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seta acm GERMAN POLICE PLANT | | | “EVIDENCE” AGAINST COMMUNISTS IN RAID; Day of Battle Before Liebknecht House While Police Search Communist Party Offices | VKake “Religious” Drive Not Enough, So Seek’ to Frame-Up Hair-Raising Sedition Case (Wireless By Inprecorr) BERLIN, Feb. 19.—Yesterday’s raid on the Karl Liebknecht House, Central Headquarters of the Com- munist Party of Germany, was con- dueted by several hundred uniformed police detectives, who occupied the building from 10 a, m. till 2 p. m. They searched the cupboards and desks, broke into the typists’ hand- bags, ransacked everything and con- fiseated some material. The names and addresses of ev- eryone in the building were taken and 14 arrested. The purpose of the raid was to discover the origin of the Communist leaflets that were distributed among the police force and the army and navy. The bour- ‘eois press, however, admits that in his respect the raid was unsuecess- jul. The news of this latest attack of Zoergiebel’s social-fascist police on the Communist Party spread like wildfire, and the square in front of the Liebknecht House was soon filled with indignant workers. The unemployed from the nearby labor Foes of German Communist Party Hit exchange formed a parade and marched to the building whereupon the police furiously attacked the workers. Severe collisions ensued during which the police started + shoot, however, killing anybody. Many arrests were made. out the whole day. Spontaneous protest meetings and demonstra tions took place outside many fa tories. The shop councils adopted resolutions, protesting against the raid and the new police brutalities. The Red flag was raised on the Liebknecht House during the raid, | and greeted by the workers with the singing of the Internationale. The Communist Deputy Dahlem | declared in the Reichstag that the | police refused to give a detailed list of the confiscated material which is required from them by law, and de- propaganda among the masses to file in the building, containing un- | known material, which points to an | intended frame-up against the Party | based on forgeries. | | by Workers | BERLIN (By Inprecorr Service). ~-In Offenbach on the Main, one of the strongholds of the right wingers, the party o -anized a mass meeting which was attended by 1,500 work- ers. Comrades Heinz Neumann and Willi !"uenzenberg spoke amidst ‘great applause. A resolution was unanimously adopted condemning the right wingers and promising the support of the Offenbach workers for the party in the coming strug- gles. A m.... meeting of the Communist Party is Duesseldorf was broken up by the police 20 minutes after it had commenced, on the ground that ‘he assembled workers had welcomed NATIONAL BOARD OF UNITY LEAGUE SCORES FISHWIGK Urges Atl to Fight In| Ranks of N. M. U. (Continued from Page One) of unbroken treachery and corrup- tion behind them. They have sold out innumerable strikes. They have ried to drive 300,000 unemployed niners out of the industry. The ishwick machine has shared in all vewis’s betrayals of the miners. Be- tween these elements they have wrecked the once militant and pow- erful U.M.W.A. The miners have nothing to expect from either Lewis or Fishwick except further sell-outs to the bosses. A union headed by Fishwick would be just as rotten as the present UMWA. “The most insidious and danger- ous aspect of Fishwick’s move for a new company union is the support being given him by such elements as Howat, Brophy, Tippet, Angele, Watt, ete, The role of these fake progressives and Trotskyists is to cover up the utter treachery of Fish- wick and Farrington with phrases about establishing honest unionism. Their contemptable task is to act as the fig-leaf of the black reaction aries Fishwick and Farrington, which means for the Illinois coal flsmenes These fake progressive ements are the most dangerous of “he enemies of the miners. The Muste Front. “Howat, Brophy and Company are members of the so-called Muste group, or fake progressive wing of the A. F. of L. The role of this group is to sugar with radical phrases the strike-breaking schemes of the A, F. of L. Their policy is basically the same as that of the A. F. of L. leadership—collaboratioa with the employers and violent op- position to all militant struggle They are the bitterest opponents of the Trade Union Unity League. Pas- saic, New Bedford, Boston, Gastonia and many other scenes of working class battle testify to their insidious role as practical strike-breakers. In the recent strike in southern Illinois they unblushingly lined up in the nited front of bosses, labor fakers, roops, gangsters, police, capitalist liticians, ete., against the striking iners. Their opposition to the formation of the N. M. U. when it was clear beyond doubt that the U. M. W. A. was hopelessly reac- tionary, exposed the hollowness of their “progressive” pretenses. Their present alliance with the agents of the Illinois operators, the Fishwick machine, and their attempt to lure the miners into the new company union is the logical climax of their whole treacherous program. “Fishwick is of the same reac- tionary kidney as Lewis. Both are social-fascist agents of the bosses. The miners must repudiate them. The T. U. U. L. calls upon the min- the speakers with shouts of “Red | front!” | The breaking up of the meeting had, however, been previously planned as evidenced by the large numbers of armed police stationed near the hall. As > protest against the action of the social democratic police pre:’icnt of Duesseldorf, 88 workers joines ‘he Communist Party. in Hamburg the police attacked a procession of workers marching | to a2 Communist meeting. The work- ers resisted the efforts of the po- lice to break up the procession, whereuron the police fircd into the | ranks cf the workers, seriously | wounding a young worker. Three | workers were arre:icd. | and to eliminate Fishwick and his} whole crew of “progressive” fig- | leaves. Send no delegates to this) \fake convention. Wipe the whole) | Lewis, Fishwick, Farrington, Bro- | phy bunch of fakers from the coal | lindustry. Rally to the fighting or- | ! ganization of the miners, the Na- tional Miners Union. Only in this way can the miners effectively struggle against the wage cuts, mass | unemployment, speed-up, and slave conditions forced upon the miners |under the Lewis-Fishwick machine. “Miners, join in the great strug- gle the National Miners Union is now initiating for the establishment of the six-hour day, five-day week | in the coal industry, as well as for | improved conditions all around. The shorter work week, together with the demand for social insurance, is the most effective means of com- batting the terrible mass unemploy- | ment in the industry. The develop- ing battle of the miners will come} to a climax on October 1 of this} year in a great national movement | of both the anthracite and bitumin- ous miners. Lewis is now prepar- ing to sell out the anthracite miners at the expiration of their agree- ment on September 30. This must not be permitted. It can only be prevented by the anthracite miners joining hands with the bituminous miners in the great national strug- | gle for the six-hour day and five-| day week under the banner of the} National Miners Union. The miners are now going on to the defensive after the terrible defeats suffered under the Lewis-Fishwick machine. This defensive will reach its high point in the approaching national struggle next fall. All the forces of the miners must be thrown into preparations for this vital struggle. Especially the miners of the South must be organized. The first big step is the holding of a big mass convention of at least 1,000 delegates of organized and un- organized miners in Pittsburgh on June 1. To make this convention a success every effort must be made to mobilize the miners by local and district conferences and union build- ing in all parts of the industry. The many strikers now occurring must be utilized to strengthen the N.M.U. for the big battle ahead. The draw- ing in of new rank-and-file elements into the leadership and the improve- ment of organization methods are vital in this task, All of the work of the N.M.U. must be carried out in the sense of preparations for a national strike next fall. The National Executive Board calls upon the miners to smash the Lewis-Fishwick machine and to rally to the National Miners Union. It also calls upon the working class generally to support the miners. The fight of the miners is a class fight. The whole T.U.U.L. forces must be thrown into the struggle. Prepare for the great battle of the miners on October 1 Paisley Mines Get Few Scabs; Pickets Active (Continued from Page . . browbeat and terrorize the strikers, who are standing fast for their de- mands. The collisions continued through- | Morganatic a ea CONS T/TUTION The Young Plan. Union Invites Women Cafeteria Workers to Celebrate at Its Dance | talk the matter over and settle it.|the way they were followed by rine “Celebrate with the union,” is the | all. They refused to go back unless | hall during the meeting, tr: call being issued this week by the | Women’s Department, Hotel, Res-| taurant and Cafeteria Workers Union to all women cafeteria and automat workers, inviting them to a concert and dance Saturday night, February 22, at the Food Workers’ Home, 16 West 21st St. Women workers in the Senate cafeteria in | Brooklyn and in the Pennsylvania, | West 34th St., both of which recent- ly granted union conditions after noon-hour strikes, will be the honor guests, Women workers are urged to join the union so as not to lag behind the men workers in the fight to change the miserable open-shop, job- slavery. The concert and dance next Saturday is expected to attract many | women new comers to the union, Government Official Admits Women Toilers Have Bad Conditions KANSAS CITY, Feb. 19.—Mary Anderson, director of the Women’s Bureau of the U. S. department of labor, in a speech dealing with con- ditions among women wage earners in this country, said that one Ameri- | can woman out of five is a wage earner, and one wage earner out of | five is a woman. ‘The approximately 80 reports al- ready published by the bureau,” she | said, “stress the fact that thousands of women still fail to receive a liv- ing wage, and that thousands still toil more than eight hours a day and 48 hours a week, many as much as 10 hours daily and 60 hours a week, and some much more. In too many instances women are forced to work in crowded, poorly ventilated, dirty work rooms, to strain their eyes because of glare or insufficient light, to stand all day or sit con- tinuously in a cramped posture, to have their safety menaced by un- guarded machinery and their health jeopardized by lack of comfort and sanitation in plant service equip- ment.” Young Pioneers Give Answer toWade; Will Sharpen Activities The Young Pioneers of the New York District have issued a state- ment replying to superintendent of schools, John Wade. The statement, in part, reads as follows: “We, the members of the Distr’ -t Executive Committee, of the Young Pioneers of America, hereby regisicr our protests again-t the state sent issued in the capitalist press by superintendent of schools, John Wade. “The Young Pioneers have been arrying on work among the work- | ers’ children of New York for the past few years, and at present are more active than they ever were. The statement by Superintendent Wade, saying that “Communistic ac- tivities among the school children ‘have been checked so far as the Pab- lic Schools are concerned” is just another attempt by the bosses and their tools to hide from the working class the activities that the revolu- tionary working-class organizations are carrying on among the working class. “This statement was issued be- cause the bosses ‘now that now with the present unemployment, he workers’ children, an’ the whole working class are rallying riore and more to the call of the revolutionary workers.” ALK 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. owned by the Paisley’s mine at Kin- loch, Pa., which killed scores of min- ers last year in a great explosion, resulting from the fact that the men were forced to work in dangerous gas. Muste Lauds Fishwick. Complete proof, if any more were needed, that the Muste movement is behind the Fishwick and Mlinois Coal Operator faction in the United Mine Workers of America split is given by A. J. Muste himself in a state- ment just issued, in his capacity of chairman of the “Conference for Progressive Labor Action.” Fishwick’s splitting of the U.M.W.A. is, “a legitimate revolt against the incompetency of Lewis leadership rather than a struggle over isms,” says Muste, “and is the «se to quit the Lewis organization! . It was the Valley Camp Coal Co., only course open to him.” __ DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1930 Marriage JOBLESS AID STEEL CAR WORKERS TO WIN STRIKE IN ILL. Negroes and Whites Fight Together in Hege- wish Walkout, and Wage Increase Is Won Unemployed and Strikers Unite Under Lead- ership of Trade Union Unity League | (By a Worker Correspondent) HEGEWISH, _ Ill. — Wednesday, | February 12, the pr department | walked out of the Pr d Steel Car | Company shops in Hegewish. ‘hey | immediately organized and elected a committee of eight to present their demands to the bosses. Thursday morning a committee |saw the bosses and told them their {demands. They tried to get them back into the shop and y ‘ised to | But the workers were not fooled at | their demands were granted. | Speakers and organizers of the T.U.U.L. appeared on the scene and |spoke to a number of unemployed workers gathered at the compa y employment office. They .sked th 1 |not to apply for work, ir h as one department was on stril The | unemployed workers went, together |with the strikers, to a hall ’ | blocks away, where the T.U.U.1 speaker addressed the crowd and ex- | pleined our form of organization, | which was accepted with applause. {By a Worker Correspondent) CONCORD, N. C.—Send me a bunch of The Daily Workers and I will give them out. There is a lot of workers down here that wants to read them. Part of the mills around here are shutting down. Many of them on three days a week. At Norwood, N. C., the wage scale is $7 to $10 a week fer $9 hours. Some Carolina Mill Towns That Need NTW ' gee ¢ | Page Three whom live in Elizabeth, stormed the ;hospitals to see if their breadwin- ners were still alive. Police rough- ly handled these mothers, wive daughters, and sons of the workers. y so often someone from the hospital would appear and read the names of some of the dead or dying workers. Shrieks from the workers’ womenfolk rent the air as each name was read. The Elizabeth hospitals didn’t even have enough medical supplies on hand to treat the horribly injured workers—they were only workers. The workers of the Bayway re- inery showed many examples of eroism, running to the scene at the t blast to rescue fellow workers whom the Standard Oil, which en- laved them all, had maimed. Lew Wages, Dangerous Work. The Bayway plant is located in Plizabeth and Linden. It includes ineries for gasoline, crude oil, and also manufactured medicinal oils and insect spray as well. All these products are highly inflam- mable, and low wages are paid for this extremely dangerous work. La- | borers in the Bayway plant told the | Daily Worker of barely averaging a week, some getting as low as ‘STANDARD OIL GP. NILWORKERS ola oi Pipe Line Leaked; State Starts Whitewash reet Porter Feb, 2 Fs (Continued from Page One) | of the slavery of scores of thousands rdard Oil Workers, was play- ing golf in Florida, more workers died in Elizabeth hospitals yester- day as a result of the alcohol plant explosion which was caused by the “failure of the Standard Oil Co. to the |Yepair a gas pipe line from which naptha gas was escaping, Failure to make such repai many parts of the refineries of thc andard Oil Co. in Linden, Bayonne nd Jersey City has resulted in the ner. illing and crippling of scores of prisons for 18 months tandard Oil workers in the past,| } as a soldier he fought m Standard Oil workers said. itantly for the New Bedford Tex- r flaming naptha gas that] file ra. He will be rel ut the lives of four workers! Feb. 26. On that night he d 64 more on Tuesday,| » hese: of Sta The significant thing in this strike is that Negro workers were in the lead. Out of 41, about one-third were Negroes, and a Negrs w-ker| was chairman of the mecting and} of the strike committee of cig After discussing the matter committee went and saw s they said, for the la e in and granted t which were 80 cents for pre |and 75 cents for helpers. The com- Vs 1 mittee came back and reported. All the be + time. 1 |husky policemen who came into the | ing to| intimidate the workers, but in this | |they did not succeed at all. | eased will g arranged The workers are forced to join ake at a the company union, the Works Coun- by the LL.D. a After the committee had reported | Continued all day yesterday to take d Young Commu- | cil, under which the workers are it was voted to go back to w he |more victims of the Standard Oil) nist League at New Star Casino. | spied on and prevented from fight- |next day. However, it was decided | Company's greed for profits, | ing for decent conditions and for |that if the boss did not live up to! Company Happy—“Little Property | der by the Standard Oil Co. of 11| safety protection. work¢ mor Damage.” ming of scores | s of three | ng in th his promise or if he discriminated | | against any one of the strikers, they} While six more wo: were dy- | would all walk out. ._,|ing, the company officials seemed The unemployed workers united | happy over the fact that “the blaze | | with the strikers and many of them/was soon extinguished and little jalso signed applications for mem-) property damage was caused to the | bership in the T.U.U.L. | Standard Oil Co. of New Jer —STEEL CAR WORKER. | While the company officia |so happy about so little damage | jing causcd to the company, g |filled the homes of s In Hikh Point, N. ©., the workers | in Elizabeth and nei Reduction of forces, making the remainder of the workers do the work of those laid off as well as their own, has brought the number employed in the plant down to 3009. Accidents due to company neglect and lack of safety protection for the workers are very frequent, Lack of a fighting organization, such as the Trade Union Unity League, has, as a worker at the re- finery describes it, put the workers aleohol building. for miles around, swept thru the bi The workers them building wor ing another 1 were thrown many feet from s folds by the force of the blast. Scores of wor! at once became are talking union, The mills there |in which the victims of Rockefeller’s | human_ tor were killed|@t the mercy of the Standard Oil closed down to three days a week.|steed live. outright. Scores of s lay on| Company, which is notorious for its Over in Albermarle, N. C., there} The grief of the families of the|the ground, une Many,| Steed for profits, caring nothing for workers’ li is 12 big mills, and the wage scale} workers injured in the explosion was | blinded, began to seek some way of | runs from $7 to $11.50 a week. Some |increased when hospital surgeons an- | escape, but unable to see, ran into| of the workers get up at 3 a. m.|nounced that many more of the|the barbed wire fences which sur- and go to work, about 14 hours a| workers injured in the explosion) Yound the Bayway refinery, as if day. |were doomed to die and that many | to shut the w s in a prison. The National Textile Workers of the rest faced blindness for life, After the victims were removed Union is needed for the mill work-| State Begins Whitewashing Co. to the hospitals, the latter joined in| Jany Participate in Int] Defense Bazaar In Mt. Gilead, N. C., the wages are $1.50 a day for 60 hours a week. | (By a Worker Correspondent) | PHILADELPHIA. — The Alliance | Processing Co. is one of the mills in |the Kensington area. We have in this mill a disgusting sample of what the working-class girls must | undergo in order to earn a scanty | | living. | It isn’t enough to be torn away | from school at 12 to 14 years of age and placed on the slave market. It isn’t enough that the girls are vici- | ously speeded up, and underpaid and exhausted at the end of the day’s work, In addition to all this they must stand for insults and humiliation from the boss. Albert Wilgoose, who | A Stunt to Fool th | (By a Worker Correspondent) ; NEW HAVEN, Conn.—Here in |New Haven is the State Free Em- | ployment Agency. The man in |charge of it was prominent in the | A. F. of L. Thousands of destitute workers visit this place every day. | Now their is a bosses’ paper here, |the “Register.” A reporter for this \idea. He lined the crowd of hun- gry men up on the sidewalk, and |took a photograph of them, They jpppeared in the following Sunday | edition, in their rags and misery, | Lenin (By a Worker Correspondent) PHILADELPHIA.—A worker of | the Franklin Sugar Refinery bought a ticket for the recent Lenin Me- morial celebration here. The Frank- lin Sugar Refinery had private dicks | of their own to watch for workers who attended workers’ meetings. The next day this worker was called | | | (By a Worker Correspondent) CHICAGO.—I saw an_ alluring sign decorating the window of an} employment shark, “An all-winter | job,” “coal yard,” piece work, can make $5 to $8 a day, pay every} night.” This looked like real pros-| perity, so several other destitute workers and myself grabbed this | job, We were assigned as coal) hikers and shovelers, and the em- | ployment ticket stated the rate at 15 cents to 60 per ton. The piace lof work was H. N. Lund Coal Co., 1740 North California Ave. Upon presenting our letter trom the employment shark to the boss, we were herded into a little shacic which was filled with 60 to 70 coal hikers, and were told to wait for our turn. The company had about 20 trucks hauling coal, therefore, all of the hikers didn’t have a chance to get out in any one day, no matier how busy the trucks were, but were kept waiting all day long for their urn in the crowded little shack with to- bacco smoke. Those who were iucky enough to be called out averaged between $1 to $2 a day. The trucks started out at 7 in the morning. But every morning the coal hikers lined up before the office window outside at 5 o’clock in the bitter cold waiting for the timekeeper, who ar- rived at 6:30, to take their names, in hopes that being first at the win- dow will give them a better chance Alliance Mill Boss Insults Girls One hundred and fifty-seven or- ers in these towns. At the same time the New Jersey | aiding the Standard Oil Co. in main-| ganizations of New York workers —N. C. MILL WORKER. | State authorities began the process | taining secrecy as to the cause of| have already sent in their assur- |of whitewashing the Standard Oil| the blast by refusing to allow the| ances of taking active part in the | Co, and clearing it of all blame for | victims to be seen. Workers how-| annual five day bazaar of the In- /the murder of the 11 workers and| ever, told of the leak in the naptha| ternational Labor Defense to be held |the crippling of scores more. |gas line, which the company had| February 26, 27 and 28, March 1 “Investigations” to whitewash the | kept unrepaired jand 2 in New Star Casino, 107th Hie SET aa tandard Oil Co. were being made| The injured workers were horrible | St. and Park Ave. bei Ge unk Se eaeec iby Prosecutor A. J. David, of Union sacrifices to the greed of the Stand-| Material for scores of booths is his cotlenneas “hue individually they | County, one by Police Chief Hickey | ard Oil for profits. Some had their | being prepared by the many work- can do nothing. ‘To protest would | Linden, one by the New Jersey | arms or legs blown off. The flesh | ins class organizations. All ads and Stbanto: Ted Rta 4b, | State Dept. of Labor, and one by | of some workers was cooked on their | 8teetings, and all funds for tickets This is only a small example of | the Standard Oil Co. itself. ce just charred meat and bones. | and collection lists are asked to be Sib SSeS stand | The Linden police department is} sockets of many of the| brought at once to the district of- Weert they anuat realize that well known to be controlled by the| injured workers are empty—their | fice. The last meeting of the City dividually they canzo! combat t bosses the girl winders at the Alli- ance Processing Mill, has a nice lit-| , bodies Oil, at the plant|eyes blown out in the explosion.| Central and Bazaar Committees | stuff, but must organize in a real| 0 are the Union County of-| Workers asked to be put out of their| will take place Thursday, February | textile workers’ union, the Nationa! | |"Textile Workers Union that will] | force such hounds as Wilgoose to} stop his insults, give them decent | pain. One begged some one to shoot | 20, at 26 Union Square. The workers of the Standard Oil| him. | Co. refineries in iLnden, Bayonne| The tragedy was heightened when | and Jersey City are entirely unor-, hundreds of members of the families | RITE about your conditions for the Daily Worker. Become paper sauntered in, and had a great | | Sugar Refinery Worker Fired—Attended Slavery in the Coal Dumps working conditions, shorter hours | £anized. “We are at the mercy of of Standard Oil workers, most of| a Worker Correspondent. Char eke Wane oH: the Standard Oil Co.,” said one of ! the workers who escaped from the | disaster yesterday,” and they can do what they want with us, because we aren’t organized. The Works e Jobless Workers The Party Orgnizer From February 1 the Party Organizer is published as a Monthly organ of the Org ional Department of the Central Committée. The first s t, the second will appear March 1. TS OF FEBRUARY ISSUE: . How to Organize Agitprop Work in the Units Fractions in Trade Unions Organizing Shop Committees Issuing Shop Papers . The Basic Units of the Party . International Women’s Day . Women’s Work in the Shops nice reading for the bourgeoisie inj Council is the Standard Oil Com- |pany’s way of keeping u 2 for better 0 for their relaxation. They had one of the ragged ones | say “To hell with the Reds, give} |me the good old U.S.A.” An auto-| |mobilist went by and threw out a| Ba: lcigarette butt, and the jackass that | tl |let himselm be used by the bosses | prevent |against his fellow workers picked it | Tuesday, because if they had a fig! up and smoked it. |ing union in back of them they could Unemployed workers, let's organ-|demand that safety precautions be | ize. The Reds are our friends, the} taken to protect the workers and only ones to lead us, and fight for| that repairs be made promptly by us. com One worker told of the time he| | was working in’ the Bayonne plant of the Standard Oil, when the work- Jers struck in 1915. The workers} had to battle police and th well as troops, which the company its side, but the worke afety conditions dard Oil workers at the yway plant pointed out that if 1 been organized, they could | such a disaster as occurred New Haven Jobless Worker. AQupede Meet to the office, paid off, and told never | had to come back to work, because he| The American Federation of Labor had attended the Lenin Memorial] refused to fight for the oil workers meeting. j then, and he said he had no use for Methods of this kind won't pre-| the A. F. of L. vent the workers of the F: | “We Need a Fighting Union.” Sugar Refinery from organizing “It isn’t the A. F, of L. we want, against the speed-up and low wages | the officials of that organization sell as well as long hours in this plant. | out every time. —PHILADELPHIA WORKER.| “We need a fighting union, to |fight for better conditions and wages, and protect our lives from such slaughter like what happened here Tuesday.” The Trade Union Unity League, | | with national headquarters at 2 E 15th St., New York, yesterday that the death of 11 workers i Standard Oil refinery explosion w: a clear case of murder of the work- ers by the Standard Oil Co, Tt called on the workers of the Standard Qil Co. to organize shop | committees in order to wage a | y functionary should read the Party Organizer. Its contents should ussed in every Organization Department by every Nucleus Bureau Subscribe! $1.00 per year—10c single copy. Get your copies of the February number from your district office. Send your subscription to the Organization Department of the Central Com: mittee, 45 East 125th St., New York City. Every Organization Depart ment of the District Committees should organize soliciting of subscribers. THE COMMUNIST Permanently Enlarged to 96 Pages to get out hiking. My employment ticket, read in part, “union dues deducted.” I in- quired what kind of a union the coal hikers have which permits such mis- erable conditions to prevail, But the workers said that the union is no good and that their condition has hecome worse since the union came into coal yards, they (February Issue) JUST OFF THE PRESS Contents didn’t know who the officials were, doubted if the union had any charter and expressed their opinion that the coal company pays their ‘dues” to some labor fakers who have agreed | to keep the coal yard workers dowa. I worked in this coal yard a week, the last two days my “turn” didn’t come, so myself and several others were simply starved out of a job. My earnings amounted $10.80, of which $1.75 was deducted for a shovel, and the job cost $3, leaving $6.05 to the good. —COAL WORKER. | AND THEY “LAID IT ASIDE.” PARIS, Feb. 19.—Edward N. Hur- ’s “suggestion” that the world in- | dustrial leaders unite to prevent war} by refusing to supply belligerent | nations with essential raw mate- rials was “laid aside” by the execu- | tive committee of the International Chamber of Commerce. The presi- | dent of the chamber artfully said that it should have been sent to the “American committee” of oe) chamber, termined fight against slave wages and conditions and to fight for pro-| Notes of the Month. tection of the workers lives. | It urged all Stndard Oil workers! U. 8. Agriculture and Tasks of the Communist Party of U. 8. A. interested in organizing under the| : fighting leadership of the Trade| Are New Revolutions Impossible Without War? Union Unity League to get in touch | By GREGORY ZINOVIEV with the Trade Union Unity League | yoy ‘ J + , orld A $ Scenes or horror marked the mur- | The Industrialization of the South and the Negro Problem. By M. RUBE TEIN Inter-racial Relations Among Southern Workers. By MYRA PAGE, Author “Southern Cotton Mills and Labor” | The Second Congress of the Anti-Imperialist League. By WILLIAM WILSON The Theoretical Knights of Opportunism. By Bb. BUKHARTSEV | Book Reviews. $2.00 per year—25c per copy Order from WORKERS LIBRARY PUBLISHERS 39 East 125th Street, New York City or nearest Workers Bookshop. BABADALRARLOADLEDEL DADE Danger in Painful, Weak Bladder and Kidneys Doctors warn against & neglect. Santal Midy helps to quickly correct burning passages, pain- fuleliminationand irrita- tion. Used for nearly half a century, throughout the world. For early | relief get from your druggist the original. Sauda Midy get