break up all meetings’ of the National Miners’ Union, to arrest its organizers on any pretext possible. 3. Under no circumstances to permit any collection of relief by the National Miners’ Union or the Penn- sylvania-Ohio-West Virginia-Ken- tucky Striking Miners’ Relief Com- mittee in any of the towns whose mayors were present or in any towns ‘whose mayors and city government could be influenced by the action of the conference. Sheriff Duff of Belmont County, one of the bitterest foes of the strik- ers and most active in smashing their Picket lines by a huge force of special deputies, could not be present at the conference, but sent his assurance that he would assist in every way the attack on the N. M. U. I. M. Scott, former president of the Wheeling Steel Corporation and chairman of the Community Chest campaign last year, was present. He was one of the main organizers of the meeting. In Wheeling Steel, every man was forced to submit to check-off of a day’s pay for the bosses’ charity, and the Wheeling Steel Corporation itself gave nothing. a er) STEUBENVILLE, Ohio, Aug. 23.— Two thousand steel workers and miners met in a Sacco-Vanzetti dem- onstration here Saturday at 7 p.m. Speakers were a Negro hod-carrier and a rank and file miner, also Joe Dallet of the Metal Workers’ Indus~ trial League, and Joe Gaal of the International Labor Defense. Many applied to join the M. W. I, L. and the I, L. D. A wage-cut of 10 per cent is being put over on the steel workers here, and strike sentiment is Sais iin teh WASHINGTON, Pa, Aug. 23.— Several hundred met here Saturday in commemoration of the murder of Sacco and Vanzetti and heard Ray Greene of the International Labor Defense; Ike Hawkins, district chair- man of the Pennsylvani-Ohio-West Virginia-Kentucky Striking Miners’ Relief, and the Negro worker, Grif- fith, speak. There was no inter- ference by the pulice. e ERAS ea: PITTSBURGH, Pa. August 24.— A joint meeting of strike committees of the Hillman Coal Co. mines was held here today( Aug. 23). The Hill- man Coal Co. mines are: Barking, Gibson, Edna and Moffit Sterling. The meeting was to work out details of demands to be presented tomor- row to the superintendents of all Hill- man mines and to the main office in Pittsburgh, The main line of the demands has been accepted by mass meetings of strikers and those who went back to work in all these mines, except Edna which is not on strike, and other mass meetings later in the week will decide on action in regard to the re- port of the committees sent to in- terview the bosses, The demands of the Hillman min-| ers are: 1, Wages. Machine coal, 47 cents a ton. Pick coal, 58 cents a ton. Cut- ting, 9 cents a ton. Daymen’s wages based on eight hours as follows: driv- ers, motormen, snappers, tracklayers, etc., $4.25; unskilled inside labor $4; skilled outside labor, $4.25; unskilled outside labor, $3.85. 2. No blacklisting of any miners and especially no blacklisting of Ne- gro miners, 3. Recognition of the mine com- mittees. 4. Right of the miners to elect their own mine committees. 5. Payment for dead work: Nar- Tow places 40 cents a yard, cutters 15. cents a-yard.. Thick slate five cents an inch, Clay veins, horse backs, cleaning of falls, etc. to be paid on basis of time spent in com- Pleting the job, 6. Reduction of rent in company houses by 25 per cent. 7. No check-off for doctor, the Tight of the miners to deal directly through the mine committee with the doctor. 8. No car pushing; all empty cars and supplies to be delivered to the face. No lay-offs, docking or dis- charges for dirty coal. The mine com- mittee to have the right to have its men at the place where the dirty coal is unloaded, 9. Cutting of coal to be done on day shift. Clean-up system to be abolished. Pe Pe eae | COVERDALE, Pa. Aug. 24.—A meeting here today (August 23) of all strike commitees of the mines owned by the Taplan interests work- ed out demands for them all, to be Presented simultaneously and ar- ranged for each mine to modify the general demands to suit the speciz) situation in that mine. The two main companies owned by the Taplans are Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Co. in western Pennsylvania, and Pursglove Mining Co., in West Virginia. Nearly every mine was rep- resented, including those in West ‘irginia. The list of demands adopted by the joint strike committees for the local committees to work over was: 1, Recognition of mine committees. 2, Adequate pay for dead work. 3. Equal turn of the men—no fa- voritism. 4, No check-off. (This demand to be central, as one of the main griev- ances of the men is the robbing of their pay envelopes every pay day by the check-off of dues and as- sessments taken by the district of- fices of the United Mine Workers of America, with which the Taplan in- terests have contracts in both states). 5. Checkweighmen to be elected by the miners. 6. Supplies to be delivered to the face. 7. Reduction in prices of lamps. 8. Reduction in charges at com- pany stores, 9. Reduction in rent of company houses, The first mine to pass on these suggested demands was “P and W” mine of the Pittsburgh Terminal at Avella, The P and W strike com- mittee picked out these demands to fight, for: 1, No check-oft. 2. Equal turn, 3. Checkweighmen to be elected by the miners. 4. Recognition of mine commit- tees. 5. Adequate pay for dead work. The mine mass meeting and fur- ther meetings of local strike com- mittees will take place during the rest of the week, and demands will be pre- sented simultaneously at all mines thereafter, ee. gee BRIDGEVILLE, Pa., Aug. 24.—Any- body who expects to see down heart- edness or discouragement in the mine fields should bave kept away from PUSH PLANS © JOBLESS MEETING and their national and local govern- ments have refused adequate relief to the unemployed and have met delegations of unemployed workers with police clubs, machine guns and gas bombs, The Call states, in part: “The third winter of mass unem- ployment is here! More than 600,000 unemployed, white and Negro, work- ers in the city of Chicago and Cook County, together with their families, are starving. Children are crying for a drop of milk. Men and women are hungry. Many face death from starvation. By the orders of the cap- italist courts thousands are being evicted from their homes and thrown on the streets. Mayor Cermak, the City Council, the Cook County Board, the State Legislature, Governor Em- merson, the Hoover government and the U. S. Congress have been an- swering the demand’ for social insur- ance, for bread and shelter for the hungry unemployed by bullets, club- bing, jailing of the hungry men, women and children, “One of the fake gestures of Mayor Cermak after the Aug. 3 mas- Sacre of unemployed workers was a promise to raise $13,000,000 through the Governor Emmerson Relief Com- mittee. We workers know about this ‘relief’ agency from last winter. They waised at that time $5,000,000, not from the capitalists, but by forced contributions from the workers in the factories, who have been receiv- ing starvation wages. A good part of this money went to professional charity workers, who are making a good living: out of the misery of the unemployed. “Following are some of the de- mands that the workers of Chicago are fighting for: “1. Passage of the Unemployment Insurance Bill proposed by the Com- munist Party. “2. Immediate relief of $15a week for every unemployed worker, with $2 additional for each member of his family, “3. Stopping of the evictions of the unemployed. Stopping of the cut- ting off of gas and electricity. “4. Reduction of the exorbitant rents in the Negro sections and also in the entire city. “5. Stopping of the wage-cutting campaign and the stagger plan, whereby the bosses are seeking to put the full burden of the crisis on the shoulders of the workers and to further impoverish the working class. “6. Unconditional equal rights for the Negro people, the abolition of all Jim-Crow and discriminatory prac- tices, the right of self-determination for the Negro majorities of the South with confiscation of the land of the rich landowners for the Negro and white workers who till the land. INVOKE DECREE TO CUT WAGES IN GERMANY 60,000 at Red Sport Culture Day In Berlin (Cable By Inprecorr.) BERLIN, Aug. 24—The German government states its intention of proposing to President Hindenberg a new emergency enactment empower- ing provincial governments to im- pose measures needed to balance provincial municipal accounts. The constitutional rights of the German states have been abolished and the Diets ignored. Provincial govern- ments can retrench the social wel- fare and wages of civil servants. Reformist trade union leaders en- tered a voluntary agreement with the cities employers’ union, reducing the ‘wages of 300,000 communal workers about 5 per cent at the end of Au- gust. This agreement is only to run until the end of October, when the provincial governments, aided by the announced enactment, will dic- tate wage-cuts without consulting the trdae unions. Yesterday was Red Sport Culture Day and a mass demonstration was held in Berlin. Processions were pro- hibited. Sixty thousand people gathered in the Neukoelln Stadium. Communist Deputy Neumann stressed the persecution of Communists but expects a Soviet Germany. The po- lice surrounded the stadium and treated the crowd brutally, but no conflicts occurred. Red Day was celebrated at Wuppertal with 50,000 participating. Processions lasted for two hours. GENERAL STRIKE ON IN PALESTINE Arabs Protest British Rule and Zionism Reports from Jerusalem to capital- ist news agencies say that British imperialist police fired into a crowd of more than 1,000 Arabs who dem- onstrated Monday on the occasion of @ general strike, against the new British action in granting sealed armories to Jewish colonials planted in Palestine by and with the cooper- ation of British imperialism. The Arabs have been protesting against the new display of armed ac- tion against them by their oppres- sors. The Jewish peasants who have been transplanted to Palestine with the help of the various Jewish na- tionalist bourgeoisie become for the most part the unconscious tool of the British imperialists in their struggle against the Arab workers and peasants, who are fighting an DISTRICT 8 TO GIVE CONCERT CHICAGO,—A lively response is already noticeable to the announce- ment of the Daily Worker and Com- munist Party District 8 open air con- cert and dance to be held September 26, 1931, at the Pilsen Park, 26th St. and Albany Ave. This will be one of the last open air affairs of the season, and everybody will want to take it in. Gates will open at 4 p.m. Admission 25c, anti-imperialist struggle. The Arab demonstrations are be- coming of greater significance. One incident reported as unique is the appearance of hundreds of Moham- medan women in the streets march- ing and shouting: “Down with the mandatory!” (British rule of Pales- tine through Zionist assistance.) “Long live Arab independence.” All trade has been suspended for the duration of the general strike. AMNESTY DRIVE IS SPEEDED BY BIG SACCO-VANZETTI MEETINGS (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) participated in fiery demonstrations at Washington Squarg and at 43rd St. and Prairie. Two thousand work- ers later paraded to Washington Park, carrying placards denouncing the terror against the unemployed, demanding the freedom of all class- war prisoners and for the building of the International Labor Defense. ‘Three hundred workers attended a meeting in Chicago Heights and 600 participated in an indoor meeting in Gary, Ind. a ehh CLEVELAND, Ohio.—Congregating in the Public Square of this city, 3,500 workers demonstrated on Aug. 22, on the anniversary of the mur- der of Sacco and Vanzetti. Resolu- flons were adopted denouncing the terror against the workers in their struggles, and particularly against the persecution of the Negro and foreign-born workers, protesting against the jailing of militant min- ers and for the miners’ strike and for general amnesty. Telegrams were sent to the follow- ing: To the Governor of Alabama, de~ manding the immediate release of the framed-up Negro boys in Scotts- the very enthusiastic picnic of the National Miners Union at Bridgeville Old Ball Grounds Saturday and Sun- day. Two days of festivities, with hundreds listening to the speaking in which Charles Guynn explained the new policies of the union to the ap- preciation of the miners, and base- ball. On Sunday, the Bentonville base- ball team won one game and the Bridgeville team another. Both are teams of the Youth Sections of the NMU. Fred Siders was chairman of the meeting, and speakers included Sam Brown, Negro young miner from Mollenauer, Jacques, young miner; James J, Rolph, demanding the free- dom of Mooney, Billings, the Im- perial Valley prisoners, and all class- war victims held in the prisons of California; to Tom Mooney, Warren K. Billings, to the Centralia boys in Walla Walla penitentiary, Washing- ton; to the Governor of Washing- ton, and to Flem D. Sampson, gov- ernor of Kentucky, denouncing the reign of terror against the miners, and demanding the release of the miners who have been indicted for murder as a result of their strike activity. Oe he PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—Joining the international demonstrations in commemoration of the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti, 2,000 Philadel- phia workesr assembled in City Hall Plaza. The spirit of the workers was high, and vigorous resolutions were adopted demanding the freedom of all class-war prisoners, including the Scottsboro boys, and in support of the courageous struggle fo the strik- ing miners of Western Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia and Kentucky. Plans are now being completed for @ mass meeting in Boslover Hall on August 29, at which Frank Spector, one of the Imperial Valley prisoners who was recently released, will be the chief speaker. A banquet will follow the meeting. . ‘Tremendous interest in support of the Scottsboro boys was created by the appearance of Mrs. Ada Wright, mother of two of the defendants, at the Harlem demonstration held on August 22, Sharply exposing the National As- sociation for the Advancement of Colored People, and particularly the activities of Walter White, its field secretary, Mrs. Wright called for wide working class support of the ILD. in its campaign to free the framed up Negro lads. ai Rae BUFFALO, Aug. 24.—Demanding Wilson, Negro miner and organizer. boro; to Roy Wright, one of the Scottsboro defendants; to Governor the release of Joe Sgovio and Fred Starkirls, arrested for selling litera- ture at the Aug, 22 Sacco-Vanetti Workers! Build Daily Worker Clubs! Send Letters About Shop, Factory _ Conditions to Daily Worker Today! Am organizing an_Unemployed Council tonite.” A sure indication that North Da- kota has awakened to the import- ance of the Daily Worker, is con- tained in the following letter re- ceived from a comrade in Grand Forks. “Kindly send me 60 Daily Workers a day, for the amount we are re- ceiving is not sufficient. Will settle weekly. Charleston, South Carolina being stirred by the Da “We of the left wing, “are campaigning among the sous ihe NEWS oF {s also Worker. War Renu i ery vere | , uy [Dolyghried | MS Happen FESs Tote Workers ; anor” = =——~ ess Ler TaeDany Workele Sure. THe Turd AsouT OLITICAL. INDUSTRIAL, AND FINANCIAL, Aewy, lish speaknig workers of Charleston to get them to read the Daily Worker.” From Jacksonville, the following note “We in Jacksonville are en- thusinstic about the Daily Worker and are renlly glad to read it every day. Encloxed find three dollars an twenty-five cents collected from @ group of comrades.” crease order to 50 copies daily,” writes a comrade from ‘Tampa, Flordia, “We are building the Daily Worker and have many Red Builders on the streets, I want to, see n Red Builders Club in Tam~- pa that will stay a Red Builders Club, before I leave Tampa for new territory.” Tennessee now ripe for the Daily Worker, “I was glad to get the Daily Workers sent me,” starts letter of a worker in Caryville. “I can handle 15 a day so please send me that many and I will sell them as well as Florida, comes organize the N.M.U. in Caryville as fast I can.” A comrade from Pittsburgh, Kan- sas, sends the following note: “We have opened a, T.U.U.L. headquarters here and will be able to use the Daily Workers being sent, I am in hopes of getting a boy here to start a carrier route, Also have a boy in Arma, Kansas, who wants to start @ route, so send him a bundle of 5 daily to start with. W.V.D. Muskegon, Mich., writes af follows: “Received Daily Worker to- day. Am writing for a bundle of 10 dally to sell to my neighbors and ybody. Will pay at end of each init of the Party has been or- zed in Toronto, Ohio, and they ve decided to sell 'the Daily Work- r. Their first order amounts to 10 daily “Send 25 copies of the Datly Worker every day to W.L.P. Ari Kentucky, also 5 daily to H. N. M. Pineville, Kentucky,” states letter “These comrades are going lish routes.” the ¢ letters from North Carolina, confronting us now is how to hold and intensify the interest of these hu ds of new readers of the Daily. The Harlan_ battles the Scottsboro case Western Penn- unrest in Ala- have done a arouse the masses of the South but ntl to the realisa- fon of the actual conditions existing in capitalist America How are we gong to intensify the interest of these new masses of workers, most of whom have just been reading the Daily Worker for the first timet Our only an- wer is Daily Worker Clubs! Daily Worker Clubs of workers and symprthizers of the Daily meeting together at the homes of workers or wherever possible, discussing local problems, personal troubles, discovering ways and means of helping their brother workers in the coal mines, texttle mills, out on strike, reading the Daily Work- er aloud, criticizing the contents of the paper, offering suggestions for its improvement, making plans for its distribution among workers in shops and factories—will solve the problem of how to hold the in- terest of these workers, in the movement, Daily Worker Clubs will builé solidarity among the workers in the club. It will give members of the club a strong meeting ground for discussion and clarification of the political and social problems of the day. It will provide a means of re laxation after working hours. Thru the club, workers will be able to correspond with the Editortal Dept. of the Daily Worker about condi- tions in their shops, factories, mines, homes, neighborhoods. Workers! Take advantage of this splendid opportunity to make the acquaintance of your fellow work- er! Bulld a Daily Worker Club tn your shop, factory, neighborhood, today! Now! Write to the Daily Worker jub Department, 50 EB. 13th Street, N. Y. C., for further detailed information. MACDONALD GOV'T RESIGNS; FORMS COALITION TO CUT RELIEF, WAGES (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) cuts and slash in unemployment in- surance for the British workers; Sir Herbert Samuel, liberal Jeader, and one of those active in attacking the workers in the general strike of 1926, and Ramsay MacDonald, murderer of the Indian and Chinese workers, and now leader in the effort to put over the plans of the London bankers. It is expected that the government will last from five to six weeks, with- in which time it will put through emergency laws something on the order of the Bruening decrees, and it may then go out of existence or take on a more definite fascist char- acter in order to attempt to smash any mass resisance of the British workers. It is to lessen the resentment of the workers and to keep their faith in the Labor Party, that a section of the MacoDnald government refused to go through openly with the plans of the London bankers. Realizing that the social fascist character of the Labor Party leaders has become more obvious Henderson and the so- called “lefts” of the Labor Party will go through the motion of some fake opposition in the action of the new government, only the more easily to keep down the growing mass resist- ance of the workers. What They Will Do. The financial situation, as well as the general economic crisis in Eng- land, meanwhile, grows worse ap- Pproximating the German financial crisis. Both are closely interlinked. The British government has a def- icit of over $6,000,000. This is en- dangering the British currency and the entire financial position of Brit- ain. To overcome this situation, the British bankers got a loan of $250,- 000,000 from France and England. But this is now used up. Never be- fore has such a thing happened in England. While loans had been ob- tained they were never used. Now more loans are needed. In granting these loans, the French and Amer- ican capitalists have already declared their intention of helping the British “national” government, in which the “socialists” are taking a leading role, that they fully support the plan of cutting down. or, wiping out unem- ployment insurance. The American boss papers enthusiastically applaud MacDonald in this act. A “War” Situation That the situation approximates demonstration here, 2,000 staged a protest before the Niagara Falls po- lice headquarters. Attacking the demonstration, po- lice arrested nine workers who today in court defended themselves without the aid of lawyers, pointing out the basis for their arrests in fiery speeches. Charles Bronson, an 18-year-old worker, was sentenced to 60 days and fined $100, charged with “in- citing to riot” and “disobeying an officer.” Sgovio and Starkins were each fined $25 and the six other workers were fined $10 each. The I. L. D. of the Buffalo Dis- trict is appealing the sentences and Planning a vigorous agitational campaign to free these workers, 1 the crisis of a war {is openly stated in the American capitalist press. The Associated Press in reporting the formation of the new government estates: “The arrangement has its prece- dent in the coalition government of 1916, formed to create national unity in waging the war. “The new Cabinet also has a war of sorts of its hands, Its cam- paign will be to restore Great Brit- ain’s threatened credit in the world of international finance.” The war which the new Cabinet has on its hands is, of course, a war against the working class. Declaring that he prefers war to the present situation in England, Gen. Jan. C, Smuts, former Premier of South Africa, who arrived in Eng- land on the day the new government was formed said: “Many people seem oppressed by the thought of war, but I for one feel more impressed with the danger of the great financial and economic breakdown that may endanger the whole structure of Eu- ropean civilization. . . The time is rapidly coming when any action, even if not the wisest, will be better than continual drifting.” This is a call for an open fascist government in England to which MacDonald and the other leaders of the labor party will respond when the bankers in England think it nec- essary. The American capitalist press tries to make it appear that a cut in the unemployment insurance rates which is one of the main objects of the new government, in order to make up the $600,000 deficit concerns only the 3,000,000 British unemployed and their dependents, amounting as a whole to $6,000,000. The fact is, the changes in the unemployment insur- ance act affect the entire British working class. It provides, not only for a cut, but for an increase in pay- ment by employed workers. That the results of thus lowering the standard of living of the British workers would spread still wider is admitted by the Daily Herald, the organ of the Labor Party ,which said: “Every shopkeeper would be hit in the cash in his till, every man- ufacturer supplying a shopkeeper would write the results in his or- der book. A great, wealthy nation would have turned to its poorest ‘to bear its burden. It would have adopted a policy which is neither economic nor business,” What the Daily Herald fails to say, however, is that all this is being car- ried out by Ramsay MacDonald and the other leaders of the Labor Party —even those who have resigned and make the pretense of disagreement. The atack against the British work- ers, now being carried on to save British capitalism, backed as it is by French and American imperialism, if successful will have its effect on the working class throughout the world. The “socialists” in England now demonstrate what the Second International Congress, recently held, meant when it said that “socialists” now have responsible tasks in the capitalist governments. Their task is now to help save capitalism at whate ever cost to the working class. “