The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 3, 1930, Page 4

| | | Published by the Comprodaily Publishing Co., Inc., daily, 18th Street, New York City, N. Y. Address and mail all checks to the Daily Worker, 50 East 13th Street, HOOVER'S FALSE! Page Four JOBLESS “AID’’ By HARRY RAYMOND Member of .the Unemployment Delegation— Arrested on March 6th MERICAN Capitalism, in the throes of the most devastating economic crisis in all history, has now reached the stage of utter bankruptcy and stagnation. All efforts of the Hoover Wall Street government to accelerate production and kick up another industrial cycle have been met on all sides by complete failure. The crisis is deepening and the industrialists | and their lackeys, the Hoover gang, are running in a circle, barking, like dogs chasing their tails, shouting prosperity slogans, formulating fake re- lief plans, all in an effort to belittle the existing economic chaos and distract the attention of the masses from the inevitable further collapse of capitalism, which is about to add another mil- lion to the already 8 million starving and jobless workers. ‘The latest orgy of tail-chasing and barking of the Hoover gang started almost immediatley after members of the Communist Party and Trade Union Unity League, backed by a militant demonstration of unemployed workers, invaded the sacred precincts of the New York City Hall and, in spite of bloody police violence, presented the demands of the unemployed for work or wages to the corrupt New York Tammany gov- ernment. This, and various other excellent demonstra- tions of working class solidarity, has frightened the bosses, who are sinking more and more hope- Jessly in the swamps of capitalist economic decay, and has caused them to rally behind their spokesman, Herbert Hoover, who has come for- ward amid loud shouts of joy from every cap- italist newspaper in the country and proposed and approved a series of the most spurious un- employment “relief” plans that we workers have ever had the honor of exposing and defeating. What, in brief, is Mr. Hoovers’ plan? First he has organized a committee headed by. the fascist secretary of state, Lamont, and composed of such enemies of the working-class and obvious frauds as Frederick Ecker, president of the Met- ropolitan Life Insurance Co.; Harry A. Wheeler, vice chairman, First National Ba: k, Chicago; Walter S. Gifford, president American Telephone | and Telegraph Co. and others, This committee “will endeavor to obtain more complete data as to the severity of unemployment.” This, of course, will take considerable time, says the president, “but in the meantime we will endeavor to spur into action in building construction.” Census taking and road building was the key- note of the Hoover plan last November. The Hoover plan failed then and it will fail again. Unemployment has: increased since November and the number of unemployed will reach over the 9,000,000 mark before winter is over. What little building will be done will never absorb the vast increasing army of unemployed. These workers are unemployed because they receive in wages only a small part of the product of their labor. Therefore they cannot buy back the enormous output of commodities thrown on the market. The rich capitalists and their hang- ers on, despite their luxurious surroundings, can- not use the great quantities of commodities pro- @uced by the workers in the factories. Therefore overproduction takes place, industry slows down and in many cases stops altogether and millions of workers are disemployed and thrown on the streets to starve. Another proposal incorporated in the Hoover plan is the proposition that workers work only two and three days a week, thus giving more workers a chance to have jobs. This is known as the stagger system and if put into effect would force all workers who are working to work only part time for part time wages. Such a plan is devised to throw the whole burden of the crisis | on the back of the workers. It would reduce the general living level of the working class from | one to two-thirds below its present level. The stagger system, saddled on the American working-class, would indeed stagger them. Marx was thinking of just such a system when he said, “The bourgeoisie will do everything but get off the workers’ backs.” Immediately following the anouncement of the Hoover plan came announcements from all over America of plans equally as ridiculous as Hooy- ers. Fisher Body Corporation, located near Detroit, reports that it is Spite “full time” with all working part time. Samuel L, Insull announces that the Insull group of public utility companies is throwing. the burden of the crisis on the backs of the workers by forcing employees to give one days pay per month to a so-called relief and distress fund: From the Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce comes the “buy now” plan. It proposes to solve unemployment by calling upon the penniless un- employed to buy. The Chicago Charities says, “We are face to face with the worst winter since 1866.” The Chicago “Dialy News” then opens up {ts heart and offers to “relief” unemployment by. throwing its “help wanted” columns open free. This is done in face of the fact that no jobs exist. Also from Chicago comes the following bright Suggestion from Anton J. Cermak, henchman of Big Bill Thompson: “As the nucleus for a com- munity chest, the 40,000 employees of the city and county should be faced to contribute a per- centage of their weekly pay checks.” And last but not least the brilliant Charles M. Schwab, chairman of the board of Bethlehem Steel and exploiter extraordinary of the working masses, advises us that “no one has benefitted more than the common laborer from science.” “Science will cure unemployment,” says Schwab, ‘Science properly applied by our far sighted cap- tains of industry.” And strange to say, science will cure unem- ployment, but science applied by the proletariat under the Soviet system of production for use and not for profit. Science used in the cap- italist system of production can no longer help workers; it will enrich the bosses and bring in- creased suffering, misery and starvation to the workers. It will be noted that not one of these plans, which received so much publicity lately, proposes to take one cent from the pockets of the bosses. The workers, according to all these fake pro- grams of relief, must pay the price of the crisis. ‘The American Federation of Labor agrees with Hoover and is against the bosses paying unem- ployment insurance. Louis Waldman, “social- ist” leader, “welcomed” the president's promise ,and offered the cooperation of his party. The Communist Party, however, says that un- employment cannot be cured under capitalism: Only under the dictatorship of the proletariat, under the Soviet system, cam unemployment be abolished. Unemployment is now comp!ctely liquidated in the Soviet Union. The ws therefore must rally to fight against ca mn and for @ Workers and» Farmers Goveriucnt, Telephone Algonquin 7956-7. Cabl except Sunday, at~ 50° East “DAIWORK.” w York, N. Y. Dail bering PS ‘DIRECTIONS FOR VOTING ON THE VOTING MACHINE Teas Stat 2 a. 3 ea Gar ‘orca * ak catia - ips 4 City " 10th District —Vote for 2 cae ew Bee or 10 i 1A , 1A Freakin DB] Eee PR sche 3. | PX Cathert W, oka F. 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Then in column 2, turn down the Pointer cover the name of the candidate you wish to vote for for Lieutenant Governor, and leave it dows. Continue in the same manner to the end of .the ticket, taking care to tum down a Pointer for every office that you wish to vote for and leave them down. To vote a straight party ticket, you would of course tum down all the Pointers in one party row. Thien look at the top of the ballot, and you tain. “will see the Proposition that ls to be voted ‘on.: Tum down a Pointer over the YES ‘or the NO and leave it down. ~ Leaving the Pointer down in its voting position, swing the Handle of the Curtain Lever (overhead) to the Left as far will go, and leave it there. (This will register ’ your vote and retum the Pointers to their first position, after which it will open the Curtain.) A FEW WORDS OF EXPLANATION No votes are registered until you swing the Curtain Lever to the Left to open the Cur- You can therefore make as many changes in your ballot as you wish while the Curtain Lever is at the right (Curtain Closed) Each candidate's voting Pointer is above his name. orker Porty U.S.A. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Foreign: The machine is so erranged namber of Pointers for an office. ample, only one candidate is to be elected to the office of Member of Assembly, and you ean therefore tum down only one Pointer for that office, over his name. So be sure to vote for. thus: Lever returns the voted Pointer to open. 10 VOTE EVERY HAMMER AND SICKLE! The North Carolina Election Campaign HE increase in unemployment and the sharp- ening crisis in industries has forced some very important admissions on the part of the spokesmen of the capitalist class) The Ch: lotte Observer of the 2lst of October admits that “part time operations prevailed in a num- ber of major, industries in the Cardlinas af- fecting a large number of laborers.” This state- ment of “part time” employment of the major industries, if we add those industries shut down completely we will have a conservative estimate of over a half million workers actually out of work in the state of North Carolina. In the city of Charlotte the Ford plant has been run- ning three days a week, three weeks a month. These workers who are considered to be “em- ployéd” ones according to the census of the labor bureau, but in reality are unemployed. The fertilizer plant has worked only about one week within the last two months. The South- ern Railway system is preparing a big lay-off within the next few days. The Reynolds To- bacco factories of Winston-Salem, are working only 4 days a week and are planning to close certain departments entirely. The same Observer reports a surplus of labor in all industrial towns in the state. Misery Amongst Workers on the Increase. The misery and suffering of the workers, espe- cially the Negroes, has increased with the in- credsed unemployment. Eyen the State Health | Bureau reports 137 cases of pellagra in the state and admits that, “this is due to the unemploy- ment situation.” The number of pellagra cases, however, is much greater. Sixty cases of pel- lagra were uncovered in Carhart, a mill village with a population of only 300 workers. There are *>ousands of workers on the vorge of starva- tion, who are now already affected by this starvation disease without even knowing it. Tens of thousands of Negro and white workers and farmers are undergoing a slow starvation process. The cold winter will increase the suf- fering of the men, women and children. Bosses Increase Terrorism. The resistance of the workers to these mis- erable conditions has expressed itself in a num- ber of spontaneous strikes, such as the Bessemer City strike, mass riots on bakery trucks, etc. And the number of successful demonstrations of workers on Sept. 1st. To this the employing class and the government have answered with increased terrorism. Unemployed Negro and white workers are being crowded onto the county chain gangs and state prisons on charges of vagrancy. Oh top of this at least a half dozen Negro workers were lynched in the state of North Carolina and at least that many more “disap- peared.” The mill owners’ government has learned to appreciate the good work of the Gastonia Black Hundred and are now engaged in a campaign to form a permanent fascist Black Shirt organization. The workers and farmers are starving and are being terrorized while the city administration of Charlotte has presented every policeman in town with a new gun as a present and the police department of Winston-Salem has exchanged the “old style” black jacks or clubs for a new one which is 10 inches longer “made to order.” Workers Disfranchised. Until about two years ago the workers of North Carolina had to pay two dollars poll tax to be able to vote. Now, everybody is al- lowed to vote without paying a poll tax, but immediately after election day the state gar- nishees the wages of the workers and many lose their jobs on account of it. ‘The grandfather law of 1908 of the state of/ North Carolina says: that a person in order to register to vote must “be able to read and write In our struggle against capitalism, however, we must force the capitalist government to give real and immediate relief to the unemployed. ‘We must rally the great working masses to sup~ port the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill of the Communist Party. Demand the govern- ment to pay $25 a week to every unemployed worker and $5 a week to each dependent. De- mand that these funds be payed out of the funds previously used for war expenses. Workers! Agitate in the factories for the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill! Pre- pare to send a workers committce to Washington to present the Bill to Congress! ~~ * , Demonstrate! Don't starve+fight for imme- diate unemployment insurance! Vote Communist! Written on Hart's Island. Penitentiary. . THE “SOCIALISTS IN THE MOST DELICATE SITUATION By PAUL NOVICK. MF ACDONALD!” The speaker who was displaying his wares before a crowd at one of the street corners of New York was taken aback. He was holding forth about the promises the “socialist” plat- form is offering to the unemployed. A worker in the audience loudly mentioned that name, “MacDonald!” That meant a lot. erous MacDonald was with his promises for the unemployed a year ago, while campaigning for office. It is equally known that. the army of unemployed in Great Britain has doubled since MacDonald has entered office, and that the con- ditions of the unemployed as well as of the employed workers have become worse. The speaker was trying vainly to explain away MacDonald's predicaments, but it was of no avail. The same heckler kept reminding the speaker of how the “socialists” "in Germany have clubbed the workers, and of how in that country For it is known how gen- ' the army of unemployed has constantly been | growing and the relief for the unemployed con- jenny reduced and nullified, so that now in the constitution and explain same satidfactory to the registor.” This is d as a means of disfranchising the Negro workers, because as a rule the registor is never “satisfied.” In Win- ston-Salem, out of a Negro population of 30,900 only two or three hundred Negroes vote. In Charlotte the number is still smaller. Capitalist Candid>tes and Their Issues in the Election Campaign. The candidates of the two leading parties are Bailey and Bulwinkle for the democrats and Pritchard and Jonas for the republicans. Bailey is a big corporation lawyer and a faithful serv- ant of the large textile power and banking in- terest. Bulwinkle’s record as the watchdog of the Manville-Jenckes Co.. the mob leader and murderer of Ella May, is known not only to the workers of North Carolina, but to the workers of the entire South. Pritchard and Jonas are both well-to-do lawyers and the only thing that they can boast about is that they were born and raised in the state of North Cerolina. The platforms of both parties don’t raise one single issue that has anything to do with the conditions and needs of the workers, of course. It happens so that the unemployed workers of this state are not even offered light wine or bo as a rer “dy * unemployment, because both parties are dry. The republican platform has as one of its important planks “Courtesy and helpfulness business to transact in Washington and need- ing the personal services or attention of their United States Scnator.” Workers Rally Around the Program of the Communist Party. The class conscious workers of North Carolina have gone through a number of experiences and economic struggles for the past two years. experience has taught them that they have nothing in common with the parties of the Bulwinkles and Hoovers. The Communist Party campaign, in spite of its many weaknesses which will be taken up at some other time, has been brought before thousands of workers in the state. Many workers and farmers and also working women who never voted in their life before, or voted “straight” for capitalist par- ties, are now registering and preparing to vote Communist. Our struggle for the organization of the un- organized workers in the textile industry, the fight against the A. F. of L. fascists, open fights with the police, has definitely convinced thou- sands of workers that our party is their party and that our program is the program of the class struggle. Thousands of Negro workers, who would have voted for our Party have been refused the privilege to register, but this has not | discouraged them; on the contrary has crystal- lized their hatred into class hatred. The anti- lynching conference which will be held soon will take steps to continue and broaden the struggle for the right of the Negro workers for social and political equality. The vote of the Communist Party may not be counted as some rumors already signify, but this Will not stop the development and continuation of the struggle of the workers under the lead ership of the revolutionaty unions and the Com- munist Party - This | to all North Carolinans having | cannot turn down more than the proper No vote will be registered for any candi- date except that with @ Pointer left down, Pointer down over the name you wish to There is no danger of anyooe’s knowing how you vote, as the movement of the Curtain unvoting position before the Curtain begins i 12 13 1. Justice of the [Justices of the Municipal Court] "RtSwenase bia Cong it ‘John HAWKINS that jou For ex- leave the 4: Torn dows Pointer over the YES or NO of the Proposition. 5 LEAVE the Pointers DOWN. up to its 13 A pemockaric} ‘s. |ATSON that country nearly a half of the army of unem- ployed get no insurance whatsoever. It is good and effective to use the examples shown by the “socialists” in the various coun- tries in Europe to prove how meaningless, empty and unscrupulous the promises of Thomas, | Waldman, Panken and others are. However, the “socialists” in the United States, too, have a | record. That can prove that the unemployed can expect from them just as much as they can expect from Tammany or the republicans. Where were the “socialists” before the dem- | onstyations of March 6, lea by the Communist Party and the Trade Union Unity League? Like the republicans and democrats they did nothing | and contemplated nothing in order to obtain unemployed relief. It was only after the March | demonstrations that they did something. Here it is. The standard bearer of the “socialist” party in New York State, Louis Waldman, writes in his “message” to the “people” of the state of New York in the “Campaign Issues, 1930” pub- lished by the “socialist” party: “Governor Roosevelt, regardless of what he may say in this campaign, did nothing prac- tical to give work or relief to the unemployed. While the legislature was still in session this year, as co-chairman of the Public Affairs | Committee of the socialist party I wrote him and urged that he send a special message to the law makers calling for a minimum pro- gram on unemployment, including unemploy- ment insurance. I begged him in the interest of the uncmployed that he recommend at least the appointment of an unemployment insur- ance commission, to study the quostion and Prepare an adecuate bill for the 1931 legis- lature. That wes in March. He did nothing.” (Pg. 26-27. Our emphasis.) Listen to the sacrifices the “socialist” candi- date for governor was ready to make for the hundreds of thousands of unemploved in N. Y. State. “I begged him,” he says. Waldman was on his knees before Governor Roosevelt for the sake of the unemployed. And what did he beg | fore? A commission to “study” and to prepare | an “adequate” bill for the: 1931 legislation! And that wo in March. or over a million work- ers had demonstrated for immediate relief! The “socialist” party, by its own ad- mission, as proven by the interview of Charles Solomon, one of its standard bearers in the present campaign, in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle of Oct. 26th, is, of course, far from thinking of fighting for unemployment insurance, far from figh*'~g for anything. A cartoon printed in the above campaign booklet published by the “so- cialist” party on page 35 is rather characteris- tic. Here is a factory with a mass of workers be*>re The signs on the factory read, “Works Closed,” “No Hands Wanted.” But near ‘the factory—aha! There is a polling booth. The faces of the unemployed are turned to it. The. inscription under that picture in large letters reads: “The Works Are Closed! BUT the Bal- lot Box Is OPEN.” The “socialist” party is using the same kind of drug as the other two capitalist parties are using. It is either a matter of “studying” the unemployment problem or of substituting poll- ing booths for closed factories. As if factories could have been opened by a vote for tlie “so cialist” party! As if the “socialists” in -Eng- land, Germany and other countries have not proven that a vote for them, just as for other candidates of the capitalist class, results in shut- ting down more factories and in increasing the | armies of the unemployed! From the very beginning the “socialists” have tried to belittle the unemployment issue, just as Hoover has been doing. Heywood Brown's “fa- mous” slogan, issued in March, “Give @ Job Till June” meant the same as Hoover's slogan, “Pros- perity in 60 days” issued at the same time, after the demonstrations led by the Communist Party and Trade Union Unity League. Through his campaign of “Give a job till June” Broun tried | ) under the leadership’ of the Communist Party |. fight. for. $25. a week for every unemployed. Sup- : ists Coumitmi: eee to raise them to about three millions. Now that the head of the charities of Chicago says there is an army of at least eight million workers unemployed in the United States, and Dr. Wil- liam Steuart, director of the Census Bureau has admitted on August 30th that “some days” the number of unemployed “may actually be” from seven to nine million, the “socialists” still stick to 5 million. In the Oct. 4 issue of the New Leader, organ of the “socialist” party in making much news of the unemployment sit- uation for election purposes, the “socialists” talk about “five million men out of work.” A leading “socialist,” Benjamin Schlesinger, head of the company union in the needle trades, the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, on labor day last issued a “message” to the workers which was, of course, printed in the capitalist press. In that message, Schlesinger said: “The crisis will pass away. A month soon- | er, a month later—things must and will im- prove.” Surpassing the stupidity of the official prophets of: capitalism, the “socialist” was try- ing to predict prosperity, and in this way keep the workers away from fighting. Norman Thomas gave his endorsement for the candidacy of the “independent” republican Judge Frank Murphy in the Detroit mayoralty elec- tions. Murphy was elected mayor by fooling the | workers that he will get them immediate relief. Since his election he has ordered that unem- ployed workers be arrested for vagrancy; that non-reridents of Detroit will be depprted from the city; and that whatever “relief” he may institute is to go only to such workers possessing their own homes and paying city taxes. Still, Norman Thomas, leader of the “socialists,” keeps admiring his successful “independent” repub- lican. In the issue of the New Leader of October 18 Thomas writes: “Mr. Murphy who has been one of the best judges in Amerjea won without a machine, without a campaign fund, simply by an upris- ing of the decent people in Detroit who took off their coats and went to work for him. I am proud that our League for Industrial Dem- ocracy members were among those who so ef- fectively got to work. I hope the Murphy ad- ministration will justify the promise of its be- ginning and that a similar civic awakening will spread to other cities and states.” Among the “decent people” who helped Mur- phy was the arch exploiter Henry Ford who had endorsed the “best’’ judge, together with Thomas. Besides Ford there was quite a number of exploiters helping that “independent” candi- date who so successfully, with the aid of such misleaders as Thomas, has fooled the workers into believing that he will do something for them. Murphy has done nothing for the hun- dreds of thousands of unemployed workers in the city of Detroit. Winter is coming and there is no relief and there will be no relief except fake maneuvers. Milwaukee, of course, deserves to be mentioned again. There is no relief in that city, for years under “socialist” control! Not even Walker's “ice cream,” although the clubs and the jails for the unemployed and their delegations are the same as in Tammany-land! is 'This is proof enough, and there is a lot more to it, that the “socialist” promises are as mean- ingless and betraying as the promises of Hoover, and the chief of his hunger committee, A. Woods who, as r~“ice eo--Sssioner of the city of New York in the years 1914-1916, clubbed unemployed workers and strikers alike. Meaningless and be- traying, just as the “relief” the Tammany may- or and commissioner of police of New York are “planning” in order to drug. the masses of un- employed, in order to keep them away from fighting. andfrom_ following the eer of the Communist Party. ‘The three capitalist parties are playing with the miseries and sufferings of the unemployed. ‘The “socialists,” democrats and rejublicans ne- ver will do anything, just as they have done nothing in the past, just as they have nothing in other countries, except to worsen the lot of the working class. The Communist Party will not give up its fight for unemployed relief and unemployed in- surance after election day will be over, The Communist Party has put the unemployment problem on the order of business, has forced the three capitalist parties to give up prohibition and other such fake problems as central issues of the campaign, has forced them to talk about unemployment. The workers of the United States and Trade Union Unity League will continue to rt ne demand on election day. Support the Ee phere me be agen ent Lig ated By taail everywhere: One year, $6; six months, $3; two months, $1; excepting Boroughs of Manhattan and Bronx, New York City. One year, $8; six months, $4.50 | By JORGE Shut Him Off! We now understand why the radio business is all shot to hell. Who would buy a radie, much less keep up the installments, to listen to the darnedest drivel, comparably only to the ravings of a lunatic or a dope fiend, that “Groucho” Marx, one of the four Marx Brothers, puts out over the air to boost the “socialist,” Heywood Broun, for Congress? * * * “Thirteen Men” Somewhere, fvoating in the general literary rubbish of tha bookstores, you will find a sexy novel entitlvi “Thirteen Men.” We don’t advise you to revi it. We didn’t it. But we recall that some review said that it dealt with the way a rather loose lady exploited the 13 men. Reminded of it by the news item that said: “Thirteen men, unemployed, were paid $3 each to bear banners through Broadway, distributing pamphlets calling for the abolition of war, re- lief for unemployment and the election of Hey- wood Broun. Later, in Columbus Circle, as a feature of an outdoor socialist campaign meet~- ing, the thirteen were paid off, to the click of cameras. They had been’ hired by Mrs. Annie Gray, secretary of the Women’s Peace Society, for the triple purpose of furnishing temporary employment, anti-war propaganda, and aiding Mr. Broun’s campaign.” Ye gods, what cynics! lie. Nae) Cae We hope that it will cheer up the unemployed to know that in the N. Y. Times of Oct. 21, it is related that the United States government, which finds it so terribly against its principles to even speak about Unemployment Insurance, has decided to refund taxes of $116,949 to the Western Maryland Railroad of Baltimore. * While There’s Life Hope springs eternal in the bourgeois breast, these days. And one of the prize illustrations, among the many which may be found in cap- italist papers, was the following headline, which appeared in last Friday’s N. Y. Telegram: “Upswing Awaits Trade Recovery.” ae eae! Indian and Chinese workers are shot down by MacDonald’s henchmen. Thirty-three work- ers were shot on May Day, 1929, at the orders of the “socialist” police commissioner of Berlin, Zoergibel. The unemployed are clubbed in Ber- lin, just as in Milwaukee and New York. There is no difference between the “socialist” party and the other capitalist parties. Vote Red! * * * Republican Chop Suey The Pennsylvania. republican ‘party machine, which is owned by Boss Vare, has a family quarrel with Gifford Pinchot, the fake “liberal” republican, and although Pinchot won the re- publican primary, the Vare republican machine is urging everybody to vote for the demccratie party’s candidate for governor against Pinchot. Which is a lovely contribution to the general rottenness of both republican and democratic parties. But one of the star-bright, college- educated daughters of Vare, speaking at Phila- delphia in behalf of the democrat, goa off the following example of college grammar mixed with capitalist politics: “Gifford Pinchot tried to crucify my father. With his vitrolic mind and his great wealth, he wore him out body and soul until he was dragged to death's door.” Uh-huh! But who dragged whom? And moreover, why should the workers give a damn anyhow? They are voting for the Communist, Frank Mozer, for Governor of Pennsylvania. Se aa The Reverend Byron Rogers, a preacher of Keene, New Hampshire, forgot the Golden Rule long enough to steal $20 worth of stuff out of the summer home of some wealthy woman. If he had only been in the Salvation Army, he might have got away with the ex- cuse that he was making a collection for the poor. ae ol e Not a long way from the Daily Worker of- fice, there is a hospital for dogs and cats, at the entrance of which it is asked: “Don’t feed the animals, it may upset their. digestion.” Now in the papers we see a professor recom- mends a hospital for sick hens. New “International” Pamphlet on Frame-Ups ITH the intensification of the class struggle in in the United States and the bosses’ offensive against the workers increasing daily, a wide- spread need has been felt for a pamphlet which would give the history of aspects of other such offensives”in the history of American workers. This need has now been answered by Interna~ tional Pamphlets with the publication of “The Frame-up System” by Vern Smith of the: Daily Worker staff. The author begins with a short statement of the way in which the frame-up technique was developed in America by the employers as a way of fighting in Yhe class struggle. Such cases as the Molly Maguires in which twenty or more leaders were legally murdered for organizing the Pennsylvania coal miners are characterized as having aspects of the frame-up and preceding it. The frame-up itself grew out of the labor struggles of 1885 and 1886 and was first used in its pure form in the Haymarket case in Chicago. Variations were used in the kidnaping of Moyer, Haywood and Pettibone in the attempt to fasten the murder of ex-Governor Stuenenberg of Idaho on them. Many other cases are taken up in this in teresting and instructive pamphlet. “The Frame- up System” is No. 8 in the series which already includes such titles as “Yankee Colonies,” Heritage of Gene Debs” and “Steve Katovis: Life and Death of a Worker.” It sells for 10 cents with discounts on quantity orders, and should be ordered from Workers’ Library, Publishers, 50 East 13th Rivet New York, Wee Tat Ask any etal ate and he will tell you that the “socialists” are O. K. Every manufac- turer wants his workers to vote for the “social- ists” and to stay in the “socialist” unions. The organs of Wall Street have endorsed the “so- clalist” candidates. The “socialist” party is a boss party. Vote for the party of the workers, the fighting Communist Party. Vote for every candidate having a Hammer and Sickle above his name.