The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 14, 1929, Page 4

Page Four DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 1929 American Sugar B |Laundry Misleaders Prove Readiness to Sell Men Out (By a Worker Correspondent) of the ten consolidated lanndries, I want to tell what happened at |and his corrupt policies defeated the a mass meeting called by the eraft He stated that in the strikes IMPORTED TO ISLAND, SLAVES PAID 80c A DAY Local Union 810 of the laundry |now on at the Fairview, Jerome and —— drivers, ae Starlight Laundies in the Bronx! “Machado Terror Keeps 4s 2 member of Local 810 T was |that the union is ready to come with Them in Slave-Pens the local for organizational’ pur-| understanding, that it will pay for —— poses. This craft local recently |the bosses to do this, thus indicat- r Corresponden!) _| started to organize, not all the laun- | ing that he is ready to sell the work- Cuba (By Mail).—I Gry workers, but the laundry drivers | crs’ interests for recognition, or the am an American worler who has the bad luck to be stuck on this island, on which the dictator Machado has reduced the workers to starvation. While the Cuban workers here are roaming the streets unem ed by the thousands, begging for food, the dictator brings over workers from the neighboring West Indian Islands, to slave on the roads and in the sugar fields, and the latter tho work- only in the Bronx. jright to bleed the union members. A Farce Mass Meeting. | After this treacherous speech the In this letter I want to picture |laundry workers present felt as if to you how a craft union is con-|ice cold water had been splashed ducting an “organizational” drive. {Over them and their spirits: broken. About 9 p. m. I entered the big Militant Leadership Needed. hel of Ae a Mae Over! This whole meeting was a farce 300 dry workers and sympa-|and proved once more that only the jthizers were present, All were talk- laundry workers, ers ing nervously about the conditions, the leadership of ine! ing, are little better off than the |%"d you could hear from yoo We eens Peete tes the well-known facts that the con-|League, is able to organize the Cuban workers who are unemployed. | iitions were deplorable. It is im-|Workers into a powerful laundry Are Not Paid Any Cash. ple to make enough for a liv-|Workers industrial union which will Negro wor from neighboring |; er working over 70 hours a| Suc ully fight for the better- islands, like Jamaica, Haiti, San hs 5 ment of the workers’ conditions and Domingo, are imported into Cuba, \natever they want. For any little | Wages. for work in the sugar cane fields,| thing they are chased off the joh.| Laundry workers of every section, and they receive practically no ac-\m.. jack combination of the let’s get together to build under the tual cash for their slavery in the|; ooo. he bosses’ association,” | leadership of the T. U. E. L. a pow- fields. These sugar cane planta- tions are all owned by American control the lives and existence of |erful Laundry Workers Industrial present at a mass meeting called by | the bosses’ association to a peaceful | corporations, like the American |¢Y¢TY laundry worker, the drivers Union! Sugar Refining, U. S. Sugar Corp., | "cluded, and when they suspect Rr Tee a : ” somebody of agitating for a union They barely exist on the returns |Mé 3s blacklisted, _ iB F| i F Komi the | I heard the knock of the chair- | 7% i they get from their slavery. They are paid not in money, but in script or checks good only at the stores owned by the sugar companies, where the prices are triple the prices in ordinary stores. Kept in Perpetual Debt. They are kept in that way in per- petual debt to the company, and be- ing always in arrears, the police of Machado see that the slaves are kept in permanent slavery on the planta- tions. Their poverty is unbelievable. The houses the company gives them are| failing shacks, which seem as if they would tumble down any second. They live in mosquito-infested areas. The toilet facilities are terrible; one toilet for every 100 men or even for glorifying song to the greatness of the craft Local 810 Laundry Drivers. A “Powerful” Organization, man’s hammer. The president of |the local started, a dramatic {vo the meeting singing a q oe Stoolpigeons Receive : “Key Questions” te) powerful enough (what a to show the bosses’ associ we can do. He kept on tr By ROBERT W. DU prove to the newcomers how pow- ‘Ts there agitation in the erful the local i , that plant at present or in prospect for any jcouldn’t in the last five years or- | the future?” ganize more than 200 members, of | This is one of the 145 key ques- which 20 per cent are managers and tions on a tyewritten list handed bosses, out of the 3,000 drivers in|to labor spies operating in indus- Greater New York; that local which |trial plants for the Corporations because of its officials’ incompetency | Auxiliary Co., aft unionism has lost leading under-cover agencies. e in the last three or four} The has come to the one of America’s | avons Keep Negro Workers in Cuba 1 n Debt, Says Correspondent -FAKERS PLAN A ~NEW BETRAYAL Strikes Only Answer to Lockouts (By a Worker Correspondent) The present situation in the | Pocketbook Workers Union offe | the best opportunity for the workers | of our trade to learn a practical les son in trade union misleadership. For the last 10 years the fancy leathergoods trade has become a very significant factor in American industry. Thru the application of the various efficiency schemes, thru the merciless exploitation of our fellow workers, the manufacturers have succeeded in raising production many times, é Companies Get Richer, | Poorer. | _ Compare the position held by such firms Morris White, Blum and Mittenthal, Robbins and Prokereh, | Washington Leather Goods, etc., ten years ago with the position they) hold today and the vast progress is | immediately visible. Only recently | have we witnessed the rapid growth of the Chick Bag Co, and the Mexick Co., each employing 200 and 300) | workers respectively. | Side by side with accumulations of | | wealth by the manufacturers, we| | have noticed a gradual depression in |the conditions of our workers. | Under the condition under which we have been foreed to earn our | daily bread, the old agreement even, | | if it had been carried out a hundred | | per cent, could no longer protect our | Workers living standards. Therefore our) | present demands for a 40 hour week, |for unemployment insurance, for one scale for all mechanics, etc.,| which have grown out of the vital conditiot governing our lives as workers in the leather goods trade | must be won, in order to secure a | decent living for ourselves and our | families. Misleaders Aid Leather Bosses. | AGENTS CHEAT | SERVANT GIRLS Take Their Money and Forget About Girls (By a V7orke~ Correspondent) I wish to tell how the servant | girls of New York are treated, for they are treated miserably at the hands of their employe also by the employment agencies. Agencies Cheat Girls. The worst of agencie ployment agencies Ave, These are; the em- | m Lexington | employment agencies | make us pay 10 per cent of a| month’s wages in advance, hefore we can even see what kind of job they are sending us to. they send a girl to a rotten place. ; If you don’t tike the place they send | you to, because it is so bad, and if | you come back for your money, they | will not give you back the money. | Instead they tell you they will send you to ancther place. | But once they have your money, | they don’t bother about you any more, They tell you to sit down and wait, and you wait days and days till your clothes get shabby, and a girl can’t get a place with her | a} | | ((Conelusion.) At this time, Martel, without any warning, jumped on Whittier and grabbed him by the throat pulling out his necktie. pulled away; then some of Martel’s | henchmen thugs threatened to beat | up Whittier, but when these thugs were themselves threatened if they started any rough stuff they sneaked off like whipped curs. Several members bitterly de- pologized to the membership and to Whittier personally. One of the clique then made a motion that a ~cte be taken to de- cide whether Whittier remain in the union. The motion was made in| |such a way, the majority of the! of New England. members were quite confused, es- English of whom there are a great | many. Whittier had tried to get the floor again but was ruled out of order even when he spoke in spite of the chair. The confusion coupled with the | habitual A. F. of L. terrorist tactics had their effect, and Whittier's ex- pulsion was voted. However, faker Martel has some bitter pills mixed with his union honey. The poorer paid member- ship, and they constitute the | He was quickly | | word to stimulate constru + only | nounced Martel for his gangster tac-| tion, for the betterment of t! but | ties, so to save his face, Martel ap-| workers. jall. clothes shabby. | majority, are very much dissatisfied Or if they do send you to another | With the manner in which the af- job, they send you again to a rotten | fairs of the union are conducted. So place, and it’s the same story over | much so, many have stopped paying again, They won’t give you your) dues, and the dues collector in the money back, but make you sit down | Copley Plaza, the second biggest and wait and wait. | hotel in Boston and a stronghold of Religious Fakers Cheat. | Martel, has point blank refused to “The Swedish employment agencies | "%,° Collect any longer. 2 Many complaints and grievances en Lexington Ave. are the worst of lave been made.at various. times, eee Shere ae oe They owners | but the business agent totally church often, and. of course, this | wnored poe (Se nee se ncua neg often fools the Swedish servant | Prevent action. Very often the com- aoa me sen mere plainant lost his job. Writes canouredee Pacey taco When dissatisfaction became too Ze . a 48 | t in th bershi oie religious be is honest, but it is usu- ead them be seis Hheueanns ally the opposite—the more religious |is too weak numerically, (458) that VAC h Ee kenC OOM Rene naa 1 © worse | we had no contract with the bosses; they cheat the servant girls. ‘and until an agreement was signed, LEATHER UNION [EMPLOYMENT |New England Food Union Fakers Expel Militants } arch betrayer, at this bosses confer- ence, was, “a scheme of insurance | that would forestall any future rise in wages.” On speaking of the coming con- | vention, Martel said, “you will have | your travelling expenses paid in- | cluding Pullman; $10 a day from the | time you leave until the day you re- turn; a chance to see the country and have a good time.” Not one ve ac- A vigorous, active campaign of propaganda among these betrayed hotel workers would scon result in a m nt Amalgamated Food Work- ers Union, capable of organizing the workers in the whole food industry The Cafeteria n E strike in New York is amply proving |¢ Then | Pecially those speaking very poor) this, and the time is now. 4 WILL DEFY STEEL COMPANY TERROR Bethlehem Workers on Bail by I. L. D. PHILADELPHIA, June 12 (By Mail) —The workers arrested in the police smashing up of the open- air meeting held in Bethlehem on Saturday are now out on bail. They FAKERS’ DRIVE ON NON-GITIZEN ~ GUTTERS 18 ON iPhila. Paving Of Fire Workers (By a Worker Correspond PHILADELPHIA (B |the right of non-ci |the dirty streets of Ph pai old ble jyet. The ultr bers of the local a prosecution against tt paving cutt by having the cap- italist officials of City Hall, Phila- the Paving Cutters Union ha jcided that. “no lines should be drawn |between citizen and non-citizen pay- ing cutters.” Today, en work started <on Richmond St., the inspectors, with {other city officials, went around and demanded to see the citizen papers ef everyone. who was working \there. Those who could not produte re papers were dismissed. Arrest Worker, One of the cutters who had been |here in the United States since he | |was two years old could not furnish lany papers and objected to leaving include Herbert Benjamin, District the job, with the result that one of Organizer of the Communist Party, |the inspectors went after a police- Rudolph Shoan, District Organizer |™an and had him arrested. of the Communist Youth League| The so-called union men who and Jennie Cooper, District Secre-|Worked on the job did not protest tary of the International Labor De-/0r show any solidarity whatsoever, fense, under whose auspices the | They kept on working just the same meeting was held. and have the nerve to claim that \ more than 100 men. Once they get pia of order, the toilets are Bereoioe the local’s money, weedled out of | officers who are campaigning to or- repaired. Eventually the slaves x 3 h ilet: {small wages of the laundry drivers | gan the 400,000 workers in the BP ek use the toilets. |(who get $30-$33 a week), in the auto industry. Corporations Auxil- They are charged a big part of| ‘ sates . = i form of excessive dues, $4 a month, |iary operatives have been indenti- the aes wor, the houses.” Then refused to make any attempt to or- fied in plants of the McCord Radi- trash. It is terrible stuff that is fed |®2712¢ the unorganized laundry driv- | ator-Co. and in Chrysler plants, both these Negro workers. For this also |°T and only under pressure of the |in the United States and Canada. % © Boe |left wingers mi oy on Vea ee pa eaee {of doing something, called the mass |have also used these vermin to aves Kept in Ignorance. | ii ce out of |snoop on workers attempting to or- They are very backward, but bowie and radeon cauise: ge could they ever get a chance to be-| “Finally, the chairman, now Ij|the motor corporations’ personnel come “civilized?” For they get NO | thought, will give the floor to the | policies are examined closely, they schools in the imperialist ruled| yank and file, as is done in militant jare found to be camouflage for this _islands of the West Indies, the | organizational meetings. If the |vicious labor spy system. schools are not for Negro workers; |rank and file were allowed to get Insidious -Method. they were purposely kept in 18NOF- | the floor it would be shown that the} “Suggestions for Reports” is the ance to enslave them more easily. | |rotten conditions of the laundry |title at the top of the list of ques- A Party of Parasites are ‘Disgusted’ | jyiyors could only be improved by tions to the Corporations Auxiliary You ought to see a group of ii ‘ . 4 . * la strong militant Laundry Workers | es American parasites when they visit oes espionage agents, Daily reports are the plantations and come upon the! ich squand |must fight together with the other|ihem and i ed every penny hands of the Auto Workers Union | ade even a pretense |General Motors and Graham-Paige | When the pretty words of | Industrial Union, that the drivers| sent to the agency, which digests | In all these years the administra- Work as Long as 15 Hours. | tion of our union has done nothing} The servant girls in New York| to improve the conditions of the|are mostly Swedish, Irish, German | workers harnessed to the heavy bur-|or English girls. .There is no eight- dens of exploitation. The adminis-|hour day anywhere for us, We tration has done nothing to check|work 10, 12 and 15 hours or more the vicious speedup schemes thru|a day. The hours are from 6:30 or which the manufacturers have en-|7 in the morning to 8 and even 9 slaved us; it has done nothing to re- lp. m. We are treated like dogs and } lieve the unemployment. situation,|have to do five or six people’s work | arising out of the introduction of |for the starvation wages we get. new kinds of machinery in the in-| The wages are poor. Cooks get dustry. $80 to $100 a month. A _house- Fakers Lick Bosses’ Boots. worker, who must do all sorts of At this moment when thousands of | work, must be perfect in every-| |locked out workers are clamoring | thing, and has to cook, clean, serve, for action, for a strike as an answer |etc., and gets $75 of $80 a month | | to the bosses’ lockout, the misleader-|on the average. ship of our union ig licking the! In most places they get a half day boots of the bosses and resorting to|off—after dinner—every second arbitration schemes to bring about|Sunday. Very few places give this a “settlement.” Even a child can every Sunday. see that the lockout which has made Must Organize. | | fit Dance held by this local, calling |one of all from an ‘employment? { food, lodging, ete, made by the com-| workers’ quarters. A party of women parasites, chaperoned by a foreman, (for the company isn’t ashamed of its treatment of the slayes), came on one plantation the other day. They went white when they saw the out-door latrines. “How disgusting,” they cried. “What shame!” ¢turn on you and exterminate you ‘from Cuba when they awaken. Paid 60 Cents a Day. The workers make from 60 cents to $1.00 a day at the most, and it is all eaten up by deductions fer y- The United States Sugar Corp. Tepresentative Lakin was down to \ the plantations of that slave-driving company recently. “It’s true the “workers get low wages ‘occa- sionally,’” he said, “but it’s their fown fault. The reascn is that they ean live on 70 con‘ our, and incorporates them laundry workers. longer reports submitted by the Labor Fakers Speak. agency to the motor company. | But the corrupt officials of the labor spy is asked to answer such {craft union Local 810 didn’t like that | questions as the following in the jidea, and, instead of calling on the |course of his reports: jrank and file, the meeting was fed Report the character of the em- with speeches by notorious labor ployes. fakers. | What is the attitude of the men The first one was a traveling Causes, and how settled. Give names of the workmen who are agitators or fault-finde*. Send in names of all I. W. W., Reds and socialists employed at your plant that you are aware of. Is there any dissatisfaction in the plant at the present time? If so, why? Is there any system of bonus used at the plant? If so, are they satisfied with it? If not, give the reason. Are the workmen allowed to go from one department to another? Is there hearty co-operation honor to carry a card of a local af- filiated with such an organization | as the A. F. of L., worth many mil- lions of dollars, as much honor as to} |belong to a church, synagogue or a| democratic club (his own words). | Plan a Sell-Out. | | The rest of the speeches of the; labor fakers were just as empty and | meaningless. Schechter made mis- leading statements and Rosenzweig invoked the bosses for arbitration. The former, a yellow “socialist,” said misleadingly that the drivers are the main part of the laundry, that they could tie up a laundry. f cae , _ | towards the company? jie Nee, its 2, Shame, but its your) aiesman of the A. F. of L., in| Is the plant union or non-union. Be hall with you all. The slaves will Other words, an “organizer.” He What are the past labor | 1 |tried to prove that it is a great} troubles? i { meee 7, | co not oT geRY |This he said to divide the drivers| among the workers in your plant? oe they “aa ee a aig rods from the other laundry workers. (in the interest of the company, What @ barefacc The slaves Rosenzweig gained a shadowy} not of themselves—R. W. D.). Seer work 10, 12 and 14 hours a day. For that they get 70 cents. Maybe Lakin means that they could get $1.50 if they worked 24 hours a - day. In the Cuban centrals wages are 80 cents a day for laborers; cane cut- ters get from 60 cents to $1 a day. The Haitian and Jamaican la- _ borers are brought over by the thousands during the harvest season, Are outsiders allowed to come into the plant and talk to the workmen? These lead questions are mixed in between others dealing with elim- ination of waste, production prob- lems and general conditions. Agencies Active. The recruiting agency for spies for the Corporation Auxiliary in Detrois is located in the Hoffman building. Similar agencies operate reputation at the time of the last \big Boro Park strike of the workers December to May. They sleep in crude hammocks made of bags. ( Wipe these parasites and imperial- | lists and their tools with the Machado government off the face of the earth, and endwyour slavery, fellow Negro workers, —U. S. WORKER IN CUBA MANY DYERS JOBLESS Paterson Silk Mill _ (By a Worker Correspondent) PATERSON, N, J. By Mail).— Unemployment is serious here in Paterson, especially among the dye workers. Dyeing is the main in- dustry here. In trying to get a job in a dye house you have to get up at half past five in the morning at the lat est and go to the first dye house on your route. When you have “reached the first shop you find 50 or more men ahead of you. After waiting for a few hours in the bit- ter cold the foreman reluctantly comes out and after looking around with a sneer says: “Nothing doing today.” You hear this day after ‘fev. The men waiting in the yard in dozens of other cities. The com- pany operates in New York state under the name of the Eastern En- gineering Co, It has recently been active in the textile districts of the south, two of its agents having re- cently been exposed in the rayon strike in Elizabethton, Tenn. Workers Go Hungry then turn slowly away, some tight- joning their belts a notch or two, |wondering where the next meal is \coming from. Then they walk to the next dye house and the same ‘thing is re- peated, Some go to the employment agency, but hear the same story: “Nothing doing.” When the boss calls up there for a job the agency shark picks out the meekest and strongest man he| can see. The boss takes him at any | price he wants to pay and you have | to accept it, rather than be out of | |work for weeks more. The only way jto overcome this situation is to or- ganize the unemployed into unem- ployed councils and to fight for our rights, A. G, in a restaurant The | housands of families breadless, has | been heartily helped and endorsed by our administration so as to pre- pare the ground for such an arbi- | tration settlement which in plain} words means a sellout of our in- terests. Must Defeat the Sell-Out. It is not too late however to out- | maneuver the schemes of the bosses |and the misleaders of our union.) | Our cry for a strike in answer to the lockouts must be raised lounder and louder. We must voice our | determination to defeat any arbitra- | tion scheme. We must stand firm |by our demands. We must im- | mediately call shop meetings to elect capable shop committees, as our |first step in the mobilization. We | must rally around the progressive left wing group, the only group that has fought and is fighting for the interests of the workers in the in- dustry. —LEATHER GOODS WORKER. Cotton Mill Women in Boston Give Lie to Spiel of Textile Boss' BOSTON, June 13 (FP).—Using the Harvard business” school as a sounding board, Robert Amory, mill owner, launched into a denunciation of Massachusetts’ labor legislation at a conference called by women voters. He praised women workers as cheaper and more efficient than men and deplored the unemployment which, he said, was caused by the laws forbidding women to work nights, Two women textile workers in the audience spoke up when Amory finished. Speedup, they said, has reached such limits that women are exhausted at the end of eight hours work in the cotton mills. Going for a glass of water is considered a crime now by the mill bosses. atronize Our Advertisers © Don’t forget to mention the "Daily Worker” to the proprietor whenever you purchase clothes, furniture, etc., or eat The only way we can improve our conditions is to organize into a union—I mean a strong, fighting union, which will take in all the houseworkers and servant girls and demand better conditions. The time to do this is right now. SERVANT GIRL. * Editor’s Note:—We urge other servant girls from all cities to write | in on their conditions. U.S. Court Breaks the Oil Cracking Monopoly for Baron Rockefeller CHICAGO, June 13.—The U. 8. circuit court of appeals has revoked the patent of the Indiana Oil Co., on the gasoline cracking process which has been a monopoly of this single Standard Oil Co. for several years. The Standard of Indiana has been for some time a doubtful and unreliable vassal of the Rockefellers. Under the previous administration of S. O. of Indiana, there was open war against the cther companies owned by Rockefeller. Rockefeller gained control of the administration this year, but thinks it better to break the monopoly. Not only has the bourgeoisie forged the weapons t death to itself; 1 into existence the men wield those wenpons—t! N BEAUTIFUL W. Ramapo Hills, at SPECIAL JUNE RATES A $5 deposit is required tion re membership. to Monroe, (For trains call 799 Broadway, New York Phone—#tayvesant 6015 For Your Vacation or Week-ends CAMP WOCOLONA A WORKERS’ COOPERATIVE CAMP bungalows, running water, electricity. Good whole- some food, tennis, swimming, boating, other sports. Dramatics —— Lectures —— Musicales Special low rates to members. Write for informa- Fifty miles from New York. Route 17 or Erie R.R. COMMONWEALTH COOPERATIVE, nothing could be done. Whittier had demanded that the membership draw up a list of de- mands to be embodied in the con- tract. Martel and his henchmen violently attacked this motion, and said, “the membership have nothing to do with drawing up the contract; a committee will do that, who will bring it before the membership for approval.” Bosses’ Ads. At a recent Sick and Death Bene- themselves The Cooks and Pastry Cooks Association (not union), a souvenir book was given away. All the ads in it were from bosses, in- cluding one from the notorious scab, anti-union Hood Milk Co.; a whole outside page from the Boston Hotel Men Association; ($50) and the best agency, setting forth in vivid terms that “we select and ‘investigate’ be- fore sending out an employee to a|’ position; also we use the best means and care to safeguard the ‘interests’ of the employer.” Beg Bosses. There was not one greeting from a union, not even from the Waiters Union from whom they rent office space. On every page there was an article to the various department bosses begging for an opportunity to show them how “faithful and “loyal” to their (the bosses) interests the union is. Not one word on behalf of the workers interests. As one rank and filer put it, “the bosses have given us money to buy a silken cord with which to hang ourselves.” Arch-Betrayer. Faker Martel tells the bosses first the union affairs, then the member- ship. This was very well exempli- fied at a Hotel Mens’ Conference, called together at the especial re- quest of Martel. He told these “good bosses” of the wholesale meat men sending chefs to work and gaining much graft thereby; but con- veniently forgot to mention the heavy toll exacted from the workers by the employment sharks. “There will be no trouble, everything will be settled peacefully,” meaning there would be no strikes. “I won't allow any ‘reds’ in, and when ‘radicalism’ comes into the union I will get out.” The foulest betrayal of all of this LAKE in the Modern ALTON Monroe, N. Y. 1 $23 a week—$4.50 a day with every registration. Il Barclay 0500 (Erle R.R.) Inc. New York City Camp Phone—Monroe 80 On Friday, the day before the meeting the militant worker Anna | Burlack was arrested for distrib- uting leaflets advertising the meet- ing. This arrest attracted the at- tention of hundreds of workers in Bethlehem. She was held in $45 bail by the notorious labor hater Alderman |they are good, organized union men, Blocks on the streets in Phila- |delphia have been cut for the last |ten years, and never before has this } question about’ citizenship been \brought up, but when men from the paving cutters bring it up to the leity officials, it is no wonder thai | the lackeys of capitalism in City Greenstein, and this Alderman act- | Hall take the opportunity to enforce ing as judged, tricked her into “for- feiting” bail at 4 p. m. the next day. The International Labor Defense announces further meetings will be} | held in Bethlehem “whether the it, because here is an opportunity to break another labor union in the city. There is talk going on amongst this bunch of reactionary fakers, lackeys County Detective Schweitzer |some of whom cail themselves “so- and Alderman Greenstein like it or | cialists” b forn |scabs, and done all kinds of dirty, not.” A mass meeting is now being ar- ranged to be held in the very near future at the scene of the last demonstration. Nationally known speakers as well as speakers from the district will address the workers of Bethlehem, and leaflets will be distributed soon containing full an- nouncements of this meeting. The trial of the 16 workers ar- rested May Day has been postponed until September, when they will be defended by the International Labor and have been former work in the union, to form an inde- pendent citizens union, PAVING CUTTER. As far as I am concerned, I can’t claim to have discovered the exe istence of classes in modern society or their strife against one another. Middle-class historians long ago described the evolution of the class ruggles, and political economists showed the economic physiology of the classes. I hnve 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 er ation of a society of free and equ: —Marx. Defense. It is the ultimate aim of this work (“Capital”) to reveal the economic law of motion of modern soclety.—Marx. “AMUSEMENT S+ ee ny ee aaa Egil AMMENGS oF SIN A tense stark drama of London slum-life with OLGA BACLANOVA, THE RUSSIAN ARTISTE FILM GUILD CINEMA £0"tinuous Daily 59 West 8th Street HEAR and L SEE 2 p.m. to midnite MOU BAB tise ‘WARWKK. 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