The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 30, 1930, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1930 i Dp >is we > > Ea Ee a> rs ay ‘EE: a = a &S EO YP Ss “4 DAYTON POLICE BEAT BRUTALLY YOUNG WORKER Their Sadism Knows No Bounds Dayton, Ohio, Daily Worker: It was called to our attention the other day of some brazen example of the brutality of the police in this city. Of course, this incident) did not ap- pear in the capitalist press. It might hurt the feelings of the readers who read about lynchings, murders, sui- cides every day. Use Blackjacks A young worker about 24 years of age was at Lakeside Park near the Soldiers’ Home. He was sitting on the bench anf had had a couple of drinks, The policeman (watchman) told him to get off the park. The young fellow was doing nothing and no doubt had no other place to go, be- ing unemployed. He refused, and the police decided that they would make him go. They shoved him to the side. In the next instant they were beating down on him. They threw him on the ground and used their blackjacks. He tried feebly to get up, but the po- lice did a good job, They beat him until he could not make any attempt to get up. When they saw he was finished they threw him into some little cubbyhole around there. Spec- tators around protested against the brutal actions of these bloodthirsty gangsters. Vet Aids Him The young worker was still able to talk. He was conscious enough to feel the blood running from his head. One of the inmates of the Soldiers’ Home passed and he heard moans and the request for a doctor, that he was bleeding. A short while later the ex- service man came with someone and the victim, was unconscious because of so much loss of blood. When they wanted to see him the police very considerately informed them that the police would take care of him! Sure they fixed him up; he's their prey and they wanted to finish the job. They threw him into the police car and drove him to the station. The next day the same police was heard confiding to the other: “Well, he ain't come to yet this morning. ‘That'll teach him to fool around with the law.” . Police brutality, which is a stranger to Dayton, according to Judge Hodapp and the Dayton papers, was glaringly exposed in this tragic incident. Junkers Make $1-$1.50 a Day Dayton, Ohio. Daily Worker: If the man who says that junkers make big money in gathering up newspapers, rags and books, scrap paper, etc. he tells a big lie. For they don’t. If they make $1.10 or $1.50 a day they are doing awful good. The junk shops are only paying: 80 cents per 100 pounds rags. 50 cents per 100 pounds books, 30 cents per 100 pounds newspa- pers, 20 cents per 100 pounds scra; papers, * 20 cents per 100 pounds mixed iron. ‘When the junk peddler, who pushes a cart all day long, a poor man, and has a family to support, he can hardly do it even if he works far into the nite. Today prices on junk are lower than they have been for over fifteen years. You can see these junkers through- out Dayton. Old men, women and even children are seen with a big cart which they strain every muscle in their body to push when full. Many children of unemployed workers “bor- row” some junk man’s cart one day so that they can make a little money to buy their supplies or shoes for the winter. p FROM A JUNKER. CENSUS NEVER TRIED TO COUNT MIGRATORIES BUTTE, Mont., Sept. 26.—Butte has a jungle that is known from coast to coast among tramps and knights of the side-door pullman. It is a trestle on the Milwaukee rail- road, not the trestle where a score of 101.per cent Americans—some of them born in Ireland and other for- eign parts—hanged Frank Little in the dead of night during the midst of the war frenzy. The jungle trestle is near the freight yards. Day or night from a dozen to five dozen hoboes can be found at this trestle cooking mulligan, washing ragged underwear and exchanging news of hoboland while waiting for.a freight train. ‘ Of fifty men interviewed, but one had been listed by a census enumer- ator. “Do you believe that one man in ten among "boes has been listed in April census?” was asked: “Hell, no!” was the answer from a half Denver Shopgirls Get $7-$9 Pay; Boss Is a Tricky One Denver, Colo. Daily Worker: Dear Comrades—I am enclosing a letter, sent by the president of the Denver Dry Goods Company to the workers of the store. It starts, “Dear Fellow Worker.” But don’t take that literally! He isn’t a wobbly. Franz A. Cramer, who addresses his workers as fellow workers and who -speaks of co-operation and service to the company, is well known as the worst slave driver in the business. Under his able management the force of salesgirls, etc., has been cut almost in half, and the wages of the workers who had been with the concern for years was reduced in every case. $7 to $9 a Week The girls in the office, and the cash girls get from $7 to $9 a week. The salesgirls get about $12. There is an eight-hour law for women in Colo- rado, but the girls in the “bargain basement” often work nine hours, without overtime. When the quitting bell rings, they have to start folding, covering up and cleaning up, and often don’t get away for three-quar- ters of an hour. All Speed-up Tricks Used In order to spur the salespeople into greater efforts, “armies” are or- ganized, headed by some of the straw bosses, and bonuses are given for heavy sales. There isn’t a single trick of slave driving that this benevolent “fellow worker” Franz Cramer doesn’t know. The workers are afraid to make a protest in any way, because they know that the great number of unemployed in Denver would enable fellow worker Cramer to replace them immediately. What is needed is a militant union, to take in all the workers in dry- goods stores, etc., to force upward the scale of wages, instead of-having the whole scale forced downward as now. A WORKER. Youngstown Tube Discharges Militant INDIANA HARBOR, Ind. Daily Worker: Comrade Kish, a tin mill worker of this city, who was arrested and fined $10 and costs for distributing pamphlets during the Labor Day demonstration here, has been dis- charged by the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company. Kish, an active party, worker, has been working as an extra man, “floater” for some time. Recently he was given a steady job. After he was arrested the boss suddenly remembered that there were older men than Kish who were still working as extras. Desiring to show no partiality and to recognize seniority for one, and when con- venient he discharged Kish and marked his slip: Reason, too many men. Had Kish been a Republican, Democrat, or even a Chicago hood- lum, I’m sure he would still be work- ing, and I happen to know that he is an excellent worker. JACK WALSH. TERRIFIC INDUSTRIAL CRISIS SWEEPS INDIA, While capitalist press reports con- tinue of reorganization of the North- west Frontier tribes and occasional skirmishes with the British who still send out their planes to bomb vil- lages. The September summary of tho business situation at home and abroad, issued by the U. S. Depart- ment of Commerce, states in regard to India: “The combined effects of the rigid boycott and the unusual decline in prices of Indian commodities, to- gether with the uncertainty of future trends, has nearly paralyzed eco- nomic activities in India. It is be- lieved that many business failures are imminent. Twenty-two Bombay mills are now closed and 40,000 workers are unemployed. The final Indian Jute forecast gives a yield of 11,231,- 000 bales, or an increase of about 85,000 bales over the last crop. As the market anticipated this large yield, prices remain unchanged but nominal due to the absence of busi- ness, Present values are probably below cost of production. The slump in imports and exports is adversely affecting revenues, and federal con- struction programs probably will be deferred until conditions improve.” JURY DISAGREES IN TRIAL OF REYNA LOS ANGELES, Sept. 22.—With one member of the jury standing for acquittal, there has been a disagree- ment in the trial of Juan Reyna, young Mexican worker accused of killing Police Officer Verne Brindley with the cop’s own gun. After being fed by the lies of the police and the court, the jury went into “deliberation.” One juror stood out for acquittal, refusing to be a party to the frame-up of this young worker. The jury was kept out for four days while every device was tried to break down the objections of the lone juror. In the end the dozen tramps. “Not one in a hun- dred.” Of the 50 men interviewed, 15 were dyed-in-the-wool tramps and 35 were workmen looking for any kind of a Job. Most of them expressed the opinion that at least one million men tramping the country seeking work Were not listed in the Federal census. Cleveland Workers To yg oeiaaly 7 on Oct. 2 Against Hoover Yesterday, September 29, the Com- munist Party of District Six, Cleve- land, Ohio, called a membership meeting where final preparations were made for the demonstration against Hoover on October 2. All organizations which participated in this demonstration are urged to call membership meetings on September 20 and October 1 court had to concede a jury disagree- ment. Reyne was subjected to the brutal police third degree and forced to sign a “confession.” PHILA. I.L.D. ARRANGES CONCERT FOR OCT. 24 Philadelphia, Sept. 25.—The Phila- delphia district of the International Labor Defense is arranging a con- cert for Friday night, October 24, at New Traimore Hall, Franklin and Columbia streets, and asks all sym- pathizers to bear this date tn mind and come to the concert. The Philadelphia distri¢t of the In- ternational Labor Defense also asks all working class organizations not to arrange any affairs for this night. Talented artists will appear! All funds are going to the defense of Class War prisoners, TRICK JOBLESS TO SEEK WORK AT CRUCIBLE “Will We Starve? Hell,” Toiler Says Like Lisbon, Ohio. Editor Daily Worker: : I read an article last week in Pittsburgh paper to the effect that the Piittsburgh Crucible Steel Co. at Middleton, Pa., was going to put on 500 men in the next few days. Jo my brother, a friend and myself went down there to see what we could see. When we got there we saw men idling in groups all along the streets, We knew before we even saw the foundry that it was just qnother trick of the bosses and transportation company. No Hiring at All ‘When we got to the employment office of the foundry we asked the watchman (there was,no one else around) about work, “Boys,” he said, “if they hired a man I'd drop dead, for they haven't put a man on in four months, and from the looks of things they won't need that employment of- fice for four more months.” Jobl Thirteen Months T've been out of work for over thir- teen months and I can’t see anything ahead yet. Comrades, are we going to lay down and starve quietly in the wealthiest country in the world, wealth which rightfully belongs to the working class of people? Like hell we are. We're going to tear apart this rotten, grafting system of the bosses and build up for ourselves a real workers’ and farmers’ government. “Socialist” City Workers Also Jobless MILWAUKEE, Wis. Daily Worker: The same story—but a little bit different—involving “city” workers. At a meeting of the Park Workers’ Union it was learned that the park workers were also unemployed. When asked whether their season had al- ready ended, a workers’ correspond- ent was advised it had not, that the unemployment they were suffering was due to “city budget”, for that line of work running short. Until a new budget is established at the be- ginning of 1931 this condition most likely will last. This is general with city workers. The School. Board carpenters and painters usually, annually, suffer a stage of unemployment due to the lack of “budget.” It was quite a timely occasion to acquaint the Park Workers’ Union with the “Workers’ Social Insurance bill,” which advocates that the “war budget” and income tax fund be turned over to the workers’ out-of- work fund. C. MORTIMER. Hartford Workers Protest Jailing of Communist Speaker NEW HAVEN, Conn.—Last week Comrade Nat Richards, section or- ganizer of the Communist Party, Hartford, was arrested while speak- ing in an open air meeting. Upon some flimsy excuse he was pulled in and sentenced to ten days in jail. He is already serving this sentence. The Communist Party called a mass protest meeting last Saturday, September 26, at 7 o'clock, Windsor and Main streets, to expose this frame-up of the bosses and their gov- ernment, to bring other working class issues before the workers and calling upon the workers to express their protest by VOTING COMMUNIST American Sailo and Get Many New (Continued) Now a huge silo reared its head over the horizon. This was at the rail head and one of the clearing houses for the grain whieh even then was beginning to pour in. Now a group of buildings hove into sight, increasing in size as we rapidly ap- proached them. The car finally pulled up with a jerk in the center of—well, the most adequate descrip- tion I can think of is to say that it resembled the center of a colossal ant hill. The town, scarcely two years old, was literally springing up on all sides and here one could notice the difference between the old and the new order of things. In the distance a few scattered miserable hovels the peasants formerly existed in, Here in the town modern, up to date cottages lined the streets. Many finished and occupied, some still in the course of construction. Cool, sun shaded porches around the houses and radios in every house. A trim little park with girls hoeing and raking in their spare time and everywhere activity. Cars, American as well as other makes, coming and going. Huge trucks, all Russian made, arriving la- den and returning empt~. The rest of our party arrived about this time, so after adjourning for refreshments we were introduced to two English- speaking interpreters who had jour- neyed down from Rostov—the nearest large city—to help make things eas- fer for us. All hands embarked aboard a powerful truck and we com- menced our formal tour of the farm. As we sped along our guides ex- plained to us the system by which the 300,000 acres to be harvested this year was being worked. There were 8,600 workers employed split up into 12 brigades. The land was divided into 12 units, one brigade to a unit. We could see for ourselves that the brigades were operating efficiently. The original time estimate for the tharvest had been 24 days, but the workers, as always, striving to bet- ter the calculation of the experts, had the hours of r’s Story of His Trip In Soviet Union Have Interesting and Surprising Experiences, Ideas of Workers’ and Peasants’ State 20 days. It is a fact that the Gov- ernment had to step in and curtail the labor to ensure workers receiving the amount of time required and educational pursuits. The seven- hour day is now in force in most of the major industries and this also applies to agriculture. Our inter- preters proved to be of invaluable as- sistance, translating the answers to the many questions we were bound to ask. Soon we were on the scene of the actual harvesting. Holt combines drawn by powerful 60 horsepower caterpillar tractors, some of them driven by smiling, sun-tanned girls, were cutting wide swathes through the wheat. As soon as the truck stopped it was surrounded by a group of cheering Russians eager to greet the first American workers they had ever seen. They had been notified by tele- phone of our coming and gave us a right royal welcome. “Gigant” On our return to Gigant we met thé assistant director of the Czerno- trest. The State Grain Trust. After partaking of an excellent dinner in the Coop, we adjourned to his office, whére he made us acquainted with the facts and figures relating to the farm. A clean-cut, powerfully built man on the right side of forty and obvious of peasant extraction, yet he seemed fully capable of handling suc- cessfully his many responsibilities. Possessed of a high degree of intel- ligence, his good humored eounten- ance just radiated force and person- ality. He was a typical representa- tive of the new type one meets in Russia today. Gone is the sluggish Russian peasant of yesterday. No- where could we locate those bushy- whiskered Bolsheviks that the car- toonists love to portray! Education is making great strides, The university at Gigant, recently opened, already has 600 of the farm workers enrolled and more coming from the surround- (To be continued) ing country. set themselves the task of doing it in PITTSBURGH JOBLESS MEET FOR STRUGGLE Pledge Support to Red Election Campaign; Broaden Fight PITTSBURGH, Sept. 29. — Forty delegates were present at the unem~ ployment conference held Sunday at Walton Hall. Among the fifteen or- ganizations represented there were two A. F. of L. unions. An enthusiastic discussion took place on how to broaden the fight for the Unemployment Insurance Bill. A resolution demanding $5,000,000 in immediate relief from the city gov- ernment for the unemployed was passed. The importance of the Com- munist Party election campaign was brought out and the necessity for all workers carrying the “Vote Com- munist” fight everywhere was stressed. CHECK-OFF ROBBERY STARTS AT SCRANTON SCRANTON, Pa., Sept. 26.—Glen Alden, Hudson and Pittston Coal Companies have started to install the check-off system, take the United Mine Workers dues out of the men’s short wages and turn them over to the sharks in the U. M, W. office. This is. the blood money for which the Lewis gang sold out these miners IN THE COMING ELECTIONS. to a five and a half year contract EXPOSE LA FOLLETTE AND WIS. “SOCIALISTS” |Burke and Nehmer, Red Candidates, Tour the State MILWAUKEE, Sept. 29.—To expose the scab activities of the Socialists, as well as the slimy phrases of the La Follette republican outfit, Donald Burke, Communist candidate for state senator {s now touring the State of Wisconsin. At the same time, Ed. Nehmer, Red candidate for secretary |# of state, is holding meetings all over the state, bringing to the workers the real issues in the election campaign. In Superior, these"Communist can- didates will hold a mass election cam- paign rally Saturday night. Thou- sands of leaflets and Daily Workers are being distributed, and sold. The Communist candidates are reaching a large number of farmers and expos- ing the Hyde-Legge-Wall Street at- tack on the Soviet Union, and their attempts to rally the poor farmers for a war against the workers’ re- public. with worse working conditions and only a pretense at no wage cuts. The Mine, Oil and Smelter Workers Industrial Union calls on all to re- volt against this extortion, form pit committees and united front commit- tees and fight not only against the robbery of the check-off but against the horrible working conditions. Austrian Fascists Gain Strength as Schober Resigns) (Wireless by Inprecorr) | VIENNA, Sept. 26.—Last night the | Schober cabinet resigned. It is ex- pected that former war minister, Vaugouin, will form a new cabinet which,will include Heimwehr fascists, The lattet,demands the Ministry of Interior, and the control of the po- lice. Gvey and Seipel are pulling | wires behind the scenes aiming at the restoration of the Hapsburgs. CZECH FASCISTS CLASH WITH PRAGUE POLICE (Wireless by Inprecorr) PRAGUE, Sept. 26.—Violet Fascist Anti-German demonstrations resulted in collision with police. Thirty were | seriously wounded. Several shops | were wrecked. The Fascists used iron | bars, stones, knuckledusters and re- | volvers. Today further disturbances | are feared. German Unemployment | both in England and the Domintona what goes on between their masters and the British Labor Party, Mac- Donald has ordered the conference to be held in the strictest secrecy, The | London Naval Conference was held behind closed doors. But even here, | with the bosses preparing for a world war, several open sessions were held to fool the masses. Nothing of the kind will be done at the Imperial | Conference. MacDonald will maneu- | ver for war and against the foremost | British rival, United States imperial- | ism, in the darkest secrecy, J. H. Thomas, another slimy labor premier, | has stated that he will issue com- muniques to the press from time to time. But the real negotiations will not be let out. | Yet we know very well what will | happen here. The Labor Government | as well as the British Trade Union | bureaucracy has already given its full support to the Beaverbrook “Em- pirs Free Trade” scheme—a scheme which adds oceans of fuel to the fires of the world-war danger, The main facts which present themselves to this conference is the Anglo-U. 8. struggle for world markets in all | parts of the world. In Latin America, Great Britain and Wall Street are at death grips. In China the fight for markets is fast approaching bloody struggles. Even in the British do- minions, American capitalism has been winning away markets, To aid the British imperialists against their American rivals, will be the first task of the MacDonald government. The General Council of the Trades Union Congress has already declared its support of the struggle of British imperialism in its war preparations RED AID ISSUES APPEAL FOR VICTIMS OF HORTHY VIENNA (IPS).—The Hungarian section of the International Red Aid, which is compelled to carry on its activities illegally in the country of Horthy terror, has issued an appeal for international proletarian solidar- ity with the victims of the Horthy terror. The appeal points out that the struggle of the workers in Buda- pest on the Ist of September was the Insurance Fund Raised (Wireless by Inprecorr) BERLIN, Sept. 25.—The state cabi- | net has resolved, in response to the application of the labor minister to raise the unemployment contribution by two percent, from 4 to 6% percent. This decision wa taken under the emergency Article 48, creased needs for unemployment in- surance, which is not thereby accom- plished. FRENCH | PAPERS BLAME U. S. FOR DEPRESSION PARIS, France, Sept, 17.—Prof. Gini, writing in L'Information, says the world crisis is psychological and caused by the inordinate love of work shown by the Americans. Le Temps editorially agrees that the United States is responsible for the crisis, but that the Americans are not par- ticularly fond of work. The Temps writer says: “The American over- works to overproduce and thereby over-enrich himself. Homo Ameri- eanus has simply inherited from Homo Europeus that love of do- minion which we call imperialism.” Both of these fakers recognize the imperialist competition of the United States as worsening the crisis. Both, of course, fail to point out that the “overproduction” is simply due to the speed-up and rationalization in the United States and in capitalist Europe, leading to war for markets because thé workers are not allowed to consume what they most involun- tarily “overproduce.” Minneapolis Police Break Up YCL Shop Gate Meetings MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 22. — The third shop gate meeting has been broken up by the police with the ar- rest of the speakers. The Young Communist League is concentrating on this factory employing only Young Workers of which the bosses have great fear. These shop gate meetings broken up by the police in Minneapolis sets @ good precedent for this city, where the Farmer Laborites and the A. F, L. have so much to say. Its quite evi- dent that this move to silence espe- cially the Young Communist League as well as the Communist Party now at the height of the Election Cam- paign, is being supported by all the bosses’ forces such as the A. F, L. and the Farmer Labor fakers. Jack Anderson, a shock trooper, sent by the National Committee of the Young Communist League, and J. Braybear, an Indian League mem- ber, were arrested and are now held on charges of disorderly conduct. Labor Racketeers Linked By ALLAN JOHNSON From its inception, in 1789, Tam- many has allied itself with every movement that has added to the burden of exploited workers. It has always been on the side of “law and order” when the law was made by capitalist lawyers and disorder was defined as any struggle by workers against their exploiters, In every one of the many “depres- sions,” which are an inevitable result of capitalist production, Tammany cops have always been ready to club and shoot those workers who have been militant enough to fight back And when workers have refused to be cowed by the murderous attacks of these hired gunmen, Tammany has always taken upon itself the role of the “pacifier.” cifiers” of the Working Class Very much like the “socialist” party today, which offers a gallon of milk and some crackers to the eight million unemployed, Tammany has distributed a half dozen baskets of food on the East Side when hundreds of thousands were starving there. In the depression of 1837, when a group of hungry workers broke open a flour warehouse, Tammany politicians made haste to distribute bags full of food to the crowd, and promised more to come. It did come—in the form of clubbings. As it comes today in “so- clalist” Milwaukee, in Democratic New York, and in Republican Chi- cago, With the formation of unions under reformist leadership, the task of “controlling” the workers was made | bers protest, the same methods are With Bosses’ much easier for the capitalists. By controlling the unions’ leaders the unions could themselves be controlled. The Gomperses and the Greens were bought easily. This meant that workers who were fighting capitalist exploiters were being led by rene- gades in the pay of the capitalists. The crooked labor leaders in the A. F. of L. are exceedingly clever in misleading workers. But the more Intelligent and courageous of the working class are beginning to realize that the corruption of their leaders is evidence of their class treason. When workers protest, the capitalists have a stock answer— clubs and bullets. When union mem- Invoked by the racketeer bureaucrats. A. F. of L. Hires Gangsters ‘The fascist officials in A. F. of L. unions hire gangsters to keep the membership in line. The practice is widespread. A few examples will illustrate this practice. Paul Vaccarelli, alias Paul Kelly, is a convicted gunman. He has been a prizefighter and a saloonkeeper, and he earns a very, very comfortable liv, ing today by labor racketeering, strikebreaking, supplying gunmen to officers in A, F. of L, locals, and rum- running on garbage scows owned by New York City. More than twenty years ago, Vac- carelli, then known as Kelly, led his ‘gunmen in a battle with Monk East~- man’s gang of 1,200 over a quarter- mile area near the Bowery. Monk was later sent to jail because he con- tracted the habit of embarrassing Tammany. He was a bit too un- couth, Vacoarell!, on the other hand, is an extremely shrewd individual. He has committed more crimes (he is still going strong) than Eastman's entire 1,200, yet he has achieved a high place in the community. Newspapers praise him editorially and he has been the subject of feature stories in Sunday magazine sections. The New York Times hqs called him “Mr.” in a headline, and a recent picnic that he conducted received a double-column headline. Strikebreaker Extraordinary Why all the honors? Vaccarelli is a strikebreaker extraordinary. And if “respectable” strikebreakers like Bill Green are loaded dowh with hon- ors, why not Vaccarelli, who, al- though he is a little rough, is ex- tremely efficient. Vaccarelll was once tendered a testimonial dinner cause he refused tu ‘ie up British supplies and prevented the New York longshoremen from striking.” The following “personages” attend- ed the strikebreakers’ dinner: Justice Freschi, of Special Sessions (com- monly called the “slaughter house” by workers); Magistrate Corrigan (one of the three “honest” judges, so-called, in New York); Municipal Court Justice Levy (an accomplished crook and now elevated to the Su- preme Court); Municipal Court Jus- tices Snitkin and Prince; Congr man George Loft; State Senator Downing and Koenig; Asst. District Attorneys Cardone and Mancuso (Mancuso was later made a judge and helped to loot the City Trust Bank); Sheriff Riegelman of Queens; Public Works Commr. Folks; Alder- man Charles McGillick, and Commr. Roberts of the strikebreaking Depart- ment of Conciliation of the Depart- ment of Labor, in Washington. Government Strikebreakers, labor-haters and ex- ploiters all. Soon after this memorable dinner, Vaccarelll was honored by the U. S. Government itself. He was appointed a member of the Federal Commission of Conciliation and had as a co-men ber “Red Mike,” then Mayor of New York. In 1914, Vaccarelli was formally thanked by the American Federation of Labor for “organizing ~garbage workers, hod carriers, and building workers’ unions into one group.” For many years Vaccarelli has been presi- dent of the Waste Material Sorters and Trimmers’ Union, an A, F. of L. organization, Soon after he was so signally hon- ored by the A. F. of L., Vaccarelli was struck by @ brilliant idea. Work- ers were organized; why not strike- breakers? . The result was the Loyal Labor Legion, which now has a “clubhouse” at 3427 White Plains avenue, near Gun Hill road, appro- priately enough. This Loyal Labor Legion, Vicca- relli declared, was to be a deathblow to all Bolsheviks and other “trouble- makers” in the working class. Ac- tually the Legion is a private army of Vaccarelli'’s gunmen which can be and is—used to intimidate strikers and other militant workers. A new clubhouse, the one near Gun Hill road, was opened in April, 1930, Among the gunmen, politicians, labor misleaders and professional strike- breakers who accepted invitations to the Legion's “housewarming” banquet were Governor Roosevelt and Mayor Walker. (The next installment of Labor Racketeers will be continued tomor- row.) insurance | The object is to cover the in- | Unite Against Workers; For Imperialism Beginning today there will be held the British Imperial Conference, under the guidance of the “Labor Government.” This is a meeting of the representatives of the British Dominions and the leading imperial- ists in the homeland. With war preparations being speeded up throughout the world, and the capi- talist lands in the grip of the worst | economic crisis in their history, the present Imperial Conference will be the most important ever held. It will take place in the midst of the sharp- ening difficulties between Great Brit- ain and the United States. It will get the full support in its war prepa- rations of the MacDonald outfit. To hide from the working class MIAGDONALD PREPARES FOR WAR AT BRITISH IMPERIAL GONFERENG + | Union Misleaders and Bosses | ; against its foremost rival. A L don dispatch to the New York T on the ey p of the British L Conference ds “For the ‘st time in British h tory, labor j with capital day in presenting to the governme a joint memorandum recommendi better economie organization of t Empire.” The General Council of Union Congress, which betr: general strike im 1926, take logical step and unites with the Fe eration of British Industries, 1 leading bosses’ organization in land, and demands sharper me’ in the struggle for world m Not only does the General Cc approve of speeding up of B: workers by the bosses, but th on the workers to help the mast in theiy war preparations, The rn step of the General Council will to call on the workers to tal arms in the next world war in interest of British capitalism, Even the New York Times d patch declares that “in the eyes most Laborites such expressions thought were the mark of the ‘hi bound imperialist. But now Laborites mouth such expressions the “hide-bound imperialist” m glibly than the bosses, The joint statement of the bos and the trade union misleaders poi out that within the British Commc wealth are to be found “both m power, vast resources in raw 1 terials and food and large territor’ capabla of development.” In sh the unfon leaders want the Brii imperialists to push further the ¢ ploitation of the Indian and o masses in the colonies of British ir pPerialism., The Imperial Conference, whic meets for two months, will bring t next world war closer. It will be ri with antagonisms, There is 1 unanimity within the Dominfor about the policy of British imperia ism. It 1s the task of the MacDona government to bring about th unanimity, Bennett, Premier « Canada, as well as Hertzog of Sout Africa, have announced they are ot for the interest of their own bow geoisie, regardless of whether helps or aids British imperialism. The “Empire Free Trade” schem {s complicating the differences i Latin America between British an American tmperialism, qt ow sharpen the fight with the Unite States everywhere, MacDonald pre pared for war at the London Navy Conference. At the Imperial Confer ence he will speed up these prepare tions, ined 6 Tra dt struggle of the international working class, and was at the same time a proof that the Hungarian proletariat will succeed in breaking the white terror and above all in preventing an attack on the Soviet Union with the assistance of the Hungarian bour- geoisie. The struggle on the 1st of Septem- ber cost victims, killed, wounded and prisoners. Over 200 workers are still in the hands of the Horthy bandits in connection with the 1st of Septem- ber. The international proletariat must look after them and their de- pendents. The social democrats abuse and vilify the revolutionary workers who carried the struggle on to the streets on the 1st of September, They slander them “lumped proletariat and mob.” The Rid Aid of Hungary ap- eals to the international proletariat to support the 375 workers who were wounded, and the 200 arrested, and the dependents of the fallen, | W.LR. STRIKE FUND MEET OCTOBER 25 The Workers’ International Relief, New England district, is calling a STRIKE FUND AND CHILDREN’S CAMP CONFERENICE for the pur- pose of working out plans two raise funds to support the struggles of the workers in this district as well as to organize a WIR Children’s Camp ona much larger scale than the one con- ducted the past summer. While millions of workers in the U. 8. A. are walking the streets in hopeless search of jobs, millions of others now at work are having their wages cut mercilessly, undergoing the most terrific speedup and exploita- tion. In order to gain better condi- tions, these workers must struggle must strike, and in their struggle they can look to only one organiza- tion that can aid them in the form of relief—providing food, etc., for the duration of their struggles. The Workers International Relief, through the support given {t by the class conscious workers of the coun- try, made possible the support of the struggling workers during the Gas- tonia strike, during the heroic Pas- saic strike, and during the New Bed- ford struggle. For the purpose of continuing this activity and be able to render further support to struggling workers, as well as build a larger children camp the Workers’ International Reliet is calling a STRIKE FUND AND CHILDREN’S CAMP CONFERENCE to be held Sunday, October 5, 10 a. m., at 22 Harrison Avenue. All workers’ organizations, all unions, all frater- nal organizations, are called upon to support the struggles of the working class and the children’s camp by sending delegates to this conference. FOR WORKERS’ SOLIDARITY— NOT CHARITY, BROUN SHOWS THE WAY TO GO TO JAIL (Continued from page 2) and Broun’s “long period martyrdom” ended: “Then,” say the Tele. gram, “to prove that no one held a grudge, Broun and the policemen posed for photographers, Broun’s arms were around the cops.” That, workers, was where ffic “socialist” party symbolized its “principles’—its great leader. featured as “the” leader in the official organ of the “socialist’ party—with his “arms around the cops!” The same cops whose clubs and blackjacks have fallen with pitiless savagery on your heads, workers! The cop: whose bullets murder you on the picket lines as they murdered Steve Katovis! And this leader of the “social- ist” party confirms what the other capitalist reporters said by himself writing in the Telegran of Sept. 27: “Cops are pleasant companions, intelligent and phil osophical.” Workers, it is plain that if yo want to make an end of capita ism, the “socialist” party united with the police again: you. It is clear that if you ¢ on strike under fake “sociali leadership, your struggle agai the bosses will be betrayed | hind your back by “socialis unity with the police. It is cl that the “socialist” party is ju as much against socialism as the police department. And { all these reasons, it is clear th you should Vote Communist. Paris Communist Get 4,356 Votes to 3,67. Cast for “Socialist’ (Wireless by Inprecorr) PARIS, Sept. 29.—In tho electio yesterday in the 20th Arrondissme (district) the Communist eandida Thorez received 4,356 votes again the Socialist, Jardels, 8,673 yotes. Yesterday evening street demoy strations here resulted in collision between workers and police, Nin re injured and 95 arrested, —_—