The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 25, 1929, Page 1

| | i if Listen to Your Boss—He Willi Tell You What Union to Join—Then Tell the Boss to Go to Hell and Join Your Revolutionary Union Under the T.U.U; L. aily Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at Ne w York, N. ~ a Y., under the act of March 3, 18’ FINAL CITY EDITION Vol. VI., No. 250 Company. Publishe@ dafly excep: Sunday by The Comprodaily Publ re, New York City, SUBSCRIP" Outside, Nem York by mat} New York by mal) $8.00 ver rear. 1.00 per veur. Cents Price ~ r<@>:, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1929 _ ‘The Reply to ‘Wood- Wall Crisis Grows: Street Government’s Lackey---- Wage Slashes and Hoover’s Fascist Program The Wall Street government, for the third time within the present year, appears through its “department of labor” as a fascist strike- breaking agency in a specific struggle of workers, against whom they attempt to mobilize all possible forces. The latest action of this kind, in the strike of the shoe workers in New York City, involving a large number of Italian born workers, takes the form of a letter to the bosses slandering the leadership of the militant Shoe Workers’ Union, affiliated to the Trade Union Unity League, and calling upon publishers of Italian language papers to de- mand an examination of the books of the union. Charles G. Wood, the federal “conciliator” who issued the state- ment referred to, made a similar attack on the union last summer. This time, however, he goes a little further and threatens foreign-born workers with deportation and revocation of citizenship. These foreign- born workers are an integral part of the American working class, and must be backed by it to the utmost. Are foreign-born workers the only section of the proletariat men- aced by this agent of Hoover's fascist council? American born workers are in just as grave danger whenever they engage in struggle for better wages and working conditions. Early in the Gastonia strike last spring this same fascist (Wood) put the Hoover stamp. of approval on sending of troops into the strike area and the atrocities perpetrated by them against the half-starved textile workers. Wood said in a public statement: “It is not a strike as strikes are defined; it is a form of revolution created by those committed to revolutions by mass action. No conciliation is possible until the misled workers divorce themselves from their Communistic leaders. Until then the only way to meet the situation is just what is being done now in the way of protecting the rights of organized govern- ment’ by the police and military power of the community. In this connection I want to commend your governor for his prompt- ness and wisdom in meeting a condition which called for the im- mediate preservation of order.” . The textile workers of Gastonia and the South as a whole are American-born “for generations. Against them were used, and are still being. used, with the sanction of James J. Davis, secretary of labor in the Hoover cabinet, ani his staff of strikebreaking repre- sentatives, methods far worse than those yet visited upon the New York shoe workers—methods ranging from destruction of their head- quarters by a gang composéd of militia officers, mill superintendents and business men, to kidnappings and floggings, wholesale jailings and beatings, to the armed attack on the union headquarters where the workers defended themselves and for which seven members of the National Textile Workers’ Union now face up to 20 years in prison. The last statement by Wood is no isolated incident nor is it merely an expression of opinion by Wood as an individual. Wood’s letter expresses the basic policy of Wall Street govern- ment—it is proof of the fact that its main line is the suppression, by force or any other available means of all struggles of the workers of this country. The American Federation.of Labor, and other. social-fascist unions which have signed on the dotted line the Hoover contract outlawing, all struggles for wage increase, are lauded by Wood in his fascist letter. Ii is clear that Wall Street government looks to these enemies of the workers to carry out its strikebreaking policy. They are instruments of imperialist government. The Trade Union Unity League and its affiliated unions are today in the forefront of every struggle. More and more the millions of uborganized workers look to these class struggle organizations for aid arid direction. They alone have undertaken seriously the huge task of organizing the workers in the decisive inJustries and leading their struggle against the speed-up, stretch-out, wage cuts, etc. To crush these struggles, to jail.or murder the leaders of these struggles, is the first point on the program of Hoover's fascist council. This is the line of the Wood letter. More militant shop committees. More shop papers. More’conventions like that of the National Textile Workers’ Union where Negro and white workers from the mills of the North ‘and South gave their answer to Wall Street’s fascist program. Increased and militant action to defend all foreign-born workers from the attack threatened by Wood, the spokesman of fascist government! Build the revolutionary unions. More mass struggles as in IIli- nois. Build the Trade Union Unity League. * Build the Communist Party in all these struggles. This is the way to reply to Wood, Wall Street government’s lackey and the capi- talist class which owns both. CHRISTMAS USED | wage cuts, speed-up, unemployment }and the pzospect of a new imperial- jist war. Only by organization and militant struggle under the leade: ship of ‘he Communist Party will | | the workers be able to escape such Face Workers | | | WASHINGTON, Dec. 24 jthe 20-keymen of Hoover’ |fascist council meet in secret ses- |sions, planning its drastic wage- jeutting drive, reports of the eco- nomic crisis show a sharpening of the decline of capitalist economy, As a part of the Hoover-Young- Lamont attack on the American workers, Green, Woll and Lewis, of the American Federation of Labor, are conducting a campaign of “no strikes,” and confidence in Ameri- can imperialism, in order to attempt to break the rapidly growing resis tance to wage slashes manifested by the workers, All the “labor” journals connected | with the A. F. of L. print long state- ments of Green about the necessity of to-operating with the scab bosses in their attempts to pull the “na- tion’s business out of the temporary slump.” But reports from capitalist {sources show that the crisis is by ;no means temporary. |ment is spreading its cancerous |growth rapidly among the ranks of |the workers. The total unemployed numbers at least 4,000,000, and will {soon reach 5,000,000 and 6,000,000. The Hoover building’ program | promise is a huge flop. As an ex- | (Continued on Page Three) BLOCK MEETINGS to Broaden Struggle _ BULLETIN. .. Saturday afternoon at 1 p. m. there will be a conference of dele- gates of local unions and all fra- ternal organizations at Irving Plaza Hall, to discuss the needle trades struggle and mobilize all Left Wing forces for the winning of union conditions. eh oe Sie In connection with the organiza- jtion drive in the dress trade, the Joint Board Needle Trade Workers Industrial Union is beginning tc arrange block and building meetings in order to extend the rank and file organization committee and draw every union worker into activity. The following schedule of meet has been arranged so far: hursday, Dec. 26: Workers in shops in the building 260-261 West 36th St., will meet at the office ot the union, 131 West 28th St., on the first floor, rooms 9 and 10. Monday, Dec, 30.: At the same place, workers in the shops in the (building 1384-1935 and 1412 Broad- way. Thursday, Jan. 2: At the same place workers in 315, 323, and 347 West 39th St. Friday, Jan. The organized building committees of 347 West 86th St. and 370 West 35th St., will meet at the office ‘of the union to prepare the work for the coming week. Struggle Broadens. The season in the dress trade is fast approaching, and with the in- jerease of work the campaign for the organization of the unorganized wi!l | MEXICANRULERS "sod Miner? cite TORTURE CUBAN om Q@ UNION LEADERS Wall Street Puppet! Government Uses Electric Chair Drive Barreiro Insane! LL.D. Organizes Mass Protest Demonstration The electric chair is being used to torture Mexican and Cuban work- ing-class leaders, and one of the) % arrested workers, Barreiro, leader st : : ’ of the tobacco workers of Cuba has| .Win the Illinois miners’ strike by COMMUNISTS BACK AT FASCIST STRIKE BREAKERS [Bureau of District 2 Defies Threat by U.S. s | Gommissioner - a Likes AFL) Workers Will Go with Party Into Struggle The District Bureau of District [wo, Communist Party of U. S. A. | has issued a statement in answer to a letter sent by Chas. G. Wood, U. S. Commissioner of “Conciliation, | HIT Textile You th UMW. EXP jproviding food and clothing for, Department of Labor, to the shoe} well as by Unemploy- | IN NEEDLE TRADE Shop Chairmen Mon.! gone insane in prison with pain, a telegram calling on American workers to demonstrate against thi furious White Terror declared to- |day. The telegram stated, “Government wants to close Confederacion Sind cal Unitaria Mexicana, Leaders e: pect death. Mexican comrades ar- rested and sent to Mary Islands. Foreigners deported to Guatemala. Barreiro has become insane. Fiurme .Cotono tortured by electric chair. |New arrests. Frame-ups. Sending letter with news. Send money quickly. Demonstrate on Mella an- niversary against White Terror of Mexico and Cuba.” The C.S.U.M. is the revolutionary ivade union center of Mexico. | The telegram was signed by Con- treras, head of the Mexican Red Aid. | |The call was sent to the national | office of the International Labor|, Dispatches: from Buenos Aires lpefecke: \telling of an attempt to assassinate The following statement was | President Trigoyen, givea laudatory jmade today by the United States account of Irigoyen iar different (Contided con ape Three) from reality. He is id to be a |“foe of foreign penetration,” yet his tendency to subject Argentina to British imperialism as against Amer- ican imperialism is shown in many \Have Many Grievances Against the Bosses children like this. During the 19. 28 coal strike, the Pennslyvania-Ohio Miners Relief made international |campaigns to raise funds for these jdone by the Workers International |Relief. Send funds to Workers In- |ternational Relief, room 512, at 949 |Broadway, New York City. IRIGOYEN, UNION New Fascist Frame-Up by Mussolini acts, such as the recent trade agree- ment with England. Irigoyen is a great demagog, with a feudalist background he assumes a patronizing attitude toward labor, |but crushes strikes ruthlessly and with callous cruelty has ordered troops to shoot down striking dock workers of Rosario and Buenos Aires. He has refused to pardon the most famous working class poli- |tieal prisoner, Radowitski, whose case is as famous as that of Tom Mooney. The alleged assassin was killed by Trigoyen’s bodyguard, and is said to be an anarchist, Gualberto Marinelli, an Italian. One of Irigoyen’s guards of the secret service was th. stomach and another wounded, The arrest and possible conviction to five years imprisonment of Stephen Graham, a young organizer ;for the Trade Union Unity League, in Norfolk, charged with “inciting | the Negroes to riot” because he tried to organize them into unions such as the National Textile W: ers Union, is one of the principal reasons we are driving for the or- | ganization of white and black work- ,ers into the same unions throughout | 2 . | land, Clarence Miller, organizer for| Reports yesterday from Belgium the N. T. W. U., declared today. jreveal a new attempt to justify | He told details of the drive of Italian fascism’s effort to persecute the textile union, affiliated with the | anti-fascists abroad, similar to the |Trade Union Unity League, to or-|one recently when Crown Prince ganize white and Negro workers,|Humbert was alleged to have been| regardless of the laws prevailing in | subject to attack at Brussels. In the the southern states, tending to|present case there was no attempt separate the races in industry. Mil-'to assassinate anybody, but only jler told of the arrest of Stephen |fairy tales about a supposed “plot,” Graham, in Norfolk, , who is|Which is used as a basis for wide- charged with the “inciting the |spread arrests of anti-fascists and | Negroes to rebellion” because he |their possible deportation to death in | spoke to a meeting October 15, of ; Italy. i white and black workers. | In both instances, the fascist % ing,” Mi .4 |propaganda has instilled monarchist Se ee ere cet cure oer Short ae argh tte louherig over" tel wade Graham was warned’ to FOE, IS SHOT AT TOFOOL WORKERS Speed-Up, Wage-Cuts, “Gifts” from Bosses Christmas is not merely a day for decorations, gifts, drinking and noise. No holiday is without its sig- nificance and its definite aim. Christmas serves the interests of apitalism perhaps even more effec- ively than July 4, Armistice Day ind other more openly nationalistic ffairs because of the more subtile ideole the opium used by the church to’ blind the workers. The capitalists, through their tool the church, use Christmas for talk of “love and peace,” while the im- ‘perialist’ war preparations, wage cuts and attacks on the working class go on more viciously than ever. Christmas is a pretty mask for all the ugly realities of capital- ism—and weak gestures of “gifts,” etc,, are but. crumbs to disarm the workers so.they can be more easily robbed, and to blur the sharp lines of: the class struggle. With the growing crisis in the country the capitalists are more than ever using Christmas to boost retai] trade which is. suffering greatly "because of growing unemployment. _ Even revolutionists often are led by custom and the environment to surrender to formal observation, at it, of Christmas customs—with- fe must utilize Christmas to _ point out to the workers the prepa- _ vations for imperialist wars and for _ an attack on the Soviet Union, which 0 on behind all the Christmas talk of “love.” We must show every _ worker how the Christmas “gift” to him from the bosses this year is | \ “pitts,” ‘be extended on a wider scale. The a aes, ‘best and most effective way of IN THE ERA OF PROSPERITY. breaking the conspiracy,of the boss- LOS ANGELES (By Mail). jes and the Schlesinger clique to com- Penniles, unemployed and starving, |pany-unionize the dress trade, says Ww. Stevens, 65, a laborer, hanged |the N.T.W.I.U., is for every worker himself. i (Continued on Page Two) Farrington Tells How Mellon Swindled Lewis Out ot Bribe x The former Illinois district pres- for himself. ident of the United Mine ‘Workers, | A Mellon politician then approach Frank Farrington, the 25,000 a year ed Lewis and told him that Presi- agent of the Peabody Coal Go., ex- \dent Coolidge would like ‘to appoint pelled from the N.M.U. when he was |him Secretary of Labor, as Setretary caught taking the mine owners’ Davis was resigning, but that Cal bribe, continues to reveal the mis- edtld not do it as long as Lewis. deeds of the superior office, Inte ;Was at least nominally leading al national President John Lewis of coal strike. : | the U.M.W.A. Farrington is back Operators Win. in the U.M.W.A. now, and one of| Lewis met the operators and | the lieutenants of Harry Fishwick, |granted everything they asked, set- | his successor in office, if he isn’t, as |tling the, strike, “almost overnight. | is more probably the case, Fishwick’s) Then Davis decided to go on be- real commander, i ling Secretary of Labor, and the, Mel- Farrington and Fishwick have 2 lon interests had a good laugh. But little war on with Lewis now ever the miners were sold out just as who. is going to operate the check- jcompletely as though Lewis had gov off in Illinois, and they are “show- |his price. | ing up” Lewis. However, a new deal is being made History of Two Crimes. now, which Farrington qpes not Farrington in the last issue ,»f |b-ther to explain. With Farrington | the Illinois Miner tells how Lewis |and Fishwick gloating, over the ar- sold out the anthracite strike, and rests of National Miners Union was then double-crossed by the Mel- | pickets, and supplying strike bre&k- lon interests and cheated out of his ers to the employers, they forget price. According to Farrington, that a new miners’ strike is com- when the anthracite bosses demand- ing when these anthracite miners ed an arbitration clause in the agrec- will, under ¢he leadershipeof the Na- ment, by. which they could prevent |tional Miners Union, and with the, new strikes and reduce wages, Lewis | bituminous miners, striking too, put hesitated, knowing the intense re-jan end to the slave conditions es- | sentment of the miners againsi such tablished by Lewis, and by Farring- | an agreement, and \ton and Fishwick too, | ; | town or else- . The organizer re- | j fused and the charges were brought against him. He is now out on $2,500 bail supplied by the Inter- national Labor Defense. The case, comes up again in Corporation| Court of Norfolk, January 13.” Mother Jones, Active in Strikes, Very Il) WASHINGTON, D. C., Dee. 24.— |“Mother” Jones, over 99 years old, | lies dangerously ill at the home of} |a friend near here. She has Had a) loug and militant career, actively | leading rank and file miners not) only against ,the bosses, but at times | against the corrupt officials of the union. She was one of the first to expose President Mitchell of the | Unitéd Mine Workers, when he sold | himself to the bosses, and has fre- | quently stated that John Lewis was | worse than Mitchell. Workers will remember her as a militant, as one of those who helped raise relief for the Passaic and other | strikers though in her extreme old | age she has been taken advantage of at times by scheming politicians and labor fakers and led into com: promising company. EIGHTY-HOUR WEEK. | MT. HOLLY, N. J. (By Mail).- | Workers in the Royal-Pilkington and other upholstery mills here are WHITE HOUSE OFFICES BURN, old was “warned” by the open capi. Working masses as a reason for working from 70 to 80 hours a week. | The mills run Saturdays and Sun days besides weck days,” MORE WORKERS LAID OFF. MIDDLETOWN, N. Y., Dee. 2 The Christmas “gift” 500 employe of the Ontario & Western Railroad | reesived today was notice that they | had veen iaid off. . leave \ding between the Italian royal cub_| and the Belgian princess, Marie Jose. Hunger to Try Make Marion Strikers Scab MARION, N. C., Dec. 24.—The Federal Council of Churches which government. The House Committee | portes has been distributing a few free jon Interstate Commerce will begin This follows the conference of Ortiz meals to the evicted and blacklisted families of Marion strikers has be- gun to show the motives of the bosses back of their charity. An announcement yesterday by P. ‘W. Moore, of the “Friends' Service Committee” in charge of food in Marion, gave it away completely. The only thing to do with these | strikers, says the representative of the churches, is to ship them to other mills, and the plan will be laid before the American Federation of Labor discussion of strike break- ing plans and war against the Na- tional Textile Workers’ Union which meets Jan. 6 in Charlotte. The A. F. L.} of course, will send mills there are at the time. If any refuse to go, starvation will be used by church and A. F, L. as a whip. “There are a number of ne’er do wells, amongst them,” said Moore yesterday, “this can’t go on, of course.” WASHINGTON, Dee. executive offices of the White his building program as a means of solving the growing crisis. rence Richey, one of Hoover’ tries, blames a short circui ver and his wife enjoyed Christwas eve by watching the flames. manufacturers of New York and Brooklyn, who are in contractual re- lations with the Independent Shoe Workers’ Union. The manufactur- letter and sent it to the men work- |ing in their factories. The state- ment of the Communist Party is as follows: “The United States government has sent a threatening letter to the shoe workers of New York. In this Jetter Mr. Wood, commissioner of conciliation of the U. S, Department jof Labor, openly declares that workers who follow the leadership of the Communist Party have no right to even capitalist justice in this country. Mr. Wood threatens open violence against the worker: and warns the foreign-born worl Jers of the denial of citizenship if they continue to follow the leader- | ship of this union. “This statement of the United States government is nothing new. | The same practices are indulged in |at all times, when the capitalists |know that the workers recognize the methods of the capitalist gov- ernment and prepare to fight them. “At the present time, with the workers enjoying Hooverian ‘pros- | perity’ in the form of wage slashes, | lengthening of hours, with mass un- employment which grows day by day, with part-time work increa ing, and with the speed-up tearing into the lives of the workers, the employers recognize that the work- ers no longer are content to accept these conditions and are fighting* | back. “In this fight, they have but one leadership: the Communist Party of | U. , and the revolutionary in- dustrial unions affiliated to the Trade Union Unity League. To be sure, Mr. Wood prefers the Amal- gamated Clothing Workers, the A. | F. of L., ete., for these unions are turning the unions of this country into company unions, which openly cooperate with the National Fas Council recently organized by Hoov- er and the United States Chamber of Commerce. “To be sure, the U. S. Depart- ment of Labor does not like the In- dependent Shoe Workers’ Union ay more than it likes the National Miners’ Union, which is leading 15,000 Illinois miners in strike not only against the coal operators, but | against the vicious traitors, Lewis and Fishwick, and also against the (Continued on Page Two) Congress to Push New Rail Merger iChurches, AFL, Using) the next step in the scheme for ithe consolidation of railroads in the ‘United States, a report on which was jsubmitted to Congress by the Inter- jstate Commerce Commission last | Saturday,«will be taken bythe U. S hearings on legislation proposed for this end some time next month, According to Senator Fess of Ohio. |who introduced a bill on railroad ;consolidation in the last Congre: | “Congress is committed to the poli jof railroad consolidation, and legis jlation is necessary from the stand- |point of the carriers, the shippers |and the public.” MacDonald to Play Role | of Impertalisis at Parley them to whatever N. T.:W. struck | The five-power naval conference scheduled for next month at London will give England's “labor” Prime Minister another opportunity to show jhis loyalty to the interests of Brit- ae imperialism. Three times within ‘less than a month, Ramsay MacDon- 24.—The talist Liberal-Tory parties in Parlia. Carrying out capitalist policies. | ‘ment that his services might be dis- | House were destroyed by fire. This | Pensed with at any moment should does not require any special warning ‘should give Hoover a big splurge in |he slip up in executing the pro-|from the British capitalists, and they gram of British capitalism. -Law-| On Nov, 27, a Conservative-Liv. are intended primarily for the rank 's secre- jer@ maneuver helped him to secure ;8nd file masses that put the “Labor Hoo- the passage of the new Dole bill, |Government” into office, F ve days later, the government carried jts unemployment insurance to Win Masses' f | Over forty delegates, young Sunday morning in New Bedford ? K in the Textile Youth Conference of Labor Defense Calls on Tor . |'There, in a busy half day, they| Workers to Defend worked out a program of special-| well as a form of organization, 7 a1: which was all adopted later in the|L2 Years for Striking Second Convention of the N.T.W.U.| National Miners Union The youth seetion program calls) 4 -1-. fo» Strike Fund SKS iS tion in the union, but not separated | ——— from it, for all young workers be-| long to the N.T.W.U, just the same |24—The United Mine Workers of as the adults and attend all union! America continues by threats and . jabuse, as supplying that of holding office. les The youth section is “the special strikebreakers and gunmen to attack ing and holding the young workers in the union.” Members of the youth workers from the textile mills, met | misty | the National Textile Workers Union. | H. Corbishley ized youth activity and demands as| eres day at the second session of the| for building of a mass youth sec-| WEST FRANKFORT, Iil., Dee. meetings with full rights, including | apparatus of the N.T.W. for recruit- | section “while attending its meetings jchildren. Now this work is being | ers in turn have mimeographed the | discuss the specific youth problems Contmued on Page Three) COPS STOP ANTI- LYNCHING MEET 200 Negroes Come to Communist Protest CHESTER, Pa., Dec. 24.—The police of Chester, in an effort to prevent the Communist Party from carrying on organization work |among the Negroe&$ broke up a mass |meeting called last night at Benn Theatre. Under the clumsy pretext of not having any permit, they drove out about 200 Negro workers together with several white workers |at 7:30 p. m. before the meeting \could be opened. | The meeting was called to protest against the lynching spirit stirred jup by the editorials and articles of |the “Chester Times,” and threats ‘against a Negro worker that unless he moves out of the “lily white” | section of Seventh and Jeffrey Sts. he will be lynched. This was for the first time that Chief Vance refused to grant a per- mit to the Communist Party as a result of the intensive campaign carried on among the workers of the Sun Ship Yard, Viscose and other large plants besides the suc- cess of the Communist Party among the Negro workers. Instead of being terrorized by the uniformed thugs, many workers came down to the Party Headquar- ters, at 120 West Third St., where there was a successful meeting held. \'The sfeakers at the meeting were | E. Gardos, D. O., of ‘the Communist Par Wilbur Upshaw, Negro long- shoreman, member of the National Executive Board of the T.U.U.L.; George Carter, one of the Gastonia defendants, sentenced to 20 years, h Comrade Wolford, of the Ches- ter Unit of the Communist Party, aciing as chairman. This very successful meeting re- |sulted in applications for the Com munist Party and three for the Young Communist League, all Ne- gro workers, not speaking of a number of contacts made among the |the Illinois miners, who are or strike in many localities throughout the fields. One of their latest tricks is to go through the form of expulsion of those who have left the | U.M.W.A, for a union of their own the National Miners Union. | The Fishwick administration of \the Illinois district of the U.M.W.A. announces that it has “expelled” 163 |miners in Franklin county since the present strike started. In Benton local, “Old Ben, No. 11 mine,” 21 |members have just been expelled by jedict of the Fishwick gang. Will Spread Strike. | “Spread the strike” is the way tc victory. The miners are convinced that nobody can endure the present situation in the mines, with speed- |up and constant danger from disas- ter as a result of neglect by the boss of safety regulations, with the miners’ still swindled by the check- off to the U.M.W.A. Twenty-five thousand _ leaflets |issued by the Illinois district of the |N.M.U. are to be circulated in ter- jritories where the miners have not lyet struck, and new mass picket \lines ‘formed, with rank and file | strike committees in all mines to \lead the struggle there. It is announced at Taylorville that the, militia sent there is to be |withdrawn. Their places will be \taken by the deputized gunmen of the operators and of the United |Mine Workers of America. The Na- tional Miners Union is appealing te the rank and file of the militia, |pointing out that they are workers, |too, and that they also suffer from the abuses of their officers, whe (Continued on Page Three) ‘Unemployed Waiters ‘Ask for Work But AFL \Officials Beat Them Up 1 The gangsters of the notorious \fakers, Lehman and of McDevitt, |who rule against the wishes of the membership in Waiters Local, No. \1, of the A.F.L., brutally assaulted {a number of unemployed waiters who came up to the union offices ‘at 28d St. and Third Ave. One worker, Yosefowick, the father of two children, who had been discrimi- nated against for so long that the mother of the children had died from poverty and whose children were sick, had just demanded work from the rvling clique, when the assault took place. | Negro workers and the many copies | iti ae tek 4 ake jof the Liberator and the pamphlet ies hier dee dot hae Rar a |“Why Every Worker Should Join smashed in the fight, the Communist Party,” sold, | This Lehman was once driven (ne from office by the votes of the mem- ‘Deport 11 Communists thir. !ut was reinstated by the ck | international. ‘to Machado in Cuba MEXICO CITY, Dec. 24.—Fleven Reve rg Give Commimists were deported into the} Rousin Ie hands of the bloody Machado by u & oconte to Gil, president of Mexico.| Picket Just Released |Rubio with his’ Wall Strget masters.| A large delegation of his fellow |Deportation to Cuba means long, workers in the Independent Shoe imprisonment, torture and perhaps j Workers Union greeted Max Cohen ;death for the Cuban Communists. A | When he left jail yesterday, He has + veign of terror against the Mexican | just served a 10-day sentence and y workers and peasants is under way! was fined for picketing the Brook- jin Mexico. The Mexican rulers are {lyn Shde Co. He was escorted to trying to prove their abject servility | union headquarters, where 250 more to ited States imperialism in| shoe workers gave him an enthusi- levery way they know how. |astic welcome. Three shoe strikers were arrested near the Mackay Shge Co., 117 Grat- jtan St, Brooklyn, for picketing. They are out on bail, and their case |comes before the night court. The union’s entertainment com- mittee reports that tickets are sell- ing well for the concert to raise money for strike relief. It is be- ing held under the auspices of the union and the Workers International Relief, at Central Opera House, . Jahuary 5. Industrial Organizers, — Fraction Secretaries, Meet Friday a 8. P.M. The Organization Department | District 2, Communist Party, U.S. (calls all section and unit indu: organizers and secretaries of union fractions to a special | Friday, Dec. 27, at 8 p. m., at | The naval negotiations between | Workers eCenter, 26-28 Union | Continued on Lage Three) All must be on time, Uae {measure by a majority of ®3, And last Friday, the coal miners bill was carried only by a majority of 8. With 288 “labor” seats in the) |House of Commons agafhst a com- | bined 319 of the fiberal-Conserva- | tives, MacDonald has a “good” formal excuse to offer the British As a matter of fact, MacDonald | know it very well. These,warnings