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money when I do work. | | | Ey DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 1991 FIGHT ON EXCESSIVE LIGHT BILLS PLANNED BY N. Y. UNEMPLOYED Public Service Commission Increases Rate for Small Consumer; Bosses’ Rate Lowered Wnemployed Council Calls Workers to Rally Minimum $1 Charge for Small Consumers Daily Worker: New York, N. Y. A few months ago the Public Service Commission ordered new rates for the consumers , and Queens. ourrent the rate was lowered; fore the small consumer the rate was raised. The newspapers hailed this move on the part of the Public Ser- vice Commission as one “to save 95,000,000 to usérs,” and so on. Let us see for whom this “public service” was performed. ‘Yesterday an old woman, 68 years of age who lives on Lewis Street, came to a meeting of the Downtown Unemployed Council. She said she had been having trouble with the electtic company and wanted to know if we could help her. For years her electric bills had been 7 to 14 cents a month in the summer, and a little more in the winter. This month she was sent a bill for $1.00, becuse according to the ruling of the 80-called Public Service Commission fhe minimum monthly charge, be- ginning August Ist, was made $1.00 This old woman told us that she worked up till 10 and 12 o’clock every night eking out an existence selling ties or magazines, and in this way living on $3 a week. To have to pay $1.00 a month to the electric company means 4 térrific blow to her already poverty stricken manner of living. Bosses Gain. ‘Thus we see that the much her- alded saving of $5,000,000 which the capitalist newspapers said would ac- company this change in electric ratesis not a saving for the work- ets. “For whom, then, is it a saving? of electricity in Manhattan, For the large consumers of electric For the large corporations and other large consumers of, electric current: in other words, for the rich, The greater the amount of current used, the lower does the rate‘drop. And since the same banks that own the electric companies own the other large industries, the saving goes from one pocket of the bankers into the other. At the same time, the in- crease of rates for small consumers, who are the workers, means a pretty penny for the electric company, and that is how they work it both ways. Fight $1.00 Minimum Charge. So numerous have been the re- quests made by workers to the Downtown Unemployed Council for relief from this vicious $1.00 mini- mum charge, that the Council is considering ways and means of bringing the issue to a head. Work- ers in New York City who are af- fected by this rate increase are urged to bring their cases to the Un- employed Council, 5 East 19th St., Nw York City. Only by an organ- ized mass movement of the workers can we force the electric companies to do away with the minimum charge of $1.00. Workers! Join the Unemployed Councils. Build com- mittees of unemployed workers in your block. For information write to the Unemployed Councils of Greater New York, 5 East 19th St., New York, N. Y. —A Worker. Stockton, Cal. Datly Worker: I am a worker, that is to say, I ‘used to be until I got hit in the ribs by ‘Hoover’s prosperity. Now my working days are damn few and I don’t make-any more- than coffee I’ve been picking peaches and when. the job finished I hit Stockton with big stake, exactly $6.25. Well, to it short (but not sweet), I went I was told about the soup “Sallies” and, being too { Vermin.and Stale Bread for Cal. Jobless 48 hours. So I went around to an- other soul factory, where they were giving a meal and flop. Well, we lis- tened to an assortment of preachers telling us to have faith in the lord. ‘Then ® guy got up and began raving about the-Starvation Army. He’ said they were a lot of cheap crooks and fakers (that was the only thing he said all night that I believed. He said he ought to handle the relief. Maybe he’s a better crook. We ate, or, rather, they did. I could not. ‘They did not even bother to wash the dishes after each sitting, just tinsed them around in cold water. ‘They offered as many as could sleep on the concrete floor a chance to flop. I land down for about half an hour and got up lousy and had to boll up in the jungles next day. ‘These lousy fakers are even graft- ing on us when we are on the soup line. To hell with them. Let’s get in the Unemployed Council and fight for unemployment insurance. In the meantime if we have to have Soup lines let us force the city to tax the big bosses and let us run our own soup lines with this money they have stolen from us on the job. —S.M. Gal. Jobless Driven from Homes; Forced to Camp On (By a Worker Correspondent) ‘WESLEY, Cal.—A willow lined river bank encased in a miniature wilder- ness of oak trees, brush and trees from fire. Over a twisting steel girdéd , on driving tent is visible, one ¢an notice : Be i a iG y 5 i Tees Roadside with their small children had to stay there in winter months, when within @ modern house it was difficult to keep warm without a fire. The capitalist press and religion keep their vision clouded. Back on the other side of the river was a large tent to which the people were gathering. A little woman beseech- ingly asked the writer to join in the services. Her husband and brother were both Pentecostal preachers. Songs could be heard flowing from -| parched and hungry throats. Vic- tory over the material being to be able to starve patiently—yes maybe not to resist the conditions imposed by the capitalists. These conditions were found near ‘Wesley 25 miles below Tracy in Cal- ifornia. What these workers need is the Daily Worker, which will open their eyes and put them on the right track. They are eager to read and to discuss the plight of the unem- ployed. Workers, whenever you take a trip out in the country take a bundle of Daily Workers and literature, Help loosen the chains of our brothers and remove the bandages of supetstiaion and myth from their eyes. & Workers Win Over Indianapolis, Ind. Daily Worker: The G. and J. Rubber Company hheré, one of the féw factories still news given out to the workers, ‘They didn’t say which January. Tt may open up a couple of years from now for all we know. After numer- ous wage-cuts and inhuman speed- Indianapolis Police ation. At a street meeting at Foun- tain Square last week a squad car of police pulled down the speaker. Then they tried to drive away the crowd. Nobody would budge. Other workers jumped up and made such a fuss that the dicks said, “Well, we can’t ar. rest the whole bunch.” And they turn- ed loose the speaker who they had put in the police car a few minutes be- fore, ‘The released worker then spoke as though his arrest gave him more lib- Delegates to WIR Conference, Notice! Delegates to the National Confer- ence of the Workers’ International Relief, to be held at Pittsburgh Aug. 29 and 30, are requested to report to the W. I. R. offices, Room 510, 611 Penn Ave., Pittsburgh, upon their ar- rival at that city. GREET DREISER ON HIS 60th BIRTHDAY Sympathetic to the Workers’ Movement NEW YORK, Aug. 26.—Theodore Dreiser, famous American writer, who has during the past year come forth as a supporter of the revolu- tionary labor movement, is’ 60 years old today. On this occasion the Workers Cul- tural Federation has sent him the following telegram: “In the name of its 179 affiliated organizatons with 30,000 members, the newly formed Workers Cultural Federation greets you on your six- tieth birthday. We hail you both as great writer and as a courage- ous friend of the oppressed masses and of the Soviet Union. We wish you many fruitful, creative years in even closer contact with the workingclass.” A similar telegram was sent by the John Reed Club of New York. Born in Indiana Dreiser was born August 27, 1871, in Terre Haute, Ind., of & lower mid- dle class family which had been Tuined financially and thrown into the ranks of the workingclass, Dreis- er was early compelled to go to work, holding down various jobs, In 1900 his first novel, “Sister Carrie,” was published; but when the critics, who were staunch defenders of the sacred bourgeois family, deonunced the book as immoral, the publishers refused to release it for circulation. Dreiser’s other books include “Jen- nie Gerhardt,”. “The Financier,” “The Titan,” “The ‘Genius’” (sup- pressed as immoral), “Twelve Men,” “A Book About Myself,” “An Amer- ican Tragedy” and “Dawn.” He is considered one of the grteatest living American writers. In 1927 Dreiser visited the Soviet Union and on his return, wrote a book, “Dreiser Looks at Russia.” Aids Political Prisoners Dreiser is now chairman of thé Scottsboro Defense Committee. Last year he was chairman of the Com- mittee for the Defense of Soythern, Political Prisoners; he also endorsed the Communist Party in the elec- tions in November. Two months ago he headed a committee of writers and intellectuals which investigated conditions among the striking min- ers in Western Pennsylvania. He wrote an article exposing these con- ditions and the betrayal role of the United Mine Workers leadership and was promptly attacked by Wm. Green, president of the A. F. of L. the “socialist” clown, Heywood Broun and others. Saturday's Daily Worker will con- tain @ special article on Dreiser by A. B. Magil, executive secretary of the Workers Cultural Federation. TRIAL OF 7 POST: PONED IN CHICAGO {CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) ing their attacks against the work- ers. Workers are being daily evicted and clubbed by the police in spite of all the fake promises made by Cermak and other city officials fol- lowing the August 3 massacre of un- employed workers. As to relief, except-for a decision of the Emergency Committee, called by Governor Emmerson, to attempt to fTaise $8,800,000 out of the meager earnings of the workers still employ- ed, nothing has been done. No ef- fort is being made to give immediate rélief to the starving families of some 600,000 unemployed workers. The an= nounced plans wf the Emmerson Committee already call for discrim- ination against the suffering mas- ses on the South Side, At the unemployed conference held last Sunday on the South Side at the call of the Unemployed Coun- cil, the police terror aginst the Ne- gro workers was vigorously de- nounced. Since then, the Action Committee of 26, elected by the Con- ference has issued the following statement demanding the withdtaw- al of the police forces from the South Side: “We demand that this new per- secution against the Negro masses and the unemployed workers, un- der the fake charge of policy rackets be immediately stopped; that Captain Stege and all police forces sent into the South Side be immediately withdrawn. We de- mand that the eviction of unem- ployed workers be stopped and that the city immediately appropriate “funds for adequate relief to the unemployed. We call upon all workers to support the Cook Coun- ty Conference on unemployment relief to be held ber 13, at 10 a, m, at the People’s Audito- rium, 2457 W. Chicag oAvenue. “Down with police terror against the unemployed! “Down with the persecution of the Negro masses! “Hail the unity of the Negro and white workers!” Last Sunday's conference form- ulated demapds for unemployment iJ 36 INDICTMENTS ADDED AGAINST STRIKING MINERS IN HARLAN (CONTINTED FROM PAGE ONED Evarts, May 5, in which four persons’ were killed. ‘The prosecution attempted to bribe Comrade Wakefield, by offering her} her freedom if she got out of Harlan er the NMU was throwing them or somebody else, admits that bottles and ice which was thrown might well have come from a big galvanized can in charge of the UMW gang on the truck which was used as a platform. and did not interfere with the rail-' He coulin’t say who was making the roading of the miners. She refused to leave, was re-arrested and now is indicted. A reign of terror that equals the worst ever known in the bloody his- tory of the American class struggle now rages in Harlan, Ky. The com- pany gunmen, deputy sheriffs and judges are trying to terrorize wit- nesses so that the courts will have an easier time in ensuring a Sacco- Vanzetti fate for the scores of min- ers indicted on the framed-up mur- der charge. ee WASHINGTON, Pa., August 26.— Pat Fagan and lesser officials of the UMWA and their relatives and their stool pigeons ‘oined hands with the Canonsburg poiice depattment in an all-day-long attempt today to per- jure Leo Thompson, Stella Rasefsky and nine others, four of them Negro miners, to long prison terms. While Fagan was on the stand, at the end of today’s session, the court ruled that no testimony of the wage cutting, sttike breaking activity of the United Mine Workers of America would be allowed in. As judge Cum- mins put it, when International La- bor Defense Attorney Marino asked Fagan whether the UMWA didn't feel that it needed “rehabilitation” ni this district pretty bad, “The court does not wish to go into the issues between the rival unions.” Neither has the prosecution yet raised the “Red issue,” ag all their newspaper propaganda previous to the trial would cause one to believe would be their tactics. The “Red issue” although it doesn’t any longer rouse the excitement in a miner starving to death through a UMWA contract that the bosses and UMWA would like to have it raise, is prob- ably being saved for later on in the trial—perhaps for the prosecutor's closing speech. The defense gained a point by the admission of the public to the trial today. Yesterday, while the jury was being. selected, the public and the press were barred. But when Ray Greene, Internation- al Labor Defense Organizer for this district walked into the court house, she didn’t even get very close to the court room. The deputies seized her by the arms, dragged her into the district attorney's. office; the .prosec-, ‘utér assailed her for failing to his orders issted yesterday that she was nob to enter thé court house, and told her to “leave Washington at once.” Another defendant, Steve Savor, pleaded guilty today, making three in all. . Testimony of the prosecution witnesses was so contradictory that any but a packed jury will certainly have to disregard practically all that was offered today. ‘Thus, the Canonsburg police, Chief Addis and Officer James Haney have a story which may be summarized: ‘The police went to the National Min- ers Union mass meeting of about 1,500 miners in Becks Field, on July 19. There they heatd all the speeches of nearly a dozen speakers but can remember only two things. Leo Thompson said: “We have had enough of Faganism—shall we stand for more?” and the crowd yelled “Nol” ‘Then Stella Rasefske said: “we've got to get Fagan off that stand even if we have to stone him off, anyway to get him off!” and the 1,500 miners applauded tremen- dously. They don’t remember an- other single word. Then they allow- ed the parade, allowed it to enter Curry Field, where Fagan’s meeting was in progress because the police thought it would march in a circle and go back to Becks Field. But the paraders marched into Fagan’s meeting, and a fight started, in which Leo Thompson was lifted up on men’s shoulders and made a speech, no words of which could be heard on account of the noise, and after pop bottles and sticks and stones were thrown, the UMWA gang fled. Haney says the missiles were thrown, by everybody in all directions,” and Ad- dis ssys they were thrown “by the NMU members at Fagan’s platform.” Burgess Cooke, with much assist- ance from the prosecutor, picked ‘Thompson out of the group in the dock, corroborates the police gen- erally on other events in Curry Field, and describes Fagan’s generally dil- apidated condition as he sat on the ground after the fight with his co- horts bathing his head, But on cross éxamination, Burgess Cooke goes all to pieces, says the crowd was 60 mixed he couldn't tell wheth- PONS DUE eenaween er enn lief funds of $75,000,000 from the eity and $50,000,000 from Cook Coun- ty, the passage of the social insur- ance bill proposed by the Commun- ist Party; the stopping of all evic~ tions, for free fare, milk, lunches to the children of unemployed workers; the ceasing of all terror against the unemployed which is now raging with particular virulence against the Ne- gro unemployed. ‘The Conference elected an Action Committee of 26. Part of the tasks of this committee will be the visit- ing of more workers organizations, the establishment of South Side Un~ employed Council to consist of affiliated organizations in addition to the Block Committees and Unem- ployed Branches how being organ- ized. ‘The Conference called upon all or- ganizations and workers to elect de+ legates to attend the Cook County big noise, but it drowned out all in- dividual words. All three first witnesses stated that the NMU parade onto the Curry Field was led by Leo Thompson, Stella Rasefske, and a Negro defendant, Edgar Jones, except that Burgess Cooke didn’t see Stella. But then came the stool pigeon William Martin. He said he saw both meetings, that Stella was the first speaker at the NMU meeting (which she wasn’t) and not content with following the formula which the police had worked out for Stella’s speech at Becks Field, Martin said she said: “Yank Pat Fagan off the platform, beat him up and kill the son of a bitch and tirow him in the creek.” Then Martin says he ran over to the UMWA meeting, saw it start, and saw the Canonsburg miners march in. He agrees with the others as to who was leading, but unlike the po- lice, who say the noise was so great that nothing Thompson said could be heard, though they were very near him, Martin, much farther away, heard Thompson shout three times: “Comrades, let’s go get him!” and wave three times with his megaphone toward the platform, which was the signal for all the throwing of missiles and the fighting. Martin says he saw Stella Rasefske and her mother, An- na Rasefske “frothing at the mouth, jumping up and down, spitting curs- ing and stamping their feet and again urging that Fagan be killed.” Martin then proceeded to identify most of the defendants as being at the Curry field. The police, inciden- tally, said they saw the Rasefske mother and daughter, but say not a word of the actions Martin mentions. The police did not see Thompson throw anything, though they were watching him, but Martin says he saw Thompson throw his megaphone at Fagan, miss him and hit a certain James Malone, Jr. This Malone, on the stand, under cross-examination, admits he is no miner, but is employed by the Amer- iean Tin Plate Mill (apparently in the office) and that he is a nephew of Phil Murray, of the international office of the UMW. He gabbles his story. He certainly learned that story by heart after the Curry field-meet- ing, because he was’so drunk at the meeting he ‘couldn't’ stand ‘straight |" and wandered about, choking girls who were arguing for the National Miners Union, and being shoved away by them. The police and the burgess say that the two crowds became inextricably mixed, 60 no one could tell who was originally in either: Malone and Martin testify that the NMU was one solid block, separate from those on the field first, and that all the bot~ tles and bricks were thrown by the NMU miners. Malone contradicts all previous speakers by saying that ‘he heard Stella speaking before the plat- form at Curry field, and what she said was directed at him personally, as follows: “You are taking the bread out of my mouth and my mother’s mouth and my kid sister’s mouth by coming to this meeting.” Malone denies throwing anything or hitting anybody, but admits he just “swung a chair around a little to keep from getting hit.” After Majone they put on another henchman of the Fagan-Lewis ma- chine, Frank Dowlinger, for 17 years an international organizer of the UMWA. His story followed the line of Martin and Malone, but had two added features. He says he saw the defendant, Pete Wagner, yelling: “Come on and finish it,” and he says he saw the Negro defendant, Ed Greene, “Tear down the American flag from the platform and trample it. But under pressure of the cross examination, he suddenly changes this as follows: “Did I say he tram- pled it? I didn’t mean that. What he did was to fold it up in a ball.” Dowling complained he was hit in the knee with a rock from the audi- ence, but had trouble explaining this when it was brought out that he was himself in the audience, not on the truck. ‘The second common ordinary noh- official stool pigeon was the woman, Rose Kosta. Before she testified she spent her time in the court house trying to pump defense witnesses. Her testimony in general followed Mar- tin’s, but she added that when ‘Thompson threw the trumpet at Fa- gan, he also yelled, “You son of a bitch, we'll get you yet.” All this in spite of the inability of the police to hear a word Thompson said, though they were closest to him. She was just a handy liar, who saw and heard everything, even though impossible to see or hear, Fagan began his testimony with an apology for the language he had to repeat, when telling what the miners called him. He followed Martin's story somewhat, varying in consider- able detail, described with feeling the accusations by the miners that he had betrayed them, identified Thom- as Boich, a defendant as one of those cursing him, Fagan was actually saying, when the Canonsburg miners marched into his strike breaking meeting, “You will have to join the UMW whether you ‘want to of not!” But today he swore on the stand he was saying “Father, forgive them for they know not what they do.” |Autos Needed For | Trip to Conference | ssh | 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./ jare requested to cormmunicate | | with the W. I. R. headquarters, | Room 330, 9 Broadway. Urgent! | GREEN “DEMANDS” MEET FOR RELIEF Acts With | Hoover Against Jobless Under the guise of speaking in the interests of the unemployed, William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, came out for collaboration with the bosses to pre- vent the unemployed for getting im- mediate relief. Speaking at the con- vention of the Association of Street Railway and Electric Railway Em- ployees in Boston Monday, Green pro- posed that Hoover call a conference of the leaders of labor and of indus- try immediately. The leaders of la~ bor who would be called to such a conference are the fakers in the A. F. of L. The workers know what the pur- pose of such conferences is. The of- ficials of the United Mine Workers asked for such a conference with the coal operators and still demand it in order to prevent the workers from organizing under the militant leader- ship of the National. Miners Union for a determined struggle against the wage cuts and intensified speed-up of the bosses. No wonder that Green says that the A. F. of L. “would co- operate to the fullest at such a con- ference.” Mason, president of the Street Rail- way Employees association, under whose leadership the street railway workers of St. Louis have been forced to take a sharp wage cut, seconded Green’s proposal by asking that a resolution be adopted calling for such a conference to mislead the workers. The leaders of the American Fed- eration of Labor are calling for a conference of Hoover and the big bankers and factory owners in order to prevent the workers from conduct- ing a militant campaign for immed- jiate relief and unemployed insurance. Typos In Local 6 . Donate to Striking . Miners’ Relief Fund NEW YORK.—The workers in the American-Journal Chapel, rank and file members of the International Typographical Union, Local No. 6 (AFL), showed solidarity with the striking miners by contributing $10.83 to relief and pledging themselves to collect an additional $50 for the same purpose. The donation was sponta- neously suggested by workers in face of the fact that the bureaucracy of the Executive Council of the Inter- national Typographical Union sent a letter of protest against its members aiding the heroic miners who are fighting starvation. Approximately $30 has been fe- ceived for the miners from the World-Telegram Chapel, also rank and file members of the same union. Additional funds have been pledged. These collections are separate from regular box collections which are taken up every pay-day. Workers, the new tactics of the Strike Committee makes the need for relief more imperative than ever! Rally to the aid of these militant workers. Their fight against starva- tion is the first great onslaught of the working class against the wage cutting drive of the bosses, This is the struggle of the whole working Class, Every worker should join in the relief campaign. Rush funds, food, clothing and tents to the Penn- Ohio Striking Miners Relief Com- mittee, Room 330, 799 Broadway! Bronx Workers Hold . Election Campaign Conference Friday The Bronx section of the Com- munist Party urges that all working class organizations of the Bronx send two delegates each to the election campaign conference to be held at 569 Prospect Ave. Friday, August 28, at 8 p.m. Now more than ever is it necessary that all workers not only endorse the Communist Party but aid in placing it on the ballot and in rallying to- gether to give the Communist Party the largest vote it has ever drawn. asiatca sti binitimatnendiettataies miners, but finally he said that since becoming president in District 5 of the UMWA he had drawn $315 a month salary, He did not tell what else he got, Fagan says he was “dug off of the platform” and told with much heat and resentment, the various mani- fold bruises and cuts and gashes the miners gave him for his treachery. . . °. HENDERSON, Pa., Aug. 25.—Three state police guard the company store of the Henderson Coal Co, here be- cause a riot starts almost every day by desperate hungry families who do not get enough credit for work in the mine to live on. Fifteen men are in jail because of a fight Monday between the UMWA clique and the miners who are for the National Miners Union. . * CANONSBURG, Pa, Aug. 26.—The whole Buffalo mine is on fire and will have to close down for an in- Page Three Pee Ree a8 WRITE T0 DAILY WORKER FOR INFORMATION ONHOW TOSTART A ‘DN? CLUB! KIRHONKSON CLUB SOON clubs The following Da : ports of last have failed to send r meeting: Warren, O.; Oxford, Miss.; St. Petersburg, Fla.; Akron, O.; Toledo, O.; Chicago, Ill.; Detroit, Mich. The more information and news we reeeive from these clubs the more publicity we will be able to give them in the Daily Worker. All minutes should be forwarded to the Daily Worker Club Department, 50 E. 13th St., New York City. Photographs of active members or officers also will be appreciated for publication in the paper. Send a couple of photos along with your reports, “You asked me what action I have taken to build the Daily Worker Club in my vicinity,” writes M. P., Kir- honkson, N. Y. “Please let me know the names and addresses of subscrib- ers in this section so I can get in contact with them and organize a club. If there is a club in existence around Ellenville, N. Y., please send me the name and address of the sec- retary.” MAKE PERSONAL CONTACTS FOR “DAILY” CLUBS We do not know of a Daily Work- er Club near Ellenville. Name and addresses of subscribers near Kir- honkson have been sent. However, it is not necessary for the comrade to wait for this list. All workers and sympathizers whether they are subscribers or not are éligible to join the Daily Worker Club. The obly requirement is that they ex- press a desire to help the Daily Worker in one way or another. Mimeograph a leaflet announcing the first meeting today. Spread it where it will do the most good; CLUB DEPT have a little entertainment and some refreshment on hand. Give the workers as much of the floor to speak as they want. Appoint a secretary to take down the minutes and forward to the Daily Worker Club Department. Nominate a com- mittee of two or three to make plans for further activities. Some of the clubs have not provén successful because they missed out on personal contacts. The first ap- proach to workers in any territory for building a Daily Worker Club is of course the hardest. We must to a large extent depend upon the readers and subscribers of the territory to start the work and give it impetus, but this means personal contact. For the first meeting all the units and party apparatus in a given territory must be mobilized for the important work of canvassing and visiting the readers of the Daily Worker. It is this personal contact, this personal conception of what the Daily Worker Club is, how it is organized, how it functions, that very often makes or breaks a loose group of this nature. We trust the Kirhonkson comrades will profit by this personal touch! Akron, O., Picnic Next Sunday Akron, O., is holding an Interna- tional Workers’ Picnic on Sunday, August 30, at Hill Top Grove, East Van Zend Rd., N. College Hiil, O., under the auspices of language labor organizations in Cincinnati. An ex- cellent program includes dancing, contests, refreshments, prizes. Part of the proceeds will go to the Daily Worker and part to Miners Relief. Directions: Take College Hill car No. 17 at Sixth and Vine to end of line. By College Hill bus at Union Bus Station to East Van Zend Rd. By machine on Road 127 to grounds. Transportation to grounds from end of line provided. All workers and sympathizers cordially invited. PHILA. OUTING SEPT. 5-6-7 Philadelphia is also planning a three day outing over the Labor Day weekend for the benefit of the Daily Worker and Morning Frei- heit. This promises to be one of the most exciting events of the Phila- delphia season and workers are urged to make plans for the occa- sion. There will be good transpor- tation and @ splendid program. Or- ganizations particulatly are asked to arrange affairs for these days— September 5, 6 and 7. Watch for further details. Keep these dates open workers of Philadelphia! These columrs are open for all publicity in connection with outings and picnics. Send us an announce- ment of your affair today! Make it a detailed one! (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) ceiving Hospital after an attempt to commit suicide by taking poison. Terriyah told police he has been un- able to get a job. His condition is serious.” The slashing of the unemployment relief by the Murphy administration, which is supported by Socialists, af- fects not only grown up workers and children but even the unborn babies. The Detroit Free Press, on August 17 reports that the Dujardin family, consisting of husband, wife and child, were cut off the welfare lists and the family was forced to live in the park. They were taken to the hospital, and the Free Press reports that “there Dujardin insisted that he had eaten Tecently and was not hungry but Physicians who examined him said he must have been without solid food for a long time.” The Free Press goes on to state how the expectant mother risked death with her baby coming on and her only home being a public park: “The slash in the welfare roles made three weeks ago resulted in an expectant mother, her two-year- old son, and her husband spending four nights in Belle Isle park, it was Detroit Mayor Cuts Relief and Condemns Many to Hunger, Suicide revealed Sunday, night when they were taken to Receiving Hospital and given the first substantial food they have had in a week.” At the same time, workérs who steal a few cents or dollars to keep from starving are given long prison terms under Murphy's regime, while the Detroit gangsters get police pro- tection. The Detroit Times reported the case of Albert Mioducki, 50, who stole a pair of shoes worth $2.95 from a department store. Mioducki was Practically barefooted, unemployed and hungty. He was given an 18- month prison term in Jackson priso. by Judge W. McKay Skillman v-ho Uncoubtedty lets dozens of his gun- men and gangster friends go scott free for no less than murder. The situation this coming winter will be much worse in Detroit, as it will be throughout the United States. Mayor Murphy, and the socialist in harmony with the big automobile bosses in Detroit are forcing hun- dreds to death from starvation. Hun- ger and starvation are spreading rap- idly. Only the Communist Party, the Unemployed Councils of the Trade Union Unity League are carrying on @ militant fight against the starva- tion which the bosses seek to en- force. NAACP Asks Negro Press To Soft-Peddle Scottsboro Case (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) Birmingham boss press that the al- leged Negro bandit delivered a long harangue to his victims “allegedly filled with Communist phrases.” In spite of the fact that the survivor of the attack could give only a vague description of the color of the hold- up mah, White adinits the possibility that the murderer might have been a Negro. He says: “If the murderer is a Negro it is obvious that he was a mental defective upon whom the Com- munists’ phraseology of threats and direct action had this disas- trous effect.” He then appeals to the Negro ed- itors to soft-peddie all news of the murderous terror by which the Ala- bama bosses are trying to crush the struggles of the Negro masses against starvation and national oppression. He says: “This is a grave situation and the editors of the colored press have upon them a grave respon- sibility. May 1 sincerely urge that the news and editorial columns of the Negro press be carefully guarded so that they may not di- reotly or indirectly be for the futile sacrificing of the lives of colored men and women.” Of the attempt of the Alabama bosses to sacrifice the lives of 9 in- nocent Negro boys to their policy of white “supremacy” and Negro sup- pression he has no word of com- ment or condemnation. He ignores the fact that the lynch terror against the Negro masses existed Jong before the Communist Party entered the South. Instead he at- tempts to justify this lynch terror on the grounds that the Negro mas- ses, lead and inspited by the Com- munist Party, are increasingly re- sisting their oppressors. He has n¢ word fo condemnation for the at- tempt of the Alabama bosses to leg- ally lynch the Scottsboro boys. In- stead he blames the Communists for vigorously protesting against this damnable outrage. Walter White once more shows that the N. A. A. C. P. misleaders are in complete and servile alliance with the lynehers and oppressors of the Negro People. Boys! Rally to the defense of the Negro massea of Alabama: §