The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 15, 1930, Page 1

ee Wao ee ee ee ) Wage-Cuts Go With Unemployment! Workers, Unite To Fight For Work Mobilize for the World- Wide Demonstrations on Feb. 26! or Wages. tler at the Post Office a t New York, . Y., under the act ef Ma Vol. VI., No. 295 Published daily except Sunday by The Comprodaily Publishing egg Company, Inc,, 26-28 Union Square, New York City, N. Y. NEW YORK, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1930 Outside SUBSCRIPTION RATES New York, by mal FINAL CITY EDITION mail, $8.00 per year. per year. ‘The Trotskyite Jackals Join'ANTI-SOVIET WAR (Can't Hide War GLENDALE MEN PHILADELPHIA JOBLESS BATTLE FOR ‘WORK OR WAGES’; BEAL HELD, TEN the Howling Pack In full cry, the world pack of imperialist jackals has responded the whip of their masters; with one voice they are calling for the blood of the working class of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republies. With the Pope of Rome at their head, with MacDonald, Henderson & ing his high tenor on behalf of the Socialist Party, the handmaidens of imperialism have jumped to obey the commands from Wall Street and Whitehall. : The “Mexico” of the Rubio puppet of United States imperialism CAMPAIGN LED BY THE ‘SOCIALISTS’ Co. bearing the “Labor” banner, with the Rev. Norman Thomas add- | broke relations with the Soviet Union; the French imperialists joined | in the hue and cry. Every imperialist and flunkey in the world has been drawn into the chorus of invective against the Soviet Union. inevitable that the “heroes” of Trotskyism should find their place in the pack. At such a moment they could not afford to miss thei ance to obtain a “place in the sun.” So to the Pope’s lamen- i about “what has happened to god” in the Soviet Union; to rman Thomas’ wails about “what has happened to the poor kulaks’’; to the French imperialist cry about “what has happened to General Koutiepov’”—there is now added the companion howl of Cannon the Trot “what has happened to Blumkin.” It was name of Blumkin is little known, but the polities of this cry s an old familiar one. It is the oldest and most used of all the weapons n the arsenal of the enemies of the Soviet Union, its only close rival being the cry about “nationalization of women.” The only change it has undergone since the days of 1917, is that “Lenin the murderer” has now been changed to “Stalin the murderer.” It is part and parcel of the imperialist world offensive on behal! expiring remnants of capitalism in the Soviet Union, which are wiped out in the tremendous successes of the Five-Year Plan t construction, especially by the enormous mass movement ntry into the Soviet and collective farins. World imperialism, s, shivers with fear at the towering young giant of Soviet socialized sindustry and agriculture. In its paroxisms ht, it rallies all its direct and indirect helpers, and throws them into action — the howls for blood which are the preparations of the population for the coming wa’ And among the jackal pack is little Mr. Jim Cannon, now a professional anti-Communist renegade, in full cry. : 2 of Let the workers, preparing for their struggles against the im- perialist war and against rationalization and unemployment, with al! their consequences, preparing for the coming mighty battles against | the capitalist tem, take note and remember this stab in the back by the renegades. 8 WIN CAFETERIA SOVIET RULING * STRIKE QUICKLY CENTRAL CHINA Food Clerl “Paragraph 600” Soviets in Honan Another significant victory was | ‘Wireless By Inprecorr) won by the Cafeteria Workers’) SHANGHAI, Feb. Union yesterday afternoon, After| are received here that Communist presenting a number of demands to| troops are threatening Nanchang, the bosses of the Péitisyl¥ania Sap capital of the province of teria on 34th St. between Seventh | Kiangsi in central-China. and Eighth Aves., which is an Asso- ciation shop, sat bosses refused to | to be joining the Communist arfnies | accept. The shop committee imme-| in large numbers. diately gave the signal; all the! Hankow reports state that there workers left at once, and in spite of | \is an insurrection in southeastern | the police and hired gangsters who | | Honan (north of the Yangtze and guarded the place since early in the | the province of Kiangsi which lies morning, a picket line was formed | south of the river), and that Soviets quickly. Six pickets were arrested. } are being formed there. The San- The customers who were all work- | cheng district is reported to be German Social-Fascism Proving “Fitness to Rule” For Capital “Vorwaerts” Lies Hit ‘Pope, and “Socialists” Aid Imperialism (Wireless By. lnprecorr) BERLIN, Feb. 14.—The Commu- nist-deputy, Walter Stoecker, speak- ing in the Reichstag yesterday re- futed the lies of the “socialist” per “Vorwaetts,” declaring that the Soviet Embassy received: only a dozen copies of the Communist pa- per; the “Rote Fahne,” most of the © -dozen being forwarded to the Soviet | Union with other papers, even the! “Vorwaerts,” while the Soviet Trade Mission received only two copies. (Editorial Note—The ‘“Vorwaerts,” | had made wild charges the day be-* “fore that the Soviet Embassy and | | Trade Mission were receiving 5,000 | ‘copies of the German Communist | daily, and therefore were “financ- }ing” the Communist paper.) Today’s paper, “Welt am Abend,” reports that a secret session of, the pa- | Preparations at Navy Race Meet LONDON, Feb. 142-Biven the pre- tenses of “disarmament” and paci- | n are being blasted by the in- crease in the tempo of the race for naval arms brought out in the state- ment of the French and Japanese | imperialist delegates which were discussed tode.. MacDonald, Stimson, Morrow and others went into secret conference today as the naval-race meet ad- |journed for the week-end. It is clearly evident that the conference has failed on the main point, which | was to make an appearance of lim- | iting cruisers. The outcome will be a particularly rabid cruiser-building | |race in preparation for the next | world war. The French statement put forward |the demand for a 100 per cent in- crease in naval war arms over the |1922 Washington treaty. The Ja- panese demanded 70 per cent of the } jeruisers of British and American | imperialism. A United Press dispatch from |London states that “Any hope for {actual reduction in the present total }of cruisers and submarines van- ished after the French and Japa- jnese submitted their proposals,” yesterday. * * * PARIS, Feb. 14.The French im- | perialists point out that the growing jleallers of the “socialist” party had yevolutionary movement among the jing with the capitalist elements with | 14.—Reports | Peasant guerilla troops are said | |been’ held, at which it was decided to begin an offensive against the Communist Party of Germany and |against the Soviet Union, co-operat- | cdlonial peoples in Asia necessitates lan immediate increase in naval | forces. Also, in a roundabout way | the capitalist papers indicate that, | since these revolutions “are in- MARCH ON OTHER | INegro Organizer NMU and 6 More Held in| Jail Stewart Miners Strike, PAISLEY MINES of} OTHERS ARE DISMISSED AT PONTIAC | Philadelphia Council of Unemployed Railies Thousands At City Hall Who R st Savage Attack of 200 Mounted Police Sluggers 200 Negro, 200 White | I iekrwa Capitalist Authorities Think to Bolster Up Vicious Law By, Miners Out in Sparta BULLETIN. The Workers International Re- lief, 949 Broadway, has received an appeal for- relief for the strikers at Moundsville and Pow- | hattan. The mines worked part time before the strike, and with immediate relief, great pos: ties exist to extend the strike to many other mines in the vicin- ity. Send funds to WIR at above address. * * MOUNDSVILLE, W. Va., Feb. 14. — The 400 strikers at the Glen- dale mine here of the Paisley Coal | Co. are marchin call cut the miners, in Paisley Co. mines at Ely The Glendale miners and 300 more at the Alexander mine of the Pz Co., also near Moundsville, struel against a wage reduction and de mand recognition of the National | Miners Union pit conrmittee. a wage two more | ‘ove. raise, no discrimination ard safety | measures, among other things. All the strikers have elected dele- eighteen miles to| | Convicting Beal on the Basi ANTI-WORKER PLOT IN MICH. Mass Pressure Forces Release For Ten Feb. arrested at riminal DETROIT, Mich., jcases of the workers Pontiac on the charge ¢ | syndicalism” for organizing the |}Council of Unemployed under au- | spices of the Trade Union Unity League, was brought up yesterday, ,| and Fred Beal, the Gastonia defend- ’\ ant, who spoke here on tour of the |T.U.U.L., was held, for trial by the cireuii court in $10,000 bail, the 10 | other cases, Raymond being dismissed. The prosecution stated that they were disn ing the 10 cases, cause they were unable to secure) 14.—The including Powers and| the aim of liquidating the Rapallo| spired by Moscow,” an increase in Treaty, armaments is necessary for war on | The aim of the “socialists” is tothe Soviet Union. prove their “fitness to govern” and) Writing in Le Journal des De- thus to remain the party in control | bates, Albert Sarraut, former gov- | |of the government. jernor of Indo-China states: e “Rote Fahne” reports that a| “For protection and maintenance session of the Prussian Ministry of | of order in their Asiatic possessions, « Doty the Red Army > Adseniens: |the Interior has decided to raid the these powers (Britain, France, U.S., Soviet Trade institutions and even | | Italy and Japan) have need of their | |the Soviet Embassy, after the neces- | full strength and all the vessels | (Continued on Page Two) | they possess. WHITEWASH IS. JUDGE ORDERS... READY FOR TAMID’ GIRL BEATEN \British- U.S.. Murder Organizing J Jobless Chief Arrested ‘Meeting Place Changed Abdul Tahid, leader of the gang). NEWARK,N. J., Feb. 14.—A gir! | of blackmailers and murderers that| worker, 20 years old, will be public- | gates to the young mirers confer- | witnesses, but unquestionably it was | ence eo be held in Bellaire. Ohio, on| due to the great pressure and indig- | Sanday. Hawkins Arrested There are now 1,500 on strike in the Moundsville, West Virginia and) east Ohio section. eee me miners are joining the N. M. U enthusiasm among the miners 1 high. There is mass picketing of | jall mines. Isaiah Hawkins, head of the Negro organizing department of | the N. M. U., Vice-President Fran!: |Sepich of the Ohio district of the . M. U,, and five other strikers are in jail in Wheeling, West. Vir- Ay | They include Vice President Dor- sey of Glendale local, a Negro miner Many Negro Miners. Hawkins was sent to Mour ville, aceording to a statement | sued yesterday by the N.M.U., be-| but is ginia, charged wth inciting to riot. (Continued on Page Three) GOV'T LIES 10 FOOL WORKERS. But Starving Millions, Organize to Fight Again Seéretary of Labor Davis repeats his sickening lies about ‘ all) | reports "| swing to employment is in motion. The bulletin just issued by Dav |contains no figures on employment, filled with twistings and | be- | indicate that an upward! of Gastonia Bosses’ Verdict The Fat Fisherman ‘WORK OR WAGES’ PHILA, DEMAND Police In terfer ence Won’t Stop Jobless “Work or Wages” Is Phila. Jobless Demand PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 14.—De- | termined to press their demands for | relief and other measures for the jobless army of at least 40,000 in Philadelphia, the Council of Unem- ployed met today at its headquarters et out to march . to the City Hall | and more than 200 | through Market Plaza. | On the mareh and at the City Hall the crowd swelled to somewhere |between two and three thousand had enowgh rest by the the week, and took would have end of into account that his fishing hours would be cut short by Sunday. and when they arrived at about 5 the banners bearing the de- mands “Work or Wages’ “No Evic- |p. m. Press item in N. Y. Times, Feb. 1 telling the 7,000,000 jobless workers of the United States whose “rest” is. forced on them, that the head of the capitalist government is merely on @ vaca- tion in Florida, but has not lost his job. [tions for Non-Payment of Rent,” |“Down With the Spee ployed Workers,” “Fight Wage Cuts,” etc., were unfurled. Mayor Mackey of Philadelphia, | just returning from a pleasure trip (Continued on Page Three) “Helb Wanted-- Female”, va Jobless Gro SEEKER. tramp By a JOB § | Tramp the streets, the cause of the largé percentage of | squirmings to hide the fact that not |Streets, day after day, or stand in | Negro miners in West Virginia. “Thousands of miners in West Virginia,” the statement says, Neer. “are | They receive the lowest | only jin the mass army of jobl that hundreds of thousands of, work- ers on the job are getting star is there a continuous growth | line and wait and wait but | hopefully, expectantly, desperately !Fresh young girls eager to earn stolidly, CONFERENCE ON JOBLESS, FEB. 19 ag “Metropolitan Area Mobilizes An important part in the orga lization of the unemployed workers of the Metropolitan Areas is being played by the Councils of the Un- shot four East Indian textile work- | ly beaten in court by order of the |, their own living and be independ-|employed that have been formed by ers themselves, Sxpressed their | vag the X conditions, and | ti RES AS ae a | atkested yesterday in company with! for distributing leaflets to the | un- ‘The National Miners’ | pase cee a enced, well groomed and well pre- Abuot 10 such councils are now the cafeteria together with them. eaiauaes las a way to force wage cuts with- THe Boas tal helnlese: inthe |@_ member of his gang, Abdul Gah-| employed was sentenced to this to-| |, . . ween egetias ei ; lien, al served; women with dependent chil- holding daily meetings in various ae re acer aa NEW BATTLE ON ni, Two governments and the Pat-|day, and her reactionary father is M0" LOenmes, 8 eee Pa | Cut calling: them wane cuts. imistie (vem, tired-looking and a little shab-|parts of Greater New York and erson mill bosses stand by with'the| assigned to beat her up, while the ied os BOY ine pimisie ‘by; old women alone in the world, New Jersey and recruiting new to pick up a dish or setve a cup of | whitewash. |judge sits gloating. She is ordered black and white, and is waging an (Continued on Bago: Two) statements are shot through with s that show the contrary of what wistful, wrinkled and watery eyed, ma: of unemployed workers every offee. They were compelled to} is % weit . | fe sureenden? even atthe apse of IN PITTSB RGH Tahid led a gang, including Ab-| held in jail tonight, so as to be on a wants the masses of workers to |Willing to do almost anything that ‘day. Next week the councils will breaking with the Association. dul Jabber, Abdul Gahni, and Usman | hand for the beating tomorrow. waliese: He dai “ will give them shelter and food for elect delegates to a Central Unem- pean British spies, gangsters and} Today’s unemployment meeting FRAME STRIKERS © “Building operations were curtail- a‘ few more years. ployed Council which will direct ae- Food Clerks Arrested. | bh rags y ccvite |ree’ held at 08 Mercer St. fr : ; 4 fackmailers who have been preying'| was held at 93 Mercer St. from 1.30 E ‘ eWie cancentmecevid “event Hvitiea! foe ha Mtemocel Miller’s Market, 161st St. and ‘Thugs Forced to. Flee|on Bast indan workers, into the|to 4 p.m, with 160 present. New ei tumanyamen . Highway) nvmginy “momise aed Byer Un ee ae Union Ave, Bronx, where the | workers’ boarding house at No. 13| York District I.L.D. Secretary Nem- | construction and municipal improve | ee eng or ice ane oacked| Thy i bosses, police and socialists are re-| From 8 Scab Cabs ___ | Bridge Street, Paterson. | ser and Sadie Van Veen, of the un- TGs Wore nelgein chee Gp Vemaiby ment: se atelee Ore rae see The Vnersployed Commis See sponsible for the jurder of Steve | | coligeer-ereelaees--qreie Abbe send ~ad Cir IpadeRicneih ena laneaains ae erating schedules in many of the in- With girls until there is sca y electing delegates and preparing for Katovis, is using Paragraph 600 (Wireless By Inprecorr) whom is dead, and a second is ex-| One unemployed Negro told of { (Continued.on Page Two) rad ee Ras pereas out of the big conference on unemploy- (the law against violating an in-| BERLIN, Feb, 14.—At lact |pected to die. The four gangsters | working 7 years in a chemical plant, pate a es eS ie the saan Valet By the ee real Me TERA oF MER : blackiméilers-+- have : ee f 5 ew. » we z. rea T.U.U.L. for next Wednesday, junction) with a vengeance. Four! night’s conference of taxicab |escaped. The bla: ‘8 and being fired because he caught Accept TUUL Leader-|Greed and Speed Up of “No, I’m sorry, evérything’s filled,” February 19, at 8 p. m., in Manhat- were arrested there on the picket line yesterday. Miller and and drivers it was decided to declare a general taxi strike. The “so- been threatening the workers .with re an occupational disease. deportation unless they “came Another Negro worker, unemploy- ship Ship’s Officers Makes (C ‘ontinued-01 Page Three) Fourth St. Un- the gangster business agent of Lo-| cialist” leaders of the union were across” with regular sums of mon-| eq, said: “I see this moventent we ye ae employed workers, workers in shops cal 38, Retail Dairy and Grocery | forced to give their consent by the |ey- In this scheme the gang has | genuine. The Negro workers will. Absolutely repudiating both the ‘Seaman Fall to Death and factories, trade unions and Clerks Union, United Hebrew} tremendous fighting spirit of the | been aided by an American lawyer, be loyal and fighting shoulder to A. F. L. and the Lovestoneite mis- | Faulty gear aa teeite Pc candl LK WORKERS workers’ fraternal organizations Trades, only a strike-breaking gang, | workers. and cértain British and American | shoulder with the white workers.” | leaders in their union, the striking the death of a marine worker yes Peueh ine are asked to elect representatives pointed out members of the Food * * * authorities. | Of those arrested at the unem- | furniture workers in the Itzeik shop.| torday on the Westaniar ‘oe tH to this all-important conference, | Clerks’ Industrial Union to a large| PITTSBURGH, Pa, Feb. 14.— N. T. W. Members Shot ployed. demonstration several days | Newport and Watkins. Ave., Brook-) American Export Line, lying BAWD NTW a which will unify the fight of the swarm-ef\policemen, who surrounded | Another struggle started today in| dras Ali, Asmud Ula and Sifed| ago, Levine is being held still on|lyn, have placed themselves. under | NeBeinine dietadndle. Chie ® man | ne unemployed and make final prepara- the whole\block. The four came be-|the downtown section between pick-| Ali were also arrested today with] $10,000 bail. The bail of Austro the leadership of the Trade Union | painting a ebave ohotd: rations for the huge demonstrations Ve fore the Tabor- hating Judge Duress, who held them in $500 bail. The strike and picketing goes on. | ets and scab cab drivers and depu- ties when a couple of green cabs appeared with the usual crew of Tahid. They were held on charges} has been reduced to $1,000. When | of being material witnesses. The workers shot were members of the a woman presented property bond of $20,000 worth, the judge refused Unity League and are fighting on to win, There is a call out for a mass picket line Monday morning in rather than break out and rig ing that was stowed away aft, old makeshift gear was used. Tt col- against unemployment on February, Noy 6 , ] lalcara 26. Company Union Fakers,**.,,, conference will also be @ . 7 . ye al e e. 5 The strike of the, food clerks’ pro- | armed guards wearing steel helmets. | National Textile Wokers Union and| to accept it on the ground that her | front of the shop, which all the |igncod and he fell to death, at 10.40 Meeting Very Small preparatory step for the convention ceeds against the bytcher shop at|The thugs escaped from their ma-, of the Interntional Labor Defense, | husband's permission was needed. | strikers and all class conscious." , 4 Marine Workers League : — of the Metropolitan Area Trade 967 Aldus St, in spite of strike-|chines and left them in a blind alley|which had been defending them) The unemployment meeting sched- | workers should respond to. delegate saw the faulty construction! , PATERSON, N. J., Feb. 14. —'Union Unity League, which will be breakin _|near Hastings St. When the police | against the blackmail schemes of the} uled for Sunday has been changed| This strike has been going on for | A homie iat ie Ky ,| While Union Hall wv crowded to held Saturday and Sunday, March ig activities of the social fas: ais apie is nae “ y : CT lof the staging before one of the ee - \ z Ys murderous gang cf British spies. |from Krueger's Auditorium to 93 | seven weeks, under the leadership ., the doors With members of the Na-| 1-2, Irving Plaza, 15th St., and Irv- cist injunctionites. Working class housewives near both Millers and the Aldus Ave shop are showing solidarity with the strikers and giv- ing the owners a lesson in what it means to kill and jail workers. WALL STREET-RUBIO ARRESTS BE. hoe MEXICO CITY, Feb. 14.—The de- tention of Charleton Beals, liberal publicist, is the latest incident of the terror campaign of the Wall Street- Rubio government. Today in History of and company crew came around to take them back to the garage, one was missing. Two hundred police, patrolling with clubs, guns and tear gas bombs failed to keep the scab cabs run- ning today. Eight were destroyed in the fighting, several being burned. Several thugs sent out by the com- pany were brought to the hospitals; police estimate about 21 scabs in- jured. The strikers carry away their wounded, No Injunction Granted, Arrest Shoe Picket Tho Abdul Tahid, chief of the gang, had his lawyer ready, as soon as he was arrested. He telephoned to Attotney Joseph Tanner, of 113 W. 42nd St., to come to his aid, and the latter lost no time in coming to help release the murderer. COMMUN Memeer St., because the hall-keeper was intimidated by the police into refusing the hall. Write About Your Conditions for The Daily Worker. Become a Worker Correspondent. of the Frame Makers Local | penters and Joiners of America (A. | F.L.) During this time the A.F.L. ofti- cials, and Perlow, the Lovestonite (Continued on Page Three) 1057, | «, lof the United Brotherhood of Car- | 's officers had a chance to order it taken down. It was taken down |immediately, however, to hide the nature of the crime, Build The Daily Worker—Send in Your Share of the 15,000 New Subs. ST INT’L HAILS MEMBERSHIP DRIVE Point Out Necessity of Rooting Membership in Big Industries tional Textile Workers Union and jing Place. This convention will co- other silk and dye workers of Pat- ordinate the economic struggles of erson tonight, only a handful .at-' the workers, both employed and un- tended the attempted meeting of the employed, organized and unorgan- ssociated. Enthusiasm ran high | ized, Negro and white, men, women at the N.T.W.U. mass meeting. jand young Nore a Organize for the-coming strike,” was the keynote of the meeting set STRIKE OF 00 by Distriet Organizer Kushi and by the other speakers, who in- Two hundred house workers em- Among the} ployed by the Albert Volk Co, cluded Robert Minor, M. J. Olgin, Mario Alpi, Bill Dunne, Clarence Miller and Joseph Magliacano. Plans for building a rank-and-file | e committee and for organizing | hop and block committees were out- | lined by the speakers, Affairs to Help Strike | central committee, activity must be raised, thus draw-| must without fail be drawn into|resolution of J: 17, evaluati a ‘ais i the Workers ‘P Communist Party, U.S.A. __|ing them into daily practical Party | Party. hig santleacof tua acive fou, the-tioe | | fnge “oiewe Seay ihe he Matgerdud condlivae on 1 ithe ‘ Whent organizer Reinstein, of the| Political Secretariat of Executive | work and organizing for them short Politsecretariat E.C.C.I. | month. Silk Workers and the A. F. of L.| pickets carry ateae “Rive et February 15, 1908 — British | Independent Shoe Workers’ Union, Committee, Communist Interna- |Party courses, and bringing the etisalat hte | To date, upon the conclusion of | U.T.W.—Fake Outfits—Betrayer killed in 1929 on. this company’s Representation Committee .re- | attempted to legally picket the |tional, is marking success of Commu-|most capable into Party schools.| The cablegram of the Comintern |the second month of the drive, the| “Down with the St ke-Breaking| jobs; we strike for sat sa ki organized into British Labor | Mackey Shoe Company at ‘117 Gratt |nist Party, U.S.A., in recruiting | Without such work directed towards | bear's out the recent repeated direc- | Party has reached more than 90 per |Community Council.” “Build Shop | conditions.” Cree Party. Hhe Labor Party is now the tool of British imperialism. 1920—Somogyi, Hungarian so- cialist and trade union leader, and his ‘assistant, murdered by offi- cers, of the Horthy government. 1922—1150,000 employees in all in- dustries locked out by, Danish em- in wage disputes. 1924— trike of dock workers in St., Brooklyn, he was arrested and held on a charge of disortlerly con- duct because ‘the bosses claimed he is not a member of the crew. This firm is’ one of the 24 shoe manu- facturers who broke their agree- ment with the union and locked out more than 100 workers that worked there. This firm has not served the union with an injunction and picketing is still going on there. new members and spreading influ- ence among working masses, ex- pressed in recent mass demonstra- tions, and stresses the necessity of more intensive recruiting. In further recruiting you must concen- trate particularly on large enter- prises: and basic industries. Rapid influx, new mentbers, raises before Party the task of their organization in factory and street/nuclei, whose meeting the requirements of the new members and keeping them in the Party a considerable part will inevitably withdraw. Recruiting campaign would thus not only prove valueless but would also compromise Party in eyes of working masses. Broadening Party basis should be j used for strengthening, revofution- |ary trade unions and active non- Party workers from these unions tives of the Political Buro and Or- ganization Department of the Cen- tral Committee to the District Buros on the Recruiting Drive. The cable- gram also brings tu our attention the need of utilizing the driye to strengthen the Trade Union Unity League and to strengthen the Party base in the affiliated unions of the TU.U.L. The Polburo takes this opportunity to again reiterate its)! cent of the quota of 5,000 new mem- |bers. With the extension of the drive for two more weeks, through dent that the Party will exceed the original quota by many hundreds, Basing ourselves on the cablegram of the Communist International, the Organization Department reiterates to all Party committees and to the (Continued on Page Two) February 26, the Polburo is confi- > Committees in Every Mill.” “Fight; The company is demolishing the for Higher Wages and Better Con-|old Continental Hotel, 41st St. and ditions.” | Broadway; the Casino Theatre, 39th ——— | St. and Broadway, and a loft build- MINERS ENTOMBED. jing at 58 West 37th St. PARIS, Feb. 14.—Rescuers worked| The workers protest the scheme tonight.to save 15 miners entombed |! ee sey: wet in ised Nagra but és a tical simply to cut through the- floors, Sema at Haute Cappe, near snd knock all rubbish and building ‘aint Etienne. Air communication | material down into the cellar, from was being maintained. |which“it is steam-shoveled out.