The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 26, 1927, Page 6

oe 26, THE DA 1927 Page Six + oe is ihe Results of ihe Plenary Session of the Executive Committee of the ILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JULY | REVOLUTION IN MINIATURE | | By E. HEGARE. i | Students of revoluti ry activity will not be surprised | at what happened in Union Square during the Sacco and | Vanzetti mass meeting, Thursday, July 7th, which was| “Vive la Commune!” VAN LOON LAMENTS OVER INTOLERANCE. Growing Cry of Increasing Ranks of World’s Workers J, LOUIS ENGDAHL By “Workingmen’s Paris,” wrote Karl Marx in his brilliant “Civil War in France,” “with its Com- mune, will be forever celebrated as the glorio harbinger of a new society. .Its martyrs are en- shrined in the great heart of the working class. Communist International (Speech by N. I. Bucharin.) issue.) interpret (Continued from las We must by no mez Comrade Lenin’s instructions to the Hague Delegation to be a condemna- tion of the slogans of the general strike and of insurrection as fighting {der that these slogans may not exist | lon paper only, but become working slogans leading to corresponding po- |litical results. 2 broken up by the police at the request of the committee | | TOLERANCE, by Hendrick Willem Van Loon. Boni & Liverright. $3.00 Hendrick Van Loon has seen fit to devote a four-hundred page volume to a lamentation of the intolerance of mankind thru the ages. jthe “impartial” statement issued by the American Civil| has compiled in chronological order the various forms of society and the different individuals who have either in‘charge (Socialist Party) when thousands of voices be- gan calling: “‘We want Gold! We want Gold!” (Ben Gold, Communist.) upon the situation in the socialist and liberal press, and Liberties Bureau. The writer saw and heard the entire drama enacted from a building which looks down on Union Square. I w ices calling for Gold. Nor will they be surprised at the comment } ance. In it he affected or been affected by intoler- He takes up, in historical sequences, the Greeks, Homer, Thales, Anaxagores, Protagoras, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, etc.; he traces the existence s distracted from my work by the insistent clamor of|cf christianity from its birth, thru the Inquisition, the Renaissance, and If there was anybody in that| the Protestant revolt; and finally, wending his way thru brief biographical The Central Slogans in the Fight | crowd of ten thousand people who was not calling for | sketches of the lives of Erasmus, Rabelais, the Sozzinis, Montaigne, Arminius, Gold, he certainly wasn’t heard in that uproar. It was/|Bruno, Spinoza, Frederick the Great, Voltaire, Lessing, Paine, and a host History has already nailed its exterminators to: | methods against war danger and war,| . “inst War Danger and War. | tne crowd, who would not be denied, and they took mat-| of lesser lights, he brings us to a short resume of “The Last Hundred that eternal pill-ry from which all the prayers of |The sole correct interpretation of) This is the first problem discussed| ters into their own hands, and lifted Gold, in spite of his | Years, where he makes hhis exit ina burst of rhetorical prophecy. their priests will not avail to redeem them.” Comrade Lenin’s instructions is to|by the Plenum, in its connection with | protests, on their shoulde They attempted to thrust | The day will come,” he says, “when tolerance shall be the rule, when * is realize that they were directed against |the preparation for war. The second/him upon one of the platforms. The speakers up to this| intolerance shall be a myth like the slaughter of innocent captives, the burn- E .E words of Karl Marx—in fact the whole his-|the mere phrase, the empty phrase, of | Problem is the question of the leading| point hadn’t been very interesting, and there were lots | Ing of widows, the blind worship of the printed page. tory of the Paris Commune—flash across the mind general strike, revolution, and armed |Slogan for the Communist Party at the| of people in that crowd who were, no doubt, yelling| “It may take ten thousand years, it may take a hundred thousand. as one stands before “The Red Wall,” dedicated to the | insurrection, as “reply” to war, ete,| Present juncture, under the present| “Gold! Gold!” just for the sake of excitement. But ep : But it will come, and it will follow close upon the first true victory martyred dead of the revolutionary. struggle March Lenin said no word against these slo-|Siven circumstances. An interesting socialists on the platform, evidently chagrined at the | of which history shall have any record, the triumph of man over his own 18-May 28, 1971, in the capital city of France. gans themselves. All that Lenin did|‘iscussion arose sight the question popularity of the left wing leader, showed their spleen | tear. A A Breet a ‘ 2 f a was to fight with the utmost political/@PPpears perfectly simple, but the| by kicking Gold in the chest, starting to scuffle with the| Fear of what? Of whom? Of himself? Van Loon does not say. it “The Red Wall” is to be found in the Cimetiere Peré energy against mere phrases, against COUrse of the discussion showed it to| insistent crowd, and finally calling in the mounted polite. | is the same old mystic, bunk about digging introspectively “not outward Lachaise, “the largest and most interesting of Parisian |the empty phrases of reformism. ,be more complicated, under existing) Everything happened according to the well-known into a world of white light but inward into enlightened blackness,” as a burial grounds.’ Wo kn Rae maitethatha eieepe conditions, than in the situation ob-|Marxian formula, and everybody concerned was shown | modern poet, as muddled as Van Loon, has expressed it. Van Loon, I sus- It was not mentioned in any of the “Guide Books} b ee Social D ete: Gan taining before the outbreak of the im-|up momentarily in his true alignment in the class strug- pect, feared himself that an explanation of the word ‘fear would ruin the to Paris” that I saw. The sightseeing auto buses do aie a bee mune “of Peade perialist war. We have to deal with|gle: , ; ; ; eves ae or ere Beentiede soca ea nate not prints : npt go that way. Open confession that the revolution-| Tynion Cones dia larwesnnmiber a series of unique situations. First of} (1) Non-partisan mass meeting and one hour’s strike gs P e parallels the good point o: i urant’s ary efforts of the French proletariat are not supposed to interest the American tourist. “Pere Lachaise” or “The Cimetiere de l’Est,” is named after Lachaise, the Jesuit confessor of Louis XIV, who jof-the leaders of Social Democratic parties, have repeatedly declared their intention of “replying” to war with a general strike. In the same manner a considerable number of the heroes all, actual war has not yet broken out in Europe, nor has it even actually jbroken out against the Soviet Union; |the main fact is the attack upon the |Soviet Union. The Soviet Union rep- called to protest against Sacco and Vanzetti execution. (2) All radicals, including Communists, work to make demonstration a big success. (3) Committee arrange- ments including the getting ef a permit from the police are put in the hands of some S. P. officials. (4) Armed tacts with the lives and teachings of sketchy idea of each. recent “Story of Philosophy”; that is, to one who has had no previous con- the great men of history, it gives a Even in this, however, the author has attempted to include every figure of prominence, with the result that all he really ac- complishes is to muddle the clarity of his book and create a jargon of names which the,reader must go over several times to get a clear idea of. had @ country seat here. In 1804 the property was RE A ene a a Gama? "|resents a factor of extraordinary po-| with their police permit, the socialists decide at the last t nus: But, RRHENE oy the city “aud Converted intb’ai camictery. 11S oe aay peyolncioneny sym | tical importance, and upon its flag|moment to exclude the Communists from among the|@S I said before, this is the forte of the book. ; : ; has since been greatly extended and now covers an| jy, see preacned the genera’ | the slogan of peace is written. |speakers. (5) Out of touch with the rank and file of the His weaknesses, on the other hand, are many and gigantic. He writes area of 109 acres. The attendant at the main gate shows me a map of the cemetery, with.all of its lanes and pathways, be- tween gra’ and tombs, all named. I follow his finger over the map until it comes to the far corner of ‘the cemetery where “The Red Wall” is marked with the French words, “Mur Des Federes.” Never had I seen a cemetery quite like this, one. tombs were so close together that there was room for no blade of grass between. mass of stone, marble, brick or granite, one vast tomb, completely deserted except for an occasional aged woman | d that I passed. Even these seemed to have wandered in, as if they had no other place to go. * * * I might have passed “The Red Wall” by if nearly a hundred giant wreaths had not been hanging there upon its face, attracting me. “The Red Wall” is part of the wall of the cemetery itself, but not high. It is small indeed when compared to the mighty “Red Wall” of the Kremlin, in Moscow. “The Red Wall” erected to the memory of Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxembourg and the hosts of other revolutionary dead in Berlin, Ger- many, is more monumental. But as in Moscow and Berlin, one forgets about phy- sical proportions, of bricks piled on bricks, in the mem- ory of the mighty proletarian sacrifices that were made, 36,000 dead men, women and children, slaughtered by the reaction, in the final week of the Paris Commune, May 21-28, 1871. The huge tablet.on the Wall merely Aux Morts De La Commune, 21-28 Mai 1871.” The scores of wreaths upon the Wall must have been | there since the last anniversary commemorati€n of the Commune, March 18, a date blazened red on the work- ing class calendar in every country in the world, There were wreaths of workers of different nation- alities, from Chinese workers, Jewish workers, Italian workers. The last of these include many exiles from fascist Italy who have settled in France. There were wreaths with the “Hammer and Sickle” of the Soviet Revolution; wreaths carrying a message of solidarity with the Chinese Revolution; wreaths of many trade unions of Paris. The | It was all one continuous | jstrike as the salvation from all evil. |But all the same there is no sign to be observed, either in one camp or the other, of systematic preliminary prep- |aration, carried on steadily from day |to day, for the actuality of the fight against war. It need not be emphasized that if janyone were to issue the slogan of revolution and insurrection as “reply” to a war, the single and isolated ac- tion of this proclamation would be the vainest of boasts, an utter deceptioi of the masses, unless those issuin; the slogan had previously carried through, a systematic course of prepa- |ration for the organization of the gen- jeral strike, the organization of insur- |rection, and the organization of revo- |lution, in accordance with an accurate | Marxian analysis of the objective sit- | uation. \ The point decisive for Lenin—and it }must be dicisive for the standpoint |adopted by the Communist Party. |was the orientation of our Party in j such manner that our first considera- tion, our most urgent, important, de- cisive, and fundamental task, the in- nermost core of our problem—is to be the proper preparation for the war against war. This preparation involves the crea. tion of an illegal organization, it in- volves work amongst soldiers and sailors, energetic work in the trade unions, the systematic exposure of so- cialist and opportunist lies, the sys- jtematic propaganda of Bolshevist ideas in the struggle against war, and the exertion of every effort for the 1 tive and propagandist activity, lega and illegal, military and civilian, fo mobilization of every possible agita- | | Let us recall to our memories the jmanner in which the Bolshevik dealt |with the question of a central slogan jat the beginning of the imperialist |war, and what differences of opinion existed at that time. The differences jof opinion dividing the Bolsheviki |from all other ideologies were here |very far-reaching indeed. Those of our opponents tending most to the \“Left,” ineluding Comrade Trotzky, jadvanced the slogan of peace as the central unifying slogan, whilst our |party and its Central Committee were | opposed to the slogan of peace, as central slogan, substituting for this \the slogan of civil war, the slogan of the metamorphosis of imperialist war into civil war. Here the Party did jnot advance this slogan as one run- |ning parallel to the slogan of peace, not as a slogan compatible with the slogan of peace, but as a slogan ex- \cluding the slogan of peace. At that |time we contended against all our ‘opponents, including the group “Our |Word,” headed by Comrade Trotzky. | They advanced the slogan of peace. We advanced the slogan of peace, the |slogan of civil war. We regarded |this slogan of civil war as the migh- iest weapon in the fight against paci- fist illusions, including those illu- | sions prevalent in the “left” groups, jand claiming to represent a “revolu- | tionary internationalist” standpoint. | | | Can we, in the present situation, | jrefrain from a recognition of the islogan of peace, at a time when the |Soviet Republics, the state organiza- tions of the proletariat, are d.*ending his watchword with their ufmost labor movement, the S. P. officials are surprised and angered at the demand of the crowd for a speaker who will speak for them, not at them. (6) S. P. committee- men reveal how they stand on the class struggle by be- traying the crowd into the ungentle hands of the police. (7) Capitalist press gloats ironically over disagreement among radicals. (8) Socialist press hysterically de-| nounces demonsrtation as another plot hatched in Mos- cow: “The disgraceful affair on Union Square last week when the left wing broke up a Sacco-Vanzetti meet- ing was another exhibition of criminal fanaticism.” —New Leader. (9) Civil Liberties Union “Condemns interference with workers’ meetings.” “We as a committee, are not concerned with the policy adopted in choosing or eliminating certain speakers or representatives of particular groups at any meeting. On this opinions may differ. We are unanimous, however, in éondemning outside interfer- ence with any meeting and in insisting that the rights of those in control be recognized. . . . It will be a real tragedy if the chief interference with civil liberty in New York arises from struggles among the workers themselves. s There you have a cross-s@ction of action and opinion in a time of revolutionary crisis. The spontaneous move- ment of the crowd insisting upon leaders who are close to them in word and deed, the fear and rage of the right wing socialists, who betray their’socialism by calling upon the capitalist gendarmes, and finally the showing up of the liberal mind as essentially hostile to any genu- ine demonstration of the popular will. ON THE BOWERY By DANIEL F. O'BRIEN. The Bowery is pretty much alive with the presence of unemployed men who hail from the North, South, and West in search of the elusive animal known as Jobs. The job in this epoch of unemployment is the all. ab- sorbing topic, everything else sinks into insignificance Vong‘ ‘de of it, for the potential as well as the actual liberals, and suggestion for solution!!! In ending, I might call attention with the evident purpose of being forceful and colloquial, but what he thinks is simplification is in reality vulgarization. tiny burst that ends in a tin-rattling, gradually-choking diminuendo. He possesses the usual “fear of change” complex that is found in most Therefore he achieves only a “I don’t want to suggest,” he says, “any radical reforms, but just for a change we might try that other light, by the rays of which the brethren of the tolerant guild have been in the habit of examining the affairs of the world. If that does not prove successful, we can always go back to the system of our fathers. But if it should prove to throw an agreeable luster upon a society containing a little more kindness and forbearance, a community less beset by ugliness and greed and hatred, a good deal would have been gained and the expense, I am sure, would be quite small.” What a scientific approach Another fundamental fallacy that Van Loon believes in is that the in- dividual is more important than the mass. In discussing Erasmus, him by saying, “Like all truly great man, he was no friend of systems. He believed that the salvation of this world lies in our individual endeavors.” praises to the fact that Karl Marx is never mentioned. And Van Loon is wise to stay away from him. Marx’s philosophy and economies would make Van Loon’s ideas grovel on the ground, What Marx recognized, and what the Communist movement of today realizes, is that tolerance, in the case of world movements, is moral weakness of the most jelly-spined kind. Nothing has ever been achieved by tolerance on this planet. What one must do to succeed in attaining his objective, is to sit down and weigh the matter, definitely decide which course is the correct one, and then let nothing swerve him from his path. Only in this way can advances in civilization be accomplished: thia the final conscious step that ends the unconscious evolutionary process of years. thru the Communist Party, did in Russia. That is what the Workers Party is trying to do here. And that is what Hendrick Willem Van Loon, in his fake, muddled liberalism, has grandly succeeded in overlooking. / That is what Lenin, —EDWIN ROLFE. How the right wing controlled Workmens Circle camp at Pawling, New York, mistreats the workers who are employed there, are vividly de- WORKMEN'S CIRCLE CAMP AT PAWLING, N. Y., COMPELS ITS SLAVES TQ TOIL UNDER ROTTEN CONDITIONS lock on the door. One day sitting at the table after waiting about an hour and a half for dinner. Mr. Toirtel, the manager, went over to the cook : 3 i scribed by Henry Bloom in the fol-| a i aoe tase i y : the fight against the danger of war. |POWers, at a time when this watch-| Coweryites are more or less hungry, more or less rag-| lowing letter to The DAILY By nye fo Bin, Biv them sacun a These wreaths are the passing tributes of labor’s|In this manner the question can and, Wd actually represents the real and} ged, more or less penniless,.and the jobs that usually) WORKER: 5 ‘ eternal solidarity with the Paris Commune’s martyred dead. It is of these that Karl Marx, in writing to Kugelmann, shortly after the uprising, said: “« . . What elasticity, what historical initiative, what | must be treated. Those who cry for |danger are mere talkers, if not actual betrayers. Those who declare that the |vital interests of this greatest and | the general strike as reply to war most important stronghold of the in-Mbecome fewer and fewer, until the job question has be- \ternational proletarian movement? | And finally, it must not be forgotten capabilities of self-sacrifice there are in these Parisians! | working class will “reply” to war by|that war has not yet broken out in After six months of starvation and destruction by in- ternal treason even more than by the external enemy, they rise, under Prussian bayonets as tho no war existed between France and Germany and the enemy did not stand before the doors of Paris! History has no similar example of such greatness!” Over on the other side of the wall there thunder and rattle the modern implements of industry in the hands of metal workers in a huge machine shop. The prole- | revolution, are mere dealers in words. tion to be one isolated action, a “re- ply.” To promise such a “reply,” without a basis of previous work of the intensest nature, is to deceive the | workers. | This is the purport of the instruc- tions given by Comrade Lenin to our It is utter nonsense to imagine revolu-| | Europe, that an armed attack has not yet been actually made on the Soviet 'Union, although preparations are be- |ing made for it with feverish ene, y. | (To Be Continued). | | eX: a a TRS | Film Company Union Exposed. “Company Union” is what Paul tariat grows in power in France, in the developing ma-|delegation. The “Hague” instructions | Dullwell, assistant secretary of Act- chine age, as the heirs of the Commune. * * * Some of the graves near the Wall are also of great interest. Here is the tomb of Gustave Lefrancais, mem- ber of the Commune of Paris; Henri Mortier, another member of the Commune (1843-94); also Pascal Faberot, Deputy de la Seine, 1833-1908. There is the double grave of Paul and Laura La- Fargue, who committed suicide in 1912. After writing such works as “The Religion of Capi- talism,” “Social and Philosophical Studies,” “The Origin | and Idea of God” and “The Evolution of Property,”! which placed him in the forefront of the revolutionary | writers of his day, LaFargue is said to have become | discouraged in the struggle and decided on an escape thru suicide with his wife, Laura, one of the three daugh- ters of Karl Marx. Their grave is already neglected. | It could only boast, as I viewed it, a small bouquet of | artificial violets. Great contrast this, their surrender | to death compared to the courageous will to struggle of | the Communards, who lived defiantly to the last, until their lives were shot out of them by enemy class bullets | as they stood against this wall only a few feet away. * * ‘ Near the outer cemetery wall is the monument “Le Mur” by Moreau Vauthier (1909) dedicated to the mem- ory of the victims of the revolutions. * * * One may also find some interest in the others who are buried here: historians and actors, artists and au- thors, princes and painters, generals and poets, for anyone may purchase here a plot for the dead. It in-| cludes the Jewish Cemetery where the grave of Rachel | (1821-53) is to be found. There are the graves of Rosa Bonheur (1822-99) the painter; Frederic Chopin | (1810-49) the composer; Adolphe Thiers (1797-1877) | president of the republic; Corot (1796-1875) the paint- | er; Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923) the actress; Honore de Balzac (1796-1850) and Emile Souvestre (1806-54), | novelists, and Georges Bizet (1838-75) composer of! “Carmen.” It also includes a Mohammedan Cemetery that is quite fallen into decay. | But all these names, more and more, mean little to the workers of France, and of the world, compared to the fact that this cemetery contains “The Red Wall,” | the memorial to the Commune dead. | This fact draws to this spot in Paris the growing tribute of the workers of the world, including growing numbers of the workers of the United States of Amer- iea, who join with labor everywhere in proclaiming, |do not contain tHe slightest contradic- |tion of the Basle instructions. These two documents must not be. confronted as if one cancelled the other, On the |contrary, one gives orientation on cer- |tain slogans and fighting methods, whilst the other shows the pivot upon | which the whole struggle turns, in or- ors Equity Assn. calls the Motion Pic- ture Academy of Arts and Sciences. He charges it is subsidized and con- trolled by the producers. Douglas Fairbanks became president of this organization on its formation last mid-May, just before 10% wage cuts were announced in the film studios. appeared the summers previous to this one of 1927, have come a very serious question in the minds of hundreds of thousands who wend their forlorn way upon its side- walks day and night. So true is this, that the mission floors are crowded nightly with men seeking food and shelter. Also the “benevolent” Y. M. C. A. (young men’s character assassinator) have thrown its doors open to the boys of the Bowery. (The Y. M. C. A. specializes in boys.) For the first time in many years this dump, lo- cated at Third street and the Bowery, is doing a chari- table piece of work. Yet we must not forget that it is like the Salvation Army, one of the most numerable ex- ploiters of the down-and-outers who are unacquainted with its intense greed for profits. The Bowefy so far this summer is a bad one for all. Some of the employment sharks were forced to close their doors, also the flop-houses are only about half full—the Boweryites taking to the various parks with empty pockets in search of places to sleep. Parks are very useful in the vicinity of the Bowery, considering the fact that they act as harbors for the harborless, who possess not the price of a lousy flop. Prices range from twenty-five cents up. All kinds of men, boys, women and girls promenade even as the Communards proclaimed upon the gallows and before firing squads, “VIVE LA COMMUNE!” i é | | | ATTACKS WEEVIL FROM AIR ee} Cottonfarmers of Nueces county, Tex., have been aided in their fight against the boll weevil by Orval Dockery, 20, above, Corpus. Christi aviator, who has just completed the dusting of more than 50,000 sacres of cotton from the air. Fritz Hoefner, county agri+ cultural agent has estimated that Dockery has saved the farmers at least $100,000 by his work. No estimate has been made of the number of dead boll weevils. A ‘ along the Bowery. The university graduate rubs shoul- ders with collegian, the collegian with the public schooler, the public schooler with the illiterate—poverty puts all into one category on the Bowery, all are classified thusly as “bums.” Most of the guests of the Bowery are of the Gandy daring type of migrator. I. e., they follow railroad la- boring work more or less; they know what it is to toil ten hours a day with picks and shovels—under a blazing sun—for the magnificent sum of three-thirty or thirty- three cents an hour. They also know what it means to eat garbage, handed to them by the stomach robbers, who operate the commissary departments. They know what it means to have to wait days, and sometimes weeks fo the paltry sums they so laboriously toiled and sweated for. Words are not adequate to express the abuse the Gandy-dancers of the Bowery are up against when they ship out to the railroad camps and that is not all. They are taxed by the private employment agencies from three to five dollars for the devastating privilege of being al- lowed to be exploited, robbed and gypped into a state of bankruptcy. The Bowery also has its hash-joints and bootlegging emporiums, where its victims eat unfit “foods” and drink poisonous liquors, A great number of the men die pre- mature deaths from the effects of both “foods” and drinks consumed in such places, There has never been any serious attempt at organ- izing the men on the Bowery, organized labor not con- sidering it worth while. Yet recruits for strike breaking agencies are largely gathered from there in times of strikes, owing to the fact that organized labor on one hand outlaws them from the unions, and on the other hand as human beings they are hungry. The Bowery is the outstanding spectacle through which we can gauge the progress of modern civilization, its rottenness, its greed, its indifference to abominable conditions such as they exist. The Bowery, like other Boweries, may some day be improved but it will be by the Boweryites themselves and not by the commercial brigands, and fake theologics! Henry Luffiner and Ben Zucker- man, also employed at the same camp sign the letter as a testimonal of its truthfulness. It tells how the right wingers acted towards the workers, going to the extent of threatning to call the police when the workers ob- jected to the working conditions. The letter reads as follows: “As one of those wno goes every summer to work in hotels or camps, krtowing the exploitation and over- work which I have to do. I read in the Jewish Daily Forward that the Workmen's Circle opened a camp in Pawling, N. Y., this seemed a new camp. “T immediately applied for a job at the general office of the Workmen’s Circle. I was sent over to Mr. Gili- bter and he hired me to work in the Workmen’s Circle Camp. I im- mediately accepted this job and on July 1, 1927 I started out for the job at Pawling, N. Y. “As I am radically inclined my thought was the Workmen’s Circle motto is, ‘one for all and all for one,’ and also stands for human. rights. Coming there I found it to be entirely different. “For instance, the first day after finishing a hard day’s work, they treated us like working men ought to be treated. After the second days’ hard work they took us out from the bungalow where we slept the first night and put us in a house where it isn’t fit for cattle to live, because there wasn’t any water, lavatory, lights; beds, matresses, or either blankets. Some were forced to sleep on the floor for two nights where mosquitos almost ate us up alive. We were told that it was to be only for one night. The next night the committee of the Workmens’ Circle Camp brought blankets, beds, and matresses. One man of the com- mittee which I am sorry I don’t know his name told us that it is for the guests. So we had to sleep another night on the floor. After the 4th of July when the rush was over then they gave us blankets, beds, and matresses. Facts On Food. “We were given portions of food which they gives for the children. When we protested they said, “that’s all you get.” Then we were forced to help ourselves when nobody was looking. 4 “This kept on day by day until they found out, so they took the food peddlers, who wax fat upon men, women and children. ’ and put it in the icebox and put a Facts On Employment. “When we found out that Mr. Adler, the head manager wanted to fire some of the workers without any reason and hire new help, so we called a meeting and decided if any of the workers were fired we would all refuse to work. In spite of us, he fired two men and didn’t want to listen to rea- son. When we asked him to give them another chance, he immediately called for the sheriff; and the sheriff took them over to Pawling. When I asked Mr. Adler do you call this so- cialism? he answered, do you want to get a couple of bullets, or knock stones gn the road to Poughkeepsie. Then he threatened us, that we will get paid in New York if we don’t go back to work, knowing that we were broke and we would have to wait un- til the end of the month for our pay, so we had to go back to work. That kept on until Tuesday July 20th. Back to New York. “Then he told us to go into the of- fice to get our checks and ordered to pack up our grips and go back to New York immediately. Knowing that he had to deal with an organized group, so he hired new men on top ofus. When we told him that is rather late now and we will go next morn- ing, he answered, ‘No, you must go right away,’ so we were forced to leave the camp very late at night. “We challenge Mr. Adler to deny these facts. “We call this fascism whether the clique of the Workmens* Circle likes it or not.” The Hot Dog Battle. WHITE PLAINS, N. Y., July 25.— Clarence Darrow, Samuel Untermyer and Charles Evans Hughes may take up the legal battle to defend the hon- or of the hot dog. Stephen R J. Roach, the attorney who is backing “Joe, the hot dog man” of Scarsdale against the recent- ly-passed city ordinance prohibiting the sale of roasted frankfurters in Scarsdale’s streets, told reporters here today that Adolf Gobel, Inc., of Brook- lyn is ready to call Darrow, Unter- myer and Hughes, if necessary Boston School Marms Get No Raise. BOSTON, July 25, (FP).—No gen- eral salary increase will be given Bos- ton school teachers next term, the school committee announces A num- ber of individuals, however, will get- higher rates. r } : | '