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1930 100 Wo “JOBLESS IN ALL WAILY WORKER, New YURK, WEDNESDAY, MARCH spng. += WORKERS IN PLANTS adh Over 2,000,000 Women Workers Unemployed N ATI el) | a WY WHY METRO MOSCOW ATTACKED THE ANTI-SOVIET BACKERS Yaroslovsky, of Atheist Society Says Church Feared Losing Support ibe Lies of Capitalist Press About U.S.S.R.} | Anti-Religious Activities The United Press reports from jing Soviet patriots and defenders of | Moscow state that its correspondent put some questions to Yaroslovsky, of the Atheist Society, among them he was asked to explain why Metro- politan Sergius, acting Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church, and other leading clericals |whom |the atheists attack as anti-Soviet, has issued statements loyal to the So- | viet, quoting Yaroslavsky as reply- ing: “They understand that any hostile manifestation of clericals against against the government will cause the church and religion to lose mil- | ns of believing workers. Millions workers and peasants who as yet | the law and the right of the church | ‘Fave not broken with the church and religion are at the same time flam- the socialist regime. Had Sergius |behayed differently the working masses would have considered his ac- | tion treachery to the Soviet Union.” | Yaroslavsky protests at “the lies lof the foreign pre ities of the atheistic orga the dispatch states, emphasizing that |the atheists limit themselves to jagitation and propaganda, and re- |press anyone who suggests coerciv |measures against believers, Sc jence and satire are our most power- | ful weapons. | He explained that the closing of, |churches and the removals of church | bells were always in accordance congregations to appeal to higher au- | thorities. Indo-Chinese Revolt Against French revolutionists in French Indo-China, who have been arrested for their brilliant fight against French im- perialism, 13 have been sentenced to be shot and one has been given a life-imprisonment term. The peasants and workers in Indo- China have increased their revolu- tionary activities against the Freach imperialists. The arrests grew out of an uprising of peasants and sol- diers who attempted to |storm |a French military headquarters. In the night from Sunday to Mon- day, February 8-9, the Annamite Security Troops mutinied in Yen- Beri. Two hundred men in Tonking mutinied. A French bourgeois agency reports that the governor |tence. They are robbed of their land | sent a detachment of “loyal” troops to suppress the mutiny from Hanoi. Oppressors PARIS, Mar. 3.—Out of the 26)Serious fighting is said to bave T J J L CALLS | taken place, five French officers | § Vi aiad having been killed and a number of {non-commissioned officers wounded, | Annamite officers and men were al- |so injured. Aeroplanes flew over |the district and troops pursued the mutineers who had fled, The situa- tion in the military station, Khanh- |Hoa, is very serious. | Comrade Doriot deals with the dis- jturbances in an article in “1’Huma- nite.” He attaches considerable im- | portance to the revolt, and seeks its \cause in the oppressive exploitation by French imperialism. Nineteen ‘million of the 20,000,000 peasants in |Tonking have only two-thirds of the rice quantities they need for exis- and tortured if they refuse to per- |form forced labor. Unemployed and Employed Unite (Continued from Page One) vant fight has made unemployment an open burning national issue which can no longer be ignored. Even the so-called progressives in congress have begun to blather about it. “The A. F. of L. and the socialist party, true’ to their role as ‘auxili- aries of the capitalist class, have not stirred a hand to aid the unem- ployed. Their line is exemplified by Matthew Woll, the chief social-fas- cist spokesman of American capital. His program for the unemployed is policemen’s clubs and bread lines— submission for the workers and a OSS" PERJURERS Superintendent of Mill Aids Killer of May CHARLOTTE, N. C., Mar. 4.— Mill managers, city police and other mill company henchmen are on the scene now as perjurers for five of the Manville Jenckes thugs who killed Ella May and are on trial here now. G. R, Spencer, manager of the American Mills at Bessemer City, BUSY AT TRIAL recourse to bourgeois charity crumbs. His lying statement about the 1,250,000 of Russian money was ar enn manufactured to create appeared yesterday and testified that he drove up with his car at the time of the shooting, that all the textile workers in the truck had guns, and that there were no other \ears in sight. This contradicts tlw statement of dozens of others who were on the scene and saw the com- ar sentiment against the Soviet nion, to incite the police against the unemployed, and to try to scare the unemployed away from their revolutionary leadership. Woll, em- pany thugs block the truck on the ployers’ agent, is ‘caught with the goods’ and stands nakedly exposed 86 an, upbaahing faker. Tried to Hire Perjurer. «“ ,, : i he ureday's demonstration will) One of the last witnesses against 000,000 unemployed and millions |e thugs'was Mrs. Noah Ledford, a ny of enplyyel workers in the (next-door neighbor of Horace Wheel- more of employed workers in ti; (us, identified by two witnesses as various capitalist saunter es will | the man who actua!!y shot down demonstrate militantly against cap- |r, May. Mrs. Ledford swore that italism. The leaders of the whole | Wheels ns oc hanr bakare. tie movement are the Communist Inter- /+1ia1 and asked her to testify ‘that national and the Red International |i, was home at the time of the of Labor Unions. The demonstra- | shooting, but she refused to lie for tion in Union Square, Thursday ae noon, will be one of the greatest in | One ‘oditlie rail! ‘cow a ‘ bs pany witnesses the history of the American work- lis Roach, who accompanied Chief ing class. Aderholt when he tried to massacre “Tt will be followed by further 144 Gastonia strikers in their tent road, overturn it and shoot at the workers as they fled. | | | | | Women workers, take part in onstrations. Down tools! ALL OUT MAR, § Union Also Declares a Strike, Demonstration The Metropolitan Council of the Trade Union Unity League, a cen- tral committee of 25 elected at the New Jersey convention, has issued | |a call to all workers to strike |March 6 at noon and assemble in |Union Square to demonstrate with the unemployed workers for im- mediate relief from the city treas- ury, for unemployment insurance paid for by the employers, for shorter work day and higher wages | |for those who work, | Unions Also Call Seconding the call of the T. U. U. | L., are similar statements from all! the unions that belong to it, and) from its industrial leagues. | Such statements, addressed to all |their union members, and to all in the industry they cover, come from | the Needle Trades Workers Indus- trial Union, the Hotel, Restaurant and Cafeteria Workers Union; In- dependent Shoe Workers Union, Me- tal Workers Industrial League, Building Maintenance Workers) Union, National Textile Workers Union, Marine Transport Workers League, Food Clerks Industrial Union Local 17; Jewelry Workers | Industrial Union, Building and Con- struction Workers Industrial League, and all other T, U. U. L. groups, shop committees, minorities in A. F. L, unions, ete. The Metropolitan Area Council’s call to demonstrate March 6, says: | “Unemployment is a class issue. | Unemployment is the concern of all | workers, with or without jobs. Reply To Provocation “Reply to the campaign of pro- | vocation and terror of the A. F. L.,| | the police, the bosses, the lying cap- |italist press, by rallying for the | demands of the unemployed and em- | ployed workers in this demon- | | stration, | “The Metropolitan Area Council | of the T. U. U. L. endorses the call of the Communist Party, the party | of the workers, for this unemploy- ment demonstration. The effective- ness of the T. U. U. L. campaign and struggle for the unemployed is evidenced by the campaign of pro- vocation, lies, and terror organized | the March 6 unemployment dem- 0 Organize and fight for unemployment insurance, a 7-hour day, no night work and equal pay for equal work. * CZECH BOSSES LIME AF OF 2 See “Moscow Plots” in, Every Dark Alley PRAGUE, Czecho-Slovakia (By Inprecorr Press Service).—In con- nection with the Communist prepa- last session of the New York and |rations for the International Day of | ed “looking” for our leaflets and for RE | Areadia Mill Workers Cuts Which Leads to IN TRENTON, CHESTER, READY FOR MARCH 6 Struck Against Wage More Unemployment Los Angeles, Canton } Jobless Fight (ondindea ¢ om Page One) id supported by the Communist Party reat masses of workers | will turn out to support these de- mands at Campus Martius at 1 p. m, on March (By a Worker Correspondent.) TRENTON, N wire plant in Trenton is one of the |most vicious concerns in the wire LOS ANGELES, Calif, Maren 1| industry. While it is a basie war x reer al Ne kaie es A GLUES Greg suffers m the eco- ( y -—The situation out here i. nomic with a result that two tty hot, but nevertheless we are é i > thousand workers have been laid getting along You already pas eres oa i i off in the last six months. The re- know about our Feb. 26 demon-| ,. ae ker strati hi 3 maining four thousand workers stration. This demonstration was! work two and three days a week the bigrest Los Angeles ever had Two years ago the average pay was 65 cents an hour, today 40 cents is considered a good pay. New tem of wage cuts is being intro- duced in most all departments in both the Roebling and the Trenton plants. We find every week a few wo! pay shrinks, and when one complains the boss usually says, “take it or leave it, we have hun- Over empl! rath: 8,000 workers were present ed and unemployed. Some, or a big number vorkers came fr hops and hav- their lunch box h them and n¢ them as w ns to fight the police. This demonstration was of a dif- ferent character. The composition of was overwhelmingly composed of Bee riae Ds ‘ glare be dreds of others to take your place. The workers were there to fight| One Negro worker Bethy land they did the fightine, too. The| {thrown out because he demanded | his pay. “famous” Red Squal got plenty on| |their noses, and not only from Party |members but from non-Party work- ers. After the workers smelled the tear gas they charged back the police |and pushed some of them into the The police were unable to arrest Comrade Clark at the demon- stration due to a strong body guard, | but they got him at the Party office. Now we are busy for the March (By a Worker Correspondent.) CHESTER, Pa.—Ask any w er jin Chester and he will give you a | multitude of facts of the nerv ing speed-up and attacks st the living conditions of the workers of the highly concentrated |6 demonstration. The Chamber of | metal, textile and chem indus- Commerce sent an army of stool| tries in this town and vicinity. At pigeons all over the city to try to|Ford’s many of the workers bring their lunches home, as only 15 min- utes is alloted for lunch. The speed- up so terrible that accidents, |get our leaflets, but our apparatus |is working so well that they remain- J.—The Roebling | /Unemployed as Well and Employed to Demon- | strate Together in Philadelphia District , There thousands of unem- ployed workers in Trenton and the bosses threaten every one who dares | to kick about the speed up and wage cut will be fired. The work- | ers are in a verge of revolt in many of the departments. The bulletin that the Communist Party distrib- | utes there certainly gives inspira- | tion to us in Roebling. In spite of | the fact that the A. F. of L. has| ed the workers once and they 2 very sceptical about any union, with the increased speed up and wage cut, with the penetration of the Communist Party and the Trade Union Unity League a flame or a are little spark which is burning now will sooner or later bring these | workers to a revolt, Much talk| Jabout a strike is going on right now. All Trenton workers demonstrate | March 6! i —A Wire Worker. | Chester Workers, Demonstrate March 6! [paotaancs of unemployed workers | | are daily standing at the gates of |the factories here in vain hope of | getting a job. The problems of hun- | |ger, cold, no money for rent, are | gradually creeping in into the homes | |of white, and particularly Negro workers here. In many families the | \children are their only support as | their fathers and mothers having been made twice as old as they ac- tually are by the terrible speed up in the local factories, have been CITIES PREPAR FOR MARCH 5 Minnesota, Ohio, N. Y., Penna., Mobilize (Continued from Page One) said of the Ga Duluth. y Steel Company at After the Ford demonstra- tion, the work were forced to work behind locked doors. soe Ford Worker Tells ‘em! CHESTER, Pa., Mar. 4.—A work er inthe Ford factory here who at tended the mobilization meeting f~ Mar. 6 demonstration gave the fol lowing logical argument for the em- ployed workers to strike March ( \and join in the World Fighting Day demonstrations ment: “If we demonstrate, we will prob bly ffer a little hardship, but i: we stay on the job that day, especial ly at such a place as Ford’s wher I work, we will suffer because the terrific speed-up and for doing what the boss tells us to do, as } am suffering now. “You know we have the speed-uy there, ‘efficiency’ the bosses call it We must fight the bosses with th own weapons. They fight us with mass production, and the answer of the workers must be—a m: emon- stration on March 6.” against mploy Rochester Makes Demands. ROCHESTER, Y., March 4,.— Two young worke Raymoné Knight, 22, swallowed a vial of poison, and Rose Gilman, 20, tried to gas herself by opening the jet on the illuminating gas. Both gave as |the reasons for their attempts that they had been long out of jobs ani |funds. Jobless Must Fight; Not Starve. Meanwhile the unemployed work- Unemployment on March 6, the | leading comrades who are out of jail. bourgeois press has commenced a| We are calling our demonstration furious campaign of incitement |in front of City Hafl at 3 p. m. and against the Communist Party, re-|are agitating for “Down Tools at 2 porting that preparations for a Ip. m.” We are also mobilizing un- Putsch are being carried out, that }employed workers to put up a real “secret discussions” are being held | fight at this demonstration. and that “cmissaries of |Moscow”| Now, of course, our drive is more are taking part in them, and so on. |or less difficult. Un to date we have The executive committee of the|70 new members who joined the Tcheckish national democratic party |Communist Party, all workers and has adopted a resolution which is Majority Americans. Our drive will nothing less than a call |to the |bring more results in the few com- Tcheckish government to prepare jing weeks. for war against the Soviet Union, | The comrades are still in jail. We The resolution declares that sooner |exPected to get them out today, but or later a national conference of all |@t the last minute the bail was in- be called in order to consider the|Hntil March 7 | ) question of the extermination lof )OUT demonstration, but this game Communism which is already caus- | Will not succeed. astitutional parties will have to |¢Teased. I think they will keep them | believing to crippie| faintings, and firing of workers for not being able to keep up with pro- duction is a daily occurance. Last week at a meeting of the foremen of the Sunshipbuilding and Drydock Co, a Pennsylvania state represen- tative said that Sunship has had more accidents than any other in- dustry in the state. The same con- ditions exist -at Sunoil, Baldwin | Locomotive, Viscose, Irving, Aborf- | oil textile mills, General Chemical, ete.,, which are rapidly being pre- | pared®for the coming war. | Simultaneously with this speed up and wage cutting campaign thous- |ands of workers are being thrown out of their jobs in these plants. | Sparrows Point Steel Workers, Demonstrate ing so much unrest. amongst the | workers and the national minorities | in Czecho-Slovakia. | It then claims that the Communist j movement is “subsidized” and k ot) alive by the Russian government, | which is steadily driving the Rus- sian nation into political, moral and economic ruin. The return of the governm 1 of Russia “into the hands of the Rus- jsian people” is, according to the resolution, the only solution of the problem and the necessary step to- wards the consolidation of Europe. The Vcheckish government is there- jfere requested to adopt the neces- sary policy. NO JOB, NO RENT DEMANDS LEAGUE \President Seizes Floor at Albany Hearing After numerous liberals had de- fended the fake tenancy laws of Of the twenty arrested, the dis- trict attorney threatens to take the| cases of Carl Sklar, Frank Spector| (By a Worker Correspondent.) and Martin Shapiro to the grand) BALTIMORE, Md.—Starvation is jury for indictment on charges of the lot of the Bethlehem steel work- “criminal syndicalism” the infamous | 4. of Sparrows Point, They must | March 6! red from their jobs and replaced |by young workers. On March 6, 5:30 p. m. at Third and Madison Streets, Chester, Pa.,| At the last session of the City Coun- /the unemployed and employed work- |cil a large delegation of jobless lers will demonstrate their united |workers, many of them threatened |will to fight against these unbear-|with evictions and victims of em- jable conditions; for the building of |ployment bureau sharks, were there a Metal Workers’ Industrial League, |to present their demands and to Marine Workers’ League, National |expose the fake proposals with which Textile Workers’ Union, and the|the city council is attempting to fool jother militant trade unions affili- the workers. |ated with the Trade Union Unity) The “Socialist” party is aldo mak- |League and the Communist Party |ing “demands” with which they hope jand the Young Communist League, |" accomplish what the bosses may the vanguard of the working class.|¢)41' 49 qo. At the next session of —Chester Worker. the City Council when the ‘de- mands” of the socialists will prob- lably come up for discussion the job- \less workers will again be there to smash also these fake demands, [pore are to apply only to such ers are rallying under the banner of the Rochester Unemployed and fighting for Work or purchase stocks under danger of be- | workers as are residents of the city jing fired if they are not loyal to|at least one year. Among these de- |the company which means a sacri-|mands are: fake councils dominated fice of four to eight dollars every |hy bosses and their government of- |pay from their meager wages. \ficials; the establishment of stores, states. But the demonstration on March 6 will not be halted by all the threats and violence of the capi- talist police. .. ee CANTON, Ohio, Mar. 4.—The demonstration here on February 26 | |gave a taste of what it will be on anti-labor law of this and_ other | [on March 6 against speed-up, wage- |cuts and unemployment! Thousands of workers are forced to buy from the company stores on credit; there are always long lines waiting for credit books. 5,000 workers live in cheap company houses with the noise and smoke of demonstrate with the unemployed | Wages are extremely low. For | city owned, to furnish to workers, extremely hard labor Negro and|who haven't got a cent, food and white workers receive the starvation |clothing at “cost or less,” unemploy | wage of thirty-seven cents an hour. | ment “insurance” a la Great Gritain, The Negro worker is especially ex-| where the workers have to pay the |ploited and is given the dirtiest | cost; that the city council (repre- | and hardest and the most dangerous | sentatives of the manufacturers) use work. lall its “power” to influence manu- | Skilled work is minimized in the to distribute available March 6. As the Unemployed Com- | mittee, 200 strong, bearing our de- }mands and singing our songs marehed two miles to the City Hall, it grew to over a thousand march- ers. But at the City Hall and nearly encircling it were 10,000 workers waiting, and as we approached the eh that rose was deafening. The Committee of 200 went inside to present our demands while the crowds outside were told to wait for the report. And for three hours the 10,000 |waited, although outside it began jand continued to rain. In spite of \the cold rain when we got our an- iswer and went out to report, the the mills as a background. | With modern “Shylocks” of the company exacting every drop of energy from the bodies of the work- ers, intimidation goes on right and left to keep the workers from or- | ganization. The company compels the men to vote for an “employ representative,” every year a for man goes around with a ballot box and tells you who to vote for. If employes representatives try to rep- resent the workers, they are imme- | diately fired on some trumped up | charge. Workers are compelled to| steel industry, therefore about 85 | per cent of the workers are in the | unskilled class earning only 37 cents | an hour to 55 cents. Skilled first | class machinists draw 58 cents an hour. i Steel workers, organize into the Metal Workers Industrial League | which is affiliated to the fighting Trade Union Unity League. And demonstrate March 6 together with the unemployed workers, because speed-up which we have at Sparrows Point mills leads to unemployment. —Sparrows Point Worker. Arcadia Textile Strike Against Wage Cuts facturers work; ete.. Not one word of strug- gle, merely expecting starving work- ers to make an appeal to the “big hearted bosses” for charity. ee Shot For Stealing Bread. BUFFALO, N. Y., Mar. 4—An unemployed worker, Dorwood Nune- |maker, 17 years old, is dying in the |hospital from being shot in the head by a policeman for stealing a loaf of bread for his family facing |starvation because of unemployment. He was with his married brother, also jobless, when the policeman, ‘named Andres, fired on them when they came from a chain store with bulging pockets. The lad lived with ‘yepublican party politicians at the |public hearings before the legisla- |his unemployed brother, whose wife (By a Worker Correspondent.) said: “Lester has been trying daily | 10,000 were still there, in fact the crowd seemed to have increased. mass-mobilization measures. Last | colony, and got killed himself in- We have much confi- night the Trade Union Unity League by the A. F. L, agents, bosses and leading us. : é stead. Roach was wounded at the | police. Let us redouble our ef- 4: f ALLENTOWN, Pa.—In the last | dence in this union, as we know that decided to call a national conference | 1, vill testify, wi cag ‘ \tive committee at Albany, and after} As we looked out over the sea of | few months m: ts were |the Associated Union betrayed the |to get work, but could get none, and n unemployment, to be held in New He will testify, with other |forts! Out on Union Square, the Lovestone renegades Grace | hungry and angry workers, we saw | imposed the ATientoern’ textile ‘ we are faced with starvation.” imposed upon the Allentown textile | workers here, and moved out when workers. Speed-up is introduced in | they had a little difficulty. 0 ution er-| most of the mills. The up till now} Wwe }, d h f the shi | ship, cowing the police into permit-| so-called passive workers begin to! pullotin and leaflets that have been hirel truck indicates that one of strikers shot Ella May. gs, thet examination of the | the ee la |Campbell and Jenkins who split the Harlem Tenants League had mob- ilized all possible reformist fakers to keep the league’s representative «Work, on March 29. This conference, esides setting up a national organ- zation and formulating the program 10,000 workers ready to fight, ready | * * * !to unite under revolutionary leader- COLUMBUS, Ohio, Mar. 4.—An Unemployed Council was formed here at a packed meeting, including Talk “Disarmament” of the unemployed, will call a great national mass-workers’ unemploy- ment convention, to be held in the near future in Chicago. This great convention, drawing in thousands of delegates, will be preceded by a) whole series of mass-state conven- tions, local demonstrations, etc. The workers will fight. American capi- talists will learn that they cannot offhand sentence millions of useful producers and their families to star- vation while they, themselves, bask at Palm Beach. “The unemployed workers are or- ganizing councils of unemployed verywhere, They, together with the employed, are building the revolu- tionary unions of the Trade Union nity League. More and more they understand that the A. F. of L. and its socialist and Muste, its allies, are adjuncts of the capitalists, “The slogan of the unemployed is “work or wages.’ The T.U.U.L. de- mands the establishment of unem- ployment insurance and the seven- hour day, five-day week. Vast masses of workers support these elementary demands. The capital- ists will not be allowed to throw the workers on the streets to starve be- cause their bankrupt social system is paralyzed. They cannot inflict this wholesale starvation, even with the use of all their police and A. F. of L, allies. “The economic crisis is rapidly teaching the workers many lessons. ‘They see the hollowness of capital- ist “prosperity,” and the need to organize and fight for their class in- terests, They see that every eco- nomic struggle is a political strug- gle because every economic demand of the workers is bound to meet with the combined forces of the capi- \talists, the United States govern- ment—the executive organ of the capitalist ciass, and all arms and instruments of the capitalist state, from police clubs and gas bombs to the asphyxiating gas of Matthew Woll’s social fascist propaganda. They begin to understand the revo- lutionary significance of the tre- mendous success of socialism in the Soviet Union, and the need for them to travel the same road as the Rus- sian workers in order to escape from the exploitation and misery of capi- talism. They are comprehending that it is their supreme task, to de- fend the Soviet Union from its war- eager capitalist enemies. They are learning that for real leadership in their struggle they must turn to the revolutionary movement. “World capitalism gges deeper and deeper into hopeless and incur- able crisis. The millions of ex- ploited workers begin to awaken and to develop the counter offensive against capitalism. The great inter- national demonstration against un- employment is only one of the pre- liminary phases of the great world struggle that will eventually smash the word capitalist system and lay the foundation for socialism.” But Launch, Build Many War Vessels BREMERTON, Wash., Mar. 4.—/ Another 10,000-ton cruiser, the} Louisville, was floated today. While Stimson, MacDonald and the other imperialists talk about “disarma- ment,” at the London race-for-arma- ment conference, the imperialists are not idle. There are cruisers, battle-| ships, submarines and other war ma. chinery being built by all the im- perialist powers while they try to mislead the masses with their “dis- armament” talk. Frisco Prosecutor Has) 'Cases Dismissed When \He Finds Toilers Ready | SAN FRANCISCO, Mar. 3.—Joe Nestroy, Mike Daniels and William Simons, who were arrested at a meeting here February 12, and charged with “refusing to move on,” “disturbing the peace” and “resist- ing an officer,” had their cases dis- missed February 25. They had de- manded a jury trial, and were pre- pared to handle their own case, and to make all the speeches in court that they were prevented from mak- ing on the streets, The prosecutor made the motion to dismiss, in order to prevent the workers from speak- from speaking, he spoke anyway. The president of the Harlem Tenants’ League seized the floor just as the republican assemblyman Perkins was about to sum up for his bill, and presented the demands | of the league. is one that there shall be no evic- tions for rent and no rent payments vequired while the tenant is unem- ployed, or in case of illness or | death, Lower Rents. The tenants’ league also demands that rentals be no more than 10 per cent of the annual family earnings, demands goverriment built houses to be managed by tenants’ house com- mittees, state aid to workers’ hous- ing cooperatives, tearing down of all unlivable houses, construction by city or state of enough houses for all the workers, no discrimina- tion because race, color, labor or political activities, immediate repeal of summary eviction laws, no rent while landlord fails to make repairs, ete. The landlords’ lobby simply gasp- | ed in horror at these demands; it had been fighting hysterically against even the hopelessly weak and petty improvements suggested by the two bills before them, one by the Negro assemblyman (republican party) Rivers, to let the tenant pay the judge instead of the landlord, and one by Perkins for a six months ‘stay in all dispossession cases. |ting us to march and to denounce | show resistance as shown by the | |the capitalists from the steps of | strike in the Arcadia rayon plant. | \their own capitalist government, | Even up till now we have had miser- |City Hall—hurling a dare into the | able conditions. Now the bosses in- |faces of the classes which robs and | sist that we should run 12 to 16 loppresses them. |knitting machines instead of 6 and They listened to our report, eager |8. The boss was trying to tell us Chief among them |to know the truth, cheering us and that he has no work and that is the | letting us know that they now un-|yeason of the speed-up. But we \derstand what they can expect as | know that if we accept the speed-up |workers from the class enemy that | half of us will be fired. We decided (exploits them. They cheered the an- | to strike. |nouncement that on March 6 every| We have good prospects of win- unemployed and employed worker | ning the strike as we have the | would be out on the streets of Can-|National Textile Workers Union |ton, demonstrating in solidarity with RUSH! each other against the exploiting class. When Comrade I. 0. Ford told |them of the refusal of our demands by the city council, and said that ‘the only way to better the condition of the working class was for the | working class to take matters into | their hands, the cheer that own PR larose must have shaken the very IN THE re | building housing the representatives PAST seo lof the exploiters. | When Comrade Joseph Greene asked for a cheer and the sending of greetings of working-class soli- darity to the workers in the Soviet Union the thousands of workers before Canton’s City Hall cheered | for fully five minutes. “Down tools on March 6” has gone to every factory in Canton, and the World Fighting Day Against Unemployment will be memorable for Canton, Ohio, Criminal Syndicalism Deportations! Rush Funds! Mobilize in Mass Protest! w 46—in San Francisco distributed in the last year. Of jcourse we realize now that it was |a mistake not to join the union first |and prepare for the strike. | We drew up our demands which |were a 30 per cent increase in wages and eight-hour five-day week. | And of course we will never work jon the 16 machine system if we win the strike. I know we will win as all of the fellows are young and willing to ae under the N.T.W. leadership. —An Arcadia Striker. ACT AT ONCE! sts in Chicago RUSH FUNDS FOR jouthern Calif. FIVE DAYS! 75 Arrests in New York THEIR AID! MORE HUNDREDS OVER THE U. S. A. Charges—10 to 20 Years! Police Brutalities and Beatings! At Once! Today! Join the I. L. D.! INTERNATIONAL LABOR DEFENSE 80 East 11th St., Room 402, New York City many Negro workers. Many present had found no job for three of four months. Arrangement is made for the demonstration March 6. * e558 Youngstown Ready for March 6. YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio.—A splen- did demonstration with at least 5,000 workers was held here on February 26 at the Public Square. The Unemployed Council, in the absence of a meeting of the city council till March 10, had sent a let- ter demanding a special meeting on the 26th. Though the city council got it, they denied it, though registered mail receipt proves they lied. Speaking took place from the City |Hall steps. Some fat patriot wanted to talk and we let him, much to his sorrow, as after he had tried to talk about everybody having “an equal chance” and “going back where you come from” it was hard work to pre- vent the workers killing him right there. Marching back to the Workers’ Hall with 500 along, 50 more asked to join the Communist Party, 27 applied for the Young Communist League and six newsboys signed cards of application for the Young Pioneers. This is in addition to the 77 workers joining the Communist Party the first unemployed meeting held here, Write About Your Conditions for The Daily Worker. Become a Worker Correspondent, Bide,