The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 22, 1929, Page 4

eee, = Page Four DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, JULY 22, 1929 Millionaire Sat Restaurant Chain Enslaves Thousands of Girls at $5 a Week MAKE ENORMOUS PROFITS FROM SLAVES SWEAT Workers Pay Double ‘ for Uniforms workers who read the a to know about conditions in the Schrafft chain of restaurants in New York City. Hundreds of working girls begin fo-work anew each day in the thehs and on the counters of these as cooks, bakers, salad dishwashers, waitresses, etc. e for the huge profits of the company. Here is where the female and male workers are ex- ploited most terribly. $15 a Week. The wages are as low as possible. Most gir: here for $15 a week. Cooks, who stand over hot stoves all @ay’ with har Slave for $15 a week. The highest & worker can make in Schrafft’s is have to sacrifice nergy they have for profits without getting a @ecent wage. The workers cannot Stand the slavery in the Schrafft Stores vi long, and are forced to| Soon quit. ” Girls come and go. That/ does not help much, the company finds plenty of other girls. “Cheap Labor” The conditions of the Schrafft slaves are not improved by thi Only way to better the conditions is organize. The Schrafft Co, hi Mostly girls because they can pay | them very low w s. They are| ¢alled by the bosses “cheap labr.” — | Profits on Uniforms. To make their enormous profits, the Schrafft bosses find yet other | ways to exploit the workers. Each | worker is forced to buy a complete | uniform from the company. For an| ordinary smock you have to pay} $1.75. Caps are 35 cents. Both of these articles are worth | far less than these prices which the | company soaks the workers for them, and the firm makes 100 per cent} profits on them. We have found that the same clothes could be bought elsewhere for 75 cents for | the smock, and 19 cents for the cap. More Profits. Very often it happens that these uniforms are sold by the company twice. Girls who are there only two or three days leave their working clothes in the locker...The company takes them after a week or so, cleans them a little, and then re-sells them a@s new. Again profits for the com- pany. Under the terrific speedup the poor girls have to work a whole day for these clothes—a day of nine long hours. Rotten Meals. ly a breath of air | Wi ont are Must | Feed Mill Strikers’ Children p to the teen Cer | eds from which children o send to summer Walter Howell. g the str ia st camps. rs, now g to the Worke: ers and their fam They are Gladys Byer, framed up on murder charges are of Gastonia mill strikers’ children International Relief, Above are three hom the W.LR. will Odel Corley and in New Yo. ‘FORD SAFETY TALK IS BUNK Injured Workers Can’t Get Aid (By a Worker Cirramennen ye HAMILTON, Ohio (By, Mail.— | When I was being hired at the Ford plant in Hamilton I was given a short lecture on the company rules | and regulations before I started. One of the things I was told was to go Arch Exploiter Schrafft’s is so “generous” as to | give the employees two meals. One is lunch, which costs 95 cents. The | workers are charged the same for | this meal as the customers, who are | mostly pett: -bourgecisie, and can} afford t price, which the workers eannot. | The other meal consists of a sand- | Wich and some coffee. The workers must pay the same price the richer | customers pay. What eats do the workers get? Never any freshly cooked food. We get only what fs left from the day before. Often there is served us Buch a terrible mixture of leftovers that you lose your appetite even to look at it. In the cold winter they don’t give us any thing warm, but cold salad left over from the fay tore This gives an idea of ur slavery in Schraffts, I was glad to notice another Schrafft slave recently who recently rote worker correspondence for the ily Worker. I agree with her— e must.organize into the Hotel and estaurant Workers Union, which is gt present leading the cafeteria orkers’ strike. ANOTHER SCHRAFFT SLAVE. The Gastonia Textile Workers’ =i starts July 29! Twenty-three face electrocution or rison terms! Rally all forces to We them. Defense and Relief eek July 27—August 3! Sign the Protest Roll! Rush funds to International Labor Defense, 80 ‘East’ 11th Street, New York. i SERS More for Children i Less for Parasites, Is Party’s Demand BERLIN, (By Mail).—Yesterday Communist fraction in the ichstag again brought forward its ion for granting a sum of 5 mill- marks for the feeding of neces- ious school children. At the sathe ne the fraction put forward a on for debate according to h the necessary 5 million marks nded in the first motion should obtained by reducing the exces- pensions of generals, ministers, Gastox'a Textile Workers’ starts July 29! Twenty-three face electrocution or terms! Rally all forces to them. Defense and Relief July 27—August 3! Sign otest Roll! Rush funds to ional Labor Defense, 80 ‘Uth Street, Now York. fi Above is Henry Ford, the earch slave driver, often “affectionately” described by worker correspondents of the Daily Worker. More of Ford’s | slave-driving schemes are described |00 electric fans of any sort. | today by @ worker. to the First Aid Department if I re- kind. So one day while at work I had to lift a very heavy steel bar and fit it on a machine, and in doing so I strained my foot to such an extent that it was exceedingly painful to partment. The doctor told me that since I had no wound and since the ease was not serious he had no time | to attend to me, because he was so| busy examining applicants for jobs. | There was another man in the first get attended to. front teeth broken off in an acci- dent. same story he had told me. Only the day before a worker had to the doctor he told him that he | was too busy to attend to him. So the worker had to go outside and! see another doctor who would give him medical aid. Because of terrible overcrowding and the deafening din men are in- | jured there all the time, in spite of Ford’s so-called efficiency systems. —N. D.C. The Gastonia Textile Workers’ trial starts July 29! Twenty-three workers face electrocution or prison terms! Rally all forces to save them. Defenso and Relief Week July 27—August 3! Sign the Protest Roll! Rush funds to International Labor Defense, 80 East 11th Street, New York. TERROR SENTENCES. WARSAW (By Mail).—-The pro- cess against 71 White-Russian work- ers, accused of membership in the West-White-Russian Communist Party before the district court in Grodno has ended with heavy sep- tences totalling 260 years of hard labor. The sentences ranged from 2 to 15 years. After every Lp dg oh pth ald a in the cl & carried on. ceived the slightest injury of any | walk. I reported to the first aid de- | aid department who had been there | three times that day before he could He had two of his | The doctor had told him the | his finger crushed and when he went | SPYING SYSTEM IN WOOLWORTH Department Stores Ml Pay Slaves By a Worker Correspondent) Working for a, week in Wool- worth’s five ‘and ten cent depart- ment store was sufficient to find out what terrible conditions exist there. The wage was $4 a week, that is, | 20 cents an hour for night work. Married women and girls work for such a mere pittance to give them economic support. | Each worker is always under the | hawkey of the manger and floor- ;Walkers, The striet supervision | often frightens a girl into submis- {sion A system of espionage is The manager and his | assistants hide behind posts and spy on the girls to see whether they | cheat in any way. One must work incessantly. Even tho the counter is in perfect order one is expected |to keep working. Many times I simply had to pretend I was working when there was really nothing to do. ; We must stand on our feet the entire day. The irony of it is that there’s a seat behind the counter but it must never be used. On days of extreme heat, no relief is offered to the girls whatsoever. There are In fact the windows are not kept open and so the girls sweat away. tho the girls are hired as ladies every one is compelled to sweep the floor. I suppose Wool- worth’s cannot afford to hire a jani- tots. It apparently seems that working |in a department store is light work. {But working in Woolworth’s is no | joke. In fact it’s actual slavery. —A, R. Iron and Bronze Union Official Urges Attend Gaston Demonstration | All members of the Iron and Bronze Workers’ Union are urged | to attend the Solidarity Demonstra- tion for the Defense and Relief of the Gastonia Strikers to be held Saturday, July 27, at Pleasant Bay Park, the Bronx, in a .statement issued last night by A. Rosenfeld, | secretary of the union. “All members of the Iron and | Bronze Workers’ Union,” he said, “as well as all militant workers | should demonstrate their solidarity | with the Gastonia strikers by at- tending the giant solidarity demon- | stration to be held Saturday, July | 27, at Pleasant Bay Park, by the International Labor Defense and the Workers International Relief. Mighty Protest. “The Iron and Bronze Workers’ | Union has always been in the front ranks of the labor struggle and in the present situation again joins with all the forces of progressive jlabor in a mighty protest against | the attempt to railroad 15 leaders of the Gastonia strikers to the elec- tric chair. We must come to their assistance. The demoastration on July 27 must be a mighty manifes- tation of the workers’ protest against the murder frame-up and a demand for their release.” The Solidarity Demonstration will ® be held two days before the Gas- |tonia trial opens and will be ad- dressed by William Z. Foster, Wil- liam W. Weinstone, Alfred Wagen- knecht and Juliet Stuart Poyntz, A huge program of entertainment has been arranged including a symphony orchestra of 50 men, FROMTHE MYRTLE 60, MURDERER MILL, GASTONIA OF ITS WORKERS. That Plant (By a Worker Correspondent) GASTONIA, N. C. (By Mail).— I am glad to do what little I can to help defend Fred Beal and the 14 others who are in jail. aS every mill worker in Gastonia knows that there is not a bit of evi- dence against them, but they are in jail for organizing the workers to fight the Manville-Jenckes for bet- ter conditions for the workers. The mill owners simply want to get rid of them so that they can go on pay- ing starvation wages for long hours of back-breaking work under the stretch-out system. Worked Without Pay. The workers are at the mercy of the bosses without a union. I know because I have worked in the mills for the last 17 years. I came from Union, S. C., 17 years ago, and have never had as much money as I did when I left the farm there, The employment agent told my wife and myself that we would get $1 per day each for our work while we were learning. We worked two weeks, but got no pay on Saturday night. I went to the superintendent and | complained and he told me not to | worry, he would see that we got cur pay. We worked another week —still no paye When we had worked a month—we finally got $11.75 for cur combined 60 days’ work. Then | I quit and went to work in another | mill at $1.15 a day, for 55 hours’ | work a week. During the war I came to Gas- tonia, hearing of the high wages | paid by the Manville-Jenckes Com- pany in the Loray mill. During the war time I got fairly good wages, $28.48 per week for 60 hours. But since that things have been getting worse all the time, wage cuts, the stretch-out and speed-up systems and high cost of living. For the | Past few years I have made an av- erage of $18 a week and I was bet- ter off than most at that. Fake Welfare Scheme. The mill compnies boast of how they take care of their employes. Well, I will give an account of how they do it. The superintendent at the Loray mill started a fund for “employes’ welfare,” a sort of sick- ness and accident insurance fund. We paid 25 cents down and 10 cents per week, deducted from our wages, and were promised doctor’s care and kelp in case of sickness or hard luck. My old father came up from Ten- nessee to stay with me. He tcok sick ard I had to stay away from the mill to take care of him. The mill refused to send a doctor to give him medical attention and I had no money as it is impossible to save anything on the wages they paid me. My father died. I am sure his life could have been saved by a doctor. Make Workers Double Up. We are supposed to work 11 hours, but really it is 12. At noon we double up, one half of the crew goes out and the other half keeps the machines going, doing double work. Then they come in and the second | they refuse to pay for this extra time when we do double work. My son worked at the Loray mill and went on strike. I was working at the Myrtle mill. Without notice, my son was evicted one day while he and his wife were away. They came home to find their door broken down and all their furniture gone. We found it was locked in storage. | He came to live with me. The |foreman of the Myrtle mill came | to me a while later and told me that | he had orders to fire me. The mill had only been working three days a week then and I got $7.50 a week, so I started a big gar- den. I had to in order to gat enough food to live. When I was evicted from the company house I lost all that I had put into the garden, sceds, tools and labor. The speed-up and stretch-out sys- tems have been put in and they sure work a hardship on the laboring man. When you finish your day’s work you just want to lie down and die, you are so tired. Tootired to get any enjoyment out of life. Also, it is impossible to save any- thing for a rainy day, or for old age, or to do anything for your children. There is no extra pay for overtime or for the extra work done by the stretch-out. Betrayed by U. T. W. In 1921, the United «Textile Work- ers Union came to Gastonia and or- ganized us. That was in the Loray mill. We went out on strike and tied up the mill completely for five weeks. We didn’t have the trouble then with the police that we had in this strike. Then the U. T. W. of- ficials sold us out and left with all the money we had paid in as dues, sum’ which the mill owners paid them to get shut of the union. Then we went back to worse conditions than we came out from. In a few days we got a wage cut of 10 cents on the dollar. The National Textile Workers Union fs a different kind of a union. It has proven this both in the strikes in the North and here. , The leaders have fought with us and gone to jail with us and we will stick by them, A. D. DORSEY. T know | | half goes out the same way. But | and, I suppese, taking a sizable ac | Speedup, ‘Double- -up in lTts Neglect Ca Causes Fall |Past vandevillian, of Hot Metal (By a Worker Correspondent) PONTIAC, May 20, at 7:45 a. m., an unidenti- fied worker at the Oakland Foun- dry was killed when a coupola full of hot metal fell. The operator was burned to death. Great excitement prevailed and the worker was taken to the hos- pital. Bosses hurried around telling the workers that the operator was being treated at the hospital and was only slightly injured. How- ever, the worker died during the afternoon and no information was given by the officials, and the usual methods were applied to hush up| the occurrence. Murdered By Company. The cranes at the Oakland Foun- dry are in a straight line and have automatic controls on th® side which sometimes open themselves. The same crane involved in the accident fell down a week before with the operator on it. Fortunately, the coupola was empty and the operator escaped injury. A number of the safety inspectors “investigated,” but left everything the same. The foundry has only been run- ning for a short time. The first easting was completed March 31. About 300 men are working in the foundry at the present time. When the foundry gets to capacity produc- tion it will reauire about 1,500 men to operate it. The 1,500 men will then be subjected to the perils of the speed-up. The conditions that these workers have are interesting, to say the least. , Pay Low Wages. Foundry workers receive the mag- nificent day rate of 60 cents an hour. Laborers get 55 cents an hour. When hired, these workers were told that they would get a Lonus in addition to their day rate. The bonus still exists in the imag- ination of the men in the employ- ment office. The foundry workers ave received no bonus to date. The superintendent of the foun- dry attempted to show the workers low they could work even faster than they were doing. He was a little too reckless, and, as a result, he received a splash of molten metal that burned his leg severely. In spite of the hot air handed out about “safety first” the company is more interested in bringing about “greater production economies.” Translated into workers’ English, this means ‘more wage cuts, greater speed-up and less regard for the lives and limbs of the workers. Unless the workers organize for iheir own protection worse slave- driving conditions and wage cuts will be the result. Only an indus- trial union, like the Auto Workers Union, will enable the workers to fight for shorter hours, a minimum wage and adequate safety and sani- tary regulations. The Gastonia Textile Workers’ trial starts July 29! Twenty-three workers face electrocution or prison terms! Rally all forces to save them. Defense and Relief Week July 27—August 3! Sign the Protest Roll! Rush funds to International Labor Defense, 80 East iith Street, New York. OIL DICOVERED BY SOVIET TRUST Urals Wells Indicate Extensive Stratum ‘The importance of the latest oil discovery in the central Urals—the first ever reported there—indicates further possible discoveries in the contiguous sections of the country,” said Theodore Chamrov, vice-chair- man of the Grozneft Oil Trust, sec- ond largest oil-producing organiza- tion in the world, when he described recent oil discovery in the Urals at the offices of the Amtorg Corpora- tion. Chamrov, accompanied by two en- gineers of the Soviet Trust, just ar- rived in the United States to study the American oil industry. Rapid Production. “As a member of the Government commission, I visited the site of the newly discovered oil deposits near the city of Perm, shortly before leaving for the United States, “The first well was already in operation and was producing at the rate of 60 metric tons a day, al- though it had not yet been cleaned. The oil-bearing stratum, located at a depth of 1,100 feet, is 200 feet in tltickness. An examination of the cores obtained from the drillings in- cated that the oil stratum is al- most horizontal and hence probably very extensive in area.” The Grozneft Oil Trust, which is assisting in the development of the Urals oil fields, has shown a great- ly increased growth in recent years. Production of oil at the Grozny fields amounted to 3,570,100 metric tons last year, as against 1,206,000 tons in 1918. American equipment is being used to an increasing ex- tent, both in the producticn and/ré- fining ends, Mich. (By Mail) —On | Entertainmen huberts are presenting a] iat rate summer show “Broadway Nights” | Street Theatre, with an excellent | | group of comedians headed by that Dr. Rockwell. called are the legitimate producers re- eruiting their leading actors and actresses the two-a- day. The present pro- duction is no ex- ception. In ad tion to Dr. Rock- - well, of the finest laugh producers Odette Myrtil on the stage today, and her vaude-| | ville team, King, King and King, stop the show when they start to dance, It was stated in the lobby that the three Kings were discov- | ered at the Palace several weeks ago ‘and were immediately signed up by alert for dancers who are different. And let it be said right here and now—they know how to dance! Dr. Rockwell uses much of the that he used on the variety stage. He gives a lecture on health that is a riot, and undoubtedly will make the most sick person feel healthy for | the time being, at least. clude Odette Myrtil, who does not do much, but who gets by with her personality. She knows how to fin- ger a violin and epparently pleases the audience, Joe Phillips is a good comedian, but has difficulty in shin- ing when in such fast company as the “medico.” Others are Laura Lee, who dances and sings, and Margaret Merle, who also renders several songs. The chorus is not bad, and includes Chester Hale and Alan K. Foster girls. They are pleasing to the eye and dance without a miss. The show, which starts with a plot which it quickly forgets, is the weakest when it comes to songs. None of them are worthwhile, even to the extent of mentioning. The lyrics are by M. Jaffe and the staging is by Stanley Logan. In short: a typical summer enter- tainment that will who are seeking light amusement. The Gastonia Textile Workers’ trial starts July 29! Twenty-three workers face <‘2ctrocution or prison terms! Rally all forces to save them. Week July 27—August 3! Sign | the Protest Roll! Rush funds to International Labor Defense, 80 East 11th Street, New York. DEFENSEAPPEALS CASE OF ACCORS! on Cheswick Charge The International Labor Defense | has filed an appeal with the Appel- late Division of the State Supreme Court to prevent the extradition to Pennsylvania of Salvatore Accorsi of Grasmere, S, I. charged with killing a state trooper during a Sacco - Vanzetti demonstration at Cheswick, Pa., in 1927. The appeal was taken trom the refusal of Supreme Court Justice Reigelman of Brooklyn yesterday to grant a writ of habeas corpus sworn out to prevent Governor Roosevelt from extraditing Accorsi. State Trooper William M. Brown has sworn out an affidavit that 300 yards from the meeting he saw Ac- corsi shoot at Officer J. J. Downing three times. The police were en- gaged in breaking up with great violence the striking miners’ Sacco- Vanzetti demonstration. At the coroner’s inquest, Brown said that he did not know who shot. At this inquest, the filling station keeper, Robert McKay, said that he saw a state trooper riding down with a raised club on two men who were walking peacefully. The troop- er beat one of the men with his baton and the man struck back. The policeman reached for his revolver, and there were four or five shots and the trooper fell from his horse, The Pennsylvania authorities claim that Accorsi fled immediately afterwards, and for that reason they did not get an indictment against him until now, As a matter of fact it has been proved that Accorsi worked for seven months after the Cheswick case at a town nearby Cheswick, with no indictment against him. The legal history of the case in New York was Accorsi’s arrest a short time ago. Then the Pennsyl- vania authorities applied for extra- dition, Governor Roosevelt refused the first request. After new affida- Roosevelt agreed to permit extradi- tion, The International Labor De- fense then took the case to the Su- preme Court, The Gastonia Textile Workers’ trial starts July £9! Twenty-three workers face electrocution or prison terms! [ally all forces to save them. Defcnse ad Relief Week July 27—August 3! Sign the Protest Roll! Rush funds to International Labor Defense, 80 East 11th Street, New York. \ FIRE UNION MEN PONTIAG FOUNDRY “Broadway Nights” Summer at the 44th| More and more | from) who is one} the Shubert agent who was on the} same material in the present show | Other members of the cast in-! satisfy those | | Defense and Relief Worker Being Framed | vits from Pennsylvania, however, |, t at 44th Street VY BARRYMORE. | JO. | In “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, ” one jof the features of the Film Guild |Cinema. The: German film, “Fight- ing for the Fatherland,” is the prin- cipal item on the current week’s | program, | a Vaudeville Theatres PALACE. Frances Williams, assisted by | | Leon and Bebe with Leo Feiner and | Harld Arel; Albert Carroll, late fea- | ture of the Grand Street Fol- lies,” in a one- man revue, “Stars of 1929”; Charles Ray; Joe Moss and his Ho- tel Astor Orches- tra; Lave Appol- lon; Ray and Harrison; W or- thy and Thomp- son and Rector and Doreen, | 81st STREET. Saturday, Sunday, Monday and | Tuesday: Jane and Katherine Lee, | in person; Veloz and Yolanda, for- | mer features of “Pleasure Bound”; | others. Feature photoplay: The | Marx Brothers, in “The Cocoanuts.” |__ Wednesday, Thursday and Friday: Miller and Lyles, colored musical comedy stars; Meyer Davis’ Waldorf Astoria Rose Room Orchestra, with | Billy Artzt conducting; Canfield and White and the Six Martinelli Girls. | Feature ‘photoplay: “Two Weeks | Off,” starring Dorothy Mackaill and | | Jack ee | E. F, ALBEE. Glenn Hunter, in “His First Dress Suit”; Roy D’Arcy, and Lew Pol- | j lack and Henry Dunn, with Alice | Weaver and Doris Walker. Others | jinelude Joe Weston and Collette | Lyons; and the “Ebony Scandals,” | a company of colored stars, | Albert Carroll Morgan Octopus Sucks | In More Power Lines’ Preparing for War. On the heels of the formation of J. P. Morgan’s $450,000,000 power trust, the Niagara Hudson, comes oe announcenient of an affiliation | between the New York Edison Co. and the new hydro-electric gener- ating system, which has the larg- est kilowatt-hour output of any system in the United States. creation of a single ele |and power company to serve Man- hattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx sive. Steam generated power will be transmitted from the hydro-electric plants to the metropolitan area dur- ing the seven or eight dry months, when water power is more expen- sive, steam generated power will be transmitted from the local Edison stations to the upstate homes and farms, the lines of the two sys- tems to be linked at Poughkeepsie. Build shop committees and draw the more militant members into the Communist Party. Quinn Martin, N.Y, World, says: “Fighting for Fatherland has a shocking, — sickening foree behind it, just such a punch of horrer ag is to be found recurring in that magnificent novel ‘All Quiet on the Western Front,’ ” the film guild cinema Artist to Portray Soviet Peasantry May Mott-Smith, weil-known ar- tist, left last night for a trip to Soviet Russia, where she will study communal life at first hand, paint and make bas-reliefs of peasant types and obtain a collection of pho- tographs depicting the daily life of the workers and peasants. She has traveled extensively in Africa and recently returned to New York after being one of the last to leave Kabul before Afghanistan flared into insurgency against Ama- | nullah, of cash, A Blasting Argument Against War! “FIGHTING FATHERLAND” —and on the same program—— JOHN BARRYMORE in “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” “agen dei ad Daily 2 m. to midnite spring 5005-5000 SMALL FARMERS DON'T BENEFIT BY NEW MACHINES Small Crops and Prices Cripple Him (By a Worker Correspondent) WILLISTON, N. Dak. (By Mail). —Three or four years ago there were no combines in this section while today there are hundreds. Wil- liston is a distributing center for combines for parts of North Dakota and Montana. There are many of these machines in the railroad yards and in the warehouses and outside on the grounds, These machines laid down here cost from $1,000 to $3,000 each. How |does the small farmer get hold of any of these machines? Well, the | small farmer, as a rule, does not get them because he does not harvest | enough of a crop to make it pay. To save money in using the combine the farmer should have not less than 500 acres in crop. On large farms the combines cut costs considerably. It is easy to see how the small farmer is at a dis- advantage farming in comparison with the big farmer. Nearly all combines and tractors sold here are bought on time, mort- | gage in the machinery, in crops, in chattels, and notes are taken in lieu The farmer has a hard time paying for the stuff and the farmers here say machinery plus low prices are “busting up the coun- | try.” These modern machines are af- fecting the small farmer and the farm worker to a great extent. The small farmer cannot possibly com- pete in low costs of production with the big farmer, and tens of thou- sands of farm workers get out of | jobs because of the use of combines and other new inventions. Capitalism has no solution for this |problem. Only the socialization of | agriculture under a workers’ and farmers’ government can be of as- sistance to the small farmer and the farm worker. —A. K. The Gastonia Textile Workers’ trial starts July 29! Twenty-three workers face electrocution or prison terms! Rally all forces to save them. Defense and Relief Week July 27—August 3! Sign the Protest Roll! Rus‘. funds to International Labor Defense, 80 East 11th Street, New York. Czech Communist is Near Death in Prison PRAGUE (By Mail).—The Czech- ish section of the International Red | Aid reports that the political pris- |oner, Julius Pesch, at present in the | prison of Leitmeritz is in serious |danger. Pesch suffers from tuber- culosis and has already lost one leg. Pesch was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment for his activity in the Young Communist League. In pris- on he requested to be treated as a political prisoner. The prison au- thorities refused this request, He then appealed to the courts without receiving any answer, Since he has been in prison his condition has become considerably worse so that fears are entertained for his life. In- addition his depressing state has affected his nerves to such an extent that he is now suffering from a nervous breakdown, Only his immediate release can ‘save hig life, The Gastonia Textile Workers’ trial starts July 29! Twenty-three workers face electrocution or prison terms! Rally all forces to save them. Defense and Relief Week July 27—August 3! Sign the Protest Roll! Rush funds to International Labcr Defense, 80 East 11th Street, New York. '—THIS AMAZING FILM! AUTHENTIC! ACTUAL! 5 52 w. Sth street