The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 7, 1931, Page 3

a — herp AEN oe ee RRNA ANP RL |! DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1931 .. JOBLESS PROTEST.IN LONDON AT ARREST OF LEADERS (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) masses. The plan is to curb the re- sistance of the masses by having them vote for the government which will drive through the decrees against their living standards. The program for this election. for the National government will be drafted by MacDonald alone. The New York Times reports this in the following: “the Cabinet Ministers decided to give a free hand to Prime Minister , MacDonald in shaping the govern- ment’s platform. The Prime Min- ister will therefore draft the elec- tion manifesto on as broad a na- tional basis as possible, and what- ever he decides on the tariff ques- tion will Rave the support of all his Ministers.” The MacDonald election platform will be “on as broad a national basis as possible” in order that all of the foming wage cutting and dole cut- ting decrees and police attacks on the militant workers will be sanc- tioned beforehand in the election platform of the National government. ‘The capitalist class has recognized that MacDonald is the leader in the etteck against the workers and has | chosen him to write the election pro- gram for the National government. The Labor Party which tried through Henderson’s conversations | with MacDonald several weeks ago to | be included in the National govern- ment has already started its election propaganda in “opposition” to the National government. ‘Its election platform will include a declaration against the cut in the dole by the National government, a cut to which tife Labor Party agreed when it was in power. The Times reports that this plank in the platform is only for the purpose ef catching votes, in other words in order to fool the workers into believing that the Labor Party is, carrying on a sincere struggle Donald. The Times reports that this Plank will “undoubtedly be an im- portant vote catehing cry,” As part of the hypocritical dema- gogy of the Labor Party, Stanley | Hirst, president of the Transport and General Workers Union, stated that the Labor Party would fight for free trade against the protectionist policy of the National government. The complete hypocrisy of this statement is showed by the New York |Times, which stated, as we pointed out in Monday’s Daily Worker, that the free trade platform of the Labor Party was in direct opposition to what all of its leaders and the lead- ers of the Trade Unions have already said about the necessity for tariffs. “So the only party with any strength now bearing the free- trade banner aloft is the Labor or- ganization. But that is a political accident. Eabor is for free trade not because it believes in it bat mainly because the Conservatives are for protection. Trade unions which now dominate the Labor Party are very largely won over to a tariff. Arthur Henderson, new Labor leader, says himself he would rather balance the budget by means of a revenue tariff than by unem- ployment insurance cuts.” . In order to curb the radical phrase mongering of the left wingers of the Labor Party the party conference on Monday passed a resolution which states that all members of the Labor Party in the House of Commons must follow the party decisions, ‘The left wingers have protested against this curbing of their attempts to fool the masses through radical phrase mon- gering, which is opposed by the offi- cial party leadership because of the inner party difficulties it occasions. Maxton, one of the left wing leaders, protested against this because of his “hard, steady, strenuous and loyal work in the movement”, actually in against the hunger policy of Mac- deceiving the workers by left phrases. (0) CLEVELAND JOBLESS DEMAND RELIEF FROM CITY {CUNTINUED FROM PAGE ONED Party candidates who- was ruled off the ballot, Bart, district organizer of Cleveland, spoke next, exposing the scheme of the counci lin preparing the fare raise as part of the attacks against the workers throughout the country. Following these speakers more than 2,000 workers marched in twos to the city council, which was meeting at the time. Only about 1,000 were al- jowed in to the council and the rest, which had by this ‘time grown larger, was kept out, despite the fact that the galleries were empty. As soon as Mayor Marshall opened the meeting Comrade Sandburg demanded that the other workers be allowed in. He was immediately attacked by the po- lice, beaten up and thrown out. By this time all the workers began to shout the demand to be heard and the police attack began in the coun- cil chambers. It is not known yet how many were beaten and arrested, but the worke:s were putting up a militant struggle inside against the politicians and their thugs, while outside a meeting was being held on the steps: will answer this new attack against the workers, who were met by police clubs as an answer to their demands by| organizing (protest {meetings throughout the city. This will fur- ther expose the role of the bosses’ government. An intensive campaign is being conducted for the coming elections, with Marie Nurmi, candi- date for council in District One, and the following candidate’ who have been disqualified: A. Pinckney, Dis- trict 2; R. Larkins, District 3; R. Medling, District 4. Full prepara- tions are going forward for a mon- ster hunger march to the county in Cleveland on Oct. 16. PENNSYLVANIA WINE ALSO OUT; FIGHT PAY CUT (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) to the other mines here, is warranted. Word was brought from the New England Fuel Go. mine, seven miles the other side of Morgantown, that the men are ready to strike and ask for an organizer. Similarly miners from the Cleveland min (Pursglove No. 1) say they, too, are ready to join the strikers’ ranks. Tomorrow morning the picketing will center at the Cassville mine, the furthest to the South of this group of minés, and of key significance. ‘When school was out, bare-legged children in far from adequate cloth- ing gave evidence of the starvation wages their fathers have been receiv- ing for months and months. Although this section is in the heart of hilly green farm country, the boasted fresh air doesn’t give the empty-bellied childten healthy coloring. Almost without exception they look thin and anaemic. ‘The attitude of the former chair- man of the UMW relief committee characterizes the position of 95 per " cent of the miners in this region. The relief headquarters are at Osage, sup- poscdly the center of UMW strength heroabouts, / “are you going to put up a real ficlit against this-wage cut?” he ask- ed Ike Hawkins, Negro chairman of the Penn-Ohio-W. Virginia-Kentucky Strixing Miners Relief Committe, an active member of the NMU. Of coudse, the National Miners Union always fights!” Leaves UMWA Then I’m with you!”” He resigned his job on the UMWA relief com- mittee. Van Bittner openly declares thta he will use the 400 men on his relief list (a hangover of the Conhelisville strike) to force th miners ni the Fair- mont-Morgantown field to accept the ‘eut. Your correspondent saw miners carrying large sacks of relief away from the UMW station. All of the - miners asked, agrt that they had “wot, seceived 0 time from the UMW in pears. “They are dancin’ because the NMU is here now,” one miner laughed daily carry- ing th sack over his back into his shack. Van Bittner Threatens Van Bittner told the newspaper men and the capitalist press is featuring his statement, that the srike will not ahount to anything because the Na- tional Miners Union will not be able to furnish any relief. Bittner and his henchmen are busy making the rounds and threatening that every striker will lost his job, and further, be starved out because no relief will be forthcoming. ‘The presence of Ike Hawkins, the chairman of the Penn-Ohio-W. Vir- ginia-Kentucky Striking Miners Re- lief Committee in the field today was answer enough to one of Bit- ther’s threats, The eagerness of the superintendents of the Rosedale and the Davis mines to offer any prom- |ises to get the men back into the pits today before they march on the oth- ers opening tomorrow and spread the strike to all the mines affected by the pay cut, indicates the growing strength of the strike. New Demands The miners in the Fairmont-Mor- gantown field feel confident that they can stop the wage cut which the U. M. W. so generously offered in their name to the operators, Further, they are determined to fight for other de- mands, ,as well. These demands will be dratn up by the strike committee and presented to the strikers for adoption tomorrow. < Union headquarters and relief sta- tien have been secured in Liberty from where Ike Hawkins sent out an appeal to workers everywhere to join the campaign to raise funds to buy food for the strikers and help win their strike, All funds should be sent immediately to the committee's cen- tral headquarters at 611, Penn Ave., room 205,’Pittsburgh, Pa., he points out, from where truckloads of food- stuffs will be sent into the strike zone. Central Pennsy Cuts. JOHNSTOWN, Pa., Oct. 6—Four- teen hundred men had their wages cub hete Saturday. The Sonman Shaft Coal Co. cut the pickmen five cents a ton and the day men 62 cents day. The Johnstown Coal Co, ‘The Communist Party in Cleveland ' Need Cash for Freight On Cars of Potatoes Donated to Strikers MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Oct. 6—On Oct. 2 @ carload of potatoes, con- ; taining 37,000 pounds or 18% tons, left Ironwood, Michigan, for Pitts- | burgh, freight prepaid by the dis- | trict office of the Workers’ Interna- tional Relief. A wire was received today from the local relief committee of Barago, Mich., that a carload of potatoes is ready for shipment from there and will leave in @ few days. | There are nine more carloads to} ship! Money is needed immediately. | The whole question of relief work of | the Workers’ International Relief | here depends on the way the work- ers and friends in Minnesota, North- ern Wisconsin and Northern Michi- gan respond with financial help. The farmers are doing their bit. Send all money for shipment of potatoes | to 124% §. Fourth St., Minneapolis, Minn. Bankers Meet With ‘Hoover On Weak ‘Banking Structure (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) Tuesday night with the republican and democratic leaders of the house of representatives and of the sen- ate. This meeting, the results of | which are not yet known as the Daily goes to press, was for the purpose of giving the Party leaders the orders that had been worked out on Sat- urday by a committee of barikers who went to visit Hoover. ‘The arrangements for the meeting on Saturday were made in such secrecy that it was not held in the White House, where it would ordi- ‘narily have been held when the | president was one of the participants, and it is not yet definitely known who the four bankers were who at- tended the meeting. However, on Monday a meeting of-four of Wall | Street’s leading bankers took place |in the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. At the meeting at the Fed- eral Reserve Bank were George Whit- | ney, partner of J. P. Morgan & Co.; Albert H. Wiggin, chairman of the governing board of the Chase Na- tional Bank; Charles E. Mitchell, chairman of the National City Bank, and William C. Potter, president of the Guaranty Trust Co. ‘The importance of the. meeting can be seen from the fact that only the very top leaders of Wall Street were present. It was thought at first that the meeting of the bankers on Mon- day was in connection with the sharp Slump in the stock market, but after the news of teh Saturday meeting became known Wall Street realized that more important decisions had een artived at. The purpose of the meeting was to outline the program of the United States for the attack on French imperialism which will come up when Laval arrives. “The items on which the Franco- American struggle will be concen- trated will be the question of the war debts, the reparations question and thee question of the gold standard. ; The New-York World Telegram re- ports that: “Both French and American dip- Jomats admit freely that they do not understand one another and that their policies are widely vari- ant.” The World Telegram adds that La- val is bringing with him the pro- gram of French imperialism on which the struggle will be conducted with United States finance capital. 6 “Premier Laval hopes to Iay be- fore President Hoover late in Oc- tober balance sheets of disarma- ment and reparations which busi- ness men can understand. He in- tends to show his figures, pack his bag and return to France.” The meeting of Hoover and the bankers was for the purpose of or- ganizing the United States counter- offensive against the Hrench propo- gals. The visit of Laval and the preparatory meeting of the leading bankers means that the antagon- isms among the three leading im- perialists have been sharpened acutely since. the suspension of the British pound. They are preparing for armed conflict as the next step in the economic struggle which 1s now in the stage of an open finan- cial war. All the imperialists, however, have @ common hatred of the Soviet Union and hope to make an attack on the Soviets as one of the means which will postpone the outbreak of their own inter-imperialist conflict and simultaneously smash the Soviet power, Jobless Council in East St. Louis Acts EAST ST. LOUIS, Oct. 6—A Negro worker was evicted in East St. Louis. ‘The furniture was out on the street half an hour before the active mem- bers of the Unemployed Branch found out about this eviction, Im- mediately they mobilized the work- ers of the neighborhood and held a demonstration before this evicted ‘This is the first eviction that the East St. Louis Unemployed branch took part in, Workers were very en+ | thusiastic as & result of this evic- tion, 70 worker joined the Unem- To Stop An Eviction | ployed branch, ‘The comrades are already making plans and are rais- ing finances to open up ® Workers’ ‘ Bo The Latest Outrage Again Negroes Calls for Action of the Masses! By ROBERT MINOR HE cowardly shooting of the Negro coal miner, Willie Peterson, in the jail at Birmingham in the sheriff’s presence and with his apparent approval, should cause every worker, black and white, to think again very gravely on the situation in the South, This attempted murder is only one incident in a wave of violence against Negroes. And those who cannot see the political significance of happenings of this kind are blind indeed. Throughout the capitalist world, which is now in the chaos of eco- nomie crisis, the parasite classes, capitalists and landlords, are engaged in a brutal offensive to throw the burden of the economic crisis of, the world system of capitalism onto the shoulders of the working class every- where and the exploited so-called “inferior” peoples under imperialist rule. In the southern United States especially violent efforts are being made to throw the burden onto the shoulders of the laboring masses— particularly the Negro masses, who are deprived of their political rights and segregated as a special slave category. In the earlier economic crisis following the world war, the terror against the Negro masses increased. During the recent Mississippi floods the oppression of the Negro masses took the form of wholesale forced labor. Just so in this crisis today the ruling class of the southern states is turning loose a flood of violence, terror and economic robbery. The fall in the price of cotton brought economic ruin throughout the cotton belt—which is also the black belt). The burden of the crisis was “naturally’—according to the white ruling class—to be shifted to the shoulders of the helpless masses of terrorized black serfs, the agricultural laborers, share-croppers and tenant farmers. In many farming regions the white landlords stopped supplying food to the sharecroppers in the hope of starving out the sharecroppers who in desperation would leave the crop standing in the field and would forfeit their share of the crop to the landlords. Many sharp clashes occurred | because of this—notably the fight at Camp Hill, Alabama, where the Negro sharecroppers were fired upon for daring to organize the Share- croppers’ Union. And now the classic frame-up against the whole Negro people—the hideous and insane lie, the crazy superstition handed down from slavery days—the traditional cry of “rape”—is sweeping through the South on the trail of farm ruin and bank failure. The now famous case of Scottsboro was only one example of this. Nine innocent Negro boys were condemned to death in a framed up trial which was staged on the day of the county fair when the local merchants, | facing bankruptcy with the falling cotton prices, hoped to draw a big crowd from the mountains for the sake of the revival of trade; they even went so far as to obtain a brass band from the local textile mill to add to the attraction of the “nigger trial” as ® means to keep the crowd in town for a busy day or two of booming trade. Of course, there is no more truth in the scurrilous lie that Negroes have an inherent tendency to commit violence upon white women than there is in any of the old lies of the days of witchcraft. Or the age-old lie that the Jews murder Christian children to use their blood for the passover ceremonies. Or the more modern lies, such as the supposed cut- ting off of children’s hands and the eating of the dead bodies of their fallen comrades by the German soldiers, who were then called “huns.” ‘The peculiar turning of the typical guilt of the slave owner into the sup- posed guilt of the enslaved people is a thing we have seen often in his- tory. It is not an accident that the old custom of the Belgian rubber plantation owners in the Congo of cutting off the right hand of slaves who fail to bring in the required amount of rubber, set the pattern for the wartime lies about the “huns” cutting off the hands of children in Belgium. In the southern United States, centuries of slavery, which means centuries of the violation of the womankind of the slave people by the white slave owners, is the historical background which sets the pattern of lies to justify the present terror against the still enslaved Negro People. ., ‘The flood of terror—supported by colossal propaganda about “rape”— is mounting ‘high. In the North, only recently a white business man, deciding to end his life, wrote a farewell note saying that he had been “shot by Negroes.” The truth, however, was exposed. During the past few months the courts of Virginia have been ringing with the famous ‘William Harper case. In this case a white woman, having an illicit affair with @-man other than her husband, accounted for her. absence from home saying that she had been “raped by a Negro,” and upon her oath William Harper was identified; the police produced a “confession” of Harper, éxtorted by torture, and the innocent Negro was sentenced to death. The frame-up was finally exposed and the Negro victim who so narrowly escaped murder on the gallows through the white woman's | perjury was released. (Of course, the white woman was not even slapped on the wrist by the law for having “merely” attempted to bring about the death of a “nigger.”) And just now come two more cases of the same sort. William R. Carver, a white real estate man, took out insurance for $10,000 on his wife’s life, then murdered the wife and his two-year-old baby. He there- upon murdered a Negro boy who was working in his home, after which he proceeded to report that his wife and baby had been murdered by a | “nigger” and that he had killed the Negro, This also was exposed. And now the Peterson case rings through the South! Again “Negro” violence against “white. womanhood!” With another white woman swearing that Peterson is the “nigger” while a reward of $3,300 is claimed by the woman for having caught the “black fiend” who, in @ supposed robbery, is said to have shot some white women. We have pointed out before that every known bit of evidence indicates that the supposed robbery was committed, not by a Negro, but by a white criminal who may or may not have resorted to the common device of darkening his face for the occasion. The surviving woman described him as “having straight hair” and speaking in an “educated way,” which in the language of the “white supremacy” South would mean nothing more than that he looked and spoke like a white man. But the officials and police of Birmingham brought into the jail a relative of the white woman who carried with him a pistol and in the presence of the sheriff shot down and gtavely wounded the accused Negro. None but reactionaries or com- plete fools can imagine that this wave of incidents of terror and frame-up against Negroes is not of political significance. This atrocious crime, coming on the heels of the Scottsboro frame-up and the Camp Hill massacre, together with a flood of similar violence, must be another call to the masses of the laboring population, black and white to organize their resistance. The International Labor Defense and the League of Struggle for Negro Rights are to be thanked for stepping into this breach and calling to the masses to defend the victims of this ~ terror. But the masses, Negro and white, must come to the support of these organizations. At the sime time the new “locusts” (new to the South, where they never had the courage to operate before)—the reactionary leaders of the Nationa! Association for Advancement of Colored People—have come in to win a place for themsélves as the most useful servants of the sheriffs and the white landlords in carrying on the campaign of terror against Negroes. During the whole summer the National Association for Ad~- vancement of Colored People leaders have been goading the police on to artest Negro organizers and to break up organizations and meetings for the defense of the Scottsboro victims of white ruling class “justice.” The leading stipporters of the National Association for Advancement of Col- ored People in Birmingham even went so far as to contribute to the fund st Suicides in Chicago Increase as Misery Of Jobless Grows | | CHICAGO, Ill—Out of work 14 ; Months as a result. of being injured | while on a job for which no com- pensation was paid, William Bon- horst of Ottawa, 65, committed sui- cide by hanging himself at his home. Despondent because of “financial trouble,” Peter Dunworth, 40 years | old, an insurance clerk, attempted to | | commit suicide by swallowing poison. He was found unconscious in a. Loop | street Seneca Haviland, 51, 4905 Marsh- field Ave. hanged himself in the garage at the rear of his home while | despondent over failure to find work. Jumping from a window on the seventeenth floor of the Methodist Temple building, Frank Rozicka of 7117 Semple St. was instantly killed. | | He was an unemployed worker. | The bodies of three women were recovered from Lake Michigan on ‘Thursday. All were shabilly dressed and bore no marks of identification. It is obvious that despondency over economic conditions prompted each suicide. Wage Cuts Spread » To Railways (OONTINUED FROM PAGE ONED - me**h! Abolish the terrific speed-up. Enforcement of becugauzea rules and im- provement of working conditions on | the job! Strike against wage cuts! i ee: working | STEEL PAY CUT IN MADISON MADISON, IIL, Oct. 6—The steel barons have struck another blow} lagainst the living standard of the |workers of Madison, Ill. After put- | ting into effect several speed-up | |schemes the bosses are now directly | slashing the wages of the workers in | this plant particularly on the bonus | work. On 30-foot rails the bosses |lowered the rate from $1.17 a 100 | rails to 80 cents for the same amount, |made above the set daywork task of | 700 rails. Day rate was $3.96 for 400 rails 30 |feet long, now the workers must ;make 700 rails for the same price. The |same slash runs on the other sizes |with the same percentage of wage |cut. Immediately after notice of wage |eut 20 workers went to the superin- | jtendent to protest against the wage jcut. Workers are in bad need of or- | ganization, which is the only way the | workers can successfully fight against | wage cuts. The Metal Workers In-) | dustrial League is issuing a call for | action, | fo 8 3 6 | ‘WEST HARTFORD, Conn., Oct. 6. —After a whole series ‘of wage cuts in |the plant of the Underwood-Elliot |Pisher Co., the workers on October 1 |were handed another 10 per cent | slash. Here is the story of wage heed |in this plant: January 1—10 per cent | cut and speed up; about six weeks | vacation; abolition of salaries of fore- men and assistants amounting to a |10 per cent cut; added to this comes |the three-day week corresponding to | | @ 50 per cent cut, and now on October ‘1, another 10 per cent cut. “About one more cut and the work- |ers will have to pay the company for | the privilege of working there,” some | of them say. | | ‘The Royal Typewriter Co. has also | cut plenty, short week and speed up. |The price of both machines has been | boosted $2.50 on their new models. STEEL PLANT PAY CUT | CLEVELAND, Oct. 6—A 10 per| jcent cut in wages of Corrigan-Mc- | Kinney Steel Co. workers, effective | | October 1, has been ordered, Henry | !'T. Harrison, vice-president and gen- leral manager, said today. This re- | |duces wages from 50 to 45 cents an hour. Soviet “Forced Labor”—Bedacht’ | series in pamphlet form at 10 cents : Sales of Foreign Language Press Can Help Circulation of Daily; Hard Times Sometimes we get a 1 Daily Worker agent that the people ir foreign language therefore it is the Daily Worker. just come from Comr Iron .Mountain, Mich. “Each: nationality has its own F here anyway, so they don’t buy who Daily Worker. Times : and they are getting w alotig.” e say to the comrade in Iron Mountain that h couraged so eas Let him which foreign nguage revolution- ary paper is read in his settion. If there is an agent in his town who is handling the s: of a fo language revolutionar paper should get in touch with him a get his aid in g the Dail hould not be dis- nd out EX “SS CO ga Soy 4 REd res WORKERS Own - = 4 Us i er in conjunction with language paper. Many of the foreign born workers have children who read onlq English, and they would be glad to get a workers’ paper that their children can also read. Many of the foreign born workers can also read English. And finally it is important and the readers and sales agents of the foreign language press should be made to realize it, that the central organ of the Communist Party, the Daily Worker, should be read by all workers, native and foreign born, so that a united front can be presexted to the bosses’ attack on the workers’ living conditions. As to the times being hard, that of course sometimes makes it d ficult to sell the Daily. On the other hand the need for the Daily creases at such times so that the workers can be organized against worsening conditions, and also th desire by the workers for a workers’ paper increases when the capitalist press lies about “improved business” and capitalist “efficiency” are ex- posed, Point out to the people in your town, comrade, that it-is an extravagant waste of money to. buy the silly propaganda of the capitalist press, but that it is vital for them to-know the truth about things that matter to all workers, and that this truth they can find only in the Daily Worker. The Louisville comrade, G.L.C., is also discouraged. “The people in Louisville would rather read the cap-~ italist press,” he writes. “I could do better with monkeys.” Now the com- rade in Louisville doesn’t have to the foreign | 4 Pace Three us nas Call for More Effort tower of sup- knows how d the people ring the lies y to the truth y the workers’ ade mus to him to g han that the work- are no different ‘Ss and that once hey will see who who is their e harder, com- nts is in your ings happen f the cap- you must be alert ‘eports that comrades in The @ very successful Red Sunday held re- which more new subscrip~ 2 and old subscrip~ d. The results are not he will let us know what they a sks for new subscrip- the St. Louis units that, and we will Comrade L. J., who : “Perhaps you 1 the long looke will appear. T ated enlargeg edition wi benefit € the paper he novement, for an in- If we now have 40,000 with .our four pages, we and that it ‘culation. of is es ve 60,000 on the large one amount of spece would make it easier to bring about uch needed verent in the paper. Many ich now only ap- could be read and interest special feature: pear on Saturd with the same d on the other five The time is not far off for a six page.paper. The Communist front is growing so wide in the United States and in the entire world that four pages are not nearly enough But there is only one way to get the six-pages every day. More subscrip- | tions. We will have more to say |} about that pretty soon “SOCIALIST” OFFICIALS, BOSSES ss {CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE! 8 seen as another strike-breaking move. In a letter to the AFFFHW off- cials the Full Fashioned Hosiery Manufacturers of America, after meeting at the headquarters of the Gotham Silk Hosiery Co., 389 Fifth | Ave., heré said a suit for damages will be instituted against the strik- ers. The basis for this action will be the agreement concluded by the AF FFHW officials lowering the wages of organized hosiery workers by 35 to 45 per cent. The letter says in part: a7 “Under the law as formulated by the United States Supreme Court, in many cases, with which you and your attorneys are undoubtedly fa- per copy. Read it—Spread it! miliar, strikes in violation of a con- al of $3,300 to be used as a reward for any perjurer who might identify some defenseless Negro to the southern police as being guilty of the supposed robbery and shooting of the latest representatives of white womanhood victimized by “Negroes.” Is it a strange accident that the “famous” N. A. A. C. P. lawyer, Roderick Beddow, is the attorney now engaged to defend the white would-be murderet of the Negro, Paterson? On with the fight, Negro and white workers! Strengthen the strug- gle for the immediate release of the nine innocent Scottsboro boys! Fight for the release of the 14-year-old Roy Wright! Fight for equal rights for Negroes and the right of self-determination for the enslaved Negro people! g TRY TO SMASH HOSIERY STRIKE actionable and locals of the union as well as the individual | members of such locals causing or | participating in a strike in direct violation of a contract are answer- | able for damages to the employer affected thereby. Strike-breaking by court decree is now the next move of the employers to break the hosiery strike. While |the officials of the AFFFHW have made no comment as yet on the let- ter the fact that they consider the strike as an “outlaw” strike and have ordered the workers back, gives basis |for the presumption that they will support this drastic strike-breaking move. | The manufacturers’ association was ginally organized by the union it- ~ in order to “stabilize” the indus- _| try and John Edelman, AFFPHW of- }ficials and secretary of the Indepen- dent Labor Party was chiefly instru- mental in the building of the bosses’ organization. Pook Se | Massachusetts Hosiery Workers Out, NORTHAMPTON, Mass—The | Propper-McCallum hosiery workers here, 500 strong, have been out a | week after rejecting the wage cut agreement of the AFFFHW. Daily Worker — Morning Freiheit — Young Worker THURSDAY October 8 FRIDAY October 9 SATURDAY SUNDAY . 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