The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 5, 1930, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1930 Page Three ee ILL SEVEN WORKERS IN URUGUAYAN STRIKE ON PACKING HOUSE CO. Meat Workers’ Federation Fights Speed-up aind for Wage Increases and Right to Organize Girl Worker Speeded, Falls Dead at Work; the Fascists of Uruguay Arm Against Workers MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay—One of the greatest strikes in years has broken out in the meat-packing plant, or better to say, the refrig- eration plant of Fray Bentos, known as the “Anglo” plant in this city. The strike is against the inhuman speed-up and rationalization scheme known as the “standard” system. The strike is conducted by the Meat Workers’ Federation and the Gen- eral Confederation of Labor of Uru- guay, and up to the present date the conflict has taken such a fierce character that seven workers have been killed. The fascist organization in Uru- guay have been organizing for the last five years, and recently, with , government approval, are openly |) drilling with arms ahd engaging in strike-breaking against the work- ers: The company has speeded up the workers so much that it no longer hires workers over 30 years of age, and those below it speeds un- til they are utterly exhausted. As a result of the speed-up’ a working girl of tender years recently fell dead of exhaustion at her place of ). work, while five years of labor in the plant is enough to wreck the health of a worker for life. ‘The chief demands of the workers ate as follows: No mote than eight hours’ work; each two hours a rest period of 15 minutes included in the | working time. The worker who re- a day. The worker coming to work a full day, but is dismissed after four hours, shall be paid for sit and those who are sent home after six hours shall be paid for eight; double pay for Sundays and holidays, seven-hour day for night workers at the same pay as the eight-hour shift; workers under 16 years to work no more than six hours daily but to receive the same salary as they would on the eight- hour day. A graduated scale of |wage increases from 10 to 25 per cent, according to whether they now receive high or low scale, the low- est réceiving the highest increase. Piece workers a 10 per cent raise; women 40 per cent raise; for minors of 16 and over 30 per cent increase; double-pay for overtime; working clothes to be furnished by the com- pany; and last, but not least, the right to organize. The police and the company have done their best to separate the Com- munists from supporting the strike, but without success, on the contrary, the Communists are holding great mass meetings for the strikers and spreading support of the struggle to all the workers of Montevideo- The strike is complete and they have rejected the trick terms of gov- ernment officials to get them into arbitration traps, in spite of the fact that they are being evicted from the company hduses and are ports for work but is turned away for the day shall be paid for half meeting continuous persecutions by the police. Hungarian Fascism on NNA—-Reports from Buda- . sngarian premier, had some- ine of an unpleasant day in ex- to a parliamentary assemb- nto aud a crowded gallery just whet he did at the Hague confer- eres, The starvation and poverty among the masses forced some of the “lett” among the so-called “so- ciflists”, that form a sort of quar- yélsome support to the Horthy re- gimé of blood and fascism, to shout some objections at Bethlen, lest they would lose influence among the mas- ses. One of the chief things done at the Hague was the agreement Bethlen that the so-called “optants”, 350 counts and other wealthy land- owsore, inclidine Bethlen himself, receive pay for them, which pay is Loads New Burden Masses When Bethlen “explained” that it was “impossible to abandon the land-owners” who had “made so many sacrifices during the war”, the public galleries roared out the ques- tion: “How about the war widows, war invalids and war orphans?” The premier said that taking care of such people was a question that “could not be considered in the pres- ent state of the country’s finances.” “But you saved your own 10,000 acres’, was the answering cry. “We have saved in this struggle ....” Bethlen tried to say, “... the estates of the counts” was the shout. It should be mentioned, in view by | of the ambiguous attitude of count Y rolyi in his recent American tour that this gentleman himself is bene- fited under the Hague conference agreement on optant’s claims to the te be toren ont of the hides of the Hungarian workers and peasants. extent of 50,000 acres of Hungarian land. Vanished White Guard Eloped, Say French Police French fascists, encour- ; by the government, are making ands for breaking off rela- tions with the Soviet Union. or what amounts to thé same thing, demands | for a raid tpon the Soviet embassy uiider the pretext that “Bolshevist jits’ ate holding general Kou- ticpoff, the white-guard military leader, as prisoner in the embassy What has really happened with the géneral is indicated by the French secret police (who ate surely no friend of Bolsheviki) when they stated simply and quietly that the | general had merely left his family and éloped with a pretty lady. Re- gardless of the absurdity involved, the French fascists, however. de- clare that such a statement shows that the French secret police are “influenced by Soviet agents.” ‘The simple and probably truthful explanation by the police, is corro- jhe felt no f peared,” refused to continue being guarded by his own white-guard fel- low thugs, giving as his reason that the French police were continually protecting him and, for that reason, of being “attacked by Communists.” Since the police watchfulness over his person is ad- titted by everyone, the police prob- ably know what they are talking about when they say that the gen- eral simply fell for the ancient lure of women. However, some of the papers, in screaming headlines, are crying out that the general is ‘‘mur- dered by Communists,” and go on to give hair-raising tales of how “four enemies of Communism were executed by a. firing squad in the basement of the Soviet Embassy in Berlin,” all of which would be high- ly amusing, were it not that the French bourgeois government is al- ready ripe for a break of rélations porated by the fact that tHe general, a ps before he “disan- as a prelude to wat on the Soviet Union. Porto Rican Plantation Workers Strike Pract epee | Strikes among the cane-field | workers of Porto Rico, news of which must be noted as having con- tirually beeh suppressed in papers published in the United States. are having an effect upon political af- fairs, which come to the fore with the annual session of the legislature that assembles on February 10. One of thé outstanding features of Porto Riean politics is the scabby scotindrel, Santidgo Iglesias, who calls himself a “socialist” and who is the right-hand man of William Green in the labor machine of Yan- kee imperialism which is called Pan- American Federation of Labor: There seems to be no oats ving expression to working-class pein in Porto Rico and the “Fobson’s choice” of the vroletariat fs between Iglesias and another | geoundrel of the “unionist” vartv. Tenown as Dr. Barcelo. It has been very embarrassing, however, for Iglesias, who makes pretensions of being a spokesman for “labor,” that just at the political moment when it didn’t suit his interests, the cane- field workers struck for hicher wages. Even the most hidebound imperial- ist papers admit that “in no instance was any strike authorized by Sena- tor Iglesias, ‘who is the representa- tive of the American Federation of Labor in Porte Rico, arid it is most embarrassing to him that the strikes ment, however, Senator Iglesias simply sent a message to all local bootlicks, urging them that all de- mands and differences be submitted to the government board of miedia- tion, where, of course, they will promptly be buried till the end of time. Dr. Barcelo, seizing upon this par- ticularly flagrant attack upon the workers by Iglesias is asserting his “sympathy” for the strikers, but the fact that Barcelo has never ex- tended anything more tangible than sympathy, shows that he is as much a scoundrel as Iglesias. Steve Katovis Branch of I. L. D. Formed; to Continue Fight Remember Katovis by increased work in organization. The Steve Katovis branch of the International Labor Defense, newly formed with 75 members, in mem- ory of that brave fighter for the other branches of the defense or- ganization to proletarian competi- tion in building up the membership “as a monument to Steve Katovis.” The branch has enrolled each member to do his utmost in the -le- fense of Potash and Winogradsky, of the Needle Trades Workers In- dustrial Union, who go on trial to- secured.” . Recovering from his embarrass- day on charges of felonious assault, framed by the right-wing fakers. working class, has challenged all! LATIN AMERICAN JOBLESS FIGHT Hudreds of Thousands Starving to Death (Continued from Page One) the government furnishes at once, loans to transport the grain into the ports for export. The rationalization methods intro- duced into agriculture have seriously affected the poor peasants who have no capital for the necessary imple- ments, and the British-owned rail- ways charge such high fright rates that the peasants cannot pay trans- port rates, bring the poor peasants into total bankruptcy, and forcing them to starve beside their harvest- ed grain rotting for lack of storage and transport facilities. The big landowners are complete- ly ruining the farm tenants. Modern agricultural machinery is replacing manual labor with the result that agricultural wage laborers are also really starving to death. | In Brazil, the overproduction of | coffee, due to the shrinking of the} coffee market and the refusal of British and American financial in- terests to make further loans to a government which is on verge of collapse, is forcing Brazilian peas- ants into the city and into the un- employed: It is estimated that by March the coffee warehouses will be filled with 10,000,000 bags of coffee. In Mexico, over 700,000 unem- Ployed, in a country of 13,000,000 people, with all their dependent families, face starvation. There is no sign of relief. The result is a fighting mood that deeply worries the landowners and their govern- ment. The “strong” government of Mexico, supported by Wall Street, is shaking before it is installed. Cuba has 300,000 unemployed workers and peasants. The series of strikes which took place recently (tobacco and millinery workers, etc.) were actively supported by the un- employed, who demand “work or wages,” bread for their wives and| children. Throughout Latin-America, so} famished are the great masses, that hungry children are forced to aban- don school and go to begging in the streets. In the face of such a situation the | exploited are losing confidence in| the reactionary labor leaders who try to tell them to “wait and be peaceful.” The solidarity of the em- ployed with the unemployed is shown in every strike taking place | in Latin-America. The Latin-Amer- ican Trade Union Confederation has taken up the fight for the unem- ployed, and is mobilizing a series of | great demonstrations throughout the southern continent. Corbishley Released; Miners’ Protest Is Too Strong For the Board SPRINGFIELD, Ill, Feb. 4.— Henry Corbishley, secretary-treas- urer of the Illinois district of the National Miners Union, has just re- leased from Chester penitentiary. The Pardons Board ordered his re- lease several days ago, but the authorities held him until the last moment. He was held four weeks. Corbishley was arrested for vio- lation of parole, and faced a 14.) year term. He was sentenced to that length of time in the state penitentiary after being framed in the Zeigler case. The charge of violation of parole was punishment | for his activities in the Illinois | miners’ strike. * -_ * | PITTSBURGH, Pa., Feb. 4.—The resident executive board of the Na- tional Miners Union has sent out the following call to all national | executive board members: | “A full meeting of the National | Executive Board of the National | Miners Union will be held Saturday, Feb. 8, and Sunday. All District Officers and Organizers, and all District Executive Committeemen are invited to attend. The purpose of the meeting will be to make final preparations for the April 1 Conven- tion, the organizational Southern drive, the fight against unemploy- ment and the establishment of the N.M.U. in preparation for a national strike of coal miners. The weak- nesses and mistakes of the union will be reviewed and corrected, and our policies revised in accordance with the present situation as it may demand.” . Sterlind Shoe Shop Is Tied Up Again; Scabs Cheated by Boss; Quit The strikers against the Sterlind Shoe Company located at 2402 At- lantic Ave., succeeded in “taking down” the entire scab crew yester- day morning, thus paralyzing the shop once more. The boss of the Sterlind has accumulated during the last ten weeks about a dozen or su workers by promising them all kinds of bonuses; work or no work these scabs were to get a full weeks’ pay. These scabs did not require much inducement on the part of the strikers since the boss of this firm broke his promise time and again so that many of them received very little pay while the boss required them to stay in the shop all day to “show the strikers that the shop is working full time.” |mass meeting at 93 Mercer street, | meeting called by the Trade Union OLEVELAND THE | SCENE OF FIGHT Jobless Everywhere to Refuse to Starve (Continued from Page One) mon struggle for the emands of both | to culminate in great demonstration j of all workers on International Un- | employment Day, February 26. | Detroit Workers Fight Back. DETROIT, Feb. 4.—The attempt | o fthe bosses to prevent the fight | for relief for the unemployed, by | jailing the leaders of the Trade Union Unity League under the vicious “criminal syndicalism” law | of Michigan, will be resisted to the | utmost by Michigan workers, par- | ticularly by those of Detroit. | Powers, Raymond and Fred Beal, three workers arrested under this vicious law against the working class, will speak at three meetings | set for Friday, February 7 The | meetings will be at the following halls: Workers’ Home, 1843 E.| Ferry; International Workers’ Home, 3014 Yeomans, Hamtramck; and the Ukrainian Hall, 4959 Martin. Each of the arrested are charged on three counts, which may bring | sentences of ter years under the anti-worker “criminal syndicalism” | law. But the fight for the organiza- tion of the unemployed for relief from the increasing misery is not to be stopped by this persecution: On the contrary, wider numbers will be rallied and in factory gate meet- ings the employed will be united with the jobless against speed-ups, wage cuts, the C. S. law, and for unemployment insurance. These questions will be taken up at a special meeting of the Com- munist Party membership Sunday afternoon, February 9, at Workers’ Home. | ie, a 8 Newark Jobless Organize. | NEWARK, N. J., Feb. 4,—At a| a crowd of 300, half of them Ne- gro workers, packed the hall at a Unity League, discussion was held on methods of bring the demands | of the jobless to attention of the| bosses and their government- Both Negro and white workers | participated in discussion, all show- | ing readiness to make a fight for immediate relief for the jobless, and to mobilize every worker both un- employed and employed for demon- stration on February 26. Another meeting is scheduled for Friday | morning at the same address, 93 | Mercen street, at 11 A.M., where organization of the local Council ids WORKERS * CORRESPONDENCE - FROM THE SHOPS ras 26 Unemployed workers write the Daily Work on thie page, urging militant action by the unemployede workers under the leadership of the Communist Party and the Trade Union Unity League. of unemployed workers throughou the above photo will demonstrate FORD LAYS HANDS TO the (By a Worker Correspondent) CHESTED, Pa. (by mail) — The workers of Chester see now what |the Hoover Conferences have done for their “prosperity.” Although the Ford Plant had not advertised for many men, yet we all thought that men would be need- ed. So one Monday morning recent- ly 2,000 showed up for work, hoping for something. Now Henry Ford had advertised a dollar a day increase in wages, as everyone knows. At Ford’s Ches- ter plant, wages had been $5 and -6 per day. So all the old hands expected to make $6 and $7 a day. A few who had been making $7 Millions ut the world, like those shown in on Feb. 26. OFF OLD HIRE FEW AT LOWER WAGE 2000 Chester Unemployed Wait at Gate on A) Monday Morning for Jobs Toilers Find Chester Ford’s “Raise” All Bunk expected to make $8, | But much to the surprise of those | waiting in line for jobs, all the men |who came back, some of them having been employed many years, were \fired. Laid off permanently, the | bosses told the men. | The reason for the lay-offs was | obvious. | pay the $5 a day men $6, ete. So an | attempt was made to get new men | for the old wages. The Ford work- Jers should join the T.U.U-L. and so |lay the ground for a big Auto Work- jers Union. The unemployed ought {to organize under the T. Auto Worker. (By « Worker Correspondent) I want to give an idea of how the bosses’ night schools pump the foreign born workers with their bunk. A new teacher came and he started to tell us how to be good citizens. to buy stocks in building and loan associations. He asked how many (By a Worker Correspondent) VALLEJO, Cal.—The workers of the Navy Yard here received with great enthusiasm the Daily Worker special California edition which was of Unemployed is expected and the | De brought into | the T.U.U.L, All workers, employed |}. . and unemployed, Negro and jaye | eee ts are invited. Buffalo Jobless to Continue Fight- called by the Council of the Unem- ployed which has been organized by the Trade Union Unity League, tak- ing note of the recent demonstra- tion of 3,000 workers of Buffalo for “Work or Wages” and the police brutalities upon the demonstrators, and the sentencing of three workers to 30 days for “disorderly conduct,” passed a resolution as follows: “Resolved that this meeting, as- | sembled to protest against these per-| secutions, condemns the action of | the police as agents of the bosses | and the bosses’ government in their | attacks on the unemployed, and pledges its solidarity with the Un- employed Council of Buffalo to con- tinue the fight until unemployment and its resultant misery has been completely eradicated.” Arthur Harvey, Organizer of the T.U.U.L., James Campbell, of the Moulders’ Union, H. Simmons, a Ne- gro worker, and others addressed the meeting. Plans are being made for factory gate meetings of the employed with factories, to unite all forces of the working class for unemployed re- lief, against wage cuts and speed- up, and the giant demonstration scheduled for February 26. Crisis Compels All Workers to Unite (Continued trom Page One) loss of $61,185,171, according to R C. Dun and Co. This number is} greater than for any previous Jan- uary in the history of American capitalism. The nearest approach to this number was in January, 1922 when 2,728 concerns went bankrupt. | Another current indication of the Present continuing sharp crisis is contained in the weekly report of business conditions of the Depart- | ment of Commerce for the week end- | ed January 25. This deport states: | “Check payments during the week ended Jan. 25 were smaller in volume than in either the preceding week or the same week of 1929, Wheat receipts and receipts of cattle and hogs at the principal primary markets during the latest reported week were lower than in the cor-| responding week of the previous year. The movement of goods thru primary channels as reflected by| freight car loadings covering the | latest reported period continued be- low the corresponding week of 1929.” All these facts show that not only | has unemployment been growing | The de Shifrin-Mineola-Gastonia fense fund is another chief concern 4 throughout January, but that it will | continue to grow in the future as| the crisis deepens, M4 distributed to them. The cager Navy Yard workers opened the Spread Boss’ Lies to Workers in Night Schools! ¥.t , present had bank books. Only 3 of |the 35 present raised their hands and the others kept still. Then he started on religion. He said religion was what everybody needed to be a | good citizen. He didn’t like to hear First, he said, you have! me say that religion was poison for! the workers. | —A WORKER, Mare Island Navy Yard Workers Welcome “Daily” | Another said “At last some one is |sticking up for us. That’s great. | The composition of workers of the |government ship yards here is ex- |service men, Negroes, Mexicans and |Filipinos. A select husky lot are be Jing employed to build war ships Ford does not want to} ‘Chicago Shoe} Company Lays 800 Men Oft (By a Worker Correspondent) CHICAGO, Ill. (By Mail).—The | whole of the workers employed by | the Sely Schwab and Company shox | manufacturer cast out to the streets to join the ever-growing army of the jobl There a | about 800 employees all told; jot them have worked for this co pany all their lives. Some have worked 10, 20, 30 and even 40 years, and now, because the president of the company dies and be the millionaire son wishes to 1] date the buisn so that he may be per- fectly foot-loose, idle, and not both- ered with industrial organizations, about 800 workers are suddenly de- prived of their livelihood, and not |even a cent is gine to any of them as a pension or compensation for long service and the millions they have created. “Praise God from whom all bless- ings flow.” SHOE WORKER. 2,000 DENOUNCE _ MILITIA MURDER |Toilers Crowd Beal’s |Meetings; Beal in Jail At a meeting arranged by the Trade Union Unity League for Fred Beal, Thursday, at the International | Workers Home, Hamtramck, was jturned into a me lemonstration against the willful der of a | young worker by the National Guard |here last week. Stanislaw Prusinowski, 16 years ge, young Ford Trade School who had been a member of j the National ¢ 1, was fired from his job, and ¥ compelled to take another job where he worked 12 and 14 hours a day. He, therefore, miss ed drill and a warrant for his arrest | was issued. The eant was sent to arrest him, and shot the boy in the back as he was going out of the |house. This is part of the terror of the National Guard against those workers who are employed, to make them join it, and in order to make them good strike breakers. Beal in Jail. | Fred Beal was scheduled to speak lat this mecting, but was ar {the previous night while addr j over 300 workers in Pontiac, | gan, and is held on $10,000 bail. Determined To Fight Back. The meeting passed a resolution |papers with interest and started|The bosses watch the men closely | protesting this brutal murder and Especially were they |while great speed up goes on. They |the arrest of Beal, Pow Ray- interested in the article on thejare building submarines and cruis-| mond, and 13 other workers, who the boss watches us all the time.” The the TUUL. —A. A. $5 A Week Wage Cut in 65 Klein Shoe Repair Shops (By a Worker Correspondent) The workers of the Klein shoe repair stores in New York received notice of a wage cut of 5 olla a week. For working 60 hours a week we were receiving $35 a week, hardly enough to exist on especially if a man has a wife and children to support. Now we will get $30 a week. And perhaps less in the future if we do not fight back the attacks Jof the bosses. We had an organiza- \tion about 5 years ago, but it was broken up by an injunction udge. nee our organization was broken and wage cuts. | Besides the regular force Klein employs men for 1 or 2 ‘a week at $5.85 or 2 day’s work at $11.70. We should all oin the Independent Shoe Workers Union. —Shoe Worker. A. F. L. Makes Plumbers Scab on Steamfitters (By a Worker Correspondent) CHICAGO, Ill.—The U. S. gov- ernment has under construction at this time five buildings for hospital purposes at Great Lakes naval base in Lake County, Ill. This job in- millions of dollars. All trades on this job are A.F.L. crafts except the steam-fitters. The steam fitters belong to the same in- ternational organization as the plumbers yet the plumbers work alongside of the scab steam fitters, The United Association of Jour- neymen Plumbers and tSeam Fit- ters have sent their organizer, Rich- avail. The scab master is Bauer and Co., of Milwaukee, heating en- gineer. The scabs get $8.50 per day and less, much less than the the unemployed laid off from the | Volves the expenditure of several fitters scale of $13.60 per day. This seems big money but their | yearly average will run around $400 for annum and this has been going on for 2 years. The steam fitters | officials have been to see capitalist | politicians, U. S. Senator Deneen \and Governor Emerson on this sit- uation. Graft unionism _ breeds scabism. —CHI. PLUMBER. A Young Worker Who'll Fight for His Class (By a Worker Correspondent) READING, Pa.—I am a young worker of 18, I was working in a paint plant, a place where I had to breathe lead fumes all the time. Many a day I had to go home and| | have my teeth fixed, and then I had! some pulled. On January 15 our wages were reduced from 30 cents an hour to 25 cents, I have received the Daily Worker for a few days and carried them to | work and handed them out to some fellows. | I think the boss found out about it and had me fired. I am very glad that the South is | fighting hard. I wish them luck. That is what Reading needs. —JINGLES. Speed-up Fierce at Bayuk Cigar; Negroes Worst Exploited (By a Worker Correspondent) PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—The boss- es of the Bayuk Cigar Co. have a new scheme for speeding us up and even then we can’t make a decent wage. Many cigars are rejected by the inspectors and we are told that they are “seconds” or to be scrapped but behind our backs these very same “seconds” find their way to all boxes. *Most of the heavy work is done by Negro workers who receive from 30 to 32% cents an hour.and work 3 | hne home a pay envelope of $18 to sup- port a family on. We hope to be in a fighting union, led by the Com- munists, and it’s up to us to start things rolling! cnt wicca aj ze. the dourgentn hed | on | in into two arent posed clanren: letariat—M: Workers! This Is Your Paper. Write for It. Distribute It Among Your Fellow Workers! aks up all that we got was speed-up ard P. Walsh on this job but no} |yards, exposing the A. F. of L. po-|ers for war. The yards are working | are held for a total of $80,000 bonds. | litical dickering. One worker was|on day and nights shifts. TRAAAAE BR Une: Shee ici ay <ateibutore |TUUL, 4 ree ie :|ishment of the state militia and the BUFFALO, Feb. 4,— ing {heard to say to the distributors /TUUL is getting a campaign under int of the state mil O, neb. A: A meeting “Yes that’s the stuff we want but|way to organize the workers into | oreanization of work The resolution demanded the abo elf-defense corps. And it also de’ ded the immediate release of our imprisoned comrades in Pontiae, and decided to organize mass movements to fig against the bosses’ attacks and for | the organization of the workers into {the Auto Workers Union, and the building of a powerful district of the Trade Union Unity League. As far as | am concerned, f can’t ve discovered the ex- axsex in modern society their strife Inst one another. long hi struggles. xhowed the the cinsxes. phas rial production: 2 that the cinay straggle leads neces- sarily to the dictatorship of the oroletariat: 8) that this dictatorship | Is but the transition to the aboll- | don of all classes and <o the crs- nation of a society of free and equal. —Marx, By EARL | A’ invaluable analysis | facts and Marxist-Leninist of workers in this country program of STRUGGLE! FIVE 39 East 125th Street OUT OFA J SPECIAL DISCOUNTS ON ORDERS COPS HELP THUG “STONING OF HALL IN LOS ANGELES Lap Angeles Workers Det? Terrorism LOS ANGELES, Cal., Feb. 4.— Members of the American Legion, and other thugs stoned the windows of the hall at the Co-operative Cen- | ter, 2706 Brooklyn Ave., where a joint protest mass meeting was held by the Communist Party and the Young Communist League. These organizations protested against the terror directed against Filipino workers throughout this, the home state of President Hoover, and also against the intimidation of working class students in the Roose- velt high school, where members of the Young Communist League and the Young Pioneers are being denied | diplomas—because they are work- ing and fighting on the side of the exploited toilers. The main purpose of the terror- ism against the over-worked and | underpaid islanders is to divert the attention of workers from the econ- omic crisis now prevailing—by put- | ting the blame on these “step- children of Uncle Sam.” Police Aid Thugs. When the stones came through the windows at the Cooperative, as | pointed out above, members of the | workers’ defense squad rushed down | to the street, where they were held off by the police “Red Squad” with black-jacks—and until the thugs es- caped into their cars, On one of the stones was the fol- | lowing note: | “Warning to the Young Commu- |nist League and the Communist | Party. There will be no more Com- | munist literature distributed in Los | Angeles and vicinity. This is your | first warning and may be your last. | Take heed. |. “The Anti-Communist League of | Los Angeles.” |. The chairman of the joint meet- ing accepted the challenge. He de- | clared that within the next four days the Communist Party would distribute 20,000 leaflets on the Fili- | pino question—calling for a demon- stration at the Plaza Sunday. |London Naval Meet | Still Held in Secret (Continued from Page One) pending upon its numerous naval | bases would have the advantage. And now America’s demand for 21 | cruisers is meeting objections from | other imperialisms who point at America with good reason (even if in their own imperialist interest) as the one responsible for a general in- crease in armaments while posing as a sort of “angel of peace.” The only thing on which America can hang as a pretense of “peace” is a restriction proposed on submarines, but this is not for any more ideal- istic reason than that of a nation expecting to go to war against such a nation as England. On Monday, the news from Paris, that Tardieu was boasting of a “vie- tory” in London, firstly in linking the conference with the League of Nations and secondly, in taking | cruisers, destroyers and submarines from under the “yardstick” rule, angered the American delegation particularly, and these made some | pr ure upon MacDonald who came out in the “labor” organ, the “Daily Herald,” remarking that Tardieu had been “talking indiscreetly” and {that the Americans were going to demand “explanations, partly as a | hint that Tardieu’s methods will not | get him far.” Thus the game of | hide and seek and backstairs diplo- macy, condemned by Stimson, is led by Stimson, eee ae OBS BROWDER es ui: of the problem of UNEM- PLOYMENT. The author destroys, by means of deduction, all illusions ere- ated by the hypocritic efforts of the Hoover-A.F.L.« socialist combines to cure this evil, now facing millions y. 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