The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 12, 1930, Page 3

INTERVIEWS With a Communard and an Traq Rebel Gustav Tnar, one of the veterans of the Paris Commune, who is living | in Moscow at the present time, gave | the following interview to press} correspondents: | “I have been ‘living in the U.S.S.| R, since 1925. It was with feelings } of the greatest sympathy that I and my. comrades came to this country, | our second fatherland. Reality has| surpassed all our expectations. Even the wildest dreams of the Commu- nards of Paris did ‘not come up to that which has been achieved and is still being achieved in the Soviet) Union, el ~The fortress of the old life and | the old social relations is being re-|4 lentlessly undermined by the col- lective’ forces of millions. There is going on the construction of a new socialist life, a socialist society. “T rejoice that I have lived to see | * these happy days, and have seen | the dawn together with the revolu-| tionary peoples of the U.S.S.R. I) am living through the morning of | that bright sunny day which will bring so much, not only for the!| people of the U.S.S.R., but for all| the world.” Muzahim Beg Amin al Pacha- chi, who was Minister of Justice and Communications in the Jraq Cabinet in 1924-25 and Iraqi Min- ister in London in 1927-28, has just spent twelve days in Berlin this being his first visit to Ger- »many. He is one of the more im- portant and progressive leaders of the National Party of Iraq and is an uncompromsiing advocate of the abolition of the British Man- date of Iraq, Palestine, and Trans- jordania and the French Mandate in Syria, and he stands for a fed- eration of independent Arab ‘states. He has given a number of interviews to the press and has issued the following statement to the representative of the “Tass” (Telegraphic Agency of the Sov- iet_ Union). Iam glad to have this opportunity of conveying my hearty greeting: to the people of Soviet Russia. Th people of Iraq and of Arabian coun- | tries generally look upon the Soviet | Union with gratitude and admira-| SMILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, APRIL 12, 1930 Page Three The Story of the Struggles of a Southern Textile Worker A Gastonia Fighter Tells of the Class Struggle in North Carolina By DAISY McDONALD. was bornd and raised in the western part of North Carolina in the mountain country where the birds sing and the wild flowers 1 to make some more profits for the bosses and misery and unhappiness for myself and baby. I could not give my baby the right attention, leaving it 11 and 12 hours a day. developed pneumonia and died. Now I am the mother of seven children, Just such conditions have existed since the first day I entered the textile mills to work. In the year 1925, fourteen years after my first baby died, my youngest child was borne at the Loray Mill, Gastonia, N. C. When my baby was five weeks old the mill owners of that mill fired my husband because he only had one leg, the other being amputated three years previous to this time with tuberculosis of the bone, He being the only support of the fam- ily of seven at this time he was forced to look for a job in other mills. After looking two weeks he finally found a job for himself and me. At this time my baby was seven weeks old. When we moved to this job at the Myars Mill, Gastonia, the su- perintendent would not let me go to work until I promised him that I Types of southern textile workers. ‘They are, left to right, Elizabeth McGinnis, 16, and Benney Green, 14. Life and! in the hands of other women and | I was forced to go back in the mills | At the age of 15 months our baby | | Bosses Try to Distract the Jobless by Their Fake A este Javelin ‘cr ial in U.S.S.R. |With a Young Worker From: eo ~ the Copper Smelters’ Strike to the Gastonia Battle |A True Account of the Souther By ALBERT TOTHEROW. In this article you will find many \facts concerning the workers of the South; about conditions in the Southern textile mills and a true account of the life of the young workers, | Settle yourself down and get ac- |quainted with the facts of one! {newly-recruited Bolshevi The workers of the world will re- | jmember April 1, 1929, as the first stép of the awakening of the South- ern workers. In the year of 1919 I was eight | older and my sister younger. mother had very little help. only thing us kids could do in the way of help was to keep the fire \burning around the pot where mother was boiling the clothes. Then times got so hard that mother couldn’t make a living. At the age of 13. my brother got a job at the smelter pushing mat. The job was so hard, and the hours so long, that my brother could hardly make it— working 12 hours per day. Then my mother re-married, as my father got killed when I was two years old. We began barely My years old, my brother just a little: § The | @ a BOOKS Reviews and Notes of Interest (°The Soviet War on aan zt f | By V. W. P. Working Youth in the Here is a pamphlet of fifty pages, Mills well printed, on good paper, with il- TM MAUS | lustrations, at the ridiculously small price of ten cents. In plain, worka- day langua; it gives the real facts about religion and the State in the Religion”*) g the doctor told mother she |had better move Mr, Garren to the farm. That was a scheme of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics company to get rid of my step- and exposes the real nature of the father. So we went to the farm.’ anti-Soviet campaign being waged beneath the cloak of “religious per- secution.” examined in the cold light of facts and blown sky-high. Particularly effective is posure of the ”Im- yaslavitsi,’ the “Feodorvski” and of other so-called religious bodies which carried on counter-revolutionary ac- tivities in the U. S. S. R. until they were put down by the Government. It deals with the repeated question:—If religion is free in the Soviet Union why do the priests want to go back to the old regime? -and shows that they sigh for a eturn to tsarist exploit the workers and peasants to their heart's desire, that capitalists and priests were fellow robbers in jarms, but that now, in face of the | growing literacy of the people, their power is waning, and they foresee extinction facing all forms of stu- |pidity and superstition. Finally, the pamphlet drives home |The Author of the Article Helping to Boost “The Daily Worker” |My step-father never did fully re- bloom, knowing nothing of hard slavery in the cotton mills until I was twenty years old. I was raised by hard-working parents, knowing my father to work for 50 cents and $1 per day to support his family. Having six in the family to sup-j you know he could not give Idren any education and but little chance in life. When I was the age of 10 years my father died, leaving my mother with a burden of four children to support. Also my mother had no_ brothers or sisters to look iv for help, and we were left all alone. My grand- port his cl ei father being killed in what is known | s the Civil War, but only civil for the capitalist We know there was no civil war for the working class. So here my mother was left an tion, because it was with the help iohan in h R as 5 iS 5 phan in her childhood days. Also} of Soviet Russia that Turkey, Persia my grandfather on my father’s side | and Afghanistan were able to attain ..4. crippled in this same Civil War| their independence. The existence of (5. the boss class, and having only the Soviet Union is a factor of one leg, my grandfather was not would not go out of the mill at 9 in the morning and 3 in the evening to nurse my baby. Knowing I had to work to help support my family I was forced by the capitalist class | to forsake my seven weeks’ old baby and go in the mills and stand on my feet 11 and 12 hours a day for $12 and $13. Working 16 months at this place I became very sick in bed for six | weeks. No one left te work but my ‘husband. When I had been sick \for six weeks my husband went to | work on his job one night. The su- | perintendent came to him and asked |him if his wife was. not going to work any more and he told the su- perintendent that his wife would go back to work when she was able to. So the superintendent went to the desk and wrote out his time for him. So there you can see as long as we are willing slaves for | the bosses we are good workers, but when we get sick we are out | Athletic Meets Labor Sports Union Calls for Struggle for “Work or Wages” Sports is one of the means that of the light-heavyweights, now over the bosses are using now to fool |forty years old, is still eking out a the unemployed workers with. Spe- living at the game by serving as a cial departments are being set up “trial horse” for the new-comers. by the various cities for increasing Last Monday night he received a sports activities on the athletic fine trimming at the hands of Bob fields during the day so as to at- Godwin in Miami. Old Mike h: \tract the unemployed workers into been in the cauliflower racket for | participation and get them to for- so long that ht does not know when |get their misery. to get out of it. Soon some and- But the workers are refusing to coming youngster will knock him fall for that bunk, as can be kicking and old Mike will find his proven by many of the unem- ;resting place in some asylum count- ployed workers joining the Labor | ing beads. Sports Union and the Councils of | Professional Wrestling. | Unemployed for a struggle | The professional boxing _ racket to live again, but still the wages | cover. | were so low that all the workers | We Go to Gastoni: keep the workers in subjection, and | began talking about a union. Iwas| At the age of 13 there news shows that it is being used now in |so small that I didn’t know what it |from Gastonia that money grew on an attempt to stir up the necessary was all about. jtrees. We sold out our furniture, war psychology against the Soviet ; A. F. of L. Fakers Try to Fool) our hogs and cows and everything Union, and appeals to the workers Workers. |we had. Me and my brother left to break down the barrage of lies In a few weeks I heard that there |for Gastonia. We sent for my and to line up in defe of their }was a union and my brother and! mother and step-father and sisters. real Fatherland—Soviet Russia. step-father had joined. I happen|Me and my brother went on about The value of the pamphlet is en- to have my brother’s union book) two weeks ahead, not having hanced by an appendix containing now. They were organized in the | enough money for all to go by train. the Soviet decree re Church and International Mine, Mill and Smel- We left the rest of the fam! State, published in 1918 and, all in ter Workers’ Union. It was affili-|a little town called Murphy, } all, should be bought and d hy ated to the A. of L., and they | We caught a freight train to Gas- everyone desirous acquainting pulled the strik t the smelters of | tonia. f with the plain facts of the (the Ducktown Sulphur, Copper and) After we all got to Gastonia my . Iron Co, The workers kept on step-father got worse and worse. ““The Sovict War on Religion,” strike for four or five weeks. Then|Then he lost his mind from the) published by Workers Library Pub- |they were sold out. The workers | wounds he received. Then the poor | lishers, New Yor were left with a damn “yellow | fellow died. We had to work 10} - the point that religion is dope to of against bosses’ sports and for | Work or Wages. All unemployed worker sportsmen should join the Labor Sports-Union in a strug- gle against capitalist sports. . in New York City is becoming so! strike led by the A. F. of L. obviously fake to the public that the; ‘The workers in Tennessee were State Boxing Commission, the ex-/ such good fighters that the A. F. ecutive committee of the promoters, | of L, fakers were afraid to try to has taken a hand in the situation dog” contract, just like any other and 11 hours per day or night. We AmboyWorker Athletes 5 to $30 per week for fifty-five hours work. | Prepare Bigger Year TBO J.—The | I was running a drawing frame, jmaking $22 per week regular then, PERTH AMBOY, N. 0 Neer . , slip out without doing something. | i 25 s i e| Workers At ie C i great importance for the peoples of hie to help my mother with us| * J°b immediately, Baseball. [and decided that from now onlin’ five or six wecke the contanes| peg anes, (Peedup Rit the | Workers Athletic Club here having the Orient struggling for their Lib- erty, . For Complete Independence. As far as Iraq is concerned, I must, say that we are determined to achieve our full national indepen- dence and are srtiving, to bring gbout.a Federation of independent Arab States. But of course the first step is the removal of the British occupation and the Mandate. The recent fall of the Cabinet was ex- pected, because no Cabinet can exist which is unable to bring about the abolition of the Mandate. No Iraq Government can accept the treaty propased by the British Govern- Children Go to Mills. | Later in 1926 my oldest girl be- \came 14 years old? Just when she jshould have been in school I was jforced to put her in the mills to {help me support the other small children, my husband and my |valid mother that I had to take care of in her old days. Moving back to Loray Mill, Gas- ltonia, we went to work there. To |work there I had to get up in the imorning at 4 o'clock, get breakfast | for the family, prepare my dinner jat the same time, go in the mill at /6 in the morning, work until 6 in {the evening, go home get supper, | children. From the time I was six years old I had to work in the field. Not being large enough to hoe corn by myself I had to help my brother on his work, he being older than myself. All country children, especially the poor farm- ers’ children knew their places. It is yery plain to see the farmer's child has no chance in life as well as the: textile worker’s children, only they do get the fresh air and sunshine that the textile children do not get. Worker For Ten Cents a Day. | The baseball season is due to open in a few days and we can rest assured that this year the worker sportsmen will be out on the fields from the factories and trade unions | playing baseball under the banner jof the L. S. U. All organized work- jers’ baseball teams should immedi- |ately get in touch with the L. 8. U. for the formation of workers’ base- ball leagues. ture we shall announce through this column scheduled baseball games of the workers. The Boxing Racket. Mike McTigue, the ex-champion | In the very near fu- | “exhibition matches.” ke matches that the cash custom- jers have let out a howl and refused |to pay for such clumsy hippodrome morning, just like always. | acts. ‘order to safeguard the profits of |the promoters, has decided to call heard mother say, “Oh; lordy,” that the mill I would have tuberculosis. |them “exhibitions.” | Professional sports are used not {only to make money for the pro- |moters, but to also detract the at- | tention of the workers ihe from estling matches shall be listed as | was broken and the workers were The wrest-| making even less than they did be-| |ling trust has been putting on such fore the strike. “Oh, Lordy.” My step-father went to work one to the hut where we lived, and I being her favorite words when ex- \cited, and I ran around the corner lof the house to see what was the matter. I saw three men carrying my step-father into the house. He |elass struggle. The best way to kill hag met with an accident, the influence ‘of professional jupon the workers is to build up a) there was a crane or elevator that | Workers’ Union. At the furnace where he worked Theref ' reise vitiess Then erefore the commission, iM about 10 a. m. a wagon drove up strong Labor Sports Union. lraised the 1,000-gallon pot of mol-, Loray mill where I was working. The N. T. W. U. year of sports, year with a completed another will look ahead th’ | It began in a small way, but much bigger goal to reach, gradually grew worse. In 1927; During the year which has just workers were having to run tokeep Closed, the Workers A. C. soccer time team compiled a good workers rec- e, ord by playing at various labor af- fairs. Our team also finished in second place in the New Jersey The stretch-out grew worse and| Workers Soccer League. We also wegisslower) tn March, 1 Participated in the L.S.U. Metro- |waderanning ten’ drawing ss | politan Workers Soccer League Cup land@worleus 12 to 18 hours | Competition. The second icam of dee eridaing si ipen-week. the Workers A. C. was formed about | ‘Then Fred Beal came to Gastonia the middle of August and are now stile | compiling a great record considering the short time they have been play- ing soccer, that their jobs up. During my lungs were in a v The doctor told me if I didn’t quit es per as a leader of the! National T I joined the union and have been active in the class ment, as this treaty would reduce 1 worked in the field for ten cents Traq to the position of Egypt anda day after my father died to help legalize Britain’s occupation. my mother with the younger chil- The demand to enter the League dren. These miserable struggles of Nations is being made only be-, were with us until I was 15 years do my scrubbing, washing, ironing,’ ) a * ‘4 “ ee? jlots and lots of times with guns jsewing at night and on Saturday) 44 bayonets, blackjacks and clubs. | afternoon, © I have seen old women, 65 years of On this job I made $12.90 per) age, beaten black, thrown in auto- week and my daughter worked for| mobiles and taken to jail for just/arranging an open boxing meet, to L. S. U. Boxing. jt jber Sports Union (New York) is |4 The Eastern District of the La-|#Md conveyed it over the heads o! poured to cool. en copper from the furnace or pit | ¥@" ever since. And now I am act- f|ing district organizer of the Young |Communist League. | Labor Sports School he workers to bed, where it was | Organized in Detroit ae cause the hope has been held out! that the entry into the League will mean the termination of the Man- date. No change in the policy of Great Britain. towards Iraq has taken Place since the advent of the Mac- Don: Government. I have just been in London and have come to the conclusion that there is no difference between the Labor Gov- ernment and the Baldwin Govern- ment as regards imperialist pol- ier. Would Welcome Soviet Representative, But even as things are today, I am sure the people of Iraq would welcome a Soviet representative in’ Baghdad and would be glad to enter into direct trade relations with the Soviet Union. Of course Great Britain would not like this, but she cannot openly object as she herself has resumed diplomatic relations with Soviet Russia, and as other Powers, such as France, Germany, etc.,.are. represented in Iraq. Traq is also very anxious to come into closer relation with the new Turkey and Persia, for which coun- tries there is great sympathy. Brit- ‘ish’ Imperialism would not agree to the independence of Iraq because it fears that an. independent Iraq would form an anti-British block with Turkey and Persia, But we afe not in 2 position at present to talk about such an alliance. Buzahim Pachachi. Weekly ‘YoungWorker’ Starts on May First The “Young Worker,” organ of the Young Communist League of U.,S8,A., will begin to appear week- ly from May 1. The May First issue will be an enlarged 16-page one with special features and articles on all sides of the life of the young work- ers, including letters of young work- ers: from the shops, sports and a short story. These special | features will be kept up in all the! following issues of the weekly. Subscribe now and get the weekly | “Young Worker” from the begin- ning. Subscription is $1.50 for a_ year and 75 cents for half a year. | Send’ your sub to the “Young Work-, er,” 43 East 126th Street, New York City i | | | 1 | of age. I decided then that I wanted something for myself. I be-} gan cooking away from home for the wages of $1 per week. So you see my fortune never came. 8 months. Then the automatic ma-/ chinery was installed, the stretch-| ‘out system put on and about 175) hands were laid off and my daught- | ler was one of the number. Then | walking the streets peacefully pick-|be held the first week in June. All! eting. |workers interested to participate in At the first day of the strike my this meet should write to the Ei furniture was thrown out in the | ein District of L. S. U., Room 3 9, This morning one of the hooks|| Dear workers! Awaken and or- from the crane slipped off the car, | ganize and fight for your emanci-! and the pot and the molten copper pation like our fellow wor i spilled on my step-father. That | the Soviet Union. Karl Marx said was what made mother say “Oh, “Workers of the world unite! You DETROIT, Mich.—Like last year, the Labor Sports Union will have a i, five week al training school “ ‘at Loon L near here. The school | job than I could on the other. But ‘out, long hours and low pay for the | workers and big profits for the | there was no one left to work but | myself. A family of 8 to support! on $12.90 a week, three children to) send to school—books and supplies’ to buy which are very expensive in the South. House rent $1.50 a week, | light bills 85 cents a week, life in-| surance $1.25 a week. In the winter) season coal $1.75 one week, the) next week, wood $2.20. All these! bills to pay and groceries for eight, | so you see I could not buy but very | little food with what I had left of | $12.90 a week. _ Beal Comes South. | When Fred Beal came to the South to organize a union I was very much interested and when a strike was called at the Loray Mill, Gastonia, I was very glad to help carry on the struggles of the workers and ever since the strike I have taken an active part and helped organize the National Textile Workers Union and the International Labor Defense, also the Workers International Relief into one big organization to fight } all these capitalists—this being the only way the working class will ever accomplish anything. Workers everywhere should and must come together and carry on the struggles of the working class the world over regardless of color creed or nationality. For instance when the strike was called at Manville-Jenckes plant, better known as Loray. Mill, there |was a strike at Bessemer City only five miles away and Negro women Into the Textile This kind of work I did until we moved to the textile industries, where the capitalist c said in those days money grows on trees and the river flows with milk and honey. But when we arrived the bosses had already gathered all the money and the tree has produced none since only what the boss gath- ers for himself. I have been slaving almost 20 years in the textile mills and I have got less now than I had the day I entered the mills to learn the trade. I have learned several dif- ferent trades in the mills, thinking I might earn a little more on one I find but very little difference in them. It is only speed-up, stretch- | bosses. The first. mill I ever worked in 1 worked four and one-half days and made 60 cents. The second mill I worked in I made 40 cents per day spooling. So I decided I wanted to learn different trades, so I learned weaving. After learning I made 90, cents per day. running ten hand-threading looms, and to make this 90 cents a day I began work in the morning at 6 o'clock, running through noon hour, stop- ping at 6 o'clock at night. So you see what profit I got and the profit the boss got. I made 60 yards of cloth for 15 cents for the boss and | |I was forced to leave New York at! |once and come home. And when I} the Dyckman Oval. lor any place they could find to go if I went to the company store to buy one yard of this same cloth I were transferred from Gastonia to Bessemer City by truck loads to had to pay the boss 10 cents per yard. Now there you see’ where the bosses’ profits come from, Raising a Family On 90 Cents a Day 1 was married in the year of 1909. Being married one year our break the strike. When the strike came at the Lo- ray Mill the national guards were called out. by the bosses and sta- tioned one block each direction | around the mill to break the strike. | first baby was bornd. Then our! Cavalry men on horses rode the! struggling in life began. For we streets day and night to help break! so much wanted to give our child a! the strike. The mill owners found! \chance in life and see it have the | this too expensive so they only kept! things’ that children should have.! this up for a few weeks and had the But all in vain, For on such wages! national guards moved away and| as 80 and 90 cents per day that | deputy sheriffs put on instead. | my husband made we could not) Some of these men had wives then accomplish anything for our) slaving in the mill 11 and 12 hours selves or baby. So at the age of| per day. three months old my baby was left T have been run off the streets street by the capitalists and it 2 W. 15th St. for a ‘full’ program i} stayed out in the rain, sun and | wind for four weeks, until the Workers International Relief got tents sent down from New York | to put the striking families in. | The police brutality lasted for | weeks and months. On June 7, | 1929, Chief Aderholt was shot and later died. About 95 or 100 wo- men and men were arrested and thrown in jail. My husband was one of the number. I was in New York at this time working for the Workers Inter- national Relief to feed the strikers. arrived in Gastonia I found I had} no home. My children and my moth- er had been driven from the tent colony out into the woods or streets and the tents torn down and demol- ished. My furniture was locked up in a city warehouse and locked up by the city. ‘Finally I found my children, 18 miles out in the country. Not having a home nor furniture |I rented a room from a friend and ‘borrowed a quilt from one other {friend and spread the quilt on the floor and I got my children together again, They slept on the floor and I covered them with my coat. My husband spent 16 days in jail then the International Labor De- fense got him out on bail. Later the |capitalist courts dismissed his case along with many others so they | would have a better chance to reil- road our union leaders to the elec- tric chair and life terms) in prison. I want to say it is very important for women to organize along with the men, especially women with children who have to carry the burd- en of child bearing, rearing and all the responsibilities of herself and! children. I know by self experience just what it means to women to! support their family on such small wages and long hours as I have al- ready written in my story. I hope this story reaches every working woman that has, to.work long hours for low wages. I hope every womai, will consider it her duty to fight! side by side with her husband in and particulars. Track and Field Activities. is arranging a monster track and field meet, which shall include ath- letes from all the eastern states, in- cluding New England and South. Ulmer Park, in Brooklyn, on June 6 and 7. Entry blanks for this meet may be secured at the Dis- trict Office, Soccer. cer Association of the L. S. The admission to these games is 25 cents for the day. Fifty per real amateur workers’ played. Directions: Take Broadway subway’ to Dyckman St.; walk field. L. S. U. Attacked by Bosses’ Court. This Monday the case of Walter Burke, secretary of the L. S. and A. Heikkila of Norwood comes up at the district court of Dedham, Mass., on an appeal of a former de- cision of Judge Sanborn that these two comrades were “found, guilty” for violating the Sunday sports law The The scheduled basketball game. judge fined both $50 cach. working class must defeat maneuver of the bosses to prevent the L. S. U. to carry on sports ac- The Eastern District of L. 8. U.! Each Sunday the Workers’ Soc- | U, ar-| ranges four classy soccer games at | cent of the net income goes for | some working-class cause, All work-! struggle—May Day. ers interested in soccer should visit! - this field on Sundays and sce some | soccer | To the Rebel Guard: tO} Guard you asked by trying to go through with a! ordy!” last year developed some good phy- have nothing to lose but your After months and months of suf-|chains. You have a world to gain!” °ial instructors some of whom are now taking an active part in the local leadership of the L.S.U. And although there were many short- ‘National Guar the | The meet shall be held at} The “Rebel Guard” is a paper published by the Young Com- munist League of the New York District for the workers in the National Guard. The following letters received by the “Rebel Guard” indicate that more and more worker servicemen are lining up with their class brothers for a mighty demonstration on the workers’ International Day of 6 hey In the last issue of the Rebel all National |Guardsmen to write about their ex- ;periences, I want to tell you about the 212th C. A-A. A. We drill on \the anti-aircraft guns. Each one of ‘us is taught to be like a cog in a ‘machine. We're supposed to learn jour own detailed operation and not \to worry about what the other fel- llow is doing. When we go to camp the pieces used for practice are'so old that they may burst open at any time. this | More than half of them have fired | chorus can do so now by applying far more than the allotted number of rounds. in the work, it was a suc- dsmen’s Letters cess. ‘Break Running High Jump Record of LSU CHICAGO, Ill—On March 1, 1930, ict indoor jump- U., Comrade To the Rebel Guard: On leaving the armory a few of imy friends and myself, who are }members of the 244th Coast Artil-| |lery, received a copy of the Rebel | |Guard. On our way home we read! at the Illinois di and discussed the contents and meet of the L ! | found it very interesting. a C. estab- aitepinead ngs Rebel Guard | lished a new L. S. U. Mlinois district \I_ am beginning to realize what the high jump record of 175 cm. At |National.Guard is. Now I sce that | this meet clubs representing the L. jwe are being trained to fight for the |S. U. from Waukegan, Chicago and bosses against. the workers on strike | Milwaukee were present. Although or else against workers in other only fifteen comrades participated countries whose bosses have inter-|in the jumps the meet was success- fered with the markets of our! ful. bosses. | I think our duty as workers is unite against all bosses. Like all the rest of the yo workery in the 244th Coast lery, T am anxiously await jnext isste of the Rebel Guard. ; Yours truly, A National Guardsm: ‘© Plan Eastern District Cross-Country Run The starter’s gun for the Eastern Distviet Cross-Country Race will be heard at 3 p, m., April 13 at 810 Union Hall Street, Jamaica, Long | Island. All Labor Sports Union The WIR Brass Band and Chorus of the aa District, an tua |are opening registration for new members outside the Eastern jmembers, Workers who play any) District boundaries, who wish to instrument or would like to join the | participate in this three-and-a half at| mile run should immediately send in their entries. W. I. R. BRASS BAND. of | the WIR Center, 10 East 17th St. We are not allowed to come !ate tivities on Sundays by raising suf- ty den. We wale ; ae | ficient funds to fight the case. A 1 5 e come a few min- working-class organizations laeee late we have to drill a half asked to rush donations for the de- | "U" oF 0 more. Besides, when the | fanaa. “of tha ‘cans RDN the italaeriae| Ge Perea is over the officers keep) iene’ Taber Deeaiee: * ‘us a half hour longer to talk to us | how to be good soldiers, to obey orders without asking questions, and ‘more bunk like that. _U think that the Rebel Guard is right when you say that the young workers in the National Guard should learn everything they can so | they can use it for the workers | | FORM ‘WORKERS’ CAMER. CLUB IN CHICAGO. CHICAGO, April 11—A workers’ camera club has been crganized | here to take pictures of working- class life and revolutionary work- ing-class events. C. 0. Nelson is | {°Y h secretary. A mecting will be held 82nst the bosses. That's what I’m Sunday, April 13, at 11 a. m, at |S0Ine (0 do. every struggle that may come against him in any industry. All workers in- | terested are invited to join, 19 S. Lincoln St, | Yours for the workers, A National Guardsman. BROOKLYN AND METROPOLITAN WORKERS SOCCER LEAGUES INTERLEAGUE CUP GAMES. APRIL 13, 1920. AT DYCKMAN OVAL. 11:00 a. m. Spartacus vs. 69th S. C., referee, Brownfield. 12:30 p. m. Barcelona vs. Bari I’. C., referee, Simon. 2:00 p. m. Prospect vs. International Bassi. AT THOMAS JEFFERSON, BROOKLYN 10:30 a.m, Olympic vs. Hungarian Workers, referee, Kaplan. 12:30 p. m. Mohawk Trumpeldor, referee, York. 2:00 p. m. Rangers vs. Esthonian, referee, Korenways. 3:30 p. m. Hungarian Workers vs. Bronx Kickers, referce, Schiller. AT CROTONA PARK. 1:00 p. m. Bronx Worker ys, Olympic, Lively Szante, 2:30 p. m. Freiheit vs. Olympic, referee, Austin, 4:00 p. m. Freiheit vs. Spartacus, referee, GetzkIn, ath Ms