The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 26, 1931, Page 3

Be eR ———— Lr Ae ESR AGS TST DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESD. AY, AUGUST 26, 1931 Page ‘Three it eee MILITANTS EXPELLED FROM A. F. FIGHTING Carpenters’ Local No. OF L. FOR FOR LABOR 131 of Seattle Expels M. J. Miller and Many Old Militants On Charge of Supporting Soviet Union To the Daily Worker: Seattle, Wash. I am enclosing to the fighting organ of the working class the following charges brought by militants in the A. F. of L. and events and circumstances leading up to them. The militants in Carpenters Local No. 131 of Seattle at the June election elected practically all the officials but the president. Charges were brought against the vice-president and he was expelled by the district council which serves as a very handy tool. cording secretary. Fought by Working Class Here are some of the high lights. It was shown by a great concourse of testimony that M. J. Miller has constantly, since his joining the labor movement some 15 years ago, been guilty of the following crimes: Been a constant friend and supporter of the Soviet Union. Was a member of the FSU, ILD, TUUL, Unemployed Council, That he had agitated and worked for the release of the Cen- tralia victims; had fought to prevent the burning of Sacco and Vanzetti for seven years; that he had helped to organize protest meetings over a period of years and had actually pre- sided at many meetings where pro- tests were made in the Sacco-Van- zetti case, The Centralia case, the Scottsboro case and unemployed or- ganizations; Soldiers and Sailors Councils and that during and after the war he had aided and abeted I.W.W. strikes. That he led a picket line in the picketing of the State Capital in behalf of the Centralia boys. Received Highest Vote Besides all these crimes against the Brotherhood and the labor movement he had condemned the political policy Then charges were brought against five more including two business agents and re- ¢-— of the A. F. of L. by declaring it bankrupt and motheaten. He had condemned their booze policy and drinking, He had dared to say that craft unionism was antiquated. He had spread dissention by pointing out that it was a peculiar kind of a labor movement when the officials drew salaries and expenses of from $700 to $900 per month while the rank and file starved and lost their homes; that he had carried on propaganda which led up to the lowering of the salaries of local officials; that he was particularly dangerous since he had a year ago received the highest vote in his local of nearly 2,000 members and thus the policy he was following was causing dissension among a large mass of men. Well enough the class collabora- tionists say they must keep control so they can save the treasury (I pre- sume for themselves). They even called in (Dad) C. O. Young, the A. F. of L. representa- tive in this district, who testified that he had attended many conventions where Miller had expressed himself and he had made up his mind that Miller was a dangerous element to the harmony and progress of the regularly constituted labor movement. Ex-member, Carpenters Local 131, Kansas City Optical Co. Gyps Young Workers Through Stock Scheme Kansas City, Mo. Daily Worker: ‘The Specialty Optical Co., 1009 McGee St., owned by Dr. J. D. Brock, has a scheme of getting extra profits from the workers. Since the average age of the workers is about 18 years, Dr. Brock has an easy job at present of putting over his plans. For ex- ample, last Christmas he gave each of the boys for a present a first pay- ment of shares in the Standard Savings and Loan Association of Kensas City, in which Dr. Brock is interested. A specific case is that of ® 16-year-old boy who received a $10 Christmas present. However, after this worker had paid in $50 from his own pocket, giving him a total of $60 invested, he was laid off. Not hav- ing any job and unable to keep up the payments, he was forced to with- draw his savings. Of the $60 in- vested he received $40. The Loan Co. (Dr. Brock) received thus $10 in- terest and his $10 Christmas present. Tastead of the $20 the young worker received @ credit certificate allowing him to repurchase the stock before June 22, 1933. Work 12 Hours a Day. Dr. Brock not only owns the Specialty Optical Co., but also is op- erating under two other names, Kan- sas City Wholesale Optical Co. and Superior Optical Co., thus, while ap- pearing on the surface as three sep- arate companies, it is really one company, using the same employees throughout. The day is 12 hours Jong and if the work is not done we work overtime without extra pay. If we are sick we must stay on the job or make up the lost time. We must also make up for all time lost because of holidays, and for this we receive the magnificent sum of $6 to $8 a week, minus payments on savings and loan shares. There is a state law in Missouri which forbids women working over eight hours a day, yet the girls here must work 11 and 12 hours a day, A state in- spector cames around twice a year and the girls are instructed by the boss to tell the inspector that they work only 8 hours a day. If they fail to do this, they lose their jobs. Workers of the Specialty Optical Co., why should we pay for Dr. Brock’s airplane? Let us organize in the youth section of the Trade Union Unity League, 812 Wyandotte St., Kansas City, Missouri, Only by do- ing this can we force this parasite to give us better conditions. —A Young “Specialty” Slave. . Canadian Loggers Win Wage-Cut Strike . (By a Farmer Correspondent.) MISSION, B. C.—Things are mov- ing thick and fast along the class- struggle front out here, They have moved especially fast during the past month, ‘The Loggers’ Union is going stead- ily ahead and in the past week we have been taking in many sawmill workers, This is no doubt due to the fact that we have just won a strike out at the Barnet Mill on Burrard Inlet. ‘The bosses were ready to put over ® wage-cut in this mill and the workers organized and went on strike. The strike was a militant one and was well organized and we forced the lumber barons to with- draw the proposed cut. Our demand of no victimization of the strikers was also won and the workers went back to work in a body and all but a few joined the Red Union, “We have been watching the mine strike and the big struggles that the American workers are now engaged in under the leadership of the Trade Union Unity League, We send best USE BRITISH CRISIS TO HIT U 8. JOBLESS (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONED } by Arthur Henderson, declare in the British Daily Herald, mouthpiece of this new “opposition,” that the at- tack against the workers was dic- tated by Wall St. Avoid Enemy At Home. ‘They hope thereby to direct their fire against the enemy of British imperialism rather than the class enemy of the workers at home—the British capitalists. This is an asset to Ramsay MacDonald, who has no objection to this sort of “opposition” as it endeavors to keep the workers from fighting their immediate enemy, The very “opposition” of the labor- ites who put up a sham howl against MacDonald is based on the question- ing of MacDonald’s patriotism for British imperialism, the Daily Her- ald stating: “What is the patriotism, we may ask, in allowing the Feredal Re- serve Bank of New York to dic- tate, as a condition of further credit to the Bank of England, the policy to be pursued in relation to unemployment benefits? This is not patriotism, but the acceptance of dictatorship, not even of British banks, but of international finance, It is a blow to British prestige equalled in recent history only by the terms of the Versailles Treaty.” Thus the “opposition” helps the British bourgeois against the workers by preparing for war against Amer- ican imperialism. That the Ameri- can bankers approve of the attack against the standard of living of the British workers is evident, as the in- ternational bourgeoisie always acts in unison in attacking the workers. But as the London correspondent for the Hoover-supporting New Yerk Eve- ning Post declared, the seeme of cutting down unemployment insur- ance for the British workers is the patent and pet object of the British bankers, whom‘MacDonald and other labor party leaders are supporting. The Post correspondent cabled as follows: “The Daily Herald omits the mention that if the American banks did express the condition on which they were willing to lend their money—a right of banker, which has never been questioned so far—they based their judgment on two royal commissions set up by parliament, the Holman Com- mission on Unemployment Insur- ance and the May Economy Com- mission, and said in effect: ‘You can have unlimited credit if you will do what your own experts in- sist is necessary.’” Fascist Move. The “national non-party” govern- ment was created to keep from pre- cipitating a general election and thereby a sharpened class battle. It is a disguised fascist step—that is, an open dictatoral move of the capi- talist state, without regard to the so-called formalities of democracy, in order to put over a smashing attack against the workers, and with the support of the labor party leaders. The social-fascist role of the social- ists is becoming clearer to wider masses of workers. MacDonald, in an official state- ment said that the intention of the new government was at all costs to save the financial prestige of Brit- ish imperialism. The same view was echoed by J. H. Thomas, who de- clared that the “stability of the na- tion (that is, capitalism) must ba placed beyond all doubt.” To achieve this stability the labor prty leaders lead the attack against the standard of living of the workers. Basie Crisis Worse. However, as in the case of Ger- many, the overcoming of the imme- diate financial crisis will not solve the basic problems of the crisis of British or world capitalism which are daily being intensified. Meanwhile, the parliamentary la- bor party, in view of the situation of MacDonald openly betraying even the appearance of adhering to the labor party, has called a meeting for Friday to “consider action.” This regards to the American fighters. We know you will win. Moratorium For Bosses, But Not For Miners (By a Worker Correspondent) GARRETT, Ky.—The Big Elkhorn Coal Corporation of this place went into the hands of a receiver a few days ago. Now, after receiving a year’s moratorium on “their” debts, they are planning a steady run of their mines here and all over Eastern Kentucky. The workers owe the company almost to a man, but they are receiving no moratorium on their indebtedness. Their rents, coal, lights and other company-owned overhead expenses goes on just the same. Workers, for how long will you be Satisfied with such exploitation? Get busy, organize against those high rents and Coal Company store ex- ploitation, Even an editor of a cap- italistic paper says: “It is a notori- ous fact that Coal Co, Commissaries are the greatest scandal of the coal fields.” Organize and fight back. De- mand your right. World-wide or- ganizations are eben your de- cisions, Window Cleaner Getts 14 Cents an Hour (By a Worker Correspondent) PATERSON, N. J.—Cornelius Van- derput of 36 N. York St., Paterson, N. J., relates his experience with the bosses. After hitch-hiking to Saratoga Springs, going through hardships on the trip, he was extremely fortunate to find work in the Grand Union Hotel as window washer for $40 a month and no day off and so-called “room and board!” There were no specific hours maintained and usual- ly he worked nine hours on extreme- ly large windows in the hottest sun- light and not being allowed to wear head-piece as that was against the ., house rules. The meals were only leavings of the previous day, from the guests, some of them who pay as high as $40 a day for room and meals. The sleeping quarters were beyond description, in fact the entire build- ing was so neglected that while Van- derput was standing outside the win- dow the roof was blown off. He made several requests for a blanket but each time was told the hotel had none for employees. Physically un- able to carry on he quit in the middle of the day and had much difficulty in getting his half.day's pay as the hotel did not pay by half days. The evening the roof came off he worked until 9.30 p. m., four hours overtime for which he received no compensa- tion, action will be to further mislead the British workers and make it easier for MacDonald to carry out his pro- posed tasks, The independent labor party, which 1s supposed to be the “socialist” wing of the labor party, and which MacDonald headed, as well as the Trade Union Council, will also meet, as they state, to “plan general resistance.” The entire his- tory of these appendages to British imperialism, as shown in the General Strike of 1926, and the whole course of the MacDonald regime, leave no doubt that the “resistance” will be against the workers and not against MacDonald and-his banker support- ers. MacDonald definitely admits that the problem in Britain is the threat- ened collapse of capitalism because of an incurable capitalist crisis, and that it is the duty of the “socialists” at all costs and by all means to “take whatever steps are necessary” to save British capitalism at the ex- pense of the workers. The most sig- nificant paragraph, as follows, in MacDonald's statement clearly shows this: “As the commerce and well- being, not only of the British na- tion, but of a large part of the ‘ civilized world, has been built tp and rests upon well-founded con- fidence in sterling, the new gov- ernment will take whatever steps are necessary to justify the main- tenance of that confidence unim- » In another statement along the same line MacDonald makes some further admissions, stating: “When “Free Our Fighters” Call Workers in Ohio, Illinois Frank Spector Makes a Nationwide Tour in Behalf of Class-War Prisoners Reports continue to come to the national office of the International Labor Defense, telling of successful mass demonstrations on August 22, the anniversary of the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti, Latest reports come from a number of important centers. EAST LIVERPOOL, O., Aug. 25.— Several hundred workers participa- ted in the Sacco-Vanzetti demon- stration held on August 22, thus joining tthe national demand raised by the LL.D. for immediate amnesty for all class-war prisoners, for the release of the Scottsboro and the imprisoned miners and against the reign of terror against militant wor- kers everywhere. Hundreds of workers in .this city, which at one time was an active pottery center, are now unemployed. These potteries, whose ovens have been cold for months, are now being used as garages and filling stations, Of 25 plants in East Liverpool only five are now in operations on a part time basis, Workers here are bitter following a ten per cent wage cut. At the present time the West End plant is demanding that the workers oper- ate on the basis of pay after sales, which means waiting for wages as long as 90 days, ROCKFORD, Ill, Aug. 25,—One thousand workers of this city an- swered the call of the International Labor Defense to commemorate the murder of Sacco and Vanzetti by de- manding the release of all class war prisoners, and supporting the fight of the striking coal miners in West- ern Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Vir- ginia and Kentucky, Lydia Bidell, of Chicago, was the prinicipal speaker, Sa The release of Frank Spector, one of the Imperial Valley defendants, who. was freed from San Quentin prison, California, as a result of the agitation conducted by the I.L.D. has given a sharp impetus to its na- tional Amnesty campaign. Spector, who was one of the eight workers sentenced to 3-42 years for their activity preparation for the strike of the Imperial Valley agri- cultural workers in May 1930, is soon leaving on a tour of the United States as part of the campaign to free all class war prisoners. Spector will be in the Philadelphia district between Sept. 28- Oct. 2; Paterson, N, J., Oct. 3; Newark, NJ., Oct. 5; Boston, Oct. 8, 9, 10; Albany, Oct. 11; Rochester, Oct. 12. The New York district of the IL.D. is planning a farewell banquet for Spector on October 4. 18 MINERS FACE RAILROADING AS PA. TRIAL OPENS (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONED under the influence of the prosecu- tion for some time, ‘Thompson appears to be sick from his long imprisonment. It was learn- ed quite recently by ILD Representa- tive Schwartzbart that during the first 3 weeks of the imprisonment of these miners, they Were forced to sleep on the cement floor, without blankets. When Schwartzbart told this to the Washington Qbserver, lo- cal newspaper the paper did NOT print the news, and ScMwartzbart was barred from further visits to the defendants in jail. Every attempt has been made by the coal operators and the police to terrorize witnesses for the defenst. In Meadowlands, the superintendent of the mine went personally to all the girls who were with the defend- ant Stella Rosefski at Cannonsburg, and told them: “Stella and her moth- er are going to get four-year sen- tences. If you dare to go and tes- tify for them, you'll find yourselves in the same place that Stella is go- ing!” When the jury was selected, in this atmosphere of arbitrary despotism that would have shamed the czar, the defense attorney, P, V. Morino, repre- senting the ILD, was NOT allowed to question the prospective jurors. It seems that there is a law in Penn- sylvania, that for certain cases the judge can decide whether the jurors are to be questioned by the attor- neys or not. If you already know some cause for which you can chal- lenge a juror, all right, but you can’t ask him whether he is prejudiced. And this jury can bring in a verdict that will put these miners in jail for five years! It was for taking down the names of the jurors that Ray Greene, the ILD organizer was spotted. She slip- ped in by a side door—into the pri- vate trial provided seventeen miners by this coal operators’ court! A bailiff pounced upon her, hauled her out, saw the other worker, John Sara, and jerked him out too, abused them up and down for daring to try to find out what jury had been se- lected, called the prosecutor out, who confiscated the list of jurors, and is- sued a five-minute ultimatum. Bear in mind that in every state of the United States, the names of the jurors are public property, and invariably printed with addresses and occupations in the newspapers. But ‘then, in this coal baron’s star cham- ber, those equally widespread pro- visions for a PUBLIC trial are like- wise thrown in the discard. The first struggle staged in the morning by the defense will be for a public trial, for admission of the press, for admission of the relatives of the defendants, for the lifting of the ban of deportation on Ray Greene and John Sara, etc. Hundreds of miners came in for the trial, which is that of the men, women and girls charged by Pat Fa- gan and Phil Myrray with “assault and battery, aggravated assault and battery, conspiracy, incitement to riot and rioting.” The occasion of these charges was that Fagan, Mur- ray, and a gang of their ten dollar- a-day hired thugs, with some con- scripted miners from Pittsburgh Ter- minal mines who would have been fired if they did not come, held a meeting at Cannonsburg last month. The striking miners of Cannonsburg marched in procession with banners to that meeting to tell Fagan he was betraying the miners, and to persuade any miners there to leave the traitor and join the strikers. When Fagan’s gunmen attacked the marching miners, back, and Fagan got licked. Which is why he brings the charges against Thompson and the others. Which is why, for instance, an operators’ court, with Fagan looking on from the midst of his big gang of armed guards, grinds along towards a prison term for Anna Rosefski and her daughter Stella, while two younger children beg at the door of that court for the right to come in and see their mother stand trial—and are refused. Not only refused, but fin- ally, like all the defense witnesses and would-be spectators, chased away from in front of the doors by bailiffs and constables, and made to stand across on another corridor while in- U.S. NAVY READY TO ATTACK STARVING CHINESE MASSES The butchers of the Nationalist gov- | workers and peasants who have been ernment are already mowing down starving Chinese workers and peas- ants hit by the flood in order to pre- vent them from getting food. They have manned junks with machine guns and other armament in an at- tempt to prevent the masses from getting some of the food that is piled up in warehouses in the section of the city where the rich native capi- talists and merchants and the for- eign exploiters live. “Stern measures became neces- sary,” according to the Associated Press, “when 30,000 jinrikshaw men threatened to rush the more pros- perous sections of the city and seize food. Officers mounted machine guns on several junks and manned them with a gunner and a squad of riflemen.” The “stern measures” that were used were probably the use of these machine guns against the starving Chinese masses. The Nanking government is pre- paring to drown in blood the revolt of the twenty-five to thirty million that purpose (saving capitalism) has been achieved the political parties will resume their respective posi- tions.” That is to say, when capitalism is saved the labor party will then con- tinue with its sham fight against capitalism to fool the workers and to keep them within capitalism. ‘The crisis in England, following directly on the heels*of the German situation, is deeply felt in the United States and the rest of the capitalist world and is a severe blow’ at the entire capitaiist structure, left starving by the floods. The United States Navy fleet which has been ordered up the river sup- posedly to aid the sufferers is there in reality to back up the machine guns of the Nanking government. The Navy officers have admitted that “the gunboats were not fitted to con- vey large numbers of refugees nor to transport immense quantities of sup- plies.” They are equipped to mow down the starving and militant masses who are being driven to seize food and that is the reason they are there. ‘The city of Hankow is a “pano- rama of death, madness, disease and starvation,” according to the corres- pondent of the Associated Press. It is against these conditions of stark hunger, famine and disease that the millions of the Chinese masses in the provinces of Hupeh, Hunan, Anhwei and Kiangsi are stirring in militant revolt. These tens of millions know that the for- eign exploiters and their bloody agents in the Nationalist government are directly responsible for the hor- ror that has come about through the flood. The “natural” flood has been due to the expenditure of mil- lions on millions in the armed cam- paign to maintain the imperialist ex- ploitation instead of building up the country. The masses know that only under the leadership of the Oom- munists who have already established Soviets over a huge territory can they overcome the most brutal ex- ploitation and build a country for- tifled against floods. they fought} ARREST WORKER TO COVER BANK FAILURE IN CAL. Small Depositors Are Robbed In Crash By Big Bankers LOS ANGELES, Calif., Aug. 25.— Ida Smith, who was arrested at Brooklyn and Cornwell for speaking about the crash of the United States National Bank, in which many work- ers and small business men lost every penny, has been put in solitary con- finement because she refused to give an address and be fingerprinted. She was forced to be fingerprinted, but is refusing to give an address, due to the fact that workers have been attacked and their belongings ran- sacked by hirelings of the basses, when their addresses became known, through the police department. Ida Smith and D. Daminus were arrested for speaking under the aus- pices of the Provisional Committee of Workers and Small Depositors of the United States National Bank, calling the workers and small depos- itors to come to a mass meeting to be held on Wednesday, Aug. 19, at 2706 Brooklyn Ave. They have been charged with suspicion of criminal syndicalism and disturbing the peace. No bail has been set. The Interna- tional Labor Defense is defending these workers and demands that they be released—unconditionally and im- mediately! Petitions are now being circulated to repeal the criminal syndicalism law, which is a vicious weapon in the hands of the boss class, used against workers when they go to or- ganize for better conditions. COTTON PICKERS PAID 25¢ PER DAY (By a Farmer Correspondent.) PITKIN, La. Aug. 25.—Cotton pickers here are being paid the measly sum of 25 to 50 cents a hun- dred pounds. Most of the pickers ate boys and girls, They are forced to work on their own board. It is a very good picker who can pick up 150 to 200 pounds of cotton a day. Most of the workers get only 25 cents for a full day’s work. In the meantime, experiments with | cotton picking devices have been go- | ing on constantly, and it seems that | success is in sight. When these ma- chines begin operating on a big scale most of the pickers will be thrown out of work, as is happening in the factories where the installation of | new machinery is constantly throw- | ing new thousands of workers into; the army of the unemployed. The workers in the cotton fields | must unite and organize to fight for | better conditions. They must or-| ganize into a union and formulate | their demands on the bosses. Only the Trade Union Unity League is or- ganizing these frightfully oppressed groups of work side, behind the closed doors, the prosecution fills the jury box with jurors who must not even be whether they are prejudiced—wheth- er they are in the pay of Fagan or} the operators—whether they will even pretend to give the defendants a} fair trial. The jury so selected (here is the list in spite of the operators’ at- tempt to hide the names!) consi of: Alice Hickson, housekeeper; David Mesner, farmer; L. W. Smith, | carpenter; J. W. Prigg, agent; John Pyle, laborer; Meron Prawl, team- ster; R. R. Porter, printer; Ernest Lawton, mechanic; Lloyd Linn, farm- er; Paul Gibson, carpenter; W. E. Ferris, barber (Negro); and Charles | McCue, inspector. . This might look | at first sight like a jury of good composition—but they were selected in less than an hour and a half, and no questions asked. Your guess is as good as mine. The hundreds of miners who mass- ed in the corridors of the courthouse to see the trial and by their presence protest against the railroading of their 18 fellow workers to prison, were kept waiting from 9 a. m., the hour set for the case, to 4 p. m., by dila- tory tactics of the court, which did not hesitate to waste practically all of the first day of its only ten day session to tire out these unwelcome visitors. Then when the case started, the doors were slammed in the faces of the miners, while police guarded Pat Fagan’s gunmen, big husky, well- fed, well dressed leeches on the neck of labor, through the crowd and into the closed court room. Your reporter and the Federated Press reporter made four attempts to enter, and got nowhere, Finally they were told, “You'll have to get a per- mit either from the prosecuting at- torney or the judge.” Since both were back of the barred door, the"two reporters entered the district attor- ney’s office and got his secretary to call out the prosecutor. The pros- ecutor said “nothing doing today, and we'll consider it tomorrow.” Cases of Krumbel, Vukas, Ugren and Balch (not Canonsburg cases) were postponed. Court adjourned at about 6 p. m., the defendants went back to their cells, and the miners stalked in wrath down the imitation stone steps of the country court house style building in which coal operators’ justice is cram- med down your throat. Stone angels weep on the cornices over the things that are done below their feet, and a statue that might be either Wil- liam Penn or George Washington stands above the dome, its neck skyward with a lightning rod. | syndicalism., WORKERS FACE STARK HUNGER NO PROVIS Hunger and starvation will be widespread in New York state during the coming winter. This fact which has been admitted by the joint com- mittee on unemployment of the State Board of Social Welfare and the State Charity Aid Association after a thorough investigation of the relief situation in the state exposes as a brazen lie the Hoover-Gifford asser- tion that the states will be able to take care of the jobless this winter. In only three cities out of 44 visited by the investigators was there any ‘sign of “planning” for relief for the coming winter. This means that there is “planning” in three cities, not re- lief. Despite the fact that the cities cut every bit of relief down far below the level of subsistence they were forced to dispense more relief in the first half of 1931 than in the entire year of 1930, While even larger ex- penditures are necessary if they are only going to keep up for the rest of 1931 the present wretched scraps that are handed out, most cities have al- ready used up the relief appropri: tion and several have a deficit now. The report points out that those IONS FOR RELIEF workers who managed fo exist last winter on what little savings they had be forced to depend on re- lief this winter to keep from starving. The relief that has been handed out thus far has been as low as $2 a week for a family of any size and $3 for every two weeks. The report dis- covers that it is impossible for a workers family to live on these mis- erable allowances. While Hoover and Gifford set up their committee to prevent iue, ux employed from getting adequate re- lief this charity crew advises the for- mation of committees in the several cities. The unemployed workers will get adequate relief in only one way— by a militant struggle, together with the employed workers for immediate relief, for social insurance and against wage cuts and speed up. Only a united fighting front against the hunger policy of the bosses can star- vation and death be defeated. Force appropriations by the state and cities for relief for the unemployed, to be paid for by larger taxes on the rich. Demand reduction of state military expenditures and the use of them funds for the unemployed ALABAMA BOSSES PLAN DRIVE ON C. P. IN ATTACK ON NEGROES (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) in winning many white southern }workers to the defense of their Negro fellow workers, The executive com- mittee of the Alabama department of the fascist American Legion is holding a meeting in Birmingham “to formulate plans to combat the spread of Communism.” A resolution calling upon the Ala- bama Legislature to pass new anti- working class laws directed espe- cially at the vanguard of the work- ing class, the Communist Party, was adopted at a meeting of the General Gorgas Post of the American Legion in Birmingham. The resolution en- dorsed the announced plan of Ralph T. O'Neil, national commander of the fascist organization, to have the next session of Congress outlaw the Com- munist Party. Yelverton Cowherd, post command- er, in a talk on the resolution, blamed the Communist Party for the growing militancy of the Negro mass- es of Alabama. Birmir m police have suffered a set-back in their efforts to extra- dite Elijah Thomp: a Negro v, er, from Chicago. Thompson YE) ) duced witnesses and 14 affidavits to prove that he was n Chcago on the night of the hold-up of the society women. The Alabama authorities are reported to have withdrawn the papers for his extradition because of the difficulty of accomplishing his extradition in the present mood of the Chicago masses. The Birming- ham papers have reported protest mass meetings in Chicago protesting the attempt to frame Thompson. The attempts at framing Negro workers nearer home—especially is this at- tempt directed against those suspect- ed of militancy. Sree ies CHICAGO, Aug. 25.—David J. Bentall, attorney of the International Labor Defense is defending two Ne- gro workers whom Birm:ngham au- thorities are trying to extradite in connection with their attempt to frame-up Negro workers for the mur- der of two society women. After a thorough investigation of the case, the ILD attorney collected absolute proof that the two workers were in Chicago at the time of the rders. He has been advised by ue governor's office that the hearing on the extradition w: ts has beer definitely postponed. iM my ove Indictm ents in Drive to Burn Fighting Harlan Miners (CONTINUED FROM i ONED iminal syn- ‘© more were arrested | banding and confe a~ ng against officers of the law.” Cawood has just been released on 3,000 bond, indicted under three charging murder as a result Evarts clash. . Jessie London Wakefield, I D. Southern representative, is sfill in jail on charges of criminal The prosecutor has an- nounced that he will present her case to the Grand Jury later, having pre- viously declared that “she will re- main in jail until she rots.” Next Monday, Circuit Judge D. C Jones, a coal operator himself, will hear motions for a change of venue for 30 men previously indicted on murder charges. The International Labor Defense points out that a statement appear- ing in the Daily Worker August 21, stating that attorneys Golden and Hall were counsel for the LL.D, in} the Harlan case was not entirely cor- However, the I.L.D. points out hile these attorneys have not beer officially retained by the LL.D., they | have represented several defendants for the LL.D. in previous cases. The International Labor Defense, which is mobilizing all its efforts in behalf of the 34 convicted miners has brought Attorney Richard Dow- | ling from New Orleans to join the | defense not only of these men, but of all others jailed as a result of the | reign of terror of the coal operators’ | gunmen and police. The I.L.D. has ‘also accepted the offer of the ser- | vices of Franklin Reynolds. of Mt Sterling, Ky., who was one of the attorneys associated with Clarence | Darrow in the famouse “monkey | trial,” in Dayton, Tenn. Funds for the defense of the Ken- tucky miners as well as the hun- dreds of jailed miners in Pennsyl- vania, Ohio and West Virginia are urgent. Rush contributions to the International Labor Defense, 80 E. 11th Street, Room 430. CHICAGO BOSSES PLAN TO STARVE LARGE MASSES OF UNEMPLOYED (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) There is some fear, however, that this will not be successful. The New York Times writer says: “Two factors seem likely to in- crease the difficulty of raising an adequate fund. Many who gave last year are less able to give to- day, and probably many more have developed a greater timidity con- cerning the future and will be less readily persuaded to part with what they fear they may need.” He also admits that most of the 1930 fund came from the pockets of the employed workers: “These contributions were, not altogether voluntary. It was made extremely difficult in many in- stances to refuse, Hardship was worked in some instances where, possibly, the wage-earner was the only revenue producer in a family and any deduction meant lack of enough to go around.” Last year the sum of $5,000,000 was raised, most of it extracted from the pockets of the underpaid workers ir the shops. And most of this fund | went into the pockets of racketeer- | ing welfare workers heads, Mayor Cermak, .who after the Police-landlord massacre of Chicago unemployed workers, was forced to make a gesture of arranging for re- lief, and promised to raise a fund of $13,000,000 for the purpose, now pro- Poses to feed the starving unem- and “relief” ployed with stale bread and a low- grade milk, which, he says. the farm- ers are now feeding to their hogs. ‘The workers of Chicago, unem- ployd and employed, Negro and white, must carry forward the fight for immediate relief, against evic- tions and for equal rights for the Negro workers! 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