The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 5, 1930, Page 4

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Cable: “DAIWOR Worker. 26-28 Union Square, New York N PH ZACK. middle ages, dark By JOS puse URING the of the atrocities committed by the papacy and its clergy, to preserve the feudal system against then rising revolutionary bour- geoisie, the fe 1 ruling cla: led by the papal hierarchy, instituted a regime of blacl: terror that became known as the Holy In- The black terror of the Holy Inquisition, “The Tribunal of Faith,” became particularly erfs, be- the the eoisie of 1 lord This clergy, priests, included, was, then Pope Gregory IX. there is a monument 1 as it is today of the t who applied “the thousand tradition- ants who refused to be- ops and feudal lords of imple souls had the idea 1 vicious as the peasantry, that is join the nascent bou hly feud th chur adists, C all dead sa to se ults of their labor should go to those that work and not io the loafing clergy nd dukes. Hence, under terrible tortures thi f “heretics” was murdered almost mar Inquisition Harrasses Poor. In the south cf France, north of Spain and Lombardy, the Inquisition was used against the poor but very numerous Katherers, a peo- ple of peasants and handicraftsmen who could not derstand that the clergy, feudal lords and the’ ury, while the laboring people should starve and suffer from cholera, pest and other dis- s. They got it into their heads that the church is headed not by a “holy man, successor | of Christ,” but by the devil himself—they looked to Rome, where the high clergy lived military are entitled to bathe in lux- | a few spoons of beans a day. At night th are chained together, to prevent escape an sleep, irrespective of weather, next to the | work on the road. They awake with the cr of the whip. At the le g¢ down in work the whip cracks bodies, and if in the most sensual pleasures, in the greatest | of luxury, where the Vatican was one great fancy bordello and where everything that they thought that Christ condemned reigned su- preme. For 300 years the masters of Rome were busy rooting out these dangerous ideas through the most fiendish tortures. The monuments to their fantastic fiendishness still lay all over the southern part of France. No one should think that the Inquisition was | perchance one of the “visitations” of the Cath- olic church, for it was upheld by all the popes for 300 years. The high point of the Inquisi- tion in France was reached when the “holy” Pope Gregory XIII opened the slaughter of the Huguenots (1572) with a “Thank God” ser- vice and a memorial Medaille. The sadistic fiendishness and abysmal de- pravity of the popes of Rome played its most stupendous orgies however in the country of their’ greatest reliance, Spain. Here his “Christian Majesty,” Philip III, the strong man of the pope in Spain, upheld the Inquisi- tion by transforming the whole country into a phantasmagoria of slaughter and torture. During the 300 years of the Inquisition in Spain, which was to crush the bourgeois oppo- sition to feudalism, various bourgeois his- torians estimate nearly 400,000 persons, mostly serfs, peasants and artisans, perished in the dungeons of the Inquisition and on the “chris- tian” convict ships of Queen Isabella. Hide Class Character. The church always found a way, of course to hide the true class-character of its regime. The black terror was supposed to be against the heathen, against the Jews, against the Moors, ete. Never ‘would the church admit that it was against the laboring population and for the preservation of the most barbarous of all systems of exploitation, Feudalism. Re- ligious hypocrisy was used to cover the class character of the black terror, just as the bour- geoisie today oppresses in the name of “preser- vation of democracy.” Toward the end of the black terror the weak Sex, the women, became the object of the sadis- tic pleasures of the clergy. “Witch” hunting was introduced under the reign of Pope Inno- cence VI (how innocent!), Clemens IV and Sixtus IV. Thousands of women, old, wer Were burned at the stake while the popes maintained public brothels from which they re- ceived 20,000 ducates of income per year. (The church still indirectly maintains many brothels in Spain.) i In addition to the above-mentioned “holy” men, the pope: that acquired particular re- nown for their fiendishness during the reign of “faith” were Popes Paul II and Paul IV, who ruled during the reformation. Particu. larly the last mentioned one was such a fiend that the embittered people of Rome threw his cursed statue into the Tiber. Only in 1781 did the world see the last death sentence in Spain under the rule of the In- quisition; that is about 150 years ago. Never have the “infallible” rulers of the church of Rome repudiated inquisition as a policy. They only suspended its application, not having the strength, with the rise of the people’s revolu- tionary movement, then led by the nascent bourgeoisie, to put this “holy law” any longer into effect. Even today thé popes of Rome are still committed to the papal bull of Gregory TX which inaugurated the Inquisition in the fourteenth century and which aims to remove “heresy” from the earth by death. caer That much about the history h al of the gentle- men of the Vatican who today in “anlee their bottom- Jess hypocrisy dare to speak about “freedom | of conscience” and “persecutions” ad breed in the Soviet Union. ti ‘4 of their What about Where Faith Burns Hottest. We will take the most Catholic countries, those countries where the*faith burns hottest, that is, the Spanish-speaking countries, and illustrate by the Inquisition was yesterday, ~et us take the flower of the Catholic faith m South America, Venezuela. In this country of three and one-half milliong population, im- * mensely rich .n natural resources, bigger than New England and New York state combined, there are about 15,000 political prisoners in the dungeons blessed by the church, and twice that many are’ outside in the country, As the regime there is in many respects typical of other Catholic countries in Latin America and Europe, we will describe the regime ther? more in detail. The bulk of the land is owned by the Catholic church and Gomez, the die. tator. The regime is sustaincd by Washington because of the rich oil resources, mostly owned by Standard Oil. The slightest criticism of the regime is punished by the tortures ‘we will young and | is the regime for the mass of prison- | ers. But then there is special treatment for those that are considered of special impor- tance. The Jails. The “blessed” Gomez, dictator, “elected” by the “democratic” congri ou see there is practices there today what the | . Surviving from the past. The monstrous hypo- \ enumerate. Only lately a poor clerk whe to send to the governor of the oil pings of the foreign press, cr regime, was cond to 20 ye ment. No oppos much organ tion of that character, is tolerated in the try. Here the Cat hurch | ton show their true brief de- | seription of what that dare | to forget in these most Cz that they are slaves. The “Red” Road of To construct railros Modern automobil ticularly if they a Were not the convict st Queen Isabella one of strength of the “holy” Venezuela is very e are The Chain Gang. ” a chain gang con- zht often as in the In- rther cere. uit of re ander con- labor n conti a mere denune quisition days, he is, without a sed into a coz aken to one of t ruction and submitted te m sunrise to upon ati the hardest t and very 0 ual labor until exhaustion. He is clothed red not only as an irony, but to hide his bleeding from the chains around his legs and brutal whippings administered continually. (like on Isabella’s convict ships) by the guards, der to drive them on to tion. They live on a k n or- exer- nd aximum o: * corn bre any should d: to even show a sign of r stance he is whipped till his skin peels o: his back. The roads, constructed swampy, yellow fever and malaria regions, are built in this manner. Under such treatment they die like of course, but, you see, the death penalty has been abolished in “humanitarian” Venezuela. election, congress and all that—has made pris- ons of two old castles, San Carlos and Puerto Cabello. There is also “La Rotunda,” situated in the center of the The procedure of breaking the revellious is as follows: The political prisoner is put in a square hole of two yards diameter. There is no light and very little a He is kept in there half naked, he | is chained, a bit of bread and a spoonful of beans is his meal per day. Ue is deprived of all communication with the outside world or reading material. Very often water is poured | deliberately into the hole. He is whipped and tortured by the brutes especially selected for their depravity to guard him. This is his in- troduction to prison life. On the slightest pretext he is put through the second treatment. Bars of iron “s are attached, weighing 60 to 80 poun y that he can neither eat nor sleep. Ulcers form where the iron is fixed on the body, and often he is given “com- pany,” that is, another prisoner is attached | to him with the same bars, which is worse than the isolation. Very often they are left | to die this way, and then they are transferre< to the hospital, to make the relatives believe | they died naturally. The great majority of | those that got into these prisons never left them alive. This is the treatment for the | mass of prisoners in the prisons. But then | there are prisoners that receive “special” at- tention. In order to obtain confessions they have a special commission of experts from Italy. The Inquisition specialists have devised three par- | ticularly agonizing tortures, the “Tortol,” the “Soga” and the “Cepo.” The one particularly used to get confessions is the “Tortol.” This consists of a rope, tied in such a way that it can be put around the nen’s most sensitive part. The rope is then attached through a tackle on the ceiling and | the prisoner, hands tied, is lifted to the cei!- | ing very slowly. The pain is such that often | the man swoons before be can even declare his intention to confess. He is then let Cown and refreshed, and, if he does not confess, put through the same procedure until he is mutil- ated. Similar torture is carried out in various fashions. Another torture with the rope is to tie it around the chest and then gradually tighten it more and more till the rope pene- | trates the flesh and crushes the ribs. Very often the tortured, having been arrested upon false denunciation, have nothing to reveal, tell lies and are tortured till they implicate other | innocents, or till they die. | The “Soga” is a torture by which they hang | the “prisoner” by his feet till the blood runs | out of his mouth, nose, eyes and ears; if he | does not “confess” he dies of hemmorhage. The “‘Cepo” is a torture by which they make the prisoner crouch and pass his hands beneath his legs. The fingers are then tied up in a certain way. The rope is then tightened up till it penetrates into the flesh and the fingers are stretched out under the weight and strain. The pain is so awful that the victims very often become insane. Tortures Today. The tortures of today reflect the tortures of the inquisition of yesterday. Just read the account of the dungeons and tortures of catholic (fascist) Italy, Yugoslavia, Rumania, Bulgaria, ete, etc. In what do they diffet from the “heathen” in Chi: You will find the exper- ience of the inquisition applied to the working people under the blessings of the catholic church even today. These very degenrates who speak about the “sacriligious crimes of the Bolsheviki” never utter a word against that. Needless to say the. proletariat, the rising , now in power in Russia, the class that abolish all classes, has no need whatsoever | to use the methods of the “Christians,” of the Vatican. They do away with this hideous breed which thrives upon the ignorance of the plain people, by the very growth of Socialism which destroys the material base of these vultures, Tortures, | | | crisy of the popes when they speak of “free- dom of conscience, now is of service in reveal- ing to thousands the true character of these human scum. Christianity arose during the struggle Central Daily [2: Worker Organ of the Commu. St avuscy of the U.S. A. Ry mail everywhere: One year $6 JBSCRIPTION RATES: six months $3; two months $1; excepting Boroughs of tan and Bronx. New York City, and foreign, which are: One year $8; six months $4.50 “LET ME CALL YOU SWEETHEART!” By FRED ELLIS From Gitlow to Hillman By ANDREW OVERGAARD. HILE the workers throughout the United States on March 6th showed the tremen- dous desire to struggle, and it was proved to the most doubtful that the analysis made by the Central Committee of our Party on the vadicalization of the American working class is 100 per cent correct and also that our pri- mary task is the united front from below, the Lovestone renegades are travelling further and further into complete amalgamation with the A. F, of L, fakers and the Muste-ites, While the rank and file miners in the United States through bitter struggles have shown that they will have nothing to fo either with the Lewis machine nor with the Farrington- Fishwick fakers, while the great majority of | the coal miners in the South, in Ohio, the An- thracite and in Western Pennsylvania are to- day unorganized and the only fighting force in existence in these territories is the National Miners’ Union, Mr. Gitlow, the trade union fig- leaf for Mr. Lovestone, still insists on com- | plete orientation and support to the Farring- ton-Howat-Fishwick group of fakers. In the April 7 issue of the Revolutionary Age, Mr. | Gitlow attacks the analysis made in Labor Unity on March 8 to the effect that “the main | job of the miners is to smash the Fishwick- Farrington convention scheduled for March 10th in Springfield, Mlinois. This convention is organized by and for the coal operators. It is a stool-pigeon convention.” Slavery wa: hed, but the people, those that produce, were not freed. ‘The institutions created in the struggle evolved into supporters and organizers of the new feudal order, of which the catholic church be- came the expression par excellence. In order that humanity might progress, it became necessary to overthrow the regime of the church, feudalism sought to save itself through black terror and the holy inquisition. Political freedom and bourgeois individualism was necessary to develop the productive forces and resources of the earth. The bourgeoisie who led the masses against the church and feudalism, terror-stricken before the desire of the masses of working people ot town and country to fully liberate themselves, went only half-way. The possessing classes compromised under bourgeois hegemony. Now the remnants of the feudal order, the most reactionary land- lords @f whose interest the catholic church is the typical representative, are in the vanguard of the white terror regime being inaugurated by the finance bourgeoisie which has expropri- ated the masses of individual producers and made the masses wage slaves or peons, Im- old inquisition, the catholic church, is the seeks to save itself by terror, just like feudal- ' ism, just like the slave order of bygone days. Use Most Desperate Means. The expropriated masses, now working by the thousands in huge entery , are organ- izing to expropriate the expropriators and to establish collective economy, Communism. Hence, as in the past, the dying ruling class use the'= most desperate means. The feudal classes and big capital merge into one reac- tionary stream, the cossack and the cannon, confronted by the masses ‘of exploited, who Communist Party. They seek to prevent the now have their own leadership—the destruction of their dying regime by combina- tion of all possessing classes against the pro- letariat and the peasant and peon by the use of white terror, by “the new inquisiiion.” Nevertheless, gentlemen, your end is already in sight. Even the fact that all of your ehurch- are !lessing and sanctioning the “new inquis' es, Protestant, Jewish, reverends and rabbis, tion” and are aecepting the lealership of the old inquirition, the catholic church, is the best best prooffot that, and this time it will be the end of all 4yquisitions, not in hundreds of years, ‘ut in a itw years time will be up. world | Mr. Gitlow, in this article entitled, “Spring- field and Indianapolis,” is actually trying to convince the coal miners that this was a rank and file*convention and states that “Spring- field could have been used very effectively to lay the basis for the actual building of the National Miners’ Union.” According to Mr. Gitlow, Howat, Hapgood and this whole tribe of discredited “progressives” represent the rank and file of the miners in the United States. Whenever a miner knows that the struggle between two sets of fakers is a strug- gle between one set of coal operators against the other, and thus Gitlow becomes the de- fender of the Peabody Coa! interests in Ili- nois against the rank and file miners. The logical conclusion of Mr. Gitlow’s policy was shown more clearly in his vote against a loan to the National Miners’ Union and also in the Lovestone promises to Hapgood to deliver the anthracite miners to the new Howat-Fishwick union through his group in the anthracite. is The most interesting quotation, however, by Mr. Gitlow in this article is when he states, “The Hillman officialdom is supporting the Springfield Convention. The future is there- fore full of many important possibilities as a result of the Springfield Convention.” Per- haps Mr. Gitlow believes that Hillman is going to lead the movement against the American Federation of Labor in the United States. Mr. Hillman, the chief proponent of class collab- tion in the United States in the needle trades has all of a sudden become a very im- portant figure, and according to Gitlow, Hill- man is supposed to fight Beckerman, the right wing of the socialist party, at the next con- vention of the Amalgamated. Mr. Gitlow thinks that a new trade union center of miners, rail- roal workers and the Amalgamated Clothing Working is going to develop under the leader- ship of weeping Walker, former president of the Illinois State Federation of Labor, Hillman of the Amalgamated, and the reactionary lead- ers of the railroad brotherhood, and states: “If the new organization will not be recog- nized then there is possibility that it will fol- low the course that was taken by the Amal- gamated Clothing Workers. This will make possible the creation of a new trade union cen- ter of the miners, railroad brotherhoods and the Amalgamated.” Yes, it will make possible a stepping stone for Mr. Gitlow to become,a new organizer for Mr. Hillman in the Amal- gamated Clothing Workers. But the rank and file miners, the unorganized railroad work- ers who are slaving on the tracks of American railroads for as low as 17 cents an hour and the needle trades workers who have been slugged and beaten up by the Amalgamated fakers in collusion with the New York police, the miners who have felt the united front be- tween John H. Walker, Fishwick and Far- rington, the police and soldiers in the last Ili- nois strike will give the effective answer to these fakers and to Mr. Gitlow, who is’ trying to fool them back into following the U.M.W.A., discre lited outfit. The rank and file of the miners, railroad workers, steel workers, mar- ine transport workers, needle trades workers have forgotten about Mr. Gitlow and Co, and under the leadership of the revolutionary unions affiliated to the Trade Union Unity League are building new revolutionary unions who will answer all of these fakers and for- ever eliminate them from the organized labor movement in the United States. We wish Mr. Gitlow good speed in his rapid travelling into the arms of Hillman & Co, when the rank an! file of the Amalgamated are beginning to rally under the leadership of the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union, Perhaps Mr. Gitlow may become the impar- tial chairman between the Amalgamate! and the Losses in the men’s clothing industry, HOOVER’S MAY DAY BLABBER By HARRY GANNES. | AY First Hoover made another statement about the crisis. The dates of Ioover's blabber about the “economic storm” are very significant. The first one in which he said, “The tide of employment has changed in the right direc- tion,” was made on January 2lst, following huge preliminary unemployment demonstre tions organized by the Communist Party and the Trade Union-Unity League. Then followed another series of militant ac- s by the workers, under revolutionary lead- Again a statement from the White th Hoover saying (Jan, 28): “The © of employment is current in prac- tically every industry. . . The reports show that the increase was distributed over the whole industrial world. li is an encour- aging sign.” This should have warmed the cockles of the heart of any Coueist or Christian Scientist. But it had no effect on the 7,000,000 unem- ployed beeause new recruits came into their | ranks, swelling their number to 8,000,000, and this was not “an encouraging sign.” May ist and March 6th. Then came the ist-shaking March 6th tremendous “Wo: ” demonstrations. Hoover was disposed to speak again, Why was this necessary? Nearly two months pre- vious he had assured the world “the increase of employment is current in practically every industry.” Every capitalist statistical agency had branded Hoover’s statement as a scoun- drelly lie. But this did not phase the unper- turbed Wall Street efficiency engineer. He reached for his slide rule; made computations and glibly announced (March 7): “All the evidence indicates that the worst effects of the crash upon employment will have been passed during the next s) days.” “Economic Storms. The sixty days were virtually over when Hoover made his May Day declaration. Did he say unemployment had ended? He did not. For the first time since the tremendous cyclical crisis of American imperialism he ad- mitted that: “We have been passing through one of those great economic storms which periodical- ly bring hardship and suffering upon our peo- ple.” At every stage of the crisis he and his fel- low liars, Barnes, Klein, Davis, Lamont and Green, had denied that capitalist economy had suffered even a flea bite. But now we get official admission of a “great economic storm” —that’s a new name for “crisis.” A Liar and an Optimist. Besides being a liar, Hoover is a confirmed optimist. He could not forbear repeating his usual baliyhoo: “I am convinced we have now passed the worst and with continued unity of effort we shall rapidly recover.” Hoover began his predictions about upturns in industry in January. Here js what the An- nalist index of business activity shows. These figures are based mainly on government sta- tistical data, as well as information from capi- talist corporations: 1930 1929 (1926=100) January .... 93.2 104.1 February ... 92.4 104.9 March . 89.4 103.0 In short, we see a constant decline from the low point of January, which has continued right down to date. The Annalist factory em- ployment index (based on the Department of Labor figures) shows the following: | other | the most 1930 1920 (1926=100) January 95.8 100.7 February 94.2 101.5 March 93.2 102.3 Hence despite Hoover’s glowing statements we find the Annalist force] to admit that em- ployment had dropped to “the lowest since August, 1922.” Worse and Worse. What has happened since merely confirms the view often expressed in the Daily Work- er, namely, that the crisis is sharpening and is yet to enter severer phases, in turn sharp- ening the already deep-going world cyclical We recently printed the statement of e financial editor of the New York Evening Post in which he stated that “We go into the month of May this year, without any visible evidence of an upturn.” The facts indicate even worse than this nega- tive statement. They show there is every evi- dence of a further, sharper downturn, All basic industries continue their curtail- ment of operations. Foremost is the steel in- dustry, which, in a way, reflects almost’ every basie industry’s activity. The latest pronouncement on this point comes from the Journal of Commerce (May 2, 1980): “There is an idea perva that the seasonal late spring decline is al- ready setting in. At no time so far this year have operations surpassed 81 per cent of ca- pacity, whereas last year 101 per cent of theoretical capacity was reached about this time of the year. Some expect that summer business will be unusually dull... An analysis of the situation reveals that the automobile industry was in largest measure responsible for the comparatively poor show- ing in steel so far this year.” Thus we account—rather badly—for two of capitalism’s main props—the steel industry and the automobile industry. The Drop in Prices, As Comrade Varga pointed out in a special article in the Communist International, one of ignificant features of the present worli crisis of capitalism, is the continuous drop in commodity prices. This portends the virulence of the crisis and its world-wide, ever- increasing disturbances. This is now recog~- nized by the leading bourgeois economists. The latest issue of the National City Bank of New York bulletin (May 1, 1930) says: “What is giving more concern everywhere than anything else is the price situation, which presents a problem arising from over- development of production in the principal commodities of world trade.” Yet commodity prices still continue to de- cline all along the line. The latest Annalist index of Wholesale Commodity Prices show them at a new low record. week (May 2, 1930) prices deglined 0.7, show-) ing the index at 5.5 per cent below the begin- ning of the year, and 8.44 below the corres- ponding date last year. The most significant fact of these drops during the past few weeks is the break in monopoly commodity prices which began with the sharp slump in the price of copper, insti- gated by the copper trust, and now spreading to every branch of the steel industry. It will soon turn into a rout. This will have its re- verberations throughout the capitalist world. And as if to punctuate Hoover’s May Day declaration with further proof of the “up- turn” in capitalist economy, the stock market the following day crashed to the lowest point of the year. The Tariff and The passage of the tariff will first of all impose a heavy burden upon the shoulders of the American consumers—the working class and the farmers. The capitalist press itself recognizes that after the tariff will go into | effect it will cost the American consumers over one: billion dollars. In addition to that, however, the tariff will also have very far reaching political effects as far as capitalist- rivalry is concerned. This was very well dem- | onstrated in the tariff imposed upon French laces, which called forth a serious protest from the French lace manufacturers. In turn, how- ever, French automobile producers will increase the import duty on American made cars from 20 to 30 per cent. The most significant development has, how- ever, been promulgated of a new tariff sched- ule in Australia. The economic crisis which has sharpened appreciably in Australia in the past several months has its basis in the slump in the wheat, wool and other markets and has made it impossible for the Australian govern- ment to balance its budget. Australian ex- change slumped. In the new tariff import com- modities have been divided into three groups. Cuban Fascist Terror HAVANA, Cuba _ (Esperanto-Servo).—The fascist government of Cuba had driven under- groun] the “National Labor Confederation of Cuba,” and “Labor Federation of Havana.” On March 9 two protest meetings were at- tendel by many workers. The meetings were held in the morning and in the evening. The one held in the evening was characteristic of the fighting spirit of Cuban workers. The ing, but as a strike meeting of hatmakers. meeting was not announced as a general meet- However, the workers instictively felt that it was a general protest meeting, because they are devoted to their organizations. The speakers (organizers of the outlawed organizations) related the events to the work- ers and explained that the attack of the gov- ernment is directed against the entire trade union movement, and that the government is being helped out, by the Cuban Feleration of Labor and A. F. of L. institution. The gov- ernment is wrong if it thinks that it can destroy the revolutionary trade union move- ment. If lawful existence is denied—it will work underground, but keep on leading the ‘economic struggles of the Cuban working class. The suggestion to call a general strike on March 20 was received with great enthusiasm. A Large Strike of Hatmakers HAVANA, Cuba (Esperanto-Servo).—-About half year ago, the hatmakers organized a trade union. Later the workers presented their de- mands to the factory--Mariane Ferrero, which refused to accept these demands. A strike was culled which kept up for five months, at the end the reformists sold them out. World Market Importation of commodities in the first grour is completely prohibited except on the written consent of the Australian minister of foreign trade and customs. Imports of the second group are cut to 50 per cent o: the volume for the year ended March 31, 1929. The import duties on the third group have been increased by fifty per cent. This tariff is called a “bold ex} ‘ment” and the “highest tariff barrier in the world” by the bourgeoisie. This tariff will cut sharply into the export from the United States to Australia of a whole mass of com- modities. The “highest tariff barrier in the world” is so high that it will, despite the 12% per cent empire preference, narrow still further the foreign markets for British exports. It will tend to accentuate the economic crisis in the United States and in England and to sharp- en the struggle between them for the world markets that have been thus narrowed. Such is one feature of “organized-empire-capital- ism” in the economic crisis. It is significant not only as an individual phenomenon but as a foreshalowing of other tariff restrictions that will grow out of the present crisis. Later on a new committee was elected which put forward new specific demands: (1) Rec- ognition of the union. (2) Acception of two delegates from the union. (3) A raise in wages. Another strike was called. The owner of the factory went to A. F. of L. fakers and with their advice fired all workers who were organ- ized—about 500. The answer of the union was—a general strike. After one week of strug- gle the bosses gave in. Six comrades were imprisoned, and ten other factories drawn into the strike, with about 400 workers, Lately the radicalization of the workers has reached such an extent that the police does not dare to use the same tactics as before. Of course, the bosses unite together with the police to attack the workers. This last strike of hatmakers proves that they cannot destroy our organization so easily. And the workers are ready not only to defend their organization, but also with a united front strive for victory. Workers! Join the Party of Your Class! Communist Party U. S. A. 43 East 125th Street, New York City. Mu 1, the undersigned, want to join the Commu: nist Party. Send me more information. Name ... Address Uccupation . Mail this to the Central Office, Communi Party, 43 East 125th St.. New York, N. Y. ing the steel trade t During the al