The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 11, 1929, Page 3

c t 2 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MAY 11, 1929 Copyright, 1929, by International Publishers Co., Inc, BILL HAYWOOD’S BOOK « | suis Engdahl Convicted During War Hys- teria; the “Prison Blues”;.Out On Bonds; the General Defense Committee All rights reserved. Republica- tion forbidden except by permission. Haywood’s story of his life as a labor leader during many years of terrific battles has been related, and he has reached the point where the capitalist class of America seized upon the war hysteria to try to eliminate forever all militant labor leaders. He tells of the national campaign of raids on the I.W.W., the trial and convic- tlon of Haywood and a hundred others in Chicago, with other cascs on trial in Sacramento, Cal., and Wichita, Kansas. He is recowit- ing his experiences in Leavenworth penitentiary, to which Juice Landis sentenced him for 20 years. ioe Cs By WILLIAM D. HAYWOOD PART 108 FYE Socialists had been convicted in his court at Chicago. hey were Berger, Germer, Tucker, Engdah! and Kruse. They had each been sentenced to 20 years in Leavenworth, but the Judge had fumbled when he refused to grant them a change of venue. His decision was reversed by the Appellate Court and they were never tried again. It would have been the irony of fate if Berger had landed in the Leaven- worth penitentiary under a 20-year sentence, there to mingle with the L.W.W.’s whom he had so brutally traduced at his own trial in patent effort to escape conviction. The monotony of prison life was bearing down heavily upon me. I was beginning to realize what was meant by “prison blues.” In me it was caused largely by lack of satisfactory reports from head- quarters. I had but few visitors, and we were only allowed to write one letter a week. I never went to chapel on Sunday morning nor did I attend school during the winter months. Dan Buckley, Secretary of Construction Work- ers’ Union Number 573, contrived a decoration for the mess hall on St. Patrick’s Day. He had a wheel- barrow loaded with brick rampant on the table with a hod, shovel and hoe couchant, all nicely draped with Erin’s favorite color, Tacked to the wheelbarrow was a sign: “No. 573.” Buckley’s symbol was appreciated by the members of the LW.W., though most of the other prisoners did not know what it meant. The baseball games on Saturday afternoon and the freedom of the yard on Sunday were of no particular interest to me other than the chance it gave me to talk over the situation with some of the other members. * HE monotony was broken for a time when the boys from Sacra- mento, Cal., arrived and I had the opportunity of talking with them about the manner in which their trial was conducted. This group, who had made a silent defense, had not been in Leavenworth long when one of their number, Connors by name, attempted to make an escape. His temporary absence was cause enough for the wild-cat whistle, but they found Connors in a tool box in the baseball yard from which he intended to try to get over the wall in the darkness of the night. The “prison blues” sometimes deranged men. At any sign of in- sanity they were put “in quarters,” that is, confined in certain cells of the ground floor in “B” cell house. For severe cases there were insane cells in the hospital, and if there was no recovery, the prisoner was sent to an asylum at Washington, D. C. The General Defense Committee was endeavoring to raise bail and many personal friends were exerting their efforts to get bond for me, which was finally secured, and % was released pending the finding of the Circuit Court on the application for a new trial. I left the Leavenworth penitentiary on July 28th, 1919. It was \ the anniversary of my acquittal in Idaho. I did not have a chance | to say a word of farewell to many of my fellow workers, but I had nade up my mind to work as hard as I could in their behalf during che time that I was out on bail. When I got out, the labor movement was astir with big issues. The split between the right and left wings of the Socialist Party was sipening, following the formation of the Third International in March. ‘nm September it was to come to a head at Chicago. In the same nonth the great Steel Strike began. There were mine strikes in the tir. Meanwhile, we of the I.W.W. were being attacked on all sides. As I walked out the front gate of the penitentiary, a machine irove up. The guard who was with me introduced the driver as the ditor of a local paper published in the town of Leavenworth. He nvited me to get in, saying that he was ‘going back to town. On his vay he remarked that we were on the old Continental Highway. I old him that over this road my mother had gone West with her family na covered wagon with an ox team; my father had also gone west- vard when a boy. Both of them had traveled over this road. While in Kansas City I went to see Fred Moore, attorney in the Vichita case. He had fixed up a little office and Caroline Lowe was setting out a circular appeal. + oe * “Gee I got to Headquarters in Chicago I found many changes had taken place. The general office had been moved to the top floor. Yhings seemed to me to be rather cluttered up. I called a conference f the secretaries of the industrial unions, the manager of the print hop, the general secretary-treasurer—Tom Whitehead of Seattle, the ditors of the different papers, At this conference I spoke of the eed of reorganizing the General Defense. Committee, because during he year that we had been in prison only a little over $7,000 had been aised for the general defense. I told them that if I went on a lecture rip I could raise more than that myseJf in a few months. This con- erence decided to elect me as secretary-treasurer of the General De- ense Committee. I went to work at once; got the addressograph set up, found one f the mimeograph machines in the cellar, rusty and covered with aud, got it cleaned and repaired. I wrote to the general membership sking their cooperation in reviving the work of the General Defense Jommittee. My first appeal was a letter “In Memoriam,” heavily bordered in lack, which said in part: “Fellow Workers and Friends: This letter is in remembrance of %. Blaine, Ed. Burns, H. C. Evans, James Nolan and Frank Travis, 1 of whom died in prison at Sacramento, California, while waiting rial under the blanket indictment, the original of which was framed it Chicago, Illinois—and likewise in memory of James Gossard, who ‘ied in jail at Newton, Kansas, while waiting trial under a similar \dictment. “This is also to remind you that there are hundreds of members of he Industrial Workers of the World languishing in penitentiaries and ails, some serving long sentences, some yet to be tried. In the State of {ansas there are thirty-three men who have been imprisoned for early two years in some of what are reported to be the worst jails in 1e United States. On two occasions these men have answered to in- ictments that would not stand. The third indictment has been re- irned; the trial has been set for next September. . . .” I-sent this letter out in a black-bordered envelope, and when I varned that our mail was being tied up in Chicago, I resorted to tipping trunks full of letters to Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Detroit, leveland, and other cities where I had them mailed. The first month’s ceipts was over $9,000, I wrote other letters to the members appealing for their help arousing public interest in the Wichita, the Chicago and the Sacra- ento cases, as well as in many cases pending throughout the country. #5) 5 ° In the next issue, Haywood tells of the Walt Street bomb cx- losion and the appeal, called “With Drops of Blood.” Get a copy f Bill Haywood's Book free by sending in one yearly subscription o the Daily Worker, * : GOBS DEPRIVED _—_OFMENE" Discipline Unbearable Aboard USS Richmond | The U. S. Richmond, now anchored in the Hudson presents a striking contrast between the care being taken of the* machines and guns and the neglect and mistreai- ment of the men that is typical of conditions in the entire navy. As you step on the Richmond there is a bulletin board for all visi- tors to see. This carries vi announcements, including one which lists the names of certain men ana announces that these cannot go ashore while in port because they are awaiting court-martial. Thus after weeks of stay at sea, after months and possibly years away |from home, a sailor is not allowea | to visit on shore during the few days | the boat in port before it again goes away for many more months | or years of cruising. This gives you the first introduction to the “hell at | sea” that a battleship is. The Richmond is one of the newer boats built since the war. It is of 7,500 tonnage, but as at present out- fitted it totals 9200 tons. It bristles |fore and aft with big six inch guns Its sides are equipped with three inch guns. And scattered thruout are smaller guns of various denom- inations. To illustrate what these sizes mean: a three inch gun can hit a target within 6,000 yards) about four and one half miles) in horizontal range, and it can shoot two thousand yards (one and one-half miles) ver- tically, i. e., into the air. The boat’s machinery is all in first class condition. The guns are well cleaned and oiled and the ship is everywhere scrubbed and polished until it is spotless. A single shot from one of its big guns is enough to sink a ship or demolish a building. But compare this with the con- dition of the men, In port things are somewhat improved, because the boats are used as show boats to heip recruiting. But even in port the humiliation that the men must suf- fer in addition to his physical dis- comforts is quite obvious, If the sailor escapes uysentery be- cause of rotten food, or any of the other sicknesses to which he is partic- ular prey he must spend the bulk of his waking time scrubbing decks, polishing brass, shining officers boots, doing kitchen duty, or any of the other dozens of disagreeable tasks on board. Should some friends of his come on board while he is on duty he can- Ss arious | FORK U.S, ANTL Suen nde FASCIST BODY) Is Federation of Many Organizations | The formation of an Anti-Fascist Federation, composed of representa- | tives of working class organizations in this country to coordinate and load the fight against fascism, was announced yesterday by A. Markoff, secretary of the federation in an| interview with the Daily Worker. Many Represented. The National Committee of the | federation consists of representa-| tives of the International Labor De- | fense, the Workers International Relief, the Italian Anti-Fascist Al- | liance, the Anti-Horthy League, the | Trade Union Educational League, the | Needle Trades Workers Industrial | Union, the National Textile Work- | Union, the National Miners | nion, Amalgamated Food Work- ers and others. The federation was formed on| When Cape May Jettie s Hold Schooner Fast HIT FAKE NEWS OF ROTE FAHNE STAFF QUITTING ‘Red Front Continues to | Defend the Workers International Press Correspon- dence (Inprecorr) contradicts flatly the weird lie sent to America by the |Berlin correspondent of the Jewish |Daily Forward that three editors of |the man Communist Party’s daily paper, Rote Fahne (Red Flag) jvesigned because they disagreed |with the party policy of fighting |for the right to hold a May Day demonstration, The names of the “editors of Rote Fahne,” given in Leshtsinsky’s jreport, which was featured not only |by the Forward, but by the New York Times and other papers, and who are said to have resigned, were Raboid and Koehler. Never Were on Paper. The Daily Worker is in receipt Karo, the return of A. Markoff and Louis | High rolling seas flung the Gloucester schooner Foss on the jetties abutting Cape May, endanger- |today of a telegram from the Inter- ore delegaise ae the New York ing the crew. {national Pr Correspondence stat- nti-Fascis' jonference to the, el —————— ling that the first two named, Karo World Anti-Fascist Congress held in| Berlin last March, where an Inter- national Anti-Fascist Bureau was formed to coordinate the anti-fas- cist work of all the affiliated organi- | zations thruout the world. | To Hold Mass Meeting. | By TOM BELL. | The Anti-Fascist Federation has|, India has always been. regarded announcedthat it will hold an anti-| PY the British bourgeoisie as the fascist mass meeting in New York| brightest jewel in the crown of the City, May 248 pom, at Irving|Btitish Empire. With a territory Plaza, 15th St. and Irving Pl., where |f 1,900,000 square miles, embracing Markoff and Kovess will report on|® Population of 322,500,000, India is | the congress in Berlin and the fu-|mdeed a rich “prize” for bourgeois ture work of the federation will be |¢xPloitation and imperialist robbery. outlined. Other speakers will be | That is why political events in this Thomas DeFazio, of the Italian great center of British imperialism Anti-Fascist Alliance, Robert :W.|0ccupies so much the mind and pol- Dunn, Robert Minor, George Persh- |‘tics of British capitalism. ing, Ben Gold, Juliet Stuset Poynta| AB independent proletarian and 2 Car : |peasant republic of India means the oe Se \death-knell of British imperialism. ° This rich “prize” obtained, but- EXPLOSION KILLS lit bribery, espionage, police, bayonet | or bomb—nothing must stand in the , MANY IN iway of preserving India for the y |British bourgeoisie. | Decades of Revolt. From the days of the great In-| | against British domination. Time | lafter time the hunger-ridden mil-| BROCKTON, Mass., May 10.—|};, ; ed in| | Three workers were killed and fl Ee eee ae sia ace: {lives of between 30 and 40 endang-/ machine gun, bribery and corruption ered through injuries in an explosion | o¢ native chiefs, and leaders have |tressed and maintained by force ‘Find Dead in Ruins of |dian mutiny of 1357-58, there have which destroyed the National Fire-|siways succeeded in defeating the The Indian not take them around even to show | company’s plant at South Hanover, | them the boat. If an officer’s friend | 13 miles from here. The men were) comes, however, not only does he take | working on rush orders of fireworks | them about the boat, but a sailor is| preliminary to the huge July 4 de-| assigned to follow at a “respectful” | mand. While the catastrophe is ex- aims of the masses. ty the open forceful methods, fraud- ulent parliamentary gestures of democratic institutions have been made in the hope of quelling revolu- | |must be preserved at all costs. Be | Powder Plant been many revolts and struggles works Company powder mill of the Supplementary distance behind in case the worthies |may want something. It is of course superfluous to say that the condi- tions of work generally leave much to be desired. The men do not sleep in beds but in hammocks. This is of course shidden from the visitors, e- cause the hammocks are ‘ stowed away while the obats are in port. The sleeping quarters are ve_y stuffy even in a northern port lit New York. But the Richmond ha: been in Cuba and other torrid areas. One can well imagine the hell that sleeping must be in such places. In the battery and switch-room the man working must be on his knees be- cause the ceiling is too low standing upright. The biggest mockeries of all are in the new recruiting slogans. Since dysentery has knocked the “good food” slogan to pieces, and since the stories of the men who were in Nicaragua and China and who wit- nessed the massacres and misery that the arrival of American troops mean, have taken the romance out of | “join the navy and see the world,” the war jingoes, have adopted the slogan “join the navy and learn a tor \of the workers of the plant anxious- | | ti te ‘ies. | to have been caused by a static have a deeper significance compared spark,” the families of the victims|with anything in Indian history. know that the men were speeded uP |The British bourgeoisie is heing 2 the point where anything might faced with a real proletarian move- BEEN: |ment under the leadership of the 5 In the ruins the bodies of Edward town workers, a movement which Knight, Frank Bulow and John! marches under the slogan of “An “quashinsky were recovered, and| Indian Soviet Republic.” The Brit- bout 45 minutes after the explo-|ish bourgeoisie tries to persuade it- sion rocked the town, the bodies of self it is all a Communist con- two men, horribly mangled, were/|spiracy, and pretends to the wo taken from the debris. Two others |in the metropolis that this is so. Its who are believed to have been killed} press campaign has been conducted were working in the plant with the | along these lines, But the follow- dead workers in the powder mill. | ing facts will make clear what is be- The precise extent of the disaster | hind the present situation. has not yet been ascertained because | Terrific Rationalization. of the fire which still raged i nthe| arly last year the great steel vicinity of the explosion. Relatives | workers of Tata, Ltd., were under- going a process of rationalization. Large scale dismissals of staff took place and bonus schemes introduced ly searched the smouldering ruins, while the three ambulances sent t South Hanover from this city tried to take away the injured as best for the workers which were tanta- |mount to reduced wages and speed- thye could. The explosion could have been avoided, it is believed, had the | company installed adequate protec- | tive devices in the plant. But the | ,, company, like practically all manu-| facturers of explosives, finds it} ing up. The workers went on strike and remained out for five months. Almost simultaneously the textile orkers at Bombay went on strike and remained out for over five) Proletariat dren 41d. to 7d. ($e to 14c (But the Textile Labor Union tests that these figw are too high.) Deport Radical. The Indian werkers, particularly in these disputes, have shown re- markable solidarity. “heir pickets have been smashed by the police, ar- rests made, and shootings, but the workers remained firm. The gov- ernment quickly brought forward a Public Safety (Removal from India) Bill. Under this bill, so-called agi- tators not British-Indian subjects, or the subjects of Indian States can be expelled by administrative order without trial. If permission is granted to enquire into any case before the order becomes operat: the evidence supplied to examining judge by the government has to be kept secret. a measure is specially directed against British workers in any way assisting the Indian workers to build up their trade unions and labor or-| ganizaticns. When this measure, last summer, was brought before the Legislative Assembly the voting for and against was level, and the president casting his vote against it, the bill was held up. But it was re- introduced last month and so far has had the needed majority. But if the Indian workers had any satisfaction in this, they were soon to be disillusioned. On March 20th, the government took decisive action | and carried out a series of wholesale | arrests and raids on labor union and press offices in five important towns. I! | Bombay, Calcutta, Poona, Allahabad and Lucknow. The action was taken under Section 121 of the Indian Penal Code which reads: “Whoever within or without British India con- spires . . . to deprive the King of and Rabold were unable to resign as ns said by Leshtsinsky, because they raper at all. Koehler, the third named, was not an editor of the al movement led by the grow-|Paper, but had works for ee conscious proletariat of the | technical capacity, and may have eT aaa ‘ quit about the time of the demon- ‘ eye ie strations, thus giving Leshtsinsky ne Bee snmeeae have the single doubtful point on which Hen ee ve nae + aRetatne to hang an enormously inflated tale. ! CN et ania This Forward correspondent, time the defiant and heroic mood yccrtsinsky, has many times re. of the workers is evidence that the eantic dents over stor tia’ abeibes imperialists are up against an en-|} cating sheet wild yarns about tirely new situation—a situation in | nter-revolutions and peasant up- which the time worn methods of “OO 0 tho Soviet Union, all the bribery, corruption, and religious |; y.0 ae ae pebyccationicenllinee waretesh Ue ies ee, cece Boel aaa Indian workers are marching under the banner of an Indian Soviet Re- public, Long live the free and Independent Soviet Republic of India! ‘DRY’ LEGISLATOR HAD BOOZE FLASK Testify Michaelson Had Smuggled Liquor KEY WEST, Fla., May 10—Rep- resentative M. A. Michaclson, of Chicago, on trial charged with smug- gling liquor into this country from Cuba, took the witness stand in his own defense today after testimony had turned heavily against him. A customs agent and baggage master testified that numbers on} customs tags placed on personal lug- gage on the congressman were coin- | cident with those on the telltale | trunk, which leaked whiskey. | Agents swore that Michaelson vis- | ited prohibition headquarters at Washington, seeking the baggage in which he is alleged to have tried to | monarchist emigres in Berlin, and with practically no exception, proved false immediately after publication in the Forward. * a | Find No Evidence. BERLIN, May 10.—The German workers continue to support with strikes and demonstrations the Com- munist Party, and to demand the re- lease of the workers arrested in the May Day demonstrations and fight- ing that followed. The prohibition of the Red Front Fighters and the raid on their of- \fices and treasury that followed has not profited the German capitalists and soldiers much. Nothing that could be used in court trials was found in the raids, and the Red Front Fighters continue to operate from underground headquarters. | s far as I am concerned, T can’t to have discovered the ex~ c of classes in modern society iste: | or their strife against one another. | Middie-clasx historians long ago deseribed the evolution of the class struggles, and political economists showed the economic physiology of the classes. I have added as a new contribution the following proposi- tions: 1) that the existence of classes is bound up with certain phases of material production; 2) that the class struggle leads neces- sarily to the dictatorship of the proletariat; 3) that this dictatorship is but the transition to the aboli- tion of all classes and to the cre ation of a society of free and equal. the Sovereignty of British India or "S30 B© | Bay aS —Marx. any part. thereof, or conspires to |PTing in liquor after his Cuban visit. overawe, by means of criminal foree,|_ A bottle of Scotch whiskey, which |) | ao¢ ox etthe show of criminal force, the Prohibition Agent J, C. Ray said he | Lowes é Set F i had taken from one of the trunks at Priced Government of India... shall be n x u ussia punished with transportation for life J#¢ksonville, was introduced as evi-| Tours to any shorter. term, or imprison. |dence and opened. Ray qualified as f re bea ga Pores a whiskey expert and was ordered ; Raids on Labor Leaders. ieee Mieeonbente./ dle said <P Wal TAT vexpenues iat 35 The government ot ne AGséiaeleon got his’ trunks entered’ | NO" rae ie Moscow plans with extreme secrecy. The/vithout inspection, but a bottle — é magistrates were warned two days jich¢ and up before the 20th to hold themselve in readiness. The British and Indian | Infantry and armed police were mobilized before daybreak as a pre- cautionary measure. In Bombay, the police and troops were stationed in strategic places. The mills were} placed under armed guard. (This, however, did not prevent’ 30,000, workers in twelve mills from walk- trade.” Actually not one sailor in a hundred ever gets to learn a trade plant so that if an explosion occurs, unless floor scrubbing, brass polish- only a single unit will be destroyed. ing, and shoe shining can be called The lives of the workers evidently “trades.” ‘don’t matter. RAISE SLAVE DRIVER cheaper to isolate the units ofthe ‘Ford Rewards His Straw Bosses Well; the workers like slaves, break your | CHESTER, Pa., (By Mail).—“If| contracts with them, and in general | Henry Ford comes to Chester, he’ll| act the lickspittle of your superior. be stoned.” | That fact he did not express, This statement is heard every- But the Daily Worker’s message, | where from the Ford workers here. and the shop paper here, has aroused They are enraged at the terrific the Ford pets wan extent ek ld | speed-up system and at the brutal-| before realized. “The Communists | By a Worker Correspondent —WORCORR. We gener sW, ate right” one hears from whatever ee HAMDEN employe of the Ford belt he speaks The fact has gone around among Ho | the 5,000 workers that Mitchell, gen- eral manager of the plant has just, 5 I “received a $5,000 raise from his boss,, Krieger Continues Henry Ford. , “ ily”? Ford, the genius of the speed-up, Tour for . Daily : _is pleased with Mitchell's slave driv- Thru Cities in Ohio | ling here, and the fact that his | | lackey has been able to slash oper-- CHICAGO, May 10—Sam Krieger | ating expenses. is continuing his tour for the Daily) And how did he cut down these | Worker thru the state of Ohio. Hav- expenses? Ask any one of 5,000/ing already covered Indianapolis, | men in the local Ford plant, or ask|Ind., Cincinnati and Dayton, Ohio, ‘any one of their families. A very | he plans to be in the following Ohio} easy method. He simply fires all! cities: < the men who are entitled to a raise) Galion, Ohio, Tuesday, May 14; ‘as stipulated when they were hired. | Massillon, Ohio, Wednesday, May These men are fired by the hund-|15; Canton, Ohio, Thursday and reds and re-hired at the old figure. | Friday, May 16, 17; Akron, Ohio, | Spouting before groups of busi-|Saturtlay, Sunday and Monday, May | ness men in this town, Mitchell says, 18, 19, 20; Youngstown, Ohio, Tues- “There is a great future for Unalbse Wednesday and Thursday, | man who can shed ideas.” He in-| May 21, 22, 23; Warren, Ohio, Fri- | cluded himself apparently. It is easy day, Saturday and Sunday, May 24, | to “have a great future” and get | 25, 26; Cleveland, Ohio May 27 to kaices of $5,000, All you do is drive ' June 3, months. At Lillooah the railway | workers employed by the East Rail- |way Co. were locked out for over four months and an attempt of the jmanagement made to bring workers |from the Punjab to “scab” on the workers locked out. But promises ‘of extra food, extra pay and police protection were not successful. As soon as the imported workers learned there was a dispute on they , demanded their fares to go home. Wages and Hours. ing out in protest); 120 search war- rants issued, the offices of the Labor Unions and the League of Youth (seven miles out of town) were raided, and all literature confiscated. | Three Labor leaders were arrested. In Calcutta, 35 houses were visit- | ed, among the arrested being the English trade union worker Phillip Spratt; the offices of the Peasants’ jand Workers’ Party, the Young | Comrades League, the Bengal Trade | Union Federation, the Calcutta Scav- In the monthly circular of the s 7 | London Labor Research Department &ngers Union and the Jute Workers’ Union being gutted out, and secre- (July, 1928) we get the following} . description of the actual conditions taties arrested. of the railway and textile workers.| In Poon, Thangdi, a former presi- “On the railways, employing | dent of the Trade Union Congress { | ly rates for drivers are £12 to £24 about three-quarters of a million Indian workers and 20,000 Euro- peans and Anglo-Indians, the dif- ference of wages between natives and non-natives is most clearly marked. For example, the month- | ($60-$120) Anglo-Indians, and £3 7s, 6d, to £6 7s. 6d. ($16.80 to $31.80) for | Indians; for shunters £10 10s, to £11 5s. ($52.40 to $56.20) for Anglo-Indians and £1 13s. to £3 | $18.16 to $15) for Indians; for fire- | men £7 10s. to £9 ($16.80 to | $31.80) for Anglo-Indians and | 25s. 6d. to 31s. 6d for Indians.” “In the textile factories hours | are limited under the Indian Fac- tory Acts of 1911 and 1922 to eleven a day and sixty a week. Children between 12 and 15 years of age are employed as_half- times and their hours are limited to six a day. The usual practice is | to work the full sixty hours in six | days of ten hours.” ... “The average daily earnings, as returned by the Bombay govern- | ment, show 1/6d. to 2|2d. (39¢ to 52c) for men, for women 7d. to 1s. 2d. (14s to 28c) and for chil- for Europeans and | was arrested; the president of the | Poona League of Youth’ house was searched and all papers confiscated. In Allahabad, Joshi, the secretary | of the Peasants’ and Workers Party and of the League of Youth was ar- | vested. Wholesale searches and con- | fiscation of literature being carried out by a large force of police. Thus from Bombay and Poona in | the West to Calcutta and Dacca over | ene thousand miles in the Kast, tak- ing in Allahebad and Lucknow hun- dreds of miles to the North, hun- dreds of houses were searched and arrests made. Masses Heroically Defiant. It is apparent from the decisive- ness and radius covered by the gov- ernment, and the center of its attack that we are dealing here with no| | mere electioneering stunt, though the bourgeois parties will not be slow to utilize it in the forthcoming | elections in England. The fact that the blow is directed | against the workers’ organizations | and particularly the revolutionary | elements of the labor movement, stamps the whole proceedings as be- ing a definite political counter-at- tack upon a growing revolutionary FORD DICTATES DIET Gastronomic disturbances the cause of crime, is Henry Ford’s theo- retical contribution to the science of crimono-sociology. Interviewed in a popular maga-| zine, the owner of the company) which periodically rationalizes work- ers out of employment, declares that “most wrong acts committed by men are the result of wrong mixtures in the stomach.” Booze is also a con- tributing factor, he thin Ford is frankly interested is in dietetics mainly because of his de- sire to get healthy men “on the line.” BE ENLIGHTENED! Two Books for $1.50 (instead of $2.50) 1—DR. 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