The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 10, 1931, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, DAY, SEPTEMBER 10, SOVIET TUBE WORKERS iM DONALD CALLS {nternational Youth SEND GREETINGS TO WORKERS IN AMERICA Tell How Cultural and Living Conditons Are Improving in U. S. S. R. Call on American Wor Union Agains kers to Defend Soviet t Imperialists Dear Comrades: Moscow, U. S. S. R. In the first lines of our letter we are sending you at the request of hundreds of our fell our hearty brotherly greetings ow workers of the tube-works to workers of all nations suf- fering under the press of heartless capitalists. Workers of America, we are today far distanced from each other, a distance of thousands and thousands of miles. Does it mean that we are far from each other in our hearts and our purposes No, it doesn't mean tl to destroy violence and slavery, and © the hearts of millions of oppressed workers and ours form involuntarily one great heart, a heart which is Jonging only for freedom. And free- dom will come of course. Now, although we are far from each other, we see that your blood- thirsty capitalists are showing fev- erish hysteria, We see that a world capitalist crisis has passed through all capitalist countries. We have Seen and we see still now that mines, mills, factories and many other plants are being closed. We see how thousands of workers with their families are thrown out into the streets of rich towns and read sen- tences condemning daily hundreds and thousands of proletarians to a dreadful death of famine. We hear the whistling of the whips of the policemen and fascists. We see the gloomy gray prisons, gallows, places of executions and the horror of the world proletariat—the electric chairs. We see floods of blood and tears. We hear continual groans and lamente- tions and cries for vengeance on the capitalists. We know it is you cry- ing, our brothers, our comrades, pressed by the capitalists. No Slavery in U.S.S.R. Comrades, we have got nothing of all these horrors here. There is no violence, slavery and oppression, no prisons for workers in our country. No gallows, no executions, no whips and no electric chairs. There are no tears, no bloodshed, no workless, no famine. No groans, no lamenta- tions are heard here, nobody does press us. We have no capitalists. Workers of the USSR are governing’ themselves and for themselves. We tube-costers of Makeevka are all concentrating with all our power, all our enthusiasm and attention around our industrial program and the industrial financial plan. We struggle with pride for its comple- tion and especially for the comple- tion of the great famous five year plan. We are at present making hat. We have a mutual object twice and thrice as many tubes as the capitalists before the war. We are building houses for our ourselves with all accomodations. We all Jearn in Soviet schcools. We have no more illiterate workers who have been left behind in a very great number by the drunken aristocracy. Improving the living conditions and raising the cultural level of our workers, we are raising at the same time the productivity of labor. Do the tubes manufactured by us suf- fice for a country where datly and hourly are growing up new mines, factories, mills, power-stations and many other plants? Do these tubes suffice for a country where millions of strong workers’ hands are creating @ new Socialistic economy? Certain- ly not. The whole erection work is nat- urally hampered by certain difficul- ties, but we workers are facing these difficulties with pride and proletarian faith, as we know that the erection work is done by the workers and that they are building for themselves. Capitalists of all countris cannot stand the gigantic growth of social- istic construction of Soviet Union. They knew well that all oppressed people are feeling the odour of the socialistic garden's flowers. They know that the Soviet Union repre- sents a” lighthouse, a guide of all the enslaved no matter of what nation. We are therefore quite aware that capitalists are earnestly preparing all sorts of war guns to kill people. These guns are being prepared for us, for the workers of the USSR. We, tube casters of Makeevka trust on you, that you, our comrades, our brothers will come forth not only with fighting against the imperialist but that you will defend us, workers of U.S.S.R. Good-bye write us an answer, we are waiting for it. Signed by 8 workers of Makeevka’s tube-plant, Our address: Moscow, Tverskaya, 3. “Rabotchaya Gazeta.” Children Die of Hunger in Ky. Coal Fields (By a Worker Correspondent) GARRETT, Ky.—There is a wave of deaths raging up and down this river. It is among the children and called first one thing and another, but in reality it is nothing short of malnutrition in nearly every case. Thousands of pale faced kids throughout the, coal fields never know anything about milk—except seeing it in the hands of their more fortunate fellowmen. And of course the rich kiddies have their share, for ain’t they trained seed of capi- talism’s tomorrow? Ain’t they the pedigreed stock that is religiously taught how to trample gnd hold in subjection the working class? Ain't they taught in every school, and in every textbook, and in the censored reading put before them that no one can attain fame except he trampled down his fellowman and rise up and gain success (riches) over the pros- trate forms of his victims. That is in line to a dot with the present system of demagogy prac- ticed in almost every church-house in this country. The leaders of this system don’t care an iota for this government—outside of what they reap for their allegiance. Nobody cares that is connected. Exeept for his personal benefit. Down with capi-« talism. Raise the banner of Commu- nism. Cops Drive Unemployed from Town to Town (By a Worker Correspondent) CINCINNATI, Ohio.— Winter is, right on us again, and a real hard one at that, for there will be as much as twice the amount of unemployed as there was last year. I shiver when the cool breeze reminds me of my prospects of another such as the one that I experienced last year in the South. The detectives and the harness bulls (uniformed policemen) are dog- ging the footsteps of everyone who does not seem to hold a so-called re- spectable position in the capitalist scheme of life. The scramble for a place to sleep at night is a fright. hundred and fifty jobless workers on trains going in all directions—men, women and children. When I came through Vicksburg, Mass., on a rainy night a freight train was delayed an hour as the crew tried to locate a place for two families with fourteen children, the oldest a girl of twelve, to find a place to ride. In Louisiana policemen would meet all trains and tell the workers to stay on and not get off there as there were né jobs. Now is the time to join the Un- employed Council. If there is not one in your town build one. The only way we can keep from starving There were from half a dozen to ais to organize and fight. CHICAGO HOSPITALS CROWDED WITH WORKERS DISEASED FROM HUNGER (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONED with severe cases of tonsilitis were sent away because all available fa- cilities were filled until October. With further underfeeding a good many of these children will die, Dr. Meyer went on to say that there were 2,500 patients suffering from all types of diseases crowded into the hospital when 1,800 is nor- mal for this time of the year. “The increase in sickness,” added Commissioner Whaelen, “is out of all proportion to normal times. We should not be having more than 250 applications a day, but the applica- tions are averaging at the rate of 500 a day.” Dr. Meyer said that the worst is yet to come this winter, as it is then when the peak of sickness is dub. With the unemployment this winter greater this year, with starvation in- creasing, the prospects for the work- ers is frightful. Dr. Meyer stated: “and to make matters ctill move cvit- ‘re’ daere wes Me fact alwavs pres FOR FASCISM (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) a@ small group of Councillors be granted what is known as “orders in council.” This means that this small group of dictators, representing Bri- tish finance capitalism, and led by “Socialists” like MacDonald and Snowden, could put through any measure they desired to batter down the living standard of the workers | without the inconvenience of going to Parliament for it. The capitalist newspapers in the United States variously see in the “orders in council” request a dic- tatorship headed by MacDonald. One paper put it: “MacDonald Asks To Be Made Dictator!” Role of “Socialists.” This is the road that the socialist parties lead to in Germany, England and all other countries where capi- talism is faced with the eventuality of complete collapse. That the workers are not ready to swallow either the proposed living standard slashes, or the coming fas- cist dictatorship, is shown by the growing militant struggles of the workers, outstripping anything of its kind in recent history. These strug- gles of the employed and unemployed against the National Government and the proposed fascist dictator- ship are led by the Communist Party of Great Britain. Workers Increase Fight. One took place in front of Parlia- ment on the day of its opening, and another took place at Bristol, the next day, on the occasion of the meeting of the Trade Union Con- gress. A graphic account of the demon- stration before the Parliamentary building is given by William Hillman, Universal Service correspondent in London. It is significant to note that the leading capitalist newspapers have toned down this story, suppress- ing the facts, in order to perpetuate the canard about the British work- ers being traditionally docile and respectful in the face of Parlia- mentary regamarol, although none seem to note that dictatorship, when directed against the workers, is not counter to the mythical Anglo-Saxon spirit. The Universal Service Cor- respondent says: “Starvation Parliament.” “Outside the House, the milling throng of unemployed sang “The Red Flag’ and ‘International,’ hymn of Communism. Cries of ‘hands off the dole!’ rent the air. “The famous bobbies and mount- ed constables of London went into action swinging trucheons at the heads of Communists. “The battle raged as the crowd broke police lines into Whitehall through the horse guards parade. Mounted police drove back the crowds along Great George Street toward St. James Park, as the mob shouted, ‘Here come the cossacks!’ “A Communist with a bugle sounded a call to rally the ‘red forces’ around him, but was rushed by police. A delegation of jobless attcmpted to invade the House of Commons, but stern measures by bobbies dissuaded them. “The marching jobless distribut- ed handbills attacking the ‘Starva- tion Parliament,’ and even cried out against Arthur Henderson, leader of the Labor Party, who in- side Parliament campaigned against the dole slashes, “In the melee, three men were injured so severely as to be sent to hospitals, and nine were arrested. Many who were injured refused to apply for treatment. “Up to a late hour, police were still charging groups of jobless and Communists in the squares around houses of Parliament.” On Wednesday, a large number of hunger marchers stormed the ses- sions of the Trade Union Congress at Bristol where the union mislead- ers are trying to keep back strikes in much the same manner that Wil- liam Green and Woll do in the United States—that {s, by mouthing phrases about being against wage cuts, and for “unemployment relief,” but by actually preventing strike ac- tion. The Associated Press reported: “The marchers attempted to rush the doors while the delegates were listening to greetings from overseas and clashed with stewards and po- lice, The leader of the deputation was injuted on the forehead. “The main body of marchers mean- while were held by police in adjoin- ing streets and were later dispersed.” “Opposition’s” Silence. Parliament was opened on Tuesday with the reading of a message from the King to MacDonald in which he asked action to save capitalism in the present emergency. The appear- ent that the peak in sickness will¥ance of MacDonald was the signal not arrive until the late winter and early spring months. The question was how to handle the problem for the coming winter.” Yet Hoover wants to cram the lie down the workers’ throats that “the health of the nation is improving!” Starvation diseases in children, said Dr. Meyer, do not always show themselves immediately, but may crop up later. “And the insidious part of the deficiency diseases (a medical term for hunger and star- vation) is that many of them do not show up for ten or twenty yeats— a certain amount of our present in- crease is due to these factors, but many years from now tuberculosis, scurvy, rickets and anaemia will ap- pear in victims who are now being underfed.” From this Hoover and his chorus would undoubtedly assume that not only is the “health of the nation for enthusiastic greetings from the Conservative and Liberal benches, as well as from Labor Party members who openly support the National Government. The opposition ex- pressed its “opposition” by a deadly silence. MacDonald opened up by declar- ing that at all costs capitalism must be saved and that it was the duty of all Englishmen, socialists and capitalists alike, to unload the great- est burdens on the backs of the workers so the profit system may live. Even when capitalism is saved, all that MacDonald promised was an overhalling of the banking system. He said: “When the present emergency is over there are criticisms of the bank- ing system which will have to be ex- plained.” He did not divulge any details about the “equal burdens” but is leaving that to the fascist dictator- improving,” but it will be beiter as iene Ross oa ‘ ship. The much-awaiter Thruout Land b (CONTINUED FROM ° NE) at the public swimming pool, de- manded only that Negro policemen be sent to the pool to help the whites. Much literature on the League of Struggle for Negro Rights was handed out at this meeting. At South Burgetts town, about 250 workers, mostly miners and _ steel workers, gathered for the meeting. Fannie Rudd spoke for the Relief, while Charles Guynn spoke for the NMU, Dan Lane spoke for the Ne- gro miners, and Joe Chandler, Y.C. L, organizer for Pittsburgh, spoke for the youth movement, At the South Burgettstown mreet- ing, 30 miners from the P & W mine came to the meeting. They have | been working under a UMWA con- | tract but the mine closed down a few days ago, because the NMU has been organizing the men and pick- eting the mine. The machine boss was among the P & W men at the meeting. They were especially in- terested in the Soviet Union, and wanted to know all about working conditions for miners there. They also wanted to know about chances of being sent to the Soviet Union. At the Lansing, Ohio, picnic, Vin- cent Kemenovich, secretary of the Western Pennsylvania district secret- ary of the National Miners Union, spoke to a large crowd, including many miners. Kemenovich spoke on correction of the weakness in the strike. He said that the present task was to bridge the gap between the miners in the mine and the miners on strike. The line of the NMU met the approval of the workers. A series of meetings is being atranged in the Burgettstown region. At the same time that the YCL meetings were being enthusiastically cheered, the American Federation of Labor held its widely announced La- bor Day meeting at West View Park, Pittsburgh. The meeting had been advertised for weeks in the capital- ist press, but only 150 gathered to listen to Pat Fagan and another speaker, Three officials who were Scheduled to speak failed to show up. ‘The small crowd was quiet and the loud spéakers blared at the empty scenery while picnicers in the park retreated as far as they could to get away from the racket. Fagan said the UMWA wanted to put ‘good’ men in office to give labor its rights. 5 * * NEW YORK.—Starting from Rut- gers Square more than 3,000 young workers and students paraded thru thé streets of the lower East Side in a brilliant demonstration against war. Sympathetic and encouraging | comment from the thousands of young workers and adults lining the POLISH FASCISTS ATTACK MINERS Two miners, John Pasko and John Oleschik, were beaten by Polish fas- cist thugs while collecting for miners’ relief at a conference of the Polish Sick and Death Benefit Society, be- ing held in Arlington Hall, 19th and St. Marks Sts. The fascists were angered by the favorable reception the miners re- ceived from most of the worker dele- gates at the conference and tried | continuously to disrupt their specches, The miners started the collection and had a few dollars in their caps, when they were grabbed and told by the fascists that they had their own committee and would send the money in. “I jumped on a chair,” states John Pasko, “télling the delegates and friends that if they would contribute to this committee that the starving miners would never get @ penny of it.” Just as I ended | my speech they jerked me off the | chair. After a rumpus of @ half | hour they got us both into the lobby, where a gang of thugs beat us up. speech of Arthur Henderson ‘turned out to be an appeal, likewise, to save capitalism, but not through attack- ing the unemployment insurance payment, as this is one of the most dangerous roads, arousing mass re- sistance. Henderson forgot to explain the fact that he favored slashing unem- ployment insurance payments before he resigned from the MacDonald cabinet. The entire speech was a mild, gentlemanly debate in the most accepted parliamentary form, which left MacDonald a free road to carry out the fascist dictatorship. Supporting the “opposition” were the three ex-Labor Party members in the new “independent” group of try open fascist, Mosley. Mosley, in 4 recent article, declared the main op- position should be against Commu- nism not MacDonald. Realizing that the masses are moving towards a militant fight against the mockery of the Labor Party “opposition” and the decaying capitalist system that it is helping to protect, Maxton, the “left” Labor member of Parliament, indulged in one of the most demagogic speeches ever heatd in this prize academy of demagogy. Replying to the ultra- conservative Churchill, Maxton said: “I hope the Labor movement will soon realize the Parliamentary op- position is not its only resource and that the revolutionary stage is now rapidly approaching.” Such playing with words and at- tempting to fool the masses has now become an important function of the Maxtons in England. Maxton has followed @ policy of first acting with the Hendersoys, then apparently re- maining “neutral,” then again cri- ticizing Henderson; later mouthing Day Celebrated | Thousands of Youth | workers present. pavements could be heard on all sides. | Preceded by a band, the youth marched four abreast with torch | lights at frequent intervals. Mass singing and cheering marked the de- monstration. ‘The parade ended in a mass meet- | ing at the Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. 4th St., where representatives of the Young Communist League, Young} Pioneers and the Communist Party | spoke. Many young workers joined | the Young Communist League. | 1931 lhl OR PB — — fage Three stad teat i8.- MINE RELIEF A QUESTION OF | LIFE OR DEATH small, often as low as $8 a month, but they must be paid or we will have more strikers braving the win- | ter in tents, which we haven't got. | This is not a question of food. It is a question of actual sickness and death for whole families of striking (Telegram to the Daily Worker) DETROIT, Mich.—Ten thousand | is a conservative estimate of the | number of workers, seventy-five per cent youth, at the two demonstra- tions here, one on the east side and the other on the west side. The de- | monstrations were preceded by | marches of unemployed young work- | ers at noon upon city hall and the Welfare station in the Negro section demanding immediate relief for the youth as well as adults. The evening demonstration was localized by two marches to the Park. Both marches were featured by enthusiastic youth spirit. ‘The masses hailed International Youth Day this year as the first real youth action taken under the leadership of the Young Communist League. A hundred Negro and white chil- dren enthusiastically marched almost all day, present at all demonstrations and bringing up in force in the eyen- ing meeting. Defense of Soviet Hailed A resolution was adopted against imperialist war schemes, for defense of the Soviet Union, support of the miners and textile strikers and de- manding the release of the nine Scottsboro boys and Harlan miners. Workers voiced support for the preparations for Sept. 28 Youth's Unemployed demonstration before city hall, which will make concrete demands and representing 100 young delegates from fraternal organiza- tions, unemployed councils and shops. The demonstration enthused the entire League membership for the doubling of the tempo in carrying out the plan of work, placing em- Phasis on the development on unit and shop nuclei and mass work. Scores joined the Young Commun- ist League and the Pioneers. soe 8 (Telegram to the Daily Worker) CHICAGO, Ill. — Five thousand young and adult workers, Negro and white marched in the Chicago Inter- national Youth Day demonstration against bosses war, for defense of ‘the Soviet Union, against starvation, and for immediate relief. Two resolutions were passed against war preparations and for the immediate release of the nine Scottsboro boys and all class war prisoners. Police broke up the meeting at the Western Electric plant. ae aia (Telegram to the Daily Worker) LOS ANGELES, Cal—Heavy pol- ice force and “Red” squad attach- ments early in the evening blockaded the entrance of the Cooperative Cen- | ter and tore down all signs of the International Youth Day celebration and provoked and intimidated the The preparations for IYD were marked by intense police terror. All youth rallies in the Negro and Mex- ican section were broken up. The Club were raided several times in an attempt to prevent the organization of the Negro youth masses. A successful parade around the Nutrition Center was held by the Pioneers with about fifteen in the line of march. In the evening a special program was arranged for all the Pioneers. Sac aba (Telegram to the Daily Worker) NEGAUNEE, Mich.—Three hun- dred participated in the Interna- tional Youth Day demonstration with the Young Communist League taking an, active part very enthu- siastically. No disturbances. An in- side meeting was held after the de- monstration in Labor Temple. . (Telegram to the Daily Worker) CANTON, O.—One thousand work- ers demonstrated at Nimisilla Park with 400 young workers in spite of the fact that the League speaker, Margaret Sabol did not show up. Masses were held with great en- thusiasm with local Young Com- munist League forces. * 8 6 PROVIDENCE, R. l.—Three hun- dred gathered yesterday in front of City Hall in an enthusiastic demon- stration on International Youth Day. The workers very readily responded to the speakers who pointed out the war danger which is hanging over the heads of the hungry workers, es- pecially the young workers. A collection of $8 was made and several young workers joined the Young Communist League. A Ne- gro worker joined the Communist Party. Santal Midy prescribed for years fo: Kidneys mp and Bladder == Back aches, night rising, burnin; sages athens be torteoted before, become dangerous. Neglect may b- Se revolutionary phrasec, but yet doing all he can to keep back revolutionary independent | (UNITS! HOLD AFFAIRS FOR “DAILY” DURING SEPTEMBER! More affairs and entertainments for benefit of the Daily Worker will enable us to go through the autumn (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) | months without accumulating a large things Pek ae improved, deficit. Receipts during the past Hundreds of other miners, now|Weeks have been dangerously low living in cheap houses, will be evicted | Affairs, dances, socials, will remedy unless rents are paid. The rentsare | this situation. Peabody, Mass., raised $103.66 clear for the Daily at Daily Worker Picnic held August 30th. Other units should be able to do like- wise. Every Unit no matter how small or how large should hold an af- fair at least twice a month, Expenses should not. be high;. workers can ,one meal a day in order to renew my jsub. Enclosed you will find three dollars for six months. Chicago D. W. Club Meets. The regular meeting of the Daily | Worker Readers Club of Chicago, Il, was held Friday, August 28th, with | Comrade Bittenfield, chairman. six |regular members were present and | three visitors who it is hoped will at- |tend regularly. | Minutes of the previous meeting |were approved as read. Comrade | Riegel read an article on the British crisis, appearing in the Chicago Tri- miners, | meet at the home of a worker, or at|bune, and a similar a a i s ‘i | the workers center, or in the open air.| Daily Worker. He then led the dis- persian am ae sags peed bee Worker Clubs particularly cussion showing the difference of i Lele! ; should hold regular affairs with en-|handling the story by a workers sticking out through the bottom of | their shoes, It is hard to go out collecting relief without shoes. Men | are now out collecting, barefoot. Men | are trudging miles to the picket line | in the early morning barefoot. They | come to the organizer with old shoes, | asking leather to repair them. They | do not ask for new shoes. They want shoe leather and tacks to put new soles on the old ones. They go to the line now, without shoes, but | they come back with feet swollen | and blistered, with -big sores on their | feet where they have scraped against | culm banks and concrete roads on | the picket line. Two men whom Organizer Siders | knows personally went out collecting | relief for two days and brought back | sacks full of food for the camp, but | they came back with their feet one | huge blister. They couldn't walk the | | next day, When Comrade Hawkins went to | Coverdale as chairman of the relief | | committee the miners came rushing | to him with all.their problems; prob- tertainment, refreshments and dis- cussion. Affairs also should lay the basis for starting Daily Worker Clubs. Providence, R. I., held a success- ful Daily Worker Picnic last week at which $25 was raised for the Daily; “We had a large crowd of sympathizers and comrades and representatives of the General Fabric strikers,” writes A. B., one of the functionaries present. “Strikers are learning every day about the class struggle,” he adds, “and they are- putting up a strong fight against the Central Falls ‘Bulls and Flat Fleet. The working class of R. I. are learning more about the Daily Worker and the Communist Party now than before the strike, and the working class is support- ing the strikers with strenuous ef- fort. The Providence Unit won't forget the Daily Worker.” “Daily” Needed in Strike Regions. Glad to hear of the excellent use of the “Daily” during the fabric strike. The Daily Worker fights for | the entire working class of America. | lems of tents, of shoes, of food, cloth- | ing, bedding and milk for their ba- | |bies. They took him into tents and | showed him their sick children. | | They asked him to please do some- | | thing for them. Hawkins went to Siders, organizer | of the Library section, and talked over the problem. They decided that | since the relief committee was get- | ting in so little in funds—hardly | | enough to halfway feed the strikers— it would be impossible to handle this | situation without a special appeal to | all comrades and organizations who | Want to see the National Miners’ | Union grow as the fighting union of the miners. show your solidarity. The local politicians are trading on the misery of the miners. Arm- Strong, a candidate for county com- | missioner, offered the Coverdale miners $100 if they would send a | miner to speak fo rhim at political rallies. The miners scorned Telief Gained by such tactics, Nearly all the politicians have tried to exploit | the misery of the striking miners for | their petty ambitions. These same fakers, now in office, promise relief to the miners if they are re-elected. | | The miners refuse them, ‘We miners will continue the battle for the working class against all odds, but you can help to make the odds against us smaller by sending | relief. Do not let up on collections. More collections are needed, Now is | the time. | | Many miners who went back to} | work under the scab contracts of the | |v: M. W. A. are coming out to join | us. Over 100 from the’ patch at- | | betrayed. Expression at our solidar- | lynch terror, is issued by a commit- | headquarters of the Young Liberator | {t¥ day meetings show that not only | tee appointed by the Alabama Inter- | |are the miners getting together to |Tacial Commission. This is the same | | fight the strike-breaking U.M.W.A. | body which in the early days of the | Scottsboro case declared that it had The miners | No interest in the case as it felt con- | | and the labor fakers, but the steel | workers are joining us. look forward to the day in the near | | future when the steel workers lal miners will, join forces and fight side | by side in the battle against slavery. | Comrades: At the W. I. R. con-/} | ference every miner delegate was | worked up by the promises of out- side delegates and the signs of def- | | inite organized work for relief—with | the unity and solidarity of the or- | | ganization, But now, two weeks after | | the conference, we find very little re- | | lief coming in. The promise of the | conference is not being fulfilled. | At the beginning of the strike we were able to give the miners three meals a week. Now we can hardly give them two. : The other day I heard children at | Camp No. 8 crying for milk, while | their mothers only had milk for the | youngest. How would you like it if you had three or four children and had milk for only one of them? This is what miners’ wives have to face | in our tent colonies. | What is true of Coverdale is true | of all the other relief camps of the | strike. They must be helped. | We must have tents. We must | have shoes. We must have patching | material for the tents and water- proofing. We must have shoe leather | and tacks to patch wornout shoes. You must rush all donations and funds, AT ONCE to the Penn-Ohio- | W. Va.-Ky. Striking Miners’ Relief | Committee, Room 205, 611 Penn Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa, | (Signed) FRED SIDERS, Section Organizer N. M. U. IKE HAWKINS, | Chairman Penn-Ohio-W. Va.-Ken- tucky Striking Miners’ Relief | Committee. VOLUNTEERS WANTED To help in the Election Work every day in the afternoon. UNEMPLOYED COMRADES ARE serious Goatonce to yourdruggist fo the original Santal Midy, used through jut She weaid for ield e sectucy URGED TO COME 35 Bast 12th St. fifth Qoor Ae TT g————! This is the time ‘to |. It is equally necessary for the work- ers of America to support the Daily Worker in its campaign for financial existence. This can be done by in- dividual donations, subscriptions, and affairs and entertainments for the benefit of the Daily. Subscriptions and renewals will help greatly to finance the Daily: E: M., Gary, Ind., makes a real Communist sacrifice to renew his sub: “I am reading the Daily for a number of years,” he writes, “and I did not renew on time because of the crisis. I am saving paper and a capitalist paper. All the members participated in a very interesting discussion. One of the members said that | though he had read many articles on the English political crisis he did not have a clear understanding of what jit was all about until this discussion. Another member said he did not realize how interesting and instruc- tive the reading and discussing of a | newspaper article could be. | Worker Correspondence Wanted. Under Worker Correspondence, Comrade Cohen wrote a story for the Daily Worker on a family he knows in distress. Comrade Good volun- teered to write a story for the Daily Worker to be read at the next meet- ing. Comrade Drucker was then elected to wrtie a story for the fol- lowing meeting. Tea and cake were served and the meeting adjourned at 10 p. m. We would like to ad dthat there should be more reading and dis- cussion of contents of the Daily Worker. We believe also that a Daily Worker Club Affair every other week or so will succeed in drawing new members into the club, The proceeds of the affair of course to be sent to the Daily Worker. We suggest that future meetings of the Chicago Dally Worker Club be widely advertised in Chicago. The average attend- ance of one of the New York Clabs is sixty workers. There is no rea- son why Chicago could not have at least half. A mimeographed leaflet widely distributed will do the trick. (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONES | under capitalism. And, in the be- lief that they still can fool the Ne- gro masses into acceptance of the | boss lynchers and slave drivers as |their “true friends,” the committee }ealls upon the Southern Negro macs- jes to take no part in the mass fight for Negro rights but to trust them- selves once fore to the “wise leader- | ship” of their “white (boss) friends” jand the Negro tools of these bosses. The appeal ends with the hypocrit- ical statement: “How good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together iff | unity.” | Has No Word of Protest Against Lynch Terror This appeal, which has not a single word of condemnation against the | tended our meeting at Coverdale on | frame-up of the Scottsboro or a word | Sunday. They know they have been | Of protest against the wide-spread fident that the boys had had a fair trial and received only the just pen- alty for “their crime.” Later, when the Commission found that of workers throughout the wor! fused to accept its views but were militantly protesting against the lynch verdict the Commission made haste to cooperate wit the NAACP leaders in their efforts to hamstring the mass defense movement. Some of the signers of this traitor- ous appeal are: Dr, Henry M. Ed- monds, Robert M. Jemison, Jr., Supt. Cc. B. Glenn, Rev. M. Sears, and W. B. Driver, all of Birmingham, Ala., and Prof. Robinson Brown, of Tus- caloose, and Jesse H. Herrin of Mont- ALABAMA BOSSES IN NEW ATTACK ON SCOTTSBORO MASS DEFENSE | gomery. Side by side with this hypocritical appeal to maintain the cordial rela- tions which the authors lyingly claim to exist between the Alabama boss lynchers and their Negro victims, the Detroit Independent publishes the ex- | perience of a Detroit Negro worker |who has just returned from a visit |to the South. This worker, Leroy Parker, of 3014 Hastings St., Detroit, was seized by two white men in the | delta town of Gwynn, Miss., and sold | to another white man for the sum of | two dollars. Parker telling his ter- |rible experiences, says: Sold For $2—No Wages Paid. “Shortly after, four other colored men were brought in and each sold for the same sum, We were all put on a cotton farm to chop cotton. Our overseer was a colored man named Thomas Reeves, who beat us without mercy. His cruelty was | almost indescribable.” This shows that the white bosses can always find tools among a certain class of Negroes, whether to act as Simon Legree overseers or to issue state- ments, as has been done by the | Negro toadies on the Alabama | Inter-racial Commission and by Dr. Du Bois, Pickens, Walter White, ete, in an attempt to confuse and mislead the Negro masses and be- tray their struggles, | After 18 days on the cotton farm |Parker managed to buy his way out |by money furnished by friends to | whom he managed to get word of his plight. It was useless appealing to capitalist “law and order.” While Parker was still at the farm, one of the other men died as a result of ill- treatment. 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