The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 2, 1930, Page 3

Page Three Gary Boss Politicians Evict, Starve and Shoot Negro Workers Negro Workers Deliver a Smashing Blow Against the Vile Jim-Crowism of the Bosses in Gary—Vote and Support Your Party, the Communist Party! Daily Worker: GARY, Ind. The Negroes are thrown into the filthiest sections of the city and STEEL BORED PREPARE ARM T0 PUT OVER GUT \ Workers, Smash the Wage- Cuts! Organize, Strike, Vote Communist! | find any saloons. American Sailor’s Story of His Trip In Soviet: Union Have Interesting and Surprising Experiences, and Get Many New Ideas of Workers’ | and Peasants’ State (Continued) Soviet Girls As one looks back on it all now, it seems lilte part of a pleasant fan- tastio dream. Some of us had reasonéte that interior Russia could not possibly be as black as the out- side press Would have us believe, but never in our most optimistic moments had we imagined it would be any- thing like this. Returning to Salisk, we found we had sufficient time to make a few observations. We didn't Wine and spirits were to be had, but the stores which ate compelled to pay higher rents for their unfit-to-live-in shacks, In the center of this section is Washington Park, where Negro children are not allowed to go, ‘They can’t go into the playgrounds, and can’t go into the swimming pools. Thugs Beat Youth Two Negro men about 50 years old were arrested and fined $25 sold them were not doing a very thriving business. ' Nowhere on the trip did we meet or see anyone under the influence of liquor. Drinking is not encouraged, neither is it pro- hibited. Tact will sometimes ac- complish a whole lot more than un- popular laws unwisely enforced. I YOUNGSTOWN, O. My Dear Comrades: Just to let you know what is hap- pening in and around here: The Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co. have and costs and 60 days, and a Negro youth was beaten by a gang when caught in Washington Park. The youth was later arrested by the police. A®Gleason Park a Negro¢—————_——_____— football team was refused the grounds and was told that this park was not. a Negro park. When a young Negro worker was walking in this park he was stopped by a dick and was told not to be ¢aught in that section again. Place Jim-Crow Signs There have been signs placed at the Calumet river reading: “Nigger, don’t be caught south of the river after sundown.” The Negroes are barred from the north side, At the Wabash tracks on the south side, at the Calumet river, on the east side, they are trying to vun them all out of that section. Bosses Foster This All of this is happening under the administration of our Republican mayor, R. O. Johnson, who was elected by the Negro and white workers. Again we see one of the men that owns the property around Washington Park, one of the men that carried around petitions to drive the Negroes out of the east ide, a man that disorimina’ against Negri a man that charges Negroes exorbitant rents, is coming out on the Democratic icket for district commissioner. appeals to the Negroes to vote Democratic and abolish the cor- Fake Promises This is the same promise that Mr. Hoover made, with the result of 9,000,000 unemployed men starving. A Negro worker was shot down on the Street becatise he was hungry and tried to get something to eat. ft was shot by Mr. Johnson's police. Vote Communist! A Negro woman's furniture was thrown into the alley becausé she could not pay rent. And the city told hersthat they did not pay rent for anyone. This is what the Demo- cratic and Republican parties give the workers for their votes. All of these promises are only illusions. Don’t be fooled by the Democratic or Republican (or so-called Socialist party) phrases. Vote for the only Party that fights for the workers, the only Party that stands up for the Negro workers, Cal. Steel Workers To Vote Communist! PITTSBURG, Cal. To the Daily Worker: Signs of the times: 145 people of the population of 10,000 of the indus- trial town of Pittsburg, Calif, voted for the candidates for governor of the three capitalist parties. The Socialist candidate got one vote. This town is purely proletarian, except for a restricted subi and the mal, street in which Ii company officials, the more prosper- ous merchants, and a few of the skilled “aristocracy” of workers. This is @ good answer to the capitalist bunk shéets which persist in trying to maintain the illusion in the minds of the workers by means of the car- ws items, etc, that “The lect anybody, Nearly all of these 145 voters were directly inter- ested in the graft obtainable through their candidates, including the big boys who obtain their graft indirectly through favors and steals for their corporations. The several thousand workers in town either have no vote or the few that do know it's no use. These few we are rallying to vote Comniunist. A Young Worker who has always voted Communist, except when disenfranchised through sea- sonal occupation. Remember Katovis, Levy, Gonzales, Weizenberg! They have been murdered by Tammany, by the Garvey gang, by the A. F. of L. underworld. Charles Solomon, “socialist” can- didate for state senator in the 8th District, Brooklyn, was the injunction lawyer for Miller's Do not vote for the murderers of our comrades! On with the ham- mer and sickle! ‘Vote Communist! Boss Hospitals Refuse Aid to Negro Baby PHILADELPHIA, Pa. Mr. Editor; 1 am a_poor Negro-woman and live in an atti What can we do about the situation? My baby was taken seriously ill and I took her to several so-called institu- tions said to be free hospitals with medical attention for the poor. I went from one to an- other with my baby and could not get any attention. M. K. R.A. LAYOFFS HT OMAHA WORKERS Answer to Attack Must Be , Struggle OMAHA, Neb. The Daily Worker:— More news of wage cuts and lay- offs in those days of Hoover pros- perity, and here is some of it, The Union Pacific R. R. is building a new depot here, a grand structure, of course, to look at, or at the pictures of it in the capitalist press here or in the advertising literature put out by the railroad. It is to be finished by January 1, and already the work- ers are being laid off, as a presage to the great event. They are being laid off in batches at intervals’ as follows: On September 1, 29 men; September 15, 45; September 22, 28, with more to follow. But this is not all, those kept on the job have had their wages cut 10 cents an hour, this will apply to about 200 men still at work, who will in due, course be laid off at intervals. More Layoffs The Stock Yards here had about 75 men, carpenters and laborers, the carpenters got 50c. an hour and the laborers 40c, The job lasted about two months and all are laid off now as the work is finished. As there is no new work here to absorb such a number of men most of them have no other prospect but unemployment for the Winter, with all its attendant hardship and misery. Starvation Charity Byfway of preparation for the im- pending distress the Bankers of the Community chest have announced that an additional $70,000 will be needed this Winter. While an en- terprising and thrifty local phil- anthropist has a plan to put the un- employed at chopping wood for fuel purposes. They would be given some light diet and a flop for their labor while the wood might be sold at a little profit, So there you are, to be unemployed is to be treated as some- thing like a convict. The savings banks here refuse to pay their depositors more than a’ small part of the amount of their deposits. However, it is rumored that most of it will be released at Xmas, which will enable business men to get rid of some of their accumulated thrash that always s¢éem to find a ready market at this season. As for the building and loan asso- ciations they have so many fore- closures and outstanding payments that they cannot redeem their stock from.their stockholders as has been their custom. Starvation Army Busy The Salyation Army here is busyy enlarging their quarters in prepara- tion for the rush season that is sure goming. However, the local capitalist sheets do not seem to have noticed it yet or rather do not wish to do so as most every day there is some Fairy Story printed about the advent of @ new prosperity, when and how, of course, 1s not mentioned, and this is, “Greater Omaha, A Good Place To Live I So runs the sign carried on the street cars that have raised the fare a short time ago. —A Worker. > patel “FASHION” ES DISTORT WOMEN’S FEET NEW YORK.—Speaking over sta- lon WEAF Dr. Thomas Darlington claimed that the high heeled shoes worn by American - omen placed the United States second to China in the distortion of women's feet. Darling- ton attributed nervous disorders, in- digestion and general inefficiency to such shoes. put in one carload of rifles one car- load of machine guns, one carload of ammunition and one carload of army beds. Now what does this mean? Preparing Wage Cut They are preparing for a wholesale wage cut, and they know that the workers will not stand for it, so they are preparing to meet the workers with brutal thugs, or the armed forces. I was over to Mayer's trousers fac- tory a few daya ago and had a chanc’ to speak to one of the girls that works on a piece job, and she told me she only made 57 cents per day and their pay was only $8.50 to $4.50 per week. They. are afraid to go after a drink of water until the boss leaves the room where they are. Army Business Good The recruiting station here 1s forcing young boys, 16-18-20 years, to join the marines. The conditions in Youngstown are bad and many face starvation. I saw have said elsewhere that food was plentiful. Ice cream sold for five cents a dish. The people walking the streets and the parks mere well clad, clean and to all outward appearances cheerful and contented. One must not forget the women, Maybe not so many silk dresses and stockings as on Fifth avenue, but that was hardly to be expected in a country town. Most of them were modishly dressed in white, all the latést style bobs in evidence, and their healthy, sun- tanned complexions didn’t need the aid of cosmetics to improve them. The Whole Town Turns Out to Greet Two American Sailors When we went to the theatre to attend the meeting we received our greatest surprise of the day. The interior of the theatre was jammed to’ the doors with the town people. As we filed in and squeezed our way through the press, the orchestra commenced playing the International. The entire audience rose to its feet and cheered and applauded us—the first American workers to visit thelr town. We were their guests, the guests of the workers of Salisk, and ‘nothing. six boys, eight men and several girls INTERNATIONAL BRIEFS from FOREIGN LANDS the strange part of it was that we hadn't fully realized it until that moment. It wasn't altogether our] xoscow.—Forty Swedish pea: fault. In what other country would an entire town turn out en ma welcome a bunch*of lousy mer sailors? As we reached tho stage and seated ourselves on the chairs provided for us the cheering in- creased in volume, if that were pos- who were persuaded to leave Soviet Union for their “home- land” by lying propaganda, have now returned of their own free will to the Soviet Union, They report that the situation in Sweden is very ants the sible: bad, and the conditions were the Impossible to question the sin- | worst they had ever experienced. cerity of such an “outburst as this. eee As one gazed out over the sea of faces one could sense the feeling which possessed all the people. BERLIN, — The Communists the resignation of are No trace | demanding the of misery and oppression here. They | Bruening government, the immediate aiid Lge tiartd ved their | withdrawal of the emergency decrees Pag tt las emt appear | imposing the poll tax, as well as other ances count for anything, they cer+ tainly mean to keep.it. A group of the Young Pioneers paraded in front | ment, of the stage and saluted us. Strange eee to relaté, I don’t think any of wis felt embarrassed. ‘The whole atmosphere taxes and anti-proletarian meaSures introduced by the Bruening govern- MOSCOW.—A great growth of col- and the attitude of the people was so | lectives in agriculture is reported | triendly and cordial and the welcome | from Caucasia, where in the period | so genuine that one couldn't help but | froni the 5th to the 10th of Septem- respond to it. The fact that we|ber 2,301 peasant units united in 54 couldn't understand each other's lan- guage didn't mar the proceedings in collective farms. the least, ‘That meeting was a com- * plete success, LONDON.—The Political Bureau ‘The people were curious for first- | of the Communist Party of Great hand information about labor condi- tions in America. When we candidly admitted that a large percentage of thé American seainen, including our- selves, didn't belong to any union whatever, their attitude seemed to expres surprise and amusement tinged with sympathy. In a country where everyone belongs to a union it is hard for them to visualize how anyone can possibly exist without them, We were asked if the working people in the outside world realized the progress the workers in Russia Britain has dispatched a cable of greetings to the German Party on the occasion of its election successes. eee ! MONTEVIDEO.—The fascist mili- tary junta in the Argentine is con- tinuing its execution of revolution- y workers, particularly Communists. Numerous Communist workers have been executed in the towns of Cor- doba and Rosario. In one day 38 Communists were arrested in Buenos 3 had made since gaining their free- | Aires. Rhee dom. We told them that, judging from our own knowledge of condi-| ST. SEBASTIAN, Spain. — The tions when we entered the country, they certainly dia not. (To be continued) workers of the Smelter Works Ren- tena, who have been on strike for 145 days, finished their struggle under and women eating out of the garbage can a few days ago. Only one way to Atop*these conditions—to organize and demonstrate and Vote Commun- ist to demand the things to save us. ELIZABETH WORKERS HIT POLISH FASCISM le a Pec ta ELIZABETH, N. J., Oct. 1—More , than two hundred workers shouted Editorial Note: — The steel | thoir approval of a resolution in sup- bo port of. the revolutionary Polish workers against the new wave of white terror instituted by Pilsudski, at a meeting held here September 28, at 214 Fulton street. The resolution points out that the Polish bourgeiosie seeks & way out of @ great crisis that suppression of all workers organizations, especially the Communist Party, by more preparations for war against the Soviet Union at the first signal from the Anglo-French banker advisers of Pilsudski. The resolution pledges the workers to aid in the fight against Polish fascism and any effect it may have on the Polish working masses of the United States. A col- lection of $43.65 was reported. The Cost of Living Is Growin! later they will call in the militia. They will depend upon their courts and judges to hand down injunctions. The police of the bosses’ government will be used to at, kill and jail workers. The bosses count on their strongest weapon—the govern- ment machine—to break the re- stance of the workers. Steel workers! You must pre- pare to fight back or else you will be forced to take starvation wages, work at a greater speed- up, etc. You must organize im- mediately shop committ of the Metal Trades Industrial League and prepare for strike struggle. You must fight the use of bosses’ government! machine by dealing ‘a heavy blow to the boss parties —the Republican, Democratic and “Socialist” parties—that today are begging for your vote and hold out false promises and raise fake issue: Elect Communists to city and State legislative halls of the bosses to take up your fight there. Vote Communist! The Washington administration, the Tammany administration, in “he State and City are protect- ing the food profiteers. Vote against food racketeers! | breaking scheme in New York on the the condition that.there should not be any discriminations. But as soon as the workers-went into the factory the police came and arrested the leaders of the strike. When the news DEMOCRATS IN WORDY GESTURE "emcee" convention steered clear of any proposals for unemployment relief. They touched on unemployment only to formally blame it on the Republi- can administration, The fake issue of “clean government” put up by the Republican Convention ts substituted for in the, Democratic Convention by one of “real booze.” The jobless can go on starving, the striking exploited workers will continue to get beat up and sentenced under injunctions turned out in a torrent by the mer- cenary judiciary, as usual, as far as Republican or Democratic parties are concerned. Vote Communist It 1s only the Communist Party, running for governor William Z: Foster, leader of the unemployment delegation of 110,000 umemployment demonstrators on March 6, which fights for the jobless, Foster fs in jail for his services to the workers; Roosevelt and Tuttle fight sham battles over liquor and graft—on both of which they are in substan- tial agreement. Vote Communist! Vote for your- selves, workers, and give an answer to the phrase mongering exploiters and political swindlers! Nominate Gov. Roosevelt on Booze; Flout Jobless SYRACUSE, N. Y., Cet. 1—With a turmoil of loud words, capitalizing the misery of the unemployed with- out promising even to do anything about it, repeating that “the judici- ary must be above suspicion,” with- out even promising to more than shake a finger at the revelations of Tammany judges buying their offices and taking bfibes wholesale in New York, the Democratic State Conven- tion here nominated Roosevelt again for governor. They also nominated as lieutenant governor, Lehman, the man who shad more than any other to do with instituting tial chairman” strike- needle workers. Nothing for . obless Al Smith's nominating speech and Roosevelt's acceptance speech at the Legs Diamond, Strikebreaker-Gunman, Granted Immunity by U. S. Government By ALLAN JOHNSON No picture of Tammany Hall, no matter how well drawn, could faithfully depict the organization's unimaginable depravity, its use of unbelievably barbaric methods to achieve its ends, its servile belly-crawling before the | only masters it recognizes—capitalist exploiters. Tammany is nothing more or less than a buffer state. It is the bulwark between capitalists and the vast working class they plunder and rob. ‘Tammany governs the poor for the benefit of the rich and for its trouble is permitted to pocket some of the vast loot. Herbert Hoover and Frank Fay Is there any real difference between Hoover, who was bribed by the food it during the ‘war for permitting it to profiteer, and Frank Fay, Tammany gangster and night club owner, whose control of the New York milk supply puts him in partial control of New York's health? Is there any real difference between Al Smith, whose campaigns for public-owned power works have been punctuated by visits to republican utility companies who bribed him handsomely to keep on campaigning and let it end there,” and Mayor Walker, who campaigns for a five-cent fare and accepts a five hundred thousand dollar bribe which would make such a fare impossible? The answer, of course, is obvious. Hoover, Smith, Walker, the Tuttles, and Roosevelts and Vares and Big Bill Thompson and Heywood Brouns are spewn out of the same capitalist sewer. Inevitably they or their < counterparts will continue to govern for their masters The cleavage betwéen capitalism and Communism is nowhere more sharp than here. In Soviet Russia the penalty for graft is death. In capitalist America the reward for graft is the White House, or the governor's mansion, or at the very least, a large fortune, | Rothstein, Vaccarelli, Diamond A long slimy capitalist chain Inks Hoover, Woll, Tammany, Smith and Walker to the racketéers who control the American Federgtion of Labor. Yesterday the connection between Paul Vaccarelli, gunman; strike-breaker and friends of the ignoble great, was discussed. In the same category are Legs Diamond and the late unlamented Arnold Rothstein. Legs Diamond, who was a little too much even for the cultured murderers who now rule Germany, has been involved in the murder of at least 18 men. “Involved” is used here in its narrowest sense. Legs started his gentle career by stealing packages from express wagons (popularly called “wagon bouncing”) around 20th street and Highth avenue, New York, By the time Legs was 16 he had served a term for unlawful entry and attempted burglary: It was the only time that Legs’ career was to be interrupted by a prison sentence, He developd into far too efficient a strike-breaker to be incon- venienced by the police again, His forty-odd arrests mean absolutely “The public must be pleased,” the cops call it. 4 lackmailing a Specialty ‘When Legs finished his term in the reformatory, he applied for admission to Dick Butler's “mob” and was promptly accepted. The a specialized in tur robberies and was eminently successful. To this day, Les’ special little [S WINTER 9,000,000 JOBLES hobby is blackmailing furtiers, despite the fact that most of hig arrests have been for carrying a gun, re- ceiving stolen goods, felonious assaults and murders, Legs is one of the Al Capones of New York, divid- ing the honors with Bill Dwyer, Owney Madden, Dutch Schultz and one or two other murderers who like: to keep out of the limelight. Between them they control the beer and booze racket in New York, as well as a list of sidelines much too long to mention at this time. Their references are unimpeachable, Bill Dwyer moves in the highest political and financial circles and knows Jimmy Walker intimately. Owney Mad- don’s night club is visited by the city's social “elite,” and Owney himself may be seen strolling up Fifth Avenue with Cardinal Hayes almost any sunshiny day. As for Dutch Schultz, woe is he who disputes Schult2’s strength anywhere north of 110th Street, in- cluding the office of the Bronx District Attorney. Escapes Trial by U. S. Legs, whose interests are more varied than those of his comrades, was indicted on drug-selling charges by the United States Government more than three years ago. He was arraigned before U. S, Commissioner Cotter and released under $15,000 bail. Diamond hasn't been tried on that three-year- old indictment yet. ‘ Why not? Is the United States afraid of Legs? That isn’t the answer. The United States Government is afraid of nothing except a strong Com- munist Party. Any Fish knows that. The United States doesn’t fear Legs. It needs him. For Legs is a strikebreaker of note. Not quite as efficient as Paul Vaccarelli, perhaps, but extremely useful to capitalist pirates never- theless. Every crime that Legs has committed has been condoned because of his ability to aid Tammany and Tammany’s rulers in their hours of “need.” Legs’ immunity is grounded on his willingness to provide strikebreakers and scabs for any strike in the Metropolitan district. A couple of years ago Legs was shot and almost killed by gangsters who had wanted to supply the strikebreakers that Legs was commissioned to send to a strike in Brooklyn. The whole court moved to Legs’ bedside in Bellevue Hospital to free him from a technical charge of homicide. ‘s Legs Gets $50,000 “Subsidy” ‘ Legs’ subsidy as a capable and brutal breaker of strikes is neither in- direct nor disguised. Legs receives a “retainer” of not less than $50,000 a year from the Ship Owners’ Association on a contract which provides that he quell all strikes successfully and sypply scabs whenever they are needed. Grover Whalen, who also received a “retainer” recently, one of $100,000 from a taxi company, was in complete sympathy with Legs’ activities when Whalen was police commissioner. After two rival beer runners had been killed in Legs’ Hotsy Totsy Club while Legs was standing behind the bar and police began to “search” for Legs, Whalen declared: “Of course, we cannot make bargains with crim- inals; but let him come down and he will receive all the courtesies of the police department.” Soon after this little curtain speech Legs walked into @ police station. A few days later he was discharged in General Sessions on the Hotsy Totsy murder charges. Will Face Starvation! Ao WAR AGENT scienions 4 Main Problem Will Be Anglo-| U. S. Rivalries in World Markets Thé role of the British Labor ernment as the best aids of Bi imperialism is being empha the present Imperial Confer | ot dominions, | ida last year to | H. Thomas, ministe sent to C i » for the British ® publicity agent for the bosses Conte poses of the meeting about “peace,” unity of the dominions and sire of spread dw minions, and clap. meant as pap for the is | ltot Thi ap. An Associated Press dispatch from London September 30 gives a pretty good insight into the real purpose of the Imperial Conference. The A. P. cable sa: “English business men, alarmed at the rapidly expanding export trade of the United States, are going to try to weld the British Empire into one solid economic bloc at the imperial conference, which starts tomorrow (Wednes- tay).” ‘The same dispatch-goes on to quote the report drawn up by the imperial conference preparator. committee, which again brings out the Anglo- British antagoni “At present the United States exports only 8 percent of her to- tal production. If she were to in- crease this by only 1 percent this would represent an increased export of $350,000,000, which is equivalent to 10 percent of the total of British exports and would mean additional heavy competition for British industry in the markets of the world.” Now, then, when you couple these tacts of struggle for markets with the crap that Thomas puts out as “peace talk,” we get some sense out of it. We can then clearly see that Mr. Thomas and Mr. MacDonald are the agents of British imperialism prepar- ing for war against American imper- lalism, Thomas in his first statement on the gonference admitted that the re- sults of the recent naval conference are sure to be discussed by the Brit- ish and dominion delegates when they reach the subject of foreign policy defense on the agenda. When imperialists talk of markets and guns the outcome is war. At the conclusion of his first inter- | worsen the “LABOR” MINISTER THOMAS ACTS FOR IMPERIALIOTS view Thomas admitted that the world economic crisis was pretty dark, But he aid that the Bi were enter=- ne conference with “optimism.” “wit h the world mark hrinking, if the In e should d weld the mini ian imperialist ons in , it would U. §. and speed up the war dang An idea of petition 1 world com- the how sharp otween ¢an apes ue it prints these “Shanghai and China generally constitute a ‘battlefield’ for world trade....Among the competitors America and Britain are a chief contenders in Shanghat and the Yangtsze Valley, pre- viously known as the British ‘sphere!’ While previously British influence in China was predomi- nant, that situation no longer prevails, for America has now succeeded to Britain's position. China now looks to Washington for tips on the international po- litieal situation, rather than to London....China looks to Wall Street for future financing and to America for technical advice. Large British public utilities in China, facing a non-too-bright future, look to the United States for purchaserg: The tendency is apparent on every hand and the chances are that present rival- ries will be accentuated as time passes.” The, same can be said of nearly every country in Latin America, In the British dominions American im- ‘oaching on ‘These are the facts behind the Con- ference. It is a war conference. The British Labor government is groom- ing the empire and the colonies for war. At the same time it is using blood and iron in India, Egypt, Irak, against the colonial masses. Every worker should watch the tactics of Thomas and MacDonald and remember that we have their prototypes right here—Broun, Rev. ‘Thomas, O'Neal. In supporting the British Labor government they sup- port and O. K. the murder of the Indian masses by the British Labor government. It. is true when it comes to a war between the imper- falists they will “split”. The British Labor government ministers wif] sup- port their imperialists in a war, while the Socialists will back Wall Street in a bloody. conflict, WOMEN WITH BABIES ASK FOR SHELTER (Continued from page 1) lums are overcrowded. Children go to school hungry, Women with babies in their arms, for the first time in the history of New York, ask for shelter at the Municipal Lodging House! This is what our hypocritical bosses call “protecting motherhood! Added to the situation, as an in- sult to the 800,000 unemployed work- ers in New York City and the 8,000,- 000 in the country, Mayor Walker takes off his old suit and donates it to a needy worker! What generosity! This high salaried Broadway cabaret star, after raising his own salary and that of his henchmen, demands still more in the budget to satisfy the Tammany machine. One judge after the other accept- ing graft! Corruption from top to bottom—and the mayor himself balks an investigation. Booze Partie: Millionaires and billionaires in booze parties, squandering money— while workers starve. Long trips on luxurious yachts while shelterless men and women have no place to sleep. Loving cup for Lipton to show appreciation of his being a “good sport.” On September 23, the Downtown | Athletic Club opened its doors. AJ Wall street affair, it cost $3,500,000 and is equipped with the finest ac- commodations, luxuries and improve- ments of the day. Swimming pools, sleeping accommodations, de luxe suites with specially designed fur- niture, lounges, game rooms (for gambling), grill room, roof garden, squash tennis court, indoor golf course—this the parasites of Wall street are enjoying while the workers hungry and jobless, tramp the streets looking for work in vain, How Long Will You Stand for This? Workers, how long will you tolerate this? How long will you tolerate the lying statements of Hoover, La- mont and Mellon that the crisis is over and the workers will soon re- turn to work? How long will you tolerate the nerve of the bosses in spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on the mistresses, on drunken orgies and debauches, while you can find no work and must pick food out of garbage cans? It is time to call a-halt. You must raise a mighty voice representing the millions of workers of this country so that all the capitalists, the federal, state and municipal governments will hear it, as they heard Budapest! Workers, organize to fight—join the Unemployed Councils — and while struggling support the Communist Party, your leader in this and all other fights, ‘Vote Communist! But together with the Communists go into the ight for unemployment insurance— Into strike against wage cuts, for a seven hour day, five day week! Don’t starve—fight! (Written in Hart's Island Peniten- tiary). HLLINOIS BASKETBALL CONFERENCE FOR TOURNEY CHICAGO, Tl.—The Illinois District Labor Sports Union of A. held a dis- trict basketball conference Septem- ber 25, in order to build a basketball league and also recruit new workers’ sport teams for the Mlinois district convention, to be held Octaber 19. ‘This basketball conference really made a beginning in a building simi- lar basket ball leagues throughout the Illinois district, and attracting new workers’ sport teams into the L. SU. The conference delegates repre- sented 25 workers’ basketball teams from Chicago, Milwaukee, and Gary, fepresenting in turn more than 400 workers. Similar sport conferences are be- ing called in Milwaukee and also in Gary, Ind,, October 30. BUFFALO WORKERS’ SCHOOL: BUFFALO.—In the present phase of the class struggle leaders of the working class are facing imprison- ment and persecution on the part of the ruling class. These leaders must be followed by new ones. The Buf- falo District Committee realizes the necessity of training new leaders to give proper leadership to hungry un- employed and to the expjoited work- ers who are ready to fight against the miserable conditions of the toil- ing masses. This is the reason why the Workers’ School was established in Buffalo, which will open with @ great proletarian banquet Saturday, October 4, at 8 p. m., at the hall of the International Workers’ Order, 565 William street. Hundreds of class-conscious work+ ers will attend this banquet to give financial and moral support to this important working class institution, “A Chicken in Every Pot, an Automobile in Every Garage” Such was the slogan of the Hoover campaign in 1928. What it really meant was wide-spread unemployment, wage cuts, exe ploitation, misery, starvation,— and additional fortunes for the parasites. Smash the capital- ist fakers! Vote Com- munist! The Communist Party Puts Forward as Its Central Election Demand the Passage of the Unemployment ‘Insurance Bill. Every Worker “Vote Communist” and Get Behind the Fight Against Starvation! nr ad oie