The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 22, 1931, Page 3

omens ey SE ER REE DAILY WORKER, os ee N LEGION AND POLICE BULLDOZE TOWN IN FAKE RELIEF DRIVE Drunken Cops and Legionnaires Stalk Thru Monessen, Pa.; Fill Legion Coffers Mother of 7 Hungry Children Jailed for Selling Liquor to Buy Food (By a‘ Worker Correspondent) MONESSEN, Pa.—There workers in Monessen. are about 5,000 unemployed Those who are working—and they are very few—are working part time, which is only one or two days a week. Others, who don’t get any pay whatsoever, still keep their time cards in the mill, These workers must get money from somewhere and bring it to the mill office to pad for their insurance. The “relief” plan here is somewhat similar to the plans in other cities. hours, and the money derived from the sales is called the “relief fund.” Legion Raids Town. First the police and the American Legion get so drunk that they barely can stand on their feet. They go out then and stop automobiles and force the drivers to buy papers without giving them back any change. Others go around to the poor workers’ homes bulldozing them and robbing the workers of what little they have. Altogether they robbed the people of $200, out of which they paid for the papers. They also gave a good share of this money to the American Legion. The few pennies that were left went to “relieve” the 5,000 hungry unemployed. Mother of 7 Jailed. A woman here, mother of seven hungry children, was arrested here recently for selling liquor to get food for her children. She was jailed and fined $12.25, She told the police that she could not pay the fine and said if she could get relief she would not have been forced to violate the law. The city denied her any relief and threw her into a cell while the chil- dren were home starving. The oldest daughter came to the police station to protest the mother’s arrest and the police’ locked her up too and tried to make her a prosti- 3 MEN ENTER JAIL; TAKE OUT, LYNCH NEGRO WORKER Boss. Press Agency Tries to Cover Up Crime ) ROM PAGE ONED {OONTIN Constable Thomas Bayette of Mag- nolia. The raiding party worked a combination lock on the cell door.” A later dispatch peddled the vi- cious lie that Edwards was shot down as a “fugitive” from “justice”, This dispatch states: . “Isaiah Edwards, 19, fngitive from the Montgomery County Jail, was found slain near here today. The foroner reported he had been fatal- ly wounded by Deputy Sheriff Nell Roten, 31, of Chambers County, when he sought to evade artest in a stolen motor car. With the dis- covery of his body, search by 2 pos- se was called off.” Tn this way, the bosses try to cover up their brutal murder of this Negro worker. But their Hes will not de- ceive the working class. Edwards was most likely killed by the deputy sheriff acting as a member of the boss lynch gang of five. This ex- plains how the gang got the combi- nation to the door of the cell in which he was confined. ‘The lynch murder of this young worker sends the total of known and admitted lynchings to 107 for the present year. This does not include the numerous unreported lynchings, nor the legal lynchings through the bosses courts. ‘Negro and white workers! Smash the lynching terror! Organize self- defense corps of white and Negro workers! Demand the right of Ne- gro workers to bear’arms for self~ defense! Stop the disarming of the Negro masses! Answer the lynchers with mass defense of the Negro work- ers and with @ mass fight for the Every shop, mine and factory 3 scriptions. Your meetings Your halls Your “affairs” Your demonstrations in the The police and the members of the American Legion sell papers for a couple of¢ Correspondence Briefs SOVIET RAILROAD WORKERS GET PAY INCREASE MOSCOW, USSR.—The railroad workers and clerks have received under the new measures a 50 to 100 per cent increase in wages. Railroad engineers, who formerly received 200 to 250 rubles per month, now get 300 to 400 and even more rubles. The guards, who formerly got 100 rubles, now receive 150 rubles. —A Railroad Worker. SAN DIEGO, Cal—Our new Un- employed Council is getting into action. The bosses had threatened to evict a family from their home. We at once sent a committec to the Wel- fare and demanded that the rent be paid. They asked us about our or- fianization and we told them that we were the same organization that staged the Hunger March to Wash- ington. They gave us a check for the rent with little delay—J. M. on ee INDIANS TAKE FOOD FROM U. S, WAREHOUSE MAHNOMAN, Minn—On Noy. 13 the Indians broke into the govern- ment warehouse here and took food to give to their starving families. The Unemployed Councik has been active and has forced the county commis- sioners to give relief to some of the families—A Worker. ts, ee FARMERS SHOW INTEREST IN MOONEY CASE KENT, Wash.—Many of the farm- ers in this region have sold their last cow because they were unable to buy hay, which has been steadily advanc- ing in price since it came in posses- sion of the warehouse companies. Most of the farmers, I find, are in- terested in such vital questions as the Mooney case, the Scottboro case and naturally the Ballard case, which concerned people who lived in their own neighborhood.—W. F. era BIRDS EYE VIEW OF USSR ZAPOROJIE, USSR. — Having worked four months in the Soviet Union as a chauffuer, I have found the following: There is no unemploy- ment,-—rather there is a shortage of workers. We work seven or eight hours a day and rest on the sixth day. Every six months we receive two weeks vacation with full pay. We receive working clothes and shoes free. Lately there has been a gen- eral drop in the cost of commodities and a considerable increase in pay. To me this is proof that this is a workers’ government. " ~—An) American Worker, GERMAN EXPORTS DECLINE IN NOV. Despite the desperate attempts of the German government to expand its exports and save Germany from bankruptcy, the November exports werealmost 15 per cent less than those of October. In November the exports were $178,000,000 or $32,000,000 less than in October. _ ‘The recent emergency decree which cut wages by 10 per cent was put through in order to enable German capitalists to compete more easily on the foreign market. But because of the British tariffs and various restrictions put on imports from Ger- many in the in order to work out trade agree- Boss Press Admits , Sell-out Plans of Rail Union Heads NEW YORK.—Further confirma- tion of the fact that the railroad union officials asked the railroad bosses to issue a notice of a 15 per cent, wage cut, in order to help these union, fakers try to put over a 10 per cent “voluntary” wage cut is con- tained in a telegram published in the Philadelphia Inquirer dated New York Dec. 18. ‘The Daily Worker several days ago published the fact that Daniel Wil- jJard, in his talks with President Hoover on how to put over the wage cub on the railroads, stated that, the union officials asked him to have an announcement published declaring a 15 per cent wage cut, The Philadelphia Inquirer dispatch states: “By giving notice of an intention to lower wages an additional 5 per cent than would be the case under a friendly adjustment, the carriers (railroad bosses) hope to persuade labor of the greater prud- ence in the latter course. ‘“They wanted us to do this. They expected it,”’ stated Mr. Willard when asked if the labor represen- tative would not be surprised at the posting of the 15 per cent notices.” Thus we see again exposed the whole scheme of the union officials of the 21 railroad unions—deliber- ately asking that a 15 per cent wage cut notice be posted so that they can maneuvre to force a 10 per cent cut on the men, DULUTH BOSSES “WARN” JOBLESS WHO TOOK FOOD, 450 Men Storrned Store When Breadline Shut DULUTH, Minn., Dec. 21.—A re- sponse of threats and warnings have been issued by’ the capitalist forces here following the refusal of 450 un- employed to starve when the “Bethel” breadline was closed to them. The workers stormed a large grocery store and took food to apease their hunger. In its leading editorial entitled “Careful!” the Duluth Herald, owned |. by the notorious demagogoue Paul Block, declared: “There is great need of care, both on the part of Communists who are likely to bring down a storm on their own heads, and on the part of the unemployed, who now have public sympathy but could easily and quickly forfeit it by such silly tactics asthose exhibited yesterday. “For one thing sure, regardless of all else, is that such tactics cannot and will not be tolerated in Duluth for one moment.” The Duluth News carries a scare head stating: “Red Raiders Stab City Employe, Plunder Shop.” The capitalist press is trying to fasten the stabbing of the keeper of the muni- cipal breadline, which took place some time after the grocery store was raided, on Communists. ‘This is the beginning of preparations for a frame-up. Stewart was stabbed either by a provocateur or an out- raged unemployed worker driven to desperation by starvation. \yrian Troops ( Called to Stop Elections DAMASCUS, Syria.—After having ordered the police to open fire on Sy- rian nationalists who were calling for free elections, the French High Com- missioner ordered the closing of polls to halt bloodshed. The elections have been postponed indefinitely. Besides calling out troops and fire brigades the officials found it neces- sary to cut off all communications from this city in order to isolate the trouble and carry out their bloodbath without interference. $$ ments. The French are using this urgent need of markets of the Ger- man capitalists in order to draw Germany into their sphere and against England which has started out on a tariff policy which will hit Germany severely. Besides the or- ganization of cartels in the steel, and the other vassal states of Europe. Green Tells Jobless to Starve at Least Another Whole Year WASHINGTON, Dec. 20.—Follow- ing its policy of telling the workers to bear the increasing attacks and not to complain while they starve, American Federation of Labor most monthly statement Hoover whose whole ‘policy has been to cover up the fact that there are 12,000,000 unemployed. “We must look ahead to at least a “Employment funds cannot last.” The “solution”. which the A. F. of L. offers is a wholesale process of wage cuts by lowering the hours of work of the workers already em- Ployed and along with it lowering their pay. It becomes more difficult all the time for Green, who when the Hun- attack against the Soviet Union, to cover up the growing hunger and starvation. Green in his statement says nothing about unemployment. insurance, wanting the workers to overlook the fact that while the A. F. of L. forecasts at least a year more of starvation, it does not want the Japan Launches Savage Drive to Crush Fight of Masses in Manchuria (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) the request of” the Nanking Govern- “ent. It’s purposes is to give the Nanking bovernment an excuse that it was forced to withdraw its troops be- fore the threat of force, Workers, Students Plan New Invasion of Nanking ‘The Japanese estimate the strength of the partisan forces fighting them at 60,000. While most of the partisan bands started with only a few hun- dred men, several of these bands have now grown to several thousand as a result of the rising resistance of the Manchurian masses, inspired by the anti-imperialist upsurge of the masses in China proper and the growing strength of the Central Chinese Soviet Government and the Chinese Red Army. Plans of students and workers in Chinese cities for another invasion of Nanking have frightened the united front government of the Canton and Nanking traitors. The Kuomintang convention, scheduled to open yester- day, has been postponed on Wed- nesday. ‘i. V. Soong, Finance Min- ister, has resigned. The Japanese government yester- day answered the renewed protests by the United States against its southward drive with the intimation that the protest would be considered “unfriendly” if its aim was to main- tain Nanking in control of Chinchow. This veiled threat against the American imperialism shows that the imperialists have sharpened the imperialist rivalries have sharp- pened tremendously. Japanese Speculation Make Millions on Fall ofYen ‘The Japanese economic and finan- cial crisis was further aggravated by heavy losses due to buying of dollars by speculators. Japanese newspapers accuse former Finance Minister Inouys of underestimating the extent of dollar speculation when he put the total at $167,000,000. It is claimed that the amount is over $225,000,000. As a result the Yokohoma Specie Bank, which controls the dealings in exchange, stdnds to lose another $12,000,000 through the purchase of gold with yen to cover these trans- actions. The loss will be larger if the yen continues its downward trend. The Yokohoma institution is coy- ered in the transaction by a guaran- tee given by the Bank of Japan, and the government will have to meet the loss. This it will do with increased inflation and taxation which will further intensify the sufferings of the toiling masses at the very time that the speculators are cleaning up huge fortunes. Declaring that Kuomintang had degenerated into a counter-reyolu- tionary instrument of “horrible op- pression” against the Chinese masses, Madame Sun Yat-Sen, widow of the founder of the Kuomintang party, scathingly attacks both the Canton and Nanking wings of the Kuomin- tang. In an interview to the im- perialist press she denounces the leaders of both wings as tools of the imperialists and the people's worst enemies. Madame Sun says: “Tt is now undeniable that the Kuomintang has lost its position as the country’s revolutionary party. The party’s destroyers, far from be- ing external enemies, are its. own leaders. When Sun Yat-sen died in 1925 ovr party lost its guide. “Fortunately, however, the Canton- ese leaders at that time were able to carry on the founder's policies suffi- ciently to carry out the northern punitive expedition, bringing the Yangtse Valley under the party’s Tule. But since the Nankin-Hankow party spiit..in 1927, due.to Chiang Kai-shek’s personal dictatorship and rivalry between the militarists, the party and the people have become in- “Corruption and chicanery have reached a high degree. Those in the central: government have occupied key positions and fattened their pockets, while those in the local gov- ernments have preyed upon the de- fenseless people. They have made their friends happy but the people miserable. Opportunists have found Positiong with the remnant of the militarists and leaped into promi- nence, while on the other hand real revolutionists were put to death, “During the past five years there have been continued civil war and Political feuds, Our parity has di- integrated and the so-called leaders have stooped to begging mercy from foreign imperialists and have re- sorted to political tricks the old man- darins never would have dared. Un-~- der the name of party rule every conceivable crime has been com- mitted, until the people hate the name Kuomintang. “Anti-People, Anti-Revolutionary.” “More recently Nanking and Can- ton stood at opposition to each other, each boasting of its own merits. Such terms as revolutionary foreign affairs, democracy, etc., were used to mislead the public. Really, how- ever, both were dependent upon the militarists and lived by the flattery of the revolution. Both are anti- people and anti-revolutionary. “Since the Japanese invasion of Manchuria, owing to public opinion both were forced to lay down their arms for a so-called peace and na- tional unification. For months the leaders squabbled over party spoils, neglecting the people’s welfare. Sees “Unity” Move As Basis for Further Crimes. “These so-called leaders are un- aware that the reason for the ex- istence of the rule of personal dicta- torship, degeneration of the Kuomin- tang and the country’s invasion by a foreign foe are all traceable to their departure from the masses. For only with the masses as the central or- ganization of the Kuomintang can the revolution ‘be achieved. “Even if the present leaders achieve unification in accordance with their plan, it would merely mean a divi- sion of spoils and an opportunity to commit more crimes. I cannot bear to see the foundations of the revo- lution established by Sur Yat-sen after forty years of struggle destroyed by a handful of selfish men. “I am unwilling to see a nation of 400,000,000 people extinguished by the Kuomintang, which has repudiated itself, If the party cannot save the nation and benefit the people, then it is doomed to extinction, which I will not regret. “I believe that only the revolution which uses as a foundation the en- tire people and which strives for the people can eliminate militarism, de- stroy imperialism and bring realiza- tion of the principle of socialism. “China’s true revolutionists won't shrink fearfully from the reaction- aries’ horrible oppression, but will, in answering the people’s demands, re- double their efforts for advancement along the road of revolution.” a Madame Sun's attack on the Kuo- mintang tools of imperialism is sig- nificant of the tremendous mass up- surge of the Chinese masses against these tools and their imperialist mas- ters. It is undoubtedly an attempt to take advantage of the masses’ up- surge to reorganize the “left” Third Party and.in this way to divert the growing anti-imperialist mass move- ment from the revolutionary leader- ship of the Communist Party. Silent for yeasr in face of the mur-~ derous terror against the Chinese masses, or busy spreading illusions about the revolutionary ‘“possobili- ties”of Eugene Chen, Wang Ching- wei and others of the Canton gang, Madame Sun has been forced to ad- mit what the Chinese Communist Party has all along pointed out—the complete degeneration of the Kuo- mintang Party into an instrument of murder and terror against the only revolutionary movement in China, the movement led by the Communist Party and backed by the eighty mil- lion workers and peasants in the Sov- iet districts and by millions through- out China. ‘The Kuomintang itself is the party of the capitalists and feudal land- owners. It is an instrument of the imperialists in their war on the Cen- tral Chinese Soviet Government and the Chinese masses. The Kuomin- tang cannot be changed by a change in leadership. Only the Communist Party is leading and will lead the masses in the struggle against, im- perialism, in the struggle for a free and united China, TO PROTEST SCOTTBSORO FRAME-UP, JANUARY 8, 9, 10 (CONTINUED ‘FRom PAGE ONE) bama Supreme Court. Only the united struggle of Negro and white workers, organized behind the legal defense in the courts, can stop this frightful crime, ‘The International Labor Defense is defending the boys, and has prepared & mass of new evidence and affida- vits completely exposing the lynch terror nature of this frame-up. The boys are charged with raping two prostitution unless they aided the state in its lying frame-up against the boys. As the hearing on the appeals ap- proaches, the reformists are fren- pledly engaged in an sttempt to boaees to pay to feed the worker. | amg the mass fight to tree the hove. | ‘The Alabama bosses and their courts are desperately trying to eliminate the militant defense policy of the I. L. D. in order to facilitate the be- trayal of the boys by the imperialist white and Negro tools who head the NAACP. Negro and white workers! Rally to the fight to free the Scottsboro boys! Smash the legal lynching plans of the Alabama bosses and their white and Negro reformist tools! Demand the immediate release of all nine of these innocent working-class children! Arrange protest meetings in your organizations, in your shops, before factory gates! Adopt protest resolutions to be sent to Governor Miller of Aalbama and the Alabama Supreme Court! Prepare demon- strations for Jan. 8, 9 and 10! Down with lynch terror! Demand the right of self-determination for the Negro majorities of the “Black Belt,” with confiscation of the land of the rich / YORK, TUESDAY, DECEMBER | Teady it is reported that Lang, who 22. 1931 = Buffalo YMCA Makes An Attack on Labor Sports Union Meet BUFFALO, N. Y.—The YMCA of Buffalo made a definite attack on the Labor Sports Union and all working class organizations when its president, Myron Short, ordered the officials of the Michigan Aye. Branch of the YMCA to revoke the rental of the gym, which had already been paid for and. rented by the Labor Sports Union. The Labor Sports Union had been planning to hold a District Sports Meet in the “Y” on December 19. The permit for the gym was revoked on the seventeeth, two days before the meet, consequently preventing the holding of the meet. ‘The Labor Sports Union has passed a resolution condemning the officials of the “Y” and calling for the build- ing of the Labor Sports Union into a mass organization. Other working class organizations were urged to pass resolutions, con- demning these anti-working class and jim crow tactics of the YMCA. AFL Endorses Boss Mayoralty Candid’te inCleveland Election; I. O. Ford, Communist Candidate Hits Move of Boss-AFL Unity CLEVELAND, O.—Atttacking the endorsement by the Cleveland Fed- eration of Labor, of Morgan for Mayor of SCleveland as ::xff_ fi. Mayor of Cleveland, as “another sign of unity between the misleaders of the American, Federation of Labor and the bosses politicians,” I. O. Ford, Communist candidate for may- or, issued the following statement today: “The railroading through of the endorsement of Morgan, Maschke’s man, for mayor, by the Cleveland Federation of Labir is a further in- dication of the sell out of their mem- bership that officials of the American Federation of Labor are making to the bosses and their politicians in the continued drive to slash wages and prevent strikes for better conditions. It is another sign of unity among the misleaders of the American Federa- tion of Labor, with McLaughlin at the head in Cleveland, and the bosses’ politicians, which proves is made to Strengthen their efforts nd tonly to cut wages but to smash the splendid struggle of the workers for govern- mental unemployment insurance and immediate unemployment relief, as witnessed in the National Hunger March to Washington and the strug- gles carried on since.” “Only the Communist Party sup- ports and leads the struggle against wage cuts, long hours, for unemploy- ment insurance and immediate relief for the unemployed to be paid by the capitalists and their government. L. With Bosses “The American Federation of Labor officialdom has lined itself up with an exponent of the worst sort of grafting regime in the history of Cleveland, Morgan and his boss Maschke. “The rank and file members of the A. F. of L., and the rest of the work~ ers of Cleveland are urged to beware of voting for such a canddiate. They are also warned of the tactics of the officials of the American Federation. ‘The A. F. of L. officials here have put another wage cut over on the paint- ers and plan to cut the wages of the railroad workers.” “Fight against these misleaders and thgir political bosses. Vote Commu- in the election against wage cuts, sell-outs, for unemployment insur- ance and immediate unemployment relief.” The I. O. Ford For Mayor Cam- paign Committee announces its Cen- tral City Headquarters as at 1245 Prospect; Avenue, LABOR PARTY IN AUSTRALIA LOSES: Bourgeois Bloc Led by Ex-Laborite Wins The steady decline of the Labor and Socialist parties in countries where they have held office, has held true also in the Australian elections. ‘The Labor Party led by Scullin will now have 16 in place of the former 35 seats, and the left wing of the party led by Lang raised its number of seats from 5 to 7. As in Eng- land, the Labor Party forced a bloc of the bourgeois parties, led by former Labor minister. The increase in Lang’s vote is due to his posing as more radical than the premier of Australia, But al- A. F. is premier of New South Wales will join forces with the rest of the Labor Party. ‘The fruits of the Australian Labor government were 20 per cent wage cuts in the government services which includes the railway workers, 20 per cent wage cut in the woolen industry and a 20 per cent cut in social insurance. The left-winger Lang is responsible for vicious anti- Communist bills. landowners for the Negro workers who till the land! Build a fighting alliance of Negro and white workers Against the capitalist Hunger System ind Race Hatred Poisons ‘ Red Builders, help get subscriptions. Pierce through stone walls of subsortpitome, --s ae Protest Against the Bloody Execution of Militant Workers in Fascist Poland (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONED in the city of Tomashev in Poland proper. They were hanged as “spies’ which in militaristic fascist Poland means the struggle to overthrow the oppressive, obnoxious rule of the big landowners, capitalists and bankers More workers and poor peasants in all prisons are awaiting their death at the Jiands of the Pilsudsky hang- men. The others are doomed to a slow but systematic death in their filthy cells—denied air and food. This same Pilsudsky government. that is butchering the revolutionary vanguard of the working-class and poor peasantry has assisted the rich students and the underwolrd ele- ments to pogroms on the Jewish population in order to. sidetrack the powerfully growing revolutionary struggles in the cities and_ villages. The pogroms on the Jewish masses in a dozen of the cities were or- ganized precisely for the same mo-| tives as the bloody attacks on the revolutionary workers and peasants— to stave off the approaching mass revolt against the unhgarable condi- tions into which the capitalist sys- tem had put the greater part of the people. The fascist Poland has been the first country to suffer from the general economic crisis of capitalism. The industries are operating a neg- ligible part of their normal capacity. The factories are hardly working at all. Unemployment is growing daily, accompanied by a mass-poverty and hunger. Even those who are still working do not earn enough to main- tain themselves and their families. The severe crisis and the tariff wall erected by most countries has served to cut off the Polish agricultural and industrial products from their former markets, Millions of peasants are poverty-stricken. The huge military machine, maintained by the fascist governments and the corrupt prac- tices of the Tuling clique are draining the meager resources left in the country. Only through loans by Paris and Wall Street was Pilsudsky able to keep his regime from total collapse. The only way out, that the Polish imperialists can see for themselves is @ war against the Soviet Union, To lay their hands upon Soviet Ukraine and Soviet White Russia and to create a Poland “from sea to sea” is the sinister aim of the Polish land- owners and capitalist militarists, Tn this imperialistic war policy they have the full support of world im- perialism, particularly France and the USA. Fellow Workers! The Polish work- ers and peasants together with the toilers of the National minorities are waging a most heroic and determined struggle for their liberation. The Pilsudsky government is constantly “pacifying” western Ukraine and Western White Russia with punttive expeditions, razing whole villages and shooting thousands upon thousands of peasants. At the same time Pi- sudsky is entering into peace agree- ment with the bourgeoisie of the National minorities in order to rob and exploit the masses. The fighting workers and peasants of Poland, Ukrainia, White Russia, etc, are calling to us here, to come to their aid. It is our working-class duty to answer their call. The cap- italists’ press is carefully hiding all the reports of the revolutionary struggle in Poland. They do not print the news of the horrible tortures and shooting of workers and peasants in the prisons and outside of them. They support the fascist hangmen. Fellow Workers! Raise your vwoice into a mighty protest. Demonstrate in front of the Polish consulates. Help to stop the murder of workers and peasants. Let every workers’ or- ganization respond to the appeal and join in the protest movement. Mob- ilize the broad masses for powerful protest demonstrations. The heroic fighters in Poland must hear ow voice and feel our action, Down with fascist murderers in Poland. For the Defense of the Soviet Union! For self determination of the Min- orities in Poland. Down with militarist oppressors! Long live the revolutionary struggle of workers and peasants! Long live a Soviet Poland! Polish, Ukrainian, Jewish, Lithuanian Buros of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of U. S. A. Kidnapped Kentucky Miner Found; © Mass Meetings Make Ready for Strike (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) against his life if he should ever turn up again. Sumner was active pre- paring for the December 13 conven- tion of the National Miners Union, which set January 1 as the date for the strike. He was ill at his home in Creeches when he was awakened and lights flashed into his eyes making it im- Possible to see his assailants and was ordered into, one of two cars filled with thugs who threatened to shoot and lynch him. Finally after threats that he quit the National Miners Union and stay away from Creeches he was thrown off the car at the border line of Virginia. In a pouring rain he walked to- wards Tennessee, Finally in an ex- hausted condition he reached the home of friends in LaFollette suffer- ing from influenza. Hold Mass Meetings. Three successful mass meetings have been held in Glendon, Colman and Pruden, Tenn. Joe Weber, Na- tional Miners Union organizer, was the principal speaker. Local board members, Bll Meeks, Jimmy Garlan also spoke. G. G. Green, % Negro, made a speech at Pruden and was greeted with a great deal of enthusi- asm, Several coal operators, company police and deputies were present in an attempt to intimidate the men, but the miners asked the speakers to come back again. A local is being es~ tablished there. At Colemans, “Massy” Colman, op- erator, paced back and forth on the railroad tracks watching miners who came to the meeting held fm the school house at Glendon. The meet- ing was held a few feet away from the mine tipple. At Kay Jay, the com~- pany's attempts to have the miners sign an agreement that they will not strike January 1 at the call of the houses, -.“We are pronouncing in good fzith the words ‘the dictatorship of the proletariat’ and we shall make them @ reality.” LENIN. 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