The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 16, 1924, Page 2

Gia! WHITE WASH | The Gold Dust Twins of Politics | STANDARD OIL IN PEKIN BLAST Expect Coroner’s Jury to Favor Rockefeller By TOM TIPPETT (Special te “The Daily Worker”) PEKIN, ILL.—In a report that com- pletely white washes the company from blame for the fatal explosion in the dry starch works of the Corn Pro- ducts Co., Plant here, Jan. 3, the in- vestigators trace the cause of the dis- aster to a hot box in a motor that “someone had failed to oil for a long period of time.” With two aditional deaths on Jan. 13, the number killed now is 42 with 17 remaining victims horribly burned in hospitals. Some of these will die, others will be blind and otherwise ewippled for life. All but one body has been recovered from the wreck- age. Whether it will ever be found is a matter of conjecture here. The unidentified number 10, The investigation into the cause of the catastrophe was conducted by David J. Briee, engineer in charge of dust explosions for the U. S. Bureau of Chemistry, Department of Agricul- ture, and John C. Gamber, state fire marshal. The word negligence is not mentioned in their report altho it is ebvious, even from their own con- clusions, that failure to keep motors giled to the extent that one of them burnt out, in the presence of in- flammable fumes and dust, is in itself criminal. The over heated motor, according to the report, “apparently” caused | an explosion in the grinding room, | the force of which was impeded be- cause of accomodating construction of the glass walled building. The | main smash up occurred, the report | continues, when the flames shot thru | the conveyor to the dry starch build- ing from the grinding room and set | off the dust that completely de-j| molished the building and killed the entire working force. This version is exactly as was reported in The Daily Worker, Jan 6, except that no aecount was given for the original spark. 5 This disaster, according to the re- port, has taught much on the subject of explosions. In the future, it says, all buildings in which explosions are liable to occur, must be built re- mote from the safer portions of the plant. These buildings must have walls and roofs of glass so that ex- plosions easily break thru and spend their force on the outside instead of demolishing the plant as was done | here. | No mention is made in the report of suction fans to eliminate the ex- plosive dust and fumes, to prevent explasions alteether Tt is pointed out by the workers at the plant, that explosions—even in properly con- structed buildings, that blow out glass walls and tear off roofs at the same time kills working men, even tho the plant is saved from destruction. Fans will be installed in the new building, however, it is understood here. No mention is made of them for obvious reasons. In all the reams of material that have been printed on the explosion here, not a line ap- pears regarding suction fans altho their absence is the first thing men- tioned when workers are interviewed. The coroner's jury, comprised of theee anti-labor newspaper repre- sentatives, two retired farmers and a banker will hold their inquest after the remaining dead man has_ been taken out of the wreckage or when hopes of discovering his bits of flesh have been abandoned. The investigators, in their report, a ciate the co-operation they re- aed in their work from the officials of the company.” The Corn Pro- ducts Refining Company is a subsidi- ary of Standard Oil. RAILWAY TELEGRAPHERS © ON C.M. AND ST. P. IN STRIKE REFERENDUM Telegraphers on the Chicago, Mil- yaukee and St. Paul Railroad, mem- bers of the Order of Railway Tele- graphers, affiliated with the Railway department of the American Feder- al of Labor, have taken a strike vote on the application of the deci- sion of the railway board granting the members of the organization an inerease of two cents per hour. The contention of the union is that the two cent increase was a minimum and that in many instances the deci- sion of the board granted consider- ably more than that amount to cer- tain classes of workers. The strike vote followed the failure of a committee of the union to adjust the matter and the result will be known in a few days. To All Members Chicago YWL: On Wednesday, Jan. 16, at 7 p. m., a special meeting of the Chicago Central Executive Committee has been called at 1009 N. State St. Room 214. This meeting will deal with one of the organizational prob- lems of the YWL in Chicago, which ires immediate solution. It is im itive that every member of the Chicage CEC be present to deliberate upon this matter. Mistake in Greeting of Amalgamated Local No. 39. In the greeting of Local No. 39, X mated Clothing Workers, to The Daily Worker, appearing in yes- terday’s issue, the signatures should have been those of A. Beck, presi- dent, and Jacob Gossman, secretary, it of the signature of Hyman former president of this lo- Amalgama’ the ‘ cal of THE DAILY WORKEXN January i6, 1923 F A noted student of politics once said, in discassing the Democratic and Republican Parties, that the elephant and the donkey feed at the same trough—the Wall Street pool. When this observer made this characterization he hit the nail squarely on the head. An examination of the personnel of the national committees of the Democratic and Republican Parties shows plainly and with sufficient. clarity to dispell the illusions of the worst sceptic and doubter about the fact that the two dominant parties of today are owned body and soul by the financiers and manufacturers. On the Republican National Committee there are 12 lawyers; 8 bankers; 5 capitalists; 4 professional political bureaucrats; 4 whe tell the world that they are farmers, but who are in reality wealthy farm, magnates; 3 mer- chants; 2 real estate men; 2 insurance men; 2 engineers, 2 stock raisers; 2 newspaper magnates; 1 investment dealer; 1 public utilities director; 1 lumber man; and one each in the theatrical, sugar and mining business. Here we have a hundred per cent control of the Republican Party by busi-« ness elements and their allies. Cc Chicago was an ally of the Milk Trust in the strike which was settled on a compromise basis was the state- ment made to a representative of Half of Porto Rico’s Children “HERO” OF HERRIN Illiterate After 25 Years Under RAINS KEEPS 45" Brutalities of U.S. Imperialism ON ROOM TABLE WASHINGTON.—In answer to the plea made by Santiago Iglesias, sen- ator in the Porto Rican legislature, the children’s bureau here has made a iy — While “Daily Worker” Interviews Him. ARMER LEADER . FLAYS HEALTH HEAD BUNDESEN harge hentee Aided the Milk Trust. That the Health Department of study of conditions affecting children jn the island, and the conditions re- ported are as terrible as Iglesias declared them to be. “In spite of educational progress during 25 years of American adminis- .tration,” says the bureau report, “at jeast 5@ per cent of the population 10 years and over are illiterate (com- pared to 6 per cent in the United States), “Housing and sanitation are very primitive, most of the people living Glen Young who headed an army of 100 per cent American Ku Klux Klansmen in raids on hundreds of homes in Williamson county, UL, opment of great sugar and tobacco plantations has reduced the amount of land given to grazing and the raising of common food products. The situation with the Democratic National Committee is precisely the same. Here the lawyers number 26; ers 3; capitalists 2; merchants 2; coal operator 1; farmers, lumber men,! bankers 3; publishers 3; manufactur- printing, oil magnates, and doctors one each. Again we have not a single worker or poor farmer on the controlling committee of this Party. These facts and figures establish beyond any doubt the fact that the Republican and Democratic Parties are the Gold Dust Twins of the country’s politics. American Workers to Open Soup Kitchen in Germany Three years ago when the worst drought known in the history of Russia unleashed its brothers. u dogs of famine upon a war-torn country, the German workers, like the American, came to the immediate assistance of their Russian _ , At that time the German workers earned little, but they unhesitatingly divided what they had with their less fortunate comrades in Russia. Now the situation is reversed. Russia has been steadily building up, while Germany has been steadily running into decline, until the workers are faced with a threatened unpre- cedented famine, True to their spirit of jnternationa] solidarity with the workers of other} lands, the Russians are coming to the assistance of the Germans, Not in the spirit of charity. But in the spirit of solidarity with their comrades who are suffering gas a result of a decaying capitalist order which makes it possible for the rich to eat and the poor to starve. The International Arbeiter Hilfs Komitee which mobilized the work- ers of the world in behalf of the Russians, has now called upon the workers of the world again, in be- half of the starving German work- ers, The Friends of Soviet Russia, which is the American branch of this Committee, has therefore organ- ized itself into the Committee for International Workers’ Aid, and as Friends of Workers’ Germany has called upon all its affiliations ‘to en- ter a drive for relief of German workers, their wives and children, In response to this call, Boston, Chicago, New York, Cleveland, Phil- adelphia, San Francisco, Superior, Youngstown and Milwaukee have al- ready replied definitely. In each of these cities conferences have been called, inviting all German trade .unions and fraternal organi- zations, as well as all other sympa- thetic bodies to send delegates. Tag days, house to house canvasses, ba- zaars, socials, moving picture shows and meal drives will be conducted to. hel open an American Soup Kitchen in Germany. There is no time to lose. We must’ all put our shoulder to the wheel and work as we did during the Rus- sian famine. We raised $930,000 plus $250,000 worth of clothing and medicine for the Russians. We can do at least half as well for the Ger- mans, OPEN THE AMERICAN SOUP KITCHEN BY FEBRUARY FIRST! An initial outlay of $500 for equipment and a pledge of $2,000 monthly for maintenance will do it. Christ’s Disciples Ineligible Under Immigration Law (By Crusader Service.) NEW YORK.—The efforts of the Anglo-saxon advocates of - Nordic domination in the United States to discourage immigration from the countries of Southern Europe through the Johnson Immigration Bill, now before the House, came in for denunciation on the part of Rabbi Stepehn S. Wise at the Metro- politan Auditorium. Rabbi Wise denounced the Ku Klux Klan and the other advocates of the bill and demanded fair legisla- tion on the matter of immigration re- striction. He said hat the proposed measure would have excluded Christ and the Twelve Apostles. GERMAN COMMUNIST PARTY HAS STRICTER MEASURES “Only one who works in a fac- tory or has been discharged from a factory as an unemployed can from now on become a member of the Communist Party of Germany. He must name as recommendations two trustworthy comrades who have been members of the Party at least two full yeors. Whoever turns traitor to the Party or whoever steals into the ranks of the Party as a spy has forfeited his life and is subject to the revolutionary Party justice.’ From the new regulations of the Communist Party of Germany. Your Union Meeting Every local listed in the official di- rectory of the CHICAGO FEDERA- TION OF LABOR will be published under this head on day of meeting free of charge for the first month, afterwards our rate will be as fol- lows: Monthly meeting—$3 a year one line once a month,, each additional line, 15¢ an issue, Semi-monthly meetings — $5 a year one line published two times a month, each additional line 13¢ an issue. Weekly meetings—$7.50 a year one line a week, each additional line 10c an iszue. THIRD THURSDAY, Jan. 17, 1924 Name of Local and Place of Meetins. Allied Printing Trades Council, 59 E. Van Buren St. 6:30 p. m. Amal, Clothing Workers, 409 8. Hal- sted St. Boiler Makers, 2040 W. North Ave. Beot and Shoe, 1939 Milwaukee Ave. Brick and Clay, Shermanville, Ill. Brick and Clay, Glenview, Tl. Carpenters, 113’ 8, Ashland Blvd. Carpenters, 6416 S. Halsted St. Carpenters, 1440 Emi it. Carpenters, South Chi, 11097 Michigan ¥ No. rm, Ogden snd Ke2-te. 758 W. North Ave. Carpenters, 4339 S. Halsted St. Electrical, 1507 Ogden Ave. Engineers, 9223 Heuston Ave. Firemen and Enginemen, 2456 W, 38th Street. 9118 Com. Firemen and Enginemen, mercial Ave. a. Carriers, South Chi, 3101 EB. 924 it 225 Hod Carriers, Monroe and Peoria Sts. 18 Ladies’ Garment Workers, 328 W. Van Buren St. 100 Ladies’ Garment Workers, 328 W. Van Buren St. 233 Moulders, 119 S. Throop St. Painters’ District Council, 1446 W. Adame St, Painters, Dutt’s Hall, Chicago Heights. Plumbers (Railway), Monroe and ria Sts. Plumbers, Menroe and Peoria Sts. Railway Carmen, 52d and land Ave. Railway Clerks, 8138 Co er 4 Coat Makers, 328 W. Sheet Metal, 5436 Wentworth Ave. Sign Hangers, 810 W. Harrison St. ., Si Employes, Masonic Temple, 10:30 itters, 180 W. Washington St. Switehmen, 19 W, Adams St. 206 Houston Ave, Teamsters (Dairy), 220 8. Ashiand Ave Upholsterers, 180'W. Washington St. (Note—Unless otherwise stated all meetings are at 8 p. m.) The Daily Worker for a month free to the first member of any local union sending in change of date or place of meeting of locals listed here. Please watch for your local and if not listed let us know, giving time and place of meeting so we can keep this daily announcement complete and up to date. On Tuesday of every week we ex- pect to print display announcements of local unions. Rates will be $1 an inch, 60c¢ for half an inch card. Take this matter up in your next meeting. Your local should have a weekly dis- play card as well as the running an- nouncement under date of meeting. Work Daily for “The Daily!” , Douglas Park English Branch. A very successful educational ses- sion was held at the last meeting of the branch. Every inch of space in the meeting place was taken up, one new member was enlisted, and W. F. Kruse, returned from abroad, was the speaker. Get unity thru the Labor Party! The Daily Worker by Frank T. Fowler, official spokesman for the milk farmers of Lake County, Ind, “This strike taught the farmers of Lake County a valuable lesson,” de-| clared Mr. Fowler. “It was the first time they were engaged in such a} battle and they never before real- ized the value of organization. On the eve ef the settlement they were fighting with more determination than ever and the supply of milk to} Chicago was constantly dwindling.” : Message to Chicago Labor. Milk distributors were driven to the extreme of carrying empty milk cans to their plants in order to fool the farmers into believing that they were getting enough milk to supply their customers, ¥n_a special statement to workers of Chicago thru the Daily Worker, Mr. Fowler said: “The milk producers had the en- tire co-operation of the Chicago con- sumers in this fight. The latter knew | that the producer had expended mil- jlions on his barns and herds to sat- isfy the requirements of the Chicago Health Department, yet in spite of, this the health department, tho in possession of a card showing the con- dition of every one of our milk pro- ducing premises as a result of indi- vidual insvection, permitted milk to come to Chi¢ago from barns which were never visited by a Chicago health inspector. Our investigators reported that the conditions of some of tHese plants which supplied milk to this city during the strike wére unbe- lievably rotten. Thus was the loyalty of the producers in the Chicago milk district to the consumers of this city rewarded by a health official. We appreciate the hand of fellow- ship extended to us by the Chicago Federation of Labor and the other bodies and labor publications which did everything in their power to as- sist ns in the fight. The milk producers have been brought into closer association with the city workers than ever before, and furthermore they had an expe- rience ‘in the necessity for organi- zation which will stand them_ in good stead in the future. The Milk Producers Association has come out of this fight much stronger than it went into it, retaining the complete confidence of its own members to The eee ees ne The strike was settled at $2.67%4 a hundred pounds, a compromise between the $2.75 asked by the pro- ducers and the $2.60 offered by the distributors. Frank H. Kullman, vice-president of the Bowman Dairy Company, was loud in hig praise of the fairness of Dr, Bundesen. He had good reason to be, according to the leaders of the milk producers. In this fight the milk farmers! learned that they cannot expect any support from capitalist politicians, but that they must throw in ther | lot with the city workers who are) "| exploited by the same interests. RAILWAY UNIONS TRY SETTLEMENT WITHOUT BOARD General Conference to Loaf - police. Meet in Chicago Wage negotiations are still going on betweert officials of the railroads west of Chicago and the train service brotherhoods looking to the settle- ment of a new wage scale and work- ing agreement. The brotherhoods are still working under the terms of an agreement that expired last- October. If an increase in wages is won it is expected it will be retroactive. Both sides seem anxious to settle in rural districts in thatched huts worth about $20. The number of migratory workers is large. Most of them have no homes of their own and almost no possessions, and the problem of.educating and caring for their children is serious. Devel-j| . United States. “The death rate in Porto Rico is still nearly twice as high as in the There is a dearth of physicians and trained nurses, and hospital conditions are deplor- able.” WINITSKY HEARS OF PARDON ACTION TWO DAYS LATER Gets Copy of ‘‘Freiheit” by Accident NEW YORK.—Harry _ Winitsky general manager of the New York daily, “Freiheit,” who was pardon- ed from a 5 to 10 year prison sen- tence for “criminal syndicalism” this ‘week, received news of his pardon in a strange manner, Winitzky happened to be in Phila- delphia, attending a conference, when he cas@ally picked up a two- | day-old copy of the “Freiheit” and read that Governor Smith had granted him a full pardon with com- plete restoration of civil rights. He paused, rubbed his jeyes and con- cluded that the “Freiheit” must have fallen victim to a hoax.: Neverthe- less, he stepped to the telephone and called the Philadephia “Bulle- tin.’ He was connected with the local city editor. “I’m interested in the case of this | man, Winitsky,” he told the editor. '“Can ‘you tell me anything about this gossip that he’s been pardoned by the governor?” | “ the reply.. It’s ‘Why, sure,” was all over our front page. Of course, it’s true.” Winitsky is celebrating tonizht by turning the tables on the world. At a ball given by the National Defense committee and Labor Defense Coun- cil, there will be a good-natured farce in which Winitsky will play the role of judge. Gitlow, a former cell-mate of Winitsky at Danne- more state prison, will be sergeant Winitsky will spend the evening sentencing his comragés to 20 and 30 cent fines for Ancing with another man’s wife—or with their own. Proceeds of the court procedure at the ball will be de- voted to the political prisoners’ fund. Winitsky wag sentenced in April, 1920, on charges based upon his writings and activities in the com- munist movement. For two years he submitted to the harshes treat- ment that could be concocted by the Department of Justice Tor- euenada. He was beaten repeated- lv and brutally, treatened with con- finement in an insane asylum and “framed” on false charges of at- tempted murder made by an embit- tered prison warden at the Depart- ment of Justice’s instignation. Two weeks ago the “Appellate Division of the Supreme Court flatly refused his plea for a new trial. Meanwhile, his attorneys submitted a petition for pardon. Winitsky himself declined to seek that escape. In granting an unreserved patdon, Governor Smith established a pre- cedent in this state in releasing a convicted man who_ is at liberiy. Winitzky was freed from Sing Sing in May, 1922, on $5,000 bond offer- ed by the American Civil Liberties Union. N. Y. Pressman - President Flays ‘Monarch’ Berry (Snecial to “The Daily Worker”) NEW YORK CITY.—“The consti- tution forced upon the membership Costs Money. : tion that such a conference is being Daily or Weekly? Our mail is going to undergo a big increase in the hours just ahead. We can feel it coming. But that is what we want and expect. We want to know from the readers of The Daily Worker whether we shall publish Daily or Weekly installments of the already world-famous Russian novel, “A Week.” We want our readers to get the greatest possible enjoyment out of the reading of this treme s piece of literature. Will this be secured thru the appearance of installments daily, or one installment each week in the our own mind in this matter. What do you say? Editor, The Daily ‘ker, 1640 N. Halsted St., Chicago, Mino’ t o head with the publication of this example of the new li ture that is a direct result of the world- influencing Russian Revolution, How shall we do it? . i : ; 4 . ; their differences without the inter-| by an unscrupulous union machine vention of the railroad labor board.| hag established a real monatchy in L, B sy po head of the Order|our union,” is how Philip Um- of Railway Conductors, hopes to be |etaedter, president of the Printing able to arrange a general parley in| Pressmen’s Union No. 51, character- Chieago soon. “I have every reason | jzed yesterday the result of the nom- to hope that there will be a confer-| inationg in the International Print- lence. But I have no idea when it will! ing Pressmen’s Union, the conse- jtake place.” quences of which were proclaimed | The United States Railroad Labor | from Tennessee by “Major” George Board said that it had no informa-| 1. Berry. “It ig shameless the way it suits erpenane: ‘We have no reason to be-| Berry to declare now the re- ieve such a conference is being ar-| ‘sults of the nominations are an ia I proval by the memberehip of his administration in office which dis- strike-breaking,” er- Ir. tinguished itself b; declared Umi ence of bituminous mine owners and} “The machinery is so complicated vnion officials to negotiate a wage) that it is impossible tor the mem- agreement in order to avold @ coal) bership to express itself, The op- strike April 1, and which ig to meet} ponents of nominated three here Feb, 11, will be attended by 64) candidates. But as a result of pro- ‘representatives, eight operators oy visions in the statutes none of these ranged. Bituminous Wage Conference JACKSONVILLE, Fl—The conft eight miners, coming from each candidates could get the su of the four big coal pi states | a sufficient number of local union», These statutes can nly be changed! in the central compere eld, in- cluding Pennsylvania, by the Convention which convenes ner eres! in autumn. But as tho elections COLUMBUS, Ohio.—-An organiza-| delegates and the composition of the tion meeting of a state conference! convention are dependent upon the for Progressive Political Action will same statutes a change is of course be held in Columbus, 20, The, impossible, Our situation can be \call is sent to the unions and central compared only with that under an bodies by the executive board, Ohio | autocratic monarchy, with George State Federation of Labor. L, Berry at the head.” : ‘The Land for the Uveral Get unity thru the Labor Party! CONCERT TO AID SIGMAN VICTIMS CONTINUE FIGHT Blacklist Used Against} Needle trades Militants The Progressive members of the International Ladies’ Garment Work- ers’ Union in Chicago who have been expelled from the union by President Sigman, are now through the alliance of the union chief with the bosses, barred from employment in shops under the jurisdiction of the I. L. G. W. U. With a viciousness heretofore un- known to the American labor move- ment a campaign of slugging, fines, and expulsions has been carried out against the most active builders of the union, Taken from the job, many of them with wives and fam- ilies depending on them, they are still determined to continue the figh’ against the bureaucrats. Meyer Perlsten, Sigman’s tool in Chicago, has the union treasury at his disposal to carry out his cam- paign of disruption. Tens of thou- sands of dollars that should be used in organizing work have been squandered in this way. The workers who are making this fight for progressivism in the needle trades are badly in need of funds to continue the fight. The Needle Trades Section of the T, U. E. L. of Chicago has arranged for a mass meeting and concert to raise funds for continuing’ the struggle. All needle trades workers opposed to Sigman-Perlstein blacklist union- ism should come to the assistance of these workers. Their side of the story has to be told in leaflet. This The mass meeting and concert will be held in the Ashland Auditorium February 10th. The price of admis- sion is 25 cents, the speakers and program to be announced later. NEGROES HARD HIT AS JOBLESS CRISIS GROWS DEEPER Thousand Asked Aid in Chicago in December ‘eataticts The reports of charity organiza- tions indicate that unemployment is on the increase, Edwin C. Jones of the United Charities of Chicago said’. Unemployment first makes itself felt in the Legal Aid department. People who are thrown out of work are anx- ious to collect back wages and small sums owing to them and they appeal to the Legal Aid. It is not until they are unemployed and whose Fascist “army” is charged with burning the homes of foreign- born workers, was interviewed by ‘The Daily Worker at the Congress Hotel. Young ignored questions directed to him about the alleged burning of homes by his “army,” “I got all the best elements of the community behind me and we cleaned up,” he proudly boasted. Young received the Daily Worker reporter in hig room at the Congress Hotel trying to look real hardboiled. On a table lay a large 45-caliber Colts automatic pistol. Young had a habit of keeping silent until a question was asked and then talking about anything but the subject of the question, His chin seemed to need continual shoving out to support the illusion he tried to create of being hard- boiled, “Some fool called the troops in. It was a big mistake.” That was the answer to the question. “Are you a Klansman?” “Down in Williamson County we had all our enemies on the run. We have shown those people their places and we will keep them there.” “I intend to go back to Herrin tonight.” Klan Tries to Run Sheriff. MARION, _ Ill.—Sheriff George Galligan of Wiliamson County today asked Governor Small to withdraw the three companies of state troops sent here to quiet conditions result- ing from’ the civil war started by the Ku Klux Klan. CONGRESS HEARS FROM BIG UNION OF FARM-LABOR Spokesmen from Three States in Capitol (By Federated Press.) WASHINGTON.—Committees and members of both houses of congress haye been hearing, durine the vast. week, from the leaders of the newest and perhaps most significant of all the farm organizations in the United States—the Farm Union of America. State presidents of the organiza- tion from Arkansas, Oklaho: and Texas have come here, and -: nitly have explained to the lawmakers that something more than 300,000 farm- ers and farm workers in the south and west have joined the Farmer- Labor union since it was formed three years ago in an obscure Texas town, and that this represents the largest and most important develop- ment in @ given time in the hisory of agrarian movements, Feel Selves Just Workers. For this is a league of farmers who consider themselves ordinary workingmen, like the men who foi- low other trades. They say their land or their leases, and their live- stock and other equipment ar. just their kits of tools for carrying on their trade. They want a living ag and they propose to affiliate with the other organized workers for mutual protection, During the railway shopmen's strike of last year, the locals of the Farmet-Labor union in the southwest furnished supplies to the strikers and saw to it that no strikebreakers were recruited in their territory. After for some time that they appeal fot/the cotton crop ripened, the strikers charitable help. During December 571 new appeals were received by the United Charities as compared with 578 in 1922. Of these appeals help was asked beeause of unemploy- ment in 98 eases as compared with 78 such appeals last year. That is an inerease of about 25 per cent. Unemployment is affecting Negroes first, the report indicates. Often aid is asked because of unemployment where it is not the primary cause, ag in the case of desertions and im- prisonment of the family bread-win- ner Over 1,000 persons asked for legal aid December as compared with 748 the year previous, Of these 331 were for the collection of wages ar compared with 157 the yeat before. Only 56 persons asked help in collect- ing small debts a year ago December as against 208 this December. went out to the farms and picked cot- ton, free for their union friends. ‘ant U, S, Labor Rule. _ Political action is one of the main objects of the union, and it is in sup- part of the Norris-Sinclair foreign marketing bill that they have come to Washington at his time. Mean- while they are wink pooling and marketing their crop through their own expert and bonded sales agents. Phe day when organized farmers can be used to combat the organized workers of the towns is rapidly wen- ing,” said President Thompson of the Arkansas branch. “Our farmers are applauding what the British Labor Party is doing, and we think thn American people are fundamentally capable of as good a job.” The Industries for the workers! a system of - Boost the Newsstand Sales The Daily Worker is on the newsstands in Chicago. It can be secured from the stands in “The Loop” and in all the working-class sections of the city. : 2 While every reader should become a subscriber, we must interest thou- sands, tens of thousands of non-readers to get their copies of The Daily Worker on the newsstands. : This can be done in part by getting the newsboys to Worker a good display on the stands. Let every subscriber, therefore, at least for the coming week, EVERY DAY, buy an extra copy of The Daily Worker on the stands and urge the newsboy to give The Daily a good display. Then use this extra copy of The Daily as « sample copy to interest some worker in your shop or in your MeMtpe thie tbe: The Dilly’ aud thus ile eet tess of thous id pow tive The Daily 1