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fi Ste DAILY WORKER, Niiw YORK, TUE BERLIN W ORKERS FIGHT BACK POLICE ASSAULTS ON BIG DEMONSTRATION Barricades Built in Neukoelln District in the! Recent Fight Against Police Prohibition 1 Refuse to Surrender Their Right to Demon- strate Whenever They Consider It Necessary |) BERLIN (By Inprecorr Press Service).—Despite the tremendous display of force organized by Zoer- giebel the Berlin workers demon- strated in various parts of the town this evening. Processions mar:hed through the streets and meetings were addressed by Communist Speakers. The police attacked ccatiqually with their batons, but were unable to prevent the demonstrations. In Neukoelln barricades were thrown up in order to hold back the police. Hand-to-hand fighting oc- curred in a number of places. In Wedding the workers drove off the police and rescued prisoners. } In Moabit also the workers re- | pulsed the attempts of the police to (} break up the procession and the po- lice were compelled to retire. In the Friedrichstrasse in the cez:- ter of Berlin a procession of over a ‘thousand workers marched along and was only brokc.: up after consider- able police reinforcements had been hurried to the spot. The bourgeois “Tempo” described one of the demon- strations as follows: “At 5:30 the Lausitzer Platz was empty, but at 6 o’elock it was crowd: ed with masses of people, and new groups poured into the square from all sides. It was not so easy for the police to move the demonstra- tors because they resisted the po- lice.” The Berlin workers have once ‘again shown the social-democratic |police president and his horde that |the right of the workers to demon- | strate on the streets when they co1- | sider it necessary will be maintained at all costs. Polish Unemployed Grow Militant WARSAW, Poland (By Inprecorr Press Service).—The demonstrations of the unemployed workers in Po- land are increasiz¢ in number and intensity as the industrial cri: deepens. Yesterday a demonstra- tion took place in Alexandrov as a result of which the local authorities promised to distribute free flour. On the 26th of January a demon- stration of over a thousand unem- ployed workers took place in War- saw, and was broken up by the po- lice. Similar demonstrations are also reported from a number of other towns. The Communist fraction in the | Seym has filed an urgent motion for the appointment of a committee of inquiry into the venets in Rava- russa, where the police fired on an unemployed workers’ demonstration, killing two workers and wounding five others seriously. Bourgeois newspapers report that there are 250,000 unemployed in Poland and 150,000 on short time, ‘These figures are, of course, set low, but even the bourgeois newspapers Imust admit that the condition is seri- ous and rapidly becoming worse. The Terror in Greece ATHENS, Greece (By Inprecorr Press Service).—In consequence of the drop in agricultural masses of the poor peasants are un- able to pay their taxes. According to the official returns of the Minis- ter of the Interior no less than » 282,124 arrest warrants have been ued in three Greek provinces | against peasants who have not paid their taxes. Thousands of peasants have al- read heen flung into prison for non- payment of taxes. Far from remit- ting the heavy taxes the government has announced that it will take stern measures to see that the taxes are really collected. In consequence of the great misery and impoverishment of the peasants, banditry is rapidly increasing and Detroit, Frisco and Atlanta Jobless (Continued from Page One) us insurance against unemploy- ment!” The mounted police rode into the crowd beating up the work- U ers. Second Demonstration. The second demonstration took place at the employment agencies at Cass and Michigan Sts., following the City Hall demonstration, the po- lice breaking up this demonstration also, brutally beating the workers and arresting five. The City Hall is heavily guarded and no pedestrians are allowed to pass by, while all who enter are searched by the police. The bosses of Detroit are in a panic and have added three hundred police to the force for March 6. The workers everywhere ate showing great militancy and readiness for International Unemployment Day on March 6. The U.S, Rubber Com- patiy’s boss-ruled company union has discussed how to preveng the workers striking on March 6, The Trade Union Uflity League and its Unemployed Council are increasing activity in preparations for March 6, holding many meetings and plan- ning others between row and March 6. ne Hamtramck Jobless Battle. At Hamtramck, five hundred job- less held a meéting at the Dodge auto plant, and fought police who ttied to break up the demonstration. Krystalski, the Communist candi- date for mayor of Hamtramck, and Alfred Goetz, president of the Auto Workérs Union, wére arrested. The workers then held a meeting in the afternoon and one thousand marched on the City Hall, demand- ing the release of their leaders. A big battle followed, the police using tear gas, shots and beating up the workers, arresting six, including Kowalski, the editor of the Polish language paper of the Communist Party. * . \ SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 24.— Over a thousand workers partici- pated in an unemployment demon- stration last night here in China- town under the auspices of the Trade Union Unity League. The police attacked the workers an@ five Chinese workers were ar- rested, including the speakers. They were bailed out at once by the Inter- national Labor Defense. The demonstration followed a lo- eal unemployment Conference y terdsy afternoon, as a preliminary organizational step to a district Un- employment Conference on Satur- day, March 1, which will be held just before the opening of the Trade 1 prices | the authorities are powerless to pre- vent it, Many rich persons have been captured and released only after the payment of large sums. Unable to catch the bandits the authorities arrest masses of poor peasants as “accomlices.” On the January 23 all the adult inhabitants of the village of Sitaria- were ar- rested in this way. Following upon the dissolution of | the revolutionary trade union fed- eration of Greece the Public Prose- cutor now demands the suppression of the Greek section of ‘*- * tional Red Aid. The proceedings will take place on January 29. One of the witnesses for the rrosecution will be Dimitratos, the secretary of the reformist trade union. federation. Union Unity League District Con- ference. * Atlanta Jobless Organize. ATLANTA, Ga., Feb. 24.—A hun- dred and seventy-five workers, both Negro and white, met at Rucker’s Hall here and formed the first Un- employed Council in Atlanta. C. L. Lawson, an unemployed worker, spoke of the bad conditions jand starvation facing the jobless workers. Comrade Brown, a Negro Communist, spoke on the necessity of solid unity of the white and Ne- gro workers to fight the employers. Mary Dalton, National Textile Workers’ Union Organizer, gave the program of the Trade Union Unity League, told what caused unemploy- ment and its growth, pointing out how rationalization under capitalism causes unemployment, crisis and war, while in the Soviet Union, where the working class rules, it abolishes unemployment and gives the seven-hour day. She, too, pointed out how the boss- es try to divide the working class, between white and Negro, young and adult, and explained the T. U. U. L. program for Work or Wages, the seven-hour day, five-day week, against wage cuts and speed ups. The workers applauded vigorously, and 73 joined the Unemployed Coun- cil, 34 of them being Negro workers. Plans were made to hold another meeting Wednesday, at 2. p. mi, in Rucker’s Hall. Fall River Strike Against Wage Cut (Continued from Page One) out its workers for some time, in order to put over a scheme to cut costs at their expense. This silk strike is the first of a great number which are expected in the near future. Conditions are ex- tremely bad, with speed-up, mass unemployment, and use of the yn- employment situation to make the workers accept less pay, a larger number of looms per man, and more unemployment. Big Strike Near. Paterson, from which the Elgin came, is in a pre-strike situation, with the National Textile Workers’ Union rapidly perfecting plans for * * SDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1 Page Three = Workers Battle Berlin Police Recently the Berlin workers, angered by the “socialist” police chief Zoergiebel’s prohibition of their right to assemble and demon- strate on the streets, defied the police and demonstrated everywhere, fighting back against the savage attacks of police with the same courage as they did the last Mayday. Again, as on Mayday, bar- ricades were thrown up in the proletarian districts. S WORKERS GO = TUUL CENTER AT TO TRIAL IN PA. 13 W. 17 STREET Stool-Pigeon Is Chief Witness EASTON, Pa., Feb. 24. ition fomented by the Bet Steel Corporation against Bil! Mur- dock, Anna Buriak and Albert Rrown, went on today. This sedition case grows out of Militant Organization The vital need for a center to ac- commodate the many new unions, Trade Union Unity League groups, | Industrial Leagues, minority groups \in A. F. of L. unions, and shop com- |mittees has long been felt by the |local Trade Union Unity League. | _ | \Big Headquarters’ for 240,000 JOBLESS IN — PHILA. DISCUSS THE “CITY HALL BATTLE” Talk About Great Demonstration in Every Workingclass Section of the City Big Lay-Offs Make Workers Think of March 6; Most Plants on 2 or 8 Days a Week | | PHILADELPHIA—Since the big|are lower than dogs.” All agreed. parade and demonstration on tne| At least 90,000 laborers in con- \City Hall, “Work or Wages” is no|struction work paving, along the |mere slogan to the 240,000 unen:-|docks and piers are jobless, with no ployed workers in Philadelphia. work in sight. The workers in every working-| The bulk of workers still employed class section of the city are talking|are working two or three days a about the “Battle of City Hall,” as|week, or two or three days every it’s now known. |other week. It is being discussed by work2rs| The building trades, metal trades, |who before did not know of the Trade |ship building, auto body building and | Union Unity League and the Unem- radio are particularly hard hit. | ployed Councils, The textile and leathei industries Wherever workers gather, on jare practically stagnant. The North every street corner, street cars any-| American Lace Co. has only its of- where, extreme bitterness is shown |fice force at work. It easily em- against the police, and enthusiasm |ploys 3,000 weavers.in normal times. \for the demonstration. The North American Mfg. Co, Only a month ago 200,000 workers | (similar name), but muking only were unemployed here, Today 40,000 | lace curtains, employing 1,000 work- \additional workers are out of work. ers, is shut down. | Overheard a group of working 70-| These are conditions that are \men discussing the City Hall den:on- |making Philadelphia workers think |stration, Said one, “the police who |of March 6. ride down starving working women —PHILADELPHIA WORKER. Prosperity? Listen to This! (By a Worker Correspondent) | of 3,000 about 300, etc. {2,000 have about 200 at work, locals | the distribution of leaflets by these workers in Bethlehem, Pa. Pros- ecutor McCarthy, district attorney for the State is doing his utmost to secure the conviction of the three workers, The chief witness against the ar- rested workers is a stool-pigeon by the name of Switzer who made the arrests. The International Labor Defense | was instrumental in getting the | judge to admit the legality of the | Communist Party. The case is a| clear issue of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation against the workers, and their attempts to organize against growing exploitation, wage- | cuts and unemployment. Painter Mass Meeting | ss :. | Organizing in Brooklyn At a meeting held Thursday at | 108 East 14th St., two painters sent | by a group of painters from the Brownsville section of Brooklyn, re- quested that the union send_organ- izers at once, as these painters are willing to join our organization. A mass meeting will be held in Brook- lyn in:the near future. | A permanent membership meeting has already been established in the | Bronx, at 1400 Boston Road, which | will be held every Friday evening. Besides these regular meetings, mass meetings and membership meetings will be held in the Spanish and Negro sections of Harlem, Man- hattan, Brownsville, Williamsburg and all sections of the city. Paint- ers are establishing their union, and are letting the bosses and their as- sociation know that we will soon Jaunch a fight against the rotten conditions in our trade, for unem- ployment insurance, provided by the bosses, and under the supervision of the workers, for a seven-hour five- day week, against the terrific speed- up for one union regardless of race, color or creed. NMU Leads Struggle On Growing Speed Up (Continued from Page One) Stuart, and the Workers Interna- tional Relief representative, Marcel Scherer, speak on the necessity of continuing and broadening the struggle, keeping control through a rank and file strike committee, and the N. M. U. program of action. Another meeting is called for to- morrow. * * * Fishwick Stops Per Capita The Farrington-Fishwick-Illinois coal operators’ new union began to function last week without waiting for the convention called by the Muste movement leaders. Nesbit, Fishwick’s associate in district of- fice, ordered all locals to turn over to him the per capita due the in-| ternational office. Fishwick leaders are somewhat taken aback by news received here that the executive board of District 11 (Indiana) of the U. M. W. A. has voted for Lewis and will not join the Fishwick movement. Lewis in Sell-Oout Lewis himself appeared at a meeting of the chamber of commerce and various coal company represen- tatives in Scranton, Pa., Feb. 21, and agreed with E. H. Suender, vice president of the Madeira Coal Co., when the latter stated: “There must be no more coal strikes, and in my opinion there will be no more.” Lewis praised the anthracite opera- a big struggle. In New Bedford, on Jan. .%5, masses of employed and unemployed workers united to bat~ tle the police for several days for the right to hold mill gate meet- ings. About 6,000 workers partici- | pated. Textile workers understand that the fight of the workers for shorter hours and léss speed-up and the fight of the unemployed for work or wages, is the same fight. The N. T. W. and the unemployed coun- cils organized by the Trade Union tors at a “labor banquet” in the evening, and prophesied that the U. M. W. would make a contract with them “for a considerable num- ber of years.” The present con- tract in the anthracite expires Sept. 1, and the N. M. C. is building strike machinery among 150,900 hard coal miners to fight the Lewis betrayal. ee Unity League are working in closest cooperation, and unemployed work- ers arg admitted to the union with- | the Many strenuous efforts were made to establish a new center and to ;make it possible to coordinate a struggle and campaign to organize the unorganized, to unify these struggles and intensify the work of the Trade Union Unity League all along the line. Such a center has now been es- tablished at 13 West 17th St. The Trade Union Unity League has leased the entite building of three large floors. It will provide enough space and easily accommodate all Trade Union Unity League groups. The opening of this center marks a step towards the T.U.U.L. becom- ing the real leader of the masses that will be able to challenge the company unionized strike breakers, |and labor councils of the A. F. of | |L. All workers are called upon by | the Metropolitan Area Trade Union Unity League to help build the new center, to forward donations at once and make the TUUL center the real coordinating center of mass strug- gle against rationalization, unem- | ployment and the war danger. All| TUUL groups, Industrial Leagues, minority groups, and A. F. of L. union and shop committees are asked to make preparations at once to establish themselves in the new centers and forward funds for that purpose to the secretary of the Metropolitan Area Trade Union Unity League, George Siskind, 13 West 27th St., New York City. Italy’s Women Work- ers Fight the Crisis (Continued from Page One) six days, but as a rule plants run only four and five days. All women employed get the same wage of 50 to 0 Lire for a week of 48 hours, but actually they are employed not more than 32 to 40 hours a week. Then take the Biella district. This is'a textile district where fascism is compelled to fight bitterly against the women in production who pos- sesses old revolutionary traditions. The owner of the Euschio Maggia knitted goods mill is the politica} secretary of the local fascist organi- zation and has thus every chance fixing wages as he thinks fit. Ac- cording to the present scales, the women workers in his plant are sup- posed to get 15.80 Lire a day and the men 18; actually the women get not more than 7 to 8 lire and the men 14 to 15, We see the women workers, then, subjected to a shameful exploitation. Yet, despite the whole machinery of their repression and terrorism, the fascists have not succeeded in in- timidating the working class. The following fact that has been brought to our notices is as aston- ishing indication of “he present posi- tion in Italy. In Noveliara (Reggio Emilia) 400 women dayworkers stopt work on December 21 and marched out onto the street to the strains of the Italian Red Flag, “La Bandiera Rossa.” This may appear to be quite an insignificant fact, but we must not forget that if 400 women work- ers had the courage to sing one of the hymns of the Revolution in the teeth of the wild terrorism that is part and parcel of the fascist regime, unis can be taken as a sign of grow. ing revolutionary unrest and a real spirit of militant determination, (By a Worker Correspondent) CLEVELAND, Ohio.—In one of the letters I sent to The Daily Worker I told how the Briggs Auto Body bosses told the workers that they would have all kinds of work after New Year. But what’ really happened was that over 150 workers were laid off on Monday, February 10, and on February 11 the bosses laid off another 100 workers. This shows that The Daily Worker was right when it said that the bosses were fooling the workers when the bosses said there would be a lot of work and that the crisis would be over soon. I was laid off by Briggs Body and I will be one of those to demonstrate March 6. out being forced to pay dues. % —B. PHILADELPHIA. — Some |facts on unemployment in Philadel- |phia, as shown by examples. Bush and Diamond, one of the largest lace and rug mills is only |working two days a week. About |2,500 carpet weavers are affected. } The spring season in hosiery |simply ain’t, The mills formerly re- |ported shut are still shut and the Ajax Hosiery Co. laid off 1,600 |workers recently. Tanneries have laid off thousands in the past three weeks. So have rubber compagjes. At Budd’s, the American Body Building Corp., etc. at least 8,000 have been laid off. layers, plumbers, painters, plast- erers, tile setters, locals of 1,000 have about 100 at work. Locals of (By a Worker Correspondent) DAYTON, Ohio.—Henry Perry, 43, a Negro worker, was shot and |so badly hurt by a watchman for the Stout Coal Co. yards that it is said he will die. He wes picking some coal for his family. The man that shot him is the father of the owner of the coal company. This man also (By a Worker Correspondent) SUFFOLK, Va.—Having got hold of a Daily Worker, I’ll describe con- ditions in the Planters Nut and Chocolate Co. of uffolk. his is con- sidered to be the largest peanut fac- tory in the world. There is also the Lumas, the Bains, the Suffolk and the Colum- bia Peanut Mfg. Co. here. All are shut down at one or another time of the year. Seventy-five percent of the Plant- ers’ workers are Negroes, and 80 per cent women. Hundreds of children, too. ‘ We work 10 hours a day, 7:30 to 6 p.m. The rule is you can go to the toilet or get a drink but twice a day. more } Amongst the stone masons, brick- | The Negro workers are especially hard hit. In Negro workers’ sec- tions you can find whole streets of {unemployed Just take a walk along Bainbridge St, between 11th and 13th, or on Lombard St. Talk to the workers and hear of their ris- ing militancy. Yesterday we held a large con- |ference of Unemployment Councils of the Trade Union Unity League, and on March 6 the unemployed workers of this city will be out to demonstrate in full force under the leadership of the Communist Party. The growing bitterness and mili- tancy of the unemployed workers of Philadelphia shows that the confer- ence and denionstration wiil be suc- cessful. Cc. R. Shoot Worker Whose Family Freezes {shot at some Negro children who were picking some coal in the yards for their families, and wounded one little colored boy in the knees, That boy is still in the hospital. This is what the capitalist system does to the poor whom it starves and freezes. —DAYTON WORKER. Planters Peanut Factories—Slave Pens for Negroes While working we are not allowed to look around whistle, talk or sing. There ain’t no lockers here, we throw our rags all around. As to sanitary conditions, there ain’t any. Ford could take some pointers from Planters on stretchout. The company pays us women workers $1.25 a day. The men folks are paid from $10 to the highest—$18 a week. The white women folks are mostly all floorladies and they get a couple a cents more than us. We all got to organize together (black and white, men and women) into one union, the Trade Union Unity League. —A PLANTERS’ WORKER. Increase (By a Worker Correspondent) MONROE BRIDGE, Mass.—The Greylock Mill in North Pownal, Ver- mont, near North Adams, Mass., closed down for an “indefinite” period. Officials of the Berkshire Fine Spinning Associates, of which the North Pownal Mill is a unit, said the mill was closed because the Silver Cafeteria (By a Worker Correspondent) Several workers, members of the Cafteria Workers Union of the A. F.W. have for the past month car- ried on organizational activity in the Silver’s Cafete 42nd St. near A New Offer to induce you to get Subscribers for the Daily Worker | Daily Worker, 1 year $6.00 Labor Defender, 1 year 1.00 $7.00 Six two-months’ tions at $1.00 count the same as ly subscription to the orker. b Bail This offer holds good for all atlas excepting New York we 1 Vermont Mill Closes; Workers Wouldn’t Stand in Hours workers in the plant wouldn’t go on a new operating schedule of 56 hours a week instead of 48 hours a week. The Greylock mill workers need an organization like the National Textile Workers Union to fight for them. —MASSACHUSETTS WORKER. Boss Is Worried Eighth Ave., New York. The workers urged the employes of the cafeteria to join the union, they spoke to the unemployed men, many of them food workers, patron- izing this place, urging them to fight the slave conditions imposed by the bosses (12-hour day, seven- day week, low wages, $14-$16 a week, unsanitary conditions), Many food workers joined the Cafeteria Workers Union, and sev- eral joined the Communist Party. hTe management finally became aware of this activity of the union men and by the aid of a stool pigeon spotted out three food workers to discriminate against. The cashier refused to give them checks. They called on the rest of tke workers eating in the cafeteria to leave the place. A score of work- j;ers got up and left, and declared they would stop patronizing Silver's. —FOOD WORKER. The Daily Werker is the Party’s best instrument to make contacts umong the masses of workers, to build a mass Communist Party. Write About Your Conditions for The Daily Worker. Become a Worker Correspondent. Tell the Advertiser—“I Saw Your Ad in The Daily Worker.” GERMAN BOSSES. PAID FOR ANTI- "SOVIET ATTACKS = War Moves Against French i USSR Increase : | the pea | (Continued from Page One) Bulgarian Exploiters Attack |parations against the Soviet Union. U. R. | MacDonald adds fuel to the im- SOFIA, Bul ) perialist war flames. “The revolu- | Holy Synod of t tionary mentality” said belly | odox Church ing MacDonald, “which generations |a date for w of oppression created, has all the|hatred and characteristics of narrowness and | war pr violence of purpose. It is an active will riding rougshod and cruelly | Jover every obstacle, real or im-| | aginary.” | aMcDonald is afraid that the ob- | perialis tacking th I ARIS, Feb, Russian white-guard yesterday to further the parations of the imper under the screen ¢ ade. Relig: lead in exhor powers to ai din In masse: nt or tions on t Zionists Back Imperialists LOUIS, Feb. —A group of supporters of British i attack on the and peasants in at a meeting of th Fund conv periali vious character of the imperialist} work |war plans will make it difficult for |them to enlist the working-class in the imperialist countries, and he | supporti: | wants them to broaden their cam-|the imper |paign and make the best use of their | Soviet Union. | War preparations. “The only ques- ot content with a |tion is,” he said, “What are the | British ir facts? What are our opportunities? |against the U. |How can they best be used?” | was worked o' a- | Henderson in the House of Com-|tion of Palestine in he }mons today worked with the im-'wishes of the British Party Members! ATTENTION Party Units! Party Districts 9 @ Your Central Organ MUST PARTICIPATE in all Unemployed | Demonstrations Read and Act! No unemployed demonstration is complete politically, agitatior organizationally, unless the Daily Worker participates. District offices, in cooperation with Daily Worker representatives, must organize groups of comrades who will sell and distribute the central organ to employed and unemployed workers who are mobiliz for these demonstrations. The Daily Worker publishes daily valuable news and information about the capitalist crisis and the movement of unemployed workers for Work or Wages, social insurance, etc. This news must reach ALL WORKERS at factory gates, in house to house sales and distributions. Every Party member must assume the task of selling ten to fifty copies of the Daily Worker in his shop, in his neighborhood. Every Party District must organize to reach tens of thousands of workers with tens of thousands of copies of the Daily Worker. WE WILL ISSUE EDITIONS OF THIS PAPER TO REACH ALL UNEMPLOYED DEMONSTRATIONS The West Coast Edition Dated March Ist The Midwestern Edition Dated March 3rd The East Coast Edition Dated March 5th Comrades in all cities, large and small, should send in their orders at once, by mail or telegraph. Orders received for the Daily Worker will be outstanding proof that you participated fully in the unemployed demonstrations. No order from you will indicate decided shortcomings in your Communist tasks. $1.00 PER HUNDRED COPIES $8.00 PER THOUSAND COPIES Remittance must come forward with order to enable us to publish the tens of thoysands of copies that the Party everywhere will order. Baily Bas Worker 26-28 UNION SQUARE NEW YORK CITY THE COMMUNIST Permanently Enlarged to 96 Pages (February Issue) JUST OFF THE PRESS Contents Notes of the Month. U.S. Agriculture and Tasks of the Communist Party of U.S. A. Are New Revolutions Impossible Without War? 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