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) | } | | | a DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1930 Page Three THE “LIBERAL” REGIME|SPEED-UP OF IN JAPAN OF PREMIER HAMAGUCHI & COMPANY “A Gentleman Who Lives Frugally, Reads Marx and Understands Labor” Takes Helm Only—Under This “Gentleman”, Persecution of the Workers Becomes the Chief Business By S. SAKURAI, (In the first article © Sakurai dealt with the | tion of the Japanese parliament recently, and how this developed under the Tanaka government up to the arrest of 2,000, the holding of 825 for trial and the dissolu- tion of militant labor org: tions in the Spring of 1928.—Ed.) “a PART IL 'HESE terrorist measures, how- ever, not only did not terrorize the workers and peasants who live under appalling conditions, but rather encouraged their left orien- tation. The Japanese bourgeoisie, therefore, now needed the service of ® cabinet of “liberal brand.” And thus the present Minseito cabinet, headed by Japan’s “third untitled” premier Hamaguchi and which in- cluded Baron Shidehara, the advo- eator of non-interference policy—as long as it can afford it—in China, as foreign minister came into exist- ence in spite of the minority sup- port. We remember very well that no efforts were spared at the time to hail the “liberal” quality of the new cabinet. Premier Hamaguchi was described as a gentleman who “lives frugally,” reads Marx’s “Capital” and therefore has better understand- ing of labor problems than General Tanaka, It was also reported that one of the ministers, in his youth, was a fisherman, therefore giving the Minseito cabinet something of a “proletarian” character, etc. That all this publicity and propa- ganda were purposely conducted to fool the Japanese workers and peas- ants and especially the petty-bour- geoisie were clearly exposed by the pledges and actions made by the cabinet members themselves since first coming into power six months ago. First of all among the ten points the new cabinet made public as its policies early July last year we read: 1. Lifting of- gold embargo. 2. Conciliatory policy toward China and the reestablishment of Japanese industry and trade there. 8. Reorganizing of Japanese na- tional economy. 4. Establishment of sound “so- cial policy.” Already at the heavy expense of the workers and peasants as well as of the petty-bourgeoisie, the first of these four was successfully car- ried out January 11 to the great satisfaction of the big bourgeoisie of Japan. The second, too, is being successfully carried out. For by dethroning the American financed Chiang Kai-shek the Anglo-Japan- ese imperialists will restore their prestige at least temporarily. As to the third, the cabinet has been cooperating with the special committee which like MacDonald’s proposed “Imperial Economic Coun- cil,” includes big financiers and pro- Japanese Imperialist Admits Torture of gressive professors as well as fake laborites on how to introduce ration- alization most effectively, placing all the burdens on labor. Coming to the fourth point we simply point out that a new draft | for trade union regulation bill has just been completed. To know the real intention of the government for preparing such a bill we need only to remember what ex-premier Wakatsuki remarked at the time of the introduction of a similar bill in March, 1927. He said: “Now the time for the application of universal manhood suffrage is approaching. In the future when the working class begins to have more say in the lower house it will be almost impossible to pass a ‘sound’ trade union bill at the lower house. If so, to have a ‘sound’ one passed right now would be very advisable, for in such case we can prevent the passing of more radical ones, on the ground that we have already one...” A significant comment by a Brit- ish owned bourgeois press in Kobe recently that “never before, even in war period, has there been more brutal suppression of news than un- der present Minseito government,” together with all the “liberal ges- ture” shown by the government to- ward renegade Oyama and his group, allowing them to form a new legal labor-farmer party, clearly tell us the real character of the Minseito government. We must remember in this con- nection that this is the government | that is participating in the London | Naval Armament Conference with imperialistic demand camouflaged by the phrase “Enough navy to pro- tect herself but not enough to take aggressive measures.” Now, ever since its coming into power the Minseito government has been raking out all the scandals and briberies committed by the leaders of the opposition while in office. So far they succeeded in placing a one time minister of jus- tice and a former minister of rail- ways into jail. Dozens of M. P. and government officials who served under Premier Tanaka are also con- victed of having accepted bribes or of misappropriation of public funds, etc. The popularity of the opposition, Seiyukai party, fell to the ground. It was even rumored when Ex- Premier Tanaka died suddenly, shortly after his resignation, that he committed suicide because one of his right hand men, Heikichi Oga- wa, the minister of railways, was placed under arrest. At any rate there is now a splendid opportunity for the fake “liberal” Minseito gov-| ernment to gain majority support} in the parliament. Besides the com- ing general election is going to be! held under its own supervision. Nothing more could be hoped for. To Be Continued. Koreans SEOUL, Korea.—Despite all the Japanese propaganda about the re- form in criminal matters, horrible punishments are still inflicted, es- pecially on suspected Communists or agitators in the national indepen- dence movement, In this connection an interview printed in the local “Seoul Press” with S. Suyehiro, the head of the Criminal Section of the Japanese Court System, is illuminating. This is particularly true because a lead- ing daily in Japan has recently de- clared that such practices were re- sorted to after the ending of the world war. There have been many charges that such methods—indeed others even worse—are still em- ployed by the Japanese officials. Punishment by striking the ac- cused repeatedly with heavy rods was, Suyehiro states, managed in this fashion: “The criminal was stripped bare and fastened to wooden boards ar- ranged crossfise. He was then beat- en with a rod. The maximum num- ber of blows was fixed at 30 a day. In case of a sentence of 60 blows, the prisoner was beaten on the left hip 80 times the first day, and then on the second day given as many blows on the right hip. This kind of punishment was given those pun- ishable by either imprisonment for less than a month, or a fine of less than 100 yen ($50). “Sometimes, he continues, “we, judges, atterided the execution. In such casés the executioners were full of zeal and beat the poor crim- inals severely, Because we felt pity for the sufferers, we refrained from visiting the place as often as we might othetwise have done. “Whenever we, judges, pronounced a sentence calling for less than 60 blows the accuséd were glad and expressed théir thanks. If it was for more than 90 blows the accused would turn pale and cry out ‘Aigo!’ “Such a sentence meant 30 blows on the left hip the first) day, 30 on the right hip the seotnd day, and another 80 on the left hip again on the third day. “It must surely have been hard to have one’s side—still aching from the previous beating—again beaten,” comments this brute in the employ- ment of Japanese imperialism. Miner Relates How U.M.W. Aids Bosses (Continued from Page One) U.M.W.A. and coal and iron police. The strike started over the dis- charge of six members of the NMU. The company told them they could quit the union and work, they did not have to belong to the U.M.W., but they could not belong to the N.M.U. Two did quit, and are work- ing now. The others stood fast. After the strike was over they went to the company for work, which referred to the U.M.W.A. They had to see the U.M.W.A. sub-district president, Heartneady, at Hazelton. They were third-degreed in the sub- district office by 15 men for three and a half hours, and finally made to post $50 bond to cover fines, and then told that the U.M.W. didn’t care whether they worked or not, But the company still insisted on a U.M.W.A. approval, and they went back and forth from the U.M.W. to of them, Sungalia, Miscavage and Haspe never did get jobs. Now the mines in the Panther Creek Valley are all working three to four days a week, and discrimination still ex- ists and work is being speeded up more than ever. The Company’s slogan is no demand for coal but the real reason is to break the union. ITALIAN petted ARMY ROME, Feb. 18.—There was an increase of 55,200 registered unem- ployed workers in Italy in January over December. The total jobless, as reported by the government is now 462,948. Undoubtedly the un- employed army is much larger as the Italian governm 6 not register all the out-of-work, jerusade as |and unchristian attacks on the the company several times. Three! ¢, BOSSES MAKES CRISIS WORSE Unemployment Grows More Severe (Continued from Page One) will not rise out of the crisis: “If a thoroughly sound and satis- factory basis for a further gain in steel output is present, it has not yet appeared in the statistics, which are available to the public.” And that furthermore: “Allowing for seasonal variation there was really a loss” (in steel output during January). Agriculture a Menace. There is a new element in the crisis of American capitalism which will further sharpen the slump. That is the growing agrarian crisis. The Commercial and Financial Chronicle becomes quite frantic over this menace of a sharpening agra- rian crisis along with the deep de- pression in all basic industries. They Say (February 15, 1930): Unfortunately, too, the menace involved is beginning to have some effect upon general business. And there is a grave danger that the revival in trade . . . may be ar- rested. . . . President Hoover’s strenuous efforts to prevent large scale unemployment may be foiled by this unhappy development.” The three industries about which so much ado is made are: steel, tex- tile and automobiles. All capitalist propagandists point to a rise in pro- duction during January of these three industries. They all admit that the rise has not brought any one of these industries within 15 to 20 per cent of the average of the same time last year. Gets Worse “At the Best.” But even with the slight increases in production the Department of La- bor reports increased unemployment in these very industries. “The textile industry continued to mark time,” says the January “Industrial Employment Informa- tion Bulletin,” of the U. S. Depart- ment of Labor. “A surplus of tex- tile workers is apparent in all sec- tions of the country.” Speaking before the University of North Carolina recently, Bernard Cone, head of the big Cone mills in Greensboro, frankly promises the. workers more unemployment in the future. The smaller mills will be driven out of existence, and this means “further unemployment,” he stated. Pittsburgh steel centers, the Labor Department quite unwillingly re- ports: “Employment throughout this district was described as somewhat unsatisfactory throughout January. Many units of the iron and steel in- dustry operated at a low level dur- ing the early part of the month. plants for inventory taking caused the release of many men,” etc., etc. As to the automobile industry the reports show continued unemploy- ment: “Practically all plants con- tinued on part-time operations with curtailed forces. A surplus of au- tomobile factory labor prevailed.” Investia Hits “Labor” Aid to War Threat (Continued from Page One) denounced the anti-Soviet religious crusade abroad, backed by the im- perialist powers, in an interview with foreign newspaper correspon- dents. The Metropolitan condemned the “bloodthirsty, unjust. So- viet Union, and a summons to an- tagonistic action against it.” Sergius, responding in writing to questions submitted in advance by correspondents from British and American capitalist papers, unre- servedly reaffirmed the contents of his interview last Saturday with the Soviet press. “We have seen,” he said, “the declarations of the Pope, the Arch- bishop of Canterbury and many other religious leaders summoning a crusade against the Soviets. We refer you to Bishop Longley of Towa, who not only joined the pope but declares they must not hesitate even before bloody struggles.” Sergius accused the pope in 1929 of confiscating 500 Greek Catholic Churches in Poland alone, convert- ing them into Roman Catholic Churches. “As far as we know,” he said, “no bishop in England, the United States, or any other country, pro- tested against these violent actions of the Catholic Church, “We do not need any kind of as- sistance,” Sergius stated, “especial- ly we do not need foreign inter- ba Says Filipino Freedom Would Stir Masses Throughout All Asia WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 18.— Nicholas Roosevelt, capitalist editor and economist from New York, tes- tified before the Senate Insular Commitee on the Filipino question, and argued that it would add to the revolutionary mood of the masses in the Orient if the Philippines were freed from Wall Street domination. “Everyone is sitting on a keg of gunpowder out there in the Far East,” said Roosevelt, “and the grant of Philippine independence might set off the keg.” ? With regard to employment in the | » « « The closing of a number of “OFN.M.U.PLANS FOR BIG STRIKE | Reorganization; Drive | Into South; Lessons (Continued trom Page One) stance of the Southern capitalists, “their classic rele of confusers and betrayers of the working class. They have become especially active since large sections of the working class have accepted the program and lead- ership of the T: U. U. L.” It was pointed out that large num- bers of miners in the Southern states (Alabama, Kentucky, North Caro- lima and Tennessee -— coal, zopper, aluminum) are ripe for organization in the N. M. U., and that the U. M. W. A. has again started a fake cr- ganization campaign in the South. The board decided to send at once one or more organizers into the South and carry on its work in close cooperation with that of the T-U.U.L, and other militant unions. Strengthens Youth Activity. Realizing fully that the introduc- tion of machinery has made it pos- sible for more and more young and inexperienced workers to be brought into the mines. who take the places of the older miners and for the most part are more cruelly exploited, the board expressed the determination to strengthen and intensify the ac- tivities of the youth department. It was decided to give the department greater autonomy and full co-opera- tion by all the leading committees of the N. M. U The struggle in the coal fields, it was pointed out, is primarily a so- cial struggle involving at times the entire working class affected. The board decded to increase its work among the wives and daughters of the miners, organize them into Aux- iliaries and give them definite tasks. N- M. U. Extends Work Among Negroes. The board decided that more work must be done among the Negro min- ers, considering that the Negro min- ers and their families are more rob- bed and oppressed than even their white brothers, and likewise taking into account the large number of Negroes in the industry. It was pointed out that the N. M. U. has succeeded in breaking down anti-Negro prejudice to a ccnsider- able extent. In assigning I. Haw- kins to be full-time head of the Ne- gro department of the union, the hoard urged all members to make special efforts to organize the Negro miners, combat all forms of racial Negro members are given respons- ible positions in all departments of the union: Notes Improvement in “Coal Digger.” The “Letter to the Members of the N. M. U.” in discussing the “Coal Digger”, official organ of the tnion, points out that with the in- clusion of the metal miners in its ranks, it becomes necessary to change the name of the paper to express the wider industrial charac- ter of the N. M. U. The paper, it declares, must be made self-sustain- ing and must become an effective organizing instrument. “It has im- proved considerably in content.” the letter says, “with departmerts in Italian and Croatian, more pictures, and in general is much more read- able than formerly.” Unemployment in Mines The “Letter” declares that the | struggle against unemployment is lene of the most important tasks, | second only to the organization of the unorganizec and must be car- | ried on in close connection with it. | It urges the formation of Unemploy- ed Councils, and all unemployed min- ers organized into them. “Yn all the work among the unem- ployed, the N.M.U. demand for the six-hour day must be kept in the foreground, and the demand for the recognition of the Soviet Union be popularized.” ‘ All local unions, dis- tricts and sub-districts are urged to support in every way the demon- strations against unemployment on March 6. Revised Financial System. A decision of the most fundamen- tal importance to the future o! the N.M.U, was made in the proposal adopted to reform the unions dues system, which is considered entirely unsatisfactory. “It is necessary,” the “letter” stated, “that this de- cision be carried out at once, so that the work of the union will cease to: be crippled by lack of finances in the face of increasing struggles and greater demands upon the N.M.U.” Calling attention to the fact that in every struggle of the miners and other workers they have to meet the attacks of the polixe, troops, professional gunmen and the social- fascist bands of the labor arist racy and the middle class, the “iet- ter” urges the formation of Workers’ Defense units as an integral part of the work of the union. The duty of the Workers’ Defense junits would be to protect meetings, to disarm fascist bans, prevent the beating and kidnaping or murder of active union members. ‘Pacifism or dependence upon the capitalist courts for “justice” is foreign to the whole class struggle conception of our union!” the “letter” says. “To submit to these attacks without recist=nce is to give up all hope o: successful struggle.” Urges Defense, Relicf. Touching on the question of iegal defense of jailed members, each N.M.U. local is urged to appoint three members who shall maintain connections with the International prejudice, and to see to it that all) _ ST. LOU Are Jobless, You’re Not (By a Worker Correspondent) ST. LOUIS, Mo.—A worker can’t find work here, because nearly 50 per cent of the workers have been ‘unemployed all winter. I have asked many places for employment and the bosses just laugh and say, go to the Iunicipal Lodging House. Well, I’ve seen hundreds there, the most miserable food I have seen offered people to eat. You should see the workers’ families in their (By a Worker Correspondent) DETROIT, Mich.—As a reader of The Daily Worker and noticing photos of breadlines in different cities, want to let you know also that we have them in Detroit. One three blocks long at 12th and Hazel- (By a Worker Correspondent) ‘Behaving,’ Says Judge Bosses in Scheme to Starve Out Filipinos Be- cause They Resisted Fascists in California awful huts around here, babies shiv- ering, for \vant of fuel, clothing and food. Seven hundred families called for aid at the Carr St. police station. I don’t know how many have called at others. Mayor Miller says he knows of nothing that can be done. He spends the winter in Florida, It’s awful and the unemployed worke~s got to organize to end this suffering. Three Block Long Breadline in Detroit wood A on Wednesday, February 12, also another one at Michigan near Trumbull, The unemployed in Detroit are growing daily, They’ll make them- selves heard throughout the world on March 6, when they demonstrate. A JOBLESS WORKER. Why Working Women Should Organize the sign was there to keep the men CHICAGO.—A week after my husband was laid off I was forced to go and look for a job myself. After looking around for a while I came to a big shop with a sign on the door, “No help wanted,” but I decided to go in and prove it to myself whether they did any hiring at all or not. But to my surprise that morning they hired about a hundred girls, in- cluding me. Next morning when I started to work they hired sti!] more female help. I couldn’t understand why there was a sign on the door, “No help wanted,” while they were still hiring girls: So I asked one of the girls that worked there three years why they did that. She said (By a Worker Correspondent.) LOS ANGELES, Cal.—Unem- ployed workers are “vagrants” here. One “vagrant” was given a 30-day sentence recently. The sentence was suspended provided he would “be- have.” A couple of days later he was jailed again and came up before the same judge on a similar charge. “I told you to behave,” the judge thundered out. “T have,” the worker answered. (Bu a Worker Correspondent) SAN FRANCISCO, Cal.—Cham- bers of Commerce throughout cen- tral California have ordered all ranch owners to stop hiring Filipino workers in the harvest fields, in.an attempt to starve them out and drive them from the country, be- JOBLESS DEFEND | PHILA. LEADERS Youngstown Jobless Demonstrate Friday (Continued from Page One) the part of the police,” and asking for action to relieve unemployment. A conference on unemployment is called by the T.U.U.L. for February 28, Sunday, at 1 p. m., at 1208 Tasker St. * * * Youngstown Jobless Organize. YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, Feb. 18.— At a meeting of unemployed work- ers held here on the 14th, with more than 300 present, an Unem- ployed Council was elected and at a meeting of the council the follow- ing steps were taken: “1, A letter to be sent thru the mail to the City Council with our demands. “2. Copies of this letter to be sent the local press for publication. “3. A committee of five to visit the meeting of the City Council to present our demands which are as follows: “1, Complete insurance against unemployment to be provided by the government financed by taxes de- rived from income, inheritance and profits, and providing unemploy- ment benefits at full union rates of wages without exceptions or dis- qualificatons. “2. Administration of such funds by unemployed organizations, no disqualification to be allowed be- Labor Defense, carry on the legal defense and the mass work of agi- tation and propaganda. Each ioval union should be affiliated with the LL.D., the organization which in the Illinois strike defended the hundreds of strikers jailed on the picket ‘ine. The establishment of a strike re- lief fund is urged by the National Board, with a certain percentage of all dues to be set aside for this par- pose. Affiliation is urged with the Workers’ International Relief, 3 “Behave”—And Be A Willing Slave Filipino Workers To Be Starved Out out and to hire the girls in their place. The girl said that when she start- ed to work in that shop there were 90 per cent men working and 10 per cent women, while now it is just the opposite. They pay the women 50 per cent of men’s wages and they | produce 25 per cent more work. By doing this the bosses are enabled to throw more men out of their jobs and we women working for only | half the men’s wages are not able} ‘to support our families. | If the women were organized into trade unions, then we could demand |full men’s wages. We should or- ganize under the Trade Union Unity League that fights for us. c.8. | “But you are not working,” the judge said. “No, because there are no jobs| to be found.” “Oh, you did not find a job. Then you did not behave—60 days,” was the ruling of “his honor.” So now we know that good be- havior for a worker does not only | mean a willing slave, but he also must be able to locate a job when it’s impossible to find one. cause they defended themselves against American Legion fascist at- |tacks in the recent boss-inspired race riots. Another Filipino was beaten up in San Francisco by the 100 per cent- | ers. | —FRISO WORKER. cause of refusal to accept a reduc- tion in wages, or refusal to work } ers local, but the U.M.W. Women Workers, Demonstrate Mar.6 a needle They must show their solidarity by taking part in the world-wide demon- strations of the unemployed, to be led by the Communist Parties on March 6, Women workers in trades sweat. shop. a Moundsville Case Won, Contempt Trial Next (Continued from Page One) |These workers were arrested and sent to jail for “tresspassing” last jweek. The charge of violating a | permanent injunction comes to hear- ing tomorrow morning, and repre- |sentatives of the I.L.D. and N.M.U. | will be in court to attack the in- | junction itself as a strike-breaking | weapon, * * * N.M.U. Meeting at Sparta. BELLEVILLE, Ul., Feb. 18—The National Miners Union is to hold | meetings in the near future of the |404 Sparta miners on strike against |the Moffat Coal Company. - These miners, half of them Negroes, are out against a reduction of men by the company, through the use of new machines, to 80, and discrimi- nation in picking these 80 (only six Negroes to be hired). They are organized in a United Mine Work- Duquoin sub-district officials refuse to call meetings, make no more than a pre- tense of supporting the strike, and | tell the miners that they have to go back to work. Before putting the new machines in, the company, without opposition from the U.M.W.A. wages, particularly of the Negroes. Those on the machines were cut from $7.50 a day to $5.95, The mine worked only a few days a month, wage, had to pay in the form of check-off from their wages as much as $5 to $11 a month to the U. M. Navy Meet Off; War Building On (Continued from Page One) now out of the question. A rapid navy-building program on all hands is admitted by the imperialist dele- gates. Great Britain announced, through its delegation, headed by Ramsay MacDonald, that it would speed up its cruiser building program. The French are already building ten 10,- 000-ton cruisers; and the United States twenty-three 10,000-ton cruisers. below union rates. ity of Negro and white workers. “3, Establishment of free em- ployment agencies administered by | the workers themselves. “4, Abolition of private employ- ment agencies. | “5, Emergency relief for unem- ployed from city, state or federal} | funds. “6. Abolition of all evictions for} non-payment of rents by the unem- ployed. “7. Abolition laws, “8, Full union rates of wages on all public works with the right to) organize and strike against discrim- | ination and bad working condi- tions.” | Another unemployed meéting is being held on Feb. 19, and a dem- onstration on Friday, Feb. 21. * «a's of all vagrancy | (Editorial note: Unless our cor- respondent in Youngstown is mis- taken, the action being taken by the Youngstown unemployed does not conform to the policy of the T. U. U. L. on the organization and methods of the unemployed movement. First- ly, the unemployed workers do not “elect a council” but form one, of which all are members who join as individuals, who of course elect an Executive Committee of the Council. Secondly, the method of “sending a letter thru the mail” to the City Council, and of sending a “commit- tee of five” merely “to visit” the City Council, is not the method of revolutionary workers but of re- formists, and needless to say it is ineffective. The T. U. U. L., on the contrary, upholds the action of masses rather than of “visits of committees,” of militant demonstra- tions of all workers en masse, not the method of “petitioning.” Since the Youngstown Council of Unem- ployed is planning a demonstration on Friday, we take it, therefore, that the first action, if mistaken, is being corrected.) ‘TALK to your fellow worker in your shop about the Daily Worker. Sell him a copy every day for a week. Then ask him to become a regular subscriber. Absolute equal- | There will be a naval race in all | crafts, ineluding submarines, battle- | ships, cruisers, destroyers, airplane carriers. The delegates at the conference admit that a change in the French} cabinet, which would probably be headed again by Tardieu, would not effect the French demands, which are based on the needs of French imperialism. No date has been set for the re- sumption of the conference, but the plans for war armaments are al- ready under way, and will not be modified to any important extent by any further discussions in London. Notes of the Month. By GREGORY ZINOVIEV World Aspects of the Negro Q By OTTO HUISWOOD | By M. RUBENSTEIN By MYRA PAGE, Author “So: By WILLIAM WILSON By D. BUKHARTSEV Book Reviews. officials, cut | and the miners, on this starvation | (February Issue) JUST OFF THE PRESS NATIONAL BOARD { 28 Worxens-commesponpexce-rrow Tar sxors TOLEDO JOBLESS WORKER ESTIMATES HALF UNEMPLOYED IN | IS, VICINITY Three Block Long Breadline in Detroit; If You, ® DEMAND RELIEF WORK OR WAGES’ j Cincinnati A. F. of | Fails in Attack (Continued from Page One) |ment of the workers. So he con- |tinued speaking, calling on the work- jers to organize to fight for their demands for “work or wages,” ‘against speed-ups,” “against wage |cuts,” “for the Seven-hour day,” |“social insurance” and immediate |relief for unemployed. | He also spoke on the Communist | Party’s role as leader of the working |class, the condition of the workers |in the Soviet Union compared to the \conditions here in capitalist America, jand called on the workers to demon- |strate on International Unemploy- | ment Day, March 6. The crowd was enthusiastic in pledging its support to International Unemployment Day plans. On account of the City Couneil’s promise to take up the demands of the jobless tonight, there will surely be a larger demonstration tonight | than the one last night. eae Cincinnati A. F. of L. Beaten. | CINCINNATI, 0., Feb. 18-4 last minute concerted effort was made by a combination of police, the | A. F. of L. officialdom, petty-bour- | geois hall keepers and the capitalist | press, to prevent the holding of the two mass unemployed meetings call- ed by the Unemployed Councils af- filiated to the Trade Union Unity League. The splendid response of the | workers to the call of the T.U.U.L. |and the fighting spirit displayed at the previous Sunday meeting, whieh necessitated the hiring of a second hall to accommodate the large num- ber of workers that came, inspired |the Unemployed Council so that preparations were made to hold two such meetings in different parts of the city. Thousands of leaflets were dis- tributed, bearing the unemployed de- |mands and the meeting dates and places, when one of the hall keepers |suddenly said that on “instructions from labor leaders” and police of- ficials, no unemployed meetings would be allowed at his hall. The workers of the Unemployed Councils quickly adjusted things, hired new halls and to the crowd |that came exposed the fascist role of the A. F. of L. bureaucrats in their alliance with the police against |the workers out of a job. | Both meetings were a great suc- cess, and the crowd, 60 per cent of which were Negro workers, showéd themselves fully determined to fight | for “work or wages,’ unemployment | and other social insurance, unity of |the employed with the unemployed, | Negro and white alike, and full so- cial, political and economic equality for the Negro masses. The Councils of Unemployed were | strengthened by the joining of a | great many more militant workers, |and preparations were made to hold | several meetings the coming week, {and make ready for International | Unemployment Day, March 6, when | the Unemployed Councils will utilize the demonstration to broaden out still further in the fight for un- employment demands. The speakers | were Chas. Mitchell, S. Saifer and | A. Ford. MORE UNEMPLOYMENT PROM- ISED CHI. BUILDING WORKERS CHICAGO, éFeb. 18.—The build: ing commissioner here in the weeh Jended Feb. 13 issued 35 permits | involving construction work of $505,- |100 as compared with 88 permits | with a value of $2,503,900 in Ifke period of last year. Build The Daily Worker—Send in Your Share of the 15,000 New Subs. THE COMMUNIST Permanently Enlarged to 96 Pages a Contents U.S. Agriculture and Tasks of the Communist Party of U.S. A. Are New Revolutions Impossible Without War? juestion. 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