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

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1930 LETTERS = ee a> HS Le za E SPEED-UP IN DENVER, COLORADO, STOCKYARDS in the Packinghouses of Denver, more misery than ever before. ® FRISCO JOBLESS ON WATERFRONT The Shipping Crisis Is) Quite Severe | (Workers Correspondence) | SAN FRANCISCO, Cal—In an- | swer to Mayor Walker for his expres- sion that the workers would not work | even if they had a job, I say he is wrong. Here on the San Francisco water- front, strong and willing workers gather every morning at seven o'clock, waiting for a job to work on he ship's cargo. These hundreds of | trong men once made from eight to | ten dollars a day and today they | would be very glad to get a job to” keep them from starvation. Starvation Jobs. | And to get a statrvation job one | has to have a pull, otherwise he can | go hungry.Hundreds of seamen seek- ing a job on the waterfront and | always the same answer: we don’t| need anybody today. Only one out | of two hundred strikes a job and | what kind of a job, and under what | conditions! But it does not make | any difference, it is a job at least, and it keeps a man from starvation. Workers have nothing to expect from Mayor Walker. The only rem~- edy for the worker is to organize and to fight against such rotten condi- tions, Shipping Crisis. Furthermore, very little shipping is going on on the waterfront. The | commercial machine is almost at a) standstill. Half-loaded ships coming and going out to foreign ports. An- other proof of this crisis is that one can notice the near enipty piers. ‘Very little work is going on. This shows the world crisis is on. Frisco Worker. Into the shops with the Daily! Sell at factory gates! Give the workers an eyeful of the boss system (undressed!) IRONWOOD FORMS + JOBLESS COUNCIL Workers Back Red In- surance Bill IRONWOOD, Mich., Oct, 27.—Fifty nine delegates were present at the mass conference called by the Trade Union Unity Council of Ironwood, Michigan to organize an unemploy- | ment council. The composition of the conference were miners and lumberjacks. Many / of them had been out of work for almost one year. The Lumber jacks who come into this territory annu- ally to work in the ten lumber camps that ordinarily operate, are now found without work, Only one of the camps operating at a 40 to 45 per cent wage cut. The mines are shutting down all around and the miners are organizing to demand the city councils and the bosses immediate relief. a | A resolution was unanimously adopted condemning the attempt of || the bosses to place the burden of the | erisis on the shoulders of the work- | ers, calling for the passage of the Social Insurance bill proposed by , the Communist Party, demanding \\ that the city council immediately ap- propriate funds for immediate re- ; Mef for the unemployed, the public | buildings should be opened for shel- ter for the unemployed, etc, An organization meeting consisting 28 unemployed workers was Held ter the conference. The meeting elected an Executive Comittee of 5 to meet regularly, The regular meeting of the Council will be held Sunday morning at the Palace Hall, Ironwood, Michigan, SUFERINGS OF THE WORKERS Workers Unable to Keep Up With B-System| Are Thrown Out to Starve (By a Worker Correspondent) DENVER, Colo.—Since the B-system has been in effect The object of this system was to fool or trick the worker into thinking he could increase his wages by working faster. Fixed Killing Pace. The efficiency experts made a close check on the amount of work which could be done in the various operations in the P process of the packing industry. ‘workers that the Communist Party INCREASE THE , the workers have experienced Through this check they were able to fix a so-called rate of 100 per cent produc- tion, which, of course, was fixed at what they considered the highest point of human endurance, So if a worker can possibly do a little above this 100% basis, he re- ceives a few pennies bonus. For ex- ample, a worker in one plant earned 18 cents bonus for the three weeks work, This system is so manipulated that the worker is unable to figure how much, if any, bonus he has made. The worker who cannot come up to the 100% basis is fired. Throw Out Workers. This system has enabled the bos- see to greatly reduce the number of workers and increase their profits enormously. For the workers this system makes old men of the young. It adds to the great army of starv- ing unemployed workers, who the} bosses use as a club over the heads of those remaining at work. It also adds to the number of accidents on the job, which the bosses care little about so long as they are able to impose their com- pulsory insurance schemes on he workers. Killing Speed-Up. The B-system is one of the fruits of the capitalist system, which is al- ways seeking new ways to further exploit the workers. Packing house workers can expect further worsening of conditions un- less they wake up and organize into an {ndustrial union based on the principle of the class against class. Which fights against all froms of speed up, fights for the seven-hour day and five day week with no reduc- tion of wages, Must Organize. Against all forms of race discrimi- nation, for equal pay for women and youth workers doing the same work as men workers. A union which unites’ the employed and unemployed workers in the fight for the Workers Unemployment In- surance Bill drafted by the Com- munist Party, which fights against imperialist wars and for defense of the “Workers Republic—the Soviet Union. A Union which takes in all workers in the industry regardless of race, color, creed or sex. Such is the Food and Packinghouse Workers In- dustrial League, which is a part of the Trade Union Unity League. Send Photo Mats to Daily Worker Worker correspondents are urged to get the matrix of all unemployment photos clipped that they send in. The Daily Worker will pay the cost. Further, worker correspondents are urged to write brief sum- maries of clippings they send in instead of the clippings alone. HOW STRAW BOSS | GETS BIG MONEY, Wages Cut in All Ways! Possible (By a Worker Correspondent) CHICAGO, Ill—While workers slave for meager wages, the bosses get big salaries for nothing. An instance of this is in the Borg and Beck Company, manufacturers of automobile clutches. There a boss | ceased to boss the workers by dying. After his death the workers of his | factory found that this slave driver actually collected a monthly salary of $1,400, and the workers, who, under terrible speed-up layoffs and wage-cuts are lucky if they get $25 a week. Sneaky Wage Cuts. This factory tries every means to cut the wages without letting the workers know and brag about it in the papers that they uphold the promi$e that they don’t cut the wages. The newest device to secretly cut the wages is the so-called group system and piece work. This plan regulates the amount of pay in a machine so that a worker who is working very hard just gets over fifty cents an hour, which is equal to the amount the slave gets when he is payed the date rate. If the group doesn’t make the fifty cents an hour due to a bad machine, etc, the factory pays the date rate for that time but deducts the differ- ence the workers get extra from an- other job or the next week’s pay. In this way the workers are fooled into believing that they never get paid below fifty cents an hour, but the weekly pay contradicts that statement. Boss Gets Bonus. These systems were the ideas of the boss who gets a bonus for every plan that increases the out-put and lessens the cost. Ali sending the workers deeper and deeper in misery and starvation. These systems and bosses can be eliminated by forcing them to go if all the workers join the militant unions of the T. U. U. L. A Slave in “Clutches.” Farm Worker Loses Arm as Boss Hurries (By a Worker Correspondent) The farms are getting to bé as bad as the factories. A thrashing machine, working at Snider, Colo- rado, had several men working on it at $3.00 2 day—ten hours. Last Friday the machine stopped and one worker crawled into the ma- chine to fix the blower. The boss came up, and seeing the machine Register your protest against your rotten conditions by voting Commun- ist November 4th! ' —J. P, E. Into the shops with the Daily! Sell at factory gates! Give the workers an eyeful of the boss system (undressed!) STEEL BARONS POLICE BREAK UP RED RALLY PUEBLO, Col., Oct, 29.—The City Commissioners of Pueblo and the Po- lice Dept. acting under orders of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, are doing everything in their power to stifle the Communist election cam- paign in Pueblo to which many work- ers are responding. A meeting arranged for Sunday night, October 26th, at the Orel Hall, 217 East Northern Ave., was with when Chief of Police Grady call- ed the president of the lodge which owns the Hall (Slovenian Fraternal Union) and threatened to arrest him if he opened the hall. The lodge presi- dent, being a yellow socialist, obeyed the command of the police chief) The janitor, however, opened the hall and the comrades took possession of it. The yellow socialist then notified the had stopped, thought the men had stopped to take a rest, and with- out saying anything to the work- ers went to the machine and threw in the clutch, while the worker was still inside of the separator. The blower cut the worker's arm off and threw it up on the straw stack. The farmer, of course, had no insurance, and all the worker will be able to get is sympathy. MOORE SPEAKS IN PITTSBURG NOV. 5 On National Tour for ANLC Convention PITTSBURGH, Oct. 28.—Richard B. Moore, Negro worker organizer of the American Negro Labor Congress and Communist candidate for Attor- ney General of New York State, will speak next Wednesday, November 5, at the Labor Lyceum, 35 Miller St., Pittsburgh, Moore, who is nationally known to be among the leading fighters in the class struggle, is at present on tour for the coming national convention of the American Negro Labor Congress, which will be held November 16 and 16 in St. Louis, Mo., and at whieh the nation-wide fight on lynching being police. A score of thugs from the C F. & I. steel mill known as detec- tives were sent to attack the meet- ing, evicting every one from the hall and threatening to black jack the speakers also putting a barricade across the hall entrance refusing to allow workers into the hall. ‘The workers then held an demon- stration on the street, Com. Christen- sen speaking and promising the prosecuted by his organization, with the support of the Communist Party and other class struggle organizations, will receive additional impetus and direction. All workers are urged to come out to hear Moore and demonstrate their support of the struggles of the Ne- gro masses against white ruling class _ terrorism. Negro and white work- | was in Pueblo to stay and to organ- ize the workers of the Pueblo Steel Mills. Hail the Anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution with greetings in the Novem- ber 7 edition. ‘§ ers! Support the A. N. L. O.’s fight on lynching! Every Party member, every Young Communist must sell 25 copies of the Daily Worker before fac- tory gates each week to Mobilize 60,000 Readers for Daily Worker to Meet Hoover-Woods Offensive Art Woods (the col.), ex-strike- | breaker and now Hoover's head | skull-cracker, says: “Unemploy- ment is just a name.” Sure, it’s the name for starvation. He goes on to give his solution of the crisis: “The thing to do is to begin spending money.” Workers have forgotten how. The Buy Now idea is big stuf for workers. They | can’t even buy next week. All they | have in their pockets is their frozen hands, * 60,000 mass circulation for the Daily Worker will be the proletarian mobili- zation to meet the Hoover-Woods- Boss conspiracy. Build 60,000 circulation by build- ing house to house routes. Perma- nent contacts when the P. 0, fails! Contacts for the Red unions and the party! Get units, sections, organizations into action. Readers! Join the Red Army of Daily Worker builders. Place your own order for 5 a day. Cost? A nickle a day. Spread the Daily. Give Workers the low-down on the higher ups. When George Washington chopped down the cherry tree he is supposed to have admitted full particulars. swings the axe and denies all know- ledge of it. | on 0,000 drive activity or we'll tell| Charlie Schwab, steal king, however | in wage rates and that policy has been maintained.” Now Schwabbie! What's in your hand is a hatchet! Cut Schwab 60,000 circulation will help do the and the boss class into small items. job. Dear D. W. reps: Reports, please Jorge on you, Ne ter us HELP } CH OTHER | CUT OF Irs R yaad ROAD G Abra With a straight face he says: “It was stated 6 months ago at our meet- ing here that there would be no cut Thea readiness with which w paper. expression on t! munist daily!’ JOINS RED ARMY M. Appelman paste ads!” JOBLESS GROW IN WISCONSIN Wage Cuts Rampant; C. P. Calls For Fight The conditions of the workers and farmers in Wisconsin are very bad and are getting worse day by day. In some of the big industrial cities of Wisconsin unemployment has‘increas- ed in the past year as much as 50 per cent. Wage cuts take place daily. In Milwaukee in the past few months we find wage cuts of 20 per cent in the Phoenix and Holeproof Hosiery plants in which the bosses received the direct aid of the Socialist leaders in the Hosiery Union as well as sup- port from the Socialist “Milwaukee Leader”; 10 per cent wage cut in Wis- consin Motors, and wage cuts in the Wisconsin Iron and Bridge Works, in the Seaman body plant, A. O. Smith, International Harvester, Kearney ‘Trecker, Guede Peshke and Frey and a number of other plants. Wage Cuts Rampant With the wage cuts have gone speed up and increasing part time. In some cases as in the big Pfister Vogel Tan- nery, the plant which formerly em- ployed as high as 3,000 workers, is shutting down permanently. Unem- ployment is so serious that already 1500 selected men have applied for jobs of firemen with only 4 men ad- vertised in the press as needed. While the conditioris of the workers are getting bad beyond words to real- ly describe it, the farmers fo Wis- consin find growing misery in their midst. Eleven thousand farms have been abandoned in a period of five years, Bankruptcies on the farms oc- cur daily. Misery is the common plight of the poor farmers of Wis- consin. In this situation the Communist Party is conducting its campaign and its struggle against the LaFolette “Progressives” and Socialist Party, both of whom have a strong hold on the masses of Wisconsin. The LaFollette group which lined up openly with the Old Guard Repub- is supported by Wm. Green, vicious enemy of the workers, uses the typi- cal petty-bourgeois phrases about farm relief and labor legislation in order to win over and betray the working masses with these progres- sive words. LaFollette says practical- ly nothing about unemployment in- surance and comes out openly as the champion of the business interests of Wisconsin, The Socialist Betrayers The Socialist Party of Wisconsin is another most dangerous betrayer of the working masses. It was the “so- cialist” Mayor Hoan of Milwaukee who ordered the workers clubbed on March 6th when they demanded work or wages, and who again pre- pares to stab the unemployed move- ment by out in support of Hoover's and Hurley's stagger sys- tem which means part time and real starvation wages for the workers. It is the “socialist” Tucker in the Coun- be in good standing. ty Board who proposés a $10,000 soup kitchens which, one worker said, was M. APPELMAN: “For the past few days I have been! selling Daily Workers with results that have surprised me. encouraging. Lots of workers bought the Daily, | gave me a nickel or a dime and didn’t want) any change, They know we are a workers’ | “Talk about fun, comrades! The horrified tupid stare of the business men when they hear the cry: “Who wants a copy of the Daily Worker? The only workers’ paper; the Com- “Into the subways! Let’s give the work- ers something better to do than stare at tooth- licans after the Primary and which: orkers respond has been very he school-marms faces, and the) not enough to feed the pigeons on the County Court House. It is the| “socialist” Benson who betrays the | workers of Seamson Body into class collaboration while Metal Workers League and Communist Paryt prepare them for class struggle against a wage cut and new speed up system. These La Follette and “socialist” poli- | ticians are using more radical phrases every day and even come to the shop gates to bulldoze the workers. Upon the Communist Party in tais state falls a great task of exposing these two parties of petty-bourgeois liberalism and democracy evary day mutt closely merging into fas:ieu in deeds. The Communist Party, which has) led the thousands of workers in the| unemployed struggle and is organ-/| izing the workers in the big shops such as Seaman Body, Harvester and | Allis-Chalmers, is intensifying its) campaign in the last days remaining. | In this campaign 24,000 signatures were collected putting 12 candidates | on the ballot including Fred Bassett | for Governor, who is serving a year sentence for leading the March 6th demonstration cmfwyp 6récmfwyppu struggle; Wm. Clark, Secretary of the Trade Union Unity League, for Lieu- tenant-Governor, and three Negro candidates, Hansbrugh, Talton and Burgess. More than a quarter of a! million leaflets have been distributed | in the campaign; 6,000 Election Plat- forms sold and The Daily Worker} established by carrier routes and sales | of the Daily at factory gates. The Communist Pasty went on a State tour covering 3,090 miles and having meetings in 20 cities and towns and distributing 40,000 pieces of campaign literature, The ©, P. alone makes the fight against the Community Fund racket which means wage cuts for the workers. Only the C. P. fights for the Negro masses. That is why Lee Talton, candidate for Assemblyman, the Sixth Ward, will be elected as the Negro masses are saying. 4 ‘The final campaign rally in which large masses will be involved, will be the welcome of Comrade Amter at the North Shore Station at 1:30 on Saturday, November 1, followed by 4 huge car caravan parade throughout the city and ending in the evening with the mags rally in Liedertafel Hall, at 7th and Highland. All work- ers! Vote for the Party that fights for you. Vote Communist! Elect Communists! On Election Day make a cross (x) next to the name of every Communist candidate in the last column. Governor—Fred Bassett Blair. Lieutenant-Governor—Wm. Clark. Sec'y of State—Edward Nehmer. Attorney General—Wm. Martilla. Sheliff—John Mueller. State Assembly: 6th Distriet—Lee Talton, ‘7th District—Jack Schwab, 12th District—Herbert Friedrichs. State Senators: 7th District—Max Kagan. 9th District—James Burgess, U. S. Congress: 4th District—John Kasun, 5th Dist.—Raymond Hansbrough. Hail the Anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution with greetings in the Novem- ber 7 edition. | Thousands of workers are registering ‘MUSSOLINI BEATS WAR | telling the people the vessel was eNEwSs IN METAL STRIKE Int'l Relief Feeds the} German Strikers BERLIN, Oct. 28.—The negotia- | hight Balkan War Maneuver ATHENS.—A meeting organizezd by the Committee against the Dan- ger of War was held in Athens to RESIST SELLOUT 'Greek Workers FIRE REDS FOR EXPOSING BOSSES Police Attack Aachen Miners for Protest 28. — The Aachen BERLIN, Oct., tions between the bosses and the So- | expose the Balkan conference which’ mine owners, where 265 miners lost cialist trade union leaders in the | metal workers strike, involving | 140,000 workers, ended today without results. The Labor ministry is call- jing a further conference tomorrow. It is rumored that Severing, min- a resolution exposing the real char- victimization. ister of the interior, is proposing a! “non-party” arbitrator whose deci- sion would be unconditionally bind- | league against the Soviet Union. Bitter i | ing, as in the Ruhr strike. The Workers International Relief | has 60 kitchens working, feeding the strikers. Six hundred strikers’ chil- dren were taken over by the W. I. R. for the duration of the strike. | willing to give the strikers a daily dinner for the duration of the strike. DRUMS TO HIDE CRISIS, ITALY, Oct. 28—Mussolini has broadcasted his usual tirade of war preparations to cover up the growing economic crisis in Italy. He called for the international organization of fascism to “defeat its enemies.” He bragged about the tremendous mili- | tary display the blackshirts would put on in 1932, and declared that the Italian imperialists would demand their full share of the world spoils. WORKERS ROBBED AND ILL-TREATED Garvey Collects Thous- ands of Dollars (Continued from Page 1) The steward and all his personnel | were colored, and so were all the) petty officers, The boat left New York Sunday afternoon for Philadelphia, although by waiting until Monday she could have had a contract for carrying United States mail. She had been even advertised as a mail boat by the government. The boat broke down in the Delaware River. The crankshaft was broken. It was @ very unusual thing to happen to a steamship, and many among the crew were whispering that the engi- neer did it intentionally, but those who know anything about machinery knew it was not impossible for such a thing to happen. Garvey came down to Philadelphia by train and held huge meetings, damaged to the extent of $1,100, and calling upon them to dig down some more. While we wondered what he had done with the monies collected in New York, he again proceeded to clean up thousands of dollars from the workers. In Philadelphia, we tried, accord- ing to sea custom, to borrow $2.00 on our wages, but Mr. Garvey and the officers told us they had no money for us. Not only did they give us, no wages but they treated us like dogs. There was no steam in the crews quarters, and several of the men, as a joke, collected some wood and started a fire on the cement floor. They had no intention of harming the vessel but the fanatics among the crew pretty nearly mobbed them for it. We stood in Philadelphia for 11 days, and then left for Norfolk, Va. In Norfolk we received a tremen- dous welcome from the Negro, work- gs, and it was rumored while we were there that we could obtain a load of coal to take to the West Indies. We even prepared to take on the coal, but for some reason or other the cargo was turned down. | Marcus Garvey collected lots of money in Norfolk, cashing in on the} enthusiasm of the people, and we again tried to obtain a few cents on our wages, but were again refused. In Norfolk an incident occurred which further exposed the anti-labor attitude of these Garvey leaders who drew their support from the most oppressed section” of the working class. The storekeeper and the stewards department were asked to help the pantrymen washing dishes at meal times, but the steward had also instructed the storekeeper not to issue any astores except on order by himself. Thus at meal times when jthe storekeeper was helping the pantrymen, there would be a rush to the storeroom for stores. Kicks fol- lowed, and the storekeeper informed the steward he could not, be in two places at the same time. The steward demanded of the purser that the storekeeper be paid off and fired, The purser, all decked out in a gor- geous uniform, threatened to have the storekeeper logged of every cent he had earned. The storekeeper ap- pealed to the captain, and Mr. Garvey, Mrs, Garvey and Lady Win- ton Davis came trooping to tne scene, all joining in the witch hunt- ing against the storekeeper. Only took place here recently. 1,200 workers attended the meeting and many more were unable to enter the hall. Those outside were driven off by the police. The meeting adopted acter of the League of Nations and the Balkan conference as a capitalist The resolution called upon the workers of the Balkan countries to unite against the imperialists. The meeting sent greetings to the new Soviet ambassador who has just) arrived in Greece. Following the meeting a procession marched| through the streets singing the “Internationale.” The workers were dispersed by the police. | Three thousand workers of a wagon factory in Arad have sent their fraternal greetings to the Greek proletariat and congratulating it upon its struggle against the Balkan conference. The Siebenburgen district commit- tee of the Roumanian Communist Party has sent similar greetings. DEMAND RELIEF IN ROCHESTER Packed Meetings for Foster Up State ROCHESTER, N. Y., Oct. 29.—The Rochester City Council was presented with the demands of the jobless, through a committee elected by the Councils of the Unemployed and sup- ported by a big mass meeting, Mon- day. The workers at the meeting de- nounced the fake promises of relief made by the republican, democratic and socialist parties and pledged to vote Communist for the Workers Un- employment Insurance Bill. Meetings in up-state cities at which William Z. Foster, Communist can- | didate for Governor is the speaker, are packed.| The hall was filled by over 500 workers at Binghampton, | and many had to be turned away. | The Rochester jobless demands point out that there are 30,000 unem- ployed in this city alone, and that many are Negro workers, not only | jobless but discriminated against in| regard to living quarters, etc. The council of unemployed demanded that am emergency relief fund of $5,000,- 006 be established by turning over the city treasury surplus and funds in- tended for interest and redemption of bonds, and that this fund be used fo. immediate relief of the starving. FISHER BODY TO*SHUT DOWN Will Scrap Fake Prom-) ises, as Usual DETROIT, Mich., Oct. 27—As a} result of the continual reduction cf the output of automobiles, the Fisher | Body Corporation has unofficially | announced that in the near future | there will be a shut down of Plant) number 18, and preparations are being made accordingly. Just a few conversation with Mayor Murphy “promised” to increase their work, ing force; and this was broadcasted as a sign of better times and relief for the unemployment situation. Their fake statement was utilized by the demagogue Murphy in order to fool the workers and to keep down the resistance of the workers in De- troit to the unbearable conditions of unemployment and wage cuts. Workers who were present at our factory gate meeting from Fisher definite signs of the slackening of work, with the aim in the near fu- ture of closing down the factory. ‘The Auto Workers Union in connec- tion with this new attack of the bos- ses against the workers, issued a call to the Fisher Body workers to learn from their experiences in Flint, and to organize immediately to be able to fight back these attacks. Every Party member, every Young Communist must sell 25 copies of the Daily Worker before fac- tory gates each week to be in good standing. doze this worker and rob him of his | wages. To-morrow I will tell of the en- thustastic repection we got in Ha-! vana, Cuba, and how Carter rather | than give the man money for meals | when the captain warned them of the danger of libel by a member of the crew did they stop trying to bull- on shore, cut off his nose to spite | his face, by turning down opportun- days ago, the Fisher Brothers in a} Body openly admitted that they have | their lives, dismissed several Red pit stewards as a consequence of the organization of a protest strike on the burial day. Five mines are still protesting the Police were called in. They fired on the miners, inflicting a@ stomach wound on one miner. dignation is being expressed in this district. Clearing work was finished yester- day at Alsdorf. Two more bodies were found, making the death roll to date 265. Official figures show 1,980,000 un- employed in Germany on the 15th of Oct., which is 14,000 more than the Ist of Oct., and 133,000 more than the 15th of last month. AUSTRIAN FASCISTS IN DRIVE FOR POWER VIENNA, Oct. 28.—In preparation for the national elections to be held on November 9, the Fascists are con- | solidating their forces. Negotiations | are under way for an alliance with the Christian Social Party. On many occasions the Fascists have | declared they would win the election, | by force of arms if necessary. It is reported here that Hitler of the German Fascists would return to Vienna, his home city, to aid the Fascists in their drive for power. The Communist Party of Austria is carrying on an enthusiastic election drive under the slogan of “Fascism or | Bolshevism,” pointing out the social- fascist nature of the Austrian Social Democratic Party. Belgian Jobless Army Shows Big Increase BRUSSELS, Oct. 28—Unemploy- ment is increasing here. The latest census, which is by no means ac- | curate, states there are 23,000 totally and 55,000 partly unemployed in Belgium. At the end of July there were 15,202 .reported totally unem- ployed and 48,580 partly employed. Even these inaccurate figures show a sharp increase in the number of unemployed in Belgium. ‘NEW WAR PLOT AGAINST USSR. Rally to Defense of the Soviet Union! (Continued from Page 1) was locked in battle all summer, Chiang would like nothing better than to see Chang try to face the Red Army. It may be that Chiang’s orders, and promises of American and other imperialist money has ace tually caused Chang Hsue-liang to {move against the Soviet Union. On the other hand the whole affair may be only to show Chang that he has imperialist support, and cause him to move. So far, the numbers of troops described are very small, per= haps a thousand infantrymen and 12 or 16 field guns. There is no special concentration of the Red Army on the Manchurian border. * Defend the Soviet Union | But by any interpretation, the | danger of imperialist war against the | Soviet Union is made greater by this | news, and the necessity of workers |to rally to the defense of the first workers republic is greater. Vote Com- |munist this year, in defense of the | Soviet Union! Minn. Hall Owners Boycott Amter Meet MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Oct. 27.— Final preparations are being made for the meetings of I. Amter, one | of the leaders of the New York un- employed workers, in Minneapolis and Duluth, Amter will speak in Minneapolis at Norden Hall, Univer- sity Avenue between Hennipen and Central and in Duluth at the Wood- | men Hall, The Unemployed Councils jof the T.U.U.L, and the Communist Party will send delegations to meet Amter at the railroad station, in both Duluth and Minneapolis, An automoblie parade will then be held to the hall. In Minneapolis, great difficulty has been experienced in securing @ hall for the Amter meeting, due to the boycott against the Communist Party by the capitalist hall owners; More hall owners, stated that “under no circumstances” would they allow @ meeting of the leader of the un- employed workers in their hall. The Ukrainian Toilers, which is supposed to be a left wing workers organizas tion, refused to cancel a dance, which they had arranged for that evening, as did the Finnish Workers ity to raise larger sums than ever before, | secured. Club. Finally Norden Hall was Sahin