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\ pre Preachers Who Sprinkled Holy Water on Ar- tillery in the Last War Are Now Praying for Peace. Taxpayers Are Alarmed Be- cause the London “Disarmament” Meet- ing Means More and Bigger Guns to Pay For. More Holy Water Is Needed for the Next War. Down With Such Holy Hypocrites! Worker swish ue second-class matter at the Post Ottice at New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 3, 1879. FINAL CITY EDITION ——— Published a: Company. except Sunday b; . 26-28 Union Vol. VI., No. 263 The Comprodaily Publi are. New York City, SUBSCRIPTION RATE! Si im New York by mail. $8.00 per year Outside New York. by mall, 96.00 per year Price 3 Cents «<. NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 1930 Imperialist Counterfeiters COUNTERFEITERS’ | The trial of anti-Soviet counterfeiters now proceeding in Berlin is a revealing cross-section of imperialist hypocrisy. Every one knows from current news articles of the yowls, howls and screams of “Red Propaganda” raised by all capitalist nations every time diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union is mentioned. | It was on the excuse that the Soviet employes on the Chinese Eastern Railway were engaged in “Communist Propaganda” that: the imperialists attempted to seize the railway and provoke war against the Soviet Union last July. This scoundrelly attempt reached its climax with the Stimson Note, but reached its anti-climax with the firm resistance of the Soviet government backed up by the fierce demonstrations of the world-proletariat. The “labor” imperialists of Great Britain headed by MacDonald and Snowden, who promised the British workers before election to resume relations with the Soviet Union, for months tried to evade their pledge by raising the insulting demand that there be no “Com- munist Propaganda” spread either in Great Britain itself or in any of its dominions or colonies. The Soviet Union refused to even discuss such outrageous “de- mands” and the MacDonald government was compelled to résume re- lations upon the same basis as those which were broken off at the time of the Arcos raid in 1927—which raid had failed absolutely to uncover the “propaganda” that was expected, although the capitalist press keeps on lying about, the Arcos incident just the same. However, not a doG’ passes but that either pne or the other of the imperialist politicians, whether conservative, “labor” or liberal, raises a howl about “Communist Propaganda” and “Violation of Treaty” by the Soviet government. Only the other day, when the first issue of the British Daily Worker appeared with a greeting from the Communist International, a storm arose about this being a viola- tion of treaty. Just how much such moral indignation is worth, is exposed by the Berlin trial. Here there is shown in the courts of capitalist Ger- many that the officials of the British government, the Italian govern- ment and the German government conspired with the counter- revolutionary “socialists” from the Soviet Republic of Georgia (a re- public of the Soviet Union) as late as 1927 to incite armed insurrec- tion within the Soviet Union. Moreover, in order to undermine the strength of the Soviet government, it was planned, and the plan was jarried out in some degree, to start two printshops in Germany to manufacture counterfeit Soviet money, thus depreciating Soviet cur- rency in hopes that a crisis would help the plotters. It seems that the Soviet government discovered the plot and forced the “small fry” into the German court, which is trying to hush up the scandal and by minimizing the affair to shelter the imperialist plotters. These facts are not deduced from statements of Communists, but * are the words of confession of those on tria] who are fascists and x ae ee a enemies of the Soviet government. Comment is hardly necessary on such apparent hypocrisy of those who scream “Red Propaganda” at the moment they are running counter-revolutionary insurrections within the Soviet Union and re- sorting to forgery and counterfeiting against the Soviet power. These are the heads of the imperialist governments who attack the Soviet Union! The workers of the United States must expose these scoundrels to their fellow-workers, and more than ever resolve to stand between the imperialist wolf pack and the Soviet government of workers and . Peasants. “Two Messages for Haiti On Wednesday Senator Borah of the Foreign Relations Committee was reported to have “suggested” to President Hoover that “we should give the Haitian people a free and untrammeled election.” As an aside, we would remark perhaps such an “untrammeled” election as is permitted by the republican gangsters of Chicago oy the Tammany thugs of New York. Just why the head of the Foreign Relations Committee should be expressing opinions about Haiti, we can not imagine, since Haiti is just as thoroughly an American possession as the backyard of the White House. This very fact, that Borah suggests that we should “give” Haiti the right to have an election, is in itself an ironic com- mentary upon the “freedom” and “independence” of the Haitian re- public. But the irony of all ironies occurred only the day before, when President Hoover addressed the following message to Luis Borno, boot- licker extraordinary who serves American imperialism under the title of “President” of Haiti: “T have the pleasure in extending to your Excellency and to the people of Haiti, cordial greetings on this anniversary of the independence of the republic.” We can well imagine the jackal laughter that shook the fat jowls of the imperialist executive in the White House at signing his name to such a telegram on the 125th Anniversary of the independence of Haiti from France. Let Hoover's message stand before history as an indictment against its writer! But one may well also imagine the feelings of rage in the hearts of the Haitian people who, under their great leader L’Ouverture, droye from the soil of Haiti the best troops imperial France could send against them a century and a quarter ago. Today, with the chains of Yankee imperialism jangling on their limbs, the Haitian people look back 125 years and cannot but aspire to revolt against their present oppressors. But conditions of successful revolt are changed since a century ago. The assurance for independence and comfort as small farmers of the Haitian peasants, which was won by them acting alone in previous revolution, can not exist today in the age of imperialist economy with small peasant economy competing vainly against large-scale produc- tion of coffee, tobacco and alcohol in other countries. For this reason all hopes of a “return to old times” are fantastic. The Haitian peas- antry and workers are bound up by the world market with the workers and peasants of the whole world, and particularly of Latin-America and of the United States. Therefore, their struggle must be one that is joined with the struggles of Latin-American and U. S. toilers. - It is the duty of the United States working class, realizing also that they can not become free while the Haitian peasantry is enslaved, to see that on this anniversary of the independence that is lost, a new é nce movement shall begin, which will, with their help, insure Haitian real independence and genuine liberty under a government of workers and peasants. This is the message of the Communist Party of the United States to the oppressed toilers of Haiti. a hs pecnegene Meet of Today In The ILD in Harlem Jan. 15 Harlem, New York’s chief Negro foreupt City — Governments section, will be the scene of an all- important membership nace, a Distri f tl n= Vi: ize Unemployed, Page 3. the New York District 0! e How te Strengthen Illinois Miners’ Strike, Page 4. ternation Labor Defense, to be held T.U.U.L, Drive for Jobless, 2. next Wednesday evening, January 15, at 8 o'clock, at St. Luke's Hall, 125 W. 130th St. This meeting will be open to sym- pathisers, as well as members of the LL.D., and Negro workers are es- pecially invited. Build the Daily Worker by Rooting it in All Basic In- dustries, Conference Shows Im- perialist Squabble, Page 3. TOMORROW. * Lenin on Imperialist War. The Plenum of the Communist International. Bukharin Renounces His Mis- | bring about the fall of the Soviet | Government. | counterfeiting factories was set up| | | ducting the case against the accused {who are charged with the counter- |Celebration will be held this Satur- TRIAL EXPOSES PLOT ON SOVIET |British, German and) Italian Officials | Are Involved | \Conspired At Geneva iGuilt Reealls Cry of “Red Propaganda (Wireless By Inprecorr) BERLIN, Jan. 8.—Tuesday’ sion of the trial of the an et counterfeiters was marked by the} examination of the second fascist, Weber, an ex-captain of the German army. Weber described the plan to or- ganize an insurrection in Soviet Georgia (one of the republics of the Soviet Union where there are great oil fields) with the support of prominent British politicians and industrialists. Owing to indiscretion of the plot- ters, the Soviet Government dis- covered the plans. Then the plans for insurrection} within the Soviet Union were re- newed with both British and Italian politicians at Geneva, Switzerland, in the beginning of 1927, when the idea of forging or counterfeiting Soviet paper money was first | brought up as a method to under- mine the Soviet currency and there- by, in’ the hopes of the plotters, to | | Weber declared that the authori- ties in Bavaria, where one of the at Munich, knew the plans he was working on, and gave him support. At this moment in the trial, the | prosecuting attorney, who is con- feiting, protested that it was “i possible” that the German authori- vies knew of the plot, whereupon an- other of the accused, named Bell, leaped up in the prisoner’s dock and declared: “The German’ government itself ‘’ympathized with the plans!” On Wednesday morning, the ac- cused fascist Becker was examined, but nothing of importance was shown except the fact that Becker had: been in close touch with the | German Foreign Office. The accused and the Jawyers are all exploiting the proceedings jor insulting anti-Soviet attacks, the court only giving them a mild re- proof on such occasions. DW CELEBRATION, MECCA TEMPLE Workers Will Hail 6th Anniversary The Daily Worker Anniversary day evening at the Mecca Temple, 133 West 55th St. instead of at the Rockland Palace, as originally sche- duled. The Mecca Temple is much more suited to the excellent pro- gram arranged. The Conductorless Symphony Orchestra, based on the idea originated in the Soviet Union of the Symphony Orchestra with- out a conductor, has met with tre- | mendous success, Taylor Gordon, noted Negro bari- tone, who has delighted large au-} diences in the United States and in many European countries, will sing Negro work songs. A very in-, teresting program of revolutionary | dances has also been arranged. Prof. Gustav Cassel, petty-bour- geois Swedish economist, takes a hand in the analysis of the present; sharp crisis in the United States for the American capitalists. A special | article by the professor is featured | in the Journal of Commerce (Janu- ary 8) and is widely quoted by the capitalist press. The gist of Cassel’s contribution is contained in the headlines: “Cas- sel hits Hoover's plan to maintain prosperity. Economist calls pro- gram ‘mistake of first magnitude’; declares capital shortage is key to situation.” Cassell says that Hoover's big loss council cannot pull United States imperialism out of the swamp of crisis. “It finds itself willingly or unwillingly on the road toward socialism,” says the professor. He has a distorted view of the new) governmental machine that Hoover | Labor ILD in World MINERS READY 10 Wide Attack on Mexico Terror After Mexican refugees appeared before the national executive com- mittee of the International Defense | yesterday and told their ex- periences in the Wall Street reign of white terror in Mexi- co today, an in- ternational cam- paign was mapped out by F. JUNCO the Defense. Many lives are in dan; - in Mex- ico. In addition to the murders and jailings, many Cuban workers, among them Fernando Junco, dele- gate to the Montevideo congress where a labor federation for all Latin a was formed, are ar- rested. were about to be de- pc.ted i> certain deat’ in Cuba. Labor demonstrations made the government promise to send them to Ge many. “We must immediately and rapid- ly devolop our campaign in suport of the workers and peasants in Mexi- ¢> against whom the Mexican gov- ernment, the puppet of Wall Street imperialism has launched a cam- paign of murder and assassination, the object of -vhich is to destroy all workers organizations including the Communist Party, the Young Com- munist League, and the Internation- al Labor Defense, the militant trade unions, *»e Workers’ and Peasants’ Bloc, ete.” J. Louis Engdahl, national secretary of the I.L.D., de- clared. “Al the district orgs” .ers and sub district organizers of the I.L.D. have been notified to haste: their cam- paign on behalf of the Mexican workers,” said Engdahl. MARCH 20 TO BE UNEMPLOYED DAY Latins Ask TUUL ‘to Join Wide Action MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Jan. 8. —The Executive Committee of the Latin American Trade Union Con- federation, with headquarters here, has issued a call throughout all Latin America for an agitation and struggle against unemployment, with gigantic demonstrations to be held on March 20 as a culmination of the campaign. It also desires workers in the United States to participate. Telegraphic notice has been sent out by the Committee to all adher- ing organizations of the continent giving the outline of demands for4 the unemployed and directing that demonstrations be held on March 20, as “Continental Unemployed Day.” The program of demands in all countries is led by a demand for unemployment insurance at the cost of the capitalists and the gov- ernment; the reduction of the work- ing hours to the Seven-Hour Day; the remission of rents for all un- employed workers, and cancellation of taxes and debts also; with the construction of such public works as will benefit the masses of work- ers and peasants. To extend the agitation wider, the Latin American Trade Union Confederation has also communi- cated with the Trade Union Unity League of-the U. S. A., with which it has signed a “Solidarity Pact” against imperialism. The Confederation will also, dur- ing March, convoke a delegate con- ference of all meat packing work- ers of Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil and Paraguay. FIGHT IN SALINE AND TAYLORVILLE Corbishley Parole Case} on 15th; Livingston | Hall Is Bombed | Attack Tamaqua Meet UMW, Bosses, Police | Force Men Into Mine ec BULLETIN. WEST FRANKFORT, Ill., Jan. 8.—Organizers sent by the Na- tional Miners’ Union to Staunton territory report that the miners are ready to strike. So do the Saline county miners. Meetings held in Taylorville section are enthusiastic for struggle. The meeting place of the N. M. U. in Livingston, not far from Staunton, where a large U.M.W. local came over to the N.M.U. be- | fore the strike, has been bombed. Details are lacking. There is a desperate need for relief for the striking miners, and those locked out for belonging to the N.M.U. in districts not yet struck. Henry Corbishley, secretary treasurer of the Illinois district of the N.M.U. has not returned from Chester, where he was taken to appear before the parole board. He was sentenced to one to four- teen years after being framed up in the Zeigler case and the state will try to make his participation in the present strike an excuse state police, bosses of the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Co., ahd city | police together broke up a meeting | of the striking miners in Colliery | |14 here Monday, and later forced | | some of the miners by threats and ‘intimidation back to work. The | U.M.W. advised calling the police. The strike started Saturday, fol- lowing a decision to that effect at a | meeting -addressed: by National Miners Union speakers. The men) walked out of the wash house Sat- | urday morning because the company jhad discharged Six N.M.U. members, at the request of the United Mine | Workers of America officials. Monday morning two carloads of state police and a few carloads of police from Tamaqua, Pottsville and Lansford came down on the big| picket line. All the company offi- | cials from the superintendent down | accompanied them in the raid on the meeting held in the wash house. Monday was button day in the Panther Creek Valley ~oal fields, and there was sharp resistance from the miners to the U.M.W. demand that they buy buttons. The fakers | and the bosses drove large groups from the pits when they refused to pay tribute to the U.M.W. Alex Moran, formerly sub-district treasurer of the U.M.W. with some of his followers from Colliery 11 spoke Saturday to a miners’ meet- ing in Tamaqua and urged the men to go back to the U.M.W., and to go| back towork, “at a dollar a head.” This Moran has been pretending to be a porgressive, and was put out of office by the U.M.W. because of a gesture against the employers. Colliery 14 men at the meeting blocked an attempt by Moran’s gang to assault Phil Frank, of the N.M. U., and Frank spoke t> the meeting. The National Miners Union con- tinues its struggle to win better con- ditions for the miners, and a mass meeting is being called for Sunday, January 12, with a special leaflet is- sued by the unien. There is much resentment among the miners against the U.M.W. for its co-opera- tiou with the companies and its use of police. Many are joining the N.M.U. ‘ CRISIS IN U. S. A. INTENSIFIES WORLD CRISIS has created. This shows utter con- fusion of the role of fascism and social-fascism. The logical step of the Hoover council is toward fas- cism. Hoover's council of 400 lead- ing capitalists are attempting, not in an organized scheme of produc- tion, because this is impossible un- der capitalism, but in their anarchi- cal capitalist manner to speed-up production, cut wages, and make a smashing drive for more world mar- kets. Finding the capitalist state, which is already controlled by fi- nance capital, too unwieldy in its “democratic” form to undertake the immediate severe tasks of the crisis, Hoover calls together the leading bosses. Hoover includes in his organiza- tion of the leading capitalists the heads of the American Tederation of Labor in order to make his ma- chine of suppression more effec- Professor Cassel Says Hoover Cannot Stop Crisis; Developing Toward Fascism tive in its attack on the workers, Commenting on the far-reaching effects of the admittedly severe cri- sis in the United States Cassel says: “Europe with a fair degree of cer- tainty will be come drawn into any depression that eventually devel- ops in American business and, ac- cordingly, will find itself faced with the same difficulties that America is today battling.” The present crisis of United States capitalism shows its interre- lation with the world crisis of capi- talism. The fundamental contradic- tions of capitalism, which lead to- ward crisis are operating in full force. As Engels pointed out, while productive forces grow at a geome- tric rate, markets grow at an arith- metic proportion. Monopoly capi- talism, which Hoover felt could overstep the bounds of capitalist crisis in reality intensifies the cri- for revoking parole, The board meets on the 15th. TAMAQUA, Pa., Jan. 8.—The} M’Donald Gets High Praise ot U.S. A. Bosses Special tribute is paid to the Mac- Donald “Labor” government policy by one of the leading organs of U. S. finance capital, the Commercial & Financial Chronicle, in its issue of Jan. 4. Says the Chronicle: “The obvious trend of the Mac- Donald government is toward conservatism. No one any longer expects the British Labor Party to do anything particularly radi- cal. Its socialism is hardly dis- tinguishable now from a progres- | sive liberalism, and its foreign | policy is essentially at one with the general policy to which Great Britain has long been accus- | tomed.” | The bourgeoisie can smell their | lackeys all the way across the} ocean. It must make them feel comfortable to know that right at ame they have a third capitalist party, disguised under the name |“socialist party” whose “obvious |trend is toward conservatism,” and whose foreign policy cannot be dis- tinguished from that of Mr. Hoover| j himself. | It is not at all accidental that un- bounded praise is leveled at Mac- Donald all the way from the Hun- garian fascist dictator, Horthy, to the spokesmen of the U. S. imper- lialists who jail hundreds of work- ers for their strike activities. Horthy actually prays for a group of leaders of the MacDonald stripe to give his dictatorship more soli- darity. When it comes to such questions as India and national defense (a |nice word for war preparations) the | Chronicle says the MacDonald re- gime “is pretty certain to show an underlying conservatism.” The im- perialists can recognize their most reliable ’ ols at a glance. TUUL. INVITES NEGRO WORKERS Special Call to Come! to N. Y. Convention | The Trade Union Unity League| of Greater New York and New Jer- | sey has called especially to the| Negro workers to rally to the dis- trict convention of the League to be held Saturday and Sunday, Jan. 25 and 26 at Irving Plaza Hall. The call points out the necessity of Ne- gro workers organizing, and the} difference between the A. F. L. Jim Crow policy and the complete ra- cial equality in the unions af- filiated with the T. U. U. L. The call is signed by the local! council of the T.U.U.L., 26-28 Union Square, New York. It is ad-} dressed to all Negro workers, men, | women and young workers, and speaks especially in the name of the Negro Committee of the T. U. UL. “Fellow workers! “The workers of New York and vicinity, organized and unorgan- ized, Negro and white, women and young workers, will organize at this convention a united struggle against the campaign of wage cuts, increased speed-up, lay-offs and unemployment forced upon the workers of this eountry by the bosses. In order to put thru the drive to beat’ down the conditions of all workers Mr. Hoover organ- ized a special council of big bank- ers, industrial lords, and the mis- leaders of the A. F. L. “We Negro workers especially are made to suffer from the de- veloping crisis and the drive of the bosses. Hundreds of thousands of us in New York and New Jersey are forced to do the hardest and (Continued or Page Two) sis and especially its world charac- ter. “The statement that combines do away with crisis,” says Lenin, “is only a tale for the marines, used by bourgeois economists, who set out to justify capitalism at all costs. On the contrary, when monopoly ap- pears in certain branches of indus- try, it increases and intensifies the chaos proper to capitalist production as a whole.” Meanwhile, current facts show the deep nature of the present cri- sis. The story that the stock mar- ket would have only a temporary effect on production is disappearing, many capitalist economists admit- ting that production showed a de- cline long before the stock market crash, WAR ARMS RIVALRIE Cruisers; War Dispatches from London r PARTY RECRUITS | IN SHOPS, JAIL Get 5 New Members Out of 27 Arrested The membership recruiting drive of the Communist Party is proceed- ing on all fronts. Out of the 27 ar- | rested in the demonstration against |the Rubio fascist terror in Mexico. | five new members were recruiteed among those in jail. With nearly 1,000 new members already in the ranks of the party, the districts, are working hard to maintain and increase their iead. ee ke tense in the industrial sections of the country. This is showing re- sults in the organization of shop nuclei. Three shop nuclei were or- ganized in the steel center of Youngstown, Ohio. The 42 members recruited by the Cleveland district in the first two weeks of the drive were distributed as follows: Cleve- land, 22; Youngstown, 10; Akron, 2; Toledo, 2 Cincinnati, 2; Spring- field, 2; and Massillon 1. 8 Special efforts are being made to recruit party members among the growing ranks. of the unemployed. In the large number of unemployed meetings being held under the au- spices of the Communist Patty in the various districts the question of membership in the Communist Party is put forward. GREEN LIES ON Says Only 3,000,000 Are Without Work ST. PETERSBURGH, Fla., Jan. 8.—Basking in the Florida sun, William F. Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, trying to hide the severity of the unemployment situation by his an- nouncement that in the present cri- This is in line with Green’s sup- port of Hoover’s council to meet the present crisis. Even the yellow, social-fascist, Dr. Laidler, pointed out sometime ago that there were in the United States over 2,500,000 workers displaced by rationalization. The number of workers unemployed especially since the sharp decline in production has jumped to over 5,000,000, The executive council of the A. F. of L., which is meeting here, is de- vising: means of helping the bosses carrying on their wage-cutting drive in an effort to transfer the burdens of the crisis on the backs of the workers. No program for the unemployed was devised outside of the Hoover plan of general wage ents and speed-up. The Communist Party is pressing its unemployment program for the organization of the unemployed for demands of full- wage relief. Shoe Co. Orders Men’s Arrest on Contempt in Hallway Blocks Away Two shoe strikers, Ganz and War- shafsky, were arrested yesterday at the instigation of Schwartz & Ben- jamin Co. They were taken from the hallway or strike headquarters, two blocks from the shop as they were coming out of it. One police- man came from in front, and an- other from the rear. The one from the rear seized them. They were abused, jerked off to jail, and charged with contempt of court. This is a regular tactic of the police now, because the busy season is near. Activize and Politicalize the | Factory Nuclei. | Patsy Gongoni of the Dan Palter shov has also been arrested. The membership drive is most in- | . | JOBLESS ARMY sis there are only 3,000,000 jobless. | RACE FOR MORE NAVAL SHARPENS; S INTENSIFY All Imperialist Power Ask Bigger Increases in Danger Grows MacDonald-Hoover Attempt to Hide Struggle For Arms; Rush War Preparations eveal the great anxiety which MacDonald feels at his inability to hide the open and frantic race for armaments which is developing among the five im- | perialist powers who will be rep The delegation representing U. S. imperialism is going to the conference demanding a navy of sufficient war strength to fight its nearest competi- resented. tors. The propaganda about “parity” is being used to cover up this fact. There is no jagreement between the imper- lialist powers; there is a wide open |race for larger navies, each seeking to outmaneuver the other. | Even the appearance of “under- |standing’ which MacDonald and | Hoover tried to foster this summer jhas given way to open race for jnaval war armaments. A cable from London says: “Alarm is felt in naval circles at the reported French intention to |claim the right to build ten, 10,000 ton Washington cruisers. If this is | persisted in, it is now scarcely open to question that Great Britain will feel unable to content herself with about fifteen ships of this class, against, say nineteen American ones, and the thirteen that Japan jasks as the United States builds nineteen.” Thus this vaunted disarmament, (Continued on Page Two) SAYLORS” BAIL Caudle Trial Comes Us Friday; Funds Needed CHARLOTTE, N. C., Jan. 8.— Solicitor Carpenter of Gastonia, one of the main agents of the Manville Jenckes Company, used in railroad- ing Beal, Miller and five others in the Gastonia case, today fixed bail on C. D. Saylors at $10,000. Saylors was arrested yesterday on a charge of second degree mur- der when he appeared in court to defend himself against a charge of perjury. He saw Carpenter and Manville-Jencks Attorney Bulwinkle leading the lynch gang that kid- napped him, Bell and Lell and flog- ged Bell. The mill agents way out was to charge perjury, then arrest Saylors for murder to prevent his | chance of proving in court it wasn’t |perjury. The murder charge is a |complete frome up, as Saylors was not even a guard at the Gastonia | tent colony, where he is accused of shooting Aderholt. Ella Reeves (“Mother”) Bloor saw Saylors today in a hot, box-like cell in Gastonia city jail. Every word was listened to by the jailer. Saylors said: “I feel perfectly calm about this frameup. I appreciate what the International Labor De- fense is doing, and I am glad that it is raising bail.” The Gastonia Gazette makes a (Continued. on Page Two) International Wireless News Battle in Berlin Streets Wireless by INPRECORR BERLIN, Jan. 8.—yYesterday at noon the Berlin police twice attacked the funeral cortege of the murdered workers, Neumann and Kobitch- meyer. A struggle occured with the workers defending the funeral pro- cession from such outrageous at- tacks, and two police were seriously wounded, The police fired and wounded many workers, also arrest- ing eighty. The working class dis- triets of Berlin are seething with indignation. Big French Daily Papers Struck. Wireless by INPRECORR PARIS, Jan, 8 —A_ thousand printers at Lyons, France are strik- ing, and the two most prominent daily capitalist papers, the “Prog- ress” and the “Lyons Republicain” cannot appear. The strikers demand wage increases. * * * Belgians Textilers “‘rike for Raise. Wireless by INPRECORR BRUSSELS, Jan. 8.—Six Thou- sand textile workers of the Renaix district of Belgium have struck yes- terday for wage increases. The de- mand is for five francs weekly wage raise, t é : SET AT S1M000