The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 2, 1930, Page 4

| ALL WORKERS AROUSED BY THE MURDER | | & F ; ® Page Four "demonstrated om DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, J UF HERZEL WEIZENBERG ‘3 By MORRIS BACKALL LL progressive and revolutionary workers of | Chicago are aroused and are protesting against the cold blooded murder of Herzel Weizenberg, and the injuring of David Mahanna by the gang of the reactionary A. F. of L. labor leaders of Counsil. It was Saturday, June 28th, when Herzel Weizenberg and David Mahanna distributed the leaflet issued by the progressive group of the Painters Union local, agitating for the slate that the progressive group, under the leadership of the Trade Union Unity League, put forth exposing the underhand activities of | the treacherous A. F. of L. business agents and leaders in the Painters locals. The same leaflets were distributed in all other local unions of the Painters where an election took place for business agents and for secretary treasurer and members of the district council. tional Unemployed Convention to be held in Chicago July 4-5 were also distributed. But the Painters Union | Leaflets announcing the Na- | at the meeting of local 147, 19 W. Adams St., | the Wallace gang felt that their candidate, the former secretary treasurer Wallace, might lose against the candidate of the progressive Charles Walters. They immediately dragged the two members of the Trade Union Unity League and of the Unemployment Council, Weisenberg and Mahanna, out of the hall. But when outside they were met by scores of gangsters who were terrorizing the elections at all other locals, and were attacked with knives, brass knuckles and lead pipes. As a result of this brutal attack Herzel Weizenberg died a few hours later, and David Mahanna was immediately arrested, having been beaten into unconciousness. The police were on the spot and it was only through the efforts of the International Labor Defense that David Mahanna was released and medical attention ive painters of Chicago, as all other progressive workers of the city know that the reactionary labor leaders Painters Union as most of the A. F. of L. burocrats are united with the underworld. great many of the leaders of the Painters locals are themselves notorious gangsters and spectacular members of t'’e underworld. The candidacy of the progressives for secre- tary treasurer, Charles Walters, was examined by the examining board. He was qualified as a candidate for secretary-treasurer. The progressives acted according to the require- ments of the Constitution of the Brotherhood. His candidacy was also endorsed by local No. 275 of which he is a member. Gets Wide Endorsement ‘At the time when the'campaign was on for members of the district council, Charles Walt- ers, the candidate of the progressives, spoke at many local meetings and he was enthusiastic- ally endorsed by all the locals. The reception for the progressive candidates was so great that all the reactionary forces felt that their foundation is falling under their feet. At local 147 the membership that consists of 600 such enthusiasm for Charles Walters that when Wallace appeared he lost his head, feeling that he could not longer rule the 1embership with his iron hand. It is therefore evident that the reactionary | burocracy that always conducts its elections with brutal force, surrounded by hired gang- sters, threatening to kill anybody that stood in their way, prepared this year still more and was ready to kill anybody who threatened their rule. When election. day came, the A. F. of L. burocrats of the painters’ locals felt that the membership was dissatisfied with their rule and that the progressives came organized with of the | A | their own ballot cards with the name of | Charles Walters as secretary-treasurer. On the other hand, the situation in the city was favorable to their intentions. The chief of police came out with the statement that he will drive all “hobos” (unemployed delegates) out of town. Police brutality increased against the revolutionary workers, reactionary elements attempting to suppress the Convention of Unemployed that will take place the 4th and Sth of July, beginning with the open demon- stration in Union Park Friday, July 4 at 3 p. m. and continuing Saturday, July 5 with the convention at Ashland Auditorium. The Murderous Attack. It was, therefore, natural that when they felt that the progressive candidate Charles Walters might be elected against Wallace, that they should start a brutal, murderous attack m Herzel Weizenberg and David Mahanna. At the election meeting at 147 at 19 W. Adams St., under the personal direction of Wallace, they killed one in cold blood and in- jured another worker in order to scare the progressives and insure the election of the A. F. of L. burocrats with their bulwark of gangsterism, Wallace. Every gangster that participated in the .killing carried a Wallace badge. From Local 147 Wallace and his gangsters went to Local 275. There they attacked a group of girls who were distributing the same leaf- lets of the progressive group. They tore all the cards that bore Walter’s name. They beat up thos. who distributed the cards. The same gangsters carried the vice-pres- ident of Local 275, John Heindrickson, through the back door, forced him to follow them with guns, gave him a good beating, took him for a “ride” and told him in plain words that if he continued to agitate for the progressive candidates he was taking a chance with his life, and that he should not show himself at the local union, because they had already ex- pelled him from the union. At the election meeting of Local 184 the first report of the watchers was that 420 members came to vote. The burocrats’ count was 1050 members voted for Wallace and only 17 for Walters. The watchers of the progressive vot- ers were run out of the hall; were told to beat it and not show their faces any more at the elections. Michael Shields, who is a notorious figure in gangsterland of Chicago, and who lives out of town, being occupied in the bootlegging business, now occuping the office of business agent of this local for the last thirteen years, who never attended to any business of the loeal, is one of the main forces of the A. F. of L, leadership in the district council of the painters locals. It is therefore no wonder that such elections take place in the painters locals _ of Chicago. At Local 101, when one watcher protested against stealing of votes of Charles Walters, he was taken out of the hall, and beaten up to such an extent that he was not able to “raise his voice any more in protest. Also at Local 521, where Albert Green is czar, the membership refused to participate in the elections. They knew very well what would result if they dared to vote for. Charles Walters. Albert Green always carried his elec- tions with guns. He is known in Chicago as one that is the owner of paint factores where the painters must buy their merchandise as a means of graft to the business agents of the locals. Why Weizenberg Was Murdered. Herzel Weizenberg was killed because he and his comrade David Mahanna, the same as all the other comrades that distributed leaflets for the progressive slate dared to threaten the ezaristic rule of Wallace and his fellow buro- crats of the A. F. of L. He died because of the wonderful struggle that the progressives carried on among the members of the painters local unions for a new workers’ leadership, for a new class struggle unionism, under the lead- ership of the Trade Union Unity League. All workers of Chicago are greatly aroused against the cold blooded murder of Herzel Weizenberg because they all know that he died for the cause of the class struggle of the wo: s of Chicago aga t reactionary buro- cratic leadership of the A. F. of L, that is serving the inte: s of the capitalists, and for the workers as a whole. Herzel Weizenberg did not die in vain. The 1 Maclay Hoyne, the ‘Hero’ of 1920 workers of Chicago feel and realize and under- stand that unless they will be organized in progressive groups under the leadership of the Trade Union Unity League, unless they will carry on a heroic struggle—a struggle where they will have to sacrifice even their lives, their interest will be betrayed and they will remain victims of gangsterism, of police brutality and of fascist reaction. The capitalist press and the police depart- ment failed to uncover the guilty and the real causes of the cold blooded murder of Herzel Weizenberg. The guilty ones are known not only to the progressive group of the painters locals and the Trade Union Unity League, but also to the police. They did make a turmoil over the murder of the so-called Tribune re- porter Lingle, who in reality was a go-between the police and the underworld. But even the socialist fascist paper, the Forward, in its Chi- cago edition Monday, June 30, wrote a first page story that justifies the murder of Herzel Weizenberg, which proves again to the workers that the burocrats of the A. F. of L., the gang- sters, the police department, the capitalist press, together with the socialist fascisti carry on a united struggle against the revolutionary activities and class struggle of the workers for a workers’ leadership in the union for the organization of the corrupted unions and un- employed. {ee Chicago Bar Association was granted a petition by the state supreme court to start action with a view of disbarment against about sixty lawyers on the payroll of the Sanitary District. Hundreds of thousands of dollars of taxpayers’ money was robbed by a gang of grafters in the Sanitary District. Some of them were caught and received jail sentences. Now the lawyers are charged with “unprofessional and dishonorable conduct.” Seven of the lawyers repaid $17,836 rather than face disbarment proceedings. Others held on to the money they obtained. Their list is headed by Maclay Hoyne, former states attorney, and leader of the paytrioteers. The workers should know this gentleman. In the end of 1919, after the Communist Party and the Communist Labor Party were organ- ized in Chicago, the forces of “law and order,” the local Chamber of Commerce and other similar. organizations began a campaign against the workers. A special fund of $40,000 was created for this purpose. (Now these same forces have a fund of a million dollars “to fight erime.”) The states attorney, Maclay Hoyne, was welcomed to make use of this fund, and he cheeringly did. He planted stool pigeons in every labor organization, the stools planted bombs wherever they had a chance, framed workers, ete. At the head of the stool pigeons were the “experts,” the bum squad (bomb squad), under the leadership of Law- rence Macdonough and Mike Mills. On the day of the murder of Sacco and Vanzetti the chief stool pigeon Macdonough committed sui- cide. He was caught in a huge criminal and graft scandal and faced a heavy jail sentence. He, who did not hesitate to send the members of the I. W. W. and the Communists to jail for periods of from one to twenty years on framed evidence, preferred to commit suicide rather than face jail. Mike Mills is still alive and is still an “expert.” His experiences date back to the days of czardom in Russia. He was a stool pigeon in the czarist police. He is also the uncle of the not less famous stool pigeon Spolansky. In fact, the uncle made a stool out of his nephew. A few days ago, when the Associated Press broadcasted a statement by the Russian mon- archists of Berlin to the effect that Moscow “sent $500,000 to America for a convention of the Reds to be held in Chicag- July 3, 4 and 5” (meaning the conference of the unem- ployed), again it was Lieut. Mike Mills who gave a statement to the press that the Chicago police know all about it and have the situa- tion well in hand. Leave it to Mike and there won't be any revolution in America. In fact, if Mike had been here before 1776 there would have been no revolution in America at all. Chief assistant to Maclay Hoyne was a gent by the name of Berger. He was killed in an accident some months ago. As special prose- cutor in the case was hired a jingo “labor” lawyer, or lawyer for the labor fakers, Frank Comerford. By flag waving and _ skillful manipulations (a shot was fired into the house of the states attorney during the trial, the judge received threatening letters, etc.), he succeeded in getting guilty verdicts and sen- tences of from one year to ten. Poor Frank is also dead now. And he had aspirations of becoming a member of the cabinet in Wash- ington some day. Just one day before the Palmer raids were staged, Maclay Hoyne started his raids in Chicago. While those arrested by the Palmer raiders were held under. $1,000 bail on depor- tation charges, those arrested by Maclay Hoyne were held under $5,000 and $10,000 under the anarchist-syndicalist law passed in Illinois during the war hysteria. After the prisoners were brought over to the Criminal Court Building to the offices of Maclay Hoyne, they were abused and many of them beaten up there. After they were taken over to the county jail they were attacked by a mob of war “heros,” soldiers and sailors of whom the jail was full in those days. Many workers were deported, many were jailed. And now, the hero who saved the country in 1920, the great Maclay Hoyne, faces disbar- ment as a plain cheap grafter. He, who in the name of “the people of the state of Illi- nois” sent workers to jail for their opinions, is now being accused of taking money that be- longed to the people of the state of Illinois. While the leaders of the prosecution lie in dust dead or disgraced, the Communist move- ment which they were trying to kill is now stronger than ever before. The Communists are now leading hundreds of thousands of workers. And when all traces of the servants of capitalism will be long forgotten, Commu- nism will be marching on to the triumphant march of the liberated world. —A JAIL BIRD. Gone, But Not Forgotten By MARTIN SAILOR. (Ee chief slugger of Chicago workers and head of the notorious Detective Bureau, Captain Stege, is deposed. His place was taken by Lieut. John Morton. The place of Police Commissioner Russel is filled by John Alcock, former assistant to the chief. Will this change make any difference to the workers of Chicago? In the first statement issued by the acting police commissioner, Alcock, he says that “a plan to enforce the vagrancy laws will be worked out.” The vagrancy laws are used in the South to force unemployed workers into the chain gang. In Chicago these laws can and probably will be used to imprison unem- ployed workers, strikers, or anybody whom the bosses have reason to fear. After the protest demonstration in Grant Park against the imprisonment of the Gas- tonia fighters the Chicago Chamber of Com- merce held a secret meeting where a secret committee of six was elected for the purpose of “fighting crime.” A fund of a million dol- lars for this purpose was created. Col. Robe: Isham Randolph, chairman of the Association of Commerce and chairman of the secret com- mittee of six, issued statements to the capital- ist press to the effect that “criminals will be driven out of Chicago.” The fund was used to hire stool pigeons to work in the labor or- ganizations. Later came the raids without warrants on the offices of the Trade Union Unity League, the International Labor De- fense, the Communist Party, workers’ clubs, etc. When the unemployed began to organize, the stool pigeons and detectives again became busy. Murderous attacks took place against the unarmed workers, Never before did the police department so openly trample under their hoofs the capitalist laws which they de- mand the workers to respect. It was plainly seen the police had nothing to fear for smash- ing ‘he heads of the workers, and incidentally also the laws. The powerful influence of the money bags was felt behind hem. Never be- for was such fiendish mass brutality practiced even by the Chicago police. Some of the ar- rested workers were beaten into insensibility in the police stations and the torture cham- bers of the detective bureau. Some had to spend weeks in the hospitals afterwards. The eoritalist press made a joke of it. It was funny to see the Reds getting a terrific beat- ing in the hands of well armed sluggers clothed in the authority of “law enforcers.” This was “the drive against crime” planned behind closed doors of the stock exchange gamblers and speculators. And yet at the same time the city was “wide open.” According to the Daily News there are 6,000 speakeasies, 2,000 handbooks, 2,000 disorderly houses doing business with a profit of $6,260,000 a week. A group of gangsters with police and jail records were and are still acting as judges and clerks of elections count- ing the votes of the “free American citizens” who think that they are running the govern- ment by their votes. Crime, prostitution, graft and gambling is in open alliance with the capitalist politicians and “law enforcers.” In connection with capitalist crooked politics and booze, there were 41 murders committed in Chicago since the beginning of this year. The last murder has taken place only yester- day, after acting police commissioner, Alcock, started the “clean up” of the uncleanable po- lice department. What can the workers expect of these “clean-ups”? With the capitalist politicians at the head of the city, state and federal gov- ernments, with the bosses in control of the armed forces, nothing but a sham “battle” against crime and a real battle against the working class can be expected. Already voices are heard among the exploiters for stricter en- forcement of the deportation laws, and the new acting police commissioner is looking for stricter enforcement of the vagrancy laws. The only way to get rid of crime is to destroy its causes, the cesspool that breeds it, and that is—capitalism, —————— Today in History of the Workers July 2, 1847—Meeting of mech- anics and laborers at Albany, N. Y., voted to continue agitation for eight-hour day. 1894—Presi- dent Cleveland sent federal troops to Chicago over protest of Gov- ernor Altgeld to break American Railway Union strike. 1898— Chicago stereotypers struck, news- Papers suspended for four days, W. VIRGINIA MINER Daily Worker, | Dear Comrades:— Well, we here, in Northern W. ROCHESTER IN COLLECTION FOR JOBLESS CONVEN, Are Sending Delegates | to National Meet Rochester, N. Y. Dear Comrade:— The Unemployed Council) of Rochester is busy with a house-to- house collection for the Chicago Unemployment Convention, which will take place July 4 and 5. We are also looking forward to a big meeting of all labor organtza- | tions for the election of delegates| on June 29 at 9 o'clock Sunday morning. Here ‘is some tricks yesterday. I went to a collector who I owe a bill for the last seven months of which I never worked a day. When I got there he expected me to pay up at once. I told him I couldn’t get a job, and he said that condi- tions were going to be better and that business was going up-grade. | I asked him that if conditions were getting better why don’t he get me a job, and he didn’t know what to say, so he made it a little easier for me now. So, on with the Chicago Unem- ployment Convention on July 4 and 5. On to Union Park. Forward, march. of capitalism’s A. ANDREASSI, Secretary Unemployed Council of Rochester. L. |. WAITRESSES MUST ORGANIZE TO FIGHT LOW PAY Work Long Hours for Miserable Wages Ye Olde Harmony Tavern, Jamaica, L. I. Dear Sir: The girls who work in this tea room must start at 10 o’clock in the morning and work until 8.30 at night, or 11 until 9.30 every day. On Sunday from 10 to 10. They re- ceive but $8 a week. Also they have never been exantined by the health doctors. Can you see if this can be fixed? In New York we only work 8 hours every day and get more money. The tips here are no good. We thank you, —THE WAITRESSES. Editorial note: Working condi- tions, wages, hours of work are not “fixed.” Only by organization and struggle can workers win better con- ditions of work, more wages and fight the long hours of work. This has been confirmed by the experi- ence of the working class. The bosses have but one interest, to get as much work out of their workers as they possibly can for the lowest possible living wage. This means more profits for them. In organization and in the strike the workers have a weapon that forces the bosses, who, fearing the loss of their profits for any period of time, an thus he forced to give conces- sions to the workers in conditions, hours of work, wages, etc. The waitresses who sent the above letter have shown up a vicious prac- tice of the restaurant owners in making the workers get their wages out of the tips they collect. Thi means more profit for the bosses. There is but one way. to fight against the long hours, low wages and poor conditions. And that is organization into the Food Work- ers Industrial Union, organization of the waitresses and all help in the place and a determined fight against existing conditions. The waitresses should get in touch with the organizer of the Food Workers Industrial Union immedi- ately at 13 W. 17th St. § ELECT THEIR DELEGATES TO JOBLSS CONVENTON Jobless Miners Ready to Fight for “Work or) Wages” and for Their Union, N. M. U. Morgantown, W. Va. Va. are again at our revolutionary work. The local unemployment conference that we held was a success. 48 credential delegates, representing a large number of miners were pres- ent. 38 delegates, from the floor were picked for the National Conven- tion, July 4, in Chicago, and a number of meetings will be held to elect sii zi all the delegates, that have come in since, to Chicago. W. Va. miners are ready for any revolutionary work under the lead- ership of the TUUL and the Nation- al Miners Union, because they have learned from experience that the promises of prosperity that they had heard so often from the bosses and their puppets, the A. F. of L., and the U. M. W. of A. were nothing but a pack of lies. All the prosperity that the W. Va, miners are now en- joying is in the form of more wage- cuts, longer hours, unemployment and starvation. Also many mines are shut down without any of the miners receiving back pay due them from one to three months. When asked to account for the money they (bosses) claimed that they have no money with which to pay the miners. Yet they continue to operate their mines. The miners here, are help- less to do anything as these bosses are protected by law. The coal com- pany’s stores are also closed to the miners; so that they not only do they not get their pay but they are also not given any food. The U. M. W. A. in W. Va. does not ask the miners to strike for better conditions for the workers, {but instead asks them to join the U. M. W. A., so that the coal bosses will be able to make bigger profits at the expense of the workers. The only ones enjoying real prosperity in W. Va. are Bittner and the rest of the labor fakers of the U. M. W. A. of W. Va. The miners are starv- ing and suffering, but they are finally awakening from their long sleep and it won’t be long now until |the U. M. W. A. will have lost all of its wealth and prosperity. The N. M. U. will rise in its place and lead the miners, both em- ployed and unemployed, to real prosperity. The fighting spirit of the Nortk- ern W. Va. delegation was proven at the local unemployed conference by:— 4 (1) Electing William Z. Foster |as honorary chairman of the con- ference and demanding his release. (2) Voting to send greetings to the Party and all class prisoners. (8) Electing Unemployed Coun- cils to demand work or wages for the unemployed. (4) Electing a delegation to the National Unemployment Convention on July 4 and 5, Fraternally yours, CHAS. S. CLOSE, Board Member of N. M. U., W. Va. DETROIT WORKERS STARVE. DETROIT.—The past week shows no change in trade outlook here. There is no relief from ‘sales con- ditions or the unemployment situa: tion. Workers are expected to starve until bosses get markets. for surplus commodities which fill ware- houses. Rockford, Ill. Editor, The Daily Worker. At the National Lock Co., one of the very largest plants here, the conditions are becoming more and more unbearable for the workers In addition to the continuous, sys- tematic reductions in wages, the most vicious speed-up systems as are particularly now being applied, are reaching far beyond human en- durance. In all departments, with the exception of two or three, every- thing is produced through the rot- tenest kindsof piece-work systems forcing the very last ounce of en- ergy out of the workers. Older workers, who have been slaving for the company for several years are, when not able to keep up with the terrific speed-up, informed that they are no longer needed and in due time replaced by younger ones. A year ago the company employed around 1,500 workers, but since the great lay-offs which started with the beginning of the economic crisis there now remain only about 500, of whom one-half at least are wom- en workers. It is especially young girls the greedy parasites who own this lucrative slave institution find to be the most profitable in their merciless exploitation, and those are’ forced to accept all the way up to National Lock Workers Must Fight 10 P.C. Pay Cut ‘More lobless in lllinois Mine Regions Shelbyville, Ill. Editor Daily Worker:— Census Supervisor J. W. Knapp, Jr., of Springfield has just released figures which show 2,457 unem- ployed in Macoupin and Montgom- ery Counties. The figures show] how bad the crisis in the coal min-| ing industry really is. Tt, must be! remembered, too, that tHe census | was taken in April, before many | of the.mines were shut down, and} so of course the situation is con-| siderably worse than the figures show. At Staunton, a city of about 3,000 people, there are 523 out of work, | | one-sixth of the population and over | half of the working people. At other places the situation is not so bad, but bad enough. The figures are as follows, for cities of 3,000 to 6,000: Litchfield, 262; Gillespie, 171; Mt. Olive, 159; Hillsboro, 129; Carlinsville, 104; Nakomis, 89, For cities and villages of less than 3,000: Virden, 182; Witt, 126; Benld, 66; Sawyerville, 58; Girard, 34; Coalton, 29. Yours for Communism, —C. S. B. W. LAUNDRY TOILERS DRIVEN HARD FOR MISERABLE PAY Buffalo Laundry Men Must Organize Editor Daily Worker:— The laundry workers of Buffalo are unorganized, work for low wages, irregular hours and with speed-up all along the line. For example, drivers get $10-$12 a week, and about 10 per cent with plenty of trusting and standoff cus- tomers, whom we find are suffer- ing themselves from the layoffs in the shops. Men work two and three days a week or are out of work alto- gether. The drivers must try to keep the customers, but we cannot finance all the unfortunate victims of the speed-up, where machines are taking the place of workers and the remaining workers get wage- euts when the boss looks at the employment offices. and finds them full, with mobs outside, hungry and waiting for jobs at cut prices. These workers should not try to get jobs from factory employment offices or from labor sharks, but should or- ganize in mass organizations and demand relief fro mthe government, city, state and nattional. One at a time, we will starve, or- ganized, we will win. We who are working must help the outof-work, the unemployed, with some little money every week. With this money they must build unemployed councils, not use the money for charity. The unemployed must not come to the shop and factory gates and work for less money. We, who are working, must organize and fight for more pay and less hours, so the unemployed can find work. Unemployed workers, men and 50 per cent lower wages than the male workers, although they have to produce just as much. But the bosses are not yet sat- isfied with what they have accom- plished in the field of brutal slave driving and robbing of the workers. Oh no! Notices have been placed in various parts of the plant an- nouncing that on July 1 an addi- tional 10 per cent wage cut will take place! Ten per cent cut on wages ranging now all the way down to 20 cents an hour! The bosses, in preparing for this wage cut, are very cautious. A most contemptuous spy system is} being developed that is on the keen-} est outlook for workers who express their discontent openly and when such are found they are to be fired immediately. These conditions ini- tiate a very indignant and rebellious ‘atmosphere among the workers throughout the whole plant and without dovbt great struggles loom in the near future. The Metal Work- ers Industrial League is organizing a shop committee in the plant that will place itself at the forefront in the struggle of the workers agains: these miserable conditions. Forward to intense fight against the exploit- ers for better conditions. —ROCKFORD WORKER CALLS SECRETRY BALTO, JOBLESS Prepare for July 4th Convention Baltimore, Maryland. Dear Editor:— There are from 2,000 to 3,000 men, all along the waterfront on Pratt St. and Light St., starving’ homeless and ragged; out of jobs walking around day in, day out— but nothing doing. Every day the police boats are taking bodies out of the harbor around the docks, same old story—out of a job, ustble to find it, not knowing what to do about it, they end it all. When they go to the shysters in the em- ployment offices the syster will | ask: “Have you $3 to pay for your job?” If they haven’t got it he ployed worker out. And, morethan — that, these unemployed workers | more often than not are taken to court and sent to the house of cor- rection for vagrancy, where they are made to slave in building an- other wing to the house of correc- tion (to be filled with other work- ers out of a job, probably) and on the state roads for three months and sometimes more, On Wednesday, June 25, a couple \of fellows went into the employ- ment office and paid $3 apiece to go out on a job to a farm, milking cows. They waited al Iday until the office was ready to close an then they asked for their mone), back, as they were not sent or taken to the work they paid for. Instead of giving thém their money back the shyster had them locked up! The next morning the judge gave them 12 days apiece in the Baltimore city jail, where they will } have to slave shoveling coal or work in a rat-trap and live on slops that pass for soup among the bugs; and filth of that jail. They couldn't show receipts to the judrys for the money that they had paid to tl employment office and the judg took the shyster’s word for it thai they had tried to assault him. Down with this rotten shyste system, fellow-workers! Fight fo work or wages! Join the union o your class, the Trade Union Unit League. If you are out of worl join the Unemployed Councils. Don’t starve, but fight! The unemployed in Baltimore a) | beginning to find out that the on | way to stop these rotten conditior and win better conditions is to jo the only working class union, tl T. U. U. L., and fight! They a coming to the office every d:/ here, five and six at a time, | Fraternally yours, GEORGE KELLY, Secretary of the Unemployed Cow cils of Baltimore. | —_— women, old and young, boys Pull girls, children, workers all, orga ize! Demand the five-day wee’ seven hours a day! Demand wor or full wages! And don’t think yc can’t get it, We must stand t gether, the employed and unen ployed, shoulder to shoulder, all fc one and one for all, workers of tt world, unite! What happens when the worke gets cut down from full time an is working only two or three days ‘The wife tells the laundry man no, to call for wash any more. Sh says she will do the wash nome She also looks for a-'job herself. sometimes gets a man’s job at hali a man’s pay, then tries to do her housework also, This is wrong housewives. Don’t be the goat. Dé not let your husband push the bur- den on you. Tell him to organize and fight. Stand with him in his fight for more pay and unemploy- ment insurance, Housewives, do not quarrel with your husbaad and think it’s his fault, No! He is not to blame that he doesn’t find a job. It’s the capitalist system that is to blame. How? Well, Vil tell you. The workers don’t own the tools of wealth-production any more. The tools our forefathers owned are now great machines owned by the rich capitalist class. They are getting more wealth day by day. Money makes money, the rich are getting richer, the poor are getting children and no money to feed them. ’ Let us show the world that the workers of Buffalo, of New York | state, of the United States of Amer- | ica, are just as smart, just as good as the workers of Russia. We will stand together and build ur own Soviet Union. We will be loyal to our comrades all over the world, We will fight no wars for the capi- talists. We will fight for our class, the working class! —JACK WATTS, FIGHT HUNGER, calls the police and puts the unem- i |