The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 26, 1930, Page 4

q i Page Four DAILY WORKER, TO CONDUCT A MILITANT FIGHi Wage Cuts, Bert: "Bene and Unemployment Must Be Answered; Join N.T.W.LU. vo years ago the oe merce, of both » and Phil- ipsburg, N. zed into the only x anion, the National Textile Work- ars. Already there were nittees, mass meetings, etc. lenly there appeared organ trom the reactionary United T ile Workers’ Union. The silk wor! ers, being inexperienced, fell for she lies handed out to them. Suad- A. F. of L. they would get support in their struggles against wage- cuts. The skilled silk workers toom-fixers, twisters and were already members of the U. T. W. and naturally induced the weav- ers to join with them. W. U. had sent all its best forces to Fall River, New Bedford and Gastonia, strength left to prevent the reac- tionary U. T. W. Thus, U. T. W. Local 1660 w ganized, about 900 membe: Z The bosses did not oppose the U. 3 or- T. W., knowing that it would sooner | or later betray the workers. There- fore the employers of the Gumming Silk Co., Nonpareil Silk Co. and others recognized this union and so began the existence of the Easton and Phillipsburg U. T. W. U. and the betrayal of the silk workers by } its leaders. Once Fought for Wages. The Easton and Phillipsburg silk workers always fought militantly for higher wages and their rights as workers, before the U. T. W. ‘came in. In 1926-27, when the bosses cut the wages 10 per cent, the silk workers, under militant leadership, answered with strikes. There were seven local strikes. In 1929, when the U. organized, the workers eee a wage scale including all mills. the committee in charge of making | this wage scale decided that the wages in the Nonpareil, Steward | and Mryline silk mills were high | enough. | In the Altchular Bros. and others, the workers were forced to work for less than even the Nonpareil wage scale for the same work, be- cause the U. T. W. refused to per- mit a strike for higher wages. Hours of Work. The Easton and Phillipsburg silk | mills mostly work day and night. | The day shift works nine hours a day and five hours on Saturday and the night shift ten hours a day. When Local 1660 was organized the U. T. W. leaders consented to an increase of one hour each shift, without any extra pay, although the union agreement calls for time and a half for overtime. During the last six months of 1929 and the first six months of 1930 there were several strikes un- der the leadership of the U. T. W. Almost all fo these strikes were lost. The Wallace Silk Co. refused to recognize even the U. T. W. and began to throw out members of Local 1660. The leaders declared a strike, that is, they recalled those workers who were members of the union. In other words, they helped Mr. Wallace to kick the union mem- bers out. They did not build real rank and file strike committees and spread the strike. The U. T. W. U. leaders refused to permit picketing. It is now six months since the Wal- lace Silk Co. has been running with scabs and no picketing is done. This in spite of the fact that Local 1660 has about 1,200 members, in- eluding loom fixers, etc., while the Wallace Silk Co. has only 100 peo- ple working. The leaders even re- fuse to pay benefits, forcing a small group of workers to go hungry, al- though the local is strong enough to support them. The same applies to the Altchular Bros. Silk Co., who at first recognized the union, but later cut wages. Here, too, the workers were told to leave their jobs, but no picketing or strike benefit is allowed. For two nonths the plant has been run by scabs and nothing is done about it. A New Wage Cut. Since March the bosses have let most of the mills run part time, while the Nonpareil Silk Co. closed its mill completely. McGinly, the president of the company, called the workers (about 225) and stated that he is forced to “even the wages” with Allentown mills, that he can- not compete with them, ete. and that if the workers agree to a wage-cut of one-half a cent a yard for day workers and 1 cent for night workers both the mills will | be running ful’ time. This question was taken up by the executive committee of the lo- cal, which refused to iet the mem- bers take it up themselves. The members of Local 1660 only have a right to pay $1 a month dues, but when it comes to the working con- ditions they have no rights at all. The bosses declared a lockout while the leaders were discussing the wage-cut. This lockout has lasted four weeks, and although ac- cording to the constitution the members are entitled to $6 a week benefit, no benefit is paid. In this _ way the U. T. W. leaders help the bosses starve the workers into ac- cepting the wage-cut. Right after the Nonpareil came the Steward Silk Co. and others _ with a wage-cut of 10 per cent, to go into effect by July. The committee of Local 1660 in- They | yelieved that by being a part of the | The N. T.| from spreading. | {25 per cent will be cut! | PUOE CS Be WES oor | national struggle against imperial-}| was | Wi But |i jand who are the supporters of the ington ment of lat t honored B. R. Feild, Rev, All William H. Heil, Herberger and others, mostly men and poli the ‘or the Ea: silk mill wage-cutting on workers e the lock- the son- so it had not sufficient jab: ported nas an agreement with all the jabout the wage-cut. This showed that the wage-cut not only a 10 per cent cut on crepe, | |but a 10 to 25 per cent cut on all | |work! The discussion lasted four hours. |Kelly took the floor about seven jtimes to defend the plan, on the} ground that it is a method of even- ing up the wages. That is, where wages are lower, 10 per cent will | be cut, and where they were higher, | report means | With these wage-cuts goes an agreement for six months, and, ac- | cording to the statements in the| ress, it can be assumed that | at the end of these six months new are contemplated, sion the meet- d, for the workers | refused to accept the wage-cut. The next meeting was called in| a hall that holds about 350 and has | only 196 chairs for a union that | has 900 weavers alone and with the | skilled workers over 1,200. It was | so arranged that the first to come were those workers not affected | More than half of the| members stood out in the hall and | stairway and therefore could not jvote or discuss. At this meeting | Kelly brought forward the original jplan of an all around 10 per cent | wage-cut. Two hundred voted for this and 100 against any wage-cut, while the majority, who were out- side, could not vote at all. The bosses in the Easton and Phillipsburg silk mills will not re- main satisfied with this wage-cut alone. Their cry that Allentown workers work cheaper means tkat | they will try to cut some more be- cause the bosses in Allentown are} doing the same, so as to force the effects of the economic crisis on! the shoulders of the silk workers, | with ‘the help of “honorable gentle- | men,” including the U. T. W. U. leaders. Fellow-workers, the only way to} stop these unceasing wage-cuts and | general worsening of conditions is | by leaving the bosses’ union, the | U. T. W. U., and forming a local of the only textile workers’ union, | which is organized in the interest | of the textile workers, as well as run by the textile workers them- selves! This union is the National Textile Workers’ Industrial Union. ! We can do this by turning our | entire Local 1660, except for the | traitors, into the N. T. W. U. and together with the textile workers of Allentown and the other work- ers we will go forward to a v: torious struggle against all wage- | cuts, no matter where they let place! machine. Demand the release of Fos- | ter, Minor, Amter and Ray- mond, in prison for fighting for unemployment insurance. Demonstrate against war and unemployment on August Ist! Demand that expenditures planned for armaments be turned over for the relief of the unem- He | chemical | chemical | sively against war and the capital- | ist system that produces war.” j called War in the Far East written | war against the Soviet Union, that) Show Growing Danger ot War “A constant struggle is going | on between the forces of progress | be- capitalists and land- and the forces of reaction: tween the lords, and the revolutionary work- | nd peasants: between the im- Soviet | ers list powers and the Union. To solve the international crisis of capitalism and to gain a | vast new market for exploitation the imperialists are now seeking | to destroy the Soviet Union. This | is the most important fact in in- ‘THIS statement appears in the bril- liant pamphlet of the well known chemical expert, Donald A. Cameron. It is called Chemical Warfare and is one of the series just issued by International Pamphlets. Cameron more than a chemist. He under- stands the political forces at work in both the capitalist world and that part of it—one-sixth of the earths’ surface—over which the pe nts and workers now rule. he drive of the capital- for war on the Soviet Union, nd the methods that will be used prosecute the coming war. The 1 part to be played in it by the | chemical industry is developed, and | the various kinds of gases used in} warfare are described carefully but | in popular language. The chemical and allied products | industry in the United States em- | ploys 000 workers. The chemical | industry is divided up among collos- sal corporations with international connections. Cameron shows how important it is for these chemical workers to be organized into left wing unions and to realize the im- portance of August 1, day of inter- ist war. Contrasting the long hours, low wages and speed-up in American chemical plants with those of the workers in the Soviet | Union he tells of the popular volun- tary organization—the Society for Promotion of Aviation and Chem- ‘y—composed of 4,000,000 work- ers in the Soviet Union who are helping to build the defenses of the workers’ republic. He calls for the organization “of all the American workers under militant | leadership pledged to fight agres- Workers taking part in the Aug. 1 demonstrations will also learn much of the international forces making for war from the pamphlet by Henry Hall, a well informed newspaper man specializing in for- eign affairs. Hall confirms the} analysis of the left wing when he writes: “Daily the campaign against the Soviet Union gathers momentum. Under the guise of safeguarding religeous liberty, political demo- cracy, the virtue of womanhood or the purity of the white race, the capitalist press of the world carries on a relentless propaganda cam- paign against the Soviet Union; mobilizes mass sentiment for a holy crusade.” The pamphlet deals specifically with the struggles over Manchuria and the efforts of the imperialist powers to strike at the Soviet Union through North China. The elements that now prepare are driving the war industries for-| ward to pile up chemicals and gases to destroy the Socialist Fatherland, are the same that are behind the Fish Investigating Committee. Djamgaroff, Easley, Brazol and the nest of czarist white guards that cooperate with Matthew Woll in fighting the Soviet Union are the originators of the “Red Investiga- tion.” These two pamphlets help to expose their game. Workers taking part in the August 1 demonstration should have these pamphlets and give them to their fellow workers. They help effectively to show the growing danger of war. Demonstrate against war and unemployment on August 1st! Demand that expenditures planned for armaments be turned, over for the relief of the unem- ployed! EASTON SILK WORKERS SHOW HOW 2 Pamphlets ternational politics in the present and economic | W YORK, begs Ace 26, 1930 | Mobilize on Anpute First Againat the Rapid War Preparations! | | WIR CALs MEMBERS 10) AUG. 1 DEMONSTRATION Support of the August First. dem- onstrations against war are en-| dorsed in a statement issued last |night by Marcel Scherer, national | secretary, Workers International Re-| lief, 949 Broadway, New York City. | It calls upon all members and sym- pathizers of the W.I.R. to join in the demonstrations and show their | determination to oppose another world slaughter of the proletariat. “Meetings of Workers Interna- tional Relief members,” the state- ment continues, “will be held prior | to the August First demonstrations at which the members will be mob- ilized so they can effectively par- ticipate in the demonstrations. All members and supporters of the Workers International Relief} must see to it that millions of work- ers come out on the streets that day and voice their opposition to the war danger and the possibility of an attack by the capitalist world against the Soviet Union. “In New York City, the W.LR. | will join all other working class or- ganizations in the demonstration; that will be held in Union Square. In other cities it will likewise mob- ilize its full strength which in a body will attend the anti-war dem- onstrations.” Experimenting With Powerful Tear Gas for Use Against Workers. BRITISH WOOL STRIKERS THANKING FOR FUNDS NEW ‘YORK. — Thanking the American workers who aided their struggle, the Central Rank and File Strike Committee representing 100,- 000 British woolen strikers, ad- dressed a letter to the Workers In- | ternational Relief. The letter, dated at Bradford, England, July 2nd, follows: “On behalf of the Central Rank and File Strike Committee we ex- |press the thanks of the 100,000 woolen textile workers for your concrete expression of working | class solidarity. “The workers have shown their determination to fight and thereby to hold the front for the whole working class. With the support of our class we can win. Hunger alone can break our front. Your contributio: has helped to feed our workers and thei: families. We ex- press our apprew.ation of your soli- darity and call on you to redouble your efforts for the success of the working class struggle.” Yours fraternally, E. H. BROWN, Chairman, D. A. WILSON, Treasurer, FELIX WALSH, Secretary, On Behalf of the Central Rank and File Strike Committee, RED SPARKS ONE STILL LOOSE Governor Roosevelt says that “Slump in Business is Filling the Asylums.” Yet Coolidge is still out- side. No, you’re wrong, we didn’t mean that Coolidge is crazy, but just stupid. The crazy guy is editor of the N. Y. Herald-Tribune, who is paying Coolidge last year’s prices for some of the vapidist nonsense that we have read in a blue moon. ier er THE ’HOLE BLOODY EMPIRE SHOOK! Anybody who flaunts British tra- dition might as well commit hari- kari, especially when “socialists” represent the monarchy. A certain ribald gink named Beckett, taking up the sacred mace representing the authority of the king, from before the speaker in the House of Com- mons, produced an electrical dis- charge of “socialist”? fury told, rather quaintly, in the following lines culled from the N. Y. Times: “Prime Minister MacDonald stood, white and shaking.” Then, the Times correspondent, leaving Mac standing, talks about something else a while, strangely concluding: Support the Daily Worker Drive! ployed! Get Donations! Get Subs! Training for the Boss War! All Out on August 1st to Fight Against the War Preparations “Quietly Mr. MacDonald arose and moved Mr. Beckett’s suspension.” By JORGE The Times don’t tell us how a social fascist can “arise” while “stand- ing,” so possibly he collapsed be- tween times, very likely having heard the awful news that in Amer- ica the Fish Committee had dis- covered a Communist kid who said: “Damn it, pass the bread!” Pais et ADVICE FOR FARMERS. An “expert” of the Farm Board tells the farmers that by use of fertilizers, they can or might or should cut the cost of producing wheat from $1.14 to 67 cents a bushel. How they can afford to buy fertilizer to attain this, he don’t say. We suggest that the farmers use the wonderful “stabilization” propaganda put out by Hoover, well mixed with some of the “prosperity” fertilizer of the same firm, and the “Vast Building Construction Plan” brand that smells like a fish too long out of water. * ABATE NOISE! RESTORE PROSPERITY! In noisy New York, another bril- liant idea occurred to us. Every auto horn invented tries to honk louder than its predecessor. Let’s reverse the process and establish prosperity again! Simple! Pass suc- cessive laws requiring smaller ber and metal industry. Then the allied industries. Business would again flourish! The junk dealers, the pillars of the nations, would prosper. Housewives would again make the welkin ring chopping ge- fuellte fish. Stocks would go up Bootleggers and prostitutes would cease to complain that the country is going to the dogs. Lovestone would triumph. And American genius would once again prove that capitalism is superior to Bolshe- vism! * + * PREACHER PIFFLE. Ever read the slop published in Monday papers of what the sky pilots say on Sunday? The funniest section of our funniest capitalist press. Here’s a few: “The world,” says one, “can be divided into two categories, those whom prayer de- bases and those whom it uplifts.” He recommends. “looking into the heart of the one on his knees,” which appears anatomically diffi- | cult. Then another says that there is “abundance” and “none need want”—‘“only man must make the effort to reach out for it.” Try it on your grocer, but better not while horns. This would start up the rub-+, Butte Strikers Are Sold Out by A. F. L. Fakers | The Montana Development Asso- jciation, better known as the “open- }shop” organization, of which the | Anaconda Copper Mining Co. and By HARRISON GEORGE. | the Montana Power Co. are the guiding spirits, in collusion with the \officialdom of the A. F. of L., has | |successfully betrayed the Butte} jstrike. The men were opposing a | substantial wage-cut. | The machinists in the automobile jshops were chosen by the enemies \of labor as the weakest spot in the | |labor movement. They were noti- |fied by their bosses of a dollar a |day wage-cut. This was met with a strike. About a week later the teamsters’ and truckdrivers’ agree- ment expired. They, too, were asked to take a wage-cut, which was likewise met with a strike. The bosses put on scabs, which were beaten up by the strikers. So |the sheriff put on about 40 gunmen to protect the rate. Then, to fur- | ther hamper the strikers, the city mayor deputized about twenty of | \the teamsters, making police offi- cers of them, to also help protect) the rats. This move was sanctioned by the “labor leaders,” and the teamsters didn’t see through the| trick at first, but they became very |sore about it later. Fire Clerks. The merchants who ordered goods from the unfair wholesale houses immediately discharged the clerks who refused to handle the unfair goods. Meantime, the open-shop forces demanded all business houses close. The order was obeyed by the patrons of the corporation bank only. Those who didn’t close their stores were threatened by the Mon- tana Power Co. with having their electric light shut off, but the bluff didn’t work. After the stores were closed for a week the labor leaders met with the open-shop gang unofficially, and the plans were laid for driving the strikers back on the job at the masters’ terms. The “copper press” has been very careful not to mention the terms of the betrayal, but the strikers are telling that they are forced to take the cut and that they are forced to work with the scabs. The machin- ists took a cut ofa dollar a day. The teamsters took fifty cents. The elerks lost their Saturday afternoon vacation. If there were any other} conditions lost by the “labor fak- ers’” betrayal, it hasn’t been made known. Leaving the A. F. of L. The capitalist press claims that the committee acting for the strik- ers was not officially representing the labor organizations, but that the strikers accepted the terms. How- ever the truth may be, the strikers are furious over the sell-out and are talking of discarding the whole machinery of the A. F. of L. and joining a new organization which will fight for the workers to the last ditch. The workers in general will even- tually have to join the Trade Union Unity League, which is supplanting the rotten A. F. of L. throughout the country. he is looking. Another reverend says that there isn’t any high cost of living. All wrong, it’s the “cost of high living.” He’s either a liar or don’t associate with the workers. We think he’s both. A baptist tells us, seriously, that—“the swing from autocracy to Bolshevism in Russia is pictured in the bible.” You find the Five-Year Plan in Talmud, yes sir. Still another preacher says he “sees the need to feed the soul.” Our soul is pining away for ham an’ eggs. An episcopalian got off a long fish story which ends up thus: “You may have a legal right to get and keep all the fish, but if you do you are apt to get your- self into trouble. This world has got to be run by the grace of god.” We have lost our taste for Fish, and god and us are not on speaking terms. Amen! * * * PREPARING FOR AUGUST 1, WHAT? From the other garbage in the N. Y. American we picked out this: “Active and retired members of the police department who belong to military police battalions of the U. S. Army Reserve, have been ordered to report at the Plattsburg Barracks July 27 for two weeks’ active ser- vice.” * * *. SABBATH DAY SAYINGS. “The lazy, the incapable and the diseased are our heritage from the ignorance and disease of the past. They should be disciplined as public charges.” So said Rev. Allen E. Claxton, of the Broadway Methodist Episcopal Church last Sunday. Na- turally, if this all comes from “the past,” the present is all O, K., and poverty, which he says is “inexus- able” is the fault of the 8,000,000 jobless workers and their families. In one sense, he’s correct, they should force the bosses to quit shut- ting down production, should force the bosses to give them work or pay them wages. But the reverend wants these 8,000,000 “disciplined.” A sort of blanket approval for the head- cracking that the police will do and have done, now and hereafter, one and imperishable, god and capitalist government—until workers put a stop to it. Nagi FISH BALLS. “Whether the documents present- ed by Commissioner Whalen were genuine or forgeries will not affect our inquiry to any great extent,” | would hold up the falling pr Five republican senators from the wheat states have called on Chair- man Legge of the Farm Board to try, in a somewhat helpless way, to get the Board to buy more of the surplus on the grounds that this These five “wise men” are said to have presented “the plight of the farmer,” but no farmer should be so innocent as to think so. They presented their own plight, these republican senators, who fear the farmer vote, The hypocrisy of these republic- ans is appalling. Senators Capper and Allen of Kansas have discover- ed that people are hungry—but not in Kansas. Like marvelous discov- eries are made by McMaster of South Dakota, Pine of Oklahoma, and Howell of Nebraska. These in- credibly wise men have discovered that people are hungry—but neither in their own states or anywhere else in the U. S. A. Strange as it may seem, all the hungry people are “in India and China.” So these republicans, “for the farmers,” of course’(not!) want the surplus wheat sent to India and China, and when Legge tells them the Farm.Board has no funds “with which to give away wheat,” they become disconsolate, and say that the Farm Board is a failure. Of course these republicans never heard that there are 8,000,000 job- less workers and their families go- ing hungry in the United States, who—if they received unemploy- ment insurance as they should but do not—would be only too glad to eat the wheat of the Western far- mers. These republicans have never heard, we suppose, that wage cuts everywhere are stealing the bread out of the mouths of millions of other workers, who would be very pleased, if they had the money, to buy more flour, eat more bread, cakes and flapjacks. Confessed Hypocrites. These unspeakable hypocrites are those of the ruling party of this nation, which has refused to “sub- sidize” as their pal, Senator Fess, called it, the millions of starving unemployed, by establishing unem- of this country. They are against that, but they approve and as stock- holders of capitalist corporations, actually profit from the wage cuts suffered by workers. Senator Pine has the gall to say, at this hour, that he doubts “that a dozen members of Congress con- sidered the Agricultural Marketing Act would accomplish its purpose” when they voted for it. Why, then, did these scoundrels vote for it? This is a late hour to be putting in an alibi of disagreement. No, the republican party voted for it and these five by their votes, endorsed this fraud. But, so also, did the democrats! And where does Senator Caraway, who comes bawling through the fog of “farm relief” wiseacres, get a license to run loose denouncing the Farm Board, without at least pro- posing something? Caraway, with a demagogy equalled only by his ignorance, in trying to catch the votes for democratic fakers that are falling away from republican fak- is after “facts,” you know. But if by pure accident some fact is thrust upon it in the course of Munchausen disciple “witnesses,” the Committee will sternly resist being influenced and overcome all such difficulties. + ge BILL GREEN SAYS: “High Wages Best Aid in Slump.” Ytp, providing they are high. Green says: “Maintaining of Workers’ Buying Power Will Revive Indus- try.” Yep, it will if they are main- tained. The only thing the matter with his blah is that wages are not high, and therefore the workers’ buying power is not being main- tained. Outside of being a confound- ed liar, Green speaks the gospel truth, , Ae ae IT WAS AT A “LUNCHEON” For some inscrutable reason, all the capitalist fakers who get to- gether to gabble about the starving unemployed, are always doing it at some “luncheon.” Last week the Manhattan Chamber of Commerce had an “unemployment luncheon,” at which the paper tell us, there attended as speakers, Philip D. Hoyd, first deputy police commis- sioner, and Heywood Broun, leailing socialist and tripe columnist on the} capitalist paper, the Telegram. It was a fitting pair, Broun and a head cop. Only Broun, of all the seven million people in New York, knows how wise a guy he is. But to help you out, we’ll remind you that he’s the chap who started after the March 6th demonstrations, the slogan {Give a job till June,” after he swallowed Hoover’s story that “prosperity” was due “in sixty days.” June came, and passed, but without any jobs. Broun felt blue when he saw the reds gaining, but white with rage the blackguard turned pink—-and joined the so- called “socialist” party, where he immediately was hailed as a leader, But he said that, although he joined he “reserved the right to his own opinions.” “O, K.,” said the “so-! cialists,” “every socialist has a right | to his own opinions, so long as they | don’t go against capitalism.” So! Broun is still writing tripe in the | Telegram, saying how it’s all a mis- take about Big Business running bawled Fascist Fish. The Committee the government, and going to lunch ployment insurance for the workers | | The hall was wrecked. The police FARMERS, FIGHT FOR YOURSELVES! LEARN TO STRIKE LIKE WORKERS! Capitalist Politics, Democratic or Republican Is No Solution for Poor Farmers ers, takes up two complains against the Farm Board, First, he says that it tries to get the farmers to reduce production of wheat, because when there is so much wheat to export, it interferes with the “export of industrial com- modities!” Such stupidity is unusu- al. Suppose that a worker in Brazil wants a pair of shoes and a farmer in Yugoslavia wants a_ tractor, Caraway insists the former would be satisfied to go barefoot if wheat he doesn’t want would be thrust upon him, that the farmer who wants a tractor and can raise his own wheat in Yugoslavia, must nonetheless take wheat or cotton and get along without a tractor, Caraway must think that the far- mers are as stupid as he is, if he expects them to believe this kind of stuff. Secondly, he says that the Farm Board is working on the idea or with the purpose—“to provide cheaper food for the consuming cen- ters.” One would think this is a crime,. from the way he puts it. And he accuses the Farm Board of that crime. Well, the Farm Board is guilty of crime, all right, but certainly not this one. Conceals Farm Board Crimes. And in making this stupid charge Caraway is concealing the real crime of the Farm Board to fasten finance capital onto agriculture more than ever, and more than ever as a parasite, through pushing bank- ing control over the fake “coopera- tives,’ through getting into the clutches of the great banks the en- tire network of marketing organ- ization. These “cooperatives” might —but not always—help the rich far- mers, but they only make life hard- er for the poor farmers, while any fool knows that the marketing or- ganizations are not going to “pro- vide cheaper food” for the consum- ers. This jackass from Arkansas re- peats the moldy rubbish about the interests of the “city” and opposed to “agriculture,” as though the “city” people are all of one econo- smic class, rather than workers and capitalists, robbers and robbed, and as though, also, on the farms, there are not poor farmers and rich far- mers, whose interests are opposed, Workers and Farmers. This numbskull of reaction thus tries to set the poor farmers against their naturai allies the workers of the cities, and keep them from unit- ing against the enemies of both— the big capitalists, the bankers, the landlords, the exploiters and robbers of those who toil both in industry and on the land. Farmers should not fall for this bunk. Nor must they depend any longer on ilusions of what Congress will do or not do. They themselves must act. They must learn to strike, yes, to strike! Just like industrial workers do! Form committees of action by townships spread them over counties and states, Prepare to strike to reduce rents, to reduce taxes, to refuse te pay mortgages! Gr interest! Write to the United Farmers Teay Bismarck, North Dakota, which will call a national conference to orgarize powerful ac- tion. farmers! 63,000 FRENCH WORKERS STRIKE (Wireless By Inprecorr) PARIS, July 25. — A total of 63,000 workers are styiking against the social insurance law. ~ oe o® BERLIN, July 25. — Municipal elections were held in the Duessel- dorf District, with marked successes for the Communist Party. In Mill- rath the Communist vote was in- creased from 83 to 267; in Groiten, an increase from 327 to 498, * * * HAMBURG, July 25.—The so- cialist fraction in the Hamburg free parliament outvoted the Com- munist motion to legalize the Red Front Fighters in Hamburg, and to apply to the Reich to legalize the organization everywhere. Whe ak“ VIENNA, July 25.—Collisions oc- curred yesterday at a fascist meet- ing which was attended by many revolutionary workers. The fas- cists refused to permit discussion. protected the fascists and attacked the workers, bayoneting four. Two are in the hospital with severe in- juries, : * * * SHANGHAI, July 25.—Tsingtau rickshawmen are striking for bet- ter conditions. * * * PEKING, July 25.—Post office workers have adopted the slow-up system to secure a wage increase of $5 a month, Letters are rapidly piling up that are not handled. with the police. The boss cop said that 60 per cent of men arrested for felony recently were unem- ployed. He proposed no remedy, but lovingly fingered his blackjack. Broun got one of his bright ideas. Since all the little employment agencies can't get any jobs, he pro- posed that if they were all rolled into one, then there would be lots of jobs! 1 tell you, that ee is awfully smart} ma Act now, act for |