The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 20, 1930, Page 1

ME Rt th one SY wee ne a i taal ait A BS ES & tt | | | ir MAKE EVERY FACTORY ‘To the Race For More War Armaments Conference in London, and the Threat- ened Attack on the Soviet Union, the “Socialists” Cry: “Success!” Fight Imperialist War and its Social- Fas’ *t Supporters. Defend # ‘e Soviet Union! A COMMUNIST MEETS utered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 3, 1879. FORTRESS! WORKERS, ATTEND LENIN MEMORIAL NAT IONAL EDITION nday by The © Union Square, New York City, N. ¥ Jomprodaily PB SUBSCRIPTION RAT: Outside New York, by mail $6.00 per year. In New York by mail, $5.00 per, year. Price 3 Cents . € Bg we Vol. VL, + 449 Theme ke oo Lishing Be 1 ? % %% Interna. “ h 5 Will the Wor. = Will Smash : " ° ° Imperialism! | News from Mexico should encourage workers in the United States in the struggle against American imperialism. From letters received from Mexican workers, it is known that the demonstration, organized under the leadership of the Communist Party of the United States, against the fascist white terror in Mexico, have been felt not only by the Mexican government but also by the Mexican working class, It has always been the impression of Latin-American workers that |Krance Flouts Confab! the United States and all of its population was one imperialistic unit, | menacing their conditions and their lives. As long as the American | workers did’ not understand that the same capitalists, which exploit | them in the Detroit factories, the mines of Butte and Bisbee, in the factories of New York and the garment shops of Los Angeles, were at the same time the identical imperialistic force enslaving and op- pressing the Latin-American workers, the workers of the United States were not brought into the field of action against Imperialism in defi- nitely conscious solidarity with the Latin-American wor of American imperialism. All the talk about the great numbers of | guns, the calibre of artillery, the whole machinery of suppression avail- able:to Wall Street, has too much obscured the fact that the American | working class has as its ally, loyal and militant, the tremendous force of | millions and tens of millions of Latin-American workers and peasants, | whose hatred against the “collossus of the North,” the United States, is literally unbounded. | Until the workers of the United States by incisive action demon- | strated the fact that the revolutionary workers of North America not only regards the Latin-American workers as their brothers, but is | ready and willing to meet the ruling imperialist forces in physical | collision. in behalf of the Latin-American proletariat, it was natural | that the Latin-American workers looked upon the North American proletariat as part of the forces of oppression. This impression has been shattered by the workers of Detroit, New York, Cleveland, Los Angeles and: Washington, and the effect will be electrical upon the - Latin-American proletariat in encouraging it to struggle, knowing that in the fortress of Yankee imperialism itself a mighty force in their behalf stands on guard. The venal government of Mexico that has, under the adroit gui- dance of Dwight W. Morrow, Mr. Morgan’s partner, made Mexico virtually a colohy, has, along with its Wall Street overseers, some- *| thing to learn about the international solidarity of the proletariat. | The capitalist press in the United States, which has been feeding the American masses with bright pictures of “All’s well in Mexico,” reveals some interesting figures on the reason why it takes such optimistic yiews about Mexican conditions. While much printers’ ink has been spilled to give the impression that the Mexican government is busying itself to educate the masses, to improve conditions for the impoverished peasantry and other like philantropic actions, the budget | of the Mexican government shows in its items quite a contrary picture. | «For example, we see that, while “education” is allotted 33,000,000 | pesos, the item on “War and Marine” is given 79,000,000 pesos; and | . asa separate item “war and‘marine manufacturing” is given 13,500,000 | ‘pesos more. In addition, to satisfy the Wall Street holders of Mexican | bonds,: 26,000,000 pesos are given as “payments on debts.” And as t for the peasantry, the item on “agriculture” is alloted only 22,500,000 | pesos; Thus we see that the Mexican government is allowing the | peasants, who have lost 30 per cent of their usually scant crops, | to-starve, to. death, while tens of millions are being given to war prepara- tions, whjch in this period, and in view of the subjection of Mexico | by Wall. Street, serves American imperalism in its equipment for war. | The petty-bourgeois government of Mexico which has considered it frofitable for the Mexican bourgeoisie to receive on its neck the gilded yoke of American imperialism and to trample under its feet in | fascist terror the impoverished and rebellious masses of Mexico, has | other “enlightenments” due it. The onset of economic crisis in the | United States means a crisis also for Mexican economy. The drop | in the price of silver, the increasing exactions of imperialism, added to the crop failure and the chronic crisis in petroleum production which has devastated Mexican oil fields, will produce, in conjunction with | the consequently growing revolutionary fight of the Mexican workers | and peasants, a most embarrassing situation for the Mexican govern- | ments, to “explain” to its bourgeoisie just where the profits.come in. | The intensification of the crisis will, of coufse, not cause the Mex- | ican government of the Mexican bourgeoisie to recede from its position as_a slave driver for Wall Street. This will mean that, whatever the present temporary slackening up of the terror against the Communist Party of Mexico and other organizations of revolutionary workers, the Mexican government will continue and increase its repressions. This prospect of ever wider and fiercer struggles makes it neces- sary that the workers of the United tSates, while they now may with full justification feel pleased at having done their part in checking the reactionary onslaught against our Mexican comrades, stand ever ready to come instantly to the support of not only the Mexican, but of all Latin-American workers and peasants subjected to the bloody tyranny of Yankee imperialism. -AMONT ISSUES ‘ CHICAGO ANTI-BOY SCOUT MEET. CHICAGO, Jan. 19—An Anti- Boy Scout demonstration, as an an- , Solidarity of HOOVERINSISTS A.F.C. Boasts BUILD JOBLESS Harry Eis ON BATTLESHIPS /Brimgs Home Near Release; AT LONDON MEET U.S. Hints At Raising Issue of England’s Merchant Ships Demands Everything Go To. Imperial League Dispatches from London in-| dicate that the British man- t ‘euver to “abolish” battleships, | There has been too much of a tendency to exaggerate the strength | trickily framed up and “condi- | tional” as it is, has rather up-| set the plans of the United) States to get into the public! eye as the leading liars about | “disarmament.” The British have more than one motive in making their proposal, and neither motive has anything to do with “peace,” but rather is a prep- aration for waging war at an ad- vantage against the United States. With its numerous coaling (or oil) stations scattered throughout the world, England has an advan- tage with cruisers that America lacks to a great degree. Also, the British seem convinced that the big battleships costing $40,000,000 each Brings Home CquNCILS; MORE. Writing in er the ee UNEMPLOYMENT | mental and bearable evils. | “Second — These workers are | showing an astonishingly clear real- | ization that organization is their used by Sherman Service ‘and other | | stool-pigeon agencies, Gilbert Hyatt, +. * . | of Ithe “nternational Labor News| Textile Union Holds) Service, warns the textile barons to Jobless Meets in | workers down, or the “Reds” will Front of Mills get there first.” Hyatt says frnkly: | pL S “First—he present rebellion of | ; |the workers is a widesproad and de- \Ford Fires 8,000 More | termined uprising against funda- | : : Agencies Gyp Toilers | only salvation and that trained lead-| PATERSON, N. J., Jan. 19.—The | ership is necessary to make this ef-| executive committee of the Council fective.” .... of Unemployed which meet Friday “The Communists are alert to the | at the headquarters of the National situation and are endeavoring to} Textile Workers Union decided to ee : igen vars PRE IAN strations to march on the City Hall Hyatt quotes John Peel, vice- {ext week with concrete unemploy- president of the North Carolina | ment relief demands. v | State Federation of Labor as saying: | As a result of the speed-up and “If the mill owners in their stupid-| unemployment in the silk industry, employ the A.F.L. to keep their |Private Employment capitalize it with their usual Per | hold a series of mill-gate demon- ity could be made to realize what workers they would send delegations to Washington to beg President | Green to come South at once to or- | ganize the mills.” Hyatt ends his solemn warning: | “But, so sure as there are more Marions, by that same token, there will be mcre Gastonias. The mill owners can either take their trade union bacon or their Communist mustard. And the Reds will see ‘we know of the temper of their | are obsolete for fighting against | they take it straight.” airplanes and submarines. But . Washington reports state that | “abolition of battleships is not on | Hoover’s program.” So the secret conferences going on between Stim- son and MacDonald would indicate | that the U. S. is trying to keep such | talk coming up to embarass it at the conference. Anglo-U. S. Rivalry Shown. The hint is quietly thrown out, that if the British insist on putting battleships on the agenda, Amer- ica will get nasty and raise the question of the “potential war value of British merchant vessels either as cruisers.or as airplane carriers.” These “merchant” ships are being (Continued on Page Three) Steel to Answer Cuts Shop committees are being organ- ized in steel mills and shipyards, | branches of the Metal Trades Work- ers Industrial League of the Trade | Union Unity League are coming into existence, forming inside the machinists’ un- ion, thousands of leaflets are being Waterbury Brass distributed, and the national secre- tary of the league is touring all the Workers Rally At rinciple metal centers—all in prep: inci a TUUL Mass Meet, eration for a series of district con- ferences of the league, and a na- tional convention to be held April WATERBURY, Conn., Jan. 19.— ‘Rapid Organization in| left wing groups are/ About 100 workers from the largest 5 and 6. The conferences and con- vention will decide on plans to fight | brass shops in Waterbury, such as the Scovil, American Brass, Chase o bya ruthless Metal, ete, on Friday night ieq | Steel companies. ee to the Trade Union Unite Leceue re The’ first of the district confer- attend a mass meeting held at | ences is scheduled for Chicago, Feb. Workers CenterAndrew Overgaard, | 2. After that they come: Cleveland, capitalists, the |national secretary of the Metal | Feb. 6; Pittsburgh, 9; Philadelphia, | 12; New York, 16; New Haven, 18; Workers I; ii 7 orkers Industrial League was the 93, and Buffalo, 25.. main speaker, and many workers | Boston, a , signed T. U. U. L. applications in | Answer to Wage Cuts. : response to his talk on the grow- | The organization that precedes ing rationalization by the metal|/and will reach a high point at the bosses. The T. U. U. L. plans a/ conferences is the answer of the a national silk strike is developing. The N.T.W.U. is calling a national silk conference in Paterson, Febru- ary 9. eye lS Unemployed Organizing in Passaic. PASSAIC, Jan. 19.—The Botany Mills, “normally” employing 5,000 (Continued on Page Three) CHUKHNOVSKY TO LOOK FOR EIELSON Soviet Flier Plans Flight to Anguema KRASNOYARSK, Siberia, Jan. |19.—The Soviet flyer, Chuknovsky, |member of the Krassin crew. who | rescued the Nobile expedition, an- nounced today, “If the Americans are alive, we shall bring them back,” referring tp the aviators, Eilson and Borland, whose whereabouts were re- ported located by a Soviet radio station. Chukhnovsky and his crew planned | |to fly from. Kirensk to Yakutsk, | Bulun and oKlchinsk Bay, which will be the base for a search over |the Anguema River region, in which the American fliers were reported | sighted. CHERNOV FEARS — WORKERS’ IRE Calls of Meetings in| California SAN FRANCISCO (By Mail) —} Victor Chernov, Russian counter- | FacesNewTnial Harry Eisman, a member of the} “Young Pioneers of America,” is} ending a six-months’ term at Haw-| : thorne Reform- | é itory. Harry! was arrested at the end of | last July at a} | demonstration | the Young Pi- oneers held| against a large | group of Boy| Scouts leaving | | | Most Prisoners Freed; to participate | | in the “Boy H. BISMAN. Scout Jam- bore, Harry was a very active member of the Young Pioneers in all the struggles of the New York workers on the picket lines and against bosses’ militevization of children side the United’ States, and secondly, these demonstrations have checked in some degree through the Boy Scouts. jthe terror and forced the As a result, he was sent to the) Mexican governmental tools of Wall reformatory for six months. He |Street to moderate their savage will come up for trial at the end of |onslaught. Undoubtedly the Mexi- this month. Harry has throughout | can government will continue its at- this period written to friends and |tack, but more circumspectly. Con- for the working-class 4nd has shown | tinued solidarity of U. S. workers is definiteely that he is still a militant asked against the remaining perse- fighter for the working-class. cutions, All workers and their children, These are the conclusions drawn will be called upon by the Young Pi-| by the secretary, George Contreras, oneers of America and the Interna-|of the Mexican section of the Red tional Labor Defense to demonstrate and welcome Harry on his release. There will be affairs held by the Young Pioneers and the Young Com- Aid, in a letter received at the na- | tional office of the International Labor Defense, an organization of workers which is championed by man DEMONSTRATIONS IN U.S. FELT BY MEXICAN WHITE TEXROR: WORKERS ELATED |More Than Ever Mexico Working Class Know: American Workers Fight U. S. Imperialism Frame-Up Retracted We Must Guard Against Further Attacks The workers of the United States, led by the Communis for England, | Party in recent demonstrations throughout the country, agains the, white terror in Mexico, have won two victories with on’ blow. Firstly, they have shown the Mexican workers, indeec | the workers of all Latin America, that they have class com rades against imperialism in-¢——————— STRUGGLE LOOMS IN ANTHRACITI Bosses to Cut Payroll NMU Rallies Fighters The spectre of permanent mar unemployment is hovering over th anthracite. Mergers and mechanize tion will throw hard coal miners o the scrap heap. Stockholders have now formall approved the merker of Glen Alde Coal ompany with Lehigh an Wilkes-Barre Coal Company, an munist League in which all workers |the Communist Party for working should participate. Watch the Daily |class defense. The “anarchist ter- Worker for more information about |rorist plot,” which the Mexican Harry’s release. government had used as an excuse to jail and deport Mexican and Cu- |ban workers. The letter follows: AFL U.S HIT | “Due to the solidarity of the hen Uiay | American working class and the demonstrations organized all over jthe country, we are glad to give you |the results of the mass agitation | developed especially in the U. S. and | Mexico. | 4, | freed Try to Betray 2,000 in P ittsburgh; Aid Seabs}| «2. Eulogia Ortiz, the general jwho was helping the police, pub- PITTSBURGH, Pa., Jan. 19.—The |lished today « statement where he strike of 2,07 taxi drivers is now |declared he was fooled by somebody in its second week. Chief of Police about the ‘plot.’ Walsh has granted permits to the) «3 jl the press is compelled to imported strike bréakers, brought in | recognize the ‘plot’ was'a frame-up. by the Parmalee ransportation Ce.,/ But eleven foreign comrades were in which the taxi lines recently | deported, and we undérstand that merged. The police promise and|the aim was principally to terrorize give full sistance to the scabs. |the revolutionary workers and to Secretary of Labor Davis is “medi- |deport the foreign workers. ating.” A meeting of the bosses | “In spite of these declarations Most of the comrades were and the American Federation of La- bor fakers who claim jurisdiction i(made with a diplomatic aim— |Portes Gil wishing to leave office have thus combined the two anthre ciate minig companies having th lowest costs and the highest rates c profit in the industry, and contre of one-fifth of the hard coal produc tion. Cut the Payroll. To employ fewer workers and “cu’ labor costs” while increasing outpu is frankly the aim of Philadelphi and Reading Coal and Iron. Th company is putting some $20,000,00: of borrowed capital into tgo gian electrified, mechanical breakers equipped to prepare between then some 25,000 tons of coal a day, 0 twot-hirds of the company’s presen output. These two breakers alone are ex- pected to cut $4,000,000 a year fror the company's payrol. But this i only a first step. Later the com pany plans to build four additiona electrified breakers and to scrap al but one of its present thirty-od« breakers, throwing out an unstate’. number of workers. For years the demand for anthra cite coal has been failing, and eve over the strike reports that the com- | with ‘revolutionary’ laurels) the pany is willing to “compromise” the | persecution against foreign com- wages demands. The strike started /rades continues. We know that the with a wage cut, and the fakers | authorities are trying to deport could not hold the men at their jobs. | (they must find them first) Com- The company refuses to recognize rade Vivo, the only Cuban political any union. lemigrant now in Mexico, Tina Mo- The Trade Union Unity League is |dotti and some Jewish workers. distributing leaflets calling on the| “That means the fight must go men to stand fast, take control of on. The demonstrations against \their own strike, and refuse to be |Ortiz Rubio in the U. S. had a real, sold out by the company faker and | powerful result, and we must thank FAKE BLDG, DATA swer to that organization’s jingoist services, will be held by the Young Pioneers in Chicago on February 2, at 2:30 p. m., at Mirror Hall, 1136° wide campaign among the workers of Waterbury, which is the brass center of the country, and where very few workers are organized. REOPEN LAREDO CONSULATE. LAREDO, Texas, Jan. 17,—The Mexican consulate here has been reopened, following assurances by the American government that prominent Mexican politicians fa- vored by the Rybio-Morrow regime are to be exempt from arrest on murder or any other charges in the future. The consulate was closed steel workers, particularly, to the revolutionary, fermerly in the Ker- | campaign of wage-cutting and speed- ensky government, called off his !up and unemployment that pervades meeting, scheduled fot last Friday, the whole metal industry. after three of his meetings in Los Some of the shop committees are Angeles and San Francisco were |in the Youngstown Steel and Tube,|broken up ‘by indignant workers Pittsburgh Iron and Steel Company,!who battled police and white Sun Shipyards and Westinghouse glards to show that no coumter-revo- plants. lutionist could spread his slanderous Thousands of leaflets are being is- lies about the Soviet Union and get | sued, exposing the reasons for the | away with it. U. S. government combination. the workers of New York, Wash- | ° _ lington, Detroit and Los Angeles, | COMPANY UNION IN BEMBERG |who helped us in this grave situa- PLANT. fen ae : | ELIZABETHTON, Tenn, (By _ “Maybe it is the first time in the |Mail)—Another result of the United |history of our movement, that the | |Textile Workers sell-out of the rayon | Mexican working class felt so| j strikers of the Bemberg and Glanzst- |StTongly the solidarity of the work- | jeff mills is the formation by the /@Ts of tho U.S. A. After this vie- | | bosses of a company union, the tory, we will not rest. -We will con- rotten conditions, and popularizing the program of the league and its organizational campaign. The basis js quickly being laid for one indus- Chernox and the white guards |“plant council plan.” Cloaked with |tinue the fight and develop a strong |mass organization of the Red Aid since the brief boom of 1926, wort. has been more and more irregular. Operations have been slowly con tracting, with each year a thousans men here and a few hunderd there thrown permanently out of anthra. cite mining. In spite of the United Mine Workers’ tridistrict agreement. rates for dead work have been cut Even tonnage rates have been at- tacked. But until now the anthra cite workers have escaped the ter- Tific losses endured by the bitumi- nous, miners, with repeated wage cuts and one worker in four throws ou’ of the industry. N. M. U. Leads Fight. Now unemployement beare down on the hard coal workers, and the U. M. W. prepares to sell those still with jobs into deeper slavery, wage cuts, check-off, longer hours. The critical moment is September 1, when the anthracite contracts ex- pire. The miners will face a wage North Western Ave. A member of the Pioneer delegation to the Wants to Hide Big Construction Slump trial union in the metal industry in the U. S. Also in Old Unions. when it was reported that local au- thorities would arrest Calles on a U,S.S.R. will speak. WASHINGTON, Jan. 19.—As part of ‘the Hoover publicity campaign | ‘o cover the deep nature of the pres- | mt crisis, Secretary of Commerce | Robert P. Lamont, issued a series of faked figures on projected build- | ng ‘construction, He announced hat $7,000,000,000 would be spent | / i ility extension . : pee il ale ‘National Textile Work This is contrary to the announce- nents of many of the utilities com- | panies, chief among whch is the | New, York Edison Co., which de- “The American Federation of “Shadow Boxing” Says Miller ot Urbanites Appeal to A.F.L. Race Equality, Federation Never Did murder charge. | “Even in the old A. F, L. machin- lists’ union and the . Amalgamated | Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers, the rank and file are feel- ing the effects of the speed-up and | unemployment and are responding ta the appeal of the T, U. U. L. In | the machinists’ union the resistance | to the be pci policy of the Whar- a | ton-Davidson clique is growing. ers Union Stands For | A mass meeting of the machinists lin Pittsburgh was addressed by ex- | pelled members of the union, and by ithe secretary of the national steel | committee of the T. U. U. L., and i+ unions in the South. slared it would cut its 1930 budget »y many millions of dollars, Lamont said governors of 26 states iave responded to Hoover’s request ‘or detailed data on public works onstruction. Foremost in the states vho promise “big works,” sai¢ La- nont, is New York. Governor Roosevelt, of New Cork, published his “building pro- tram”. for 1930, the Journal of Com- nerce, leading capitalist mouf&pece | demand made by T. Arnold Hill, di- | Labor will never include Negroes in | their unions on a basis equal with the white worker, The A. F. of L, vfficialdom is the agent of the em-, ployers in the ranks of the workers, , and their duty is to divide the work- ers not unite them.” This statement was made today | by the Clarence Miller, secretary- | treasurer of the National Textile Workers Union, commenting on the rector of the Industrial Relations of Hill must know by this time,” Miller said, “that the A. F. of L. is not interested in the broad masses of the unskilled workers. The A. F. of L. is interested only in the resulted in rallying the majority ef the machinists in Pittsburgh against the officials expulsion policy. MORE JOBLESS IN OIL FIELDS. jhave learned that * revolutionary workers throughout California were prepared to stop his meetings wherever he spoke. White guards, | police, “socalists” and Chernov him- self were injured when his last | meeting was broken up in San Fran- | teisco. One pojiceman is still in the hospital from injuries he received from workers after clubbing two | Communists, George Harvey and M. |Hanoff, who with others had taken | possession of the platform and taken {over the meeting, 9 Seven workers, including one wo- | man, come up for trial January 29 in the court of Judge *Lazarus, who shas already indicated that he will jhand*out heavy sentences to thems because of “their stand in defense of the Soviet Union. ‘ Chernov is now on’ his way to speak in Chicago, but he will receive ithe same “warm” reception from |workers there as in Los Angeles an appearance of fairness the “plant in all the Caribbe’n countries which council plan” halts workers’ action | for better conditions, will efficiently fight against the white terror and help all the vic- tims of the class and anti-imperial- Write About Your Conditions int atroggie. for The Daily Worker. Become a Worker Correspondent. * Contreras.” Crisis Deepens As Mass Unemployed Army Grows Latest Facts Show Over 300,000 Workers Fired in December Alone More than 276,000 workers were “For the Red Aid.—Signed, George 4 cut, and will rebel. The National Miners Union is making strenous efforts to organize them and prepare for a life and death battle at that | time, a struggle in which the bitumi. nous fields must join, and in which |the U. M. W. will be seen as a close jally of the operators. | ‘New Flare-Up of War Between Bolivia and |Paraguay Over Chaco WASHINGTON, Jan. 19.—The Paraguayan legation here was in- | structed today by the goyernment at | Asuncion to make “strong represen- | tatiors to the United States govern- fired from their jobs in eDcemher, due to the sharpening crisis in the United States, says the organ of the big capitalists, the Annalist (Jan. 17). linois were 82 per cent below the| ment,” charging that Bolivian sold- daily rate for January, 1929 N .Y,|diers in the disputed Chaco terri- imes, Jan, 19). This, in the face of | tory attacked a Paraguayan outpost, the tremendous effort of Hoover | killing one Paraguayan soldier. The and his “business council’ to push | attack occurred on January 16. building constructiodn to the limit. ‘md commercial projects. sointed ‘out, that it shewed “no ex- ension , of activity.” In fact it howed cuts in many instances. the National Urban League, in an open letter addressed to William | Green, president of the American! Permits for‘ building work during | Federation of Labor. ! he past ‘month dropped 43 per cent.! “Shadow boxing” the deserip- *he Annalyst pointed out that there | tion Miller gave of Hill’s demand to vas a severe slump in public works know what steps the A. F. of L., jhas taken to include Negroes in their | highly skilled, and has even made a declaration, printed in the Gastonia Gazette, of North Carolina, that they tk-y would not organize the TULSA, Okla., Jan, 17.—Unem: | be further increased following the ; | announcement of the South Okla- unskilled workers,” homa City Oil Field producers who | Miller declared that the National | voted to curtail production 75 per Textile Workers Union, affiliated |cent. A previous move had cut pro- | duction by 50 per cent and threw: thousands of oil workers into the} Jobless ranks. to the Trade Union Unity League, demands absolute race ,equality of all workers. * Face Lynchers. “We are ready to face lynch! squads and fight the Southern mill | owners and their vicious laws, and struggle fer the right of white and (Continued from Page Thice) \ Fight the Right Danger. Aj Every Petty Bourgeois Rene- gade! “ ‘ ployment in the coal fields here wit! | and SanFrancisco, Today in History of' the: Workers January 20, 1928—Thirty-seven At These figures are based on the lying reports of the same Depart- ment of Labor, which co-operates with the bosses in breaking strikes. The Department of Labor is one of the leading propagandists in the Hoover “presperity bunk” campaign. Early in the year, the capitalists like Mellon, Hoover, Lamont and their echoes, Green and Woll, an- nounced that immediately after the first of the year “things would be better.” Then each capitalist eco- nomist kept pushing the “revival” a Communists shot in Wuhan, China. 1924—-59,000 railroad workers in England struck against wage- board award. | 1923—20,000 *steel workers locke eight-hour day, six-day week and wage raises, ‘4 Unquestionably, between 300,000 and 400,000 workers were thrown on the streets in December. out in Sweden in | tie layoffs which will face the ft |struggle for eight-hour day. 1920.---| workers as the crisis dee is th Hundred Proletarians for |Ttalian railway workers struck for i ‘ae liaei little further, into the future. Now the latest spokesman for the bosses, on the basis of the overwhelming As an indication of the more dras-| facts of the Sharpening crisis, (Continued on Page Three) pushes the ‘recovery” still further | 4 lintd the future. In‘the latest issuc| news from Chicago, that for the! of the Annalist, he says: first eight business days in January, n “tl is improbable that a vigor. } ~~~ INGI construction. contragte in fl- This new flare-up between Bolivia and Paraguay illustrates the falsity of the supposed “peace” fixed up | more than one year ago at Wash- | ington by the Pan-American Union, | otherwise known as the machinery. |of the Monroe Doctrine. It also | shpws that this conflict, which con- ceals the rivalry between the United States and British interests in South | America, is a live danger point for | the outbreak of a new world war. Workers! This Is Your Paper. Write for It. Distribute It Among Your Fellow Workers! * ’