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Page Two THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YUKK, THURSDAY, AUGUST 16, 1928. STRIKING OHIO MINERS D (Special to the Daily Worker MARTINS FERRY, 0 12 (By Mail).—An enthusiastic et- ing of striking miners was held here today under the ausp of the In- WORKER JAILED IS SCAPEGOAT: COMPANY GUILTY Wooden Trains Blamed for Deaths The New York Section of the In- ternational Labor Defense has sta: _ ted an investigation of se of Stanley Zillig, I motorman, who is being: fra: up on a charge of manslaughter in connection. with the collision of two “L” trains sev- eral weeks ago. At a meeting of the Executiv Committee of the I. L tnight, it was decided , Shorr, attorney organization, “make a detailed investigation of the aease. The I. L. D, will then if nec- essary, take complete charge of the defense of Zillig. £ dee I. R. T. to Blame. c The accident, asa result of which Zillig is being framed, oceurred | twhen his train erashed into another Stalled “L” train at Columbus Ave. and 69th St., during a short circuit. Tore than 50 persons were injured, gone of whom died in the hospital. Competent observers declare that \ the wooden trains used by the Inter- borough, which have been condemned a8 dangerovs on numerous occa- \sions, were largely responsible for| the’ injuries. | In the investigation following the accident the I. R. T. played its usual hypocritical, anti-labor role. After itsslawyer first pretended to defend Zillig, who had been arrested and pee in $15,000 bail, the companyy ‘washed its hands of the case and informed the district attorney that! it would furnish neither counsel nor bail for the motorman. Try to Hush Up Case. At the time the New York Sec- tion of the International Labor De- fense issued a statement branding, the arrest of Zillig as a paupable frame-up and an attempt to shift) criminal responsibility from the In- terborough Company to one of its workers. Since then efforts have been made on the part of the com- pany and the police to hush up the| entire case’ and the exact where- abouts of Zillig are unknown, tho he 4s believed to be still in the Tombs} where, with his head swathed in bandages, he was taken when he was unable to furnish the exorbitant} bail. The investigation by the I. L| D. is expected to result in a com-) plete exposure of the frame-up. | | COLLECTIONS TO MARK RED WEEK orkers Thruout City | > Will Participate ‘“Red Week,” August 20 to the inclusive, will begin on Monday of next week with the appearance of Communist campaign collection lists in all shops, factories, in all work-| ers’ clubs and benefit societies and in all places where workers congre-| gate. Thousands of Communist) campaigners will carry about with! e such collection lists and ob-| tain the signatures and contribu-| tions of their shopmates, their re- latives, and friends. While bosses| ate writing out checks in support ' their pet. capitalist candidates, kers thruout New York will or- > have Isaac ‘ 26) ize financially in support. of workingclass candidates and Workers (Communist) Party itform. District 2 Election Campaign mittee, in charge of the Red Campaign and the Red Tag which will mark its close, does according to Rebecca Grecht. jpaign Manager, expect cam- contributions the size of those ously donated to the capitalist by such labor-haters as Baruch, Raskob, Ford and Du Pont r Campaign Committee will be ied with a contribution of one more will not be turned om every worker in New Workers to Aid Drive. news of the gigantic contri-, made to the war chests of italist parties by their strike- posses have resulted in a reaction on the part of the rs. Their duty in organizing i in election campaigns be- to assume as much importance} em as the organization of mili- it picket lines. from next Monday to Friday, be- ‘busying themselves with the etion of runas and mating con-| ons, workers will report at) ‘of the thirty Red Tag Days sta-, ons thruout the city, to enroll as ati for the Red Tag Days. An unparalled turnout is expected. | be Red Week windup will be ush- d in with the jangle of collection es on Saturday morning, August and the jangle will continue and until late Sunday night. International Labo ternational Labor Defense in which a protest resolution against the con- tinued imprisonment of Mooney and Billings was pa i unanimously. A copy of the resolution was sent to President Coolidge, care of the Increase Tempo of Communist Signature Drive in Connecticut [W HAVEN, Conn., Aug 15.— With the date for filing signatures with the retary of state ap- proaching nearer, the signature drive of the Workers (Communist) Party in Connecticut is increasing in tempo. The state election laws | demand that 4,000 registered voters | sign to place the Party on he bal-| ot. This means that at least 6,000 signatures will have to be secured #Y to take care of all the names that | will be crossed off by the town| clerks. | Small groups of the Workers | Party in New Haven, Hartford, | Stamford, and Bridgeport are going cut every evening in the week and | some have already topped the 300 | mark. .Workers Party units’ are | also arranging . “Signature Sun- | days,” when all the membership must report to headquarters and re- port back how many names they have collected. SPEED-UP HITS PRINTING TRADE. | | | Other Abuses at N. Y. | White House, Washington, D. C. The resolution follows in part: “Two hundred striking miners and organized workers assembled today in the mass meeting called by the International Labor Defense adopted the following resolution: ren K. Billings, two leaders of labor in California, have been imprisoned for more than twelve years in their sentence to life terms, and have suf- GUNS AND VIGILANTES RULE CHILE WORKERS | (By a Worker Correspondent) VALPARAISO, Chile (By Mail). -Having worked hard enough and seen enough here of the actual con- ditions under which the natives live —under the domination of United States and British capitelists—I am taking this opportunity to write to you while the ship I am working on is anchored at the Valparaiso harbor, On our trip up and down rivers and along the coast, we have come in contact with the most depressing situation as far as the workers are concerned, I have already told you of conditions in Peru (published in a previous issue—BEd.) and I hope since that letter has gotten past the censors and that this one will. U. 8S. Copper Company Exploits. The same American copper com- pany that exploits the workers in Peru also has mines in Chile. At| Chanarall the workers live in the company barracks. If they are fa- vored with a family of over five they are allowed to occupy two small rooms in the wooden shacks | that some people have the nerve to call homes. Their rations are care- fully given out by the company kitchen as follows: One and one- American Plant [half pounds of bread for every two closely watched by vigilantes who will not allow foreigners to speak to the natives. Passing by Antifagasta we no- ticéd three battleships in the harbor. In fact there was at least on Brit- ish or American battleship in every port. We hit Valparaiso when the gov- ernment and the reactionary labor leaders were celebrating the Fourth of July for the United States capi- talists. That same evening the re- actionary fascist labor unions, to- gether with the government, gave a farewell banquet to Collier, the am- bassador from Wall Street. This banquet tells more about the com- plete suppression of the workers than anything else I know. Collier, who had placed vigilantes and mili- tary guards about the American embassy at the time of the Sacco- Vanzetti demonstrations, and who had called out the bluejackets who | killed 14 and wounded four of the} demonstrators besides arresting 160, | was praised by these labor fakers— and (it’s hard to believe that cor-| ruption has gone this far, but it is) true) was commended on his work | of the features of the carnival and | for labor! Fascists Controls Unions. Under such a misleadership it is | no wonder that the workers cannot | EMAND FREEDOM FOR MOONEY AND BILLINGS AT ENTHUSIASTI C MEET fered bitterly at the hands of the) innocent of the crime charge against | forces of Californias open shoppers,|, Therefore be it resolved, that “Whereas, Tom Mooney and War-| capitalist class for their loyalty to|them and the evidence produced at| and, the labor movement, and, “Whereas, it has already their trial and since the trial, it is | Whereas, it is the duty of every been | clearly brought out that they were|labor and progressive organization copies of this resolution be for- warded to the President of the | United States, to Governor Young clearly established beyond a doubt| the victims of a vicious frame-up|to work actively to obtain the free-|of California, to Tom Mooney and Flint, Mich., I. L. D. to Hold Picnic for Miners on Sunday FLINT, Mich. Aug. 15.—Many workers are expected to be present at a pienic to be held by the local inernational Labor Defense Sunday out Atherton Road. of the affair will go for the relief of the miners. An elaborate program of activi- ties is being arranged by the com- mittee in charge, including games and sports of all sorts. TARGET PRACTICE AT BIG CARNIVAL Variety of Costumes at is highly efficient, but as the boss Affair Sunday Workers will have an opportunity to indulge in target practice for the American proletarian revolution at the great International Costume Carnival of the Daily Worker, to be held in Pleasant Bay Park Sun- day. A shooting gallery will be one it is expected that many future members of the American Red Army will patronize it. The proceeds | that Mooney and Billings are totally engineered by the black reactionary dom of our two brothers, in prison:| Warren K. Billings and the press. r Defense Starts Investigation of Frame-Up of I. R.T. Motorman TOBACCO MILL WORKERS SLAVE FOR BIG TRUS Reynolds Co. Maintains Vast Spy System By ART SHIELDS WINSTON-SALEM, N. C. (FP).| They fire employes for “disloy- alty” at the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company plants in Winston-Salem, | where 12,000 men and women turn out Camels, Prince Albert, Soud/ jand varieties of plug and scrap with | the aid of automatic machines. It may be that the offending worker) makes out the time card a company stool pigeon murmurs something | about “disloyalty.” | “Disloyalty” takes many forms. | | Sometimes it is membership in the | forbidden union, ferreted out by a) | spy, or the discovery of a pack of | cigarettes of some rival company in! the worker’s pocket when the boss | searches the dressing room. All| loyal employes are expected to use | | Camels only, whether they like them jor not. Again, “disloyalty” may be | |the failure to buy company stock, | '$15,000,000 Is Grafted in Liquor Traffic Each |Year Here, Is Charge “New York has always been graft-ridden. Everybody who can graft grafts. This has ben true for |generations.” | This was the illuminating com- jment made yesterday by Major Maurice Campbell, federal prohibi- |tion administrator for New York, when he was confronted with evi- idence that over $15,000,000 was grafted annually in this city. “Why,” Campbell remarked, “there were more than 10,000 sa- jloons in the old days, and they paid $1,500 each for their annual licenses. Does anyone imagine that there are fewer drinking places now?” Campbell insisted that his own agents were above reproach as far as graft was concerned. Most of the graft goes to the city police, he asserted. RAY WEIR, YOUNG MILITANT, DEAD Workers to Pay Last Tribute Today | people over 14 years-of age; one | better their conditions. The unions) Continned from Page One | pound for two children; five pounds|are controlled by fascists and| The news that the Daily Worker | or perhaps the worker, moved by| has arranged the first outdoor pro- | letarian costume carnival ever held | Ray Weir, militant young mem- tasking a woman or weak old man.|died yesterday from double pneu- compassion, protests against over-| ber of the Miilinery Workers Union, | rice per week; two pounds of beans | United States agents, specially im-|in this country has caused thou- ness—50 cents to a dollar per day | extra as. “exceptional” craftsmen. i Others are striving to get into the | fish per week. With this “gener- chosen few. A very wide margin in| ous” allowance and five pesos sal- the ranks is the outcome and the| ty per day the workers manage to, polished gents ‘who are paid for| live somehow. | such shrewdness just look pleasant| As we came into the harbor of and contemplate the scene behind|San Antonio three United States the throne. | battleships met our gaze. We soon Shady Scenes. | learned why-—for the tanks of the/ Why yes, * | International Petroleum Company | are in order. When the menage, [faced the harbor. These oil Kings ment wished to displace the depart- | must certainly be afraid of the con- ment foreman at the New York | Sequences of exploitation for they and eight to ten pounds of dried ported for the purpose, all in the| sands of workers in New York City pay of the companies. It is a front | formidable enough to cow the most militant workers—thus, battleships, vigilantes, prisons, islands awaiting the preletarian exiles. Militants Under Ground. About the average pay in Val- paraiso for a highly skilled worker is estimated to be five pesos per day. Rarely do they live in more than one room—sometimes one even finds a family of ten in one room. They all sleep on the floor—beds American plant. there were many | have ordered three cruisers to sub- shady scenes. The management de- cided to have a strictly “business administration,” imported two men of their choosing and proceeded to} install them without ever a thought | of contractural relations or agree- | ment. After many pros ‘and cons | the curtain was drawn and the! throne exposed: the good fellow who broke many hearts and caused so | much regret was the moving figure | behind the throne, so an alleged | “superintendent” was the reward. | The speed-up immediately was evident. More money to those who | could be exploited. Some who could | not stand the foul smell found new | fields of pasture. And of course | there was no anxiety as the supply for the than sufficient the matter. Vile Working Conditions. Economy in all departments, men going almost blind for the want of proper light, and no relief at hand. | Heat eliminators—a joke. Not even a good apology. Numerous reasons | why it should not be helped. Men are in a desperate condition, worse than some mines. Division in the ranks: make-up, linotypers and the/ lowly hand compositers. Two men operating a Ludlow cast- ing machine with the speed-up | “superintendent’s” shadow on their | backs caused the machine to squirt | hot metal for some distance. One suffered a singed eyeball and was rewarded with a few days off. | Probably a supply of Eagle pencils will be donated if the unfortunate | one loses the sight of his eyes. | Ice-cream is barred during work- ing hours, no matter how hot the weather Chapel meetings are “packed” and very few. progressives venture to voice their sentiments. | Many talk in some “blind pig” away from all contact with the chapel... | Reward for Faithftiness. It is rumored an unfortunate pro- letarian by the name of Phillivs, after 29 years of faithful service for William R. Hearst, will not be even given the consideration of the faithful animal and put to graze. His services are no longer required. One thing to be thankful for, brother: you had some place to go nights, and you successfully built | a monument Hearst can be proud | of—Mount Simon, Cal. You will have lots of company as a new idea | imported from Chicago. is being put into practice a la ganster control. There is no room for sentiment. This is a business administration and the survival of the fittest by hook or crook. Printing slaves should read the | only newspaper that fights for their | interests as well as for the interests | is needs more jof the other wage slaves—the Daily | Worker, And help sovle your prob- | lems by the only remedy which Big | Business: does not relish—vote the | Communist ticket. N. Y. AMERICAN SLAVE. | to be able to tap the flood of home- coming week-enders from the near- by beaches and camps at which workers take their abbreviated vaca- tions. All workers are urged to volunteer for this most important for the Tag Days would to provide themselves with political task. A list of stations at | which enrollment can be made will — boxes each, in Beall published shortly. sh, due a population of 8,000! are a luxury. The stench of the Vigilantes Keep Guard. tenements and dirty streets is al- The workers live in company bar-| most unbearable. racks for which they pay a rent of| There are some militant organi- from 45 to 50 pesos per month, out! zations. But they of course function of a salary of about five pesos per | under-ground. day. The whole settlement is: LOCAL 3 WORKER DUNN TO DEFEND EXPOSES BROACH TAG DAY IN COURT Pictures Conditions in’ Statement Hits Arrest Union of 15 Workers (By Electrical Worker.) Continued from Page One Keep up the good work exposing lief of Chinese Trade Unionists. H. H. Booach, the labor faker, in-! The subpoenaes were served by | ternationdl vice president of the ay agent of the Department of Pub- Brotherhood, and the dictator of|}ie Welfare and the witnesses must Local 8. I believe his paid hench-| appear tomorrow morning at 10 men should’ also be exposed. |a. m., at the First District Magis- One delegate by the name of Ack-| trate’s Court, White and Center erman bungled or had no guts and Streets. | lost a power house job which went| The arrest of fifteen workers in to non-union men. This is an un-/ Chinatown last Sunday while they employment time, This job could) were soliciting funds for the aid o have taken care of from 100 to 300} the starving workers and peasant: men. This delegate runs two lunch|in China was protested yesterday by | room wagons. That's where most) several of the leading members of | of his time goes, I guess. |the Committee to aid the Chinese | An “Honest” Faker. | Trade Unions. | Next there is Tom Clark. This] Dunn Issues Statement. | bird on Broach’s meal ticket has Robert W. Dunn, secretary of the —wW. M. f 7 | been living off Local 3, I. B. E. F.| organization, denied the charges | ™ent to attempt to limit loans to for a good many years. This of- that had been made against the | ficial once got up on the floor of committee, saying that the sole pur- No. 8 and said what of it, if a dele-| pose of the collection drive was to| gate takes some money from 4) bring food and clothes to the thou-, not sell out the men. suffered through the suppression of | But how can a man serve two| their labor unions by the reaction- masters? |ary Nanking government. “Our Then there is Preiss, the business | outstanding purpose,” Dunn said, | manager, getting a starvation) sal-|“js to bring succor to the Chinese | ary of only $126 per week. Heshas | workers. The fact that the authori- also been living on the backs of the| ties attempted to stop our drive by| workers for years. What has he grresting 15 of the persons collect- ever done for the union? A. soft-| ing funds for relief, I interpret as soaper and sermonizer and plfiloso-|q direct attempt to keep the Chin-| pher of the Tammany machine. ese people in want, in order to bet- There are a lot of others who will ter further imperialist ends. be exposed for their fakery in due | Will Continue Drive. time, for instance, Johnny Lapham wrris drive, however, will not and Dan Kiley. Once they posed 88) stop now, despite the arrests, and | progressives. I want to say to/ despite the certainty of future ar-| them: Why do you allow members| rests. The Committee to aid the| to be barred and don’t utter &! Chinese Trade Unions will soon is- word? You two had pretty near| sue an appeal throughout the Unit- the whole meeting to yourselves! 64 states, to individuals, labor, stu under the O'Hara machine, that is,’ gents and fraternal organizations, you criticized that administration | ,s\ing them to come to the aid of when you ba wrong. What’s the| th. Chinese workers. Before these matter now? individuals we will place the true You are getting $115 a week) facts of the conditions of the Chin- holding down soft jobs. That’s the | 56 workers, which have thus far reason, been suppressed on all sides.” Broach Tough Guys. Other members of the committee Then there’s Broach’s tough guys !t, gid the Chinese Trade Unions, and cops; there are also his detec- among them Robert Morss Lovett, tives, in and outside of the meet- | Haessler, R i ing hall; also the industrial squad, | C8 mane pelea tee McDonald The tough guys under the O'Hara so ‘ Sduidistration were like & Mode ctor. Scene eilenata Be lambs compared with these lions. | Broach ine will go down. Rome Then there is “Little Caesar” him-| fell, Caesar fell, Napoleon fell; the self, another great sermonizer; a Prince of Wales also fell several philosopher of great things which’ times. “Little Caesar,” you are due he has done and will do; never | next. | Athletic Club will also take part Slavery. and vicinity to begin rumaging in| “Never say that conditions in the | their chests and trunks for appro- R. J. Reynolds plants are verging priate costumes, Since the best na-|0n slavery,” said Edward L. Crouch, tional groups, as Well as individual | international organizer for the To-| costumes, will have their pictures | bacco Workers, in talking to the | taken and published in the Daily| Federated Press. “They are slav-/ Worker, workers are sparing no ef-|ery.” Crouch knows conditions, forts to be at their best. having lived in Winston-Salem National costumes of all sorts | Dearly all his life and worked in will be seen next Sunday, with the the Reynolds factories 13 years. | probability that Russian costumes| There is no freedom of speech in will predominate. These are expect-|the big tobacco mills that press ed to add great color to the Russian | gtimly on the streets near the city hour that is being arranged, during | Square. A young man who operates | which tea will be served in samo-|an automatic cigarette machine | vars and Russian folk-songs will be found this out. He had been watch- | played by an accordion orchestra. jing a girl sweat and strain at a new | The costumes will also be dig. | Packing machine that uses two girls played to good advantage during where nine were formerly required. the open-air dancing around a huge | The machine has a heavy fly wheel bonfire. ~|the girls must turn, either with | The athletic part of the program | their feet at the risk of broken legs, | at the carnival is being well taken | °° by CH erme nis Ay yee of care of. The Labor Sports Union | their bodies, as this girl was doing will bring some of its best athletes |, The git! paused, flushed and ex- there and two of its member or. | hausted, and asked the young man an ot a oe wife or any sister of mine do it,” he! with various athletic exhibitions, | TePlied indignantly. | Tickets for the big carnival have | Stool Pigeon. begun selling fast. They can be A second girl was the only other bought at 35 cents each at the of- | listener, but she was a stool-pigeon. fice of the Daily Worker, 26-28 | He was summoned to the super-) Union Square. intendént’s office, asked to repeat the remark, and was given his time | jin full. GERM A | Average pay at Reynolds’ is less ! | than $11 a week. It is hard enough |to get flour, meal, coffee and) |beans without buying company | | stock in addition as loyal employes | are desired to do. For the great majority it is impossible. This! stock goes by the name of “insur- No More U. S. Money ance,” for it is supposed to insure to Pay Debts, Said the job, though it does not always | do this. BERLIN, Aug. 15 (UP).--Con-| Indeed, loyalty is no guaranty of siderable concern was expressed | Job safety. The company’s policy is here today over the reported inten-|to fire the high-pay workers and tion of the American state depusts (put cheaper hands in their places. |An automatic cigarette machine Europe, because of the stringent | operator, for instance, may begin at credit situation. | 25 cents an hour and in 10 days he The cpinion was expressed that has learned his job. If he survives Germany would have difficulty the loyalty test his wages are | builder or boss, so long as he does | sands of Chinese workers who have meeting her reparations obligations gradually raised, a half cent & if she is unable to borrow abroad. hour at a time, provided he nags the It is commonly understood he gov-| foreman about it in a cautious way. ernment is making the Dawes plan| Ten years later he may be getting payments with outside credit. 48 cents an hour, the maximum. Industrial newspapers emphasized | Then one day the boss sadly tells | that if the United States closes her him that business is bad, and his purse and England is unable to as- | machine must be shut down, but et the aie role of lender, | that when business is better he will Wal fitticaltion, sepecaliy sfooe the 2h tetas. ack: Sah tees. Sa See: S, especially since the | artery the worker haunts the em-| - | job. uae Reneeratier: 2 Fix Fixes You. Moore, Robert Minor, Scott Near-| At the employment office is a ing and Hugo Gellert, have criti-/ gentleman named Mr. Fix—and the tised the stand taken by the author- workers, making a pun on his name, ities against the collection of funds|say he fixes them good and plenty. to aid the Chinese Trade Unions. | After the operator has been waiting Foster and Gitlow As the candidates of the Workers (Communist) Party stand for the emancipation of the proletariat from the slavery of capitalism, from the horrors of imperialist war, unemployment and poverty, work and vote for Communism. Read The DAILY WORKER. Read the National Platform of the Workers (Communist) Party. Write for it to the National Election Campaign Commit- tee, 43 East 125th Street, New York City. Ten cents a copy. what he is doing, thus keeping the | Fraternally, members off the main subject. The | . ELECTRICAL WORKER. * monia, after a long period of ac- tivity in the union. She was only 20 years old. Other members of the Millinery Workers Union will remember her as one of their most active workers, as a member of the organizational committee of Local 43 and as a mem- ber of the committee of twelve who went to the general executive board to protest against the decision dis- PRISONERS IN ~ FASCIST JAILS NEARING DEATH Regime Cruel and Hard on Communists GENEVA, Aug. 15.—After the sentence against the members of the Central Committee of the Com- munist Party in Italy, last April, the prisoners have been subjected to a very sharp prison regime. They are in single cells, forced to be silent, never allowed to come out into the air, for the 40-minute walk allowed other prisoners is not granted them. ® | They are given only bread and |thin soup for food. No prisoner can last this cruel regime very long | and the health of Gramsci and Ter- | pacini is very bad and cause for real | worry to—their relatives and | friends. | * * * | BERLIN, Aug. 15.—Those sen- tenced in the many Italian trials are suffering terribly in the fascist prisons. Many are those who would rather have been sentenced to death, and many are in grave dan- | ger of losing their lives. The young worker Targoni, from Seston Fiarentino, has become seri- ously ill, and his mind has become unbalanced due to torture. Paclo Betti, who, as a result of | torture, became crazy, has just been sentenced to 12 years in prison. Betti is hardly expected to live through more than one or two years | of the prison sentence. The worker Amodei, who after the bombing at Milan was arrested, became crazy due to torture. His rupting Local 43. In honor of her whole-hearted de- votion to the workers’ cause, the union has asked that ali members | body is covered with wounds, his leyes are bloody, and he always | shivers. It is also believed that he | will not last very much longer in stop work between 10 and 11 a. m. today to pay their last tribute to/ Ray Weir as her body passes the union headquarters on West 37th) “SHANGHAI, Aug, 15. — The Nanking regime has sent a second | note to Japan regarding the dis- puted treaty of 1896. The provisions of the treaty have not been made public. The treaty involves the| status of Japan in Manchuria. in the office for days or weeks Mr. | Fix pleasantly offers him a job at) a similar machine—at 25 cents an hour, Dismayed, the operator pro- tests that he is a 48-cent man and an old timer. Mr. Fix is very sad: it’s too bad; that’s the best we can do now, but if you don’t want this job you can come back, and when there is a better opening you can have it. | Quite differently the Reynolds) worker fared from 1919 to 1921 when his job was protected by an} agreement between the International | Tobacco Workers’ Union and the company. Crouch tells of the re- instatement of 2,000 workers wrong- fully discharged. .The present union campaign is to regain that former security, 48-hour-week and high the fascist hell-hole. New Fur International Is Launched Here Continued from Page One to do everything in our power to organize one united International Union capable of safeguarding the interests of the fur workers and protecting them against the en- croachments of the fur bosses and their company union. “We also hereby empower and direct the above mentioned repre- sentatives to form a provisional Na- tional Executive Committee to func- tion as a control body of al! local fur unicns for the purpose of unit- ing and mobilizing all of the locals and all of the fur workers through- out the United States and Canada for the organization of a real union. “We further empower and direct the incoming provisional National Executive Commitee to call a con- vention of all local unions within sixty days from this date for the purpose of forming a new Interna- tional Union of fur workers of the United States and Canada.” A tazi driver would appreciate this copy of The DAILY wages. WORKER. 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