The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 10, 1928, Page 1

| = THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized For the 40-Hour Weck For a Labor Party orker Entered as second-class matte: at the Pout Uffice at New York. N.Y. ahder the act of March 3. 1879. Vol. V., ins by The National Daily Workes Publishing Asnocintion. Inc. 26-28 Union Sa. New York, N. ¥. . 292 NEW YORK, MONDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1928 MINE UNION WINS NEW VICTORY IN KENTUCKY FIELDS Forces Retraction of Saturday, bringing with it a low | 15% Wage Reduction Order Threatened Big Strike Wins New Members in Open Shop Area (Special to the Daily Worker) CENTRAL CITY, Ky., Dec. 9— The National Miners’ Union chalked ‘Jobless, Poor Suffer in First N. Y. Snowfall |for New York City visited the city | temperature that hovered around | the freezing point throughout the day. The highest temperature corded was 37 degrees above zero at 12 midday, and the lowest, 27 above at 8 p. m. Although not much snow fell dur- ing the day, the intense cold left behind it a record of suffering in the poor sections of the city. Wo- men, scantily diessed, with thin shawls over their heads and shoul- re- The first snowfall of the season| BOLIVIA, UNDER U.S, CONTROL, MOVES FOR WAR Breaks With Paraguay and Incites People With Jingoism * See Hand of Wall St. ‘Secret Diplomacy Aids Imperialist Plot BUNEOS AIRES, Dee. 9, (UP). —A dispute of many years of the desolate and unexplored portion of up another decisive victory against| ders, hurried through the streets in/the Gran Chaco territory between the Kentucky coal operators when a| the lower East Side and in the con-|Rio Verde and Bahia 15 per cent wage cut, which the| gested districts of’ Harlem gather-|Paraguayan-Bolivian Western Kentucky bosses were to] ing old wood for kindling, in carts| have put into effect several days |improvised from baby carriages. io da! Ace off because of the! Block after block of tenements in union’s threat to call a general! these sections are heated only. by gra on the frontier, threatened tonight to hurl the two countries into war. Diplomatic relations have been severed by Bolivia and secret ses- WASHINGTON, D. C., Dee. era Success cf the twenty workers a rested for denouncing the arrest of John Porter, textile strike militant and former soldier now jailed at Ft. | Leavenworth, has resulted in an- nouncement by the authorities of the dis.overy of “another Red plot.” It is feared that the discovery may be used as a pretext for holding many of the prisoners whose sen- | tences have not expired m the work- | house. | Reports watchers that the worker victims of the capitalist courts of Washington were discus- sing Communism with their fellow prisoners caused the authorities to| jeall Clarence Miller, organizer of the | Young Workers League in District 3; Benjamin Thomas, Philadelphia militant, and William Lawrence, of the National Textile Workers Union for an investigation in his office. For an hour or more, Superin- tendent M, M. Barnard, of the-Oc- PORTER PRISONERS ARE ACTIVE IN JAIL caquon Workhouse, attempted to rce the prisoners to state what prisoners were listening to them and what they had been telling their listeners. When Barnard was tired cf his unsuccessful efforts to make the class war prisoners “talk,” Captain Julian A. Schoen, nt super- intendent of the jail, continued the interrogation. “We work for the cause of the workers wherever we are,” was the only statement that Barnard and Schoen were able to force from the class war prisoners. Since the day of their ival in the Occaquon jail the workers have been active in discussing problems with their fellow prisoners. While protesting as polit: pris. oners that they should be thrown into the common jail under the foul- est conditions and among unfortu- nates, many of whom are alleged to Continued on Page e ASKS CHALLENG TO BRITAIN FOR LATIN AMERICA |Reed Reservation “Peace” Pact Would Demand Showdown Aid Deceit Any War Justified by Pacifists strike in this notoriously open shop region. The new National Miners’ Union has gained tremendous prestige here since it registered an out and out victory in a local strike against the powerful Pacific Coal Company of Mercer, Kentucky. This corporation capitulated, granting all demands gnq cluttered in doorways along| of the strikers after the national headquarters of the union threat- ened to tie up all adjoining proper-/ ties of the company by calling the men out, The general wage cut order was withdrawn by the employers after they saw that the union had com- pleted all arrangements to order a big strike into effect. The nation-wide organization drive being carried on by the National Miners’ Union received a powerful | forward push when the news of the victory against the Pacifie Coal Co. became known. This latest achieve- ment of the organization is expected to have an immediate reaction on wood and no smoke could be seen | coming out of the chimneys. | As always, the huge army of un- | employed, growing constantly since | the temporary employment of sum- | mer was taken away from many, | was terribly hit by the first severe ‘cold of the year. Along the Bowery, Sixth Ave. where crooked employ- ment agencies operate their graft) businesses sanctioned by the city au- thorities, unemployed workers could be seen huddled together, shivering in the gusts of wind that swept the snow into the air along the streets. And because the ‘snowfall was com- paratively small, these jobless work- ers could get no employment clear- ing the uptown thorofares of the wealthy, Even yesterday, after the snow had stopped, the intense cold re- mained, not hindering the traffic but sending the children of the poor into exposed lots along the river- sions of the government in each country were held to consider the present situation arising out of a battle at Fort Vanguardia in the disputed territory. More than a score of soldiers died in the skir- mish; most of the casualties falling in the force of 25 Bolivians defend- ing the fort. HUGE GERMAN STRIKE LOOMS 375,000 May Walk Out; | All Pacts Now Off BREMEN, Germany, Dec. 9—An all-inclusive general strike in the | textile industry here grows hourly | more probable as all contracts with/ the textile owners’ associations) have been announced cancelled by| the unions, although the factories are still operating. The great mass of membership in| the textile workers’ organizations | are adamant in their determination to maintain their demand for a wage increase of from 14 to 18 per} | cent, and spurn every effort of |those who increase pressure that LA PAZ, Bolivia, Dec. 9.—A wave of nationalist chauvinism and jintense antipathy for all things re- Continued on Page Three AWAIT RALLY OF SILK WORKERS |Foster, Weinstone and Weisbord to Speak WORKING WOMEN MEET THURSDAY Will -Make,. Plans for Militant Action The New York Working Women’s Federation delegate conference ar- ranged for Thursday evening, Dec. 18, at the Labor Temple, 14th St. and Second Ave., will state the facts regarding the number of unorgan- ized women in outstanding trades in New York, including information on the miserable economic condition of married women workers, who are employed in great numbers in this state. In the city of Binghamton, N. Y. front, searching for kindling wood the work everywhere. Particularly significant ave the victories in this state, ators in Kentucky have for a long time been totally undisturbed by any attempts at the organization of the workers here. With the entrance of the National Miners’ ‘Union, en- thusiastic desire for struggle against the operators was shown by the miners. And the recording of these two victories makes the work- ers all the more willing to follow the leadership of the new union. This was demonstrated when prepa- rations for a general strike were under way. The National Miners’ Union has deeply penetrated the unorganized regions of Kentucky. More than 1,000 members have been recruited into the union since the September Sth convention. Organization work proceeds at a rapid speed thruout this district. BEDACHT TRACES SOCIALIST DECAY Is Now Liberal Party of “Opposition” “The Socialist Party Today” was the subject of a lecture by Max Be- dacht, director of the Agitprop De- partment of the Workers (Commu- nist) Party, at the Workers School Forum, at the Workers Center, 26- 28 Union Square, last night. Bedacht traced the history of the socialist party, showing the causes of its degeneration, and the objec- tive and inner-party conditions that will result in a further decay of the once proletarian party into a liberal, petty-bourgeois party of “opposi- tion” to the two big capitalist par- ties. The socialist party in the United States, he stated, will go even fur- ther to the right than those of European countries, for there the workers have at least had a social- ist education, whereas in this coun- try the backwardness of the work- ers has been so great that it has not driven the socialist’ party to cover its betrayals with a socialist terminology. This is evidenced by their open rejection of the class struggle plank formerly in their platform. Organizationally, said Bedacht, this is shown by the attraction to the party of millionaires, preachers, professors, and similar types. In the recent presidential election campaign their loss of proletarian support was shown by the drop in the vote given them by the work- ers, which was not made up—de- spite their frantic appeal for votes to non-proletarian elements. This drives them ever nearer to the petty-bourgecisie as a means of re- couping their losses. The admirable treatment of the development of the socialist move- ment during the present century made th> present position of the party, « ° the basic causes for this develop: thoroughly clear to those pi it. Questions and dis weasion foiowed the lecture. Coal oper: | to keep their shabby congested tenement rooms warm. TRAITOR USTED, PARTY STATES eave Workers” | A statement issued yesterday by District 2 of the Workers (Commu- nist) Party announces the expulsion of L. Stein from the Paterson | branch of the Party. Due to the | class collaborationist and_ strike- breaking role played by Stein in the Paterson silk strike, where he publicly backed the right wing union leaders in their reactionary policies, the expulsion, which was put into effect August, 1928, is |now publicly announced. The statement of the district, over the signature of William W. Wein- stone, organizer, declares: “Notice to all Party members and all sympathetic workers! “All members of the Party. and all sympathizers are to take note that Stein, former member of the Workers Party of Paterson was ex- August, 1928, for conduct unbecom- ing a Communist, for having a class collaboration ideology and for having a non-Communist attitude toward the workers, “Subsequent conduct jn the strike, after he was expelled from the Par- ty, proved that the Party charac- terization of him as having a social- democratic ideology and working hand in hand with the right wing leadership and betraying the strike justifies the Party characterization of him and his previous expulsion.” REPORT HIBBEN T0 REST IN KREMLIN Was Last Wish of Dead Champion of USSR (By Federated Press) In accordance with his wish, the ashes of Captain Paxton Hibben will be laid beside those of his com- rade, John Reed, at the foot of the Kremlin wall in Moscow. He died in New York of pneu- monia. Hibben, formerly a diplomat and journalist, was active in Russian famine relief work. He was court- martialled as a military reserve of- ficer when photos were published in this country several years ago showing him laying a wreath on John Reed’s grave by the Kremlin. The case fell through. Hibben was writing a biography of William Jennings Bryan when he was suddenly stricken with pneu- monia, v Workers (Communtaty Party ir vr the ennctment ef the 40. hour, 5-day week, (Special to the Daily Worker) | PATERSON, N. J., Dec. 9—Tre- mendous interest has been aroused | among the silk workers and even in the general labor movement here by | the mass meeting scheduled for to- | morrow, Tuesday night, where the ‘three Communist’ leaders, William Z. Foster, William W. Weinstone and Albert Weisbord, are to speak. they accept the award of the gov-| alone, for example, the largest num- ernmental arbitration boards for a} five per cent rise in wages. Although not daring openly to ad- | yocate to the union memberships | that they accept the measly govern- ‘ment award, the reformist trade ‘union leaders are increasingly active | in putting a damper on the mass de- | mand that a fight be put up for the | Members of the arrangements com- | full pele So ie emnloyere 5 mittee expect that Entre Nous| Realization that the approaching | | Lyceum, Main St., with a seating | Christmas season has whetted the | capacity of 1,000 will, be crowded appetites of the bosses for the/ at the opening hour, 8 o’clock. | luscious profits to be derived from | “How to conduct a strike,” will | the increased orders, the textile op-| be the topic Foster, will speak on,|°Tatives in increasingly | greater | | while Weinstone, district organizer ee eee action of the Communist Party, will talk | 2°ore It 1S too late. | on “How to Organize the Unorgan-| Communist leaders of the ree ‘ized.” Albert Weisbord, national and file already have mass support | secretary-treasure: of the Natioral in their demand that the strike be | Textile Workers’ Union, will tell the called and be made general. Their Paterson workers of the “Policies warnings that the blow must _be and Aims of the N. T. W. U.” | struck before it is too late are being 1 +. |taken up by the workers and the | tense interest taken: in this, meet. militant phrases of the reformist |ing by the workers, is the fact that leaders reflects this pressure from |the Associated Silk Workers Union, °° °¥* | will hold another mass meeting the| If a general strike is called more same night. At this meeting, the than 375,000 textile workers will be two socialist party clowns, August ffected directly and many thou- pelled by the Paterson branch in| Claessens and Henry Jeager, are scheduled to. make an attack on the left wing for their break with the strikebreaking leaders of the Asso- | ciated. The left wing was forced out of the Associated by the expulsion and | strike betrayal tactics of the of- \ficialdom. Practically the entire membership of the Broad Silk De- | partment of the union joined the | National Textile Workers Union The Paterson local of the N. T. W., since its establishment recently is preparing to carry into life a com- plete program for the organization of Paterson’s silk workers. At a recent meeting of its or- ganization, the Women’s Council, Paterson branch, passed the follow- ‘ing resolution, which announces its Continued on Page Three B. AND 0. BUILDS MORE BALTIMORE, Dec. 9 (UP).—Or- ders for 88,800 tons of steel rails for next season's delivery have been placed by ‘the B. and O. Railroad Company with the Bethlehem Steel Company, Baltimore; Carnegie Steel Company, Pittsburgh, and the In- land Steel Company, Indiana Har- bor, Ind. The total order repre- sents an ultimate expenditure of | $3,800,000, plus necessary track fas- | tenings, sands more, indirectly. Negotiations between the union leaders and employers’ federations |are still going on in this city. While the textile industry has | gone thru a comparative rehabilita- tion in Germany, with profits run- ‘ning high, the standards of the workers have been systematically ‘depressed by “the employers, who | plead impoverishment. Revolutionary workers in the tex- | tile unions have conducted a bitter | fight against the compulsory “ar- | bitration” interference of the gov- lernment in labor disputes. More | than in any other industry are the | arbitration decisions of the govern- | ment boards discredited among the textile workers. Two Workers Killed in Scow Boiler Explosion ERIE, Pa., Dec. 9.—Two workers | lost their lives and a third was seri- ously injured today when the boiler on the scow Harbinger exploded in Lake Erie, just off this harber. John Gustafson of Erie, assistant engineer, was hurled into the lake and so badly injured that he was unable to grasp a rope thrown to him. John M. Pender of Erie, engi- heer, died in a hospital from burns. After completing two all-day ses-;danger. The vote was taken on a} sions of a membership meeting de- | resolution presented by the N. EK. C. voted to a discussion of Trotskyism |The 48 voted for a minority reso- and the right danger, the New York | lution. Thirteen abstentions were membership of the Young Workers | also recorded. (Communist) League voted by the Zam Reports. \overwhelming majority of 176| The first session of the member- ‘against 48 to support the National | ship meeting was held Sunday, No- Executive Committee of the League | vember 25, and after the meeting ber of married women workers are employed of any city of its size in the country. The State Department of Labor reports are in no way con- cerned with the intense speeding up, long hours, starvation pay and the inhuman ¢onditions generally under “which these and thousands of other women are exploited. ‘Women workers are urged to at- tend the N. Y. Working Women’s Federation delegate conference to participate in discussing ways and means for conducting an intensive campaign to organize unorganized working women to fight against these conditions. Working women in unorganized shops who cannot elect a delegate should come themselves. Militant working women in the organized trades of New York— garment workers, furriers, millinery workers and-all needle trades work- ers, are urged to act on the call for | the conference at once and arrange to send delegates to this most im- portant conference on organizing the unorganized women workers, Wicks Calls Seamen to Support Militant Colombia Strikers H. M. Wicks, acting editor of the Daily Worker, last night addressed an audience of seamen and long- shoremen on “The Colombian Strike Against American Imperialism,” at the International Seamen’s Club, 28 South St. In his speech, Wicks declared that the strike of the Colombian workers was a strike against the American imperialists and capital- ists, on whose concessions the en- slaved Colombian workers had been employed. He attacked the role of the American imperialists, who had through their puppet, President Mendes, passed the vicious anti- Communist Jaws in the country, and brought out bayonets and guns against the striking workers, He ended with the declaration that American workers would stand by their Colombian comrades in their struggle against American imper- ialist aggression. Two other speakers, Albert Mor- eau, director of the Latin American department of the All-America Anti-Imperialist League, and George Mink, secretary, of the Internationa! Seamen’s Club, also explained the situation in Colombia to the seamen gathered at the club, Fake Treaty WASHINGTON r James A, Reed, I 9.—Sena- erat. wants an immediate and open lenge by U. S. imperidlism to British imperialism, by inserting a reservation in its own treatv pro- posal, known as the fake “Kellogg | neace pact,” opvenlv stating that the United States will go to war to vrotect or advance its imperialist interests in Latin America under the Monroe Doctrin: “Ponce” Treaty Just y War. | While numerous pacifist organi- zations, including the churches, which loyally suvnorted the last |war and will with equal loyalty sunport the next war, are fooling millions of the unwary by lying |nronaganda that ratification by the |U. S. Senate of the fake peace pact means a “moral” advance, observers point out that any war could be construed as coming under or or another of,the reservations tacked on by the various powers, and that the treatv itself was promulgated by the United States, to deceive the American people into thinking the “overnment wants neace at the very moment it is rushing all possible preparations for war. The vacifists are assisting well in this tricking of the American population. | Senator Reed, differing with the | Coolidge-Kellogg administration only on the question of how explicitly and SUBSCRIPTION KATES: Outside New You f Aid Colombia COLOMBIA LABO\ to : souri demo- | FINAL CITY EDITION — Strike, TUEL Urges Workers sent Friday to the Colombia workers congratu- ting them on their determined ist the +United Fruit na plantations jof Magdalena, the Trade Union Ed- ucational League issued ringing call to American workers, urging them to support the fruit strikers and prevent armed intervention by American’ imperialism. The call follows “SUPPORT THE COLOMBIAN WORKER PREVE ARMED INTERVENTION BY AMERICAN | IMPERIALISM! | “Thousands of our fellow- workers in the Magdalena banana region of Colombia, South America, are tight- | ing against terri odds for the most elementar human rights. | The plantation workers have been | on strike for t 2 weeks. Immedi- |ately the United Fruit Company be- }gan to kend the subservient Colom- | bian government to its purposes. | Martial 1 s declared through- } cut the a: ed territory, centering | |about the banana port of Santa! Marta. Soldiers were sent and are jstill being sent against the strik- being brought he workers back ers. Every agency into play to force |into the old slavery. “But this is not all. Behind the United Fruit Company, one of the strongest pillars of the Wall Street money power, stands the United States government. The attitude of ne United States government is in-| dicated by the statement made to a| |New York Times reporter by U. S. | Minister Jefferson Caffery, to the Continued on Page Three ren i} PLAN CAMPAIGN when the U. S. shall assert its im- verialist purposes, wants Yankee . Pre at : imperialism to make a definite Daily Worker Drive on statement right now that it will make war revardiess of its own| Large Scale | “peace” nact. if English imnerielism | eee resists U. S. ‘interests in Latin} PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Det. 9.—+ / America: “© “a a Sai at a Wants War @iattent> Now. Reed points out that British i verialism definitely declared its in. tention to go to war if any of its i terests were menaced by the United States or any other country in lands clearly under British domination | Reed’s proposal is essential a chal- lenge to Great Britain to withdraw any claim to even equal share in the exploitation of Latin-America, a section of the world the control of |which is under dispute between the two rival imperialisms. Reed cites Sir Austen Chamber- lain’s uvholding of what he terms the “British Monroe Doctrine” which Chamberlain sail Britain claims over Egynt, India and “other re- {gions vital to the empire.” Reed wants to provoke England into a eategoric claim to Latin America a a vart of these “vital regions” for which England will fight. In referring to such regions Chamberlain stated on May 19, 1928, as follows: “Defense” Means War. “Their protection against attack lis to the British empire a measure ‘of self-defense. It must be clearly | understood that his Majesty's gov- lernment in Great Britain accept the new treaty upon the distinct under- standing that it does not prejudice their freedom of action in this re- spect.” Kellogg so far has met such argu- ments as Reed’s by vague statements that reservations don’t matter, as they are not a part of the treaty |text. thus trying to put the burden lof blame on the British who re'ter- jate their reservations, Thus the working class both of British and | United States are being led straight inte the shambles of imperialist war against each other under the most} |hypocritical of pacifist phraseology. K!LLS BOSS WHO TOOK LIFE. ATLANTA, Ga.. Dec. 7.—R. Hall Davis, president of an Atlanta auto- | mobile sales concern, was shot to | death here today by W. L. Shippey, a shipping clerk, who said that Davis was unduly attentive to his | wife. » (Communist) Party ts struggle. The Wor the party of the YOUTH AGAINST TROTSKYISM, RIGHT DANGER Communist League Membership Meeting Overwhelming in Support of N.E.C. open for discussion. The second session of the meeting, called for ;tern and Communist Youth Inter- national was held. Over 35 mem- meeting. of Dpgy Pork: agents and unit finctinyricstathte ity yesterday, A. Ravitch, ‘business, manager of the Daily: Worker, was present from New York to take up with the membership of this district the fifth anniversary campaign of the Daily. District Daily Worker agent, A. Sokoloff, also reported. Most of the Baily Worker agents for the units, sections, sub-districts end district, members of the Daily Worker Campaign Committees, as well as the Party functionaries, par- | ticipated in the meeting, which was | well-attended and showed a good spirit. Ravitch made a general report on the situation of the paper, on cir- culation and on the sustaining fund. Sokoloff spoke on the local situa- tion of the Daily, bringing out that its circulation was much behind | what it should be. The meeting de- | cided to start a campaign immedi- ately to double the circulation. A special committee of members of ihe foreign-language workers clubs and of the Daily agents was clected for this purpose and to conduct the fifth anniversary campaign. It will Continued on Page Five FIGHT HERE ON FIGHTS TROOP, IN BIG. STRIK Army Aviators Report ' Big Plantations in ' Strikers’ Control Imperialists Alarmed |Native Lackeys Pledge Aid to U.S. Firms BULL IN. BOGOTA, Dec. 9.—Brief news from the strike region states that troops killed 12 strikers at Santa Marta, but strikers retreated seiz- ing much arms and explosives. The workers’ leader Paul Macheca is reported killed at Sevilla where there were 15 dead. The workers fought with revolvers and knives against troops with rifles. Yellow. socialists here have offered their . aid to the government. pie aes (Although imperialist censorship- which for three weeks smothered all news of the great Colombian strike before it became an armed struggle, has again closed down on dispatches Sunday, a censorship to avoid the unpleasant comparison of Hoover’s “good will” trip with the massacre of Latin-American workers by na- tive lackeys and the threat of inter- vention in behalf of the imperialist United Fruit Company, the Daily Worker has succeeded in obtaining the following from Colombian ser- vices.—Editor) BARRANQUILLA, Colomt ia, Dec. 8 (delayed).—The declaration the Colombian government of | PHILA. AGENTS = = 5 martial law has caused increasing anger among the workers popula- tion and many bloody clashes are taking place in all sections of the banana growing region, with partici- |pation of labor generally which has jtaken up arms with the plantation | strikers. | Ten dead and 24 wounded was the result of a battle at Cienaga be- _1| tween, troops .and) strikers in. the Si Marta regioy. Dispatches fail to state which side’lost the most or which sidé “held control. Military ‘air-planes are flying over the region and report that numerous planta- tions appear to be in possession of the strikers. Strict censorship by the troons is limiting all and cutting | out some dispatches. ae Sa | BOGOTA, Colombia, Dec. 9—The Minister of War states that after communications between Santa Marta and Cienaga were cut, a bat- tle between strikers and troops re- sulted in eight dead and many wounded. Details are said to be lacking. Reports from Santa Marta state that 1,200 troops from that place are moving against the region con- trolled by strikers and that 1,200 more troops are marching toward the region from other sections. The United Fruit boat “Santa Marta” Continued on Page Three COLD SNAP. HITS MINERS Many Are Starving in Britain IMPERIALISTS: United Fruit Company Being Picketed Answering the need for solidar. ity of the American working cla with the striking plantation work ers of Colombia, and understanding that the United Fruit Company ex ploits not only the Latin American workers but also workers here in the United States, a movement be gan over the week end to picket all | ships and enterprises of the United Fruit company in New York, and a cable was dispatched to Montevideo. | Uruguay, to the committee that is organizing the Latin-American Trade Union Federation, informing that committee as follows: “American Seamen's Club and | the Trade Union Educational LONDON, Dec. 9 (UP).—The first touch of real winter today—a blanket-like snow and wind from the north—brought a new problem before the 1,000,000 men, women and children in the closed mining areas. The 300,000 miners and their families have been without sufficie: funds for various lengths of time, some the mines having been closed as long as six years. Even Neville Chamberlain, min- ister of health, described the situas tion as “without parallel in the memory of living persons.” So serious is the situation that it necessitated the calling of a con- ference of lord mayors and mayors from all perts of England recently, at which the health minister said some of the mines had been closed for as long as four and five and six of League are picketing the United years and that thousands of miners Fruit Company’s boats, demanding were wholly without employment strike solidarity with the Colombian since 1926, As many more, he said, plantation workers. Long live inter-| have had only temporary employ- national solidarity! (Signed) Mar-, ment in the last two years. ine Workers League, George Mink national secretary.” shillings weekly is only sufficient for livelihood on the strictest econ- continuation of the discussion, took | bers participated in the discussion place yesterday in the Workers before closure was reached. After Center, 28 Union Square, and lasted | a summing up speech by Secretary nearly all morning and afternoon. | Zam, Herberg yead the N. B. C. Under the chairmanship of Will | resolution. The minority resolution Herberg, New York district organ-| was read from the floor and both izer, a thorough discussion of the | were taken to vote with the record- and the Central Executive Commit- tee of the Party in their fight against Trotskyism and the Right had heard a report by Herbert Zam, | secretary of the Communist youth \organization, the floor was thrown Party’s and League’s fight against the Trotskyist and Right danger in the American section of the Comin- \ | ed results. | The resolution presented to the Continued on Page Two WORKING WOMEN KILi.ED 7 (UP).—Three servant girls were | killed today wher a mixture which exploded. they were using to scrub the floor | most of them subsist on bread 1 omy and the miners haye often been FUERSTENAU, Germany, Dec. forced to sell their household fur nishings to sustain life. Few |meat more than once a week porridge. : Only cooking utensils and remain in some of the houses, the children are growing up in normal condition, \ R a The unemployed dole of 10 to 18 © ~ Mp,