The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 21, 1929, Page 1

- AID-STRUG fi Pa e. Ameti . Q partially employed. Subway “Accidents” Are Not Accidents! The Companies Hire Few Workers and Overwork Them at Small Pay. What They Care For Is Profits, Not Lives. Tammany Aids Them as All Capitalist Parties Do. Entered as second-class matter at the P t Office at GLES OF MINERS, SHOE, NEEDLE WORKERS! TAG DA New York, Y., under the act of Ma Pablished dally except Su e Company. tve.. Vol. VI., No. 247 Comprodatly Publishing New York City, N. ¥. a7 UBSCRIPTION RAVES: In New York by mail. 6%. Outside New '$ TODAY, TOMORROW FOR RELIEF! FINAL CIFY - EDITION . k. by mall 86.00 per year ' The Textile Barons’ CheretaaiN'A Attack --- ° : The great convention of the National Textile Workers’ Union had a very impressive opening last night at Paterson. Unquestionably it 2 Will-make history for the American workir&® class. The action of the Muste group and of the Full Fashioned Hosiery Workers Section of the company union, the United Textile Workers, trying in cooperation with the employers and a Paterson judge to in- terfere with the convention, is exactly what gould be expected of a gang that has so completely showed its desire to fight the workers and help the employers as in the Elizabethton and Marion strikes. In each of the big*strikes the U. T. W. has entered so far, the w » baye been sold out and sent back to low wages and the black list. In each case of such treason the U. T. W. chiefs have had the help of the state or federal agents. In Paterson, the local magistrate tells the so-called “pickets” be- longing to the company union that their union is all right and they are free. No need to wonder what he will.say to NatiSnal Textile Workers ePickets in the big silk strike approaching! The workers will come to the National Textile Workers convention tonight—not to.Muste’s mass meeting by which that faker seeks to distract their attention from the main job of organizing a big mili- tant National Textile Workers’ Union, to carry on the struggle so gloriously begun in the South, in New England, and soon to come in the New Jersey and other silk mills and dye houses. The workers wiJl not believe the slanderous attack issued by the Full Fashioned Hosiery bureaucrat, Holderman, who says that the N. T. W. raises money under the false pretense of assisting a hosiery strike he is himself misleading. They know the N. T. W. raises money for the coming silk strike, and for its own southern campaign. This vicious lying attempt to blacken the N. T. W., this sudden endorsement of the U. T. W. by the local judge, and Rev. Muste’s at- tempt tonight at a diversion, are so many attacks in the rear by the guerilla forces of the textile bosses, whose main aim is to prevent any organization but a company union under A. F. L. auspices and the bosses’ control in the textile industry. The workers will know them 9 what they are, and will rally to the National Textile Workers’ inion. - What Is Karolyi’s Position? Michael Karolyi sails for New York December 28. Some time be- fore, he notified the Anti-Horthy League—the American-Hungarian anti-fascist’ organization—that the League is entrusted by him with the organization of all his American-Hungarian mass meetings. By his attitude he sought to give the impression that he was following the line of ‘the International Anti-Fascist Congress held in March, 1929, at which he was present. ® However, ‘according to the news “carried by several capitalist papers two or three days ago, Karolyi has promised the Rand School, controlled by the American social fascists, that he would speak at a meeting organized by the Rand School. If Karolyi knowsithe sogial fascist character of this school, and, in spite of that, accepts an invitation from them to speak, then, of course, he @Mhot present himself as nti-fascist. One cannot be an anti- ‘ist in Hungarian relations ‘and be allied to the social-fascists in The. Hungarian. social fascists, the Peyers, Garamis afd Buch- ingers, have recently made'a new pact with the bloody fascist gov- ernment of Horthy’by which they take the lead in the anti-Soviet war preparations. “They “attacked from behind the political prisoners on general hunger strike and the Salgotaryan miners who were in a heroic struggle against the united forces of*Bethlehem and Peyer. “The socialist party plays the same role in the United States. Ao st attacks the strikers from. behind, as it did the Gastonia strikers, and the defense campaign. In its campaign of calumny against the Soviet Union, the socialist party is,oh the same, front with Green and Woll, who exceed even the capitalists in their inciteyent for war against the Soviet Union. ‘If Karolyi was aware of the character of the Rand School—that it is an’ American social-fascist organization from whose forum the speakers of the third party of the American capitalist class attack the new revolutionary unions, the Communist Party and the Soviet Union, and every revolutionary anti-capitalist, anti-fascist movement—if Karolyi knew this-and in spite of that he accepts the invitation of this Rand School, then this is the old Karolyi, the petty bourgeois poli- titian who at the time he was president of Hungary proved by his ac- tions that he is an enemy of th® working class. If this is true, then he is an “anti-fascist” in phrases only and is about to find again his place openly in thé&amp of the enemies of the working class. Judgment of Karolyi’s attitude toward fascism by the class-con- scious workers must necessarily be based,gnot upon his words, but *upon his deeds. His deeds will prove whether he is an enemy of fascism or a hidden friend of theirs, standing on the same platform with the social fasgsts. In this case, every anti-fascist would fight against him. “Mobilize for Struggle’ Is TIONAL TEXTILE | WORKERS CONVENE; | PLAN FOR STRUGGLE | | Sell-out Experts of A.F.L. Converge Upon City, | Militant Union Answers Slander About Money; Workers Contribute to Strike Funds | Trying to Stop Workers Own Organization ; EW YORK; SATURDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1929 While hundreds of textile workers under the leadership | of the National Textile Workers’ Union are on strike in New England, and hundreds of delegates from the whole textile region of America are gathering at the second agnual conven- | tion of the ‘N. T. W. in Paterson’today, the Muste group of fake aaa a ® progressives and the United ‘NTW CONVENTIO | Textile Workers’ Union are | ployers. | Yesterday the Full Fashioned f | Hosiery Workers lone bureaucrat in i |Paterson Washed into the local ° | papers with a slanderous statement |that the National Textile Workers’ | Union was “collecting money under Speakers Show Need for Real Struggle false pretenses.” He charges that [the N. T. W. is collecting money | PATERSON, N. J., Dec.” 20.—A for the Mutual Knitting Mill strike mass rally of Hundreds of textile here, which is still uvder connol of ‘and other workers heralding the|the Full Fashioned Hosiery Work- ‘opening of the Second National/ ers, and that the money is actually Convention of the National Textile | to be used for th® N. T. W. south- Workers’ Union torfght greeted the|ern campaign and the silk. strike delegates to the convention, which | which 1s certain to come soon. opens tomorrow morning at 205) the NTA. has already gent a fleecuon) socal |reply to the press, pointing out that A tremendous ovation greeted it js not pretending to rais® tnoney| the Gastonia defendants when they |for the Mutual strike. N.T.A. i were introduced by James P. Reid, ganizers offered some time ago their | Nigeria, [president of the Natioyal Textile solidarity to the Mutual strikers, Woykers’ Union. Gastonia defend-| but the Full"Fashioned Hosiery of- ants “present were Clarenee Miller, | ficjals refused to permit any assist- William McGinnis, K. Y. Hendrix, |ance from the N.T.W. The N.T.W. | |rushing to the aid of the-em-, | Fréd Beal, Joe Harrison, Louis Mc- |Laughlin and George Carter. ¢ The hall is decorated with the }union’s fighting slogans: |W. Us fights for the women textile | workers; We demand a $20 mini- |mum wage for all young workers; \Down with child labor; Build a Union textile forty-hour geek; |workers fight low wages; Build asked the workers to give donations |;housand Negroes participated | shop.committees in every silk mill; | Workers do not scab; Young work- ers, ‘fight imperialist* war.” Kushinsky Speaks. The meeting was opened by Presi- dent Reid, who introduced Kushin- sky, local organizer of the N.T.W.U. “The N.T.W.U. has degided not to let the worsened conditions go any further. We will spare no effort, no sacrifice @ orgayize the work- ers of this city into our union and lead them in their struggles against the bosses,” said Kushinsky. “We know that the textile work- ers of this city are ready to fight against these miserable ‘conditions. We know that the téxtile workers of this city and the textile work- ers of the whole country want lead- ership. We the N.T.W.U. have de- termined under all circumstances to develop and give this leadership.” Paterson, Struggle Center. James P. Reid, president of the N.T.W.U., then spoke: “The N.T.W.U., born of struggle, selected Paterson as the place for its second national convention be- | cause of the militancy of the Pater- | son workers, “It is to inspire another national | battle of the textile workers against the bosses that we have brought the convention to Paterson, a battle not ‘only against the bosses, but against P oint in Textile Resolution. the reactionary A. F. of L. officials The draft, of the main resolution , home country, a certain percentage hich will be submitted to the S€c- is thrown into the world market. ond National Convention: of the Na- [ternational competition for the Sional Textile Workers Union by its Wd markets and for sources of national office is entitled: “The bh raw materials becomes Present, Situation and the Tasks of “°CTeT: ‘pial ; the Second Annual Copvention of _ Imperialist war, which is capital- ‘he National Textile Workers Un-. ist competition carried to its final ion.” It reads as follows: | conclusion, is today an imminent langer. * ato i ° jet Uni 1. There is’a deep and growing , ae Sih aes crisis in American industry. Ra-, The existence of the Soviet Union tionalization—the speed-up a nd for more than twelve years, with stretch-out—have’ immensely in-|the steady building of socialism creased production with a sharp and, there has strengthened the world’s steady decrease in the number ‘of Working class and weakened the im- workers employed:: .- ‘ :perialist rulers. The imperialist ‘This increased production has | g0vernments, driven from the . soil flooded the domestic market since of the Soviet Union by the Red workers, the great majority of the Army and the united force of the population, receive in wages only a (Continued on Page Three) fraction of the valugs they:create by their labor. spower.. iy Unemployment showed a steady Proletcos Restaurant growth even during periods of so- : callgd prosperity. ‘The speed-up—the tO Reopen in Few Days intensification of labor—and the in-| troduction of highly specialized “la-| Difficulties arising out of rela- bor-saving machinery added ever tions with hostile business elements “ larger numbers to'the ranks of the who have become especially antag- permanently unemployed and the | onistic since the Palestine events jhave compelled the temporary clos- Sections of the working class al- ing of the Proletcos Cooperative veady have begun counter-offen- | Restaurant which has been and con- sives, |tinues a serviceable and profitable ‘In all capitalist countries this “"ertaking. same process is at work. The capi- Negotiations are proceeding to- talist class tries always to put the wards the reopening of the restau- burden of ney AEG, fees upon rant within a few days under con- the working class,’ Unable t8 sell dit’ons which will make possible even ths entire output of industry in the ‘beiter service to its many patrons. |uniting with the. bosses and the state to crush the militancy of the | workers.” | Support the Daily. | Others who were still to speak ; when the Daily Worker went to press are: Dewey Martin, southern |organizer of the NTWU; Martin |Russak, Pennsylvania organizer; James Ford, Negro organizer of the |TUUL; Sophie Melvin, organizer | for North Carolina, and Bill Dunne, ‘representative of the TUUL. ; Several of the speakers stated |that they would appeal for mass |supp@t and circulation for the Daily Worker, the paper tha stood ‘for the N. T. W. and the Gastonia defendants through thick and thin. 'New Drop in the | . Stock Market | Shows Crisis Growth | Another fall in the stock market |yesterday caused a loss of five’ points jor more on the most “sound” stocks, jand other securities fell. 15 to 17 points. The break yester@ay, in one day,Scgncels approximately half of the “advance” above the lowest point of the @ccent panic, while some im- jPortant’ stocks, especially Mont- gomery Ward, fell to a lower level | than at, any time during the recent crash. The latest fall in the stock mse follows the receit ‘tremendous in- creases in unemyloyment thruout th country aad the growing economic cri of ‘has been openly and energetically lraising funds for the organization |of the Southern textile workers ever | tional Convention is certain to ar- range a greatly intensified organiza- | The} } { yorkers? defense corps; Fight for aj drive is being energetically supmprt-| whites shot up the demonstration, tion campaign for the South. leas It has also openly and frankly to the fund for the coming silk| | strike, for conditions and speed-up jin the silk mills and dye houses are Women of miners’ families arrested by Illinois state militia at Taylorville, some of them with torn clothing from the brutality of the attack upon them, and their own militant resistance. Five hun- dred militia were sent to Tgylorv have been arrested. owners on the second day of the strike. Miners Daughters Arrested on Picket Line | ille at the first request of the coal | MINERS PREPARING FOR NATIONAL STRIKE, 1930; EXTEND LOCAL STRUGGLE District Board ‘Lays Basis for Intensified Organization Campaign in Preparation Joint Rank and File Strike Committees; Call to Smash Terror; Class Divisions in Militia ‘ BULLETI rs TAYLORVILLE, Ill, Dec. 20.—A fire in the home of the chief deputy here is baing made the excuse for an attempt to frame an arson charge on some of the strikers. There are no arrests yet. Frank H. Woods, president of the Ogara Coal Co., told 300 U. M. W. A. and coal company officers yesterday that he was “co- operating with the U. M. W. A. for war on the Communists.” He | said, “I believe in the U. M. W. A.” He declined to pay higher + wages. Over a hundred pickets NEGRO MASSES IN WIDE REVOLT British “Labor” Rule Shoot Oppressed (Wireless by Inprecorr) LONDON, Dec. 20. — Not only have the native demonstrations in British West Africa, | agains’ increased taxation been fir- ed upon by the police, who wounded ‘eighteen, but other demonstrations |in South Africa of the native Negro |population have been similarly at- |tacked. * Great demonstrations were organ-| “N. T./since the Gastonia strike, and par-| ized on December ticularly now, that the Second ma 16 in several South African centers against the oppression of the natives by British, imperialism. ° At Potchefstroom, * reactionary wounding seven. At Cape Town, 2 in the demonstration at which the ef- |figies of General Smuts and Pre- jmier Hertzog were burned. se bad that the workers must battle. | | Holderman's motives for this slander | jand his appeal on the basis of tie! |slander that no one support the Na- |tional Textile Worker Union is all \the more understandable when it is | |considered that the Full Fashioned | Hosiery Workers is affiliated with the United Textile Workers, which | has a long record of sell-out and treachery to labor in the South, and is the spear point of the A. F, L. southern drive against real workers’ | organizations there. | Both the U. T. W. and the F. F. H. W. are controlled by the Muste group. The Reverend Muste him-| |self has rushed éo Bete 8 to fight what he knows is the greatest ene-| my to his plan to swindle and sell out the textile workers. A Muste jparade is to march through *the | streets during the first session of |the N. T. W. second annual conven- | tion, tomorrow, and in the evening | | Muste will address a meeting of all he can persuade to attend. The ob- | ject is to interfere with the conven- tion as much as possible. The U. T. W. gang has already se-| jeured the support of the local courts. The magistrate who sat in the case lof forty-one pickets arrested at the! lauded the Full Fashioned ‘‘osiery | Workers. This, the Paterson work- ters recognize immediately, is prep- | aration for terror, through the qourts. when the silk® strike starts, under the leadership of a union, the National Textile Workers, whom the | judge will not approve of. It is an| attempt to convince the workers , |that the U. T. W. will receive fa-' |vorable treatment, and they should | join it instead of the N. T. W., also, to establish g reputation of “friend ‘of labor” if the capitalist courts , \of Patersoi, so that defense for the | jarrested silk pickets will be inade-| | quate. | RENOUNCE BUKHARIN. H | MOSCOW (By Mail).—Comrades | | Maretzki and Astrov, two of Bu- | \kharit’s supporters, have now pub- ‘lished a declaration in which they ‘condemn the opinions of Comrades Bukharin, Rykoy and Tomski and their own support of these opinions [RET Ta Emergency! Membership Meeting /| Monday, Bec: 23, 8 p. m., Cen | tral Opera House, 67th St. ar 3rd Ave. An important develo; ment which involves the interes: of the entire Party will be re ported on and dealt with. A members of District Two mu: he present, Atl other Part; meetings are called off. Bring your membership card.—Secre- | tariat Dist. 2, U.S.A, | * * * Dispatches Friday from African * (pe at ee i International i Wireless Ne | (Wireless by Inprecorr. BERLIN, Dec. 20.—Great demon strations of unemployed took place Ihere yesterday, demanding special assistance for the winter. Respite} heavy eordons of police around the city hall area, thousands of the job-| less broke through and eeded in demonstrating before the city hall. The police attacked the demonstra- tion brutally and with shooting on the Alexanderplatz, where two were seriously wounded. The workers stoned the police and fought back (To be Continued) By, JACK JOHNSTONE. (National Organizer of the Trade Union Unity League.) WEST FRANKFORT, Ill, Dec. 20.—A national general strike next fall, when the Anthracite agreements expire end built on the results of the present strike of IMlinois miners and the intensive organization campaign of the National Miners’ | Union that accompanies them, was the decision of the Illinois District Board of the N. M. U. in its latest meeting. | The text of the resolution adopted at the board meeting jis as follows: o “Ten thousand miners responded in a number’ of local | strikes to the call of the National Miners’ Union to struggle ®against wage cuts, the check- T. U. U. L. Conference! off, the bad conditions and Meets Today; Workers speed - up underground, ete. Back ftom USSR Talk| This expresses the growing ° eee, hatred of the miners for the Today at 2:30 p.m. represen-COMpany unionized United tatives of all militané _ workers’) Mine, Workers of America. : ® organizations in New York and) «phe program of the Tllinois (Wireless By Inprecorr) vicinity will gather at Irving Plaza) state Conyention held by the N. M. SYDNEY, Australia, Dec. 20,—| Hall in the Metropolitan Area Trade| 1. in Belleville last October, to The federal arbitration court of | Union Unity League Conference. fight against the check-off and for @ Australia has ordered a resumption| The delegates will come from shop | improved conditions for the miners | of work at the Rothbury mines and committees, T.U.U.L. groups and by a series of local strikes, is lothers on strike on the terms pre-|revolutionary unions, incliting *¥e/ broadening out into-a national cam- |vailing before the dispute. The New textile, shoe, needle trades, subway | paign in preparation for a national |South Wales State Government is|workers, food workers and® other | strike of all bituminous and anthra- refusing to obey the order and is/ organizations which have gone/cite miners in the fall of 1930. jdeclaring that it will continue to| through sharp struggles in the past} | work the mines with scabs. jfew months, and face immediate) struggles in the future. | | On Monday, the Rothbury mine < was the scene of battle between| The conference will be one of ac- strikers and police guards, in which | tion, the planning and carrying out for a long time. Class Character. “The immediate use of five com- | panies of Illinois militia in the Springfield and Taylorville district, \the threats of deport&tion by the points stated that in Southern Ni-|one striker was killed and many of zngamures, to Pose the cata iy S! dapartment of dition fem ge and apparently extending wounded. A demonstration of 30,-|/and speed-up drive whic ne thaws | deputizing of Lewis ang Fishwick over a wide area, the Negro popula-| 000 here Wednesday in protest was bosses, in common with all others 71+ tars on the instructions of the tion is in revolt against the oppres sive rule of British imperialists The shooting occurred at Opobo on Monday. sa A second climax is said to have been reached after the recent shoot- ing of eighteen Negro women, when a mail boat from Calibar was met with such hostility at Itu that it had to turn back without discharging cargo. Revolutionary outbreaks also occurred at Umokoroshe. “Indications are that the whole areh is in revolt and that troops and police are holding only some of the towns. The area mentioned dispatches extends west from Cali-! bar to Owerri and from ‘Afikpo south. Port Harcourt is mentioned as being the point of arrival for troops from aLgos and Ib@ian.,Or- ita is noted as being held by the troops. At Opolo, it is stated that the) Negro women showed extreme bra- ry, attacking the troops and try- ing to seize their rifles. The troops Mutual shop freed the pickets, and{are najives officered by British | Pontusac Woolen Mills have won a whites. ‘Stalin’s 50th Birthday Greeted by World’s Worker (Wireless by Inprecorr) MOSCOW, Dec. 20.—Tele@@ams are arriving from everywhere con- gratulating Joseph Stalin, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, on his 50th birthday which is Saturday. The Government C8mmission pub- lishes a list of an additional 192 factories employing 200,000 workers where the seven-hour day ig being established. attacked and 30 workers were sent/just now, and trying to put over. sare coal operators, followed by the fas- 0 hospitals. The Trade Union Delegation:sent | cist terror in Franklin County, by the Cleveland Convention of the | shows clearly the class character of aads Strike jn Trade Union Unity League returned the struggle, So dees the ‘spon N.T.W. Leads Strike im | ¢ccn the Soviet Union where they declaration’ of Sherit* Prtaeed Treco Knitting Mills;)spent 2 few months in a special that his forees ‘are to be used to Fights Discrimination study of the relation of the Soviet | protect the interests of the United Trade Unions to the five-year eco-| (Continued on Page Two) nomic program id the energetic The workers of the Treco Knitting | building of socialism. The first re- Mill, 24 West h St., who last | port of the delegation will be given aonth won a strike under the lead-|to the American workers at these ership of the National Textile | conferences. Workers Union, are on strike again,| The conference will receive thor- this time for an equal division of | ough reports on the preparation, for | STRIKING MINERS work in the shop, and against the|/an offensive driwe in the neadle| boss’ discrimination. It is slow in|trade to organize the unorganized, the mill and the laid off work- | enforces union conditions and smash 8 Py ers, pcerinaing scataet te mee the conspiracy of tne right wing Tag Days in New York active in the union. The whole shop | fascists, the bosses and the state {has gone out determined to strike |government to company unionize) LOday and Sunday until these are reinstated and an the needle industry. ieee =: equal division of work is gained. | he conference will take steps*to “Support the Workers Interna- oe mobilize the entire left wing behind tional Relief Tag Days” is the mes- PITTSFIELD WEAVERS GAIN. | the struggles of 2,000 locked out caer Hy, a gfetnkG secrete T'TSFIELD, Mass. ail)— | Shoe workers, members of the Inde- |'Teasurer of the National Miners EITTSFIELD, Mass. (By Laake |pendent Shoe Workers Union. The | Union, to the workers of New York. T.U.U.L. is developing the struggle? The Tag Days, which will be held ‘to defeat the conspiracy of bosses, this Saturday and Sunday, are ex- |Department of Labor, the Boot | pected to raise thousands of dollars land Shoe Co. union of the A, F. L.|for the relief of the striking Ilinois 'A hundred striking weave: {cent a yard increase in wages, to force wage cuts and the yellow- miners, as well as for the shoe and ® | dog contract upon the Shoe workers, needle trades workers of New York. | by developing a general mass strug-| Toohey’s appeal, sent from the ‘gle, organizing the unorganized and | heart of the strike area, stated: preparing for a general strike for! “The Illinois miners, under the the 40-hour five-day piece work leadership of the National Miners — and the shop delegate system. |Union, are fighting a life and death } Joseph Vissarionovich (Dzhugash-| Energetic preparation of the Na-| battle. The bosses have called in | vili) Stalin, General Secretary, Cen- tionaf ‘Textile Workers Union for a ‘all their allies, their strike breaking label 1ommatbicesof the Communist | 8°nerel strike of the dye and silk | agents of the United Mine Workers, |Party (Bolsheviks) of. the Soviet workers of Paterson and the strug- | hired gangsters and the forces of iGmicneseant bam: December 216k gle against the Musteite Social Qr - the state, in an effort to crush our 11879, the son of a peasant of the formists who are in the service of struggle. But their most powerful i Gubernia of Tiflis. the bosses, already preparing to act |weapon is starvation. They are try- Gi aa eer as strike breakers, will receive major ing to stgrve the Illinois miners into In 1892 Stalin entered school and) attention at the conference. ‘submission. at the age of seventeen he was al-} “Relief is needed at once. Men, . dy’ at the head of students’ po- litical circles. In 1899 he was e: pelled from school for “infidelity,” | and then devoted himself entirely to women and children are without Overcrowded Subway jo The workers of this country Cars Trapped by Fire; must support the campaign of the a dine Many Workers tadesed Workers International Relief. The In the summer of 1898 he entered ss e Tag Days arranged for Saturday i enter jand Sunday in New York will be the Social-Democratic organization i in Tiflis. When his activity drew| At least eighty persons were the means of raising substantial é A ew seriously injured when a fire inthe |sums of money for immediate strike the attention of the police upon him, | electric cables on the B.-M. T. line |relief, New York workers, you must he changed his residence to Batum| trapped the passengers of two six’|not fail us. Support the W.LR. Tag at the end of 1901, after a search’ car trains in the tunnel under the Days. Help us win this struggle had been made for him. Here, to-| Kast River early yesterday morn-|which will be a victory for the en- gether with the Sociel-Democratic ine, Hundreds of others wee cut tire working class.” worker, aptilint Stalin founded’ and bruised. Many of the injured| Hundreds of volunteers are need- the first illegal Marxist group. | were workers on the way to their ed to thoroughly canvass every sec- In 1902 he was arrested in con-| jobs, \tion of the city in order that thou- nection with a strike then going on As a result of the overcrowded |sands @f dollars for strike relief in Batum. He was one of the or- trains, thru which the subway com-|may be raised. They are asked to ganizers of the Batum demonstra- panies increase profits, the passen-|report at ghe following stations: tion at that time. The end of 1902 gers found it almost impossible to, Central tation, 799 Broad end all of 1903 he spent in the pris-yeach the doors when they were | Room 221; downtown: Workers ons of Kutaiss and Batum. He was) opened, and many broke windows ter, 27 East Fourth St.; Workers then sent to Siberia for three years.| and jumped out. Then they had to|Centey, 1179 Broadway; ‘Trade Afton: tecaping from Siberia, Stalin | waik a considerable distance thru | Union Unity League, 26 Union Sq | (Continued on Page Three) _ the snioke filled tunnei. ponrnne if (Continued on Page Two) _ teed tad