The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 12, 1928, Page 1

« | THE DAILY WORKER For a-Labor Part For a Workers-Farmers Government | To Organize the Unorganized For the 40-Hour Week FIGHTS | y Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York. N. ¥ under the act f March 3, Vol. V., No. 268 Publishing Association, Inc., 26-28 Uni 1 Dally Worker New York, N. ¥. 12. SUBSCRIPTION RA Outatde NEW YORK, MONDAY, NOVEMBER WESTERN WORKERS CAST STROI. RED VOTE, NEW RETURNS: SHOW Communist Party May Secure 12,000 Ballots In California; 4,000 In One County New Election Steals Exposed; Boss-Politicians| Move to Withhold Red Vote Reports With additional though incomplete reports coming in from the western districts the extent of the Communist gains made in the election just passed are now seen to be even larger than pun irate enema at first estimated. Partial returns from Cali-| fornia indicate that the Work-| -ers Party may secure 12,000 or} more votes in this ‘state, not- withstanding the fact that voters were forced to write in the name of the Red candidate when the Par- ty was prevented from being put officially on the ballot. 4,000 Red Votes. In the 40th state Assembly Dis- | trict, California, the Communist Party was the only opposition to the republican party, the democratic and the socialist parties not being in the race. The Communist caridi- dates received over 4,000 votes in this district as against 20,000 for the republicans, In the 36th Assembly District, Jesse Reed, Red candidate, mustered 1,500 votes in a three cornered fight in which 22,000 votes were cast in all. In Alameda County with the tabulation three-fourths complete, Norman Thomas has secured 870 votes while the Communist vote is about five times this number in two districts alone. Incomplete reports from the state of Oregon indicate that so far 1275 votes have been recorded for Fos- ter and Gitlow, with the prospects that 2,000 votes will be secured in BRAND ATTEMPT ®: TOBETRAY STRIKE Rap A.F.L. Organizer at Michelin (Special to the Daily Worker) MILLTOWN, N. J., Nov. 11— Samuel Brody, labor organizer, to- day branded as false, reports which appearéd in the New Brunswick pa- pers stating that a settlement had been reached between the 1,200 strikers here and the Michelin Co. | “A sell-out agreement has been reached between Harry Hilfers and the Michelin bosses is what they mean,” Brody stated, and his state- ment was absolutely backed up by the strikers. Harry Hilfers is the American Federation of Labor or- ganizer in the state of New Jersey where he is carrying out his usual service to the bosses by posing as a friend of the workers and selling out and smashing spontaneous strikes. Scores of strikers this afternoon are indignantly demanding what ‘Armistice Dav; ‘Thomas Weeps For S. Baldwin. MONTCLAIR, N. J..-With a few| words lovingly chosen, in which he jexpressed sympathy for the point of |view of the British Liberal Party and called “poor Stanley Baldwin” “sincere,” Norman Thomas, recent socialist candidate for president of |the United States, added his con- |tribution to the general flood of SILK STRIKERS | PUSH PLANS FOR HR DAY PARADE W. I. R. Head Promises Relief; Speaks at Meet Today capitalist misrepresentations and |lies on the occasion of the Armistice jwhich halted the late imperialist r when the brigand powers were last. gasp... Thomas spoke at | Unity Church Forum, Using the anniversary which is \inextricably connected with the | slaughter of millions of workers of |all nationalities, as a pretext, the |leading socialist ghoul lamented |that the bungling of Chamberlin jat Call Left Wing Rally Militants Fight Class | Collaboration (Wireless to the Daily Worker) PATERSON, N. J., Nov. 11— Plans for the huge “8-hour Dav} | Parade” which is being oreanized by the Associated Silk Workers’ and Cushenden “nullify poor Stan- ley Baldwin’s sincere but vague pro- | testations of love of peace and al-| \legiance to the Kellogg treaty. Thomas’ principal objections were levelled not against the secret Anglo-French naval pact, but | |against the failure of its framers to | \pat across their game. |sions of affection for the British liberals. ELECTION FIGHT LEAVES LESSON ‘Need Additional Aid Immediately One of the lessons of the election |campaign is that workers who wish The socialist closed with expres- right Harry Hilfers has to reach an the state. No reports for the state of Wash- ington are yet available. ie * How Red Vote Steals Were Made. TRENTON, N. J., Nov. 11—The extent of the steal of Communist votes in this city have become evi- dent from the numerous accounts which are coming in to local Com- munist headquarters. The vote re- ported for-Foster—and Gi agreement with the bosses after the t¢ Support Communist candidates strikers themselves have unanimous-|™ust be ready to aid more than ly turned down Michelin’s insolent With their votes. The terror exer- offer to retract half his wage cuts |cised aaginst the Workers (Commu- Defiantly repudiating Hilfer’s ef-| nist) Party, the expensive fights to forts to sell out ‘their strike hun-| Overcome the reactionary capitalist dreds of men and women strikers State officials who tried and in two vere still enthusiastically picketing |cases succeeded in keeping the the Michelin Tire Company’s fac-| Workers Party off the ballot, has tory here. ‘left many debts which must be dis- The determination of the strikers | charged. * A Sunilerstarding — the whole city was 70, whereas four Continued on Page Five | the election is concerned, these debts Years ago the Communist vote was | must be met by those workers who i i understand the necessity of 2 con- Airship Gas Plant to Tnued fight on capitalism on all Work Day and Nig! ht to fronts, a fight which cannot be car- ried on if debts are burdening the \Prepare for Next War |Party. Of the $10,000 asked, only | 5,300 has been received. AMARILLO, Texas, Nov. 11.—In|* ; i “bee _\.,..4 Upon a careful estimate of what an effort to make its imperialistic would be needed, $10,000 was bor- air forces more and more effective, | i ji % | rowed. This must now be repaid and the government helium plant, which contribution during the next few is expected to open here in January, days must meet this need. will run on a_ twenty-four-hour, . = 1 | seven-day-a-week basis.: Helium, a _Dig down and bell ne Commu- |non-inflammable gas, very slightly | nist Party is not simp! ee election heavier than hydrogen, is used to | Barty. Comitianity bit ae inflate airships of the type of the Beato the plecuion ba api ain site much-advertised German Zeppelin | Heriga at stent ee wore. AH oak | which dacantlys teow hen it ‘back | the blank printed elsewhere in this ¥ i eat . jissue, and collect from all your over the Atlantic Ocean. baa z 300 Express Worker: s In order to transport this gas the | friends and ‘sympathizers who were Attack Leaders for |government is building a_ special | of railroad tank-car | campaign. 76 here leaving out of account the steal that was put over four years ago. The admitted aim of the boss election officials this year was to show that the Party lost ground in the city. What the votes cast actually were | may We judged from one city dis- trict, the 11th ward." This is a ward sparcely populated on the outskirts of the city. The Workers Party did not consider that it had any influ- ence there at all, The ward is Jargely Polish and many of its workers are non-voters, But here for some unexpected reason the * Continued on Page Five more While the figlt is over so-farae with the Workers Party during the | . *. | ty Tactics of Stalling city than any now in use. Over three hundred express work- ers at a membership meeting of local 2525 of the Brotherhood of Steam- ship and Railway Clerks at the Grand Opera House, Eighth Avenue | and 28rd St., yesterday afternoon, carried out a severe attack on their officals for their failure to conduct a fight against the American Ex- press Company for their demands. As a result of the pressure ex- erted by the men, a vote was pushed through unanimously calling for a strike should the company continue its present practice of firing and discriminating against: union men. Union officials who have refused to carry out the demands of the workers and who betrayed the last strike, reported that they are again “negotiating” with the company and asked the workers to trust them to “fix up everything O. K.” Their re- port that the company had offered an increase of $1.68 per week was rejected by the rank and file and they were ordered to refuse such concessions. Increasing militancy is being dis- played among the express workers who are becoming aroused at the stalling tactics of their officials, Nearing to Speak on | Soviet Union Tonight * Seott Nearing, Communist speaker and lecturer, who recently spent several months in the Soviet Union, ‘will address an audience at the Hun- garian Workers Home, 350 E. 81st St., at 8.30 o’clock tonight. The subject of the lecture will be “Soviet Russia: Eleven Years Old.” 7 Reactionary Spies Arrested in U.S. S. R. LENINGRAD, Russia, Nov, 11 (UP).—Seven persons have been arrested and held for trial on The plan is to ship the gas, as fast as it is distilled, to the army and navy dirigible airports. At the start the plant will pro- duce between 2,000,000 and 4,000,- 000 cubic feet of the raw gas a day. Film Explosion Kills 20 In U.S.S.R., Report BERLIN, Nov. 11.—It is reported | from Moscow that at Voronezh, in the southern part of the Soviet Union, at a special entertainment arranged for children in a building obtained for the occasion, a film explosion set fire to the building and in the fire and panic which en- sued twenty children met death. | Send your contribution direct to! free by the state to the children and | The entertainment was furnished accompanying mothers. The ma- chine operator is also believed to have been burned to death. Mussolini Bans Movie Called ‘Street Angel’ ROME, Nov. 11.—The movie, “Street Angel,” which was shown in America for a long time in many places, has been prohibited further showing in Italy by direct orders of Mussolini, acting as minister of the interior, and the whole commission which authorized it to be shown has been fired. The film tells of life in the slums of Naples. Believes Sex Can Be Controlled in Humans The hope—or threat—that control of sex in human beings will soon be possible is held out by Dr. Oscar Riddle, A. B., Ph. D., in the De- cember issue of “Science and Inven- tion.” Dr. Riddle is of the research staff of the Carnegie Institution Station for Experimental Evolution. WORKERS (COMMUNIST) PARTY | Election Drive Anti-Terror Emergency, Fund CONTRIBUTION BLANK Comrades, Enclosed herewith please find.... dollars as my contribution to settle \the debts of the election campaign. | Fraternally yours, BAMreBS ooo sv rveden se sieev sativa | Money is needed at once! Contribute |did campaign by winding up our election debts! National Election Campaign Com- mittee, Workers (Communist) Party, ‘Hunt for a Statue of Peace; Find Only Statues of Victory PARIS, Nov. 11.—It was ap- proaching Armistice Day, and the organizers of the mutilated war veterans association wanted to stage a procession in the Place de la Con- corde around a state of Peace to be placed there. The sallied out to ob- tain a statue of Peace, blessed Peace, of which they had heard so much from Poincare and Albert Thomas, the socialist who represents France on the League of Nations. But vain was the search. Not in one public square, nor in the many. museums, nor in the Ministry of Fine Arts famed throughout the world, nor in any art stgre, ancient or modern, neither large nor small, in neither bronze, stone or marble, could a statue of Peace be found. Buf they found many and many statues of , Victory, brandishing a sword. Communist work must go on!) your parting election blow at tri-| umphant reaction! Wind up a splen- | 4% East 125th St., New York City. | Union as a _ demonstration of jstrength and solidarity bv Paterson |labor for the silk workers’ strike. The demonstra- | Saturday afternoon, jare fast maturing. |tion date is Nov. 17. The Associated has already dis-| patched a letter to the Paterson| | Central Labor Union of the A. F. of | | L. to its affiliated bodies and to all fraternel labor organizations, ask- ing them to participate in making) this “a monster parade to advocate | the 8-hour day.” | Conference Thursday. The letter announces a special |conference of all representatives | |from all participating organizations, | |to be held Thursday evening at 8 jo’clock. This conference will work jout all the final details of the | | parade. | At the strikers’ mass meeting | Monday morning, Fred Biedenkapp, |head of the Workers’ International Relief, the organization which has provided strike relief to nearly every recent great labor struggle, is sched- uled to speak. It was learned that Biedenkapp has definitely complied with the request, of the Associated | Silk Workers’ Union that his organi- zation step in to lend assistance to the Paterson strikers. W. I. R. Will Help. At the mass meeting Biedenkapp will tell the workers what the Work- jdo_in order to organize a nations wide relief campaign for the si strikers here. Always the victims of |strikers, have long since gone thru |their meagre Savings, borrowed all | they could and are now sorely in need of this ally of all strikers—the | Workers International Relief. Because Rebecca Salzberg, a silk |strike picket, lodged a complaint against Joseph Hurst, a scab, that |he had assaulted her while she was |picketing, Recorder Johnson, magis- trate, was compelled to dismiss the charge of disorderly conduct against Fred Koodary, active striker, who fense by beating off the scab. In order to squash the action against the scab, which the judge did at the same time, he had to forego punish- ing Koodary. * In line with the policy of the left wing in the Associated—that of in- tensifying the struggle against the bossese for the final victory of the strike—the militant workers there | began a fight against the class col- | Continued on Page Two | . | + ers’ International Relief intends to) \terrifie exploitation, the Paterson | had come to the girl striker’s de- —— ‘More Lands to FURRIERS AGREE JAIL 29 IN ARMISTICE Conquer,’ Wish Of British Peer LONDON, Nov. 11.—Viscount Cecil, British representative in the League of Nations, is not at all backward in his imperialist ideas. In summing up the results of the man- date policy for ten years, he declared recently as follows: “T would really like to see the mandate concention of trusteeship applied to all the backward peoples of the world.” Undoubtedly Britain would be willing to take up some more*of the “white man’s burden” in the opinion of Lord Cecil. Lord Cecil s mandate cited how the Samoan nati volt last year against New mandate administrators was found to be due to “agitators.” He did not mention that the administration had violated the laws of Samoa by im- posing an administration upon Samoans not chosen by them and deported native chiefs who protested. White Southern Boss Forces Negro Worker To Drown Himself SEARCY, Ark., (By Mail).—R. H Austin, white levee contractor is be- ing held in jail here without bail, on a murder charge which developed frem the charge that he forced Lige Sholder, a Negro worker on the leeves, to drown himself. It is alleged that the gang fore- man became angry with Sholder when he (Sholder) refused to obey jorders and then forced him into the |river at the point of a gun. Sholder |was drowned after he had swam a |short distance. It is said that Aus- | tin fired one shot at him. | Ger areata | DIPHTHERIA ON OCEAN LINER | PLYMOUTH, Eng., Nov. 11 (UP) —The officials of the Cunard liner Aluania reported tonight that when the vessel requested diphtheria anti- |toxin in mid-Atlantic, the White |Star liner Albertic retraced her }course 200 miles to comply with the request. | OLD FORGE, N. Y., Nov. 11 (UP) -George W. Alley, 41, of Elmira, N.¥., was killed, today in. the fir hunting accident of the season. He }was shot by Carleton Hanley, of Syracuse, who said he mistook Alley for a deer. ON MERGER WITH |Answer Invitation to Amalgamate By Their Acceptance To Hold Joint Parley To Effect Big Move At Dee. Conventions Officially replying to the letter of nvitation they received from the left wing cloak and dressmakers union, the b-committee of the Provisional National Executive Com- mittee for a furriers’ union at its meeting Saturday in the Joint Board headquarters, 22 East 22nd St., de- cided to send a communication ac- cepting the invitation to a confer- ence of the two unions for amalga- mation at the conventions of both organizations. The conventions are to be held at the end of next month. At the recent meeting of the cloak and dressmakers national or- _ ganization committee, a letter was drawn up and sent to the N. E. C. of the new national furriers union, carrying the proposal for amalga- mation of both organizations at their respective conventions. The letter of acceptance, which was sent yesterday, declares that the fur workers realize the vital economic necessity for the workers in the cloak, dress and fur manu- facturing industries to amalgamate their organizations for the good of the warkers in those industries, The letter announces that amal- gamation should long ago have been affected among the workers in all the needle trades unions. They pointed out that the rank and file of all workers in this huge indus- try have many times registered their desire for the consummation of such a plan, and that the fur workers, in particular, have, in the overwhelm- ing majority, declared themselves for amalgamation. The 1925 con- vention of the furriers union, held in Boston, was pointed to as proof “by thewlettei of the National Ex- ccutive Committee. At that conven- |tion a unanimous vote of the dele- | Continued on Page Two ARMISTICE DAY FINDS WAR MONGERS ACTIVE Armistice day, international imperialist holiday, was yesterday com- memorated throughout the world in varying ways under the auspices of the militarists, patriotic organizatioi PRISON RD KILLED. BOSTON, Noy. 11 (UP).—One prison guard was killed and a sec: ond guard wounded in Charlestown State Prison today, when Charles Trippi, 21, serving an 18-year term for robbery while armed, made a desperate but futile attempt to es- cape. i ea The Workers (Communist) Party is the party of the class struggle. | SALARY PREMIUM Why 1,200 Michelin Workers Struck REGULARITY PREM. and other forces now moving for a ®new world war. Dispatches from France indicate that the “celebration” was a bit ‘subdued under the growing realiza- tion of the masses what the war launched by the imperialist powers in 1914 has meant to the working class, Toll of Imperialist War. The war brought in its wake a number of devastating diseases which the war veterans weakened physically through four years of trench life, maimed, crippled, and gassed, have been the least able to withstand. Over victims of tuberculosis alone have been piled up in France while the capitalist government admittedly has taken no effective steps to fight he plague. In England the anniversary which first was celebrated us a great ‘wiumph” was yesterday’ commem-) orated as a “mark of respect” to the fallen victims. The war mongers in order to maintain the spirit of 1914 which they will soon again seek to revive, have been forced to adopt methods of camouflage and conceal- en York, by mail, $6.00 pe half a_ million | E m New York. by mall. $5. TES FINAL CITY DITION Cents Price 3 DAY MARCH IN CAPITOL CLOAK WORKERS pemonstration for Release of John Porter and Against Militarism Attacked Crouch, Reeve, Jones, Out on Bail to Bring Porter Issue Before Working Class WASHINGTON, D. C for the release of John Porter, ., Nov. 11.—To bring the campaign former soldier and New Bedford textile strike leader, prominently before the masses of Amer- ican workers, three of the workers arrested here in Saturday’s COOLIDGE CALLS FOR BIGGER NAVY Admits Weakness of “Peace” Pact WASHINGTON, Nov. 11—Speak- ing before the American Legion here tonight, President Coolidge ob- served Armistice Day by making a |plea for more cruisers and a stronger navy. “It is obvious,” he said, “that, jeliminating all competition, world |standards of defense require us to {have more cruisers.” Attacks Imperialist Rivals. Throughout his speech the White House spokesman of American im-| rerialism made polite but pointed attacks on England and France, giv- ing as a justification for the demand | for an increased navy the even |greater war preparations being made by those two countries. After describing the Kellogg “peace” pact as the most complete and effective instrument for peace yet devised, the president admitted | that there is nothing but the prom- | ises of the imperialist nations to safeguard this so-called peace. “So long as promises can be broken and treaties can be violated,” he said, “we aMe eat no ,positive assurances, yet everyone knows they are additional safeguards. We can only say that this is the best that mortal man can do.” “We are against aggression-and imperialism,” declared the chief ser- |vant of the government that has invaded Nicaragua, oppressed Haiti and is threatening every Latin American country that refuses to al- low itself to be fleeced by American capital, “not only because we believe in local self-government, but be- cause we do not want more terri- |tory inhabited by foreign people. Our outlying possessions, with the jexception of the Panama Canal Zone, are not a help to us, but a |hindrance. We hold them, not as a profit, but as a duty.” The leading jingoes of the Amer- ican Legion were among the audi- ence which heard the president’s Armistice Day address. CHILDREN AID SILK STRIKERS ‘Fight for Demands of Parents PATERSON, N. J., Nov. 11— | Strike children surprised their par- jents and older brothers and sisters yesterday when they got together jat Turn Hall to organize for auxili- ary activities in the strike. | First they raised their voices and | sent a volume of song floating down the stairs of the old hall that put to shame anything’ that had been |heard at the aduit strikers’ mass | meetings. “Solidarity Forever,” the “International,”—the score of fresh *demonstration for Porter’s lib- eration, consented to accept bail today and were released from jail. The rest of the 29 class war pris-- oners refused bail. The three men released are Paul Crouch, secretary of the All-Amer- ica Anti-Imperialist League, Karl Reeve, editor of the Labor Defender, and Karl Jones, prominent Negro militant. They prepared immediate- ly to fulfill speaking engagements in various cities where they will de“ mand the release of John Porter. The twenty-nine members of the Workers (Communist) Party and the Young Workers (Communist) League were arrested during one of the most stirring working class marches that the Washington work- ers have ever witnessed, Those arrested include Ben Thomas, well-known Philadelphia militant machinist; Paul Crouch, secretary of the All-American Anti- Imperialist League; Karl Reeve, editor of the Labor Defender; Karl Jones, a well-known Negro militant and organizer for the American Ne- gro Labor Congress; Clarence Mil- ler, Philadelphia organizer for the Young Workers (Communist) League, and others prominent in the militant labor movement. Singing the “International” and hurling defiance at the police the courageous little band of 29 work- ers led the march in front of the War Department building in an anti-imperialist war demonstration, in which over one hundred workers and representatives of various mili- |tant organizations, including the Workers (Communist) Party and }the All-America Anti-Imperialist League participated. Following their release, the tiree bailed workers revealed a story of the bitterest persecution, including Jim Crowism in the case of Karl Jones, practised against the pris- eners who had dared to denounce imperialist war and demand the de- fense of the Soviet Union. They further announced that the im- prisoned workers had gone on a hunger strike in retaliation against the cruelties to which they are be- ing submitted. When ‘the prisoners arrived at the jail after the finger printing, Crouch wired the Daily Worker, the police attempted to place Karl Jones in a section separate from his fel- low workers. The others protested so vigorously against this Jim Crow tactic that the officials finally per mitted Jones to remain with the rest of the men prisoners. Conditions in the prison, as dis- closed by the released workers, in- clude a cell five feet by seven in which five men are crowded. One steel bunk is provided for the five. The cell is alive with vermin. The officers immediately refused to permit the prisoners to communi- cete with their attorney by telephone or even to call an attorney to the jail. He further forbade any news- papers or other reading matter to the prisoners. Besides declaring a hunger strike, the imprisoned workers have issued the following protest a, treatment they have received: “We, seventeen representatives of seven organizations, while attempt- ‘ing to present a demand to the sec- | retary of war for the immediate um ment. They have by no means given | Young voices sang together with a|conditional release of John Porter up their aims and preparations. In Germany no active celebration of the day took jplace since the imperialist clique looks back at No- vember 11, 1918, as merely the end of their particular schemes. Un- derneath the surface there is going on the same old scheming and in- trigue for an opportunity to launch forth on another drive for world empire with its threat to world! | peace. War Mongers’ Hopes. \ determined .ring. Then they practiced the strikers’ rebel yell: 1-2-3-4, 3-2-1-4; Who For? What For? What Are We Goin’ to Yell For: U-n-i-o-n, j-n-i-o-n, U O-N — UNION!” Again and again it rolled through the hall and out into the stree: in a way calculated to make any grown-up striker blush. Continue Activity. When the shouting was over they didn’t go home Instead they sat down, listened to a fraternal dele- The |“Preussische Tue nationalist, reactionary NIGHT PREM, Kreutz-Zeitung” de- |tion “must learn from events and |reawaken its powers with the firm intention to regain the liberty lost in November 1918.” The German working class will \have something to say on its own |aecount if and when such a new war is launched. | The working class of the world, in fact, has learned an indelible les- /son from the last war. It is in- (creasingly beginning to understand ‘its role in the next imperialist ‘slaughter which, begun by the im- _perialist war mongers either against one another or against the Soviet | Union, will be ended by the working TOTAL, The above fascimile of an average pay envelope for a week's work in the Michelin tire factory in Milltown, N. J., graphically illustrates one reason why the 1,200 men and women workers in the plant are on strike. The envelope was handed to a Daily Worker reporter by one ix an enemy of the _ The workers munt Sper SNARE LNAI of two brothers in the picket line. The top corner of the envelope was torn off to conceal the worker's identity. Notice the typical boss in- solence of the three cent premium, the wages of slavery. \ 4s ee Fi \ \ " it, against the world exploiters and oppressors, ‘ 4 — . |clares brazenly that the German na- | gate from the youth section tell Continued on Page Three 'Cop Put Under $1,000 'Bail; Extortion Charge Charged with extortion, Patrol- |man Francis X. Blatzheimer was ar- | \raigned in Mirrisania Court yester- |day and held in $1,000 baik A clothing salesman testified that Blatzheimer approached his car and \after ordering him to drive to the Kingsbridge Station agreed to let him go for $3. Blatzheimer is suspected of being the policeman who has been trying to™shake-down” automobile drivers | | class with the very arms furnished|in Van Cortland Park. He was cate with our attorney. wearing the badge which another i policeman lost last August. |from the military prison at Fort Leavenworth, were prevented by the police from presenting this demand and were arrested. The refusal to permit us to present our demand, our arrest, and at present the con- finement in station No. 1 show again the class character of the capitalist government and reveals ghat the role of the government and police is to protect the bosses and perpetuate |the enslavement of the workers, especially in the preparations for | We have no illu- sion about the nature of “demo- ‘eratie” justice and the courts of the _ bosses. the coming wi “We protest against our arrest in» the effort to present our demands, supported by tens of thousands of. workers, to the secretary of war. | We demand that immediately: “1. We be placed in cells with-— out the extremely unsanitary condi. tions we are forced to endure at— present. “2. No more than two of us placed in one cell. ( We have the right to reading matter freely. “4. Our incommunicado ment be ended immediately, that we be permitted to “We have decided to r