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: . Page Two ee | MOBILIZE FOR MAY DAY| DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 1929 1 Reactionai; ©... '. Machine Forced to _ LATIN AMERIGANS Sacrifice Hexchmen Caught in Big Graft TOIL LONG HOUR ae 7 | TO PAY HIGH RENT MEMBERSHIP IN | —— Bigots’ Victim (ES following is a partial list of International May Day meetings { arranged by the Communist Party and sympathetic organizations. The yarious districts are urged to send in immediately for listing the dates, | cities, halls, and speakers of their 1 Except where otherwise noted, meetings are on May 1. y Day meetings. British Ex-Servicemen ~rotest Unemployment High Ex GREEN DEMANDS REVOLT; GANG RUNS TO COVER National Miner Union Appeals to Militants | WEST FRANKFORT, Il, (By Mail).—Widespread expulsions and heavy fines of grafters in Local| 4173 of the United Mine Workers| marked the all-night session of the| local here the other night. | Forced to concede to the pressure ffom the discontented rank and file, the corrupt machine in control of the local was obliged to “sacrifice”! its own henchmen, in order to make! the gesture of presenting a stain- less record to the suspicious mem-| bership. |The largest local in the country, Local 4173, covers the New Orient Call Mine, the biggest in the world. Expel Grafters. President Al Mitten, notorious| tool of the Fishwick-Lewis machine, | was expelled for 99 years, Charley | Robinson, as corrupt as Fish district president, and former | retary, was expelled for 99 years. | The vice-president was removed| from office. Financial Secretary | Joe Robbins was removed and fined | $1,000. John Patterson, recording | secretary, was fired and fined $500. | Treasurer C. D. Macdonald will be! tried at the next meeting. The grafting activity of the ex-| pelled officials was common knowl- | edge throughout the district. When, | however, ‘it was disclosed that they had received for the privilege of “treating” the miners with pills (for which service the doctor gets $180 a month from the miners), the officialdom was forced to take action. Sell Job to Doctor. _.When the doctor went to a loan company to raise the money to buy the job the manager of the com- pany made an affidavit to that ef- fect. One of the tellers spread the story, giving the details of the di- vision of the money. Up to noon today Fishwick, Fox and Company had not yet rein- stated their fellow fakers. however, since the miner grafters have damaging information on the big -men,--The revelations only add to the disgust of the rank and file of the whion. Incidentally- the: story | adds to the prestige of the Nationa! Miners Union, which fights the en- ctoadhments of the operators along industrial lines, always expressing | the militant aspirations of the rank and file. a Join the N.M.U. “National Miners Union men, how- ever, point out to the dissatisfied workers of the corrupt U.M.W.A. that discontent alone will achieve | nothing. They appeal to them to| abandon the U.M.W.A., where graft is-a necessary feature of the rule of officially sanctioned, entrenched bureaucracy. Many locals of the U.M.W.A. have already joined, and continue to join, the militant union. | SANITARY HEADS. This |. action is only a question of time, |" "HUGE WAR NAVY |Pledges Wall Street | His Aid | (Continued from Page One) to the water after a bottle of liquor was broken over her prow by Mrs. Jessie Knowes Seligman, member of ;a@ family whose wealth was gained |thru the slavery of thousands of Southern workers. The “Harmony Banquet.” The class-collaboration “Harmony Dinner,” given by the Metal Trades Department of the navy yard, was held in the afternoon. The Navy Yard workers were intimidated into putting up $3 apiece to attend it. The object of the dinner as planned by the A. F. of L. officials was to promote “good-feeling between the |government and the Navy Yard workers.” James O'Connell, president of the A. F. of L, Metal Trades Depart- ment, acted as chairman and toast- master. It was O’Connell who led the ery of the A. F. of L. mislead- ers at their last convention in New Orleans, in a demand for a huge navy. CHURCHILL'S “SHABBY... TREATMENT Photo shows British ex-service men, many of whom have had no work since being mustered out of the army at the end of the World.War, demonstrating in London streets against the tory gov- ernment, which has refused to help them. Middle West Plans for Big Mav Day Demonstration Jingoists Praise Green. William Green was flanked by the naval officials and the labor traitors named above. The first speaker was the commandant of : : 4 the Brooklyn Navy Yard, Admiral Gather in Union Park, Chicago, Near Scene of (erie ti ner whe hed nothing Haymarket Affair of 1886 |but praise for William Green, who, Throughout the middle west, and particularly in Illinois, ™&king act in putting the first rivet s High praise for ae ‘ : : in the Pensacola.” Wisconsin and Indiana, the observance of May Day this year Green was indeed the keynote of all 000 frome Dr. Estus | Will take on more of a mass character than in many years past.'the naval speakers at the “Har-| i s practically everywhere are in ™ony Banquet.” The meeting arrangements practically A Secretary of the Navy Adams the hands of conferences of organizations which have responded having been “unfortunately” called to the call of the Communist Party. The following paragraphs | away to Washington, the assembled give some idea of part of the meetings already arranged for|workers were next addressed by Wednesday, May Ist. Secretary of Labor Davis. Davis Shouts For War Navy. ENGDAHL IN CHICAGO Following the usual bunk about The principal speaker in Chicago will be J. Louis Engdahl, his having “been a worker once him- editor of the Daily Worker and but recently returned from an self,” Davis told the workers that extended stay in the Soviet Union. The meeting will take place | # huge navy was to the advantage in Ashland Auditorium, corner Ashland Ave, and Van Buren St. of all the workers, as “it gave work An additional feature will be a splendid pageant, in which’ approxi- to thousands of workers not only in the Navy Yard here but also to mately 200 workers, of all nationalities, will take part. | the workers in the mines and steel in Union Park, Washington and Ashland Boulevards, near the scene of dence that if the miners were given the Haymarket affair of 1886. From here there will be a parade to the to understand this, that they would hall. 4 {be enthusiastic over the building of At noon there wil! be 20 factory meetings held, and these in turn) warships designed to blow workers will be prepared for by a 7 a. m. literature distribution at the factory| to smithereens. Indeed, he was in gates, a special one for each factory. ~The. preceding Sunday will be “Red favor of spreading this propaganda Sunday” for the distribution of the posters and special May Day edition to the miners and steel workers, he of the Daily Worker, | said. Davis had the highest praise for the labor traitors Green and O’Con- nell. He grew lyrical over the fact that “labor, inthe person of Will- iam Green, has sponsored the Pensa- | cola.” He revealed a bit of the past history of the betrayal of the Ameri- man workers by the A. F. of L. officialdom, when he stated that at There is an exceptionally fine program arranged for the Waukegan, a certain labor conference on labor . ot 4 “i (affairs (not stating which), he had Morris Childs, district agit-prop director, | tla President Harding that. he would refuse to attend unless Sam Gompers was there. Green Inspired by Jingoes. MILWAUKEE MEETING | The reams of frént-page publicity given our Party in Milwaukee in | connection with the recent “Tea-pot Dome” leaflet case, and with the “contempt of court” cases growing out of the anti-war demonstrations. | guarantee a bigger turnout than ever before. The meeting will be held | Wednesday, May 1st, 8 p. m. with Paul Cline, of Chicago, as the chief | speaker, and noon-day meetings and open-air demonstrations preceeding. WAUKEGAN DEMONSTRATION | Ill., demonstration this year. will be the main speaker. There will also be talks by representatives of |the Young Workers (Communist) Leggue, the I. W. W., and others, The) ;meeting will be held at Workers Hall, 517 Helmholz Ave., May 1, at 8) p. m. Special distribution of leaflets at the steel plants, | Phen Bata Willa” Green hak. ST. LOUIS MEETING ing, “My heart is’so overfilled on The reformists and Trotskyites formed a tacit united front in nar-| this great occasion that I cannot rowing down slightly the extent of the support to the May Day demonstra- express my feelings and hopes, so tion. A considerable number of Left wing organizations are supporting | Moved have I been by the addresses the meeting, including Workmen’s Circle, Women’s Auxiliary, I. L. D.,/ of the previous speakers” (among National Miners Union, etc. | whom were admirals and notorious The speakers will include S. Milgrom, of Chicago, an organizer of foes of labor), receding the indoor meeting there will be an outdoor demonstration | mills.” Davis expressed his ccnfi-| i oF The vice hounds of New York had their way when Mrs. Mary Ware Dennett, above, was found guilty of circulating “obscene” lit- erature, beca she issued a pamphlet of sex information for the young. PIONEERS RALLY INTL MAY DAY (Continued from Page One) terribly. exploited section of the | American workers, May Day must be that day on which the workers and workers’ chil- | dren must show their solidarity with | the textile strikers of the south and \he said, had “performed a history-! with’ the workers wherever they | struggle for better conditions. May Day, 1929 finds the bosses of America feverishly preparing for a new world war. They are pre- paring to enrich themselves at th expense of the workers and their childyen. They are especially build- \ing up militarist children’s organi- zations like the Boy Scouts, ete, to | prepare the children for the coming | imperialist war. We must demonstrate on May ay to show the bosses that the workers’ children will not be caught unawares—that they will fight side | by side with the entire working class | against the bosses’ wars. |For Children’s Delegation to Soviet Union. | The Soviet Union is the only land | where there is no child labor, where the children are the first and fore- | most care of the whole working- tlass. The capitalist countries, the | United States in particular, hate the | Soviet Union. They are planning an | attack against the Soviet Union. Our answer must be to the defense ‘of the Soviet Union. Send a work- \ers’ children’s delegation that will | bring the message of solidarity of | the workers’ children of America to the workers’ children in Russia, Out of School on May Day. The duty of every worker’s child on May Day is to show his solidarity |—Out of School On May Day—to all | the workers’ children wherever they j are found. Together let us all fight against child labor, against the bosses’ | preparations for war, against child misery, for better living conditions, for the defense of the Soviet Union, for a Workers and Farmers Govern- ment in the United States, | Join the Young Pioneers America. | —Young Pioneers of America, of | | | speak the language. \ Porto Ricans. | |with the workers of the world, Every | | workers child must carry the slogan | 12-Year-Old Girl Acts as Housewife (Continued from Page One) a very busy housewife and did not have very much time to spare. “Oh, we are Spanish, you know. We come from Cuba. I used to know how to speak Spanish, but I have forgotten,” | Consumption. They are not Spaniards, although | they are called that because they | Most of the} families here are native Cubans or) The body of the girl is very thin| | and you think that if she continues | | very much longer cleaning this un- | ventilated flat and manipulating the | pans after hours in school, and may: | | be later going to join her sister in| the laundry, that she will be one of | those many consumptives living in Harlem. | ak, Ee | ANOTHER worker living in this | house has been unemployed for almost a year. He is a plumber, and had his leg broken when a sink fell on it. He was in the hospital for months and could not work after he ‘came out. Now he finds an odd job here and there in the tenements. His wife is the wage-earner. She works at the Cathdral of St. John, the | Divine, as a scrub woman, and when | she works she gets $4 a day for 12 hours of work. But she is only em- | ployed a few days a week. They pay | $27 for the 3 room apartment, for | which a white family had previously | paid $15. | A Porto Rican, who has four chil- | dren and pays $26 for four rooms, | works as a laborer for the city. His | income in uncertain for he must de- | | pend upon the weather. During the | | last week, for instance, his total pay | | amounted to about $10. | We cite these few cases—there | are more like them in the building— / | just to show how the worker, doubly | exploited both in industry and in the tenements because of his color, is completely at the mercy of that class |} of parasites who rule this country. 1 cas. al 8 Some Figures. HE houses in this block are fairly representative of the other tene- ments in the section. In the survey | made by the State Housing Commis- sion it was found that 78.2 per cent of the tenants living in the block be- |tween 103rd and 104th and Second | and Third Avenues, paid $8 per room } per month or below. The rents have increased about 70 per cent over |February 1909, which is about the average rent increase for that period for all of New York City. It was found that in January 1928, |the average rent paid for apart- |ments in this block was $24.36, * eK 5 Continue to follow the Daily | Worker in its exposure of housing | conditions thruout the city. Tenants are invited to write let- | ters to the Daily Worker about their apartments. Demonstrate on May Day your solidarity with the oppressed Negro race. Long live political, social and racial equality for the Negro masses. REFUSE OVERTIME WORK. LONDON, (By Mail).—All ship- | yard woodworkers here have refused to work overtime and on a night} jshift, following the owners’ refusal to pay an increase of 3 shil:ings al _ Benld, May 5. CONNECTICUT. Hartford, 8 p. m., Labor Lyceum, 2003 Main St. Port Chester, 7:30 p. m., Finnish Workers Hall, 42 Water St. New Haven, 7 p. m., Central Green (Open air meeting). Stamford, 7:30 p. m., Workmen Circle Center, 49 Pacific St. Waterbury, 7:30 p. m., Workers Hall, 103 Green St. Norwalk, 7:30 p. m., corner Washington and Railroad Streets. DELAWARE. Wilmington, 8 p. m. Speakers: F. Mozer, L. Meldin. ILLINOIS. Chicago, 7:30 p. m., Ashland Auditorium, Van Buren & Marshfield Ave. Speakers: J. L. Engdahl, Sklar, Griffin. Open-air demon- stration at 6 p. m. at Union Park, Ashland & Washington; then parade to Auditorium. Also 20 noon-day factory gate meetings. Chicago, April 28, 8 p. m., Polish Workers Club, 1555 W. Division Street. Speaker: Masoth. Waukegan, 8 p. m., Workers Hall, 617 Helmholtz. Speaker: Childs. Rockford, 7:30 p, m., Lyran Hall, 7th St. and 4th Ave. Speakers: Kruse, Amis. West Frankford, April 28, 7 p. m., Rex Theatre. Rice. O'Fallon, April 28, 7 p.m. Speakers: Kjar, Slinger. Speakers, Matheson, Kruse. Springfield, May 5. Hegewich, May 5, Workers Educational Club, 1351 Baltimore Ave. Speaker: Gannes. Speakers: Kruse, INDIANA. Gary, 7:30 p. m., Rumanian Hall, 1208 N. Adams St. Speakers: Fisher, Ross. MARYLAND. Baltimore, 8 p. m. Speakers: W. Murdoch, YWCL speaker. MASSACHUSETTS. Boston, 8 p. m. New Bedford, 7:30 p. m., Bristol Arena, Purchase St. Weisbord, E. Keller, and Southern textile striker. Gardner, May 5, 1 p. m. Speakers, A. MICHIGAN. Detroit, 7:30 p. m., Danceland Auditorium, Woodward near Forest. Speakers: N. Tallentire, others. Pontiac, 7:30 p. m. Speaker: A. Goetz. Flint, 7:30 p. m, Speaker, A. Gerlach. Saginaw, 7:30 p. m. Speaker: Ziegler. Grand Rapids, 7:30 p.m. Speaker: J. Schmies. Muskegon, 7:30 p. m. Speaker, P. Raymond. NEW JERSEY. Newark, 8 p. m., Progressive Labor Center, 93 Mercer St. Speakers: M. J. Olgin, H, Williams, I. Potash. Jersey City, 8 p. Ukrainian Workers Home, 160 Mercer St. Speak- ers: D. Benjamin, P. Rogers. New Brunswick, 8 p. m., Workers Home, 11 Plum St. Gussakov, Peters. Speakers: A. Paterson, 8 p. m., Carpenters Hall, 54-6 Van Houten St. Speakers: C. Alexander, Blake. Passaic, 8 p. m., Workers Home, 25 Dayton St. Speakers: A. Markoff,.R. Ragozin. Union City, 8:30 p. m., Nepivoda’s Hall, 418 21st St. Speakers: A. Bimba, I. Zimmerman, Perth Amboy, 8 p. m., Workers Home, 308 Elm St. tig, Wright. Elizabeth, May 5, 8 p. m., Liberty Hall, E. 2nd St. Speakers: F. Biedenkapp, I. Zimmerman. . Trenton, 8 p. m., Speakers: W. Lawrence, YWCL speaker, Bayonne, April 30, Jefferson Club, 35-7 E. 23rd St. Speakers: A. Markoff, M. Pasternak. NEW YORK. New York, 4 p. m., N. Y. Coliseum, E. 177th Street and Bronx River Ave. Yonkers, May 4, 8 p. m., Workers Cooperative Center, 252 Warbur- ton Ave. Speakers: Bert Miller, Richard B. Moore. Yonkers, May 4, 4 p: m., street meeting. Manor House Sq. Speakers, Adams, Powers, Nessin. Buffalo, 8 p. m., Harugari Frohsin Hall, Genesee and Spring Sts. Speakers: Chas, Mitchell, I. Green and James Rush, and a Pioneer. Rochester, 8 p. m., R. B. I. Auditorium, 172 Clinton Ave. So. Speak- ers: Franklin Brill, Sam Essman, Jamestown, 8 p. m., Business College Auditorium, Cherry St. be- tween 3rd and 4th Sts. Speaker: Rudolph Katz. Niagara Falls, 8 p. m., Hippodrome Hall, Pine and 19th Sts. er: James Campbell. Schenectady, 8 p. m., Red Man’s Hall, 11 Mohawk Ave., Scatia, N. Y. Speaker: D. Dwafsky. Utica, May 4, 8 p. m., Labox Lyceum, 131 Washington St. Sam Essman, Prenis, Pioncer. Binghamton, May 5, 8 p. m., Lithuanian Hall, 315 Clinton St. ers: Rudolph Katz, R. Miller, YWL. Syracuse, May 5, 8 p. m., Kosciusko Hall, Tioga and W. Fayette Sts. Speakers: Lus- Speak- Speakers: Speak- During his speech, in which he} District Two. expressed himself as proud of the. | part he had played in the launching, | |the National Needle Trades Workers Union, Dan Slinger, district sec- week, | retary ofthe National Miners Union, Dan Ellman, of the Young Workers Speakers: D. Dwafsky and Franklin Brill, Troy, May 5, 2:30 p. m., Youngs Hall, 18-20 State St. Sam Essman. IN WILD SPREE Speaker: (Communist) League and an Italian speaker. The largest auditorium : | n and thrilled, and called on the work. | 7 , Tammany Shields Orgy | of the Hibernian Hall, 3916 Finney Ave;, has been engaged. ote ie dng peal toute pretends Mav Day, 1886 to Gastonia, Poughkeepsie, 5 p. m., meeting before De Laval Co. Speakers: R. B. of Chicago Officials ROCKFKORD UNITED FRONT jconstitution and the existing Ameri-, « te rs paraeh palgartigg 1 Fourteen organizations responded to the call of the Communist Party) can institutions,” he was interrupted in Latest l abor Detender OHIO. CHICAGO, April 25. (UP)—| in Rockford, Ill., for the holding of a joint May Day meeting. Among|by workers in the audience. More j Cleveland, 7 p. m., Public Hall Tammany Fiall was drawn into the | this mumber were two trade unions—the Cabinet Makers and the Finishers,| expression of disgust by the Navy Canton, 8 Pp. es Canton Music Hall, 87 E. Tuscarara St. Speaker— Grand Jury investigation of the co . District today. ‘ollowing up reports that officers | of the district staged a_ riotous A party at. the Waldorf-Astoria in party at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York avith public funds, Assistant State’s Attorney Frank J. Loesch New Yorkers also took part in the celebration, ‘Last weck the Grand Jury was Ge thet a delegation of sanitary ict officials, headed by T. J. Crowe, former ‘president, ¢hartered a club car to New York and put on such a wild party at the Waldorf that the bill for broken furniture _. and liquor was more than $9,000. . Evidence Refused. "The ‘ delegation “from the West started out for Washington where the sanitary district officials were gg ify at a lake diversion hear- . They “were said to have spent only a few hours in the capital, how- ever, before going to New York. atthe Waldorf was in Loesch said he had learned Tammany Congressman Chigago junket at South re. he had attended a me University football went on to Washington sf 2 private club car and thence _to New York, where he and Mayor Walker's welcomer are said to have| given the keys of New York +o the eed ‘and to have witnessed. their f rn _Loe#ehvsaid that when he went to York to investivate the £9,600 ditrre he ““atked by Tam- “wrecking ‘gaiety at the! hotel. ve Yard workers, most of whom were still carrying in their pockets The Daily Workers they had received in | the- Workers Cooperative, the Italian Athletic Club, the Negro Women’s | Club, the Scandinavian Workers Club, Lithuanian Women’s Club, etc. | The conference has engaged an exceptionally large hall, Lyran Hall, | Seventh St. and Fourth Ave., for Wednesday, May 1, with William F.|the distribuition, was cowed down ‘Kruse and D, B. Amis as main speakers, The latter is an active Negro| by Pad menacing array of armed worker ‘in’ Rockford. \{ marines. Bin Few WHOLE. DISTRICT ACTIVE Green called for a huge navy, and Below is a partial list of the May Day meetings, both in halls and ca ae She eee pag a at factory gates. More will be announced later. os crime!” The following is a list of May Day demonstration meetings in the | Chicago District: : Green Attack U.SS.R. z Green did not omit the usual at- HALL MEETINGS ON WEDNESDAY MAY Ist tack on the workers and peasants of Chicago—Ashland Auditorium, Ashland and Van Buren, 8:00 p. m./the Soviet Union, stating, “Labor Speakers: Engdahl, Griffen, Sklar- does not accept the theory that it i- Waukegan, Ill—Workers Hall, 617 Helmholtz, 8:00 p. m. Speaker:/a lower class, and will not permit Childs, itself to be isolated by a philosephy Milwaukee—8:00 p. m. Speaker: Cline. born in the land of hate. By the Gary, Ind——Roumanian Hall, 1208 N, Adams St., 7:30 p.m. Speaker:| “land of hate” he meant the Soviet Ross. . Union, he explained, St. Louis, Mo.—Hibernian Hall, 3916 Finney Ave., 7:30 p. m. Speakers: Workers Face Lay-Off. Millgram, Slinger. With the completion of the Pensa- Madison, Wisc.—7:30 p.m. Speaker: Bechtold. cola, hundreds of workers of the Racitie, Wise.—Slovak Sokol Hall, 1625 Racine St., 7:30 p.m. Speaker:| Brooklyn Navy Yard are slated to be laid off, workers stated. Already many workers in the foundry of the Kjar. , Kenosha, Wise.—German-American Hall, 7:30 p. m. Speakers: Early, a huge lay-off. Many drill-press hands have also received the “fur- loughs.” = “MAY DAY’, HALL MEETINGS ON APRIL 28. West Frankfort—Rex Theatre, 7:00 p. m. Speakers: Kruse, Rice. O'Fallon, Tll.—7:00 p.m. Speakers: Kjar, Slinger. ae Pata 1 aiesyeah Workers Club, 1555 W. Division St., 8:00 p. m. Demonstrate on May Day your : , 3 solidarity with the oppressed Ne- eta “MAY DAY” HALL MEETINGS ON MAY 5. gro race, Long live political, so- ‘Benld, Ill.—Speakers: Matheson, Kruse, cial and racial equality for the Ne- Springfield, Il.— gro masses, Hegewich, Ill—Workers Educational Club, 13351 Baltimore St. Gi s CAVE-IN HURTS WORKER. = MISSOURI. — MILWAUKEE, (By Mail).—Har- sated Clothing Workers Hall, 11th and/ry Abas, a worker, was severely in- jured when buried under a cave-in Speakers:|while at work for the Hahn Con- “-", 3916 Finney Ave. Grawaert. septs Navy Yard have been given “30-day | > Rei Hall, 7th St. and 4th Ave., 7: 30 p.m. Speakers:| furloughs” without pay, the usual Kruse, Ami ; procedure in the Navy Yard before The May issue of the Labor De- fender is just out. It is an issue commemorating International May Day, and the tremendous strike wave now sweeping the South, fender, the writer speaks of the death of the old South, The South must be reckoned with as one of the most militant section of the working class in America. For the first time in the history of the U. S., social, economic and political equal- ity for the Negroes have been de- manded at open-air meetings with- out the occurrence of a single lynching. Albert Weisbord, Na- tional Secretary of the N.T.W.U, in his “The N.T.W.U. Invades the South,” exposes the treacherous role of the American Feteration of La- bor, shows the growth of the mili- tancy among the textile workers, the rapid and splendid growth of the N.T.W.U. and the historical signifi- cance of the demands, as put forth by the N.T.W.U, as the 8-hour day and 40-hour week. Johh H. Owens shows the courageous struggle of striking women in the South, in “Strike Vignettes.” May Day. Robert Dunn, secretary of the La- bor Research Bureau, i> his article on “Rationalization in Automobiles,” reveals the anti-union policy of all the auto magnates, exposes the pub- licity agents cf the so-called liberal newspapers, which praise the fake bonus prizes for workers. J, Louis Engdahl, acting editor of the Daily Worker, writes on the sig- nificance of May Day and traces In “The Awakening South,” by| Karl Reeve, editor of the Labor De-| the 8-hour demand now in Gastonia, in his article “From Chicago to Gas- tonia.” How the entire police force with guns and clubs rushed into a crowd of 50,000 workers and trampled upon women and children mercilessly, arresting hundreds, | wounding hundreds and killing two during the May Day parade 10 years ago in Cleveland, is told by N. Shaf- fer. Among those who were ar- rested were C. E. Ruthenberg, ex-secretary of the Communist Party of the United States. All the terror and inconceivable treatments to which the prisoners of Tucker Farm, the State’s hard- labor dungeon in Oklahoma are sub- jected to, either for stealing a chicken or for a more serious offence and where prisoners prefer suicide to the killing labor, is revealed in an article by W. L. Orr, in “Ozark Justice.” Felix Kon in “Toward a World October,” shows the revolutionary significance of all of the tortue, mer- ciless beatings, ‘solitary confine- ments and exiles as experiences by the Russian revolutionaries in bring- ing about the present U.S.S.R. under | under the leadership of the Leninist Party. “Mass protest freed me, my will is more and more determined that | capitalism must be abolished,” Writes David Gordon in “Chained | to Parole.” The other contributors are, Ray Becker, in “The Centralia Frame-up,” “The Legion Sees Red,” by Elizabeth Cabit, a continuation en Soviet Prisons, a poem by Robert Whittaker and Ma:r Day greetings from numerous revolutionary work- S. Van Veen. Columbus, April 28, 2 p. m., 581 South St. Speaker: G. Lloyd. Warren, May 5, 7 p. m., Walnut St. Speaker— S. Van Veen. Youngstown, 7:30 p. m., Speaker—D. Martin. Toledo, 7:30, p. m. Speaker—G. Lawrence. Akron, 7:30 p. m. Speaker: Jack Ross. Ashtabula, April 28. Speaker: J. Marshall. E. Liverpool, April 28, 2 p. m., West 6th St. Speaker: R. Sivert. Yorkville, April 27, 7 p. m., Misko Bldg. Speaker: S. Van Veen. } PENNSYLVANIA. Pittsburgh, 7:30 p. m., Labor Lyceum, 35 Miller St. Philadelphia, 8 p. m. Speakers: R. Minor, H. Benjamin, and a Negro speaker. Chester, 8 p. m, Speakers: Ben Thomas and a YWCL speaker. Allentown, 8 p. m. Speakers, L. P. Lemley and a YWCL speaker. Wilkes-Barre, 8 p. m. Scranton, May 4, 6:30 p. m., Werkers Center, 508 Lackawanna Ave. Minersville, 8 p. m. Easton and Bethlehem, 8 p. m. Erie, May 5, 2:30 p. m., Scardinavian Hall, 701 Siate St. Speaker: J. Campbell, RHODE ISLAND. Speakers: J. R. Reid, L, Nardella. CALIFORNIA, San Francisco, 8 p. m., Eagle Hall, 273 Golden Gate Ave. Speakers: E. Gardos, A. Whitney, D. Ettlinger, Negro, Mexican and YWL speakers, Oakland, April 30, Fraternity Hall, 708 Peralta St. Gardos, A. Whitney, Chaplick, M. Martin, Eureka, April 27. Speaker: E. Gardos. Fort Bragg, April 28. Speaker: E. Gardos. Providence, 8 p. m. Speakers: E, Sacramento, May 5, Open-air (Park). Speakers: M. Danicls, E. Gardes. ‘ Los Angeles. Details to be announced. MINNESOTA Minneapolis, 8 p, m. Speakers: P. Devine, YWCL and Local speakers, St. Paul, 7 p. m. Street meeting, 10th and Wabasha (Old Capitol), then parade to 435 Rice St. (indoor meeting, 8 p. m.). Speakers: Pat Devine, C. Korsen, YWCL und Pioneers, ny influcr- obtaiaing the] 3 struction Co. He was rescued. by| the history of the 8-hour day, be-/ ers’ organiza' and minent| Duluth, 8 . Speakers: H. ‘. others, ition he desuwed, [ te latery, 1243 No. Garrison Aye, fells workers, © “~~~ A ginning with May 1, 1866, do : to liberal Naik e ald Chisholm, 8 p. m. oor Ke de Le — ~— ea