The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 28, 1929, Page 4

en aemanamaemenenee ice mat i / Add Life to One of the nm features the strike is the part in it of miners. The first day of the that followed prove thet the young are ready to take lea struggle ani put up against the coal oper their henchmen. The young miners know that they are yr acing the adult workers on the s so that der: and the bosses can get more profits and more production out of them. Even so the young miners feel the sting of unemployment in the min- ing field, and the traitorous role of the U. M. W. of A. machine. The young miners know that the Lewis and the Fishwick cliques leading the United Mine Workers of Amer- ica have never paid any attention to the 25 per cent of the miners who are young workers and they have deprived the young miners of all rights in union affai Today the young miners are fac- ing the national guardsmen, the company thugs, and the whole ma- chinery of the state, and have shown that they are ready to stand their ground. In Taylorville, in Buckner, in Collinsville, in Pana, the young miners under the leader- ship of the youth organizers of the National Miners’ Union have shown some splendid examples of fighting spirit and alertness. Women and Children Picket. The present struggle of the min- ers also brought out two other very important facts. From the very first moment the women and the children of the miners were on. the picket line, putting up very strong resistance to the police and deputy sheriffs. The Young Pioneers in Wasson deserve special mention. a iL WY. W YORK, SaTURDA x1, DECEMBEK Zo, avav OWS NEED (am) pm ~*~ ¥ now the miners of other adually of the nation. basis of the struggle for local 4 and local issues. must be to extend demands spective struggle a demands ‘with the general demand of the N.M.U. Lesson To Learn. The strike for the last three weeks must teach us the lessons that if we are to win the strike against the combined enemies of the miners, we must prepare ourselves. The miners must build the Inter- NG WOMEN, YOUTH nst Young Miners; Pioneers Picketing at Wasson only a beginning of th By uggle of the miners. This walk- Hei Atel also the beginning of the end | toy shops have de e rule of the Lewis-Fishwick-| against the Independent rington machine. The struggle must be spread and must in- joc} states, The trike can best be spread on Our per- each d to connect up the local |; § VI C Than Be Non-Union GOLDBERG. ers Union in the form of whole Tt lock-outs shoe workers. ose ight against our unic Je a united scab agencie Workers, the tive About three month: the U.S, |Department of Labor, | Wood, sent out letters ising the shoe manufacturers who signed agreements with the union to break them because it is Communistic. In through one, national Labor Datense _and fhe t spiring letter to the manufac- Workers International Relief. + : : : : turers Wood offered full police and Another essential problem for the |‘™ : rere» ae ners at this time is to prepare for | ZVeTmment a: istance to smash the Be Sete een a ewer to{ independent Shoe Workers Union. fhe Contra huss and Louie sang, | Encouraged by the labor department qe SOUIDEDY teeee woe Devoe weve. |the, bosses sbegant0) terrorize sters is a strong miners’ defense | s45¢ workers in the shops. 8 the miners union we J. womens ns’ clubs r auxiliaries). | Mobilize for Further Struggle. The miners must now mobilize for ide by side with the building of also build auxiliaries, and (N.M.U. chil- threatened the workers with depor- tation. The answ of the shoe workers to the boss terror was a 100 per cent rally to the union, The crash in Wall Street brought an early slack season in the shoe {industry. The bosses began their \strategic maneuvers by individual TORY Would Rather Starve! further struggles, for fiercer battles |jock-outs with injunctions in their in the immediate future. The vic-| pockets, They formed the so-called tory of the miners over the coal Metropolitan Manufacturers’ Asso- east! aoe the Ree jciation, composed of the “independ- | machine will mean a victory for the /ent” shoe manufacturers. Along | ey working class movement over | came the Board of Trades composed the bosses and thei: social fascist/of the large manufacturers and os aeull The crisis in the mining | pledged their full moral and finan- industry, which is growing, the eli- | cjg] support. The capitalist courts mination of large sections of the are busy in sending scores of strik- miners from the industry, with the ers for long jail terms. The police growing speed-up, all these will) are busy clubbing and abusing the As early as 5 o'clock in the morn-| “There Is No Unemployment”—5,000,000 Job- | less Are Busy Looking for Work In his mexsage to corgress, Hoover painted a glowing picture of U.S. capitalism. He declared there was no unemployment. In every state reports come flooding in that millions of workers are roaming the streets looking for work. In Chicago, the postmaster had to get the police to beat back the workers who applied for a few jobs. In Detroit, the bomb-squad and a crew of police were called in to eject the Unemployed Council from the mayor's office because they demanded relief. In the basic industry, steel, 50 per cent of the workers are unemployed. Many plants have entirely ing the Young Pioneers were out on the picket line, singing, cheer- | ing and fighting. This should serve! as an example to the workers as a) whole and to the miners in par-} ticular of the importance of at once | initiating a. campaign of organiza-| tion among the women and children of the miners. Just Beginning. | The walk-out of 10,000 miners on December 9, although in itself an} historical event, and very clearly ex- | pressing the militancy and the fight- ing spirit of the miners, is only a| Crisis Bares Growth of Unemployment (Continued from Page One) ing pictures of capitalism) says un- employment increased nearly 4 per cent in Hlinois in one month. bring further resistance, and the op-| strikers. The underworld and gangs- portunity for greater struggles. The |ters are in the pay of the manufac- capitalist state and all of its depart-| turers. The Boot and Shoe Workers ments in conjunction with the A.|Union have become active and work F. of L, bureaucracy, will always |hand in hand with the manufactur- be on the side of the bosses. These, |ers to try and smash the independ- the workers generally and the min-|ent union at the same time they ers in particular, must prepare to sign secret contracts with those face. The whole unity of the work-| manufacturers who declared war on ing class is essential for the victory |the workers. over the common enemy, the boss} Bosses Oppose Industrial Union. class. The miners have shown the The Independent Shoe Workers way. The workers in other indus’ | have the industrial form of organi- tries must follow the example of| 7ation. It broke the old traditions the fighting miners of Southern Il-|¢ cratt unionism. The shoe work- Enola, jers were always before the victims lof craft unionism. Under the old ployed with the employed workers.” |form of unionism the shoe workers | The capitalists attempt to create a division of unemployed and em- aowet strikers, pitting one against | the other in order to achieve drastic | wage cuts. These demands must be stressed | lin the fight against unemployment: 1. Complete insurance, provided were divided in seven locals as fol- lows: One cutters local, two fitters lo- cals, 3 lasters locals, four woodheel- ers, five edgesetters, six markers, seven finishers and packers locals. Every one of these seven locals had separate headquarters, a separate | executive board and two agents for shut down, employed relief, calling upon the to unite to prevent wage-cuts relief from the state, under work bosses could hire and fire whenever \they pleased. | The Independent Shoe Workers Union has put a stop to all those jevils. Conditions in the factories |have improved, the 44-hour week has been established, prices have |been raised, the open shops stopped, |the wage cuts and conditions in general have been improved in the shops. A Counter Offensive. We must not overlook the: stra- j The Communist Pari ty is leading the struggle for un- employed and unemployed workers and to obtain full unemployment cers supervision. LENIN MEMORIAL MEETS ARRANGED | Held in Many Cities Thruout Country Lenin Memorial Meetings will be tegic position of the bosses, the | held in dozens of cities thruout the “Metropolitan Manufacturers’ Asso- {country between January 17 and 26. ciation,” composed of the Independ-| yany of these meetings have al- ent Shoe Manufacturers, most of | ready been arranged and others will them having agreements with the} 1 announced in a few days. Meet- union. They have the full support, ' ings which have not previously been morally and financially, of the | arranged for another date should be Board 0! Trade, composed of large | hetg on January 21. “The downward trend of employ- | by the government, with benefits of ment shown in October,” says the | full wages under the supervision of Bank. “continued during November. | the workers. ... Heavy recessions were reported! 2. Abolition of private employ- in the rubber, food products, leather | ment agencies; free employment and vehicle groups.” | agencies controlled by the workers. Even food products production| 3. A seven-hour day, five-day dropped. The workers are begin- | week; no overtime; abolition of the ning to eat less. The unemployed | speed-up system; abolition of under- are pulling their few pennies out) ground, night work and work in of the bank fast. reports the Fed-| dangerous industries for youth and eral Reserve. “The Nov. 30 figures | women. jeach local union. Those local unions | manufacturers and of the United jare scabbing against each other|States Labor Department, the | most of the time. In Lynn, Mass., | American Federation of Labor, the | we have witnessed how those locals | socialist party, the courts and the |are used as an instrument of the | police. | bosses to scab against one another.| The independent controls 40 shops. | When the cutters, for instance, went |The employers’ schemes are to jon strike (against the will of the | starve the shoe workers, take away junion officials) the stitchers and|their right to picket, send gorillas {the rest of the locals remained at|to their homes, use the frame-up, work. Next time the stitchers went | make wholesale arrest of the shoe says the program of the (of savings bank deposits) com- pared with a year ago showed de- clines of 4.1 per cent.” Further declines in steel produc-|ajso would alleviate unemployment | tion are reported. The Wall Street Journal says (Dec. 27): “U. S. Steel Corp. during the current week will be operating at considerably in excess of most of its competitors. While the holi- day shut-down has affected the output of the corporation it is in- dicated that production will be at approximately 50 per cent of its capacity. “This in sharp contrast with other concerns. The estimates are that for the entire industry the production of ingots will not te more then 35 per cent to 40 per cent of capacity during the cur- rent week. This means that many of the smaller independents have ‘sclosed almost entirely while others are at a rate much lower than the leading interest.” In this situation the organization of the unemployed is being stressed as a major campaign by the Com- munist Party. “The first and basic principle upon which all struggles against unemployment must be developed,” pee Party for work among the unem- ployed, “is the unity of the unem- | 4, Recognition of the Soviet | Union. This is a central political |demand of the working class, and |through the development of in- jcreased volume of trade with the Soviet Union. 6. Link up the struggle against unemployment with the campaign | against the war danger and for the | defense of the Soviet Union. Send Greetings to the Workers in the Soviet Union Through the Special Printing of The Daily | Worker in the Russian Language! | ATTACK AND COUNTER AT- TACK. (Wireless By Inprecorr) | result of the city council’s decision | to grant a special winter assistance to the unemployed, involving the ‘expenditure of $1,250,000. On | ployed demonstrated in the prosper- End, under Communist leadership, and in spite of the police. Write About Your Conditions for The Daily Worker. Become a Worker Correspondent. BERLIN, Dec. 27.—The state con-| , trol imposed upon Berlin’s munici- pal administration, probably is the; {ous districts of the city, the West on strike the cutters paid them back. | This seabbing business was the re- sult of craft locals. It was always the desire of the shoe or any manu- facturers to support such unions. In the Independent Shoe Workers |the shoe workers have one union. |The shop is the basis of the organ- ization. Each department has its chairman. These department chair- men, elected by the shoe workers, elect a general chairman and one coancil member. The council mem- bers (one from each shop) meet once a week, at which meeting they bring proposals and recommenda- conference (they meet once a month) for approval or disapproval. The |general shop chairmens conference lis the highest body of the organiza- | tion. Conditions Improved. Previous to the formation of the Independent Shoe Workers Union conditions in the factories were detrimental. Wage cuteafter wage cut took place, the speed-up system | Christmas Day the Berlin unem-| reached its highest level, the work- ing hours were from 60 to 70 a week. In order to make a week’s pay the |shoe workers had to work on Sat- urday and Sunday and _ holidays. Every day the bosses introduced new schemes, such as stock selling (partner in business), “yellow-dog contracts” and spy systems. The Unloading a Tank to Kill Striki ng Fs “Scene from the Colorado strike, 1927. the field against the strikers. The American state is the capitalis bosses, Miners With As in Illinois today, the state militia was thrown into t vtate, dlwaye seddy to help the workers and try to bring dissention | The following is a partial list of | the Lenin Memorial meetings: } District One. Tuesday, Jan. 21, 8 p, m.; Frank- lin Union Hall, Alexander Trachten- burg, speaker, Boston, Mass. ;"West |Concord, N. H.; Quincy, Mass.; Long \Cove, Ma: Fall River, Mass.; Fitchburg, Mass.; Gardner, Mass.; Haverhill, Mass.; Keene, N. H. Lanesville, Mass.; Lawrence, Mass.; tions to the general shop chairmen’s | into their ranks. After which they hope the shoe workers will come |back for their jo! But the manu- facturers are greatly mistaken, The shoe workers still remember the misery that prevailed under the open-shop system. Still fresh in the minds of the shoe workers are the long hours they worked and the! wage cuts, The 3,000 workers would , Madison Square Garden, Failies starve on the picket lines |SPeaker, Robert Minor; Perth Am- than go back to work without their {bey. N. J., Ukranian Hall, 752 State aug Immediate Struggle. | Friday, Jan. 24,8 p. m., Broadway The! look-out has reached its cli- |Arena, Broad and Christian, Phila- | max, the busy season is approach- \delphia, Pa.; Sunday, Jan. 26: Seran- ing, the New York shoe manufac- ton, Pa.; Minersville, Pa. turers have lost hundreds of thou- | District Five. sands of dollars in the Wall Street, Friday, Jan. 17, New Kensington. crash. They must make shoes. The |Pa.; Saturday, Jan. 18: E. Pitts- Board of Trade, the labor depart-|burg, Pa.; Ambridge, Pa.; New ment, the courts, the police, the |Castle, Pa.; Sunday, Jan. 19: Pitts- gorillas cannot make shoes. The burgh, Pa.; Monessen, Pa.; Wednes- only ones who can make the shoes day, Jan. 22: Canonsburg, P: are the shoe workers who are out |Avella, Pa.; Clairton, Pa.; Friday, on strike. The shoe manufacturers | Jan. 24; Masontown, P: Browns- go to visit the wives of the strikers |ville, Pa.; Saturday, Jan. 25: Johns- | appealing to them to send their hus- town, Pa.; Daisytown, Pa.; Bentley- |bands back to work, promising |ville, Pa.; Sunday, Jan. 26: Portage, them higher wages and steady work. |Pa.; MceKees Rocks, Pa.; McKees- Now more than ever we must carry port, Pa. on the struggle of the unorganized | shoe workers. We must organize) etroit, Mich. Sunday, Jan. 19, the unorganized shoe workers, |2.30 p. m., speaker, Wm. F. Dunne. Our demand must be: alacenlagt District Right. shop committees in every shop; 40- Chicago, Ill, Tuesday, Jan. 21, hour 5-day week; Abolition of the | 4.jjand Auditorium, speaker, Max piece-work system; General increase | Bedacht. ij 8 |in wages. H Only on such demands will we be able to establish a strong union in| |the shoe industry, pape leas Maynard, Mass.; Newton Upper | Falls, Mass.; Norwood, Mass.; New- port, N. H.; PeasBody, Mass.; Prov- idence, R. I.; Wilton, N. H.; New Bedford, Mass.; Manchester, N. H.; |Lynn, Mass. District Two. tf District Seven. District Thirteen. Los Angeles, Calif., Tuesday, Jan. Columbus Hall, 612 Blockers Come to N.T.W. U. | At Berg and Aronoff eight block- ers were locked out. The trimmers jin this shop belong to local 43, in |the N.T.W.LU, The right wing union officials did not permit these blockers to come to the industria! union for help, but they came any- |way, and the militant trimmers |forced the boss to call up the chair- man of the strikers and reinstate them, and settle their grievances. This is unity in the shop over the heads of the right wing officialdom. the claxn v nominate the economic phystology ot 1 have nad new phases that the class ‘\to threaten and browbeat one an- Send Greetings to the Workers in the Soviet Union Through the Special Printing of The Daily Worker in the Kussian Language! fend Creetings to the Workers. in the Soviet Union Through the Special Printing of The Daily Worker in Ue Russian Language! SPEED BUIL OF 15 CRUISERS, | Preparations |... | } | WASHINGTON, Dec. 27,—Along | with its maneuvers for more arma: t ments at the London Five-Power Conference, U. S. imperialism is im- mediately proceeding to the build- ing of 15 10-000-ton cruisers. | This was the announcement made | by Burton L, French, of the House } Appropriations Committee. French | | points out that war preparations are | |to go on even faster than hereto- | \fore. \ | Ten cruisers will be laid down this } |year, and five next year. French says the forthcoming race-for-arma- ments conference will not have the slightest effect on the naval war preparations. “It is my opinion that the naval construction program will not be \changed because of the forthcoming conference,” he said. “I see no rea- son why the cruiser program should |be altered in the least, as there |seems to be no present probability that an agreement will be reached will cause any change in our pro- posed eruiser construction.” In order to speed up the work, special financing is being prepared. United States imperialism is rush- ing its war preparations especially in the face of the growing sharp} crisis. Ask Big Navies For War, Colonies (Continued from Page One) should agree that the imperialist powers build their navies big enough for this purpose, Hoover and Mac- |Donald under the slimiest pacifist phrases have been trying to hide this fact. | In the reshuffling of alliances |that will take place at the London conference, the French imperialists |want to make the best bargain for jthe next year. As a slap against U. S, maneuvering for world hege- mony, in the guise of joining the World Court, etc., and the advocacy of the Kellogg “peace” pact, the French imperialists declare that the London conference would have to be within the framework of the League of Nations. The League of Nations is mainly British controlled and is the rally- ing ground against the encroach- ments of U. S. imperialism in the world market. The French are in- voking the authority of the League against the United States. This brings out clearly the sharp conflicts and contradictions which animate and will dominate th dis- cussions at the race-for-armaments conference. The French fidelity to the League of gNations smacks of their military alliance with Great Britain, directed against the United States. On one point there is more or less harmony—the strengthening of the Kellogg war pact (misnamed for publicity purposes “peace pact”) by a strong military alliance of the capitalists. The main object of this backbone to the Kellogg war pact would be an attack on the Soviet Union. The French point out that “public opinion” is to weak a force behind the Kellogg pact. They mean par- ticularly the Stimson note threaten- ing war on the Soviet Union, in the name of “public opinion.” Litvinoff mercilessly unmasked the imperial- ist war ambitions of U. S. imperial- ism in this instance. It is to insure more drastic measures that the French ask for “stronger guaran- tees.” jj The sharpening world economic crisis in this Third Period is driving towards war. The imperialist pow- ers are already building their navies and armies. There is one outstanding fact that is overlooked at the present moment jn the confusion created by the capitalist press in repeatedly call- ing the London Five-Power Confer- ence, a “disarmament meet.” Every capitalist power involved is busily engaged in building a strong navy, without even waiting for agree- ments of alliances. The French have the biggest bud- get for war purposes in their his- tory. Great Britain is at work on its naval bases and a number of cruisers. And Hoover admits that the United States is spending faster than any other country for war pur- poses. Every day submarines are launched, and *he work of the 15 10,000-ton cruisers poceeds rapidly. The capitalist powers are grim in their determination to strengthen their war machine, The London con- ference is in reality the doorstep of the coming world war. In order other to obtain the most valuable alliances, the imperialist delegates will come in and throw into each others faces their tremendous naval strength and their threat and de- mand for future armaments. NEW YEAR’S EVE BALL FOR MINERS’ RELIEF. — A great crowd of proletarians is expected to tear the roof off Rock- land Palace, 155th St. and Eighth Ave. the big Workers’ Costume Ball on New Year’s Eve. In every section of the city.and vicinity work- ers are now busy preparing the cos- tumes for one of the biggest events of its kind ever held. Local New York, Workers Intery national Relief and the Workers School are arranging the ball, a ma- jor portion of whose proceeds will go for striking Illinois minexs. » lisSued the following statement on| the payroll during the month of DING. TAMMANY OFFICIALS GUZZLE = TREASURY; WORKERS STARVE. |Congress Rushes War|New York District Communist Party Calls All to Organize, Protest, Demand Relief The bureau of the Communist Party of U. S. A., District 2, has the salary grab of New York Tam-| many officials, pointing out that this takes place while widespread | unemployment, wage cuts, and mis-| ery sweep through the working} population. ; Jimmy Walker, “Friend of the People!” “Mayor Walker, representative of the strikebreaking government and| of Tammany Hall, the most vicious political machine in the world, to-| gether with his colleagues, the} comptroller, the president of the board of aldermen, and the five borough presidents, have raised their salaries by tens of thousands of dollars, “Hundreds of thousands of work- ers of New York City are out on the streets looking for jobs. The Wall Street crash showed the ser- ious crisis in industry, which dur- ing the month of November alone reduced employment 3.1 per cent. Some industries have been very) hard hit, as, for instance, the auto i ry, which declined 17.3. per! cent in one month, t only did hundreds of thou- nds of workers lose their jobs but November decreased 6.8 per cent. “In face of the misery confront- | ing the workers, the unemployment and declining payroll, Mayor Walk- er has utilized the post-election per- iod to raise his pay and thus flaunt this action in the face of the suf- fering workers. None For Employees. “In the month of May, the city engineers made a demand upon the city for a wage increase, Faced with a refusal of the city to grant this pay raise, they went in a body} to the city hall and as a conse-| quence 300 were summarily dis- charged. The subway construction | workers, who have had to work at a very low wage, struck to improve their conditions. They did not re- ceive a penny increase in wages, | and yet Mayor Walker and his col-} leagues run to the public treasury | for their own benefit. “This is the mayor who, repre-| senting the concentrated power of Wall Street, mobilizes the police | against every attempt of the work- ers to improve their conditions. This is the mayor who has carried | on a vicious campaign to destroy the labor organizations of this city, particularly the fighting industria] unions—the needle trades, shoe and cafeteria workers, etc. This is the strikebreaking mayor who pockets thousands of dollars, while thou-| sands of city employees have to struggle along on $100 a month and | are compelled to send their wives to | work to help feed their families. Rents Go Up. “These are not the only ques- tions confronting the workers at| the present time, although they are the most vital ones. Rents are soaring sky-high, the landlords tak- ing advantage of the rent law which | was recently declared unconstitu-| tional. One million people today | are occupying rooms without win- dows in New York City. Hundreds | of thousands of children not only find no seats in the crowded schools, but are attending school in an un-} derfed condition. | “While adult workers are com-| pelled to work for 40 cents or 45| cents an hour, women workers and young workers are being drawn into industry to take their places at lower pay. In this period of unem- ployment, Negro workers are being forced to accept even a lower wage than those granted white workers. Demand Relief. “We workers of New York, who are suffering unemployment and low wages and are organizing against these conditions, condemn this plundering of the public treas- ury by Mayor Walker and his col- leagues and demand for our protec- tion social insurance against unem- ployment, accident, sickness and old age. “We demand that through a tax on the bankers and manufacturers of this city whose profits and divi- dends are higher than ever before in the history of the country, a so- cial insurance fund be created. “This fund shall be administered by a commission of the workers elected from shops and from the unemployed. The workers of this country who during the last year produced 79 billion dollars’ worth of wealth and in spite of this are tramping the streets looking for jobs, have a right to demand of the state that they be given protection in times of misery and unemploy- ment. “The unemployed workers must be linked up with the workers in the shops, for those still on the job face a worsening of conditions ow- ing to the army of unemployed be- ing used as a reserve army by the capitalists. White and colored work- ers, employed and unemployed, must be united in a formidable army to fight against the vicious system which allows the parasites of so- ciety and those wielding power in the state and municipal offices to prey upon the working class for the benefit of the capitalists. { Task of T.U.U.L. - “Forming this army is the task ef the Trade Union Unity League, the new industrial unions and in- vial leptues, which alone can ing all employed and unemployed, organized and unorganized workers, “While robbing the workers, the capitalists are feverishly preparing for war against the Workers and Peasants Government of the Soviet Union, where workers are provided for, where hours ure being lowered, wages mereased and where higher production is turned out only for the benefit of the workers and peasants of the country. Although the United States government spends 80 per cent of the budget for war, nithing is being provided for the ca: and protection of the | unemployed and for improving the conditions generally of the working class. This is because the govern- ment of the United States is a capi- talist government controlled by the bankers of Wall Street, whose rep- resentative in the city government, Mayor Walker, raises the salary of himself and his colleagues in face of th growing misery of the work- ers. Organize! “The Communist Party, New | York District, calls upon the work- ers to organize against the capital- | ists and the capitalist government, The Communist Party declares that this act of Mayor Walker shows clearly that the capitalist govern- ment is against the interests of the working class. “The Communist Party declares | declares that the New York Central jTrades and Labor Council, which | supposedly represents the interests | of the workers of New York, will | not lift a finger in order to fight | against the action of Mayor Walker | and those whom he represents. The | reactionary officialdom at the head | of the Central Trades and Labor | Council is working hand in hand with Jimmy Walker and his vicious cossack system against the welfare of the wide masses of workers in New York City. “The Communist Party declarey that the social-fascist socialist party \ will conduct no struggle against these conditions, for the socialist party is elosely linked up with the officials of the American Federation of Labor, which works hand in hand with the municipal government and the vicious cossack system. “The socialist party, through Norman Thomas and James Oneal, may shed crocodile tears about plun- dering of the public treasury by Walker. The only way that the workers of New York will improve their conditions is by the employed and unomployed, organized and un- organized, white and colored, men, women and young workers, uniting in a body and taking up _ the struggle. Take’ Action? “The Communist Party calls upon the workers to pass resolutions, hold | protest meetings, condemn the rob- | bery of the workers by the strike- breaker Mayor Walker and his cos- sack administration. As employed and unemployed workers, get to- gether to fight for Social Insurance as a basic need of the workers to- day. “Demand the seven-hour day, five-day weck as a means of giving employment to more workers. Fight against the vicious speed-up. Fight against wage reductions and for wage increases; for equal pay for equal work, regardless of race, sex or color. Demand the six-hour day, five-day week for young workers. “Demand admittance to all unions for unemployed workers without payment of initiation fee, “Demand recognition of the Soviet Union also as a means of increasing employment. Fight against the growing danger of war against the Soviet Union. Defend the Soviet Union against the attacks of the imperialist governments. “Show solidarity with the work- ers and peasants of Haiti, Nicara- gua and China against whom Amer- ican marines and warships are be- ing sent. “Organize and fight against Wall Street and its representatives in the municipal, state and federal govern- ment. “Fight for the establishment of working class power in the United States through a Workers and Farmers Government.” Enlist Your Shop Mate in the Drive for 5,000 New Members. EXPOSING THE “PEACE” PACT. A dispatch to the New York World, by Elliott Thurston, in Washington, commenting on the efforts of Stimson and Hoover to strengthen the capitalist alliance against the Soviet Union, says: *“One of the main criticism haised by the Republican isolationists against the action of this govern- ment in concerting with others to exert pressure of world opinion up- on Russia and China to observe the anti-war pact is that the Kellogg ‘Treaty authorizes no such action. This admitted deficiency would be supphed by a general pact.” This is a further exposure of the fact that the Kellogg “peace” pact is a capitalist war maneuver. The London Naval Conference will at- tempt to strengthen the atacks on the Soviet Union. Hoover and Stim- son are taking the lead m the war threats _on the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. the bourgeoisie pons that br ence the men whe are to Ne WEN pote the serve as a focusing point for rally- ve i Rae NE pe a NOT, q ? ¢ I « ¢ E ] t i t I « €