The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 23, 1932, Page 3

SCOTTSBORO MOTHER CALLS FOR FIGHT TO FREE RUECGS FROM NANKING HANGMEN Mrs. Ada Wright, On Tour In Europe for Scottsboro Defense, Sees Workers Persecuted Everywhere Except in the Soviet Union Harlem Survey Shows 30 P. C. of Workers Jobless Many Others Only Partly Employed; Negro! Jobless Denied Relief by City and Agencies | ‘Negro and White Workers Must Fight Against Discrimination! Demand Social Insurance! NEW YORK.—Of 324 Negro fam- ilies selected at random in a Har- Jem survey, about 30 per cent were found to be totally unemployed, and of this 30 per cent about three-quar- ters were receiving no relief from any source, according to a report is. sued yesterday by the Pen & Ham. mer, of 114 W. 2ist St. The report further states that of 50 per cent unemployment, based on survey, 56 per cent were unemployed. The Harlem survey, according to the Pen & Hammer, an organization of scientists, engineers ang professional people, is the first of a series on social and economic questions. The report contrasts its finding of per cent unemployment, based on the survey during the past three weeks, with that of Emergency Work and Relief Committee’s April survey, which placed unemployment for the city as a whole at 37 per cent of the “gainfs=- employed” of 1930, the first crisis year. Pointing out that the city-wide April survey by. the Emergency Relief Committee claimed about the same percentage as the C. O, S., the Harlem report concludes that “it is pretty obvious that there is either discrimination against the Negro, or exaggerated optimism on the part of the relief authorities.” ‘The same charge is made in connec- tion with the administration of re- lief, where the Harlem study found 73.4 per cent of totally unemployed families receiving no relief, as against the 34.5 per cent unrelieved reported for the city as a whole on April 10 by R. W. Houston on behalf of the Emergency Work and Relief Com- mittee, Ludwig Gauss, statistician, who di- rected the Harlem survey, declared that the findings showed “something radically wrong” with the function- ing cf official and private relief or- ganizwions in the Negro center. “The iacts point unequivocally,” he declared, “to either or both of two Magazine Says 25 Million Will Need Relief Next Winter ‘WASHINGTON, Aug. 22.—Accord- ing to the magazine Fortune, pub- lished for big business, 25,000,000 per- sons will be without any means of living this coming winter. This is based on an estimate of 11,000,090 unemployed. But already the un- employed ,reach close to 15,000,000 making Fortune's figures an under- estimation, VOTE COMMUNIST FOR Unemployment and Social In- surance at the expense of the sta’ and employ \ highly unpleasant conclusions. The private and official relief and unem- ployment figures cannot be made to square with our findings, and we are forced to, conclude either that they are wide of the mark, or that the Negro is being discriminated against. | erhaps both.” A “Jungle” Child pe: _This young boy is beginning life as an inhabitant of the h‘ghest product of capitalist civilization— the modern “jungle,” where home- less unemployed workers live. His school teacher, no doubt, told him he has a chance to rise from the ranks. Declare Martial Law In Haitian Cities PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, Aug. 22. —Martial law was proclaimed in this and other cities of Haiti as part of @ campaign launched by the govern- ment to silence the opposition news- Papers. Since the proclamation five news- papers were suppressed and two edi- tors arrested, one of them being a prominent: radical. . CORRECTION By a misprint, the Headline In yesterday's paper said the miners were ready to march “into” ‘Indiana. 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FOR NEWS OF THE CLASS STRUGGLE IN THE UNITED STATES AND ALL OVER WORLD Comrades :—I enclose .. EVERY DAY! eedeegeesieevsevnarn hOr ® tisesseeessseeses Sub to the DAILY WORKER. Please | send me your list of premiums, BNDING ois vanmeeaed Weinert d Addivss FREE Premiums with all subs! SUDSCRIPTION RATES: One year, 9 Borovahs of Mant six months, and .. State teens Ask for complete list! 3; two months, $1; excepting jow York City Bronx, > | | | | URGES SUPPORT OF INT. RED AID WORLD CONGRESS Sees Negro Masses Rallying to Fight On Oppressors BERLIN, Aug. 22, — Mrs.’ Ada Wright, mother of two of the Scotts- boro victims of capitalist justice, has | issued an appeal to the toiling masses \of the world to rally to the fight to free Paul and Gertrude Ruegg from the Nanking hangmen, and for mass support for the coming World Co: gress of the International Red Aid. Mrs. Wright i s now touring Europe in connection with the Scottsboro | Defense. The statement, which was issued in connection with Sacco and Vanzetti Dayy, declares, in part: “I have just learned that ‘Freedom for the Scottsboro Boys’ is to be the central slogan for Sacco-Vanzetti Day, August 22. “One year ago I had never heard how these two Italian workers, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, a shoemaker and a fish peddler, had ‘been burned alive in the electric chair at Boston, Massachusetts, August 22, 1927. “I know more today. I see that it is not our boys alone who are persecuted. The electric chair has been used before, I have learned, against the working class. I know that this new knowledge also ex- tends to my own people, not only the fifteen millions of Negroes in the United States, but in the West Indies, in South Ametica, in Africa. “I did not know there was so much persecution of the workers in the world. One yeat ago I thought that we Scottsboro mothers were alone in our misery. Now I see that the work- ers everywheré, except in the Soviet Union, are facing oppression in many forms. But I also see very clearly that the workérs everywhere are uniting against their oppressors. This gives me hope. My heart bleeds for my boys, and for the other Scotts- boro boys in prison, facing the elec- tric chair, But in these three months that I have traveled through thirteen countries in Europe, I have found that my cause is the cause of workers in all lands, and this gives me cour- age to struggle. “I have heard of the execution of our comrades in Hungary; I have heard of the tortures of our comrades, Paul and Gertrude Ruegg, in China; daily I hear of the at- tacks by the fascists Germany, like the lynch mobs in the United States, upon the workers, “I have also heard that the Inter- national Red Aid is working very hard preparing for its World Con- gress to be held in Moscow, in Novem- ber. This World Congress, I am sure, will strengthen our working class unity, build our struggles. We must let the workers everywhere know about this World Congress on Sacco- Vanzetti Day. They must under- stand its purposé, its tasks, and thus be better able to carry out its pro- gram of resistance to all persecutions of the working class. “With this appeal also fot the World Congress of the International Red Aid that brought hope to me in the faraway ‘Southland’ of misery for the Negro masses in the United States, I urge the greatest possible mass support for the Fifth Sacco- Vanzetti Anniversary Demonstrations, August 22, 1932.” * nee NEW YORK—The above appeal of the Scottsboro mother, which has just reached ¢he United States, was |published extensively in the revolu- |tionary press of the European coun- tries, 100.000 Peasants In Soviet Ukraine Form Harvest Shock Troops MOSCOW, Aug. 22. — Answering Prayda’s call for more speed in com- pleting the harvest, 100,000 Ukrai- nian peasants organized into shock brigades and began a race with the weather, which is getting cooler and threatens to jeopardize the harvest. Leading those who answered the call are village newspaper correspon- dents who not only appeal to the peasants for more speed but set themselves the pace of a vigorous drive for a 100 per cent harvest, The drive is having favorable re- sults, according to dispatches from Kharkov, and on the basis of these partial results it is anticipated that the harvest will soon be completed. Pioneer Camp Repells Attack by Ku Kluxers VAN ETTEN, N. Y., Aug. 22—The Pioneer Camp, held here this year with workers’ kids from Elmira and vicinity attending, succeeded in re- pelling attacks of the Ku Klux Klan, who tried to break it up, Members of the Klan came out and tried to determine the number of kids at- tending the camp. Then posters were put up in Elmira, inciting lynch spirit against the campers, A cara- van of cars came to the camp, but were driven off by the militancy of the Pioneers, who armed themselves with sticks and stones. An investigator of the Department of Justice or Immigration Bureau tried to arrest the leader as a for- signer and left with threats of fram- ing, him. A. state trooper came to the camp and asked if they had been bothered by the Klan. He told the DAILY WORKER, —————» NEW YORK, TUESDAY, GUST 23, 1932 WHITE GUARD TOOLS OF JAPANESE IM- | PERIALISM IN MANCHURIA Sad of the Russian white guardists who have employed many hundreds of service, “RUEGG SENTENCE IS SAVAGE ONE” Prof. Shefan Calls for | Increased Protest By MYRA PAGE. European Correspondent of the | Daily Worker MOSCOW, Aug. 22—The Soviet press today published an interview with Professor Shefan, 2 member of | the American Rights of Man Defense | League who is now visiting the So- viet Union. Commenting sharply on the verdict of the Nanking court sentencing Paul and Gertrude Rueges to life impris- onment. Prof. Shefan states: “The Ruegg sentendé is monstrously cruel and cynical, taking us back to the savage days of mediavalism. It must undoubtedly arouse the power- ful and furious ire of the toilers of the whole world, and particularly of the progressive intelligentzia of West- ern Europe and America. “The Ruegg case is woven com- pletely of provocations and filthy in- formation by police spies. The Kuo- mintang disdained absolutely no means to: secure the conviction which actually was pre-arranged. The best minds of the working intelligentzia of Western Europe and America who have already expressed their resolute protest against the trial itself must now insist even more determinedly than ever and before the whole world upon the demand for an immediate revision in the case and the release of the Rueggs. This applies pri- marily to the Rights of Man Defense League in America and Europe. “It is difficult to witness calmly the tragedy staged in Shanghai. Everything possible must be done to wrest the Rueggs from the paws of the Chinese executioners.” International Notes MASS ARRESTS AND TORTURES IN BULGARIA SOFIA.— The arrests throughout Bulgaria in connection with the Anti- War Day are continuing. It is be- lieved that the authorities want to stage mass trials of anti-war dem- onstrators. Comrades Kunin and_ Staikoff, members of the Central Committee of the Workers Party, are among those arrested. ‘They have been sub- | jected to severe tortures. . «8 DEMAND RELEASE OF HUN- GARIAN COMMUNIST BERLIN.—The Central Committee | of the Socialist Workers Party of | Germany has sent a strongly worded telegram to the Hungarian Govern- ment protesting against the barbar- cus execution of Sallai and Fuerst, and in particular against the at- tempt to execute the communist Karikas, Karikas 1s now on trial for fhe fame offense, namely the propaganda of the ideas of cortmunism, * GERMAN SOCIALISTS CONTINUE POLICY OF TREACHERY BERLIN.—According to a report pub- lished in the “Vorwaerts,” the Cen- tral Committee of the Social-Demo- cratic Party, at its recent meeting, discussed “the possibilities that or- fianized self-defense should be taken in case the State power should fail to fulfill its duty” in regard to the bloody fascist terror. Evidently the —social-demorcatic leaders believe that up to now the state power has done its duty! PROGRESS OF SOVIET AVIATION NEW YORK.—Despite their “in- fantile maladies,” the Russian work- ers can handle jarge scale machine production, a teh by Walter Duranty to the New York Times stated, after reviewing the remark- able progress made by the Soviet airplane industry in the last three years, 5 One of the outstanding accomplish- ments of the industry has been the establishment of laboratories where all the latest discoveries of native and foreign engineers are studied and correlated, WORMY . FLOUR (By a Worker Correspondent) BERKELEY, Mich—yYou can't get a job here even at 5 cents an hour, and the Welfare gives you some food for two days and lets you starve the other five days, The wheat given to be turned into Red Cross flour is nother way the bosses aro making money. The changed new wheat for Welcoming the investigation commission of the League of Nations in Chin-Hsien (on the Pekin-Mukden Railway). .The photo shows one They are uniformed as Chinese railway police. | ® | relief to be gathered by the various PITTSBURGH, Pa. Aug. 22—At the convention of 155 delegates from | all important steel and metal manu-} facturing centers, which formed the; |Steel and Metal Workers’ Industrial | | Union here, Aug. 13-15, many re-| |ports were given on conditions and| tactics There were reports from West Al-! lis, Wisconsin, where an unemployed branch of 300 has been organized Jand 82 contacts, mostly among former members of A. F. of L. unions, has been establisheq in the Allis: Chalmers plant, and from easterr Ohio, where the steel workers have been learning organization from the miners. The Ohio delegate described how a meeting of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers closed with a prayer for all public officials, from President Hoo- ver down, but without mentioning the workers. Dealing With Snitchers. A machinist delegate from Minne- sota told how “sntch-babies” and stool-pigeons in the shop may be ostracized and forced to lose their jobs by the joint action of the union men in the shop. He also urged bringing mass pressure to bear on certain key individuals by repeated visits from different union members, to get them to join the union. Tricks to Bar Relief. Methods by which the company extracts money from the unemployed, guard the station, The Japanese | such white guardists for railway | Japan Crisis Grows Sharper as War Plans Are Pushed Japan's desperate drive to plunge | the whole world into war as a capi-| talist “way out” of the crisis was in-| tensified following the sensational} break of yen exchange to a new low of 22.74 cents. The Japanese Finance Minister, Takahashi, admitted that the Japa-| nese government had no _ funds abroad available to support the yen! exchange and could make no effort to prevent a further drop. He could} offer no explanation of the sensa-| tional break in the exchange except to say that it represented “a tem- porary insane price.” The present are getting one or two days’ work @ week, were described by the dele- BAKERS NAIL LIE IN “FORWARD” Committee Calls for Mass Unity | NEW YORK.—Branding the social- rice of the yen is 55 per cent below |!St “Forward” is a lying sheet and ihe ‘dural ‘exchange rate of 49.85|* disrupter in the struggle for unity cents, ‘The ‘rapid deterioration of |®™ong the bakers in the A. F. of L. yen exchange reflects the terrific Locals 507 and 164, the united front deepening in Japan of the catas-|C°mmittee of both locals issued the trophic world risis of capitalism, |following statement calling on the bakers to unite against the bosses |to maintain union conditions in the | shons and to organize the unorgan- Students Collecting Strike Reliefs. Mass | “1 has teen catied to our attention | that on Aug., 1932, a statement ap- Meets Protest Bar -searea in the Jewish Forward claim: ing that the stoping of the fight CHICAGO, Ill, Aug. 22.—The re-|hetween J.ocals 507 and.164 was not| cent barring of the Midwest College|due to the efforts of the Bakers | Delegation. from the coal fields of|United Front Committee and the | Southern Illinois, where they ex-|Conference held April 23, 24, and 25. pected to investigate conditions and} “We want to brand this statement distribute a truck full of food,"is be-|as untrue, and as aimed against the ing protested through various mass|work of the Conference and United meetings to be held under the aus-|Front Committee in unifying the pices of the committee itself and the|bakery workers. The facts of the various supporting organizations. The | meeting will prove this. National Student League, Chicago! “For a long period of time, a strug- District, calls its first protest meet-|ele had been going on between both | ing on Wednesday, Aug. 24, at 8 p.m.| unions. at the Peoples Auditorium, 2457 W.) Chicago Ave. jSo far as applying for injunctions Coming out with the statement | preventing each other from picketing that “the barring was merely one|In December, 1931, a committee of way out by which the mine owners,|Our Union appeared before the Ex- sheriffs and deputies were attempting |€Cutive Committee of Local 507 re- to hide the terror, misery and star-| Questing that we stop the fight of vation now existing in the Southern |©M¢ Union-against the other, and try Illinois coal fields,” the National| ‘© Work out means and ways on how ra |to conduct a joint campaign to main- Student League is rallying to the/tain conditions in the union shops, support of these protest meetings the | ,. *4 workers and students throughout theless bee eh Wat Middle West. “The Executive Committee of Local The National Student League will /507 listened to our request promis- | intensify its efforts in support of|ing that they would take uo the the Middle Western College Commit~|matter and inform us of their de- tee. The relief which the committee | cision. Months passed and no deci- has gathered will be increased by the | Sion was made by Local 507. On the} jcontrary, the fight was intensified organizations, such as the National|2?d additional picket lines and in- t , which hi ey junctions applied. hearse, cana sa na! “Tt was only at the conference held This struggle took the form of picketing the shops, and even went and from the part-time workers who| |coming from Popkin, the boss. jing the week, Popkin’s agents had Student League intends to further an ety Fa itaniy eeitboened sey eee vebbnemtees se fod ia agen | en ight in Pedic was thorough- | fl 7 § bad “lly disevss vs) dent of police, has stated that this is an ene Weis dtied Leo’ Oe not the time to investigate conditions| representatives of the United Front in the mine. Committee, that an agreement was | —$<——____—. made that the fight stop at once. . “We feel it is our duty at. the! 400 Chicago Workers resent time when the forees of Tocal | ioti 507, who were and are still against | eet i f Oia jany unity of the bakerv workers, and | 1 nemployed | ¥Po succeeded by all kinds of trick- yO ploy’ jery to get a majority of the local to ip.| vote to withdraw from the Unitéd CHICAGO, Il, Aug. 19 (By Mail). | 50 a —Four hundred ‘workers at an anti-|FYont Committee, that it is now | eviction demonstration ere last | Necessary to make clear to the mem- night and this morning forestalled | Pership us our union as well as the the eviction of a jobless worker's | MEMMErSyP ted os! family at 653 E. 43rd St. | Work of the United Front Committee Lambert, the landlord who evictea [established the condition im the the wotker, 1s a precinct captain for |Bronx where the picket lines have DePriest, the Negro capitalist poll-|StPPed, and where both unions can | tician. ‘3 at the present time, talk and work | A committee chosen by the workers |OgetHer. upon all the workers to| at the demonstration forced the | aly in support of the United “Front ae hop apare aay te rent, |Comumittes and its activities, and | Speakers at the demonstration were lie cede a Ua Ci slit di |mittee, which is composed of\all the | te tae ptdedactl Communist candi-/Unfons in the trade will we be able | fi “|to march forward in uniting the trict; Joe Jackson, Communist can: | bakery workers in a fight against the pes ws samiaegeenty and on |bosses for maintaining real union esate pe Py arvoyites and (conditions in our organized shops as hordes of police, including the Red Squad, faileq to prevent the success- ful work of the Unemployed Council. “JAPAN MADE UP ITS MIND WAR WITH U.S.S.R. INEVITABLE” A Harbin dispatch from the New York Times correspondent states: “The sudden Japanese interest !n airport development, coupled with the recent importation into Man- churia of large numbers of Japa- nese airplanes, has given rise to reports that Japan has made up its mind that a war with Russia was inevitable and was openly prepar- ing for such a conflict, In some quarters the Japanese aerial ac- tivities were even interpreted as an attempt by the Japanese military element to provoke a war.” MOTHER OF 5 KILLS SELF. (By A Worker Correspondent) TOLEDO, O. — Mrs. Estelle Glass, 58) of 754 Deal street, committeed suicide recently, She was the mother of five children, and the dread of old wheat, and so the flour they are Jeader that “good enough, you god- damned Bolsheviks ought to be run out of the country.” The camp will open again next | summer, It was held for two weeks. giving us here is wormy, Unemployment and Social In- surance at the expense of the state and employers, bringing @ sixth child into a family flready suffering from starvation caused her to kill herself. Her hus- band, a war veteran, is a painting contractor who had found no work for a long time. WITH THE DAILY WORKER CAMPAIGN well as the unorganized. We will be able to march on until one union of all the bakery workers will be estab- lished in the city, Signed AUGUST MERICHNIK OTTO FISCHER MARCUS WEINER. START CHALLENGE WITH $28 DONATION NEW YORK.—The Bronx Work- ers’ Club is challenging all other clubs in the City of New York to an im- mediate response to the call of the) $40,000 Daily Worked Fund. They) have started with a donation of| $28.50. ee CHICAGO CONFERENCE AUG. 2% CHICAGO.—A city-wide conference to mobilize Chicago workers for both the Subscription and Emergency Drives of the Daily Worker will be held on Wednesday evening, Aug. 24. fe pai workers are urged to at- gates between sessions of the con- vention, The companies which have group insurance, and that means all of the big steel companies, follow a policy of working as many men as possible at least one day at pay. The premium for the group insurance is deducted from the pay, leaving the man often nothing at all in money Dividends on the of course, controlled by the The . y is to prevent men frc ng relie a man who hi ork at a turned down by ties as a rul the fact that they give a couple of dollars a week to the unemployed workers who still carry their checks, as an excuse for not contributing more liberally to the Community Chests, it was said The License Swindle, | A delegate from Canton told how the public officials urged the 150 in- habitants of Shanty Town, near the city, to get licenses for their old cars, and then took the licenses before they would grant them road | work, since the licenses showed the men were not completely destitute. Companies refuse to give relief to employes who still own stock in the company. This means that | which was bought from the comp; itsoelf for as high as $150 per shi |must be sold for what it will br: {the worker taking losses up to $12 a share, ||Anthracite Mine | || Owners Reap Big | | Profit; Cut Pay | WILKES-BARRE, Pa., Aug. 22.— While operators and United Mine) Workers’ leaders are moving for a 20 per cent wage-cut in the An- thracite, the companies pile up |profits even at present wages- |Labor Research Association in New York reports that Glen Alden Coal Co.,. with mines near here, paid $2,040,000 on bonds this year,! |and paid a dividend last year in December. | The Lehigh and Wijkes-Barre | Corporation has paid $4 a share) on its stock so far in 1932. Picketing Stops Ben Gold and T.U.U.L. Leaders Rally Forces BRANFORD, Conn., Aug. 22—Ben Gold, General Secretary-Treasurer of the Needle Trades Workers Indus- trial Union; Chas. Nemeroff, Assis- tant Secretary; Betty Klein, a union organizer, and John Weber, District Secretary of the Trade Union Unity League, addressed a packed hall of workers and townspeople of Branford at a “Support the Strike” Mass Meeting held Sunday night at Svea Hall in Branford. Rose Ifkovic and Stasia Pudlis, both strikers, were chairman and first speaker at the meeting. applause greeting the pledge of sup- port given by Ben Gold, who told of the recent victorious struggle of the furriers in New York. The mass meeting was part of the preparation to prevent thc shop from opening this morning, as threatened by rumor: Dur. been busy trying to “sign up” strikers to go back to work, but this scheme failed miserably. This marning the mass picket-line was the longest and most spirited line of the entire strike, Starting extra early at 6 am., and concluding with just as militant spirit at 8:30 a.m. ‘The shop still remains closed. Betty | Klein was on the picket line with the strikers, as also John Weber, who is giving the strike daily attention. big dance, this time a Balloon Dance, to be held Saturday, September 3, at 8 pm., at Svea Hall. Admission is only 25 cents, which goes for strike relief, Ohio Meetings Build Workers’ Delegation to the Seviet Union NEW YORK.—The Friends of the Soviet Union ars making preparations for a delegation to visit the Soviet Union on the 15th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution. Marcel Sherer, National Organizer is on tour in Ohio and will spe: in Cleveland at a mass meeting in Carpenters Hall, 13509 Kinsman Rd., August 26 at 8 p.m. He will als< be at the membership meeting of the F.6.U., Aug. 27, at 8 p. m., at the TWO Hall, 926 East 105th St second floor. The other dates of his tour are: Akron, 28th; Cantcn, 29th; Ravenna, 30th; Mansfield, 31st; Columbus, Sept 1st; Dayton, Sept. 2nd; Cin- cinnati, Sept. 3, 4. These meetings should result in sending many dele- gates from the Ohio territory, y | ing All At Branford. ‘Tremendous enthusiasm marked the | The strikers ere planning another | of the Friends of the Soviet Union, | Page Three Metal Workers Tell How They | OPERATORS, UMW Deal With “Snitch Babies” (HIEFS PLOTTING ANTHRACITE CUT Must Build Rank and File Committees to _ Strike Against It ¢ | By BEN GERJOY SCRANTON, Pa., new Aug. 22—The ‘S$ announce that the coal ors of the Anthracite in three ts of the U.M.W.A. and the © union officials will hold a conference in September, “with the view of jestablishing a 20 per cent wage-cut from the present wage scale” This wage-cut comes on the top of numer- ous cuts which are taking place daily throughout the field, in various for: in individual colleries. The present agreement with the U.M.W.A. expires only in 1936. The announce- ment therefore means that the agreement will be done away with. Officials Agree to Cut- The U.M.W.A. officialdom—Lewis, Boylan, Brennan and so on—have al- ly agreed to the cut. That this is proven by the behavior of the so district machines in regard to the individual wage-cuts which are tak- place. In every case the local unions decide to resist. This hap- pened in Shemokan, of District 9; in Swoyersville and Eynon, of Dis- trict 1, and so on. But the district |machine, instead of encouraging this resistance, directly sabotages it, To \give one outstanding example: The miners of the Eynon local decided to | strike against a wage-cut. Over 1,000 | mass picketed and shut down the col- liery. Deputies and state troopers at- tacked the picket line; three strikers jwere shot; the pickets defended themselves with stones and bats, But | while the Eynon miners were bitterly | fighting the cut, the Boylan machine jof District 1 announced that the charter of the Eynon local would be lifted. John Boylan is president of | District 1, At least nineteen locals had their |charters lifted recently, and provi- |sional officers appointed. Numerous | militants have been either suspended or expelled from the union. We thus see that while the operators are cut- | ting wages, the U.M.W.A. district and |national officialdom are giving them a hand by terrorizing the members and suppressing every militant voice, There can be no doubt that the of- }ficialdom had something to do with the announcement of the 20 per cent cut, and that they will do everything jin their power to prevent the rank and file from resisting it. Cappeloinis and Maloneys ‘The overwhelming majority of the |miners hate the leadership in control of the district. In order to prevent |honest militants from organizing this sentiment against the machine, the officials will often put forward one |of their own men to lead a fake op- position movement. The Anthracite is rich with experi- lences of so-called “progressive” movements against Lewis, beginning |with Cappeloini, who started as a |“progressive” and ended as a staunch | supporter of Lewis, down the line of | Boylan, Brennan, MeGrery, and fin- ishing up with Maloney. All these leaders were either direct Lewis men, or else, like Maloney, they sought their own advancement. Maloney knew well enough that the “equalization of work” demand was |@ wrong demand to organize a strike jon. Instead of directing the atten- tion of the unemployed to demand relief from the government and the |coal operators, he organized a strike of the unemployed to demand relief | from the part-time employed and the few full-time employed. The | Lewis-Boylan machine did not much |mind the Maloney movement, as they |knew well enough that a movement |to organize on such false issues could easily be smashed. At this moment Mr. Cappeloini is again coming for- |ward in a sham fight against the machine. It is only to mslead the | miners from a real fight against the coming 20 per cent cut. | Organize Rank and File Committees, In the coming September Confer- ence the U.M.W.A. officials will un- |doubtedly put up a fake resistanee to |the cut. This they must do in order | to fool the miners and keep them under their control. At the end, as they did in Illinois, they will accept jthe cut. The announced wage-cut |can be stopped, providing the miners |themselves take the following steps: Elect a broad rank and file committee in each local union. | Wherever the machine’ succeeds in blocking the election of such a co 2- mittee, then a rank and file oppo- sition should be organized. The pure Pose of these committees is to keep every miner in line for a fight against the cut, and back the fight of the unemployed for their demands, 2. The local unions should pass resoluiions instructing the district and national officials not to agree to any cut; insist that the present agreement be lived up to, and insist that the September Conference with the operators be public and that the |local unions have rank and file rep resentation. Only in this way will the coal op- jerators, ang their agents, the U. M. |W. A. officialdom, be defeated in thein attempts to reduce the stand- [ards of the Anthracite miners to starvation level, FROM BUTTE, MONTANA Dear Comrades: I have not paid a cent to the elec- tric power gang of robbers for the last five months. I have to pay at least one-half of the bill within the week or my light will be shut off. In spite of this, however, you can de- pend on my renewing my Daily sub. Praternally yours, S. G. “8 PROPOSES “RED PENNY FUND” Chicago, Ill. Dear Comrades: I propose the “Red Penny Fund.” Pennies will do the trick. Your yearly or half-yearly’ appeals for funds take valuable space from our too-small paper. Besides, it will never keep the Daily Worker out of debt. ‘The danger of suspension {s always there. Start the Red Penny Fund. Flood |the country with small pocket-boxes, | Aim at a million pennies a week: | You can get them. It can be donet Yours, w. 8 * eens OLGIN ADDRESSES BOSTON CONFERENCE BOSTON, Mass.—More than 100 | delegates from workers’ organizations, |including trade unions, fraternal or~ |ders and the Communist Party, ate jtended an Emergency Daily Worker | Conference held here the other day, M. Olgin, editor of the Fretheit, ade dressed the Conference on the urgency of the Daily Worker's appeal for funds,